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Purposely misled

After this week's disclosure that
Canada Post could close all 5,200
rural post offices within a decade,
it's clear the Crown corporation
hasn't dealt openly and fairly with
the public. In fact, it purposely
misled Castlegar area d

improve or at least be comparable
to the existing service. But they fail
to explain how that will be done,
other than “simply changing the.
method or location of postal ser-
vices, using the resources of local

Gilles Hebert, Canada Post's
director of rural operations, told
reporters in Ottawa that while the
Crown corporation may continue to
operate some rural facilities, it is
possible they may all be closed.

He then went on to explain that
Canada Post doesn’t intend to
withdraw rural service, only find
someone else to run it. He said
rural postal positions will become
private-sector jobs in postal fran-
chises, as couriers and with con-
tractors who ‘replace traditional
rural postal service.

But compare Mr. Hebert's
statements to those made earlier
this year in a letter to the
Castlegar News from M. Gormick,
Canada Post's Pacific Division
general manager.

“Canada Post will not remove
rural route service from any of its
customers, and let me assure you
that the corporation does not have
any plans to effect widespread
closures of rural offices. That sim-
ply is not the policy.”

If closing all 5,200 rural post
offices isn't “widespread closures”,
what is? It may not be “policy”, but
it could be reality.

Mr. Gormick charged in the
same letter that rural customers
have been “exposed to a campaign
of attention-seeking tactics and
misinformation”. He was referring
to opponents of Canada Post's plan
to privatize rural post offices. But
in light of this week's statements
by Mr. Hebert, it appears Canada
is guilty of spreading misinfor-
mation.

Mr. Gormick and Mr. Hebert do
agree on one thing: that in the
majority of cases, rural service will

private b

On the other hand, Rural
Dignity, an organization founded
last December to stop the closures
and privatization, says that in the
five-year Canada Post plan the
1,700 rural post offices serving
populations less than 1,000 or with
fewer than 75 points of call will be
replaced by supermailboxes and
“where feasible” stamp outlets.

One thing is clear from all this:
Canada Post plans considerable
changes to the way it delivers our
mail and rural customers will not
be the only ones affected. The
Crown corporation's proposal to
franchise out jobs was a major
issue in the recent 17-day strike by
the Canadian Union of Postal
Workers. If Canada Post carries
through with franchising, it will
change how Castlegar residents
receive mail.

It’s clearly time the post office
took its plan to the people it
ves. A public meeting, either with
Castlegar council or with concer-
ned residents, would clear up any
confusion over what is intended,
and would allow the post office to
receive valuable community input.

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Editor to: The Casi ir
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edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality and
grammor

Ron
Norman

Unless there is a last-minute sur-
prise entry, the main event in the.
Nov. 21 municipal election will see
incumbent Audrey Moore and Ald.
Nick Oglow square off in the battle
for the Castlegar mayoralty.

It's a matchup that doesn’t sur.
prise anyone. Oglow hasn't
bothered to hide the fact that he
doesn't see eye to eye with Moore
on many things. And he’s spent the
last two years positioning himself so
that when the time came, he would
be ready to take on Moore. Well, the
time has come.

And Oglow couldn't have picked a
better moment. He will take on a
mayor who has already been in
office a decade. That's a long time.
In fact, there's a feeling among some
in Castlegar that 10 years is long
enough; that Moore has had her
shot at being mayor and Castlegar
is ready for someone new.

Moore, for her part, would love to
have one more term — this time for
three years instead of two — before
bowing out and seeking the Social
Credit nomination in the next pro-
vincial election. Win or lose on Nov.
21, this could be Moore's last
municipal election.

Oglow has also found himself a
hot issue: The industrial park debt.
He feels this is Moore's achilles heel.
It was just the kind of issue he was
looking for.

He attempted to manufacture a
similar issue with the new library
But he underestimated the ground
swell of support for the library and
quietly let that issue slide.

The library, on the other hand,
has been a feather in Moore's cap,
and it will be interesting to see if
she uses it to fend off Oglow's
attacks on the industrial park.

In any case, the same people who
would like to see a new face in the
mayor's chair, don't necessarily

favor Oglow, though he is the only
alternative. When Ogiow first ran
for council two years ago, some
suggested he had already had his
time on council — 20 years earlier
when he served as reeve of the town
of Castlegar.

But Oglow proved more popular
than many anticipated. He easily
won the one-year aldermanic seat in
1985 and then topped the polls last
year.

