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February 20, 1

Local author gives advice to
writing students at workshop

By JOHN CHARTERS

“Write from your roots,
about what you know best."*

Vi Plotnikoff, local author and
charter member of the Castlegar
Writers Guild, gave a workshop and
reading Feb, 12 to some 35 writing
students and interested citizens.

In her introductory remarks she
advised her listeners that t‘we write
best about the things we know and
remember best.”’ Then, when we
have done that we must check all
that we have said for accuracy of
detail. Sloppy research, she said,
brings loss of credibility and
ultimately of readership.

“Use all of your senses to capture
the color of life and a notebook to
record it wherever you go, par-
ticularly if you are writing a story
with an ethnic background.

“But don't get too ethnic,”’ she

write

added. “‘Remember you are writing
for alt Canadians, not just a par-
ticular group.”’

And finally; Keep it simple, you
want to reach as many people as
possible.’

Plotnikoff writes from the point
of view of a girl growing up in the
Doukhobor culture and traditions,
and while her work is fiction and her
vehicle is the short story, her work
has a strong and immediate sense of
reality, a gentle, sometimes wry
humor, vivid color and, at least in
the two works that she read, a fine
underlying pathos.

The first of these, entitled The Fir-
st of May, recalls an almost forgot-
ten time of innocence when children
Prepared for and danced the
Maypole and endured all the trium-
phs and losses of childhood

VI PLOTNIKOFF
+++ ‘keep it simple’

The second. story, Head Cook at
Weddings and Funerals, takes a
closer look at the specifics of her
ethnic Doukhobor culture. Both
tome drew strong positive reac-

tions/from her audience and an en-
. ;

and promising talent.

It was unfortunate that the. place
for the reading was changed without
warning from the faculty lounge to
the administration building. By the
time some would-be listeners finally
found the new location the doors
were locked and they went home
disappointed and angry. They missed
a very pleasant evening.

Plotnikoff’s works have appeared
in various anthologies, She is curren-
tly writing a book of inter-related
short stories based on her ethnic
background.

Times force facility to change

By JOHN CHARTERS

“We've grown out of space and
we need to grow with the needs of
the community.””

Katrine Conroy, administrator for
the Kootenay Columbia Child Care
Society, spoke to the Castlegar
Rotary Club on plans, now under-
way, to expand the facilities and
scope of the Hobbit Hill Children’s
Centre.

“In the period of the lifetime of
the members of this club there have
been tremendous changes in the

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From the Family!

society of this continent,’ Farrell
said. ‘In 1955 the average family
consisted of a father, a mother and
two children. Today, this applies to
only 10 per cent of families and there
are now 13 different varieties of
family groupings, 60 per cent of
which have only one parent.
Moreover, in North America today,
there are three million teenage
mothers who have already given bir-
th not to their first but to their third
child,

“Because of our social
background, our age and our small
community we tend to regard the
world in the stereotype of the 1950s
but that’s not the real world, Gen-
tlemen, in this day we are both a
part of the problem and a part of the
solution. Thank you, Katrine Conroy
for telling us about it.’’

The school, which now takes care
of the needs of three- to six-year-old
children, is going to become an in-
tegrated facility to include children
age 18 months to three years, to train

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and help special needs children, and
to support teenage mothers who are
attempting to raise their own
children while attending school.

To this end, the society has pur-
chased the former Pentacostal Chur-
ch adjacent to the Hobbit Hill
school, a move which will double the
present working area and facilitate
the establishment of an infant
development program in
physiotherapy and speech therapy as
well as the education program for
teenage mothers.

This latter need has arisen because
of the greatly increased number of

unwed mothers who are keeping
their babies, Conroy said. Since
many of these girls lack sufficient
educational background to qualify
for more advanced training in better-
paying occupations, the society will
care for the babies while the girls get
their Grade 12  standii at high
school. This will give them a greater
self esteem as well as the grounding
to go on to become productive
members of society. The girls will
also be given training in parenting —
@ most important skill which too of-
ten gets little attention in educational
programs, Conroy said.

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5 p.m. (Wed) 9 a.m. (Fri) 5 p.m.
(Sun) West Kootenay Today — Host
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week’s Shaw Cable lineup. In the
about town section of the program
Elstone previews what is coming up
in. the Trail and Castlegar areas.

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Opposition fears
budget will
worsen economy

OTTAWA (CP) = Amidst
recession and war, Finance Minister
Michael Wilson will introduce a
federal budget next Tuesday aimed
at helping to pull the country out of
its economic slump.

“I think the primary objective of
the budget is to do things that will . .

encourage a recovery in the
economy as quickly as we can,”
Wilson said Monday after a meeting
of Conservative parliamentarians.

“It’s obviously a job that requires
the support of the private sector . .
that is what we'll be trying to
motivate with the actions that we'll
be taking in the budget.””

Wilson refused to comment on
specific measures in the budget,
which will outline the government's
plans for the fiscal year beginning
April 1.

But opposition politicians fear
Wilson will use the Gulf War as an
excuse to slash spending on domestic
Programs, perhaps by $5 billion.

A pro-business agenda that cuts
spending during a recession would be
a receipt for disaster, warned An-
drew Jackson, senior economist at
the Canadian Labor Congress. a

“The economy is in a virtual free
fall at the moment and we are staring
double-digit unemployment in the
face; comsumer confidence is
devastated and investment spending
by business is totally flat,’ Jackson
said.

“If we have governnment cuts
overload on top of that, it’s
inevitably going to make the
recession longer and deeper."’

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WASHINGTON (AP) _
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Gulf could undercut the U.S. timber
industry’s pressure on President
George Bush to stick with tough
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Industry leaders will tell a
congressional subcomymittee this
week that a 1986 agreement levying
Canadian taxes on lumber exported
to the United States is critical for
U.S. mills to compete with Canadian
prices kept low by government sub-
sidies.

But Democrat Ron Wyden and his
top trade aide expressed concern that
Bush’s indebtedness to Canada for
help in the gulf war could make it
easier for the Canadians to drop the
softwood lumber taxes without
facing U.S. trade sanctions.

In Victoria, a spokesman for
Forests Minister Claude Richmond
said the minister was invited but
declined to testify before the sub-
committee.

The spgkesman said Richmond
sent Wyden a letter saying he would
welcome a chance to share his views
but the minister feels it would be
inappropriate for him to
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Wilson has said he needs $60
million a month to pay for Canadian
military involvement in the. Persian
Gulf. He suggested he prefers taking
this money out of other government
departments to raising taxes or the
deficit.

Steven Langdon, the NDP finance
critic responsible for the budget,
fears an across-the-board cut at all
government departments, another at-
tack on social benefits for middle-in-
come Canadians and further .reduc-
tions in funding to provincial gover-
nments for post-secondary
education, health care and welfare,

“If this budget brings in those
kinds of cutbacks,’’ Langdon said,
“we could see this serious recession
that we've got turned into a
depression.””

Opposition critics blame the
federal government for causing the
recession with high interest rates.

To pave the way for lower interest
rates, major business groups have
jointly called for a two-year freeze
‘on federal spending.

“We don't think times are going
to get better unless the deficit is
cut,’’ said Sharon Glover, the
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
policy director.

The budget is due a day after MPs
return to the Commons on Monday.
But after Wilson’s speech the gover-
nment is expected to end the season
soon.

It would then deliver a speech
from the throne outlining legislation
for a new session, but no date has
been set.

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