CASTLEGAR NEWS, October 12, 1980 He. just can't win » WINNIPEG (CP) — Barry Twomlow, a former world dart champion, may be washed up because he's lost his killer instinct, And he says it's ‘all because he. played too many amateurs, : After the Derbyshire, England, native won the News of the World indi: vidual championship in 1969, he became a sales- man and ambassador for a dart-making company. This forced him to be- come a nice guy — blowing shots so amateurs can catch up to keep them ex- cited. . , Doing this six months , of the year dulled his keen competitive edge. Now he peaks, he'll never be able to recapture the world title. twomlow was here as ‘part of a‘world tour to promote the game of darts. Lucky chap PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — Gary Girvin almost had to eat éne-ton of rainbow trout. An experimental trout farm on Girvin's half-acre property was far more succ- essful than he anticipated, with most of the 3,000 to 4,000 rainbow trout finger- lings he planted last spring the 25-centimetre range. “It's a bit of an em- barrassing success,” Girvin said recently, "This was to be my experimental year.” The rate of growth and Bigfoot'in Ohio COLUMBUS, OHIO «. (AP) — A former big-game!, hunter believes Bigfoot. may be roaming the hills of southern Ohio, along with ; other members of its fam- ily, a fugitive from the eruption of Mount St. Hel- ens. “I say there's a family, more than one,” said Rob,,,.; ert Gardiner, 40, of Col: umbus in an interview. :..:. Gardiner, president of the North American Big-. foot Research Team, said . FREE Estimates Automatic - Transmission Service Special! — $28. 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FISHY PROSPECT _ “Pll be selling some, but Istill think I'll be eating quite a few more than I'm ac- , customed to,” he said. “Commercial trout from Japan is selling for about $215 for 10 ounces. I think I'll be able to sell quite a bit cheaper.” Girvin attributes his success to the ded con- ately Castlegar's director of rec- reation, | (Pat. Metge, who is te Moll-will be one of 12 area difectors ‘ throughout the province working to™ inform the provincial body of local recreational needs, Her responsibilities include the -entire West Kootenays. The association is a pro- d- body of 1980-81". ‘National BY THE ;CANANDIAN: tA first oe at at the Hockey League schedule might have sent Maurice Filion'seurrying’ to Quebec Nordiques mana- gement-for a rewrite of his coaching. contract, The.;80-game schedule penalty for drawing blood in an altercation with Quebec's Gerry Hart, Edmonton. coach, Bryan Watson reacted to Fogolin's outhurst by saying his club must stop taking ’foolish pen- alties. The Ollers controlled play, then Fogolin took “his penalty and “it was 54; th sends Quebec: to eight dif-. 6-4.” ferent NHL cities in the first 19 days because a.construc- tion project won't allow the Nordiques to open’ at their home rink until Oct. 29. But, if the: Nordiques’ first and most prolonged road trip of the season is any indication, Filion will be all smiles by the. time he finally returns home. The Nordiques defeated Edmonton Oilers 7-4 on Fri- day night to take three of a possible four points . from. their first two games. They tied Calgary Flames 5-5 the previous night. ‘ The Nordiques, down 2-0 * in the eighth minute of play, - * came back with four goals in the third period to spoil the © Oilers’ home opener in front of a.crowd of 17,334. “+ GANUCKS WIN “Elsewhere, Vancouver Canucks downed Detroit Red Wings 6-3 and Washington Capitals’ buried Winnipeg Jets 4-1. Quebec's deciding goals ° were scored while Lee Fog- olin of the Oilers was serving * a fi inuti ditions in his pond which is about 1.8 metres deep and has a channel running down ‘the middle which is two to four metres deep. “My . fish are more crowded, there is more com- petition for food and the fish work to get more,” he said. “They get more food this way, it seems.” _ ' Girvin hand feeds his trout twice daily. “They become very reg- ulated to the feeding times, early in the morning and late feed in the water, the surface just boils with fish fighting for the food.’ USES OWN METHOD Girvin makes his own fish food from fish meal, soy SSELKIRK CASTLEGAR, B.C. requires an Instructor ALLIED HEALTH (NURSING) (Part-time 1-3 days per week) COLLEGE . DUTIES: Classroom instruction and clinical teaching of inadipl progi tod: QUALIFICATIONS: (R.N.) in B.C. is required; preferred, but not essential. eate degree, _courses in nursing and education. 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I kept waiting for some mortality this year, but the only mortality I noticed was a few fish which kingfishers poked holes in.” Girvin doesn't have the facilities to allow the fish to winter in a frozen pond, so all 3,000 must come out before freeze-up. . be “I plan to net them out, but if the net doesn't work, Til invite a bunch of kids in 30 fish in 15 minutes — they get a real charge out of it.” In the meantime, Girvin is looking for commercial markets for the trout, evening. When I Throw the . * | Calgary 3 Winnipeg 2 here. I've seen kids pull out’ iy b in the high-sticking .