‘ — a2__Castlégar News December 24, 1986 Workin ristmas Day Senta Claus is not the only one who has to work on Christmas Day. Stories and photos by Mike Kalesniko and Surj Ratton CHARLES . . working in church next door While the majority of the world’s work torce will temporarily leave their jobs on Christmas Day to attend to other chores such as unwrapping presents and carving turkeys, it will be business as usual for a tew of us Whether it is removing snow from a runway at an airport, pertorming emergency surgery in a hospital or putting through an overseas phone call some people just cannot take Christmas day off The CasNews introduces yau to a tew of those people in this area Never misses a Christmas Though some may have to work Christmas Day only once every few years, there is one man in Castlegar who has to work every single one . . . Reverand Charles Balfour “The work doesn't take away from Christmas for me. said Balfour. “It fits right in with the celebration anyway.” “If I was in another line of work I might find it hard to keep going.” he said. Balfour, who has two children, ages six to two, says his children understand what he has to do. “They know daddy is a minister in the church next door,” he said. “As they get older they're going to understand about Jesus.” “They can see and understand on their own level right now that there is more than just Santa,” he said Balfour said he will try and have some time with his children Christmas morning to open some of their presents but they have to open the rest after church service in the afternoon. Balfour said his children will be present for the 10 a.m. service, “making for lots of excitement in there.” “David (the youngest) especially finds it hard to git down,” he said. “I don't mind if he runs around a bit: * Balfour said he and his family generally try to have a guest for Christmas dinner, someone who might not otherwise have a place to go, but he Still says the day is a family event. “It's a mixed blessing to be sure.” GiB SCUEPFER opening presents Christmas Eve relatives. destinations is Highways Christmas Day In addition to opening presents on Christmas Day some people will also be travelling to see friends and One of those who will help get people to their Ministry employee Gib Schuepfer who will be operating the Castlegar Ferry on Keeping cars moving “Someone has to do jt. It’s an extra pay job and there's not much traffic so I don't mind doing it,” says Schuepfer . He adds that the only difficult part aboyt working Christmas Day is that opening present’ with your children can be interrupted “I'm working the day shifts so we'll just open our presents on Christmas Eve.” CLAUDE TREMBALY ... a double dose of good luck working both Christmas and his brithday Planes still fly Though business may be a bit slower, planes just keep flying Christmas Day and—air traffic controller Claude Tremblay is there to help make sure they do Tremblay, who has only been in Castlegar since last February, doesn't have any family here, so working Christmas Day isn't a problem “I sort of volunteered to work then,” he said. “I guess I'm just lucky.” Tremblay plans to visit his family in Montreal in January, but until then it’s business as usual “It's a little slower actually, since Selkirk (College Open all day every day When an establishment advertises that it’s open 24 hours, that means someone like Mohawk shift supervisor Syd Barley will be behind the till Christmas Day “In this kind of business, you have to stay open,” said Barley Barley said now that his four children are fully grown that working Christmas isn't difficult. Besides, his wife also works Christmas Day T'll get New Year's off handle it here.” Barley said Christmas business at the Mohawk station is usually related to the gifts under the tree It’s usually things like film and flash cubes,” he said And batteries, they always forget them for the toys g open,” said Barley you ffeel like you're doing he said. “That's the way we They always appreciate us When they tell us that something worthwhile. continued on poge A3 aviation students) won't be flying between Christmas and New Year's,” he said. “But scheduled flights will still be coming in.” Tremblay has to work from Dec 24th, his birthday “I was lucky up until now,” he said But Tremblay doesn't hesitate to mention that he won't be joining in on any of the Christmas cheer “Because of the nature of the job, we just cannot drink, now even during the days,” he said. “It wouldn't be a wise thing to do.” 26, including the SYD BARLEY wife works too December 24,1906 Casthégar News 43 WINNIPEG (CP) — Five Manitobans had a special reason to get together this holiday season — they wanted to toast the donors who gave them a gift of life. “At one point, I never thought I'd see another Christmas,” said Maureen Baraneiski, Manitoba's longest surviving heart transplant patient. “This one makes three.” Baraneiski, 