Castlégar teytatastve & Partiament Blags.. * By Paster M.SOLTYS SAVED BY CHOICE In our everyday living we make choices one way or another without even realiz- ing it because most choices are so common that it be comes a part of us. To some, choices are easy, yet to others choices can be a head- ache. Choices will determine how we use our time and money, how we conduct our- selves, how we manage our working habits and personal lives. Choices will determine what church we go to; how we believe in the word of God, either the total full gospel or watered down and interpreted by man. Despite all that has been the greatest choice that “all” of us will have to make either now or later is: “What shall I do then, with Jesus Christ, God's Son, who died on the cross for me?” A story is told by Bill Tolar of a business executive who was standing in line with other passengers to board a plan when his name” was called over the loudspeaker for a phone call, Not res- ponding to the call, he made his way toward the jetliner. When he was about to enter the plane, his name was called again. Indecision seized the man as he thought, “The plane is ready to take off. If I answer the phone call, which may be urgent — about the sickness or death of a loved one — I will miss the plane, jeopar- dize a large business deal, and, possibly lose a valued customer.” The thoughts of possible peril or need of a Joved one prevailed over all other con- siderations, and he respond- ed to the phone call. The jetliner taxied to the runway for takeoff. Then it streaked skyward. A moment later a terrific ex- plosion occurred! The giant plane disintegrated, and the ground belpw was littered with debris And broken bod- ies of men, women and chil- dren. News _ Moy 3, 1967 cial |" Pulpit & Pew -52 10 i. Bie ipa cs m., for the C News "ie 26 for the month pe edn The business was saved from’ a horrible death by making a-choice and answering the phone call. Do you realize that Jesus is not only knocking at your door but is calling you? Will you answer Him before it is too late? Will you be saved by choice and answer Christ's call or will you.be-damned-by. the choice you make and re- ject the call? The choice is up to you my friend, “. . . choose you this day whom ye will serve..." (Joshua 24:15) Long ago vacillating Por- tius Pilate asked a frenzied mob a destiny-determining question: “What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?” (Matt. 27:22) Pilate made a disastrous choice in reference to the sinless Son of God. Because of it, He wnt to death into a lost hereafter. What choice have you made about the momentous’ inescapable question? “What shall I do then with Jesus?” Pythians meet here The 46th District Conven tion of Pythian Sisters was hosted by Kootenay Temple No. 37 at the Sandman Inn April 25. District No. 2 (West Koot- enay) is made up of five temples consisting of Trail, Rossland, Salmo, Fruitvale and Castlegar. Call to order began with PDDGC Barbara Drouin of Rosevale No. 38 (Fruitvale) presiding. DDGC Joan Marks of Kootenay Temple No. 37 was escorted to the altar by Man: ager Rose Soberlak, PGC, where she was officially wel- comed and presented with a corsage by PDDGC Barbara Drouin. DDGC Joan Marks then took over convention presid- ings. Presentation of the flags was made by Manager Rose Soberlak of Kootenay Temple and MEC Nancy Bar- kus of Credo Teniple No. 71 (Newport, Wash.). The password was taken and the district manager Laura Blizard opened the Bible. PGC Roberta Piper, Twin Temple No. 33 (Salmo) gave the Kate Davis Prayer. Address of welcome was given by PGC Rose Soberlak. Introductions were given by Twin Temple No. 33 (Sal mo) with GM Doris Dimock as ME and PGC Rose Sober lak of Kootenay Temple No. 37 as manager. MECs and PDDGCs were welcomed. Introductions of Grand Of. ficers included the following, GC Louise Schweb (Pitt Meadows), GS Gladys Wirsch (Trail), GS Lorna Hunt (Van- couver), GP Margaret Irons (Vernon), PGP Connie Morris (Salmo), PSR Pearl Palmer (Rossland), PSR Olive Mills (Rossland-Kimberley), PSR Phyllis Woodward (Ross land), PGC Roxie Reeder (Penticton), PGC Alma Wil- son (Penticton), PGC Betty Campbell (Vernon), PSR Anne Leith (Maple Ridge), PGC Alice Clarricoates (Kim- berley), PSR Betty Griffin (Vernon), PSR Fern Blankley (Vernon), PSR Mary Duffus {TGrail), SA Audrey Roth- well (Fruitvale), PGC Rob- erta Piper (Salmo), PGC Mil- dred Turner (Cranbrook), Gwen