Se Castlegar News december 24, 1986 FACULTY OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA Will be offering the following credit course in CASTLEGAR ED 402 ($51) Assessment for Special Education (1.5) it stors NEW WORLD'S WESTMINSTER ABBEY Date: Starting Wed., Feb. 4 Time: 6:30 -9 p.m Location: Selkirk College REGISTRATION: Packages are available trom the University of Victoria, or the instructor, the first day of class Further details may be obtained by calling EDUCATION EXTENSION, UNIVERSITY OF Vic- TORIA, 721-7874. L10 Season's Greetings From the Management & Staff HOLIDAY HOURS é CLOSED OPEN OPEN NEW YEAR'S DAY! Christmas at St. Paul's HALIFAX (CP) — Hundreds of time-worn plaques crowd the stately walls of St. Paul's Anglican Church — memorials to the soldiers, statesmen and clergy who shaped this rugged seaport centuries ago. Names like Halliburton, Uniacke and Durell are as prominent today as they were 236 years ago when Halifax's first settlers huddled in this historic, wooden church to celebrate their second Christmas on foreign soil St. Paul's, the oldest Protestant church in Canada, opened for worship on Sept. 2, 1750, when Halifax was still a crudely constructed military outpost. Since then the church, which welcomes 12,000 visitors each year, has become a glorious testament to the past as well as a vital place of worship. Rev. John Newton says the Christmas season at St Paul's, which was once dubbed the Westminster Abbey of the New World, is quiet from a tourist standpoint, but busy in every other way. “We just had a big Christmas supper with 250 people,” says Newton, who is spending his first Christmas at St Paul's. “We have our Christmas pageant which involves about 30 different players. “So there are lots of things happening around the church.” St. Paul's, which has a congregation of about 400, is holding several Christmas services this year as well as a baptism service with historical significance. Rhoda Weldon, 86, the church historian, says the first male child was baptized in St. Paul's on Christmas Day in 1750. The son of Rev. Jean Baptiste Elizabeth Moreau, an early missionary, was born “some time” before Christmas, Weldon says. He was baptized Cornwallis Moreau, that’s after the man they came out with — (Gove.) Cornwallis,” she says. “His father came out a married man, he came out with the first settlers on June 21, 1749.” Today, the flag-filled interior of St. Paul's is spectacular as the midday sun pours through stain-glassed windows. A worker dusts the rich, wooden pews — worn from age while a middle-aged man leans forward to read the inscriptions on plaques. Underneath the building are 20 vaults in which distinguished church members were interred. Nearly 300 memorials, monuments and tablets adorn the church recording the deahts of governors and military commanders who fell during early American and French wars WITNESS HISTORY St. Paul's survived wars and the Halifax Explosion of 1917, which ripped through the city, killing residents and smashing buildings. The church vestry was turned into an emergency hospital to care for some of the 6,000 victims. Rows of dead lined the church. Although the church was repaired, a piece of window frame remained embedded in one wall, a vivid and tragic reminder of the greatest man-made explosion before Hiroshima. St. Paul's lays claim to a string of historical firsts in Canada — the setting for the first Masonic service, the first Oratorio and the first Anglican confirmation. It also contains links with the past in the form of hundreds of yellowed books and records. Every Friday afternoon during the winter and every day during the summer, Weldon works in St. Paul's, helping people find those links. Weldon says the church receives requests from people from far and near, seeking information on marriages, baptisms and deaths. left) Richard Roundtree, Charles Napier, Patrick Houser, Rod Taylor and Wi | 4 —_ burn rate to over 90,000 BTU's (Operates efficiently trom a low per hour.) ime on Saturday, Jon. 3. See The London Heat M premieres Sunday, Dec. 28, dnd moves to its ADVENTURE The new CBS adventure series “Outlaws SERIES (clockwise from top regular ti a= iv 4 ceed | 4 Thursday, Dec. 25 through to Wednesday, Dec. 31 Noise studies change little YZ ALABRIEL’S Closing laws openly violated News ee Thinking of dear friends, old and new, and wishing them all a season of MACHADO’S GROCERY LTD. We now carry seafood! ) Castiegor r Savings Credit Union 5 Christmas Hours CLOSED Thursday, Dec. 25 Friday, Dec. 26 Thursday, Jan. 1 OPEN SAT., DEC. 27 (Regular Business Hours) HAVE A SAFE & HAPPY HOLIDAY Castleaird Plaza Slocan Park 365-7232 226-7212 (' 1108 - 4th Street, © 365-6673 MONTREAL (CP) — Noise in the workplace can cause everything from loss of pro- ductivity to permanent deaf. ness and premature births yet 100 years after the first study on its dangers, little has been done to counter its effects. The biggest problem ir tackling the issue is its in sidiousness, a conference on noise in the workplace was told this week. Hearing loss develops so slowly that it can be years before it is detected. The meeting, sponsored by Quebec's health and occupa tional safety board, drew nearly 700 workers and em ployers who heard from ex perts on work-related hear. ing loss — described as the No. 1 industrial disease in the country Up