“et Castlegar News

December 3, 1989

Pulpit & Pew

By Pastor SLAWOMIR MALAREK
Seventh-day Adventist Church

The sweeping political changes in
Eastern Europe can only politically be
compared to the speed and shock of
the recent hurricanes in the east and the
earthquakes in the west of the U.S

The changes have truly been
phenomenal and unlike those in the
natural world have inspired more op:
timism and hope

For me, a Christian, who was born
and raised in Poland, many of these
changes signify more personal and
religious freedom for the East
Europeans

Just as wild and bold as some of
these changes have been, so are’ the
speculations and predictions of
politicians and journalists, who
otherwise have been caught off guard
and surprised, about the future of
Europe and the world

Some predict the reunification of
East and West Germany. Others talk
about a united Europe (the nations of
Western Europe hope to integrate their
economies in 1992)

At the same time, the superpowers
continue to strive towards peace and
peaceful coexistence. All these events
make us wonder about what lies ahead;
what tomorrow might bring?

Is global peace possible? Or at least a
unification of Europe? As Christians,
we don’t have to speculate. We find

clear answers in God's Word, the -

Bible. The Bible, a truly unique book,
one-fourth of which consists of
prophetic predictions, contains a
prophecy that reaches to our day and
even beyond.

This prophecy, recorded in the
second chapter of the book of Daniel,
was given 600 years before Christ to the
king oft Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar
Easy to understand, this chapter has
been called the ABC of Bible prophecy
and it will fascinate every-body, even a
skeptic if only read and pondered

upon

King Nebuchadnezzar awoke one
night greatly disturbed by a dream he
could neither remember nor underst
and, But through Daniel, the prophet,
God accomplished what was humanly
impossible.

The prophet recalled for Nebuchad
nezzar exagtly what-he dreamed and
then proceeded to explain its meaning.
The king saw in his dream an enormous
statue, each part of the statue was
made of a different metal

Inspired by God, the prophet iden:
tified all parts of the image as represen.
ting kingdoms in succession. Thus the
head of gold fittingly represented
Babylon ‘the golden city," the chest
and arms of silver the Medo-Persian
Empire.

The next power, represented by the
image's midsection of bronze was the
Macedonia Greeks led by Alexander
the Great-and broken in turn by the
iron monarchy of Rome

But Daniel, under divine in
spiration, foretold the break-up of the
mighty Roman Empire. When he came
to the feet and toes in his explanation,
Daniel predicted: **The kingdom shall
be divided.”

History verifies Daniel’s words. At
tacked from without and decaying
from within, Rome was divided into
independent kingdoms that later
became the nations of modern Europe
True to God’s Word, those nations to
this day remain “divided,” adjacent
but separate, like the toes of the foot

At least two profound lessons may
be drawn from this prophecy. First, we
again see that God unerringly knows
the future. No human foresight could
predict that there'd be four — and only
four — world pbwers from Daniel's
day to ours

Second, God said those nations of
Western Europe, ‘‘shall not cleave (or
adhere) one to another, even as iron is
not mixed with clay."’ Daniel 2:41-43

Births &

Funerals —

BIRTHS
BENGER — To Georgia and Jim m Benger
of Langdale, B.C... a girl. born

BRUCE — To Debbie and Raymond Bru
of Castlegar, a boy, born Nov. 10

CAMPBELL — To Holley and Rob Cam
pbell of Rossland, a girl, born Nov. 18.

Allen of Coleman, Col.; brother David of
Spokane; .12 grandchildren and or
great-grandchild

HERMANSON — Martina Hermanson, o
former Trail resident, died Nov. 17 at
Penticton Hospital at age 98

JENKS
Nov. 27

Victor Jenks of Castlegar died

He was 74 enks is sur

Heaven knows man has tried to wéld
those iron-clay nations into a super-
state, Charlemagne tried about A.D.
800; Charles the Fifth, about 1500; destroyed.'’ Daniel 2:44.

Napoleon Bonaparte, about 1800. We now live ‘in the days of these
Kaiser Wilhelm II's attempt led to the _ kings.’ We're living in the statue's feet
First World War, and Adolph Hitler's and toes — in the very toenails! — of
led to the Second World War, But all the days when God says His everlasting
failed miserably, God's seven words kingdom will be set up.

still stand regarding the nations:
“They shall not cleave one to
another.”"

True unity has not been achieved by
either armies of war or organizations
of peace, like the United Nations.
Some Christians overlook God's
message in Daniel 2 and expect a rebir-
th of the old Roman Empire, pinning
their hopes on the European Common
Market

But prophecy’s verdict comes
ringing down the corridor of time
leaving the nations still divided by dif.
ferent monetary systems as well as the
different languages of what was once
the monolithic Roman Empire.

