A2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 27,1981

Plan to ease higher
mortgage payments

D.F. Tuline, general man-
ager of Kootenay savings
Credit Union in Trail, has an-
nounced the board of dir-
ectors has approved a tem-
porary plah to help members
hwose mortgages are up for
renewal at today's high new
rates.

The program is designed to
lower the monthly payment
of a mortgage until members
adjust their budgets or new
rates fall. Members, whose
mortgages are due for re-
newal, will have deferred
payments calculated on rates
as low as 17 per cent in a six
month period. The principal
balance of the mortgage will
be increased to make up the
difference between payment
rate and the market rate.

On a_ $50,000 balance,
monthly payments are re-
duced by as much as $180.

B.C.

VANCOUVER (CP) — Pet
roleum industry representa-
tives say they are pleased
with B.C’s commitment, con-
tained in the just-signed fed-
eral energy agreement, to
give gas producers a bigger
share of revenues.

But they will be more im-
pressed when they see the
money.

“Right now, gas pricing in
B.C. is a disaster,” said Ed
Barrol, vice-president of Mo-
bil Canada and chairman of
the B.C. division of the Can-
adian Petroleum Association.

D. F. TULINE

While similar to the mort-
gage plan introduced by the
Royal Bank, Kootenay Sa-
vings rates or calculating
payments are one per cent
lower and the mortgage is
open allowing for early pay-
out for increased payments.

Kootenay Savings will not
be promoting this program as

“The provincial - govern-
ment last summer increased
our netbacks (after tax rev-
enue) to 20 cents per thou-
sand cubic feet for old gas
and 41 cents for new gas,”
Barrol said. “When the Al-
berta-Ottawa agreement was
igned, the increased federal
taxes dropped that to 10
cents and 41 cents respec-
tively.”

“We're right back to
square one again. We remain
hopeful that the price the

deferring payment results in
higher costs to the borrower.
it is ized

Postal increase

No public hearings

By Juliet O'Neill
OTTAWA (CP) — The
basic cost of mailing a letter
would rise to 30 cents from 17
cents Jan. 1 under wide-
ranging new postage rates

that some borrowers may not
have an alternative.

The plan is based upon a
one, six month deferred per-
fod, however, should big
interest rates persist or e3-
calate, consideration may be
given to extending the per-

iod:

The public should be cau-
tioned interest rates are un-
likely to decline substantially
and therefore adjustments
should be made to household
budgets so that high mort-
gage payments can be accom-
modated.

Kootenay Savings Credit
Union, with assets of $93
million, has eight branches
located in the West Kootenay
region serving 27,000 mem-
bers.

Barrol said he has told the
B.C. energy ministry that
unless there are changes, the
natural gas industry in the
province is “forecast to.die.”

“Until we receive more
than just assurances that the
price will go up, we'll find it
difficult to be optimistic,”
Barrol said.

CAN'T ACCEPT
The Mobil vice-president
said he can't accept that the
industry is to get 37 per cent
of the

proposed by the federal gov-
ernment Friday.

Letfers to Canadian loca-
tions would jump to 30 cents
and letters to the United
States would cost 35 cents.
Both rates now are 17 cents.

Postmaster-General Andre

Ouellet said the public has 60
days to react to the rate,
proposals before they are
confirmed. There will be no
public hearings but com-
plaints can be sent to the
government,

Rates for virtually all kinds
of mail and postal service
would increase but custom-
ers who send letters in huge
quantities — 5,000 or 2,000 at
atime — would be entitled to
a lower rate than 30 cents.

All new rates would come

(COURT

In provincial court Tues-
day Anthony Lane pleaded
guilty to two separate
charges of being in posses-
sion of a restricted drug. He
was given an intermittent jail
sentence of two weekends on
each account. The sentences
are to run concurrent.

during the next five years.

“That’s not anywhere close
to being factual,” he said, “I
don't mean to imply that
there's a deliberate distor-
tion, but we'd have to. do
some hard analysis before we
could accept that.”

Barrol said drilling activity
in the province is at an
all-time low because of the
low prices producers get,
coupled with the impact of
the federal energy program.

“There were only three or

government pi ar-
rived at will be restored.”

generated in the province

Industry is pleased

VICTORIA (CP) — The
federal government has
agreed to drop its excise tax
on British Columbia's export
natural gas and will pay and
administer all costs of the
Petroleum Incentive Pro-
gram under an energy agcee-
ment reached Thurscay be-
tween the B.C. government
and Ottawa.

Prime Minister Pierre Tru-
deau and Premier Bill Ben-
nett signed the agreement
Thursday.

