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Page 10A The Castlegar Sun

Season of discovery for Saints |
| oo (A POLITICAL FEATURE eee

POR THE RECORD

In anticipation of an election being called, a questionnaire was sent out in early August to Kootenay West-Revelstoke candidates. There were
five questions-which were asked of each of the candidates; and all of the questions asked are pertinent to those of use who Hive in the Koote-
nays. This week the candidates who responded to our. questionnaire will give their views concerning Canada's social programs.

competition in this past week
ends trip to play in a tourney
at Medicine F Community
College. Although the team
was unsuccessful when it
came to winning matches;
Coach Mike Perra said the
team learned more from the
losses than the other teams
gained by winning

“We discovered about the
positive character of the play
ers on the team,” Coach Perra
said

The Saints team lost all
three of their matches at the
tourney, but Perra is not too
worried.

“Our biggest problem was
that we could not follow up
one strong game with another.”

Against the Southern Alber
ta Institute of Technology
Selkirk had their closest game
of the weekend losing 17-16
They also lost to the Mount
Royal College Alumni team
and to the Medicine Hat
squad

One of the goals Perra set
for this weekend was to use
the games as a means of deter
mining which players will
make up the starting line-up
If the team had played two
more games Perra said he
would have been better able to
make his list of starters

“We have not got a set start
ing line-up yet, we are still
experimenting with players. |
wish I could have established
who the starters will be this
weekend,” Perra said

The Saints see their next
action October 30 when they
host the British Columbia
Institute of Technology. The
Women's teath plays at 3 p.m
and the Men's team sees
action at 5 p.m. After the Col-
lege matches Selkirk will be
holding a demonstration match
between the Canadian Nation-
al Team and the SKK Univer-
,Sity from Korea at'8 p.m..

For practice the Saints team
is taking part in the recreation-
al volleyball league at Selkirk
College each Tuesday night

JOHN VAN PUTTEN

Sun Sports

It is still early in the season
for the Selkirk Saints Men's
volleyball team.

They saw their first College

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RECREATION COMMISSION NO.5
PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Castlegar's Remi Lavallee is chased by Elk Valley player Mike Ogden. Lavallee
scored two goals in Friday's KIJHL game. SUN SPORTS PHOTO / John Van Putten

Rebels streak ends

JOHN VAN PUTTEN
Sun Sports

DUTIES
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83 a knowledgeable background in various sporting activities.
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PERSON:
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effectively with the public; a person who can work with minimal supervision.
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Being one of the hot teams at
the start of this season gives the
other clubs more of an incentive
to beat the Rebels, according to
Sauer.

Beaver Valley came out
strong and built a 4-2 lead at
the end of*the second period
Castlegar managed to find the
net in the last period to bring
the game to its 6-5 final score.

“This was similar to all our
games. With all the scoring
chances, we should have won
the game,” Sauer said.

Now that the Rebels have
their first loss behind them,
Sauer says it will be easier for
the team now that they have
their first loss behind them.

“This loss is a wake up for the
players. They know they just can’t
walk in and win every game.”

The Rebels started off last
weekend's action Friday night,
hosting the Elk Valley Raiders,
Castlegar came out and “played
a full 60 minutes of good hock-

ey,” according to Coach Sauer.

The 11-1 final score showed
the diversity of the teams’ scor-
ing capabilities. Nine players
combined to score the 11 goals.

As KIJHL action continues,
the Rebels played against
Grand Forks last night, but
results were unavailable before
press time. This weekend
Castlegar will be playing in
Rossland, Friday, and at home
Saturday against Nelson

“This is a big week for the
team with three games,” Sauer
said before Tuesday's match
against Grand Forks.

One thing the team will be
working on in their next prac-
tices will be to get off toa
strong start in the first period of
each game. “Our players need
to get motivated in the first
period, they have been coming
out flat and picking it up as the
game progressés.”

‘I. am not looking at making
any major changes.”

All good things must come to
an end, even for the Castlegar
Rebels.

Entering this past weekend
with no losses this season the
Rebels added another win on
Friday over Elk Valley to
extend their run to five. Lacing
up for Saturday's game against
Beaver Valley proved to be the
demise of their string of wins,
losing the home game 6-5

“If anything, the Beaver Val-
ley game let the players know
that any team in the league can
beat any other team. Basically
we came out flat, but we gave it
a good shot,” said Rebels
Coach, Gary Sauer.

