A2 Castlégar News December 23, 1989 Wise . men CasNews columnist John Charters says the story of the Three Wise Men is worth studying Short \ stories Nine young writers have come away with the prizes in the an- nual CasNews/Castle- gor Library Christmas short story contest . D section LOTTERY NUMBERS The winning numbers drawn Fri- day in the B.C. Keno lottery were 2, 12, 22, 23, 24, 33, 35 and 37. The $1,000,000 winning number in Friday's Provincial lottery draw was 1426694, Rockers rocked SHSS junior boys basketball coach Doug Hickey hoped for a better result this week against L.V. Rogers secondary of Nelson 81 »., December 23, 1989 Castlégar News a3 Briefly Group wants project info By CasNews Staff About 30 people have banded together into a coalition to find out as much information as possible about the proposed expansion of the Celgar pulp mill, one of the group's co- chairman said this week The group spent about three hours last Saturday discussing the infor- mation gathered to this point and established several committees which will gather further information on the proposed expansion’s impact on tran- sportation, forestry, energy, the economy, employment and other areas, said Wayne Peppard who will co-chair the group along with Calvin Him Peppard said the one of the group’s concerns is over the review process through which Celgar must go before the provincial government gives the green light to the expansion. He said the process was developed between the government and industry without public consultation. “Public input is still up to a process that relies on industry goodwill,” Pep- pard said, noting that the proposed Celgar expansion will be the first project of its kind to go through the review process. Celgar general manager Jim Browne SNOWBALL .. football practice at T a little snowfall this week didn't stop Zeke Popoff, 10, (holding the ball) and David Miner, 1), from get in Rivers elementary school. in some CasNews photo by Ed M Pastors look By CasNews Staff Christmas: the biggest day of the What dges lavishing expensive gifts on each other have to do with the birth year for spiritualists — and of Jesus Christ, Christianity’s most said Thursday he welcomes the group’s efforts if it refrains from a “‘political’’ role and is intent on doing a serious job. “Tt would make our job easier if materialists. It’s a time when the spiritual and matérial appear most closely linked But whether it’s a harmonious union OF HOTS SUBJECTION sacred gymbol? Well, as it turns out, not much. Cer- tainly the link between the story about three wise men who brought the baby } fi the manger and our Expansion report ready By SIMON BIRCH Editor A report dealing with some of the socio-economic and environmental impacts of the proposed Celgar pulp mill expansion will be released to the public next week, Celgar general manager Jim Browne said. The public may comment on the report, prepared by private consultan- ts hired by Celgar, to the company and to the provincial government which will review the report and the commen- ts before either allowing the project to proceed or orflering further reviews of the project, Hrowne told the Castlegar Newson Thutsday. “If we’re uplable to come up with an obvious or aclean solution’’ to any of the concerns, the government ‘‘may invite us to prepare answers and go public to see if it satisfies (the public’s) concerns,”’ he said. Browne said the report is written in two parts, the first being a short section ‘on such topics as how long Celgar has been in operation and the type of jobs the mill offers and a second lengthy section on the technical aspects of the proposed expansion such as the project’s impact on the mill's emissions to the air and to the Colum- bia River. The report will be available in public libraries and in municipal of- fices in towns without a library. The company is placing adver- tisements in the media next week detailing how the public can comment on the report, Browne said. Meanwhile, Celgar has leased space in the downtown Castlegar mini-mall to set up an office to provide the public with information on the proposed ex- pansion, Browne said. Celgar wants to staff the office with company veterans and will interview or Spiritual present-day buying sprees is tenuous, though many still tell the story to| ex- plain how gift-giving at Christmas evolved Perhpas the real story behind Christmas and its material focus is one of the reasons spiritual leaders would like to distance themselves from employ several methods to get their flocks in the spirit — that is, the religious aspect — of the season. “That's always been the focus of the churches,” said Backus. ‘‘And, par- ticularly since Christmas has got to be such a glitzy thing, we try to stress preparation of the heart."’ they could represent the population,” Browne said of thegroup. Peppard said it’s not the group's in- tent to take ona political role. “At this point, it’s not anybody's in- tent to stop the pulp mill,” he said, ad- ding that the expansion project is im- portant to the area’s economy and en- vironment i However, he said there are a lot of issues which will have an impact on the entire region, not just Castlegar, that haven|t yet been adequately discussed Group members who met last Satur day included representatives from the CP Rail unions, the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada, the Trail and District Environmental Network, the Oasis-Rivervale impact committee and the Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance. The Castlegar News will not publish Wednesday, Dec. 27 to allow its employees and management time to enjoy the Christmas and Boxing Day holidays. The next issue of the CasNews will be another Saturday afternoon paper on Dec. 30. In that issue, we will recapture 1989 with a special section full of photos and stories by our staff and news services. No paper Wednesday We'll review events big and small in Castlegar, the West Kootenay and across the province The Castlegar News office will be closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. The news department will be closed through Wednesday, Dec. 27 and again New Year’s Day Normal office-hours resume for all departments Tuesday, Jan. 2 that part of it “Christmas as a festival was begun as a feast to offset the winter solstice, which was a pagan ritual in the fourth century,” said Pastor Glen Backus of St. Peter Lutheran Church in Castlegar. But Christmas was supposed to be a completely spiritual festival whereas the pagan one involved giving gifts “You can see that the pagan ritual still exists today,’’ said Backus, referring to the giving of Christmas gifts Regardless of its origins, Christmas is here to stay in its present from or, if anything, will likely become more of a department store manager’s dream. But church and spiritual leaders would like the holidays to become more of a spiritual time for people, and locally, the various denominations Children area common th ning through the churches’ approach to the season. If not for the children in his congregation, says Pastor Slawomir Malarek of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Castlegar, ‘‘we probably wouldn't even celebrate Christmas.”” Malarek plays down the traditional rituals like Christmas trees and presen- ts favoring instead to teach the chien dent mee “We try to teach ous children to make their Christmas gifts," he said “«Rather than spending a lot of money, we stress giving of our time.”’ In the United Church, Rev. Ted Bristow says his major concern is en- suring the children know the story behind the presents — not the fourth- continued on poge A3 several Celgar retirees next week, Browne said. He said Celgar hopes to keep the of- fice open a minimum of six hours a day starting at 10 a.m. five days a week from Tuesday through Saturday. Celgar has received permission from its owners to start spending funds on the expansion project although the final approval of loans for the project depends ongovernment approval of the expansion, Browne said “We're placing some orders — a lit- tle tentatively — but we're placing them,"’ Browne said. ‘We're still targeting for completion of order placements very early in the new year.”” As well, Celgar is testing soil and air at the site of the proposed construction camp to house workers for the project to satisfy requirements of the B.C. and Yukon Trades Council, Browne said Alberta effects different CasNews Staff Widespread criticism within Alberta of several proposed new pulp mills in the north of that province shouldn't influence public opinion locally of the proposed d r nization of the Celgar Pulp mill, Celgar general manager Jim Browne said While he said he understands the concerns of Albertans over the proposed mills, he explained that the Alberta mills — with the excep- tion of one on the Athabasca River — are all proposed on rivers which at present have no industry on them, and therefore can be expec- ted to have a negative environmen- tal effect, whereas the Celgar ex- pansion and upgrading is designed, in part, to reduce pollution from the mill. What we're proposing is an improvement,” Browne said. ‘We kind of feel we might be on the side of the arigels on this one.”” Russian heritage seen face to face By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer A Canadian traveller, surprised to see a picture of the late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin hanging in an old cobbler’s stall in the lobby of a Georgian hotel, asked the man to explain why the picture, once a mandatory addition to any business's wall, was still up The answer the traveller received was thoughtful and also surprising *“When we needed him to defend the country, he was there,” the old man said of Stalin. ‘“Now that things have settled back again he’s considered no damn good. That’s the part that really hurts.’” For Castlegar residéht Paul Oglow, that exchange CASNEWS FEATURE served to show him that despite the enormous changes in the Soviet Union's political situation recently not everyone in that vast country is being swept up in the current of perestroika and glasnost Stalin’s statue may have been removed from parks and the museum guides may skip over the Stalin years when discussing his story with visitors, but in the minds of many in Soviet Georgia, where Stalin was born, the dead leader is remembered well, Oglow says. That discovery was one of many Oglow made last June during a three-week tour of the U.S.S.R., the country of his family’s