: WEDNESDAY, Noveniber 28,1990: sys. 5 The Castidgar Sun aa ZS 1S POLITICALLY INDEPENDENT AND A MEMBER OF THE STERLING NEWS SERVICE : ‘ stablishod Novomber 28, 1890. : Published by The Castlogar Sun Wookly on Wadnosdays RAY PICCO PUBLISHER NANCY LINGLEY EDITOR GRACE SHAULL OFFICE MANAGER FRANK DERBY SPORTS BARBARA TANDORY REPORTER JOHN SNELGROVE “PRODUCTION JON JARRETT ADVERTISING MANAGER DONNA JORY ADVERTISING REP. LANA FEDORA ADVERTISING REP. DENISE GOLOSTONE CIRCULATION MANAGER: NICOLE BEETSTRA PRODUCTION CLIFF WOFFENDEN PRODUCTION Direct Department Phones General Office .......4. 1065-5266 Cc 365-5266 365-7848 65-2278 65-5579 365-7762 Recycling in the fast lane drive-thru McDonald’s Canada, home of the Golden Arches North, has announced its intent to phase out foam packaging. The phase-out will begin before Christmas and will start with “foam sandwich containers, which account for nearly 75 per cent of our total foam use,” said George Cohen, presi- dent and chief executive officer of McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Ltd. No longer will McRestaurantgoers be able to dump their fries in the handy top half of the foam burger box. No longer will garbage barrels spew forth their brightly colored McProducts. . Mcdonald's is making this change even though “some sci- entific studies indicate that foam packaging is environmental- ly sound” but “our customers just don’t feel good about it” said Cohen. Kind of iike cutting off your nose to spite your face. Why do it if it's going to be painful and there’s really no advantage to be had? : : In fact, the whole recycle, reduce, reuse thing is beginning to backfire, according to.studies that are being completed. Superfluous packaging, such as foam and plastic, is often under fire by those touting the new-age Three Rs. But gov- emment intervention in packaging laws may even cause the Cost of food to rise-because of the likelihood that more would spoil-while the quality and safety of this organic material would undoubtedly.suffer. : Glass botiles-can be returned and reused, but at what cost C Display Advertising . FAX secssssssees sasensennenn e ‘Prowling the Ron: Jeffels eh Bie Syndicated 7) Columnist ‘haunted’ bookstore aisles retums. So do places, faces, moments, memorics, | And I have another way of tracking time, When an old friend dics, somcone I loyed, some- one who laughed with me, sometimes at me, I wait a month, two months, longer. Then I call at the house, hesitantly, because I invade the grief that still endures, and ask for a book, any: book, from his library, but one that bears his name, Old bookstores are haunted places. Pale gtosts out of a remote and scumbied past prowl their crooked aisles or lurk, half-hidden, in dark, forgot- ten alcoves, And I've heard those ghosts a thou- sand times, whispering, there, in oozing cellars with stained and leprous walls, in the spent light, amid the dust and debris of Time Lost. I listen to that spectral clan, always listen, They are honored friends and cherished companions: that long parade of pocts, novelists, philosophers, i istorians who ded the noblest of our dreams, the worst of ourdepravitics, You know I’m not talking about the big, ncon- lit, monster-in-the-mall stores that sell this year’s scandals and last year’s failures. I'm Icading you down narrow, twisting strects to little, lost, single-* bulb bookstores, where themyellow odor of decay is heavy in the air and only my phantom friends know whereWordsworth and Whitman can be found. The eccentrics who own those places know. + : : But they won't tell. Why should they sell the patrimony and the heritage to any wandering stranger come by chance? And for something as corrupting as money? ” So I rarely, if ever, stop in any town without prowling the back streets in search of a haunted bookstore. I buy something, anything, then inscribed the date, the place, impressions, circum- stances, and moods P sometimes sad, usuallyhap- Py. That's the way I keep my diary: the rough draft of life. Of a night, when the mind congeals and the words won't come, I pick a shelf, any shelf at ran- dom, a different one each time, select a book, open it and read my munes and hicroglyphs. Then time ' Slings Arrows Nigel . Hannaford * Syndicated Columnist .. ’ on the flyleaf, So down the ycars T've built a wall to commemorate those friends::a , personal, private cenotaph mouming their deaths but celebrating their lives. That’s the way I got one of my four copics of ‘Roget, the writer's