' it ; 4 A2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 1, 1981 The Teachers of Castlegar @ASTLEGAR NEWS, 4 November 1, 1981 A3 Channel 10... from volunteers to living color In Lie of GETTING TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR I visited with Ed Chernoff, the: program ‘director. .for \ ther COMMUNITY'S GROWTH is reflected ina Inland Natural Gas began serving the $79,518 cheque shown here being community approximately 25 years ago. a presented finance chairman Ald. Albert Calderbank, right, by Inland Natural Gas branch manager Jim Pilla. The money represents three per cent of the gross dollars earned by the gas company hose in the city limits. through sales to t! As each household connects to gas ser- vice this in turn adds to the amount the city receives through this annual gift from the company. Last year's cheque was for $74,945. —CosNewsFoto by louis Hughes Voted for reduced week NANAIMO (CP) — Work- ers at MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.’s Harmac pulp and lum- ber mill decided Friday to take a pay cut to lesson the impact of pending layoffs. About 650 of 700 members of Local 8 of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada voted overwhelmingly to have their work week re- duced to 86 hours from ‘40 hours. ; The vote followed four meetings between union and management, recommended by the local 8 executive to lessen the blow of the layoffs at the mill in the Vancouver Island city. Local president Stan She- waga said he was pleased with the membership’s res- ponse. Crash victims _now identified BARKERVILLE (CP) — Four men were killed and two seriously: injured in: the crash of a light. plane at the airport in this central B.C. town Friday night. RCMP said all were Cal- gary residents employed by Mosquito Creek Mining. Dead at the scene were the pilot, Glen Johnson, 47, and mining company official John Lund, 52. Andrew Jukes, 57, and the plane's co-pilot, Leo Wolfe, 47, died overnight in hospital in Prince George. Wolfe had recently left the Canadian Forces, where he had been stationed at Comox, ~C. In hospital at Quesnel in serious but stable condition were Roger Taurigny, 40, and Richard Arndt, 42. RCMP said the twin-en- gine aircraft was owned by Hiwood Air Services. Mosquito Creek mi ager Bob Wyargau, who wt- nessed the crash, said the ‘For the The Oct. 28. Castlegar News article entitled “Race on for mayor's seat” incor- rectly identified Mayor Aud- rey Moore as retired. Moore is a biologist/housewife. As well, the article in- correctly stated Moore was elected to her first term as mayor by acclamation in 1979. Moore was in fact first elected mayor in Jan. 1977 when she defeated four other KIWANIS SKATE-A-THON _ Sat., Nov. 7 PLEDGE WHEN ASKED MAIN ST plane failed to gain altitude, went down and immediately caught. fire -along - its : left wing. He ‘said he could see the impact of the crash had caused serious damage and injuries, but before anything could be done to rescue the men inside, the fire had to be put out. “The union as well as man- agement are willing to make it work,” said Shewaga. “It requires quite a bit of co- operation on both sides. Meetings between the union and management will con- tinue to devise a work sched- ule.” Shewaga said the cut in take-home pay for a single man paid the base rate will be about $60 every two weeks. Brian Smith, industriaL relations manager at Har- mac, said the reduction in hours will cut the number of layoffs to about 80 from the planned 160. “The implementation of anything like this requirs good faith on both the com- pany and the union and dis- cussions so far have con- tained that good faith and we plan to do uor best to make this arrangement work,” he said. Memorial service for Clara Bloomer Memorial service is to be held Wednesday from St. David's Anglican Church at 2 p.m. for a former resident Miss Ada Clara Bloomer, 83, who died Oct. 28 in Victoria after a lengthy illness. Born in 1898 in Kamloops, a daughter of a pioneer family who first came to Castlegar in 1903, she grad- uated from the Nelson High School, winning the Gover- record candidates to complete the term of former mayor Ed Mosby. Then in Nov., 1977 she was elected by acclamation to her second. term. She was also elected by acclamation to her third term in 1979. The article also mistakenly identified aldermanic candi- date Bob MacBain as a B.C. Hydro electric technician. MacBain is a hydro electriy technician with West Koot- enay Power and Light Com- pany. We apologize to both Mayor Moore and Mr. Mac- Bain for any inconvenience caused by the article. MUFFLER Custom Tube Bending All Exhaust Systems Carline Mufflers