We make money the old ST 125 Wg ita Pf fashioned way, We bo it. No 2261 from 9-11 a.m. 3/10 BOYS, GIRLS, oF Séiilors to sell e it ions and deliver Nelson a 6i ba a hobsont 2 Robson: Set: nave’ 9 bess TRAFFIC CO-ORDINATOR — Sales representative. Locol Forest located inthe Southern Ini is seeking on with o PLUMBING 365-6658 rs of Beta Sigma Phi Chapter, would like to thank the ol Member Phi, Al legar for their New background in lumber transpor- tation and sales. The successtu! applicant must shave st ‘ong quantitive ‘an ability to « cate effectively on the telephone. Responsibilities in- d monegement jor the tran. sportation of all lumber products including serving the necessary selling holeso! Solory experience ponerovs leo: ind covering jer to: Box 3007A. Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4. ai INCOME IS WHAT WE OFFERI! Not Prestige. Signed, Ron Corlson Xmas selling starts now. Could a OLDER WOMAN with children at home willing sit in my home, North Castlegar. 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SELF-AWARENESS — mations \d communication, OATES — Feb. 8 and 15, 10 o.m.- 7616 Cc Year's baby donations. Hair Annex Bonnett's Bosse's Jewellery City of Castlegor Castlegor News Mother Nature's Pantry Pete's TV Pharmasave West's Dept. Store Anthony's Pizza Book reek ae dwich Shop ALCOHOLICS ANOP ond: AL-ANON. 365-3663. 104/03 Hairlines Carter's Sewing Centre ry LOOKING for ride to Trail, Mon . Work hours 8 DIABETIC DAY At Carl's Drugs Tues., Feb. 10 10 % Discount On Diabetic Products Susen Gibson, Represen om. a.m. Learn to test your Blood Glucose Levels. Bring 1 Your Accucheck for Free Cleaning & Controt Test Medical Diagnostic ‘will be available trom 9 NEED A JOB? High school and college students may offer their services under this category Drop us @ line or phone the Ac tion Ad number at 365-2212. We will run your ad tor three issues at no charge. ONE blue corduroy jacket at Community Complex. Ask at concession. 3/09 ONE living room chair, on highway near Thrums. Ph. 365 2374 3/09 FOUND items are not charged: Call 365-7269 WALTER and Lola Tymof are proud to—announe engagement of thei daughter Lillian to Brent’ eldest son of Gordon and Glenna Boulkhdm of Vernon, B.C. Wed ding to take place Aug. 8, 1987, Castlegar At =FsIBowAL ee for. tf you've four phone the Action Ad number 365-2212 anytime —_ durin; 2s ON! ve Hor s08 Lost in South Castlegar. 365-2859. 3/11 ONE year old male S e Vith Street, 7th Ave. 365-6248 WwW NUTRITIONAL Seminar on Health ‘and Financial growth was held 24. Further information For You Canada may be contacting: Louis S719), 09 HERBALIFE independent distributor. Call me for products. Ph. 365-5152 or 359-7336. 7/10 HOME CARE VISITS |- Pedicere (loot ond. nail fore). $12 Aromatherapy for stress and energy balancing. A 1% hour treatment using essential oils, ‘appointment: 365-7616. licensed Estheticion. 5 THANK YOU to ail the wondertul people of Robson and Castlegar who have been so supportive ‘over the lost few years. To all the shop keepers, womens moving to Curlew and Castlegar has ordered new tractors to be delivered lote March. The suc- cesstul applicants will be able to urchase these new trucks direct Flom the truck d Please submit a complete resume, driver abstract and work related references to: DCT Chambers Trucking Ltd., 600 Waddington Drive, Vernon, B.C. VIT 816. At tention Price. These qualifications will be reviewed and interviews given the first week of Marc! 7/07 _ EMOTIONS: ANONYMOUS: Tuesday Costlegar Volunteer Exchange Answering Service. 365-2104. 52/5 RADIO SHACK, 1403 Bay Ave., Trail, B.C. order line 1-800-663. 4964 1in/65. Scissors Sharpened , church groups, Russian choirs and all the people who donated their time so generously. Thanks to all the residents and their families to all my wondertul staft you for your hard wor ‘and care. I'll miss you all and God Bless everyone. Alice Santord au Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212 we! Arrow 8: ‘Central Foods Chang's Nursery Safeway»: Madelaine’s Fashions Ploza Bokery SuperValu Picture Place Hi Arrow Bank of Commerce Castl r Centre THE B.C. HEART FOUNDATION accepts 3023, Castlegar, B.C. CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY. In memoriam ‘donations. Infor mation Box 3292 Castlegar. 365. 167. mw 104/87 NOTICE is hereby given that an application will be made to the Director of Vital Statistics tor ¢ chan pursuant to the provisions of the Name Act” by me: Marlene Catherine Olson of 7 Woodland Drive, in Castlegar, 8.C. VIN 1E8 as follows: To change my nome from Olson, Marlene Catherine to Horlick, Marlene Catherine Dated this Sth day of February A.D., 198: afl CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANTS 241 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-7287 Brian L. 