@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "27bab48a-c88e-4742-847f-89887f80c257"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:alternative "[Coast News]"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "BC Historical Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:issued "2012-07-25"@en, "1975-12-16"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xcoastnews/items/1.0175800/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note " provtttJSlal Library, Victoria, B. C. Sunshine Coast Published at Gibsons, B.C. Volume 28, Number 47 December 16,1975. 15c per copy This time as opposition Lockstead goes to Victoria Shortly after 10 p.m. last Thursday evening Dr. Eric Paetkau telephoned Don Lockstead in Powell River and congratulated him on his victory as NDP MLA for the Mackenzie constituency. At the same time a television set in an adjoining office of the Socail Credit headquarters in Sechelt informed Social Credit supporters that Bill Bennett would be the next Premier of British Columbia. Sechelt Indian Band purchases marine research vessel The Sechelt Indian band is ollowing in the . tradition of lacques Cousteau./ Officials of the hand announced ast week the purchase of the MV .rctic Harvester, a fisheries re- MLA Don Lockstead will be heading back to the legislature in Victoria in January for his second term. But this time he goes as a member of the opposition against a majority Social Credit government that captured 36 of the 55 seats in the December 11 election. Lockstead won Mackenzie riding with 9,237 votes. His closest rival was Dr. Eric Paetkau of Social Credit who took 6.671 of the votes from the possible 23,481 registered voters. Liberal Marion McRae from Powell River polled 1220 votes. . j In a 72.9 percent turnout in this riding, most polling stations reported a fairly close battle between Lockstead and Paetkau. (See table opposite) As was expected, the most noticeable difference was in Ocean Falls where Lockstead picked up 495 of the 541 votes. Results from most of the other polling stations indicated that Lockstead polled a slight number of votes more than the Social Credit candidate but this trend was consistent enough to give the NDP candidate a fairly healthy margin. At his, Powell River headquarters after, the election Lockstead said he was extremely happy to be re-elected in this riding but wais also disappointed that he ���would be going into the-, legislature as a member of the opposition and not as a member of the i NDP government.....:.,,.;. i^/i;i^expecttb-wflrkvas;:hard-for-r- ' this riding in the future as I have in the past,\" Lockstead said, \"and they will know they have a fighter in the opposition.\" Asked what the reason was for the dramatic turn-around in the election Lockstead surmised that the Socreds' heavy advertising campaign may have had some influence on the electorate of this province. Lockstead said it was his belief that the people of British Colum bia will have a look at the Bennett government and their give-aways and once it is realized this government is no more competent than the last Social Credit government was, the vote will once again favor the NDP. Lockstead said that Bennett will not\" make a good provincial leader and takes directions only from the multinational companies. On Ocean Falls, Lockstead said \"If Bennett lays a finger on Ocean palls, he will have a fight on his hands in the legislature from me personally.\" In Sechelt, Social Credit candidate Eric.Paetkau said.his loss was a \"sock in the eye\" and that he would probably not run again in the next provincial election. \"It was an extremely interesting experience,\" Paetkau told reporters after most of the election results indicated he would not be the victorious candidate, \"but I don't think politics is really my bag.\" DON LOCKSTEAD Re-elected as MLA He added that although being elected to the legislature would have been a disruption to his fam- . ily life, he felt he could have done a good job if elected. Paetkau said he was pleased to see the Socreds win provincially and was of the opinion that the party would strive to do a first rate job after their deflating defeat in 1972. Paetkau felt the campaign was probably fought on a provincial basis rather than a local basis. \"I don't think people really saw Lockstead or myself.'' In Powell River Liberal candidate Marion McRae said she was pleased with the outcome of the election and \"I think it's the beginning of the Liberal party in the Mackenzie riding.\" McRae did not enter the race until two weeks prior to the election and campaigning was kept to a bare minimum because of a lack of funds. She added there would be a complete revamping of the Liberal party in this riding adding that the Liberals would be holding a meeting within two weeks and \"we'll be starting our campaign at that time.\" Mrs. McRae said she will run again in the next election. She said the Social Credit received the support from the business community of the province who were frightened by the NDP government. In the present legislature, the Socreds now have 36 seats, the NDP have 17, and the Liberals and Conservatives each have one.. ��� Voting at a glance PoU Reg. Voters Socred liberal NDP Waiting for the Results \\, Social Credit candidate Eric Paetkau and his wife Bonnie watch the election results on a television at the Social Credit headquarters Thursday night. The Sechelt surgeon was topped by NDP candidate Don Lockstead who won Mackenzie riding for a second term with 9237 votes. Paetkau, who polled 6671 votes says he is finished with provincial politics. The Social Credit party won a majority 36 seats in the legislature in the December 11 election. ' \\\\ Further search ship, that next spring will nounced the formation of a new embark on an extensive five year company, SIB International In- research program under the di- dustries Limited, which will be rectioriofthe federal Department based in Sechelt and Vancouver of the Environment. and wholly owned by the band. The band at the same time an- Clarence Joe \"will act as Chair- Company Presdident Gilbert joe, left.' and economic advisor Derwih Owen show photograph of the Arctic Har vester recently . purchased by the Sechelt Indian Band. . man of the Board, and directors are Chief! Calvin Craigan, Ted Dixon, Stip Joe, Tom Paul, and President Gilbert Joe. Besides'acting as a research vessel under the auspices of the federal government, the vessel will also be'used to train band members botji in marine theory and fisheries: hiitially, some band members will form part of the crew and ultimately the captain and entire crew for the vessel will be made up of members of - the Sechelt Band. Y'At a press ^conference last Thursday, the President of the new company, Gilbert Joe, said the embarkation of, this new venture is a result of the band's aims to be self-sufficient; and an asset to society. - i \"This project will! put the band at the forefront of i fisheries research,\" Joe said. He said at the same time it will encourage young members of the band to become involved in the fishing industry and provide a practical experience for students involved in technology courses. The Arctic Harvester is a 116 foot single-deck deep sea seiner that was purchased from R. Kar- liner and Associates. The vessel, which has been involved in herring fishing off Canada's east coast and tuna fishing.off the coast of South America, is presently in a Vancouver drydock undergoing extensive alterations. A 31 foot midsection is being inserted to bring the overall length to 147 feet. Six insulated fish holds, with a capacity of 13,500 cubic feet will be increased , to ten holds with a capaqty of 20,000 cubic feet. One of the holds will generate temperatures down td ���40 degrees fahrenheit. (Continued on Page 3) tremors Residents of the Sunshine Coast were again shaken by a series of earth tremors last Thursday morning. This was the second minor earthquake to hit parts of the west coast within two weeks. The earlier quake occurred November 30 with one tremor registering 4.5 on the Richter scale. Last Thursday's major tremor, measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale, occurred about 7 a.m. It was preceded by a series of smal-, ler tremors. No damage has been reported. A spokesman for the Victoria Geophysical Observatory was quoted as saying that tremors are not unusual for this area because of the proximity to the earth's fault. He said more tremors could be expected but some may be so minor that they wouldn't be felt. An article on page 10 of this issue of the Sunshine Coast News explains what to and what not to do during an earthquake. Cranberry Lake Denny Island EdgehlU Egmont Flrvale Gambler Gibsons \" Gillies Bay Grief Point Hagensborg - Halfmoon Bay Hardwich Island Hopkins Landing Irvines Landing Jervis Inlet Kingcome Inlet Lang Bay Lund Loughborough Inlet Madeira Park Minstrel Island Nanra Nelson Island Ocean Falls Phillips Arm Port Mellon Port Neville Powell River Refuge Cove Roberts Creek Riven Inlet SalteryBay Savary Island Sechelt Seymour Inlet Simoon Sarnuad Smith Inlet ��� Sooth Bentick Southview Stillwater Stuart bland Sullivan Bay Thompson Sound Thorlow Island Toba Inlet Vananda Westview Wlldwood Wilson Creek TOTAL 907 51 -671 154 32 78 2838 490 1540 276 425 34 439 259 5 64 1073 206 22 842 57 60 16 920 43 112 8 945 34 1008 72 62- . 20 2131 3 83 21 36 267 128 102 23 41 27 43 450 3755 1039 438 23,481 175 6 184 - 41 9 7 775 163 532 115 128 13 117 81 3 305 55 3 258 7 2 37 17 18 5 205 3 212 5 13 3 895 55 45 5 1 23 7 125 1,074 216 147 6,671 202 1 35 .'~,s- 96 12 19 3 17 19 4 58 8 2 26 V 2 9 3 5 1 54 31 2 2 2 98 14 7 4 5 3 3 6 10 211 46 16 1,220 413 78 5 29S 13 11 4 495 9 54 2 390 17 348 11 28 5 709 118 32 3 3 11 8 7 184 1,359 389 118 9,237 program calls for additional teacher The Sechelt and District school board last Thrusday gave approval in principle for a new program at Elphinstone termed \"teacher aide II.