- Jacques Richard ‘and Jamie Hislop scored :while: Fologin was off and/ Oilers were unable to cover. Hislop had era Boek on the “night; with Michal: Goulet, Mare Tardif, “Weir and Robbie Ftorek added one each, Wayne Gri zky sepred twelce fc . Oilers, while Blair MacDi ‘ald and ‘Fogolin added * gles. : Plasse faced 26 ts. Edmonton goaltender’, Pete, LoPreati handled 26, In, the Winnipeg-Wash- ington game, Dennis Maruk, who. ’played only 27° games - last season because of a knee injury,’ scored two goals as the’ Caps won their’ home opener before a crowd of. 12,984 in Landover, Md.’ Bengt Gustafsson scored on a power play for Wash- ington at 9:49 of the first period, when the Caps out- shot the Jets 16-8. Ryan | Walter, Washington's ‘lead- ing scorer last season, scored | early in the ‘second : period _and Maruk’s two goals made 500 d - delivery of recreation, either ‘as a politician, lay, person or practitioner. Hockey scores By The Canadien Press Kootenay Junior Trail 9 Castlegar. 7 NHL Quebec 7 Edmonton 4 Vancouver 5 Detralt3 Washington 4 Winnipeg 1 "American Adirondack 4 New Haven 3 Rochester 5 Binghamton 2 : Central Wichita § Tulso3 Oklahoma City 3 Forth Worth 2. * Western International Kimberley 8 Trail 7 Nelson3 Elk Valley 2 Billings 6 New Westminster” Regins 9 Medicine Hat 3 Bumper apple crop as KELOWNA (CP).— The :1980 apple crop is expected to’ exceed 9.5 million 48- pound boxes, making it the largest in $4 years. Officials ‘of B.C. Tree Fruits predicted there will be an increased harvest of two million boxes compared with last year. The last nine mil- lion box crop was harvested in 1946. Revised estimates now’ list McIntosh apples -at 2.8 million boxes, : golden . deli- cious at one million boxes, Spartan at 1.4 million boxes and red delicious at 3.7 million boxes, : oy of all Varieties is juat terrific and harvesting is going very thly,” said Joe Bauer, B.C. dunter.. Penticton 7 MerrittS Revelstoke 10 Kelowna 8 Release polls. OTTAWA (CP) — The public will begin to see Wed- nesday the results of 129 © public opinion polls conduc- ted for the government. Justice Minister Jean’ Chretien told the Commons another 12 !polls including several dealing with senai- tive constitutional of federal- provincial issues, will be held back because the -govern- ment has not finished an- alysing them and using them to help develop. policy. Canadian sales Every year we are faced . with the prospect: of Poke having enough apples make gur pure apple ‘aice,” Lawrence Bates sales mana. ger, said. 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The fire marshal was on the site Friday afternoon but details have yor: tobe released. —ConNewsFete hy Jorge Alverax, : ‘ Bhhow room in St. Da- vid's undercroft was at a minimum last Monday. even- ing. as congregational mem- bers sat down to a potluck supper. Guest of honor was the Very Rev. Alan Jackson, who. recently . resigned: as Dean ofthe Anglican Church Diocese of Kootenay. Fr. Des Carroll, rector of rose to great heights — assisted by a chair —in paying tribute to the dean. (It is suspected that he kissed the Blarney Stone on all sides during last summer's trip to the Emerald Isle.) Dr. Des likened'the dean to such eminent personages as Dean Jonathan Swift of Gulliver's Travels fame, Dean Inge of St. Paul's Cjthedr ih.. Loi Spooner erisms are named, as well as Stonewall Jackson, an early Mrs, kay Bate presents the Very Rev. Alan Jackson witha gift from the Anglican congregation of St. David's in Castlegar as the! Rev. Des Carroll looks on CASTLEGAR NEWS, October. 12, 1980 “Dean H. O'Driscoll. | speaks at St. David's ‘The last half of the 20th century is not an easy time in which to be alive. It is an apocalyptic time and things seem to be coming apart at the seams. Every- thing is being. shaken. The pain of the present is so great we ask, “What about: the future?” ‘The future is a castle where meee, and hope dwell. ° So spoke ™ Herbert ‘O'Driscoll, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Vancou- .ver,' to a group which taxed the seating capacity of St. David's Anglican Church un- dercroft. Dean O'Driscoll spoke on the theme “Apo- calypse Now.” Modern movies such as Apocalypse, The Blazing In- ferno,. Poseidon Adventure, and The: Exorcist are ex- amples of: our waking dreams. The river of death is a vision shared by millions; earthquakes, fire, flood, and demons are what people fear, and movies are symbols used to express these fears. Looking back on: the 10-year. membership awards presented By HAROLD ACKNEY Nordic Lodge social ac- tivities started with a potluck anniversary dinner’ and dance. During the evening, guest speaker Knut Kjem- frud from Spokane. Wash. presented the following nine members with their 