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Yeaniing to be headline writer

and I can prove it, Even a brain-dead
editor in Missouri, one. who, reads
with moving lips and a wet index fin- .
ger, should pay me two big ones for
this piece of creative ingenuity:
“Naked, Two-Headed, Bilingual
American Heiress Found Living on
Roots and Nuts in Brazilian Jungle!”
That one obcys all the canons of ©
good taste d ded by the
yellow press, It also pays homage to
the cardinal rules of journalism, It’s
lean, mean, and pi
tive, That headline says clearly:
“Now read on!" Who could resist it?
Or what about this one for the sec-
tion on Arts, Culture and Belles Let-
tres in the same sheet: “Feathers
Ruffled! Royal Winnipeg Ballet
Company Denies Swan Lake Role to
Logger Masquerading as Premiére
Danseusel”

Albumbia, if} ‘you want.

And there are others. “Siamese
Twin Charged With Slaying Other
Half's Lover!" Sub-head:.“I Was
Double—Crossed, Says Sister!” Or

“Minister of Finance Wilson Draws
Budget By Stirring Entrails of Dead
Goat! Nanny Sues!"

But, given the choice, I'd still pick
the agony column, I've grown
infinitely weary of the new hedonism
and the laissez~faire morality in the
agony col I'd change them. I'd
restore the old, the noble, the hon-
ored virtues: self-discipline, absti-
nence, humility, stoicism, even
chastity — for those who think the
word is not just another name for a
yuppie kid. Together with Stacey,
Samantha and Tiffany, of course.

This kind of thing. “Dear Ron: On

‘Ron
Jeffels

Syndicated
Columnist

I am a broken, beaten, disconso-
late man. Two passionate and cen-
suming dreams have haunted me
down the long, angled corridors of
the years, and I've realized neither.
Your collective prayers are invited
for yet one more sordid, wasted, use-
less life.

Here's the source of my brooding
malaise. Secretly, furtively, I’ve
always wanted to be a headline writ-
er for that scandal sheet I see in the

editorial comment

Putting it out

A fire recognizes few boundaries, knows
no master, and is capable of destroying pretty much
everything in its path.

When its path begins inside of someone’s home
the results can be devastating.

When that home is not privy to fire protection
and all anyone can do is stand around and watch a
person’s life go up in flames the feeling of help-
lessness is intense.

That feeling is even more intensified when one
arrives at that very same blaze at its birth and
knows that this particular disaster was not insur-
mountable. That, with the proper equipment, dam-
age would have been minimal at the very most.

It seemed that the blaze that destroyed a modest
Ootischenia dwelling last Tuesday evening, to the
untrained eye anyway, could have been brought
under control, and quickly, had there been even a
single firetruck in attendance.

It is unfortunate that Ootischenia does not yet
have its own fire department.

It is even more unfortunate that the dozen or so
trucks of the five fire departments within striking
distance of the incident were not able to attend the
blaze simply because of a manmade boundary that
located this fire out of everyone’s iseitony.

it was though, com
* that the Wind was blowing to the cout — away
from a not-so-modest home on the north side of the
doomed residence,

It was unfortunate, very unfortunate indeed, that
a person of authority on the site was heard to reply
that if, indeed, the wind had been blowing in the
other direction, there would have been a truck
there, “you can bet on it.”

It is frightening to watch a blaze feed upon itself
and consume all that it encounters.

It is even more frightening to ponder the signifi-
cance of that comment.

Frightening and just a little bit more than some-
what infuriating.

Little Knowledge

1) What figure in.Greek/Roman mythology is com-

monly represented holding a trident?
2) How many centimetres to an inch?.

3) Which US city reported the most murders for 1990?
4) In which Canadian province did Viking adventurers

establish a settlement in the tenth century?

5) Would you expect to-find dinosaur remains in Cam-

brian strata?

Answers

1) Nepumne (Poseidon), god of the sea.
2) 2.54.

