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‘and friendly people may be, if they are unable to speak a common Ian- guage, they remain strangers. ‘To be able to communicate, we must speak a common language. This Janguage must be Canadian English \— the language mostly spoken

throughout Canada, English must be the working language of all gov- emments in Canada. This would truly be one great step toward unity.

On the matter of bilingualism, we have tried it and it has been a very costly failure which has caused much animosity, French is taught in schools throughout Cana- da, French is put on food contain- ers and instructions with what ever you buy, it is on road signs in Fed-

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eral parks, in Federal buildings, and we have French immersion schools, this is good. and we should always make it possible for people to Jeam the French language or any language of their choice but let's face it, the need for every person across Canada to speak French lan- guage is nil, Quebec has not shown the rest of Canada that it believes in bilingualism or is trying to be bilin- gual, It has, in fact, been trying to abolish English altogether, Perhaps Yves Beauchemin played the biggest roll in this when he presented a brief to. the Esa Bs C foes

outlining his ideology which was heard a thousand times, read in books, taught by teachers, con- veyed on television public affairs Programs and in films, It seems to be Quebec's nationalist ideology. He said, “English must be officially extinguished in Quebec because two official languages cannot coex- ist without being in mortal combat -” This doctrine is one of hatred. How can we have unity with Que- bec unless this is changed? Why does our Federal Government stand

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by and allow this to happen? Obvi- ously there is not bilingualism in Quebec and yet it is fostered in the rest of Canada. If two official lan- guages cannot coexist as Mr, Beau- chemin stated, how can we ex;

to have peace or unity with two official languages throughout Canada when they can’t have it even in one province? It is time this was changed.

You can communicate in English with people all over Cana- da, the United States, Britain, Aus- tralia, Europe and Asia and most parts of the world. Can our French- only speaking people do this? Chil- dren in Russia are leaming Engli: in school, I travelled in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales last year and had no trouble communi- cating in English. I found it inter- esting in Wales where in some places they have the street signs in Gaelic as well as English. A lot of people speak Gaelic as well as English and they teach Gaelic lan- guage. We should definitely use this concept and make it madatory and in our Constitution that English be taught beginning in grade one to every child in Canadian schools who cannot speak English,

As in Wales, it should be mandatory that the working lan- guage in Canada be English. Any- one who speaks only English must not be deprived of any job in or out of the government because of this.

I would like to address these remarks. People in Canada outside Quebec do not feel this way about the people of Quebec, but it is a different story about the way they feel about the rules, regulations and restrictions put on the people by the politicians which creates a fecling of being rejected by the people outside Quebec. Are they

actually told not to communicate in English with English only speaking people? Onc example — My nephew, who drives a trans- port truck, took a load to Quebec. He had a terrible time finding where to go and then getting help when he got there as the people “couldn't or wouldn't” speak English to him. When he finally finished and went to leave, they called after him, in English, “Have anice day" and all laughed, I have heard stories like this from ever so many people who have visited Quebec, all who say the Quebe- cers refused to speak any English to them ... and I am only one per- son out of the other provinces,

Another thing which is deroga- tory in Quebec, is the fact that a person who does not speak French hasn’t a chance of holding a job anymoer, For instance, look a the school bus driver who, after 18 years on the job, was fired just recently because he couldn’t speak French, If the abi

J) Paper out of Quebec, They are part * of a rising tide of Quebecers who

are Ieaving this province for good — according to Statistics Canada, Between January and May this year, 11,789 people moved away from Quebec to other provinces. i the current trend holds, the fina tally could reach 25,000, The pres-

* ident of the Montreal based Arse-

nault Transport Ltd., said moves out of the province have climbed 50% this year and the number of trips he makes to the United States has risen to 100%.

Mr, Mulroncy, I would say you were wrong to condone Quebec's repression of English while at the same time pushing bilingualism: With the deficit the way it is, isn’ "tit time to quit this ridiculous spend- ing to spread French across Canada and spend money instead on every- one learning English throughout

Canada, especially in Quebec? — and then allow them (o use it? How much money has been spend on bili H Ts this the reason or

feeling about Quebec exists, is there any wonder?

