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UNION OF YOUTH FESTIVAL Sat., May 16, Sun., May 17 & Mon., May 18 ‘ FESTIVAL PROGRAM — A SUMMARY SATURDAY, MAY 16 Saturday Morning (10:00 A.M.) — Ootischenia Community — Kootenay Psalmists — Thrums Community — Nelson Ladies Choir — Slocan Valley Choir Lunch Break (12:00 P.M.) Saturday Afternoon (2.00) — Brilliant Community — Brilliant Choir — Glade Community — Speech: Shoreacres Community — Brotherhood Choir — Choir of New Perspectives Supper Break (4:30 P.M.) Saturday Evening (7:30 P.M.) An evening of light-hearted entertainment will presented, including choral and group inging, skits, etc. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Please Note: ADMITTANCE BY ADVANCE TICKETS ONLY. Tickets available to General Public Tuesday, May 12, Briltiant Cultural Centre or from any Youth Council Member. For more in- formation call 365-3613 or 365-6595. SUNDAY, MAY 17 Sunday Morning (9:00 A.M.) — Prayer Mesiing — Kootenay Children’s Sunday Meetings — Pass Creek Community — Sion Community — Slocan Park/Passmore Community Creston Doukhobors — Union of Young Doukhobors Choir Lunch Break (12:30 P.M.) Sunday Afternoon (2:00 P.M.) — Grand Forks Union of Youth Choir — Kootenay Choir — Friendship Choir — John J. Verigin, CM — USCC Heritage Choir — Voice of Youth Choir — Kootenay Union of Youth Choir — Grand Finale/Closing Words MONDAY, MAY 18 Monday, May 18 (10:00 A.M.) DOUKHOBOR HISTORICAL DAY — Volleyball (All Day) Children's Events — The Hbba Baba Blow — The Kartoshnyik Jiggle — The Reebok Chuck — The Flying Dove — The Brilliant Tango — The Treck with a Twist — Curious Yet? Youth Events The Shower Toss The Communal Shuffle The Flying Bleenets Competition The Plough Push Tug-O-Peace The Doukhobor Frenzie A Special Surprise Final Event —The Peaceball Game No there are no typing errors here. What you see is what there will be! So bring your families, pene. lunches, and lawn chairs and have a isterical day! SPECIAL GOOD WISHES To the USCC Union of Youth. . . on your 40th Annual Festival | CASTLEGAR BICYCLE SHOP (1984) 365-5044 Located Top of Sherbiko Hill next to Mitchell Auto Supply. Success & Best Wishes On your 40th Annual Youth Festival COLUMBIA Gulf) AUTO SERVICE 850 Columbia Ave., Castlegar 365-5422 With Every Good Wish To A Successful 40th Annual Festival EREMENKO FIT-RITE SHOES 1224-3rd St., Castlegar 365-7353 Best Wishes EASTGATE GARDENS 932 Columbia Ave., Castl Phone 365-7414 JET A DAY AT THE RACES ... All eyes were on the Columbia River this weekend for the first annual Silver City Days jet boat races. Some Castlegar BOAT MANIA May 13, 1987 FINANCIAL PLANNING KS THAT MAKES YOUR MONEY WORK AS HARD AS YOU DO residents perched high atop the CP Rail bridge walkway (top) to get a bird's eye view of the action (bottom). CosNewsPhotes by Ron Norman ‘The Holy Mafia’ to set up here? By PAUL MOONEY Canadian Press OTTAWA — The controversial Roman Catholic group Opus Dei, known for its secrecy, conservative views and rites of self-flagellation, has applied to be incorporated in Canada. But two Quebec senators say they want more information before allowing a Senate bill incorporating the group to pass. Opus Dei has harsh erities within the church, including Jesuits and other priests, liberal Catholics and former members. The avowed purpose of the organization, a lay institution founded by a Spanish priest in 1928, is to help members achieve “sanctity” while pursuing their day-to-day lives. Sometimes called The Pope's Shock Troops or The Holy Mafia, it has been accused of carrying doctrine to questionable lengths. Elite members, who take a vow of chastity, are asked to take cold showers and recite a prayer once a week while flogging themselves with metre-long whips. Women are urged to sleep on a plank every night until they are 40 years old while men are asked to do so once a week. Adherents are also encouraged to wear a barbed metal band, known as a cilicio, on the upper thigh. Father William Stetson, an Opus director in the United States, explained in a 1984 interview these are “small reminders of what our Lord endured.” SENATOR WARY Quebec Senator Jean LeMoyne, a devout Catholic who wrote and spoke against the powerful and reactionary clergy in Quebec in the 1940s and 1950s, said he’s wary of a group that believes dogmatically in everything the Pope says. “They fit into what I denounced in Quebec and that’s enough for me,” Lemoyne said. His suspicions are shared by fellow Liberal Senator Jacques Hebert. Hebert wants to know why the group should be incorporated in Canada without the obligation to publish its membership list and without being required to have an independent audit of its books. “Opus Dei's reputation is certainly a mixed one within the Catholic Church,” he said. “They can do what they wart but certainly not ask the government to pass a special law for them.” The Mouvement laique quebecois, a group that has fought for a system of secular schools in Quebec, asked the Montreal law firm of Alarie, Legault ‘and Nadon for an opinion on the