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CASTLEGAR NEWS, July 8, 1981

Meets his first Castlegar class

JOHN CHARTERS’

Reflections &
Recollections

“A small but rapidly grow-
ing community,” said inspec-
tor of schools Mike Clay,
“beautiful, clean air and
water, very friendly people.
You'll like it. And, for war
service, you start at four
steps above the basic salary.”

It was my first teaching
job after five years of univer-
sity in the sciences, human-

by nine years of practice and

The bricks continued to

ities and neatly
split by four years in the
services. We were getting a
little hungry and that 1947
salary of $1,500 a year looked

good.

T accepted, having lived on
the coast all my life and
knowing absolutely nothing
of the Interior.

We arrived one sunny

of

and some of them still had
that look lurking in their
eyes.

"While teacher training at
the university had been
worse than useless for these
real people — since it dealt
mainly with stereotype and
shadow people — one might
have hoped that the fiber-

lethal

— one each day.
It became a challenge. We

career. From the Robson
church hall to the old Robson

our

came earlier and stayed
later, but no luck. At the end
of each day one more brick
had gone. Eventually, we
gave up and the game ceased.

We never located the cul-
prits and it was only years
later that I learned of the
cloak-and-dagger

at the i
September at the old Castlo-
gar station — one wife, two
children, one dog, one canary
and baggage, to be met —
after a 17-hour trip on the
Kettle Valley Railway — by a
smiling Charlie King, secre-
tary-treasurer, bus driver
and general troubleshooter
for School District No. 9.

And Mike was right — it
was beautiful. The water was
pure, the air tingly fresh, the
people warm and friendly
and, because of the rapid
growth, accommodation a
super headache — both for
living and schooling.

We got a two-room motel
unit by the ferry and the new
Grade 9s got the church hall
at Robson. As a shelter for
a small Sunday School class
or church meeting, it was
adequate. As an all-day class-
room for 41 youngsters and
one green teacher, it was
impossible.

Aisles, so narrow as to
require a side-step shuffle to
negotiate, skating rink black-
boards, nail-keg seats for
those in the back desks, and
dim lights, left the hall some-
thing of a minus quality as far
as an educational facility was
concerned,

Then there was the class
itself — my first class. It
wasn't long before I began to
suspect that Bob Sommers
had passed some of them into
Grade 9 because his fertile

brain hed rgn dut of ideas:on”™*
what ele to do with them:~

An inate bent for mischief
had been honed toa fine edge.

Register

“battle drill” school in Englan
d, or the experience of going
a few rounds with the elite
German paratroopers in
Italy, would have sharpened
the hunt-and-kill instinct, but
nothing worked 100 per cent
with this crew.

Possibly, it improved the
odds for survival, but it did
not reduce the extra grey
hairs. Thus the “remember
when” stories are legion —
the “hanging” of Reno on the
school swing caper; the Rudy
and Company on a raft in the
river episode; Bill and the
guessing the teacher's
weight trick (with the guess-
ers fleeing to safety for three
days); the Raspberry School
creek diversion and road
clearance operation by
Gordon and Company — all
are part of the trove of
memories.

The most drawn out and
interesting gambit by this
crew of Katzenjammers was
the “vanishing porch column
mystery”. It began when
someone found that one of.
the columns supporting the
school porch had a loose
brick.

One day the brick dis-
appeared and an enquiry was
made into its possible where-
abouts. This was a mistake,
for the next day a second
brick vanished, and the fol-

lowing day, another, George _

Magweod was determined to

diversion and deception
schemes which went into
spiriting away those silly
bricks.

Of all the classes in the
Castlegar district, this one
and I had the most varied

hotel to the Doukhobor hall
in Cast! where Bill

Fraser got halfyof them) to

Raspberry ‘.School where,

after more than a year in the

wilderness, they were a part

of the Castlegar School under

one roof with myself, George
d and Bill

It is very difficult for
anyone who has not wand-
ered for four or 40 years in
the wilderness like Moses
and the Israelites to realize
the excitement and pride
with which we took over the
four rooms plus library and
science lab in the now. old
wing of the school.

In June 1951 the first
graduation class of Stanley
Humphries Secondary
School, much reduced by,
time and circumstance, had
their banquet in the home
economics room and their
ceremonies from the stage in

(The C.M. & S. Company”).

