CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 5, 1981

CHEQUE PRESENTATION

yesterday to Jean Merritt (left) on behalf
of Hobbit Hill Children’s Centre by
Cominco representative Stu Mathieson

tight). The cheque of
(on aed toward the

was made

$2,000 was = matchit.

Hobbit Hill

Building Fund. This cheque incre
amount raised to
closer to the $12,500 that must be raised
before the Vancouver Foundation will

ases the
$8,000, bringing it

Solves campus housing

BURNABY (CP) — For
some students and instruc:
tors at Simon Fraser Univer-
sity, the solution to the cam-
pus housing shortage is to
take up residence in hollow
cedar stumps and makeshift
cabins in the woods atop Bur-
naby Mountain.

The handful of dwellings
that dot Burnaby Mountain,
southeast of Vancouver, were
constructed years ago by en-
vironmentally-conscious peo-
ple who wanted to live close
to nature.

Today, the huts are in-
habited with people like 30-
year-old Blair Longley who
helped build his A-frame with
five other students 13 years
ago. He has occupied the
dwellings full-time for two
years,

His retreat on the east side

Longley plans to leave the
university to travel later this
month, just as the bulldozing
crew arrives to demolish his
cabin.

The concealed 230-metre
trail leading to the cabin is a
virtual time tunnel.

At one end is the building
university with Arthur Erick-
son's stark concrete archi-
tecture. At the other, a vast
forest with cool air and noth-
ing to disturb you but the
sounds of nature itself.

BEST OF TWO WORLDS

“It’s kind of like the best of
both worlds,"’ Longley said.
“You live in the 19th century
but are only a few minutes
from a gymnasium with
swimming pool and sauna."’

Longley’s cabin is about
21'%-by4-by-41'4 metres
high and has a cedar log

of an A-frame loft. The inside
dimensions are about 3'4-by-
four metres,

A ladder leads from the
main floor straight up
through a small opening to
sleeping quarters on the. sec-
ond level. From there, you
boost yourself up to another
sleeping aréa on the third
level. *

Simon Fraser president
George Pedersen said he w:
aware of Longley's A-frame
but did not specifically know
of any other campus cabins.

Pedersen said the univer-
sity was not concerned about
a few illegal squatters and
suggested the dwellings
might pose a solution to the
problem of affordable hous-

ing.
He said the administration
is i moving Long-

of campus was
earlier this year by university

y for anew
500-space parking lot.

Chronically disabled rights

MONTREAL (CP) — With
its

union,"’ Brunet said in an
i iew. Indeed, Rene La-

and clutter of paperwork,
Claude Brunet’s ‘‘home’’
looks more like a lawyer's
office than a chronic-care
hospital room.

Paralysed from the waist
down since he was eight,
Brunet is forced to live on his
stomach atop a motorized bed
at east-end St. Charles Bor-
romee hospital.

But the soft-spoken, deeply
religious 41-year-old is also a
tireless fighter for the rights
of the 60,000 chronically-dis-
abled in Quebec.

This month he and 283
fellow patients, or in some
cases their heirs, received the
fruits of one of his battles —
two class-action suits against
the Confederation of National
Trade Unions, arising from
strikes by hospital staff in
1978 and 1979.

An out-of-court settlement
reached earlier this year re-
quires the labor federation to
pay $500 damages to each
participant in the suit. The
first installment was distri-
buted two weeks ago.

“I’m not against the

pointe, 74, a parapalegic at
the hospital who helped Bru-
net in the legal contest, is a
former union organizer.
/**But accepting the right to
strike in the health sector is
like organized permission to
be inhumane to those who are
helpless. And that’s very bad
for a society that claims to be

The strikes left the patients
—a majority of whom are in-
capable of coherent thought
— without food or attention,
sometimes in urine-soaked
beds. Few were willing to
speak out for fear of anta-
gonizing the staff.

When Brunet and Lapointe
filed for $11.5 million in gen-
eral and punitive damages for
themselves and their fellow
patients, the strikers accused
them of union busting.

But the union agreed to
settle out of court after failing
to convince Quebec Superior
Court and the province's
Court of Appeal that class-
action suits curtailed the right
to strike and that half the

patients were incapable of ac-
cepting or rejecting a suit on
their behalf.

