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Couple marry in
Crescent Valley

Jim Rilkoff, son of Nick and
Mildred Rilkoff of Crescent
Valley, and Tamara Lynn Nazar,
daughter of Molly Nazar of
Toronto and Fred Nazar of
Tarrys, were married Dec. 2 at
12:30 p.m. at the groom's home in royal-blue dress and carried’ a
Crescent Valley. The bride was bouquet of pink-peach roses and
given in marriage by both her ivy,
parents. The reception was held at the

Deena Burton of Crescent groom’s home and was followed
Valley was the maid of honor and by a family dinner at Macy's
David Koftinoff of Crescent Restaurant.

Valley was the best man.

The bride wore a floor-length
lace gown with irridescent sequins
and beads. Her headdress con-

sisted of peach roses with pearl
accents and ivy and she carried a
matching bouquet. She wore a
gold and pearl necklace and
earrings.

The maid of honor wore a

The dinner table was decorated
with two peach flower baskets and
the black forest cake was finished

Tamera Lynn Nazar and Jim Ritkoff were married In December
at the groom's home in Crescent Valley. — Photo by Ken Ferch

with a fresh whipped-cream top-
ping.

Jannette Rilkoff of Crescent
Valley acted as master of
ceremonies and Ray Nazar of

Crescent Valley, the bride's
brother, gave a toast to the bride.

The couple travelled to
Spokane for their honeymoon and
now live in Crescent Valley.

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CHURCH CEREMONY . . . Sonya and David Bullock recently placed
their infant daughter Sarah Ann in a service of dedication performed
by Pastor Robert Lively at Calvary Baptist ere in Castlegar. The
couple's other child, Marie, also atten

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Literacy group
to be formed

1 Garden — An to
include why landscape. landscape form, function and
rocess, picking solutions, placing elements to arrange
the garden, critique of garden plans, how to implement a garden plan. instruc
tor, Nancy Felde, Landscape Architect. Tues., March 27-April 17, 7-9 p.m., $24
(4 sessions).
Flower Garden How To's for Your Rockery or Perennial Border: Course will
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National Coaching Certification Level 1: This program Is designed to further
develop the Tilt the volunteer coach and enhance the quality of sport for
athletes in the community. March 30-April 1. Fri., 6:30-10 p.m.; Sat
Sun., 9..m.-12 p.m. $35. Castlegar Campus.
CPR instructor Certification: Must show proot of CPR Level “C” Certtication and
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The ig meeting for
Project Literacy West Kootenay
will be held in the Castlegar
library on March 31 from 1 p.m.
to 4 p.m. This new literacy group
is being formed for the.purpose of
setting up one-to-one literacy
tutoring programs in West
Kootenay libraries, a Castlegar
library news release says

Delegates at the meeting will elect
a slate of officers and discuss the
goals and focus for the society,
which will be legally registered ac-
cording to the Society Act.

People interested in active par-
ticipation in the program, as
directors or tutors, should phone
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By Rev. TED BRISTOW
Castlegar United Church

A Selkirk College student phoned
me last Monday and asked me, as part
of an assignment, ‘‘As a minister,
what’s the most important thing you
do?”’

Good question, but hard to answer.

I thought fast. I said that a minister
does many things and at times they’re
all important: helping people through
a difficult experience is important,
but so is influencing children, as is
helping a congregation function
smoothly, as is being a friend, as is
Preaching a sermon, and I could have
listed other things a minister does, all,
at times, very important.

l ended up saying there’s a common
denominator to all I do. I remind
people of God. People need remin-
ding that God can help us, and that
God has important jobs for us to do
with our lives. Whatever I do, be it
talking of God in words, or represen-
ting God by some act of caring, the
most important thing I do is remind
people.

That’s how I answered this
student’s question. I don’t know if
she could make sense of my vague an-
swer, but it made sense to me.

After I hung up, I remembered a
story I often recall of a very talented
minister spending years with a street-
front mission in the slums of London,
England. When once asked why, since
he could easily have a position in a
large church, he kept working there,
he answered, ‘‘That the rumor of God
may not die in this place.””

That, as I see it, is my job too: to
keep the rumor of God alive, by
reminding us. So we will not forget.

I'm afraid I see a lot in our modern
culture that tends to make us forget.
There are so many busy things to do.
And most of us can afford to fill up
any free time with entertainments and

recreations. Our minds are bombar-
ded with things to think about:
politics, sports, economics, environ-
ment. It’s only very rarely, it seems,
as we go about our regular weekly ac-
tivities, that we are asked to give God
a thought.

