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PUBLISHER — Burt Campbell
EDITOR — Ron Norman,
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Rotering

Nelson mayoralty candidate
Gerald Rotering has made the race
in that city a particularly in-
teresting one.Hardly a day passes
that he doesn't. announce=o=new
(and. well thought - out) policy
position.

He is ensuring that the-issues. in
that city get full public discussion.

Much of what he proposes is not
exclusive to the Queen City. His
concerns and ideas can be equally
applicable to any other
municipality. For example, he is
particularly concerned that
municipal government isn't
responsive enough to business
development proposals.

In his words, “There are
many hoops to jump through.

He says it takes too long tor a
prospective business to’ gain a
zoning change (if it’s required), to
obtain building and electrical per-
mits, and to, perhaps, obtain two
or three other. approvals before
proceeding. He proposes
streamlining the entire process,
and assigning one person at city
hall to guide people through the
system, “even representing them
before council if necessary.”

The City of Castlegar.is already
one step ahead of Nelson in this
regard, with municipal clerk Ron
Skilling already actively involved
in smoothing the path of interested
entrepreneurs so they don't
become discouraged when
referred by one official to ‘yet

too

has ideas.

another official who then refers
them to yet someone else.

Another Rotering idea also ap-
pears to already be practiced in
Castlegar.

The former aide to former
Kootenay West MP Lyle Kristiansen
proposes that heritage-style direc-
tion signs be mounted on the old-
fashioned street lamps at intersec-
tions of Nelson's historic Baker
Street pointing shoppers to hidden
stores and restaurants.

‘There has been a squabble
recently over sandwich | board
signs,” he notes, adding’ “While
those signs can be a nuisance, we
have to nurture the businesses that
don’t have prime stret frontage

. . We can't afford to lose even
one more such business. Let's do
everything we can to make them
thrive.”

Castlegar’s very stringent
signing bylaw is obviously being
winked at. And rightly so. Those
people who have started business
in upstairs premises or on streets
with light pedestrian traffic have a
lot of courage, and-deserve sup-
port. :

Yes, Gerald Rotering is making
the Queen City mayoralty a very
interesting race. And his ideas —
both. those already practiced in
Castlegar and those perhaps not
yet even considered here —— should
command the attention of incum-
bent council. members and their
challengers as well.

Odd view of democracy

Wilf Sweeney has a strange view
of the democratic process.
y, general

board is only following along those
lines with its plan to ask Castlegar

r.
of Westar Timber’s Celgar Pulp
Operation, wrote to the Castlegar
~ school board this week advising
trustees not to hold open meetings
on the 1986 school budget.

He suggested the process would
be “fraught with hazards”. Instead,
said Mr. Sweeney, the democratic
election process provides enough
of an opportunity for public input
into school decisions.

There is really nothing for the”

public to do once the board has
been elected, but to monitor its
performance and make their views
known at the next election, added
Mr. Sweeney.

What an odd idea.

Whatever happened to the con-
cept of participatory democracy
where voters take a vital interest
in government decision-making —
not only at election time, but all
the time?

Mr. Sweeney's version -of
democracy is more a throwback to
the era of former prime minister
Pierre Trudeau.

If there’s one thing Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney and his
Tory party have done, it’s consult
with voters. ‘

Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco is
tight now chairing a Commons

itt earing ar for

and against proposed changes to
the Family Allowance Act. °

It seems the Castlegar school

r what they would like to
see in their schools.

Perhaps with more of this type of
participatory democracy, voters
would begin to feel part of the
government instead of alienated
from it.

After all, the government is the
people — or should be.

Interestingly, Mr. Sweeney him-
self tries to influence the board's
budget in the same letter by asking
that school taxes be kept down.
And that’s perfectly acceptable.
Yet, just as he should be allowed
to express an opinion about the
board's budget, so should every
Castlegar school district taxpayer.
That's the purpose of the’ open
meetings.

But Mr. Sweeney is right on one
point: the democratic process is
fraught with hazards.

’ Run for
office.

