The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, May 17, 1995 Winners! Living Waters students proudly display ribbons and medals they won at a provincial competition held in Surrey last month. The winning team consisted of (back, I-r): Amanda Laurie, Karen Souko- roff, and Lara Wilson; (front, I-r): Genny Kinakin, Elaine Miller and Nadya Wilson. SUN STAFF PHOTO (Karen Kerkhoft MY FAVOURITE CHILD By: Erma Bombeck Well, Mother’s Day has come and gone but before we slip into our usual pattern of taking things for granted, I thought it fitting to reflect on the role of Motherhood through the eyes of Erma Bombeck as she pondered the reality of her “Favourite Child”. Every mother has a favourite child. She cannot help it. She is only human. I have mine - the child for whom I feel a special closeness, with whom I share a love that no one else could possibly understand. My favourite child is the one who was too sick to eat ice e his birthday party...who had measles at Christmas...who wore leg braces to bed because he toed in...who had a fever in the middle of the night, the asthma attack the child in my arms at the emergency ward. My favourite child spent Christmas alone away from the family, was stranded after the game with a gas tank on “E”. Lost the money for his class ring. My, favourite child is the one who messed up the piano recital, misspelled eommittee in the spelling bee, rand the wrong way with the football and hadhis bike stolen because he was careless. My favourite child is the one I punished for lying, grounded for insensitivity to other people's feelings, and informed he was a royal pain to the entire family. My favourite child slammed doors in frustration, cried when she didn’t thin I saw her, withdrew and said she could not talk to me. My favourite child always needed a haircut, had hair that wouldn’t curl, had no date for Saturday night and a car that cost $600 to fix. My favourite child was selfish, immature, bad-tempered and self-centered. He was vulnerable, lonely, unsure_of_what-he was doing in this world - and quite wonderful. All mothers have their favourite child. It is always the same one; the one who needs you at the momient. Who needs you for what ever reason — to cling to, to shout at, to hurt, to hug, to flatter, to reverse charges to, to unload — BUT MOSTLY JUST TO BE THERE. : Mothers — May God grant you the Grace, Wisdom, Strength and Endurance needed to fulfill this most high calling of nurturing the eternal souls He has placed in your care. KINNAIRD CHURCH OF GOD Pastor John Wiutt (B.th., M.Div.) " ] Castlegar, BC, V1N 2X5 « Church 365-5300 SERVICES: + 10:45 a.m, Sunday Schoo! 11:00 a.m. Worship | WEDNESDAY: Family Night _ | Ploneer Club - Adult Fellowship - Care Groups Faithfully serving Castlegar for over 30 years. ‘A Church built on LOVE-ACCEPTANCE- FORGIVENESS 614 Christina Place 8:00 Holy Communion 10:00 Family Service | The Rev. Canon Dorothy Barker Phone: 365-2271 ALL WELCOME ‘SUNDAY: 9: ST. PETER LUTHERAN WORSHIP TIME :00 713 - ath St., Castlegar Rev. V, Tech * 604-954-1527 ALL WELCOME! UNG WAR CAEE EE LOwsine 8 pm A Bible Based, Spirit Filled, Family Church RC ae Ppo en, | GRACE PRESBYTERIAN 2605 Columbia Ave. SUNDAY WORSHIP - * Youth Ministries Victorious Women ¢ Men's Fellowship ‘summeemmmmmmumees WATCH FAITH ALIVE ON SHAW CABLE 10 aeememnemmenen Affiliated with Canadian Fellowship of Churches & Ministers Students win big in provincial event KAREN KERKHOFF Sun Staff —____. Imagine a radio talk show in which a man named Saméon calls the host to complain about his girlfriend Delilah. “My girlfriend wants to find Out the secret to my strength. She also wants to cut my hair.” Or imagine another caller named Jonah phoning from with- in a whale’s stomach with a “‘cel- lulite” phone. The radio drama described above won seven Living Waters Christian Academy students first Place at a provincial competition held in late April in Surrey. Academy supervisor Nick Kinakin said the students prepared most of the school year for com- Petition in the annual convention. He believes that the academy's everyday teachings of character did at the competition. “It's not a prison camp and so stiff that the students can't move,” Kinakin said of the per- ception held by many about Christian schools. Amanda Laurie won first place in both the radio drama and a skit as did fellow student Karen Soukoroff; Genny Kinakin won first place in a skit and placed in piano; Nadya Wil- son placed first in radio drama and a play; Lara Wilson won first place in spelling and a skit; Elaine -Miller won third in essay, second in oil painting and first in radio drama. Dustin Borody also won first in the radio drama, and was the voice behind Jonah and a myriad of other characters. The four-year-old academy has 22 students in grades one through 11, and incorporates Ch » Be and were reflected itt how well they hings and values with educational classes. Pythians welcome two new members in March meeting Kootenay Temple No. 37 have had a very busy spring, with the first meeting in March initiating two new members. Welcomed were Geri Moffat and Beverley Perrin. District Deputy Mildred Turn- er of Cranbrook made her official visit at the next meeting. Visitors all. The eulogy was given by Rose Soberlak. On April 8 members travelled to the district convention in Cranbrook, chaired by D.D.