lar meeting that all of the
letters were against a full-
day format. He said 17 came
from the Kinnaird-Valley Vis-
ta Parents’ Support Group.

Currently, only the Robson
kindergarten runs on the
full-day system, on alternate
days of the week. Half-day
kindergartens in Castlegar
are scheduled five days a
week.

Wayling said in an inter.
view that board members are

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resident Cecilia Roberts
Newhouser, 84, died Dec. 18
in Victoria.

Mrs. Newhouser was born
Dec. 14, 1900 in Newcastle-
on-Tyne, England. She was a
member of the Royal Can.
adian Legion Ladies’ Auxil-
iary in Castlegar, as well as
a member of Pythian Sisters,
and the Senior Citizens Asso-
ciation.

Mrs. Newhouser enjoyed
collecting bells.

She was predeceased by
her husband, Louis New.
houser, in June, 1984.

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several grandchildren.
Interment was at Victoria.

KBVA head
elected

Bud Cary of Creston was
elected president of the Koot
enay Boundary Visitors Ass-
ociation at its annual meeting
Dec. 10 at the Sandman Inn.

Cary, owner of the Down.
towner Motor Inn in Creston,
comes to the association with
4%: years experience as an
executive director of the B.C.
Motels, Resorts and Trailer
Parks Association.

Floyd Heibert of the Im
perial Motel in Grand Forks
was elected director for the
Castlegar area.

First vice-president is Jim
Ducheneau of Trail, and
Inger Magas of Nelson is

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Castlégar News

TREET TALK

REMEMBER Rev. Desmond Carrell? He was a
popular church leader in Castlegar. He has been
appointed dean of Yukon and rector of Christ Church
Cathedral in Whitehorse.

He will be installed at a service to be held early in the
new year.

Born in Ireland, Rev. Carroll is a graduate of Trinity
College, Dublin. From 1971-1976 he was youth
co-ordinator for the Anglican Church of Ireland and in
1976 he moved to Canada where he became rector of St.
David's parish here.

Since 1982, Rev. Carroll has been associate rector of
St. Philip's in Vancouver. He is married with four
children ranging in age from six to 14.

THERE'S A new restaurant in town. It's De’s Ranch
House located below the Dairy Queen on 18th St. in the
old Columbia Steakhouse.

THE CITY of Castlegar is looking at getting rid of its
mercury vapor street lights and replacing them with high
pressure sodium vapor lights.

“They're cheaper to operate,” says works and
services committee member, Ald. Cari Henne.

UNDER THE "job well done” category, school
superintendent Terry Wayling reports that John Landis
of Robson Elementary School will complete 21 years as
principal at the end of the year. Says Wayling: “A job
well done, John!”

AND SPEAKING OF jobs well done, Elsa Maitland,

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interesting piece on Roberto Pini, a lawyer now retired
and living in Trail.

Pini has designed and created a nativity scene for a
store in downtown Vancouver that is “unlike any you
have ever seen before,” according to Boyd.

Boyd says it is the traditional Italian rendering of the
nativity — called presepio.

A master miniature builder, Mr. Pini built the
25-metre presepio in Italy, broke it down and had it
shipped bere. It took him two months to reconstruct.

As Boyd relates:

“It’s hard to describe adequately. The landscape of
the scene is created from dark cork, providing a brooding,
dawn-line atmosphere, among the slopes and streets,
trails and huts of the town of Bethlehem and in the

central grotto where the birth of Christ has taken place.

“There are 50 Hummel-like figures of people, all of
them bought by Pini in the small town of Bagni di Lucca,
in the Tuseany region, where some of Italy's greatest
craftsmen live. The lifelike figures are going about the
business of village life in the early morning.

“There are the animals, olive trees, a tiny, working
waterfall and there is the babe in the manger, as it was
almost 2,000 years ago.

“A voice-over tape describes the scene and its

in 171 and the ig music,
a Christmas lullaby, was actually recorded in the Italian
countryside on centuries-old instruments. The music

complements the ethereal visual sensation.
“Mr. Pini has done similar presepios in Italy but this

is his. first in North America.

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The program was hosted
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Landis, and Grade 4 student
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Beatrice Sallis also sup
plied some music on the piano
— not to be outdone though,
by Anita Gray and a group of
Grade 4 students on the
recorders.

With the help of Dick
Wayling, the audience was
seranaded by groups of
monks, angels, Christmas
shoppers, wise men and even
their star

The children's sense of
humor was enjoyed in sev
eral skits and poems, but the
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their courage to sing their
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Tt warns of the escalating use of heroin and cocaine, now
accounting for sales of $2.8 billion and $875 million
respectively, a prediction based in part on increased police
welzures of the drugs and charges against those who buy and
sell them.

And it describes the fi and use of

such as speed, tranquilizers and angel dust as a new
domestic industry worth about $375 million.

