‘WORK PARTY was hold last Sunday at Kinnaird Park by

embers of the Selkirk Lions Club to install playground
‘equipment purchased by the Lady Lions. It took a full
days work to Install two of the three new pieces of

Pulpit & Pew

by Ministers In the West Kootenay

By H.M. HARVEY
Grace Presbyterian Church
“SORRY”

No doubt as you bump into
someone in the supermarket,
you both say “sorry.” It is so
automatic. Yet, ss I think
about it, it's a word you don't
hear so frequently nowadays,
One does not often hear it on
the lps‘ of children. And
when you have a collision at
the supermarket, does the
other acknowledge?

course, one never says

* it when there is'a difference

of opinion involving auto-
mobiles, The one who said
““sorry” would be claimed to
be the guilty party.

On the purely polite level,

M. surely somewhere along the

equipment, the pouring of a pump foundation and

repairs to existing

wipment. In place and ready for

action are the gliding horse and baby swing. in the near
future the tubular slide will be delivered and installed.

Erma 7 ) ‘Crimmins guilty.

Bombeck

When it comes to respect In the continent, there's
‘nothing to equal the North American Headache.

it ranks right up there with penicillin, hot chicken
‘soup and Mt. Rushmore,

You want to leave a party early? Announce you have
a headache,

You wan to cancel a meeting with the tax auditor?
"Phone in a headache.

You want to go to sleep on your honeymoon? Retire
‘early with a headache.

The headache is one of the last great mystiques in
‘the world. Why? Because no one ever questions them ,
‘or tries to cure them. There Is absolutely no substitute

for it, .

If you can’t go shopping because your stomach hurts,
‘the reaction is, “Of course you can. You probably just
need a loxative.”

Si

hem.”
But, if you can’t possibly leave on a vacation because
u have a headache, everyone advises, “Go lie down,
fell talk when you ‘re feeling better.”

Women everywhere are indebted to Winona Haslipp
‘of London who invented the headache in 1813, quite by
‘accident, Winona was the mother of 11 children, One
night as she was blowing out the candles, she hit her
head on a shelf holding pewter mugs. When her
husband yelled, “Aren’t you coming to bed?” she an-
nounced, “I have a headache.” When she reached the
top of the stairs, she was amazed to see that he had
gone to sleep,

The story spread like wildfire. Within days, every
woman in London was banging her head on a shelf
holding pewter mugs and shouting, “I have a
headache.” The phrase not only earned Winona a page
in history, but 136,000 write-in votes for Queen.

A widower was telling me a few weeks ago he
broached a delicate subject to his 13-year-old daughter
wher he told her perhaps they should go shopping fora
training bra. She turned on him and shouted
hysterically, “Dad. Please. | have a headache.”

He said he understood. C

They say it. But they don‘t. Not really.

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NEW YORK (AP) — For-
mer Metropolitan Opera
stagehand Craig Crimmins
was found guilty Thursday of
felony murder in the back-
stage killing of Canadian
violinist Helen Hagnes Min-
tiks last July.

The jury of seven women
and five men acquitted him
on a charge of intentional
murder.

Jurors began deliberating
the case at mid-day Wedne
day after receiving legal in-
struction from Acting Su-
preme Court Justice Richard
Denzer.

Jury foreman Christine
Overton read the verdict at

Open hous
Rossland.

Union Hall

The Rossland Heritage So-
ciety is planning . ‘Open
House, 1981’ at the Rossland
Miners’ Union Hall. The Hall
was significant in the early
days of the labor movement,
and the drafting of. labor
legislation pertaining to te
elght hour work day and
child labor. It is believed to
be the oldest remaining
Union Hall in British Col-

umbia. Efforts to restore the”

uilding are now ‘in their
third year.

This year's Open House
features the work of Philip F.”
Graham in an exhibition of
his heritage photography,
and introduceés the fund rais-
ing campaign ‘Donate a
Door. ‘Open House, 1981'
will be happening everyday
from June 29 to July 16 from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Everyone is
welcome to come and view
the restoration in progress.

The halt also welcomes
visitors anytime during
working hours (Monday to.
Thursday) throughout the
summer, months,

2:65 p.m, and Chrimmins’
relatives gasped when she
said “not guilty” on the first
count of intentional murder.

‘When she said the jury had
found him guilty of felony
murder, relatives collapsed
into each others’ arms.

COULD GET LIFE

Felony murder is a killing
committed during commis-
sion of a crime or during
flight afterward. The stage-
hand faces a maximum of 25
years to life in in.

