CASTLEGAR NEWS, April 23, 1980

Senior citizens say thanks for new basement

A full house was the
order of the day on Thursday
of last week when Castlegar's
senior citizens entertained a
group of special guests.

Seventy-three members
gathered for this event, to
honor a number of persons
and organizations who had
contributed to the completion
of the Center's basement.
Carpeted stairs, finished
walls and ceiling, adequate
lighting, and a set-up for
carpet bowling, have done
much to increase the rec-
reational
building.

President Jessie Donnan
briefly outlined the reasons
for the occasion — to express
gratitude to good and helpful
friends. .Among the guests
were Mayor Audrey Moore,
Mrs. Kay Bate, Ladies’ Aux-
iliary to Royal Canadian
Legion; Mrs. Dorothy Mac:
pherson, Royal Canadian Le-
gion; Messrs. Pat Metge and
Wayne Taiji, regional rec-
reation committee represen-
tatives; Malcolm Scott for
Kiwanis; Paul Oglow for
Rotary; and W.G. Horvath,
contractor for the alter-
ations. Mrs. Horvath also at-
tended.

President Donnan intro-
duced each guest, starting
with Metge, who emphasized
that some of the funds con-
tributed by the recreation
department had been raised
by groups of teenagers work-

facilities of the

SPECIAL GUESTS at the Sonior Citizens Association centre were,
to right, Wayne Talli and Pat Metge of Regional
mission No. 1, contractor W.G. Horvath, Kiwanian Malcolm Sco:

‘ecreation Com-

Volunteers and donations acknowledged at banquet

Mayor Audrey Moore, Kay Bates and Dorothy MacPherson of the

ing on behalf of this project.

Malcolm Scott gave the
association a further reason
for thanking Kiwanis, when
he presented Mrs. Donnan

- with two lapel microphones

to replace the hand-held
mikes that have been in use
for many years.

Mayor Audrey Moore
was the concluding speaker,
assuring the seniors that she
and the city council will
continue to do all they can to
further the interests of the
association.

Following the mayor's
talk, the floor was cleared to
set tables for 85 places, and a

Russian-style feast. Borscht
with home-made bread was
served, followed by dessert
of ‘plove,’ with ample plates
of cakes and cookies.

The banquet was pro-
vided by several of the
association's Doukhobor
members: Molly Kalesniko,
Lucy Lebedoff, Nellie Maloff
and Ann Mojelsky.

Mrs. Nan Raine thanked
the guest speakers on behalf
of the members and Mrs.
Helen Bonacci called for a
vote of thanks to the ladies
who had done so much work
for this special occasion.

Symposium on wife battering
results in local action group

A well-attended sympo-
sium on wife battering was
held April 12 at Selkirk
College, jointly sponsored by
the Department of Contin-
uing Education ‘of Selkirk
College and the Coalition of
B.C. Rape Centres.

Representatives of sev-
eral ‘communities — Castle-
gar, Trail, Rossland, Nelson,
and the Slocan Valley — con-
sidered the problems of fam-
ily violence and rape and the
less - than - effective services
now available to: aid them.
Discussions began from the
premise that no one “de-
serves" to be raped and no

. one “deserves” to be beaten.

Resources other than vi-
olence are always available to
those who want toseek them.

Discussion focussed on
attempting to analyse the
structures and pressures of
society that have created a
situation where one out of

four women are ‘sexually -

abused before the age of 18
and one in 10 women were
abused by a male partner
each year. This estimate,
believed to be conservative,
was arrived at by the Can-
adian Advisory Council on
the Status of Women, 1979.

Its study also arrived at
several other interesting
statistics; “Out of a sample of
100 (battered) women... 44
had received lacerations . .
26 had received fractures
.. burns and scalds occurred
in 11 cases. Kicking was a
regular feature in 59... in 42
cases a weapon was used. Of
107 reported murders in im-
mediate fatalities in Canada
in 1975, the wife was killed
by the husband in 49 cases,
but the husband was killed in
only eight.”

