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On Oct. 25, 1940 he married Kathleen Baker. He farmed in many areas of Alberta until moving to Nakusp in 1955. While in Nakusp he worked in the ~ sawmill. In 1966 he moved to Slocan and began working for Slocan Forest Products until his re- held en tirement in 1981. He was a contacting: Louis esFt90: 3/ member of the IWA and 09 Slocan Legion No. 256. He enjoyed farming and especi- nd ally his animals. Ai y mee @ doy for 9 days, , ond remember publication. Your prayer will be onawared no matter how im- le may seem to you betore the ine ninth dey. time. David Seaading (615) or (602) 758-7517, or (702) 735-5368. 7/05 &_ WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN WITH WEIGHT AND IMAGE CONCERNS. Reach out for what uni PH cultivating changes,” Al PEAR: Proportion and fyien ir, dress, poise, and makeup SELF-AWARE mations and ESS oe nlcatlon DATES — Feb. 8 and 15, 10 a.m, #90 pee February 23, 7:00 ACI Fee - Pio “REGISTER — 7/05 In loving memory of David John Davies who left us February 3, 1975. Gone trom our lives but never from our heorts. Ever loved and sadly missed — Mom and brothers Don, Dane, wens Darrin; Nens, ‘ond Uncle Brien. THE B.C. HEART FoUNoATTOn help promote Heart Research. Cards sent to next-of-kin Box 3023, Castlegar, B.C. 104/87 CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY. In memoriam donations. Infor- mation Box 3292 Castlegar. 365- mw He is survived by his wife, Kathleen of Slocan; one daughter, Mable of Slocan; four brothers, Clem of Hill- 1/09 crest, Alta., Jim of Wasa, B.C., Elgin of Summerland, moroso, MARKIN & BLAIN CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANTS 241 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-7287 Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Ave. Cantt © 1007 vert rose Syma Carpet Cleaning Ph. 365-2151 SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 615 Columbia Ave. CLEAW-SCENE ENTERPRISES © ROTARY-JET STEAM EXTRACTION (TRUCK POWERED) © UPHOLSTERY CLEANING © WATER & FIRE DAMAGE CLEAN-UP SPECIALISTS 365-6969 (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.S. C.A. 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For Reservations Phone 364-1816 1475 Cedar Avenue Trail, B.C Septic Service COLEMAN , COUNTRY BOY SERVICE Sump & Septic Tonk Pumping PHONE 365-5013 3400 - 4th Avenue Castlegor _ + LR | PARK ARTIFACTS . members of the Castlegar Heritage Advisory Commit- tee, sort through some of the artifacts that will be on display in the Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park chapel . Verna Keraiff and Roy Ward, house. Keraiff holds a wooden bust carved by Alexander photographs of “stump woman” and of house itself. —CasNewsPhoto by John Charters Zuckerberg’ while Ward shows BLENDED FAMILIES ON THE RISE ~ By DARLENE RUDE Press Canadian The tiny blue photo album, with its shots of kids hiking in Manitoba and painting faces in Florida, looks as if it could belong to any Canadian family. But the plain black lettering, “Memories of our first year together,” tells the real story. This is a “blended” family, brought together 2'/: years ago when Garth Campbell married Lenore Thompson in a ceremony that included children from their previous marriages as part of the wedding party. “I had this sort of romanticized view of merged families, like we were going to live happily ever after,” Lenore admits in ap interview at the family's two-storey brick house in Winnipeg. “It's the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.” Remarried- families are nothing new. They've been around as long as widowers with children have been taking new brides. But with the rise in the divorce rate, the incidence of second-time marriages has climbed. Blended families with children now account for about 20 per cent of Canadian households. CHANGES PLACES “The projection is by the year 2000, there may be more second marriages than there are first marriages,” says Lillian , author and her at Toronto Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. Twenty-five years ago, only four per cent of brides and grooms had been married previously, Statistics Canada estimates. Now, in one of 10 marriages, both partners have been married before. Society still imagines merged families to be like the ‘Society still imagines merged families to be like the Brady Bunch' Brady Bunch, that television family of six angelic stepchildren, says Lillian Esses, a professor of psychology at the University of Manitoba. “There isn't a great acceptance yet in society that remarriage is a common thing and that it's a different way of family life just as viable as first family marriages,” she said. “We're going to have to expand our definition of what a family is.” Divorced, widowed or single partners will bring together siblings, step-siblings and half-siblings in various possible combinations of family that face a greater risk of breakup than a nuclear family. SEES ATTITUDE “The popular attitude to remarriage today is if it is a successful remarriage, it’s going to be like an intact family,” said Messinger. But “it’s not just a couple relationship, it's a family affair.” For their first month of dating, Garth and Lenore, “With our relationship, how could these kids just not fall into this harmonious situation?” says Garth, who has to stop over in the middle of an interview to settle a dispute over television. “When the turmoil started, I did feel disillusioned.” Their marriage combined 14-year-old Ryan Camp- bell, who had lived with his father after his parents’ separation when he was three years old, with Jeff and Tammy Thompson, 14 and 16, who grew up on a farm and pitched in with household chores. NOTES