to 60 per cent of manu. facturing workers are ex posed to dangerous noise levels, University of Mon tréal researcher Raymond Hetu said in an interview motorcycle — over a period of years can cause permanent hearing loss. A major problem, Hetu said, is that people learn to live with it. “You don't know when the damage becomes irreversible. .That's what makes it so insidious. You adjust to it. At first it's reversible problems, but the day it becomes irreversible you don’t even realize it.” Moreover, he said, periodic hearing tests are of little use, since the average loss of hearing is one decibel a year and the most sensitive hear ing tests have a margin of error of 10 decibels. BOSSES BALK Employers are often reluc- tant to spend money to re. duce noise. “It doesn’t kill,” Hetu said, “and it's not considered a serious problem even though it affects so many people precisely because of its insi dious nature. It's only when compensation costs start to formation because it affects their concentration, «Hetu said. It has also been found to cause stress — it increases heartbeat and blood pressure and causes digestion prob- lems and muscular tension and can undermine safety “If you can’t hear well, if you can't hear warnings, if it’s difficult to communicate, if you're tense — those are conditions that can lead to accidents.” Some studies have sug gested that for pregnant women, working in loud noise can cause premature birth and hearing problems in the infants. Hetu said there are “hun dreds of ways” to reduce or eliminate noise in the work place — changing machinery to make it run more smooth ly, altering the workplace to eliminate echoes and rever beration, or putting machin ery operators in sound-proof booths. By BRUCE LEVETT By The Canadian Press A patchwork pattern of Sunday shopping _ prevails across the country in the wake of a Supreme Court of Canada decision upholding restrictive Ontario legisla tion on the subject. Law-enforcement agencies have said that whatever the situation in the various juris dictions, the law — in some cases held in abeyance pend ing the ruling on the Ontario law will be enforced strict ly In many places across the country, storekeepers have been opening in defiance of the closing laws. And sigruntled retailers are warning that unless these laws are enforced equally, civil disobedience, could break out again. British Columbia Attor ney-General Brian Smith says the Supreme Court rul ing will have little impact in A showdown could be shaping up in some parts of the Maritimes, where some stores have indicated they might open this Sunday Authorities in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick have warned that violators will be pros ecuted Newfoundland, where Sun day openings have not beena major problem, has been considering a review of pen alties in the Shop Closing Act but won't make a move until it has studied the ruling. court The Supreme Court's de cision was hailed in many parts of Quebec where pro closing advocates had been complaining that regular gro- cery stores were penalized because public food markets and drugstores selling food had been remaining open In Ontario, where Toronto furrier Paul Magder touched off the situation by remaining open on Sundays and taking his conviction all the way to the highest court in the country, there are 4,000 cases piled up waiting to be heard. East Berlin a pale Christmas EAST BERLIN \REUT ER) While East Germans decorate trees for the yule tide season, the well-heeled sumer improvements But the East-West consu- mer goods gap is especially evident at Christmas. su ear Supplement to the Castlegar News eC; ot Wednesday, Dec. 24, 1986 BUCK HAVEN Outdoor Power Equipment 367-7822 Wenete Rd. ot Beever Ch. §. of Trail Castl Castlega MOUNTAINVIEW AGENCIES SS _ MV AMD. 365-2111 365-2155 364-0213 ALONEY PONTIA BUICK GMC LTD. 1700 Columbia Ave Research indicates that eight hours a day of exposure daily to sound that exceeds 85 decibels — equivalent to the noise of a lawn mower or grow that employers begin thinking about ways to solve the problem.” Aside from causing even tual deafness, constant high levels of noise can hamper workers’ ability to absorb in TYPE SETTING wsletters SMALL BUSINESS ACCOUNTING COMPUTERIZED FINANCIAL STATEMEN. 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According It remains to be seen whe Conference participants were shown a variety of technological solutions, some complex and expensive, others as simple as rubber insulators. “A hundred years after the first study on the effects of noise in the workplace, there's still a lot to do,” Hetu said “There's a big lack of information even among the workers. When you learn to live with it, you get used to having the hearing of some one who's 65 .” to ghost of Christmas-West haunts the playrooms of this Communist country West German television advertising, watched with a mixture of wonder and dis gust, projects a glittering image of Christmas splendor into more spartan East Ger man homes. Chic clothes home computers and holiday season tipples all beckon Although they sport fes tive lights at this time of Childrens’ lists of presents include western toys unob tainable here. Said one parent: “I sup pose parents over there have problems when they just can't afford all those things. 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