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Message is
universal

Tonight is Christmas Eve, and there is no better time than
tonight to pause for a moment in our hectic lives to consider what
this holiday means to us.

We should never forget — though unfortunately we often do —
that Christmas is a religious holiday, despite the gala displays of San-
ta and his reindeer and the traditional gaily decorated Christmas
trees. These are but offshoots of the way we celebrate this holiest of
days for Christians. We enjoy them, but we should never forget the
real reason of why we celebrate Christmas

It is because a baby, in swaddling clothes, was born in bitter
weather in a manger ina town called Bethlehem — far from here.

The child was to become known to Christians as mankind's
savior and the Son of God, called to live out a short but significant
lite of some thirty years as a mortal man on this earth. By doing so,
He changed the course of history. Jesus Christ's influence has spread
across national and international lines as well as across racial and
ethnic barriers

His teachings became part of the knowledge of most educated
people in the world, not only the Christian world. Although there are
many, many different religions and philosophies, the teachings of
Christ hold universal truths which speak to all.

In our community of Castlegar, things are quite a bit better this
Christmas than they have been for many years. But the “success” of
the Legion's annual Christmas hamper drive proves there are sfill
those in need. There are still far too many families whose homes are
touched by: poverty and joblessness. That hamper drive perhaps
typifies more than anything else close at hand the true spirit and
sense of sharing and giving that Christ preached during His short

tenure on Earth.
If we would all pause tonight

to ponder the meaning of Christ-

mas we would benefit from that spirit and fellowship of which Christ
spoke. While Christmas is a birthday celebration that is profoundly

religious for Christians,

none the less it holds h

Peace on earth

1g for all

peoples of the world — Christians or not
Its message is one of peace and brotherly love, a message which
speaks to everyone. And we should never forget that simple fact

amid the gaiety and presents and, yes

modern-day holidays

the commercialism of

If all the world’s leaders paused tonight and contemplated the
true meaning of Christmas, and the teachings of Christ, surely the

world would be a sater,
live.
Amerry Christmas to all

cleaner,

more wondrous place in which to

Articl

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misstatement

I would like to correct an erron
eous statement which appeared in
your Dec. 11, 1988 issue concerning
my ministry's position on pesticide
use.

The article does an accurate job of
outlining the presentation my mini.
stry made to the Regional District of
Central Kootenay Board on this sub-
ject except for one point. It states
that “the ministry is not prepared to
accept pesticides as a tool.” This is
not the case.

So long as federal and provincial
legislation in Canada provides the
legal right to use pesticides for pest
control purposes, my ministry will
allow the use of pesticides as a tool.

However, as explained at the
RDCK meeting, we are anxious to

Let

ensure they do not automatically be
come the tool of first choice in dealing
with pest control problems.

We are currently considering
changes to the procedures dealing
with pesticide permit applications
which would place far greater onus
on the applicant to consider other
alternatives for solving his problem
and not automatically regard them as
a first resort to dealing with it.

However, in cases where no other
reasonable alternative is available, a
permit to use pesticides may be
issued subject to all the terms and
conditions deemed necessary to pro-
tect human health and the envir
onment.

Dennis McDonald
Regional Director
Ministry of Environment and Parks

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confuses

My short reply to Ted Dageford
In your letter of Dec. 18 in the
Castlegar News “Get your revenge
at next election”, you wrote that the
premier’s speech refers to a special
group, not the general public.
Premier Bill Vander Zalm appeared
on the BCTV news, where he said,
“the closer we come to Christ, the
busier the devil gets.”

Does that not concern the general
public? And by saying, “the busier
the devil gets,” who does he mean?
Who is the devil?

Can you, Mr. Dageford, give
explanation in plain language?

You mentioned from Scripture

Titus 3:12 and from Romans 13:1
where it says to respect the govern
ments over us. Also in the Scripture,
Ephesians Chapter 6:12, it says: “For
we wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of
the darkness of this world, against
wickedness in high places.”

Also, you suggest going to a nice
socialist country. Personally, I find
nothing wrong with socialism. Soc.
ialism fights for equality — Christian
capitalism fights for greed, which
makes the rich get richer and poor
get poorer.

John S. Lebedeff
Thrums

What's good for one

Many negative things have been
said about unions by people who
never found it necessary to become
members, says Dave Fraser, a writer
in the Calgary Herald

“Why is it,” that a white
collar worker who spends four or five
years in a university can make
$30,000 or $40,000 a year and that’s
OK, but, if a tradesman spends five
years in apprenticeship to become a

" he asks, “

tradesman and makes that kind of
money it is a crime?”

Who built the schools for them to
learn in, and the office buildings for
them to work in, all warm in winter
and air conditioned in summer?

Fraser took the Alberta provincial
government to task because it does
not have a minimum-wage scale for
tradesmen as there is in Manitoba.