In addition, the two gov-
ernments agreed to move
quickly to resolve the ques-
tion of jurisdiction and con-
trol over Paciiic Coast off-
shore petroleum and mineral
resources.

The agreement came with-
in a month of a deal between
the Alberta and federal gov-

ernments, which set out sub-
stantially higher prices for oil
and natural gas to the end of
1986.

million by having the federal
government pay the petro-
leum incentives rather than
having the provincial gov-
ernment pay them as is the
case under the energy agree-
ment with Alberta.

And removal of the excise
tax on B.C.’s natural gas ex-
ports, effective Oct. 1, will
provide an additional $500
million to the province over
the life of the agreement.

The agreement also calls
for the B.C. government to
immediately pay to the fed-
eral government with $23
million in taxes and interest
it withheld and which was
collected by B.C. Hydro on
domestic natural gas sales
and by the B.C. Petroleum
Corp. on the sales of natural
gas liquids.

The two’ governments
agreed the decision to pay
these taxes will not have any
affect on any future court.ac-
tions related to the taxation

It was reached foll

face-to-f:

of p d Crown

and
an exchange of correspon-
dence between B.C. Energy
Minister Bob McClelland and

or

Uncer the agreement, the
two governments are to
make every effort to resolve

federal Energy
Mare Lalonde.

In a joint statement, re-
leased in Victoria, Bennett
and Trudeau said the set-
tlement resolved all out-
standing issues between the
two governments on oil and
gas pricing and related fiscal
matters.

The B.C. government es-
timates it will save $600

the q of
and control over offshore re-
sources by early 1982.
McClelland says B.C. has
presented specific proposals,
including revenue sharing,
and these are expected to
form the basis for the dis-
cussions. He said this is an
important step ‘towards
achieving the goal of energy
security.

He insisted, however, that
the province's prime consid-
eration is to clearly establish
B.C.'s management authority
over its inland waters to
ensure that the offshore en-
vironment and ecology are
fully protected, if and when
mineral resources are devel-
oped. *

Talks on the offshore re-
sources will get under way as
soon as officials from both
governments have completed
the necessary preparatory
work.

The B.C. Court of Appeal
ruled in 1978 that the prov-
ince has jurisdiction over in-
land waters which B.C. feels
are rich in gas reserves.

Under the new agreement,
the federal government's
share of the $12.3 billion of
expected revenues will be 26

r cent — almost the same
as that achieved under the
agreement with Alberta.

McClelland also disclosed
that the question of federal
assistance for a natural gas
pipeline to Vancouver Island
was discussed and he will be
“in close touch with Mr. La-
londe on how the B.C. gov-
ernment’s plans are proceed-
ing in relation to the project.”

He said the federal gov-
ernment is committed to
provide funding for such a
project under its National
Energy Program, and he has
been assured this will be
forthcoming once costs and
the route are determined.

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four rigs this sum-
mer,” Barrol said. “And I
think there are only about 10
working now.”

John Anderson, president
of Westcoast Transmission
Ltd. of Vancouver, agreed
that it will take some specific
knowledge of just what in-
creases are coming before
the impact is fully known.

“But Ithink there's a great
deal of significance in them
getting the agreement in
such a short period of time,”
he said. “It looks like a new
era of federal-provincial co-
operation has been estab-

* 28 #

Michael Klit pleaded guilty
to two separate charges. One
of dangerous driving, for
which he was fined $500 or
in default 80 days in jail, and
one of failing to stop at an
accident, for which he was
fined $100.

and Ottawa sign agreement

lished. That’s very good for
B.C. and what's gocd for B.C.
is good for Westcoast.”
PLEASED WITH
FUNDING
Bob Kadlec, president of
Inland Natural Gas, said he
was pleased to see the fed-
era! government still plans to
fund the petroleum incentive

into effect Jan. 1 except rates
for domestic second-class
newspapers and periodicals,
the publisher's book rate and
the rate for library books and
education films. These would
all be delayed to April 1.

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The delayed rate
range from 18 per cent for
most publishers’ second-class
mailing rates for Canadian
newspapers and periodicals
to 100 per cent for non-
Canadian publications mailed
in Canada.

Ouellet said the increases,
the first in almost three
years, are necessary to give
the new postal Crown cor-
poration adequate resources
to do a good job. The Canada
Post corporation is to be
officially established Oct. 16.

While the cost of running
the post office had risen,
rates had not. The post office
deficit this year is $487
million and was forecast to
reach more than $750 million
if rates were unchanged.

“Today the government is
proposing measures to catch
up, to begin reducing the
deficit and to start the
Canada Post corporation off
in the right direction with
some additional for

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Ouellet said.