If the hardliners in Quebec do not change their domination over the people through their domina- tion over the French language, things will never change. Look at what is coming out of the polls, and what the people are doing now. A poll by the Montreal bawd CROP organization indicated 29% of Anglophones plan to leave the province within five years and the number goes to 44% if Quebec separated. I read in the paper about Gilles Duquette, born in Montreal and holder of of Doctorate in physics, leaving his large suburban home with a sigh of relief, no remorse, no second thoughts, and taking his expertise in pulp and

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one of the main reason that out National debt is so large? , T am offering this as an answer to those in Quebec who say that the rest of Canada does not like them. 1 would also like to say “Please givé us a chance. Take down this barrier by accepting and learning English: Make it possible to communicate”

Keep your French schools and your French communities and your French culture, Invite the rest of Canada to enjoy this also‘ Teach everyone there to speak English so this can happen. Be the “French Quarter” of Canada where people like to visit the way we like to visit the French Quarter in New Orleans. This is unity.

Each Province of Canada ig distinct or unique in some way: and so are the people, so it would not be in the interest of unity to set! one province out from the rest as a distinct society. If Quebec or the’ French speaking people of Quebec were set aside as being “Distinct’} it would not be fair to the English speaking people in Quebec.

I would also like to add that no province should be allowed to go against the nuling of the Supreme Court of Canada with a “notwith- standing” clause. This is disgrace. ful and must be changed!

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alt was a weekend of firsts for. football in Castlegar,

‘4.The Top's Trophies Tom Kats

Started the season in the Trail Flag Football League with high hopes and last Sunday they silenced their critics by winning it all, Castlegar had been notable for their powerful offence, but in the end it was the defence which came up big. Dave Terhune's interception capped a goal line stand by the Tom Kats in the final moments of Sunday's champi- onship game. The win marked the first time the trophy has gone out of Trail in league history. . Pinned as “the team to beat" the Tom Kats managed to live up to their early-season label agai all but two teams. Castlegar couldn't break the spell of cither the Crown Point Bulldogs or the Dam Inn Mates—the two teams which accounted for all three Tom Kat losses in the regular season. In fact, the Tom Kats had never beaten either team, Ever. So it was fitting that, after knocking off the Trail Raiders last week, Castlegar's opponent in the semi-finals were the Mates. Both teams finished the season with 7-3 records but, for beating Castlegar in their only meeting of the year, Dam Inn received the bye “We didn’t feel like we played up to our capacity in that game,” said Tom Kat quarterback Gord Sandrin, who has been with his team since their inception three- years ago. “We knew we were a better team than that.”

Two weeks: of idleness’ took its toll on the: Mates, as it was the Tom Kats who came out hungry. Castlegar's offence,the highest scoring in the league, averaged 29 points per game, And after taking an 18-0 lead into half time, the Tom Kats looked well on their way to beating their average.

But Dam Inn's defence, which had given up an average of 17 points per game, finally woke up for the second half,

The Mates offence too showed signs of getting untracked, scor- ing a touchdown and picking upa two-point convert carly in the third quarter. But that was all either team was going to get as the game grinded to an 18-8 Castlegar victory.

With one monkey off their back, the Tom Kats went into the final on Sunday against their next obstacle, the Bulldogs.

Crown Point made it to the final by doubling Nellic’s Pizza Hawks 26-13 in the other semi-final,

Both teams went into the game with something to prove. The Bulldogs, who also finished first overall last season, lost to the Trail Bandits in last year’s final.

Castlegar, meanwhile, were up against yet another team they'd never beaten and with their first chance at a league championship.

The Championship: Castlegar Tom Kats vs Crown Point Bull- dogs. As the 1 p.m. kick-off approached, a wind—which that night would bring the first snow-

fall of the year—blasted across the ficld at Haley Park in Warficld, The crew from Shaw cable rolled in and set up video equipment to tape the game. Meanwhile, around 60 fans braved the weather under patched quilts, and huddled in tight con- versation circles on the side lines, Some taking the occasional nip from a small flask or can of beer tucked under the coat.

Castlegar struck quickly.

On their first‘possession San- drin chose his feet over his arm tunning the ball 15 yards for the touchdown.

The Tom Kats got the ball back, and Sandrin found Clay Martini open deep for a 40 yard touchdown pass. After two pos- sessions, it was 12-0 Castlegar.

Crown Point was far from out however as Ron Coe showed why he shared honors with Sandrin as the league's top quarterback.

Coe scrambled 50 yards through Castlegar’s defensive secondary for the Bulldogs first touchdown.

But then, after Crown Point

dat sion, a Bulldog pay flag on the play brought it back and the score stood 12-6,

The missed two points would come back to haunt the game.