47, and four other heart recipients said their recent Christmas party gave them time to reflect on their good fortune and give each other a needed boost. “I think it's good having this kind of support around,” said Leo Wolitzer, 55, who underwent a transplant operation on Mareh 3. The five have set up an informal self-help group because of the demands made during the transition from hospital to home. One of the first items on their agenda was to have a Christmas party at Baraneiski’s home. She received her new heart in April 1983, at University Hospital in London, Ont., and since then, nine other Manitobans have gone to Ontario for the surgery. Two remain in hospital, another two have died and one other couldn't attend the party because of other commitments. SIX MONTHS TO LIVE Diagnosed in 1980 as having cardiomyopathy, 4 progréssive degeneration of the heart muscles, Baran- eiski said doctors told her she had only six months to live. It wasn’t until a couple of months after her operation that she met the parents of the London youth whose Heart patients celebrate gift heart now beats in her chest. “That was a very, very special meeting,” she recalled. “I wanted to thank them for what they did for me. We keep in touch. I visit them each time I go to London and we exchange Christmas cards.” Another heart recipient, Don Lugtig, was told in December 1984, that his heart disease had reached a point where he probably wouldn't have much longer to live. “That was a pretty bleak Christmas,” Lugtig, 58, says. “Now, it's quite a thing to be able to be alive,” said the social worker who had his transplant surgery in early 1985. But unlike Baraneiski, Lugtig said he doesn't want to know who donated the heart. “I'm not sure that’s such a hot idea,” he said in a recent interview. “To lay my problems on to them and for them to lay their problems on me . . . if a person doesn't make it, then what?” Doctors estimate that if a transplant patient doesn't die on the operating table, there's a 76-per-cent chance the patient will survive several more years. That's a significant improvement in survival rates from just a few years ago, Lugtig said. He added all five members of the Manitoba group hope to enjoy many more Christmases with each other and with their families. Recollections of By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer We all have special memories of Christmas, ranging from general recollections of family gatherings and holiday feasts, to one particular event we will never forget For some prominent Castlegar personalities we spoke to, the most memorable Christmas was a plea sure to recall Selkirk college board president Leo Perra remembers a warm Christmas sleigh ride when he was a boy in northern Alberta When I was around seven or eight, on this particular day we took the train (from Spirit River) to my grandparents’ farm (in Codesa) 40 miles away We were met at the train station by my grandfather in a horse drawn caboose. I can re member a wood stove heater and being tucked under big blankets for the five to six-mile trip to the farm We got in half an hour before Christmas dinner “It was a tradition to spend Christmas dinner at my grandpar ents. But because of snow conditions the only way to get there was by train and my grandfather had to meet us there with his little sleigh Columnist John Charters’s most memorable Christmas was not memorable because of the gifts he received but because of the meal he was served while a boy living on Burrard Inlet near Vancouver. “In certain parts of Britain it is the custom to hang poultry — wild and domestic — by the neck until the body falls away from the head Only then it is cooked. The meat so treated is said to be ‘high.” “My. mother, an AngloSat and while a traditionalist in most things at the Christmas season, always cooked a fine Canadian turkey rather than the traditional goose “Then, one Christmas our butcher an Englishman — pursuaded her to buy a goose. I can recall, during the cooking of that goose on Christmas day, there were some puzzled looks and wrinkled noses, but since it was our first goose nothing was said. When it arrived at the table and father started to carve it, there was no longer any doubt in anyone's mind. That game was bad and we had a vegetarian dinner The day after Boxing Day I took the goose back to the buteher. On hearing my complaint, he said, ‘I can't believe it. It looks beautiful He took a knife and cut a slice and ate it. I expected to see a grimace of @isgust. Incredulous, I saw him beam and say, ‘Delicious! Perfect. You wished to exchange this bird? Did you wish another goose™ “ ‘No,’ I said (I could still smell that one). ‘Till take a turkey.’ “| got a turkey twice the size of the goose and we had it, in all its gragrant glory, for New Year's “Mr. Greenwood, the butcher probably ate his odiforous goose at once “There are forgotten memories, but I will never forget the Christ mas when the goose hung — high And I wished, uncharitably, the same fate on the butcher.” . . . Castlegar school board Chairman Kay Johnson can remember her most “unusual” Christmas. It was 37°C in the shade, people were sunbathing and, as you may have guessed, she wasn't in Castlegar In 1971 Johnson worked for a year in a hospital in Addington South Africa. She said on Christmas Eve, she and a friend dressed up “in all our finery” and went out for dinner We ordered this seven-course meal. There was a salad, and a fish course and a vegetable course and on and on.” “We spent about three hours al together in this hotel dining room Then we walked home, I was living in the dorms, and it was about 100°(F) outside “I remember we marvelled at the Christmas before because it was one of the few Christmases with snow in Vancouver “I had to work the next day but I remember perfectly looking outside at the Indian Ocean and all those people sunbathing on the beach.” Gary Pearson, Castlegar Cham ber of Commerce President, recalls a special Christmas he spent on the Arrow Lakes. “One Christmas was spent at the cabin on the Arrow Lakes (at Deer Park in 1978). There was no elec tricity so we had to put candles on the trees. It was really a beautiful site to see the candles glowing. We spent a really nice night waiting for Santa to arrive, in conversation watching the candles. Vice-chairman of Selkirk College board, Elizabeth Fleet, said her most memorable Christmas was her first one in Canada, away from her native England “Christmas of 1966 was a memor able one for me. It was my first family school in Prince KAY JOHNSON Christmas in South Atrica Christmas in Canada and the first one which I had spent away from my I was teaching at the junior high Christmas I had been so busy that I fair.” he said hadn't really had time to think about best Christmases England or feel homesick. I was secretly rather afraid that Christ mas would be the time when I would feel loneliness and long to be ‘at home “It_ was such a surprise to me when I was asked to share in a Nor wegian Christmas Eve celebration, complete with all sorts of inter. esting traditions and I was also invited to join a family on Christmas Day. I have very few memories of specific Christmas gifts, but that demonstration of the spirit of Christmas to a new Canadian was a treasured gift for me Wade Zammit, general manager of Westar Timber's Southern Forest Products, didn't have to stop and think about his most memorable Christmas, it was in 1984 “The reason it's my most memor able is because it was the first with my little boy and the first Christmas here (in Castlegar) “We got into the house at the beginning of November and David was born on the 17th Zammit said on Christmas day he and his wife dressed David in a little Santa Clause suit with a little hat Rupert and until “It was a pretty nice family af That's pretty much what Christmas is about or continued from page A2 To no one’s surprise Christmas music will be the order of the day on Christmas Day on radio station CKQR. One ‘QR employee who will have to work Christmas day to ensure that the radio station stays on the air is announcer and music director Scott Jellicoe, who will be working the 6-10 a.m. shift. “It's really not that bad working on Christmas. It doesn’t matter to me that I have to work on Christmas Day if it will give someone else a chance to be home with their family because mine live in Ontario,” says Jellicoe. He adds that most of the people who work at the radio station are from out of town and that those who worked last Christmas Day will be able to be home to their families this year No holiday from illness Just because some people take a holiday from work on Christmas Day, that doesn't mean they take a holiday from being sick. And one person to attend to the sick and injured at Castlegar hospital on Christmas Day will be nurse Bonnie Thompson. She said “naturally” she would like to have the day off, but someone has to look after the needs of the hospital patients. “People are always sick and the hospital has to be open for them. My children would prefer I would not have to work but I've always worked on Christmas and they're now used to it,” said Thompson. She adds that in the past she and her family would > ACORN TREE Meeting held to break stalemate WASHINGTON (CP) — Canadian and U.S. government officials met again Tuesday in a bid to break a months-long stalemate in a dispute over imports of softwood lumber from Canada U.S. lumber industry sources said they expected the Canadian negotiating team to present a new proposal for resolving the dispute following day-long talks in Ottawa on Monday between federal and provincial representatives. Hanging over the talks is a final U.S. trade ruling due by midnight the night of Dec. 30 on whether Canadian timber-cutting fees qualify as'a subsidy under U.S. trade law The