In January of 1951 the
student body left the
Raspberry School forever
and moved into the brand
new, still being built, Stanley
Humphries Secondary School
with Alain (Al) Thomas as
principal.

cies 1951 GRADS: Front row, left to right, Pat Rigby

the! Schiavon, Kar

Fox, Nellie Lebedow, Florence

Gundersen and Molly Kuryluk. Back row, left to right,

Register

1951 Graduates.

without avail.

of pupils

Sept, Oct. 1947

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NAMES OF PUPILS.

Segregate pupils into the following three sroups:—
(a) Kindergarten, Grades I-VI, inclusive.
(®) Grades VII-IX, inclusive,
(e) Grades X-XIII, inclusive.

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the gym. Another small page
history had bee

In any teaching career,
there are always some spe-
cial classes — this was one of
them. We all learned some-
thing from our somewhat
unusual experience — their
last, my first.

One is that class spirit is
created by people, not
things; that somewhat
crowded conditions or diffi-
cult do not

Four walk away
from plane crash

PENTICTON (CP) — Fed-
eral transport officials are
the crash of a

destroy morale or blunt the
enjoyment of life; that the

make-shift lab on the dirt.

floor at Raspberry was bet-
ter than none at all; the long
cold walk across the railway
bridge and the outdoor priv-
ies (boys'- and girls') may
have been uncomfortable,
but they were not fatal; and
the 20-degree slope on the
playing field, though it-may
have produced a temporary
lengthening of one leg, in no
way reduced the enjoyment
of playing football or baseball
to slightly modified rules.

» while there may
have been an extra portion of
mischief among some of
them, there wasn't a mean
bone in the lot and I am
proud to call them friends,
My best to you all.

Reno Manarin, William Oleski, Gordon vie, |

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~ Lorene Tamelin
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Lorene Tamelin is-spon-
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-Senator Ed’ Lat

VANCOUVER
Canadian Teamaise loader
wson has re-
signed as an elected trustee

of Local 218, the B.C, local.

where he began his climb to

high’ office in the controver-
‘sial union 28 years ago,

Lawson said Tuesday he
decided to submit his resig-
nation, effective July 15, be-
cause other union duties left

:,him no time to concentrate on

the local's affairs.
The move follows his res-

, ignation for. similar reasons

Susan Tischler
Miss Bartle and Gibson

Susan Tischler was born on

* Dec. 12, 1963 in Edmonton,

Alta. Her family’ moved to

She is 18 years old and was
born in Castlegar on July 2,
962.

She is the eldest child‘ of
Lorne .and Irene -Tamelin.
She -has two: brothers, Law-
rence and Robert'and a sis-
ter, Adena.

She was educated in
Castlegar, graduated from
Stanley Humphries in 1980
and attended’ a year at
Selkirk College. This coming
September she hopes to at-
tend the University of Al-
berta on the Bachelor of
Physical Education program
majoring in administration.

Lorene enjoys the out-
doors and doing things like
cycling, camping, hiking and
canoing. She's a sports-
minded person and likes
figure skating and playing
squash.

For the past two summers
she was the goalie of the field
hockey team that repre-
sented the Kootenays.in the
B.C. Summer Games. In high
school she was on the treack
team that went to the
provincials.  -

Her favorite pastimes are

tening to music and dane.

ig. Her main interest’
people. She‘tikes meeting,
helping and working with
people.

Lorene has been working
for Regional Recreation Com-
mission No. 1 for the past
three summers and will be
again this summer. It’s a job
involving people of all ages
and she enjoys it very much.

Deer Park
reunion

Saturday |

Editor, Castlegar News:
Remember When .. .
The “Minto” was the sole

transportation on the Arrow

Lakes.

Pacific salmon fishing was
great on the Arrow Lakes.

The official road opening of
the Deer Park road to
Castlegar.

Come, , meet .and re-live
some, of these memories with
the “old-timers” at a Deer
Park reunion this Saturday
at Romaine’s farm.

Bring your picnic lunch,
your boat, car or truck and
your spouse and family and
be socialable. :

Everyone is welcome. Mu-
sicians appreciated. ‘

Castlegar. in 1974 when. she
was 10 years old.

She -has a sister, Sandy,
and a brother, Peter. She is
17-years old and in Grade,12°
at Stanley Humphries.

She is‘ taking courses in

typing, band, English and bi-
ology. She plans to attend
Selkirk College next year and
become an elementary tea-
cher,
Her hobbies include skiing,
skating, and swimming. She
enjoys playing music; she can
play the accordian, clarinet,
and bass clarinet.