\" The program involves the hiring of one additional teacher and an additional portable classroom at Elphinstone. The teacher aide II program is especially designed to allow the operation of a learning assistance program that is outside the general program of the school. It will provide assistance for students who are weak in certain areas of the school curriculum. In presenting the program to the board last week school superintendent John Denley asked the board to approve the course in principle and to also approve the hiring of one teacher and the addition of one portable. He told the board that what was ineeded was one teacher who would be responsible for carrying out the learning assistance program and that person must be free from the regular timetable. \"The pupil-teacher ratio now does not allow for the free flow of this program,\" Denley said. He added there was presently a teacher engaged in developmental reading but it was part of the regular program. He stressed that the teacher aide II program must be completely separate from the regular school program. In response to Trustee Maureen Clayton's suggestion that Denley was \"jumping the gun,\" the superintendent said the program should\" not be delayed in order to be viable for the next semester. He said Elphinstone's principal and staff were 100 percent behind the concept of the course and that Elphinstone presently has a very tight pupil-' teacher ratio and lack of space that is placing the school under a constant stress. Denley said the facilities are overstrained and morale is suffering and \"the board should give, this school encouragement in every way.\" Some members of the board were critical that this strained situation was not foreseen a year ago and that \"crisis management\" was not a good way to overcome the problems in the district. Trustee-elect Claus Spiekermann said the conditions in the whole district should be thor oughly reviewed so needs don't surface later. that other two weeks School Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 29 was given three readings and adopted. The bylaw will authorize a loan for $245,000 from the B.C. School Districts Capital Financing Authority. Interest on the loan will be 9.48 percent per year and will be paid off in 1995. The loan will provide for the school district's share of jthe capital expenses for the Sechelt Junior Secondaiy School which will have a total cost of over SI mi!!:���. 2 Sunshine Coast News, December 16, 1975. Sunshine Coast NEWS Published at Gibsons, B.C. every Tuesday < by Sechelt Peninsula News Ltd. Ronald B. Cruice, Publisher. Rob Dykstra, Editor. Subscription Rates: British Columbia $6.00 per year; $4.00 for six months. Canada except B.C. $8.00 per Year. ��� United States and Foreign $10.00 per Year. Old Age Pensioners $4.50 per year. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0794. Return Postage Guaranteed. Phone886-2622 p.p. Box 460, Gibsons, B.C. We've finally done it . . ��� Well, here you are. Holding a brand spanking new issue of the Sunshine Coast News. You must admif, it's certainly an im- provement in reproduction over last week's issue. It's true we sometimes hate to let some of the good old things slip out of our grasp. We realize that the inevitable destiny of mankind is to become some super-slick efficient animal whose creations must also be super-slick and efficient. Charlie Chaplin forewarned us in his own tragi-comedy way that \"modern times\" is not necessarily something for us to look forward to. Even some readers of this paper, when told a few weeks ago that we were going to change to an offset metro broadsheet, let out a bit of a sigh, a subliminal submission, realizing that everything must come to an end. They thought the old Coast News was kind of funky. Well maybe it was funky but it was also very limiting.. It was limiting for us and it was limiting for you. �� Only the die-hard ink-in-the-blood printer would disagree that the handling of hot lead is a rather cumbersome and dirty job and how many times have we heard the make-up man hollering from the back shop that type should be made of rubber rather than lead. But besides giving us more flexibility to make up this paper, the ultimate effects of these improvements will be for you, the reader. No longer will you feel compelled to walk into our office, squint at the person on the other side of the counter, and ask us when we are going to make the papereasier to read. No longer. ��� we hope ��� will you have to ask us what that photograph on page three was all about because it wasn't clear enough for you to make it out. The change from Linotype to offset, of course, has some disadvantages. Naturally it's going to cost us more money and that's one of the reasons that the advertising rates have gone up somewhat and it's also the reason why the price of the paper had to be increased from 10 to 15 cents. We are also losing our late deadlines. Previously we could cover a late news story Wednesday morning and still have it in the paper printed later the same day. Because of the fact that this paper will now be printed in North Vancouver, our deadlinesl have- been moved ahead considerably. Deadlines will be Saturdays, normally, and Sundays in an emergency. Nothing can be all good. But we feel there are more advantages than disadvantages offered by the change. And to be realistic, even the concept of social Darwinism can be applied to newspapers. It's simple: adapt or sink. We've made the change and we are asking you to bear with us for a few weeks while we find our way around in this sirange new world. Once this issue hits the streets, we've made the biggest change, and from here things can only get better. - and now it's your turn It's been said often: a newspaper should be like a mirror. It should reflect all the things in the community that the newspaper represents. We agree wife that. But you have to help. '.!.', ��� The first thing you can do is-give & us your opinions on the events that happen in this community. We want to know what you care about or what you don't care about. We want to know your feelings and if there is something you don't like then we want you to get mad. If this newspaper is to represent you and your community then we feel you should take advantage of the letters to the editor space that will be provided every week on this page. Contrary to popular opinion pens and typewriters do not bite. If you have something you want to say then sit down for five or ten minutes and jot it down in a letter. Don't worry if you are not the world's greatest writer, we'll put in a few commas and periods to help you out if required. So many people have stomped into the office of this paper mad about something that is happening or even glad about something that is happening. We appreciate you telling us your feelings because very often it gives us an idea for a news story. But besides giving us the ideas we also urge you to write your thoughts in a small letter to the editor. You would be surprised how many people reading it will say ��� yes, that's true, Tl-jhVglad somebody finally said itV Another thing we would like to do is hear about what you or your organization is doing. If you feel something is news- ��� worthy then give us a call. We are not entirely ubiquitous so we may not be able to cover everything. But we'll do our best. We would also recommend to members of clubs and organizations that you appoint a publicity person who could write a news article on what you are doing or what you are planning. We are here to keep this community involved and we are always on the lookout for news stories. The only thing we ask is that when you write your stories you type them double-spaced. This will help eliminate errors in spelling. So now that we are impressing the fact that we are here, we also want to know that you are out there. If this newspaper is to act as a mirror, the spirit contained in these weekly pages is going to reflect nothing more than the spirit that is in this community. Just for the record We must admit that we are a bit biased. We are a little bit biased toward the southern part of the Sunshine Coast. It's natural because our offices are located in Gibsons and we spend most of our time around this area. In the past years, this paper has tried to represent the entire Sunshine Coast from Port Mellon to Egmont. In fact, that's what it used to say on the masthead of some of the former issues of this paper. But as we do a little navel con templating to tiy and find our place on this grand piece of real estate, we have to face the fact that with our present limited staff we cannot cover a large area and do a good job at the same time. What we will try to do a good job ot covering is the area from Port Mellon to and, including Sechelt. As we grow in size and circulation we may expand that area but for now we'll not bite off a bigger chunk than we can chew.. remember when FIVE YEARS AGO Many attended the funeral of A. E. Ritchey, contractor and former chairman of Gibsons municipal council. Dogs running loose kill domestic rabbits and chickens in Roberts Creek area. Charlie Mandelkau and Ken Goddard were elected aldermen on Gibsons council. 10 YEARS AGO Mrs. Lee Macey in a Vote for Progress drive seeks election to Gibsons Municipal Council. Bananas sell at 7 lbs. for 99* at Sechelt's Shop-Easy. Royal Canadian Legion officials decide to sell in Camp Haig, Roberts Creek property. 15 YEARS AGO A vote of 1,477 for and 205 against decided the Sunshine Coast needs a new St. Mary's Hospital. Sechelt's PTA forms a committee to organize a library for the village. 20 YEARS AGO Fir sawdust is advertised at $7.50 per large load in Gibsons and $8 outside the village. Chris and Andrew Johnston announce the opening of Chris's Jewelers in Sechelt. 25 YEARS AGO Harley C. Anderson, naturopath, headed Gibsons municipal vote which saw Chairman James Drummond defeated. Voters numbered 201 out of a 521 possible. * Burning the Yule Log The burning of the Yule log Is a custom handed down by the English who settled in America. On Christmas eve the log, set on the hearth. Is kindled with the remains of the log from the previous year. Many superstitions surround the Yule log. It was thought by some to protect their home from evil spirits, others thought the ashes would help swollen glands! At Williamsburg Lodge, In Williamsburg, Virginia, the burning of the Yule log is still part of their traditional holiday celebration. Christmas Eve Legend In Iceland, Christmas Eve is the holiest night of the entire holiday season. Legend has it that on the night before Christmas, many years ago, dwarfs, elves and other \"little folk\" danced in the streets. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax Winter on the Sunshine Coast Letters to the Editor SHOCKED AT ALDERMAN'S SUGGESTION with no funding from the school board. Also at this time of year there is a strong possibility of running into unfavorable weather in Canada, resulting in a lack of Editor: Re: your article \"Vil- activities such as swimming, out- lage dragged into gutter*'dated ;v door experiences, etc. November Si1975. ? I do not understand Maureen Due to the recent mail strike Clayton's remarks in the press I am sorry I am late in replying \"��� ��� ��� I believe students should do to this article which appeared in your paper. I feel Gibsons, like so many small places, is suffering growing pains and will eventually grow up. I. sympathize with the elected governing bodies of these growing areas. However, I am shocked at Aid. Jim Metzler suggesting consideration would be given to having the senior citizens employed to clean up the streets. I think this is an insult to our senior citizens. From my observations, I think Gibsons should have its own law enforcement officers to enforce some of the bylaws. The ones who should clean up the untidy mess is the generation who creates the situation. Let our senior citizens enjoy the beauties of Gibsons. Even though Pioneer Park is somewhat of an eyesore, perhaps some day it will be a beauty spot. God knows the effort has been great. Sorry, I just can't agree with the article and I, am not looking for the job of possible law enforcement officer in the village. ���F. ROSS GIBSON, Sidney, B.C. PROTESTING THE MEXICO DECISION The following letter is addressed to the Sechelt School Board. A copy was sent to the Coast News. As a parent of a grade seven pupil of Gibsons Elementary School, I would like to protest your recent decision to forbid this class their trip to Mexico. A similar trip, which was very successful, was made last year by grade < seven students. As this previous trip was approved by the existing board, it was a surprise to learn: that this year you have now changed your minds. At the meetings which were held by the parents, our first feelings were that the students should see Canada first. But as this trip has to be taken during,' the spring break to allow a maximum amount of time with a mini-' mum amount of school days lost, the weather and the cost were the deciding factors for the majority of parents and children voting for the trip south. The cost for a trip back east is estimated at almost; double the cost for a trip t6 Mexico. The money required for this trip is to be raised entirely by the students and the community, something in their own communities.\" She. further commented that this trip should not be for the , students' own selfish reasons or I gains, and finally that their ener- ) gy should be channeled into i \"civic responsibility\" for the ; community. Firstly what does Mrs. Clayton mean by doing something in the community ��� is she suggesting that they pick up garbage!in the park? I would rather teach my children not to throw it! Secondly .what is selfish about students having a vacation and fun.' along with their learning experience? Finally, what is considered to be a twelve year old's civic responsibility? It is my belief that our community should/have a civic responsibility to the children. Other communities have not reneged on their responsibilities towards their children. They have provided adequate recreation facilities. Yet our community has traditionally defeated' referenda for such provisions./1 feel the same indifference towards the children of our comniunity is reflected by Mrs. .Clayton's state ments. Possibly Mrs.' Clayton and the rest of the bofrd feel that their children can/learn all they need to know by staying in one small area. It is my opinion that given the opportunity, which our children have, they should be allowed to travel as far as they can, being exposed to different people and cultures. Ii! is so much easier and longer lasting to learn by being there, rattier than by reading about it in a bijok. A few years ago a field trip to Vancouver was considered to be a major excursion. Since then they have tried iwo and three day trips in they province. Now we know that longer trips can be made with no problems. These children have a chance to go through thrfee western states and into Mexico, they have before them the,��rivilege of visiting two foreign countries. How many adults stfll have not had this op-, portunity? The board however, feels it is their prerogative to say NO! Y ..��� I would really like to know your reasoning and thinking in coming to this decision. ���(Mrs.) Juanita Stromquist. NO NEED FOR THE GUN BYLAW ��� : The following ^letter Vwas ad- dressed to the Sunshine .Coast Regional District. A copy was sent to the Coast News. This is in reference to .fhe Regional Firearm Bylaw 81, and is being written jointly by the Sechelt Rod and Gun Club, and the Gibsons Wildlife Club. .We have held combined meetings and given Bylaw 81 much study. We find embodied therein legislation from the. Criminal Code of Canada, the Wildlife Act (Provincial), and the Firearms Act (provincial). All this legislation has been on the books for many years, and requires no duplication. We feel that we have more suitable workable proposals which warrant a meeting with your board to discuss all aspects of the subject. In view of this, both clubs extend an invitation to meet with your board members at the Sechelt Rod and Gun Club House at your convenience. As the subject affects all Regional electoral districts, we feel all members should be present. , ���JOINT COMMITTEE G. Ruggles, Gibsons Wildlife; R. M.Janis, Sechelt Rod and Gun. by ,ROB DYKSTRA It's now been a few days since William conquered the land of plenty and we've all had plenty of time to take a reflective puff on our pipes and' ask ourselves; What Happened? That's the million dollar question these days and after being bombarded by the media's plethora of political postmortems the whole thing is about as clear as the sludge at the bottom of a Port Mellon settling tank. . One of the most astute observations I've heard on the matter is that the B.C. electorate is like a bunch of tourists on a ship who run to the star- , board when the ship heels too far to the left, and then all clamber back to port when the ship reacts and moves to the right- In this riding, the question is hot so much what happened but who won. If you voted for Dr. Paetkau you lost your man but you gained your government. If you voted for Lockstead, the opposite happened. You won your man, you lost your government. The Socreds of Mackenzie riding celebrated ��� jf I may use that word��� at the Parthenon in Sechelt. The television, tuned in to the state owned. CBC, hectically poured out the election returns while the barmaids behind the counter ��� one of them displaying an NDP button��� hectically poured out the Scotch. The returns came in hot and heavy for the Socreds and. the cheers came periodically about every 30 seconds. While the Socreds were racking up the points like a pinball machine, one could still sense a certain trepidation about the immediate future of the man who was ready to forsake his medical practice for the sake of a red velvet seat in the legislature. While all this was happen-' ing, Eric himself was riding the storm out at Social Credit headquarters on Sechelt's Wharf Street. Shortly after 9:30 the indications were indeed that Dr. Paetkau would stay on at St. Mary's:. after all. Seated Lh front of \"the TV ;'wiiif .BOTnfc��'T _rk: k)*ed'��omwhat bleary eyed and it was hard to tell whether he was genuinely affected by his seeming loss or whether he was just tired of the whole thing and wanted . nothing more than to go home and get a good night's rest. Back at the Parthenon they were also starting to see the writing on the wall, although some weren't seeing much of . anything anymore. Intoxicated by the whole affair, you could say. The Socreds were sweeping the province and Lock stead was sweeping Mackenzie. When tlie Sechelt surgeon finally did make his appearance at Sechelt's bastion of democracy he was wildly received with a\" mixture of congratulations and condolences. We've lost the battle but not the war is what everyone was telling each other. It\"s the very phrase that fat but by now deflated Dave had used on the television a half hour earlier. In his speech'to the Socrerf faithful, Eric, with the dre:nn of fame and glory in V. t��- i already a vague metnoi V thanked them all for the sup- ~ port and thanked them further' for the experience. He looked impressive in his grey pinstriped suit bought by Bonnie especially for the occasion, or the. non-occasion, whatever you prefer, and even though I am a confessed NDP supporter I must also confess that at that point I wished he had won. The man is intelligent and likeable,' that's- all there is to ��*������'��� ��� There was a loss and a win but the bar being open and human nature being what it is, good spirits prevailed. And Lil Fraser prevailed. . Paetkau's chief campaign worker said the reason her candidate had. lost the election was because the people in Sechelt didn't want to lose their, surgeon. Which ��� makes one surmise what Eric'c reaction may have been to that statement: I knew I shouldn't have been a doctor. Same night. Same election. Different party. The band played, a small TV sat in a dan corner and long-haired girls in long dresses moved slowly across the centre of the dance floor. The scene was the Roberts ; Creek Community- Hall. The event was the victory party and/or wake for the NDP. Here, the atmosphere was also one of ambivalence. A disillusioned campaign worker stood outside the hall contemplating the universe and lighting matches to keep himself warm. He was troubled. . Inside, the music played and the entire mood of the electorate was clouded not by an A atmosphere ;Tof. ambivalence^ but' rather by'another ambi- V ence that was very unpolitical, very Roberts Creek, and very homegrown. * .. Whatever sense of loss or victory was experienced by those present seemed irrelevant. As one penson said to me, the election is over, the band is playing and here's a* ticket for a beer.Y That gives me confidence, if hot the voters in this pro- vince. at least in the spirit of human nature. It overcomes all. EQUILIBRIUM What if we cry today? What if a tear should fall? What if a dream of hope should lose ������ it's wings? What if our heart should say, \"Truly I have lost all, All the things lovely to which memory clings?\" Yesterday's rains are gone; Clouds of today dissolve; Tomorrow's sun shines on, To bathe the world in calm, serene resolve. Lester R. Peterson. Elementary school texts called sexist YUKON MINERALS Mineral production in the Yukon ''territory is valued at 1.6 percent of the nation's total. Most elementary school textbooks are sexist literature populated by cardboard characters in unreal situations, according to Dr. Rowland Lorimer of the Communications Studies department at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Lorimer's conclusions are based on a study of 22 textbooks supplied by the province to .students in Grades 1 to 4 which was carried out by 16 students in his class in Communications and Community Advocacy. The study was an analysis of the various textbooks for \"implicit statements\" about people and society, Dr. Lorimer said. The students found that if a community was discussed in any of the texts, those chosen were always located in foreign countries or in times past. Said Dr. Lorimer: \"These sorts of stories are very bad because they are escapist, with little relation to the real life of the child. He can't identify with the characters in the stories.