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THE WINNERS . . .

Winners of the Castlegar
Writers’ Guild multi-
cultural story contest, from
left to right: Treena
Goolief (honorable
mention), Kevin LaHue
(second place,
kindergarten to Grade 3),
Daniel Kooznetsof (third
place, Grades 4-6), Chris
Crni, (first place, Grades 4-
6), Angela Strelive (second
place, Grades 4-6), Brent
Pinckney (third place,
Grades 7-9), Athena Chan
(first place, Grades 7-9),
Erik Peterson (third place,
kindergarten to Grade 3),
Doug Pinkerton of the
Castlegar Multicultural
Society, Seamus Donahue,
(first place, kindergarten
to Grade 3), and Jack
Charters of the Castlegar
Writers’ Guild. Missing are
winners Vicki Gritchen and
Tracy Batchelor

New place, and new friends

By ATHENA CHAN
(Winner for grades 7-9}

As I stepped out of the plane that early noon with no
one to greet me. I felt inadequate and apprehensive. I tried
unsuccessfully to feel adventurous and excited about
Canada, but being a careful person, I have never been
comfortable stepping into the unknown. All I could think of
was the small country where I used to live: Greece.
Everything was so different here!

It was not long before I found a small coffee shop near
the airport, and finding it pleasant, went in and ordered
lunch in hesitant English. I noticed with a pang that several
people seemed to be staring at me, especially a group of
people about my age sitting at a booth near mine. Indignant,
I stared back at them with intensity, wishing I knew what
made me look so different from the others. Finally, looking
faintly embarassed, a pretty blond girl ventured from their
booth and extended her hand.

“Hi,” she said, “My name is Sheila Aman. You must be
new here; I haven't seen you around here before.”

I smiled uncertainly and told her my name, Christina
Saffelopulous, and that I was nineteen years old and had
come all the way from Greece to Canada to get a university
education.

“Oh, really?” she said, “Which university are you going
to?"

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“UBC.”
“What a coincidence! So am I.” Sheila introduced me to
her friends. They seemed very friendly.
“Do you miss Greece?” they asked. I
comprehend.

tried to

“N, I'm not Miss Greece,” I stammered, blushing. The
boys at the table howled with laughter while the girls tried
politely to hide their smiles.

“I'm sorry I confused you, Christina. What I meant was,
do you sometimes wish you were back in Greece?”

“Yes, I do,” I admitted. “I like it here, but Canada is so
different from Greece!”

Sheila looked sympathetic
“What's it like in Greece?”

I told her about the beauty of my homeland, the islands
and how the people (and I) loved the sea.

“Far out!" said one of the boys. I must have looked
confused then, because Sheila quickly explained to me the
popular expression. I began to relax at last and when I
walked out of the restaurant I couldn't help thinking that
Canada was not such a formidable place after all.

‘I ean imagine,” she said.

Brother Davadas

By SEAMUS DONOHUE
{Winner for Kingergarten-Grade 3]

Last Christmas I got a new brother. He is from India
and his name is Devadas. He is nineteen years old. He and a
Canadian boy named Eric were staying with us for two
months.

Where Devadas comes from there are many pythons
and many snakes. When Devadas was little he used to play
with snakes. He was playing with a water snake once and it
bit him. He thought it was interesting that there weren't as
many snakes here.

Devadas felt very cold when he first came here because
it was so hot in India. He's used to it now. He never wore
heavy clothes in India, so he felt like an astronaut when he
was getting dressed to go outside. He was amazed at the
snow because they don’t have it in the part of India where he
comes from. I taught Devadas to make snowballs and how to
ski too. He liked it a lot, of course.

The food in India is really very spicy. Devadas thought
the food here was pretty interesting. He puts chili powder
and hot peppers on his food. Devadas likes to eat lots of rice.

Devadas really likes animals. In India he has a big
turtle. His family has four dogs. There are a lot of parrots.
They are not afraid of people. In India, people leave their
doors open and the parrots fly in. Devadas teaches the
parrots to talk. Devadas felt sad because he missed his pets.

The money is different shaped in India. Devadas gave
my brother Aaron and me some different coins and a paper
rupee.

There are a lot of coconut palm trees and a lot of
eucalypus trees in India. They are really lovely. The leaves

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provide shade from the hot sun. In India the trees don't loose
their leaves. Devadas thought that the trees here in winter
looked dry and lifeless and that our country seemed like
another planet.

Devadas felt happy to decorate the Christmas tree,
because in India his family doesn't celebrate Christmas. We
gave Devadas a warm scarf for Christmas. It was Devadas’
first Christmas

Pretty soon Devadas and Eric will be going home to
their own families. I hope that I will get letters from them. I
will write them lots of letters

The boy
from out
of town

By CHRIS CRNI
[Winner for grades 4-6]

In the summer a boy and his family moved to Kelowna
from Russia. I went to play with him but he couldn't speak
my language. All through the summer I helped him
communicate with me. In a few days of working with him, I
got him saying some English words

The next week I asked him if he would like to go fishing
at the lake. He asked his mom. His mom said he could go.
When we got there we started to fish. He caught four
rainbows and I caught two rainbows and one dollie varden
When we got home we cleaned the fish

Then him and I went to his house. I brought a game, it
was called Monopoly. In a few hours we quit the game. He
showed me everything he brought from Russia. There was a
hockey puck signed with every Soviet player's name. I
thought it was neat. He told me that his name was Boris
Ttretiak

Then we went to see a movie. He had a hard time
understanding the movie because the actors were talking in
English. When we got home I told my mom about the
monster and how he ate Texas

Them my mom asked Boris if he would like to come out
for supper with us. When we got home we dropped off Boris
at his house.

