mber 29, 1985

ESTABLISHED AUG. 7. 1947
ING THE MID

Castle SSar News

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We're optimistic

We're optimistic about 1986. And
with good reason.

Westar Timber’s two operating
divisions here have had tough, but
good years. Production records
have been set and worker produc-
tivity is way up, while em-
ployee/employer relations appear
to be their best in many, many
years.

Cominco plans to go ahead with

lead smelter

The provincial

government is dragging its heels

on an agreément for reduced

water licence fees, but the Trail

community*-appears confident

enough about such an agreement

being reached that no public lobby

(such as petitions or mail-in post-
cards) has been organized.

Love it (or hate it), Expo 86 is
going ahead. And ticket sales in-
dicate it will be a huge success.
The spinoff effects will be felt in all
parts of our province, including the
West Kootenay, and tourism here
is expected to flourish.

While past economic cyclical
periods seem to have held no pat-

tern for this most recent
recession/depression, none-the-
less 1986 is the year when we
would historically begin the up-
ward climb out.

There are negative factors, it is
true. Unemployment is still far, far
too high — especially amongst our
young people. And there are far
too many people still requiring
public and private assistance. But
if our optimism is well-placed, then
it is these people who will benefit,
too.

Attitude is going to be all impor-
tant in the new year of 1986. The
old story about a glass being half
empty (or half full), is very true.
Let's all resolve to look for the
good signs in the weeks and mon-
‘ths ahead.

This doesn’t mean we should be
blind, or turn away from reality as
it is in favor of what we'd like it to
be. But let's not over-emphasize
the negative, either.

In short, let's be realistically
Positive and realistically op-
timistic. The future, truly, can very
greatly be decided by how. we
decide individually to shape it.

Tax increase 'fuelish'

The B.C. government lives by a

bri the new rate to 8.64 cents

double standard. While it. wants
B.C. residents and businesses to
roll out the red carpet for visitors
to Expo 86 next summer, the
government continues to try to pull
the rug out from under tourists
with high gasoline taxes.

Amidst calls from all sectors of
the service industry, local Expo

committees and municipalities for“
taxes ont

reduced provincial
gasoline to help attract U.S.
visitors, Victoria this week an-
nounced yet another rise in gas
taxes.

This time the tax on ease
will_increase by .41 cents a litre,

It's obvious the government
isn't listening to local concerns.
Castlegar, Nelson, Trail and Grand
Forks city — to

Remember

The Robson Recreational Society's
weekend Whist was held on Saturday,

M. Hougen, Mrs. W. Waldie, Mrs.
Mermenson and Mrs. J. Oborne.
. 7 ¢

The Anglican W.A. of Kinnaird are
to hold an informal meeting at the
home of Mrs. Doug Morris on Wed-
nesday afternoon and look forward to a
good sttendinee 5

Again means of ark Robson W.I.
held an enjoyable Christmas party for
the school-children.

After refreshments and games the
children enjoyed a film given by Mr.
King.

The evening was ended with a
wonderful concert put on by the school
children, directed by the teachers Mrs.
J. Smith and Mrs. G. Quayle.

. 7

The regular.semi-monthly meeting of
the Castlegar District's school board
was held on Dec. 13 with Mr. R. Waldie
in the chair.

After careful consideration of ap-
plications, Mr. C. Mather of Castlegar

Letters to the Editor

d janitor for the new high
schoo and Mr. M. McPherson, also of

Comments raise doubts

Editor, Castlegar News:

The contents of Bishop Remi De
Roo’s address to the B.C. Federation of
Labor's recent annual convention
evokes mixed feelings of apprehension
and doubt.

The Most Reverend Father is
dispute. But his sincerity to alleviate
the plight of the poor and poverty-
stricken, and to ‘bring about some
semblance of Christian equality into

only a few — have sent up a chorus
of requests for lower gas taxes:

Yet, the government plows ahead -

and continues to tag its gas tax
rate to an indexing forumla which
says gas taxes must be reviewed
every three months.

The province should consider
that lower gas taxes — and thus
lower gas prices — will indeed
help attract more visitors to B.C.
and pump more money into the
economy.

Loud music cost
me my hearing

Editor, News:

I am writing regarding the article
in. the Dec. 18 Castlegar News
“concerning the noise level of music at

hearing aid at the “ripe old age” of 16

are hard to describe. I had always
though hearing aids were for old
people.

concerts at Stanley Humphries Sec*—~ How often do we hear people talk of

ondary School.
agree with Mr. 0} 's

times they said something to their aged
the

concern over the noise. I am talking
from experience.

