CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, August 19, 1976 CASTLEGAR R MAN, Morley Bruce * the Regular Olficer Power-Hungry Montreal Sought Olympics Most readers of this col- umn are quite aware of my attitude toward the Montreal Olympic Games. "And Tam sure.that many of them have put me down as a spoil-sport, a wet blanket,'a niggling critic of a glorious event, Not so, please. Ifyou have read with care my ferocious attacks on the Games, you'll have noticed that I wasn't knocking them, oF the athletes. Iam as red-blooded a Can- adian as the next guy, and I groaned when the Canadians came last in the boat race, and I cheered when a Canadian scrambled to a second or third or fourth. ‘And | alnigst wept when one of our beautiful little gym- naststottered ce fell off the bar. What 1 wos smiting was the chauvinism, the hunger for. power, the utter’ im- morality that lay behind the of the Games by: attaining z:scholarship in 1975, Morley will attend Royal Roads Military :-College, Victoria, toward an degree. On ‘graduation, he will be employed as an engineering officer in the + Canadian Forces. National Defence Department Photo Montreal, Montreal needed those Games about as much as I need an amputation of my right leg. And the results will be somewhat the same, The city will be crippled for half a century because it wanted to hold a two-week party for the whole world. Hunger for power? Maybe. - that’s the wrong phrase. More like a hunger for the Hmelight, or a yearning for some sort of immortality (maybe lasting 30 years?) on the part of the arch- promoter, M. Drapeau. + During the Games, many critics softened up quite a te on Drapeau, Through no virtue of his, the Games, wallowing in problems, had ..been scotch-taped| together atthe last minute by the requirements are not relieved in the downtown district, it perimeter commercial locations.” ‘Keep Your Cool When Your Car is ‘Bugged’ If a large flying insect enters the car in which you're travelling, try to “keep your “That's the adviee of the. suddenly entrapped with a flitting bug in such close quarters as an automobile’s interior. Rather than attempting to swat the whith which notes that thousands of motorists have followed natural impulses and panicked under similar circumstances. Conse- quently, many of them wound up in ‘traffic accidents. Insects—especially of the stinging varieties—are known to'frighten most people, chil- dren in particular. This fright can turn into mindless hysteria should a person find himself might succeed.only in’ making the bug aggressive, BCAA re- commends that the driver of the “bugged” car take the first safe opportunity to pull com- pletely off the road and stop. ‘Then, passengers and’ driver should quickly exit through the doors away from the road. The doors should be left open until the insect has found its own way out. & _ Name u + Address Phone = Send for your QO: FREE 1976 NELSON @- HOME BUYERS GUIDE of Quebec, and the’ official opening was magnificent, veiling the fan- ~ tastic debt His Worship had built up. Even hard-boiled report- ers were suggesting. we'd been abit rough on Drapeau, that after all, he had had the vision, the tenacity, to pursve his dream, and that we were all cashing in on it. “Afraid I don't go for thai jazz. That's like saying that Napoleon, who bled France dry, physically and fin. ancially, was, after all, not a badlittlechap, that he meant, well, that he didn’t reall mean to lose half a million men in the retreat from Moscow, that his wife, Josephine, didn't under- stand him, and that his family was ‘greedy. Nuts. He did it for La, Gloire. And so did Drapeau... The major difference. be- tween them is that Napoleon. had to face only the English , the Prussians, the Poles and Beaucoup formidable! Well, let's get back to the Games themselves, before I turn puce, which is what Ido every time I think of 72,000 people cheering athletes while the raw sewage flows out of Montreal into the St. wrence. Coast Barbers : Can No Longer Offer Cool Brew. Friendly Vancouver bar- bers who have been ‘offering “their customers a cool beer on the side are being asked to cool it. “Frankly I don't know why anyone should complain about someone getting a haircut with a nice cool beer in one’s hand,”. said a police officer who asked not to be identified. “But such practices are clearly a violation of the government Liquor Act.” He said one barber shop an equal yen for. anonymity agreed with the policeman’s sentiments. | - The practice of serving beer has been part of the scene eaeSASAASRRR ALA A ° * ‘CASTLEGAR & ae _ COMMUNITY CENTRE ~ % Advance Ticket Draw on * _ Sugar and spice } Bill Allhail to the athletes! We may bo greedy whenitcomes to making a buck — as wit- ness the federal govern- ment's knee-jerk to China, with visions of big wheat sales dancing in its puny head, Ant, when {t comes tee ~ winning Olympic medals, Canadians are certainly among the least greedy nations in the world. We are so hospitable about letting other countries grab the medals that it is almost em- barrassing. And ‘that’s the way it should be. The important thing > about international games is — or should be — doing your absolute best. And that's what’ Canada’s CeCleLleLleLleLleLleLeLleLle/ jeLleL ele Smiley BS A young representatives did, My heart, and-I'm sure yours, was right’ in there thumping away with them, whether they were finishing |. fourth or 14th, One of the things that really bugged me before and during the Olympics was the “erassness of sports writers. Now, admittedly, this is a species not known for its sensitivity, ‘but’ the’ crude- ness this time was simply too much, + Canadian sports writers, ‘on the whole, are pale imi- tations of their. U.S, counter- parts. Most of them are not, as they should be, extremely knowledgeable about the sport they are writing on. They are far more interested - in times, statistics and medals than thoy, are in the > human drama of the Games, It's no wonder that Can- + adian. athletes rapidly be- come disenchanted with the press, When an athlete is “up,” even exceeding what