Later the next day I asked him if he would like to go buy
some sodas and pops. I bought a strawberry soda and Boris
bought a banana soda. From them on we always played
together.

V. Morandini

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students competed Tuesday for the opportunity to go
to Ottawa on the Adventures in Citizenship program.

COLUMNIST LYNN BALL

Pictured are the speakers and (far left) vice-principol

Don King. Speake:

are, from left: Sandra Sharp, Lynn
Ball (winner) and Kim Thors.

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Top speaker is off to Ottawa

By J.A. CHARTERS

The Castlegar Rotary Club
Tuesday night had three
guest speakers: Sandra
Sharp, Lynn Ball and Kim
Thors. All three are senior
academic students at Stanley
Humphries Secondary School
and all three were competing
for the opportunity to go to
Ottawa on the Canada-wide
program Adventures in Citi
zenship.

In introducing the speak
ers, program director Jack
Chernoff stated that each
student would tell a little
about herself and then speak
on the topic An Answer to
Canada's Economic Difficul

ties.

Sandra Sharp, a Grade 11
student and a chosen can-
didate for the Rotary Stu-
dent Exchange Program,
identified Canada's main dif-
ficulty as being a lack of di-
versification and too great a
dependence on the United
States.

Lynn Ball, a Grade 12 stu-
dent who writes a student
column in the Castlegar
News for the school, spoke of
the complexities of the evol-
ving economic difficulties
starting with the American
gold standard, hoarding and
speculating and the tripling
of oil prices in 1974.

Kim Thors, Grad Council
President, discussed the
present ic difficult

Candidates for the com-
petition were proposed by
staff b of the school

and the fate of the Canadian
dollar.

While club president Dr.
Waldo Yule described the
speeches as “the best re-
searched and presented that
we have had yet,” the diffi-
cult decision had to be made
and the majority vote went
to Lynn Ball.

She will fly to Ottawa for a
four-day, all paid

on the basis of academic ex-
cellence, personallity and po-
tential as good student rep-
resentatives to Ottawa and
their names submitted to
vice-principal Don King who
then short-listed the final
slate and tutored the speak
ers.

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Funerals

BIRTHS -
BERGERON — To Mr. and Mrs.
Ross Bergeron of Castlegar, o
girl, born March 14.

BJIRG — To Flemming Bjirg and
Sherry Hicks of Slocan City, o
girl, born March 11

BLAIR — To Mr. and Mrs. Ken-
neth Blair of Nelson, a boy, born
March 8.

CURRAN — To Mr. and Mrs. John
Curran of Nelson, a boy, born
March 11

OREGER — To Mr. and Mrs. Dale
Dreger of Nelson, a boy, born
March 11

HOOCH-ANTINK — To Mr. and
Mrs. Vince Hooch-Antink of
Rossland, a girl, born March 5.

HURD — To Mr. and Mrs. Greg
Hurd of Fruitvale, a boy, born
March}

LEE — To Mr. and Mrs. Larry Lee
of Trail, a girl, born March 8.

LOUGHLIN — To Tim Loughlin
and Allison Boyce of Trail, a boy,
born Feb. 27
LOVERENOW — To Mr. and Mrs.
Lenard Loverenow of Salmo, a
boy, born Feb. 27.

trip on May 12. MP West
Kootenay Bob Brisco, a mem.
ber of the Castlegar Rotary
club, has offered every as-
sistance.

Local photographer
completes course

MICHAEL MAYRHOFER
completed course

Michael Mayrhofer of
Castlegar completed a pho-
tography course at the
West Coast School of Pro-
fessional Photography in
Santa Barbara, Calif. dur
ing the last week in Feb-
ruary.

Mayrhofer received a
certificate for satisfactory
completion and one merit
for the photography
course.

Through attending the
school located at the
Brookes Institute of Pho
tography, Mayrhofer has
attained three of 25 merit
points required to receive
his Master of Photography
qualification through
the Professional Photogra
phers’ Association of
America.

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Phone: 365-5566

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@ girl, born March 11

PRICE To Mr. and Mrs. Murray
Price of Fruitvale, @ boy, born
STANWOOD To Mr. and Mrs.

Philip Stanwood of Castlegar, a
girl, born March 14.

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girl, born March 14.

TEINDL — To Mr. and Mrs. Mark
Teind! of Trail, a boy, born Feb.
28.

VO — To Mr. and Mrs. Su Vo of
Trail, a girl, born March 9

WEEKS — To Mr. and Mrs. Barry
Weeks of Castlegar, a girl, born
March!

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ANDERSON — Alma Edith An-
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