Nationally Guaranteed 365-5411 Castlegar nor-General’s medal for that year, 1916. Following Normal School training, she taught in Anglican Mission schools on reservations in Alberta, Ontario and the NWT, the last one being at Alert Bay, B.C. Miss Bloomer returned to Castlegar about 1948 and was active in the early library efforts of the community and also spent many years as @ dedicated Sunday School teacher at St. Alban’s Angli- ean Church. She began teaching the primary classes at the Kin- naird Elementary School in 1949 and continued as a well loved and dedicated teacher until her retirement in 1963. She has lived in Victoria for the past several years due to ill health. Miss Bloomer is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Marjorie West of Castlegar, and Mrs. George (Lilian) Craft of Nel- son, one niece and three nephews. Rev. Desmond Carroll will officiate at the service. Mem- orial donations, by those who would so desire, may be made to the British Columbia Heart Fund. Ken Flegel Ed Jones Mon.-Sat. 8a.m.-5 p.m. Dukes of Hazzard” but it’s all yours and that makes it important. It’s your voice to be used)or!not used any way you choose. This past week I visited with Ed Chernoff of the Community Channel 10 on location at the National Exhi- rig bition Centre at the opening of “Kootenay Crafts '81,” an impressive collection of 125 different crafts from all over the Kootenays. I watched while Ed carefully moved the camera to pan certain items then close in on a ceramic dragon. As Bernie Bloom . and Eleanor Pujol-Rodgrigues of the NBC. stood before the camera, mike in hand, Ed with his eye steady on the viewfinder lifted one finger and signalled them to begin. Tapes running. Camera on. “Hello. My name is Bernie Bloom and we're here at Kootenay Boundary Crafts. Oh, that’s wrong, I mean | Kootenay Crafts ‘81. Why BUD GODDERIS inside the head-end trying to get a program over the community chanel don’t we just cut.” Tape stops. Camera stops. A few laughs. Try again. “Maybe I'll get it right this time.” Once again Ed turns on the mike, aims the camera and gives the go-ahead sig- nal, This time everything goes without'a hitch. Bernie and Eleanor walk around the room talking about the var- ious items in the show and Ed zooms in on the pieces, bringing out every colorful detail. Ed has been with the Com- munity Channel for six years now and is the program dir- ector for Trail-Castlegar. Three years ago he was joined by community pro- | grammer Alan McInnes. The two of them can be seen driving around town in their portable “studio,” the Cable LLEN EATON with her latest book, ‘Apples of Gold’. LINDA HALL Getting to Know Your Neighbor West van, to all sorts of ac- tivities and functions throughout the area. Com- munity Channel 10’ is oper- ated under Cable West, the company which brings us our TV ‘programming and FM radio from Spokane. “The idea behind Channel 10,” says Ed, “is ‘community access TV, programs that are accesible to the community. The CRIC (The Canadian Radio and Television Com- mission) has an expression for it; ‘a vehicle for public expression.’ We are here for community groups to make their statements and express their concerrs. We film coun- cil meetings verbatim. We record them exactly as they happen without any editorial comment. So it’s not TV with izazz.” The concept of community channels, I learned, began almost 10 years ago when the National Film Board initiated a “Challenge For Change” program whereby commun- ity groups would express their concerns via video. They “get the example,” states Ed. “Before that no one had access to TV.” The concept of community access , free of cost to the user was initiated. . In those early days an enthusiastic community group, the West Kootenay Cable Vision Society, formed to get the community channel off the ground and on the screen. Bud Godderis, former president of the sociéty re- members “a lot of struggling. We had little in the way of equiment. A lot of us got very good at scrounging to put things together and out over the air.” A group of volunteers pro- duced..the. programs after work in, the evenings and-on... ‘weekends with antiquated black and white cameras. “It was so frustrating,” recalls Bud. “We had very little to = work with.” Original head-end where Castlegar's first Community TV programs were originated. In these days porn pays better than prophesy (un- less you happen to be in the horoscope business) and a great deal better than poet- ry. . The public image of poets is not too wonderful, either. By comparison to the high profile popular magazines, the seductive ladies of the evening, or even murderers and politicians, poets are