\" Another finding was that the textbooks set up a hierarchical view of society, broken into three distinct classes: those in authority, adults and children. Within the groupings of adults and children, males always rank higher than females. - \"The implicit statement in this is that society is broken down into roles which exist in a hierarchical relationship to each other,\" Dr. Lorimer said, and the ranking of these.roles is determined by sex and age. Women and girls: are always deprecated in the stories, most often pictured as hysterics who are unable to cope with even the simplest situations, he said. Men and. boys, on the other hand, are portrayed as the exact opposites. A further finding of the study was that the child characters in the stories are inevitably one dimensional incompetents who need the help of adults to complete tasks which any child can normally perform, Dr. Lorimer said. The major conclusion of the study group is that there is a great need for a teachers' guide of books to which they.can di rect their students to counteract the implicit bias of the textbooks. The students found that government policy, at present, is unconcerned about this implicit bias so that any alternatives to the. supplied textbooks are provided by individual teachers acting on their own initiative/ . ��� - ��� .\\ Taking Care of Your Holiday plants Plants are living gifts. To keep them going for the holidays and after, here are some tips: , ! Azalea: Keep/moist and cool. After flowers fade, cut them back a Uttle. They can summer out-of-doors , and should be fed monthly until the early fall, Christmas Pepper; Keep in full sun with moist soil, but cool. Summer outdoors. trouble with lead is that it's not elastic A challenge to make j sure it's a representative newspaper Sunshine Coast News, December 16, .1975. 3 LIBRARY BOOKS The old Linotype machine The biggest complaint about the old letterpress system is that it's not elastic enough when making up the page. CENTRAL VACUUM SYSTEMS SUPPLY arid/or INSTALL ; 886-7695 GIBSONS by FRED CRUICE Back in a prairie city known as Regina 21 years ago the \"writing on the wall\" indicated that an editor, at that time a librarian, would be. asked to join the ranks of the pensioners. So this individual known as Fred along with spouse Dorothy looked beyond the prairie horizon, eventually journeying to Vancouver. There, contact reached Les Way, a man known as Mr. Weekly Editor in B.C. He had two weekly newspapers to offer, one at Agassiz and the other at Gibsons. You had to take a ferry to reach Gibsons. The ferry trip resulted in a definite decision. Both prairie folk were intrigued with the location. Within one month the ownership of the Coast News changed hands. Sam and Dorothy Nutter, own-. ers of the Coast News, made the changeover easy for the incoming prairie couple and the new publishers started a 20 year stint of turning out a weekly newspaper with the first September issue of 1954. There were weeks when after paying necessary expenses the new owners got little in the way of income. This was no deterrent. They built slowly and effectively. Son Ronald became interested in the venture, after leaving the University of Saskatchewan and a stint at the Port Mellon mill. He became, technically speaking, manager of the mechanical department. The business grew and more room had to be found. C. P. Bal- lentine had some land available behind the Bal Block which was a - cleaned out gravel bed. His price being quite reasonable, the pres-. ent Coast News edifice emerged and in September pf 1965, the same year the editor was president of the British Columbia Weekly Newspaper organization, saw a big Miehle press (worth $25,000 new) roll off copies of the Coast News with greater rapidity than the old basement press in the now destroyed Marine Drive shelter which had been dubbed by pioneers as an old Gibsons barn. -' Described as one of the most useful buildings in Gibsons, the , present Coast News headquarters has a great future with son Ron and his wife Marie taking complete charge. It will be their challenge to see that the Coast News is a representative weekly newspaper. No more will the retired editor have to pound out more than 75 editorials a year. No more will his Sunday afternoons be utilized to produce words of imperishable wisdom derived from the foibles of human activity on the Sunshine Coast and other important parts of the world. No more does helpmeet Dorothy have to battle with the accounts receivable and sometimes unhappy readers via the phone or across the office counter. All that is past for both. They, having tried for more than 20 years to help people live an untroubled life, are now enjoying a life untroubled by local events ��� ��� unless they want to be part of ' them ADULT Fiction An Actor in Rome by Joanne Daly. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow. The Brood of Folly by Margaret Erskine. , Relentless by Brian Garfield. Points of Departure by Goldstone, Cummings and Churchill. The Money Changers by Arthur Hailey. Nine Buck's Row by T. E. Huff. NON-FICTION Biography: Edward VIII by Frances Donaldson. Britannia: Rowing Alone Across the Atlantic by John Fairfax. Mademoiselle Chanel by Pierre Galante. Cooking: Christina Foyle's Party Book by Christina Foyle. Microwave Cooking from Litton. Thank You ���k To the people who had the confidence in me to work for me ��� To the people who had the faith in me to vote for me Although I am doubly disappointed in my personal defeat, I am happy and relieved with our provincial victory. ERIC PAETKAU I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I And the new Compugraphic. School board briefs Say Merry Christmas 4 times a year. Gloria Lindsay has been appointed as a new teacher at Gibsons Elementary school. She will teach grade three and replace Anne be- Letham whose resignation came effective December 31.' ��� ��� ��� ���' \" Ed Nicholson, a teacher from Argyle school, has been hired as learning assistance co-ordinator. Mr. Argyle will commence duties in this district January 6. It was earlier reported that 12 applications had been received for this position. ��� ��� ��� The board has accepted the resignation of Madeira Park Secondary school principal Allen Thompson. The resignation will be effec^, tive June 30, 1976. Legal The finished form is put on the old Miehle press. Forms can weigh up to 100 lbs. (Continued from Page 1) By next spring, when the vessel is expected to be ready for sea, she will be worth about $4.75 million. Financing is being undertaken by the B.C. Central Credit Union with support of the federal government. The first contract for the Department of the Environment will last five years and is worth approximately $5 million. When she was built by Vancouver's Benson Bros, less than five years ago, the Arctic Harvester was hailed as the largest and most sophisticated combination fishing vessel in Canada. She had just about everything a skipper could want. The new modifications will make her even more sophisticated. A present 975 hp. engine will be replaced by a 1450 hp model. Indians buy boat The installation of drag winches on deck will give her the dual capacity of trawler and seiner. When the Arctic Harvester was designed by Cove, Dixon & Co., (at that time Cove, Hatfield & Co.) of West Vancouver, the basic approach; was to build a highly stable fisiing platform by providing an unusual beam of 30 feet, 6 inches and a high prismatic coefficient. This beamy look, though, will be reduced by the lengthening which is to accommodate three staterooms for government scientists as well as a lounge and recreation area for the crew of nine ib twelve. Other additions which iwill bring the esti . mated value of the vessel to $4.75 million upon completion will be fish conveyors and processing equipment in the shelter deck. The Arctic Harvester's original navigation equipment is still highly impressive, and consists of twin Kelvin Hughes radar sets, a Wagner Mark III auto-pilot, a Decca Mark XII navigator, Bendix RDF automatic direction-finder, and Konel Loran. There is also: a Marconi AM radio-telephone, Marconi single-side band radiotelephone, Johnson messenger radio telephones, and a Danforth White magnetic compass. Sounding equipment consists of dual Eko-Lite sounders, and two Wes- mar sonars. Moreover, the vessel can be controlled from three locations in the wheelhouse. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of the deceased: MADSEN, Mads, o.k.a. MAD- SEN, Mad, late of 1354 Prowse Rd., Gibsons, B.C. Creditors and others having claims against the said estate(s) are hereby required to send them duly verified, to the PUBLIC TRUSTEE, 635 Burrard St., Vancouver, B.C. V6C 3L7, before the 30th day of January, 1976, after which date the assets of the said estate(s) will be distributed, having regard only to claims that have been received, CLINTON W. FOOTE, PUBLIC TRUSTEE. Bonus Subscription Offer For just $3 you can order a year's subscription ��� four issues ��� to Beautiful British Columbia magazine and a colourful 1976 calendar-diary. Be sure and order right away so we can announce your gift in time for Chirstmas. This bonus subscription offer applies only to new or renewal subscriptions commencing with this Winter's issue. Order as many subscriptions as you like. It's a great way to say Merry Christmas to yourself and everyone on your gift list. ORDER YOUR SUBSCRIPTION AT COAST NEWS BOOK EARLY CHRISTMAS SEALS f FIGHT f LUNG DISEASE PLEASE USE CHRISTMAS SEALS \\ GIVE YOUR PET AN OWNER HE'S WAITING PATIENTLY FOR YOU AT SECHELT GARDEN & PET SUPPLY CENTRE Along with ah you could want to make him happy If you don't Mnd him at first, look behind the Poinsettias 4-7 BLOOMS $5.95 - $7.95 LIVE CHRISTMAS TREES \\ TROPICAL PLANTS i ��� FLOWERING PLANTS During the'ast week before Christmas He may be waiting by the CUT FLOWERS \" MISTLETOE i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i Do something different this year! Treat yourself to dinner, a pro band, and dancing til ? ? ? ? ? ��� includes dinner for two, a round on the house, and buffet table all evening! have your choice of salads, steak and lobster tail, stuffed baked potatoes and garlic bread. *2850 couple TICKETS A VAILABLE AT: The Parthenon, Village Cafe, Continental Coiffures Big Mac's Superette. TICKETS MUST BE BOOKED IN ADVANCE I \"-w 3 Parthenon Theatre/Restaurant Sechelt 385-9769 \"77ie finest view in foit'/i\" _* 4 Sunshine Coast News, December 16, 1975.