~ Remember LEGION BINGO IN TROUBLE By CasNews Staff The Castlegar-Robson Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion will likely have to give up its Thursday night bingos, in light of stiff competition from Trail and the surrounding ESTABLISHED AUG. 7 1947 INCORPORATING THE AAD WEEK AAIRROR PUBLISHED Ser! 17 PUBLISHER AUG. 7. 1947-FEB 15, 1979 (New Stylist) Nodine brings with her over six years of professiono! hair core experience. Ph. 365-6700 for on appt. PLANT FOREMAN — Peter Horvey OFFICE MANAGER — Lindo Kositsin ADVERTISING MANAGER — Gary Fleming CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heather Hodley R_E. (Bob) Sommers will be the 1961 president of the Castlegar Kiwanis Club. The well-known school principal was chosen by fellow Kiwanians to head next year’s slate at the annual Wow! Old Glory waves freely over US. pr Right pal ? 421 Columbia Ave., Costleger peur 365-6700 sited motter produced by Costie News Lid. = ov ided rer that Copy tno! (port only of wn ond to the odver ory edvertnement prepored trom repre proals. engravings ex provided by the Trim carefully One of the pleasures of living in this part of the world is the change in seasons. Each season is so distinct, and right now we are nearing the end of one of the nicest falls we have had in years. The cool, crisp mornings where fog hugs the valley bottom give way to warm, sunny afternoons and eventually to clear, starlit nights. It's also the time of year when we notice the color and beauty of the huge poplars that border Kin- smen Park. The otherwise colorless trees come alive at this time of year And we're reminded of how the city crews trim those trees, presumably because of concerns about falling branches. The problem is that the trees are anything but trimmed. They end up hacked to death and it takes several years for them to recover their former grandeur. And then, just when they do, they're chopped in halt agai This is just a caution to city of- ficials to take care when they trim these wonderful trees, because these too are part of our Castlegar heritage, as much as the CP Rail station and Verigin's tomb Safety concerns It's interesting to see just when CP Rail raises concerns about rail- way safety and when it doesn’t. Take, for instance, the rail company’s stand on the request by the film crew of Housekeeping to use CP Rail’s Castlegar station and some rolling stock. CP Rail has denied access to the film company because one scene in the movie shows two girls walking on railway tracks and another shows people riding a box car. CP Rail says the scene contravenes company safety policies. Yet, at the same time the com- pany is trying to convince the Rail- way Transport Commission to allow cabooseless trains. CP Rail says the trains would be safe. But the union represents railway workers contends that cabooseless trains would be unsafe. Ron Norman Another We've barely had time to catch our breath from the Oct. 22 pro vincial election and here we are staring another election in the face; this time municipal and school board campaigns. By rights, we should be too pooped from Vander Zalmania to even bother with the local election. Two weeks ago I'd have bet the family fortune on the incumbents waltzing back into office unopposed. I mean, until last week who even remembered there was a municipal election this year? But the fact the provincial elec tion has ov red the civic campaign wasn't the only reason I expected a dull Nov. 15. The mayor's seat isn't on the line this year and traditionally that trans lates into less public interest. Be sides, there haven't been any really burning issues. So what happens? Seven candi dates file for three aldermanic seats and there are races for all three schéol board positions. Even more surprising is that the candidates themselves are showing more energy this time around than I can remember (it must be a carry over from the provincial election) There are press releases, jockey ing for space in the paper, photo opportunities — you name it No issues? Think again. Nick Ogliow, the one-year alderman who is seeking voter support for a two year term this time around, has carved out a position for himself on the issue of the new Castlegar library. Now, most of you think there isn't a whole lot of room to take positions on the new library It's motherhood and apple pie, right? Wrong. Ogiow has decided to run on the idea of saving the old library building and constructing a new library somewhere else. It's a position he found himself defending alone on council. But his campaign is also unique to most Castlegar municipal elections, election. / where it's usually difficult to tell one candidate from another and hard to gauge how much work incumbents really have done. Ogiow’s making an effort to change that. This year, too, the