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Building a new
life in the
Kootenays

We're an appreciative bunch. At least we think we
are. Oh sure, we have our gripes and groans about
certain matters, such as the heat, the cold,
unnuetered cats, dogs without leashes, everyday
expenses.

But what have we really got to complain about?
Cross-border shopping? Maybe. The cost of a speed-
ing ticket? Perhaps.

No matter how important these complaints seem
to us here in Castlegar, there is somebody some-
where going through something much worse.

Take for instance, the Guatamalen family which
landed in our city less than one week ago.

A middle aged couple with four boys, and their
grandfather, touched down at the Castlegar Airport
and, for the brief time they were in the terminal,
could not stop saying "Thank you".

This group of people may find those words a little
easier to say than most of us. After all, how many
Canadians can say they've spent ten years in a
refugee camp because their country was at war, and
the last three days without a decent meal?

_ “\\Seeing this group of seven people as they walked

into the airport was an experience in itself. They
were exhausted, but they didn't care, they were in
Canada - and out of the camp.

Exhilarating as it may be to witness such an event,
one almost feels a pang of guilt after realizing just
how much is taken for granted by those of us who
have lived here all our lives.

The refugees, now referred to as landed immi-
grants, will not have an easy time adapting to their
new way of life. However, with the help of such
charitable organizations as the Nelson Refugee Sup-
port Society, the transition should be somewhat easi-
er to handle.

No matter what difficulties they may face in Cana-
da, their appreciation for our country and the democ-
tacy which accompanies it will not likely diminish
for some time.

Something we should ali think about.

Bt

By Don Addis

THE MOON SHININ’ THROUGH THE DEPLETED OZONE

LAYER AND REFLECTIN’ OFF THE OL’ GREENHOUSE

EFFECT - STILL WET WITH ACID RAIN — LOOKS
MIGHTY PURTY TONIGHT, MISS LULU!

Ron
Jeffels

Syndicated
Columnist

! rooms dniee smokers looking for
a furtive fix, they're on the watch
for suicidal traits in passengers who
loathed the dinner, hated the ser-
_vice, detested the movie and still
worry about mortgaging the house
to pay the fare.

' For five endless hours,'my win-

I display certain charming,
cious and endearing éccentricities
which delight my friends, You have
strange, curious, of times bizarre
habits which should be condemned
by Act of Parliament. He is guilty
of gross, anti-social behavior of the
most ive and kind.

dow-sided but p
on that great arc of speed examined
the inner reaches of his cars,
explored the pathology of his

stockinged feet, adjusted his coif, '.

twisted left, twisted right, stood up,
stood down, sighed, cleared his
throat, coughed, packed bags,

Let’s talk about him. '
‘When you can no longer endure

; the tics and twitches, the jerks and

gyrations of the stranger seated next
to you, you can always rise abrupt-
ly, gather up your robes and essen-
tial dignity, give him the look that
barbecues the brain — and leave.
But not when you're hermetically
sealed in a midnight jet, Toronto-
Vancouver,

Just over Thunder Bay, I contem-
plated a desperate and chuteless
plunge from 35,000 feet but gave it
up — reluctantly. When the flight
attendants are not carrying out
covert spy operations in the wash-

d bags and held ceaseless
but audible dialogue with himself
about princes, pirates, politicians
and other predators.

Just the telling of it eases my
mind and softens the scar tissue on
my lacerated psyche, But I still think
I should have jumped. The squirmer
and I will probably be Siamese twins
on my next trip to Toronto. The
mere thought of it makes the tongue
go thick in the head and the sweat
pearl on the forehead.

Polite, acceptable social behav-
ior: how did it originate, where,
when, why? Nobody quite knows,
but there’s general agreement that
obedience to normal, formal stan-

dards of comportment allows us to
live together — uneasily and imper-
fectly — without excessive violence,
rapine and mass slaughter, Except,
of course, in time of war or when a
federal election is called. Then all
the niceties disappear, including the
primitive curtsy of respect and the
chaste use of language.

So the canons of good taste sug-
gest that we should never bring the
fist of our own anti-social habits too
close to the collective nose of oth-
ers who respect the norms of decent
comportment.

That explains why a man ata
public dining table is expected to sit”
more or less upright in the saddle,
remove his helmet and handle his
cutlery with chivalry and grace —
not like a serf brandishing the prim-
itive poignards of medineval com-
bat. The meat is already dead, It
needs no further stabbing, lancing,
hacking, hewing and thrusting.

But that’s a general rule only, one
not universally accepted at this time
of violent, tumbling social change.
Some of us refuse to obey conven-
tion. The clown I saw in one of our
better restaurants the other day
dined in a singlet with the history of
many meals written down the front,
retained his baseball cap (reversed, _

of ane and eed h his knife and
fork to duel with the steak in front!
of him. The steak lost. So did I.“

Oh, I know, I know! Behavior in’
public that distresses and disturbs
me, others find perfectly accept-
able. I am therefore a churl: a carp*
ing, complaining, tortoise-gaited
anachro! in the Age of Change.
So why don’t I just get lost and Iet
that diner take his meat and man-
ners on to the Persian carpet and
tear away at both?