So what's next on the agenda for the
world? Well, finally Daniel
prophesized: ‘‘In the days of these

Aglow to hold banquet

Castlegar “Women’s
Fellowship is having a Christmas
family banquet Dec. 7 at 6:30 p.m. at
the Fireside Inn, Men and teens. are
welcome for this special occasion. The
Dillen family, longtime residents of
Castlegar, will be presenting The
Christmas Story using a selection of

kings (the nations of modern Europe)
shall the God of heaven set up a
kingdom which shall never be

Daniel assures us we can have com
plete confidence in this prophecy:
“The dream is certain andthe inter-
pretation thereof sure.”*

As Christians, we should not engage
in political - predictions and
speculations because ‘‘our citizenship
is in heaven. And we eagerly await a
Savior from there, the Lord Jesus
Christ."" Philippians 3:20. He will
come soon, He is coming!

This Christmas season, when you'll
think about our Lord Jesus Christ,
consider the thought that He is not a
baby anymore but the King of kings
who is coming soon to take home those
who eagerly waited for Him. It’s good
news! It is magnificent news! What do
you say?

Aglow street and prison ministry as well as
being a member of a 40-voice choir

Jacob Dillen pursued post-graduate
studies in practical. theology in
Kelowna where he was involved in
street and music ministries.

Cyndi and Jacob are currently em-
ployed as school aides, working with
children with special needs.

Krista Dillen attended Okanagan
College in Kelowna and is currently
taking home-study~courses in child
psychology

The Dillen family’s philosophy in
ministry is to promote hope, unity and
love which is only made possible
through embracing the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, a news release from Castlegar
Women's Aglow Fellowship says.

songs.

Jacques Dillen, a painting contrac
tor, and Kathy Dillen, currently em-
ployed by a local legal firm, have both
been involved with special needs
people as well as with children’s and
youth ministries

While pursuing’ post-graduate
studies in practical theology in Dallas,
Texas, Cyndi Dillen was very active in

With special thanks

The Castlegar Chapter of the Learning
Disabilities Association of B.C. would
like to express its sincere appreciation
to these sponsors for their generous financial
contributions. We would also like to thank the
Castlegar News for its invaluable assistance. The
proceeds will go towards providing information
and support to people with learning disabilities in

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of Fruitvale, a boy, born Nov. 15.

McFADYEN — To Corrine and Cam M
Fadyen of Nelson, a boy, born Nov. 20

MATLEY — To Diane ond Lorry Malley of
Trdil, a girl, born Nov

MILLAR — To Tracie ond Oon Millar of
Nakusp. a boy, born 25

MULLER — To Tracy and Andrew Mulle
of Blueberry Creek, a boy, born Nov. 2

PLAYDON To Darlene and
Playdon of Nelson, a boy. born Nov

POMPU — To Lola and Louri Pompu
Fruitvale, a boy, born Nov. 22

RADONICH ‘SCANLAN To Nancy
Rodonich and David Scanian of South
Stocan-a-girt-born-Nov-23-

DEATHS
HAYS — Orlond W. Hays of Northpc
died Nov. 21 in Colville, Wash
vived by his wite Geneva
daughters, Judy Swartzenhour
Rossland, Debbie Hays of Colville, Lindo
Hunt of Chatteroy, Wash., and Persha
Hill of Maple Valley, Wash. three sons
Dale of tone, Wash., Bill of Colville and

ed by bh eEmilyat the. tamil
home, son Bud of Castlegar. two
daughters and sons-in-law, Dawn and
Cameron Geddes of Kamloops and Anita
and Wayne Gray of Campbell River
grandchildren; and many niec
nephews

MULLIGAN — Kevin Thoma
died Nov. 25 at age 58

Mulligan

PETERSON — Carl Adolph (Al) Peterson
25. He was 90. Mr

ved by his daughter

n Barry, three gran

rs Helen Almstrom

SWANIZ — Rosalind Ezabeth Swantz of
Kalso died Nov. 22 in Kootenay Lake
District Hospital. She was 62. Mrs. Swan
tz is v by her husband Ed.
daughter # Calgary, son
Michoe!_of Kaslo,_tour grandchildren.
tw Shirley and her husband Bill
>t Coaldale. Alta., and Tykie and
Forbes of Calgary
s wite Fern Deppler
1ce George
nephews. She was pre
Son Allan in 1974. tather Henry Keppler
9 1959, mother Elizabeth McCaw in 1988
and brother Joe Keppler in 1988

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Castlegar

percent

If that proposed increase stands through adoption of
the provisional budget in January and a final budget next
May, a Castlegar taxpayer with a home valued at $50,000
can expect to see the general municipal portion of his or her

taxes rise by approximately $30.
However, despite appearances

provisional budget is almost $900,000 higher than the city’s
1989 budget of $7.2 million, Mayor Audrey Moore said the
in the proposed budget
from the proposed tax increases is just $292,000.