\" Sunshine Coast News Classifieds 886-2622 CO AST NEWS CLASSIFIED ADS Phone 886-2622 DEADLINE ��� SATURDAY NOON MINIMUM SI .50 ���15 WORDS. 10�� ��� word thereafter. SUBSEQUENT INSERTIONS'/. PRICE Legal ads 50c per count line Subscription Rates: B.C. ��� 1 year ��� $6.00; 6 months ��� $4.00 Canada except B.C. ��� 1 year ��� $8.00 U.S. and Foreign ��� 1 year ��� $10.00 O.A.P. ��� 1 year ��� $4.50 It is agreed by any advertiser requesting space that liability of the Sunshine Coast News in event of failure to publish any advertisement or in event of errors in publishing of an advertisement shall be limited to the amount paid by the advertiser for that portion of the advertising space occupied by the incorrect item only, and that there shall be no liability in any event beyond amount paid for such advertisement. No responsibility is accepted by the newspaper when copy is not submitted in writing, or verified in writing. ���WANTED Boys* ice skates, size 3 or 4, good condition. Phone 886-7839. LOGS WANTED L&K LUMBER (North Shore) Ltd. Phone 886-7033 Sorting Grounds, Twin Creeks ��� COMING EVENTS ���WORK WANTED TODDLER SITTING SERVICE Fridays from 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturdays from 1. to 4 p.m., . Gibsons Elementary School gym. Ages 2 and up. Services by grade 7 students, with parental supervision, to raise funds for Spring trip. By donation, $1 minimum. Every. Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Whitaker House, Sechelt. Introductory lecture Transcendental Meditation. Tel. 885-3342. Every Monday night, 8 p.m., Bingo, New Legion Hall, Gibsons. ��� ANNOUNCEMENTS If you are concerned about someone with a drinking problem, call Al-Anon at 885-9638 or 886- 7-���< 9193. Meetings St. Aidan's Hall, Tuesday. 8 p.m. For Latter Day Saints in this area contact 886-2546. For membership or explosive re- = quirements contact R. Nimmo, Cemetery Road. Ph. 886-7778. i Howe Sound Farmers' Institute. . Stumping or ditching powder, , dynamite, electric or regular caps, prima-cord. Alcoholics Anonymous. Phone 886-9904 or 885-9327. Gibsons meeting Monday, 8:30 p.m. in Gibsons Athletic Hall. ��� DEATHS HOPKliSSj��� On December 11, }l 1975; Catherine Hopkins; of Hop�� kins Landing. B.C., 81 years of age. Predeceased by her devoted husband, Capt. Gordon S. Hopkins. Survived by 3 daughters, Mrs. F. (Grace) Hitchcock of Hopkins Landing; Mrs. L. (Isabel) Letham of West Vancouver; Mrs. D. (Nancy) Bown of The Pas, Manitoba; 10 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren; 3 sisters, H Mrs. R. Davy, Mrs. R. Black and '.', Mrs. S. Abernathy. Funeral ser- .''} vice Monday, December 15 at '���::' 2:30 p.m. in the Hollyburn Funer- i al Home, 1807 Marine Dr.; West ���; Vancouver, with Rev. T. T. Oliver i officiating. Cremation. Flowers gratefully declined. Donations to the CNIB or a charity of your choice very much appreciated. ���FOUND Male Brittany Spaniel type dog, white and brown. Well trained. Found in Rec. Centre area in Roberts Creek. Phone 885-3373 evenings. ��� HELP WANTED ' SUNSHINE COAST REGIONAL DISTRICT PLUMBING INSPECTOR I The Sunshine Coast Regional District requires the services of a qualified person, to fill the position of Plumbing Inspector I. The applicant must possess a valid trade qualification certificate and previous municipal experience is desirable. This position is primarily for plumbing inspections, however the applicant must be willing and able to check building plans for conformance to local bylaws and the National Building Code of Canada. Remuneration to be commensurate with qualifications and experience plus additional fringe benefits. All applications from interested candidates should be directed to: Mrs. A. G. Pressley, Secretary-Treasurer, Sunshine Coast Regional District, P.O. Box 800, Sechelt, B.C. Phone: 885-2261 $100, $200, $300 Need extra money for Christmas bills? Just a few hours weekly calling on friendly Fuller Brush customers can be most rewarding. For more information write Fuller Brush Co. c/o T. Diamond, R.R. 3, Kamloops or call collect 578-7633. Your PICTURES FRAMED and mounted from Artistic Woodwork stock. Matboards. Non-glare and regular glass. Needlepoint a specialty. Moved to 1450 Sechelt Inlet Rd., Porpoise Bay, Sechelt. Phone 885-9573. - ' HIGH FUEL COSTS? Peerless Tree Services Ltd. will turn your problem trees into firewood, $18 per cord. We do danger tree falling, topping, and limbing too. Expert insured work. \"Know the cost before you start\" Call us 885-2109. Free estimates. John Risbey. Two high school boys 15 and 16, will do work of any kind. Phone 886-9503. Painter, 24 years experience, have big spray outfit, quick, efficient. Contract or hourly rates. Call 886-2512. Backhoe available for drainage, ditches, water lines, etc. Phone 885-2921, Roberts Creek. TYPEWRITER _ ADDING MACHINE SALES AND SERVICE Phone 886-7111 FURNACE INSTALLATIONS OIL BURNER SERVICE Financing Available Call. Thomas Heating 886-7111 CHIMNEY SWEEPING . Oil Stoves and heaters cleaned and repaired Phone Ron Crodt. 885-3401 \"������;'��� ^���-���ifks&S'Xi.Tti. Free fill available. 7156. Phone 886- The Women's Centre needs a comfortable couch, chairs, small fridge ahd large desk. Phone be- tween 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. 885-3711 Timber. wanted, plus alder. Poles bought and sold. Let us give you an estimate. D & O Log. Sorting Ltd. Phone 886-7896 or 886-7700. . ��� PETS K AU breed dog grooming, clipping, terrier stripping, bathing. Walkey Kennels, 885-2505. ��� LIVESTOCK^ Arab mare for sale. Full sister to Ibn Valaddi. Trail riding, show ring, broodmare or whatever. Safe with children. Terms avail- able. 884-5268 after 5 p.m. ��� CARS, TRUCKS FOR SALE '64 Acadian, 2 dr., automatic, hijackers. Runs good, $795., Ph. 886-9208. 1969 VW Van, camperized, has 20,000 miles on new motor. Good condition, $2,300 or best offer. Phone 886-2740 T_ 1974 Econoline Van 300, camper- ��� ized, fibreglass roof, automatic, PS & PB, radio, beautiful condi- tion. Phone 886-9288. '62 Dodge ���/. ton pickup, 6 cyl., $300 or best offer. Phone 886- 2497, - ��� BOATSFORSALE MARINE INSURANCE PROBLEMS? New insurance advice Re-insurance advice Claims settled Capt. W. Y. Higgs ' Marine Surveyor Box 339. Gibsons Phones 886-9546 or 885-9425 RETIRED? NO TIME? Will do odd jobs, fence building, roofing, etc. Reliable and efficient. Call Bill 886-2675. RENOVATION WORK WANTED Inside or outside, large or small. Reasonable, competent and Reliable. Free estimates. Phone 886-7547. Have own power saw. Looking for job falling trees to clear lots, etc. Phone 886-2834 for free estimates ��� MISC. FOR SALE TWILIGHT THEATRE Phone 886-2827 Thurs., Fri.. Sat., Sun. Dec. 18,19,20,21 Woody Allen LOVE AND DEATH Mature Mon. - Thurs. ��� Dec. 22 - 25 inclusive CLOSED Season's Greetings from the management and staff GIBSONS LANES Open Bowling Fri., 7- 11p.m. Sat., 2- 11p.m. Sun., 2-11 p.m. Cord wood for sale. Alder, $30 a cord. Phone 886-2973. Sunshine Coast Arts & Craft Supplies. Complete selection of Arts and Crafts supplies, low prices. Phone 886-7770. Good mixed Hay, 100 or 400 bales. Phone 886-2887. 1973 Honda, CL 125, excellent condition. Phone 886-7697. Radio-record player console. Cabinet in excellent condition, $40. Also down filled sleeping bag with button in liner. 8 lb., 74-84 in. $150. Phone evenings, 885- 9237. Lindner piano, 5 years old, apt. size, 500 lbs., excellent condi- tion. Phone 886-2811. Lenses, Konica 135 mm, f3.2, $150; Konica 200 mm. f3.5. $175. Phone 885-3705. Cord wood cut to your requirements. Will stack on delivery. Phone 886-2834. Three new Char Lynn hydraulic steering motors, complete with steering wheels, $100 ea. W. Ny- gren, 886-2350. Yamaha 90 cc Enduro, good for hunting. Will take reasonable offers. Phone 886-7338. . Houseboat. 26' fibreglass pontoon, fibreglass roof, prop., stove fridge, heater, $9200 or offers. Phone 885-3705. Three new Char Lynn hydraulic steering motors, complete with steering wheels, $100 ea. W. Nygren, 886-2350. ��� FORRENT Available Dec. 15, 2 bedroom furnished trailer. Sorry, no dogs. Phone 886-2887. Waterfront house, Gower Point area, 2 bedrooms, older type but cozy. Phone Ken Crosby, 886- 2481. Furnished suite, W/W carpets, 3 piece bath, fridge and stove. Avail, immediately, $180. Phone 886-7629. Small furnished cottage. Electric heat, lower Gibsons, no dogs. $148. Phone 886-7810. Maple Crescent Apts., 1662 School Road, Gibsons. Suites for rent. Cablevision, parking, close to schools and shopping. Reason- able rent. Apply Suite 103A. 3 bedroom house, cream color, waterfront, across from post office, $200 a month. Available Dec. 15. Phone Vancouver 874- 9574. ���WANTED TO RENT Furnished houses in Gibsons area March 1,1976 to October 31,1976 Contort Paddy Moore, 665-8024. ���TRAVEL NORTHWEST TRAVEL LTD. Fly to the Sun Hawaii or Mexico For that Special Holiday we suggest Sunflight's Mexican Riviera Suncruise $499 and up. Local Agent AGNESLABONTE is ready to assist you in her home on Fairmont Rd., Gibsons. PHONE 886-7710 HOLIDAYS to Hawaii, Mexico, Florida, Disneyland, Reno Representing Sun Flight. AH Fun, Funseekers, Redwing, C.A.T. Tours, World Tours PENINSULA TRAVEL AGENCY Dental Block, Gibsons 886-2855 Graduate Canadian Travel College. ��� MOBILE HOMES SUNSHINE COAST MOBILE HOME PARK & SALES 12 x 62 Statesman, 2 bedroom, fully carpeted, Colonial decor, deluxe appliances including washer and dryer USED MODELS 10 x 50 Great Lakes, 2 bedroom, fully furnished, air conditioned, very clean. On view at. Sunshine Coast Trailer Park. Pbone 886-9826 , . 12' x 56' 2 bedroom mobile'fiomeY 3 years old. 8' x 10' heated storage room and sundeck attached. Excellent condition. Set up in Mo-; bile Home park. Phone 886-7801. ���PROPERTY FOR SALE ~~- ONE ACRE r~ Must sell. Lower Rd., Roberts Creek, 125' x 350*. Hydro and Reg. water, $13,500 firm. Phone 886-7695. .. ��� -T Gibsons, semi-waterfront lot with all facilities, selectively cleared. 886-2738. Roberts Creek. Fully serviced lots for sale on Marlene Road. Phone 886-7896 or 886-7700. ncoast .ESTATES UD,. Local phone - Direct Line - -885-2241 -685-5544 ROBERTS CREEK AND AREA ROBERTS CREEK R2���Several lots to choose from, all nicely treed and serviced with paved road, water and power. Average size is 75' x 140'. Priced from $9,000 to $10,500. Call Dave Roberts, 885-2973. LANGDALE Deluxe View Home ��� One minute to Langdale ferry. 