If he becomes mayor, it will be
uncomfortably similar to the situa-
tion in Trail where Mayor Chuck
Lakes is in his early 70s, and where
there is a feeling that the Trail
council needs a more youthful look.
And it will contrast sharply with the
Nelson mayoral scene where Gerald
“The Kid” Rotering has injected
new life into the Queen City.

So, with Moore's 10 years in office
along with Oglow's age and his
stand on the new library, there was
a sense that the situation was
perfect for a new face to move right
up the middle. The most likely
candidate would have been Ald.
Terry Rogers. Youthful and popular
(he, too, topped the polls his first
time out two years ago), he would
have been a natural choice.

But Rogers ran with Oglow two
years ago. They both sit on the
Castlegar and District Hospital
Board. It would have taken some-
thing extraordinary to convince him
to run against Oglow.

So there we have it: Moore and
Oglow. It's anybody's guess who
will win. But don't expect the cam-
paign to be all sweetness and smiles.
Oglow has already shown in his first
statement this week that he plans to
wage a tough campaign. And Moore
is no pushover.

Letters to the Editor

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Remember

as well as teachers from Castlegar and

It is a happy convention for the
children and they get two extra days
holiday. . . .

A group of scouts and wolf cubs
has been formed at Kinnaird with Mr.
E. Calkin leading the scouts and Maj.
Moll the wolf cubs.

. 8 @

At Horswill’s, liquid starch is

selling for 29 cents a bottle, two tins of
macaroni i

Playing at the Castle Theatre is
Russia on Parade, a breath-taking
pageant by the 16 Soviet Republics
photographed for the first time in

New AIDS test needed

How would you like to find out
that the AIDS virus (sometimes called
HIV-1) has mutated to the point that
there is a second virus, called HIV-2,
which will not show up on the currently
accepted blood test used to screen the
blood supply in Canada, yet is capable
of causing the same disease AIDS?
A separate test has been de
veloped to test for this virus, but
Canada is currently not using this test
to screen the blood supply, citing ex:
nse, and the probably very low
number of infected individuals present
in the population at this time.
According to Dr. Abraham Kar-
pus, assistant director of research at
the department of hematological medi-
cine, Cambridge University, England,
interviewed on CBC radio's Quirks and
Quarks show: “I think that 1987 for
HIV-2 is probably like 1981 for HIV-1,
since we didn't do anything in 1981
about HIV-1, the virus spread to the
extent that it is prevalent today, and if
we don't do anything about HIV-2
today, in five years times we will face
the same problem that we face today

with HIV-1. But we have no excuse for
not doing it. In 1981, we didn't know
that a virus was causing AIDS, it is a
distinct virus, and our test already is
available to screen for it, so there is no
excuse for complacency. Something
must be done, and be done today, if not
yesterday.”

We won't do anything about it
yesterday. We aren't going to test the
blood supply for it today either. To
save a few bucks, we will wait until
either the U.S. or our own limited,
periodic screening program conducted
at most every three months, proves
that there are some numbers of Can-
adians infected from blood transfusions
before we implement a testing pro-

am.

Just imagine how you would feel
if, after your child had had a routine
operation involving blood transfusion
in Canada, after you had been assured
that the chance of getting AIDS was
infinitesimally small from that trans-
fasion, it turned out that your child was
infected with this mutated virus that
was known about but was not being

tested for? Proud of having saved a few
million dollars, public health authori-
ties would no doubt assure you that
they had done the best they could.

David Lewis
Crescent Valley

Water
trees

I would like to draw the attention
of the community to an announcement
that was made over the CBC. It is
advised to water all shrubs and trees,
especially fruit trees, now because of
the drought.

Watering now will insure against
winter kill and loss of crop.

Colin Pryce
Castlegar

We're killing ourselves

While I was reading the article
about irradiating our food, I thought
what's next? Isn't it ever going to stop?
All they are doing is killing off people
with all their crazy ideas.

Aren't there enough different sick-
nesses already? All you hear about is
cancer, heart attacks, strokes — all
kinds of things. That's all from what we
eat and use.

How many years have they been
doing cancer research and they haven't
found anything, but they sure can find
something else fast and easy so people
can get more cancer? People are scared
of nuclear war, but by the time that
happens they will have died from

cancer, heart attacks or strokes. It's
scarier because it’s a slow death in our
modern world.

