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CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 24, 1980

/ Wedding Bells

Markin - DaCosta wed

at St. Rita’s church

Earrings, worn by the bride's mother at her own
wedding, were also worn by Elizabeth Ann DaCosta when
wedding vows were exchanged with Philip Harold Markin of
Tarrys, The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel
DaCosta of Castlegar and the groom the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Alex Markin of Tarrys.

The wedding took place April 19 from St. Rita's Catholic
Church with Father Guinan officiating.
During the service organist.Mr, Rudy, Baff played. "You

. Light Up My Life.”

Given in marriage by her father, the bride worea Lowa of;
white nylon over taffeta featuring a long train. The yoke of
the bodice and inserts in the long, full sleeves were of lace’
embossed with tiny pearls and sequins. The high neckline

sleeves and train were edged

with fine pleating. A lace

standup headpiece held the bride's waist-length veil edged

with daisics.

She carried a rose bouquet of trailing red roses and

baby’s breath and greenery.

Maid-of-honor was Miss Vicki Wayling of Castlegar with
Miss Linda DaCosta of Castlegar'and Miss Margie Pattolo of

Hinton, Alta., as bridesmaids.

All were identically attired in floor-length gowns ‘of

They carried

carnations ' with baby's Breath.

of pink and white:

Flower girl was Miss Rebecca Jardine and ringbearer,
Master Sheldon Sears, both are of Castlegar.

Attending the groom were best man Mr. ‘Allen Markin of
Castlegar with Mr. Tom Tarasoff and of

Castlegar ushering.

The men wore dark grey tuxedos with grey ‘and black

pin-stripe pants.

At the reception, held at the Fireside Place, the bride's
table was adorned with silver goblets, and candle holders with

white candles.

Attending “the guest book were Samathe and Kevin

Jardine.

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Freshly cut Sonja roses adorned the top layer of the
bride's three-tier wedding cake decorated" by the bride's

parents.

Master of ceremonies, Mr. Carl DaCosta of Abbotsford,

COURT'S
-|@
DECISION

John Hedman had lost his
job asa truck driver, Both he
and his wife were beginnin ng
to have a hard time paying
of the monthly bills on what
Janice was bringing home
from! Ber otfice j job. a

wy Pay Gus
of these bills” John told her
“I have ee ‘to find a a job —

soon.
“You will, darling,” she
comolen “You'll find exact-
yt he job you are looking
or I x just know it.”
e didn’t. In fact, he
didn't Ane anything at all ‘and
most of the bills were be~

moon
happened. Janice had ust
cashed her ier and man-
the month's

She iten drove to the
supermarket to buy groceries
with the iittie w money that she
had left. On the way home,
she was involved in an auto
accident in which a young
teenager was injured,
eee ere
a appene e er
tar i cold yeah Hp
eve! ing wo ;
that the t insurance would
cover the accident,
suddenly he remembered.
The auto insurance cancel-
lation“ had been one of the
unpaid bills,

John dashed to his desk
and began fingering through
the bills, He found it but ¢
policy had expired sixteen
days before. emembering
that he had a 20-day grace

age
rent,

by David Charleston

period in which to pay, he
now had four days to make
the payment.

The next morning, he
hurtied down to a_ local
trucking firm and reapplied
for a job. He was this
time but it un!
another two weeks that he
-would receive his first pay-
check. Explaining the sit-
uation to his new emplo: ery
he asked for an advance,
employer then called the
insurance agent that John had
been seeing from time ta time
about his insurance needs
and the agent verified John’ 's
predictament. John was
allowed the advance and he
quickly sent the payment in
to the company.

But the

What did
decide?

Since John had made the

the Court

accident happened before the

payment was made was not

enough to justify the com-

pany refusing to cover.their

paylng clients. The insurance

company must cover the
ledmans.

read congratulatory messages from Azores, Portugal, France

and Montreal.

Proposing the toast to the bride was Mr. Ed MeGauley of

Castlegar.