PROBLEM “I think it's been the toughest for Ryan — he and his dad alone in this house for eight years and all of a sudden, there's five people,” says Lenore. Fights erupted because of jealousy among the children in those first few months together, recalls Jeff. “When I first met Ryan I was jealous of him. He had his own telephone and his own TV, his own pinball machine, practically a whole house to himself.” Unresolved feelings about first marriages often come back to haunt remarried families, especially children who have a hard time believing a new step-parent means their own parents won't get back together, says Messinger. On one family camping trip, Jeff blew up when his stepfather dared to wear his dad's old raincoat. And the day of the wedding, Lenore r bers, Two new members on heritage committee "epee number of 49-to-50-year-old newspapers from the walls of poche tod sna These are to be set up in the house when it it has been that the papers ‘eickt be loaned to tchooks Gavtag Horkagih Week; Alex Lutz reported that due to unusually high water, Castlegar Price; secretary Idriss Roberts; Gerry Rempel, Bill Sloan, Roy Ward, Gordie Hill, George Apel, Verna Keraiff and vice-chairman and restoration étperintendent, Alex Lutx. At the first meeting for 1987 held at the Charters home, the committee attacked an agenda including reports on meetings with the Castlegar and District Development Board about Columbia River docking facilities; with CP Rail officials on the local railway station: vi gerade parks and on the ‘ing the hash gulhogy manganiepipseeenipra” ry and reports to couneil. To facilitate discussions with CP Rail. officials the heritage group formed a CP Rail station subcommittee with Lutz as chairman. This committee met last week with Jim McFarlane, Assistant Superintendent of CP Rail and John Cassie, assistant division engineer, to study a possible site for the removal of the railway station. | McFarlane advised the committee that the company would be posting a notice as required by the Canadian Tr: Commission, of intention to remove the building. This, he reassured the committee, was a legal term and did not mean that the building would be damaged. Reports on this aspect of the ’s work were pi to council. Council agreed to formally request CP maa to turn over the station to the city as a heritage building. Several groups and businesses have already indicated an interest in having space in the building if it is relocated. Heritage Week will be proclaimed across Canada for Feb. 15-22. The B.C. Heritage Society is sponsoring a poster contest for school children from Grades 1-7 and John Charters will be meeting with Lach Farrell, Castlegar school district’s director of instruction, to discuss the matter. The school board as a public service has also laminated a work on the chapel house has been severely limited. However, the city crew is keeping the bridge clear and the island continues to have a steady stream of visitors, Since Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park is now included in the B.C. Tourist Bureau, the committee expects to have a greater number of visitors this year. In order to meet this challenge, as well as limit vandalism, this committee has proposed to form a Friends of the Island group. This would be a designated group of volunteers who would act as hosts at the house or guides about the island. Though recruiting has not yet begun, there are already about eight guides. A has been selected to lay the groundwork after which time formal recruiting will begin. Bill Sloan is heading a committee to prepare a brochure to help to the Friends. The B.C. Heritage Society Conference will be held this year in Kamloops May 29-31. The committee has nominated Gerry Rempel to act as its senior representative and Betty Price as his junior. Letters of di for advice or have been sent to Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco who has worked closely with the committee for the past two years; to the Castlegar Rotary club which initiated the work; to Kenneth Paulson a visitor from Washington state who took a number of pictures of the fire; and to the Castlegar school board for newspaper laminations. Letters have also been sent for gifts of acquisitions for the house: a carved wooden bust by Alexander Zuckerberg presented by Lynn Gould of Rivervale on behalf of Helen Richardson and the late Frank Richardson; an enlarged photo of the chapel house from F. Nevakshonoff; doors, windows and artifacts made by Alexander Zuckerberg and presented by Barry Hill and the late Ruby Hill; and a captain's chair, broad axe and antique telephone presented by former city clerk, Ron Skillings. John Charters .. . Reflections & recollections e \=) ~ .< MUNDAY'S LIFE IN ECUADOR Editor's note: Following is the conclusion of Ecuadorian missionary John Munday's Christmas letter to CasNews columnist John Charters. : Marcelo worked almost all through the night, along with Rodolfo, fixing the lights and the dozen light fixtures. I'm paying the extra for the architect's suggestion of a marble floor. Eight arched windows overlook the slopes below, including our terraced playing fields, our miniature “Grand Canyon*.through which the Nuns’ River trickles and sometimes roars. ‘When the electricity is out, which is for a few hours a week, we're without both light and water' We've painted the dining room white — white walls and white ceiling to match our. white marble floor, and will adorn it with bronze colonial antiques from the museum. Actually, our colonial, convent-like dining room is for our many guests and will hold 80 comfortably. On Christmas, birthdays and other special occasions, it is for the family, as it was on Dec. 