Another article reported that
dioxins have been found in paper
diapers. People don’t want to wash
diapers anymore, but they don’t think
what they are doing to their babies.

Another one is non-dairy creamers
which is more cholesterol. People are
afraid of fat in milk or butter but they
don’t stop and think what kind of junk
we are putting in our tea and coffee.

It’s a fast world. People don’t have
time for anything anymore — not even
to cook. They just want to put food into
the microwave. It's ready in a few

minutes. Put the diaper into the
garbage bag because there isn't any
time to wash. Put coffee creamer into
our coffee because it doesn't spoil. We
grow gardens, but are afraid of worms,
so we have to get something to kill
those, too. But we don't think what it
will do to us when we eat the stuff.
Even fruit trees have been sprayed.

Everybody is too busy, but we
should take a few minutes to stop and
think what we are doing to ourselves.
We are slowly killing ourselves with all
these things.

Helen Tereposky
Castlegar

1929 crash revisited

By The

TORONTO -'— Is yew erratic
behavior of the stock markets a
temporary phenomenon?

That's what’ some experts said
about Canada’s economic hangover on
the morning after the historic crash of
1929, but they were dead wrong — the
market plunge gave birth to the
10-year Depression.

The following reassuring com-
ments were reported in the Toronto
Globe on Oct. 30, 1929.

Prime Minister William Lyon

King: “The of
Canadian securities generally is not
affected. Business was never better,
nor faith in Canada’s future more
justified. Foreign investments in Can-
ada are evidence of the faith which
investors of other countries have in the
stability of business conditions in Can-
ada.”

A.E. Phipps, president of the
Canadian Bankers’ Association and
general manager of the Imperial Bank
of Commerce: “The present situation

{. need have no drastic recessions on
‘business conditions generally. Business

\ig good and will continue to be so, in my

opinion, despite the temporary collapse
of the stock market. I hope and believe
the fire has about burned itself out and
that the battom has been reached.”
M.W. Wil neral manager of
the Royal Bank: would, in my
opinion, be a mistake }o think that the
sharp decline in stock market quota-

‘The West Kootenay and Boundary
District School Administrators As
sociation bell ee samen! maeune

was in the chair and 62 members were
present.

Following the reading of the
amended constitution, the group took’
part in a discussion of some
relating to both elementary and
secondary schools.

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A working model dam, 110-feet
long and 45-feet wide, is assisting B.C.
Hydro engineers to make decisions
relating to the proposed Arrow Lakes
storage dam.

The model is located at the Ontario
Hydraulic Lab in Islington, Ont., some
2,000 miles from the actual damsite.

. 8 @

The Castlegar Merchants Inter-
mediate Hockey team to be known as
the Shop Easy Packers, will be part of
a seven-team Nelson Commercial Hoe
key League.

Shop Easy Packers home gameay
every Wednesday at the Castlegar!
Arena commence early in November.

and domestic small vehicle market.
This was disclosed at a KIDA
sponsored meeting last Alay Saraclle oo night
at which Carefree Design E:
Ltd. president Don Ewing gpastnceny
his plans to nearly 70 local residents
and potential investors.
. 8
A B.C. Hospital Auxiliary Confer-
ence held on Wednesday and Thursday
of last week in Vancouver saw the
Castlegar Hospital Auxiliary enter its
fifth year with one of its members on
board.

provincial |.
At the close of the 28th annual
conference, Mrs. J.R. Lamont, who was

ILLITERACY
A PROBLEM

EDMONTON (CP) — Many Christians know so little
about the Bible that they're sitting ducks for religious
charlatans, says the moderator of the Presbyterian
Church in Canada.

Rev. Tony Plomp of Richmond, B.C., said in an inter-
view that biblical illiteracy, as he calls it, makes the job of
pastors much more difficult and endangers the church's
ability to function.

“The church cannot go forward if a majority of its
members don't know the Scripture any more.”

» one of the strengths of the Presbyterian
tradition, “becomes impossible if the preacher has to tell
the stories over and over again,” he said.

Plomp added that many Christians feel they know
the Bible, when in fact they don't.

Some have « poor understanding of how the Bible
was written, for example. Some think it “dropped out of
heaven.”

“Either they believe too much about the Bible, or
they believe too little,” he said. Because they don't know,
they become sitting ducks and easy victims of religious
charlatans.”