At the time though, the Bull- dogs seemed to be rolling. Coe found sure-handed receiver Steve Plaa in the Tom Kats endzone for six points, Crown Point's kicker, Ed Canzian added two singles to

give the Bulldogs a 14-12 lead at halftime,

Castlegar stormed back, taking the lead on a 20 yard touchdown catch by Jeff Scheupfer.

’ In the fourth quarter, Crown Point momentarily re-gained the lead as Coe once again ran for a touchdown,

On the other side, Sandrin stuck to the pass and hit Terhune for a 40-yard pass-and-run touchdown.

With Castlegar in front 24-20, and the Bulldogs passing game failing to click, Coe took off for his third rushing touchdown,

Again the convert failed—as it did with both teams the entire game—and the score stood 28-24 with four minutes left.

Sandrin rallied the troops and came through again. This time hitting Dean McKinnon for a touchdown strike near the final minute of play.

Castlegar appeared to have a lock on their first championship until Coe finally found his arm. He threw the ball 38 yards through the air to a streaking Plaa, who didn’t appear to be open. Plaa somehow got his hands on the ball, bobbled it a moment and then held on before being pushed out of bounds at the._ one-yard line, :

The catch set up a first and goal situation seconds before the final five-plays rule came into effect,

With the score 30-28 and the

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Itsa dog fight between Crown Point receiver ‘Tom Hart and Castlegar's top defensive back Clay Martini.

The pass went incomplete.

Rebels one-game winning streak becomes two-game skid

‘JIM ZEEBEN Sun staff.

i was a heart breaking week- end for the Castlegar Rebels as they lost both games, thickening their spot in the basement of the, Kootenay Intemational Junior Hockey League's West Division.

The losses dropped the Rebels to a record of 2-6,

The team opened the month last Friday with a re-match against the Nelson Maple Leafs, a team looking for vengeance after losing to Castlegar the week before.

Castlegar kept pace with the Leafs for the first period. I

But then came the second, and the game began to look like the contest between first and last place teams that it really was. Nelson’s Mark Reznik scored twenty seconds into the period to spark a four goal outburst by the Leaf:

is.

The Rebels tried to get back in the game and for a while looked like they were going to make a tun of it.

Castlegar took control of the opening five minutes of the third

Dollack, and Derek Lalonde each scored inside a span of 84 sec- onds to make it a one goal game.

The Rebels had a chance to tie it up on several occasions but couldn't convert on their chances. And then, half way through the third, Jeff McGeough stole back the thunder with a goal that put the Leafs up 5-3.

Team captain Corey. Ross took a holding call against him while

Ross finally found the key to Lauidson's lock on the net, and made it 3-1 with one minute left in the first. But the intermission gave the Grand Forks goal keeper a chance to shore up his defence to shut out the Rebels in the sec-

-ond, Mike Hunter scored Castle-

~‘gar‘s final goal with 15 minutes

left in the game The Bruins ‘added two more to end the contest 5-2.

“The fact was we played well in both games, we just had

played better than ours and any time your scorers aren “t scoring you're in troibie.”

Castlegar will get a chance to even their season record with Nelson, at two games a piece, November 9 as they host the Leafs.

The Rebels next game is November 8 in Beaver Valicy against. the second place Nite Hawks. !

Stanley Humphries volley bail squads come back from the road

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alternate captain Chris P went to the box for roughing. Defenceman Kevin Nisse’s high sticking penalty with just over two minutes in the game came during a Rebels power play.

“If those, penalties didn’t hap- pen we would have won,” said Cheveldave. “When we have momentum we can’t take penal- ties.” :

The Rebels other weekend loss came at home against the Grand Forks Border Bruins.

The Bruins remain the only West Division team who haven't lost to Castlegar this year. Backed by the superb net-minding of Brad Lauidsen, Grand Forks stalked their way to a three goal lead in the first period.

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The Stanley Humphries volley ball teams hit the road last week- end to take part in three tourna- ments around the province.

The senior. girls were at Spring Valley high school in Kelowna, where they finished fifth in a 12 team toumament.

The SHSS team was ranked as the seventh best AA school in the province before the tourney.

“We didn't play all that well,” said coach Stosh Uchida. “We're a little bit down right now I guess.”

Eight of the 12 teams at Spring Valley were ranked provincially.

“We came up against some tough teams and made some mental mistakes," he said. “But we won our pool.”