“It has been clear for some
time that Canadian postal
rates are unrealistically low.
Canadians and Canadian bus-
inesses are paying for having
the lowest postage in the
Western world with an in-

gram in the pi

His company ‘has a pro-
gram to extend natural gas
service in the Interior, but
the program is linked to fed-
eral grants that were in
limbo because Alberta
agreed to take over its part
of the grant system. ‘

“I haven't heard anything
yet that says it's dead,”
Kadlec said. The Inland pres-
ident said higher producer
prices will likely mean higher
prices to consumers in the
province, “but in the long run
I think it will make for a
healthier,gas industry in the
province. and that will be

Inland serves gas custom-
ers in several B.C. Interior
communities.

gly large share of
their taxes.

“Today’s measures would
begin to shift these hidden
tax costs to those who make
the greatest use of the postal
service.”

Winner
of senior
lottery

Seniors’ Lottery Associ-
ation of B.C. has announced,
Walter G. Wirtanen of Vic-.
toria, B.c. as its Sept. 22
draw winner of $1,000.

Proceeds from the Seniors’
Lottery help seniors all over
British Columbia.

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Nick Denisoff: Man

LINDA HALL

Getting to Know Your Neighbor

“You can just hear the
stillness,” said Glade resident
Nick Denisoff to me as we
walked underneath the fruit
trees in his expansive yard.

He pointed 60 yards down
to the bank of the Kootenay
River where a. boat was
moored on the gravelly
shore. “The kids loved going
out in the boat. They loved
growing up here.”

So you don't mind the
inconvenience of the ferry? '
“Nol Fifteen’ minutes to
town, that’s all, and we have +
all this,” and he pointed to his

grounds, his large green gar-
den, his fruit trees ripe with '

fruit, his white beehives, his
tractor, his workshop. “Peo-
ple come to places like this
for two weeks in the summer,
and we, have it all the time!”

Nick Denisoff was born
and grew up in Glade and has
never had the desire to leave.
As a boy he remembers the
community lathe that was
“boy-powered” instead of el-
ectrically powered. The men
of the community used the
lathe to make bed legs,
wagons, wheels and various
other wooden items needed
by the growing community.

The boys were called upon
to paddle the lathe while the
men worked.

Nick is a man of many
hobbies, a man who “makes
my life a part of my hobby.”
Most notable of his hobbies
are his unique wooden ladels.
‘When he was a young teen-
ager his grandmother came
to him with a problem. Her
little wooden eating spoon
was getting old and worn out
and she needed another.

“She told me how to make
it,” he says, “she said ‘do this
and this and this.’ She was
quite a sharp lady. I always
say that if I didn't make it
shé'd make it herself.” “Nick
sufprised even himself when
his first attempt came out
looking very much like a
spoon, “and from there, there
was no stopping me.”

“I don’t consider myself an
artist,” he kept repeating. I
had to disagree wholeheart-
edly with his estimation of
himself. When he began his
spoons he fashioned them in
the traditional §Doukhobor
pattern, but as time went on,
he tired of this and the artist
in him wanted to try some-
thing a little different.

So he experiemented with
different kinds of handles. “I
have 45 different handle pat-
terns now. They're all de-
signed to hang on a bow! and
hang on_the wall.”

“A very slow sort of coun-
try!" said the Queen (to
Alice). “Now, here, you see,
it takes all the running you
can do to keep in the same
place. If you want to get
somewhere else, you must
run at least twice as fast.”
— “Through the Looking
Glass" — Lewis Carroll.

In spite of the Queen’s
observation, sometimes one
has to stop dead in one's
tracks to determine not omly
where one has been, but
where one is going. This is
one of those times:

Tam not a naturally greg-
arious person and tend to.
avoid crowded _ situations
whenever possible, but the
1954-55-56 Grad Reunion at
the end of July was the ulti-
mate exception and pro-
foundly stirring exp’ i

I viewed with interest lit-
tle ribbons, ornate birds and
geoemtric designs cleverly
carved into the handles of his
spoons. Of the 500 spoons he
has made, he doubts that two
are the same.

I asked him how he gets

and you have to picture
where the grain falls under-
neath.”

I asked him if he ever
calculates it wrong, and what
does he do with any ruined
spoon. “My average for ‘but-
chering’ is very small. I don't
make many mistakes any-

ylabas
., His spoons

2

have been

displayed at
:Expo in Spokane,

at festivals and fairs.

the grain of the wood to fall
in just the right place on the
bowl of the spoon. “To get
the grain right in the centre
is not easy,” he commented.
“You cut the blocks in half

more.’ eile

Small salt bowls, a tradi-
tional Doukhobor item, are
another of Nick's carving
hobbies. Again, no two are
alike. He has been making

these for six years, and esti-
mates that he has made over

200.