“*Since the out-of-court set-

Quebec government outlining
its reasons why the right to
strike in health services
should-be abolished. It is to

with ply
walls.

Inside on the floor, there
are wall-to-wall strips of rust-
colored shag carpet and an
airtight wood stove used for
heating and cooking, al-
though Longley eats most of
his meals in the university
cafeteria.

ley’s A-frame to the uni-
versity’s day-care centre for
use as a play building.

Chattra Tamang

Disowned-expelled

Chattra Tamang was born
into an orthodox Buddhist
family in the tiny Himalayan
country of Sikkim, bordered
by China, Nepal, India and
Bhutan.

His father was an engineer
for the king and president of
the Buddhist Council. Taman
decided to major in political
science at the University of
Calcutta, since he knew that
someday he could become the
top administrator of the
country.

At the University, Tamang
met a Christian who intro-
duced him to Jesus Christ,
and he, too, became a Ch-
ristian. Because of his conv-
ersion, he was ordered to
return home to appear before
the Buddhist Council, where
he was beaten, tortured and
imprisoned for six months.

His parents offered him
the family wealth if he would

Christianity. Since

he struc-
tures become vacant at var-
ious times throughout the
year, generally in winter, and
are available on a first-come,
first-serve basis.

he would not deny Christ, He
was disowned and expelled
from the country.

Through a series of mir-
acles, he arrived in the

ety
CHATTRA TAMANG
United States and entered
Seminary. In 1975 the King
of Sikkim was overthrown,
and a change in government
has made it possible for
Tamang to return to his cou-
ntry. Since no foreign mi-
ssionaries are allowed to
enter Sikkim, Tamang’s mi-
ssion will be very important
and unique. He hopes to train
native leaders and build
self-supporting churches.
This modern day Apostle
will be sharing his thrilling
story at the banquet mecting
of Full Gospel Businessmen’s
Fellowship next week at the
Fireside Place.

Planks serve as
nails as coat hangers and
chunks of foam mattress as a
lounge chair. There is a plas-
tic water a wood

tlement, it is very
to see that the same patients
who feared us are now very
proud of this $500,’’ Brunet
said.

“They say: ‘This is our
right and we shall fight to
defend it.’ And they say to
the employees: ‘Well, we're
not bad friends, but if there’s
another strike, watch out, be-
cause we won't let it pass.’ ’”

POSES SMALL PROBLEM

Now that the cheques are
coming in, the talk around St.
Charles Borromee hospital
centres on what to do with the
windfall — spend it, perhaps,
or stash it away.

Brunet, who married his
wife Jeannine, a Concordia
University employee, eight
years ago, had no such prob-
lem. He donated his money to
the Provincial Committee of
Patients, which he helped
found in 1972 to represent the
interests of the chronically ill.

Receiving no salary, Bru-
net is busy with the com-
mittee’s 30-age brief to the

be in Sep

As well, the committee is
in the midst of a fund-raising
drive to support the branches
it has opened in every chron-
ic-care hospital and nursing
home in the province.

“We want to be a bridge
between this closed-circuit
world of chronically-ill pati-
ents and the society which
tends to reject them with few
attempts to understanding
their needs,’’ Brunet said.

Shape Up, Wash Up!

With the trend toward
physical fitness shaping
up, a plan to add ona new
bathroom would do well
to include space for a
home gym.

Room for work-out
equipment, with large mir-
rors to spur on the exer-
ciser, right next to the
shower facilities will
encourage a fitness regime
for the whole family.

saw and a propane lantern. A
ladder leads to a comfortable
loft sleeping area.

Three of the walls have
brown panelling, while the
third is shingle-covered. On
the roof are shakes and a
fibreglass skylight. There is
no toilet, the university being
within running distance.

Longley confessed that al-
most all his building supplies
came from the university.

FAIRY TALE STUMP

In another area of the
mountain, is a massive cedar
stump that looks like it just
popped out of a fairy tale.

The stump, Longley ex-
plains, was converted to liv-
ing quarters in 1954 and re-
cently became occupied full-

time by a doctoral student

who teaches in the univer-
sity’s kinesiology depart-
ment. Another instructor fre-
quents the dwelling part-
time ‘
‘The stump stands more
than seven metres to the tip

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