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B2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, October 10, 1979

Life In The Suburbs

By AUSmith

WELL, M' ce aT
LONG Ot mee ee GOT

Mon.-Wed.-Fridsys

AA meets at 8 p.m. in
the “Cellar” at 719 Vernon
St. in Nelson. Open meeting
first Wednesday of Each
month. Phone 852-2383,

‘Tucedsys
The Nelson Singles and

Single Parents Club meets *

every second Tuesday at 7:30
p.m. in the Selkirk Health
Unit on Front Street, start-
ing Oct, 9. The purpose of the

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| Pulpit & Pew
AF

By Rev. TED BRISTOW

Like many people of this
area, I followed with interest
the recent trial of Orthodox
Doukhobor leader, John Ver-
igin.
The trial left me think-
ing about a number of things.

The trial left me wonder-
ing about how the justice
system works, I wondered
how anyone, let alone a
prominent man, can be
brought to trial when the
only evidence is the testi-
mony of admitted lawbreak-
ers who might . well have
reason to try to “get” the
person they testify against.

It bothered me, and ap-
parently the judge too, that
there was no other evidence.
It bothered me -that the
police didn't interview Mr.
Verigin before laying charg-
es. It bothered me that those

giving testimony might well
escape conviction for acts of
arson because they were
crown witnesses.

Tm sure there's a lot
more to it than this. I'm sure
a lot of my questions have
answers. I hope someone
answers some of these ques-
tions for me some day. Until
then, I'm left feeling uneasy
about how the courts go
about doing their job.

T'm left wondering if in
this country innocent people
can be made to appear guilty
simply by being brought to
trial,

The trial also left me
wondering about the kind of
people who will burn down
another's property. What aro
they like, inside?

‘Boundary Area

atics, or mentally ill,
people with a legitimate
complaint who have learned
the wrong way to express
their discontent?

I was in court one day
and heard three of the wit-

‘nesses describe how they set

fires. I felt sorry for them. I
wish I knew how to help
them. I hope somebody,
somewhere, can help them.
The trigl also left me
feeling concerned for the
Doukhobor religion and peo-
ple. They've been through so
much, The publicity has
tended to make all Douk-
hobors appear as trouble-

makers.
T hope the Doukhobor
people can live above the
of times,

Do they ly believe
they are doing the right
thing? Are they simple fan-

_Arts centre project

receives m

The proposed arts cen-
tre in Trail has received en-
couragement and support
from the Kootenay Boundary
Visitors’ Association.

In a letter to.the Trail

Arts

ore support

ings, conventions, perfor-
mances and showings and
will serve to enhance favor-
ably the total revenue gained

through tourism,” she said.

“In addition, we see it as
to the apres

and District C
Council, KBVA secretary
Linda Amundson describes
the project as “an extremely
worthwhile undertaking for
the region.” She points out
the economic benefits such as
Arts Centre could provide.
“The Kootenay Bound-
ary Visitors’ Association rec-
ognizes the potential benefits
which the Trail and District
Cultural Centre could pro-
vide for the tourism industry
both in the Trail region and
the Kootenay-Boundary re-
gion as a whole. It will be
effective in attracting thou-
sands of visitors for meet-

Prescribed
burning well

on its way

The Nelson Forest Re-
gion has kicked off its annual
campaign to burn hundreds
of hectares of slash — wood
debris left by logging opera-
tions.

The scheduled burning
of more than 4,800 hectares is
a deliberate process called
prescribed burning that re-
duces the potential forest fire
hazard and paves the way for
reforestation measures,

Prescribed burning is
really an exact science car-
ried out when climatic indices
are ideal.

When to ignite the slash
is determined by weather
conditions and soil moisture
codes indicating the relative
moisture content of slash and
adjacent timber and a code
predicting smoke accumula-
tion.

Action will take place in
most districts whose ranger
staff will supervise the igni-
tion of slash by local logging
operations.

In the Nelson Ranger
District the torch will be set
to 195 hectares of slash.

oki scene which is needed for
the further development of
Red Mountain as a destin-
ation resort area.”

The arta centre steering

committee is currently seek-

ing expressions of support to
strengthen its applications
for funding to finance the de-
tales Janning and archi-

drawings which are
seats before the project

can qualify for provincial rec-'

reation facilities funding or
be put to a referendum.

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not allowing the distress of
what has happened distract
them from the important
task of discovering anew.
what it is they believe, learn-
ing to express these beliefs in
their daily lives, and passing
along this way of life to their
children.

Its -my understanding
that the khob hold

club is friendship and group

.support for divorced and sep-

arated adults, For further
information, phone 352-6042
or 862-9846 evenings.

