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The Castlegar Sun

A monument to Brother Jos. Joseph

The bells of the Pfitzer Tower
carillon signal most, but not all
of the hours of the monastic day
They are silent in the first hour at
5:15 a.m. when the monks assem.
ble in the church for morning
Prayer, but they can be heard
across the valley at 6:15 a.m. for
early mass and the hours there
after.

On the opposite side of the
Parking lot, in front of the guest
house, flower beds and flowering
shrubs abound, and lawns and
fields flow away down a shallow
valley past'the hedge encircled
quiet cemetery, down to man
made Mary Lake, the boys’ sum
mer swimming and boating place.
and one to the rising cattle-dotted
fields and orchards beyond. Just
to the right of the lake is a tree
covered knoll and shrine; while
on its left a maple-and-birch
wood well supplied with paths

wild flowers, stinging nettles
vari-coloured rhododendrons, a
very steep cliff and viewpoint
from which one can-get a magnil
icemt view of all the going-on of
the Fraser River traffic far below
And here, twice a year for the
past ten years, I go, prepare, teach
and test four to five different high
This 1s my

school level classes

quiet place. Fortunatély, | have an
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Here one can find a thousand
stories, but space is available for
only one. It concerns a quiet
grave under the big blue spruce in
the cemetery, and a half-hidden
stone-flagged roadway which
runs down the steep slope
through the trees from the top of
the Abbey hill, to the highway at
the bottom. That roadway, two
metres wide and paved with huge
flat stones is a kind of monument

to Brother Joseph, an carly mem

ber of the community and one of
the first occupants of the little
graveyard, The grave, the road,
ind the man are a reflection of
the spint of the Abbey.

Brother Joseph was an elderly

and devout Swiss, a farmer and a
handy-man, who had joined the
community in the early ‘fifties’
when the monastery was new,
and every hand was welcome. In
spite of his years he was an inde-
fatigable worker. Librarian Father
Boniface describes him as a very
small man but “sturdy as an oak”
With the aid of his ancient tractor,

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he could build anything, and,
being a Swiss, built it to last for-
ever. In the course of the develop-
ment of the monastery the monks
bought some land and farm build.
ings below their hill, but the
property could only be reached
by a long detour around the bot-
tom of the hill

Brother Joseph decided to cor-
rect the situation, obtained per-
mission and started to work
building the road, Swiss fashion,
of great rocks, straight up the side
of the hill. The task consumed his
every waking hour, and by Good
Friday of 1968 he had almost fin-
ished it. One more course to go.
However, that morning he failed,
for the first time in his monastic
life, to appear for breakfast
When the deeply concerned
monks went to his room, they
found him sitting up in bed with
his breviary in his lap—quite
dead. He had left early, they said,
to be on hand to greet his Risen
Lord.

The road is little used now and
not easy to find. It reminded me
of the ‘Via Appia’, (Appian
Way), the great stone-paved high-
way which connected Imperial
Rome to Greece and the
provinces of Asia over two hun-
dred years ago, and is still used to
this day and so I named it. The
road is a part of a great 1500 year
old Benedictine tradition and a
symbol of the place I like to call
“A Candle burning high on a hill-
top in a darkening world.”

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Do you want to kill a cyclist!?

My involvement with bicycles
goes back a long way. When I
first tried to ride my older sisters’
bicycles, I had to stretch my
hands up over my head to reach
the handle bars, beginning a long
experience of skinned elbows
and knees. I did not have a new
bicycle as a child. Actually, I had
very little new things as a child
With two older sisters, every
thing was passed down to me
including two bicycles. As I was
required to maintain everything I
owned. I became adept at keep.
ing both in good work:

Taking a bicycle apam is easy
I would lay out newspapers in

and as each part came

I would place it in order
either left or nght. The trick was
to put them back together again!
Especially two strangely-shaped
little pieces, which were called
unreasonably, since
none were cone-shaped! No mat
ter how I would set them into lit-
tle pack of grease, it would be
wrong when I tried the wheel. I
would get very frustrated and go
in search_of my Dad who would

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where roads are narrow and
winding, you can abruptly
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travelling two and three abreast
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become a menace, and an
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In places like downtown Van-

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couver, there are hundreds of
couriers” who have absolutely
no regard for themselves or any
one else. They are usually young
and fit males, who have forgotten
how to use hand signals. Some
will occasionally glance over a
shoulder as they zip from lane to
lane, but most just go wherever
and whenever they please

Many Canadians cities, in an
effort to promote the use of bicy
cles as a means of transport to
and from work, are holding
Bike to Work” weeks, such as
held recently in Toronto. Toron-
tonians generally live in the
north which is uphill of the city
The dash of cyclists to work
down those ravines sets up a vir-
tual morning “Tour de France”
Can you just picture it? Streams
of cyclists, stretched taut over
their bikes, sneering and snarling
at one another as they race for
downtown? Picture the reverse,
uphill, in the evenings!

Vancouver is not to be denied
for competitiveness. Vacationers
in Vancouver often rent bicycles
to cycle around the seawall of
Stanley Park, a very pleasant ride
with only a few, gentle uphill and
downhill runs

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painted lanes for walkerseand
cyclists, in a fruitless attempt to
separate the two. Cycling around
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Children need to know that for every action there is a reaction

“Junior, I asked you to pui
your bike away?” Silence
“Junior did you hear me?” moth
er asks.