The 22-year-old stagehand
was accused of the murder
last July 23 of the 81-year-old
native of Aldergrove, a free-
lance musician performing
with the Berlin Ballet at the
opera house in Lincoln Cen-
tre,

Mintkis was last seen dur-
ing an intermission ‘that
night. Her nude, bound and
gagged body was found the
next day. Testimony at the
trial indicated she had been
kicked down a three-storey
airshaft from the roof, dying
from the fall. .

Crimmins, a high-school
dropout employed as a stage-
hand at the opera house, was
arrested Aug. 30 after he had
been questioned by detec-
tives several times. :

Before his arrest, he was
said to have confessed to
forcing Mintiks off a back-
stage elevator and later kill.
ing her. Throughout the trial,
those admissions and police
behvior in obtaining them,
were in dispute.

line there should come an
automatic “sorry” from lips,
if not from the heart, But
how often we liten for it in
vain. .

Perhaps someone will ar-
gue, uttering the word has
little value, as little value as
all the other superficis! po-
liteness we have cast aside. A
rebellious child made to say
the word against his will is no
better for it — or, is he?
Maybe the very fact that it
takes longer: to ssy than
“thanks,” or “please,” and
“yes, or “no” means some-
thing. It is another. two-
syllable word to store in his

mind,

Certainly the child who is
taught to say it, but never
hears it from the lips of his
parents or other adults will
have little idea of what it
really means. It then be-
comes just another of these
childish things he discards
wher he thinks he is grown-
up.

On the deeper level, if
people are growing up with.
out the ability to say “sorry”
for some thing, can
they know how to say “sorry”
to God for some bigger of-
fence? Being able to say
“sorry,” and mean it, could
perhaps have more therea-
peutic effect than a bottle of
pills. .

‘When you go to someone
and say, “I am sorry for what
I have done” you alter the
relationship with that per-
son. It is sound psychology.
Aren't we making things dif-
ficult for ourselves to feel
forgiven if we have never
known what it is like to say
“sorry” to someone we have
hurt, and experience the for-
giveness of another imper-
fect earthly being?

A frultless question is of-
ten asked of children. “Are
you sorry for what you have
done?” To which the child
makes “the e¢: res-
ponse, “Yeal” It wquid take a
very brave child, an excep-
tionally honest child to an-

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swer more truthfully. “No,
Tm only sorry I was caught!”
The question is meaningless
to a young person who has
never been expected to say
“sorry” for wrongdoing in the
home.

In those days when you
might be excused for think-
ing that the only. feelings
worth noting are’ sexual in
nature, it might not be a bad
thing to realize there are
others, and one of these is
penitence. All preachers who-
rise up and try to breathe
into our midst a bit of the
Pentecostal fire being the
message “repent!” In other
words, say “sorry.”

But like the child who is
asked if he or she is sorry,
how can be begin’ to say
“sorry” to God unless we
have some experience of
being penitent in our deal-
ings with -other people?
Wasn't Christ saying just
this when He told us to go
and settle our difference with
our brother first, before we
come to the place of worship?

The. child who knows the
experience of a parent wel-
coming him back inte a loving
relationship after the word
“sorry”: has been said, is,
surely much more likely to be
the adult who finds joy in a
mature forgiven relationship
with God. Are parents so
afraid today of upsetting the
psychiatric balance of their
son or daughter that they can
no longer say, “You'll go out-
side the room until you say
you are sorry!” *

Does that sound too much
like the heavy father? Or do
they feel they cannot handle
the forgiveness. bit of it?
Perhaps because they have
never sought forgiveness for
themselves?

Ifthe wrongdoing is mere-
ly the result of heredity or
environment, or a complex of
some kind, then of course
such words ag penitence and

foregiveness are really ir- ..

relevant.

Can we accept all that stuff
about being the. Captain of
your fate and Master of your

soul? It’s fine for those who
feel they are the only people
that matter, but as soon as
the growing human begins to
realize that other people are
important, then sorrow and
penitence area very real part
of the communication and

responsibility we share with .

our neighbor. :

“We have all sinned,” a
shame-making fact we would_
like to forget. Of course, we

“have been taught that God

forgives, blots out the sin
when we have shown peni-
tence. And thisisthe difficult
part to accept. Perhaps not

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to say “I'm sorry” asa child,

The child creeping round
the doorway to say “I'm
sorry” and being caught up
once more in the loving par-
ental arms has to learn that
the father is in there waiting
all the time while he has been
stubbornly, proudly miser-
able out in the dark hallway.
"Surely this is what the
Grace of God is all about. The
child accepting once mare the
loving, joyful relationship
when itis restored, I bumped
into the other at the super-
market, and we both: sai
“sorry.” Being polite, and
being able to accept God's
forgiveness .°. . the two
things are not so very far,
apart, are they?

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