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The annual Strawberry Fest-
dval sponsored each year by the
Robson Women’s Institute will
not be held this year. This was

Testing a at the home of Mrs. O.
B, Ballard.

The meeting was opened by
the Mrs, J. Scott, Roll

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, June 18, 1959

Parents Should Warn Children -
That Vandalism Is Dangerous

Two cases of vandalism in the ‘Castle-
gar District have occurred this year. The
first, case occurred early this spring when
a light meter box and the little kitchen at

the Kinnaird park -were . damaged. ./'The .

other ‘instance occurred ‘two weéks - ago
when ‘the cenotaph was damaged. " -: -
The damage to the cenotaph was
much more serious than that at Kinnaird.
The Plastic covering over the granite pla-
que on the cenotaph was smashed, the .pla-
que itself was broken and the base of the
cenotaph was littered with broken pop bot-
les. s :

RCMP patrols of the two spots have
been stepped up, -but it'would be a lot bet-
ter if the parents of the District would ex-

_Plain to their children the seriousness of

damaging private’ or public pro peity..

[.2 Cpli-Angus~ ‘Maesonsia ‘of: the local |G

RCMP has commended the youth of this
area at many public functions on, their
sense of responsibility and fine. citizenship.
It would be unfortunate if vandalism here | g.
should become a habit and he fe should have
to take stern action.

TIMELESS.
A WEEKLY MESSAGE. ‘FROM
THE CASTLEGAR MINISTERIAL.
. ASSOCIATION
By REV. R. H. PRATT .

TOPICS

call showed 14 members present,
Minutes of the May meeting were
read by Mrs. Dick Fowler, secre-
tary. Mra. A, Smecher said the
Plant and bake sale had been
very successful.

Letters read included one
from Victoria stating that Mrs.
E. Robinson has been named
secretary-treasurer for the pro-
vinclal women’s Institutes. A

_ letter of thanks was

decided‘ at the group's regular]

Strawberry Festival Plans
Cancelled by Robson WI

Roe of Trail, the health inspec:
tor for this district, who spoke of
the Jand he had seen as suitable
for disposal of the garbage, and
explained details of collecting me-
thods and costs of this service.

After his talk the

CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES ...4:.

The British Columbia Teachers’ Federation offers
congratujations to this month’s high school grad-
uates.

Teachers are proud of the students graduating
from our schools.

As graduates of an educational system which.is one
of the finest, our boys and girls have received the

asked many questions, It was de-
elded that the secretary write to
the deputy minister of Municipal
Affairs for further information
regarding the land available,

Mrs, Scott thanked Mr, Roe
for his talk, :

Mrs, S. Grant read a news
item from the WI news letter.
Mrs. R, W. Chalmers thanked the
members for their participation
and recommendation that she re-
ceive a‘life membership pin from
th ‘omen’s

from the Belvanlon Miraahes ‘Van:

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of Canada.

y to prepare them to meet. the
challenges of further’ ‘sgudy or immediate, employ-
ment. -

Never has the need fpr teachers been greater, When
they | choose their vocation, we hope many of this
year’s ‘graduates will decide to enter the teaching
profession. me

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B.c. TEACHERS" FEDERATION
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couver,
Committee Senora "Agrizul-
ture (Mrs, Waldie) reported that
plants and seeds have been given
to:43-children for:the annual;
den contest; citizenship: (Mi
rant), a. short paper, - “Hi
trained’ my child to be a cttizen

Johnson) reported that. the’ fall
books have gone to press, and will
be delivered as soon as pecelven:

arbage - disposal (Mrs. .W. T.
Waiaie suitable zand being look-

for.

D. Roe attended the meeting
and gave a talk on the garbage
@isposal sublect:

‘owler, who was the of-
ficial aeieaers to the West Koot-
enay WI convention held in Nel
son, gave a report on the meet-
ing and received a vote of thanks
for her detailed report, «

‘The September meeting will
‘be held at the home of Mrs. Fow-

With the coming of spring we planted
green peas in our vegetable garden. Short-

‘ly afterwards our crop sprouted, but alas

the peas popped right out.of the ground
and the birds were having a fihe time. We
made a‘definite effort to save our crop by
covering them with earth and today they’re
growing fine.

