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wilderness. It was the longest and highest voltage line in the world prior to the turn of the century.

WKP joins electric association's
100th anniversary celebration

The Canadian Electric Association
and its members, including West
Kootenay Power, are celebrating the
CEA’s 100th anniversary throughout
1991.

The first CEA meeting took place
Sept. 28, 1891, in Toronto. Its man-
date was ‘‘to foster and encourage
the science of electricity and promote
the interests of those engaged in any
electrical enterprise.””

Just six years later, in 1897, West
Kootenay Power and Light Co. was
formed in Rossland to tackle the
supply of electricity to the goldrush

‘town, WKP says in a news releast.

By the summer of 1898, the first
surge of electricity passed along a 50-
kilometre line from a hydroelectric
plant on the Kootenay River up the
rugged mountain terrain to

Weavers

The 24 members of the Selkirk
Weavers and Spinners Guild are
currently putting together a body of
works to be exhibited at the Trail
Community Centre in the Visual Arts
Gallery.

The exhibit will open April 24 and
run until May 5. This is the third
gallery show in which the guild has
participated in the past year. Pieces
on display will later be sent to
Eugene, Ore., for the Association of
North West Weavers Guilds Con-

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Rossland. The remarkable boom
town transmission. line was the
longest and highest-voltage in the
world prior to the turn of the cen-
tury, WKP says. It would be the first
of several world class developments
by WKP.

In 1952, West Kootenay, in con-
junction with Cominco, engineered
the longest two-point suspension line

be the focus of a technical session on
the CEA’s 100th anniversary agenda
in Toronto, WKP says.

Almost 1,500 dignitaries, electric
utility leaders, politicians and
celebrities will gather at the Royal
York Hotel, May 7-17 to honor the
CEA milestone. The 10-day Centen-
nial Conference will include exhibits,
tours, award presentations and the

in the world — a
span across Kootenay Lake to supply
power to Kimberley.

On Feb. 20, 1991, WKP staff
made history again by reconduc-
toring an energized 161-kilovolt cir-
cuit just south of Penticton, another
world’s first. The West Kootenay
energized reconductoring method
has captured the industry’s interest
right across North America and will

of a com-
missioned commemorative plaque.
West Kootenay Power will have a
place of honor at the 100th anniver-
sary head table. It is reseryed fqr
'WKP’s president, Joe Drennan, who
is the immediate past-chairman of
the CEA and was the chairman of
the CEA’s 100th anniversary
celebration in the early planning
stages.

collect work for exhibit

ference there in June.

In March, the guild and Castlegar
Recreation Commission jointly spon-
sored two workshops, one on
papermaking and one on feltmaking.
Both were well-attended and suc-
cessful, the guild said in a news
release.

Weavers are now finishing lap
blankets, which will be donated to
the new long-term care wing of
Castlegar and District Hospital when
it opens in May.

Members are also looking forward
to the reopening of their gift shop
and demonstration presentations at
the Kootenay Doukhobor Historical
Museum.

The Selkirk Weavers Guild is a
non-profit organization dedicated to
the art and craft of fibre work. Its
mandate is to enrich the

Wednesday of every month at 9:30
a.m. at the Doukhobor Museum,
across from Castlegar Airport.

Newcomers to the area and all in-
terested people are invited to attend
as guests. The guild sponsors
workshops and classes, maintains an
extensive library and rents equipment
to ip costs $20

culturally through this work and to
foster and encourage the interest of
others. The guild. meets on the third

yearly and rewards every fibre
creator with valuable camaraderie
and stimulation, the guild said.

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of Slocan Valley Concerned Citizens.
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APRIL13-MAY 4

April 20, 1991

Woman leaves
rich legacy
to many

Betty Leitner died last week.

1 was proud to call her my dear friend and, as
such, my name was legion, for she was friend to
many and leaves a rich legacy to us all.

I remember her first of all as a lady in the true
sense of the word, when it was a badge of honor
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who, at another time and under other

Finally, I called retired teacher Josie Smales who
had known Betty as a young beginning teacher before
she was married.

‘'1 first met her in Rossland,"’ said Josie, ‘‘and 1
have never forgotten that first impression of her —

and thus Josie was forced to witness in Betty the later
ravages of Alzheimer's disease which daily destroys
so many fine minds, It reminds me of a terrible
method of execution in ancient times in which the
condemned person was sewed into a fresh ox-hide
and then left in the sun to be slowly crushed to death
by the shrinking skin.

