A Castlegar Senior Citizen 1) Life Membership pin was pr to Ernie N at the regular Feb. 6 meet ing. Former president, Curt Waterman commended Mr. Newman on his faithful years in the ¢elub, the last six as Treasurer, as he fastened the pin to Mr. Newman's lapel. Other business concerned “open house” at the centre. Volunteers were lined up to Wolo take turns preparing tea or coffee between 10 a. a 12:30 p.m. to any seniors who wanted to drop in, A small fee was to be charged and this money was to be donated to Timmy's Children’s Fund. As there were so few taking advantage, it was decided to cancel these plans until bet ter weather and a motion was made to donate $100 to the Children's Fund from the se- nior's association. A letter was received from former member Ken Keating who has settled in Perry Sound, Ont. A card was passed around for members to sign and will be sent to him. The secretary reported on letters written to B.C. Tel, Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco and Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy regarding the proposal to charge for (2 local telephone calls, Ans wers were received from B.C. Tel and Brisco assuring the association there were no plans to introduce the charge at this time. A letter came from the local Kiwanis Club asking for names of prospective Citizen of the Year recipients. A. Nielsen suggested that indi viduals. submit names. George MeAndrew reminded seniors that this is the time of year when gov ernment forms must be made out. It is necessary that these forms be completed correctly and Mr. MeAndrew is pre pared to help anyone or an swer any’ questions. A copy of “Best Years” was shown — this is a paper printed in Trail for seniors. ‘The editor is George San tano, a former resident of Castlegar. Any contributions from, Castlegar seniors are welcome. Kitehen and games com mittees reported all going smoothly. Bingo will hence forth be held at 1 p.m. on any Thursday that there is no senior citizen meeting. Mrs. LaDell Lipsett re minded members of the Valentine Party, Feb. 20 at 2 p.m. Entertainment will be and a good time is The secretary was asked to write a letter of thanks to Mr. J. MeLuckie for the string art picture of a sailing ship which he doni ed to the centre. George McAndrew won the door prize. GET YOUR CASH CARD TODAY! FOR 2 A your TELLER SERVICE at Castlegar and Trail Over 200 ATM's soon pLus in Canada! OQ Triptych 3-Pc. Picture Groupings In colourful Mylar frames. Selection may vary from store to store. Reg. 34.88. Now: 788 AMIFM Stereo Cassette with 2-way, 4-speaker system. 9825K Swirl Table Lamps The more you look... the more you save Save 10% >; Let Your Flair For Home Decor Shine Choose from Decorator Shades Of Grey, Beige or Dark Blue Add a pair of these beautifully styled table lamps to your living room or bedroom for that special touch those surroundings call for. 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My name is Tami Sorenson and I'm living in Denmark as a Rotary Exchange Student, sponsored by the Castlegar Rotary Club. I turned 17 (shortly after arriving in Denmark) and I've finished Grade 11 at Stanley Humphries. I left Castlegar on July 15, 1985 and arrived in Denmark on the 17th. The first two weeks were spent with 100 other Rotary Exch dents in a school. Besides learning very little Danish we toured some Danish farms and churches. We spent one day on a beach and were surprised to see all the topless bather: We also toured a large castle, saw “the little mermai and spent an evening in Copenhagen's famous Tivoli Gardens. On Aug. 1 I left the language school and travelled to Lemvig which is located in the northwestern part of Jutland, the mainland of Denmark. Upon arrival at the train station I was met by my first host family, my Rotary counsellor and the president of the Rotary Club, all were waving Danish flags as a welcome sign. On Aug. 6 I started school at Lemvig Gymnasium. It is a school of about 200 students aged 16-19, all preparing for university. There are three “grades,” and I am with a class in the second. I soon discovered Danish schools are very different than at home. The teachers in my school are much younger than at home, and we call them by their first names. It is strictly the student's responsibility to do homework. The classes consist not of lectures, but discussions where everybody is involved. The students are together in one room most of the time and it is the teachers who move. My class takes Danish, English, French, German, Latin, math, geography, history, physical education and art or music. Fortunately my own schedule is much easier. The school