10-year membership award — Sisters “Agnes Bloom, Jean Arnot, ‘Gurda Sandvik, Brothers and sisters Chris and Liz. Bonde, Sig. and Francis By, Floyd and Marg. Bacon. ~The’ lodge members would like to express their thanks to the above-honored members for the many years. of service, and sincerely hope that they ehjoy many more fruitful years in the lodge. The ladies’ auxiliary is active and has planned its Warming to his subject, Fr. Des drew a parallel be- tween ‘himself and Dean Jackson to David and Goli- ath. Realising he had gone far enough, he called on Kay Bate who presented the dean’ with a gift of a wallet s behalf of the congregation 4s an expression of appreci-. ~ ation. Marion Booth thanked the dean for his help and en- couragement over the years. “Beneath that dramatic ex- terior lies a soft heart, a kind heart and a: generous heart. In the past, the dean has given unstintingly of himself to St. David's and St. David's is indeed grateful. We say neither. ‘Goodbye’ nor ‘Fare-' well’, but rather, ‘Au revoir’, trusting that our many paths will cross-again.” Fr. Jackson replied with thanks for the gift and also for the -love, warmth and friendship he has received during his years in the area. “My life has been greatly * blessed and enriched by my association with St. David's,” declared the dean. He invited any who may be passing through Oliver in the south- ern: Okanagan to visit him there, where he is taking up duties as parish priest. Public event planned for Disarmament Week A number of events will be held in Castlegar during Disarmament Week, the Jast week of October. - Disarmament Week is a special emphais on public education regarding world- wide over-spending on arms, sponsored by the United | Nations: A local committee, head- ed by Ted Bristow, has a Rossland.” ‘getting new hotel. West Kootenay's newest full service hotel, the Up- “number of informational events in the planning stage. Bristow ‘told ‘CasNews that he expects a special film to get a wide showing, in- eluding at a public event to be held at Selkirk College. There should also be a couple of other special evenings put on by co-operating local or- ganizations during that week, as well asa petition “to encourage Ottawa to get | more interested in the issue” and “a couple of other may- bes." rf “We'll be advertising the events a week ahead,” he said. .° “The mail delay has meant we don't yet have all the lander Hotel in is due to open Dec. 1. C.D. Ellison, _ general manager of the hotel, owned - by Nealho, says the hotel will help develop downtown Ross- land as well as ‘the local tourist industry, especially the ski trade. Big things from small beginnings * About $2,000,000 in rev- ” enue’ was obtained by Pen- ticton -when 4,000 Legion members‘ attended a con- vention. Don Fisher, Conventions Manager for Penticton used . * these figures to illustrate how the small city conven- tions business works, when he spoke to Kootenay Boun- dary Visitors Association's annual general meeting in Grand Forks,;; earlier this month. The i busi- of four p: we'd like,” Bristow went on, Twin Rivers, “but we do have limited numbers of some useful mat- erial published by the U.N. and Canadian groups. I'd be glad to share these with any- one interested. “We all need to know more about this question, in- cluding what the ordinary citizen can do about. it,” Bristow: went on. “It would be gead to see community organizations, school groups, or individuals get into the question, either during Dis- armament Week or at some later time, -° “Our ‘small’ committee would also be glad to receive help ‘from anyone who wants to back us up,” Bristow con- cluded. “People just have to phone me.” Holds open house A large gathering of parents attended Open House at Twin Rivers School last Monday evening. After welcoming the group, prin- cipal Bruce Gerrand intro- duced the staff and gave a short review of the activities of the school. A demo! convention centers: in Can- ada. Fisher stressed the im- portance of community will- ingness to host large groups and of the need to plan and coordinate advertising and marketing strategies. “You have to attempt to create a first, class friendly atmos- phere with every citizen .of the community.” However, he warned, the for conven- ness can start small, he indi- cated, but Penticton's suce- ess in the past 15 years has been related to its excellent facility, the Peach Bowl, one tions is increasing every year, and once business is obtained you must provide “service, service, and ser- vice” to remain competitive, of Ap- ple -Il-plus computer was enjoyed -by many parents. Music capabilities, remedial Feading, science, math and file capabilities were’ dem- onstrated by learning as- sistant teacher -Mrs. Inga Lamont and Rik Hall, com- puter co-ordinator. In Bob;Bertuzzi’s Grade 6 class, the parents were given a brief outline of the reading, language, social studies and music programs. They watched while