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Crossan‘won the combined » title by racing second in the “Navratilova wins. “Gain: -NEW YORK (AP) — ing a measure of revenge, Martina barrel- i] Hl Herhey beams. s action Th veda ni - downhill ‘gybne: fit the the “yight ‘wax hones: him’ ‘in ° Results frorit the Shell ‘Cup giant slalom’ and second’ in: all three ‘races, par ‘the slalom run. Munro placed, he downhill. Snow was hard- * seventh in the downhill, ‘sixth in the-giant slalom. and -fifth vin ‘the slalom. ' : More than 120 ‘skiers, 14 and under. participated ‘shocked: by’ her victory, her the three-day competition: biggest’, re of. ome “y -Crosson,“ who ‘said he: was didn't think I would. win’ it.” pleased with his victory, sald < In the’ final slalom event “Friday, Gillian Evans of Cal- gary, 14, captured the wom- en’s division, Catherine F tier, 13, of Ste. tar ‘The winner of today’s final in the world's richest. wom- pj, led her. way. into the final of the $850,000 ; Virginia. Slims - tennis championships of New. '-. York on Saturday, by. crush- ing. Sylvia Hanika’ of ‘West.’ -Germany 6-1,:6-1.":. i en's will receive. ‘th ‘slalom, $80,000. The ‘runner- T-Up col- Ie the mons f . 000. : . Mealey, "and. Ber i Reunning her “indbeh win-* ning streak: to 26-in/a‘row, Navratilova atoned’-for:the defeat alie ‘suffered ’at bares is6n' Si ment,: Nayratilexa\ will: mee! the winner of Saturday's sec- ond_ semifinal match: pitting: No. 2-seed Chris Evert Lloyd and. Billie;Jean King. s ago: when Hanika: § her in. the: final of the Avon ‘Championships. And she ‘did it easily, needing: only 55° minutes. CASTLEGAR TENNIS CLUB ANNUAL MEETING ‘March 31, 7 p.m. S.H.S.S. — ogee, 108 Elections & general business. ©’ tournament held at the David. : Thompson University Centre’ last weekend, March 12 ‘and 18, Dan Babin took first place for. the: fourth. consecutive year. Runner up in: second place ‘was Denis Kleine, a DTUC student, who only'lost by four points, and. who was - player. 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Bernardo - Nella, 4, Stoney Creek, Ont. 99.22.) ‘4, Michael Bier, 14, Wi ze loo, Ont. 98.90. : “6, Jeff Ritcey, 14, Calgary 6. Dan Bowles, 14, Fernie 94.28. 1. Mike Sumanik, : Mu, Nel. .. son 94,76. wo 8. Ryan Melellan, M, Rossland 95.42.: -9.°Eric Marchand, us Re- of ’ pentigny,. Que, 95.48.- 10. ‘Simon ; Larrivee, 14, ‘Trois Pistoles, Que. 96.07. There was a three-way tie “for third place between John Abbott,: Larry Marinas and” Ron Guy. The final decision was made from the overall .total points and Marinas ed- ged Guy ‘by: two points to gain the third apot and ‘the prize of a record. ‘The’ tournament ended Sunday afternoon ‘and the nine entries were quite even- ly matched resulting in‘ very : close’ scores) in most games. Last - game for _Kanigan _ By CasNows Staff Senior defenseman Dave Kanigan of Castlegar, played his final game as a hockey Wildcat ‘at Northern: Michi- gan. University ‘recently in! the team’s 8-6 loss to: Ohio State University in the Cen- tral Collegiate Hockey Asso- ciation championships, Kani- gan’s career totals at NMU show five goals and eight as- sists in 71 games... - } Senior centre Bruce’ Mar- . tin, also of Castlegar, ‘scored a goal in the OSU game, giving him 20. points for the The '-ex-Castlegar Rebel's career totals at NMU show 56 goals and 55 assists in 184 games, He is the . elghth all-time leading scorer at Northern. Northern ended , the 1982- 83 season’ with an 18-18-4 overall record and finished - fifth in the CCHA standings with a 16-18-8 slate. ee MIKE'S RADIATOR - REPAIR® CLEANED - REPAIRED RECORED 8:30 - 5:00 p.m, Weekly ' 364-1606 . . Res, 359-7058 1598B - 2ND AVE., TRAIL LOOKING back at our early history — Ry RON NORMAN Editor “A story should always begin at the beginning...” With that, Yvette Swanson opens her book, A Look in the Past, a unique glimpse into rural living in the Slocan Valley from the turn of this ‘century to the 1950s. - It's a period Swanson:knows perhaps better than anyone, because she not only grew up, lived and taught in’ the valley through ‘those years, -but, her fainily was tho firat to live at Crescent Valley — then called Bourgeois Siding, after her family name Bourgeois..And Swanson still lives in the valley. She ‘and -husband, Arvid, are retired now and reside at Winlaw. A Look in the Past is self-published sind was printed — by Pigweed Press, the Winlaw printing company. The. fact that the book is self-published is ‘significant for history ofthe area. more ‘This! book is anythlog but. Then, it’ was! never intended to. be. « In a recent interview, Swanson explained that she never intended to publish the