origin. Oglow joined 42 others from across North America, including his brothers Nick and Peter Oglow, Castlegar resident Paul Moroso and a number of people from the Kootenays on the trip. While there, Oglow toured Doukhobor settlements in search of his roots The tour, which took the group over a large area of the country from Moscow and Tbilisi to Yalta and Kiev, was designed for those interested in the Doukhobor culture by a Toronto tour company that routinely organizes Soviet group trips But this tour group had a request that wasn’t as easy to comply with as visits to museums or heritage sites, said Larry Ewashen of Vancouver, one of the tour organizers The group wanted to visit a Doukhobor settlement near Tbilisi, Georgia, that was in a restricted zone, Ewashen said The settlement was about 24 kilometres from the Turkish border, near the Armenian-Azarbajani area where ethnic riots had been raging and close to the Ar- menian earthquake zone. Georgia itself was tense with the unrest that had swept the capital. The gropu was not given permission to enter the area, Ewashen said, and it wasn’t until the travellers were in Tbilisi and considering chartering their own bus ta the settlement did they finally receive permission to travel in the area Koozma Tarasoff, the other tour organizer, says in the tour souvenir book that determination and an ap- peal to a former Soviet ambassador to Canada helped the group finally receive permission to travel to the set- tlement Ewashen says he has no idea why the authorities changed their minds except perhaps the fear of bad publicity made them reconsider However, Oglow said travel in any area was still subject to restrictions, such as a stipulation the group could stay in each city for only three days at atime In each city they visited, the travellers, accom- panied by tour guides, were shown some of the best- known sights in the Soviet Union, such as the changing of the guard in Red Square, and given a chance to meet Society Rodina reporters and tour a hospital in Zaporozhie, north of Yalta Oglow said the hospital's director met with the group members and was willing to answer all their DOWNHOME MUSIC. . @ group, ° b of which toured the Soviet Union earlier:this y @ banquet in Slavanka. Proto courtesy of Lorry Ewasher questions fully and openly, as well as discussing the problem of pollution in the Soviet Union from the per- g several Cast! dents, ated to traditional food and music at greeted and taken into eath village they visited The members. of the group with Doukhobor spective of the hospital, which izes in disorders But it was the Doukhobor settlements the group was there to see and Oglow said they were warmly ds often came face to face with their ancestral pasts in the villages, Oglow said, such as when an old woman on a collective farm near Rostov-on-the-Don, continued on page A3 Border crossing threatened OKANOGAN, Wash. (AP) A border crossing between the United States and Canada was closed for several hours Friday morning after. bomb threat from a group U-S- actions in R i said. The border crossing on U.S. Highway 97 between Oroville, Wash., and Osoyoos was closed as 4 precaution at 10:10 a.m. because of a terrorist bomb threat, said U.S. Customs Inspector John Hanson. A group calling itself the Front for Just Action left a flier at a RCMP station in Kelowna saying a bomb would be detonated at the border crossing station between 8 a.m. and noon, said Lt. Vern Griffith of the i i} at Ol Most victims home now MONTREAL (CP) — All but four of the 13 students wounded during Marc Lepine’s 14-death rampage Dec. 6 at the University of Mon- treal will be able to spend Christmas with their families. Three students treated at Montreal General Hospital were discharged Friday. “‘Their parents are absolutely delighted,” a hospital spokesman noted. Mine workers may strike TERRACE (CP) — Negotiations adjourned Friday at a mine north of Stewart, where workers are trying to negotiate their first contract. Officials at the Johnny Mountain gold mine offered the miners a seven-per-cent raise over two years. John Norton, president of the Tunnel and Rockworkers Union, said) he planned to recommend the workers reject the offer. Workers will probably go on strike next month after a strike vote, he said. m The union represents about 85 workers. Virus gobbles programs TORONTO (CP) — A rogue virus that has gobbled computer programs at the University of Toronto while promoting marijuana use has beén showing up around the world, an expert says. The troublesome bug, dubbed the Stoned Virus, started in New Zealand or Australia about two years ago and has pestered thousands of computer: users worldwide, Fred Cohen said. Cohen is a former University of Cincinnati professor and one of the first people to investigate computer Viruses. The virus has crept into 50 engineering building computers at the University of Toronto, flashing your computer is stoned. Legalize f ing its way into marijuana, bef Germanys getting closer EAST BERLIN (Reuter) — East and West Germany have joined hands through the triumphal arch at the Berlin Wall that long symbolized their division, setting the stage for free travel between the two German states. East German Prime Minister Hans Modrow