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It is also estimated that
in 80 per cent of the homes
where battering occurs
against women, children also
suffer abuse.

This week's
Joy Keillor

bridge news

 Eight-and-one-half ta-
-bles participated in Monday
night's play of the Joy Keillor
Bridge Club, with the follow-
ing results: °
North-South
With an average of 84:
First, Jim and Bev Swain —
102%; second, Bev MacDon-
ald and Inez Walker — 98;
third, Bill Scoffham and Jude
Goodwin — 91; and fourth,
Joy Keillor and Judy Shep-
pard — 87%:
East-Weat
With an average of 941:
First, Dr. Ron Perrier and
Maryellen Hunchak — 105'/;
second, Etuka Cameron and
Helen Ferguson — 105; third,
Lorne Musclow and Chuck
Clarkson — 104; and fourth,
Dot .Tatchill and, Louise
Whitehead — 101%.

It was the contention of
those present at the sympo-
sium that, in view of the
statistics, acts of violence are
widespread and severe
enough to be a real problem,
‘not only to the victims of the
violence but also to the com-
munity as a whole.

Too many of our women
live with vety real fear. Too
many of our children are not
allowed to grow into happy,
whole members of the com-
munity. Support services
now existing for them are too
few and too ineffective.

As a result of the work-
shop, several groups have
been developed in the sur-
rounding communities, and in
Castlegar, who intend to

work towards creating ser: .

vices which will aid women
and children involved in vi-
olent family situations to live
in safety’ from a batterer
until such time as he stops, or
to seek viable alternate life-
styles. Services to aid the
families and victims of rape
are also being developed.

If you are a man or
woman who is concerned
about these problems and
wishes to work with us,
please call 65-3778,

Adults .....

The University of Alberta

Mixed Chorus

willbe appearing at —

Stanley Humphries S.S.

Tuesday

Also Performing Is The

Kootenay Union of Youth
Choir

ADMISSION

Students & Senior Citizens ......

TICKETS MAY BE PURCHASED AT
Castlegar Drug or Carl's Westorn Drugs

31$2.00

This Advartisement sponsored in port by
Castlegar & District Arts Council

in Leduc of 3 A
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Ladies! Auxiliary to Royal Canadian Legion, Rotarian Paul ‘Oglow,

Theatre Energy's latest
play well received |

By SALLY WILLIAMS

Theatre Energy's latest
play ‘The Girls Will be Out in
a Minute’ was seen by an ap-
preciative audience in Castle-
gar last week. °

Dedicated te,women of
the Kootenays, the perform.
ance consisted ofa series of
vignettes, poems, songs,
dances and stories based on
material gathered from the

‘ lives “of Kootenay women

from pioneer days to the
present,’

Throughout the  per-
formance ran the theme of
women pitted against the
dangers and hardships of
living on the land; facing fire,
cougars, bears, isolation and
poverty. Paralleling this was
the ill

Legion spring tea

Acapacity crowd was in
attendance when the Ladies’
Auxiliary to the Royal Can-
adian Legion Branch No. 170
held its annual Spring Tea
and Bazaar in the Legion Hall
on Saturday afternoon.

Spring flowers decor-
ated the hall and a table
covered with the L.A. cloth
was centered with a bouquet
of golden yellow tulips, do-
nated by Mrs. Singa Menzies.
Each of the tea tables fea-
tured a centrepiece of pussy-
willow and daffodils.

President Mrs. H. Bate
welcomed the guests and de-
clared the tea open.

The ever-busy bake
table was in the charge of
Mrs. EB. Zorn and Mrs. K.
Crosbie. The white elephant

table was taken care of by
Mrs. F. Dodgson and Mrs. R.
Champ.

Mrs. Sig Olson super-
vised the tea tables, assisted
by Mrs. P. Mott, Mrs. Rose
Debeque and Mrs. Doreen

: Pickering and Mrs.

Miscavich. The sewing table
was attended to by Mrs. P.
Kathy
Grim.

The busy kitchen was
supervised by Mrs. W. Le-
duc, assisted by Mrs. F. Lay-
cock, Mrs, H. Rafter, Mrs. EB.