‘Trouble is, this is also the Age of
Science, and we can do miraculous
things: cloning, for example. After
all, look what they've done to inno-
cent frogs.

If by — say — 2010 those men and
women in white lab coats advance
from amphibjans to anthropoids, I
hope they don’t clone any or all of
these: those who snore; those who
dewax in public; those who click
teeth (real or false); those who
browse and flick channels; those
who write cheques in supermarket
lines for something that costs 99
cents. And finally, of course, may
they never clone that window-sided,
unknown companion of mine.

RR. Jeffels is a Richmond free-
lance writer and former principal
of The Open Learning Institute.

ay
ee

Nigel

¥ Hannaford
Syndicated
Columnist

want to peak too early of course,
but then, Mr Mulroney is in no dan-
ger of that.

Consider. He goes to Japan and
makes all sorts of soft Soothing

teous Canada. Granted that doesn’t
impact too many Canadians, but
some of us have noticed that Mr
Mulroney tends to favour black
Aiicon nations. Thus, this position

noises to the J:
telling them that any claim for com-
pensation by former Canadian pris-
oners of war has been extinguished
by the peace treaty. Meanwhile, he

tells the Canadian veterans it

i d to say to black

Africa, “I'm a bigger pal to you

than America or Britain because I

would be tougher on the South

African racists.” Well, come on.
Canad:

o drop it.
He probably made avery good

are now pre-
pared t to give the South Africans
credit for what they have done to

hosts;
back home, fone there are a lot

that they can
see right through such transparent

of pesple who that those
600 or so men who were captured at
the fall of Hong Kong suffered

y ly and share with them the

It's a good job I’m not in politics
because I obviously don't under-
stand how the game is played.

At least, I sure wouldn't be play-
ing it the way Mr Mulroney is play-
ing it and he's supposed to be a
professional, so I'd probably get
creamed.

You see, if I was a politician, I'd
tend to want people on my side.
With less than two years to go
before there’s an election, I'd be
building votes like crazy. I wouldn't

sense of betrayal that they feel when
their prime minister glosses over a
circumstance that compares in inten-
sity, if not in scale, with any of the
worst atrocities ofthe war. Frankly,
if it is still a good idea to be chasing
down Nazi war criminals after 46
years, it is too early yet to let the
Japanese forget what they did.

Then of course there was the lift-
ing of sanctions on South Africa. I
guess the South Africans meet
specs for the US, but not for righ-

Nota vote getter.
“Closer to home, he has opened a
separate ministry for economic
development in Quebec. The rest of
the country looks on aghast at this
further evidence of special treatment
for Quebec, while the separatist
Quebec government is angry at this
intrusion into what it considers its
affairs..I wonder how much this did
to restore flagging Tory fortunes?
Plainly, the PM is rattled by the
growth of the Reform Party and in
tnuth it is hard to see what he can do
about it. On the one hand, if he
copies their policies - which would
superficially make some sense, as

many Reformers were once true-
blue Tories - he lends credibility to
Mr Manning. On the other hand,
those alternatives he has tried ‘are
clearly unattractive to this section
of the population. Unfortunately, he
has chosen perhaps the worst tack
of all, to patronize and label them
as rednecks, racists and bigots. Not
the way to win them back.

‘We won't even get into the GST.
Nobody will vote for that.

In sum, while I concede that Mr
Mulroney sounds good to foreign-
ers, I can’t for the life of me imagine
who it is in Canada he thinks he is
appealing to. Presumably that 14%

* of the decided electorate who is still

with him consists ‘of multi-cultural
zealots, the citizens of Ottawa and
Hull, who have benefitted greatly
from the boom in government, the
not inconsiderable string of patron-
age recipients which his seven years
in office has produced and the the
wives of Tory MPs. ‘

‘Well, some of them at least! In
particular, I suspect, those who
have reasonable opportunities to
shop in the USA and are ‘therefore
grateful for the fast lanes at’ ‘the bor-
der crossings.

G-7 may be strongest

Canadian Prime Minister Brian

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steps onto centre stage of
the G-7 Sunnnit this week, and in so

blah, blah, blah.
‘ The French in particular were

seven, if we were

doing, makes the

pOssble for Canada to remain united.

- Canadians tend to think it is natu-

‘ xal:for us to be part of the annual
“gatherings of the world's most
‘important’ ‘countries—boy are they

invited, then Italy at number six
would have to be as well.

The French didn't want the Ital-
ians sharing the European spotlight,
bad enough they had to put up with
the Germans.

As for Canada, we were resented
because of Pierre Trudeau, and
because we were in competition
with the French for influence among
the former French colonies of West
Africa:

Trudeau twisted arms, and did
the. demeaning things necessary to
get your way way in affairs.
Finally, with help from U.S. Presi-
dent Gerald Ford, he got an invite.

