KITCHEN SPECIALISTS in design and installation. we FREE ESTIMATES * CALL TOLL FREE — 800-642-1246 KELOWNA KITCHEN CENTRE ay 97 N 860 A Hig LIMITED 6383 April of this year, By Sally Williams Nevember 1983 We met for the last’ time before Christmas with renewed energy following the good news that our Namibian prisoner, Lazarus Haukongo, is alive and in Mariental Military Detention Camp. In view of the approach of ‘Christmas, Dave Bullock suggests we all send Christmas cards to the goverument ministers in Namibia and South on behalf Rees one ert whsh won't be going up on the office December 1983 A small amount of money has been sent to Lazarus ¢/o the detention camp. We hope he will actually receive it and be able to buy a few essential items. Reports are not ing on the initial @L SUL 1L7 2 DIRECTORY} » VANGELICAL FREE CHURCH — Fellowship Worship — Bible Study Family Bible Hour 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship Service 11 a.m., Legion Hall Bible Study & Prayer Tues 7:30 p.m. at 1201 - Ist Street Pastor: Tom Mulder Phone: 365-2281 1401 Columbia Ave. Sunday Services 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. Robson Community Memorial Church 2nd & 4th Sundays, 10a.m. Rev. Charles Balfour Ph. 365-2271 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 1471 Columbia Ave., Trail 364-0117 Regular Saturday Services Pastor Cliff Drieberg -2649 UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA: 2224-6th Ave. 14 Blocks South of Community Complex 9:40 a.m. — Si 10 a.m. — Worship and Sunday School Robson: Ist Sun., 7 p.m. oo ia Gralilude tn ST. PETER LUTHERAN 713 - 4th Street Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Pastor Terry Detoe Offi i Residence 365-7622 Listen to the Lutheran Hour — Sunday, 9 a.m. on Radio CKQR APOSTOLIC CHURC! OF PENTECOST low Ci Phon Pastor: Victor Stobbe Phone 365-2374 SUNDAY SERVICES Sunday School 9:45 am Morning Worship 11:00 Evening Fellowship 6:30 Wednesday: Bible Study and Prayer 7:00 pm HOME OF CASTLEGAR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 365-7818 —— 2404 Columbia Avenue Church School 9:45.a.m. Morning Worship lla.m, Pastor Ira Johnson Phone 365-6762 GRACE PRESBYTERIAN 2605 Columbia Ave. Job openings Details of these and other job opportunities are available at rail Canada q 835 Spokane Street Phone: 368-5566 n opening exists in Castlegar for @ certified Dental Assistant on a part-time basis. (40) Medical Clinic in Trail requires @ licenced Medical Laboratory T tor a period of 4 months commencing August 1 1984 (158D) An engineering firm in Castlegar is looking for a heating and ventilating ond air conditioning engineer with minimum years experience. $2300 to $3500/ month. (151D) Study & Prayer — 7 p.m. Church 365-3430 Pastor 365-2808 PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE 767 - 11th Avenue. Castlegar” ™ Pastor Kon Smith - Church: Phone 365-5212 Sunday Morning Services 8:15 and 11 a.m. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Evening Service 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study and Prayer 7:30 p.m. Fri. Youth Meet., 7:30 p.m. ST. RITA‘S CATHOLIC . Michael Guinean Ph. 365-7143 You can't get into swimming if you can't get into oe swimsuit. prime Caldsel GROCETERIA & LAUNDROMAT Saturday Night Mass p.m. Sunday Masses at 8 a.m. and 10a.m, of whom Lazarus is one. Torture and mutilation feature owieeniy | in the information and in Mari- ental are harsh. All of the black people from his area of Namibia are Christians. I wonder what Lazarus will make of his sixth Christmas in detention without charge, trial or sentence. Negotiations are under way to arrange a meeting with ithe South African Ambassador to Canada to discuss human rights issues in South Africa and Namibia, and Lazarus’ case jin particular. January 1984 To start off the New Year, John Orr has written for a subscription to the Windhoek Observer. Windhoek is the capital of Namibia and has a large army detachment there. After all our letters to this newspaper asking for illumin- ation on Lazarus’ case we doubt very much whether we will jever see an actual copy of this newspaper drop into our Castlegar mail box . . . Dave Bullock has been using his influence as a medical | eiead to enquire about Lazarus’ condition and to ask the Medical Association of South Africa about the treatment of prison detainees. The Association recently issued a report critical of such treatment. According to the Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs, Lazarus is being held as a prisoner of war and the main thrust of our letters is to establish how the South African government made the leap from seizing an ‘Our letters might be all that is keeping Lazarus alive’ ordinary citizen to labelling him as a P.O.W. Dave Healing writes several letters to military officials: “I should be grateful if you would urge the military authorities in Namibia to ensure that the Mariental mers will be treated humanely according to the United Nation's ‘Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.’ February 1984 Dave Healing has received a letter in reply to his inquiry to the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe: “We regret that lwe cannot help much as we do not possess any information ion Mr. Haukongo.” On the matter of the meeting with the South African Ambassador to Canada, local Amnesty member, MP Lyle Kristiansen, writes, “I would be pleased to accompany the delegates (from Amnesty) to the South African Embassy jany time if my scheduling permits.” We expect a. delay in J making} conditions worse for him? Gabriel's reply was sobering. “It is} Jett Mair desi a posfoere a @ bape man esol through prison bars ond George Richards wrote the information about Lazarus on the reverse as part of the local Amnesty International roup’s tight to free him Pom a Namibian prison. Lazarus but encouraging us in our work. The Minority Rights Group in London, England writes: “I wish your group the best of luck in your efforts.” SWAPO} has now concluded that we are an “okay” group — “We were} in 1978 of the group of very pleased to learn more about the very hard but good work you have been doin, Then we receive an exciting letter from the Lutheran World Ministry in the United States. “I have been trying to reach a person whom I think may know Lazarus Haukongo.” He goes on to say that this man, now a college student in ‘Judy Wearmouth writes to Lazarus: Remember that many people who have not met you hold you dear in their hearts’ Illinois, was picked up in the same raid as Lazarus when th South Afriea Defence Forces raided the Angolan refu; camp in which they were living in 1978. This is our second big break: George telephones th student, Gabriel, and explains our- mission. Unfortunately, he did not know Lazarus, but in view of the hundreds in camps, this was not surprising. He was unable to describe the when the refugee camp was ov: convey the feelings and memories.” After being taken to another Northern Namibia, Gabriel was one of a ni chosen detainees who were released by South can as a public relations gesture. Lazarus wa lucky. was plain that Gabriel felt that but for ‘heer Tuck be might still be detained like Lazarus. —— George asked a question of Gabriel which we have all been asking ourselves. Was our focus on not possible to make life worse for him, camp conditions are} brutal and blacks are. easily dispensable.” ‘ He felt that the more letters we wrote, the stronger the} possibility that the authorities might feel that eventually] they could be for Lazarus’ In other} words, our letters might be all that is keeping Lazarus alive. April 1984 Our excitement at this latest news quickly translates} into action. If Lazarus needs attention drawn to him to keep) him alive we can at least do that! We decide on a post cardi paign. Jeff Mair designs a picture of a black man through prison bars and George writes the informa’ abentit Lazarus on the reverse. Three hundred have bee! Dreided into batches of five with accompanying lists of Namibian and South African government military officials, they are sent all over North America Amnesty friends. Reflections. ___& recollections Exchange visits provide basis for friendship The story is told of Charles Lamb, Victorian-era English author: One day Lamb was talking with a friend when he suddenly glared across the room and exclaimed to his friend, “How much I hate that man!” “But you don't even know him,” friend. Answered Lamb: him?” There is an ancient custom, still observed in various ways in several parts of the world, which declares that if one eats someone else's salt — that is, if one has a meal with him — one can do him no injury nor speak ill of him thi the famous responded the “If I knew him, how could I hate ‘This is well illustrated in the story of Ali Baba. The leader of the 40 thieves, who is planning to murder Ali Baba, is invited to dinner