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Let CASTLEG WILLIAMS Invite you to call them tor a tree our Heating Centre American Standard Valley Fibrebath Jacuzzi * Crane Duro Pumps & Softeners PVC Pipe Fittings Septic Tanks Electrical Supplies 365-7702 2317 - 6th Ave. 365-8223 ALL TYPES OF COMMERCIAL PRINTING * Letterheads * Envelopes Brochures * Raffle Tickets 365-7266 197 Columbia Ave. Restaurants THE COLANDER John Charters . . . - Reflections & recollections IT ty OF THE WORLD ‘Anna Cail, « popular former colleague on the Stanley Humphries secondary school staff, phoned me from Vernon a couple of days ago. She wanted to know whether the poem The Unbeliever, in The Dragon Tree was based on personal experience, since she was going to read it to a group of women. Sadly, I had to admit that it is a composite of several, but the stories behind it are As a matter of fact, a number of the poems in The Dragon Tree have stories behind them and I regret that I didn’t have time to write them — they would have made a better book; another case of “If wishes were horses, then beggers would ride.” However, as I was looking for some old John Munday columns for her I found the beginning of the story behind Sic Transit Gloria in one my erratic journals. I had been visiting my ‘brother who lives on the banks of the Alouette River in Haney and had gone down to the river early one morning to see what was making the seagulls so excited. Thad written: “It’s cold out here. Not cold enough to freeze the fast flowing stream but enough to hang tiny icicles on the twigs, glaze the rocks and festoon the trees with hoar frost: Cold enough almost with a witch's breath a wind blowing upstream, to freeze the feathers on the concrete seagull hunting worms on the frost crisped lawn above the noisy water. The Golden Ears (two. peaks) above Haney have already donned their winter touques; they will be covering their shoulders with shawls of snow before the week is out. Thereisa persistent stink down here by the stream. The odor of death ...' “There is a persistent stink down here by the stream. The odor of death — recent death. Soon the damp chill clears the morning mist and a poor sleep from my eyes so that they are able to focus on a long, gray mass almost at my feet. It is a salmon lying on its side at the edge of the water but so battered, so far advanced in its return to the earth from which it came, that it is an almost invisible apart the stones, the sand and the grey winter grasses which are its bed. Its eyes have gone to the seagulls, the flesh is in ribbons, and the hooked upper lip and humped head mark it as a spawner, its lifecycle completed. “Once the first recognition sets in I can see scores of them in every posture of disarray, like warriors on a recent battlefield. Yet not like a battlefield. They had fought their stubborn, gallant battle for weeks before against man, the remorceless river and against nature itself, like the heroes and gods of the Viking sagas going to fight at the greal final battle of Ragnarod with its pre- destined end in the death of their world. “And now the November waters augmented by recent cold rains are bounding and laughing over the grey boulders and making little protected pools and mini-cat: araets for a hundred yards up and down the visible course of the stream. The translucent water beneath the under- cut bank and among the roots of almost leafless poplars ; and cottonwoods on the far bank, and the rip-rap on this side, seem almost empty of life. Only the seagulls fly in endless circles overhead or bob and quarrel noisily on the fast flowing surface. A brown hen-mallard flaps franti- cally upstream. The stink and inertness of death is all pervasive. “Suddenly, partway out in the stream there is a boiling flurry of foam. A long, dark form streaks, wriggling upstream from pool to eddy to pool, fins and olive upper body half above the water; its snout aimed like an arrow and pushing a small bow-wave before it. Ten, 20, 30 feet and it pauses in a back-eddy a short y ‘distance from shore, Thirty feet in.an endless journey of days and miles. What terrible drives it on in’ this ineredible drive to close the circle of life? “My eye follows its desperate course while my mind slips back to 65 years ago, when as a youngster visiting my grandparents’ small farm, I stood on the banks of this same stream and watched the grandparents many times removed of this same fish fight their way on their irreversible odyssey. “I would stand then for hours and watch those fish in their endless and.surging hundreds make that last dash for victory of their species and the death of the individual. “Days later they would come drifting aimlessly with the current, the dead and the near-dead, piling their battered bodies in random heaps along the shore — grey jetsam on the shores of life. “Then my grandfather would come down with his pitchfork and his wheelbarrow, pile the inert bodies into it like cordwood and take them off to be buried alongside his rhubarb. He grew magnificent rhubarb. “One day while watching this living stream I had a great idea — for a five year old. I'd catch one of the struggling fish for my grandmother. I had seen a huge, old, granite camp coffee pot hanging on the barn wall and it seemed an ideal substitute for a net. I ran up the bank to the barn, got a long pole and proceeded to pry the pot off its nail. At first it resisted, then let go with un- expected suddenness. “I woke up some minutes later with my grandmother frenziedly trying to staunch the blood flowing from a sizeable cut in the top of my head.