labor-leaning duo of Len Embree and Bob Pakula have been joined by Joe Irving, the coordinator for the Castlegar Un employment Action Centre. It would appear they are aiming for a clean sweep of the three council seats. It would be ironic if Irving should end up dumping either Embree or Pakula. It's not out of the question. But what has the makings for the liveliest race isn’t on council, but on Castlegar school board and the two City of Castlegar seats in particular Bill Hadikin, a planning teehnician with the city, is trying te unseat incumbents Gordon Turner and Kay Johnson. There's no love lost be- tween Hadikin and the school board. Hadikin, you may remember, led an unsuccessful bid to keep four rural elementary schools open. When that failed, he and several other parents formed a society called Parents for Quality Edu. cation, a sort of watchdog group. Hadikin’s entry in the race is made all the more interesting be cause he's an Ootischenia resident running for a city position. Some fear that he simply wants to win a seat on school board to give rural trustees the upper hand. At the moment, the city has four of the seven school trustee positions and the rural areas have three. Some have questioned whether Hadikin can run in Castle gar at all. He can. Under the Elec tions Act, any person can run any where, as long as they are on a voter's list What remains to be seen is if Hadikin is really just a one-issue candidate — as some suspect — or whether he truly can represent the interests of the city residents. He'll have a chance to answer that between now and Nov. 15. also election last Tuesday night. He is.a charter member of the club. 77 ¢ A very successful spaghetti supper and dance was held Saturday evening by the Ladies Auxiliary to the Castle- gar-Kinnaird Branch 131 International Union of Mine and Mill and Smelter Workers. One hundred adults and children were served in the Twin Rivers hall and old time dancing was enjoyed, following the supper. . Construction of the west half of the CPR station platform has been com- pleted and is now a concrete walk Letters to the Editor It’s political suicide Well, the 1986 B.C. election is over. We can now look forward to a barrage of articles about why so and so won and so and so lost. In this spirit we are treated to Ron Norman's column in the Oct. 26 Castlegar News. What is not stated in these articles and editorials is what the election results say about us the voter. What the B.C. election results tell us about ourselves is a sobering tale indeed. In B.C., we chose a premier who has said nothing. In the Nelson Creston riding, we appear to have chosen an MLA who has shown up to nothing. In the Rossland-Trail riding, we chose an MLA who does nothing. In this time of hard choices, make us feel happy, make us feel safe from political debate and conflict. Render unto us Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers; do not confuse us with i icies and their i i What this says about us the voter is that we chose to be bullied into an apathetic happiness based on stories of rainbows, pots of gold, and yellow brick roads. This type of choice on our part is tantamount to political suicide in our form of representative government. The price of this kind of decision is obvious. All we, the voters, are left with is the option of divine intervention — “may God help us.” But alas, even He was last seen leaving the province, taking with Him the Holy Ghost. Fantastic! Mickey V. Kinakin Castlegar Hadikin can help rebuild community I am pleased that there is an opportunity for the people of Castlegar to voice their concerns on education, children's and parent's rights and on 's sake, do not burden us with philosophies, debates or records of achievements in the political arena Hadikin nomination offensive I was surprised to read in the Castlegar newspaper that Bill Hadikin, an Ootischenia resident, is running for one of the vacant City of Castlegar positions on the school board. I am offended that a rural resident would even consider running for the city position. How would the rural residents feel if a city resident ran in Area J or Area I? Does he wish to have more rural members on the school board so that he could reopen the closed schools? If so, who will pay for the operating costs of these schools? The taxpayers, again? I am sympathetic to the parents whose children must be bused in to the city, but I am also sympathetic to the school trustees who tried their utmost to keep those schools open. We all know that if they were better off financially this situation would not have happened. In my opigion, it would appear that Mr. Hadikin feels no one in the city is cangble of handling the position of se weal =a I urge all residents to pro ong on election day Bev Maloff Castlegar our whole spirit at the polls on