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Ron
Jeffels

Syndicated
Columnist 2

d mosaics of, skin, made
mirrors for the firelight. A surgeon's,
scalpel, skill, devotion and love had
given him that face over the long, the

tormented years of remaking and-

Tecove
Years ‘caslier his Spitfire, taken by

‘van alien aircraft in the holy, cross of.

The vince was cold and shadow-
haunted on that October night in’

1948: no lamp, no candle, no light of. '

any kind except for the slow dance of
flames in the hearth at the far end of
the great salon.
A figure — wearing the black medi-
acval robe | still required of Cambridge
— stood i i

brooding, Ieaning forward, staring
into the flames. We were alone. The
other celebrants were not yet met. He

editorial comment

We take our

responsibilities .

seriously

Since our very first publication almost one year
ago, The Castlegar Sun has been striving to pro-
mote local events and business.

Not only have we been Consistent in this pro-

we felt gly th about the future
of our local y that we ar d two
months ago the removal of any American retail
adverti from our

We've kept that promise thus far, much to the
applaud of local established businesses and
young entrepreneurs alike.

However, with recent strike notices issued to
Sterling Newspapers by the Communication

Workers of America Union, and the Graphic:

Communications International Union, The
Castlegar Sun has been placed in, shall we say, a
compromising position?

You see, your Castlegar Sun is usually printed
in Nelson, and because workers there might walk
out at any time, we felt it would be in the paper’s
best interest to search for another press.

Unfortunately, that press could not be found
anywhere in the B.C. interior. Our only other eco-
nomically feasible choice was to print The

: Castlegar ‘Sun in Colville, Washington.

To be honest, it wasn’t a hard decision to make, *

since our only other altemative would be not to
print at all.

Money had absolutely nothing to do with our
decision. In fact, printing The Castlegar Sun in
Colville will be more costly than if we had gone
ahead and printed in Nelson.

We’re caught in the middle of a dispute we
have no in in, yet our decision to print
out of the country had nothing to do with us nor
anyone else being a union or non-union publica-
tion. .

It did however, have a lot to do with consistency.

You see,’ not only do we have an obligation to
our paying advertisers to remain in print—no
matter what—we also have a huge obligation
(one we readily accept) to bring our readers their
local news and events.

The task to b Castl +s established and
trusted newspaper is a tough job, especially after
only one short year. But we feel The Castlegar
Sun is doing just that. And after local residents
have ‘come to expect their local news from us
every Wednesday, we feel obligated to provide
them with not only accurate news, but consistent
news—no matter whose press we’re using.

BEN RORRECINNGS

--+ -By Don Addis-

an
DANCING IS ;
HIS LIFE!

was ing the fire, And the

fire was his Enemy.

I walked the full length of the
room, arm outstretched to greet a
stranger. He sensed my coming,
tumed slowly and with | great dignity.
Confusion, pain,
started at the base of my spine and

over London under
siege, died from a cannon shell in its
throat, faltered, hesitated, tumbled

‘down the moon, fell in flames. He

was old: 22, a flight-licutenant ip the
Royal Air Force, twice decorated,

one of Churchill's “Few", and now:

ny friend.

You know now why that fire —.
that fire in Cambridge, on a lost -

October night, in the hearth at the far
end of a great salon, on the edge of
an old yesterday — was the Enemy,
He had forgiven the moon, the can-
non, the alien and his aircraft. He

had not forgiven the fire, He never"

could, never would,

‘We began to talk. He was reading
the Greek philosophers, the Latin
poets, the English dramatists, the
American novelists: Plato, Ovid,

He

rolled upwards in a great
wave of despair. He had no right
hand, no left hand, to place in mine.
He sensed my malaise and put an
end to it with a quiet “Good evening,
You must be the new Canadian.
Alberta? Ex-Anny, right? Delighted
to meet you. My name is, . .” The
eyes smiled, the face could not.
The face had been reconstmucted,
but only in part: stretched, glistening,

y, the rest:
those who will speak o of birth, death,
love, rapture, duty, self-sacrifice,
anguish, despair and all the other
emotions you know and I know, But
be knew them with an intensity anda
passion denied us: he had seen The
Fire.

The eyes smiled and there was no
bitterness, no rancor, no self-pity in
his voice when he called himself

“one of, Tom Henn's Crocks".
Please! It was his term, not mine.