REACHES TOP

Although he has reached the pinnacle of Canadian
Presbyterianism by winning a one-year term as
moderator of the church's general assembly, Plomp said
his focus will be on stronger local congregations.

“The action is where the congregation is,” he said. “If
you haven't got healthy congregations, you haven't got a
healthy thurch.”

‘The main ing for a strong cong) area
strong sense of family and solid preaching, he believes.

The Presbyterian church has the highest average
age among Canadian Protestant denominations and has
retently begun to put more effort into attracting more
members.

When a program to “double church growth in the
Eighties” came up at a general assembly, Plomp seconded
a motion to lop “in the Eighties” from the title.

The program has forced Presbyterians to look at
themselves, Plomp said, and he said while he can't prove
it, he believes stronger preaching is required if churches
are to '

“I think people of every kind will respond to a solid
and exciting, well-rounded preaching ministry,” he said.

“When people sense that an individual believes what
he or she says and is trying to struggle with them for an
understanding of what God wants for us, and that person
has worked at this, that beings to have an effect on
people.”

SEES PROBLEM

It's not easy to make major changes with preachers
already in the field, but the church should make clear to
its seminarians that an ability to communicate is a pre-
requisite for service in the church, he said.

A sense of family is also important, he said.

To meet the needs of a fragmented society, local
congregations must generate the feeling that “you are
truly welcome here, that people will go the second mile
and thé'thind ‘tile, and «ill ‘around in time of crisis.”

‘While attending the University of British Columbia
in 1969, Plomp helped start a new congregation in the

areasre went on to seminary and to a congregation in
Saskatoon before returning to his Richmond con-
gregation. He's been pastor there for 20 years.

For the last five years, he’s written a column for the

church magazine, answering questions from readers.

By KATHRYN YOUNG
OTTAWA — Canadians who want

to see women Catholie priests are en-
couraged that a Quebec bishop is
arguing

plea for “women's full participation in
all aspects of the church.”

He told the 220 assembled bishops
this month that the church should
officially allow women to become altar
servers, lectors and deacons and to
serve in other church positions now

On the thorny question of allowing
women to become priests, Hamelin said
churches interested in the issue should
form committees to discuss women's
ordination.

While forming committees may
seem a way of avoiding the issue, it’s
really a disobedient step for a Catholic
since the church has never formally
discussed women's ordination before,
said Anita Birt, a member of Canadian
Catholics for Women's Ordination.

“That's radical,” Birt said in an
interview. “It's intelligent, adult think-

She and Joyce Kennedy, spokes-
man for the group, said they are
hopeful the synod will send Hamelin’s
message on to Pope John Paul. Such a

Canadian hotelier
former Swiss Guard

kings and emperors through-
out Europe. The Pope, like
most rulers of the day, hired

HALIFAX (CP) — Fred
Julier, a prominent Canadian
hotelier, holds up a faded
photo of the Pope surrounded
by ndary Swiss

Swiss.

“This is me,” says Julier,
pointing at one of the elab-
orately dressed guards, “and
this is Pope Pius XII.”

For two years in the late
1950s, Julier was a member
of the centuries-old Swiss
Guards. He lived and worked
within the walls of one of the
world’s smallest and most
secretive states, Vatican
City.

Now the manager of the
Hotel Nova Scotian on, Hali-
fax's waterfront, Julier looks

When Switzerland in the
Guards. 19th century passed a law
forbidding Swiss citizens to
take up arms for other coun-
tries, only the guards were
allowed to continue.

North America to change his mind on
the ordination of women.

During the first 10 days of the
Oct. 1-30 meeting, bishops made short
speeches on a variety of topics and then
broke into small groups to discuss the
major issues raised — one of which is
women’s role in the church.

Thirty-eight bishops spoke on the
role of women but only two said women
should be allowed to become deacons,
Janet Somerville, a Canadian
the bishops, said in a telephone inter-
view from Rome.

Hamelin received quite a mixed
reaction from the bishops, Somerville
said. Many wrote ~him supportive
letters thanking him for raising the
subject.

“And other people just expressed
the feeling that he was greatly exag-
gerating a tiny body of opinion,” she
said.

Starting Monday, the bishops will
examine the resolutions arising from
the workshops and prepare a statement
of recommendations for the Pope.

“I don't know if anything is going
to happen next week but it’s going to
happen eventually,” Kennedy said.
“It’s just a matter of time.”