and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl strode together through the Brandenburg Gate on Friday, the signal for an exhuberant people’s party at the spot where only border troops once patrolled. Airlines to battle for West EDMONTON (CP) — Two arch-rival airlines are anticipating ser- vice growth and wing-to-wing competition in Western Canada next year. Time Air of Lethbridge, Alta., a Pacific Western Airline affiliate, says it plans to begin next decade with an updated fleet and an eye on route xpansi lain Harris, the president of Air BC; an affitiate-of Air Canada, said his company already has more departures from Edmonton and Calgary than Time Air and he expects further growth next year. Time Air president Richard Barton said there are more opportunities for expansion in the region west from Winnipeg. Some of those opportunities are in British Columbia, he said. B.C. court upholds ruling VANCOUVER (CP) — The B.C. Supreme Court has upheld the right of the Industrial Relations Council to award legal costs to parties in- volved in council proceedings Mr, Justice Bruce Cohen rejected an argument in which a lawyer for the Canadian Paperworkers’ Union said the council exceeded its jurisdic- tion in awarding costs to two union members who crossed an illegal picket line. The judge said the council properly awarded legal costs to the two workers because of the union’s conduct in failing to implement a council order in a timely manner. Alta. to get incinerator MEDICINE HAT, Alta. (CP) — A toxic waste incinerator will be in- stalled at Canadian Forces Base Suffield in southern Alberta The federal government announced Friday the company that operates the Swan Hills toxic waste incinerator plant in northern Alberta will build the $13.6 million facility. The incinerator is being installed at the base, about 275 kilometres southeast of Calgary, to get rid of stockpiles of chemical and nerve agents and other contaminated materials. Bridge accident kills 1 SEATTLE (AP) — A drawspan on the longest floating bridge in the world was accidentally activated during a routine test Friday, killing a Seattle woman and injuring several other people as cars slammed into a rising wall of steel. State Department of Transportation officials were investigating the Accident to determine what went wrong during the test, which has been conducted every Friday morning for the past 18 years without incidents, said department spokesman Leslie Salisbury. The accident happened at 8:50 a.m. PST, blocking rush hour traffic in both directions and clsoing the bridge. The bridge was reopened at 2:45 p.m. - Moscow to send aid to Romania MOSCOW (AFP-AP) — As fighting raged. in Romania, Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev said today the Soviet Union has been in contact with fellow Warsaw Pact members to see what aid could be given to the Romanian people who have deposed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, But Soviet officials appeared to rule out military inter- vention at this time. As Gorbachev addressed the Soviet parliament, the official news agency Tass reported that a building housing Soviet personnel in Bucharest had come under fire and that gunmen had gone into the building. Tass warned that t*the Soviet Union cannot remain indifferent to the fate of Soviet citizens.” A special Soviet government commission has been set up to coordinate emergency medical aid for Romania, a pact member, Gorbachev said. Several planes carrying medical equipment have already landed at Bucharest’s airport, but are blocked there; the preseident said, according to a journalist at the parliamentary session. The Soviet Red Cross is coordinating its efforts with other Red Cross bodies and medical organizations from Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia and France, Gorbachev said “*We have established contact’ with other countries who are members of the Warsaw Pact to co-ordinate mutual actions in order to provide aid to the Romanian people and carry, out a series of other measures in this respect,” he said. Earlier in the day, Gorbachev had told the parliament he would examine over the next few days what *‘medical or other aid’’ could be given to the Romanian people. NOSOVIET TROOPS Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov said that, in his opinion, it would be “unacceptable” to send Red Army troops to Romania. Speaking to journalists during a parliamentary recess, Ryzhkov said ‘‘we must not repeat the errors of the past.’” The Tass statement issued said ‘‘a residential building, housing families of employees of the Soviet trade represen- tation, is ina zone of fire”’ in Bucharest: “Armed people have penetrated into the building and conduct intensive fire from there. Fires have started in the building and the lives of Soviet people, including women and children, is in serious danger. The Soviet Union cannot remain indifferent to the fate of Soviet citizens and demands that those who have _ unleashed the above actions, endangering the lives of the Soviet people, should immediately stop them.” Tass had earlier reported that its offices in Bucharest had .been fired upon by ‘‘terrorists’’ still loyal to Ceausescu. ‘ Romanian TV, in the hands of the anti-Ceaucescu for ces, said