I went to a concert when I was 16
years old and the music was uncomfort-
ably loud. Since I had paid a lot of
money to see’ the concert, I did not
want to leave simply because of the
noise. There were at least 3,000 other
people at the concert who didn’t object
to the noise level. Besides, half the
enjoyment of going to a concert is
seeing the band, especially if it is a well
known group.

None of the people whom I was with
objected, and because I didn’t want to
be an “oddball” and leave, I painfully
endured the noise. The concert lasted
three hours.

The feeling of being an oddball
cost me my hearing. The three hours of
noise destroyed my inner ear. I was
fitted for a hearing aid less than a
month later. I was told I needed one for
each ear. Fortunately, I got away with
wearing only one.

My feelings about having to wear a

but
replied with something totally irrele-
vant to the question?

Qn several job applications under the
question asking list any medical
problems I put hearing impaired and
never heard anything more about the
job. My ability to perform my job is not
impaired, just my hearing. But a lot of
people think I must be totally deaf.

The point I am trying to make is my
whole lifestyle is affected now because
of one three hour concert. People who
have normal hearing could never know
the anxiety felt by a person who is
hearing impaired. Some of those kids at
the concerts may feel the same way I
did and not want to be the oddball by
leaving a noisy concert and _ will
eventually pay a higher price for it.

If a decibel meter costs $400, I am
sure the parents of these kids would
rather donate to the cost of that than
have to spend $800 for hearing aids
for their children.

Name withheld
by request

Quotable Quotes

HAROLD BALLARD, Toronto
Maple Leafs owner, commenting on the
job security of Leafs general manager
Gerry McNamara: “™. . .a lot of people
criticize McNamara. They say he's
brain damaged. But there isn't a guy in
the hockey business who ‘isn't or he
wouldn't be here.”

DAN MALONEY, Leafs head coach,
after the team concluded its_1984-85
season out of the playoffs, describing

_his gut reaction to his team's dismal-

“showing: “Go out and’ get hit by a car
and tell me how you feel.”
IN THE famous last words category,

Guy Lafleur of Montreal Canadiens
before he quit his executive post with
the club: “I give myself five years
before becoming president of athe
(Montreal) Canadiens.”

A SAILING enthusiast says ee 30
women have answered his newspaper
ads for an all-female crew for a
six-month cruise of the Mediterranean
on his 12-metre sloop.

“Ilike women,” said Charles Rucquoi
38, blond and-single-

Rucquoi said he will try to pick three
or four women who have the freedom
and enthusiasm to travel.

our society, may
be construed ‘as unloading a pent-up
moral obligation off his chest. when no
other effective means of helping the
destitute is within his power.

Father De Roo comes unmistakably
close to offering a Christian-like
solution to the prevailing paradoxical
problem in the richest country in the
world, where poverty is permitted as a
neighbor to wastefulness of the more
privileged when he says: “We in the
church may not have all the answers
but we commit ourselves to work with
you and other popular coalitions to find
those answers and work for the
creation of a new society in which there
is equality for all.”

At times it does leave one under
suspicion if ministers in the institut-
ionalized church order are not perm-
itted to take advantage of the right to
freedom of speech, and use this right as
a smokescreen behind which to trum-
pet reprimands against the unholy
behavior of the status quo without fear

of being subjected to reprisals from the -

political fraternity.

To make the above point under-
standable, let’s take a passage from
Albert Watson's article which ap-
peared in the United Church Ob-
server's Spring 1983 issue. Mr. Watson
is a theologically-trained freelance
writer and lecturer.

“After a service eres pated

e 01
congregation why the ilidister didn't
take the message of his sermon one
step further and apply it to today's
problems.”

“Oh,” she replied, “if he were to do
that, he might upset some people and
create controversy. We have a friendly
spirit if this church and we don’t want
to destroy it.”

Too many churches have. become
social institutions, often indistinguish-
able from the “country club.”

The Establishment would not dare

of

But his quotation commencing, “We
in the church may not have all the
answers, but we commit ourselves to

work with you and other popular’

coalitions to find those answers and to
work for the creation of a new society
in which there is equality for all,”
touches uPaa as inlets sens’

furti

‘study of the | problem if if Father’ DeR Roo
is indeed concerned about “finding
those answers” to “equality for all.”

To solve any problem, to arrive at
any conclusion, to find logical answers
to sensible questions, we cannot
ignore, avoid, evade, or bypass the
universal law of “cause and effect.”