This little experience is a parable of
life. It- points up the danger inherent, in
human xperience whenever .we allow. our
level. of living to become too shallow, triv-
ial and superficial. ‘The birds of silliness,
stupidity ang: foolishness will come arid eat
us up...’

It-also points up the corresponding
‘need to deepen the level of our living, the
need for more depth of earth, more per-
manent rootage. For this‘ deepening of'the
level of living one might refer to some de-
finite efforts towards self-improvement.

If we want to reach some high pin-
nacle of ack tin any p we
have to work at it. Excellence in.Christian

character comes in the same way. It re-
quires effort and struggle.

And this struggle and effort towards
self-i -imppovement for many of us may well
be directed towards ov ig the habit
of restlessness. We are always off to some-
thing else. A-quiet evening at, home is
something to be dreaded like a disease.

Someone has said that we talk too

much about Newton discovering-the law of

gravitation by seeing an apple fall and too
little about the fact that at the time he was
in a garden, a place of quietness and still-

- ness,

“If we. wish to deepen the level of our
‘living could we do better than ponder
these words of W..D. Longstaff:

Take time to be holy,
Speak oft with thy Lord;
Abide in Him always,

"And feedon His Word}
Make friends of God’s children
Help’ those who are weak,

Forgetting in nothing
His blessing to seek,

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H. McPhee and Mrs, C. S. Squires,
+ Xt was learned that the: Nel-
:son' Fall Fair kas reduced its
entrance fees for the women’s
organizations section, also. the

in. this section, It was decided
that the members would - work
on exhibits during the summer,
and that the WI will enter the
_fair in September.
The president announced that
a civil. defence home nursing
course will begin the latter Part
of September.
Mrs, Waldie introduced D.

SILVER BIRCH NOTES

With school closing not many

Birch School for the handicapped
are finishing up their various
projects for the -year,

We are glad to report that
Mickey is back at school follow-
ing his recent session in the hos-
pital and. we are happy to hear
that our friend Mts. Moll — is
home again from the hospital:

The students appreciate very
.Much ‘the’ kindness of Mrs, B,
Hill in sending the’ school the
negative of the snap she took. at
the Easter party and her thought-
fulness in. including enough
money to pay for the develop-
ing of a picture.for each pupil. °

Attractive frames were made
from popsicle sticks and now
each pupil has a picture of the
Penn to ee home. Thank you,

* Mrs. Palsson would also
like to thank the unknown per-
son who so Kindly left a bundle
of useful magazines at the school:

of'the world”; fall fair (Mrs. H. |:

number of items to be exhibited |'

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NEW Gtaron Listeraz,

Three retiring teachers of
School: District No, 9 were hon-
ored at a testimonial dinner held
last Thursday evening in the Kin-
naird Improvement Society Hall,

‘Dr. F, M. Thorne, Miss E,

.{ McKinnon and Miss Ella: Martin

were honored for their years of
service by the Castlegar ,and Dis-
trict Teachers Association and Its
guests, ry

Dr. Thorne and Miss ‘Martin

have both taught in Castlegar
for the past six years, Miss
McKinnon has taught In the
Kootenays for 40 years. Twen-
tyelght of those years were
spent In the Castlegar school
district and the last 21 of them
were spent in Castlegar.

L. E, Lakeman gave the tes:
timonial for Dr, Thorne and said
“what I lack in eloquence, I
make up for in sincerity."

Mr. Lakeman said Dr. Thorne
waa born In Devonshire, England,
‘but came to Saskatchewan as a
small lad with the Rev. Barr col-
onists and settled around Lloyd.
minster where he spent the first
winter in a tent with his par-,
ents and the other coldnists,

Dr. Thorne was) an agricul:
tural student at the Universify of
when the First

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‘He-returned to complete his
course: and then wrote a book on
agriculture for use in elementary
schools. He taught during’ the!
Hungry Thirties in Saskatchewan
but left the prairies for “B.C.

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Mission before coming to Castle
gar,

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Three Retiring'Teachers Feted

oe his ‘Nfe has been studying
‘ gaining knowledge and
ool it on to his students.”
Dr. .Thorne doesn't’ subscribe

to the view of developing what is

A,| called the well-rounded personal-

ity, said Mr. Lakeman, “for It of-
ten means one that is bloated in
all directions.” .