actual addition of ‘‘new money”’

council Monday agreed to consider a
1990 provisional budget Of almost $8.1 million which in
cludes a proposed residential property tax increase of 6.5

The balance of the apparent increase of almost
$900,000 is a result of what the mayor calls a more
accounting of the city’s equipment and labor
costs thanks to its recently implemented new “‘management
"" which allows city staff to more ac

**realistic’’

maintenance system
curately track revenue and expenses,

“What we're doing
of our machinery to different jobs,"

the costs but the costs are realistic

The mayor said the revenue side of the balance sheet in
the provisional budget has been upped by some $500,000 to

that the 1990
reflect the new accounting procedures.

ditures to account for that,”*

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charging out the full, actual cost
Moore said Tuesday
“So there’s been sort of a change in the apportionment of

Review
firm
chosen

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar city council Monday op-
ted for experience over the lowest price
in voting to hire Price Waterhouse
Management Consultants of Van-
couver to conduct an organizational
review of the city’s administration.

Council's adminstration and finan-
ce committee chairman Ald. Doreen
Smecher, responding to a question
from Ald. Terry Rogers, said Price
Waterhouse’s bid wasn’t the lowest
but the company’s proposal ‘‘ad-
dressed council’s requirements’’ for
the review

“They (Price Waterhouse) ad-
dressed our concerns and had the
broadest range of experience and had
the most experience in the field,”
Smecher said.

have been charging it out

out at $50 an hour,’* Moore said.

mayor said.

the job it’s doing,"’ she said

“What you find in the rest of this budget is expen
Moore said
To try to explain the new accounting procedures, the

Despite the explanation, Moore acknowledged that
comparisons between the 1990 budget and this year’s day

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~' EGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6

mayor used the hypothetical example of Work on a ballpark
with city labor and equipment costs of $15,000.

**But in costing the machinery out last year we might
at about $3 an hour or
something when in actuality it should have been charged

The difference would have been scattered throughout
other areas such as the city’s maintenance shop, in parts, in
depreciation and in the city’s equipment reserve fund, the

“What we've done this year is said,
(equipment cost) gets charged at its actual amount against

Nevertheless,

budget will be difficult and said some aldermen are having
trouble making the adjustment
**1U’s going to be confusing this year,”

the mayor said

the bottofn line for most property

owners will be their tax bill and Moore, in her year-end ad-

‘No, no," That

dress and in interviews after, said council and city staff
hope to deliver a higher level of service next year in return
for atax increase, if approved

The mayor said the better service may include an as yet
undetermined increase in the number of staff at city hall

which she suggested may be one of the recommendations
that results from an upcoming independent review of the

1989

city’s administration. Council approved that review Mon

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3 Sections (A, B & D)

6.9 per cent

rate

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI
taff Writer

West Kootenay Power currently has
three issues before the B.C. Utilities
Commission that will, directly or in-
directly, affect the rate the utility’s
customers pay but the issues are
separate and unrelated, WKP public
relations administrator Jack Fisher
said

The utility is seeking a rate increase
of 6.9 per cent because B.C. Hydro is
increasing the rates WKP pays to buy
power during the heavy-use winter
months, Fisher said Tuesday

As well, the constantly increasing

hike

commission to grant the increase on an
interim basis effective Jan. 1. If the
longterm increase is turned down,
WKP will have to pay its customers
back for the interim increase, he said.

Interim increases are routine in rate
increase proposals, Fisher added

Fisher said the application for the
rate increase has nothing to do with the
utility’s proposal to have its customers
pay for the company’s failed bid to
build a gas turbine plant in the
Okanagan asa way to meet some of the
increasing demand for power.

The is
whether WKP shareholders or

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about the studies, see displays, pick up information materials,
and talk with B.C.Hydro project team members.

Please join us for some refreshments and informal
discussion. We'd like to hear your views and ideas

Location Date Time
Trail: Room 206 Dec. 6, 1989 3:00 p.m
(the cafeteria) to
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900 Helena Street
(On the same evening, a seminar on the Columbia River

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2101 Sixth Avenue

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CounciLwittp ‘aterhouse
approximately $15,000 to conduct the
review. Some of the funds will come
out of this year’s budget surplus and
the balance--will be included-in-the
city’s 1990 budget, Smecher said. The
cost of the three proposals council
sought were ‘‘comparable,"” she ad-
ded
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CLAUDETTESANDECKI

Staff Writer
Fears that a high school textbook’s brief treatment
of the Holocaust will leave students with little under-
standing about the scope of the mass genocide of Jewish
people during the Second World War are unfounded,

Trees
for sale

page A3

Stanley H secondary school’s senior history
teacher told Castlegar school trustees Monday

The text is only one of three provided for the Grade
12 history course and amounts to a series of notes on
the topics covered because it was originally written as a
guide to help students pass exams, Al Sheppard said
during a medting of the) Castlegar school board's
education forum

Trustee Evelyn Voykin said she had asked for
someone to address the board on the subject after
hearing concerns about the book such as those ex
pressed by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Last month the congress, calling the book ‘‘a major
mistake,” said it was considering registering a formal

with the Ministry’s textbook

NDP
fracas

page A4

review committee.