Santos and Mrs. M. Heagy. ~

Mrs. B, Lundquist was in
charge of tickets for an af-
ghan and voucher draw. Mrs.
N. Blais sold tea tickets.

“The door prize of an ar-
rangement of spring flowers
in a cup and saucer, donated
by Castlegar Plants and
‘Flowers was won by Mrs. S.
Doell.

The first prize of a
crochet afghan, made and
donated by Mrs. Florence
Laycock, was won by Harry
Bate. Second prize -of a
voucher went to Mrs. M.
Popoff and third prize, also a
voucher, to Mrs. John Ste-

art.

‘The tulips were taken to
the hospital ‘for Mrs. Alice

Lampard and to the home of
Mrs. Moa Dinner — two of

the oldest members of the.

L.A.

Daughter
of local
couple weds
in Victoria
Sandra-Lee Lillian Tup-

per, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. Spence of Castlegar,

became the bride of Robert |

Adams Graham Feb. 27 at
Victoria. é

They were attended by
Bob and Sheryl! Abear.

attitudes towards woman's

‘SHSS band
converts _
garbage to $

Stanley ‘Humphries

Senior Band collected
bags of litter in this year's

_ Garbathon.

‘This is an event in which
band members, in return for

The
the band to travel to Comox
on Mey-11 - 14 for an ex-
change trip with Highland
Secondary: :

capabilities in contemporary.
society.

The actresses showed:
great virtuosity in handling
changes of scene and char:
acters and are to be con-
gratulated on their innova:
tive approach to the material
used, There were some par?
ticularly moving highlights in
théir performance — the
English lady beaten® down
into eccentricity by the de:
mands of pioneer life, por-
trayed by Meredith Bain
Woodward; Judith Ceroli’s
description of building &
house and buying a motor:
bike; and Cathie Marrion in
the all-too-identifiable rol6
of the housewife doing the
chores’ when she would pre:
fer to be out walking. .

There were some thir.
patches in the material per=
formed; attempts to create a
lively pace were sometimes:

overdone. Audience interest °

could still have been main:
tained with fewer attempts
at music hall comedy and
backstage flippancy.
Theatre. Energy de!
serves

April 23, 1980

HE

110displays
slated for
Trade Fair

About 110 ex-’

hibits are scheduled
for display Friday and
Saturday at .the
Castlegar Selkirk
Lions Club's fourth
annual West

.Ment and support :fur it

efforts to produce live, or:
iginal: theatre in the Koot-
enays, based on material rel-
evant to the historical and
contemporary réots of Koot-
enay residents.

Watch for their next
performance, ‘Waiting for
Godot’ in Castlegar in June.

If these benefits appeal
to you, please phone our

365-7266

Our Circulation Manager
will be pleased to discuss

route opportunities with you.

t

” Some dam good people.
delivered papers in their youth...

and in retirement

some darn good peopie
are going back fo it!

Here are some of the Benefits
of a Castlegar News Rovie:

Profitable part-time work.

Expanded contact with people. Opportunity to meet people and
make new friends.

Regular

through an

Choice of area — even your own ea neoutood.

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PURISNLD AT “THE CROAMROADS OF thet NI]

bi-weekly routine.

EWS

_ tlegar’s Mayor

Koot Trade Fair,
according to club

spokesman Frank .
* Stasila,

The fair, scheduled to be
open until 10 p.m. Friday and
from 9 am. to 10 p.m.
Saturday at Castlegar Re-
gional Recreation Complex,
will feature attractions ran-
ging from dancing forklifts to
cooking demonstrations, Sta-
sila said,

Expected to surpass its
1979 attendance of about
15,000 the fair will be opened
noon Friday by’ Miss ‘B.C,
Interior Nyle Skripnichuk in
an official ribbon-cutting
ceremony attended by Cas-
Audrey
Moore, Trail's Mayor Chuck
Lakes, Rossland-Trail MLA
Chris D'Arcy and a spokes.
man for Kootenay West MP
Lyle Kristiansen.