bible. I use it almost daily in my. search for the right word in the right place. Sometimes I find it. That book once belonged to a physician, painter, soldier and mechanical genius: he was all four. Of a Sunday moming, when I'd rumbled up his lane in my old asthmatic car, he'd hunt through the debris on his desk for a stetho- scope. Then, scope on.engine, with full clinical rites and rituals, he'd diagnose its maladies. And time, every time, I open that book, he comes ii the room, We talk briefly, sometimes at Iength an, far into the night, Depends on'the mood and thi moment. And then his wisdom, grace, and runnin, lnughter aro restored and renewed. ees ‘And over there, on the left, within casy reac! a ing: and a , there’s frayed and tattered copy of The Robe by Lloyd Douglas. : Bi You don’t hear his name these days. He' joined the Lost Patrol of writers, But 40 ycars ag he sold by the millions. Everybody read him. T should throw that one away. Its musty pages bear the liver spots of old age. a. The gluc has gone from the binding. The acrid}; odor of decay invades the nose and throat whenev-. er I open it. But I can’t throw it away. To open it to sweep away time and space and return to anoth-, er world. I found. it in a ruined church in Holland, one night in May 1945, The battle had passed that, way. A soldier had left it behind. ‘He had recorded on the flyleaf the tattoo marks, he was always right. The medical specialist at the the Army gives to men: name, rank, number, regi comer garage never failed to confirm his findings. He was a massive, robust, courtly man with the — knew. I really ought to return that book. It’s long : gift of laughter and an infinite capacity for under- standing all things human. Because his life crossed mine, I am a better, a wiser man. So cach mE TE FANE DEF SA : LAST YEAR ment. And that’s all, Is he still alive? I wish ¥ overdue: by half a century. .. and most of a life. R.R. Jeffels is a Richmond freelance writer and, former principal of The Open Learning Institute. ', APPARENTLY, THE FOULS INDICATE THAT FEET TE OE TS GOREN. ” MENT:"TO SPEND TAX REVENUE WISELY. © aN a ws WELL, THE FINANCE DePT: SPENT ClEK $413,000 AOL INTHE pany that invented dynamite. But, as we all know, that wasn’t supposed to be the point of the award, ) * ‘The fact remains, however, that our govern- ment has chosen to regard the African National : M tioned against a ‘winner take all’ attitude. Allcth-,. nic groups had to be respected, He urged people, not to get rid of apartheid by going to war with it;,) as a descendant of Zulu. kings, he knew that it would be a pointless. war, a war without spoils. : | iy Wednesday, November. 28, 1990 The Castlegar Sun Letters to the Editor _/( No longer an honor to To The Editor: {During the Remembrance Day e¢remonics on November 11th 1. ; sat before the television set as usual with “hat off" for the young men and women who made the * supreme sacrifice in tow world wars. But this time the mood seemed more tragic than usual - once again we have our scarcely grown up children mobilized on foreign shores ready to be sacri- figed in a war that is concerned mainly over greed for oil. This is not 1914 or 1939. It is’ 1990, a time of great progress on human rights. We are too civi- lized no to accept thousands of our young people - yesterday’s children - coming home in body bags because of the shortcomings, belligerence and greed of adults who send them oif to fight their wars. Civilized people no longer © consider it an honour to die in war - the idea “will not fly”. , Have we learned nothing from the tragic, useless, wasted efforts of the foreign interventions in Viet Nam and Afghanistan? . In both cases these meddlings pro- - duced nothing but massive human suffering and wreckage of the environment. Then, as soon as the foreigners: | withdrew, inevitable history took its course. Are we looking at another Veit Nam? Have we forgotten so soon about the Hippie’s “peace rebel- lion” that had so much to do with the American . withdrawal? Young people will rebel again if pushed into another war. The only civilized way to deal with the crisis in Kuwait is to Business as usual? To the Editor: As one of the Johnson Matthey workers who recently got notice of the Dec. 31/90 shut- down and layoff, I would like to Ict my feelings be known. '- 4 Most of ‘those affected had-a \'- secure future with Cominco — "maintain the sanctions that aro, * already in place = thanks to the | surprisingly swift and unified © action of many nations.’ Mr. Hussein is walled off-on-all ‘sides, In the long term he cannot possi- ble win. If the anti-Husscin con- sortium exercises the military ‘option now it will surely be a caso of unnecessary overkill” swith: many thousands of casualties, both’ ' military and civilian, and-particu- ae larly great risk to'the-lives of the hostages. 4 x I would urge Mr. Clark to con- centrate more upon his diplomatic role as Minister of Foreign Affairs and less as‘“minister of war”. ' Although the people in our armed forces are second to‘none, Canada”. is not a major power and could not under any circumstance be a major » player ‘in ‘a showdown with Hussein. Therefore, our role die in war should be one of trying to cool ,, tempers down rather. than adding fucl to the fire. : It is terribly tragic that while eleven'million people are facing gtarvation in Sudan, even & frac- tlon of. the cost and effort of the mobilization against Husscin Could ‘save their lives, Something is dreadfully wrong with our prior- ities! ; Both world wars were claimed to be “the war to end all wars”. Yet we have secn one violent con- ‘flict after another ever since. When will we learn that if we ‘want an end to this barbaric . behavior we must completely change our ways of thinking and acting. Otherwise there is soon going to be another armistice day and another Flanders Ficlds some- where in the Middle East. t Harry F. 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L Dickerson Start Date: Jan.9, i901 )° °° For details and registration, contact Selkirk College, Admissions Office, 365-1208. - CASTLEGAR CAMPUS, Box 1200, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 331 365-7292 Congress as a government-in-waiting, despite the «».~He rejected the concept of a one-party slate -.¢ven q limited ethnic appeal it enjoys in South Africa and if it was his party. “We need the whites and theys; its unrelenting commitment to a Marxist ‘armed need us, They have no place to go, they are, struggle’. Its towering incompetence certginly indigenous Africans.” at diminished the effect of this, but its failures owed One could argue of course, that this was a well, nothing to a want of brutality. The notorious tailored speech, considering the black-tie, super-,., ‘necklace’. was their idea. conservative audience to which he was speaking. 1; Through it all, Mr Mandela never dropped his But one would also nave to concede that Dr, support for the violent overthrow ‘of the South. Buthelezi has been as consistent in his views as. African government. Since his release, he has has been Mr Mandela. The difference is that he, called for those policies which seem most likely to has never called for violence and has always) lead to a one-party state. His party, of course. specifically rejected it as a way of ending; One would have hoped that all this would have apartheid. J been a bit much for our people in External Affairs, He is also a free-enterpriser, one who belicves,, but they're still buying it, even today. He's their _in creating wealth, not destroying it. H man, the ANC is their horse. And he didn't ask for US$5 million. He didi; ‘The contrast between Mr Mandela and Chief —_ suggest that those Canadians who wanted to assist., Buthelezi, could hardly-be more glaring. Chief peaceful change in South Africa coutd find plenty; Buthelezi, who is president of the Inkatha of opportunities to deploy their moncy. But that, Freedom Party, spoke in Toronto carlier this week = was. a rather less - how shall I say it - grasping as a guest of Conrad Black. fs tack to take, : Unlike Mr Mandela, Chief Buthelezi is a Zulu. So you want a clue? I liked this fellow. There. He enjoys considcrable support among the Zulu - was a humility about him which I don’t see in Mr; people who, being six million strong, make up Mandela and he has stayed the course, worked, some 20 per cent of all South Africans; His party within the system and actually done something: claims a membership of 1.8 million. Although. pre- for his people. bat chose to remain at the Warfield operations when bought out by J.M. Personally, I switched to J.M. because of threats of a layoff at Cominco, and J.M. was supposedly a more secure job in the future. Wow! What a mis- of non-renable fossile fuel for transport and release of clean- ing chemical to make them sterile again? It is a proven fact that packaging accounts for only about ten per cent of the landfill “crisis”. ‘he ally the ner that Ronnie's Place, is interested in “fast food”. Food that must be packaged for convenience. . Demanding a change from a packaging product that has been proven safe, efficient, and practical because it is the fashionable thing to do-even though there is proof that it may just not be the well thought-out intelligent thing to do-will quite probably defeat the whole purpose behind the up-and- coming envi lly ible behavior we all need so desparately to develop. 