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More info call 365-5028

TWAES:
Tues. 7 to 9 p.m. — Thurs. 7 to 9 p.m.
PLACE: Kinnaird Elementary School

impassable, has been widen-
ed.

Nelson's Whitewater ski
resort is opening for skiing

on the of Nov. 25,

MULE DEER ano WHITE TAIL DEER

Full Shoulder Head Mounts — Any Position

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Mule Deer photo — Courtesy Gary Shannon

GRIFONE TAXIDERMY

2181 Columbia Ave., Castlegar 365-6944

says the resort's ski area
manager.

Mike Adams says in a pre
pared release that runs will
be open the weekend starting
Nov. 24 until Dee. 15 when
Whitewater’ will be open for
full operations.

Adams says over the
Christmas season, plans are
to have all three lifts in oper:
ation and in the New Year it
will operate the Summit and

THE CASTLEGAR

LADIES
CURLING CLUB

Needs
- riers
ciersons and/or
Thursday mornings
Phone

365-6103

MOM: If you would like to curt
Tuesday afternoons, or Thur

sday mornings, but need o sit
tor, please phone
MARIE SCHULTZE AT

365-6103

Did you know...

— B.C. spends less on schools than
any other province in Canada?
— B:C. schools have the largest

class size in Canada?

YOUR CHILDREN HAVE ONLY ONE CHANCE!

Vote for the School Trustee
who will DEFEND SCHOOLS!

Castlegar and District Teachers Association

MINOR SOCCER
GENERAL MEETING

Whitewater
opens Nov. 25

currently working to provide
updated maps for the entire
trail network and to improve
trail signs to help skiers ‘not
already familiar with the

area.
The local Nordic Ski Tour-

. « » (from left) Craig Andrews,

ing Club is holding a skiswap Corter; John Orr, Tauno Syria and Martin Andrews

on Friday Nov. 2 from 7 p.m.

make improvement to part of Paulson cross-country
ski trails during work party held recently.

to 10 p.m. at the Nordic Hall.

Hummingbird lifts seven
days a week with the T-bar
operating on weekends and
days when the demand is
there.

the National League in prominence and talent.

Currently at Whitewater,
Adams says the fall main-
tenance of the lifts is in full

Not since the 1948 Cleveland Indigns and the 1949 New
York Yankees have two different AL Teams won the World
Series in consecutive years, as have the Tigers (1984) and

Orioles (1983). And no World Series triumphs have been as

Sports

Castlegar

— CFL: Toronto

10:30 @.m., channel 13; Edmonton Eskimos vs. Winnipeg Blue
Bombers, 2 p.m., channel 9. NFL: Regional coverage of Seattle
Seahawks vs. Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers vs. In
dionapolis Colts, Denver Broncos vs. Butfala Bills, Miami
Dolphins vs. New England Patriots or Cleveland Browns vs. Cin-
cinnati Bengals, 10 a.m., chonnel 6; San Francisco 49ers vs
Houston Oilers, 1 p.m., channel 7; New Origons Saints vs. Dallos
Cowboys, 6:30 p.m., channel 4. E

RUNNING — FUN RUN: 10 km 6hd 4 km fun runs at Selkirk
College, begin at 1:30 p.m

AY
FOOTBALL — NFL: Los Angeles Rams vs. Atlanta Falcons, 6
p.m., channel 4

TUESDAY
SOCCER — HIGH SCHOOL: Castlegar vs. Grand Forks, 4 p.m.
SHSS field.
HOCKEY — COMMERCIAL LEAGUE: Corling O'Keefe vs. Volley
Contractors, 10 p.m., Costlegar Community Complex
WEDNESDAY

FIELD HOCKY — HIGH
phries. 4 p.m., SHSS field

A
SCHOOL: Rossland vs. Stanley Hum:

New
baseball
coach

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
new field manager of Van-
couver Canadians of base
ball’s Pacific Coast League is
Tom Trebelhorn, recently re-
leased as a ‘coach ‘by the
parent Milwaukee Brewers
of the American League.

Trebelhorn, 36, succeeds
Tony Muser, who was prom
oted to the Milwaukee coach-
ing staff under new manager
George Bamberger.

The new PCL manager is a
former minor-league catcher
and becomes the eighth field
manager in as many years for
the Canadi The Portland,

Ore., native has previous
PCL experience.