3 bedrooms, ensuite plumbing, spacious kitchen, large living room, sundeck, 2 finished fireplaces, full basement, large foyer, etc., ETC!!! $24,900 down, take over bank mortgage. Call Dave Roberts to view. 885-2973.1 The recycling Depot is constructed from recycled wood ��� otherwise known as lumber��� as Gibsons Sunnycrest Plaza. The recycling operation which will eventually operate on the entire Sunshine Coast is being initiated by Tom Haigh. The depot will accept the recyclables, specifically tin, paper and glass. ROUND TABLE King Arthur's Round Table is traditionally believed .to have been the site of the first Christmas feast. References to the famous king have been traced back to as early as 600 AX). it**'*-\"' * \" CONSULT US FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS MEMBER ��� MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICE Phone 886-2000 ��� Gibsons, B.C. SECHELT.In area of lovely new homes. 63' x 120' lot, mostly clear. $14,000 ROBERTS CREEK: Nicely wooded lot 73' x 154'. All services underground, blktop street. Close to beach. $11,000. GOWER POINT AREA: Gently sloping 65' x 165* cleared lot ��� ready to build. $11,500. 69' x 250' view lot. Easy walking distance to beach., $15,000 full price ��� attractive terms of $5,000 down, balance monthly payments. GIBSONS: Small charming 2 bedrm. cottage on level view lot quiet residential area. $27,50C cash or $28,000 on attractive terms. , Half block to beach. Nicely maintained 4 room cottage, hall basement, electric heat. Lot size 50' x 150'. $32,000 and terms are available. SEASIDE PLAZA LISTINGS WANTED DROP IN AND SEE US Norm Peterson ��� 886-2607 I.O.F. member Graham Allen presents a cheque for $50 to the Tot Lot at Gibsons United Church hall last week. The cheque was accepted by Gloria Charlebois, left, and her son John. The money was donated by the 250 member I.O.F. to help the,, mothers and their tots operate the Tot Lot, which is being sponsored by the Jack and Jill Child Minding Co-op and ihe Sunshine Coast Resources Society. E. McMYNN AGENCY Real Estate and Insurance Phone Eves., Ron McSavaney ��� 885-3339 Looking for a safe investment? How about one of these: 3 lots in the Granthams area, very good holding properties with good potential. Priced at only $6,000 each.. One large lot with excellent view in developing area; also good holding property. Asking $9,750. I New subdivision in West Sechelt. See these lots for immediate building.. Water, Hydro, road, etc., in rapidly developing area. Different sizes and different prices. $11,500 to S13J500. Phone 886-2248 Box 238 Gibsons, B.C. Charles English Lid. REAL STATE & INSURANCE GIBSONS, B.C. Ph. 886-2481 SUNNYCREST SHOPPING CEN-RB TOLL FREE 687-6445/ NOTARY PUBLIC ��� APPRAISALS 5 ACRES view property top of Orange Rd. All/year stream 1,300 sq. ft. home with 4 bdrms. 3 good outbuildings, 1 excellent shop and large concrete block builoihg used as barn. Fenced and portly cleared. This developed acreage is easily financed on $56,000. - / GOWER POINT: Large view lot with subdivision potential. Very attractive 1148 sq ft. home with nltural wood interior. Sundecks and curving driveway. Hxcellent buy at $59,500. ^ ALDERSPRING ROAD, Gibsons: Beaut$i with view of harbor. This large home is has partly developed upstairs. A real \" $35,500. , 65 x 217 ft. lot on Grandview Ret,1 cellent value at $10,900. illy kept home l full bsmt. and lily home, only Artie Ken Crosby ��� 886-2098 Don Sutherland ��� 885-9962 George Cooper ��� 886 Jay j ower Point. Ex- ney ��� 885.2164 iflsaer ��� 8854300 Mulled Fruit Pilnch 1-46 oz. can orange fruit punch 1-46 oz. can apricot nectar V4 7LMS5JFIF& ADS L Combine all Ingredients in la to boil. Cover and simmer for, from heat and let stand for V- __ spices out. Garnish with orang cloves, after pouring into puntj 20 servings, punch cup size. . lole allspice &ches stick cinna- lion pmon sliced thin _e saucepan; bring 10 minutes. Remove ir. Reheat and strain slices studded with bowl. Makes about Leisure page At 81 He loves to paint ships Lionel .Singlehurst sailed around the world four times before he was 21. ; He'll tell you that with pride .and he'll also tell you with pride all about the places he's been because Lionel Singlehurst is proud I of having been associated with | the old sailing ships. Brigantines, the Cutty Sark, ICape Horn, Pitcairn.Island, Fiery fy Cross. Those are some, of the Vy names that Lionel uses freely when he tells you about those glorious days, of romance and adventure when brigantines raced from Liverpool, 'round the Horn, and down to Australia. V Lionel, who along with his wife Tilly, live on North Fletcher Road in Gibsons, says his father tried to discourage him from going to sea. \"My dad went to sea when he was 12 years old,\" remembers Lionel, \"and when I was a schoolboy and told him that I. wanted to go to sea, he said, 'You can't go to sea 'because we'd lose you through a scuttlehole.' \" So, Lionel says, he ran away to sea. Well, not exactly ran away, but let's just say he was pretty determined to. go. His first experience on the saltchuck was on tugboats. ��� / \"But that didn't satisfy me, I wanted to get into some of the deep water.\" So he joined the full rigged ship the Fiery Cross which ran from Liverpool to China. It was the same ship that in the early 1860s set, a speed record on a passage from Liverpool to Melbourne. The ship, a replica of an earlier Fiery Cross that was lost in the China Sea in 1860, made the passage under Captain J. Dallas in a record time of 81 days. It was carrying 1200 tons of cargo at the time. ' ' That trip was before Lionel's time, of course, Lionel being only 81 years old now, but he still remembers passing some of the \"new\": steamers when his ship was under full sail. \"We would pass them at 18 - knots when they were only making 12 and we would hold up our tow' lines to them.\" He explains that such good time, naturally, can only be done when going south with the fair winds. Going the other way against the prevailing wind takes considerably more time. . / Lionel doesn't sail much' more these days. But that doesn't mean he hasn't anything to do with sailing ships any more. Besides the fact that he loves to sit around and talk about those days, he also relives them through his paintings. He has never been a professional artist although he has won several awards for his paintings that depict the old sailing ships. His wife Tilly explains that Lionel has always liked to draw but he never considered art professionally. (He was a house painicf and decorator by trade.) Lionel took a painting course by correspondence. \"They wanted me to paint still life but I wanted to paint ships.\" He says he was encouraged by one teacher at school who told him to forget about the still life and concentrate on what he wanted to do. He did, and beside the awards he's received he now has paintings in various parts of Canada. He's also very critical about his. art. .He explains that every piece of rigging, every rope, has a purpose on a ship ahd he can look at a marine painting and tell whether or not the artist knows his ships. \"It annoys me,\" says Tilly, \"When we go to Vancouver to look at paintings and I always have to tell Lionel not to be so critical.\" \"Well,\" explains Lionel,. \"I can look at a painting arfd see if the artist is a mariner or not. It hurts me to see the mast or part of the rigging in the wrong place.\" How does he remember all those intricate details of the ships? Very easily he says, by memory. \"I can easily forget something I did yesterday but I remember easily the things of sixty years ago.\" Lionel days he doesn't like to copy photographs and he doesn't like to copy other people's work because then the painting is not really your own. �� lot of people have asked Lionel for his memories of the old ships as set out by his paint and brush. Sometimes he obliges, but sometimes there's certain paintings he would rather not part with Has the romance of the; sailing era gone now? Yes, to a certain extent. \"But, says Tilly who \" shares the thoughts of her husband, \"the best place for young people is still at sea.\" Lionel agrees as he says if he were young again he would hop on a ship that's bound for Australia. But for now, he says, the best place for him, is in a nice quiet corner of the room, by the light of a northern window, with his canvas, brush and palette. \"I'm going to start one of Pitcairn Island soon, he says. I was there as a boy in 1919.\" New 300 page bibliography lists books by native people Trayalinga, Gardening Aprons Long Sandwich Trays, all new Hems from Sweden. Miss Bee's, Sechelt. A new bilingual edition'of a- bibliography listing over - 1,500 Ttitk__jpf_bpc*s by and about native peoples has been published by the Department of Indian Affairs. The bibliography, \"About Indians,\" is intended as a tool for NEARLY ONE ACRE $14,800 CASH ON HIGHWAY, OPPOSITE GOLF COURSE READY TO BUILD ON HAS OWN SPRING AND ROAD ALLOWANCE ZONED FARMLAND P.O. A. SIMPKINS - BRICKLAYER Box 517, Sechelt 885-2688 the growing number of teachers, students, librarians and the general public who are interested in learning more about the role of native people in North American society both past and present. This is the first time the bibliography has been issued in a completely bilingual format. Also included is a section of French titles with reviews prepared by French-speaking Indian university students. The 300 page bibliography is attractively illustrated ^ith photos depicting various activities of contemporary Canadian Indians. Copies of \"About Indians\" are available free of charge from Information Services, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, 400 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, Ontario, KI A 0H4. Sunshine Coast Regional District NOTICE CHANGE OF MEETING DATE The December meeting of the Sunshine Coast Regional District Board will be held on TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30th, 1975 in the Board Room of the district offices, Sechelt, at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. A. G. Pressley, Secretary-Treasurer Woody Allen is star of the new film, \"Love and Death,\" ORANGE HALVES ��� Cut -oranges in half. Make three- holes, equidistant, around the edge of each half, about W down from edge. Push ends of pipe cleaners through each hole, securing firmly at lower end. At top of pipe cleaners, twist all three ends together tightly. Using another pipe cleaner as a loop, attach to tree. M.V. Titanium and/or M.V. Hungry One will be in Gibsons the last week of January with Ling Cod, Red Snappers and Rock Cod (Possibly Clams also) If you wish to be notified 2-3days in advance of ocrr arrival, PLEASE CALL 886-2574 and leave name and phone number . We thank you for patiently waiting for fish this winter. Sunshine Coast News, December 16, 1975. 