*#Do you have ideas about the *

direction the city should be
headed? Or complaints about the
school system? =
Why-not-run for citycouncil,
regional district or school board?
Tomorrow is your last chance.
Deadline for school board, council
and regional district inati is

Wiles

Letters to the Editor

unaffected

Editor, Castlegar News:

Although I do maintain that neither
the Minister of Education nor an
individual school board has the right to
tmper with the democratic process
(CasNews article “Board won't censure
Buckley”, Oct. 23, 1985), I must point
out an error in that article.

Dr. Buckley is not one of the trustees
whose term of office would be affected.
He is, in fact, in his first year of a two
year term, and therefore, does not
come up for re-election until Novem-
ber, 1986.

Kay Johnson,
School Trustee

Measure

wine and

gas by length?

Editor, Castlegar News: 3

After reading your front page article
on the wine tasting scheme, TASTE, in
last Sunday's paper (Oct. 20/85) it
seems truly unfortunate that the wine
lovers of Castlegar won't be able to
take advantage of the B.C.-LDB's offer.
The serving limit of “50 millimetres”
(mm) per day per customer could be
very generous.”

Assuming that the glass provided’is
flat-bottomed with a diameter of about
80 mm (three inches) and that the
serving is being measured by the depth

AND OTHER MAXIMS

of the liquid, the sample would have a
volume of about 250,000 cubic milli-
metres (250 cubic centimetres or 250
millilitres or one-quarter litre) — a
hefty one-third of a bottle of wine.
Asa wine lover and a firm believer in
the metric system of measurements,

Remember
When?

35 YEARS AGO
From the Oct. 26, 1950 _
Castlegar News

The governors of the West Kootenay
chapter to the credit union met on
Thursday, Oct. 19 at the home of Mr.
Ivan Dergousoff, Castlegar. :

Elected. president for the coming
year is Mr. Bailey~-of Rossland;
vice-president Mr. Dergousoff of
Castlegar; treasurer Mr. Dunne of
Trail.

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‘The Castlegar District Teachers
Association held its second meeting of
the. new school year in the form of a”
dinner meeting at the Legional Hall.

Reports from committees included
that of the entertainment committee
which announced that the plans for the
school board — teachers annual get
acquainted party were progressing
favorably though a considerable
amount of work was involved in
bringing it to completion.

.- *

A-group of teenagers held a Hallo-
ween Party at the Castle Bar Ranch
- recently with Doreen Pitts as hostess,
assisted by Joan Bennett.
ee

St. Alban’s W.A. held its regular
meeting in the Parish Hall on Oct. 19.
Mrs. A. Horswill presided over the
meeting.

The Robson Community Church Hall
was well filled on Oct. 18 when Mr.
Fred Robbins of Trail showed many
films of the activities of both boys and
girls at Kolaree Camp, which is

inational. Over 400.

this year.
25 YEARS AGO
From the Oct. 27, 1960
Castlegar News
First chips were made at Celgar's
pulp mill here Monday morning when a
35-foot log was turned into a pile of
chips within 20 seconds.
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Nearly 200 students from 71 B.C.
iti includii two from the

when used properly, I that.
everyone endorse this move by the
LDB and push for similar action by the
federal government to try and get it to
measure and sell gasoline by length as
well, instead of by volume.
Gordon Gray
Castlegar

‘Any fool can spend’

By LES BEWLEY
..-in the Vancouver Sun

You may scoff at this (sudden
insights, for some reason, seem to
attract scoffers) but what this country
clearly suffers from is the scarcity or
absence-of-old-fashioned mothers and
grandmothers and conscientious
schoolteachers prepared to thrash any
student who cannot recite verbatim all
of Aesop's Fables.

Old-fashioned mothers used to lard
into their rotten little kids huge dollops
of civilized rules and tested old saws,
which prevented them from being
hornswoggled or making asses of
themselves later in life. Grandmas
often performed the same function,
when they weren't passing on highly
effective and inexpensive health tips
and old wives’ remedies involving lard,
baking soda, rhubarb, creosote,
sassafras, castor oil, goose grease,
berries and other things. Aesop's
Fabies, of course, offered a free PhD in
the dangers of human envy, greed and
stupidity.

Kids aren't born with common sense,
manners, or any kind of navigational
aids needed to-get them through life
without being shipwrecked. Getting
shipwrecked, of-course, is one way to

noon Monday.