book. “I was going to leave it to my people,” she explained. But friends and family who read the manuscript encouraged her to publish it as -an important piece of local history — so she; did. The book, which was two years in the :making, _ describes the history of Crescent Valley and Winlaw much as one would read it ina family diary, or if one came upon a diary and old family photographs while on a Sunday afternoon hunt through the attic. The. book, is liberally. sprinkled with personal photographs that let us see all’ the places and people in her For instance, there is an early photrograph of the Crescent Valley ‘brass band in which Swanson’ 8 father, Henri Bourgeois, was the tuba player. There are also photographs of the various schools in which Swanson taught, including the ‘first Crescent Valley school, which opened in 1912 and the first Winlaw school opened in 1912. But what the photographs ‘show more than anything else is the vastly different lifestyles of those days. Homes were not the usual 11,000 square feet or larger that we see in typical present-day subdivisions. They were small threo-room wooden homes, spartan by comparison fo today’s homes. In fact, one photograph shows the home of Mr. and -Mrs. Hugh Derrig in, Nisalave where Swanson boarded from 19290 1992.Ths hom Hooke barely mr eat to house: at Eouple, Tae a Souplé&i adult teacher. "The book Us only 52 pages aid ean be read ins lazy weekend. afternoon or in one‘ evening. It starts out, of course, at the beginning with Swanson’ birth in 1908 on Victoria St. in Nelson (in a maternity home owned by a maternity nurse), and follows her life through the early _ years in Crescent Valley, high school in Nelson, her three years at teaching college in Victoria, and then of course her years.of teaching in the Valley. ‘The book concentrates on the period before the end of the Second World War, after. which Swanson skims over much of the 50s, 60s and 70s to end it. But then her look in the past isn’t so much a look in the recent past as in the long ago past. As she says at the close of the book: “When I started this story, I was just going to record “my teaching during the Dep years of . the 30s, I soon found myself involved in my Mother and Dad's pioneering days, and then our own pioneering days in Paradise Valley. I find that I have touched on so many q "‘YVETTE SWANSON’ =: Cea -firat family in Crescent Valley “more events that should also, be recorded, but I hope that realize today's teachers, especially the young ones, will ‘ that the little red achool “house: was‘a_ very. important institution. Even without the splendid teaching aids of today those little schools provided the beginnings of many successful careers.” Yvette was the second of eight children bora to Henri and Henri: B had moved from Quebec to Nelson in 1904 where he worked for a year at Choquette Bros. Bakery until he had-saved’ enough money to send for his wife and two young sons. The wife and two sons joined their father in Nelson in September, 1905, thus beginning a long history of the Bourgeois family in this area. ‘Tragedy struck the young family in 1906 ‘when a fire destroyed the family home at Latimer and CASTLEGAR NEWS, Valley 1 opened in 1912. : *'SCHOOLHOUSE:. . . The first C WINLAW SCHOOL... The first Winlaw school from Streets, killing both sons. But a year later Yvette's ‘older sister, Cecile, was born and the next year the family | moved from Nelson to Bourgeois Siding — or Crescent. Valley — to start homesteading and farming. Over the next 25 years, Henri built up. the farm, cutting trees, pulling ‘stumps, plowing, Dullaing barns and doing whatever was necessary to wilderness. ” ¥vette describes those early days of life in Crescent. Valley with obvious enjoyment. Her early school days in particular hada lasting effect on her. “When I started school in the new schoo} I was just five, but when the School Inspector made his official visit I was told I coudin’t stay. The’ teacher had too many " pupils. I. would have to wait till I.was six. That was.not a happy situation. I loved school, although’! could speak as-hardly aby: English yet. A day out of schooliwds-a sad day iyindeed forme: loved my.teachets, and Very early in‘ my schoo! years I'decided I would be a’ teacher.” _ Later, she describes life as an elementary school student — much different than today's student. “When we were in elementary school there was very little spare time for visiting or boredom. All children had chores to do. Wood to bring in, calves to feed, ‘and chickens and many other chores to help at home. For a short time my sister and I had to deliver milk in.the , morning before schoo) to