earlier today that the Soviet Embassy in Bucharest had pledged to send personne! and equipment to aid the uprising. The announcement followed an appeal broadcast by the television from an unidentified army general who urged Moscow to step in because ‘terrorist units’? loyal to Ceausescu had sent reinforcements to the Romanian capital. Mercenaries join fighting BUDAPEST (AFP) — Syrian and Libyan mer. centsies werg,among those fighting Romanian troops b @ newly proclaimed government_in Bucharest, where fierce street battles raged today, Hungarian radio said - Libya quickly denied a role in the battles. The official Libyan news agency JANA, in a dispatch monitored in Cyprus, quoted an official source at the Libyan Foreign Ministry saying the reports were “lies.”” There was no immediate comment available from Damascus. Romanian television monitored in Hungary said the mercenaries ‘arrived by helicopter overnight in Bucharest from a nearby training centre under a plan drawn up in advance by the regime’ of ousted dictator Nicolae Ceausescu Under the plan, they were to destroy “key targets”” such as the television station. Hungarian radio said the bodies of several Syrians and Libyans had been found in city streets. Travel has funny side By The Canadian Press **I started out in Toronto about 2:30 The passenger was flying to Win- ’Twas the weekend before Christ- mas and all through the land airports, train stations and bus terminals were jammed with people heading home for the holidays “Travelling at Christmas is the pits, you know, but what can you do when lives in Halifax,"" Anna Toth said Friday night as she stood among hun- dreds of stressed-out travellers in Mon- treal’s bus terminal this afternoon,” said Toth. ‘The bus was an hour late and it seemed to get worse from there. It’s cold and I’m late and I figure I’ll get home to Halifax about next morning — if I’mlucky.”” Many travellers experienced similar woes, but there were still those with humor in the midst of chaos You tive-in-Foronto-and-your-familyIn Vancouver, Air Canada said it received a request from a passenger who wanted to know if there would be any problem if he arrived looking like Santa Claus. nipeg and wanted to surprise his family Resignation sparks questions OTTAWA (CP) — Henry Jensen, No. 2 man in the RCMP, has retired amid controversy over his role in two politically sensitive investigations. An official statement from the federal police force Friday said only that Jensen, 56, deputy commissioner for criminal operations, had been con templating retirement for some time Staff Sgt. George Watts, a spokesman for the Mounties, main tained there was no connection with either of the two contentious cases Jensen, a 37-year RCMP veteran, had been named in the trial of three men charged after the federal budget was leaked in April as wanting “everyone charged that could be charged."’ Defence lawyers allege political interference led to those charges There were also suggestions Jensen played a part in keeping Commissioner Norman Inkster in the dark for a year~ ona key decision in the investigation of former Conservative MP Richard Grise Pastors continued from page A2 century pagan ritual one, but the story of Jesus, “Can you presume any children know about the faith and foundations with all the stress on the material aspec- ts of Christmas?” Bristow asks: “They don’t absorb that information from the surrounding culture like they did 40 years ago, so unless they learn it at home or at the church they'll never learn “I know some young people who don’t even know who Jesus is and that’s sad,” Bristow adds. ‘And, of course, religion to them is a question mark and that’s really sad. Brisow added that the church and parents have been given added respon- sibility to ensure the children are taught the spiritual aspects of the season because the schools “‘are feeling who were meeting him at the airport. “We told him he'd have to go through security like everybody else,”” said airline spokesman Christiane as a religious festival.’” uneasy about teaching it (Christmas) Forgie. ‘But, apart from that, what he wants to dois his privilege. “We think it’s great and we'll do everything wecan for him.”” Lottery numbers Santa in Vancouver did have one special request: he asked for some ex- tra in-flight pillows to tuck under his belt sday in the B.C. Keno lottery were | 5,8, 13,16, 30and21 The winning numbers drawn Thur- 4, The winning numbers in Wed- nesday’s Lotto 6/49 draw were 4, | In memory Margaret Harrison Margaret ‘‘Pearl’’ Harrison of Castlegar passed away Thursday, Dec. 21, 1989 at age 81 Mrs. Harrison was born Nov. 28, 1908, at Nelson and grew up in Vallican. She lived most of her life at Vallican and Winlaw moving to Castlegar in 1987. She enjoyed reading, embroidery and sewing She is survived by one daughter, Jean Champion of Appledale; three granddaughters, Terry Tedesco of Whitehorse, Linda Weaving and San- dy McCall of Vancouver; and one grandson, James Tedesco of Whitehor- se. She was predeceased by her husband Al Harrison in 1985 and her sister, Molly Sutherland, on Oct. 20, 1989 By request of Mrs. Harrison, there will be no funeral and cremation has taken place Should friends desire, memorial contributions may be made to the equipment