Hansen
heads for
Louisiana

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Wheelchair athlete Rick Han-
sen was heading toward Ba-
ton Rouge, La., on Highway
90 Saturday after resting in
Lafayette overnight.

Tour manager Tim Frick
said in a telephone interview
that Hansen, who is wheeling
around the world to raise
money for spinal cord re-
search, is enjoying beautiful
scenery.

SPECIALS

FOR YO

Monday, Tuesday

and Wednesday
this week

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to most of the province. Our
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RODEO WEEK . . . Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore,
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Ald. Bob Pakula are all ready for Rodeo Week in

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FISH NET PEN

continued from front page

As well as the fish pen, Briscoe says
“phase two” of the Lower Arrow Lake
project is ding up
interested volunteers to clean debris

out of spawning streams in the lake.
Part of this includes clearing a log
jam and culverts in Deer Creek. A
crew working under a Canada Works
grant is also helping clear this creek.

The

The fish will be raised in a hatchery
until they are 2.5 to 3.5 centimetres
(one to 1% inches) long, and then
transferred to the net pen.
pen
“predator cage”
mink, muskrat, ducks and debi
an automatic 24-hour feeding device —
is similar to ones in use on Kootenay
Lake and Slocan Lake.

— which includes a
to protect fish from

and

37TH IN
CHALLENGE

By CasNews Staff
Castlegar remained in eighth place in British
Columbia this year in the third annual Great Canadian
Participaction Challenge.
A total of 3,212 Castlegar residents registered for
the challenge Wednesday, by doing 15 minutes of

Miracle A.J
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Expo
committee
formed

By CasNews Staff
Castlegar has established a
steering committee for Expo

exercise. The total was down by 77
participants from last year's 3,289.

The response this year represented 44.3 per cent of
the population, down slightly from 45.4 per cent in 1984.

The Castlegar recreation office says this placed
Castlegar far behind the Pas, Manitoba which was tops in
the under 10,000 population category in Canada with 95.1
per cent. Port Elgin, Ont. was second with 89.7 per cent
while Quesnel was third with 81.4 per cent.

Quesnel was also ranked first in B.C., with
Courtenay second at 69 per cent and Parksville third at
59.6 per cent.

Although Castlegar remained in eighth place in
provincial standings, the city slipped to 37th nationally
from 25th last year.

Nelson, the host community for the under 10,000
category, placed sixth provincially with 55.7 per cent of
the population participating. Nelson was 22nd nationally.

Still, the recreation office said it was encouraged by
the results that about 400 more adults participated this
year on an individual basis.

“This figure unfortunately was offset by the
response from the local high school (Stanley Humphries)
which was down by a corresponding 400 figure,” it said.

Recreation director Pat Metge explained that last
year at SHSS there was a mass participation program.
This year the high school did not support such a program.
As a result only 222 of a possible 800 students took part.

Had there been the same support from the high
school, Metge said Castlegar's participation rate would
have been more than 50 per cent.

“With improved support from the schools and
continued growth in the adult participation, Castlegar
looks forward to 1986 and the opportunity to finally knock
off Nelson,” the department said.

CosNewsPhoto

BRIEFLY

NO RIGHT-TO-WORK

PENTICTON (CP) — British Columbia Labor

ister Terry Segarty says he will not consider
creating right-to-work legislation.

Answering a question at the annual meeting of
the British Columbia Chamber of Commerce, Segarty
— one of four pi i at the ad
said labor- management peace depends on “an attitude
change, and you can't legislate attitude change.”

Segarty, himself a former member of the
Operating Engineers unién, confirmed the Social
Credit govertiment’s stated policy against passing a
law to eliminate closed union shops.

AIDS EPIDEMIC

VANCOUVER (CP) — More than 100 people in
Vancouver are likely to have contracted acquired
immune defiency syndrome before the end of 1985 and
a specialist says it's about time AIDS was considered
an epidemic in Vancouver.

“It is an epidemi said Dr. Hilary. Was, a
specialist in internal medicine who works with AIDS
patients at St. Paul's Hospital. “There's no getting
away from that.”

She estimates there will be more than 100 AIDS

LITERATURE
MOVES INTO
COMPUTER AGE

By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN
Staff

Writer
If you want to read William Shakespeare, you pick
up a book. Maybe a big, dusty, heavy hardcover
untouched since college. Hemingway's short stories?
Again, they're in a book — hardcover, clothbound,
paperback. If you're rich, perhaps bound in leather. T.S.
Eliot? Look in a book.

WEEKEND
FEAUTRE

Literature and books are inseparable. Like the song
says, “You can't have one without the other.” Right?

