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New $10 sticker relieves fear

Ron
Jeffels
Syndicated

Columnist

With a $10 sticker, a scribbled dec-
laration form and that most sacred of
all numbers, the ciphers on my credit,
card, I can now cross the American
border without let or hindrance, with-
out pleading guilty at Canada Cus-,
toms, That comes later.

When Otto Jelinck made that
announcement in mid-March, I felt
free, joyous, emancipated — as though
the leaden albatross the poet once gave

Never steal, never lie!’ Can you
imagine how many lucrative and pow- .
erful careers those edicts of hers have
denied me, Doc! Why, there's politi. ,

; I won't enumerate. People sue at the

drop of a writ these days, But I’ve
obeyed her dictates faithfully and car-
ried those twin burdens with me
everywhere down all the long corridor

. of time. Especially at international

border crossings,

Before I go'on, let me bare the
breast and proclaim my honesty. I’ve
never stolen anything in my life, Well,
maybe the odd paper clip or 29-cent
ballpoint from stationery stores. But
that’s not stealing. That’s part of
every man’s perks and patrimony. So
tell me, Doc, why is it that sebeneyet
approach a border, any border —
Lithuania or Luxembourg, in Greece

carl I swear it! Nothing! I didn't buy a
thing. I haven't had a false bottom
welded into the Chevy: no hidden nich-
es, no secret caches. Nothing under the
carpets, in the upholstery, in the bloat-
ed belly of the spare, The Chevy. and I
are pure, chaste, unmodified — just as
we left the assembly line.

Don’t tell me, Doc! I’ve heard
about all the tricks and subterfuges, all
the feints and deceptions, . . Secret
compartments in siletto heels. . , the
fat but hollow metal cane with the
handle that unscrews. . . hot gin in a

. cold thermos. . . the body bag that

makes lean men into mean men at the
Jast rest stop. . . old labels sewn into
new sables, . . the fun in the fedora
just before the border. . . The list goes
on. We've seen the litter on the lots. °
All those nefarious deeds I’ve heard

to his Ancient Mariner had
been lifted from my neck and dropped
ii into Bellingham

Continuing education

The very first post-secondary experience of the SHSS
Class of 1991, the next installment of responsible young men
and women to enter the adult world, will be the discovery that
itis OK to break the law if you have a good enough excuse.
There are, they say, many reasons to support a “SafeGrad”,
the adult-supervised illegal possession and consumption of
alcohol by the underaged.

“They're going to do it anyway.

“It's grad, everybody does it.”

“It's only going to be for one night.”

Unfortunately, a whole bunch of wrongs do not make a
right. Laws are put in place for a purpose. How does this line
of reasoning hold up should a group of persons decide to rob a
bank?

“We're going to do it anyway.”

“We need the money, we're broke.”

“It's only going to happen once."

Far-fetched? Not really. A broken law is a broken law.
Maybe they would “do it anyway”, but how many of these

‘ young adults who would never dream of sneaking off to

something clandestine to take part in something illegal (ie.
consume alcohol) will attend this party and break a law or
laws simply because it is being condoned by authority fig-
ures?

It is also absolutely ludicrous to believe that it is necessary
to celebrate the beginning of the rest of your life by getting
totally blitzed.

Then there is the one road in, one road out proposition. No
‘one will be allowed into this party area except for those that
are invited — not even parents.

Will these invited guests include, perhaps, 15-year-old
dates?

Is it realistic to expect that alcohol will be the only drug at
this supervised-from-a-distance party?

The parents involved have been very thorough. They have
established that they cannot be charged for standing by and

i] watching.

Perhaps this is a responsible altemative. Maybe if enough
people consistantly break a law, the law will be found to be
inappropriate and will be taken off the books.

Perhaps there are better ways to go about it.

Right now, though, there is a line that defines right and
wrong.

‘These kids plan to cross it.

‘With a little help from some friends.

Bay. Peace, divine peace, invaded me
like a soft and lulling vapor.

