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Drinking and driving: A sure way to hurt, or
ibly even worse, b else,

"But nobody ever seems. to think of, or prepare for,
that when it might still do some good.

It’s the old adage of “The man takes a drink, the
drink takes a drink, and then the drink takes the man.”

The consumption of alcohol is a socially acceptable
vice. No one thinks twice about accepting a drink, And
then a second. And, by then, it’s probably too late to
think about thinking.

The fact is, ae necessary to think, and think

Nostalgia, a disease to be dreaded by all

Ron
H Jeffels

Syndicated
f Columnist

The Greeks had a word for it. But
then the Greeks had a word for most
things,with the possible exception of
computer, H-bomb, Punk Rock,
bikini and Spicer C i

with the gliding, golden’ pens,
overhead projectors and degrees in
cultural anthropology carn an
indecent living by. taking us back in
time and space, They sell the remote
dreams of nostalgia, the citadel of
self, the moated castle of childhood,
++ and all the snows of yesteryear,
I’ve leamed to resist.

The mute button on the goggle
box may well be the greatest
invention since the nylon zipper and
the teflon frying pan. When nostalgia
comes up in soft and misty

Greek nostos meaning home plus —

algia: that’s the beginning, but not
the end, of our word nostalgia. And
it’s pandemic, that dread disease, a
malady we all share: the vague,
bittersweet yearning for the retum to
a lost ancestral home and things as
they once were.

So it’s back to some forgotten,
sweet-watered Oasis in life: Valhalla,
Shangri-la, the Blessed Isles, Happy
Valley, Eldorado. The list can be
extended,

Nostalgia is Time laundered,
rinsed, lemon-scented, lint-relieved,
purged of the horrors of static cling,
then put out to dry in benevolent suns
and winds as soft as a child’s

ers,

Well, that’s pure trumpery and
poppycock: a load of sickening,

T’'ll have none of it! Those days never
existed and never will: not in my life,
not in yours.

They're an invention of the beat-
oppress’d imagination, a revolt
against reality, heart-drops from
memory’s urn. Better to live, now,
here, in the present with all its sins of

there, in the middle of
Cheers or Twin Peaks, I punch it out
with a hard straight right to the
button, 3

That way I never hear those ads
for mellow-roasted coffee, down-
home cheddar, finger-licken'-good
(ouch!) turkey and disposable
crockery: the ones featuring a moist-
eyed granny and a terminally stupid
grandpa. Never looks too bright to
me, that one, and I keep

age’and ‘compulsory senility. With
difficulty, I'd say.

They’re waiting, table set, ona
Sunday afternoon, for the inevitable
assault by three sepoious storm

So,
near the hearth, inden the yellow
pool of light, in cracked and rusty
voices, they natter on endlessly about
The Return and the divine joys of
grandparenthood.

If you want to invoke nostalgia,

always use a voice that's flaky,

}, oxidized and rusty. Pender

Street insists on it, especially in ads
for Long. calls.

assault to come. if they live, of
course. |

And I distrust all ads showing soft
white kittens with dark, lascivious
eyes chasing toilet rolls. I’ll buy
mine factory-sealed, cello-wrapped
and uncontaminated, thanks very
much; I object to the nostalgic retum
to childhood suggested and implied
by those feline fakes.

And I don’t much trust faithful
golden retrievers either: the ones who
accompany their masters .on
sentimental voyages through nature,
back to the fuiets sheltered days of
and the virtues of non-

In :=ality, of course, gramps is
cursing, sotto voce, in words found
only in the soldier's pack, those three
little asterisks and all the pillaging,
ravishing and looting about to take
place,

But they’re sure, dead sure
gramps and grandma that the

t, the h:

how gramps ever made a living
before be slipped into decadent old

nme uate restores

the fi licken’-good
the ca

cholesteroled ole.

When I was prepubescent and
therefore unprotected, one of those
mutts retrieved most of my right calf.
T have the scars to prove it.

So spare me the nostalgic retum, I
beg you adman! I'll live and buy in
the present, honest! I take a solemn
oath on it,

RR. Jeffels is a Richmond

and ry
will see them through the rapacious

le writer and former principal
“of ‘The Open Learning Institute.

CALY IN
BRITAIN,
YOUSWY 2.

Wednesday, December 5, 1990
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The Castlegar Sun

Lottery button contest underway

The Castlegar Festivals Society
invites everyone in the Castlegar
district to enter a design for the
1991 Sunfest “Salute to Music”
lottery button. Funds from the
sale of lottery buttons are the
Festival Society’s main operating
money and are used to promote
Sunfest, sponsor events and make
Sunfest the biggest and best
community celebration.

