Janvary 4, 1987 ‘AUG. 7.1947 ‘snasnaan OF THE 8.C. PREBS COUNCR ESTABLISHED Twice ween 1990 WCORPORATING Th ao. With MIRROR PUBLINED Sart 12. 1978-AUKS. 27,1980 A.V, CAMPREL, — PUBLISHER AUG. 7, 1947-08. 15. 19/9 —Burt Campbell MANAGER CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heather Hadley LY MAY — Gary Fleming woncs OF vested in and belongs ony odverusement prepered trom repr the odvertiwer 0 prowhs, eng belong to on te Cattle Nwrn ind provided. Newever vo in that Me Ble produced by Castle News Lid. 1 ‘dnd thet pert only of shall remain in ond », by the odv It's our 40th year! 1987 represents a new begin- ning for everyone, but holds a special significance tor us at the Castlegar News, because it marks the paper's 40th year ot continuous operation. It was 1947 — Aug: 7 to be exact -— when L.V. Campbell published the first issue of what was then known as the “The Castle News — Castlegar’s advertising medium published every Thursday and distributed trom Kinnaird to Brilliant.” That initial issue was a tar cry trom today's product. For one thing it was physically smaller, measuring just 8% inches wide by 14 inches tall. And it was only tour pages The appearance was also vastly different than the 1987 Castlegar News. The adver- tisements which occupied much of the four pages were typed instead ot printed and many contained hand drawn lettering and artwork. But that humble beginning in 1947 was just that — a beginning For the next 40 years the Castlegar News grew along with the com- munity it reflected within its pages. Today, the community and the newspaper have come a long way. Like any quality community newspaper, the Castlegar News hasn't only reflected community lite. It has also taken a leadership role in the community and provided a forum for new ideas and stimulating concepts. But perhaps its most significant role has been as the ‘the glue” that helps bind the community together. It ensures that the community's difterent segments are aware of the goings- on in other parts of the area, thus helping tp bring the town and its residents Floser together As rt of our 40th birthday we plana number of special features ‘and events throughout the year. We hope that through these special events our readers and advertisers can share in the pride we take in celebrating this, our 40th year. Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at: 197 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. Letters must be signed and in- clude the writer's full name and address. Qnly in very exceptional cases will letters) be publishd without the writer's name. Never- theless, the name and address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor. The Castlegar News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality and grammar ee ene Ron Norman Flying out of Castlegar at Christ mas is like playing Russian roulette with a gun that has one empty chamber. Oh, alright, I'll concede the odds are slightly better than that — but only slightly. I should know. Three of the last four times I've flown either in or out of Castlegar during the Christmas holidays I've had to bus part way. (Quick, how can you tell a Castle- gar-bound passenger at Vancouver International Airport? He's the one stocking up on magazines and food for the bus trip from Penticton to Castlegar.) I was told to try Air BC. Friends said Dash-7s have a better chance of getting in during low cloud cover than PWA's 737 jets. I scoffed at-the advice. Besides, PWA not only of fered jet service, but it was mar- ginally cheaper. How could I lose? I should have listened to the advice. There I was at Castlegar Airport a few days before Christ. mas, family in tow, waiting for the 3:30 p.m. PWA flight to Vancouver. Clouds obscured the top of Sentinel Mountain — a sure sign of trouble.~ All my wife and I talked about that morning was our chances of getting out of Castlegar. Our spirits went up and down with the cloud cover. The worst part is the waiting at the airport (I take that back. The worst part is the bus ride). Half the people inside the terminal are wondering if they’re going to get out and the other half are wonder ing if their friends and relatives are going to get in. And it didn’t help*any that the flight was a half hour late. “Oh, it'll get in,” says a friendly car rental clerk confidently. “If it's not too dark.” Dark? What's this about dark? I thought if PWA got a jet into Castlegar, they got it out. I had understood there is no way PWA would have the jet in Castlegar over overnight. “Oh, no. I've seen them leave a jet in here overnight,” says the now overly informative car rental clerk. Great. Not only do I have to worry about the clouds, but night fall as well. And PWA keeps you guessing right to the last minute. “The flight to