canteen is open the whole day and if unattended there is a dish where people pay for what they take; very honest. There are six classes a day of 45 minute duration with 10-minute breaks in between as well as a 30-minute lunch break. My first five months in Lemvig I lived in a modern Danish house with my host father — Christian, a lawyer; my host mother — Hanne, a kindergarten teacher; a 15-year-old brother—Peder; a 60 kilogram Newfound- lander dog and two cats. I had an older brother but he left for Utah Rotary Exchange Student. Lemvig is about the size of Castlegar, it's situated on a fjord about 10 kilometres from the North Sea. It is very rainy here, but we've had snow twice this ye: As in most European towns, the centre of Lemvig is a huge church. Most Danish houses and buildings are made of brick with tile roofing. Cars, trucks and roads are much smaller here. Danish is a difficult language to learn, with some new vowels and many sounds I'd never dreamed could be made. Here in my second family we speak only Danish, but I'm far from fluent still. All the students at my school know quite a lot of English, but many are too shy to speak it. Danes older than 15 are much more independent and responsible here than their comparable ages in Canada. Local youth in Denmark They are generally very active in afterschool and weekend activities. It is normal for anyone 16 or older to go to the discotheques and bars, even though the legal age is 18. The discotheques start at around 11 p.m. and close between 2:30 and 3 after which it is common to go to the bakery and buy fresh buns then go to a friend's place for tea and buns, finally going home at 4 or 5 a.m. Bike-riding is extremely popular here, most everybody owns a bike. I ride my bike to sehool, downtown, and wherever I want to go, in snow, rain, everything. Even very old people do a lot of cycling. Christmas was a time for food, food, and more food. The celebrated day is the 24th of December and the activities started with a huge supper. After that we sang songs as we circled the Christmas tree then sat down to open the many gifts. On the 25th we spent the day at the grandparents house where we started eating at 1 p.m. and never stopped until we left at 7:30. It sounds exaggerated, but they keep bringing out different courses, the whole day long. The meal also had first white wine, then red, then beer, then port wine, also schnapps, coffee/tea, then more beer and schnapps. It's not to get drunk though. From Christmas to New Year's we were out every night for supper at friends’ houses, and sometimes for both lunch and supper at different houses. New Year's celebrations started with a huge meal at home with guests, then sitting around talking and drinking until midnight. At midnight one might think a nuclear war had started with the noise and colors as practically the whole town exploded in fireworks and everyone drank champagne in celebration. Shortly afterwards what TAMI SORENSON . .. living in Denmark better way to start the New Year than by eating another absolutely huge meal. Most Danish people know next to nothing about Canada, though some have heard of Expo 86 (I've heard nothing of it in Denmark). When I say I'm from Canada I'm often asked if I come either from Toronto or Vancouver. Since I came to Denmark I've been to Germany twiee, once for a week's holiday. In mid-February I'll travel to Norway for a week of skiing with my third family, and in March my class from school will spend a week in Paris. I've recently moved to my second host family where I'll live until April. NEW BOOK EXAMINES ELECTION ‘84 By BURT CAMPBELL Publisher The Canadian general election of Sept. 4, 1984 seems years ago, so much has happened in that time. Mulroney, who took office with the hopes and sincere best wishes of a huge majority of Canadians, has since seen ministers leave his cabinet, rising interest rates, a falling Canadian dollar, and unemployment just marginally better than it was under the Trudeau/Turner Liberals. But while the election seems politically a long time ago, the results stay with us. And an excellent little book, The Canadian General Election of 1984: Policiticans, Parties, Press and Polls, has been published by Carleton University Press of Ottawa. The book provides a concise and readable guide to that election. Marrying journalism to social science, this survey reports on the campaign, examines the functions of the news media and the polls (oh those polls; this was the first federal election to see them used and publicized on such a large scale) and analyzes the results. (Included are details of the vote