Grandfather Reikoff, 87, said Russian G

“The couple, who’ now reside in Tarrys,, “travelled to |

California via the Oregon coast for. their wedding trip.
Guests were from Powell River, W

P
Alta., ell Radium, Sorento, Kamloops, Trail, Salmo and

Nelson.

Bedwin-Walter families
united in June ceremony

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church,
Trail, was the scene of a June 14 wedding
uniting in marriage Karen Walter, daughter

of Mr. and Mrs, Rudy Walter

and Robert Bedin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luigi

Bedin of Trail.

Father Jim Ratcliff officiated at the
service with music by organist Beverley
Vianich. A solo, was sung by Mr. Roger Maio

of Trail.

Given in marriage by her father, the

bride’wore a long white gown

lace bordered hem. The gown, with its train,
featured a Queen Anne neckline, French lace

bodice.and long sleeves. The

was also bordered with French lace.
She carried a colonial bouquet of yellow
roses and white daisies. For jewellery accent

she wore her sister's pearl
necklace.

Attending the bride was maid-of-honor..;
Miss Anne’ McGauley of Vancouver. and
bridesmaids Miss Angie Walter of Castlegar
and Miss Dorine Bedin of Trail.

All wore long yellow satin gowns with

“floral organza’ capes and carried colonial
bouquets of yellow carnations and white

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Newmann

of Castlegar,

daisies, Flower girl Miss Nicole Anderson of
Castlegar carried similar flowers in a basket.
Ringbearer was Master Paul Anderson,

, also of Castlegar.
Best man was Mr. Kent Almquist of

Trail with Mr. Dennis Bedin of Trail and Mr.’

Norm Walter of Castlegar as ushers. They im
wore beige tuxedo jackets, dark brown trim ©
pants and vests in contrast to the groom's

beige tuxedo ensemble.

with French

fingertip veil

earrings and

UBC.

Miss Luciana Bedin and Miss Christine
Bedin attended the guest book at Columbo
Lodge which was decorated in yellow and
white streamers and bells.

On the bride's table was a four-tier
wedding cake made by her father. It was
decorated with yellow roses and topped by a
heart-shaped glass caketop.

Master of ceremonies was Mr. Fred
Dalla Lana of Vancouver with the toast to the
bride given by Mr. Eric Aitl tkin, of
“Arm.

The couple travelled to California for
their wedding trip. They will reside in
Vancouver where they both will be attending

celebrate 40th anniversary

A surprize 40th wedding
anniversary party was held
July 18 at the Fireside Place
in Castlegar, honoring Mr.
and Mrs, Otto Newmann.

The host and hostess for
the event were their son and
daughter-inlaw, Mr. and
Mrs. Herb Neumann.

Master of ceremonies,
Vince Isley, welcomed the
guests and gave: a little
speech about the couple,
whom he has know for over
$80 years. He then called on
Herb Neumann to present a
toast to his parents.

Mrs. Venie | _Plotnikoff
sang “The gz Song,”

16” x 20" group wedding
picture of 40 years ago from
their son and family. The gift
from the guests was 40 silver
dollars mounted in a frame
and a 40th wedding anni-
versary plate. Mrs. Joy Saun-
ders presented the couple
with a bouquet of flowers
from the Knights of

and the Pythian Sisters of
which Mrs. Neumann is a
member.

The couple then cut their
decorated anniversary cake
and served it to their guests.

In charge of the guest
book was the’ couple's oldest
Deanna

prior to everyone sitting
down toa d din.

Neumann. 7
of good wishes

ner.
After dinner the hon-
orees were présented with a

were received from Mr.
Neumann's sister, Mrs. Elsie
Engels of West Germany;

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tAve TO; goand pa my kid
rother. this: week.’ I ‘don’t
have to. Nobody in his right
mind Aas to have anything to
do with his relatives, .
: From birth to death they

+ area pain in the arm, Whena

baby is, born, all the eye-
brows go up at the choice of
name, unless it happens to be
one of theirs, or that of a rich
uncle, :

Asked my grandboys the

* other day what their second

name was. - Balind,. who
sometimes doesn’t know his
anus from his elbow, promp-
tly retorted, ‘William.’’ His
second name was the same as
mine, in case I'd be pleased
and leave him something.