Sheppard said the text, which is called The World
This Century and covers the treatment of Jews in two
pages, is meant to supplement the main text, Twentieth
Century History, which has a number of sections con
cerning Nazi extermination of the Jews and anti
semitism

The third text in the course, Map History of the
Modern World, includes detailed maps showing the
locations of extermination camps and forced-labor
camps.

Sheppard said the students also read an essay titled

Local students not

Holocaust

Genocide: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews that looks
at the history of anti-semitism, the personal beliefs of
Adolf Hitler and other systematic exterminations of
peoples both during the war and since.

Guest speakers are sometimes brought in, Shep
pard added, such as a former soldier who witnessed the
suffering inflicted by the Nazis. Discussions on political
philosophies such as right-wing extremism are also part
of the course, he said

No teacher would use only the brief text, Sheppard
said, nor do textbooks dictate the curriculum.

As well, most students come into the class already
familiar with the events of the war, including the per
secution of the Jews and the death camps, Sheppard
noted

“I don’t really see a need for concern in the
district,’” he said. ‘‘I think we cover it (the Holocaust).""

However, some trustees questioned whether cer.
tain aspects of the war such as Canada’s unwillingness
to accept Jewish refugees should be covered more
thoroughly in the course

Sheppard said he mertions the fact Canada turned
away refugees

And trustee Mickey Kinakin said that despite the
undeniable systematic extermination of the Jews, cour
ses on the war focus too heavily on the Jewish per
secution during the Holocaust and don’t discuss the per-
secution and extermination of other groups well
enough

As well, he suggested more time should be given in
the classroom to discuss other mass genocides this cen
tury, such as the killing carried out by Pol Pot’s regime
in Cambodia, and to question why there are no native
people permanently residing in the Kootenays

demand for power means WKP will
also be buying more from B.C. Hydro
at the higher price, he said

Part of the rate increase B.C. Hydro
plans will be higher wheeling rates, the
fee charged for using B.C. Hydro lines
to transmit the power WKP buys,
Fisher added.

Fisher said WKP applied for the in
crease Nov. 30 and has also asked the

customers should have to pick up the
$1.5 million WKP spent seeking per-
mission to build the plant first_in
Kelowna and then in Oliver, Fisher
said. The commission turned down the
proposal in May

WKP officials want the customers to
foot the bill because if the plant had
gone ahead the extra power generated

continued on page A2

School board
chairman
declines full pay

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar school board chairman
Gordon Turner and vice-chairman Ed
Conroy were returned to their
Positions by acclamation at a special
board meeting Monday

Turger, who has been chairman sin-
ce July 1987, told trustees the board
has seen some “‘hard times” in the past
and may face more in the coming year

“I want to thank the board for
having faith in me,’ he said as he
resumed the chairman’s seat

Conroy has been vice-chairman sin
ce July 1987

Later in the meeting, Turner infor-
med trustees he will once again accept
only part of his remuneration provided
by the provincial government through
its cost-sharing arrangement with the
board
- Turner is provided with $7,500 per
year while the vice-chairman is given
$6,250 and trustees $5,000. Turner
said he will accept only $6,750, $250
more than he accepted last year

He said his decision is based on what
he feels the community will accept an
elected representative receiving and a
sense that $7,500is ‘‘a little high for the
duties”’ he performs

The money that won't go to Turner
will remain in the board's overall
budget, he added

Turner also said a number of the
other board members refuse to accept
the full amount to which they are en:
titled, preferring instead to put the
money to use in areas such as scholar
ship funding

Under the new School Act, trustees

Bocan in fact vote to set their

remuneration at any level they choose
However, any figure over the set
amounts the province will provide
must be raised through local taxes.

continued on page A2

GORDON TURNER
. $7,500 too high

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KSH

The Castlegar News will once
again be used to exchange Christ-
mas greetings and at the same time
assist the Kootenay Society for the
Handicapped

Boxes in which local residents
may place their names and make a
donation to the society are located
in several area stores.

Donors’ names will be published
in issues of the paper just prior to
Christmas, extending season's
greetings to all the donor's friends
and acquaintances.

-Fhe donations will in turn be
used to help the Kootenay Society
for the Handicapped