AL teams catch up

By BEN WALKER
‘The Asticiated Press

Take Detroit Tigers this year and Baltimore Orioles last
season. Take young baseball players such as Cal Ripken,
Don Mattingly and Frank Viola, along with proven stars like
Jim Rice and George Brett.

What does it add up to?

The American League appears to have caught up with

decisive as those by Detroit and Baltimore since an
overpowering Cincinnati Reds team swept the Yankees in
1976.

What does that mean?

Bob Howsam Sr., current Cincinnati president and the
man who helped put together the Big Red Machine of the
National League that won World Series championships in
1975 and 1976, says:

“At that time ... we were more competitive in every
front office. And some of the play by some of the teams may
have shown that.”

Now, a decade or so later, he says the front-office
rivalry has been projected to the American League and is
showing up in the results.

“There has been a spreading out of talent,” Howsam
said. “All teams have become more aggressive in finding
talent.

“I haven't seen enough of the American League to say
for certain, but from all indications there's been a narrowing
of the difference that existed back then.”

One of baseball's charms — and the thing that leaves
many questions unanswered — is that the two leagues do not
play each other until it's World Series time.

They do meet in the all-star game. The National has won
12 of the last 13 all-star contests, but Howsam doesn't look at
these annual classics as a true test of greatness, “although it
has had some effect in displaying depth of talent.”

It's hard to gauge strength
best-of-seven World Series, although convincing victories by
Detroit and Baltimore left no doubt as to which team was
better that year.

Baseball statistics leave everyone groping, especially
because of the designated hitter.

For instance, of the 12 players who hit 29 or more home
runs this year, 10 played in the American League. Two of
them, Dave Kingman of Oakland A's and Andre Thornton of
Cleveland Indians, were full-time designated hitters while
some of the others took turns there.

The American League has more homers, more stolen
bases and more of everything else. Chalk that up to another
hitter in the lineup.

Weekend Wrap-up

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REGIONAL

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in the world

There is in the Trinity College Library in Dublin,
Ireland a book described as “the most beautiful
illuminated manuscript in the world.” It is known as the
Book of Kells or the Book of Collum Cille (ancient Irish for
St. Columba) and was written about 1,200 years ago in a
medieval monastery in Ireland.

The fact that the book is sub-titled after the name of a
saint who was dead 200 years before the book came into
existance is only an indiction of the complete Irish
disregard for time-perspective and, at the same time
their inherent genius for “adaptive” creativity.

St. Columba (Collum Cille), a churchman, was born in
Ireland in 521 A.D. (about the middle of time of the
not-so-legendary King Arthur). He first became famous
when he established monastery schools at Dury, Durrow
and Kells in eastern Ireland and so helped lay the
foundations for the period of 500 years during which the
Irish monastic schools and the arts were admittedly the
most brilliant in Europe — the period which our school
texts used to (and maybe they still do) refer to as the
“Dark Ages”.

He also established a monastery on the Isle of Iona in
the Hebrides which over the period of centuries came to
be regarded as such a holy place that only kings (English,
Scottish and Scandinavian) were buried there.

It is, in fact, the burial place of Macbeth, the central
figure in the Shakesperean play of the same name. The
good man then went on to Christianize the Highland
Scots which, when one considers the savage reputation
of those hardy warriors, was an incredible feat in itself.

The Book of Kells (Book of St. Columba) contains the
four gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John —
written, as were all books in that time, in Latin on sheets
of parchment (made from specially prepared sheep or
goatskin.)

It is handwritten in what is known as Insular
Majuscule script. Each of its surviving 680 pages is richly

d “with a exuberance
unique in Irish and Insular manuscript art! Each Gospel
begins its opening words with a richly ornamented page
(in golds, blues, red and purples) in which the text is
submerged by the decoration.

“There are portraits and many representations of
the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, by
their symbols, the Man, the Lion, the Calf and the Eagle.
In addition, almost every page has painted decoration in
the text, with brightly colored birds, animals, faces and
figures often entwined into the capital letters at the
beginning of lines.”

Originally it was bound in a gold cover encrusted
with jewels but it was stolen from the church of Kells and
found several months later, buried in a field, its cover
missing. Presumably, some of the beginning and last
pages were damaged beyond repair at the same time and
are also missing, much to the dismay of scholars since
these would have contained the, indices and keys to the
details of the book, such as its illuminator, its origin and
general plan.

