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Happy holidays

Christmas is-a study of contrasts.

On one hand there is a great
swirl of pre-Christmas activity that
includes baking, cleaning,

lecorating, partying and of course
what seems e almost never-
ending shopping.

To top off that frenetic pace,
Christmas is also one of the busiest
times of the year for many
busi and their ploy 6

But at the centre of Christmas it-
self is a kind of serenity and calm
not often found on other days of
the year. e

It's a time of year when those
with a sense of warmth and kin-

}' dness — whatever their religion or

lifestyle — can find in this great
celebration the chance once again
to commit themselves to helping
those whose lives they touch.

Christmas is more than Santa
Claus, presents, tree trimming,
and carols. It's more: than good
fellowship and a cheery smile to
your neighbor.

It's a religious celebration
second in the Christian world only
to. Easter.

It's a time of reflection on the
birth of the Prince of Peace nearly
2,000 years ago. That's the real
Christmas. is)

He came into the world with a
message of peace and goodwill.
His entry was at a time not unlike
today —j"a “world beset by
problems that loomed as large to
them then as ours do to us now.

Like many today, he too had
personal problems. His family was
poor. He was born in-a stable —
not a hospital or even a home his
parents could call their own.

But he transcended those
problems and pointed the way to.a
new life.

Perhaps most he pointed out
that we can do much for our fellow
man. That's the true spirit of
Christmas.

To everyone who calebrates this
great occasion we wish a joyous
Christmas and peace of mind. We
wish too for the kind of spirit that
helps pull this community together
at this time of year.

But wish most for peace on earth
in our time.

Happy holidays, everyone.

» Down memory lane

What memories are evoked by
Selkirk College’s NewseLetter, a
new publication aimed = at
recognizing the college’s 20th an-
niversary.

Editor Joe Lintz .has come
through with a terrific first edition,
and promises three more.

“The trek through downtown

Castlegar from the old Celgar_

____ bunkhouse/campus. (complete

with flagpole) is there, as is a
credible early-day history of the
college. The results of: the
Sabie blishing the colleg
are there, and there are also
photos of early (and present-day)
instructors.

The publication stirs a trip down
memory lane.

Gordon Campbell, the first prin-
cipal, was a fantastic man. He was
Ileced!

its mountain setting.

Gordon Campbell”
rightly so, that West Kootenay
Regional College would become
WKRC and who but Kootenay
residents would know what the let-
ters stood for. “We need a short
name that will get used and not be
shortened down,” he said. Hence,
_Selkirk College.

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Letters to the Editor

Letter no surprise

Editor, Castlegar News:

I want to thank Harry Voykin for his
letter to the editor in the Nov. 24
Castlegar News. His twisting the es-
sence of my letter does not surprise me
any:

Anyone reading my letter of Nov. 10
with an honest: mind will understand
that I meant the public believed the
burning of a tarpaper shack is a major
crime — not the judge, However, if the
judge was aware of the rumors from
reliable sources that Mary Astaforoff
not burn the Village Museum and
still sentenced her to a maximum
penalty which ‘resulted in her death,
then I would hate to degrade the public
by classing them on the same level as
the judge.

There isn't much I can say about the
museum, but I believe Mary Astaforoff
could not have carried enough gasoline

One fact is that I personally, with
others, lived through the same predica-
ment that these poor women are in. We
were also ready to die for what we
believed then was a Doukhobor cause.

T have lived through an 83-day fast,

.and a 103-da6 fast where stomachs

were punctured by force feeding and
pneumonia was caused deliberately.
brother died and it wasn't from mal-
nutrition. I know what is going on in
the minds of these women. And I think
that it is also important for the public

and judges to know before they can

make a proper judgment.

Nowhere in my letter did I try to
justify the actions of these women, as
Harry Voykin implies. I condemn not
only the minor crimes of these women,
but more so the major crimes of those
who pass judgment over them.

Yes, I can honestly say that I have

Andy Soles was the college's _ to burn the place down all the way from

second principal, and again the
college council showed. indepen-
dence. The fellow didn’t even have
(ye gads, academia-anemia!) a
doctorate. But he had something
far better: common sense,
tremendous administrative skills,
and a great ability to get people
working together.