3) New York, 2,200. A record’,

ket when I’m making off
with the carton of homo and the can
of cat food. Or, better still, I want a
syndicated agony column in the big
international dailies, I'm talking New
York, London, Toronto, Bombay,
Melboume — wherever the agony is
greatest and the morality lowest.
I’m fully qualified for both jobs

From his restless grave,
Tchaikovsky will know that his mas-
terpiece is still pure'and secure, even
in an age of rough and raddled sex.
And Bourassa will be pleased. That
fey and frivolous touch of French
shows that we're not all resolutely
monolingual in Alberta and British
Columbia. Call that linguistic region

grief and horror that my husband is a
WOMAN! What shall I do?:.. . Out-
raged in Ottawa.” Reply: “Dear Out-
raged: Never, never use capital
letters for emphasis! It’s stupid and
schoolgirlish and I don’t like it! .

A woman, you say? Be grateful. If
you both wear a size 10 you can save
a FORTUNE! Yours etc.”

Pa ee

#* THANX To JoHN GIBSON

mit uns’. Cynics were quick to point out the irony
of the situation.

These days, the church is just as predictable,
but in the opposite direction. The first whiff of
cordite has all the bishops a-vaporing and their

of

my wedding night I discovered to my -

. “Dear Ron: My friends say I'm
fat, I'm five-two and weigh 279

pounds. They jeer at me. I find them
eral, malicious and brutal, I cry
myself to sleep, night after night,
. Help me! ... Heavy in Hamilton.”
Reply: “Dear Heavy: I won't. I agree
with your friends: you're fat!"

“Dear Ron: Every year I spend a
fortune on presents for my kids in
Moose Jaw. They never write, never
phone, never say thanks, Is that filial
affection, I ask you! ... Resentful in
Regina.” Answer: “Dear Reggie:
Stop your whining and snivelling!
Ever occur to you that they simply
hate, loathe and despise your diges-
tive tract?” -

But here’s the one I really want to
answer: “Dear Ron: My husband
thinks be’s Tarzan. He wears a leop-
ard-skin loincloth, swings from vines
in the bedroom and ‘wrestles rubber
alligators in the bath. Is this normal?
signed Wit's—End in Waterloo.”
Answer: “Look, I’m busy! Five
columns a week, y'know. Ask Chee-
tah, for heaven's sake!”

RR. Jeffels is a Richmond free-
lance writer and former principal of
The Open Learning Institute.

YQ The Coctleger Sen

That should not necessarily be good news for
the westem world; unpleasant though Mr Hussein
is, there is much in our society that God would
condemn, not least that so many people choose
not to believe in Him.

one Pp that the leaders of

lofty by
any feasible altematives are seized upon by our
essentially left-wing and anti-establishment
media and given prominence.

As an-aside, these bishops might reflect that
their favourable coverage comes about because
they agree with the editors. When they do not, as
for instance when they rightly complain about
abortion, they are ignored or occasionally cen-
sured for being unfair to women. But let that

arrows

Nigel
Hannaford

Syndicated
Columnist

What would be a logical Posture for the
church, faced with the increasing likelihood of
war in the Middle East?

In the first place, it should accept that God has
used war to discipline-His people for their idola-
try on several well-documented occasions, One

If our ancient destroyers could generate as
good a head of steam as some clergymen are in
their complaining that those same destroyers are
being sent to the Gulf, their engineers would
probably be relieved.

God’s church want what God wants. They
should, anyway. Therefore rather than praying
for victory as in the old days or peace as is the
current fad, maybe they should pray for His will
to be done, something along the lines of the
Lord's Prayer. i

It undoubtedly shall be.

As for the rest of us, it is to be hoped that if
war does start in the Gulf and
pass. are risking their lives, our home-grown peace
lobby will have the sensitivity to pipe down for
the duration. Up to the point that the shooting
starts, it is acceptable - even though hopeless:in
this case - to urge that no effort be spared to find
a peaceful solution. Once battle is joined howev-
er, our people in the area deserve the whole-

Canadian troops

Wednesday, January 16, 1991

The Castlegar Sun

\Letters'to the Editor

Union refutes managements statements

- Tothe Editor:

In response to the article “Reed-
* back” published in your paper Jan-
uary 9,1991, it is my opinion that
there are some mi:

Coopers and Lybrand that this is a
“standard procedure”, to show up
for work as scheduled, but the
next week schedules could be dif-

; toward the Local 40 members
_ employed at the Hi Arrow,

The members were, in fact,
given “termination notices” by
Coopers and Lybrand, Trustees in
Bankruptcy, on August 16, 1990,
° but: were told by management of

ferent b of. new owners,
ALL MEMBERS were under the
impression that they would have
continued job security after
August 30, 1990.