All designs will be on display '

right after the New Year and a
panel of 3 celebrity judges will
chose the winning design. Uptos

* colours can be used and with the
Salute to Music, theme festival .

organizers expect that musical

instruments will dominate the

design. Be

“With BC's Music 91 concert
ing to Cast! Sunfe

Hawse, Society President.
Hawse was re-clected as
president at the Sogicty’s AGM
on November 28, while Bill
Whitehead was elected Vice
Chairman, Debbie Hart is the
Secretary and Bruce Wilson,

, remains as Treasurer, Filling out

the Board of Directors are
newcomer Nancy Lingley,
Harvey Friedenberger and George
Pipke. This group hag already set

‘December 5 for’their next

meeting and urge all groups and
organizations who will be or are
considering holding an‘event that
to send a
to the organizational meeting.
With all the events happening that
weekend the Society needs to
know now which groups are

weekend, we are expecting a lot
of visitors in the area,” said Ross

ig what events so that
there is a minimum of conflict in
facility usage and to assist in the

promotion of the events.

The Castlegar Chamber of
Commerce is one. of the biggest
supporters of Sunfest, Hawse said
and they have again allowed the
Society to use their offices at
1995 6th Ave. as the drop-off
point for designs. As well, they
will also provide any callers with
instructions on the size of the
button and the information that
has to be included with the
design.

“We really appreciate their
support. Since we don’t have a
Sunfest office or staff their
services are very important to us
to get the information out to
visitors and residents.”

Think of a great desigu for a
Salute to Music button and make
sure you get the design in to the
Chamber of Commerce offices by
Thursday, Dec. 20, at 4p.m.

United Way campaign hits
unexpected trouble in fundraising

After a seemingly successful
start, this year's United Way fund
raising campaign has hit a serious
obstacle, with some areas giving
one third or half less than last
year,

Right now, the campaign is
$10,000 behind last year’s total.

“Everything seemed to indicate
that this was going to be a tum-
around year, where we would
reach our goal for the first time
ever,” said Bert Rourke,
Campaign chairman.

“We were shocked ‘to see the
lower level of contributions and
we're very worried that we'll have

Red Hot Santa

SUN STAFF PHOTO / Nancy Ungley

Firefighter Kenny Chernoff takes a load of ccd toys upstairs following
the Toy Drive Blitz on Nov. 24. The firefighters’ Toy Drive has been
extended to Dec. 12. Toys to make a less fortunate child happy on
Christmas morning may be left at the North Castlegar Firehall or at CKQR.

bef d, of th of not
thinking. And it is ‘te drinker's responsibility to do
that, despite the fact that, through CounterAttack, the
combined force of ICBC and local RCMP will do your
thinking for you. Perhaps at a cost. The cost of your
reputation, the cost of your license, the cost of your
freedom.

to cut the money to agencies that
provide services in Castlegar.”

Rourke said he knows many
families are feeling the pinch, and
appealed to those who are ina
position to, to increase their
donation this year.

“Many of your neighbors have

omission, royal commission and
revenue-neutral taxes. Well, in the
latter case, I may be going a bit too
far. Strike it out. Think of something
else. . . or the feds will.

But the admen on Pender Street
and Madison Avenue those dudes

Interest rate change on B.C. POOR BOYS

see e ee

This holiday season, and all year long, make it a rule
not to take that first drink until you’ve determined how
you will be travelling afterwards,

Give your keys to else for
Better yet, don’t drive your own vehicle in the first
place. the ion. Deprive y of the

Opportunity to make a bad judgement.

Chances are, your judgement will be pretty good
before that first drink.

Make use of it while you still can.

LITTLE
KNOWLEDGE

1) Who said, “One small step for man kind, one giant
leap for humanity."?

2) What is the capital of Afghanistan?
3) For whom was the “Bowie knife” named?

4) Fort Simpson, NWT, is at the confluence of two
rivers. Which?

5) What is the opposite of oriental?
Answers

1) Neil Armstrong, upon the occasion of taking his
forst step on to the Moon in 1967.

2) Kabul.

3) Colnel Jim Bowie, early 19th century frontiersman
and soldier, who in 1836, along with Davie
Crockett, defended the Alamo.

4) Laird & Mackenzie.

