Postal worker . suing MONTREAL (CP) — A former postal worker is suing the Crown corporation for $2 million for sexual harass- ment. Gilles Spenard, who quit his job last June, says he was harassed because he is a He also wants anotlier $2.5 million from other defen- dants including five co-work- ers at the post office plant in suburban St. Laurent where he says people called him names and spat upon him. RTE TET E INT CORRECTION FLYER of Jan, 17-21/84 California Super Select Cucumbers SHOULD ALSO READ — Canada No. 1 Grade California, Cello Wrap Head Lettuce SHOULD ALSO READ — Canada No. 1 Grade CAMPUS 8c. VIN SUE Sorry for the inconvenience to our customers. By STURDIES BAY (CP) + ilies always been short on i lon So at 89, she is flabbergasted by her st as an artist. Jf SOE ia ‘i Her high-spirited watercolors havé become, so, admired that buyers line up long before the doors to her. exhibitions open — not to see what kind of pictures an old lady might create, but to ensure ofa painting. ERT “It's difficult to explain,” says Hopkins, tiny and slightly stopped, with ruddy cheeks and # crown of thick white hair. ais “I feel it shouldn't have happened to me when so many people who are much better than I am haven't hadi that success. I guess I feel.a little guilty.” INNOCENT START It was on a warm August. day eight years ago that Hopkins’ success had its innocent beginnings. She had contributed a small painting tothe arts and craft show on Galiano Island where she lives, She was bold enough to ask $5 for the picture. Galiano Island, in the Strait of Georgia off the southeast coast of Vancouver Island, is lush with artistic and literary talent. Hopkins lives just up the road from her friend, novelist Jane Rule. She will sometimes share coffee with author Audrey Thomas or bump into poet Dorothy Livesay at the general store. “her work has that innocence that we all had as children,” says Huang. “That lovely innocence where everything wasn't hedged around. Where joy was joy. “That is how a child paints or draws. They are because she was allergic to penicillin. After that she held a variety of jobs, incuding stints as an insurance wader, writer, sh ‘These days, Hopkins is having great fun with ber new life as artist, She usually gets a painting done ® week, one that can fetch up to $1,000 at an exhibition. The money gives her a few extra comforts. “T'm glad I have it because I've met so many old ladies my age who have nothing to do except watch television and look out windows.” Carol Magaw Dianna Kootnikoff ADVERTISING SALES CASTLEGAR NEWS 70 DRAWER 3007 CASIUGAR AC.WIN mM OFFICE 365-5210 ALCON PAINTING & DECORATING 2649 FOURTH avenue ec CASTLEGAR WIN 287 365 3563 prone 359-7460 "or 359-7416 Kiwanis looking for citizen Do you know someone who has done an outstanding job for the community over the years? If so, then the Castlegar Kiwanis Club wants to hear about it. The Kiwanis Club is looking for it's citizen of the yeur for 1983 — the one person whose service to the community was above and beyond the usual call of duty. Nominations for the citizen of the year close Feb. 6, with the Kiwanis Club to announce the selection at a special dinner banquet and presentation on Feb. 21. Nominations may be sent to Brian Pritchard at CKQR Radio, 601 Columbia Ave. Raise funds for Big Brothers Want to have some fun and help a good cause at the same time? Then head out to the Big Brothers’ Bowl for Mil- Castlegar bowling langs. The event is held to raise funds for Big Brothers, and according to spokesman Nick Chernoff, all the fands will be pay for the costs of admin- istering the program. “There's a lot of paperwork .. « sereening, matching. It takes time and money.” The way Bowl for Millions works is that bowlers obtain pledges for points in a game. The pledges are then col- leeted and the money goes tot he Big Brothers. Bowlers may bowl anytime P lions Feb. 4 to 1f~t the during the week,of Feb. 4 to 11 during regular league times of on P00 11 from 1 to 6 p.m. “The bowlers get a good rate on bowling and help out Big Brothers,” said another Bowling alley will be donat- ing the money from shoe rentals during the week to the Big Brothers. Entry forms are available at Carl's Drugs, CKQR Radio and the bowling alley. ADMITTED TO BAR Blind man triumphant EDMONTON (CP) — Randy Hogle considers his achievements a result of hard work and luck, but they're 1 triumphant feat for a blind person who wasn't expected © live past the age of six. The 27-year-old Edmontonian is one of only a handful of blind lawyers in Canada. He's also a champion eques- ian. The medium-built, dark-haired bachelor graduated with a law degree from the University of Alberta in 1982 and was admitted to the bar last November. Like any up-and-coming lawyer, Hogle is trying to establish a lucrative legal practice. However, 24 years ago it didn’t look as though Hogle would even have a future. Hogle was born with cerebral immacula degener- ation, a condition which left him with only five-per-cent vision. His father, CFRN-TV news director Bruce Hogle, says the diagnosis was made when his son was three by an Edmonton specialist who said the child would not “live to go into Grade 1.” NEWS DEVASTATED “We were utterly shocked and devastated and © gimoat Westroyed at that time,” his father recalls. The’ waiting game with death was even more frightening, but “age six came and went, so each year and month with Randy has been a blessing . . .” Two major breakthroughs gave Hogle the determin- ation to overeome the obstacles faced by the handicapped. . ‘The first was being enrolled in the Edmonton public school system after years of studying at schools for the blind in Vancouver and Brantford, Ont. “] finally entered the public school system in Grade 7 and that was my first exposure to being fully integrated with regular people,” Hogle says. “It was a great experience. “['d have my classmates read a lot of material aloud to me and my family read homework exercises onto tape at home.” WON IN 1974 During that same period, Hogle’s blind piano teacher suggested he try horseback riding. Those lessons led to successful competitions at horse-jumping shows in Alberta and an. He won the 1974 Saskatoon Junior Horse Jumping Championship. Hogile became a champion jumper by learning to pace off the number of steps between jumps and then commit them to themory. His father believes that horse jumping instilled an inner strength in Hogle. “That was a breakthrough for Randy because he had led a sheltered life and all of a sudden he was competing in sports with other kids and being judged, not for what he was, but as an equestrian.” Randy's victory in the 1974 show over 35 other competitiors made him realize that “he could not only stand apart with his but successfully com against them and in many cases win,” says his father. Hogle says his only regret during his high school years was not being able to play hockey or drive a car. “T’ve had to face my limitations, although that wasn't always easy,” says Hogie, who lives in his own downtown apartment. He now works as a debt-collector “although I'm willing to do virtually any type of legal work.” “I prefer litigation because I think court work is exciting and unpredictable.” When Hogle approaches prosp; P he stresses his abilities and tries to reassure them that he is just as capable as any other applicant. “I think the handicapped person just has to work extra hard to get the same level of quality and competence in their job. Conyincing someone you have those traits is certainly difficult and I faced some skeptical law firms.” (— aera ST. 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Repka said he will accept any household pets, “but no ele- phants.” Repka said he and his wife, Wally, started pet day care in re- afternoon. “We hate to leave him day at home,” said Prete, whose wife is a nurse. “What if the house burns down or The pet day-care centre opened two months ago and is the only one in the city, owner Joe Repka said. About 20 dogs have used the ser- vice. TABERNACLE Morning Worship 11:00 10a.m. e ig Fell: hip 6:30 Rev. Charles Balfour - Ph. 365-2271 Wednesday: Bible Study -D. and Prayer 7:00 pm esemncucnensone \ ag 1471 Columbia Ave., Trail | 965-7818 964-011 ; CHURCH OF GOD Regular Saturday Services Pastor Clift ogebers | 2404 Columbia Avenue Church School —“TRITED CHURCH ning Wor Morning Worship OF CANADA Tam. —— 2224-6th Ave. 1% Blocks South of Community Complex 9:40 a.m. — Singing Pastor Ira Johnson Robson: Ist Sun., 7 p.m. 3rd Su: , 10a.m. Rev. T Junior Congregation Bristow © 365-8337 or 365-7814 Home Bible Studies Evening Service 6:00 p.m. Fri. Youth Meet., 7:30 p.m. 767 - 11th Avenue, Castlegar Bruce Greenwood Church: Phone 365-5212 Sunday Morning por to quests. They have operated a dog-grooming business for 10 years and added day care after moving to larger quar- ters. Dogs