Regarding Management, state-
ment, “We didn’t even get the
hotel until 4:00 p.m.. They were

on the picket line at 2:00 p.m.,
before we had the keys, before the
papers were actually signed.”
They neglected to mention
“WHY??".. Mr. Ron Oliver had
phoned various bar staff members
at 9:00 a.m., terminating them,

» because their services were no

longer required and he would be

, looking over application on or

Wednesday of the following
week, If in fact’ they did not own

the hotel until 4:00 p.m. why did
he phoned people at 9:00 a.m.?
“Who jumped the gun?”

As far as “picket lines” formed
by staff members, this was an
“information line”, not a picket
line. Staff members in no way hin-
dered any business going into the
building. (The hotel was closed,
because all doors were locked)

Management also. states “We
brought back the entire staff’.

‘Three-legged turtle could have found Victoria to complain about Celgar

To the Editor:
In the Dec. 27th edition of the

" Castlegar Sun there were two arti-
_ cles which I found bothersome

and reeking of: sensationalism.
One was the headline story and
the other was the editorial. Both
related to Celgar.

In the headline story we once
again see Celgar attempting to
regurgitate fear and loathing in the
minds of anyone and everyone.
Unfortunately they have already

* succeeded far too well at this.

In the article Mr, Sweeney rais-
es the specter of delays causing the
banks to refuse the necessary loans
for Celgar's modernizing, thus
crashing the project, thus forcing
Castlegar into decay and everyone
leaving, thus reducing the need to
worry about the parking problems
on Columbia Ave. etc... I’ve Heard
this variation on a theme so many
times I bet some people actually
believe it. Look, CITIC, which
owns half of Celgar, owns banks
around the world (you know, insti-

tutions of lending). Stone Consoli-
dated partially owned by Kuwaiti
Oil (who may yet commence a
world war to protect their invest-
ments), And people are supposed
to believe this project will die from
lack of funding!

Later on Wilf talks about the
“highly organized” people from
up the valley who were the trou-
blemakers behind all these delays.

The use of “highly organized”
makes me, and just about every-
one outside Castlegar’s city limits,
chuckle profusely. A three legged
turtle with an out of date road map
could Lave kicked holes in Cel-
gar’s first proposal and still had
time to walk all the way to Victo-
ria and complain about it.

In the editorial, the Castlegar
Sun, in an apparent effort to
ingrate themselves upon the citi-
zenry of that self-same communi-
ty, hopped into the same warped
mindset. The editorial spoke of
“the premise of democracy is that
the majority rules”. It then spoke

Union secretary raises his concerns over
pensions, privatization, greed and poverty

To the Editor:

DOCTORS NEED HELP?

Ironically Carol Gran, in her
message from the Minister of
Government Management Ser-
vices printed on the first page of
The Municipal Superannuation
Plan- Booklet (revised 1989)

Projected rate of inflation.)
Under the Pension Act the
average transit employee in Trail

and C: would

of 340 complaining letters and
7,000 signing petitions of support.

’ What the editorial didn’t men-
tion, and I hope it was just through
ignorance, was a petition repre-
senting 9,000 people, which was
sent to the federal minister of the
environment last spring. This peti-
tion asked for a full federal review
and shows the extent of concem of
the surrounding community to this
community to this project. The
Kootenay Coalition, which was
represented by council at the pub-
lic and technical hearings, spoke
for this group of people. MLS
Howard Dirks was met at the
opening of the Cape Hom Bluffs

by 100 of his constituents who
didn’t want the increased chip
truck traffic.

Piease do not try to equate this
wide-spread concern with the lim-
ited self-interest of such a con-
trived group as the CCCM.