Nov. 15. As one of the many Castlegar parents who found that Bill Hadikin was assisting parents in the community navigate their way through the many changes in our schools this fall, I am pleased that we were able to interest Bill in running for a school trustee position in the city Halloween converted Sunday's Pulpit and Pew spoke against Halloween because of its pagan origins. While appreciating the warning, I would like to suggest another way of looking at Halloween. Halloween has been converted. A once fearful festival has become a time of fun. Why? Because Christian faith took the fear way All Saints Day was another nail in the coffin of the original Oct. 31. Saints are good people whose lives deserve to be remembered. This reminder was put alongside the 31st to give that evening a specifically Christian as sociation. So Halloween can be a time for wholesome fun, thanks to faith. And we can choose to talk about saints rather than ghosts when telling children a Halloween story Lots of things have pagan origins. Thankfully, most of them have been converted. Ted Bristow ‘FORGOTTEN PRISONERS' Mr. Hadikin has shown that his con: cerns are shared by many in the community. The hastily-made decisions on school opening times, closing times, changes to lunch hours and bus sche- dules affect not only the children in- volved but, in these times of economic restraint, the family unit, working mothers who, at times, are the sole support of the family, and the single parents who must make quick and the old board platform. This completes the work for this year but plans for the spring call for further ex- tension of the new walk to the water tank and renewal and extension of the eastern half. . 2 6 Carl Goresky, son of Dr. and Mrs. V. Goresky, has received another seholar- ship at McGill University where he is taking his first year of medicine. . 8 6 25 YEARS AGO ; From the Nov. 2, 1961 ¥ Castlegar News Comm. E.C. Ackerman will repre- sent Kinnaird at the Remembrance Day service conducted by the Legion on Nov. 11. . 2 6 At a regular meeting of the 2nd Castlegar Brownie pack, Brown Owl Mrs. J. Dalziel presented Krissi Clarke, Judy Maddocks and Charlene Moffat with their golden bar. . 28 e Six hundred members of the Douk- hobor faith gathered at Brilliant Sunday to pay tribute to a dead leader. Doukhobors gathered in the village below the tomb of Peter The Lordly Verigin late in the morning. A pro- cession to the tomb overlooking the valley began commemoration cere- monies for their late leader Peter The Lordly who was killed in a train ex- plosion Oct. 29, 1924 at Farron, B.C. . 8 8 Erie Martin, minister of health services and hospital insurance, has announced that the provincial govern- ment has given approval to the board of of the Boundary sometimes difficult rear in their jobs and daycare routines. Like many of us, Bill and his family chose to move to this community for its lifestyle and educational opportunities, and like many of us, he would like to see these same opportunities exist again as a main attraction to the area for potential businesses and new families. I believe that Bill Hadikin can play a very important role in rebuilding our divided community and I urge Castle- gar parents and taxpayers to make him their first choice for school trustee. Phyllis Bleir Castlegar Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at: 197 Columbia Avenue Castlegar, B.C . Letters must be signed and in- clude the writer's full name and address. Only in very exceptional cases will letters be published without the writer's name. Never- theless, the name and address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor The Castlegor News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity. clarity, legality and grammar They aren't criminals By SALLY WILLIAMS They should lock those guys up and throw away the key. Well it stands to reason. Nobody gets put in jail unless they've done something wrong. What did those guys do, anyway? Not just guys? Well, women, too. And kids? I don't know that I agree with locking up kids. What did these prisoners do to land up in jail? Taking part in an unofficial poetry reading? Reading a banned newspaper? Demonstrating? Refusing to change names from Turkish to Bul garian? Witnessing an assassination? But these aren't criminals! How long have they been in jail? Anywhere from two to 24 years? But you don't even get 24 years in a Canadian jail for armed robbery! Maybe it had something to do with what these people did for a living. Give me a run-down on that Teaching, journalism, going to high school, accounting, selling candy floss. Did you say selling candy floss? Oh, I see, in the wrong place at the wrong time. I feel pretty awful about all this but what can you expect me to do about it? ['m just one person, who's going to listen