bill. “It appears clear that Bill S-7 doesn’t incorporate Opus Dei as a corporation but as a secret society controlled entirely by its lone administrator who doesn't have to account to anyone, not even the government which set it up,” the firm reported. The bill before the Senate would incorporate Opus Dei under the Very Reverend Gregory Haddock. Advice prepared for senators by researchers in the Library of Parliament said that there is nothing unusual about the incorporation. NOTHING SECRET A spokesman for Opus Dei in Montreal, Richard Brisebois, said this week there is nothing mysterious or secret about the group. The members of Opus Dei “have no goal — however, it displeases those who try to interpret everything politically — other than to seek sanctity within the activities of their daily lives,” he said. In his 1982 book Catholic Cults, historian Andre MeNicoll documented the group's secrecy, elitism and right-wing views that he termed “Catholic Fascism.” He quotes former member John Roche, an Oxford professor who left the group in 1980 after several years of membership. “Personal identity suffers a severe battering,” Roche is quoted as saying. “Some are reduced to shadows of their former selves, others become severely disturbed. Opus Dei must be ghly and ly by the church.” ; The group has been criticized for close ties with the regime of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, a preoccupation for recruiting members of the financial and political elite and its control of banks, newspapers, television networks, universities and colleges. Hansen spurs wedding e KELOWNA (CP) — She's going from being a “Goody” to being a “Funky” and it’s all Rick Hansen's fault. Rosalind Goodenham is getting married to Jim Funk, The weekend she registered for school, she saw Rick Hansen. “It was so cold that day, it was just awful, but anyway we went and saw him and it was really and “Rick Hansen is very much r for it,” she laughed, after joking around about the couple's names. The attractive 26-year-old brunette is the Catering Secretary at the Capri Hotel in this Okanagan city. She said in an interview she was trying to dump the men in her life when she saw Hansen in Calgary, It was Hansen's now fateful message of giving eveything the best you've got that convinced Goodenham to give the romance a chance. Outgoing and exhuberant Goodenham has the cheekbones ofa model and thick, dark eyebrows that enhance the exotic cast of her big brown eyes against her pale skin. She wanted to become a special-needs teacher and planned to move back to her hometown of Calgary to attend university. she r Hansen's oft-repeated message that you shouldn't be afraid to strive for your fullest potential would change her and 33-year-old Jim Funk's lives. “I was really scared because I could tell he was the kind of guy I could really fall in love with. And I didn’t want to fall in love with anybody,” said Goodenham, who had only known Funk for about a month at the time. “So I came back and decided I was going to break up with him because long-distance relationships are really quite difficult to handle.” Goodenham said her boyfriend, a cabinet maker with the local firm Three Buoys House Boat Builders Ltd., tried to talk her out of it, but she held fast until one day she thought back to her weekend in Alberta. Now, like most brides-to-be, the vivacious Gooden ham is gushingly happy. Best Wishes MALONEY PONTIAC BUICK GMC LTD. 1700 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar Call 365-2155 or 364-0213 ERRARO’'S uiper Valu a Western Canadian Company With Every Good Wish To the U.S.C.C. Union of Youth As you celebrate your 40th Annual Festival As you sing the traditiénal hymns, may your souls and those of your listeners be truly “beautified. George Swetlikoff 259 Columbia Ave., N. Castlegar 365-6721 Bill Voykin 9-542 Baker St., Nelson Steve Horkoff 397-S.E. 2nd Ave., Grand Forks 442-3231 Local Massage Practitioners & Physiotherapists 352-3222 urrogacy: An ethical minefield TORONTO (CP) — Item: A young American woman agrees to be artificially inseminated to produce a child for a man and his wife. But neither the surrogate mother nor the couple want the baby when it is born retarded. Item: A 48-year-old grandmother in South Africa will gilve birth this year to her daughter's triplets after agreeing to have the younger woman's fertilized eggs implanted in her womb. ‘The rent-a-womb controversy has sparked a number of concerns’ While the miracles of science have produced a smorgasbord of ways to conceive a child, they have left society gingerly stepping through a minefield of ethical, legal and psychological questions it seems ill-prepared to answer. If a baby isn’t born “perfect,” is the surrogate contract null and void, and who assumes custody? Does a surrogate mother have a right to change her mind after signing a contract and keep the child or have an abortion? What if a surrogate bears twins, but the father and his wife want only one child? “The new technologies have created possibilities we never considered