BREATHALYZER equipment is now permanently available to the Crescent Valley RCMP. Here Cat. Sid Breckenridge points out the features of the newly acquired equipment. Previously drivera had | ——— TS to be taken to Castlegar or Neleon for these tests. “Road checks will be made every night,” says Cot. Breckenridge. —Castlegar News Photo Suger and Spice by Bill Smiley And Just Who Needs Quebec? LIKE SO many others, | was completely astonished by the sweeping victory of the Parti Quebecois in La Belle Pro- vince, 1 was also just dreadfully, dreadfully upset at the thought of that darn old sepa- ratorateest Rainy Levack tak- ing over as Prime Minister of Quebec and exercising his rights fo exorcise that. fair province right out of the body politic of this Great Nation. In fact, 1 was so disturbed by the whole thing that when my assistant department head, Jeanne Sauve, came up to me'in the hall, grinning fiercely, and said, ‘‘Vive De Gaulle!"? J just gave her an icy look and walked on. I made myself scarce when my old shuffleboard partner, Bill Chenier, was looking for me for our usual noon-hour game in the staff room. No way am I going to be buddies with some guy who is pro- bably an underground agent for Rainy Levack. However, I got my own - back ina sort of sneaky, and you might even say sadistic way. I asked my four-year Grade 11s if they'd heard the news that the government of Ontario was going to put everyone with a French- Canadian name in concentra- tion camps, just as our federal government, in: its. infinite stupidity, did-wigh-the-west-<* coast_-Japanese. after “Pearl ° Harbor. Boy, that shook them. They started looking around at each other. Half my classes are made up of Robitailles, Cadieuxs, Cadeaus, Moreaus, * Bourgeois and so on. 1 said: “It'llcertainly be nice to have smaller classes." Their mouths were open. Then one guy in a front seat, with a good Scottish sur- name, started to grin, and wsaid, in’ the impeccable English J instilin my students, “Ya, sir, | heard that there broadcast. But you didden hear it all, They changed their mind. They ain't gowna pulten in camps, ‘They're gowna line em all up and shootem.”” My cold, stern look began to crumble, and pretty soon we were all laugh- ing as they realized they'd Seer THE CITY OF CASTLEGAR - - PUBLIC HEARING ~ A PUBLIC HEARING will be held for the purpose of considering the adoption of new City of Castlegar Zoning By-Law No. 160, 1976. The hearing will be held in the TWIN RIVERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — GYMNASIUM (649 - 5th Avenue, N.) on Thursday, December 9, 1976 commencing at 7:00 p.m. All property owners within the City Boundaries will be affected by the new Zoning By-Law, and may examine zoning maps at any of the following locations during regular business hours: 1) City Hall — (460 Columbia Avenue, N., Castlegar) + 2) Safeway Store — Castleaird Plaza (2nd Street, S., Castlegar) 3.) Super-Valu Store — (635 Columbia Avenue, N., Castlegar) 4) Castlegar Public Library — (117 Pine Street, N., Castlegar) 5.) Kinnaird Library Branch — (605 2nd Street, S., Castlegar) Those wishing to review the written by-law and have any perlinent questions answered may do so by visiting the City Hell, 460 Columbia Avenue N. Castlegar. All persons who deem themselves affected by the proposed Zoning By-law shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard before Council at the Public Hearing on any matters contained in the new zoning by-law. At present, the City of Castlegar is regulated by two separate zoning by-laws, ‘one for South Castlegar (former Town of Kinnaird) and one for North Castlegar {former Town of Castlegar). The administering of two separate by-laws since amalgamation has proved to be extremely difficult and it is Council’s feeling that it is now. necessary to. adopt one comprehensive Zoning By-law for the been “had” Old How to Collect ao Bod Cheque \ It Pays to Advertise A defamation of charactor sult has been filed in Chelan County Superior Court against a Wenatchee businesswoman _ who used the billboard in front, of her drive-in restaurant to advertise the names of persons who wrote her bad checks, Brooks Montgomery, 1019 Dakota, is asking the court to award him an unspecified a- mount of damages from Betty Maxson, owner of Betty's Drive-In, Mr. Montgomery was the first of 13 or 14 persons to have his name on the billboard, in front of the drive-in. , In black letters on a white illuminated sign it sald: “We have NSF checks from Brooks Montgomery.” Mr. Montgomery claims in his ‘suit that it was a false statement intending to expose him to “public contempt and tidicute." Betty Maxson has stated Services on Weekend For Annie Stoochnoff Funeral services began on. Friday of last week from the- Shoreacres. Community: Hall and concluded Saturday after- noon for Mrs, A Spiritual Christ. ‘ She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Sam (Nora) Communities _ of a Shoreacres resident who passed away at Mount St. Francis on Nov. 25 at the age of 13, Barn at Verigin, Sask. in 1903, Mrs. Stoochnoff came as a ““young girl with her parents to settle in the community of Ootischenia. She was married in 1925 and she and her hus- band, John, lived in Ootischenia until 1927, prior to taking up residence in Shoreacres. Her husband predeceased her in 1956, and she lived with her daughter in Coquitlam from 1964 to 1975. Mrs. Stoochnoff was a member of the Union of ing a hey-day, speculating on the “balkanization’’ of Cana- da, After Quebec drops out, speculate the worry warts, B.C. and the Maritimes will probably become part of the U.S., the prairie provinces willsecedeand form acountry called Manalsask or. some- thing, and Ontario will be left. sitting high and dry, the only + Smiley. 3 es Then we talked about what the separation- of Quebec would mean. The kids, as usual, weren’t too perturbed. Dynasties can come and go, as i stion Of the true- ‘blue :WASP, Canadian. No- vebody, seems lo Worry much ‘about Newly. Maybeit's time this country had a jolly good shaking up. far as they are as longas they ‘don’t get a home- the last few decades from a work out of it. The only thing that upsets them is a case of unrequited love, or the breakdown of the TV set just as the big sex or violence scene gets started. « The possibility of Quebec separating from the rest of Canada upsets me just about as much as it does the kids. i love Canada as it is, but 1 don't think that Confedera- tion and all that jazz is a sacred thing. It was put together by a bunch of politi- ty wants to disband the club, so be it. ‘The original plighting of troths was basically a marri- age of convenience. After more than a hundred years of with lots to be proud of, and plenty to look forward to, into a sour, crabby and suspi- cious middle-aged country, beset by inflation, unemploy- ment and strikes. We run down our leaders. ‘We seek security rather than adventure. We whine about American domination and do nothing about it. We bitch about playing our part in NATO and giving money to Poor countries and letting in too many. immigrants and anything else that is unselfish. - Despite high unemploy- ment, wehave one of the most. erratic labor forces in the world. Despite our tremen- dous natural resources, we let the Americans and the Ger- mans and the Japanese do the marital di ifone of the parties feels the union is incompatible, why not get a divorce? ‘When I was the age of my students, the British Empire “stretched around the world. In the cant phrase, the sun Never set.on it. Today that mighty Empire has shrunk to. a-tiny, beleaguered Britain, financially on the rocks. Does anybody really care, except a few elderly pukka sahibs? People love’ frightening themselves and each .other. Political columnists are hav- because we haven't the guts to take the risks ourselves. Maybethethreat of separa- tion by Quebec is just the jolt this country needs to get the inhabited by a nation of Lifeis change. Things that don't change die. Let's re- member that and not panic whee there at in teations of change, hov .