“Huh?” Junior comes out of
his TV daze long enough to
respond. Finally mother turns off
the volume on the TV to gain his
attention. (She wouldn't dare
turn off the TV completely)

“Junior, no TV until you pick
up your bike!" mother insists

“Aw Mom, that’s not fair,
why do I always have to pick
everything up, it's my favourite
show, I'll do it after.”

Etc., etc., etc.—does this
sound a mite familiar in your
home? And isn't it true that
when they hit about age seven,
they start to get REAL smart
alecky? They seem to forget all
the manners and respect you've
taught them. They want to do
everything THEIR way and no
longer do things for the sheer
joy of pleasing mom and dad

Your first thought uj
ing this treacherous

use Bill Cosby's theory “My
child must be brain-damaged, he
doesn't hear a thing I say?” You
suddenly realize that you have a
VERY long road ahead of you
and it seems obvious it will get
worse before it gets better. The
grandmas and grandpas add to

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your sense of hopelessness by — usually continue the negative
declaring “Oh

they're teenagers, then you'll,

just wait until — behavior anyway
The child who fesponds to
really have something to com Physical punishment positively
plain about.” 1s afraid of the
The fact is, children really emotional consequences and
DO want to do things their own there fore have also
way. And really, how different responded to other methods
are “we” from “they’”? If I could Well, wouldn't it be nice if we
dawdle along my way to work, could resolve these things before

miss the bus, and show up two 7

hours lafe, AND get away with
If! for the

it, the temptation would be prob:
=> young,
A old

usually more

would

ably more than I could bear
could avoid jail or wage gar
nishees for not paying my taxes. and
the little imp in me would proba willing
bly win. If I could “give back”
my children just whenever the
going got sough, you bet I
would

Quite naturally our children
are going to test those bound
aries between right or wrong,
acceptable or not, within the accountable for their own behav-
rules established in their envi iors. They need to discover that
ronment. And they will continue for every action there is a reac-
to push until they get stung tion_and positive behaviors bring
While a throbbing backside may Posilive Consequences, and neg-
be a deterrent, it is in many ative respectively. For some par-
cases temporary and in many ents it is terribly difficult to
more, totally ineffective. They observe their children experienc-
may decide that the physical ing a negative consequence.
inconvenience is worth “getting In order to allow your chil-
their own way”. To-ensure it dren to experience conse-
hurts bad enough to be effective and negative,
is to tread dangerous ground, there must be some solid agree-
and in truth, abused children ments and rules in place. And

Brenda Scatterty

they become such power strug-
gles? Before anger takes hold of
our better judgemient?

Children learn to make good
choices only when they become

quences, positive

Continued from 4B

gerous undertaking, especially
now that skateboarders have
been added to the mixture of
“Kamikaze” cyclists. There was
a time when all skiers were
polite and no one snarled at any-
one in the lift lines. Remember
those days? Well, the same
snarly people now also ride
bikes!

I am driving across Stan
ley Park on the Causeway
bumper to bumper, moving
along with traffic. Stanley Park
is Beautiful at any time of year

Obituary

Darren Werre

Darren Ronald Werre
born August 14, 1975 at
Castlegar, was killed June
8, 1993 in a motor vehicle
accident on the Blueberry
Paulson Bridge near Grand
Forks, BC.

Darren lived at Highland
Drive until 1983 when he
and his mother moved to
Invermere. In 1988 he
moved to his present home,
White Rock

Darren is sadly missed
by his parents Del and Bev
Hoffman of Invermere, and
Norman Werre of White
Rock, brothers and sisters,
Carey-Jo Hoffman, Connie
Alson, Joan DeGraff, Patri
cia Morrison, Richard
Werre, Rodney Werre, his
grandparents and his aunts
and uncles.

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especially not at the apex of the brakes hard. There is a screech
Lions Gate Bridge to watch the of tires as the whole line of cars
cruise ship passing underneath travelling south slows, some
I am unused to this density of cars swerving, dipping, and
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laid-back Kootenays, but I nut. He ends up at my open win-
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expected at this hour of the side me, he begins to swear at
morning and berate me, in terms I have

Out of nowhere never heard before! He ends
the right, there is a cyclist enter “Do you want
ing the flow of traffic, right in

suddenly, on
with the sentence
to kill a cyclist?” There's a gap
front of-us, at full in the traffic in front of me, and
pedalling like as I accelerate away [ think to
a look. but With language like that
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these agreements can be put in

as early as infancy,
although some are behavioral
without being spoken, The
Most tmportant ingredient in
this whole recipe is probably
consistency. How would you
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Safeway and get groceries free,
but NEXT TIME they decide to
charge you?

Children need rules and con-
sistency. They also need to
know that they have some mea-
sure of control in their lives.
Therefore; making agreements
with children is easier than it
may sound. It takes a lot of
time and commitment.

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argument would have been less Less anger from us all, and
likely. It will never be perfect more respect for ourselves and
and renegotiations will be nec each other. Only one little
essary at times. glitch Adults in the house

This works in our household have to follow the same rules
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