Hamelin’s views represent those
of the conference, not the Catholic

lation of 2,000. All guards
promise, with a handshake,
to stay for two years.

At the end of his two
years, Julier, who speaks five
languages, decided to pursue
his current career.

“I worked in hotels since
the age of 12 and managed
my first one at 27,”

Julier came to Canada

Church in Canada. However, the con-
ference based its stance on a survey of

at a downtown qhurch because the
visiting guest, Emmett Cardinal Car-
ter, wouldn't allow girls to participate
at the altar.

Hamelin, one of five Canadian
bishops at the synod, said the church
must face the fact that the women's
movement is as massive a development
in society as the industrial revolution
was in the 19th century.

The church must rid itself of laws
which exclude lay members from all
positions of responsibility which do not
or should not require ordination
such as presidents of pastoral councils
and marriage tribunals, the office of
chancellor and many kinds of adminis-
trative authority.

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Selkirk College

Adult Basic Education Department
cordially invites you to

Grand Opening
of the Bonnington View Center
at 767 - 11th Ave., Castlegar

October 28, 1987 2-4 p.m.

attend the

DECORATION

All guards must be Roman
Catholic, must meet an edu-
cation requirement, have a
strong religious recommen-
dation, be graduates of the
Swiss Military School and, of
course, be Swiss.

There are

after a Canadian told his wife
about the beauty and oppor-
tunities of Canada.

“I come from a travelling
family,” he said. “My
brothers worked in South
America, and one

about 100

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at 2:45 p.m.
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guards at any given time
among, the Vatican's, popu:

25 years.

managed hotels in Turkey for

back on the rigors, duties and = /
camaraderie of serving in the id
Pope's personal guard as
having been great fun.

He remembers escorting
the Queen of The Nether-
pores to her papal audience

Church develops
policy on AIDS

HALIFAX (CP) — The
Anglican Church of Canada is
developing an AIDS policy
after a study by a church.

The study states that the
belief that AIDS is God's
punishment creates preju-
dice against and
lated group said churches runs contrary to belief in a
have to get rid of the belief God of compassion and car-
by some Christians that ing.

AIDS is divine punishment of “Fear cuts both ways,” it
says. “Church people don’t

for the West Kootenay.
oe 8

Clearing and grubbing is now in
progress on the “missing link” a section
of road which will eventually join
Kinnaird to Salmo.

Spokesman Barry Drummond,
ethan of operations for Daw-

Ce Co. which was

tions in Canada reflects a corres-
busi-

ponding change in fund:
ness conditions. These conditions are
sound, and there is no reason for pessi-
mism.”

Thomas White, former finance
minister, said the decline in stock
market values had no relation to
; Tad

which he described as thoroughly
sound both in Canada and the United
States.

He had never known a period of
greater or healthier activity in trade,
White said. Earnings of Canadian

awarded the $1,608,412 contract for the
designated 3.82 miles, says this pre

safety measures for children travelling
to and from school.
In particular, the parents want the

Castlegar
third reading to two new bylaws which
should pave the way for increased de
velopment and revitalization of the

intervene in the stock market crash.
“I think we have a sound econ-
omy,” Wilson told reporters.
“I am confident in the future,” he

economy has
led the industrialized nations in growth
in the past two years and is expected to

do so again next year.

One bylaw providee far general
changes to zoning and regulations and

while the other — a development
permit bylaw — gives counei) authority
over any development proposal.

“Homophobia is a more
widespread disease than
AIDS, but possibly more
deadly spiritually” said the

want to accept gays and thus
people with AIDS are afraid
to tell the church they have
AIDS.”

Official policy in the Angli-
can Church states clearly
that marriage is the proper
place for the full expression
of human sexuality but the
The church's national church has also tried to en-
executive council, after re-

ig in the bushes
atthe Pope's Castel Gandolfo
summer residence holding a
machine-gun.

He points to another pic-
ture of himself, taking the
Swiss Guards’ oath to die for
the Pope if need be.

Julier recalls being se-
lected for service in the
guard, and taking the train
from his native Brig in Swit-
zerland to Milan, where he

S ON DUTY
This year marks the 460th

Rome, 147 Swiss Guards died
protecting Pope Clement VII.
In 16th century, the Swiss

viewing the report at its
meeting in Halifax last weeb
asked church staff to formu-
late a policy to educate and
equip clergy and laymen in
ministering to AIDS victims
and their families.

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PHYSIO-
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announce the
opening of the

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