Wrong. Fred Wah, an applied writing instructor at
Selkirk College, has co-founded the world’s first
electronic literary magazine.

Called Swiftcurrent, the national magazine is housed
in a VAX 750 computer at York University in Toronto,

the world’s first electronic literary

“Swifteurrent’s great advantage as a literary

and has been accessible to readers with mod
in Canada since last fall.

cases before the end of the year, but she was
to offer any predictions regarding the spread of the

disease.
GAS WARS?

VICTORIA (CP) — Labor Minister Terry Segarty
will meet with major employers and unions within the
next few weeks to talk about worker's compensation,
the Labor Ministry said in a news release.

Segarty said he has made workers’ compensation
a priority since assuming the portfolio in February,
and there are “urgent problems which must be
remedied without delay.”

The Workers’ Compensation Board “must be
responsive to the concerns of those whom it serves,”
he said.

CHANGES TO WCB

TORONTO (CP) — In a move expected to spark
similar reductions across the country, Petro-Canada
has dropped gasoline pump prices at about 650 service
centres by 0.6 cents a litre.

Prices are also expected to fall at the remaining
1,950 Petrocan stations run by lessee operators and
independent dealers because the federal government-

Swifteurrent hes about 40 editors — including Wah,
himself a poet — who screen editorial input and
contribute themselves. Other editors are Margaret
Atwood, Dave Arnason, George Bowering, Dave Godrey,
David McFadden and bp nichol.

Established writers aren't the only contributors.
Wah says he's accepted material from students
participating in the Kootenay School of Writing at the
now-closed David Thompson University Centre.

Unlike other literary magazines, there are no books.
Poems, drama, short stories and other creative input
appear on the subscriber's computer screen. If desired, a
print-out can be made.

Wah says one advantage of Swiftcurrent —
co-founded with Frank Davey, chairman of York's
English department — is that readers can delete
contributions they don’t want.

says Wah goes back to the medieval tradion of
ure — story and fable telling — when a listener
jit out what he or she didn't want to hear” by
simply not listening.

And Swifteurrent has the ge of allowing
authors to electronically “comment” on each others’ work
through their computers.

is the i iacy that it lets in. I can put some
poetry in Swifteurrent today, which will be read by some
person in Toronto today. And that person can respond to
my poetry today,” said Wah.

SPACE-AGE WRITING . . . Fred Wah, ee leunter of magazine, prepares to plug into its data-base located
Swiftcurrent,

at York University in Toronto. —CasewsPhote

with a suitably equipped computer can plug in.

“I think that probably as far as the possibility of size,
the possibility of a large membership, this magazine
stands a greater chance than any hard-copy magazine,”
said Wah.

How do writers respond to the electronic
“They like it,” says Wah, noting that most have been
using word processors for years. “It's great for writers
because they get to talk to one another.”

Wah is shown a recent newspaper article which
quotes Dorothy Jantzen, editor of The Capilano Review,
as saying Swifteurrent is “the opposite extreme of
reading poetry in a coffee house.” Wah doesn’t agree.

“It is more like a coffee house poetry reading in the
sense that it’s much more personal. If you read something
in The Capilano Review . . . you read it and to have any
interaction with the author of that piece, you have to send
a letter to the editor.”

An added personal touch is that a reader can have
material printed out on his choice of paper and type if he’s
purchased the latest wrinkles in comp y

for instituti are $100 lly
individual subscriptions are $25 per year. Initial funding
was through a Canada Council grant of about $15,000.

Wah says the Swifteurrent concept is not limited to
short literary works. Full-length novels are now being
processed through the magazine's computer system, and
Wah even plans to put an “electronic bookstore” on
display at Expo 86.

The bookstore would include a computer, modem
laser printer and access to publishers’ data bases, where
novels are already stored.

“You can come in and say, ‘I'd like to get a copy of
Margaret Atwood’s most recent novel.’ And rather than
have the novel on the bookshelves, it will be printed out

says Wah.

Currently Swiftcurrent has only a few hundred
subscribers, although the readership is higher, because
most subscribers are libraries and other institutions. But
Wah says the magazine has an almost unlimited capacity
for growth — both nationally and internationally. Anyone

for you,” explained Wah.

Swifteurrent’s name came from Wah's birthplace in
Swifteurrent, Sask., and “in response to the concept that
culture and the arts should be decentralized in Canada”
and exist outside Toronto, said Wah.

And, he adds, Swiftcurrent is “a lovely pun for the
electronic medium.”

owned oil company is cutting its lesale gasoline
prices by 0.6 cents a litre.