sev- eral pupils were taken through a typical lesson in Psychotechine Spelling. In this method, ‘a flashomatic device is used; words are flashed on a screen at 1/100 ofa second. Pupils are asked to respond in several ways: by seeing the word, learning the word, writing the word and applying the word. This’ method also encourages pu- pils to be more attentive and to focus their attention on a specific task. Another item of interest was the new Worlitzer elec- tronic piano. A demonstation was also given of the cap- abilities of the new Worlitzer electronic piano. Pupils can play the piano without dis- turbing others by using head phones. Plans are in the making to obtain more’ of these units so that a piano laboratory can be set up and pupils can rete piano skills. The twin. Rivers staff would like to thank the par- ents'who came to the Open House and helped to make it successful. bazaar for Nov. 8. Pleas contribute to this fine effort. If you have any do- nations, please contact Molly Brattebo or Polly Travis for instructions on how to de- liver your << DEAN H. O'DRISCOLL .. sat St. David's t:froma * end,” manage; they are tough and - complicated. Our nine-to-five: relations are MURDER. We ’ want, so much, demand so much.,of them: they are buckling, shaking, coming .; apart at the seams, « Institutions are being ,shaken. They are. being forced. to become. communi- ties, revealing a richness that is. new. Persorial faith has become agearch, a journey of discovery with the Divine, and is 60 times richer. . First the shaking, then the revealing of new riches. We read in Hebrews that “the kingdom we are given is unshakable.” “Unshakable in order to discover the things which can't be shaken,” insisted Dean O'Driscoll. People must ‘remain in the mainstream and serve there. To be ali- enated is to be sick. The apocalyptic voice declares, ““The world is coming to an while the prophetic AD 2080, one could see many. revolutions: occurring. There’ is an me ge pain for thestim such “as"no} at Fe sources, >< ppollution, wot salir, sph. + water ‘and'séil;: the roles‘of ‘of us the true meaning of Brother and ‘Sister. . In mid-September our president Sister Jean Chris- tensen presented the 1980 Nordic Lodge soccer awards, The winning ‘teams were Trail soccer club and Celgar soceer club. Congratulations to all the coaches and team players for a fine year. To the losers, remember there is al- ways next year. Nordie Lodge won the : best lodge award for the past yedr and past president Brother Conrade Brattebo is to be congratulated as being chosen: president of the year for 1978, Castlegar férry increases round #rips The Castlegar-Robson Ferry made 225 more round trips last month than during the same period last year. We are more than pleas- ed to report that our lodge has donated $150 through CKQR Radio for the Terry Fox drive ‘for cancer’ re- search. We, as a lodge; ex- tend otr thanks to CKQU for promoting and aiding in this drive. And to’ Terry Fox, -what can we say other than thanks for showing the rest Perhaps things improving Listening tod store clerk listening to the very halting efforts here in Castlegar . Tecently of an obviously ‘New Canadian’ customer, minded me of an event of -which I wrote 25 years ago. In the recent 215 (880); and I re-~ "s total shows 8,509 trips this year ‘and & 284 in 1979. Other statistics ‘are as follows, with last year’s figures in brackets: Automobiles and drivers 28,823 (28,639); passengers not drivers 35,267. (35,164); all types of trucks 14,833 (14,891); trailers and semi-’ trailers 231 (728); motor buses 106 (92); motorcycles 9 (7). ‘as never tbe! for time for y work and forleisuré. °; male and female are changing bur use Boredom teh ‘There are many,more. e. In the past, life was tribal OF. £0 porary, val asta by, the church and: ‘society.5, In the 1980's.th voice with, “The world is coming to an end un- less .°. .” Moving with the grace janet. and vitality of a dancer, driving home point after ,point with expressive fea- tures and eloquent gestures, , the dean held his audience . spellbound for nearly: two hours,” After a short break for tea, Dean O'Driscoll went on to explain that the Lord God of Israel is the Lord of ‘history. He calls his people from simplicity to complex- "ity, and from innocence to The" sophistication with the prom- ise that “If you move into it, I will be there.” have; broken: up;into millon ‘a of private to an earlier theme, the dean stated that the . Because of the Toneliness® thus crusted tua‘are search- ing for the caravans. again. We are heginning to re- discover the awe and the majesty and-the glory of the Lord. _ But there is also a dark side, a side of neurotic, frantic superstition. People look to astrology, sects, » witeheraft and elsewhere for aneat, precise answer. There * isn't one. We are a wilderness jon, The. wi is'one of our richest symbols. It is a place . whkere sll of us go whether. we like it or not. In the