Nick collects wood for his
craft from all over this area.
His favorite is domestic
cherry, although he uses
birch, juniper, maple and
apple. This is the time when
Nick enjoys getting out in his
boat. “I hunt the shores. I
usually do that after the frost
when the wood drops its
sap.”

He uses green wood for his
spoons which is contrary to
what many wood carvers
swear by. Nick cures his
spoons in steps as he carves
them, a process quile his
own. Each step in his spoon-
making takes just the right
amount of time. “I seem to
tell when they're ready.”

He uses power tools for the
rough shaping, but relies on a
wide assortment of hand
tools and knives for the
finishing. “You have to have
a touch of your hand on
them.” Many of his finishing
tools he has had to make
himself.

with many hob

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CASTLEGAR NEWS,

September 27,1981

bies

Spoons, surrounding a salt bow in the making, show the varied handle designs.

His spoons have been dis-
played at Expo in Spokane,
at festivals and fairs in Grand
Forks, Nelson and Castlegar.
He told me that his hand-
crafts are in all the major
countries of the world.

Queen Elizabeth and
Prince Phillip have twe ladles

Nick Denisoff with the bee hives he keeps on his hobby farm.

Reunion builds bridges

together, so that was an
added feature of the reunion.
I was delighted at seeing so
many parents at the picnic —
some had changed more than
others, but voices and inflec-
tions were so familiar — and
their memories better than
mine at times. It was fun to
see the resemblances
through three generations
that day.”

In the course of her letter,
she mentions that son, Kevin,
‘now in first-year college, is
carrying on his mother's flair*
for winning scholarships and
that George Woroby — a
later SHSS grad and friend of
brother Arvi, married to

Bernie Jean Dunlop — is now *

director at the college (Okan-
agan College in Salmon
ARm).

Must also acknowledge

Cathy Pellegrin Lee summed
it up very nicely for all of us
when she wrote in a recent
letter from Salmon Arm:

“How we (she and Ron)’
enjoyed the reunion — the
variety of activities gave us
so much opportunity to re-
new old friendships and
memories and left us with a
warm feeling an‘ an appre-
ciation of the tru:y “good old
days! I think we were for-
tunate to have the kind of
growing up time we had...

“Our youngest, Mark, and
Liz's kids had a great time

two other thank-y letters
from my “family class”:

Margaret (Clair) Sleeper,
now retired(!) from nursing
and living with husband Fred
in Portland: “It meant a lot to
me to renew old acquain-
tances.”

And Don Onions (Engin-
eering Personnel in Vancou-
ver, B.C.):

“Thank you so much for
the columns on Les Camp-
bell. As you may know, I
worked evenings in the the-
atre with Les and periodi-
cally in the paper during the
year I went to school in
Castlegar. Les, therefore,

had some influence on hos
straight this ‘tree’ was to

‘Ow.

“Susan and I enjoyed sit-
ting with you and Bunny on
Saturday evening and the
whole weekend went into the
‘memory bank’.”

Don visited Mary Camp-

bell, as well, and we both
noted that his wit had not
been blunted with the years.

My’ thanks, also, to friend

and former pupil Sandy

Spence Graham for keeping
me posted on my friend and
former SHSS colleague John
Munday, when he paid a brief
visit to Victoria. John, who
left teaching for a very suc-
cessful career as a missionary
in Equador, is still warmly
remembered by his SHSS
pupils. Fragile health and the
long distance made it im-
possible for him to join us at
the reunion.

My thanks also to Betty
Leitner, Bill Oleski, Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Hunter, Mrs. Cee
Mather, Vi Stoushnow, Bill
Rempel, and Mr. and Mrs.
Bert Cherrington for pic-
tures, annuals and informa-
tion for the reunion columns.
It was invaluable ehelp.

And, speaking of columns
— I have not forgotten my
promise to send some back
numbers to Peggy Cameron
Dysort. Peggy is a delightful
lady whom I met on the bus
in Victoria late last month.

In the course of conver-

sation, it became quickly evi-
dent that she was well ac-
quainted with the Kootenays
and with good reason — she
had started teaching in the

20s in the old Kinnaird Ele- ,

mentary School (near the
garage at the foot of the
Milestone Road), then in the
Robson Elementary and fi-
nally at the Castlegar Elem-
entary School in the 1930s
with Bob Sommers.

Later, when she had mar-
ried (and had to quit her job)
she lived for a number of
years in Nelson. When her
husband retired, the couple
had moved to the Oak Bay
area in Victoria.