(He even found time to get his
master's degree, and then went on

weak on ‘ative

to b a deputy ministry for

skills, but no one q

d his
public rel bili é

post: in the

thusiastic, tall, jovial and untirin:
individual, he spent countless
hours on the campaign trail
throughout the West
Kootenay/Boundary country
selling the regional college con-
cept. 3
And then there is John Kidd, the
architect.

His futuristic design won the ar-
chitectural contest, and it is to the
credit of the founding college

council that it had the intestinal’ to ™~ the

fortitude to go with Mr. Kidd's “far
out” ideas.

There were some very practical
problems with the design (how
would you like to have a class at
one tip of a horseshoe-shaped
complex and have 10 minutes to
get to the other’tip for the next
class?), but the college was the fir-
st one actually built in the provin-
ce, and today it is still B.C.’s most
imposing.

Then there.was the name of the
institution. The News®*Letter men-
tions the change from the West
Kootenay Regional College to

Y
ministry at Victoria).

Gilpinwhen, she had. trouble walking
across the street.

There was definitely a cowardly
culprit involved in the burning of the
museum. And it could not have been a
Sons of Freedom, for he would have
been suspected immediately.

Harry Voykin's desire to slant blame
for the fire onto the Reformed is
degrading to himself, for he has proven
himself at the E-KCIR sessions.

Christians even though their concepts
are not perfect? The “sacrificial
women” have always remained on one
side of the fence unto death. If Harry.
Voykin thinks that the crime of these
defenceless women is greater than
those who massacre millions, then his
marbles are out of whack:

I doubt if the women would accept an
offer from me to shelter them (as
Harry. Voykin suggests) for they have
not reformed and are dying for the old
Doukhobor principles.

My heart bleeds for these women,
for I know what they are going through
and why. If the cowardly culprit res-
ponsible would have a taste of the same
medicine, things like fire would prob-
ably stop.

How many are prepared, to endure.
the suffering of these women for what
they believe? A holy prayer of our

35 YEARS AGO
From the Dec. 21, 1950
ar News
The Castlegar High School has been
very busy in the last few weeks. On
Friday, Dec. 15, the students held their
annual Christmas Ball at the Kinnaird

Hall with both students and invited ©

guests from local :and outside. areas
attending.
Students and teachers have been

‘packing books and. equipment into,

cases and cartons for removal to the
new school. >
wiice

The First Castlegar Girl Guides
motored in to Nelson last Saturday.to
sing at Mount St. Francis.

‘A. program of lovely Christmas
Carols was sung to the old folks in the
home.

6 ee

Miss Norma Jean Waldie, student at
York House School Vancouver and Mr.
Fred Waldie, UBC student are visiting
their parents Mr. and Mrs. W. Waldie.

panier

A very successful Christmas concert
was held on. Monday evening at the
Kinnaird Community Hall. The enter-
tainment consisted of dancing, singing
and drama by the school children,
followed by Christmas treats from
Santa Claus. am

. .

Miss Phyllis Humphries, nurse in
training at St. Joseph's Hospital in
Victoria, is spending the Christmas
holidays with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. S. Humphries.

25 YEARS AGO_.
From the Dec. 21, 1960
= Castlegar News

Question of a stop-and-go light at the
corner of Columbia and Pine sparked a
lively discussion at Wednesday's meet-
ing of the Castlegar Chamber of Com-
merce.

Village works chairman V.R. Cook
told the chamber that the highways
department had turned down a request

for a traffic control light because the ~

department doesn't feel_it_is_war-
ranted. The department, however, has
no objection if Castlegar wishes to
install one.
oe

Residents of Deer Park, Renata and
Syringa Creek have elected a joint
committee which is neither for nor
against High Arrow dam. ~

The committee has been established

reformed and the proof of that is that
we have no more problems with fires.

Iam very sorry that Mary Astaforoff
passed away before she revealed what
she knew. Perhaps she did not know
the cowardly culprit who set the
museum on fire, but she possibly knew
who informed her to be at the place at
that particular hour.

Which side of the fence is Harry
Voykin on? With those that fed the
Christians to the lions, or with the

—brothers is: “Great Spirit, grant me the
power that I do not judge any man until
T have walked a mile in his moccasins.”