seen as rather young, far-out, wild-eyed amoral eccentrics or dreamy, hollow-cheeked scholarly shadows who haunt f ratridden garrets or roam about in isolated woods writ- ing such heady stuff as Gertrude Stein's “A rose, is a rose, is a rose.” Naturally, there is a minor- ity both present and past (and I have met several) who live up to this popular image — either because they are natural eccentrics, capitalize on eccentricity or they are slowly starving to death. There is, however a local poet, author and pioneer who is the very antithesis of the popular stereotype. She is a bright-eyed, alert grand- motherly lady with a laugh so infectiously youthful that I . underestimated her 76 years by a good dozen. Much of her life was spent as a “prairie pioneer” with a wealth of experience in the art of rising over difficulties, 4 many of which she recalls in her nine published books of stories and poems. In spite of the fact that she did not gain her high school diploma until her late 50s, she has, since that time, re- ceived two honorary degrees and numerous awards for her pioneer work in poetical form. Her latest work, a book of poems entitled “Apples of The problem? In those days cable companies did not welcome community televi- sion with open arms, but were ordered by the CRTC to include them. They gave them less than their best support and, according to Bud, this is what caused the early enthusiasm of the group to dissipate. For’ a little over three years the station has been operating in full color, and the technical quality is cor- stantly being upgraded. This year, says Ed, they were given the biggest budget in their history. In May ‘they purchased two professional quality color cameras worth $16,000 each. “No other cable It began with a group who produced programs after work in the evenings and on weekends with antiquated black and white cameras... “We were fighters, fight- ers for the Community Chan- nel. We found ourselves in an adversary position with no real accomplishments. It be- came clear to us that what was really needed were peo- ple who would be paid, paid professionals, It becdme too much for volunteers.” ~ Bud is positive the turning point for our Channel 10 came with the hiring of Ed Chernoff. With one small black and white port-a-pak camera, one of the first pro- grams that Ed remembers shooting and airing was the opening of the Rota Villa. senior cliizens’ home. company ina city our size has cameras that large.” eg The previous color camera cost $4,000, so this is quite a. jump. They were also able to obtain a new editing system, ‘an audio mixer, tripods, monitors, microphones and stands an a lot of needed ac- cessories. Almost all of the equip- ment is kept in the back of the van. A studio is located in Rossland, but most of the filming is done on location. “We can turn any place in town into.a studio. It makes sense to be out where the people are.” The programs are filmed and recorded and aired on :Thursday evenings. The main cable office is in Trail and Castlegar’s toll-free tele- phone number is 365-3122. Ed majored in Media Stud- ies and Ryerson College in Toronto where he learned the psychology behind ad- vertising and media and be- came roficient in still photo- of volunteers graphy. Alan was in the gen- eral radio and television pro- gram at Camosun College in Victoria. Before coming to. Castlegar he was employed at the Cable station there. Ed sees the Community Channel as totally different from the commercial net- works. It is TV with res- ponsibility. When you as an individual or a community group go to him with an idea for a program he can guar- antee that your program will say exactly what you want to say. Why? Because you'll do it yourself. Ed and Alan provide the suggestions, but only if you ask. This is especially ben- eficial in filming city council meetings. They are recorded exactly the way they happen, | and you the viewer are left to make up your own about issues. “People have the respon- sibility of creating their own image on community tele- vision. Traditionally people have gone to the media and said, ‘can you do this for me?” but they are not always pleased by the outcome, For people who want this res- ponsibility it is theirs. “Community TV,” contin- ued Ed, “doesn't always look the way the traditional broadcast channels look, but traditional TV, which is watched by everyone, has million-dollar budgets.” Another service the Com- munity Channel offers is in- struction in the use of the cameras and equipment. “We can train the group behind the camera. The students at Stanley Humphries are really you have no desire to learn the rudiments of television more than happy to do all the filming. It’s up to you how much input you want from technical oxportice and offer the ALAN McINNES.... community programmer. Gold” by Lucy Ellen Eaton of Castlegar, has just been pub- lished. “I started off as an Amer- ican,” says Lucy Ellen, “but Tve been a Canadian for 67 years.” Then, she adds with that familiar twinkle, “I guess that gives me somo seniority.” Born Lucy Ellen Graham of Scottish-Swedish parents in the town of Bridgeport, Il- linois, she, her two sisters and a brother moved at an early age with her family to the newly-built Utopian com- munity of Zion, north’: Chicago, under the leader- ship of the Rev. Dr.’ Ale: ander Dowie, and ater to the prairies. Here her mother was invalided by severe ill- ness-and Lucy was taken out of school to care for the fam- ily. Late in the year her parents decided to let her return to the one-room rural school for her Grade 8. “There were two 16-year-old boys in the Grade 8 class,” she says, “attending from December to March (after threshing and before seeding times).” The boys were only filling in time until April so the teacher, who also had only a Grade 8 education, kept all three at fractions until the boys left. Then she tried to prepare Lucy for the June exams by completing the rest of the book at breakneck speed and long hours of study. ‘That June, after a terrible stuggle, she sat for the Grade 8 exams and, two weeks later, was rewarded with her Grade 8 diploma. That was in 1919. when her youngest son was in Grade 11, and after ano- In 1959, 40 years later, JOHN CHARTERS’ Reflections & -Recollections _ ther great struggle, she ob- tained her Grade 12 certi- ficate by correspondence studies, which in turn opened the doors to a job in the civil service. The years in between are crammed with incident — life on the farm and life in the city — bedbugs to bank- raptsy. Any kind of honest work has been the story of Lucy’s’ active life — dress- maker, artist, quilter, maid, motel operator, telephone operator, newspaperwoman and saleswoman — to men- tion only a few. Disasters met and disasters overcame by a kind of dogged optimism and a deep faith. They are all a part of the life story of this pioneering spirit. Since she and her husband, Howard, retired to Castlegar in the 60s, Lucy has been engaged full time in a new career — recalling in her books of- poetry and prose the stories and a way of life which is rapidly becoming a fading memory. Her first book “Dear God,” which came out in 1968 is a series of unusual stories from her experience, on what re-. markable things can come from a deep and abiding faith. The book has gone through five printings now and has sold 5,000 copies, which in Canada, constitutes a best seller. Her first book of poetry “Mount up on Wings” sold 1,000 copies as did ‘Spring Up O Well, Love Drew a Circle, i Lift Up My Eyes and ‘Love Is Acquiring Expertise with the Solomette: was a limited edition and featured a poetic form called the Solomette. It is based on the Songs ~of Solomon and the Proverbs and is a form which she pioneered herself. Love Drew a Circle is a mixture of poetry and prose, Nelson and Castlegar ina live Mere on page AG Lucy Ellen Eaton. ..nine books in 13 years oad Bs POETRY AWARD (Song of Solomon 1:106) THY while her eighth book, “They * Followed Their Star” — short stories of the early days, is also a 1,000-seller. This week she published her ninth book in 18 years and her sixth complete book of poetry. It is called “Apples of Gold,” fittingly bound in a gold cover. It takes its name from a tiny poem called a spinette, and which appears on the first page. The name comes from the “spine” and “rib” form of the poem. APPLES OF, GOLD gentle WORD chosen to conform FITLY to the need, lovingly SPOKEN is golden. ‘There are 185 poems in the book ranging from this tiny one to a three-page story- song called “Don't Let the Fires Go Out.” Also included in the work’ are other experimental forms and rhyming systems such as sonnets, biblettes, etherees, Haiku, Candidas, aquatellas and a number of examples! her own unjque verse i . the Solomonette: Such is: x! Lady of the Year and is its only honorary member. She published her first book with the money from a © small inheritance 18 years ago. Since that time, says Lucy, “It has just kept rolling right along and I'm having 0 much fun.” On March 11, 1961, the Eatons celebrated their 50th year of happily wedded life, so that a-golden book for a golden wedding seems nicest «appropriate. Our corigratu- lations to a pioneering couple and a pioneering poet, Lucy Ellen Eaton. : In the meanwhile, she is taking the writer’s course at Selkirk College under well-