Morris (Burnaby), Thelma Homes (Vancouver), and MEC Nancy Barkus (Newport, WA.) Delegate reports were given by Jan Neumann (Castlegar) ‘Velia McLim (Trail), Corinne Halladay (Rossland), Audrey Rothwell (Fruitvale), and Laura Bliz- ard (Salmo). Memory work competition took place with Heather Di amond (Salmo), Jean Ralph (Fruitvale), Mary Duffus (Trail), and Lil Neumann (Castlegar) participating. Pat Verzuh (Castlegar), Phyllis Miller (Salmo), and Virginia Forester (Trail), took part in the sign com petition. The afternoon session opened in ritualistic form by Twin Temple No. 33 (Salmo). The Ballot March and Chal lenge was performed by Trail Temple No. 3. The ceremony of initiation was held with Patricia Moore of Castlegar becoming a new member. A degree staff of 12 sisters from Kootenay Temple No. 87 put on a drill organized by Staff Captain Fran Moffat. A memorial service was put on by Rosevale Temple No. 38 (Fruitvale). A penny march followed with pro- ceeds in the amount of $44 going to the Rick Hansen Man in Motion trust fund. Patricia Moore was pre- sented with a Pythian pin by her mother, Jean Ralph, of Rosevale Temple No. 38. Following the close of the convention, entertainment was provided by Kae An. dreashuk on her accordion, and brothers Tony Schwi- ertz, Michael Bycroft, Cecil Bradford, Gordon Ferguson and Seamen Dewis, dressed in Hawaiian costumes, per. formed dances assisted by several of the sisters of Kootenay Temple No. 37 who sang. Approximately 70 guests had an enjoyable supper at the Sandman Inn. Mary Duf- fus (Trail) placed first for memory work. Pat Verzuh (Castlegar) placed first in the exemplification of signs. The membership cup was won by Kootenay Temple No. 37. The door prizes went to Velia McLim (Trail) and Bet. ty Griffin (Vernon). Winner of the table cloth was Ruse Soberlak (Castlegar). PDDGC Barbara Drouin presented Joan Marks with her PDDGC's pin. COUPON Clip & Save Budget Ho's. w a= wath ae aot wets . 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However local taxes increased because the government's contribution decreased this year, decided to approve an additional $200,000 to be | taxpayers, That, along with a drop in housing assessments, Castlegar residents mugt pay more. this year to kegp the ope: area scl By RON NORMAN | Four large boxes of federal income security cheques destined for senior citizens in the West Kootenay and Okanagan were re- covered Tuesday after going miss: ing for eight days. Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco said the 6,000 cheques were shipped April 26 by air from Ottawa to Calgary via Toronto. The cheques were supposed to be forwarded to Kelowna but never turned up. “They should have been in the hands of the public by the 29th (of April),” Brisco said in an interview. Canada Post began an investig- ation into the missing cheques, and initially thought the cheques were lost somewhere in the Crown cor poration’s computer sorting system, Brisco said But the mystery of the missing cheques remained unsolved — until this week when the cheques turned up unexpectedly in Kelowna “Four boxes of cheques showed up at Kelowna Airport-on 2 CP flight out of Calgary,” Brisco said. Brisco said the cheques for West Kootenay seniors arrived Tuesday on a 6 p.m. flight into Castlegar Airport from Kelowna. The cheques were sorted Tuesday night and this morning at the Castlegar post office and will be de livered today, he added. Brisco said mail delivery may be slightly delayed today because letter carriers won't begin their routes until the late-arriving cheq ues have been sorted. Brisco commended the Castlegar and Kelowna postal workers for responding quickly to the problem. However, he said Canada Post wil! undertake an “in depth, very serious investigation” into how the cheques went missing in Calgary. Brisco also noted that despite the “large number of calls” to his Castlegar constituency office about the late cheques, the public has been “very patient and very co-opera- tive.” imerease Monday Only $8,522,365, at 2,069 stutients. board by local on.” amoang Z $190,000 student enrolment than Castlegar school board. ‘The school board's projected sehool year is about 2,113 students. However, the ministry, based on a proyince-wide enrolment formula, sets, the figure enrolment, for the next “The bottom line is, this is a no frills, status quo budget,” Johnson said today. “It's another year of