Speaking course in Castlegar Stu MeNish of Speaker's Corner in Vancouver will be in Castlegar Feb. 15-17 to in- struct a public speaking For information and reg- course. istration phone Linda Hart “The objective is to help 365-5011 by Dec. 15. En people feel good about speak- rolment is limited. The pro ing in public,” McNish said. gram is sponsored by the “In doing so, you will find it Castlegar Arts Council. Thank You To all those people who supported me for Alderman at the polls on November 17. Marilyn Mathieson NEW LOCATION Top of Sherbiko Hill (Next To) Mitchell Auto Supply 713 - 13th St., Castlegar Christmas Layaways & Specials SAVE 15% WITH COUPON On All Parts & Accessories *© Small Children's Bikes ° BMX “Dupli Skate” — Come © Mountain Bikes in and get your skotes REMINDER . . MAR. AND MRS. WAYNE T, - residing in Castlegar . + Proto bylirothers Sudo eennennenenenn ahha eek ak ne Tie ee ¥ so Despine ot es ies table. u-shaped, featured crystal candisholdera belonged to the bride's great- ‘The cake, made by Joanne Caron, was the shape of a prayer book, and was later served to guests. Master of cereménite was Tom Hughes, the bride's Mexico, and they now live in Castlegar. Amnesty writes letters Editer’s note: Amnesty Internatignal’s Castlegar,group is working, through letter-writing, for the release of an defiance of the United Nations. This journal by Castlegar's Sally Williams documents Amnesty International's work over, the past year. . 8 « BACKGROUND Abducted in Angola in 1977, Lazarus Haukongo has been held with 150 other Namibian refugees in Hardap Military Detention camp near Mariéntal, south of the capital city, Windhoek. The Castlegar group — group 66 — has written hundreds of letters in the last year requesting information about Haukongo. In May a postcard campaign was set in motion to inundate the Namibian authorities with questions about his detention. MAY 1984 Our group continues to pursue its goal of ensuring Lazarus will be kept alive in prison through continually bringing his name to the attention of those in authority over him. . We have sent more than 200 postcards asking about him through our contacts in North America and parts of Europe. In late April we had a meeting in Ottawa with the Seuth African ambassador to Canada, Hendrik Guidenhuys. This was arranged through the office of West Kootenay MP and Amnesty member Lyle Kristiansen, who attended the meeting with Tim Richards from the Castlegar group and some high ranking officers from the national office of the Canadian Section of Al It was a cordial meeting and covered concerns over conditions in South Africa and Namibia vis-a-vis human rights and specifically the detainees in Mariental and the grounds for their detention. The ambassador promised to look into the case of = For Your Shopping Convenience HOMEGOODS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE will be OPEN TODAY Sunday (Dec. 2) Noon to Final De 5 p.m ial SUPER SPECIALS SALE HOMEGOOPS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE iT CHINA CREEK ary tay, Bet back to un — a better resolution than we had jor. The AI Research Division in London, England, has sent usa copy of a news clipping from a South African newspaper, Pretoria News, containing an interview with the former attorney-general of Namibia. It contains some encouraging news for us about the effectiveness of our letter writing. The newspaper quotes Attorney-General Brunett: “Many people come here knowing more than many people who live here and don't think you can tell them just anything.” Mr. Brunette opens a bulging file. “There. Those are letters I receive from almost all over the world from Amnesty International, wanting to know when I'm going to charge people held under Proclamation AG-9.” LATE JUNE Another item from the AI Research Division in London. Church leaders and relatives of some of the Mariental detainees are applying to the Windhoek Supreme Court to declare the confinement of some of the detainees unlawful and requesting their release. (AG-9 permits any member of the security forces to detain, without charge, any citizen for a period of 30 days, renewable indefinitely with no appeal through the courts. This is what Lazarus is detained under.) Obviously, the letters from Amnesty Groups are having an effect. We know that 60 of thie detainees in Mariental are being investigated by AI groups 'tike oars. The role of the church in Namibia is an interesting one in that it actively supports those illegally detained, assisting their families and giving protection and encouragement through the interdenominational Council of Churches. JULY 1984 Great excitement today. Went to get the mail and there wasa letter from the AI Research Division in London again. This time it enclosed a news clipping from one of the two English speaking newspapers in Windhoek — the Advertiser. Our group has written several times to the editor about Lazarus. The clipping was a photostat of Page 4 and our postcard about Lazarus leaped out of the headline: The news item begins, “The Windhoek Advertiser is being inundated with letters from Amnesty International protesting against detention without trial throughout Namibia.” It goes on to say that a Canadian group (that’s us!) wrote about Lazarus Haukongo held over Proclamation AG-9 for nearly six years without charge or trial. Buried at the end of the report is our first confirmation from the military authorities that they are holding Lazarus: “Major Zariko confirmed this week that Mr. Haukongo