Steve Harshenin
Castlegar

Letters to the editor

Nicaragua deserves

financial support

I and other
legar Central
America Working Group spent an
evening listening to a friend from
Trail who had just returned from a
church-sponsored trip to Nicaragua

He was visibly and profoundly
moved by his contact with the people
of that country. He talked about their
endurance, faith and strength and
was astonished by the generosity and
compassion expressed by so many
even after years of war, and the loss
and mutilation of tens of thousands of
the civilian population.

He described the devastation
caused by October's Hurricane Joan.
More than 300,000 people are home
less, much of the coffee, corn and rice
crops have been destroyed and
wharves, fish boats and processing
plants on the Atlantic coast no longer
exist. More than 40,000 hectares of
valuable forest was utterly flattened.
This represents about a quarter of
productive forest land in the whole
country and there are fears that the
land will never recover because of
the fragile soil and the lack of any
resources to help repair the damage

He told us of a plea that went out
to the Nicaraguans while he was
there: “If you have two shirts, please
give one to the hurricane victims. If
you have two pairs of shoes, please
give one pair...” And he told us of
the many, very poor people who

Earlier this month,

came forward with their gifts.

He spent some time with an old
woman who was trying to clean up in
one of the devastated towns and
asked her how she could bear to
carry on given the overwhelming
magnitude of the disaster. She said
that, yes, they had lost everything
except the most important. They still
had life itself and that was enough.

Both Jamaica and Nicaragua have
recently been hit by powerful hurri
canes. The international response to
Jamaica was immediate and gener
ous. The Canadian government alone
gave $7 million and many millions
more were immediately forthcoming
from the United States and from
international agencies such as the
World Bank and the I.M.F.

The damage to Nicaragua was just
as severe and the country was in far
worse shape economically, prior to
the hurricane, than was Jamaica.
Canada gave a measely $225,000
— which wouldn't buy a home in
Toronto these days — and the U.S.
and international lending agencies,
which are U.S. dominated, gave
nothing.

The excuse given by the U.S. was
that the funds would not reach those
who needed the help. This, according
to our friend and the many others we
know who work in Nicaragua, is
completely untrue. In fact, Nicaragua
has probably the best record in the

hemisphere for helping its poorest
citizens and for a lack of corruption.

Strong pressure from all across
Canada forced the Canadian govern-
ment to increase its contribution to
just under $2 million, and there is
hope that this amount can be in-
creased still further if the Canadian
people continue to insist that Nicar-
agua should receive at least as much
as was given to Jamaica.

We hope that during this special
time of the year, readers of this
letter will respond to the desperate
situation of the Nicaraguan people
and will share what they can with
them. (This can be done through
“Hurricane Relief” donations to such
agencies as OXFAM, CUSO, Inter-
Pares or Tools for Peace or through
some of our Canadian churches. All
these helping agencies are now
working together in a coordinated
effort to bring assistance to the
people of Nicaragua.

People can also help by writing
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney urg-
ing that more Canadian assistance be
given to relief and long-term de-

e for N

Attractive “Tools for Peace” calen-
dars and note cards are available
locally with sale proceeds going to
relief efforts

Ann Godderis
Castlegar Central America
Working Group

ON PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM

Response astonishes

In the Castlegar News of Dec. 18, I
read Mr. Garry R. Jenkins’ response
to my letter on our parliamentary
system with a mixture of astonish
ment and disappointment

Astonishment because I listened
very carefully to what he was saying
during the election campaign and he
came through to me as a thoughtful
and reasonable man

Disappointment because Mr. Jen
kins appears to see the spoils system
as designed by intention into our way
of government and to accept it as
satisfactory — he appears to consider
a period as a member in opposition as
little more than a hiatus during
which he can do little but plan and
dream of what can be done when, or
if, his party does gain power — and if
he himself does not suffer defeat

My own view of the way our
parliamentary system should work is

far more sanguine. I, and many
others, believe that we must accept a
member of any political stripe as the
elected representative of all of the
citizens of his constituency

His job to speak for his
constituents, inevitably’ disagreeing
with some of them some of the time,
but nevertheless to present their
points of view, and to take to the
government the broad concerns, the
interests, the problems, the asp-
irations of the people of the riding

The MP should not oppose the
government blindly, out of principle,
wherr he is in opposition, or support it
out of blind party loyalty when he is
on the government side of the house
or when his caucus clearly is not
cognizant of conditions of his riding
Above all, he must not be seen as, or
be, the custodian of the pork barrel.

I realize now that when I wrote my
first letter on parliamentary demo-
cracy I myself edited it too drastical-
ly in an attempt to achieve that
greatest of virtues, brevity.

I should have left in the paragraph
in which I said that if there is in fact
any great advantage, or even. any
advantage at all, in sending to
Ottawa or to Victoria a member who
will sit on the government side of the
House we should look into the
one-party systems that we so deplore
in other parts of the world.