-Grandfather closed the gash with sticking plaster. I had a white flag there for many years until the rest of my hair changed to match it. In any case the experience knocked the idea of catching spawning salmon out of my mind for a long time. Four years ago when I visited that scene again, old memories came flooding back, overlaid with a new per- spective and I wrote the poem Sic. Transit Gloria (“So passes the glory of the world") — from Thomas a Kempis's famous book Imitation of Christ. The sentence is uttered during the ceremony of the Pope's cer i ing the burning of the flax. This latter rite goes back to Roman times and took place under the triumphal arch as a kind of jlibato’ or ransom to be paid to the evil spirits. The x was, presumably, a symbol of the life threads-of the individual spun by the Spinners or Fates. The burning of it symbolizes that these evil powers have nothing more to cut off. Sic Transit Gloria The ‘salmon stream, below frosted banks, murmurs quiet in the misty dawn, while on-the further shore, thin ranks of birches, skeletal, phantom warriors bow to where the salmon lie beneath a glittering shroud of icy lace. Grey parentheses in gape-jawed death, they rest on cold, brown beds of glistening rock and cleansing waters, where, scant days ago, they writhed, thrust and surged in living tides of red and silver, their upward way to close life’s circle and their predestined end. At my approach, the seagulls, raucous angels, flee the feast, and mallard-cloud explodes the dam above. Only the solitary ousel dips, bobs, and walks below, at this necropolis of an eternal cycle. ‘Sic transit gloria mundi.” “Thus passes The glory of the world.’ “8 « What's in a name? A lot, it if happens to be yours. Apologies to Barrie (as in Barrie, Ont.) Hill and the late Ivy Hill, for the misspelling and thanks again for the Chapel House donations. xia SNOW FESTIVAL . . . Lorne Hartson (left), Richard Jelly (middle) and Jeff Craig of Woodland Park elemen- tary’s afternoon kindergarten class try their hand at cross-country ski racing during mini-snow festival Jan. 30. Students also enjoyed snow sculpturing and doggie team races. They later relaxed with a snack of homemade ice cream and hot chocolate.. Editor's note: In South Africa, the law you live by is By PETER BUCKLEY Canadian Press CAPE TOWN — It certainly wasn't paradise, but Richard Dudley can remember when the races got along pretty well around Cape Town, before apartheid was in- vented to support the view that they couldn't get along at all unless they were separated. The recently retired teacher, a heavy-set man with a pixie-ish sense of humor, is classified as colored, meaning mixed-race. To the untutored eye, he looks like a man with a deep tan complexion, not much darker than that of a distin- guished member of the white parliament who was inter- viewed two days earlier. But, because of the law, he’s had more than 60 years of affronts to his color. In the ruling Nationa! party’s view of things, South Africa's growing middle class of coloreds and Indians should be developing a stake in the current system. After all, a revolution that installed the majority blacks in power would presumably leave coloreds and Indians scrambling for iffluence along with the whites. Instead, the hearly three million coloreds and one million Indians have tended to identify with the 21 million blacks’rather than with the five million whites. REJECT CHANCE They have largely rejected a new parliamentary structure with elected colored and Indian representatives in their own legislative chambers. Colored and Indian leaders continue to hold prominent positions in the various anti-apartheid move- ments that play hide-and-seek with government banning orders and detentions. One reason for their attitudes can be found in the sway they've been treated under the hated Group Areas Act, losing family properties and being herded into same-race communities that South Africans call town- ships — from the most miserable of squatters’ camps to sedate middle-class enclaves. They form part of the estimated 3.5- ion South Africans forced to move over the years to satisfy apart- heid. INSIDE AFRICA: The chilling reality enough there'd be no question about getting in.” extended family, with nearly white skins, managed to He grew up in the Newlands district of Cape Town when that graceful old city had little segregated housing. ‘two’ branches of the family. In his youth, the schools were segregated “and in the cinemas, et cetera, there was a certain amount of segregation,” Dudley recalled, “but if you were ‘fair’ ABLE TO ‘PASS’ He laughed as he recalled how some members of his ‘pass” and enjoy careers denied to darker-skinned cousins: the aunt who ended up a school principal, the distant cousin who became a goalkeeper for a white soccer team in the color-conscious Orange Free State. The mixture of white, Hottentot, Malay and black genes can produce capricious