5) Occidental

Slings
and
arrows

Maybe we could stand somebody
with even a poor grasp of bus
conductor economics, so long as they
had the other qualities that Mr. Major
represents. ean

‘The howls of anguish which were

to stay off the dole, never mind to
build a house. Much casi, they find,

Incidentally, now. that the owner
of the properties in question has his

to present

victims and demand

that somebody else take care of them.
Mayor Campbell noted. in the

aftermath that the occupants of these

houses had been offered accom-

raised in certain left wing q
over the eviction and

but H it; they were
1 looki for a

Some victims.

bed

T've heard a few snide

received a thorough (and to my! mind

As far as ihis particular incident
was concemed, the authorities acted

airing in the pi
media.
The general tenor was that the
police had over-reacted and the

‘suggesting on the selection of Mr

John Major as Great Britain's new
prime minister. It seems the cause of
the mirth is that as a young man, he
failed the maths test given to
prospective bus conductors, yet
finally ended up as chancellor of the
(ie )
before moving on to the top job.

Well, it's a good line of course,
but the facts are that Great Britain
under the likes of Mrs Thatcher and
Mr Major has been busily paying off
its national debt and the economy is
in fairly good shape. Canada for all
its experts and Mr. Mulroney's
experience as president of the Iron
Ore Company of Canada, is
increasing its national debt at $30
billion a year and has found itself in
a recession at a time when all the
other westem industrial powers are

were all d (by the
media) the dignity of having a valid
Political point of view, namely that it
was getting expensive to live in
Vancouver and why should blue
collar housing be pulled down to
make way for condominiums?

A typical quote from John Shayler
of the Tenants Rights Coalition was
that “the whole thing was blown way
out of proportion... there must be a
way of doing that without declaring a
war zone.” He was also reported as
saying, “The squatters were trying to
make a point about housing, that this
‘was good housing, that there was no
development permit and that it
shouldn't be empty.”

There is certainly a stratum of
society which resents any authority
so I suppose they would be cheering.
But that particular sort of person
doesn't usually have the self esteem

ly properly. With 30 hostile
individuals, possibly armed, the
police reacted prudently by making
sure that they had the and

property to him, 36 homes
will arise where before there were
six. One supposes that this will help
in crowded Vancouver. .*
1 eee biaabet

Looks like it's going to be open
season on unbom children in Ontario,
now that the NDP bas got power
there. And it hasn't taken them I long.

According to the Canadian Fress,
the provincial government is ready to
provide full funding for abortion
clinics so that women will no longer
have | to pay the $200 to $1,000 fee

equipment to deal with anything that
d,

pene:

More generally, I find it hard to
generate much sympathy for
squatting as a way of life. It’s as
much theft as pilfering gasoline from
your neighbour's car or shoplifting.
You use (and in the above case,
abuse) somebody else's property with
no intention of returning value for it.
There's nothing noble in it.

Let's face it, most of us manage to
find somewhere to live. We accept
the Tesponsiilty, of paying rent oa a

So housing is exp
Vancouver?. New cars are also
expensive. If you can't afford one,
you'll have to drive an old one. That's
the way it is. And if you can't afford
to live in Vancouver, you'll have to
live where you can afford. What's
wrong with that? Why do these
people not accept that responsibility?

|. Health Mini: Evelyn
Gigantes ‘adds that the province will
also speed up the licensing of clinics
and try to train more doctors willing
to do abortions,

Oh, and just to make sure that the
benefits are handed around, there
will be a grant program for northem
Ontario residents to cover travel
costs for women who seek abortions
outside their hometowns. (That's
nice, maybe they'll be able to get a
shopping trip in too, courtesy of the
government.)

body who objects outside one
of these death factories, (11 be
damned of I'm going to call it a
clinic, which ts a word I use to
describe a life,
not destroying it) neh be dealt with
severely in the courts.

The only thing missing is some
indication as to when abortions
become compulsory.

Torys looking for a new horse te ride

the 350 reporters in the

press gallery bas been

unable to find Tor Tory MPs scheming
against Mulroney.
Mulroney’s assault on Clark’s

Neil Kinnock: “Prime Minister,
your caucus is revolting!”

Margaret Thatcher: “My sentiments
exactly.”

The caucus mutiny which
deposed Margaret Thatcher — an
unprecedented defeat of a sitting
prime minister — was closely

hed by Brian °s
advisers. They don’t want this
“British disease” to infect Canadian
Conservatives.
_Toppling an incumbent prime’

ship was built on his claim he
could win Quebec. And the
perception by the right wing that
Brian was a “real” Conservative, not
a “Red Tory” like like Clark.
Mulroney delivered Quebec.

