Master plan puts rodeo in question The City of Castlegar's new master plan for the Community Complex area answers a number of questions, but also poses several new ones. The major question is where the Castlegar Selkirk Lions Club will hold its annual rodeo, now that the land next to the complex has been earmarked for a new ball field. There's no doubt about the need for another ball field in the city. Scheduling the growing num- ber of teams wanting to use city ball fields is a mammoth task for the recreation department. The number of slow-pitch teams alone ballooned from only a handtul last year to 18 this season, so a new field will help alleviate the pressure on other fields. As well, the city doesn't have a notch softball field and a new field will fill that bill. But a new field won't help the Lions Club, which for the last two yeors has held its rodeo on the property now slated for the ball ield. Despite the fact that the city made known its plans to retain the property for a ball field or some other recreational use, the Lions Club hed hoped that council would reconsider and allow it to establish t rodeo facil there. be foulted for deciding in favor of the ball field. But it can be faulted tor finalizing its master plan without having first settled where the rodeo will be relocated. Ald. Bob MacBain's response that the city “may be able to find something in the area” to use for the rodeo grounds simply isn't good enough. The rodeo's future must be a concern, especially now that it has been learned that the Castlegar Gyro Club is interested in toking on construction of the new ball tield. If the Gyro Club plans to start work this fall or next spring, it will mean the rodeo will be without a home for next June's events. That's not to blame the Gyro Club for wanting to get going on the ball field. It's just that if work starts so soon, it won't leave much time to find another site for the rodeo. Except for the qi about the rodeo, the city deserves credit for going ahead with the plan. The Community Complex area needed it. The plan sets out in black and white what had only been talked of earlier. We know where the aquatic centre will be built, though it's unlikely thot will happen in the near future. As well, the plan has luded king and lan- That didn't happen, and for one major reason. The issue came down to who would use the property more. The rodeo is held sztor only one weekend a year, wfileJo bell tield will be used “throughout the spring, «summer and early fall. For that reason, the city can't ‘oper Pp dscaping for the site. It’s just hoped that the plan will stand the test of time — the time it will take to complete all the work at the complex — and that anothers plan won't be needed several years down the road at thousands of additional tox dollars. Can Turner lead the Grits back? By STEVE KERSTETTER OTTAWA — The big question on the eve of the Sept. 4 election was whether Brian Mulroney and his Progressive Conservatives would rival the 1968 Tory landslide engineered by John Diefenbaker. In the aftermath of the election, the big question is whether John Turner can lead the Liberals out of the wilderness the way Lester Pearson did @ quarter-century earlier. Three former MPs who survived the 1968 rout — Liberal stalwarts Paul Martin and Jack Pickersgill and New Democrat Doug Fisher — share many of the same views on why the Liberals three about the future of his party. “There is a very big job ahead, but it ean be done and it must be done,” he said in a telephone interview from his home in Windsor. Fisher, now a columnist in Ottawa for the Toronto Sun, says Sept. 4 could politics. “Parties don’t die very quickly in this country, but I think history changed last week,” he said. It took only five years for the and Conservative wounds that were largely self-inflicted. Martin and Pickersgill tend to'play “Perhaps of all his incompetence, the most serious was his utter incapacity to deal with French-Canada,” he said. Pickersgill said Mulroney probably won't alienate francophone voters the way Diefenbaker did. Fisher said the Diefenbaker govern- ment fall from grace was due mainly to the unrelenting efforts of Pearson, Martin, Pickersgill and Lionel Chev- rier, a group of MPs that came to be Letters to the Editor Gremlins is ‘garbage’ T have not seen the movie myself but after reading the “official collector's edition” which contains 120 photo graphs and art and tells the complete movie story of Gremlins, I believe I can talk about it. Before I do, I apologize for not speaking up sooner. Christians in general have a tendancy to put up with things that are wrong according to Biblical standards. Please forgive me. Those of you who have viewed the movie, heard about it, or bought the cute little stuffed Gremlins for your children have been lured into the trap of the blind leading the blind The makers of this film reflect the state of mind most people are in without asking, “What am I feeding myself?; why am I viewing this?; what