“His hobby is to make mon-
ey,” said Mr, Lakeman of Dr.
Thorne. “And his comfortable
Monetary position proves he is
good at his hobby, too.”

* Speaking a little later, Dr.
Thorne described himself as “a
teacher of sorts; a teller of stor-
ies.” He drew appreciate Jaugh-
ter from his audience when he
told them he was looking for-
ward to his retirement “to spend
more time at my hobby.”

. Dr. Thorne said he has tau-
ght 6,000 girls and the same num.
ber of boys in his years of teach-
ing and told the teachers present
that “The modern child knows
twice as much as he's given cred-
it for.”

Miss ©, Hogendoorn gave the!
testimonial for Miss ‘Ella Mar-
tin and described her a3 a per-
son with high ideals which she
Pausoe on to her students,

Martin was .born in
Manitoba, but came to B.C, for a
business course rend stayed to] tea
teach, She

Martin expressed‘ rogret at leay-

story as a teacher is pretty well
told.”

Miss MMclinnon reminisced
about her early teaching days|
and sald that of the many’

. Schools she has taught in
throughout the Castlegar and
Nelson schoo! districts, all but
four are either discarded or
burned,

She recalled that when she
was tedching on Kootenay Lake
the crew on the boats told her
they would warn her when the
inspector was arriving. One night
a’ large searchlight flashed
through the sky from the boat,
The next day the ‘inspector ar-
rived fully aware of the warning,
except that Miss McKinnon her-
self hadn't realized what the light
was for. :
~ Miss - MGKITRGH TOTS GAS:

ing and remarked that “I fear my | }

JOHN FOLLETT of Courtenay
holds the Esso trophy which he

clal finals of the Teenage Safe
Driving Road-E-O. John defeated
25; other contestants to win $100
and the chance to win another
$1,000 when he represents B.C. at
the Dominion finals to be. held
next month at Galt, Ontario,

ther instance when her nephew
arrived’ home one weekend to in-
form her that her school at Shore-
acres had been. burned by the
Sons of Fredom. She returned on
the Monday and held schaol in an
old store at Glade for the rest-of
the t bias
On behalf of the BC Tea-
chers' Federation, G. Clement, ge-|
eerernleal representative, presen-
the three. retiring ‘teachers

for elght years eenindig to BC.
to teach at Rossland for.a num-
ber of years before coming to
Castlegar six years ago.

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‘An

weith Hi

K. Ross President
" Of South Slocan
. Community Club

The final meeting of the
Sout Slocan school and com-

and-a teacher “who believes in
discipline administered with a
‘warm heart — there will be many
open houses and arms if she
wants to come back for a visit,”
said Miss Hogendoorn,

Mrs, G. Thorp’ described Miss
McKinnon as “a true friend, a
‘loyal colleague and an all- around
good. sport.” Mrs. Thorp recalled

teaching school with Miss McKin-
non at Brilliant “when her near.
est friend was half a mile away."

Mrs. Thorp spoke of Miss Mc-|

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‘The CDTA, by
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its best. wishes by presenting
af tetiring teacher with a sil-
ver. tray inscribed With: their
name.

Kathleen Fshwick, daughter
of music teacher Norman Fis!
wick, provided ‘dinner music on
the plano, W. R. Whittaker was
master of ceremonies and J. H.
Corbett the dinner. Jock

and infinite patience with lit-

. tle ones, If she couldn't say any-

thing! 7 about. a person she

woulkin’t say

cut’ d cay anthlne reliable in

all thane said Mrs. Thorp, and

she did an exceptional job as

president of the CDTA in 1956.

When practice teachers were

in the District using Miss McKin-

non’s classes, Miss' McKinnon

would utilize the time by helping

a student who-:was behind in his
sludles 5 seid Mrs;-Thorp,

teeye ver very pee friend to me and
a gréat asset to the community.”
In her short speech Miss

Fact-Finding Group
To Attract Indusiry

A fact-finding committee has

District Chamber of Commerce
to investigate the. possibilities of
producing a booklet to attract in-
‘dustry to the District.

Under the chairmanship of D.
W. Brookes, the committee wili
draw up a brief on the industrial
possibilities of the area and pre-
sent its findings to the September
meeting of the chamber.

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