Page B8 The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, December 27, 1995 @ Charters Continued from BS sounds of the puddings in their steamers, knocking on their lids to get out, while the entire atmo- sphere was permeated with antic ipation, The last days to Christmas were filled with making paper chains for decorating the rooms, stringing cranberries and popcom for the tree and in practicing for the annual school concert in the one-room school. A few days before Christmas, the Japanese workmen would arrive with bows and smiles and gifts of cigars for father, who didn't smoke cigars; something porcelain or silk for mother and wooden boxes of sweet, fragrant Mandarin oranges tied with grass rope, pots of preserved ginger- round, 1, spicy, and lichi nuts exotic as sandalwood. My mother returned the smiles * pool Your later years will be much saving and exercising Regular exercising earty in fe is like opening a bank account. Later in life you enjoy the nenay you pal in vibon you ware Younger So it is with taking care of your body. healthier and enjoyable. You are never too old to start This is a truly sharing time of year. But one thing you should not share is your medications. Your arthritis pill may be good for you but deadly to your friend. if they want you to share, recommend they see their doctor and get their own medication. Young adults have about 8000 taste buds, but as we age, nerve endings begin to die and our taste buds number 6500 or less above the age of 45. Older persons often require spicier food to make eating more enjoyable. In 1996, more people will stop smoking. Are you going to be one of them? On behalf of all the great staff of Pharmasave, I'd like to thank all of you that allowed us the privilege of serving you throughout 1995. We look forward to seeing you again in the new year. To those that haven't yet tried our style of pharmacy, resolve to do so soon. A very happy and healthy 1996 to you all! Tom Bite BENYLIN DM $go9 and bows, accepted the gifts and presented our visitors with her carefully wrapped parcels for their children, This elicited more smiles and bows. The problem was my mother never mastered the etiquette of graduated bows and would proba- bly be there, still bowing, if my father hadn't by this time arrived on the scene and brought the cere- mony to a quick close. Somehow, by Christmas Eve, everything was in readiness. The front room was festooned with paper streamers, red-berried holly and cedar boughs. The Christmas tree, cut earlier in the nearby wo N stood in all its glory between the picture window and the alcove, laden with multi- colored paper chains, popcorn and cranberry chains, candy-canes, and baubles, ancient and new, of every hue and description. The tree branches tilted slight- ly under the weight of the deeply grooved wax candles and their very carefully placed candle hold- ers, while the slightly baitéred star of Bethlehem was fluffed out , once again and put on its. place of honor at the top of the tree. A brisk fire in the fireplace gave warmth to the room while shadows danced on the walls and chestnuts roasted on the grate between the two black china poo- a. We're piping in a stream of good wishes ; for your Holiday =) Season 365-2991 PS PHARMASAVE 1128 - 3rd St. (Downtown) Castlegar 365-7813 EN SUNDAYS 11:00 A.M. TO 3 P.M. dies from Victorian times, There was eggnog from eggs laid by our own chickens, wine for the adults and Scottish shortbread from our neighbor. There was one last ritual before, exhausted, we crept upstairs to our winter-chilled beds and warm dreams and that was the Santa cake. A huge, dark confection, rich with fruit and topped with almond icing, it had to sit on a heavy, Irish linen tablecloth in the centre of the dining room table, flanked on one side by our best crystal glass and a bottle of fine port wine and on the other by a large, sharp knife. There was one cut in the cake, from the centre to the outside. Symbolism and ritual and hospi- tality were essential in the Char- ters family, When Christmas morning came, and it always came early, the first thing that we would do, even before checking our stock- ings hung in a neat row from the fireplace mantel, was to rush into the dining room to inspect our offering. If there was a thin wedge miss- ing from the cake, and a few ruby drops in the wine glass, (and there always was), we had proof posi- tive our visitor had arrived and Christmas could begin. Christmas was a day of feasting and mother loved to cook. There was roast turkey, of course, and sage stuffing, cranberries, moun- tains of creamy mashed potato, rivers of rich gravy, possibly squash or sweet potatoes. My father prided himself on his carving and mother served the Happy New Year! Celgar Pulp Company Box 1000, Castlegar, B.C. V1N 3H9 Ph: 604-365-7211 Fax: 604-365-2652, WITH WARM REGARDS As snow and frost blanket the land, we're warmed by thoughts of the many fine people we have had the pleasure to serve in the past year. > ' JSeason's G All our employees and families, our suppliers, customers, and the community. Have a safe, healthy and happy 1996. e ‘to vegetables generously. I have never lost a wonderful sense of which comes with a good Turkey dinner, There is nothing to match it, except, perhaps, the Christmas dessert As in the Cratchett family Christmas dinner, so beautifully written by Charles Dickens in the eternal Christmas Carol, the plates would be cleared, father would get up and give his pon- flavored hard sauce one final stir with a little more wine The exotic fragrances of Christmas pudding, which after two months of maturing in the cellar had danced a tantalizing duet with the turkey for most of the day, suddenly became a solo, filling the room with richness and a sense of personal satisfaction for each of us, for each had a pan in its creation. A moulded mass of dark, moist abandonment with a sprig of berried holly at its peak, it shone in so warmly in the blue flicker of the burning brandy. And that was the tricky park, as I was to leam later, to get that darn brandy to light. You've got to warm it. However tempting and deli- cious, Christmas pudding was not something one attacked with abandon. First there was the proper proportions of sauce to be taken with each spoonful. Then, because that pudding was loaded with little metal tokens—rings, tools, books, etc. one approached each spoonful with a mix of both greed and cau- tion, for each of the tokens were predictions for one’s future. A ring for marriage, a hammer for a carpenter, books for a scholar and so on. There were also coins— pennies, nickels, dimes and one quarter. The fortunate winner of that quarter was destined for a wealthy