Despite her preference for privacy, she was much
sought after by the community and gave generously
of her time and talents, particularly her penmanship,
for her script writing was, like Chinese
an art form in itself, much admired and often

elf-disci

might well have gathered for herself considerable
public honors and acclaim, for she shone with
intelligence and talents, insights and sensibilities into
regions of whose existence more ordinary mortals had
no inkling.

She had the rare ability to stand apart from
things and to see them in a new imaginative, merry
and sometimes gentle irony.

She could stand remote on a high mountain and
see the world in a wider, more holistic reality. All of
these she distilled into her garden, her private cloister
on Columbia Avenue.

I greatly enjoyed “‘ a few minutes’’ private chat
with her — full of humor and good fellowship
punctuated with laughter — chats which could slip
imperceptably into hours as the topics flitted
hummingbird-like from her garden to the Great

that there was nothing that couldn't
be done if one was determined to see it done. It was
her great strength.

Reflections
and
ecollections

By John Charters

Scheme of Things, from personal toa
discussion and evaluation of some phrase or line of
our literary efforts — usually mine. She was my most
faithful critic and had the artist’s eye for the ‘mot
juste’ — just the right word.

Her criticisms, however, were never damaging,
always constructive, so that one never felt naked and
exposed, but walked as in a garden with friend
enjoying the flowers and the birds. Thus she was a
true friend as Elizabethan essayist John Lyly so
exquisitely expresses it: ‘‘A friend is in prosperitie a

a solace in adversitie, in grief a comfort, in
joy a merry companion, at all times another I.’’

Whatever Betty did, she did exceptionally well
and with total dedication, humor and good sense.
For this reason, therefore, she was an exceptional
teacher who went beyond the confines of
methodologies, educational fads and theories, and led
her students with skill and imagination into a love of
new learning, with joy and understanding new ideas.

I phoned my son, Jack, to tell him of Betty’s
passing and he said, ‘‘Oh, yes, I had her as my
homeroom and art teacher in Grade 4. The kids liked
her. She would set up a picture and say to us, ‘Now
get back, get back and look at it. See it, see it.’ She
teally did sensitize me artistically. I didn’t always like
the models she chose, but I really did learn to —
appreciate them."” And that, for lessons taught some
40 years ago, speaks volumes indeed.

I then phoned long-time friend and mutual
colleague, Polly Corbett, who said: ‘‘I can remember
introducing Betty at a teachers’ convention workshop
as ‘A creature of ingenious devices.’ She always
brought new dimensions to ways of looking at things,
thus giving to commonplace ideas a new and
different perspective.””

When her principal, Gib Lund, became
superintendent for one of the northern school
districts, he wanted to take her with him as an
inspiration to teachers there. Despite all this, she
didn’t want applause and would much prefer to teach
four corners of a room in succession rather than a
roomful of people all at once. It was a kind of
Private reticence and personal modesty which marked
her whole lifelong outlook.

When she became very ill she was taken to Rock
Creek to live with her family. There is a mountain
behind the settlement with a very steep and
dangerous path leading up to its summit, and an

ling view of the country at the

top.

Betty loved that mountain and it apparently had
some special significance for her. During her sojourn
at Rock Creek she went wandering repeatedly as
Alzheimer’s patients are wont to do and each time
she was found and brought home.

This last time, however, despite her age, frailty
and the impossible path, she made her. way to the top
where she met death.. It was obviously the long
predetermined goal of a true romantic. Possibly it
was to get one last uninterrupted perspective of the
Great Scheme of Things or perhaps a wider and
richer vision of some special garden. Who knows?

It has been described as a tragedy, and for her
family this can only be true. I, less personally
involved, see it as a final symbolic gesture, a kind of
Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods) which had!
to be made and which no power on earth could have
turned aside. Res ipsa loquitur (the facts speak for
themselves).

More eloquent than her script, perhaps, is her
writing, particularly € Thin volume 6f verse ented ~~
Brief Case published by Plum Hollow Press under
her maiden name, Betty Lynn Davies. One short
poem entitled Your Turn!, reminiscent of the crisp
humorons style of Dorothy Parker, must suffice. It

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and dirty wii

mE only one I truly hate;

Cruelty.

And things I crave? You mean concisely?

Well, kindness, warmth, and sweet repose

Would cover nicely.

Note: Gail Leitner Robinson phoned to say that
the family will open Betty’s house on Columbia
Avenue on Sunday, April 28, for an ‘‘at home’’ for
her friends.

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