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oy remember quite a bit ‘obout China,” says
Lariss Eremenko as she recalls. her early. years in

that country during an Intervie wi wit Linda Hall."

in that country; the things she saw, the places she Visited
have left an impression: on her that has lasted a lifetime.
Larissa ‘Eremenko's ‘father .was'an official. with the
Russian’ government. who had ‘secured permission to

uria!’ that’ northernmost:

was a real international city. tee

employees. 2
. “I remember quite a bit-a al
was cold, like Saskatchew
chinooks!”

*: But it was the Chinese people, ‘and especially th
children which Larissa recalls: “I, remember the kids
were so poor, some of them. The poor, little kids were
running around bare: I-remember going to some of the
houses. They had ‘earth floors,and they. were so dark. I
could never understand why it was so-dark in there.

tables; I fellow filled up baskets with his’ vegetables and
carried them on his. shoulders, They (grew. everything.
The Chinese had
cantaloupe, all the vegetables you could ‘think of."

-But the dangers as well are.not forgotten. Chinese
maurading bands regularly: “ravaged: sthrough ‘China ‘at
that time their efforts on the ial city
of Harbin, because most-of it's dwellers were a little
better off than many of the vil Larissa

" She was born in northern China, and her early years. ‘

“T remember ‘the way mother used to buy voge- j

LARISSA REMEMBERS . Castlegar's Larissa

f Erémenko, who runs her, own shoe store, looks

mother saw ‘that one of them pulled a long knife from his

slgeve and put it under.his coat. That way ‘they could
edsily throw it down if the police came.” Fortunately no
harm came to the family or. heir, Possessions. Others
were not so lucky.
When she was eight years old her family left China.
‘They lived briefly in Korea and Japan before coming to
Canada. Larissa hasn't been back to China, although she
says. that one day she would like to. “I've never heen
back. I think of.going, but there is nothing there now.”
‘After the war, things. changed in “Manchuria. The
Chiriese own the railroad now, and the. Russians were
forced to build anéther railroad around the top of China.
= :,\ Larissa’s: family. purchased a farm .in Alberta’ and

“It was in the evening, and it was gétting dark. We had a
big’ guard’ dog. Mother heard’ the dog: barking and’ she
rushed to the door. When she opened the door a couple of
Chinese ‘men were there and said they wanted to buy
a something, Right away she figured what: it waa. Then she

only: way, the Canadian government would let-us' in. We.

didn’t: know 1a thing about farming!” As soon as they.

cones the’ family. -moved to Vancouver: Lariasa finished

veducation: at King Edward -High. School in

er then went on for two years at the University.
‘Columbia ‘

a back’ ‘at.the "early days of h

d to Canada; “We bought a farm. That was the. _

childhood and. the
= years of building upat usiness

‘ certificate. After orie year at bi
job te y school in ‘Ca

Larissa remembers ; those early years. “It was really
small. There was nothing, not‘even.a church.: When I
came here I wanted to go to church.” About that time the
Pentecostal Church was thinking of beginning a work in ,
Castlegar, and Larissa became ‘it’s charter member.
Larissa has taught.Sunday School for 20 years. and
recently received a silver plate for 20 years’ service as
the treasurer. ;

Wher she inarzied Alexander Eremenko, the two
moved into the building which is the present Castlegar
News buildirig. “Those steps, those very steps were our:
steps.” For.a time ‘they lived and. worked here at’ his *
parent's store selling groceries aned and,small items.
Then by themselves, they built the building which houses
the present Field's Store, which Larissa still owns. They
lived mepsiales and downstairs ‘they,

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going to sell it and go back into teaching. Then I decided
to’ just pull out the shoes and start a little business of my
ow! h to keep me ied.” This’ little
teomething’ | to, keep me ‘occupied” has grown into a

flourishing business which employs two, and the three of

them are kept busy most of the time.

Almost immediately her little business went well.
“We had men’s work boots, ladies shoes, children's shoes.
We had to have everything then.” -

She keeps tabs on what's in style by leafing through
the dozens of foot and shoe magazines she receives, and
by attending yearly “shoe shows” in Vancouver and
Calgary. She orders her shoes from: the dozens of
salesmen who call on her every month. |

“Tve seen two dozen salesmen since February, and
the shoes I've ordered now are for next fall.” I asked

- about styles arid found out that this year “anything goeal?

Heels’ vary « ‘from short “princess” type, to chunky, to
“aplked.”

‘Although she is kept busy six daysa week, and has
very few days in which to “sleep in,” Larissa says there is
nothing she dislikes about her job. Her belief is, “when”
you start ing things you might as well not do them.”

-” Larisga sponsors five third-world foster children
through World. Vision. She has two in ‘Brazil, one in
Mexico, oné in Thailand and one in Africa, and'i hoping
to get the paperwork done for a’ few more ‘bringing the
number to eight. ‘Whey does she bother? “I can’t stand to
see, peoplé. hungry. When we were little kids in China,
there was a little fellow who would come to our place at 7
a.m; and ask for a piece of bread. He didn’t want butter,

' just bread. ‘This-stayed with me for a long, long time.

“Mother once hired a Chinese boy and she had to
feed him: She cooked.a great big pot of soup for him. That
young Chinese boy would eat a three-pound loaf of bread

.. and a whole pot of soup every day. For 80 days he ate that
“much. We thought he would get sick, but he was just.so

hungry. I never have forgotten that-either.”

Larissa ‘saw ‘all kinds of hunger in China; children

with stomachs protruding, large heads, and with legs and
arms.“like little sticks.” “There is no hunger like this in

Canada,” claims Larissa.