After beating Penticton High and Kelowna Secondary, Castle- gar lost to eventual tournament champion Fulton, the third ranked school in B.C..

Stanley Humphries next match was against the host school, Spring Valley.

The schools split their first two games forcing a final “ping- pong”—a tie breaking game played to eleven points. In ping- pong a team can score points on any play, regardless of who’s serving.

“I hate it,” said Uchida. “They use it to keep the tournament on schedule."

Spring Valley, ranked three spots ahead of SHSS, won the clincher to take the match 2-1.

Other Castlegar

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Local sports glance

CRHL H

In Castlogar Recreational Hockey) League play last weekend the top two, teams dualed it out.

Castlegar Pressure Wash lost their league lead to Woodland Park Shell as Kelly Keraiff's two goals and two assists led Shell to a 7-6 victory.

Dave Rugg also scored two goals to move Woodland Park one point ahead of Pressure Wash in the standings.

Gord Walker netted three goals and|} two assists in a losing effort. 4

In other games Banjo’s won twice to move the team out of the cellar.

Last Thursday, Lary Price picked up four goals and added two assists in a Banjo's 8-3 win over Castlegar Sports |’ Centre.

Monday night, it was Clay Martini’s tum as he bettered Price's earlier point- total on the way to Banjo’s 9-4 victory over Kootenay Computer.

Martini notched four goals and an ‘equal number of assists in the win. Price. and Frank Costa added a pair of goals’ each for Banjo’

Dave Terhune scored twice for

Kootenay Ci who remain in third spot, one point ahead of Banjo's. Terhune also picked up two goals. and two assists in Kootenay Computer's | 7-5 win over Sports Centre. Dwayne Weir scored twice for the last-place club who faced off against Shell late Tuesday night,

Curling .

The Silver Pom Pom Bonspiel is |: gearing up for ils seventh annual mm- |: ning November 22-24.

Last year 88 rinks competed at the |- Bonspiel including the mens’s A winners from Castlegar. Bill Van Yzerloo skipped his team of four to a one point victory over Trail's Rick Brown,

This year more than $7,000 in prizes are up for grabs and the event has attracted 96 teams. The 48 mens spots have been filed while at last word there were only five spaces left out of 48 for ladies entries.

The bonspiel consists of four and entry fee is $150 per rink if any spots are still available.

For more information contact Wendy Brown at 365-1435,

SHSS swim club Stanley finished second

iz One sets It up and the other knocks it down in SHSS

junior girls Volleyball action.

PP included an AAA high school from Vernon.

“We couldn't handle their serving,” said Uchida, as his club dropped two straight games,

Stanley Humphries final match was against the Bible Fel- lowship ‘Academy.

The Fraser Valley team and SHSS split.the first two games, before Castlegar redeemed its earlier Ping Pong loss with an 11- “10 win?

The senior girls next action won't be until November 15, in

““J.L. Crowe hosts the West

K ionship and, along with Grand ‘forks, will pro- vide the main competition for the Rockettes. The winner will travel to Vanderhoof for the provincial championships on November 27, 28, and 29.

\Stanicy Humphrics senior boys team had some success on the weekend at a toumament in Kimberley.

Seven teams from throughout the Kootenay$ and one club from Alberta attended the invitational.

The Rockers finished third out

of cight teams, though their.

coach thinks they should have

SUN STAFF PHOTO / Jim Zeaben came second.

“The guys played really well,” said Don Lust. “Lee Malnek was an all-star and Dan Kooznetsoft was one of our best blockers.”

Lust’s squad lost in the semi- final to eventual champions East Glenn, from Edmonton. The match was close, however, as Castlegar came back after losing the first game 15-11, They won the second contest 15-12 and pressed in the third before losing 15-13.

The match was much closer than East Glenn's final against

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ata high school swim meet held Novem- ber 3 in Castlegar.

Nine local swimmers qualified for the provincial championships November 15- |’ 16, at U.B.C..

Jill Imrie, Aimee Guido, Torrie Lahue, Rae Carler, and Wendy Closkey |. qualified on the women's side. Dan |: Fodor, Justin Phillips, Mario Fehrenberg, and Devon Lahue were the men who made it.

‘Ticket give-away Congratulations to Aaron Postnikofi |: ‘of 3rd Ave for winning two tickets to the Vancouver Canucks home game against San José Sharks November 16,. |. Two tickets are still up for grabs to both a Trail Smoke Eaters and a Castle- |

“| gar Rebels home game. See next

weeks paper for details.