Castlegar has de- parted Penticton airport,” booms an official voice over the airport loud- speaker. The voice says the pilot will circle over Castlegar and see if there’s a hole in the cloud cover for a landing. Another 15 minutes later and some of the passengers head outside. They hear the incoming jet and try to spot it. No such luck. The jet can be heard circling overhead and then roaring off into the dis- tance towards Penticton. A few seconds later the PWA voice breaks the news to passengers who have already guessed the worst. From there, the scene is kind of controlled chaos as passengers try to crowd the ticket counter, claim their luggage and head for a waiting bus. Actually, the cancelled-flight-bus- ride-to-Penticton scenario isn't all that bad if only PWA made some minor modifications to its operation. No one carblame the airline for not landing a jet’ in horrendous weather conditions (though it didn't help any that the Air BC flight took off about a half hour earlier in front of all the waiting PWA passengers. I should have listened to that advice). But one improvement PWA could make is in the switch from plane to bus. The passengers have to collect their own luggage and transfer it to the bus — while PWA baggage handlers sit around. It was the same when the bus arrived at the Pen- ticton airport. The driver told everyone to haul their own luggage into the airport check-in counter. Wouldn't it make more sense to announce that anyone not taking the bus — the minority of passengers — collect their luggage. Otherwise, all other luggage will be automatically transferred to the bus for the trip to Penticton? And when the bus gets to Penticton, shouldn't PWA as sume responsibility for the luggage getting on the plane? PWA has been coping with the weather and the bus ride for years so you'd think they would have figured all this out by now. Letters to the Editor Remember When? 35 YEARS AGO From the Jan. oie New The Stanley Hntphcia | high school ; presented a Christmas concert recently with some 200: students taking part. ' ‘This was the first of its kind and was | very much enjoyed first by the whole, | school’ at a matinee performance and | then by a large audience of parents and | friends in the evening. . hs Friday evening “Dee. 28 the stork ” won a race with the Castlegar Taxi : when Mrs. A. Réad was being rushed to the Nelson hospital. An eight- pound baby girl arrived en route, and both mother and daughter are doing well. Mrs. L. Howes accompanied Mrs. Read on the hurried trip. A special tmoating was held by the Village Commissioners on Wednesday evening to elect. a chairman of the board for the year 1952. ‘A ballot vote was taken and Com- missioner Oglow was selected. Playing at the Castle Theatre is Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm, starring Richard Long, Meg Randall and Ray Collins. children spent more than 12 hours in a — car stuck .on the unopened Christina Lake-Kinnaird highway Monday while the husband walked through deep snow to Christina Lake to seek help. A son, Ross McLennan, who started to” accompany his dad on the trek became tired and stayed behind in an abandoned guard’s shack on the highway, while his dad continued on to Christina Take: + A Cities: official, J.R. (Rex) Me- Meekin, is the guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce to be held Jan. 16 at the Kinnaird Im- Waterslide makes sense In regards to the letter in the Dec. 21 issue “Waterslides not wanted” by E.B. Crosfield: It is obvious that the writer is opposed to the waterslide project. In the letter the writer refers to it as a “plastic toy for the dubious pleasure and entertainment of those who happen to be passing through this area.” What about the people who don't just pass through here, but live here? Or should we take our money to Nel son's Aquatic Centre or to Kelowna’s waterslides :nd spend it there? Personally, I think it makes more sense to keep it in our own community, and if we had a choice, we would. The lack of water in Ootischenia was also mentioned in the letter; I doubt that CETAC would be willing to spend $2 million on a waterslide project and not have any water. With this proposal, there's finally a Nelson utility maligned The City of Nelson Electric Utility has been maligned. In a letter pginted in your Dec. 14 edition, Mrs. SV. Webster made pass- ing comment afpput the alleged “decre- pit state of th@City of Nelson power plant...” This slander is typical of the lack of recognition given the only true locally- owned power generating and distribut- ing utility on our region. In fact, Nelson's plant is the most up-to-date on the Kootenay River, surpassing West Kootenay Power turbines in efficiency. Upgrading undertaken these past 10 years have seen our utility mature