More remarkable is the fact that the book has
survived not only burial but repeated raids and pillagings
by the Danes of a thousand years ago and to a lesser
degree by the trimming and “rebinding” by a Victorian
book-binder some 100 years ago — the Victorians were so
certain of their own “rightness” that they were forever
“improving” things of which they had no understanding,
as do a number of their like-minded successors to this
da

y-

But back to the reason for going so far to see the
Book of Kells. Perhaps it was in part like Hillary's reason
for climbing to the top of the Mount Everest — “Because
it was there.”

More likely, it is because I have hanging, on the walls
of my study, several framed, religious parchments. They
are only about 500 years old, though — probably from a
Dominican monastery, according to one expert friend and
obtained for me by a another friend who bought them in a
Spanish flea market in Madrid. They, too, are
handwritten in medieval Latin, since movable type had
just been invented, and are large so a whole choir of
monks could see and chant, using the same page set up in
front of them.

The musical notation is in the square or rectangular
shape of the time and the beginning letters are

BOOK OF KELLS . . . Described as the most beautiful in the world, the book was written
‘about 1,200 years ago in a medieval monastery in Ireland

ilumimated. The most interesting thing about these
500-year-old parchments is the fact that the red, blue,
green and black ink is as bright as the day it flowed from
the quill of the scribe who wrote it and the parchment as
creamy white as it was when it was made.

The Book of Kells, located in the long room of the
huge Trinity College Library, is not only 700 years older,
but infinitely more sophisticated and beautiful. In order
to see it, one must pay the 75 Pfee then take one's place
in the seemingly endless queue and shuffle slowly past
the equally endless towering shelves of rare and valuable
books until one finally arrives at the glass cases for the
brief half-minute which one is allowed to examine the four
open pages of the book.

The pages are turned regularly so, I suppose, that if
one went often enough, mone might see all of them
However, for the less patient, the Irish government has
had printed a truly beautiful reproduction at about $150.
Still, there is nothing quite like the real thing. It is an
experience that I would not have forgone.

Nonetheless, it has also left a dark and chilly shadow
The long room is an ancient, dusty, dry wooden structure.
The books housed therein are priceless and irreplacable;
yet, if there was any adequate fire protective equipment,
it was well concealed for I couldn't see it. And what I saw
elsewhere in the country did little to give me cause for
optimism. “Good, old Irish luck” is a frail defense against
fire. So the shadow abides. Sometimes it is better to be
ignorant.

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wins top
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Castlegar resident Mar
garet Munns won the top
award at the first Canada
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show held Oct. 16 at the

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CITY OF CASTLEGAR

NOTICE OF ELECTION

1984

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors of the Municipality of
Castlegar that | require the presence of the said electors at the City Office
460 C ib U

Canada Post's main office
wickets in Vancouver
Munns won the top awards
for her thematic display The
Maori and His Ancestors’ NOMINATIONS

Avenue, C gor on day,

between the hours of 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon to elect
Three (3) Alderman
Two (2) School Trustees

the 29th day of October, 1984

Two (2) Year Term
Two (2) Year Term

did shall be

d in writing by two qualified electors of the

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the date of this notice and 12:00 noon of the day of nomination. The
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Payment may be made, es taken and

ses pr at the R in ticket of-
ice, through Friday and on weekends of
the following locations . . .

NOVEMBER 2 & 3
RED MOUNTAIN SKI PATROL SKI SWAP,
TRAM ARMOURY

In the event of @ POLL being necessary. the Poll will be open ot the
Castlegar Community Complex, 2101 - 6th Avenue, on Saturday, the 17th
day of November, 1984, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m

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number

A MOBILE POLL for hospital patients and staff will be conducted at the
Castlegar and District Hospital on Polling day

Wednesday, Nov. 7

7:00 p.m.
Recreation Center: Arts & Crafts Room
In order to continue this league next year, we must
have your porticipation at this meeting
— THERE WILL BE NO MEETING ON NOV. 27 AS PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED.

» SF pm
5e:30, Complen. 4 seasions An ADVANCE POLL will be open at the City Hall on the 9th day of Novem
ber, 1984, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. to permit duly

qudlitied electors that expect te be absent from the City on Polling Day to
vote.

MOUNTAIN SPORTS HUT, CASTLEGAR DEADLINE: 12 noon, Wed., Oct. 31

NOVEMBER: 2&3

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