Even with this weekend's
performance, the Rebels are
still in a three-way tie for first
in the West Division with the
Rossland Warriors and the Nel

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Canada’s social pro ranking

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From golf
to curling

Jackets and sweaters were the

order of the day as 37 seniors
squared off for a chilly 18 holes
of golf last week.

With the season gradually

coming to an end, tomorrow
(Thurs.) will see the final get-
together of the golfing season.

The executive will be in

charge of the “Tombstone Tour-
nament” this week, which is held
annually to end the season.

A final windup banquet will

be held at Castlegar Golf Course
club house starting at 6 pm

Included will be a “Happy Hour”
from 5 - 6 pm.

The executive would like at

this time to remind seniors there
will be a “Curling Meeting” Fri-
day, October 15, 2 pm in lounge
of the curling rink.

We should mention before we

close who won the golf balls this
past week, so here they are: Otto
Walker; Bill Christianson; Bill
Shay; Tom Wilson; Ed Isakson;
Nick Oglow; John McGillvary;
K. Gj

and D. Heibert

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that we can take great
pride in, but they are in
serious trouble

Approximately 56 per
cent of all federal spend
ing after interest pay
ments are taken out, is
on social programs

Any party or individu-
al who says that they are
going to seriously
address the Deficit with
out addressing social
spending is either a fool,
or assumes that you are

The Reform Party has
been accused by their
opponents of wanting to
dismantle Canada’s
social programs. As you
will see, this is com
pletely false

The truth is, these
programs are most at
risk from the spending
practices of our last two
governments

The Reform Party has
spent much of the past
year completing a sur-
vey of Canadians’ prior
ities for social
programs

As a result, the
Reform’ Party has
pledged, in writing, that
we will maintain current
levels of spending for
the following: Health
Care; Advanced Educa
tion; Child Benefit;
Guaranteed Income
Supplement for Seniors;
Old Age Pensions for
Households with income
below $54,000 per year;
Veteran's Pensions

The Reform Party
wants to maintain these
programs by spending
tunds where
most needed

avatlable
they are
Thist

ensure

the only

the

way to
survival of
important

our most

programs

government is unable to
impose morality

This is advocated in
the main and under the
guise of “human fights”

It is a proven histori
cal fact that a decline in
moral behavior, if not
restrained, will bring
about the demise of
society

Lifestyles which are
Biblically deemed
Tegressive and which
pose an acute health
threat are presently polit-
ically protected.

The importance of
the traditional family
must be strengthened in
society +

I oppose any redefini-
tion of the family, i.e
same sex marriages. I
uphold parental rights
and responsibilities as
paramount in the raising,
education, and discipline
of their children

C.H.P. is committed to
a comprehensive, cost
effective national medi-
care system.

We are strongly com-
mitted to maintain the
National Pension Plan. I
am against funding for
abortions

Since 1969 we have
aborted 3 million babies
and have replaced them
with adult immigrants
who will reach pension-
able age at about the
time these children
would become produc
tive workers

There is a moral com
ponent to economics

the world has changed

Today there are many

single parents families,

more women in the
labor force and smaller
families

More Canadians must
juggle the demands of
work with the need to
care for their families.

Our income security
programs must remain
strong to help people pre
pare for the future, not
just take care of their
needs today

Those who lose their
jobs because of a chang-
ing labor market must be
given the chance to
retrain and upgrade their
skills

In 1993 the govern-
ment will spend $3.8 Bil
lion on training and
adjustment

For too many on social
assistance, work means
less income. A single
mother on welfare who
tries to work may lose
her dental, drug and
housing benefits

She the
chance to get into a train
ing program. That can
not continue to happen.