And yet, in spite of almost no time
for it, God is still part of most of us.
I'm often impressed with the down-
to-earth faith I find among non chur-
ch-goers. They haven't forgetten.

Trouble is, they are likely not
passing it on to their children. Such
believing non church-goers, most of
them, received a faith from their
parents. How are they in turn passing
it on to their Own children? When I
ask them how, most have no answer. I
fear their children will have almost no
faith to pass on to the next
generation.

That's why I think a church in your
life is important, in spite of its many
flaws. The church is a show-and-tell
about God. It passes along the stories,
and the values, and the hope, and the
challenge. If the church doesn’t do
that, who in our culture will?

If you feel God is important, what
are you doing to keep the rumor of
God alive?

Sure, the other things in our busy
lives, including our Sunday
recreations, are not wrong. But are we
perhaps squeezing out of our lives
what is most important of all?

Someone has said, ‘‘If God gave us
seven days a week, I can give him
back one hour.’’ Well, actually chur-
ch takes more than an hour a week,
but not a lot more. Even an average
of an hour a week might be just
enough, for you and your children, to
be reminded of the most important
things of life.

It’s up to you. But a lot depends on
it.

Langham Gallery
photo show opens

An opening reception for the eighth
annual Juried Photo Show organized
and curated by the Langham Cultural
Centre will be held today from 7 p.m.
to 9 p.m. in the Langham Galleries in
Kaslo.

The first show, which was not
juried, hada total of 36 photographs.
Last year the seventh photo show had
133 entries.

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of photographers, both amateur and
Professional, who have submitted
work, a news release from the
Langham Cultural Centre says. Each
year, the quality of the work has im-
proved. In the seventh annual show,
the quality and excitement of the
photographs was superb. With the

ever increasing quality; of the show,
the problem is no lofiger poor
Photographs but which of the more
than a hundred photographs to in-
clude in the show, the release says.

The Langham Gallery's aim has
always been to make the show a lear-
ning experience for all those involved,
the release adds. By jurying the show,
the gallery hopes those not selected
will not see this as a rejection of their
work. There is always room for
growth in photography which makes
it such an intersting and exciting
medium to work in, the release says.

The eighth annual photo show runs
until April 14. Gallery hours are
Tuesday to Saturday from noon to
4:30 p.m.

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BACK FOR A VISIT . . . former Rotary pngay ns Renee Me

Castlegar last week and

a Lamb was back in
eeting. Teresa was the

CosNews photo by John Charters

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president Lorne Trickey

Program opens doors
for exchange student

Teresa Lamb is back and was a guest at a
Castlegar Rotary club meeting Tuesday night.

You remember Teresa? Oldest daughter of former
Castlegar Rotarian Bert Lamb and Jeanne Lamb and
Rotary exchange student to Japan in 1985.

Teresa made history with that exchange. She was
not only the first Castlegar student to go to Japan but
when-she returned a year later with a working
knowledge of spoken and written Japanese, she flew in
the face of popular North America wisdom (as op-
posed to European and Asian wisdom) by learning a
second and unrelated language. That is, the learning of
a second language or, horror of horrors, a third
language, was known to be an invitation to confusion
in all of them.

Moreover, to attempt to learn a language such as
Japanese, which has an entirely different root stock,
(Finno-Ugric) as opposed to English (Indo-European),
was doomed to total disaster. That particular fable has
since been i by ex-
change students to and from many countries over the
years, while several Castlegar students to Japan have
proved that Teresa’s achievement was no fluke.

Thus our cultural and linguistic horizons have
been greatly broadened and the mushroom growth of
Japanese language classes such as at the college in
Nelson and Semiku Kambara’s classes at Selkirk
College, as well as the twinning of the cities of
Castlegar and Embetsu, are evidence of a new outlook
in international relations.

In a brief address to the Rotary Club, Teresa
acknowledged the career opportunities that the student
exchange program had given to her and many others,

» and thanked the club for providing her with the ex-

perience.
¢ returned to Canada and completed her
‘Teresa's training in Japan enabled her to
ious Pacific Rim Scholarship
and a year of study at a Japanese language school in
Tokyo.

She added, as well, several studies in Japanese
culture, including lessons in the Koto, the classical
Japanese harp, Japanese calligraphy (writing as an art
form), flower arrangement (an essential skill for any
educated person), together with several YMCA
cultural tours as a group leader. (All Pacific Rim
Scholarships are administered by the ‘‘Y’’.)