was still in detention.” We seem to be achieving our goal — the military is not likely to kill a prisoner whose picture appears on page four of a leading Namibian newspaper. (Later we learned that because of filing this type of story the Windhoek Advertiser was forced to close down for a period of time and the journalist covering such stories was fired. Another letter from the Research Department in today’s mail. I expected it to be about the court action in Windhoek. The actual headline was “Release of 54 detainees at Mariental.” I could hardly believe my eyes — with 150 detainees, that gives Lazarus a one in three chance of having been released. ‘This could be it! ° g I scanned the report — no names available yet of those released. George Richards dashed off a telegram to the Namibian Support Committee in London, England: “Was Lazarus Haukongo among 64 released in May?” We settle down to wait impatiently for the reply. The taste of success is in our mouths and we eagerly discuss how we will celebrate the good news. Seven days later comes the reply: “Lazarus Haukongo not released.” [Te be contineed) Western NOTICE WARNING - SNOW REMOVAL WARNING to all owners and operators of motor vehicles, that VEHICLES shall not be parked on any streets or city parking lot in a manner to obstruct snow plowin: heavy snowtalls. Vehicles must be off.streets in the business areas, from 12 midnight to 7:30 a.m. for snow removal. Any SNOW PLOWING may be TOWED AWAY AT OWNERS EXPENSE. NO WARNING will be issued. Snow removal is costly, please help us maintain our streets vehicles OBST! for safe travel. PARENTS — warn children not to play on snowbanks on streets. For $100,000, the prize num- bers are 1370100, 2064009, and 1773901. 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INFORMATION & INQUIRIES regulations (planning, jogs, noise), please call 365-7227 for assistan- Grant? 14.5 If you ha building, fire, ce. vestions about City We wish to remind everyone City Hall will be closed Tuesday, Wednesday, December 26, 1984 and December 25, 1984, Tuesday, January 1, 1985. CITY COUNCIL WISHES TO ITS CITIZENS A SAFE AND HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON |! Next Wednesday's jackpot Reading ot Selkirk College the governor general's owerd winning novel lors, will be ng se ate Dec. 4- 8p m. The film The Wars will be at noon on the some FREE ADMISSION CAMPUS LE VIN 8 order to let one’s soul catch up with one’s body. Certainly an essential part of any travel plan: ” menu, since they come with the always satisfying and some dre the Clayton was no exception — juice, plentiful supply of that excellent Englivh bador, egg, Shusage, fried tomato, toast, a jar of marmalade, a pot of sturdy tea for me and a jug of hot water for Bunny to’subdue hers to a whimper. Toast — for those unacquainted with the custom here — is never served buttered in the British Isles, but always dry, and arranged in a toast-rack. Ideally, it comes hot to the table, and one can then butter it from a butter pot to one’s own specifications. Too often it is not hot, “but you get accustomed to it,” as/Maggie, our excellent Irish tour guide said so often; and anyway, it is greatly preferable to those piddling plastic pats of jam and butter “that one gets so often elsewhere. That, and milk and cream in a jug, is the difference between a meal and a McDonalds. Out, then, into the ancient Roman town of Chester (From the Latin castra meaning camp). They were nothing if not thorough, those Romans, every time the army stopped for the night they set up a fortified camp with a protective ditch and sharpened stakes. It didn't require a very long stay to establish the basis of a town. Chester became one of their permanent bases and the city walls, remains of old temples and an amphi. theatre are fine evidence of Roman pragmatic thorough ness in all that they did. Out into the street where, while Bunny shops, I proteed to get thoroughly lost as usual, returning repeatedly to the same place by different routes over the course of an hour. Later, we “join” the Roman army under the direction of a “Roman soldier” — a young fellow whose voice and enthusiasm make up for what his legs under the Roman kilt and sandals lack in substance. His sword, shield and helmet — stainless steel replicas of the original iron or bronze — are surprisingly heavy and very efficient looking implements of the soldier's calling. The usually co-operative weather turns to a fine drizzle (the same thing happened when we walked along Hadrian's Wall, in North Britain five years ago. Perhaps we hand’t offered suitable sacrifices to the Roman gods. But we did get a certificate of enlistment — “touristy” but a lot of fun. With our lost day in Ireland, due to the bank holiday, we had actually only enough time to skim through Chester, but after almost 2,000 years it should keep for a while longer, and we took off next morning by train for Bath. I like British trains for they are both fast and comfortable. I would probably have liked them a lot better a few years ago before they were nationalized and “efficient.” However there is one problem. We never seemed to be able to board a train on the same side we entered the station platform. Almost every time we had to trudge to the platform on the other side of the tracks, a move which meant hauling over baggage up a flight of stairs, across a bridge and down another flight of stairs — no mean feat when one is loaded with bags. Furthermore, when one arrives, there is still the uncertainty