If this paper is just trying to
attract readership, then I wish you
would be honest enough to pub-
lish a disclaimer saying: “Profit
motive. All reporting suspect”. If
not, then don’t alienate your
fledgling readership with editori-
als that use selective recall to sup-
port an opinion. z

Craig Lawrence
Winlaw, BC

Residents question if city's lack of
performance warrants a tax increase

To the Editor:

‘We read with interest that the
City of Castlegar will be ii increasing
our service taxed, we question
whether this increase will result in
an increase in service. If the City
maintains their present policy we
believe we will be paying more and
receiving less, This certainly applies
to the present garbage disposal con-
tract. Since signing the latest con-
tract we have found our garbage
pickup to have deteriorated.

An example of this poor service

about $1800.00 per year out of
their wages and the employer
would contribute an amount based
on the formula set out in the Act.
All together it would cost the

writes, “You, your emp and
govemments must work together
to provide the right degree of
financial independence only you
can define.

The British Columbia Govern-
ment and your employer strive to
provide municipal, hospital and
other covered employees with
retirement benefits that will be suf-
ficient, when combined with pay-
ments from other gov

I District

, the
and B.C. Transit about 6.5% to’ ">

7.5% per-employee per years That
is part of the money that’ B.C.
Transit bas saved since April
1982. If the transit operation had
not been contracted out we would
not have to bring this issue to the
bargaining table at this time. This
money would have ensured that
we could look forward to a sus-
tainable reti instead we are

plans, to enable you to retire in
comfort. With your own savings
supplementing these sources of
income we trust you can look for-
ward to realizing some dreams; to
having your later years be your
best.”

PRIVATIZATION BLUES

looking at having to take job

action Dennis Stach in order to

guarantee that we do not have to

live in poverty when our working
time is over.

‘Wes Hughes, Secretary,

+ CUPE Local 2087

d over the Chri holi-
day when no notification was
given as to what the schedule
would be. This resulted in many
residents either having to dispose

of their own or harboring garbage
for over two weeks.

Another concern is with the
number of bag pickups being limit-
ed to three. On many occasions res-
idents put out less than three bag
limit however if you ever go over
the limit then the extra bags are left.
‘We are sure if he averaged the bags
he would find most residents are
always under the three bag limit.

Before the City looks at
increasing our service tax they
should strongly look at the service
that they are presently offering.
Sincerely,

F. Ferguson, B. Archambault,
D. White, V. Walker, D. Walker
Residents of Meadowbrook Drive

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Staff members only came back
to work when Mr. George Shaw,
president of BPYA 393 Holdings
Ltd. signed a document stating,
“The employer agrees to live up to
all terms and conditions of the col-
Iective agreement that was in full
force and effect at the time of pur-
chase of the business know as the
Hi Arrow.

He agrees to reinstate with all
benefits and conditions of all the
employees who worked for Coop-
ers and Lybrand, receivers of
315087 B.C. Limited. However, at
a later date Mr. George Shaw said

_ that be signed all documents under

“duress”, and would not honour
the documents he had signed.
Management further states,

“We have only eight staf ight
now because the restaurant, hotel
rooms and lounge. are'closed, but
we fully intend to bring all the
workers back.” However, Pred
have already stated they are elimi.
nating NIGHT AUDITORS ~posl:
tions. This affects two’ people at
the front desk. As well, a- Jeng
time bar employee has not
recalled back to: work as of ihe
reopening of Brewskies ‘on
December 21, 1990.

In conclusion, the Hi Arrow is
organized, we are certified and are

which are January 16 and 17,
1991,

“Colleen Taylor
Union Shop Steward Local 40

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“Your Friendly Pharmacy” in the Castleaird Plaza

365-7269

When the transit in
Trail was privatized it in 1982, the
employees were no longer being
covered by the Pension (Munici-

, Pal) Act as a consequence of being

contracted out.
It was not until the last round of
bargaining that concluded in 1988

, did the workers win the right to an

R.R.S.P. in their names which

came out of their wage increases

for that year. The employer
ly refused to

of every | anything to our future.

One of the primary goals i in this
round of negotiations is to match
the benefits that workers employed
by municipalities and regional dis-
tricts are entitled to,

This would be similar to the pen-
sion which we would have:pos-
sessed, had the system not:been
. Privatized.
GREEDY WORKING PEOPLE

Our employer and B.C. Trancit

: ‘wishes to make us look greedy in
the eyes of the public by showing
what a large difference there is
between what we need and what
they wish us to have.