Quotable Quotes —

DETROIT RED Wings coach Harry
Neale after his team had lost its sixth
straight game: “. . . It's like two trains
going in opposite directions. We're
trying to get them to play and think at
the same time. That sometimes seems
to be a real excessive target.”

_ DENNIS NEWTON, 47, was on trial
this week in Oklahoma City for the
armed robbery ofa convenience store
when he fired his lawyer in order to
defend himself.

Things went fine until the store
manager identified him as the.robber.

Newton jumped. up, accused the
woman of lying and yelled, “I should
have blown your (expletive) head off!”

He then paused for a moment and
quickly added, “If I'd been the’one that
was there.” »

It took the jury-20 minutes to convict
Newton and recommend he be given
a 30-year prison sentence. a

MIKE POWELL, the Expo 86 direc-
tor of advertising, notes that one of the
problems with the world fair's tele-
vision commercials is that they have to
overcome a feeling of skepticism in
Ontario.

“When you get into Ontario there's a
bit of a puzzle as to why a world
exposition would be held in British
Columbia and not Ontario,” he said.

THE GRADE 10 science textbook,
Science Probe 10, has so many errors
that the provincial Education Ministry
has had to send out a, four-page list of
corrections, hints and cautions for
using the mandatory text.

One glaring error is on asexual
reproduction. The text says:. “Asexual
reproduction, which requires only one
parent, is very common in the simpler
forms of life. Some of these simpler
forms of life are bacteria, algae and
fungi. Yet it even occurs in, you.”

learn but it is more
expensive and less effective than
maternal instruction.

When I was wearing short pants, Ma
told me that since I was a good kid she
was putting me on an allowance of 10
cents a week. Along with the dime, I
received this advice: “Remember, now,
it takes no-brains at all to. spend
money; any fool can spend money.”

If the last five prime ministers of
Canada had had that advice pounded
into their heads while their skulls were
still soft, Canada would not now be in
the position where: two bits of every
tax dollar goes just to pay interest on
our national debt, and it's getting

_worse by the hour.

You couldn't get advice a hundredth
as good as that from any financial
counsellor flashing a 25-carat diamond

-ring and-smoking a $5 cigar. It is a

bullet-proof financial vest for any
citizen. Next time you watch those
on isis irking how
MasterCard gave him a trip to Monte
Carlo or furnished her suite with a
half-million bucks worth of furniture,
you can safely tell yourself ‘you are
looking at a pair of brainless idiots, not
at people who deserve envy or
admiration. .
Those maternal advisers handed out
a whole lot of tried and true maxims:

parted”; “Whatever goes up must come
down”; “If you don’t want to lose your
shirt, don’t put so much on the cuff.”
Old Aesop also warned us about: the
greedy kid who tried to pull all the nuts
out ofa jar, couldn't get his fist out, and
lost them all.

In the last three years more than a
dozen trust and loan companies and
now the Canadian Commercial Bank
have collapsed, about a year after the
wildly escalating real estate market
suffered a horrendous crash, which was
the major cause of jit all.

The people who borrowed money to
get rich in the real estate boom and
then suffered when it burst, and the
banks and trust ies that eagerly

down by their sensible mothers and old
Aesop (who together had inherited
thousands of years of experience) in
order to listen to some character with
10 years in the business who
recommended, not prudence, but a way
to earn some quick bucks or an extra
three per cent interest.

Our present federal government,
like the one before it, obviously thinks
it's a fire. department because it's
rushing in to apply great. gobs of grease
in the form of our tax dollars to the
pockets of those stuck investors and
depositors.

It has already spent a billion dollars
bailing out feckless uninsured

lent the money, obviously
believed perpetual motion © or
perpetual elevation; they all seemed

in wildly run trust comp-
anies; it's now in the process of
shovelling our another billion to bail
out the uninsured depositors in the

uck when they di:
that what had gone up had come down
again; and putting things on the cuff
had cost them their shirts.

Those financial hotshots, investors,
and politicians .now have a hundred
excuses and explanations ready, but
there ain't one of them prepared to
stand up and admit the simple truth:
they forgot to follow Ma's. advice.

The whole danged bunch of them

“A fool and his money are soon“ disregarded almost every maxim laid

Canadian Co Bank, and may-
be one other.