U.S. Commerce Department upheld a U.S. lumber industry complaint of subsidy in October and imposed a preliminary penalty duty of 15 per cent on imports of Canadian softwood, worth about $4 billion Cdn. last year The U.S. industry, represented by the Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports, contends unfairly low timber-cutting fees in Canada have allowed Canadian producers to flood the U.S market with cheap lumber, driving down U.S. prices and foreing the closure of more than 600 sawmills. U.S. and Canadian negotiators are attempting to nail down a settlement package that will persuade the coalition to drop its petition for a penalty duty. The trade case can only be halted at the request of the coalition Formal negotiations broke Friday for the weekend without an agreement, despite four days of virtual round-the-clock negotiations during which both sides rejected each other's proposals for settling the dispute SIDES AGREE Canada and the United States have agreed that the Canadian government should impose an immediate export tax of 15 per cent on the shipments south of the border. But they are bogged down over Canada’s plan to eliminate the tax gradually as the province raise timber-cutting fees At issue is how much timber-cutting fees have to be increased to maintain the 15-per-cent increase in the export price of Canadian lumber guaranteed by the tax and also how a potential agreement would be enforced U.S. industry sources said Canada made a verbal offer last week to raise the fees by an extra $550 million Cdn. a year, whereas the latest U.S. proposal called for an increase of $860 million Cdn. a year The sources said Canada is balking over U.S. demands that the United States have a role in policing the agreement while reserving the right to use U.S. trade penalty laws against lumber imports from Canada in the future if Canada does not live up to the agreement Another obstacle to settlement Canadian government's decision not to introduce export tax legislation in the House of Commons before it adjourned for the three-week Christmas break Friday U.S. industry sources said they would be loathe to withdraw their petition without a guarantee that the export tax would be implemented Jan. 1. They fear Canadian producers would take advantage of any time lag to step up their lumber shipments to the United States Don Mazankowski, deputy prime minister, said Friday the government would consider recalling members of Parliament to Ottawa if legislation is needed to settle the stems from the dispute WORKING CHRISTMAS SCOTT JELLICOE spinning Christmas music open one present each on Christmas Eve and the rest when she returned from work. She says this year all of the presents will be opened after she gets home from work Castlegar man killed A 20-year-old employee of the Celgar pulp mill was killed in an industrial accident at the Castlegar mill at about 9 p.m. Monday night RCMP said Leigh Lalonde, who was a student at Douglas College and had only worked a few part-time shifts at the mill, died after a stack of pulp toppled onto him Prayers will be recited Friday at 7 p.m. at St. Rita's Catholic Church. Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. Saturday The Lalonde family requests in lieu of flowers that donations be made to the Rick Hansen Man In Motion Tour AVIATION HISTORY EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. (AP) — Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, wobbly after achieving one of aviation’'s last great goals, were praised as a living example of American pioneerism” for flying around the world without refuelling. Rutan, 48, and Yeager, 34, set down at 8:06 a.m. Tuesday after nine days of bruising turbulence, numbing fatigue, uncertainty over their fuel supplies and mechanical problems that included a five-minute loss of power Thousands of spectators cheered as they climbed out of the telephone booth-sized cabin in which they had been sealed for more than 216 hours. The National Aeronautic Association credited Voyager with 25,012 nautical miles, but flight officials said the final distance would probably exceed 26,000 nautical miles. They are a living example of American pioneerism at its best,” said President Ronald Reagan, who watched the landing on a TV set in his private study at the White House. Reagan said he would give Rutan and Yeager the Presidential Citizens Medal, established in 1969 by President Richard Nixon to recognize U.S. citizens for service to their country or fellow citizens. LIKES CHALLENGE “The challenges were certainly there, like, What am I doing here and why and is it really worth it," Rutan told a news conference. “But you ask yourself are you going to turn around and go back, and you know the answer is — you are not going to turn around, you got this far, you're going to continue.” “During the whole flight, there was a challenge around every corner and we've