When her classes were finished, she went on a
voluntary work-study program as a public relations
person for a Japanese firm which manufactures con-
trol systems and digital instruments. Her employers
were most helpful and even released her to act as the
interpreter for the Castlegar delegation to Embetsu in
the late spring of 1989.

Her growing skill in the language and con-
siderable empathy for the Japanese culture has been a
great asset. These are essential, she indicated, if
westerners are to achieve more than a superficial
relationship with the Japanese.

“It is an ancient and closed culture and the
Japanese are a homogenous people,”’ Teresa said.
“Their cultural gr and general is
similar and they do not make close friends readily. In
contrast, ours is a heterogenous people and an open
culture. That is, we have many different cultures and
ethnic groups and we are inclined to make and break
friendships rather casually. The family is very impor-
tant in Japan, and while growing industrialization has
made it a nuclear rather than the extended family of
earlier, more rural times, once one has been accepted
one becomes a member of the family and they are
wonderfully kind friends."’

We then switched to the future. It is a bright one
for young Canadians (Canadians are popular in
Japan) we are prepared to make the necessary effort,
she said. There are, however, some difficulties

In the first place, there are four written languages
in Japan, only one of which is related to the Chinese.
Then there is the matter of personalities, about which I
have a favorite hypothesis.

I believe that subtle cultural differences are of far
greater importance td good relationships than color of
skin or other obvious physical characteristics in
relationships between different people.

I was pleased, therefore, when Teresa said, ‘‘Suc-
cess would depend on personalities,’’ which she tran-
slated as, “‘We must not worry about differences’’ (in
language, attitudes, thinking, manner of doing things,
ete.). It is, in fact, an acceptance of cultural differen-
ces without judgment and as a part of the whole. I

John Charters

Reflections
and
recollections

hope that we can keep that in mind when the people
from Embetsu pay their return visit here in late sum-
mer.

I then asked Teresa about the status of women in
Japan, another source, I suspect, of ethnocentric con-
flict. She said there are a lot of Japanese women in the
business world now, but they still do not have equal
representation in the higher managerial positions.

The family is still patriarchical — the husband is
the main breadwinner while the wife runs the
household. Then she added: ‘‘The women don’t ob-
viously direct the men, they mould them,’’ and I
recalled the novel of medieval Japan, Shogun, and the
play, Throne of Blood, a Japanese verious of Macbeth
and I wondered if I was hearing a translation.

And what of her own plans and future?

Teresa leaves next week for Tokyo to enrol in
Sofia University-(originally established by the Jesuits)
for a four-year degree program in comparative culture.
This will involve studies in international business,
political science, world history, French and Japanese.
This, she hopes, will provide the stepping stone to a
career in the diplomatic corps or else a career in inter-
national business

Personally, 1 have absolutely no doubt that
Teresa, (and a number of other former Rotary. ex-
change students), will succeed in whatever she sets her
mind to, and I join all her Rotary and other friends in
wishing her well.

I would also like to welcome our next Japanese
Rotary exchange student, Tomoko Takahashi, to
Castlegar. She is due to arrive March 28

Teresa came to the dinner as the guest of Dr
‘Waido- Yute—but~was promptly commandeered by
president Lorne Trickey-to the head table. He was
fined by the sergeant at arms for alienation. Minutes
later, I paid a double fine for isolating the guest by in-
terview. Worth it though. I only wish there had been
more time. I was particularly interested in that
“*moulding.’”

school
busy

Construction of the Slocan adven-
ture playground and fitness track will
begin May 5.

The next big fundraiser for the
playground and fitness track will be
the Talent Show April 21 at W.E.
Graham school.

Education week at W.E. Graham
saw parents in their children’s classes
on March 5. March 7 was open house
with activities in the classrooms for
parents and children to participate in,
a staff appreciation ceremony, and
coffee and refreshments,

The Grade 9 class held a successful
spaghetti dinner Feb. 24 to help
finance its proposed trip to Quebec,
but government funding has since
been cut, so a more local trip will be
planned.

Also in February, the drama class
participated in a three-day drama
festival in Nelson. The class perfor-
med its play Children at the Capitol
Theatre.

The Southeast B.C. Regional
Championship for Olympics of the
Mind will be held at W.E. Graham on
March 31 with approximately 200
students from 14 teams participating.

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