Once the cause, which produces the

effect, is- ascertained, appropriate
tactical-measures can then be applied
to removing the cause resulting in

attempt to stifle the right of
speech to those of us whose compassion
for the underprivileged overflows the
brim of moral tolerance, so long as that
compassion is contained within defined
limits ascribed to freedom of sppech.

When freedom of speech is trans-
lated into guidance for specific action,
then it is at times so convenient to label
certain types of socially oriented
actions to be of a subversive nature,
legally requiring the application of

ion of the problem.

Supposing we beseech Father De
Roo totgive heed to the law of “cause
and effect” above cited, and instead of

ing the di:
analysis of ‘the woeful conditions so
unjustly prevlent in our economy and
our social strytture, and inciting people
to “intensify their resistance and
struggle for an alternative economic
and social future,” Father De Roo could
be tangibly instrumental in initiating

Pprop P

Bishop De Roo's analytical overview
of the current unbalanced situation in
our society is nothing new. Similar
portrayals of the inadequacies of our
social structure have been repeated
time and again for decades. So what?

a Ts into the why and
wherefore of the causes of unemploy-
ment which leads to destitution be-
cause of denial of purchasing power
because of not having a job.

ARCH MacKENZIE

denunciation on issues of the day — Le war, freer

By
OTTAWA (cP) — Oné vignbite lingers as the first trade, tampering with old age benefits or whatever.

full calendar year of Progressive Conservative power

When there are a lot, no other business gets done

ends, a little insight into efforts to turn more business to and Liberals and MPs had a lot of them last week.
What purported to be a twinge of sympathy was

the private sector.

It happened in a small Public Works operation being manifested from the senate for
private contractors can_bid on some
public service source, for obvious reasons,

terminated
projects. Thi

Ray Hnatyshyn,

government House Leader in the Commons, as penned by

remains anonymous.

A bid came from the private sector for $37,000 on a
job and it was duly sent to the office of the minister,
Quebecer Roch LaSalle.

It came back valued upward to $50,000.

Liberal Senator Joyce Fairbairn. Fairbairn, a onetime
Trudeau aide, got in a sly dig at the way Hnatyshyn and
the Tories in their opposition days practically wrote the
book on slowing government legislation to a crawl.

“We grieve for a man named Hnatyshyn.

“Who thrived during tough opposition,

“But the government game

Capital Notebook

In due course, the successful bidder telephoned with
some urgency to ask the public servant where the money
was.

“I need it,” the contractor explained. “The party was
already been around to collect its share.”

LOSERS LIST

Speaking about retired bureaucrats, former Liberal
MP John Reid has been putting together a network of
former colleagues from all parties.

Reid was a member from Northern Ontario ‘from
1965 and briefly a Trudeau cabinet member and he
admits it hurt when he was beaten in the Conservative
sweep last year.

He continues to live in Ottawa but has developed a:
list of the names of more than 400 former MPs. There is
no therapy for a loser like talking to someone who has
also lost,’he says. * si

OPPOSITION ASSAULT
Part of the opposition assault last week on the
of through the
Commons came in the shape of petitions.

These are lists of names from the constituencies

which are attached to a brief message of support or

ght him dubious fame 4
“As a House Leader foiled by petition.”

GOLDEN HANDSHAKE

The government's Golden Handshake program to
retire publié\ servants is taking some once-prominent
names quietly into the sunset.

Reeves Haggan, Irish-born lawyer, was an executive
with the CBC and associated with the controversial public
affairs program This Hour Has Seven Days. It was
popular with everybody but the CBC management and
Haggan's head rolled when the program was killed in the
1960s.

Haggan went to the public service at the request of

the prime minister, Lester Pearson, and became the
federal government point man in London in the furious
early 1980s I about patriation of the Consti

“The time is right to have a local
Castlegar Red Cross branch,” S.
Hewer, provincial commissioner of the
Red Cross at Vancouver, said in an
interview here last week.

Mr. Hewer was in the area with
other Red Cross officials to take in the
annual meetings of the society's bran-
ches at Grand Forks, Trail and Nelson.

. .

J. McIntosh of Nelson has been
elected president of the West Kooten-

The elections: were held at the annual
meeting held recently at Nelson.
. . .

The Robson Women’s Institute held
their annual pot-luck luncheon in the
Community Memorial Church Hall last
week which was followed by the
regular monthly meeting.

A-letter from the hospital adminis-
trator regarding the collecting of fruit
for the hospital was read. Cards were
received from members who have
moved away. A letter from the
Solarium informing the WI that their
adoptee has been discharged and the
name of the new adoptee was enclosed.

. .

Figure skating is well underway. An
executive meeting held recently at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Verzuh
disclosed that there were 96 junior and
intermediate members of the figure
skating club.