before,” says Barry Hoffmaster, a philosopher at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont. “The question is, do we automatically use them?” FEAR FOR WOMEN The rent-a-womb controversy has sparked a number of concerns, particularly about women who choose to become surrogates, he says. There is a fear these women, especially if they are poor, are being exploited by those seeking a child Hoffmaster says that if legislation is enacted to regulate surrogacy, there must be protection that the risks are not loaded on one side only. For instance, in the case of a child with birth defects, it should be stipulated that the couple is not signing “a contract for perfection,” but must assume legal responsibility for the child no matter what. Toronto lawyer Philip Epstein, who has acted for couples who contract with surrogates, opposes surrogate parenthood as “an unnatural arrangement that encourages people to give up their children as part of a commercial transaction.” Epstein is concerned about the type of woman who chooses to become a surrogate and the emotional and psychological effects of giving up a child. He describes a typical surrogate mother as a married woman with other children who enjoys being pregnant. Although she is not wealthy, she has an altruistic motive for having the child “WRONG REASONS’ But Epstein suspects many surrogates also go into these arrangements for “a host of wrong reasons — they're punishing their parents, they're punishing their spouse, they're involved in all sorts of complicated motives in terms of selling the child.” Most surrogates don't go away from the experience unscathed, he says. “I've seen attempted suicide, depression, rejection by family and friends and a need fo rpsychotherapy. On the other hand, I have seen surrogates walking into the sunset as if nothing has happened.” Nancy Reame, an associale professor of nursing at the University of Michigan who has counselled 41 surrogate mothers, says many of the women admitted they had come to love their babies and suffered emotional trauma when they had to give them up. “They exhibited all kinds of grieving behavior — the aching arms, the uncontrollabel crying, the sense that their baby was gone,” Reame said. “They couldn't interact with other babies, they couldn't go out and look at other newborns.” The classic case of a surrogate mother who changed her mind is Mary Beth Whitehead, the New Jersey housewife who signed a $10,000 contract agreeing to be artificially inseminated and bear a child for William Stern. When Whitehead refused to hand over the little girl, Stern and his wife sued for custody. In what is considered a landmark decision, a judge upheld the contract and awarded custody of “Baby M" to Stern. Whitehead is seeking to appeal. There is no law prohibiting surrogate motherhood in Canada, although the issue has never been fully tested in the courts. However, in Ontario at least, the province's Law Reform Commission has recommended that surrogacy be regulated by legislation. Under its proposal, a couple seeking a child and the Prospective surrogate would have to obtain a judge's approval of their contract before artificial insemination occurs. ‘There is no law prohibiting surrogate motherhood in Canada’ The courts would assess the suitability of the surrogate and the prospective parents and would require medical proof that the couple could not have a child by any other means. DOCTORS BEWARE The Canadian Medical Association has warned doctors to be cautious in getting involved in surrogate contracts until the legal and moral questions are clarified. The Anglican and United churches in Canada have not issued official policies, but committees from both churches made submissions to the Law Reform Commission condemning the practice in most cases as exploitive of women. The commission's recommendation also runs counter to the stance by the Roman Catholic Church, which says surrogate motherhood is outside the bounds of acceptable conception “It separates child-bearing from the loving commitment and physical union of man and wife,” says Suzanne Scorsone, director of the office of family life for the archdiocese of Toronto. “So, it takes it out of the loving context and makes it less human.” The church also believes the practice makes surrogates no better than concubines working for slave wages. says Scorsone, noting that with a $10,000 payment, a woman would earn about $1.50 an hour during the pregnancy ‘GIFT OF GOD’ Although the church realizes that it may be painful for infertile couples not to be able to bear a child, they have the option of adopting, she says. “A child is a gift of God. You can't demand to have one as you can demand an education or to be able to buy your favorite brand of coffee Epstein, voicing an oft-heard concern, wonders how children will be affected. How will they react to being told their mothers gave them up for adoption, not because they didn't have the means to raise them, but because they had entered into a profit-making contract? “I don’t deny to appear not empathetic