Harry Voykin goes under the slogan:
“The welfare of the whole world is not
worth the life of a single~ chi In
essence where does he really stand?

Mike Chernenkoff
Crescent Valley

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the words to the effect “there area
million stories out there.” There
aren't a million stories yet about
Selkirk, but there are hundreds of
them out there. We hope Selkirk
College, in the months ahead,
gives us a few score of them.

Please address all Letters,
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.

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the writer's full name-and address.
Only in very exceptional cases wilt
letters be published without the
writer’s name. Nevertheless, the name
and address of the writer must be
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right to edit letters for brevity, clarity,

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the name change better refl d

Quotable Quotes

MACLEAN'’S columnist Allan Foth-
eringham is in hot water over a column
he wrote in 1984 about Vancouver

__lawyer and former John Turner aide

Gail Sheehy but stopping short of Ger-
maine Greer.”
ENTATIVE James Scheu-

~ Michael Hunter, and former Vancouver

lawyer and current Turner aide John
Swift.
‘The disputed portion of the Fother-
column, which landed he and
Maclean's in court a Tibel suit,
read:

“His (Turner's) former executive as-
sistants from Ottawa days, now stead-
ily rising in the pecking order at the
best Vancouver law firms, have been
cementing their connections through
the tennis club circuits and the wife-
swapping brigades, just down from

er (D-N.Y.) expressed anger at the
U.S. Defence Department's statement
this week that it was not responsible
for the chartering, safety or operation
of the Arrow Air DC-8 that crashed

Crosbie: “Driving under the influence
of alcohol is as much a crime as going
out your door and shooting a rifle down
the street.”

A new age dawns

By RICHARD GWYN
-+-In the Vancouver Sun

It's been. said that. the movie My
Dinner with Andre reinvented the
art of conversation. The art, that is, of
elegant discourse about ideas:

A cult success a few years back, the
film i entirely of i
two men, acquaintances rather than
friends, spend an evening in a res-
taurant talking about their youth,
about the condition of man, and about
how the commune at Findhorn in
northern Scotland can grow 40-pound
cabbages.

Wallace Shawn, who wrote the film
and who starred in it, may now have
invented a new art form — a morality
play in which all the best lines are
uttered by the advocates of immoral-
ity.
Aint Dan and Lemon is now playing
at the Public Theatre in New York
after a sold-out run in London's Royal
Court Theatre.

Aunt Dan and Lemon — the names of
the two principal characters — add-
ress one of the central issues of today:
the decline in public morality, or of a
sense of civitas.

“Those who favor a ruthless ‘and
selfish approach are utterly triumph-
ant at the moment,” says Mr. Shawn.
“Not that it's surprising. This is the era
of Ronald Reagan and of Margaret
Thatcher.” ~

Public morality, in contrast to pri-
vate morality, which has always ex-
isted, is really an invention of the Vic-
torians. Their sense of social conscience
got the children out of the mines,

i slavery, and gave
us the welfare state.

Since standards of public morality do
go up and down, today’s down cycle is
not that big a deal in itself. Instead, the
really troubling issue is that those
who've given up on guilt seem to be
better off for it.

In an essay published in the program

for the Royal Court production, Mr.
Shawn writes: “The amazing thing I've
noticed about those friends of mine
who've made that choice is that they
begin to blossom, because they are no
longer hiding from themselves or
anyone else the true facts about their
lives.”

Ouch.

Worse follows: “They become very
frank about human nature. They freely
admit that man is a predatory creature
... As they lose the habit of looking
over their shoulder in fear at what
exists in their own souls, they develop
the charm and grace of people who are
truly comfortable with themselves,
who are not ashamed of their own
actions.”

‘The really troubling
issue is that those who
have given up on guilt

seem to be better
off for it’

The dominant character in the play is
Aunt Dan, played by Linda Hunt, who
played the dwarf in that marvellous
Australian movie, The Year of-Living
Dangerously. -
She has charm and grace. Above all,
she has the force of someone who no
longer looks guiltily over her shoulder.

In-one of the ;most-compelling ex-
changes in the play, Aunt Dan defends
former U.S. secretary of state Henry
Kissinger’s bombing of Cambodia (now
‘Kampuchea).