into a community-owned facility that re ceives accolades from the B.C. Utility Commission, charges rates lower than B.C. Hydro’s and is lean enough to pass a healthy profit over to its owners — the citizens of Nelson Sadly, even some local politicians seem to be unaware of Nelson's utility role or of our history as the first generator of hydro electricity in the province of B.C., and on the Kootenay River since 1905. It is time the region recognized the good example and potential of community-owned utilities through Nelson's example. I have invited Mr. Webster to tour our generating facilities to learn the happy facts of community power gen. eration. I invite local elected officials to do the same. The CasNews rmighhwant to come along and do a feature on just how efficient and well-run such a com. munity operation can be. Gerald Rotering, Mayor of Nelson light at the end of the tunnel. Something for us, in our own town. A town, I might add, that seems to refuse to grow. There always seem to be people standing in the way of projects that would help this town grow, to create jobs, to create interest in what Ialso agree to be an area of natural beauty. This project would bring desperately needed jobs and the writer opposes it. What light does that bring us? We want to stay here, raise. our family here, to be given a chance to make it. But such opposing talk doesn't leave us much to make it with. After all what is there here for young people, to keep them here, the pulp. mill, Cominco? It makesme so angry to see a future for us shut down by someone who says he/she doesn’t want an environment of “conspicuous consumption.” Then tell me what you consider Cominco or the pulp mill to be! And what enviror- mental damage would a waterslide do? “Being born and raised here, I've watched Nelson, Trail and other sur- rounding towns grow and develop, all but Castlegar. I know the construction Pi Society Hall. . * 8 Castlegar council was asked by letter by the CPR at its last meeting if it had any objections to the CPR disposing of its facilities at Brilliant.“ The CPR will be advised that the village has no objections. Several years ago tRe village had no objections when the CPR took its agent out of ttre small station. 15 YEARS AGO From the Jan. 6, 1972 Castlegar News Mayor Colin Maddocks of Kinnaird has involved a seldom-used section of and exi of the lides won't make our future, but it is a positive step. I understand those of you who are worried that nature's beauty would be damaged by this project, but it’s not a factory having smokestacks with puffs of pollutants filling the air, it’s just a waterslide for kids and grown-ups alike. M.E. Graham Castlegar Waterslide project good news for area It is good to hear that the waterslide and recreational development in Ootis. chenia is once more in the news. Tourism is getting to be a huge industry and we cannot afford to pass up any opportunities that arise. Unem- ployment is very high in this area and many people, especially our youth, would benefit directly from this busi- ness. In addition, there would be spin-off effects from this to other tourist areas in Castlegar. Hopefully, the people in Ootischenia will be able to reconsider their position and be able to accept the positives of such a business rather than what ap- pears to be a threat to their privacy. Remember, we cannot afford to stand still in our development, as a stagnant economy means that we are going backward. We must grow and keep up with our neighbors and be more ag: gressive where possible. I am told that there are no less than six waterslides in the Okanagan Valley. What is the matter with the Kootenays? It appears that the regional district is endeavoring to be democratic in its decisions, however, it should — in an effort to be fair — consider the validity of all arguments, whether pro or con, when arriving at a decision. My hat goes off to the investors of this plan (CETAC Development Ltd.) and I hope that their foresight and integrity will move them on to success in. this enterprise. Ray Gattinger Castlegar Doukhobors too far gone from concept Just a word on the twisted percep- tion of John Perepolkin in your Dec. 7 letters to the editor. Not that we hold any ill feelings towards USCC members, for we de- fended their principles in the past. What other reconciliation Mr. Pere polkin is expecting is not too clear to outsiders. The Reformed executive did not fall into the trap set by Verigin and the CBC, so Mr. Perepolkin should build his hopes too high for getting these people to do his fighting for him. If he wants to fulfill the Epistle of Apostle Paul in his struggle against the “rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places,” he should do so himself. These people have had enough of his covert idealism. Mr. Bourne may eventually get the Doukhobors to have one. philosophy, only. not in the way Mr. Perepolkin may imagine, for the Doukhobors are too far gone from their true Christian concept, nd it will take a lot to put them on the right track. Mike E. Chernenkoff Crescent Valley the M Act to stall a motion passed at Monday night's council meeting that had met with his dis- approval. The motion, moved by Ald. Gerry Rust, concerned the appointment of alternate delegates to regional districts throughout the province. . 