-In addition to the daily
draw for $1,000 in gold, he
said, “between 5,000 and
6,000 freebies” will be given
or raffled away to fairgoers.
An associate of-Steven
Yan, host of the weekly CTV
program Yan's Woking, will

offer hourly Chinese cooking .

demonstrations, for which a
special platform will be built
in the bleacher section of the
complex, Stasila said.

_ Along with local musi-
cians, the acclaimed Konkin
band from Grand Forks and
the Brady fiddle band from
Creston, are scheduled to
provide entertainment for
fairgoers, he said.

The Bobcat squaredan-
cers — four manned frontend
loaders performing with hu-
man female partners — are
also listed among the attrac-
tions at the trade fair.

Government exhibits will
include a Counterattack dis-
play and a demonstration of
new lifesaving equipment by
provincial ambulance service
personnel, he said,

Other entertainment at-
tractions will include the
Russian clown troupe Bim
Bom Boom and a number of
high school bands from va-
rious West Kootenay com-
munities.

INTERPLAY of sun and.cloud casts a dramatic light on
Nelson‘s Whitewater ski resort. A favorite playground for
spring skiers, Whitewater is poouiedty open until the end

of April.

Also scheduled to par:
ticipate in the trade fair are
such community ‘service

groups as.the Canadian Can- _

cer Society and Big Brothers.
of the C;

“you can sit down,” he said.
Along with B.C. Hydro's’
display on its proposed Mur- °

phy Creek hydroelectric dam
Broject at Murphy cree

Rebels hockey club will raffle”

off an automobile and Rotary
Club members will put on a
pancake breakfast.
Occupied .in previous
trade fairs by the-Lions’ beer
garden, the recreation com-
plex ballroom this year will
house displays of arts and
crafts items for sale to
fairgoers, the public relations
chairman said, while the beer
garden this year will be
housed in a 4,800-square-foot
circus tent at the ‘north
entrance of the complex.
Housing the Royal Cana-
dian Legion bingo as well as
the pancake breakfast, the
tent will provide fairgoers
with a place “where after
wandering through the fair

the Columbia River from

Let WKPL build, operate

Central Kootenay directors decided
Saturday they agree with construction and
operation of B.C. Hydro's proposed Murphy

Creek hydroelectric dam ‘—

but by West

Kootenay Power and Light, not B.C. Hydro,

The regional. district

board approved a lengthy”

resolution asking Premier
Bill Bennett and Bob Mc-
Clelland, energy, mines and
petroleum” resources minis-

positive control” of the facil-
ity if the dam were operated’
by West Kootenay Power.
While the, debt incurred
by B.C. Hydro would not in-
crease if the private company
ran the pi d dam, the

ter, the pi
energy policy and approve

. West Kootenay Power as the

builder and operator of the
proposed -400-megawatt dam
two kilometres north of Trail
on the Columbia River.

. Drafted early this month
by a special board committee,
the resolution said the op-
eration of the dam by the
private company, although
making

i
motion continued, facilities
and power lines wduld pro-
vide local taxation through
regional ‘districts, municipal-
ities, school boards and hos-
pital boards.

Asked by Creston dir-
ector Mayor Elidio Salvador

whether West Kootenay’

Power was prepared to build
and operate the proposed
dam, member

to the provincial grid, would
ensure “an adequate power
supply at acceptable rates” in
the future for the Kootenay,
Boundary and Okanagan
areas it serves.

West Kootenay Power
indicated in its May 14, 1979
application to amend rate

. schedules that it will be short

of electrical. power by ‘fall
1981, said the resolution,
which stressed the import-

Dave Pearce, who represents,

Murphy Dam, says RDCK

Need for guaranteed
future power stressed

Kootenay Lake's rural North
Shore area, told the board he
had contacted both A.V.
Marcolin, Cominco group
vice-president and a spokes-
man for the private power
company on the matter.