“Don't you understand that you and I
are only able to be nice because our
governments are not nice,” she tells
Lemon's | soft-liberal mother. “The

His short stature and his bald head
aside, Mr. Shawn's most considerable
feature is his permanent, puckish grin.

But when he talks about Aunt Dan
and Lemon, he tucks away his grin,
beads his forehead, and slowly meas-
ures out his words to match them
precisely to the ideas in his head: “If
liberals today look weak it's because
we refuse to accept certain truths —
about human nature, about the fact
that life really is more fun once you
stop feeling guilty — that the New
Right freely acknowledges.” :

The most disturbing and challenging
scene in the play occurs near the end
when Lemon, an anorexic young
woman who had been tutored by Aunt
Dan as a girl, delivers a monologue in
defence of the Nazis. “I find them
refreshing,” she says.

Audi

" Editor,

Stick to curriculum

News: .

Just a couple of comments regarding
your recent report of the Castlegar
School Board meeting at which my
letter of concern was discussed.

Obviously, I am a poor

My concern is this: Should school
principals have to take the time re-
quired to hear these types of

the protection of “whatever group”
than with our children’s education.
A

School District No. 9 Should have a firm
policy in place regarding groups of the
day whose interests do not fall within
the school is our

of my thoughts. Your article (by its
title alone “Group upsets parent”)
seems to indicate that I have a personal

dislike or objection to the Kootenay

Coalition for Aid to Nicaragua, when in
fact I was using the group only as an
example.

Letter,
‘tacky’

Editor, Castlegar News:

I found the letter from George
Westinghouse (last Sunday) to be in
very poor taste.’ He could quite easily
have given the mayor the technical
details of a microwave system per-
sonally or by letter.

What Mayor Audrey Moore was
doing was promoting the safety of air
passengers at the local airport, which
she has the right and the obligation to
do.

If anyone has been “tacky” I think it
is Mr. Westinghouse. Keep up the good
work Mayor Moore. d

i” Bob Rivers
~ Castlegar

children’s education: better served by
using class time in this manner? I
happen to think it is not. ai
However, you are not the only ones
who have misunderstood. At the recent
school board meeting our trustees
ppeared to be more d with

P can become flat
and narrow without them. There are
many areas of education open to my
children. If School-District No. 9 sup-
plies at least the funamentals, I will see
that my children are provided with
what is necessary to make their
education well-rounded.

Rod Kennedy
concerned parent
Castlegar

“Open meetings an

‘alarmin

Editor, Castlegar News:

Perhaps the most alarming trend in
the recent election was for some
candidates-to declare that school board
and council meetings should be open
for public input into the decision
making process.

One wag even went so far as to say
that it would be in the true spirit of
democracy. Nothing is further from the
truth. It would be mob rule. Imagine
the chaos as council or board members
fluctuate in decision making according
to the pressure brought to bear upon
the proceedings.

g trend’

To be democratic, all eligible persons
must have access to the meeting and
provision made so that those elsewhere
in the world would be able to
participate. 7

Your ‘staff writer is grossly mis-
informed about the democratic process
and owes the public an apology.

Those school board or ~~ council
members who feel that they now
cannot do the job and fulfill the duties
of the position to which they were
elected should resign. They are unfit
for office.

L.W. Peitzsche
Fruitvale

By ANN BARKLEY
The. Slocan Valley Wom-

The raffle of a basket of
specialty food items for a

en's Ins
Christmas Dec. 12 in Slocan
City.

Twenty-three members
and 30 guests from all parts
of the Slocan Valley enjoyed
special Christmas entertain-
ment including a unique ex-
ercise group, a humorous
look at motherhood and a
lively air band.

Everyone enjoyed singing
familiar carols led by Zelta
Whitfield, Rusty Hyde. and
Viola Lister. Each person re-

. ceived a gift following a fun

and competitive
change. :
A buffet of tasty Christmas
goodies was enjoyed and
Christmas crackers that the
members had made were
pulled adding to the fun.

gift

ic evening” was won
by Peggy Patterson of Lem-
on Creek. The handcrafted
deacon’s bench filled with
things for a child’s room was

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women of all ages. Members
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City wants lower gas prices

By CasNews Staff
Castlegar council thinks
gasoline prices are too high
and has asked the federal and
‘provincial governments to
help reduce them-
Council agreed at a recent
meeting to write to Rossland-
Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy and
Kootenay West MP Bob
Brisco seeking their support
in reducing provincial and
federal sales taxes on gaso-
line.