nationally, regionally, by province and by constitu ency) The book is co-authored by Alan Frizzell and Anthony Westell. Frizzell has taught research methods at Carleton's journalism school for 10 years. Well-known as a pollster and an analyst, he is the author of several academic articles on communications, polities and statistics He has been a political commentator for news organizations in both Canada and the United Kingdom and with Westell, co-directs the Carleton Journalism Poll which surveys public opinion on political and other issues for major news media. Westell is Carleton’s associate dean of arts and has taught in its journalism school since 1975. A political journalist in Ottawa for 20 years, he was formerly the Ottawa editor and national affairs columnist for Canada's largest daily newspaper, the Toronto Star At one time he was Ottawa bureau chief for the Globe and Mail, “Canada’s National Newspaper,” and has won three National Newspapere Awards for political journalism. Westell now writes a weekly Ottawa column for the Toronto Sunday Star and is the author of two previous political books: Paradox — Trudeau as Prime Minister, and The New Society. The co-authors also spend some time in their book analysing their own polling figures, and come up with some interesting conclusions. For example, contrary to conventional wisdom, they say the figures show that Quebec did not jump aboard a bandwagon rolling in from English Canada “The evidence,” they conclude, “is to the contrary. It would be interesting to see how they would analyse any Quebec polling results today Club at By DAVID HALLIDAY EDMONTON (CP) Many car enthusiasts lust after Jaguars, Porsches or other exotica, but Earl Clements knew he had found his car when he saw a 1965 Pontiac Beaumont convertible driving down the street “| found out who owned it and went over,” said Clements, president of the Alberta Post War Car Society. The car's owner was already thinking of buying a new auto, so a deal was struck for the Beaumont, a mid-size car marketed by General Motors in the 1960s as a companion to the Chevrolet Chevelle. The Post War Car Society, open to owners of cars at least 15 years old, but no older than 1948, is one of many clubs organized by collectors of cars, manufactured since the Second World War. Clubs devoted to a favorite make of car, HALFWAY POINT — CP Rail has passed the halfway point in the construction of the longest railway tun- nel in North America. The 14.7-kilometre Mount Macdonald Tunnel in the Selkirk Mountains of With a blast of 454 kilograms of high explosives, CP Rail recently reached the halfway point in the construction of the longest railway tunnel in North America. The 14.7-kilometre Mount Macdonald Tunnel in the heart of the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia is the centrepiece of CP Rail's $600-million Rogers Pass grade reduction and double tracking project. “This railway mega-project is the largest of its kind since the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway more than 100 years ago,” says John Fox, vice-president, CP Rail, Special Projects. “Completion of this project will increase our capacity on this portion of the railways east-west transcontinental line to allow us to meet future traffic increases.” The tunnel is being excavated by two companies, one working from the east portal and the other from the west portal. Manning-Kumagai Joint Venture, which is using ional i h using explosives, techniq CLLRS LOBE RET LE BEALE sad British Columbia is the centrepiece of CP Rail’s $600 million Rogers Pass grade reduction and double tracking project. Halfway point reached detonated the blast that extended the tunnel 3,697 metres from the west portal. They are working 914 metres below the summit of Mount Cheops. Selkirk Tunnel Constructors is working from the east portal using a tunnel boring machine that is 6.7 metres in diameter. Selkirk is 5,156 metres into Mount Macdonald and more than 1,584 metres below its summit. Work crews from each end are expected to meet under Mount Macdonald in late 1986. When completed, the tunnel will be 7.9 metres high, 5.2 metres wide, concrete lined and lighted. The tunnel will also use a unique ventilation system to provide fresh cool air to train crews and locomotives. A divided 349-metre deep ventilation shaft located about mid-way in the tunnel will allow for the air in the tunnel to be purged one half at a time. This will permit more trains — which will take about 30 minutes on average to move through the tunnel given time. to use the tunnel during a Se Yukon route lies forgotten By JIM BUTLER Whitehorse Star