about which side of that platform the train is going to come in. This problem is frequently compounded by the fact that the trains — unlike the old days when they could be identified by their posted arrival time alone (Le. the 5:87 arrived at 5:37 and the 5:39 at ) — are almost always a little late — and sometimes a lot more than a little. Our departure from Chester met all of these hazards. It was compounded by the fact that the train announcer had lost his,pehedule and was, instead reciting the Rubalyat of Khayan — in the original Persian — while the officials, rather untidy leftovers from an earlier age but quite helpful (when you could catch them), were also giving contradictory instructions. Finally, we got aboard, and blessing once again our first-class BritRail passes, took up residence in the coroon-like confines of one of the first-class compart- ments. Bath is a wonderful city, as I have suggested before, and it is doing what I feel Castlegar should be considering — that is, setting itself up as a tourist hub. Visitors come to the city and take lodgings for a week or more, tour the city to see the points of interest, then travel out along the radiating network of “spokes” via bus, train or car to make day trips to the many interesting cities and places such as Stratford. upon-Avon, Cardiff, Bristol and Stonehenge — all of which are within an hour or two travel from their temporary home. After another all-too-brief 24-hour visit bere, we were on our way to Weymouth, an English Channel town. Our objective jn this instance was not the place, but persons — Miss Buxton who, more than 50 years ago, had the sorry } getting me through the required four year French at North Burnaby High School, and her sister Crissy. In spite of this horrendoys experience, Miss Buxton NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING KOOTENAY BOUNDARY VISITORS ASSOCIATION Notice is given that the 7th Annual General Meeting the Kootenay Boundary Visitors Association will commence ot 11:09 A.M. MONDAY, DEC. 10 At the Sandman Inn All members and others having business items telephone the e ® - 4 i vaPlasas 9087 HISTORIC CHESTER . . . looking along Eastgate Street in Chester, an ancient Roman town. and I had maintained a somewhat disjointed, on my part, a very respectful, friendship over: the yedita We had corresponded while I was overseas Ggring the war, and I had brought my daughter Tanya to tieet her in Vancouver after the war, but I then had lost contact until I learned of her whereabouts fairly tecently through a fellow classmate, the prior at the Abbéy. She had returned to Engiand and had retired ir Weymouth with her sister, a former music teacher in Vancouver, but spent her winters in southern France. Correspondence was renewed once again and I was amazed at what little difference the years had made. Her: writing was as small, neat and precise as it had been when she had made those numerous red ink corrections on our daily quiz papers, and her mind was every bit as sharp as the steel pen with which she wrote them. Some people are impervious to time. I accepted a pressing invitation to visit when we came to Britain and so on Aug. 8 we were on our way to the Weymouth rendezvous. This is Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh country. Thomas Hardy wrote his novels with it as back. ground, and Tintagel on the west coast — King Athur’s legendary castle site — was already old wher the Normans built their still-standing castle there 900 years ago. To the east of Stour-head are England's most famous landscaped gardens. While a little further the highest church spire in the kingdom soars into the sky 404 feet above the Cathedral of Salisbury. To the south, a short ferry trip out into the Channel, lie the famous, Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderny and Sark; whose inhabitants claim that far from belonging to Britain, Britain belongs ta them...... ; People have lived in this area for the past 100,000 years, and yet — my journal notes — the trip down to Weymouth was made through a typical, rural English countryside of rolling fields, copses and hedges, and a surprising number of black and white cattle. Miss Buxton had booked a room-with-bath in one of the better hotels (the Prince Regent) lining the busy seaside street, so that we had an excellent view of the sand and pebble beach, the amusement pier and an unending variety of holidayers. Once installed, we immediately took a stroll along the shore, savoring — like all of those who were born by the sea — the smell of the salt and the roll and swish of the waves and the summer evening air. We then slipped into the excellent dining room for my favorite roast lamb and mint sauce, raspberry cream slice (and when they talk about cream in this country they mean cream) followed by several demi-tasses of excellent coffee. This was followed by a luncheon date with the Misses Buxton for the following noon (we had already missed two calls), then off to bed with a rousing “cloak and dagger” (The Eagle has Landed) to end a most pleasant day. The two-hour luncheon the next day and the visit at home was all that such a day should have been in the company of two gracious English gentlewomen — old friends and memories, tea and kindnesses. It had been a little out of our way but I wouldn't have missed it on any account and the memory of it remains as a particularly warm place in our hearts. Naturally, my camera didn't work. 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