One of Tom Henn’s Crocks.’...
Henn was professor of English, a,
poet anid senior tutor at the college I:
attended: a great, towering crag of a
man, Irish by birth and by voice,
beloved, admired, revered — and
slightly fey, Against all logic, in an
age of ateinless-stecl science, he
bélieved. . . in ghosts. And he still
wore the moustache and the bearing
of a man who had served as a gener-
al for five years. He had helped plan
D-Day and the assault on Fortress
Europe..He knew the ‘scarred, the
bloody, the twisted face of war.

He also wrote books: books on the
Irish poets, books on literature for
students in the sciences, books on the
use of armored divisions in assault

beach landings and — I said it earlier

row, wandering streets and gentle,
praying spires.

For three years they dreamed,
yeamed and aspired, bent over the
noblest and the best that men and

women have sought after and left
recorded down the long years. in
the process, they were healed; the
blind, the crippled, the maimed, the

_ex-prisoners of war, and those who -

slept with demons in the night,
Henn not only knew ghosts, be

’ could exorcise them, That former

sergeant of infantry who ldnded oft
Sword Beach in Normandy in June
1944 = the one condemned forever to
life in a wheelchair — changed sud-

demic prizes, hon
héard he had a Q.C. and be had taken
silk: in language we can both under-
stand, became a judge.

Some he could not save: that man,

the scarred, disfigured face was not
his. The God of War — blind, enraged,
wiathful — had bestowed it upon him.
And one night, in final tribute to that
god, he climbed to the top of a tower

ir and leapt into space, space he had once

commanded as an RAF squadron lead-

wept at his funeral, too, those of us
who loved him: here, in Canada, in

on the edge of an old yesterday.

RR. Jeffels is a Richmond free-
lance writer and former principal of
The Open Learning Institute.

Consumers the source of competition

Wednesday, November 13, 1991,

The Castlegar Sun

Letters to the Editor

\ Dear Editor;
‘On'November 14 at'7 p.m, at
the Railway Station Muscum,
the, Heritage ‘Socicty will be
holding an

Many years ¢ of dedicated hard

“work. by the volunteers of the

Society have gone into réstora- |

tion of the Chapel: House and
ion of the gi ‘at

We ly need

interested hide who are leg ;
to Volunteer their time in order to
keep the society functioning.

Z Island Heritage Pari,

The same volunteers saved the :

C.PR. Station from demoli

‘ished restoring the interior of the
station. It is well on the way, to
becoming a local history/CPR
Museum.

Not only did we save and
restore the only two historical help.
sites, in north Castlegar, but we

‘and have almost completely fin- ;

ing the
and operate them for the “enjoy-

ment of visitors and all the peo,"
ple of the district. However at
* this time, it has become apparent
that in order to continue on with
this work we must have more

Therefore, we are encourag-
at large to
attend this mecting, as their

Dissatisfied with reporter's claim

Dear Editor:
T am writing this letter to
express my di with

dent in question was not even
present at the game. He-was
basing his’ article on

your October 30 article regard-
ing ‘the--Trail Flag Football
Teague on page 10 A.”
My objections are threefold:
a) The Sun “reporter” cover-
ing ‘the; Wednesday game's inci-

here-say evidence alone. . ° |

b):-I was not present at the
Teague meeting when the suspen-
sions were met. I was never
asked for my side of the story
and was never able to give any.

explanation in defense of myself.

_¢) With all the information at
his disposal, the reporter in ques-
tion failed to obtain the correct
spelling of my name.

In future I hope you will recti-
fy this situation and retum to the
accurate and responsible. journal-
ism that your newspaper has

Ed. Note

been noted for in the past.

Sincerely,

Linne Sovran

This letter is in reference toa
sports story in which two suspen-
sions were handed out for fighting.

Recent survey suggests Canadians favour

user-fees to combat rising health costs

STERLING NEWS SERVICE

FILIP PALDA

The Fraser Institiute

“Competition” is the word of the hour. Last
week Michael Porter, a Harvard economist,
released a study which suggests that Canadians
can become richer if they upgrade their skills.
G should p more h and
development, and businesses should not concen-
trate so much of their expertise on exporting nat-
ural resources. Unfortunately the media has
given these ideas the most attention. They have
overlooked the important point that our ability to

also only half as likely as Americans to complain
about bad buys. Our consumer movement is weak
and we rely on government to protect us. This cli-

mate reduces the incéntive businesses have'to be’

competitive.