RCMP Commissioner Robert Simmonds told a news
conference the international production of illicit drugs is
inereasing and existing stock piles are high.

“As long as there's a market, as long as we have a

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escalate last year, reaching smaller communities and remote
areas as well as major cities. It will continue to increase due
to overproduction or raw materials in South America and

Cannabis: Marijuana and hashish continue:to be the
most widely available and used illicit drugs. However,
MacKay said he does not anticipate his government will
move to reduce ies for ing small of
eannabis for personal use.

: Simmonds said the “new phenomena” in the
drug world is the d fi of ch is, “our
local home-grown product.”

“In my view they are among some of the most
dangerous drugs,” Simmonds said, referring both to the
“bizarre reactions” some users experience and the lack of
control over the drug’s manufacture.

Clandestine laboratories operating in this country are
responsible for most of the methamphetamine, angel dust
and MDA available here. Large amounts of diazepam — the
tranquilizer Valium — are being used to produce counterfeit
methaqualone tables for the illicit market in the U.S.

“The financing, manufacturing and distribution of
illicitly produced chemical drugs in Canada tend to be
dominated by outlaw motorcycle gangs operating through-
out the country with strong links to similar gangs in the
United States,” the report said.

Husband
wants wife

to be killed

HUNTSVILLE, Ont. (CP) — John Derzai says
there's only one Christmas present he can give his
terminally ill wife — he's threatening to kill her rather
than let her suffer any more unbearable pain from cancer.

“I want my wife to die without pain for Christmas,”
Derzai, a Huntsville ski instructor, said in a chilling
telephone interview Tuesday. “And as she’s going to get
to the point where she's in agony all the time, I'm going to
kill her.”

Derzai, 50, has pleaded with doctors to give heroin to
his wife Odette, who has undergone four operations for
bowel cancer and been in and out of hospitals in Toronto
and Huntsville since March

But their answer is the same, he said. Heroin has
been banned for medica] use in Canada since 1964, even
though it's legal medication for terminally ill patients in
38 other countries.

Derzai, who said he has rarely left his 49-year-old
wife through her ordeal, refused to say Low he would kill
her or when. But he said she agrees with his plan because
she “can't stand” the pain any longer

“If they try to move her, she screams like she's going
to go through the roof.”

The prospect that he could be convicted and
imprisoned for murder would not deter him, Derzai said.
“Tm not afraid to die. I'm not afraid to go to prison. It
doesn't bother me.”

Doctors at Huntsville District Memorial Hospital
have estimated his wife will live a maximum of two weeks
and could die within a couple of days. And although
hospital authorities have taken Derzai's threat seriously
enough to discuss it with police, a spokesman said they
are not alarmed because her condition is deteriorating so
rapidly.

Derzai scoffs at claims that dying people should be
denied heroin because they risk becoming addicted to the
powerful narcotic, considered up to three times more
potent a painkiller than morphine.

The heroin issue has been hotly debated inside and
outside the medica! profession. Both the Canadian
Medical Association and the Ontario legislature have
urge the federal government to legalize heroin for use by
terminally ill patients.

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“very disturbing statements”
by Tory eabinet ministers
have revealed the govern-
ment's lack of interest in the
peace issue, Liberal MP
Lloyd Axworthy said Tues.
day

He said it is incredible that
External Affairs Minister
Joe Clark now: says the
government is reviewing
Canada's previous opposition
to the militarization of outer
space.

Clark made the comment

Walters wants
mate to pay bills

NEW YORK (AP) — Bar.
bara Walters, who signed a
$1-million-a-year contract
with ABC television eight
years ago, says any man she
married would have to sup
port her

She said in an interview in
the current McCall's maga
zine that she could not

Planes
bombed
refugees

GENEVA (Reuter) — Eth
iopian warplanes bombed a
column of starving refugees
trekking toward the Sudan.
ese border early this month,
a senior relief official said
Tuesday.

The official, who asked not
to be identified, said many of
the refugees, from Ethiopia's
Tigray province, were killed
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imagine leaving her work as
a television interviewer un
less she were married. She
added: “I would not marry
anybody who would not
support me.”

A divorcee with a 16-year.
old daughter, Walters said
she has never been attracted
to actors or to the “very
handsome and sure-of-him
self ladies’ man.”

Friday in Brussels following
a NATO meeting when asked
Canada’s position on the
Reagan administration's Star
Wars program.

Clark gave no details about
Ottawa's current position on
U.S. proposals for putting
military satellites in space —
a prospect Canadian govern
ments previously have opp
osed.

Axworthy said it was
equally revealing that De

fence Minister Coates was
“mocking the many thous-
ands of Canadians who be-
long to the peace movement.”

Coates was in Winnipeg
where a Pentagon team was
telling Canadians how to bid
on U.S. military contracts
and he joked about how 16
protestors at a meeting in
Halifax were jailed. He said
the action “showed a lot of
sense” on the part of author.
ities.

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