: October 11

Fashion Show at 8 p.m.
‘Trail.
cil in aid of the Arts Centre

project. For more infor-
mation call Sue Whitehead at

* 868-3785, -°

October 14
Junior girls up to 12
years: Ice hockey registra-
tions are being taken today
at 2:30 p.m. at the Parks and
Recreation Office in Trail.
October 16

Trail Ladies’ Curling
Club ‘Open House’ today and
Thursday at 1 pm. at the
Trail Curling Rink, Regis-
tration deadline Oct. 18.
Former members and new
curliners welcome. For fur-
ther information phone 368-
9612 or 888-5413.. :

Natlonal Exhibition Centre

In Search of Eatly Man:
an archaeological and anthro-
pological display from the
National Museum of Man in
Ottawa continues until mid-
‘* #8

Community Photo Exhi-
bit is continuing until Oct. 14.

._ ef @

On display from mid-
October to the first week of
December is a travelling ex-
hibition describing some of
the history and some of the
facts known today about the
16 species of owls known in
British Columbia. Twelve of

these specjes are displayed in .

natural poses, including one
complete family. of owls.
* e .

You are invited to list
your events and activities in
Community Datebook. Send

many beliefs all of us can
learn from: respect for life,
peace, the dignity of toil, the
brotherhood of mankind, sim-.
plicity of lifestyle,- and, )
much else.

T hope for the Doukho- $ ;

bor people that their future
will see them become a
strong Christian group who
will share with one another
and with us all that aspect of
the reality of God that has
become their heritage.

Thope the day will come

when Doukhobors will be’

known for their peaceful,
Christian lives, and the trou-

bled aspects of their history
will be only a dim memory.

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At Winlaw Elementary

"By SHELLEY HANCOCK

7 Parent Reporter
After such an exception-

“ally sunny summer, full of

swimrhing, fishing, boating,

“hiking and general appreci-

ation’for our lovely valley, it

~ would seem difficult to im-

agine the crisp fall mornings
and students off to Winlaw.
As I passed through the
classrooma this week, every-
one seemed very settled and
enthusiastically involved
with thoir school activities.
Fall and school are in full
swing. Welcome back.
Winlaw is pleased to
welcome our new students;
Nick, Chris and Marie Hock
from Proctor, Shin Campos,
who went to school in Daw-
son Creek last year. Suzanne

:. Hodges is here from Nelway,

Eina Nishizaki from Bur-
naby, Chris Page-from Ed-
monton, Craig Nichols from
Kinnaird, Berril Perks from
Nelson and Jason White from

“Ontario,

All the children seemed

: to be happy with their new

school and Nathan Dubree

», from California said he “liked

to sport around a lot in the

“ country.”

Bonnie Wadds and the

~ Kindergarten class has mov-
_ed to Slocan for this year but

her old room is hopping with

: the Grade 1 class and their’
, hew teacher, Ann Shrieves.

Ms, Shrieves is originally
from Nelson, studied in Vic-
toria and is presently living
in Passmore. |

The children were busy
painting when I visited their
room, but Sandy Purvis did

- make it known that he “likes

P.E., especially soccer.” Be-
sides learning a new word a
day which is written in their
journals, the children enjoy
presenting stories which
they create in the puppet
theatre using animal and
clown puppets.

The fall theme was ap--

parent with displays of pine

cones and fall leaves spread

out on the table.

Are you aware that 1979
has. been designated Inter.

“have been taking a look at
‘the customs, folk tales and

activities of children around
the world.

Enter the world of the
Grade 2s and their teacher
Arlene McMillin — and you
will see and hear a foreign
tone. ‘There are foreign coins
to count and sort; rabbit's

:” reading hole has story books

from around the world. The
international food menus tell
something of other children’s
diets and sound very tasty
too — tacos, sukiyaki, paella,
spaghetti and crepes suzette.

Confronted with the
problem of finding a post
office in Mexico and speaking
no Spanish, what would you
do? The Grade 2s commun-
icate through mime, which
not only works but is im-
aginative and fun. As I was
leaving the classroom I was
surprised to hear a few in-
structions given in French
and all the children under-
standing and following them.

I caught the end of the
Grade 3s in the gym with Mr.
Swanson. They had been
learning ball handling skills
(coordination) and rules for
kick ball and dodge ball. The
boys and girls enjoy the same
gym classes with noon-time
intermural sports — the only
segregated activities,

I did peek in the Grade 8
class and caught Carol Con-
kin for a brief moment on her,
way to make music with the

Grade 1s. ‘She said the first .
six weeks have been cen- 9

tered on the “around the
world” theme. Students take
imaginative balloon rides to
foreign countries, noticing

Don’t Forget Our
Christmas Packs

As it happens

the geography as they ap-
proach Sweden, Japan, India,
Chili, Lapland France or the
Soviet Union.