Asked the other guy, who
knows everything, from why
Gran’s crying to why Gran-
dad is in a tearing rage. He
muttered, “Chen.” I'd for-
gotten. His parents named
him that, don’t ask me why,
because they were on an in-
ternational kick, and Chen
means ‘‘first-born.” Poor
little devil. His fall name in
Nikov Chen, Imagine what
the CIA will do with that
when they take over Cana-
dian intelligence. Notice I
spelled the last word without
acapital. . ‘

Next time the relatives act
like Little Jack Horner is
when your kids get married.
Despite the fact that the
couple. has been living
together for nine months,
your blasted relatives want a
church wedding, with the
bride in white, a big recep-
tion where everybody pre-
tends.that the newlyweds are
virgin, there are some adoles-
cent speeches right out of the
age of Victoria, and some-

body.cuts a cake that nobody
would cat with a 10-foot
pole. This costs roughly five
to 10 thousand dollars so
that the couple cas go on Sly-
ing in sin, but with a paper tq.
prove that'they’ré not.

And. the third occasion
which ‘the relatives get their,
arms into it, right up to thes!’
elbows, is when somebody
‘dies. This is when the real
Christians emerge,

“Mom always said I co!
have that tea service."”

“Well,

‘think. I'was there the day she:
died ‘and she distinctly stated -
(arm twisted‘: behind hey.’
back) that I. could have nat
only the tea service but all the’! t
linen.”" And so on.

I’ve seen all this, but not
experienced. it. After: my

ed, enriched beyond our
dreams, and with only a few
grudges. We were all so

. young and unsophisticated
that we let an aunt have a
beautiful. chaise longue,
which wound up as a period
-plece. in, of all places,
Australia, My aunt didn’t
want it. :

This hasn't much to do
with going to see my kid
brother, but.I still think that
he.thinks he got screwed (he
was in Paris at the time) on
the “family split-up, and
‘covets’the hand-carved stool
my Dad made, which I trad-
ed off for an upright piano
of dubious vintage. Maybe
not"

‘Maybe he just wants to see

. me Maybe he wants to apol-
ogize ‘for all the times he

ey,
Bill Smiley ¥

mother’s death, my elder
sister was . mutually ap-
pointed arbitrator. And she
arbitrated: ‘‘Two sheets for
you, two for you. ‘Two blan-
kets for you,’two for you.
Two linen’ tablecloths for
you, two for you.-Two beds
for you, a dining-room table
for you. Everyday ‘china for
you, plus ‘the silver coffee
pot. Good :china for you,
plus the chamber-pot.” ‘And
soon.

It was like being at an auc-
tion, without’ any bids, and

we all went away rather daz"

trailed me all over town when
I was seven and he was five. I
would first hiss at him, then

shout at him, to go home. .

He’d hang on, a-block be-
hind, crying like a fire siren,
stubborn as a hound follow-
ing a fox:

He’s challenged me to a
game of golf. This. is quite
understandable, It fits the
pattern. I could always: beat
him at everything, and he
wants the masochistic satis-
faction: of being trounced
once more, before he retires
to that wonderland of golf

plating brotherly visit ©

where everybody takes a
Mulligan, everybody rides an
electric cart to the next hole,.
and everybody © discusses
every shot at the 19th hole. .

On the other hand, maybe
he wants to talk.bout all
that money 1 borrowed from
him when he had a’ paper
route and I was a — well, a
sort of freelancer.

Every Saturday night, I us-
ed to,lock him in the bath-
room, and freelance about
two-thirds of his weekly
take, so I could go to the
movies. :

Saw him in Germany a few
years ago, and he was still
keeping track. He figures I
owe him 28 thousand, 500
and some dollars, with com-
pound interest.

Perhaps he just wants to
remind me of all the girls he
has taken away from me,
over'the years. He never took
anyone of any real conse-

. quence, but he took ‘some

very fine prospectives.