he*or-she has ever dono before, jock. writers are dreaming about medals. When an athlete has a bad day ora bad. race, the jocks subtly suggest that he or she has “let Canada down,” Every single and solitary athlete in the Games, Canadian or otherwise, did © the very best he or she could do at that given moment. And that's what it’s all about, After saying all that, 1 must admit the CBC did a splendid job of covering the Games, Their commentators were no more partisan than human nature would excuse, and they kept the focus on the athletes, where it should How strange to read a TV columnist, who was. almost white-lipped with anger be- cause the television com- mentators were not excori- ating Canadian athletes who “did not live up to promise.” What a jerk! Oh, well, it was a great party while it lasted, Now * the caterers must be pald. If ‘you are driving along beside the St. Lawrence River next summer, and notice that the water is a rusty brown, ‘rather than blue, don’t: be alarmed. And don’t think it is merely the. usual. human ‘exerement from Montreal. It is, but added toit isa healthy infusion of the blood of Montreal and Quebec tax- payers, WANT TO SEL ., -YOUR HOME? . 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Fast think: ers are more successful than fast talkers, Soe reese tT eT CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1976 aD 20 CENTS PER COPY. ~eatimated 150,000 people: lined the three mile parade Reate, heralding the opeaiie second Largest of Canada’s fair, which this year is a salute to avd sod come 00 Laser Day. Sept: ‘ Basically, r operate the arena bogie ith the re- protecting ‘drinking. water th Kootenays, supplying West ‘Teall with do- mestic water; the entire Ross- land watershed area supplying control | zoning or. and “spec. ulation. o. “We-are Sune en- shone problems in our .".Mike Harna- bene: pay public health \in-. Raspberry’s, water supply; China Creek for Genelle; Glade Creek for south Glade water. se Namerood creeks in the Kelly Grecks Creek, Covert's. rateroiad jatheriand hemo tee the | No Decision on Who After more than an hour of — ties are still to be negotiated. could be solved “if both sides debate last Thursday, Regional District of Central. Kootenay atill reached no firm deal on who will run the old arena in Castlegar. . A list of suggestions fro rom a special RDCK. committee brought to the board ‘meeting conflicted _with recommend- ations sent on from Castlegar’s Mosby, an alternate director on the board, was there to answer challenges that his city was ne- gotiating in “an aura of sus- pielon".. ‘The district and Castlegar have reached agreement in principle on a plan to run the iar but “it’s the little nitty- y things. are ‘holding ” that are holaing up the will gional district picking: up ‘the “eost--up to the limit of ‘it’s budget. There remains $12,000 in the fund ‘set aside for the arena’s operation. * “It's an ioerediby. com: plicated situation,” sald RDCK treasurer-project manager Reid Henderson, Castlegar came to an agreement about a year ago for the district to run the arena, ‘with Regional Recreation Com- mission No. 1 to handle the. have a positive approach.” Runs Arena \ Area J aetna to be done soon to “take the said on page 2) -CanCel Pulp ill Worker __Wins $3,000 i in Giant Bingo th “Union of Public Employees and Gi over staffing of programs, the region decided to turn the operation back over to Castle- gar while continuing to pick up the tab for operations, Castlegar now wanta the region to take over operations again at the end of 1916; 1976; the region is willing to negotlate this, but is not ready to say “yes" immediately. Castlegee” wanted the $12,000 immediate-” ly; the region wants to pay it in installments over three or four _ months, Several of the board di- rectors blasted: Mayor Mosby for the city’s change of mind after ae with the RDCK ‘union regulations, nora du i celeste deiieeeceniaaniamaenial ‘Castlegar. is Told Cannot Opt Ost Of Planning Dept. Castlegar has been told it cannot opt out of the eran of Central Kooter “qhureday at’a board meeting that since the RDCK's Planners work for the éntire ire resin Dot 3) specific areas, Vhave® to stay paeriee the > ee ? gram—and pay for it. 3 ‘The city recently hired its ~ con ful-time planner, to tackle << for haggling Sah detals ‘cirdion ald Calg ap sal proach shows ‘an. “aura Hie suspicion", and that the ex-. isting agreement is fair to - neither Castlegar nor the RDCK. Mayor Mosby denied the suspicion and said the matter - bingo will be made. public, Winner of the CB radio in “the draw for ‘advance ‘Weket ~ Selkirk Gets Special Grant To Provide NDU Courses — ‘A special grant of $169,000 Castlegar by Selkirk College, © the. Notre Dame “University. (is tobe made to Selkirk College f education ops subdivision “and zoning changes. “exercise will be h a Sept abet Cranbrook: ‘ The exercise will replace ‘one’ originally scheduled for Ane: 15 but ‘cancelled because * e Canadian ‘ Forces” planes Haueee at Comox. on Van- couver Island were unable to attend because of th h for ; ‘planning nate rf “Another alderman’ specu- lated © Castlegar: could’. save $14,000 per year if it opted out three downed Planes then” underway. The P.E.P. zone * co-ordin- ator at “Nelson, Mrs, Edith VanMarion, says pilots in both -- the,East and West Kootenays are es] invited ‘to take part in the Sent. 28. sxerelte, have. He’ also‘ stated ‘that. the matter would ‘be taken up at the UBCM Convention to ‘be held Sept. 15 to 17 in Van- us ‘couver. Local Residents. Share $1, 000 Kin-Win Prize area | providing dc mesic aber for the majorly o “ Two Robson residents are Listed among the winners of the final .Kin-Win Lottery draw, which took place on Wednesday of last week in Vancouver. Miss Kootenay winners in the draw, The | Kin-Win lottery is Val." . sponsored by the Kinsmen Re- in of B.C., “* with the procedds assisting the ‘physically ‘bandicapped in BC, "by to yee it financially in pro-. viding courses at Notre Dame delivery of university programs ~ in the Kootenays. has been assured forthe 1976-77 aca-