wil- derness people either die, or they meet God. It is a place of demons, terrors and fears, and also of ministering an- gels. It is worth the risk. From a wilderness experi- ence’ we are released to live hope, not in despair. +: The. _ following, morning, { éari O'Driscoll’ ‘conducted ° ‘the Women's Day of Faith, a joint program of the women has long been a powerful symbol in the Judaeo-Chris- tian religion. Going into the wilderness involves a risk. It means leaving the familiar. Life and religion are shat- tered in the wilderness and people meet new ones there. The Israelites died in the -wilderness but their children came out. Moses’ big fear for the Israelites was that they would lose their faith. Our very. personalities are being shaken. “Who am 1?” we ask ourselves. We are living more richly than we were; life is more complex. Our ionships are hard to JOHN CHARTERS’ ‘Reflections & Recollections of Kok: and Koot Boundary region. About 70 - women gathered in St, David's undercroft.to hear the dean speak on the theme “Sir, We Would See Jesus,” the central question for a Christian today. Following a morning of reflection, Dean O'Driscoll and Fr. Des celebrated the eucharist in the undercroft, with the congregation stand- ing in a large circle. They were assisted by Kay Meal- ing and. Jean. Lowe who served as lay soministrators of the chalice. + A potluck lunch brought. the session to an end.. however, circumstances ‘were, completely : different. The clerk was the very es- sence of patience and help- fulness ‘and I would like to congratulate her and all sim- ilar compassionate souls for their efforts. Perhaps things are improving. “And she turned toward her friend and laughed and said, ‘This lady is stupid,’ and Iery in my heart and feel like dead.” This was how a friend of mine, a Doukhobor woman, summed up her efforts to speak English. She had gone “to a store to buy an at- tachment for her sewing machine. To all her attempts at description, and to her and humi- iously angry. There are thou- sands upon thousands of men and women oldtimers and newcomers living in Canada today whose initial eagerness tolearn the language is like a . greater hunger. But there is not the slightest doubt.that many of these eager learners are hu- miliated and stung into des- pairing silence by just such - brainless, heartless idiots as are represented by that store clerk. The hunger is still there, but it is a frustrated hunger, masked with resentment and ‘silence. It takes a hardy in- lation, the-clerk had but one answer — “I don’t know what you want.” The clerk’s game became familiarly transparent when just after the final insulting remark (for the benefit of a nearby friend), the propri- etor arrived and understood - my friend's wants quietly and with little difficulty. .I write of this incident because it makes me fur- dualism and a great de- termination, particularly when one is an adult, to ignore the sidelone looks, the condenscension, the smiles, and outright laughter at one’s struggle in the jungle of English idiom syntax (or lack of it), a1 ticularly if they lack teach- ers, or the opportunity, or must spend most of. their time at home, prefer the lim- itations of ignorance in the language to the humiliating hurdles of learning it. It is hard for those of us who have been born with the language on our tongue, as iE dl and withered by some half- baked egoist who feels that after spending a lifetime learning just one language, he has a complete right to destroy someone else's ef- forts to learn a second (or third) language, ‘who feels that the possession of a for- eign accent and confusion in makes a were, to agonies of those who have not had that opportunity. “It feels hard, my friend, like a prison,” and went on to des- cribe how one looks out and knows in his mind all the things he wishes to say. But the language is a prison wall, cutting one off from that other world, leav- ing one only to wistful long- ing, saying nothing. In spite of the obstacles, quite a few of these people can, with a little encour- agement and patience from listener, person ‘inferior,’ and there- fore a handy target for poor wit and solace for his own. sense of inferiority. Poor fool! T have noticed time and again how eager and patient people of other national ori- gins are to teach me their language. I feel that if we 4 have any love for this of ours we can dono less than. return that courtesy to those new Canadians who are so eager to join us. There can be no under- standing, no fellow feeling without a common medium of Some, by virtue of de- termination, necessity, or both, master these difficul- ties and have new avenues opened to them. Others, par- make ‘themselves understood and, in so doing, gain con- fidence and more knowledge. All too often, however, this green twig is blackened I write for all those who “ery in their hearts and feel like dead” because some of us — not they — have been stupid.