On the fourth hand, may-
be he just wants torub it in to
me that I’m a failure. He re-

tired ‘as a Colonel with a’:

chestful of medals. I quit as a
Flight-Loot with four or five
medals mouldering in the
basement.

He has been at the beck
and .call of generals, .am-
bassadors, and such. He. is
divorced — fashionable. [
am.married — unfashion-
able. He in charming, multi-
lingual, has tasted the flesh-
pots of Europe. 1 am .a
typical suburban slob.

Or maybe the poor litte
fella just wants to see the
brother he used to pillow-
fight with, every Saturday -
morning.

By NEAL HALL
journalism student at
C

Dad's. role. . it al

witha lasting commitment. e
it is now a “relationship”
i i tract

College, and a father.

Being a Dad isn't what

it used to be. To be a father
once meant to be the un-
doubted head of the family,

* the sole breadwinner who
.. determined how well his’

they dressed.

Once a century ago
the father was sole guar-
dian of- his children. He
could divorce his erring
wife, turn her out of the
house, and forbid her ever
to see his children again.

Even at the beginning
of this century the power
of the father was supreme.
‘But the strong father now
exists only in films: The
Godfather, Marlon Brando,
fascinated movie audiences
in the role of patriarch who.
ruled his family with brute
force.

The role of father is
one the decline.

In the last 10 years the
whole Western system of
patriarchy has been dras-
tically revised. In the mod-
ern family father has be-
come just one of the family
instead of its head. The
family is now governed by
consensus instead of by
father.

Mum.rules the kids
and takes responsibility for
the household during the
week, with dad serving as.
mother's personal assis-
tant on the weekend — he
chauffeurs the kids, does

family ate or how badly: -"

witha

and if either partner fails
to abide by the contract
the deal is cancelled.

One in three Canadian
marriages ends in divorce.
Matrimony has become, as
one journalist put-it, the -

tick eee

it has changed

ling and that children ex-
“elude them from the ex-
change’‘of ideas and people
they were educated and
trained to enjoy.

So women are de-
manding more from mar-
riage. They have the edu-
cation, they havea sense of
themselves as. significant,

The high rate of div-
orce is in part the after~
math of the revolutionary

they have ‘a
pay-cheque, and they have
the pill. And if marriage
doesn’t please them, they

1960s. Freedom of the in-
dividual is now our highest
ideal.

The sexual revolution
is closely tied to the con-

shop-
ping, and performs any
other task mother thinks

Pp.

The decline of father
began with industrializa-
tion. As fathers left farm
and family, heading off to
work in the city, mother
and children weré left
alone in the house, In the
early 1950s the automobile
gave us the suburb — the
commuter's paradise that
father came home to after
business trips; bearing

feeling more Father
Christmas than a biological
father.’

In the past 10 years
especially the power of the
father has been under-
mined by sexual pérmis-
siveness, the pressure of
greater ambitions from
women, and rising rates of
divorce and separation.

Marriage was once the-
original stronghold of the
father. Matrimony was the
institution that offered
clearly defined roles for
husband and wife.

But today marriage is
no longer an institution

gifts for his kids — and .

pill, which sep-
arated sex and reproduc-
tion, and also separated
marriage and reproduc-
tion. Marriage and children
used to go hand-in-hand,
but more and more couples
are opting to have no
children’ or the one-child
family.

And no longer is the
father the sole provider in
marriage. The two-career
family is commonplace.
‘Women have begun flexing
their muscles, stretching
their minds, and seeking
challenges that their
mothers only dreamed of.

‘Women today have

leave.

Gone are the days of
the despotic husband who
turned his wife out of the
house and barred her from
seeing his children. Wom-
enare no longer dependent
on men and are leaving for
reasons that only 50 years
ago were unjmaginable by
men: “You're blocking my
‘development” and “I've
outgrown you” are now
acceptable.

And when women
leave they usually take the
children with them. They

+. win custody of the children
in 90 per‘cent of divorces.