This totally misguided rescue
process will ensure that citizens who
haven't even the sense to follow their
mother’s instructions on how to avoid
being shipwrecked on life's voyage
won't even have the opportunity to
learn from this how to avoid reefs and
rocks in future; it will almost
guarantee they will set sail and do it all
over again.

Castlegar District, will receive degrees
at the University of B.C.'s fall con-
vocation ceremonies this afternoon.

J.H. Corbett, principal of Castlegar's
elementary school, will receive his
bachelor of arts degree, while Neil
Pfeiffer of Kinnaird will receive a
bachelor of science degree.

. 2 ©

A petition from several Columbia
Street businesses located on the north
side of the overhead bridge requesting
that parallel parking on Columbia be
changed back to angle parking was re-
ceived by council at_its last meeting
Tuesday. _ *

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British Columbia Hydro, which is to
build the $450,000,000 Columbia: River
power project, will have a fact-finding
census taken among all persons who
appear likely to be affected by the
works in the Kootenays and at Mica
Creek, according to Hydro chairman
Dr. Hugh Keenleyside.

* 15 YEARS AGO

From the Oct. 29, 1970
Castlegar News

The Kinnaird-Castlegar Centennial
‘71 Committee will have nearly $17,000
available to it for its proposed project
involving the restoration of a Doukho-
bor Communal home in conjunction
with the Kootenay Doukhobor Histori-
cal Society.

*- 2 6

SHSS principal Bob Patrick was in-
stalled as president of the Castlegar
Kiwanis Club by Lt. Gov. Lynn Wigins
of Colville when the local club held its
annual installation banquet and dance
on y evening. Vice-presiden
of the club are Bill Oleski and Tom Biln.
-_ «6

The twin towns will continue to
maintain separate libraries. This was
the decision made at Thursday's meet-
ing attended by members of council
from both towns as well as members of
both libraries.

A joint library board, however, is to
be set up immediately. It was sug-
gested it be composed of two members
from each library group and that the
position of chairman alternate each
year.

5 YEARS AGO
From the Oct. 26, 1980
Castl News

The highways department has been
asked to set aside money to acquire
land and build an underground crossing
at Crestview Crescent and Highway 3.

MLA Chris D'Arcy’s action followed
receipt of a petition with 75 signatures
of parents with school children living in
the area.

- 28 «

There will be a school board election
in Area J on Nov. 15 but unless a third
candidate surfaces Monday morning_
the school board election in the City of
Castlegar will be settled by acclama-
tion.

Incumbent Vera Kanigan of Ootis-
chenia, is being challenged in Area J by
Fred Merriman of Blueberry Creek and
Coralea Schuepfer of Robson.

In Castlegar, Pat Haley and Malcom
Scott_are the only two nominated so
far. -

SKISWAP . . . Cross-country skiers look at equipment during Nordic Ski Touring Club
ski swap held at Kinnaird Hall on Saturday.

Costewstnoro

Doctors aid program

Members of the West
Kootenay Medical - Society
have been bringing a physi-
cian’s perspective on the
treatment of disease to stu-
dent nurses at Selkirk Col-
lege.

Don Mitchell, Biology in*

‘structor at the college's
Castlegar Campus, teaches
two sections of Pathophysi-
ology to students enrolled in
the Nursing program.

Rummage sale a success

Castlegar and District Hos-
pital Auxiliary held its fall
rummage sale last weekend,
which was again successful in
terms of community partici-
pation and money raised.

Meanwhile, tickets for the
auxiliary cash raffle were
drawn last month. Winners
are: Don Leitch, first prize of
$200; Verna Clifford, second
prize of $100; Castle Tire.

“The: course explores the
mechanisms of disease,” said
Mitchell, “and while I can
teach the biological aspect, it
gives students a better back-

in the early 70s but the past
few years has seen West
Kootenay Medical Society
members assume a more ac-
tive role under the liaison of

Dr. John Walton of Castle-
gar, and by Trail physicians
Dr» John McKay, Dr. Ken
Wagner and Dr. Sunil Ghosh.

The physicians deliver ap-

ground to have a
explain a more practical or
clinical point of view of the
disease process.”
According to Mitchell, the
practice of bringing in physi-
cians as resource personnel
for this Biology course begin

third prize of $50.
Proceeds from tickets sold

at Castleaird Plaza for the

watermelon eating contest

-sponsored by Super Valu in

June, were donated to the
auxiliary.