just Johnson also explained that.the Education Minjstry:also Regoned wie Senda fox egnetlgnes Yo GOQD feces leet rosy « * it, should have been raised instead. More recently, Johnson claims people also suggested raising taxes instead of moving Grade 6 students from Twin Rivers elementary school to Kinnaird junior secondary sehool. “The attitude is changing,” she said. “People are not heey but they are coming around to saying we've got to do residents must pay a total school tax rate of Castlegar $9.08 for every $1,000 of their home I taxes j But Johnson emphasized the importance of the schoot increase. “People are finally coming around to the fact that @d@ueation is poorly funded and we must pitch in,” Tohitson pointed out that when the hoard began to close some of the area aghools last year, people insisted taxes down by the pr jump shareable of $1,268,813. The net shareable is the amount set 3 Sections (A, B&C) which the she said. present level. $568,195 goes to is expected to kick in over and abové the $6.8 million the government agrees to contribute. But the board has approved an additional $375,587 (last year’s $178,514 plus this year's $197,073) which the board says is necessary to keep the schools functioning at their There is also a rate of 57 cents per $1,000'of assessed value to service the district's debt and an additiona) 35 cents per $1,000 for capital expenditures. Of the total operating budget of $8.5 million, 82 per cent be Peek 10S AE. phe Seber splicing, OF pee. tentver 3.6 per ¢ent or $315,620 goes to services purchased and allowances, A rate of $6.35 goes to service Castlegar residents’ net REUNITED AGAIN. - Man in Motion Rick Hansen former C crowd during civic reception FRICK WHEELS WITH HANSEN Tim Frick to last week in Staff Writer this past week. plan his trek around the wrold. IN KOOTENAYS The man who helped Rick Hansen get his Man in Motion world tour off the ground took a week off from the job to help accompany his friend through the Kootenays Former Castlegar resident and Selkirk College instructor Tim Frick was coaching wheelchair volleyball in 1977 on the Lower Mainland when he first. met Hansen. In 1980 Frick moved to Castlegar to work ‘as a. physical education instructor at Selkirk College and in 1984 he quit his job here and moved back.to Vancouver to help the wheelchair-bound athlete from. Williams Lake He accompanied Hansen on his tour from the day he left the Oakridge Shopping Centre. parking lot in Vancotiver and stuck with him for the first eight months of the tour. volunteer work,” Vancouver. “Rick and I started organizing the tour back in Castlegar. Frick helped Hansen plan world tour and travelled with Hansen for eight months. — CasNews Photo by Mike Kalesnikc ‘Chriatmas of '88 when,the.idea was born and then we wotked together over the phone when I was living up here and teaching at Selkirk,” Frick told the Castlegar News in an interview. “We made a lot of phone calls and got committees together. and started organizing:it and I had to leave my job in June and then in September I moved in with Rick in his one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver.” Frick. Frick followed that with holigays. and then went back to Since, leaving the tour in Zurich, Switzerland Frick has been teaching physical education at Dougias College in New Westminister and the first time he saw Hansen again was when he met him at the B.C.-Alberta border. “It had been almost a year since I had seen him and Tl tell you, it was.a real emotional moment, it was really neat to see him again,” said Frick. said “a couple of months of continued on poge As Co-op to sue province By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer A letter writing campaign spear. headed by a retired Castlegar teacher is urging former account holders at the now collapsed Teacher's ‘Investment and Housing Co-operative to. sue the provincial government for about $100 million. . Alma McGauley has organized the 10,000-letter campaign aimed at all those who lost a minimum of $5,000 when the co-op collapsed. McGauley is urging those members to join her in a collective effort te sue the government for the entire amount of their Jost accounts, including inter- est. The 10,000 letters. were sent from the ‘Castlegar post office last week, “We're not undertaking this suit in i ” MeGauley told She said she has been organizing the directed to ghout B.C., Alberta and i M