are kept in wire cages that are cleaned as needed. Exercise is not in- cluded, but could be if there ie enough demand, Repka said. Marianne Horbach of Red- water, 60 kilometres north- east of the city, said she finds the service useful for Strup- py. her seven-year-old York- shire terrier. HELPS SHOPPING “When I come into Edmon- ton and do my shopping, I Day care for pets usually leave him there,” she said. “I don't like to leave my dog in the car.” Repka said many people whose dogs are pregnant leave the animals at the cen- tre during the day in case they go into labor and need assistance. Dr. Ken Keeler, a spokes- man for the Edmonton Asso- ciation of Small Animal Vet- erinarians, said there is a legitimate need for pet day care. Veterinarians often see cases where a dog that has been with a family for several years will develop behavioral problems when left alone during the day, he said. Usu- ally this happens when chil- Service 10:30 a.m. There will be no Sunday School. Wednesday Bible Study Gand Prayer 7:30 p.m. + Kichens CUP & SAVE! Par for this o ‘We feature: * Courtesy * Movie Channei Breakfast Jefferson rsel 5th & Jefferson in Soeieayy By You've just spent $2,000 at the local computer store ‘on a fancy home system and can hardly wait to unpack it. You know nothing about “bits and bytes,” but you've heard how everything is “user-friendly,” so what is there is worry about — it will all be explained in the owner’s manual, right? Wrong. Computer manuals are among the most com- plicated tracts of technical jargon you're ever likely to find — which is remarkable gonsidering they're intended for the layman. Stories of new owners phoning their dealers, angry because they cannot understand the manual, are commonplace. I made my first call shortly after I came across the following: “The STAT command allows control over the physical to logical device assignment (see the IOBYTE function described in Chapters 6 and 6). There are four logical peripheral devices that are, at any particular instant, each assigned one of several physical peripheral devices.” In search of instructions on how to use my computer as a word processor, I was faced with trying to-penetrate this jungle. NOT RELEVANT As it turned out, knowing when a logical device is not a logical device was not relevant to my purposes and I still don’t know what an iobyte is,‘but computer manuals are full of this sort of thing. Some systems include a number of programs in the basic price, each with its own manual. When I unpacked my computer, I found five hefty bound books and one loose-leaf binder — thousands of pages crammed with computer jargon. You may be lucky and buy a computer with a manual written in English — Apple, for one, has a ion for VANOOUVER (CP) —'A predicts that the industrialized continue shrinking during the next people favor the quieter, greener jons and transp that the also is draining those traditional manufacturing gities of their lifeblood — jobs — contributing to further, deeay. But not all cities fall into that category; ‘he said. Those in Canada, the southwestern United States and yy are bucking the trend and remain relatively: healthy and vibrant. And their success could be the pres- cription to saving the world's older cities. The phenonemon of shrinking cities was first revealed by census figures in the 1960s in Great Britain and the United States and in European cities in the 1970s, Hall said. “The first question we need to ask is whether we should worry about it. People are moving out as they have moved for a long time in search of better housing and living conditions, with less pollution, less noise, mare space and more greenery. LOSING JOBS “The real problem is that the jobs and services have By contrast, Hall said, U.S. cities such as Orlando, Fla., Phoenix, Ariz, and San Jose, Calif, may be succeeding because more of their workers are willing to work for the going wage in a fairly weakly unionized environment. But they are also succeeding because they are attracting more of the new high-technollgy industries such as defence, aerospace and information technology, or developing their potential as tourist or retirement centres. German cities suéh as Munich, Bremen, Hamburg and Hanover have watched their manufacturing bases decline, as in the United States and Britain, but have developed their potential as service centres. As a result, their i inati developed cores, with - estrian malls, and revived old quarters stay busy day and night. Vancouver and Toronto are younger centres, more buoyant with brighter economic prospects as regional service hubs than their British or American counterparts, Hall said in a later interview. They have made a “graceful transition to the post-industrial era in which strong central business districts can be combined with spreading suburbs.” “Eastern Canadian cities seemed to be much better off then their Eastern U.S. counterparts,” he said. “You PRICES IN EFFECT JANUARY 18-2 frozen - head off Pacific pink whole salmon 2.18... 