Canada and Italy were in and G-5

f-interest. *:
* The, G-7, group use these mect-
ings to-decide in broad terms the

economic strategy the West's indus-
trialized countries will follow.

di "Ss: @xX
appearance by Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev at this meeting
in London, will dominate news cov-
erage.

It.is important that the USSR’s
economic problems be solved,. but
we have major economic problems
of our own that must be addressed in
London.

The seven will debate policies to

argument for unity yet

Canadian farmers.

It will be easier to reach agreement
on help for the Soviet Union than te
solve the farm subsidy dispute.

However, without Canada's Pres-;
ence at the table,.and our. nagging}
insistence that international trade!
cannot be. truly “free” as long as!
these subsidies distort the market, |
there would be no Pressure for this:
practice to end.

Canada’s farmers, and those of,
other nations not:at the G-7: ‘table,!
like A lia, New Zealand and,

ensure y.:just
beginning to be felt in North Ameri-
ca, continues. Canada can’t expect
economic recovery until it happens
in the United States. We export 15% |
of what we manufacture to the U.S.

On the political side, the G-7 lead
ers sil ty agin to basal i Lepeses
at the Intemational Trade

That deadlock has aot acon-~
tinuation ‘of massive farm subsidies

bother?
is Prosperity and»... by the

Argentina, would have no'one ; push-;
ing for. reform; if we were “not a:
member of G-7..°)

Trudeau ‘anderstood, the impor-!
tance. of being at the big, table, even:
as the smallest player.

That’ 8 why no matter: whi ithe:

about: thee:

Say;
viability. of an independent. Quebec,

it would be a disaster for Quebec
and for Canada ‘if we’ were to
divorce, and thus throw bab Aled our,
hard-won place in the

cils of the ntemasonal commun.

‘

Wednesday, July 17, 1994

The Castlegar Sun

Page 7A

Letters to: the Editor:

‘Yet another promise broken

Dear Editor:
1.Call ita brpken promise, or
perhaps another case of the
Socred government’s perfor-
mance falling short of its rhetoric,
but there's a missing item in this
year’s provincial budget that will
affect people in the Kootenay
Tegion,

The Social Credit g

around the 1991 Socred budget ©

has focused on the record $1.2

billion deficit this year.
Kootenay residents might

remember Inst year's Socred bud-,

get speech, which promised that

“more people|in the North and:

the Interior: will be able to enjoy
the full benefits of our energy
Agci

has qxed, the power and gas
expansion program for hard-to-
§erve.B.C, communities,

Few people have noticed this
cut, sincé, most of the attention

will be pro-
vided to extend power and gas
lines to rural areas...this govern-

were réceived by communitie:

under the Power and Gas Expan-')

“I've spoken out for your com-
many in the legislature, but the

sion Prog These

tics burned the equivalent of),

610,000 barrels of crude oil to
generate power last year. They

leaped at the Socred offer of:

clean, modern energy.
But like so many Social Credit

Socre is ing to:

“keep i its p Promise to rural B.C. res-
;,idents. I urge your readers to con-
tact Energy Minister Jack
Weisgerber (Legislative Build-

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this one proved empty. The
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‘expanded, not eliminated,
Anne Edwards,

ment responds to the
of every region of this province.”
More than 100 application

Another silly idea

, Dear Editor:

: ‘Apparently, we need more
garbage on the ocean floor.

"AB.C. divers club, with assis-
tance from Parks B.C., is prepar-
ing a large ship formerly used for
packing fish on the B.C/ coast so
it ‘can be sunk where divers can
swim around it. The divers say
wrecks attract an incredible diver-
sity of aquatic life because they
offer unusual breeding and hiding
Places and a large surface area for
life forms to settle down on.
. Instead of having to range
widely over the ocean floor seek-
ing unusual sights, today’s diver
can plop himself over the side,
sink to the bottom, and observe
everything in one spot before
returning to abusing some well
earned drug of choice (Johnny
Walker? Player’s Light? Juan
Valdez's finest?) while supporting
the War on Drugs at the surface.
This type of diver has serious
money. The divers would have us
believe that the ocean floor looks
pretticr with sunken wrecks
strewn around here and there.

Just so no one can say we in
the Kootenays aren’t right up with
all the latest in tourist traps

Speedy return

appreciated

Dear Editor:

I am appealing to the young

tennis player who took my silver
ETUSA Pro 2 tennis racquet
from the North Castlegar tennis
courts,

It, would. be kind of you to
Tetum this racquet since it was a
Tetirement gift given to me
Tecently.

Yours sincerely,

Margaret Pryce

thought up by the sophisticated
types on the coast, why don’t we
take the entire old pulp mill that
Celgar will otherwise be throwing
away or selling for scrap and
dump it in the middle of the the
Valhalla Park? Think of all the
wildlife it would attract.. Parks
B.C. will give us a gran!, and we
can all rest easy, satisfica that we
have left a legacy that succes ding
generations will remember us for,
as long as human civilization
endures,

David Lewis,
Crescent Valley

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