That new act of grace and charity
ei the border may relieve me — tem-

ly, perhaps even permanently —
tr a aes that has harried me down.
the years. The long reign of darkness
and terror may be over ~ at last. But I
want to complete the cure. So I'll just
stretch out here on your psychiatric
couch, in the half-light, next to the
collected works of Jung, Adler, Freud
and Mad Magazine. Tape running?
Got your Bic and broadsheet? Fine.

I'll begin.

Here's my problem, Doctor Nuss-
baum, and it descends into a remote
past. My old mum — brave, British and
brittle-spined — taught me never, never
to take what isn’t mine and always,
always to tell the truth. In fact, she had
those twin cautions needled into my
soul and psyche by a local tattoo artist.
I speak figuratively, of course.

She also said other things about
high (proof) spirits, marked decks,
rigged roulette wheels, slow horses
and fast women but I’ve always man-
aged to suppress those admonitions
into my subconscious.

Hannaford
Syndicated
Columnist

, we wish the BC Forest

&2)5 hho in the ancient world < to the R
‘was Jupiter, what did the Greeks know him as? :
£253) In:what county ; yes Pay. for thin
“zloty? “

Alliance well. As residents of a forest-
based community - like so many other
communities in BC - we can do no
other,

The BC Forest Alliance, launched
this week with appropriate fanfare,
seeks to improve the image of the
provincial forest industry and thereby
deal with the damage done by the
a lobby. Whether labelled ‘; ‘gree-

nies’, preservationists, conservationists
or (locally) something unprintable,
these people have been frighteningly
successful in getting old growth timber
removed from the tree farm licenses
and so effectively their
point of view that urban people are
inclined to 0 forget that they live in

orG 1 - fear is a cl: By
squirming, aging rat in my throat?. .

Listen, Doc, there’s nothing in the

of but never p Tam without sin
or stain, I
Mamma. So tell me, Doc, why is it

that, whenever I approach Blaine and
the border, the corrosive acid of guilt,
shame and self-recrimination invades
the base of the spine, eats its way up
the back, then forms a permanent pool
at the nape of the neck? Why?

And then the acid begins to boil
and bubble when I join the queue, the
endless queue. We inch forward slow-
ly. The fear mounts, By the time I
reach the barrier I’m ready to confess
the sins of Satan, Self and all our fore-
bears, even unto the third and fourth
generation, And hand over the keys to
the Chevy, of course.

So bless you, Otto Jelinek, for
reducing the fear, the corrosive fear,
from four hours to 40 minutes. And
you too, Doc, for lurking and listen-
ing. You've Adlered me. I am no
longer a-Freud.

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

Wednesday, April 17, 1991

The Castlegar Sun

Letters to the Editor

Article raises some “hairy”. questions

To the Editor:

Re article: Neighbours Protest
Nature Study, April 10,

Last year when I brought home
my baby raccoons, it was Iegal then
to import, transport and keep rac-
coons, section 10.01 (a) of the
Wildlife Act Regulations. Unfortu-
nately, this section was deleted on
July 31 of last summer. Two weeks
later, officers came to my home
showing police ID and claiming to
have a search warrant. They
demanded to have the little crea-

‘tures, The officers said they would

take the raccoons to a veterinarian
for a check-up, but instead they
took them to their office where they
killed them,

[have a strong background ii in

biology and a resp

interest in matters of public health. I
already had their health cleared from
their point of origin, Joeluding the the
extra cost of fecal examination. The
babies we had adopted never
touched the ground in other

TR

ACCUSE THE JUSTICE SISTEM OF FAILING
“SAL ERED ga WHERE'S YOUR PROOF.”

IWA president Jack Munro
declared that when they went further
and encouraged.and supported a boy-*
cott.of BC lumber, they were guilty of
‘treason’. Hyperbole perhaps, but to
the extent that damage to the BC forest
industry is damage to BC, he’s right.

That said, the BC Forest Alliance
has the logic of history working against
it. I would suggest that the best that
they might hope for over the twenty
year haul is to secure a dignified retreat
for their industry. That said, perhaps
the energy being put into the preserva-
tion of a sunset industry might be bet-
ter invested in seeking a new direction.

Now, is it really so that forestry in
BC is a sunset industry?