fund of Kootenay Lake District Hospital in Nelson Cremation arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel continued from page A2 south of Moscow, introduced Oglow and his brothers to two children from the area near Tbilisi from where his father and grandfather had emigrated in 1898, when they were 13 and 30 respectively. At the site near Tbilisi itself, which the group had been unsure they would ever see, Oglow said he found more of the pieces of his past. A group of travellers coming from Turkey men- tioned a town near the border they had passed through named Kars — a name Oglow had heard his grandfather mention. He said he is disappointed he was not permit- ted to cross the border and see Kars for himself. Later, the tour took Oglow further-back through his grandfather’s stories when jin a now-deserted set- tlement near Zaporozhie, about 400 kilometres north of Yalta, he found the old oak tree to which his gran- dfather had tied his horse during the times before the czar forced a group of Doukhobors to move to the mountainous area neat Tbilisi. The tree was also used by the Germans to hang Russians caught behind Nazi lines during the Second World War, Oglow added. Not all the incidents that left impressions on Oglow were as rooted in the landscape as the oak tree, however, One of his prize possessions, for instance, is a copy of a record Paul McCartney released only in the U.S.S.R. But the record, a gift for a family member, is not special to Oglow merely because it is hard to come by in North America. Oglow remembers the young man who gave him thealbum. The young man spotted the red maple-leaf on a shirt Oglow was wearing and asked the Canadian to speak English with him. When Oglow explained he was scouting for a record shop to look for the McCartney record, the young Georgian set him straight — such records sell out in a matter of hours after the store receives a shipment, he said You're a good man, you believe in God, I'll get you one,"’ the Georgian said as the two became engrossed in conversation. The young man returned an hour later with the record and the two men sat in a nearby park talking about the riots that had rocked the city only a short time before the tour group had arrived. The Georgian became emotional when describing the scene of children being hit with sticks and clubs as the authorities broke up the demonstrations and spoke with anger about how North Americans knew of the riot hours after it was broken up while the people in the area were officially informed two weeks later. Ewashen also has memories of notable people he met during the tour, many during times when, like Oglow in the park with a young Georgian, he struck off on his own. In particular, he remembers meeting the curator of the Tolstoy museum and discussing film making with a ROOTS . 2. Doukhobors near Slavanka were just some of the people a tour group met during a visit to the Soviet Union earlier this Soviet filmmaker working on a story about the Doukhobors — a subject Ewashen committed to film himself when he produced In Search of Utopia Oglow said he would like to go back to the U.S.S.R. but he wouldn't try to travel on his own — the expense is too great with hotel rooms often priced at $100 per night Ewashen said tourism is one of the Soviet Union’s biggest industries these days and many hotels are booked to the year 2000. Oglow also said his travel plans wouldn't include Yalta, which he described as an over-advertised tourist town, or Moscow which is ‘*just 16 million civil servan- os;°” Ewashen said he is helping to put together a Siberian train trek but isn’t certain if he will take the month-long trip. He has travelled in the U.S.S.R. before Oglow also had some words of advice for anyone contemplating moving from Canada to the Soviet Union — take atwo- or three-week tour first “I'm very thankful my parents saw fit to move to Canada when they did,” he said. ‘We don't know how lucky we are here’? despite the rapid changes taking place inthe U.S.S.R 17, 20, 25 and 49. The bonus number was 40. There was no winner of the jackpot prize of $3,849,455.90. The four extra winning numbers for British Columbia on Wednesday were 5,26, 39,99. The winning numbers drawn Wed- nesday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 10, 14, 24, 25, 36, 39, 49 and 56. These numbers, provided by The Canadian Press, must be considered unofficial Council to old year end meeting By CasNews Staff Castlegar city council will hold a special meeting Wednesday at 4 p.m td tidy up some unfinished business before theend of the year Council will deal with several pieces of correspondence, discuss recent changes in liquor-licensing policy and will hear committee reports, as well as a few other agenda items For the record The photographs of two winners in the Castlegar News/Castlegar Public Library's annual Christmas short story contest were unfortunately transposed in the special section contained in this issue As that section had already been printed, we have repeated the stories and the photographs in one of the main sections of today’s paper. The stories may be found on page CS © Shoppers © West's * Woolco © Zellers Not all flyers receive full distribution. ai " phone our Circulation Deportment ot ~~