5 Raincoast collection shows us who we are Lionel Singlehurst can't get away is his Fiery Cross under full sail. from the sea. This C(iristma3 recital /Nutcracker Suite The fifth annual mid-term recital by piano students of Arlys Peters was held on Sunday after* noon, December 7. To begin the recital, Linda Laing played White Christmas; Rachel McKinnon, Carol of the Bells; Barbara Nowoselski, Silver Bells and Peter McKinnon, Jingle Bells. The special Christmas feature this year was the performance of the \"Nutcracker Suite\" by Tschai kowsky. Lorraine Goddard narrated between the -numbers. Tim Montgomery played the Overture. .David, Atlee,, Dawne Atlee, Stephen\" Hamm', Kim> Clapham, Dawne Atlee and Bar- - bara Jackson interpreted the following respectively: March, Dance of the Candy Fairy, Russian Dance, Arabian Dance, Chinese Dance and Dance of the Reed Flutes. Then while Mario Reiche musically set the' stage, Nancy Montgomery, ballerina, danced the Waltz of the Flowers.- In the next section Carol Montgomery played Silent Night;. Brian MacKay, We Three Kings; Janet MacKay, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear; Becky McKinnon Adeste Fideles; Glenda Holland, What Child is This?; Kelora Schroers, Christmas Dreams and- Tim 'and Nancy Montgomery played the duet Toymaker's Dream. The concluding set had Audrey Kiene playing Santa Claus is Coming to Town; Barabra Clapham, Christmas Song; Heather Wright, Winter Wonderland; Sandra McQuarry, Estrillita (Little Star) and Brian Hobson, Yule- tide Sonatina. - Following some closing remarks Gail Stewart played We Wish You a Merry Christmas Upon which all the students in chorus gave their parents the same wish. Refreshments were served. RAINCOAST Chronicles First Five by Howard White, Harbour Publishing, 271 pages, $12.95. Reviewed by ROB DYKSTRA I suppose to review a book properly you've got to sit down and read it cover to cover and then turn it inside out and read it cover to cover again. It's unfair to pass judgment on anything until you know and understand it. But this book I haven't read cover to cover and. somehow I don't feel guilty on passing judgment on it without having done so. It's not that kind of a book. ���3ooks Raincoast Chronicles First Five is not the kind of book you pick up and read cover to cover because doing so would be doing an injustice to it. The whole.thing, the collection of historical articles the dramatic journalism, the drawings, the sepia photographs, are collectively like a poem. You don't pick it up, read it, and put it back on the bookshelf until two years hence when one of your friends comes along to admire the dust jacket. It's the kind of a book that you pick up again and again; it should be savored by the mind, savored by the viscera; the book is a mood. It's the mood of the rum runners, the coastal schooners, the mist-shrouded Indian villages, the salt and tar of the sea, the coastal inlets that everything but rain and tide forgot. The tooth- nail loggers and ghost camps, the legendary Haida chiefs with stories, and myths, and spirits that challenge old man time himself. It's the mood of salt fish and kelp, of gillnets and floating shacks, the mood of eccentric old loners, steam operated donkey engines, missionaries and cedar, and gyppos and tugboats, of chokerbells, of Chinese women in canneries, of weather ��� and waiting. I spent part of my youth growing up on the B.C. coast, but I spent an even larger part growing up in Europe and Eastern Canada. Both of these latter places exist in a special milieu ��� a milieu enriched by history and culture. <6ue_t Clectric Uta. ���' ELECTRICAL iENGlNEERING & CONTRACTING Serving Sechelt, Gibsons, Rpberts Creek. & Madeira Park 385 3133 . J: McKenzie Ron \"Blair, P. Eng. Porpoise 3ay Rd. Sechelt P.O. Box 387 VON SAO s*nta Claus Specials FROM US TO YOU WARM 'N'WOOLYTO PLEASE THE MEN ON YOUR LIST PIONEER MACKINAW JACKETS SINGLE BACKS $Hh9ST NOW $18.95 DOUBLE BACKS $30:95- NOW $26.95 BELL JACKETS $24^5\" NOW $19.95 BUCKEYE SHIRTS $&9ST.... NOW $7.95 WHITE RAM CARDIGANS S27-NOW $24 PLUS A GREAT SELECTION OF GIFT IDEAS MARINE MEN'S WEAR LTD. Mastercharge Gibsons Chargex 5 I have always thought of British Columbia as a place lacking in these things. ' It was a place long isolated from the mainstream and since it lacked history and culture, it lacked the depth to retrospectively give life meaning, and moreso, a justification. Raincoast Chronicles really changes that. It makes the coast come alive. It gives it a spirit. As Vancouver Sun columnist Bob Hunter states in the introduction to the book, Chronicles is all about dragging our past for an image that will let us like ourselves a little better. Raincoast Chronicles contains 136 photographs, 100 drawings, and 50 essays and stories.There are poems and stories by Peter Trower, Les Peterson, Scott Lawrance, Howard White, Hubert Evans arid a host of others. Basically it's five issues of the already well known Chronicles plus some new material. Putting it all together in one book gives us a wealth of history, a wealth of mood, and an entire sense of ourselves.v Raincoast Chronicles First Five IS the west coast experience. Nothing more need be said. MOSTLY METAL Metals account for 88 percent of the total mineral value in the Yukon Territory. FLOATS ILog or styro float? toft lorder, gangplankaM \\ wharves, anchors - Calm [us for your requirements CaU BERT CARSON I 886-2861 j I I I I I I I I | All offerings go to the Save the Chili _v? Fund Everyone is Welcome on Sunday, Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m. to hear Sunshine Choristers INTER CHURCH CAROL SERVICE at the Holy Family Roman Catholic Church PAJAK ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. and CAM GARD SUPPLY ARE HAVING A BONANZA TRUCKLOAO SALE DECEMBER 17 ��� 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. HERE ARE SOME OF THE ITEMS ON SALE: ��� Jana CB Radios (Package Deals) ��� Electronic Educational Kits ��� RD Series Roberts 8 track players ��� Rear Deck Speakers ��� Home Intercoms ���TV Antenna Rotors LLOYD'S Record Players, 8 Tracks, Decks, Speakers . pP �� �� Pocket Radio with purchase over $35 Lower Village 886-/333 Gibsons ___I__I__E SIMPLIFIED DO-IT-YOURSELF ROOF DRAINAGE SYSTEM HEAVY GAUGE ALUMINUM GUTTER IN WHITE Heavy gauge gutter and downpipe is light in weight for easy handling and the baked on enamel finish ensures years of blister free service while retaining its bright glossy finish. Carefree aluminum will not rust or corrode and the system Is made for the do- ti-yourselfer. PLYWOODS HIGHWAY 101, GIBSONS Phone 886-9221 Office hours: 8 to 5, 6 days a week PER LIN. FT. 6 Sunshine Coast News, December 16, 1975. Foster Parents Plan Gibsons resident 'adopts9 boy A very special commitment has ��� been made by Joan Thompson of Gibsons. Joan has recently 'adopted' little nine year old Justo Pastor Quinones of Columbia through the Foster Parents Plan. Joan is an employee of B.C. Ferries and is presently holidaying in Hawaii. Her monthly contribution of $17 will provide the family with a cash grant, distribution of goods such as vitamins, blankets, towels, soap and other useful items, medical and dental care, the sustained guidance and counselling of social workers and the benefit of special programs. A strong emphasis is placed on edu- ' cation, notes public relations officer for the foster plan, Anas- tasia Erland. She goes on to explain that all Foster Children (and their brothers and sisters, if possible) must attend school. Vocational ' training courses are available to ' Foster 'Children, their brothers 'and sisters and in some cases, ' their parents. The aim is to give the family the tools to help them become independent and self-supporting. Special programs adapted to the needs of each ^country also meet these aims. Foster Parents and Foster Children correspond monthly (letters are translated by PLAN) and often develop warm and affectionate relationships which mean as much to the child as the material and financial aid. CONTRAST There is a gicat contrast between the life of Justo's family in Columbia and the life of a typical Canadian family. Justo's father is a carpenter, 42 years old. The caseworker for the family describes him as loving and responsible and a man who uses his earnings to solve the family needs as largely as possible. The monthly income of the family amounts to U.S. $45 per month Out of that amount $25 is spent on food, $10 on clothes, $3.50 for school supplies, $1.70 for electricity, $1.35 for laundry soap, $1.35 for charcoal, and 85 cents for drinking water from a neighboring house. Justo's mother, Maria Conception de Quinones, is 36 years old. The caseworker says she is dedicated to her household and the care and raising of her children. She sews clothes for her friends in order to help support the family. JUSTO PASTOR QUINONES ... brighter future NO SANITATION The family does own its own home which is more than can be said for many present-day Cana-' dian families who are finding Canadian prices inhibiting. But the Columbian home of this family is a 7 x 10 metre wooden house with a cardboard roof. The house has four rooms, a living room, two bedrooms and a kitchen. In the living room there is one table, four chairs and the father's tools. In the first bedroom you find one wooden bed and a sewing machine. In the second bedroom there are three beds with their bed linen and a wooden trunk where the clothes are kept. The kitchen contains a wooden, firepit and some utensils on the shelf. There are no sanitary facilities in the house. MEDICAL PROBLEMS Some of the members of the Quinones family had medical, problems but their health has been improving since Foster plan doctors began taking care of them. When the Plan learned of the distressing situation of the family, help was promptly given by another foster parent who is no longer able to support Justo Pastor, and his family. Officials now report that with the help of Joan Thompson conditions have been improving but the situation still cries out for urgent assistance and encouragement. A description of Justo himself shows us that he is an eight year old boy who is of normal stature for his age. He has dark skin and curly black hair. He dresses poorly but what he wears is always clean and well cared for. He is attending elementary school in the third grade and he says he enjoys it very much. He likes to play soccer, marbles or tops with his friends in his spare time. Sometimes he must help his parents a little too. \"WELL. WHAT TALES OF WOE DOES MY LITTLE NEUROTIC DING-A-LING HAVE TODAY?