“Both said.yes, but un-
der the present setup they're
not going to push it,” he said,

Pearce added that if al-
lowed to build and operate
the proposed dam they would
be “at least a lot more sen-
sitive to local needs than B.C.
Hydro has shown itself, to
be."

Interviewed” after the
vote, Pearce said the Com-
inco and West Kootenay

Power Titnen indicated
the companies “would be
very interested in putting a
dam in” but would not pursue
the matter “because they
have to deal with the gov-
ernment all the time.”

The resolution drafted
by the committee — made up
of RDCK board chairman
G.E. MacNeill, Area J dir-
ector Martin Vanderpol,
Area I director John Moran
and Area D director Sean
Hennessey as well as Pearce
— completed nearly four
months of debate among dir-
ectors over the proposed
dam. Si

More on page B2

Sects unite to request
details on 1924 blast

Access to confidential reports on the CPRail train explosion that
killed Peter Lordly Verigin is the next step in developing the new

ance of d future
power needs of the utility
and Cominco, its parent com-
pany.

Also stressed was’ the
importance of retaining “the

. industrial and commercial

competitiveness of Cominco
and other employers in the
area thus ensuring continued

munis

A spokesman for the
Kootenay Committee on In-
tergroup Relations — the
B.C. attorney-general’s min-
istry-sponsored group
formed to investigate and
remedy tensions among the.
sects — said a Joint request

employment oppor
for local residents.”

It also noted the prov-
ince would benefit through
taxation of corporate profits

+ and private’ capital facilities
and have “greater and more:

for the i was a
significant accomplishment in
an April 183 meeting in Ootis-
chenia which signalled a
move to: heal the uneasy
relations between the Union
of ee Communities of

Christ and the Gilpin-based

Sons of Freedom.
Committee member

Mark Mealing said he was

uncertain of what contri-

buted to the reconciliation at

the meeting, climaxed by the
h of handsk

1 two rival sects in the region's Doukhobor com-

agreement that was stressed
to us was this request that
the committee do its utmost
to secure the release of those
reports,” he explained.

Also implied was the
need for disclosure to the
of CPR as well as

by
John J. Verigin, spokesman
and spiritual leader for the
USCC, and Sons of Freedom
members led by Mary Asto-
foroff, but “it's certainly time
for it.”
“The major point of

| Speech omits forests,
unclear on mortgages

No mention of Canada's forest industry and no details on plans for

included among the exhibits.

Products slated for dis-
play at the trade fair include
ears, boats, recreation ve-
hicles, motorcycles, sporting
goods, home and garden im-

Trail, several dis-

proverr an

plays anda booth jied by
the Right to Life. anti-
abortion organization will be

i gar-
dening supplies, swimming
pools, stereo facilities.

Turn the clock ahead
for ae Saving

Daylight Savings
Sunday morning.

If they don’t want to be
late for church or work on
Sunday, residents of this
area should put their clocks
ahead one hour when retiring
Saturday evening.

” The lost hour's sleep will

Time starts at 2 -p.m.

be made up when the prov-
ince reverts to Standard
Time at 2 a.m. on Oct. 26.

Remember, your clock
Springs Ahead in the spring,
and Falls Back one hour in
the fall.

relief of the impact rising bank loan interest rates have had upon it.

That sums uP sEepieney,
West MP Lyle Ki

ie C. or to lay greater stress
nth of the

critique of the April 14
Speech from the Throne
opening Canada’s 32nd parli--
ament.

Contacted in Ottawa last
week, Kristiansen, the New
Democratic Party's forests
critic, hit the failure of
Gov-Gen. Edward Schreyer's
federal government-written
speech to make any commit-
ment to a systematic pro-
gram easing the mortgage
interest hikes which have re-
sulted in the unemployment
of about 500

ie
forest industry.

“That plus the absence
of anything to deal with in-
terest rates in general were
disappointing not only be-
cause of the number of people

who are not going to be able

to buy new homes or build
homes but of the effect that’s

“going to have on the con-

struction and forést in-
dustry,” the Kootenay West
MP said.