to me? Thirty thousand? You mean there are 30,000 like me who do something about these prisoners? What do they do? Write letters? Nobody writes letters anymore. I'm not good at writing letters. Short letters? Just a couple of lines? I guess I could handle that. Who do I write to? Heads of state? Government and prison officials? Look I don’t even know how to say “Dear Sir” to officials like that. Oh, you have a letter writing guide How do you know letters can make a difference? Ten prisoners you've been writing for have been released in the last three years? What about the poor devils still inside? What kind of improvements? Medical care, better food, no more beatings, visits from family and lawyers. Why are you telling me all this stuff now? It's Amnesty International Week and the theme is “Forgotten Prison ers?” You know, where they lock you up and throw away the key Hospital Society, Grand Forks, to call for tenders for the construction for a new hospital. . 8 8 15 YEARS AGO From the Nev. 4, 1971 News Slippery road conditions in the area this past week were blamed for a series of car accidents, only one of which caused serious injuries to a driver. . * A protest against the Amchitka bomb test will be made at Selkirk on Friday and the organizers, the West Kootenay Coalition for Action Against Amchitka, hope the entire community will support them. . 8 6 The Ladies Auxiliary to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 170 report their efforts at catering to be success- ful Recently they served to the Order of the Eastern Star, and now they have decided to advertise their services. . A new book by Castlegar News editor Bruce Ramsey has just been published. Entitled, Rain People, it is the story of the pulp and paper town of Ocean Falls and was sponsored by the Centennial ‘71 Committee in that town. The first load of elk transplanted from Banff National Park have taken up their new abode in the mountains around Syringa Creek 5 YEARS AGO From the Nev. 4, 1981 News Picket lines were up this morning for the third straight day at the Sandman Inn construction site on Columbia Ave. as the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council continued its protest against the use of non-union labor on the job. However Sandman Inn spokesman Don Colotto said in a telephone inter. view from Vancouver the picket lines won't make any difference to the company’s plans. * 6 Castlegar council's proposed storm sewer and paving referendums will cost the average homeowner $41.33 a year for the next 15 years and $24.60 for another 10 years after that, according to latest figures. . . A proposal to build and equip two firehalls for Area I at a total cost of $130,000 received near-unanimous support Sunday at a public meeting at ‘urcss community hall. area. “Our attendance has been one-third of what we can handle since starting on Oct. 9,” says Legion Bingo chairman Dorothy McPherson. “Most of our people, it seems, are supporting the weekly bingo in Trail and the bigger bingos,” she says in a release. In an interview McPherson pointed to bingos like Champion Bingo and Riverside Bingo in Trail which operates “every night of the week.” MacPherson adds that the Legion has had “disasterous attendance” at its Thursday night bingos. For example, this week the Legion bingo attracted 43 people — a far cry from attendances of 80 to 100 people the Legion once had. “It was worthwhile,” she said. “Now it’s a waste of time.” MacPherson said that now the Legion bingo caters to people like senior citizens who don't go to the bingos in Trail. She says the Legion can compete on a weekday basis with most of the other bingos, providing the community supports it. “When we had our hall full we could have $300 and $400 jackpots,” MacPherson says. She said at last Thursday's bingo the jackpot was a carryover from another disasterous bingo for a total prize of she says of the bingos. “We do our best to entertain them.’ She said the branch will review the bingos within the next week and make a decision on whether to continue them. MacPherson notes that other local bingos have also gone by the wayside, like the Ladies Auxiliary to the Legion bingo, and bingos in Genelle and Robson. _ She adds that the Legion can't compete with other larger bingos because of the size of its hall. The hall is full with 100 to 110 people, she said, adding if the Legion attracted between 70 and 80 people, “we could survive nicely.” Legion publicity person Lorne Ashton says, “I don't understand the people in our community sometimes. It seems that they wish to support Trail and Nelson, which in turn hurts their own community.” MacPherson says the Legion bingo, which has been in operation some 14 years, has pumped about $100,000 back into the community. “The whole concept of the bingo is to raise money