at Ali Baba’s home and asks that no salt be put in his food. It's a request so unusual that Morgana, the host's slavewoman, become suspicious and arranges a rather sticky demise for her master's enemies. A modern version of this sharing of salt and a meal as a basis for a lasting friendship, is found in the Rotary International Student Exchange Program. In this plan, thousands of students each year are sponsored by the almost 20,000 Rotary clubs in 156 as dors to travel across the face of the earth and live for a year with host country Rotary families, to learn not only different lifestyles and cultures and attend different schools and school systems, but frequently to learn a new language as well. Strangely enough, in spite of all of the oft-voiced concerns by some pedagogical theorists about “conflict of cultures” and the “confusion created by the requirement to learn another language,” these young people return home with a whole quiverful of new attitudes, skills and understandings, as well as a working knowledge of another language. In this latter regard, the words of an old Doukhobor friend spoken many years ago come to mind: “It is good to have another language. The man who has two languages is two men.” Two such local “doublers” are Castlegar Rotary exchange students Julie Higgins and Chris Bullock, both Grade 11 students at Stanley Humphries Secondary School. For them, the exchange began last October when Ruth Henderson, an exchange student from New Zealand, Ken Ross, a local exchange student to Mexico, and Rotarians Don Wickett and John Kennedy met with interested students at the high school to discuss the student exchange program. After the meeting, four students applied, were interviewed and wrote an “entrance examination” and Julie and Chris were accepted. “Some of the questions were tough,” said Julie. “Particularly the essay questions,” added Chris. The road to an ambassadorship is not an easy one. Once they had received notice of acceptance, things began to heat up. There were numerous forms to be filled, medical examinations to take, more interviews, insurance and flight checks — even a trip to Spokane for briefings on what to expect and do. Julie wanted to go to Japan, and since there was an opening available, she was accepted at once. (One does not always get one’s first or sometimes even second choice). In pr i crash course of learning Japanese and was fortunate in finding as a tutor Genelle resident and former teacher in Japan, Sumiko Kambara. she started i on a EXCHANGE STUDENTS . . . Julie Higgins and Chris Bullock leave this summer for Japan and Norway, respectively. Julie since he has been chosen by the Kootenay Orien teering Club to enter the national orienteering compe titions in New Brunswick on June 28. Here, he will match his skills with map and compass against the best in the country. He then goes to Montreal where his family has arranged a house exchange with a Montreal family. Joy Keillor display material and samples from — bodies, organ- izations and industries. Since the trip to the host ecantry and the $600 con- tingeney fund must be supplied by the student, lonce there board, room and allowance is supplied by the host club), Julie and Chris acknowledge the assistance of their families; For Julie her parents Clarence and Elaine Higgins and her grandparents, Pete and Jean Lerekteck and for Chris his parents, Veronica and Elmer Peterine. Any other assistance from private citizens, parti. cularly slides and pictures which can be arranged into a program, are welcome by both. They may be contacted through high sehool Assistant to the Principal Don King at 365-7735 or at their homes. We wish them well. They are a part of a great tradition and a very real hope for peace and understanding among the nations. Castlegar, B.C. WINS 5 FREE You could be a winner too! Look or your name in the “OPEN MON- DAYS" column of the Castlegar News every Sunday! Two lucky people win 5 free eirtess tickets each. Bridge #SHOPPERS DRUG MART TRAIL STORE ONLY Twelve pairs competed at the June 18 meeting of the Joy Keillor Bridge Club in the Nordic Hall. With every FREE computerized poo! water analysis, you have a chance to win ENTER THIS DRAW $100 worth of Pool Chemicals! The average score was 67', with the following win. Drawn July 28, 1984 (No purchase necessary) Phone: ners: Don Richards and Rog- ier Deweever with 83, George Reshaur and Hubert Hunchak with 74, Gwen Krueger