Susan would like to thank
her sponsor, Bartle and Gib-
son, for all their support.

Delivery of
pension
cheques
planned

TORONTO (CP) — Indi-
viduals expecting pension
cheques ,or income-tax re-_

ly. wan't, -
‘wait, lke the. postal
~ends' to‘get them.

The Letter Carriers Union |
of Canada has volunteered to
deliver pension cheques July
265 without pay, provided the
government delivers.them to
a neutral location and no
other unions object.

Letter carriers president
Bob McGarry said the strik-
ing Canadian Union of Postal
Workers has not yet ofjected.

“In 1975, we delivered. the
cheques without a neutral
, location — we had to walk
through the picket lines to
get the cheques,” McGarry
said. This strained relations '
between the unions.

Jean-Jacques Blais,
ister of supply and services,
said the government would
set up “store-front offices” to
dispense cheques ifit weren't —
to receive a written guar-
anteé from the carriers.

Revenue Canada _ said
650,000 people owed ‘about
$12.5 million in income-tax
returns would be able to pick
‘up their cheques at district
offices.

late last year as president of
the: Teamsters’. B.C. Joint

* Council,

* Union had often

(CP) —

Ed Lawson resigns

“It's a very emotional
moment for me to cut that’
cord (with Local:213). Over
the years, I've watched the

CASTLEGAR NEWS, July 8,; Abd

local grow from a b
organization into one. with
9,000 members and a: few
million dollars in the bank,

“But I simply: no longer
have the time available to do
justice tomy duties asa local
trustee.”

Lawson has been em:
broiled in controversy in’
Local 218, since a bitter in-
ternal battle five years ago.
with Jack Viahovic,-now a
member of the reform-
minded for a

__Sehoo District No. 9

) is par gin
a beatin beteary project “for
the next school year.

The goal of this new pilot
project is to increase the stu-
dents’. and the community's
awareness and appreciation
of the many cultures which
are represented in our local
community,

Multi-culturalism has been
a policy of the federal gov-
ernment, and of many prov-
inces for several years. The

hi the

D

charged Lawson with spread-
ing himself too thin by hold-
ing down :four union jobs,
plus his:senatorship, at the
same time.

Lawson said he will now
have more time to concen-
trate.on his duties as eighth
international | vice-president
of North America’s largest
union and director of its
Canadian conference.

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“It will take a week or two «|

to figure out just how we'll’

set up the distribution,” said,
a Revenue Canada
man. “We'll have

out the mechanics of the se-

quence of releasing the,

cheques for distribution.
“All we know for sure right
now is the taxpayer will have
to goto the district office and
show some positive identi.
fication to satisfy us the rig!
person is getting the mone:

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Lawson said his feud with
Viahovic played some role in
his decision to quit as a trus-
tee, a position paying $4,800
a year,

“They (the UDU) used me
as a target with all their red’
herrings about the senate,
my salary and so on. Now,
maybe elections can be
fought simply on the merits
of the individual candidates.”

fact that Canada is » mosaic
of peoples from many cul-
tures who have helped to
populate and develop our
country: The richness of
these cultures is often over-
looked as we strive to iden-
tify our Ca! ture.
There is often unnecessary
stress and suffering caused
when people are denied rec-
ognition of their cultural her-
itage. The children are often

the ones who suffer the most
as they seek acceptance from
their peers in school and in
the community:

Teaching people to accept
and appreciate all cultural
groups jn the Canadian mo-

saic is ‘the ambition of multi-
culturalism,

‘The board of school trus-
tees, School District No, 9
(Castlegar), the British |Col-

| _ Molti-cultural pilot project

chers’ Association, “and the}
Wee: Kogan Multi-Cultur: .
al ty have: expressed
auppart’ for the’ project. »”
‘There will be a multl-cultural ;

umbia
the Castlegar District Tea-

Has gained from
10-day jail term

SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP)
— The president of the
Nackawic local of the Cana-
dian Paperworkers Union
has completed a 10-day jail
term for contempt of court,

and he sald something was -

gained by the experience.

Timothy Noel, jailed after

325. mill workers at the
Ste,-Anne Nackawic Pulp

ae enc

etal ee

and Paper Mill defied.a court
order to cross Bee oes oe

-up by striking office workers,

“the local is now more
united than it ever has been.”
Both
of local 219. The office work:
ers reached an agreement.
with the company and ended
their strike while Noel was in
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