is the outcome of my viewing this movie?” We have a tendancy to gobble everything that promotes excitement, enter and i new known as “the four b Although Keith Davey and others worked to rebuild the party from the grassroots up, the battle was really won in Parliament, he said. Diefen- baker came under attack day after day in the Commons and finally went down in the very institution he cherished. Fisher said the Liberals in the next Commons don't seem to have the same potential to chip away endlessly at Mulroney. “I just don't see how Turner can dq it, because he hasn't got the horses.” A close look at the 1964 election results shows the Liberals in much deeper trouble than every before — in part because of the strong showing of the New Democratic Party. In 1968, the Liberals won 49 seats in of the NDP, was reduced to a mere eight seats. This year, Turner and his party captured only 40 seats and the New Atlantic Canada and two in the West. ‘The results have raised hopes among New Democrats that theyll finally send the Liberals into oblivion, Martin and Pickersgill disagree. Martin said the strength of the Liberal party is s long tradition of small Liberal ideals that the other two parties have come to embrace. without realizing that what we feed our minds and our children’s minds will eventually affect us spiritually and morally. Garbage In, Garbage Out. The Dictionary of American Folklore says, “Gremling gre small creatures some airmen, say existed as long ago as World War I who manage to get into y and cayse j i fail ures. Ithas common practice to blame them for 'mistakes that no one else will admit to.” But there are different theories as to claims that the name derives from the Old English word “gemian” meaning “to vex.” Webster's Dictionary traces the word toa modification of the Gaelic “gruaimin,” which translates to “ill humored little fellow.” This informa- tion is found within the collector's edition. This is what Gremlins are all about. By viewing this movie, you are not only supporting the message it portrays but are also allowing it to infiltrate your mind and your children’s minds until they, too, become stereotyped into being little gremlins who always get into trouble. In the second last page of the collector's edition there is an adver. tisement that goes something like this: “The Gremlins are here! Now you can be the perfect gremlin with a Gremlins mask from Don Post Studios. . . Easy to slip on, comfortable to wear, each of these masks come with complete care and instructions. But just re- member the most important thing. . . you must never, never ever, no matter hew much they cry or beg, feed them after midnight.” Is this what you want? Furthermore, the statement by Mike Finnell is typical: “What this movie has going for it is a visual outrageousness and a sense of fun. I hope it will be perceived as.a modern-day fairytale.” Tune into show on child sexual abuse Editer, Castlegar News: Attention parents, teachers, coun- doctors and anyone who deals witty children. If the child is a girl her chances are one in three that she will be affected by this problem before she is 18. If the child is a boy his chances are one in 10 that he will be affected by this problem before he is 18. This problem is very frightening and The figures on child sexual abuse are almost unbelievabie! It means that in a group of 30 girls, 10 will experience some form of sexual abuse before they are 18. No ethnic, religious or economic boundaries are sacred when it comes to child sexual abuse. Can you afford to ignore this very This week, from Sept. 17-20, a five part mini-series hosted by Mike Farreil (BJ. of MAS.H.) will be aired on This is hog-wash. When you see the Gremlins partying it up, smoking, , dainaging property and in the, end even trying to kill, it is not fun, it is not « modern-day fairytale. It is sinful, artificial “fun”. Satan himself is trying with great success to feed us garbage which looks, feels, and tastes like something great but in the end is destruction. The end result is moral decay, standards which are put down as old and out of date, and sin which is covered up as “fun and cute”, as viewed in the movie. The choice is up to you. You cannot serve two masters(Cor 10:21). Either you're on God's side or satan's side. God is real and so is Satan. God is for you, Satan is against you. According to God's word, the show called the Grem- lins is glorifing Satan and the pleasures Kristiansen challenged i; 1 fi itd [ i i i : i i ETEEY it HE i | i they will continue their studies at UBC. e ing 416 feet and the other 413 feet. * 8 @ Castlegar lawyer M.E. (Mickey) Moran is among Queen's Counsel named Monday by the provincial enay Canal hydro power project on the Kootenay River between here and Nelson. A gift shop for both patients and polling on the giant screens at Laval University, it ttivious that Canadians are witness to = thestrleal se much as a religious event. And he is aided by television, a medium that seems ‘to compress the events, making the crowds appear more @ense and the atmosphere more dynamic than it often is on site, ALL TO A PURPOSE All of this, of course, is a means to an end — selling some bitter medicine on abortion, sex, drugs and con- Peonocobtal Churth, Wee Col! isa Bible pine ptt ren coun MRS. SMITH AT 365-3594 ‘The youth rally at Montreal's Olympic Stadium on ‘Tuesday one of MGM's more ambitious musicals, right down to 700 girls dressed in flowing white Sans ne nating, winge of 8 dveien. the PYRG The focus of all this spectacle, of course, is Pope John Pagal. He is playing a bigger stage than he could ever have dreamed possible during his salad days in Krakow as an actor, playwright and student. : The papal roadshow is a carefully scripted series of events with some improvisation by a pontiff who loves to step over the footlights occasionally to wade into the audience. There are those who call him the “pop Pope,” which isn't a bad description as far as it goes, says Redemptorist Father Mathew Meehan, who is following the national tour as a correspondent for the Catholic Register. As a Redemptorist — an order with a mission to — Meehan can watch the popularize the gospel performance with a critic's eye. But what is so wrong with that? asks Meehan. many of the speeches are drafted by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, he says, John Paul does his own And what he says from the stage is what he believes. “I prefer to use the term lively rather than dramatic and theatrical,” says Meehan. “Lively comes froma man's own beliefs, from his heart.” For reporters on this tour, the pontiff remains an enigmatic figure on 4 larger-than life stage. Some things’ are obious: Faced with a schedule that would fell a plow worse, John Paul sometimes enters an event stifling a yawn. But he draws strength from his audience, his voice growing stronger and his actions surer with each minute in its presence. He uses to great ad the rag! traception. It is an exhausting 12-day run, playing to good reviews but to crowds lower than the first astronomical predictions. But there is never a chance to ask him how he feels: if he is tired or if it hurt when his performances are applauded but his words ignored. ‘There is only his peom, The Actor, written as a young man: “So many people inside me — living their lives — seeing all that I see — speaking only through me. “T'm like the channel of a river — and there's always running through me — all the passions and illusions of men. “But I also have my own life — which I fear that these others within me — may in some way be changing. trappings and the myster of Catholicism, the whites billiant reds of his vestments, the pure, clear voices of the choirs. it seems I have melted into all men — with their yearnings and their follies — so like my own. “All of their voices I hear, so demanding. “They're all around me.” CHILDREN’S MEETINGS with Wayne and Karen Johnson Puppets, Stories, Singing Object Lessons, Prizes and Surprises Sunday 16th of Sept. at 9:45 a.m. Monday to Friday at 3:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. at the PENTECOSTAL CHURCH CASTLEGAR ALL CHILDREN WELCOME! Retiring Anglican rector === recalls early days OTTAWA (CP) — Very Rev. Edward Downey, rector of Christ Church Anglican Cathedral and dean of Ottawa, retires in October after working in almost every deanery in the Ottawa diocese and 14 years at the cathedral. Downey, 66, who loves farming and has played fiddle in a small Ottawa Valley or- tion in Pttawa was held here _.ln the pew cathedral ball” he, says, recalling how “cautious we were at first.” Downey thinks a trend of declining church attendance which began in the 1960s is changing. He ints to a mailing list of mofe than 600 families and individuals at the cathedral, the largest in than 200 years. “In \the last three years there seems to be a coming back to the church from some who had drifted away.” Christ Church Cathedral attracts public servants, pen- sioners, laborers and Sup- reme Court justices. But it's also a parish church. “To me, a very vital part of the church is a fellowship, a communign of people,” he Saye, “There i a stereotyge | Singer sings before mass VANCOUVER (CP) — For Richard Ostendorf of North Delta, B.C. three minutes at Abbotsford airport Sept. 18 will be the high point of a singing career he thought had ended in a car crash 20 260,000 or more awaiting a Papal mass. The former Vancouver Opera Association tenor’s career was cut short in 1066 when a car in which he was a tions, with engineering con- sulting companies, B.C. Hy. dro, and most recently re-in- sulating houses. The last time he was paid for a performance, he received $100 for singing at the fun- eral of a fellow member of his Baptist church. There is no pay for his per- formance at the Abbotsford airport. Despite disappoint- ments after his accident, Ostendorf continued to prac- tise and perform for chur- ches. 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