| After school wo go over to Robson for supplies and to
‘see Kathy Armstrong’s brand new golden retriever pups
then home for supper and over to the museum for directors’
meeting ‘of the Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Society.
Home by 9 p.m. and begin a rough draft of' the story.
“Tuesday. morning — opens the same .as Monday,
‘Complete column, and story and take them up to the

- Questions
raised

or Our 42nd: Annual

Castlegar News. In the meantime I have noted that the river
{s rising'and hurry off to the builder's supply for planks,

BLOSSOMING BEAUTIES . . . Once again the dogwood
tree has blossomed into a foaming mass of creamy
white flowers. These blooming flowers sparked

JOHN CHARTERS’

memories of a conversation John Charters had with a
friend.

Reflections &
Recollections

Retired but still active

The dogwood tree has quite outdone itself this spring in
the size and quantity of its “blossoms” — a foaming mass of
creamy white. Later on this summer it wil! probably repeat
the fe less i but not the less
dramatically. And quite possibly just before winter it will
put on a third show.

For some quite d reason, the
of this inary tree and a relati ordinary past
week stirred to memory a conversation I had earlier in
Robson with a former student of mine. It took place ata
funeral reception and quite possibly the melancholy’ cir-
cumstances brought to the fore a latent death wish in this

‘How did | find time to
earn a living?’

otherwise cautious and rational friend of mine, a man who
spends 12-hour shifts in a local industrial complex in a room
filled with numerous gauges and dials, buttons and blinking
lights. so

In any case, he came over to me with his usually friendly
grin and asked how I was able to keep busy and then went on
to imply that a moment of high excitement in my day-long
teetering in my rocking-chair came when one of the threads

in my slippers popped. Little does:he know how close he
came to the shadow of the dark’angel. * .

In any case it started me thinkitig’ about the most
common remark by retirees, myself included:

“How did I ever find time a'living?”

I then asked myself, “What do you do with your time?”
‘Two weeks past was an almost compléte blank but by dint of
some effort last week came into some focus, so let us
examine the evidence of one not particularly unusual “last
week,”

Monday — began with the usual six o'clock rising
followed by the usual morning routine, which includes the
preparation of breakfast (Bunny makes the bed, etc., ete.),
followed by a walk with the dogs. At about 7:50 the student
team for the Zuckerberg Island Rotary Improvement
Project arrives and we go over an outline of the general
plans and instructions, followed by a tour of the island and
an allocation of responsibilities.

By 9a.m.1am in my study completing the hand-
copy of the week's colum reparing | aborous
process of typing it, not’ greatly helped ‘by. frequent
interruptions. Back on the island to take a picture of the
crew and Wilf Sweeney for the column. By mid-afternoon it
begins to take shape.

blocks,'‘nails and wire for the students to construct a
walkway to the island. They start the walkway and tho river
goes down,

By.5:50 I am changed and playing host to Teresa,
Shirley, Ron and Clarence at the Rotary club dinner
meeting.

Wednesday — up betimes as usual, complete several
errands, chauge, then pick up Rotary’ Exchange student

‘No cracks about rocking
chairs and slippers’

about drug

VANCOUVER (CP)

ized that persons who rapidly

—A
drug commonly pi bud to
control high blood pressure
in young women can cause a
potentially fatal disease, ac-
cording to a New York path-
ology researcher.

Gary Williams, chief of ex-
perimental pathology and
at. the

Ruth Henderson at 11 for her visit and presentation at the
Nakusp Rotary club. Return her to the bosom of her Rotary
family, the Partridges, just before 12 p.m.

THURSDAY — a call to substitute at the high school
puts a stop to plans for some home fence mending and the
evening is spent in preparations for the Caledonian Society
display and Sunday service.

*~ more teaching then a hurried change into
formal Scottish regalia and off to Trail to set up the booth for
the Caledonian Society entry of the Arts Council in the Trail
Fiesta. Home at ‘11.

Saturday — up again as usual, then exchange a piece of
faulty equipment from the island project, and pick up more
planks and blocks for the walkway. Weekend shopping, then
change and off again to Trail for the Caledonians.

Bruce arrives at five to take over and-we are back to
Castlegar changed and at the arena complex for the
Legion's 40th Anniversary dinner and dance.

Home by 10 and work until 12 on preparations for the
Sunday service.