and Hugh Auld with 712, Clara Johnson and Etuka Cameron with 69'/. SHOPPER'S DRUG MART 1305 Cedar Ave. Trail 368-3341 Pacific Western lowers the cost of raisin: family., All the > way to 2 ga finalizing plans for this meeting as the Ambassador has been replaced. Our newest AI member is invaluable in “It (Japanese) is fun,” Julie says, “but I had a motive Our national office in Ottawa writes to the new repre- il ddr: A was — I know I am going to be using and needing it. sentative: “Please accept our congratulations on your exiled from Namibia in the early "70s and can give us man\ “The writing is hard and the grammatical construc- as South Africa's Ambassador to Canada.” valuable details on life there. tion is quite different from English. Some of the sounds, After raising the issue of Lazarus, the letter concludes: “We The post cards will have to be read by South too,” she added, “but Sumiko is an excellent teacher.” and Namibian postal clerks, secretaries and so on up to tl Since she will be expected to speak to other higher echelons and all these people will know that students, clubs and groups in Japan about her own sender of a post card knows about Lazarus. country and people, she has written to the British In the meantime, some more money has been sent Columbia and federal ministeries of tourism and the The South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) Lazarus. Judy Wearmouth writes to him “Remember tha: Canada Board of Trade, Industry and Commerce and to writes back, suspicious of our efforts to work on behalf of many people who have not met you hold you dear in loeal industries for packages of information. only one prisoner. George Richards replies that our few hearts. Word of your continued good health and spirit The city, the local chamber of commerce and the resources can cope with only one “but in working for him, we strength will give us all the greatest joy.” Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Society Museum is also work for all those who ‘have been deprived of their basic We know from what Gabriel has told us that if helping with illustrative material and some souvenirs, ” finds out that someone cares it will mean more to him and Cominco has given her a number of sample packets of A list of 88 Namibian support groups is enclosed in the we can possibly imagine. Having languished in a prison cam; zine tools for distribution in Japan. subsequent reply to George who, in a herculean effort, gets for six years, knowing that he is not forgotten will gi When she leaves Castlegar on Aug. 20 she will go jout his word processor and writes to all 38 of them. He Lazarus hope — enough perhaps to enable him to down to Spokane and then fly on to Seattle where she will receives many replies stating nothing is known about through each day. join with some 60 other students from all over Canada, ° Air band the United States and Mexico who are also going to Japan. contest July 6 “When we get there we will be all sorted out for our different destinations,” she said. “I go to Tokyo where I will live with my first hosts Mr. Shoichi and Mr. Kazuko Morita and attend a private girls’ high school. She is already corresponding with district chairman Tatsuji Kojima who informs her that she will have as counsellors Mr. Yatsoja and Mrs. Mineko Takahashi, whose son is attending university in the U.S. and has also Written offering any help to her. This summer the Castlegar Recreation department is sponsoring a wide variety of youth activities. The first big event is on July 6 and it is the first-ever Air Band Contest. An Air Band is a made-up band that lip synes to a song of the band that they are 3rd Sunday, 10a.m. Rev. Ted Bristow 365-8337 or 365-7814 Worship Service 11 a.m. Junior Congregation Home Bible Studies ST. MARIA GORETTI Genetle — 12 Noon from our respect for the dignity of all human beings.” March 1984 on until Sunday, July 1 at VALLEY LANDSCAPE NURSERY CASTLEGAR STORE ONLY SELKIRK COLLEGE IS OPEN FOR REGISTRATION AND COUNSELLING THIS SUMMER The Castlegar Campus will ONLY be open for students wishing to register and for those requiring counselling services. The Rosemont Campus in Nelson vill be fully operational; the Trail campus is only open for scheduled classes. CASTLEGAR CAMPUS Summer's here and it's time to finish that Spring planting. We can help with great savings on all of of our planting stock! 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