homes in the village. We éach carried a gallon measure of milk and a quart measure and went from houses to house end measured out the milk ina bowl the housewife would bring to'the kitchen table.” Yvette also describes the relationship between families in Crescent Valley and the Doukhobor community in Krestova: _ “In those early days of Crescent Valley, Krestova was an interesting place to visit. Our Dad knew it best because he was often called to go up and help with their sick animals, But sometimes on a nice day Grandma would take us with her for a walk across the bridge to TTT VERA DOUBININ Grandma goes back to school “Maybe my skin gets old but in my head I feel young,” says 69-year-old Selkirk College student, Vera Doubinin. Three years ago — two years after her husband had died — Vera decided to go to school and finally learn to speak English. “Before, when I went to the doctor I had to have someone help him (the doctor) understand. I had to take somebody else everywhere I went.”. She now attends the English as a Second Language class three hours in the morning with teacher Judy Cameron, and three hours each afternoon with Ian Johnson. “T'm ‘so happy. now,” she says, “I never speak English before. The teacher yesterday said to me, ‘You know, Vera, when you came the first day you know nothing, but now you have learned lots.’ But I say, ‘I want to learn more!’ ” She has been going four days a week for three winters now, but when she began, this new student was extremely \ nervous. You see, except for about two weeks of her life, she ‘had never, ever been to school ‘before. “I was so scared. : When I had to go up to the blackboard my hands would ‘ shake like this,” she said laughing and showing me just how ‘ they used to shake. And when she decided that “three hours was just too short for me,” and she signed up for afternoon classes, she was nervous once again. “I was used to Judy, so “ when I had to go to him I was scared all over again. But Judy “said he’s very good. And he ii is very good.” Although her command of English seemed to me to be good, Vera still finds some words and concepts difficult. Right now she is having difficulty distinguishing between the sound of “a” and the sound of “u.” Just last week, she told me, pointing to a page in her text, that she discovered that flower and flour sound the same but are very different words with very different meanings. « She rides to school with her son Bill, an assistant in the Physics and. Electronics Department. She starts her homework at the end of each afternoon during the half-hour or so that she waits for her son to finish his work. And after supper she’s at her books again, determined to do well. “This new challenge has opened up a whole new world for Vera, one which has given her a new self-confidence and one which has put a smile on her face. “I’m so happy to be going’ to school. I tell alot of women my age that they should be going to school. I'm happy with something to do.” Five years ago Vera took up another challenge. She learned to drive. When her husband died she realized just how much she depended on him for everything. Besides being her interpreter he was ‘also her chauffeur. Now, suddenly she had to rely on neighbors and family members to take her everywhere she needed to go. So when her grandson offered to teach her the driving manual, Vera jumped at the chance. “He said he would help me to learn the driving book. He ‘explained to me the words,” For someone. who couldn't read English at all, learning the over 200 new words in the manual was quite a feat. After she passed the written test she enrolled.in a driving school and soon she was on her own. She says having her driver's license-has made her much more independent. “I go where I want, when I want. I no bother nobody when I need to get groceries. And I don't need to hitch-hikel” ‘ Learning principles of arithmetic has also helped her carve a farm out of the | UHUUeecnevvtagarcrcenttnteeint a 19) he school was by the tracks Shere he road turns to Cedar Creek. watch them pound the flax in troughs of water to make linen thread, The women would spin and weave it into. strong cloth for their clothing ... During the First World War there was much hardship there. Even food was scarce.” By the time Yvette had finished Grade 8, she decided she‘wanted to continue her education. But the only way she could accomplish that was to move to Nelson where the area’s only high school was. She relates * her.boarding experiences in Nelson, and after that her " stay at “Normal School” in Victoria where she earned her teaching diploma. From there. Yvette describes her teaching years _ and teaching. in.1929, and. the early. 