results in today’s so-called colored people. “The gossip still goes on,” Dudley said. “We regard this as sort of fun — someone bucking the system. “In Cape Town (where the first Dutch settlers came 300 years ago and the first racial mixing began), people have always had an eagle eye for shades of color.” In Dudley's youth, kids of all races played cricket and soccer together, lived in the same neighborhoods, sang in the same church choirs, “mucked around in the river or in the open fields, went exploring on Table Mountain.” That kind of amity began to end in 1948. with the election of the National party and the beginning of apart. heid. ‘Because of the law, he’s had more than 60 years of affronts to his color’ The family property was expropriated in 1961 for what Dudley estimates was one-third of its value. The Dudley children either left South Africa in disgust or moved slightly further from town to the unclassified Clairmont section of the city. Five years later, Clairmont was classified white and Richard Dudley had to move his family to their current neighborhood in Elfindale, well outside the old city. Dudley remembers stumbling with his wife through Carter's Sewing Centre SPAGHETTI Specializing in TRANSFER Concrete Gravel Road Gravel the scrub and sandy soil of then-undeveloped Elfindale, looking in bewilderment for the plot of land they'd bought by consulting a city planner'’s map. representative tell you about the many services which have made Williams the most respec- ted name in the moving WANETA PLAZA TOYOTA Bear Creek Road. Trail 364-2588 ‘Auto Body Repairs and Rentals Moving from their historic lands “was a tremendous blow to many families,” Dudley said quietly. “A lot of exuaney Seavice DANCE BANDS and Mobile Disco We will wash, iron and starch your CENTRAL KOOTENAY IMPORTS Call 365-3811 JAN TAX For your income tax returns See Jonet for fost efficient service. Janet (formerly of Kokanee Tox Service) located abowe Bob's Pay n Takit, #280 Feb. Hrs. Mon., Wed. & Fri. 9.a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Ph. 365-6680 MACHINE CLUB Every second Tuesday Starting Feb. 9, 1987. Cost $2 Club leader Bea Ferginson at Carter's Sewing Center. Ph. 365. 10. SPRAY PAINT those textured ceilings. Call Falcon Painting of 365.3863 y THE PLUMBING and HEATING rs wations * Commercial, Residential Plumbing 24 Hour Emergency Service SEWING CLASSES Four classes. Lined Skirts Starting Fel doytime Maximum 6 per class. 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Ph. 365-5210 ‘umping PHONE 365-5013 3400 - 4th Avenue Castlegar TOP PLAYERS . . . Top 10 bridge play Ramsden Bridge Club for 1986 include: , left) Myrna Bauine, Hubert Hunchak, Ron Perrier; (front) Joy Ramsden, Phyllis Matteuci, Agnes Charlton, Wayne Weover, Rita Perrier and Hugh Auld. Missing from photo is lan Glover. Wayne Weover of Genelle was the 1986 player of the year. them were driven to debt or to despair. They had to share homes to make do. “Whole communities were shattered and scattered. And now the social scientists wonder why there's a loss of family unity!” The bitterness that remains was plainly expressed in two recent conversations, one with Dudley, the other with an Indian professional we'll call Mr. Y. released in September after his fifth experience with detention. MOCK IMAGE Both men make a mockery of what some Afrikaners see as their divine mission to “uplift” their non-white neighbors. Either would be comfortable in a room full of university academics. Their English is precise and imaginative, their minds complex, their manner self-con- fident. Both men’s homes, on flower-filled lots, are on suburban streets that wouldn't look out of place in a working-class suburb of Montreal or Vancouver. The furniture is unpretentious but solid and the rooms have been decorated with taste. Dudley has been a leftist militant since university days, part of a group called the Unity Movement that some other left-wingers regard as too purist to be influential. Y’s experience was similar: His father's two small businesses and the family home in the heart of their quiet Natal city were expropriated for what he says was a third of their value. It wasn't the Afrikaners lof the National party who engineered it, it was the municipal council dominated by English-speaking South Africans, generally regarded as more tolerant in racial matters. “The English municipal councils totally co-operated with the Group Areas Act,” Y says with passionate emphasis. COME BACK The Indian community, which moved strongly into small stores and businesses after being imported by the British in the 19th century to work the tea plantations of Natal, has ‘started to recoup its place in the trading centres of Natal. With whites fronting for them to conform with the law, Indians have taken over downtown stores, and changes in the law governing ownership of downtown property are among the concessions the Nationalists are undertaking. “Some Indians are quite impressed with these developments,” Y said in a sardonic tone that left no doubt that it'll take more than that to impress him Photo tor CosNews by