Indeed, in the recent
movie Kramer vs. Kramer

‘a mother deserts her hus-
band and son in order to
“find herself," and al-
though the father proves

‘deserted Wives, but: not to

mother-child relationship.
Researchers have studied
that biological link in infin-
ite detail and have all but
forgotten the father-child
one.

_The law overwhelm-
ingly favors the mother
regarding custody of chil-
dren. It offera protection to »

deserted husbands. .-
Once mother wins cus-
tody of the kids, father

fades far into the back-
ground. As one separated
father put it: “My children
live within a mile or so of
me and go to schoo! in the
same area of Vancouver,
but short of standing on
the pavement and watch-
ing them go in with the
other kids I have no means
of contact with them at
all.”

The consequences of
the ti are .

» trol, had

When parenthood
looms its head.

It’s a game we play. Every time the phone rings
during M-A-S-H, my husband and | fake one another
out. Last Monday, | won and he took the call.

..The tone of his voice made me tune out Alan Alda as
he gasped, ‘‘Oh, my God! You're not serious! When?’’.
He covered the recelver and shouted to me, ‘Get on the}

We're gi Pp

My. first reaction was how could that be when none

of our ciao Was married.

econd reaction was would my mother buy the
old Sclence-Falr-Project-That-Got-Out-of-Hand theory.
The cailer was our nelghbor who explained that our.

Yorkshire. fo terre
got out, an

who wae never allowed out of the yard,
inster poodie, who was too old to get

pregnant; did, al din a Sears box in the utility room were
three poo oodles in Yorkshire terrler bodies — a virtual
billboard for Planned Parenthood.

( What month was Murray born In?" she asked.

june. :
I should have known,”’ she sald. ‘'A Geminl. They
never finish anything they start.’’
‘Just a minute," | said. ‘‘Are you implying that
Murray [s not willing to accept pater responsi-

bilitles?””

On Joseph F. Killough
‘Part :

‘By JOHN A. CHARTERS

The Aug. 6, 1953 edition
of the Castlegar News (then
Castle News) featured this
front page headline: “$20,000
Damage As Flames Raze

Erma

Bombeck

Wh are you akingn Every female dog In the'
nelghborhodd has‘ Khown him."
“That's not true, He lives a monk's existence:

behind a six-foot 'wall.””

"You've heard of the tunnel of love? He Invented:

“I think your ‘little: mother’ doesn’t have her act
together. and "has:nelther ‘the stability nor the un--
selfishness to raise these puppies. If you will bring them
over here. Murray will ralse them as a single parent."’ -

ix. The first night, we photographed them from every
angle. Murray moved from one to the other getting to‘
know them. He was going.to make a wonderful father.

o The second night he. refused to share his food with:
them. When they spilled water ali over his bed he:
crouched behind a waste can. He subsequently trampled
them, bit thelr tails, rejected. them, barked In thelr. ears:
_ and tried to abandon them. .

y. the end, of the
" denianding, crled, ail night,:

week the pupples were
frolicked all day and were.

driving. him); crazy. . When" we returned them to the
mot! ia ur: neighbor snapped, ‘'What happened to.

Kramer ¥a. Kramer?”

Dustin Hoffman wouldn't have been such a hero’ E
elther If his chitd hadn't been paper-trained. .

Reflections &
~ Recollections

Sawmill Near Ki

It told how a sawmill,
three imiles south-west of
Kinnaird, owned by Albert
Kelly Lotze of Northport,
Wash., had been “completely

destroyed by a fire of un--

known origin with damage
estimated at $20,000.”

It then went on to say
that the Castlegar forestry
suppression crew, after
bringing the fire under con-

da guard

le ruins
for several days.
: “The fire apparently be-
gan in the mill itself,” a B.C.
forestry officer (Joe Kil-
lough) said Friday,
spread to an adjacent pile of
slabs and edgings heaped up
some 40 feet high. The sur-

rounding bush was also.

threatened’ but the. flames
were quickly contained in the
smoldering rubbish pile and
kept under control.”