The new prices, which went into effect Saturday,
are a result of the deregulation of crude oil prices, a
Petro-Canada spokesman said.

Funeral set for

Twister hits Barrie

86, but at least one member
admits the city is slow in

City to install crosswalk ahaereviien longtime resident

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“We are a little late,” said
Ald. Bob MacBain, one of a
four-man steering

By CasNews Staff
Castlegar council has
agreed to install only one hel

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night meeting.

“It's sad that we have dif
fieulty in getting enthusiasm
in the area. No matter what
the project. We're having
difficulty with SunFest. No
one wants to come forward
and commit themselves to
doing work on these things
and it’s a great benefit to the
community and the area.”

The meeting was also at
tended by Castlegar Cham
ber of Commerce members
and Ald. Marilyn Mathieson

MacBain said another
meeting will be held later
this month to set up a per
manent Castlegar Expo 86
committee.

While the project is “still
up in the air” MacBain said
future plans may include ob-
taining information from Ex
po 86 representatives in
Vancouver, and having a
representative speak in
Castlegar.

Castlegar may also develop
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new crosswalk will be located
at the top of Park Hill Road.

Council's protective ser
vices committee decided that
three of the other crosswalks
requested were “not re-
quired” and the fourth is
“very low priority.”

The three not required in
clude:

e Columbia Avenue and
8th Street near the Ministry

of Forestry office

e Columbia Avenue by
Kinnaird Hall.

e Columbia Avenue and
27th Street near the Castle-
gar Import Centre.

The crosswalk considered
a low priority by the city is at
Columbia Avenue and 14th
Street near the Bank of
Montreal's commercial unit.

The protective services
committee made its recom
mendations following a meet
ing with three school board
representatives.

Meanwhile, council agreed

WKPL to hold
talks with unions

By CasNews Staff

Talks are slated this week
between striking unions and
West Kootenay Power and
Light Co. The negotiations,
the first since the electrical
and office and technical
workers went out on strike
last weekend, are set for
Kelowna.

M otal of 190 members of
Local 217 of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers and 84 members of

the Office and Technical Em.
ployees Union have set up
picket lines at the company’s
head office in Trail and 12
district offices, including the
one in Castlegar.

The company is using its 85
supervisory and administra
tive employees to main
services to its customers.

Wages and the length of
the contract are the major
outstanding issues.

to a board request that the
two existing crosswalks near
Kinnaird elementary school
be replaced with a single
crosswalk a few metres fur.
ther south on 10th Avenue,
and one across 23rd Street on
the west side of 10th Avenue.

Council also agreed to
paint all existing crosswalks
within the next two or three
weeks. The city will also look
at painting its crosswalks like
the Ministry of Highways’

Students
from

By CasNews Staff

More than 3,800 students
received degrees from the
Univeristy of British Col
umbia this week, including
six students from Castlegar
— one of whom won a prize
for achievement.

Marie Louiselle Lise Ouel
let received a Master of
Science in Nursing, Teresa
Pryce graduated with a Bach.
elor of Arts with a major in
fine arts. Bachelor of Com
merce degrees were awarded
to Teresa Moroso and Wendy
Nixon.

Kenneth Maloff received a

crosswalks — with a large
arrow and an X before each
crosswalk.

Elsewhere, the committee
asked the board to consider
having a school patrol at 7th
Avenue and 8th Street. The
board said it is looking at it.

As well, the board agreed
to look into the problem of
students from Stanley Hum.
phries Secondary School
speeding in the area of 8th
Street and 9th Avenue.

graduate
UBC

Bachelor of Law degree,
Daniel Obedkoff graduated
as Doctor of Medicine and
Anna Stroes graduated with
a Bachelor of Science with a
major in geological science.

Obedkoff received the
Mead Johnson of Canada Ltd.
Prize in Pediatrics. The $375
prize is awarded to the
student with the highest
standing in pediatrics. 4

Linda Haley of Kinn
received the $100 Malcolm
MacIntyre Prize in Law for
the highest standing in Suc.
cession.

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TORONTO (CP) — A coalition of charities is
calling on Canadians to donate $1 million for survivors
of a typhoon and tidal wave in Bangladesh.

The South Asian Partnership (Canada), a
four-year-old group of 15 relief agencies, including
UNICEF Canada and OXFAM Quebec, says it will ask
the federal government to match the money it raises.

“This is basically strength through numbers,”
said UNICEF spokesman Colin Rainsbury. “We're
saying to the public, ‘If you want to help, here's where
you can take your money.’ ”

POLICE WALK OUT

CHATHAM, N.B. (CP) Chatham Mayor Mike
Bowes is furious that the RCMP did not help the town
when a mob got out of hand early Saturday morning in
the midst of a police strike.