‘There seems to be a natural cycle in
industry, not unlike the very cycle of
tree growth.

A new industry is established where
it enjoys some natural advantage in one
of the elements, such as cheap labour
or readily available raw materials. First
there is a period of reckless expansion
by many entrepreneurs; over the years,
rationalization takes place and the
industry becomes dominated by a
small_number of large concems. Then
some crisis causes self-appraisal in a
mature industry. Next there is the
struggle to survive against an upstart
competitor which enjoys some other
natural advantage or more of the same
one that your original industry has.
During this time, it becomes very effi-
Gent from a technical point of view, as
it seeks to stay price-competitive, but
finally, it just can't cope with the situa-

tion and folds.

To see this demonstrated look at
any area where American or Britj
manufacturing:has been supp!
oriental industry.

When BC’s forest industry got
going over 150 years ago, it enjoyed
the natural advantage of huge trees
growing right next to the makeshift
docks from which they were exported.
Same in the US.

Over the years, we've gone through
-the cycle. Today, there is no question
that the forestry companies are very
efficient, certainly compared to the
*good old days’. Unfortunately, they
need to be. There aren't too many
places where you'll find a twelve foot
diameter tree growing by the water any
more; in fact, these days, they fetch the
big stuff off the side of a mountain with
a helicopter. It’s clever but it’s hardly
working witha natal advantages both

America or Russia and pay people
$1.25 ari hour to do it - and get the tim-
ber virtually given to you ~ you should
be able to make cheaper paper and lum-
ber. Granted it may not be as good as
BC's, but does it always need to be?

I don’t suppose forestry will ever
disappear from BC but it docs seem
prudent to consider the possibility that
it may not be the cash cow for the
Province for ever. It may be 20 years
or 50 years, but this industry will not
be in the future what it has been in the
past, whatever the BC Forest Alliance
does or anybody else does.

There is hope though. In Great
Britain, which has lost virtually all the
industries which it was known for 50
years ago - shippullduies iron, coal,
Motor cars -

and were
(much as a swaddling infant \ would
be) to our new home. They could not
have carried Lyme's disease. Small
animals infected with rabies usually
die quickly, normally ten days. Some
large animals, such as people, can
take longer to show symptoms, Even
Dr. Ken Langelier
highly unlikely that our raccoon
babies could have been infected
since they lived four months, Any
family pet who is transported across
the country risks as much in the
transmission of disease.

This designated
business needs
a policy change

To the Editor:

This letter pertains to anyone
who wants to make it home safe.

On April 13 through to May 4,
1991 the RCMP and ICBC, as well
as a few other Castlegar businesses
are having Spring CounterAttacks.
As many of us know, Counter-

Attack involves road side checks m

some friends and family iy mine
were at Dexters, one of Castlegar’s
more respectable drinking estab-
lishments. I chose to be one of the
two designated drivers in our large
group. We asked the waitress if
they had any sort of designated
driver program, such as free pop or
coffee. She asked her boss and his
answer was no.

We then ordered. My Pepsi was
two dollars and the other drivers
coffee a dollar, no free refills.

‘We thought those prices were

North Sea oil, real estate recomee
in old dockland areas and a good cli-
mate for investment have tumed the
around to the point that they

the are
highly specialized ey higly paid.

In BC today, we have much deplet-
ed stocks of old-growth timber. There
has been huge replanting but even the
industry optimists don’t pretend that
it’s going to enable the foresters to
keep cutting at the same old rate, So,
at some point, sheer supply shortage is

are now paying off their national debt
at a good clip.

Tdon't have a magic answer for what
comes after forestry in BC and it is
worth doing all we can to improve its
reputation for now. Still, we need to be
looking beyond it and Preparing that

going to cause the of the for-

y
the process, not bring it about.
Worse {novghs is the prospect of
world

cheap product from coun-
tries, If you can cut down trees in South

As an aside, was it not rather an
unfortunate choice for the forestry elite
to hire the same public relations com-
pany to promote the BC Forestry
Alliance as

for Union Carbide after the Bhopal
disaster?