“The fire was first no-
ticed about 10 o'clock Thurs-
day, the article continued,

“when the flames became ©

visible to Castlegar resi-
dents. The Forestry Service,
thinking at first that it was a
forest fire, rushed its 20-man
suppression crew plus some
40 hastily recruited district
residents to the scene, and
prevented the flames from

* tended since last fall, was

completely levelled. All the
mill machinery, two diesel
power units and the mill
buildings were consumed in
the flames.”

The balance of the re-
port is given by “an eye
witness, J.A. Charters, a
local high school teacher, who

ibes his

“and:

And so, on with the sary © of
‘a

unexpected (twe

hour trip to put out a ‘pot
fire’ last Thursday night,
materialized into a peep-hole
view of the south-west corner
of Hades.

That modest, maidenly
blush on the hill above Biye-
berry turned out, like many

he fire was fir-

" st noticéd “at” 10

o'clock when the.
flames became
visible to Castlegar
residents.”

other such blushes, to be
entirely deceptive. The. offer -
to help crush the ‘spot’
quickly (“it will just be a
couple’ of hours"); the rush
home to change, the half-

of voices

_erew, who had

huge pile of sawdust and
edgings roared, crackled and
hissed, all but drowning out
the ring of axes and shouts of
men,

While the- suppression
already ar-
rived, cut fire guards and we
new arrivals put out some of
the million fire-fly embers
which were settling every-
where, orders came to set up
the pump.

With Rino Manarin and.

Doug Burrows ‘lugging the

pump and others r4
hoses, grub-hoes and shovels,
a party clawed, scrambled,
tumbled and swore its way,
aided by the treacherous,
flickering light of kerosene
lanterns, down through dead
trees and windfalls to the
stream below.

Quickly a dam was built
and a hose snaked around the
upper flank of the fire where
the ail itself was already a

of professionals and volun-
teers, the clash of tools and,
roaring motors against the
darkness of the night all were
but a prelude to the Pur-

_gatory of the most bone-

shaking, tooth-loosening ride
T've ever had.

Even with Albert Hes-
kith's skillful. manoeuvering
up the agonized goat track
until our ears popped with
the altitude, I could still
remember tank-testing
grounds which had been
easier riding.

On our way up we met
three or four incautious gen-
tlemen who had been drawn
to the fire by curiosity and
who were returning home.
They were immediately and

ip and
experiences.” ‘

Like a number of other
citizens, I had seen the glow

in the sky and, having had °

some experience in fighting
forest fires, hurried there-
fore, over to the forestry
station to offer my services,
The is.a

only beginning to be felt.
More than six million chil-
dren in the U.S. live in
fatherless families. In Can-
ada there were 878,000
children in homes without
fathers in the census year
1976. The figure is prob-
ably now close toa million.

Marriage has become
iner ly difficult,

equal access to
and careers, and the mod-
ern wife finds it increasing.
ly difficult to live a domes-
tic life of looking after the
home and kids. Says one
former career woman:
“Sometimes when I'm
scraping the egg and ket-
chup off the morning dish-

es I think back to the .

business lunches I used to
have, and I can't believe
T'm the same person.”
Many young women
find that marriage is stif-

to bea loving
parent, the mother returns
two years later and re
trieves her son. The judge
decides the mother should
have custody because it is
in the best interests of the
child, :

The. courts are reluc-
tant to consider fathers as
primary caretakers. Fa-
ther has been nudged aside
by a dominant trend in
modern p: which

tense, and neurotic. The
complexity of the modern
world may be making the
two-parent’ family obso-
lete.

Being a father isn't
what it used to be. But
being a mother isn't what
it used to be either.

There is one thing that
is the same — children.
They are a constant source

d and emo-

has concerned itself, al-
most obsessively, with the

of
tional reward.
V Sun

view of (to me) a very
different and frightening
kind' of fire and an eye-
opening view of another one
of our local pioneers,.former
Forest Ranger Joe Killough.

‘invited’ by the
ranger to get changed and
return again to become more
actively involved.