: “The increasing unem-
ployment in that industry in
the past few weeks in par-

the Kootenays and 8,000" in

SHIFTING LOAD is blamed for accident "last Wed-

jesday on the

he 1972 th]

was rounding a corner when ‘its load of lumber shifted
. both tractor and trailer to overturn on its side.

of Grand Forks. Walker, who complained of a sore

o Castlegar and District Hospital by
he was treated as an out-patient

ge to the

th has been i-+

and disch
estimated at $3,000,

—News/Mirror Foto by Lois Hughes’

ticular — jally in view of
the dramatic rise in unem-
ployment in the forest in-
dustry in the northwest U.S.,

. just one step ahead of us —

it's foreboding for the impact
it’s likely. to have on B.C. and
right across Canada.”

“All that the govern-
ment has proposed in the
throne speech is a very
piecemeal sort of program to
assist some of the people who
are having difficulty renew-
ing their current mortgages,”
he continued.

“The only specific thing
that’s come out regards some
of those assisted under the
Assisted Home Ownership
Program. It's not clear ag to
whether they've gone beyond
that in their current sug-
gestion ‘or not.”

A subamendment which
was proposed by the NDP
during Commons debate over
the throne speech but was
defeated was sn attempt to

head off the production cut- -

backs resulting in the forest
industry as a result of the
high rates, he said.

“What we were asking
was that the government
direct the director of the
Bank of Canada to reduce the
basic interest rate by at least:
two per cent across the
board,” Kristiansen said of
the proposed subamendment,
which was defeated.

“I suspect there'll be
recommendations coming for-
ward later on in the debate to
try to press the government
either during this address or
under specific measures such
as the budget to introduce

More on page B2

LYLE KRISTIANSEN
.- speach ‘disappointment’

police reports on the 1924
explosion, according to Meal-
ing, who attended the meet-
ing along with fellow commit-
tee members Doug Feir ane
Ted Bristow.

“Ever since that ex-
plosion, since reports were
never released on it, a lot of
rumors have been flying
around the community about
who was involved or wasn't

“involved, who's to blame for

it and why,” he said.

“And the feeling is get-
ting at those reports would
clarify the issue. It should be’ ~
possible to clear some people
of the implications of the
rumors.”

The discussion of the

need for access to the reports

shed ‘a new light on the
burning of a CPR building in
South Slocan in late Sep-
tember, 1979 resulting in the
arrest and conviction of 19
Sons of Freedom members
for arson, he said.

“I'think one of the im-
plications is that as the
people at Gilpin now under-
stand the burning that took
place ‘at South Slocan, at
least one major motivation
for that was to get into the
courts and thereby have
some way of raising the issue
of.the files,” he said.

“Some information was
released, but I think every-
body agrees this is probably
not the best way to get at
information. The committee
has been given the oppor-
tunity to create channels that
are less threatening and it’s
going to be to some degree a
test of the committee and of
its usefulness.”

Also discussed at the
meeting was the motivation
for past arson outbreaks in
the region, “where some of
the Gilpin people had ‘seen
the actions as once directed
toward the salvation of all
Doukhobors.” USCC mem-
bers at the meeting ques-
tioned the motivation for
arson and the issue became
an unresolved point, “but it
did seem legitimate to both
groups that the motivation
should be discussed more
rather than simply ignored,”
he said. .

The reconciliation still
leaves ‘out the Christian
Community of Brotherhood

More on page B2

Office to open Thursday

Thursday is the’
scheduled official

. opening date for the

‘ Castlegar Chamber of
Commerce office and
business information
centre at 1444
Columbia Ave.

An open house lasting
until 4 p.m. will follow the 11
p.m. opening and a general
chamber meeting -- featur-
ing guest speakers Mayor
Audrey Moore and Jim Rob-
inson, B.C. Chamber of Com-
merce vice-president — is
slated for noon the same day

at the Hi Arrow Arms Motor
Hotel,

The public is invited to
visit the office and meet the
chamber staff and executive.
Persons interested in attend-
ing the general meeting can
obtain tickets from chamber
office manager Alice Zebroff.

Ny