If we adopted this system we
should soon all be better off since we
would always have a member on the
government side of the House.

Absurd? Well, yes; but the con.
clusion does follow from the premise.

F.G. Marsh
Castlegar

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Remember
when

40 YEARS AGO
From the Dec. 21, 1948
Castlegar News

A special meeting of the Board of
Commissioners was held on Sat. Dec.
18 for the purpose of consideration of
business arising on the result of the
election on the water works purchase
bylaw and on the street lighting and
pre-Christmas business. The water
works purchase by-law having re
ceived the assent of the electors,
Commissioner Walker as chairman of
the Fire, Water and Light commit.
tee, will conduct negotiations for the
handing over of the operations of the
water works system to the Munici
pality.

. *

The long-awaited transformer
needed for street lighting, was in.
stalled on Thursday last and the
lights were put into operation on
Friday, Dec. 17th.

*_ * @

Authority was given to the Castle
gar Teen-Town organization to take
the Census of the village, and it is
requested that all the residents give
them as much assistance and co-oper.
ation as possible to make the census
satisfactory.

* 8 «@

At this season of the year the
garbage collector is having trouble
with garbage deposited in open con-
tainers which get filled with snow
and ice and are difficult to handle.

The Castlegar garbage by-law en-
titles each household to one standard
water-tight container which shall
have a waterproof and flyproof
cover. It would help considerably to
have a container of this description.

25 YEARS AGO
From the Dec. 19, 1963
Castlegar News
The West Kootenay Union Board
of Health, representing municipal-
ities from Greenwood to Trail, has
called upon the provicnial pollution
control board to move against con-
struction of a sewage lagoon by
Castlegar.
.

A pedestrian underpass to the

many advantages over a pedestrian
overpass to that area, Comm.
Gwilym Hughes told council Tuesday
night.

. 8 «

Installation of a CBC television
replay transmitter in this area is
about to get under way again,

CBC solicitor Blake Allan of Nelson
said on Tuesday the way had been
cleared for construction of necessary
facilities to proceed.

15 YEARS AGO
From the Dec. 20, 1973
Castlegar News

A sum of money amounting to
approximately $6,300 is to be dis-
tributed among some 18 members of
the Kinnaird Volunteer Fire De-
partment.

In cleaning up its business Tues
day night at what is to be the last
regular meeting of the Town of Kin-
naird as it enters into its new status
of a city with its twin Castlegar, a
motion was passed to terminate the
firemen’s gratuity fund.

* *

The gold maple leaf chain of office
worn by the mayor of Kinnaird to
official functions, will soon bear
another signature.

At last Tuesday night's meeting,
council unanimously agreed that
mayor-elect George Bondaroff have
his name engraved on the chain
which now becomes a part of the
history of that town.

. 8 «

Jim Lamont of Castlegar was the
only delegate appearing Tuesday
night at the last meeting of the
present Castlegar town council. The
next meeting in January will be of
the new amalgamated city council.

5 YEARS AGO
From the Dee. 21, 1983
Castlegar News

Castlegar school board and teach-
ers have agreed on a plan that would
see the $83,000 saved during last
month's three-day work stoppage
remain in the district.

The plan would see teachers use
three unpaid professional develop-
ment days as regular teaching days
to meet the Ministry of Education
stipulation that teachers must make
up three days lost during the
November strike or lose the money
saved in teacher salaries.

.

Santa had better wear his winter
woolies when he heads out this way
over Christmas in what has been the
coldest December in a decade.

Castlegar weather office spokes
man Jim Richards says cold weather
temperature records have been
broken on a daily basis for the past
five days.

*

Castlegar city works crews will
maintain the same snowplowing pro
cedures as last year, according to
works and services committee chair
man Ald. Carl Henne.

ENTERTAINMENT

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December 24, 1988 Castlegar News

Canadian actor
shines in movie

By BOB THOMAS

LOS ANGELES (AP) — They are in their late 70s,
yet Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy manage to throw
off more creative energy than a crowd of Brat Packers.

Some of that energy can be viewed in Cocoon: The
Return, in which they reprise their roles as a married
couple facing the husband's serious illness. dro}

In the first film, the rejuvenated Cronyn dived,
swam and ran. This time he was scheduled to join Don
Ameche, Wilford Brimley and Jack Gilford in a pickup it.
baseketball match with four teenagers.

“I had never played basketball in my life; at my
school it was not a big activity,” said the Canadian-born
Cronyn.

“Dan Petrie, the director of Cocoon II, said: ‘At
least you've got to learn to dribble and pass properly;
I'm sending you a basketball.’

“The basketball arrived while I was teaching at the
university in Boca Raton, Fla. I tried to hide myself in
the hotel parking lot — because to see an old boy of 77
bouncing a basketball all by himself hour after hour . . .