In the meantime, the
fires of heii far above vori-
ited flame and sparks into the
sky, died and vomited again.
‘A wrong turn, a reverse,
then the right one, twisting
still higher, and then, around
the corner the whole hill
appeared to be ablaze — a
dramatic show against the
stark background of ever-
greens and higher hills. A

dying

skeleton. Then a hustle past
the blackened fuel pump lit
by its own burning frame-
work, and across another sea
of sawdust, the opposite to
that which we had just left.

Even at this distance the
sea of orange and blue flames
was uncomfortable. Ranger
Joe Killough, who was. dir-
ecting t the operation and try-

except the  fire-rusted,
machinery, twisted chains:
and a few blackened beams.:
In spite of two strong fire-
hose jets, the fire still burned:
like an angry volcano. The:
police dog arrived but could.
find nothing. With ail the:
movement there the previous:
night he would have been’
more successful on Columbia’

crush him and play safe — Bal
fire is treacherous and more
dangerous than any human
enemy. More ‘ fire-guards,
therefore, and more water,

might lie for weeks only to be
fanned into an even more
destructive blaze.

During the night Mr.

With the coming

of dawn, grub, and

new crews, little
was left of the mill.
Weir had pulled his suppres-
sion crew out and returned to
camp, only to leave almost at
once for the blaze at Kres

‘tova. One of life's little

merry-go-rounds.
One further episode of -
the night is both - worth

ing t ther man's job as
well, suddenly disappeared
with a gang into the smoke,
seeming miles away in this
strange inferno.

More hoses were at-
tached and several of us were
sent back to the road side of
the fire to pour literally tons
of water on the closest
flames, which it seemed, only
annoyed them slightly. Sim-
ultaneously, while one hose
held the flames back, and
another kept a constant
drenching spray on them,

men began cutting down the
tall.evergreens which blazed
like giant torches, felling
them into the fire so that
they did not fall across the
road and block it, or start
new fires in the forest below.

With the coming of
dawn, grub, and new crews,
little was left of the mill

and very reveal
ing about the man whom we
will be writing for the next
two weeks: Picture a police
car racing up in the dark,
trying to avoid the flames
and running over fire-hoses
under pressure in the pro-
cess. Then picture an ordin-
arily (and deceptively) mild-

than his own fire, taking’
eight-foot leaps toward the
now unhappy offender and
expressing his heated feel- |
inge at avery jump.

No damage was’ done,
fortunately, and the fire’
again took over the centre of.
interest. i

End of this story, but:
neither the beginning nor the
end of the story of a very*
interesting man, and another’

facet of the history of Castle-

gar.

How Robson cr came by its name

An intri

as a bus-

from the past is whence came
the community names Castle-
gar, Kinnaird and Robson.

‘When it comes to Castle-
gar and Kinnaird, to is dif-
ficult to separate legend from
fact, but with the latter the
issue is quite clean-cut.

In the early years of the
last decade of the 19th cen-
tury, B.C. had for its pro-

vincial secretary, the Hon. °

John Robean: :

ot his ser-

waa the locality which was

tling ae a ranspeuation
system for the Kootenays was
named after him.

. At that time all activity
was on the north side of the
river and there was no West
Robson. 2

Castlegar owes its name
to either Scotland or Ireland.
Ther ica theory that goes
something like this:

Tt was typical day in the
early 1880's and a typical
mining party camped by a
tiver in the vast and only

partly explored wilderness of
what is now called British
Columbia.

The leader of the party,
with an understandable nos-
talgia for his native land, de-
cided to name the camping
spot after his beloved fields of
Ireland.

Pointing to the ground
near where his tent had been
erected, the leader of this
party looking for the riches of
B.C. earth,” pronounced a
name and the name is still
remembered, more than 100,

years later.
“This place," he said ‘‘is
Castlegar — little Castle."”

‘And so was named the
site of the most progressive
town of the West Kootenay. .

How Kinnaird was’
named is still not definitely
known. Some say it was:
named after an early settler
while others claim it was
named after a Lord Kinnaird:
of Scotland. They say the CPR
named its one-time stop at
Kinnaird after him.