We must give people
greater opportunities to
help themselves. A hand
up. You don’t get hope
from a handout

We must work
with the provinces to
bring more effective mea
sures which will detect
abuses of the system

may lose

also

better future for us all is to
build an economy that pro
vides every Canadian with
the means to eam a living
Our future is one where
every Canadian has the
right to have basic needs
met
quate income, affordable
heusing, basic nutrition
good health, and lifelong
learning opportunities

Canada’s social securi
ty system is made of dif
ferent programs, each
designed over the years to
meet specific needs, with
little interconnectedness,
and administered by vari
Ous governmental and pri
vate bureaucracies. For
instance, Old Age Securi
ty and the Canada Pen-
sion Plan are separate
programs that are federal
ly administered, while
family benefits and social
assistance are administered
by different provincial and
municipal departments. A
thorough and effective
review of our public and
Private social security sys-
tem is needed to ensure that
Canadians who are in need
of assistance can obtain it
without stigmatization and
“going through hoops”
Universal social programs
offer equal opportunities for
all Canadians

Of particular concern is
whether our programs
offer adequate assistance
as well as effective incen
tives for beneficiaries to
break from the assistance
cycle and easily adjust
into the work force

New Democrats know
from experience that most
beneficiaries would rather
be working. This is

timpossible with
Imost impossible with

these include ade

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unemployment rate at]
4 per cent and rising. |
tccessibl
hildeare
iused by the Conserva
tive government's fixation
the deficit

witt

United Nations quality |
of life evaluators cer-|
tain! Id nor |

uly cou leay

to conclude that
Canadian way of life
a disaster |

Nevertheless there is]
room tor improv ement, |
as we all recognize, par- |
ticularly in those pro
grams for controversial
groups

Canadian support for
AIDS research and com
pensation has been woe
fully inadequate
Support for women vic
tims of sexual abuse and
other violence has been
pitiful

care proposals has beer

adequate day

long on promise and|
short on delivery
Cancellation of sup
port for Native radio and
newspapers was cruel]
and unwise
None of €
They are out
that we owe

these
charities
of justice |
the victims of our insti- |
tutional way of [ife

Each of these groups

has been the target of |

gies in|

government

right-wir
the Tory
sometimes overt, some
times disguised
financial measutes

Buying EH 101

a social ser

heli
copters i

vice for rich

corporations—we could |

cut that one and. us the |

money t ngs we]
really ni |

Reform and other parties
would lead you to
believe

Gross mismanagement
of a wealthy economy,
reducing a prosperous
nation to. a de-industrial
ized impoverished ware
house economy is

The National Party of
Canada would not reduce
the social programs. We
have a 200-page eco-
nomic policy titled ‘Jobs
for all Canadians’ that
guarantees we can turn
this economy around,
teduce our debt and
increase jobs WITHOUT
raising taxes or cutting
social programs

All social costs includ-
ing pension, education,
health and welfare, fami-

allowances, etc. have
ncreased by only 1.7 per

| cent of the TOTAL gov
>| ernment spending over

the past 25 years

Debt servicing costs
have escalated by more
tar,10.4 per cent jin the
same time frame because
ot misguided goverment
policies, and debt servic

| ing Costs

We will not accept cor
porate, union or special
nterest group donations
Every political party that
does explains the prob
lems of our country are
due to social expendi
tures, or not enough
taxes

We say
and foreign ownership

yt control)

it is COrmption

Help us
e our country back

| of nonresponsive

grams. They will make
them more effective by
Costs
They

enhance Canada’s social
programs, but only when
the Country can afford it

not ser

will even

cutting

vices

To rally voters around
the call of ‘let them eat
cake’ is as inappropriate
in Canada today as it was
to those suffering hunger
and poverty in France a
few hundred years ago
This rallying call is why
The Castlegar Sun's
question of the week is of
vital importance

In the past few weeks
the polls show a strong
following towards the
Reform Party. | wonder
how many voters who
have had their anger
button pushed by Pre
ston Manning and Gouk
have studied this party’s
platform on social pro
grams. Their planned
attack is clear: they will
privatize, they will cut,
they will force people to
rely on charities, they
why not just read what
they have in mind by
reading their New Cana-
da plan. All this to save
a few bucks

Together the Liberal
Party and the NDP have
built a social justice sys
tem that is envied and
copied around the world
It is now seriously threat
ened. Our country has
serious problems. But the
that the
protest against eight years

polls show
Tory
OV 1 fy
been w vont
forn

ether
Save ur Canadian we
life +

ot preserve

cial programs