“Of course when I go to the filming of it, they had
doubles. I hardly did anything but pass the ball to get
rid of it. I felt quite bitter about it.”

Cronyn is no stranger to movie stunts. He
reminisced about the 1947 Brute Force, in which he and

prison tower.

your energy,”

Amber.

Film found in
Lennon's limo

VANCOUVER (CP) — Museum
curators are hoping a film found
stashed under the passenger seat of
John Lennon's limousine may be a
misplaced piece of Beatles memor-

been viewed on a very small editing
sereen and no faces could be iden-
tified. He described the film's con-
tents as outtakes, shot possibly in
Boston in the 1960s.

THROWN OFF
“At the end of it, Burt picked me up and hurled me
off the flaming tower,”
“I dropped 20 feet onto a platform. That is a long

ve done some diving in my time. Get 20 feet
above the water and make a mistake, you don't forget

“If you don't fall right onto a pile of mattresses,
that's the last time you'll do anything. I wouldn't dare
do anything like that now.”

The veteran stars, who are husband and wife,
require a large amount of vitality, especially when
they're appearing in a two-character play such as the
Pulitzer Prize-winning The Gio Game.

“It's essential if you are performing that you keep
Miss Tandy said.
You've got to keep in good shape.”

During the early years of marraige, they pursued
separate careers.

He appeared in such films as Shadow of a Doubt,
The Seventh Cross and Ziegfeld Follies. She in The
Valley of Decision, The Green Years and Forever

Guthrie
improves

Burt Lancaster staged a climactic battle atop a burning

WASHINGTON, MASS. (AP) —
Folk singer Arlo Guthrie says he
intends to release what he calls a new
and improved version of the song
Alice's Restaurant as soon as he finds
ideal recording conditions.

“It’s just a matter of getting the
right recording of the right timing of
the right audience on the right
night,” said Guthrie, 41.

The anti-war ballad of the Vietnam
era tells of the songwriter’s Thanks-
giving Day arrest for littering.

The song has been updated with
Guthrie’s comments on_ historical
events since the 1965 arrest that
kept him out of the U.S. military
draft because of his conviction on the
littering charge, said Sharon Palma,
manager of Guthrie's label, Rising
Son Records.

the actor recalled.

“You can't let go.

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Staff at the Historic Transporta.
tion Centre in suburban Cloverdale
found the eight-millimetre film in
Lennon's old Rolls-Royce limo while
taking the car out for a spin.

Gift shop manager Lee Manhas
said she was driving the car — which
Vancouver businessman Jim Patti-
son bought for $2.9 million — when
the film was found by museum staff
member Roger Giguer.

“He said, ‘there’s something here.’
He kicked it, reached down and
pulled out the canister. We were
amazed.”

Fred Davies, the museum spokes-
man, said the 30-minute film has only

“There's sunsets, an eclipse, an old
stone church and about eight men
and women inside and outside build-
ings,” he said. “It's ’ real mystery.”

One scene in the silent film shows a
man playing a piano painted in psy.
chedelic colors similar to the limou
sine.

Handwritten on the film canister
are the words Phil Loomis. Orson
Welles Film School.

Davies says he plans to invite
experts on Beatle history to look at it
for clues to determine who made it.

Lennon's vintage 1967 Panther V
Rolls has been on display at the
centre since Pattison gave the car to
the B.C. government after Expo 86.

Shooting of movie
just completed

MONTREAL (CP) — Shooting
wrapped up this week in Madrid on
one of the most ambitious and con-
troversial Canadian film projects
ever undertaken, Bethune: The
Making of a Hero.

The movie and‘TV mini-series is an
$18-million Canadian-Chinese co-pro-
duction, based on the life of the
legendary Montreal surgeon Dr
Norman Bethune. Canadian actor
Donald Sutherland stars as Bethune.

Shooting on the film began in
China in the spring of 1987.

In October 1987, Filmline Inter-
national, the Montreal-based produ-
cer of the project, was unable to
finish filming in Montreal and Spain
because of financial problems.

There was a delay of 13 months
and speculation that the project
would be scrapped before filming
resumed last month in Montreal.
Shooting in Spain lasted two weeks.

Telefilm Canada, the federal film-
funding agency, and the Chinese co-
producers put up an additional $2.5
million to allow production on the
project to go ahead.

Aside from the financial difficul-
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Ted Allan and Sutherland threatened
to abort the project.

Allan charged that Sutherland was
delaying production because he was
working on another film. He also
blasted the actor for being “ego-
maniacal” and accused him of trying
to find another scriptwriter for the
project.

The film and TV mini-series is dir.
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Britain's Helen Mirren and France's
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Filmline producer Nicolas Cler
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the Cannes Film Festival next May.

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