Sunday — Sunday is special breakfast day. Lie abed
until 7 then up and at it, Final preparations for the service at
-Robson Community Memorial church (nervous as usual) and
off for the 10 o'clock beginning. 5

Service i with the assi: of

Dana Institute for Disease
Prevention in Valhalla, New
York, said this week research
done at his institute indicates
the drug hydralazine can
cause a disease called drug-
induced Lupus rythematosis
in about half of those treated
with it.

Lupus, characterized by a
rash across the face of the
victim, ‘can cause death
through kidney failure.

It is a disease of the im-
mune system, in which the
body's disease defence mech-
anisms mistakenly identify
the body’s own cells as for-
eign and attacks them. It can
be treated by drugs that
suppress the immune sys-
tem.

E in

Naylor,

manage
to eliminate the altered form
through the bile system,
while the substance remains
in the bodies of slow acetyli-
zers for a longer period of
time, greatly enhancing the
risk that it will cause damage
to the genetic material of
cells, %
Williams said women may
be susceptible rather than
men because of the monthly
menstrual cycle in which the
woman's body decomposes
the lining of the uterus.
“At that point.there may
be an amount of genetic
material released from cells,”
he said, © :
Noting that some young
women spontaneously con-
tract Lupus, Williams said
the active part of the hydra-
lazine molecule is duplicated
in a number of naturally oc-
curring plant chemicals.
“One example is mush-
rooms. If I were a young
woman and didn’t know who-
ther I was a fast acetylizer or
aslow I would cer-

, iP
pressive drugs render a pa-
tient toa variety

Robert Beynon, and we make a quick visit to the Robson flea
market then to Kathy's pups, now with their eyes open, and
return. home.

Some chores, some preparation for classes tomorrow,
and the week has gone.

Since all this is different in detail, but similar in general
effort, for many another retiree and community volunteers,
therefore let this be fair warning — anyone making cracks
about rocking chairs and slippers could find himself wearing
the one and eating the other.

I am reminded also that nothing is really done alone. I
would like to thank, therefore the Nakusp Rotary club for
their wonderful hospitality, Ruth for keeping her cool as we
ran the midnight gauntlet of deer most of them on the way
home, the Robson church for the invitation to visit. To Bruce
for preparing the music tapes for the service, and to Bunny
for all her-help and even greater patience.

My congratulations to Trail for putting on one of their
best fiestas, to the Castlegar-Robson Royal Canadian Legion

and its caterers for a great, anniversary, party, and to the
tickerberg Island improvement project a
tart on the future best park in the Ko

And the dogwood tree? Still no reason. It’s just
have it there as a reminder and an object of admiration.

Back to history shortly.

of other diseases.

Williams, here for a session
of the international confer-
ence on cancer in the work-
place, said persons who are
at risk are those whose
bodies fail to quickly detoxify
the drug and eliminate it
from their systems,

“We're found that these
people constitute about half
the population,” he said.

Williams said human
bodies deal with substances
such as hydralazine, as well
as chemicals such as the aro-
matic amines used in dye

t b A

tainly avoid mushrooms,” _

Williams also called for
tougher safety standards to
deal with industrial chemi-
cals, saying some workers
are more susceptible to en-
vironmentally-induced can-
cers than others.

He said current “safe”
levels for industrial carcino-
gens — cancer-causing chem-
icals — are based on the
population as a whole and do
not take into account persons
whose genetic structure
makes them potentially easy
victims.

Recent research has indi-
cated that people can be

ry a
complex of atoms to each
molecule of the ‘toxic sub-
stance, producing an altered
‘ substance that is ‘more effi-

to ciently removed by the body.

The chemical group used in
altering hydralazine mole-
cules is the acetyl group, and
the process is known as ace-

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Beautiful Creston Valley — May 20 to 23 > foere

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tylation.

Williams said that, for
some unknown reason, about.
half the population are slow
acetylizers,

Researchers have theor-

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

THURSDAY EVENING
Centre Grounds

FRIDAY

5:00 p.m. Midway opens
Pageant-Arena

9:30 p.m. Blossom Cabaret-Wynndel Room

SATURDAY

nial Parks

VIP Reception
Brewing Compan‘

(Invitation only)

Rec Centre

He h Pitch Tour
Centre
Midway opens
1:00-5:30 Beer Garden-Rec. Centre
1:00 p.m. Fiddlers’ Contest-Wynndel Room

Gymkhana-Canyon Park
Crown & Anchor opens

6:30 p.m. Elks Bingo-Arena.
9:00 p.m. Fiddlers’ Cabaret-Wynndel Room
Cabaret. : "The Mod.