for charity,“oshe said Funds from Legion bingo have gone to organizations like the Castlegar Multicultural Society, Kidney Foundation, Camp Dial, Castlegar Special Education Centre, and the B. C. Lions Crippled Children’s Camp in Winfield to name a few. MacPherson said in the first six months of this year the Legion donated $4,000 to the community, though this figure is down from previous donations. “It's hurting our own community by not supporting * your local charity organizations,” she said As an example, MacPherson noted the branch's recent decision to turn down a request to donate funds for a Castlegar aquatic centre. She said the Legion was approached by two representatives from the aquatic centre committee inquiring about funding. At that time MacPherson said bingo would be “more than willing to support the aquatic centre.” Former resident passes away at 83 grandchildren; one sister in Vancouver and brothers in the U.S Funeral service will be Former Castlegar resident Mae Wickett passed away at the Rosetown Hospital Oct 28 at the age of 83. two CUBS INVESTED . . . Castlegar 2nd Cub Pack recently invested six new cubs. Front (from left) Joshua Bon- deroff, Robert Bleier; (centre, from left) Keith Oglow wants to save library By CasNews Staff Ald. Nick Oglow has start ed a campaign to save the old Castlegar library building. “I think it's wrong to des: troy public property, and especially so when this des. truction adds to the cost of Kerekes, Peter Polonikott, Bradley Mason and Peter Giles; (rear, trom lett) leaders Doug Cummings, Dex- ter MacRae and Mark Hamilton Xerox gives Scouts $1,000 boost YOU ARE INVITED TO Country Crafte CHRISTMAS » A OPEN HOUSE Friday, Nov. come along Open Sundays 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Prices effective Sun.. Mon., Tues. & Wed. Xerox of Canada presented the Kootenay Columbia Dis- triet Council with $1,000 at the council's last monthly meeting The contribution is in. tended to help the district promote Scouting and in crease its boy membership. Joe Duarte, Castlegar Group Committee Chairman and assisting the district receive the donation. “The donation comes at an important time as funding is becoming increasingly diffi- cult to obtain,” said a pre- pared release. “The district is very ap- preciative to Xerox of Can- ada for its contribution and MEATLOAF. a... me D* SARDINES Ol. FAIR HAVEN. 100 G TINS We reserve the right to limit quantities Born in Minnesota, U.S.A.. she came to Saskatchewan in early 1900's and was married in 1927 to Norman Wickett, a held in the Rosetown United Church Nov. 3 at 11 a.m. with burial in the Hillerest Memorial Gardens in Saska prairie farmer They lived on the family farm near Rosetown until the passing of her husband in 1959. Mrs. Wickett came to the Kootenays and Trail in 1965 and to Castlegar in 1968, assisting her son, firstly at the Trail Funeral Home and then at the Castlegar Funeral Home. Mrs. Wickett lived in Sur rey for a time, returning to Castlegar in 1985 and then moved to a senior citizen's home in Rosetown She is survived by sons, George of Rosetown, and Don of Castlegar; six grandchildren; five great BOBCAT aie * LANDSCAPING * BACKHOE © SEPTIC TANK * GRAVEL * SAND © TOPSOIL © TURF *° FIREWOOD Fast & Efficient Service Hourly or Contract two PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE 767-11th Ave., Castlegor — SCHEDULE — DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, THE SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT THE OLD CHURCH. Sunday School — 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship Service — 10:30 a.m. There will be extra seating to eccommodate the growing congregation Evening Service — 6:00 p.m. MOVING VERY SOON TO THE NEW CHURCH! AINE the new library,” Oglow says in a prepared release. Oglow was the only council member to oppose plans to demolish most of the old library building and build a new library in its place “These extra dollars should be used for const ruction — not destruction,” Oglow says. He asks in the release for public support ina bid to persuade council to keep the old library building before it is too late.” Oglow suggests the new library could be constructed in another location. Tenders for the new lib rary building have already closed and council is expected build elsewhere to award the contract for construction at any time A delay in awarding the contract was created when the six tenders submitted came in over budget. Council has requested the architect to seale down the size of the library, and will ask all six bidders to submit new ten ders based on the amended library plan A REVOLUTION IN HOME BREWING Easy One-Step System! technical representative of their interest in the Scouting Xerox, was instrumental in Prices limited to stock on hand. CENTRAL FOODS Swor-kasy Fc