80s.was‘quite a job: _ Yvette’s first. position was at Rhone near.Greenwood: As... “4: « she says} in-the -book,.“‘Rhorie was one e home with running water in the house: the Swanson home. Everyone else.still had only a standpipe near the house where you went for a bucket of water. Or perhaps they would walk down to the creek or river for water. There was no plumbing for a few years. There was no . Plumbing in the schools until 1937 and that was just for cold water at the sink.” Yvette taught in Winlaw until 1935 when her mother died and she returned to Crescent Valley for the summer the last day of May, 1973.” FIRST PUMP 5. . Winlaw’s first gas pump was in- stalled sometime inthe '1930s. Previously, ‘customers were served from a barrel. This was also first pump,at the Swansog garage. ee pe = OT to help the faimily. She ‘tiever returned to teaching, but fora short stint in. 1939 when five teachers were killed in a-car crash at the’ Brilliant Bridge and the district superintendent asked her to step in and help out. “Yvette married Arvid Swanson and began home- steading on their own in Paradise Valley. They built a 20-by-24 foot log house in which to live and, they survived by cutting wood for area stoves. The Swansons moved their log house from Paradise Valley to Cedar Creek near Winlaw, and. in 1947 opened a repair shop and service station. ‘ Time went quickly in the 1950s and the 60s “brought an influx of ‘new people, some from California and some «from all provinces of Canada « . . Land prices soared. Ina few months the valley properties were changing hands and it was no longer the quiet valley we knew. Business was good at the garage but we decided it was getting too much. for just. the two of us and hiring help wasn't profitable. We decided to permanently close the shop on , A Look in the Past is on sale in local bookstores. jarch 27, 1983 83 Ste c Sienna sansomniaa LINDA HALL Getting to Know Your Neighbor ork in the Brilliant Jam drether fruits and putting moved up to Pass Creek and lived in an extended- family home fairly similar to the Doukhobor community in which she was raised. “We lived together and sometimes there was. 18 people at the table.” John was a carpenter who also spent time logging in the bush, and Vera went, along and cooked. Eight years ago, John and Vera decided to build a home for themselves, All of their spare time was spent working on the house. Vera remembers doing every inch of painting by herself. “That was my job. He (John) never touch a brush.” It was Vera, too who did much of the roofing. Vera has four grandsons, one of which is also a student at Selkirk College. “When I think I'm not so old, then I just look at .them. How fast they grow!” When she is not studying, Vera enjoys making traditional Russian blankets. She has sewn numerous ones ly. She sells large fruit and in the summer and has always relied on the honesty of individuals that she sells to, “But last year I learn from school to use a calculator,” and she showed me her new one, “Yesterday he (the teacher) explained to me how to use it. 1 have a book on arithmetic now.” Vera was born in Ootischenia and grew up in a Doukho- bor community home. “Boys got to go to school,” she said, “but girls, no room. We stayed home and learned to crochet, garden, mend and sometimes we worked. I wanted to go to school but I can't.” Her one short stint in the educational system occurred when she was about 18 and a brand new school went up in Ootischenia. Vera went and thoroughly loved the time she spent there. “I remember writing on the blackboard, I loved it.” But when the school burned down two weeks later Vera's heart was broken. “I cried and cried. I was so dis- appointed.” for and making them for sale has been a part-time job for a long time. She also has an enormous garden plot which at one time she worked completely alone. Now, two of her grandsons use part of the plot and Vera teaches them how to garden. They till up the ground, plant the crops and of course get the money from sales at the end of the season. “Last year they made $300 apiece.” I asked if they would be coming again this spring and she smiled, “Last year they complain to me, ‘Oh, my back hurts, I can’t garden’ and I tell them, you have nothing to complain about. At my age I still work in the garden!” But when the summer does finally come again it will be a time of disappointment for Vera. “I miss school. I like it at school. Home is like a jail to me. My neighbors laugh at me, and I say, ‘You should try going to school too.’ ” And how long are you planning on going? I asked. “Until they throw me out!” was her reply.