‘Peter & The Wolf’ Rock & Roll

Intermountain Shows Midway opens-Rec.

7:00 p.m. Opening Ceremonies leading into Queen's

Citizen of the Year Award-Kiwanis Club

8:00 a.m. Fastball Tournament-Canyon & Centen-
9:00 a.m. Horseshoe Pitch Registration-Kinsmen

ark
Fiddlers’ Contest starts-Wynndel Room
-Labatt

ry
Grand Parade (Marshalling Grounds-Rec.
Centre
Arts & Crafts Merchandise Display opens-

Flea Market opens-Chamber of Commerce
starts-Rec.

1:30p.m. Canyon Chuckwagon & Chariot Races,

6:00 p.m. Fiddlers’ Contest Finals-Wynndel Room

SUNDAY

8:00 a.m.

10:00 a.m. Flea Market opens

Arts & Crafts opens
11:00 a.m. Joint Unity Service-Arena
12noon Midway opens

ment-Rec. Centre
1:00-5:30

Gymkhana-Canyon

- : feature °

830 p.m.- Concert-Rec
1:00°8 Scines"

4:30 p.m. Demo Derby-Lister Park

anf

MONDAY

Fastball Tournament continues
9:00 a.m. Second Annual 10 km Blossom Run-
Skyway Esso on Creston Flats

1:00 p.m. Senior Citizens’ Horseshoe Pitch Tourna-
Beer Garden-Wynndel Room

1:30 p.m. Canyon Chuckwagon & Chariot Races,
Park.

entre: ‘Doucettes’, ‘Red

” (To'bd held Moniay if raining Sunday)

Gordon MacKlem (mgr.)

Kemlee- Kokanee

Ph. 428-2254
Phil Kemle (manager)

The new Valley Copper

CRESTON
WATERS LTD.

Bunch Rd., Creston
Ph. 428-5901

Mine operated by Cominco
Ltd. of Vancouver in B.C.’s
Highland Valley was offi-
cially opened May 13.
Production started on Jan.
17 and reached a rate of

P to
particular diseases, including
cancer, he said.

Williams cjted_as_an ext
ample a “small” number of
people with a genetic defect
that prevents their cells from
repairing damage to its own
genetic structure.

“These people are exquis-
itely sensitive to damage
from the sun and runa pretty
much 100-per-cent chance of
contracting skin cancer be-
fore they are out of their
teens,” he said.

Cominco opens
new mine

20,000 tonnes of ore per day.

To date, 16,000 tonnes of
copper concentrate have
been shipped to Japanese
buyers. At current copper
prices the mine is profitable,
a company spokesman said.

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9:00 a.m. Senior Ci t
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Midway opens

10:00 a.m. Fastball Tournament Finals-Rec. Centre

Arts & Crafts opens—Rec. Centre

Guests Must
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11:00 a.m. Ch 1's Parade, sp
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d by Creston

Thursday and Sunday Bingo

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__ MAY 20-23, 1983
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4:30 p.m. to 11:00-a.m.

Friday and Saturday
4:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

- Sunday
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WELCOMES YOU TO
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: Reservations’ .
General Manager 428-2224

1403 Canyon Street
Creston, British Columbia

BLOSSOM FESTIVAL DAYS

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_ MAY 20-23

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We offer fine food in
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your dining pleasure.
Ph. 428-7713
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CRESTON VALLEY

Hospitality Room-Curling Lounge

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"Ph. 428-2261

ANNOUNCES...

EVENING HOURS
Commenting Thursday, May 19
DROP IN AFTER SEEING A
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itchener

Hours
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Our Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.
See you at Homestead:
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suM@rr
MUSIC

Box 1338
Creston, B.C.
Tickets will be sold here for the “Doucet-
tes” concert, also for The Models
cabaret. Come in and see Ellen for any-
information about the Blossom Festival,
while you're in the store browse through
a large selection of records and tapes.
GREAT SELECTION!

Ellen Fricke (Proprietor) 428-4713

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We also have a Dairy Bar
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We are open 7 days a week
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Downtown Creston ,
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During the Blossom Festival
from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

122 Northwest Blvd. Creston
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Ph, 428-7864

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INCLUDING
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