_. Seeing the hunger of the Chinese children affected

her in another way as well. She decided ‘not to bring any

children of her own into the world.

“Children are a responsibility. My husband was sick
and I had to work.” Larissa beligves that, “people don't
think before they have kids.”.

' During. Castle;

gars early years was a

Larissa
. member of the Soroptomist Club, the Pythian Sisters and

Daughters of the Empire, but her work, she says, has
made a lot of During
what spare time, she has, Larissa enjoys reading,
travelling, and following: Politics, “My dad was a .
politician, so some of that interest must have rubbed off _

manv won't duck the fapie|

EDMONTON (CP) — Dave: Russell, the Calgary
architect who has been a member of. Premier Peter
Lougheed's inner circle since 1967, knew: :he'd have bricks
flying his way after announcing a system of hospital user
fees. ~

-° ‘True to form, Russell went didn’t even bother ducking
as he told reporters hospitals ‘would be run like “business
organizations.”

. The announcement embroiled him with federal Health
minister ‘Monique Begin at a.time when it looked like
Alberta-Ottawa disputes were fading.

When his elfin grin and willingness to admit setbacks

when they happen, the 61-year-old ‘bachelor looks like an

unlikely substitute for: his grim-jawed premier in a show- -

down over any issue.
However, he's one of the most experienced men in the
Alberta cabinet and his -user-fees announcement revealed a

strain of ideological commitment that may not be tempered,

by pragmatism. -
The announcement that hospital fees would be allowed

as of Oct. 1 followed ‘a 47- -per-cent increase in: medicare

premiums for families.

Why not collect.all the medicare money through ‘the
income tax system, Russell was asked.

“We don't believe in that as a political party,” he said. “I
think it's better. ‘if you pay it yourself.”

In the intervening 12 years he has slipped in and out of

the public eye, imposing his will in some areas but giving

way in others.
He has been one of the half-dozen. most powerful men in
the legislature as‘a member of the cabinet's priorities and

. planning ‘committee, since 1979.

He first proposed a hospital user fee of $10 a day shortly
after becoming hospitals minister in 1979 but backed off by
the end of the year, saying: “Too many People saw it asa
hardship on them.”

That has not been his only retreat. He reversed’ field
twice on extra-billing by Alberta doctors.

A decision by the Progressive. Conservative. caucus
apparently forced him to pull back’ on’a threat to make
doctors opt out of medicare if they extra-billed.

FIXES HIS.

” Never pompous or bad-tempered, he has been known to

blush when- caught in a.mistake..He once had to correct
himself onthe floor of the legislature and admit being
minister responsible for a $800-million endowment fund for
medical research.
* "He can also dish out tough medicine when he decidés it's
time.

Russell was the minister who oversaw dismantling of
Alberta's ‘semi-autonomous Environment Department,

which annually eats up about 8 quarter of: Alberta govern-

Informed that about two-thirds of medi it
in Alberta are paid by group buillings, Russell was unmoved.
Employees can see ‘the cost regularly on their pay slips.

A former Calgary alderman, Russell has been worrying

about money since he entered government as minister of
municipal affairs in. 1971.

One of his first major decisions was to freeze provincial
grants to piunleipalltise:

ment. has been his refuge.

He took ‘over in “time to oversee a: major program
i 2 or of more than 90
hospitals i in the province. ‘ .

Buried in the controversy over user fees last week was
his announcement that lack:of money meant work would not
start this year on four identical new hospitals in Edmonton
and Calgary.

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The odds were against them

SAINT JOHN, N.B.. (CP)
— The men aboard the Brit-
ish warship Jervis Bay had
no illusions about the deadly
risks of steaming straight
into the fire of a German
pocket battleship bent on
blowing them out of ‘the
water. :

“Our captain knew just
what we were going to get,
but’ it: didn’t matter,” one
crew member later recalled.

It was 1940 and the armed
merchantman,. built origin-
ally as a passenger ship to
carry British’ emigrants to
Australia‘ but serving as an

-the - odds

auxiliary cruiser for the
Royal Navy, was escorting 4
convoy from Halifax to war-
battered Briain.
. It was about to do battle
with’ the mighty Admiral
Scheer, and every man
aboard the cruiser knew that
were stacked
against them. "
The Jervis Bay went down
with.its guns still firing, but
Capt..E.S. Fogarty Fegen
and all but 65 of the 250 men
aboard.the ship were lost in-
one of the Second ‘World
War's: most selfless acts.
What news reports at the

time described as a suicide
mission’ by the Jervis Bay
saved’ most of the 37-ship
convoy it was helping to pro-
tect. :
Aseaman who watched the
outmatched merchantman
throw everything but its
boilder plates at the Admiral
- Scheer, said it was like a
bulldog attacking a bear,
The .one-sided battle, ‘on
Nov. -5, 1940,’ is commem-
orated on. the walls of the
Jervis Bay Legion Hall in
Saint John, where the ship

had: béen ‘in’ drydock before:

beginning its fateful mission

across the North Atlantic.
REUNION PLANNED
For the first time since the

war, a reunion of Jervis Bay

+ survivors is being planted

for this side of the ocean.

Organizers,, however, are
Having trouble locating some
of the survivors, many of
them Maritimers who joined
the ship at Halifax where i
made its last stop.

‘Jack Claton, vice-president
of the Jervis Bay branch of
the Royal Canadian Legion,
said he has tracked down 10
survivors so far.

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SPRING HAS SPRUNG . . . a week of good weather
has encouraged these spring wildflowers to come

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