7 And that would be a real McShame. If it fell'to your unhappy lot to have to arbi- trate the situation in South Africa, in effect to act as midwife to a new country (for rest assured, the South Africa we loved to hate is gone forever) you would want any clues you ‘could get as to who was a good talker and who was really a good take! * It doubly hurts me, because I was offered a job back with Cominco about two months ago. I:decided to stay with J.M. because our contract had been setticc and things’ looked good. We had accepted less of a raise tHan Cominco to help J.M. sur- vive. Could not someone at J.M. inthe “know” take me aside and recommend taking the Cominco job? ; Most of our workers are high- ly trained and will find it difficult to'find a job in this area, This means a move they do not want to make — to a larger city. They guy. Nowhere would this matter be more pressing than trying to fit the African National Congress into the-scheme of things. We've all heard Nelson Mandela. You would have had to be backpacking in Greenland to miss the triumphal tour earlier this year. How the politicians fawned. How the’ media flacks sim- pered. Here was a hero, nay, a very saint, visited among us to our honour. ‘ Not unlike some of the other saints who from time to time’afflict our television screens - one thinks of Jim Bakker - this saint wanted paying in dollars. US dollars, as he reminded our Prime Minister..To our disbelief and dismay, our PM graciously acquiesced. Seldom brought to mind exccpt by black- hearted rogues like.myself was the fact that this One of the best-read features in a newspaper, especially a community newspaper, is the Letters to the Editor section. ‘The Castlegar Sun encourages letters to the editor from our readers, * While newspaper reporting generally covers what is, Letters to the Editor comment on what the reader feels ought to be. Letters to the Editor carry the opinions of; you, the reader and usually echo the thoughts of othtr readers who have not been moved to write themselves. a It is best to sit down: and write a Letter to the Editor as soon as the reader feels an urge to respond to cither a news. story or an editorial. Don’t wait until feelings havé calmed | * down, but write it while enthusiasm is still high. Letters should’ not be overly long and should focus on a single point. A Letter to the Editor of approximately 500 words is a good guideline, but is certainly not a rule engraved in stone. Begin the letter with “To the Editor’ and end with a hand- written signature over a printed or typewritten name. Please read the Letters Policy on Page 7. . Ifa Letter to the Editor is not published, it may be for one - of a number of reasons: The letter may have found its way into the hands of a reporter who has been assigned a story based on the concern expressed in the letter; the leiter fails to bear a signature or other information by. which the writer can be d; the letter ins libelous or ry remarks; or the letter simply is not legible.’ The Letters to the Editor can only be written by you, our ers. sto ‘We're looking forward to hearing your opinions, [Worst IDEAS OF WESTERN MAN | 1990 Cheah Syracate, he, —T Mog M00. CLOCKS |. _. nization with the vacancy doesn’t want to be Nobel Peace Prize recipient had been gaoled for dominantly Zulu, it accepts membership from trying to blow people up. other racial groups. L Now there is a certain logic in somebody who Dr lezi talked about was manufacturing and placing explosive devices there was much worth preserving in South Africa. receiving recognition from the trustees of a com- The racist overlay just had to be removed. He cau- promis “He said High-paying, challenging communica his time as key advisor to British Columbia Premier Bill Bennett. Like Brian Mulroney, Bennett got into trouble with the voters. Spector is widely credited with having quarterbacked Bennett's political salva- tion, But while Spector labors over a: comeback plan for. Mulroney, one of the most important positions on the Tory team remains vacant. The prime staff responsibility for selling the *s political agenda rests with the Mike : Duffy " Syndicated Columnist . Rae y Wanted: Senior j n or public r 2 South Africa needs a few more like him, come: promisers. Then there may truly be a nation built.