If government feels it must spend money on
education and retraining, it should retrain Canadi-
ans to be better consumers. It should also foster a
climate in which consumers can exercise their

worst. Every year we rely on government to buy
$100 billion of goods and services for us. Gov-

are less discriminating than private con-
sumeéis bécausé they are urider political pe pressure
to buy from favored sources. Recently the Que-
bec gt bought p i from a
local supplier even though an Ontario supplier
had offered the same product at a price 11 per
cent lower, Favoritism such as this takes pressure

power to choose. R that protect

industries from foreign competition give people
little choice but to buy what is put in front of them.
Whole sectors of the Canadian economy, such as

compete ‘depends on our ability to

can impose
by "domi high quality goods. _ Inefficient,
unresponsive businesses cannot survive in a mar-

have grown up behind trade

off local pr toi and to comp
The notion that consumers have the power to

.make the economy more efficient does not appeal

to policy makers because it gives goyemment a
passive role. It is difficult for some to accept that

barriers and yp ‘us with sec-~

ond-rate service. Even the most informed and

would thrive if government spent.
less and if trade barriers came down. It is more

motivated consumers cannot impose on

ket iof buyers. Cc ian’ are
of hock-
ey equipment. As a result we produce the best
hockey equipment in the world. However in most
other areas we are not, by comparison with other
countries, very sensitive to product design. We are

if they are not allowed to shop else-
where. The communists of the East’ Bloc felt little

: Gisesptine beens they Thad a monopoly. over Bro
duction: By i 4

veh ccs? thay raked cd goes:
Canada’s biggest consumer is also perhaps the

and less I to argue that we
need to retrain our labor force, that government,

higti-tech goods. We should question these stan-
dard remedies and put more faith in the power of
markets to solve their own problems.

cl
OT SIDES Te

ARE FORCING
INTHE SEARCH HERA LASTING.
: PEACE

4 18 POLITICALLY INDEPENDENT ANDA:
.. MEMBER OF THE STERLING NEWS SERVICE
a; November 28, 1990
“ Second Class Malling Pormk Pending
Published by:The Castiogar oun
Wcokly ot Wednesdays.
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we ‘
parliamentary conventions are not.

It's time we Canucks faced the nasty truth

It’s time Canadians knew the nasty
truth about the joint Senate-Commons
committee on the Constitution.

The important story is not came

expense of Canada.
The secretary of talks among the

3 various party House leaders is one of

But. in the Joint Senste-Commons

working.
Ina series of conversations veean

MPs threw out the secrecy rule in the
belief that straight talk is needed to end
an ugly charade which threatens the
entire constitutional reform process.
From MPs in all three political par-
ties, MPs who know, the following

emerges:

- The NDP caucus is bitterly divided,
with westefi! MPs opposing “cOhces-
sions” to Quebec, and serious splits
over a range of other issues from native

sions from becoming pul bli,
The NDP has not been alone in
seeking to exploit the commiltee’s

a Copps _ the high-road approach

government’s wound, tigatring the
advice of some of her more

col

The senior Liberal MPs on the con-

pa
This is not to say that none of the

criticism that has been levelled at the :

As Ouclette told me, “We can't for-

ean Chretien appeared to be taking

Ovelette and Alimand, Maat
But after @ speech yesterday in Mon:

treal, Chretien join the constitutional hit
* squad, detnanditig Dobbi¢'s bead * *

He faces none of the intemal prob-
lems. that afflict the NDP, but when

fA prraici poseioder ert

1B
dump ‘the; » cocehate ‘Winnipeg MP Ly
Dorothy’

will unite

hd Cuca ‘pear Oo
tide nt) oe

Surprise surprise, but accord-
ing to a recent’survey conducted
by the Toronto Globe and Mail
and CBC News, a majority of
Canadians say they favour adopt-
ing a user fee policy in order to
combat rising health care costs.

Fifty-six per cent of those sur-
veyed said user fees was the best
solution for health care costs, 22
per cent said they wanted to sec
higher taxes and eight per cent
said ital and medical ser-

lot of money = but the manage"

Ment of the:system is maybe not
the best in the world.” é

“I'm opposed, continue to be
opposed, but I’m ready to have
discussions. But I will need a lot

of arguments to convince me to
agree with a user fee,” he said.
208

He said user fee i
costs would peck the fees
themselves, and said there is
already $43 billion being spent by
both governments on health care,

Find it in the
‘Classifieds.

vices should be cut back.
But federal Health Minister
Benoit Bouchard said
should forget the idea of user fees.
“As long as I am the minister

of Health and Welfare, I willneed = BY

a lot of arguments to convince me
that we have to put in a user fee,”
the minister said, saying the best
‘way to combat rising costs is sim-
ply better management.

“I do not accept that we donot -

have enough f money - we 6 have a

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