John Nick, a professional in charge,
is available for teaching the art of
figure skating and will accept pupils for
private lessons or in groups.

- 15 YEARS AGO
From the Dec. 22, 1970
Castlegar News ©

After a 340-mile trip to Cascade in
Banff National Park to the Kinnaird-
Blueberry Highway, 10 elk regained
freedom last week.

The transport of the elk, three bulls,
six cows and one bull calf is part of a
larger project initiated last March by
the Trail Wildlife Association to bring
possibly more than 100 elk into the
area between Christina Lake and Kin-
naird.

. .

John Horcoff of Selkirk College leads
the scoring race of the Pacific Inter-
collegiate Hockey League.

Horcoff's six goals and seven assists,
for a total of 13 points, give him a
two-point edge over Ross Peck of UBC.

° .

The executive of the Kinnaird Wom-
en's Institute was returned to office
acclamation when the WI held its
annual meeting recently at the home of
Mrs. Mabel Bonderoff.

President is Mrs. Matt Shelfontiuk,
vice-president is Mrs. Jim Wisted,
treasurer is Mrs. Hugh Goetting, sec-}

retary is Mrs. John Brown and the~

director is Mrs. J. Phipps.-
Pea rae

Centennial "71 projects in the Koot-
enays valued at $74,594 have been
approved by the provincial govern-
ment.
Ootischenia will receive $3,740 to
contruct a park and playground.
YEARS AGO

Haggan survived, although it was joked he had left
no lunch unturned in his efforts to spread the federal
gospel. :

SMELLED RAT

Alberta Tory Jack Shields apparently improvised to
interrupt the flow of Opposition petitions with one that
called on the “Opposition to stop its juvenile tactics and
allow the Government of Canada to get on with its work.”

Liberal Marcel Prud'homme smelled. a rat. He
checked the names on the Shields petition and said they
came from House of Commons employees.

before beginning a week-long tourna-
ment Jan. 2.

Gib Lind reports that Gordie Wal-
ker, injured in the first game last
weekend, spent two days in hospital

with undisclosed ‘internal injuries and

will have to sit out the series.

The Reps have won both games so
far — 8-4 and 9-4.

Nursing
students
graduate

An upbeat mood prevailed
at the graduation ceremony
Dee: 14 for 16 students of
Selkirk College's Diploma
Nursing program. The cere-
mony was the culmination of
a 2" year education process
for the graduates, who are

‘The graduation was held in
Castlegar at the Calvary
Baptist Chureh. Following a
processional into the church,
the graduates heard an open-

ing address by Kathleen
Pinckney, nursing instructor,
followed by the delivery of
greetings to graduates and
guests from James Crom-
well, director of academic
and career studies.

Margaret Nickle, head of MacIntosh.
the college's Allied Health Those receiving diplomas
department, gave a short ’and pins were: Alanna Bow-
salutation on behalf of the man, Susan Collier, Diana
Nursing program, after Gagnon, Patrice Gordon and
which the group was ad- Brenda James of Castlegar,

Chris!

dressed by guest. speaker
nursing instructor, Susan

NURSING GRADS .. . A total of 16
and pins at the recent Selkirk College 3

They included: (back row, from left) Susan Crawford, Vera Askew,
a Caywood, Cheryl Heyland, Donna Naito; (middle row)

Janice Shellon, Suzanne Watson, Patrice Gordon,

Lehto. ,

Graham of Creston, Donna
Naito of Kelowna and Janice
Shellon on Nakusp.

Gordon was the recipient

Cheryl Heyland, Susan
Lehto, and Laurie Tedesco of
Nelson, Vera Askew and
Norma Dodgson of Trail,
Susan Crawford of Slocan of the 1984 Registered Nur-
Park, Suzanne Watson of ses Association (Trail Chap-
Crescent Valley, Christina ter) Scholarship, and Tedesco
Caywood of Kaslo, Kathleen

received the Marilyn Cooper - Pinckney who served as mas-

Brenda James, Diana Gagnon; (front row) Susan

r, Twente Dodgson, Kathleen Graham. Not pictured is Susan

Scholarship at Selkirk Col-
lege Award ceremonies in
June, 1985.

‘The class valedictory ad-
dress was deli : by
Norma Dodgson, while clos-
ing remarks were made by

ter of ceremonies. RS

Tea was served to grad-
uates and their guests after
the ceremony and later that
and
guests attended a banquet at
the Sandman Inn in Castle-
gar.

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Fresh Baked Pies

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Fresh Oysters

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