For an extra $1.25 you
could have your pop with alcohol.
The price of a rye and Pepsi is
$3.25, Dexters has nothing to offer
for designated drivers, however if
you're at their lounge on your
nineteenth birthday you receive a
free shooter, which is far more
expensive than a pop or coffee.

Iam not aware of what the
other lounges around Castlegar
offer, I only know of Dexters and I
think they have some changes to
make in their policies.

Sincerely,
One Who Made It Home Safe

Mackenzie
sends out

on the

part cot enforcement officers from
Castlegar was unprecedented, as
people and groups from across
North America have noted. Instead
of bringing suit against them for
malfeasance, I have thought it more
Positive to try and take up my work
one again. It had.always been my
intention to write about raccoon. To
do so scientifically may be the casi-
est starting point for me. I have
spent hundred of hours preparing a
research design in consultation with
experts from a variety of fields. It
has been fascinating work and I
hope to continue.

T had thought that the release
option would be best for the rac-
coons, Now that they must remain

any. topic of local or’
“Letters”

ges

Be sot the interests of

brevity: or: taste if necessary.

 All‘letters. must be signed,

: ‘address and telephone
though names: may

fined, it gives me more contact
and more control. The biggest cost
now is to construct for them a tight
playground that will meet thes
needs,

will never be released in Pass
Creek,

Ce!

Barbara Murdoch

The public need not wony. Rac.
coons do live here, but my

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HeQnaevewennaaneere sss ensye ose e eee

Tomorrow the Montreal Expos
the field against the Se Louis Canieals
in their home opener at the Big “O”.

And while I can’t predict how the
game will end, I have no doubt it will
begin with the playing of the Star
Spangled Banner,

‘In the United States, every game
begins with their national anthem. I
wish I could say the same thing hap-

-; pens with O Canada here.

, Last week the Montreal Machine of
something called the World League of
- American Football announced they
would no longer play O Canada before
games

_-The:team explained it wasn’t

against O Canada. It just didn’t want

to get involved in controversy.

Makes you proud to be a Canadian
doesn't it?

Proud we pumped million of Cana-
dian tax dollars into Montreal for the
‘76 Olympics. Taxes from workers in
Ontario to build the Olympic stadium
and a host of other facilities. and nine *
years earlier, taxes built that symbol
of national unity, Expo 67.

Back in the summer of ‘78, we
invited a young woman from Quebec
— a unilingual Francophone named
Helen — to Ottawa as a “mother’s
summer helper.” The idea was that
she'd make some money and leam to
speak English while our kids leamed

French from her.

One afternoon, as we were driving
in the car listening to the Expos,
they’d played O Canada. ‘

Gaven, who was then about four
years old, asked: “Helen do you know
that song?”

Right away she replied: “Sure,
that’ s the song they play at the start of

game.”

I couldn’t believe my ears! But it
was true, she didn’t have a clue. No

one had taught her the Canadian
national anthem.

I had always assumed this was an
isolated case. But now we know dif-
ferently.

Judi Evans, a 42-year-old mother
of two, was shocked to discover that
her seven and nine-year-old children
didn't even know the words to O
Canada. It wasn’t on their program at
their school in Waltham, Que., peross
the Ottawa River from Pembrok

“How can kids in Quebec: feel
emotional ties to the country when
they don't even know the words to O
Conde: Evan asks.

low indeed.

Tol Quebec isn't teaching the nation-
al anthem in its'schools, maybe its
time Ottawa demanded a certain mini-:
mum standard of “citizenship training”
in return for the money it gives the

provinces.

After all, if the national government
has any role, it is to ensure that all)
Canadians are aware caaede duties, ben

the province of Quebec.

Inder the constitution, education is
a provincial responsibility. But citizen-
ship, the very bedrock of our nation,
comes under the federal secretary of
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lars in grants each year for projects far
less important than citizenship.

Overa million dollars a year to pro-
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gets federal money); but where are the

Imagine how strange this, debate
Must seem to the American baseball
players ers who fly in (o Canada to play?
For them baseball without the Star
Spangled Banner would be like base-
» ball without overpriced hot dogs and
wamn beer.

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