So if you see a balloon
full of children hovering over
‘your farm, remember, it’s the
Grade 8s learning about our
world. Wave.

All the grades are in-
volved with their i

took it one step closer to view
spawning salmon on a field
trip to Kokaree Park Nature
House.

In Kar] Swanson's Grade
4 and 6, interesting designs
were being made from block
patterns. And back by the
aquarium, filled with various
kinds of. spiders, some in-

environment and the special
fall season, from plant identi-
fication (‘do you know the
difference between a tremb!-
ing aspen leaf and a maple?”)
to colorful autumn art proj-
ects, The Grades 4, 5 and 6

triguing was in
progress — “spider eggs,
spider food, spider death.”
Mr. Conkin's Grade 5
and 6 had some

Scholarships

W. Kootenay students
“receive recognition

‘Two West Kootenay stu-
dents were among the 189
talented British Columbians
who received over $150,000
in arts scholarships and
awards from the provincial
cultural fund,

Mark Fabbi of Trail re- *

ceived a $600 junior tuition
award for music, while Cathy
Salerno of Nelson .was the
recipient of $195 in the cat-
egory of visual arts.

+ The  scholarsh and

- comments about the. spawn-

ing salmon but their art work

on one bulletin board said it,

A lovely picture

For attack.
on the driver

who drinks

Attorney-General Garde
Gardom has announced a
$260,000 program that will
provide school teachers with
classroom programs based on
impaired driving information
gathered by the Ministry of
the Attorney-General’s Coun-
ter Attack program against
drinking driving.’

The province-wide pro-
gram will enable all B.C.
junior and high school.teach-
ers to integrate information
about impaired driving into
the existing class curricula of
their 200,000 students, or to
present it as a self-contained
unit of study.

“Examples of this could

be the use of tmpeined driv.

of a blue water fall bli

bursaries, which are awarded
once a year, are available to
students resident in British
Columbia for arts study at
accredited any-

over the black cliff, while the
colorfal salmon makes its
way upstream. This picture
by Jeff was captioned, “Sal-
mon are so strong they can
go up water falls.”

Tara depicted salmon in
a pond and titled it “Salmon
Need Un-Polluted Water In
Order To Live." And you
should see the bear watking
off with a salmon freshly
caught in the river,’ titled
“Bears Love Salmon,” by
Sherry.

@ Did you know that this
is the first year that each
primary class has its own
teacher?

eMiss Posnikoff is work-
ing in the library and offering
Russian lessons.

e Mrs. Essery, the
school secretary, helped Mrs.
Conkin and Ms. McMillin

ize the Grade 2s and 3s

ing
or learning zg biology the
effects of alcohol on the body,
brain and vision," Gardom
said. :
There is no doubt in my
mind that we must bring
about attitudinal changes in
our society regarding drink-
ing and driving,” he said. “I
see this school program as an
essential element in provid-
ing our youngsters with a
deeper understanding and a
better basis for making a
decision about drinking and
driving.

to participate in the fall fair
parade in Slocan Park. The
children wore costumes de-
picting children of other
countries (Zoey Lewis re-
presented Japan and Nona
Lynn, Hawaii), while the
band accompanied vaices to
“It's A Small, Small World.”

After the one-mile
march, the children parti-
cipated in the games and fun
of the fair.

Thanks Winlaw for shar-
ing some time with me.

at... South Slocan.

Will be

closed

for the
month of

| October

for renovations

Hope to.
see you in
November

where in the world.
In making the announce-

ment, Provincial Secretary .

and Minister of Government
Services Hugh Curtis, noted
that of 247 applicants for
assistance, the awarding of
189 scholarships demonstrat-
ed an extremely high level of
ability.

Awards are made in
three categories: junior tu-
ition for pre-career training,
to assist high school and
college students in making
career decisions; senior tu-
ition, for career-oriented

training of students mpjoring:

in their chosen arts field, and
professional study awards for
specialized advanced perfor-
mance or professional train-
ing. t

Professional study
awards are limited to five
each year, with a maximum
of $5,000 for each recipient.

Among three previous
winners whose awards have
been renewed was Christian
Bruyere, Nelson-born author
of the recently-acclaimed
play “Walls.”

In the senior tuition
program, 105 awards were
made totalling almost
$105,000. To qualify, stu-
dents must have first-class
standings in their studies and
use the awards for studies
toward university degrees or
for professional, non-degree
training,

Junior tuition category,
which provides bursaries of
up to $500 for study up to and
including second-year univer-
sity, provided 74 awards fora
total of $31,600.

Grants are paid froth
interest generated by the

B.C. Cultural Fund Endow- .

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