The primary function of
the hospital auxiliary is to
add to patient comforts in the
Castlegar hospital. Auxiliar-
ies ‘not only spend time with

Clark asking
‘ about apartheid

TORONTO’ (CP) — Ex-
ternal Affairs Minister Joe
Clark wants to know if you
have done anything to pro-
test South Africa's apartheid
policies.

Bridge

Clark's office mailed 20,000
letters to various people this
week asking them to let him
know about anything they've
done to bolster the campaign
against apartheid.

A list of names will be sent
to the secretary general of
the United Nations, an Ex-
ternal Affairs Department
official said, and Canada will

Eleven pairs of duplicate

bridge players at

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do the same.

the Oct. 21 meeting of the
Joy Ramsden Bridge Club.
The average was 54 with the
following placings:

1) Myrna Baulne and Don-
na Wiwchar with 66; 2) Stan
Jenkinson and Bill Gorkoff
with 642; 3) Jean Fischer
and Agnes Charlton with
60'/2; 4) Norm and Les Gallie
with 5912; 5) Grace Donald-
son and Helen Ferguson with
5T'/2. _

ANNOUNCE
Daniel B. Voykin

REGISTERED MASSAGE PRACTITIONER

Is now accepting patients at
No. 8-306 11th Ave.
Castlegar
BY APPOINTMENT
CALL 365-2700

_ EMERGENCY
CALL 365-2747 (after hours)

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Perrier.

“Student feedback to these
lectures has been very good,”
said Mitchell.

In addition to those given
by Perrier, lectures have
been delivered on campus by

patients, but also contribute
many hours of work in fund-
raising activities.

The gift shop at the hos-
pital is another source of
revenue that goes to support
patient comforts and conven-
ience. The knitted baby items
on display always sell well,
but the auxiliary is in need of
knitters.

Anyone wishing to volun-
teer to knit baby items
should contact Mabel McGill-
ivray at 365-8272. Materials
are provided by the auxili-

pr eight hours of
lecture material during two
semester. Often, Mitchell
said, doctor's ; lecture on
specific topics that are of
interest to them and those fit
nicely into the course cur-
riculum.

The auxiliary will hold a
Christmas bake sale at the
hospital. Plans for the sale
will be finalized at the
group's November meeting
and announced later.

Auxiliary meetings are
held every third Monday at
7:30. p.m. in the hospital
conference room.

Rose’s Restaurant
Specializing ir
Borscht &
Homemade Bread
x 50

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LEGION HELPS ~
NEEDY
FAMILIES.

By SIMON BIRCH
Staff Writer Fase

For some Castlegar families, Christmas would be a
time without turkey if not for. United Way ‘donations to
the, Castlegar branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.

The Legion is one of 13 United Way agencies in
Castlegar. Each year it receives a United Way donation
of $1,000 that goes toward the purchase of Christmas
hampers for needy area families. iS

The hampers cost close to $200 and include the
traditional Christmas turkey and a box of Japanese
oranges, says Ruth Rourke, who organizes the annual
Christmas hamper fund. :

Over a hundred hampers are given away each
Christmas, she says, putting the total cost of the hampers
at more than $20,000. ;

The difference between the United Way donation
and the total cost is made up from individual donations
and Legion funds, Rourke says.

“The list is larger this year than last year,” she says.

In addition, the closing of two Legion bingos means
the Legion will not be able to help the Christmas hamper
fund as much this year, Rourke says. -

“The way things are, I think we could use more
money this year,” she says.

:
October27, 1985 Castlegar News 45

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Catherine Tucker, secretary of the C: Legion
branch, says the include basic ities such
as potatoes, bread, rice and canned goods in addition to
the turkey and oranges.

“There's not a lot of frivolous things like potato
chips,” she says.

The Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 170

is an ization of | and family
members who have over the years given assistance to
many groups and organizations in the Castlegar and
district region.

The Castlegar Hospital, Kootenay Society for the
Handicapped, scholarships and bursaries to high. school
students, Boy Scouts, and special summer camps are just
a few of the organizations and funds to which the Legion
contributes. Re

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