99. only have to look at Toronto and then at Cleveland.” been moving out too,” he said, adding that the also has reduced the need for labor. Hall told the 150 people gathered for the two-day symposium, sponsored by Expo 86, Vancouver's planned transportation and communications world’s fair, that the bigger, older cities are fast becoming the least edvan- tageous locations for many kinds of activities. , “Their national and international transportation links are seldom as good as those of smaller cities closer to freeways, airports or container ports. “Their skilled labor has already gone. Their factory locations are too cramped. The new high-technology industries flourish in new locations untrammelled by the industrial traditions of the past.” “The chips are down,” he said. “Cities and their citizens, must earn their living.” “We could easily find by the mid-1990s, in typical clearly written manuals. But others tend to contain every technical detail the owner might need to know to use his machine for whatever purpose — from managing the family budget to calculating the trajectory of intercon- tinental missiles. That is why a supplementary manual is the first accessory purchased by many new owners. There is just too much in the material supplied with many systems for the novice to digest easily and get his computer up and running. FILLS NEED A book such as CP-M and the Personal Computer, by Thomas Dwyer and Margot Critchfield (25.95, Addison- Wesley), fills an important niche. It is one of many books that try to explain in true layman's terms the CP-M oper- ‘ating system, a master program used by many small computers, including my Morrow Micro Decision. It told me everything I needed to know about copying files, searching disk directories, determining the size of memory storage space and much more. Software manuals, which give instructions on how to use particular programs, are no less abstruse than their hardware counterparts. The manual that accompanies Wordstar, the most widely used word-processing program, is a notoriously unfriendly tome of about 350 pages of small print, confusing in organization and repitious in its presenta- tion. PROVIDE HELP Severan publications have jumped in to fill the gap. Among them, Wordstar Made Easy, by Walter Ettlin {$15.96, Osborne McGraw-Hill), provides an easy step-by-step tutorial that works well for beginners. The Wordstar Handbook, by Dennis Curtin ($22.95, Curtin and London Inc.) contains a coherent description of the gram's many and i ‘There are dozens of books on the market that explain how to use the BASIC prog i i di d industrial factory workers made up only about five per cent of the workforce, the same as agriculture today,” Hall said, adding that as many as one third of the workforce could be unemployed. , he added, sly has a bright future as gateway for the transportation of goods to and from the, Orient. Hall told the symp that the i revolution may not have as great an impact on the flight of people from the cities as some would think. The telephone, like the automobile, should have prompted greater dispersion of people, “yet 80 years of the liberating telephone plus 80 years of the liberating car, have in general had the effect of concentrating the information industries even more densely in the cores of the great cities. “What this shows, I believe, is that the impact of information technology is complex. It may allow the exchange of a great deal of information need or demand for face-to-face comaginication. “Notice how this paper, produced at home with new technology, then put me on a 5,000-mile journey to meet with you. If the history of the telephone is repeated in the history of the personal computer we may have some surprises.” with most computers), since owner manuals for this often prove inadequate. 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