February 9, 1986 You Ger OF Security When You Oe. ’ 2 Sense fusiness With A Leader HOMEGOODS . FURNIT. “xe WAAOUSE -t.-SQt., 9:30-5:30 China Creek “Drive a Little to Save a Lot” People’s Insulation Services 500 cc. CONTINUES H&R BLOCK TAX REFUND BUYING SERVICE getan expertly prepared tax return free-of-charge plus 85% of the first $300 and 95% of the rest, usually within one day. 1444 Columbia Ave., Castlegar 365-6151 9 to 6 Mon.-Fri. 9 to 5 Sat. LOCAL HERITAGE REMEBERED A few days ago # special edition of Heritage West, the newsletter of the Heritage Society of British Columbia arrived on my desk. It read: ‘We are celebrating! Heritage Day, February 17, has been chosen as the day for British Columbians, and indeed all Canadians, to reflect upon the variety and richness of our unique heritage.’ Actually the entire week of February 17-23 has been designated as Heritage Week and a variety of events rom heritage fashion shows to slide and lecture series have been scheduled across the province. There are also contests with heritage themes which have been Pp d by the With the assistance of Lach Farrell, the new Director of Instruction, rules for a province-wide contest on the topic ‘What does heritage mean to you?’ have been sent out to the district schools. With twenty prizes of $50 each being offered, I would hope that we could see some local winners. Deadline for entries is March 17. In the meanwhile we adults are even more involved in heritage than we realize, for heritage is the very fabric of our lives — it includes the things, and the memories of things, places and events which are all about us. Seemingly so permanent, they are often as perishable as grass. Today they are clear, solid as Gibraltar, unchangeable. Tomorrow they are gone as if they had never been. People, things and memory are so transient. With this thought in mind I went for a little chat with Ruth and Earl Rourke who, between them, have over 100 years of residence in Castlegar. Ruth's father, Gus Fors, together with his brothers, began operating the Castlegar brick yard in 1912. It had been started in Rossland in 1902 according to Harold Webber's People and Places, and moved in 1903 to Castlegar on what later was the site of the Lakeview Motel. The motel was located beside the Castlegar ferry. It was built by ferryman Ross Defoe, run later by Eddie Fredrickson and still later by Bert and Jessie Donnan, who sold it in 1960. Little now remains. When Ruth's mother Gertrude died in 1928, Ruth left Nelson and came to live with her John and John Charters .. . Reflections & recollections HISTORIC SCENE . . . workers at the Castlegar brick yard operated by Gus Fors and his brothers pose “There weren't many businesses 50 years ago beside the dirt roads. Farmer's General Store, later bought by Ralph West and now about where Prestige Cleaners is. Dr. Goresky, the only doctor in town had an office upstairs; Bill Plotnikoff had the store where Bob's Pay 'n Takit is now (Al Horswill operated it somewhere in between); Fred Eremenko had a grocery and butcher store where the Castlegar News is now located and there was a circular dance hall near by. “There was an open-air skating rink near where the Co-op garage is now, the big community hall for dances, ity events and home for a while for the Castlegar Selma Hansen. The Hansens, early residents in Castlegar, built a house in 1913 where the present Whitewater Motors stands. When Jim Lamont built his garage, he moved the old Hansen house to where it now stands, behind the Pentecostal Church and across the road from the Forest Service. Things, even houses, are very shifty in heritage studies, one finds. What, I wanted to know, was Castlegar like in 1928? There wasn't too much even in 1947 when I arrived. “Castlegar was zilch,” said Earl, “gravel roads and lots of dust.” “The big event of the year,” added Ruth, “was the annual summer picnic in Nelson. The train started in Trail, where it started picking up people.We got on at the station in Castlegar, then everyone went on to Lakeside Park in Nelson for the day. In the evening the train would bring us all back again. I can remember having a great time — cakes and cookies; the ice cream was really good, sandwiches, salads, home canned meats and fruit (there was no ice), races, games and swimming. Just like a Portuguese community picnic today. public library. “There were some fights in that old community hall, too,” mused Earl, “but I had a choice — stay out of them or go home alone. I stayed out — usually.” Both Ruth's grandfather, a long-time employee at Waldie's sawmill and her grandmother were active in the community and particularly in the community hall. “Grandmother did a lot of work in the kitchen and she washed the dishes in a tub since there were no sinks then,” Ruth recalled. Her education began in the one-room school which once occupied what is now Fields store. Shortly thereafter she went to the tworoom Castlegar elementary school, now torn down and the space occupied by the school district's storage and maintenance buildings. She took her Grade 8 at the Kinnaird elementary school (there was no high school), a one-room building on the highway, near the service station. The late Tannis Killough was her teacher. “She was a wonderful teacher.” Since her grandmother was the janitor at the for a picture on the site later occupied by the Lakeview Motel. Proto courtesy of Ruth ond Ear! Rourke Castlegar elementary school, Ruth helped — serubbing the old wooden desks mounted on runners, and cleaning the oiled wooden floors. “It was hard work,” she said. Gr her was both old: and fussy. She believed in plenty of elbow grease and distrusted modern gadgets such as washing machines and refrigerators, preferring instead to use her old scrubbing board until the late 40s. “Castlegar didn't have much to offer in those days in the way of facilities.” What about Kinnaird. “Kinnaird was just farms in those days, the Dumonts, the Killoughs, Kuryluks, Gundersens, Bradleys and...” There were other names, familiar and unfamiliar, but the hour was up and there were other commitments, and in any case the point has been made. Heritage consists of people and things, places and memories — mainly span of local history it became obvious — all the things that we had touched on had changed radically or disappeared; precise details of time and place when examined closely became misty, and people pass on or leave. Paper, though not immortal, has a good memory. Even more important perhaps is the realization that life styles as well as everything else changes. Thus each of us is a custodian of our heritage. For Heritage Week why not write it down? * 28 «6 Apology: Last week we failed to acknowledge credit to Kathy Armstrong for allowing us to use her photo of Ron Woodward of Selkirk College, coordinator of the Book Publishing Seminar. Sorry, Kathy, The six winning numbers in Wednesday's Lotto 6-49 draw were 6, 26, 29, 31, 32 and 41. The bonus number was 36. 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