-.j Let’s hope they pull it off. 2 Then they ‘can come back and let Canadians,; know how it’s done, . a1 tions job available: | Sceretary to the Cabinet for Communications, Gagne, a career public servant, was most! recently Chief of Staff to Ontario Premier David" Peterson, Prior to that he had served as a Deputy"! Minister in Saskatchewan and earlier as a senior* federal bureaucrat. in Gagne.is a protege of Spector's from their? days in federal provincial relations, but while Gagne's job in the PCO gives him control over? + the general thrust of the government's communi-2 cations, as a public servant he doesn’t get directly"! Prime Minister's Director of C But at this critical point in the life of the Mulroney ‘government, the director of Communications post remains vacant. : ‘The last person to hold that job was Marcel Cote, a'public relations executive who last sum- for‘challengi ay $100,000 plus. Lots of travel, bilingualism an asset, little job security. ‘The ad isn't running in the career section of this newspaper, but that’s only: because the orga- * The ization” is the Prime Minister’s Offics, and the “challenging assignment” is:as Brian Mulroney's director of ‘ications! One of the highest paying. jobs:in the federal: government is going begging. :.In town where ambition knows no bounds, this vacancy is seri-. good life in Montreal... * ; ‘ Prior to Cote, the job was held by former CTV Bruce Phillips. ' Phillips is now awaiting Senate approval of his appointment as Privacy Commissioner. i ' ‘ ©. An outspoken ‘civil-libertarian, Phillips is ide- ally ‘suited for the privacy Commissioner's job, but his'confirmation hearing has been delayed b: : the continuing Senate batile over the GST.§:3.2.5'7,4:~ Cynicsiscoff'when you'suggest there,is.a:: « hetween'the bolitical types and the © ligyee’ Virve: ng Hine’ 2 public’ servants,-but-you only have to hear the complaints about ‘‘the +1": non-partisan bureau- pect * +S erats,to realize there are’ many “political”. things tary ta:the cabinet .«< ‘the bureaucrats won't do.” LYSE ons, during Meech: sides:when Dan Gagne: was appointed Deputy ob mer abandoned ‘the trenches of Ottawa for-the +: However there was approval from pros'on all 2 ‘A. correspont _ kept busy as Deputy. Chief of Staff for Tour and ~ Instead, they try to put the communications in in the p 1 side of selling thd? Cc i ou ‘About the only other senior person in the, PMO with significant-media experience is Lug Lavoie, a former TV. dent.’ Lavoie is Scheduling. seaieipeaatet haben Top Tories deny the job is vacant because they can’t find anyone willing to join their team} vacancy in a good light by suggesting the. PM ig now taking advice from a wide range of peopl rather than a select few.: >» wit f That sounds great, but what it reall; «Brian Mulroney is personally running operation.» * son) fou'could argue that with his current Joy sianding.in the polls, ‘Mulroney. can‘t do, worse, But in the words of one former staffer, ““Brian PR toad? That adds up to a disaster in the mak. cing!" > ey giger tbaipce cay gowegNteras r eeeieies ecacereemneee Mike Duffy host Sunday Edition on CTV. Faia ewe community as a whole.loses in this scenario. Many workers have been on this site since they graduated from various schools and institutions. These people are really shocked with the closure and are not experienced at finding work.” : One thing I can be thankful for. That I did not purchase from J.M. one of their expensive plat- inum watches with the company logo on the dial. This would be the ultimate insult to be reminded many times a day of what a mis- take I made! : “Lam writing this letter at 4:30 am, Wonder why I cannot sleep? Soon I'have to report to work, go through their elaborate security system, then it-is “business as usual.” : 4 “Len Donald Letters Policy © Lewters to the Editor are wel- ‘ome on any topic of locat or Seneral interest.’ Letters should ‘be double-spaced, typewritten, or. fegibly handwritten, and no more than. two pages if. possible. esis of brevity or taste if, neces- by. All letters must be ‘signed, ith address and telephone num- ber, although names may be yalid reason by the. approval of the editor. 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