8 8 Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Castlegar set up road blocks during the Christmas festivities and intensified their drive against drinking drivers on New Years Eve. They failed to make any arrests. Those’ accidents reported by the police over the holidays were mostly caused by slippery road conditions. . 8 « The Castlegar Midget Rep hockey team got their revenge for the week before’s defeat Sunday by downing Trail 7-5 at the Cominco Arena in Trail. The previous game held in the Castlegar Arena saw Trail come from behind in the third period to defeat the locals 6-4. . 8 8 Theft of 35 cases of beer on New Year's Day was reported to police by Public Freightways of Kinnaird. 5 YEARS AGO From the Jan. 3, 1982 Castlegar News A bitter four-month organizing row between two rival unions will shift tomorrow from Cominco Ltd.'s Trail and Kimberley operations to the B.C. Labor Relations Board. \ Board officials will meet with both sides to discuss whether a hearing should be held on a representation vote. * ee New Year's Eve was remarkably quiet in Castlegar this year — at least as far as the police were concerned. Castlegar. RGMP. said person was charge driving. only, one drinking- s 8 8 New Year's Eve fun started early for one Castlegar resident as local RCMP reported the theft of a Safeway semi. tractor-trailer unit from the parking lot of the Hi Arrow Motor Hotel early Thursday morning. oo + 8 6 It's already Jan. 3 and Castlegar still does not have its New Year baby, but we came oh so close. With less than four hours to go until 1982, a young Castlegar couple gave birth to a six-pound, 15-ounce girl shen ART OPENING .. . Sue Lent with some of her pain’ nes ‘on display at the Soup and Sand: ” Shoppe. Exhibition is another in the Castlegar Arts Council's Presentation Series and runs all this month. . « BOSTON (AP) — Watch out Colbys, Ewings and Car- ingtons. The pint-sized Per- The Perkins | Family, which tonight on PBS, is premiers the brainchild of John Bink- ley, who says 20 years of working in children's teatre epnvinced him improvisation was the best way for young- sters to perform. As the story line went for wife, much to the dismay of her husband and children: Fourteen-year-old Tracy began dating boy against her parents” wishes. Matt, the boyfriend whose parents are divorced, had a brush with drugs. A group of children aged seven to 16 came up with the story ideas for the first 13 half-hour segments, which were fitmed in Austin, Tex. Professional writers broke the story lines into show and scene lengths and the child actors themselves filled in the ‘dialogue. “The uniqueness -of this program is that you're seeing adults from the eyes of chil- dren, which would be differ- ent than seeing adults television. A pilot he made with All in the Family producer Norman Lear was rejected by the three commercial networks, which were worried about kids working with the script, Binkley said. 0% He took the idea to Britain, where No Adults Allowed became a success on chil- dren’s. television. He ‘re- turned to'the United States and sold the idea to PBS. “The kids who play adults take themselves very ser- iously,” Binkley said in a re- cent interview. “We don't start out to make fun of the adults the way some adult Print display to open in Nelson An @éxhibition of original limited edition prints by AUTHOR HAS A TALE OF BIG LIES By DIANE MENZIES Canadian Press Just talking about lies makes author Timothy Findlay angry. Especially the big ones. “The whole North American version of civilization is woven with lies,” he says, jabbing the air with his cigarette: Ronald Reagan talks about what his govetnmért i8"* doing for the country and America is in disarray. And there is appalling poverty. “And our government is destroying our integrity to follow the United States.” Findlay calls his latest book, The Telling of Lies, a novel in mystery form. But the author of such serious fiction as Not Wanted on OOK REVIEW the Voyage, Famous Last Words and The Wars isn't comfortable with just plain mystery. EVERYONE LIES In the Telling of Lies, everyone lies. Innocuous lies — Vanessa Van Horne lies to herself about taking her heart pills — provide the framework for the soul-destroying lies, the