come a long way,” said Yeager. “We're proud.” Asked about his plans, Rutan said he would take a long shower. Asked what her next goal would be, Yeager said, “I'l Record ordeal over find something.” Rutan, a former U.S. air force fighter pilot who lives with Yeager near Voyager's Mojave headquqarters, said he didn't know whether he would ever attempt the feat again, but was glad to have done it. Later, he added, “If it wasn't for the weather, I'd do it again, I guess. Anyway, I'd do it again with her — fly around the world.” BUILDS PLANE Rutan and Yeager led the project since 1981, after Rutan’s brother Burt decided he could build a plane to go around the world without refuelling. The plane took shape in a hangar at Mojave airport, not far from Edwards.“The exact cost hasn't been disclosed but much of the material and equipment was donated by corporate sponsors and individuals. Volun- teers formed the backbone of the project team, including the staff that guided Voyager's flight. Voyager flew over the Pacific, the Philippines, Malaysia, the Indian Ocean, Africa, the Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea and Central America before reaching the Pacific again and turning north to California. “We've come a long way. We've learned . . . a lot,” said Yeager, who was bruised from being tossed about in the cabin by turbulence. Other problems included noise, fatigue and cramped quarters. But Rutan said the biggest problem was the anxiety over what lay ahead or “looking around and finding yourself on top of some big thunderstorms in Africa and thinking if one of these engines quits, they're never going to find you.” A faulty gauging system had forced the crew to fly much of the way without knowing how much fuel was left in the 17 tanks. “We sat there for a half a day, I think, realizing that this whole project is gonna end up in some airport in Africa and it's gonna end right there,” Rutan said. Barrett announces political return VANCOUVER (CP) Former British Calumbia premier Dave Barrett is quitting his radio talk show to jump back into polities while current Premier Bill Vander Zalm will launch a radio program of his own next year Barrett told a news conference Tuesday an addiction to polities has made him decide to run in the next federal election The former NDP premier, who governed the province between 1972 and 1975, hosted an open-line program for two years on radio station CJOR Barrett said he talked with federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent but has not decided in which riding he will seek a nomination. He played down talk of running for the national leadership of the party, saying the post was Broadbent's for as long as he wanted Barrett earned an estimated $150,000 salary as a radio host but will still draw a $40,000 annual position for his years in the B.C. legislature Avoid driving when hungover TORONTO (CP) — We know we shouldn't drink and drive. But we also shouldn't drive the morning after if we have hangovers, says a University of Toronto pharmacolo gist You are not entirely sober when you have a hangover says Dr. Harold Kalant, director of bio-behavior research at the Addiction Research Foundation A hangover is the result of the nervous system still being geared up to resist the effects of alcohol even after the alcohol has been burned up in the body. says Kalant in The Medical Post, a newspaper for doctors Alcohol tends to depress compensate, nerve cells rev up. When the alcohol is gone the cells are still excited. So, next morning you're jumpy and irritable, your attention is not sharply focused and you're still likely to make driving errors, he says the nervous system. To ALL IS CALM... . An old water pump. unused for years. stands surrounded by snow in the fading winter light Newfie Duck joins others: on liquor store shelves OTTAWA (CP) — Baby Duck will have to share the liquor store shelves with Newfie Duck. Mr. Justice L Marcel Joyal has ruled Joyal said there are too many other Ducks on the shelves for Andres Wine Ltd. to claim that buyers may confuse Newfie Duck, made by Canadian Marketing International Ltd.. with Baby Duck, made by Andres The Federal Court of Canada judge. in a ruling made public Tuesday, noted that Baby Duck is the most popular wine on the Canadian market. with sales of more than $10 million a year If Newfie Duck was the other Duck brand name Joyal said he might be persuaded to erase it , 1 am concerned, however. with the realities,” he said In wine stores, Baby [Duck and its shelf mate, Newfie Duck would not be engaged in merriment but would perforce of somewhat more sedate bird (such as) Canada Duck Brights Duck, Frosty Duck, Kool Duck and Malt Duck He said Baby Duck sales have boomed despite the competition and Andres didn’t seem to need protection from Newfie Duck. a new entry in the quack pack market 1 pass de deux in a spirit of mutual have to contend with braces