esti- for the past 18 months. is al ing those mates the cost of the letter campaign they wish to be included in the suit. ‘The money will go towards litigation fees. McGauley needs at least 1,000 positive responses before Vancouver lawyer Ken Mackenzie, of Guild, Yule and C6., can proceed with the suit. tmembers who lost less then $5,000 to join the suit, but she said she limited the number of letters simply to keep from Being overwhelmed by the work load, members are suing for the loss of some $100 million; she stressed the suit will sue for the exact amounts each. member lost continued on poge A? 3.6 per cent or $315,620 goes to services purchased and ted, and a final 8.2 per cent or $707,715 pays for supplies and materials. Cominco preparing for strike The Canadian Press The tea Steelworkers of Amer- ica, which represents 3,200 workers at Cominco Ltd. operations in Trail and in Kimberley served five-day strike notice early Monday. Five locals of the United Steel- workers of America met with company officials throughout the weekend after their contract expired Friday. “There has been no serious bar- gaining of our issues,” Jim Saare, president of Steelworkers’. Local 9705 which represents 420 office and techni- cal workers, said Monday. “While we have left the door open for meaningful bargaining we must now prepare for a strike.” The unions extended the legally required three-day strike notice to five days so the shutdown of Cominco's Sullivan mine in Kimberley and the combined lead and zine refining oper- ations if Trail can‘take place in an “or- derly fashion,” said Local 480 spokes- man Miles Dean. The union wants the continuation of cost-of-living payments tied to the rate of inflation in addition to an unspecified general wage increase. Other union proposals telate to im. proved pensions and job security The company has maintained that any increase in compensation must be offset by productivity gaine through contract..concessionig., .~ + Current median pay rates are $14.78 an hour for production workers and $16.25 for the office and technical group. The last major work stoppage at Cominco's Trail and Kimberley oper. ations was a four-month strike in 1974. The Steelworkers last went on strike in 1983 when a breakdown in bar. gaining led to an eight-day walkout. Jet boat races set to go this weekend By CasNews Staff An estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people will converge on Trail and Castlegar this weekend to watch the jet boat races, according to race organizer Doug Deproy The races, part of Trail’s Silver City Days celebrations, will be held on Saturday and Sunday along the Colum via River inside BOAT RACING: They don't coll them ‘jet’ boats for. nothing. CasNews sports reporter Surj Rattan found that out Tuesday afternoon when he took a spin on the Columbia River in one of the boats that will compete in this weekend's jet boot races . . 81 Sunday morning 87,88 AIDS TRACING: VANCOUVER Columbia has adopted ‘ STUDENT FORUM: Only 25 students turnet out Monday to hear why teachers have embarked on an instruction-only campaign A2 TWO DIE: Two Trail résidents were found dead in a parked vehicle VIVACIOUS VANNA: Wheel of Fortune's Vanna White says she doesn't have any pretensions about her job... Aé HANSEN'S VISIT: More photos of Rick Hansen's visit to Castlegar — Beginning this week, British Columbians who test positive for the AIDS virus will be asked to voluntarily contact past sexual partners, province's sexually transmitted disease control centre Dr. Michael Rekart said Tuesday if people are too embarrassed to do this, they can submit the names to provincial health workers who will contact them on their behalf Rekart, who also is chairman of B.C.'s new AIDS advisory com mittee, said health workers won't reveal the source of the names when contacting the former partners The so-called ‘modified contact ‘is the best possible way to make sure people know about their risk,” Reskart said in o telephone inter- view from Calgary, where he is attending a conterence The races start at 10:30 a.m. on both days at Fort Shepherd south of Trail and run to the Keenleyside Dam north of Castlegar. Then at 1:30 p.m. they race from the dam back down the Columbia to Fort Shepherd. The boats, which will not race against each other, but against the time clock, are vying for $10,000 in continued on page A2 says the head of the tracing’ approach British