The 11-man police force in the town of 8,000
walked off the job at 10 p.m. Friday. However, they
returned to work briefly on Saturday when a crowd of
about 400 gathered after taverns closed and became
unruly when a bottle was thrown through a barber.
shop window. Windows were also broken at a service
station

Two people were arrested before police resumed
their strike.

COKE NO JOKE

SEATTLE (AP) — Coca-Cola tinkered with part
of the American heritage when it changed its
99-year-old formula for the popular soft drink, says a
man who's launching a grass-roots campaign to get the
old Coke back

“This is not a joke — we are very serious,” Gay
Mullins said of his new organization, the Old Cola
Drinkers of America. He said the group, which grew
out of a bunch of people talking in a restaurant a week
ago, just doesn't think “Coke is it” any more.

“I'm not a protester,” he told a news conference.
“But there are people who come to me and say they
are Coke drinkers. They prefer it to milk. A
hamburger with Coke is like apple pie with cheese.
And it’s just not the same.”

BARRIE, ONT. (CP) — All
over Barrie on Saturday,
people used their bare hands
to sift the shambles that had
been their homes 24 hours
earlier, searching for any
thing — perhaps a child's fa
vored toy — that might have
been spared from Friday's
vicious tornado.

Others, touched even more
tragicially by the killer twis-
ter, prepared to bury their
dead

At least 12 people, includ
ing four children, were
known to have died in the
minutes-long storm that rip-
ped a narrow 100-kilometre-
long swath through Simcoe
County in central Ontario,

hitting hardest in this city of
45,000 north of Toronto.

Hundreds were left home-
less in Barrie and surround-
ing communities.

“We're all heartbroken,”
said Boyd Reket, who re
turned home with his wife
Didi from a vacation in Hol
land minutes after the storm
ravaged his house in their
south-end neighborhood.

“We drove up and that is
what was waiting for us,”
Reket said, jerking his thumb
at the ruins of the home the
couple had shared since it
was built 18 years ago.

“We have insurnace and
will rebuild,” he said. “It has
to be torn down anyway be-
cause it is condemned now.”

TESTED HOUSES

Police and firefighters test
ed the damaged houses be-
fore allowing residents to re-

Cheques
to come
faster

By CasNews Staff
West Kootenay seniors
who complained about re-

Loto numbers

ceiving their pension cheques
late are now getting them
more quickly.

After receiving complaints

from constituents earlier
this year about late veterans’
and widows’ cheques, Koot-
enay West MP Bob Brisco
contacted George Hees, Min-
ister of Veterans Affairs.

Hees replied that disability
pension cheques are sent to
Canada Post about three
banking days before the end
of the month, so that pen-
sioners receive them at
months’ end.

In an undated letter to
Brisco, Hees adds: “I am
pleased to inform you that
beginning with the April
cheque issue, cheques des-
tined for the most remote

turn, accompanying them in
side the dwellings that ap.
peared unsafe.

Mare Wick, whose 14-year.
old daughter was blown
through a door by the force of
the storm, said he escaped
his house with only the
clothes on his back.

Wick, a father of six, said
his daughter wasn't seriously
injured but his house was
levelled and his three vehi
cles — two trucks and a small
bus — were destroyed.

He wasn't sure whether his
insurance covered the loss
because “it was an act of God
— and those things are acts
of God no matter how or
where they happen.”

Five minutes after Graham
Allary and his wife signed
the papers to sell their old
house and buy a new one,
their new home was exten.

sively damaged.

Allary, a 33-year-old sales-
man, lost more than his
home. The building housing
the paper company where he
works was also levelled.

Robert Fairbank was
working and his wife was
alone in the home as the
storm was rising and, fearful
of lightning, sbe went across
the street to stay with a
neighbor.

It was the right decision —
the Fairbanks’ house was
struck by the tornado but the
neighbor's home escaped un
touched.

Meanwhile, residents re
acted quickly and benevolen:
tly Saturday to the plight of
fellow citizens who lost their
homes and possessions.

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KAMLOOPS — Winning
numbers Wednesday in the
Pacific Express lottery were:

For $100,000: 470386.

For $50,000: 080044.

For $10,000: 138079.

In the Lotto West Lottery
Wednesday, the jackpot of
$175,948.20 was won by one
ticket holder.

The eight numbers drawn
were 8, 16, 22, 35, 42, 46, 50
and 52. The bonus number
was 1

One ticket holder who
picked five numbers correct
plus the bonus number won
$10,556.90. Ticket holders

with five numbers correct
won $491.00 each, those with
four correct won $52.60 each
and those with three correct
won $5 each.