Dennis Stach wants his
employees to accept z a wage pack-~

, age that does rot cover inflation;
AND IT WILL CERTAINLY

, NOT COVER PENSION BENE-
FITS... (unless it comes out of the

" _five per cent per year that he has
offered us, which is less than the

The church has a problem with war. Earlier
this century, both sides would get blessed by
their respective archbishops and sally forth to do
battle, confident that ‘God is with us’ or ‘Gott

Wild and crazy Jelinek handles launching of G. ST.

sage directly to the prime minister or It won't have to. As the economy
your local MP for free. It costs noth- works its way'out of the recession
ing to mail a letter to your MP. (See _ and business activity increases, rev-
I've already saved you $2.43! $2.00 — enues from the GST ‘will grow in tan-
plus 43 cents for a stamp!) dem with the growth in the economy.

All of the big companies are col- And it looks like there may be
lectirig the new. tax, but if the grass- more good news on the way concern-
roots movement flourishes, Revenue ing i Laer
Canada could find itself p
small businesses involved in civil dis-
obedience. Not good politics.

Officials bere are openly scoffing
at-a Toronto who claims to
be leading the baitic to cxcmpi booKS -
from the GST.

It is an open secret the book tax is
to be removed as one of a series of
GST “fix-ups” i in Finance Minister
Michel Wilson’s budget, now expect-
ed at the end of February.

‘They are‘ angry: ‘the merchant is
trying t6 take credit for the change, —”
when it should really go to the high

thinks of the defeats suffered by ancient Israel at ed and Pp
the hands of various pagan pe Boo but most par- Canadian:

i the A and
finally the Romans.

4) Newfoundland, at L’ Anse ‘Aux Meadows on the
Great Northern Peninsula.

5) No. Cambrian strata are the lowest in the strati-
graphic column in which any kind of fossil remains are
found. Typically, these are small and unsophisticated
creatures.

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GST movement, Calgary.

Jelinek's trip to > Alberta and a
recent series of speeches across the
province by Deputy Prime Minister
Don Mazankowski suggest the gov-
ernment is ready to do battle with the
Reform Party - no holds barred.

Point out the GST is needed to
reduce the deficit, challenge
Reform’s plan to cut federal govern-
ment spending by 10% across the
board, and remind Canadians
Reform’s scheme would mean a 10%
cut in essentials like oid age pension

medicare.

First old guy: “Next thing you
know this government will be taxing
"7

Second old guy: “A tax on sex? At
my age for once I'll be eligible for a
tax refund!”

WHITE MANS WEAPON
TRULY STINKS!

has hit hard-

er than sipeca many retailers have
been absorbing the GST as a way of
promoting sales, That could have an
d benefit in'the fight to
lower interest rates.

Finance department officials had
expected the GST to add about 15% to
the rate of inflation. With some mer-
chants swallowing the GST, ‘and/or
lowering prices to spur’ sluggish sales,
{ the inflationary impact of the new tax
a ‘should be smaller than expected.

“That would allow Bank of Canada
Governor John Grow to continue
school student who raised the issue . reducing interest rates. We'll find out
with the prime minister in a question |. for sure when the January cost-of-liv-
and answer session some months ago. ing figures are released carly in

And. you don't have to worry .. Febmary.
about the government: raising the
GST rate abov. 1% any sme soon.

The line of the week on the GST
bas to go to that Montreal record
store clerk who said scores of his
young customers knew nothing about
it. I guess MuchMusic’s Erica Ehm
forgot to fill them in.

On the GST, the government's
main concem now is the grass roots -
: withhold the tax - movements,

You know the pitch: “Mail me
your $2.00 and I'll tell Brian Mul-
Toney he should remove the tax!"
Before you send in your money,
v : You can a Sen your mes-

OK, it’s not as witty as Martin
Short or my hero, John Candy, but it
isn’t bad = coming from a group of
federal tax collectors.

In fact when it comes to surprise
performances, that wild and crazy
guy, Revenue Minister Otto Jelinek,
came up straight nines for his han-
dling of the job no one wanted, the
GST launch. pee

B ‘And where did be'go to watch the.
new tax swing into operation? Why
right into the heartland ‘of the’ anti-

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