future, for sure. With the pudding came the Christmas crackers, much noisy popping, crazy hats and excited babble over the favors contained within. There were sugar dusted mincemeat tarts, Christmas cake with almond icing, if one had any room left; fruit and nuts, hard multicolored Christmas candies and sugary, creams, cheese and biscuit (I for one never got that far), all washed down with ginger beer for the kids and grandma (a teetotaler) and wine for the adults, coffee or tea. Christmas dinner has, always been a symphony of the senses and never more than in the mem- ories of childhood. And not only the dinner itself, but the days that follow immediately after. Those leftovers are like the intimate whispering echoes in a great cathedral after the last peal of the organ and I still drool just a little over the memory of Christ-. mas pudding, sliced and sauteed in butter, tenderly crisp, still sin- fully delicious, and served with that hard sauce. but I've said enough. By now you're too sated to care and to each his own mem- ories of Christmas past. God bless, and my thanks to the Castlegar writers for their own echoes and advice. 1x2? It's newspaper talk for a one-column by two-inch ad. TOO SMALL TO BE EFFECTIVE? You're reading this one! CALL CATHY, NICOLE OR FRED 365-5266 Here's wishing you a holiday season filled with joy and winter's wonder. Thank You for Your Patronage in 1995 MAIN STREET MUFFLER & RAD 1501 Columbia Ave., CASTLEGAR Wednesday, December 27, 1995 The Castlegar Sun \ Page B9 Get confessing, it could save your life One thing we have noted in the line of infidelity: Men and women view it differently, Pittman says that “Men tend to attach too little significance to affairs, ignoring their power to disrupt lives. Women tend to attach too much significance.” I remember when I was 16 and was think- ing about get- ting engaged. Horrors! I was so ignorant in the matters of love. Another man asked me to go out while my “almost” fiance was away in the Navy. I went out with this person. Because of that, I believed I couldn't possible be in love with my boyfriend. I thought if you loved someone, it was totally exclusive of other men. Therefore, I didn't accept the ring to be engaged. Now I had no business getting engaged at 16, but I also believed a lie. We as human beings are capa- ble of loving more than one per- son at a time. We can be attracted to a number of people and we can develop relationships with them if we choose and still love our mate. That is why i and riage. The grass is not greener on the other side of the fence. We must choose to work on the relationship we have. There are times to step out of a marriage, but it can be done with honor and the belief that we gave it all We had and we did not lie and cheat to do so. Some things have put a halt on the ‘infidelity: AIDS for one. It is suicidal to sleep with many dif- ferent people, so only the suicidal romantics are on the streets lodk- ing for love or sex. Men who get caught are more likely to admit to the sexual part of the affair, whereas women will deny it. She will confess all the i and total ing love and still insist there was no sex involved. But when people really believe they are in love, men or women, they gan both act foolish and naive. Men can go crazier and risk more. They are more likely to sacrifice or abandon their chil- dren to prove their love. They are more likely to isolate honor are so important in a mar- How to use E-Mail This week and next I will talk about E-Mail services and try to explain to how to use this Service. It is possible to sign on with Kootenay Network Systems and only obtain E-Mail services for $10 a month. There is a $30 hook-up charge, one time only. If you wish to obtain further infor- mation, call Kootenay Network Systems at 365-2323. If you sign up, you will receive a software package so you can access E-mail. That soft- ware program is called Eudora and it has a pretty little picture of an envelope that you click on to make it “go.” When you click on the icon you will see a blank screen with the following words along the top: File Edit Mailbox Message Transfer Special Window Help. The words above, each with one letter underlined are called menus. Each menu, when clicked with your mouse cursor, will open another box with words. Thege secondary boxes are called pull down menus and each word in the pull down menu, when clicked on, will ini- tiate another action. You can also cause things to happen if you push your key on the keyboard “Ctrl” with another key that matches the underlined letter (i.e. File can be opened by “Ctrl” and “f”). The file pull down menu gives the following words: Close Ctrl + W Save Ctrl+S Save As Send Queued Message Ctrl + M Check Mail Ctrl + M Print Setup Print Ctrl P Exit Cul Q. If a word is “greyed out”, then it can't be-used. A word on the menu or the pull down menu needs to be “lit up” before it can be used. Today, I will deal with the File Menu and its Pull Down Menu. Click on file and you will see the first Pull Down Menu. These instructions assume that you are a paid up subscriber to the Internet and that you have Connected to the server. Click on Eudora; then go to the first word File and click on that. Three words will be lit: Close, Check Mail and Exit Click on Check Mail; a box will open with a title Progress. Inside the box, several messages will flash, “connecting with Knet.Kootenay.net™ then “log- ging on to POP server” then (if you have any messages for you) “down loading | of 3, 1 of 4 Etc.” Then a bell will ring and tell if have new mail. If you have See E-MAIL B10 Ives from everyone except their affair partner. Men are just as forgiving as women of their mates’ affairs. They may react violently at first, women too, Pittman says he has seen more cases of women who shoot and wound or killed their errant men than men doing so. The shootings occur not when the affair is stopped and con- fessed, but when it is continued and denied, So get confessing, it could save your life!» Marriage can survive infidelity if it's stopped, brought out into the open and dealt with. Infidelity is not a safe treat ment for dep , boredom, This is the concluding article on this sad subject It was hard to write it I'd rather write about happy things, challenging things, uplift ing things. But this is the real world and we deal with real and serious problems. I hope this has given insight and courage to do the right thing. Your marriage is worth fighting for. imperfect marriage or inadequate gender. It does not work for women any better than it does for men, SLUMBER LODGE Inns & Motels Across B.C. Stay safe this holiday season... 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