“We believe some reduc-
tion in the gasoline tax”
would be valuable, said Ald.
Nick Oglow.

Oglow added that the
‘senior governments won't
lose money by lowering gas
taxes because reduced gas
prices will translate into
additional sales taxes
through increased tourist
traffic. }

Gas prices in the Castlegar
area are presently about 57

cents a litre.

Council decided to ask for
lower gas taxes after re-
ceiving a letter from the
Grand. Forks Chamber of
‘Commerce. See

“It would be ludicrous to
think tourists from . the
United States and other
parts of Canada can be
encouraged to travel,on. our
highway to. Expo with gas
prices so high, regardless of
the intensity of any promo-

tion,” says the letter.
“The first thing a motorist
~ asks. when embarking on a
journey is the current price
of gas.”

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The Castlegar and District Fall Fair
will continue.

Although only eight persons turned
out to a meeting last Thursday to de-
cide the fate of the fair, members of the
executive offered to,continue in their
positions and the 14-year-old fall fair
will ‘continue.

. 28 «

Cominco presented a $50,000 cheque
to the Trail District Recreational
Projects Society at a special meeting in
Trail last Friday.

The donation is to be added to funds
being-collected for the construction of
the Dr. C.H. Wright Memorial Swim-
ming Pool at Butler Park in East Trail.

15 YEARS AGO
From the Dec. 22, 1970

Castlegar News
Twenty-five years of faithful service
to the government of Canada were
recognized last Friday morning when
Gordon Meyer, district manager for
the Unemployment Insurance Com-
mission, presented Miss-M. Smith and
Miss V. Holliday with certificates,

25-year pins and corsages.

8 fe

Castlegar lawyer and one-time mem-
ber of the hospital board, Mickey
Moran, _was recognized last. Thursday
evening for years of unselfish service
to the hospital board.

7. 2 6

Castlegar residents Mrs. and Mrs.
John Popoff were honored Dec. 12
when a party was held by friends
marking the occasion of their 25th

gasp at this in

defence of theultimate guiltlessness-

“I tried to imagine survivors of a
nuclear war, after a hundred years,
themselves trying to imagine the men-
tality of those — us, that is — respon-
sible for preparing what became a
holocaust,” explains Mr. Shawn. “Once
guilt goes, all kinds of horrible crimes
become justifiable. That's what I fear.
That's what I think is happening, or
beginning to happen. And nuclear war
is another form of genocide.”

All of this may make Aunt Dan and
Lemon sound like a-heavy hour and 4
half. It isn't at all. The language soars,
Linda Hunt is brilliant and convincing;
Mr. Shawn himself is very funny.

The thought lingers also that Aunt
Dan and Lemon contains a particular
message for Canadians. Canada is one
of the last states where li i

y.

5 YEARS AGO

From the Dec. 21, 1980

Castlegar News
A provincial mediator, Phil Phillips
is expected in Castlegar Dec. 29-30 to
work on the Selkirk  College-CUPE

negotiations.

- 8 «
Stanley Humphries Secondary
School's Junior Rockettes basketball
team opened its 1980-81 season last
Monday night in Nelson against L.V.

Rogers Jr. Bomberettes. Gail Chevel- Ep

dave led the local scorers with 11
points and 10 rebounds.
ee

Two, helicopter pilots who risked

their lives to save seven men clinging

to a falling transmission tower have

rather than neo-conservatism still is

whole purpose of gi to use
force. So we don't have to. So if I move
into your house and refuse to leave,

you don’t have to kick me or punch me -

or throw acid in my face — you just
nicely call the. police.”

- Being, more or-less, one of a kind is
no great challenge. Knowing why we
are what we are, and coming up with
the right lines to explain it to others, is
the real challenge.

Workers © i i
Dey Anderson of Terrace and his
co-pilot Walter Tamsay of Surrey were
in a helicopter being used to place
towers on a transmission line con-
struction site Aug. 7 at Thrums.

been given bravery awards by the
Board.

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