Bouchard, another, Tory win in
Quebec is fur from certain.

The same thing has happened in
Mulroney's other key area of.
support: The West.

After, years of small liberal

lici thought they

is nearly imp
although Tobn
"6 Cabinct Came closs.

Canada,

An Brian: Mulroney. himself ..

discovered that toppling an‘in-
cumbent opposition leader is only:
slightly less Aifficult,. even with
inside help.

That’s not to say:caucus revolts

can't happen here. It is just that they
are much more difficult to organize
than in Britian. ..

Which may. crlain why none of :

bad elected a real “conservative” .

insurance, sell off some. crown

corporations, do the free trade deal
with the U.S. and bring in tax
refom, including the GST.

But the Mulroney Tories didn’t

deliver on. the real; right-wing -
“agenda... They didn't bring back ;

capital punishment, didn’t object to
turbans in the RCMP and, most of
all, didn’t gut the bilingualism
program. This failure explains
growing Western support for the
Reform party.

From this vantage point — three
years before be hes to call a vote —-
it appears highly unlikely Mulroney
can win another election, certainly
nota majority...

This.may not matter to senior

ministers like Joe Clark, Don”
lazanko'

wski and Michael Wilson,
all of whom are not likely to run
again’ 24: ; 5
But there are a lot of other Tory
MPs who would like to'stay in
Parliament and whose careers are at

stake. They’d Jeve to find anew.

horse to ride.

Don Mazankowski?. No, he’s not
bilingual and doesn’t have the ego
drive the job demands.

Barbara) McDougall, Kim
Campbell? Both are interested, but
McDougall’s a leftie and Campbell
doesn't have a national following —

yet.

Another Quebecer?

It wouldn’t play well with the
‘West and right now Quebec’s MPs
are preoccupied, trying to find a
constitutional formula for having it
both _ways.; . Sovereignty. if
necessary, but; not necessarily
sovereignty,

Unlike Great Britain where
Michael. Heseltine led the charge,
bere in Canada there is no obvious

. successor to Brian Mulroney waiting

in the wings.

The ideol love Fi
Minicter Mike Wileon, He ie a meal

; Conservative.’ ,Bu he pain being

team player. | He would never stab
Mulroney in the

A Clark comeback? , No, it’s not
on. .Clarz can't get elected again in.
Alborta.; Por-that matter no. Tory
could get

-As.M: Tuatcher leaves the
political. stage.” ‘Bria Mulroney
ure. i

knowledge
walkout

a t By
disenchanted group of, MPs, there is
no way the PC caucus can do to him,
what British Tories have done, to
Maggie —'no matter how much
some of Mulroney’ 8 MPs might like

- Dugy i host &. Sunday. Battion at

noon on CTV. :

+ SUN STAFF PHOTO / Barbera Tandery

Way to go! Dave Fisher, Xerox Canada Ltd. sales rep
for the West Kootenay, presents Barb Bray, president
of the United Way of Castlegar with a $220 cheque.

had to cut their donations in half
because they're in a tight money
situation right now,” he said. “We
know they’ll be back in when
they're able, but we need extra

support this year from those who ..

can give.”

Another scrious problem has
been that mail solicitations were
delayed.

Rourke said many people
outside Castlegar phone in, saying
the envelope they usually received
had not shown up.

“If you usually give through
the mail, please contact us and
we'll get the mailer to you if you
if you haven’t received it,”
Rourke said.

The situation is critical because
some member agencies may have
to cut back in services next year
without the usual funding, he said.

People can contact the United
Way Office at 365-7331 from
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

A tree-mendous idea

Phil Markin. passes trees to ‘Ron Ross, Len Lipp Art Cobum, and Roger
Plant as eager buyers wait for the Rotary Club to set up their Christmas
tree lot located in the West Kootenay Power parking lot on Columbia Ave.

SUN STAFF PHOTO! Frark Derty

savings bonds effective now

Victoria, B.C. ... Finance and
Corporate Relations Minister Mel
Couvelier announced today that
the interest rate on B.C. Savings
Bonds, effective December 1,
1990, will be set at 11 1/4 per

Couvelier said that the new rate
reflects current market conditions
and will ensure B.C, Savings
Bonds remain a competitive
investment.

The interest rate will remain in
effect for six months, to May 31,

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1991. The bonds mature at face
value on June 1, 1991.

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