25. Before the Canadian ambassador turns up for the inauguration I want to have a bronze plaque prepared to express our appreciation. I understand that Canada is withdrawing its embassy early in '87 for economic reasons. (We just made it!) Apart from donated dining rooms, ete., i to see our Canadian friends, the d T who i isan fine person, leave us. Filipo, my white samoyan watchdog who had protected me since recovering from my stroke ‘way back in May, has also left us. Someone; sometime, Ryan refused to hug her and didn't want to pose in pictures of his new family. It was part of the adjusting that must be done in those crucial early years when a remarried family will either break up or blend, says Messinger. “The incidence of breakdown in second marriage has been quoted at 45 per cent, which is a shocking number,” she says. “We have a lot of hard things to deal with, a lot of both 40, had three teenage pe’ ing them to movies and dinners. Those early times were good, says Lenore, but didn't prepare them for the tough 2% years they've spent trying to learn to be a single family — one that wasn't pulled together by blood ties, years of battles and albums of baby pictures. \ \ new pr .” says Garth. However, he feels he and his wife's strong relationship puts them ahead of other merged families. “Sometimes we throw up our heads and say ‘Hell, we don’t know," but we get little victories and that's why we keep going.” elie to us, di d him. We suspect a family in the neighboring town of Pomasqui. They lost and found a dog of the same make the same week that Filipo disappeared. My financial status prohibited me from redeeming him, so there he stays, walled within a nice garden, and cared for by a solicitous maiden of 10. For years our only source of water has been an underground spring at the lower end of the property. A pumphouse and a remote control timer being the water to the level of the house where it is, in turn, pumped from an underground storage tank. When the electricity is cut off — which is on the average of a few hours each week — we're without both light and water. That's an inconveni- ence we're accustomed to. On Christmas night, however, our second pump gave up the ghost completely. I envisioned a slow and sordid death by dehydration as the dirty clothes pile for close to 50 people grew and grew, the toilets became fuller and fuller; washing enough plates for the next meal became more and more of a challenge, and even the reserve water tank on the top of the house baked dry under our equatorial. We were approaching the long holiday weekend which didn’t make much difference anyway, for I had no money to purchase a new pump. I decided to phone the only HCJB engineer still in Quito at this festive season. It turned out that our problem was his specialty. Late on Boxing Day night he came. Our concern became his, and on his second trip out here that same night he brought a “jet” water pump with the precise measurements that just “happened” to be sitting unused in the HCJB compound. He also brought an assistant to help him, our good friend Ron Cline, President of HCJB. Before midnight all the toilets were flushed, the reserve tank was filling up, the washing machine was churning contentedly and hot showers and baths were effectively reviving bodies and spirits. I regret not having kept a diary to remind me of the many, many times and ways God has used his army of “angels” to minister to our many, many needs; humble and sometimes hitherto unknown people calling specifi- cally to hand me their “tithe money,” or to share the fruit of their labors in gratitude to the One who has blessed them with a good ¢rop or a good business. Often such calls are made when we are down to zero, moneywise and foodwise. More and more we are learning how totally dependent we are upon the God who has promised to be Father to the orphan. Before Christmas a bazaar was held in Quito, sponsored by Christian friends who want to show their concern in such practical ways as giving the proceeds from this big undertaking. Last Saturday the young people from a big Alliance church in Quito drove out to present a Christmas pageant, and to leave us with many cartons of clothing — some of it brand new — not realizing, perhaps, how very timely was this gift. As in the rest of the world the cost of living has spiralled quite startlingly this past year, and while the economic testing has been greater and more frequent than before, so has God’s provision and so have been His surprises. To you who have been such a vital part of all that’s going on here — through praying, through giving, through writing, through your love and concern, a very sincere and special, thank you! And thank you for your patience with me so far as my correspondence is concerned. I'm almost afraid to sort through the hundreds of unanswered letters on my desk. But I must do it, even if it takes me to the end of 1987. Which reminds me . . . a very blessed (though belated) Christmas, and an equally blessed New Year. May it be for all of us a year of growth in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. P.S. For the past five months Marsha, who is doing such an excellent work with the blind boys here, has been suffering from a probably tropical infeetion of the integtines and is almost constantly nauseous or unable to eat without suffering the consequences. Please pray that an effective cure will soon be realized. Rodolfo was ill for a couple of weeks with what the doctor diagnosed as typhoid. It may have been a close relative, as the final tests did not confirm all we feared. ‘As I write the boys are cleaning out our big oven. So far they have killed 26 rats! John (Munday) and family