kind that mlakes people kill. And since this is a mystery, someone does get killed. The greenish corpse of drug mogul Calder Maddox, about 90, is found slumped in a deck-chair on‘the beach. It looks like a stroke, but that's a lie. Findlay's bleak commentary on North American society is set in and around the Aurora Sands Hotel, based on the real, though closed, Atlantic House Hotel in Scarborough, Me. The author spent part of every summer for 50 years in this four-storey, multi-windowed hotel with its peeling white paint and green roof. THE LAST SUMMER Van Horne, wealthy and almost 60, her childhood friends, and her mother's rigidly corseted friends are spending their last summer at the hotel. It has been sold. With Maddox's death, the well-maintained illusion of propriety, sophistication and gentility is shattered, at least ry for those who try to learn the truth. Van Horne, not your average sleuth, hunts for an abducted friend, Maddox's mistress, and stumbles on some sinister truths about the CIA, Maddox and drug experiments with humian guinea pigs. Now about’ the iceberg that looms 8minously just offshore in this book. Why an iceberg? “The iceberg is almost a joke,” Findlay says. “I caught sight of it in my mind as Vanessa was walking down the beach. “I thought, ‘Let’s have a symbol that looks like the Capitol Building in Washington.” PICKS MEANING It could be a symbol of ecological damage, the horror of drugs and disease, he suggests. -*T-can almost believe that AIDS was stage-managed in = society it is both homophobic and terrified of drugs. “This isn’t wildness. Where did legionnaire’s disease and AIDS come from?” And the CIA did experiment with drugs and people in the '50s. “The iceberg is part of that.” Yes, it could be that. Then maybe it’s just an iceberg that floated south so a major-general from Winnipeg, a guest at the hotel, could yell, “Blow the bugger out of the water.” Findlay says his favorite part in the book is when a ‘plane flies over the iceberg trailed by a long banner reading: BERGS GO BETTER WITH COKE. How truly America, he says. He means it too. CAN BE WITTY On the whole, this is not a funny book but Findlay does occasionally display a skewering wit. A Filipino maid is named Imelda although the passage about her shoes was dropped because Findlay’s editor didn't get the joke. Between lies in this book, Findlay fascination with things Japanese. Van Horne and her parents were interned in a Japanese camp during the war; entries in Van Horne’s diary, which is the book, are numbered rather than dated. Findlay explains this is tied to the Japanese pillow book Van Horne is reading. It’s a different appraoch to time. And Van Horne herself, an aging virgin who decided long ago that love is treacherous, creates Japanese gardens and finds life in elaborate designs raked in sand. Findlay plays with time and reality in this book. And he raises disturbing questions about power and justice. He sees truth as a fragile and rare thing — and it's awfully depressing to think he may be right. The Telling of Lies is a good read and the character of Vanessa Van Horne deserves to live in more than one novel. The Telling of Lies, by Timothy Findlay. Published by Viking; distributed by Penguin Books Canada; 256 pages; $19.59. indulges his prii 's from the Koot- enay Boundary region opens at the Nelson Museum Mon- day and runs until Jan. 31. Curated by Margo Willi- ams of Rossland under the auspices of the Grand Forks Art Gallery, the show in- cludes 43 works by 22 artists, encompassing many different aspects of this complex field of fine art. In searching out the works for the exhibition, Williams's criteria was that the works be produced by a one-at-a time hand-pulled process ra- ther than a photomechanical one, although the new pro- cess also produces limited edition prints. Williams's ob- ject was to show the variety of relief prints, either em- bossed or Japanese wood block, lithographs, sereigra- phs, intaglio, collagraphs, and linocuts. Artists represented in the exhibit include Ingrid Baker, Mary Baravalle, Cline, Carol Cough, Dosie Crawford, Val Eccles, Ted Fogg, Judith Foster, Richard Gross, Jenni- fer Hall, Walter Jenkins, —_ Red Taq Special Spokane SUNTREE 8 INN Carroll marries ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Singer Vic Damone and Dynasty TV star Dia- hann Carroll decided to start their honeymoon Saturday night by going on stage to- gether. The singing couple, ap- pearing at the Golden Nug- get Hotel Casino, announced they would wed Saturday. MAPLE LEAF TRAVEL RENO COACH TOURS JANUARY 14-31 Comstock FEBRUARY 1-7 Cireus Circus . FEBRUARY 7-14 All prices double, twin ‘Ask about Discover Conede 20-day tour Aug. 2h Sept 18. 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