Since she knew a number
of Castlegar people, including
Joe and Tannis Killough, the
Wests, the Bloomers and the
Waldies, I had promised to
send her the appropriate
columns. Meanwhile, I'd like
to have someone work out
the mathematical possibili-
ties of such a meeting in the
first place.

Then ‘there are the col-
umns yet to be — I have a
little list — more on the old
railroaders; and some of

While searching for the
object that I have “magi-
cally” caused to vanish, I do
find things which mysterious-
ly disappeared at some ear-
lier time; it ‘@yens up even-
tually — cnet Sf

I should, at this point,
admit that I am one of those
rare humans who'can make
objects disappear with a turn
of my head. I call it “magic”
— Bunny has a less exotic
name for it. Itcan be a nui-
sance, but theré are compen-
sations.

_ However, since magic and
the small book of poems

which I must get out by’

December, have something
in common, and are always in
danger of being nodded into
limbo, I had better get mov-
ing again. But, before I do, I
would like to extend my con-
gratulations to another for-
mer pupil: Marueer Lipsett
Greneer of Kanata, Ont.

For the past several years,
she has sold a number of her
paintings. Now, having ven-
tured into writing, she has
sold a short story, “The Quiet
Hours” to the Chatelaine. It
appears in the August issue
of that it

Charlie King's
and George Cheveldave and
Sam Horkoff; the good ship
Minto; the Obornes; the
RCEME; Dr. Wright of Rob-
son; the special police; the
story of Verigin's Tomb
— now where the heck is that
list?

Finally, many thanks to all
the kind people who say kind
things about the column. It is
still intended as a community
service and material and
suggestions are always wel-
come. i
. Retirement, anyone?

and a spoon set on a plaque.
Both Dave Barret and Bill
Bennett have been presented
with ladels at the opening of
their Dignitar-

ing through have taken
spoons, ladels and salt bowls
back to their home countries.

Last winter Nick was com:

ies visiting Castlegar have
been presented with Nick
Denisoff originals and, of
course, many tourists pass-

‘ wbeen ‘solved with\the addition’ states “even, in, private: jlife;. ‘

d by the school
board fo make wooden signs
identifying each school. Be-
cause of the atractiveness of
these signs, he has since been
asked to make more signs for
other groups and organiza-
tions. |

_ Nick and his wife, Mable,
have been “hobby-farmers”
for more than 25 years. They
grow all their own vegetables
and most of their fruit. They
raise cows and chickens for
milk and eggs, and bees for
honey.

“Bees are a relaxing hob-
by,” states Nick. He began
collecting his own honey
when, five years ago, a
swarm, of bees flew into his
yard. He built the white bee
houses himself, a project he
enjoyed.

During the first years he
had trouble with marawding
bears, but that problem has

---of am‘electrical fence: Nick:

has nine bee hives, and this.

year the hives yielded 1,200
pounds of honey!

Honey isn't the only reason
that Nick keeps bees, he said.
The pollination of his garden
and fruit trees is very impor-
tant to him, and any way that
he can attract bees into his
garden will be done.

Nick is a member of the
USCC, which he says is a
part of his heritage and very
close to his spoon-making.'“I
like Eskimo carvings, and I
like to fool around and copy
them, but it’s not me.”
Spoon-making is his heritage,

JOHN CHARTERS’

and a part of the tradition
that he would like to pass on
to his children for genera-
tions to come.

The Denisoff children num- ©

ber four: Neil, who lives in
Glade; Dennis, the only one
remaining at home and who
works at Cominco; Lovette
who lives in town; and Eil-
enna who alse Hves in Glade.

“I'm a dreamer. When the
girls were growing up I made
hope chests and the girls
picked what they wanted
for them. Now that I have a
little granddaughter (three
months) I'm dreaming of
making a hope chest for her.”

_Nick has been an active
hockey player in the com-
mercial hockey league in
town through the years. “I
like the competition.” He
doesn’t play a lot anymore,
however. “Now I like horse-
shoe pitching. But I just fool
around at that.”

For over 20 years Nick has
operated the Glade ferry.
“I'm a public servant,” he

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Nick is a person who loves
the quiet in life. He wouldn't
_bea candidate for city traffic,
high rise pollution, or noise.
He loves, in his tranquil life;
his bees, his wood carving
shop, his garden, his fruit
trees, his ‘animals, his trac-°
tor.

He is very proud: of his
tractor and treats it with
care. “I love plowing. You
look back and see all the dirt
plowed right behind you. It
gives you a good feeling.”

_Not unlike the feeling of
looking back on a life well
spent.

Reflections &

Recollections

GEORGE WOROBY .. : director at Okanagan College.

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