-Mil- dred Turner. Bemice Barass won the trophy for the sign competition and the from Trail, Rossland, Fruitvale and Salmo attended. MEC Rose award. Temples from Montana, Soberlak ci an evening with special refresh- ments after the meeting. The charter was draped for departing secretary Patricia Moore. She is sadly missed by Idaho, Okanagan andthe Koote- nays attended. Plans are in the works for a strawberry tea in June, while tickets are on sale for a shopping spree at Safeway and Super-Valu. Christian Women step.out Submitted “Steppin’ Out” was the theme for the Castlegar Christian Women’s Club held April 20 at the Sandman Inn. Fresh floral centrepieces creat- attentively on the runway was the grads and other lady models pre- sented formal evening gowns, bridal gowns and work apparel from Ely’s Boutique in Castlegar. Following the fashion show, 46 grads were invited forward to receive a carnation compliments of S. and a Life Publi ed a spring P ijoy by 146 ladies. Following the infroductions, soloist Daphne Jackson enter- tained the group with her first musical selection. Everyone's eyes were fixed (C\apsule ‘C/omments booklet from the club as their future goals were announced. Later in the evening, Dottie Calvert from Spokane captivated the audience as she spoke about the many races people run in life. ty ie becoming a real problem in most industrialzied nations. in Canada, it's estimated toa 0 ot eon en Srn rat ie This problem causes many increased heath risks. Here re tema Sehene’ | Wednesday, May 17, 1995 The Castlegar Sun temple took the membership _ Weddings: They are full of traditions To lose a wedding ring is, therefore, very bad luck, and if broken can bring about a husband's death. A p . the wedding ring. In the west, the wedding ring is wom on the third finger of the left hand, which some believe began with the idea that a vein ran from the third finger to heart. the Others point out that the third finger is the only one which cannot straighten out by itself and is therefore the safest for valuable jewellery. Members of the Russian Orthodox faith, I believe, wear the wedding ring on the right hand, other cul- tures on the thumb, and some not at all. 100% B.C. OWNED & OPERATED I suspect, however, that those who wear one and then remove it at indiscreet times Marriage: “A state or condition of a community ~“* could be inviting the worst luck of all. consisting of a master, a mistress and two slavesis ut making in all two.” Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary We are well into May now and will soon be knee- deep in June, the traditional month for marriages, thousands of superstitions and even more traditions. For example, the giving away of the bride by her father or senior male member of her family in earlier times wasn't a giveaway and could often be expensive, Therefore, less affluent suitors resorted to bride-capture (kidnap) with a show of resistance by the lady, willing or not. This led to the custom of the bride standing at the groom's left side leaving his right arm free to /\, draw his sword to protect her or fight off her family. The best man (i.e. best fighter) was there to help in the abduc- tion or in the defence of the couple. Some authorities believe that carrying the bride across the threshold was also a part of the old kidnap custom, others that it was to prevent the bad luck which would befall her if the bride stumbled. It is certain that if the groom stumbled he would never be allowed to forget it. The gold wedding ring, which goes back to Egyp- tian times, is not a symbol of servitude but dates to old Roman law which indicated that the wife was entitled to half of all her husband’s wealth; while the wedding cake, rice and confetti were all fertility symbols to ensure that the union was fruitful with many children. _White wedding gowns, on the other hand, are a relatively recent custom, less than 200 years old, and owe their popularity not to the alleged virginity of the bride so much as to the fashion of the time . where most gowns were white. In fact, wedding gowns in earlier times were many colors, the Romans preferring yellow, others green. Among the many wedding superstitions to which, of course, no modern bridal party pays any heed, is the custom of wearing something old, something new, borrowed and blue. Most brides seem to observe it, though jusv fer tradition,’ ' but ignore the penny in her shoe, no doubt for com- fort. I have also noticed the efforts on the part of bridal attendants to keep the groom from seeing the bride before they meet in church and somehow they always seem to be wearing new shoes—both old superstitions involving luck. Wedding rings are also popular objects of super- stition. Rightly -used, they can cure a sty, remove warts, make wishes come true, and predict a possi- ble marriage for an unmarried woman. While formal marriage: 8 are still the most type of unions world-wide, some westerners are ig the old “living-i " stigma and are OVER MY -SHOULDER JOHN CHARTERS living together, secure in their modernity in trial- marriages or common-law. The only difficulty is the fact that they are not modern. Five hundred years ago, before the Refor- mation when Scotland was still a Catholic country, trial marriages were fairly common in the thinly- populated Highlands. At Scottish annual faires when many people gathered for id social unmarried members of both sexes would choose a compan- ion for a year and a day accord- ing to a custom known as “hand-fasting” (i.e. “hand-in- ist””). If the parties remained pleased with one another after that time, the monastery would send a priest to marry them for- mally and the celebrations would last a week, the marriage for life. If not, they were free to separate and seek new partners. If one or other of the partners insisted on separation and a child had been bom of the union, it ‘was taken by the father and numbered among his legitimate children and legal heirs, in the interest of Hf you haven't shopped with us in a while, give us a try you may be pleasantly surprised. ..! peaceful and happy To break the handfast agreement, however, could be disastrous, since both clan and personal honor were involved. One such incident occurred when a Macdonald of Sleat decided, after the agreed period, that he didn't want to marry his Clan MacLeod lady. The chieftan of the ctan,-duly-inecensed, then | responded angrily, “If there is to be no wedding bon- fire, there will be one to_solemnize the divorce”, and proceeded to burn and lay waste the lands of the Macdonalds. These, in turn, took revenge by doing the same to the MacLeods. The months-long feud Canada ‘A’ Grade BEEF BLADE STEAK Bone in 3.06 kg. Lean GROUND BEEF 4.17 gree cost much in blood and buming homes. Honor of one’s female kin, as those who have seen the recent Rob Roy movie at the Castle Theatre know, was highly regarded by fathers, brothers and male memabers of the clan. But today we are liberat- ed—or are we? In any case, marriage, as George Bernard Shaw observed in Man and Superman, will always be pop- ular because it combines the maximum of tempta- tion with the maximum of opportunity; whether in June or any other time. 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