As well, five extra sets of
numbers were drawn for
bonus prizes of 1985 cars.

The sets were: 7, 17, 26, 39,
40, 41, 50, 54 and 8, 16, 18, 30,
39, 43, 49, 51 and 2, 7, 22, 24,
30, 31, 37, 39 and 5, 6, 8, 10,
24, 31, 32, 56 and 13, 16, 24,

Players matching six out of
eight numbers in any of the
bonus sets win a 1985 car.

locations will be mailed first

. This should significantly
improve delivery of pension
cheques to pensioners in your
constituency.”

“This seems like a logical
solution to the problem,”
says Brisco in a news release,
“but I will be taking the
minister up on his offer to
contact him again is concerns
continue to be expressed on
this matter by recipients in
my consitutency.”

In his letter to Brisco, Hees
offers “sincere apologies” to
Kootenay West residents
“for any hardship they may
have experienced.”

SUCCESSFUL INITIATIVE .

Lawrence Alfred Gruner-
ud of Castlegar passed away
Thursday, May 30 at the age
of 81.

He was born Jan. 23, 1904
at Leola Township, Coding-
ton County, South Dakota.
He moved to Hanley, Sask.
with his parents in 1906
where he grew up and farm.

In 1939, Mr. Grunerud
moved to B.C., living at
Creston and Willow Point,
coming to Castlegar in 1941,
when he began working for
Cominco. He retired from
Cominco in 1968.

He married Muriel Find
later on Nov. 11, 1931 at
Broderick, Sask. Mrs. Grun
erud passed away in 1967.

Mr. Grunerud enjoyed gar.
dening and sports. He is sur
vived by two sons, Ellwood of

Castlegar and Kenneth of
Vancouver; six grandchild-
dren; one great-grandson;
four brothers, Lewis, Conrad
and Robert of Saskatchewan
and John of Ontario; three
sisters, Frances Kettlehut of
Ontario, Alice Snustead of
Saskatchewan and Ruth
Richardson of Whonnock,
B.C.

Funeral services will be
held at 11 a.m. Monday at the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel
with Rev. Ted Bristow offi-
ciating. Burial will be in the
Park Memorial Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, dona.
tions may be made to the
Kootenay Society for the
Handicapped, Box 3204,
Castlegar.

Castlegar Funeral Chapel
is in care of funeral arrange
ments.

Conference looks
at development

By CasNews Staff

More than 100 people
participated in a conference
on social and economic
development Friday and
Saturday at Selkirk College
in Castlegar.

The conference, entitled
Sharing Approaches that
Work, was attended by
people from throughout the
Kootenays.

Included in the confer.
ence was a keynote address
Saturday by Slocan Valley
architect Eric Clough
followed by a panel discus
sion on regional potential

The conference was part
of a series of regional
seminars entitled, Starting to
make Sense Transition Bet
ween Economies.

Also included in the
conference was a guided tour
of the many exhibits at the
conference. Displays
included were from the
Institute of Cultural Affairs,
Nelson Heritage Program,
Creston Food and Clothing
Bank, Cresteramics of

, Gail —— ot Creston Valley Food and Clothing Bank

tells participants of a
successful

and social
tiative. The Toss ‘and Clothing Bonk was one of numerous displays at
the conference held Friday and Saturday at Selkirk College

d about this

Creston and Operation Pine.
cone, an Invermere opera
tion which make pinecone
crafts.

The conference particip
ants also toured Zuckerberg
Island Park Saturday before
breaking up into groups to

attend very various work
shops.

One workshop, - entitled
Promoting People Particip
ation was led by Betty
Taggert of Cresteramics and
Bill Staples from the
International Cultural
Association in Edmonton.
This workshop included
practical ideas for promoting
and sustaining involvement
in local projects.

Planning a Project was led
by Gary Paget from the
Ministry of Municipal Affairs
and Marten Kruysse,
economic development
officer for the Regional
District of Kootenay Boun
dary. This workshop
involved learning to set
objectives, planning, achiev
ing goals and re-evaluation.

A workshop on Identify
ing Community Needs was
led by Michael Clague of the
Social Planning and Review
Council of B.C. (SPARC). He
taught participants how to
identify projects needed
within a community and
involving the individuals
required

A Job in the Making was a
workshop on exploring ideas
and resources for creating
jobs. Workshop leaders
included Fred Haake of the
Unemployed Action Centre
in Nelson and Ron Skillings.
Castlegar city clerk