WHITEHORSE (CP) — The cracked rails, once gleaming from the constant polishing of steel wheels, rust away, littered with landslide debris in the summer and smothered with snow in the winter. The passenger coaches, which once whisked gold seekers through the mountain scenery between Whitehorse and Skagway, Alaska, sit forgotten on the sidings. While some sadly regard the rail bed of the idle White Pass and Yukon route as its ultimate death bed, Yukoners hope at least part of the historic railway can become a tourist operation. If not, the rolling stock will be sold and the 90-centimetre, narrow-gauge tracks will be torn up and disposed of. Railway buffs vew that prospect as a horrifying demise of a railway that 35,000 men carved out of granite in the late 1890s. After struggling along as a passenger and freight carrier without federal subsidies since 1900, the 170-kilometre railway was closed in October 1982. Five months earlier, it lost 80 per cent of its business when plummetting mineral prices forced closure of the Cyprus Anvil lead and zine mine in Faro, Yukon. Curragh Resources Ltd. of Toronto bought the mine last year, and plans to reopen it in June but the company won't resume using the railway to ship the concentrates from Whitehorse to the port of Skagway. WILL USE ROAD Instead, Curragh plans to spend $20 million a year to truck the concentrates from Faro to Whitehorse, and on to Skagway along a road that frequently parallels the railway tracks. Using the railway would cost several million dollars more annually. A few years ago, during rosier economic times, people were musing about extending the railway further north to serve future mines, or hooking it to the British Columbia rail system. The railway's defenders argue it will be needed to serve mines that may open in the next 15 to 20 years, but White Pass has indicated it will likely ask Canadian and U.S. rail regulators for permission to abandon the railway. The Winnipeg-based company, which has extensive interests in the transport industry, wants to stop absorbing the $1-million annual cost of leaving the railway on standby. The railway's book value is between $11 million and $14 million. Financed by British interests, the White Pass and Yukon Railroad Co. began construction in April 1898, at the height of the Klondike gold rush. It was a constant challenge to attract gold stampeders to do the back-breaking labor for up to $3 a day, often fighting -50 degree temperatures and deep snowdrifts. ee om. tracted to post-war cars ineluding Corvette, Edsel, Volkswagen and Chrysler 300, have also been set up. Some of the cars these collectors seek are still in everyday use. What attracts them to these cars instead of the older antiques are price and parts av ilability, says Clements. “The guys with antique cars are into bigger bucks.” NEEDED WORK When Clements bought the Beaumont convertible it was “tatty.” Pieces of chrome were missing and the car needed new upholstery and painting: Although the automobile “was in need of a general rehabilitation, it was not necessary to restore the car from the ground up,” said Clements, a property manager. The members of the Post War Car Society “are much younger than those in the Antique Car Club,” he said, pointing out that enthusiasts chose to restore cars that were their favorites when they were young Those cars include the ones they learned to drive on, their first cars or the ones they remember best — because of styling, for example — from their youth Although members of Clements’ group own many different makes of cars, ranging from Mustangs to dinosaurs like the Hudson, a Pontiac Beaumont was a natural choice for Clements. He still has his first car, a 1965 Beaumont hardtop he purchased when he graduated from university A car's value drops to its lowest point when the vehicle is about 10 years old, Clements said. That means, for example, 1965 Mustangs hit bottom in the mid-1970s. On the other hand, the price of “a plain Jane, four-door sedan never comes back” because collectors prefer hardtops and convertibles. Rick Funk, who served on the executive of the 60-member Mustang Owner's Association for several years, says Mustangs have become “badly overpriced.” A recent issue of a national publication for collectors listed such prices as $8,000 for a 1965 Mustang fastback, $4,200 for a 1965 hardtop and $6,500 for a 1968 convertible. Clements later acquired a 1965 stat: rs to add to his collection, which also includes a 1965 Chevelle El Camino and two 1948 Chevrolets. These had been restored to showroom condition, but the prices are well above what they sold for when they were new