\" Is the sending of cards getting out of hand? $4 m for UIC This is Your Life Horoscope for the next week By TRENT VARRO ARIES - March 21 to April 20- You will soon be in an advantageous position with regard to business matters. Be firm and do ��� not make any quick decisions until at least the beginning of n;xt month. TAURUS - April 21 to May 21- Work and service will be highlighted for you at this time. Long- range gains can be made by applying the golden rule. A great deal of success can be yours with- diligent work. GEMINI - May 22 to June 21- Nothing should deter you now from seeking to \"build for th; future.\" A determined course of action taken now will help you greatly if it is worthy and does not entail greediness. CANCER - June 22 to July 22- A very clear image of \"things . to come\" will show you now that \"you are on th_ right track. Keep ��� following the path that you have set out for yourself. Much can be learned by study. ' LEO - July 23 to August 23 ��� Continue in the line of work you have set out for yourself during the past three or four months. If you should happen to receive an offer of \"change\" think VERY carefully before you accept it. VIRGO - August 24 to Sept. 22 - Virgo persons are holding the key to some great benefit for the world of the future. Be steadfast and true, you can do much for humanity. Have courage in I LIBRA - Sept. 23 to October 23- Your solar chart shows that you should be \"on top of the world.\" Doors will be opened that heretofore seemed closed. Don't let this exuberance run away with you. Keep your head. SCORPIO - Oct. 24 to Nov. 22- Any thoughts you may have at the present in the way of \"romantic interlude\" had best be kept in the background at this lime. You could cause a lot of heartache due to some foolish move. SAGITTARIUS - Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 Business matters should have been good last week, but. this coming week they should be even better. Things are good and getting better by leaps and bounds in the.chart for Sagittarius. CAPRICORN - Dec. 22 to Jan. 20 Some surprising news may come to you this next week that might be a little puzzling. This doestv't mean that it will be bad news, just puzzling. Have a close friend help you figure it out. AQUARIUS - Jan. 21 to Feb. 18 - There's a wonderful chance right now to re-make your entire life if you desire to do so. You'll find out in your life check-up that it was worth it. New understandings of others can be yours. PISCES - Feb. 19 to March 20 - Keep your eyes and ears open for some good opportunities coming your way shortly. There's a possibility that you won't \"see the woods for the trees.\" Be careful Unemployment insurance, which puts an ever-increasing burden on employer, and employee alike, will pay out $4 billion this year in benefits. Of the beneficiaries, 37 per cent are under 25. Only 28.5 per cent are heads of family units, while 17 per cent are part-time workers. Benefits up last year Statistics Canada reports that the net benefit paid to claimants under the Unemployment Insurance Act reached $236 million in Sep tember, an increase of 87% from the $126 million disbursed a year earlier. The'average weekly payment advanced 15% to $85.23 from $74.11. Initial and renewal claims received in September numbered 215,000, up 26% from the September 1974 total of 171,000. For the first nine months of 1975, net payments under the act amounted to $2.46 billion, an increase of 47% from the $1.67 billion paid out in the corresponding period last year. Reports show there were 676,- 000 people unemployed in Canada during the month 6f October. That was 10,000 less than the previous month of September. Don't expect a Christmas card from Elizabeth Post this year. North America's leading expert on etiquette says the growing custom of sending cards to \"everyone and anyone with whom you have a nodding acquaintance\" is getting out of hand. \"For many people it's become a contest to see how many cards they can display on their mantel,\" the granddaughter-in,-law of the legendary Emily notes disapprovingly. \"That's not the spirit of Christmas!\" Holiday cards should be sent to people you really wish to greet, but who are \"not quite close enough to you to exchange gifts,\" Mrs. Post says. Select presents with common sense, she counsels. \"Limit them to close friends and relatives��� ahd to what you can afford. If you're an aunt or a grandmother, ask the child's parents what he or she wants, or consult the child yourself.\" Handwritten thank-you notes for holiday gifts are no longer necessary, she says (although they remain \"Obligatory\" for wedding presents). \"You can say thanks in person or on the phone, but it is never wrong to send a note in addition.\" But do try to remember who sent what, so you can avoid a social faux pas such as the one Mrs. Post once made: \"A couple who are close friends of ours gave us a box of assorted cheeses for Christmas one year, and I forgot about it. We entertained them during the holidays and I remarked: 'Honestly, I can't understand people who would give cheese as a gift. What could possibly show less imagination?' They burst out laughing. . .and they've sent cheese to us every year since!\" Elizabeth Post's idea of a good holiday party is one to which children of all ages are invited. \"I think there's nothing nicer than a dinner where you get out your best glasses and china and let the whole family see what a lovely table can look like.\" School board briefs the face of adversity. t before condemning others. (Copyright 1975 by Trent Varro. All rights reserved.) Superintendent John Denley suggested to the board that school be closed one hour earlier than normal on the last day before Christmas holidays. The board agreed to the suggestion. The last day of school is Friday, December 19. School resumes January 5, 1976. . ��� ��� ��� * Trustee-elect Don Douglas felt more money was needed to complete Elphinstone Secondary. He PORT MELLON INDUSTRIES GIBSONS CREDIT UNION ; P.O. Box 715 NOW OPEN FOR PUBLIC MEMBERSHIP YOUE ENQUIRIES ARE INVITED IF YOU NEED CASH FOR CHRISTMAS COME AND SEE US - WE CAN HELP YOU Gibsons said the walls needed painting, and there was a need for shelving in the gymnasium and in some of the classrooms. He emphasized that these items were needed immediately. Douglas said he was also of the opinion that Elphinstone would presently operate better on shifts. The school was built to accommodate approximately 600 students but now has 900 students. The extra 300 students will attend the new Sechelt Junior High next September. STA President George Matthews has also stated that many teachers and students favor the shift system to alleviate present crowding. CALL NOW 886-2833 DPFICE HOURS: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Weekdays 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Saturdays Closed Mondays Closed for Lunch: 12:30 to 1:30 CBC Radio CBC radio will be continuing a Christmas tradition by presenting Handel's Messiah, Tuesday, December 23 on the AM network. The Messiah will be performed by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir conducted by Elmer Is- lier. Lois Marshall is soprano, Gwendolyn Kittebrew is mezzo- soprano, Charles Bressler is tenor, and Donald Bell will sing bass baritone. The program runs from 8:03 to 10;40p.m. Open house parties also get the Post approval. \"With so much seasonal entertaining, they give guests a chance to come and go when they like. And you can accommodate all your friends. Serve a buffet with turkey and ham and side dishes���or simply cakes and cookies with an eggnog and a hot mulled cider punch.\" If your budget is really tight, you might consider a B.Y.O. party, she says���one where guests bring their own food and drink. \"But most hosts will want to provide for their guests at holiday time.\" All this would seem to call for much advance planning. \"I like to think I get ready for Christmas in August or September, but actually,\" she laughs, \"I'm frantic around December 15th!\" Construction continues to crawl up On a national scale this country may be experiencing a building slump but figures in this area indicate that construction is still on a steady, albeit slow, increase. The November building inspector's report for the village of Gibsons shows that seven permits were issued this year during November compared to six last year. However, most of last month's permits were for additions rather than new buildings. Construction values were down considerably over the same month last year. Values were $82,000 this year and $214,000 last year. J For the year to date 61 permits have been issued at a construction value of $3,058,000 compared to 56 permits last fear valued at $1,160,000. /j The building inspectoral report for Sechelt shows th_rt six permits were issued last month compared to only three foil the same month last year. Construction values were $105,000 and $82,000 respectively. // The year to date shows/that 68 permits have so far been issued a for a total construction value of $1,836,000. Last year to/the end of; November 55 permits were issued for a construction value of $1,225,000. CHURCH SERVICES ANGLICAN Rev. David H. P. Brown St. Bartholomew's Morning Service ���11:15 a.m. 2nd and 4th Sundays 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion St. Aidan's Worship Service 2 p.m. UNITED CHURCH Rev. Annette M. Reinhardt 9:30a.m. ���St. John's. Davis Bay 11:15a.m.���Gibsons Office ��� for appointments Tues���9:30-12:30 Wed. ��� 12;30 - 3:30 Fri���9:30-12:30 886-2333 BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor F. Napora Office 886-2611. Res. 885-9905 CALVARY - Park Rd., Gibsons SUNDAYS Morning Worship 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:45 a.m. Evening Fellowship 7:00 p.m. 1st. 3rd and 5th Sunday Thursday ��� Prayer and Bible Study 7:30 p.m. ROMAN CATHOLIC SERVICES Rev. T. Nicholson, Pastor TIMES OF SUNDAY MASS 7:30 p.m. Sat. eve. at Our Lady of Lourdes Church on the Sechelt Indian Reserve. 9:00 a.m. at The Holy Family Church in Sechelt. 11:00 a.m. at St. Mary's Church in Gibsons. Phone 885-9526 GIBSONS PENTECOSTAL Member P.A.O.C. Phone 886-7107 Highway and Martin Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. V Evening Service 7 p.m. Wed. Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Pastor G. W.Foster GLAD TIDINGS TABERNACLE Gower Point Road Phone 886-2660 Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Worship Service 11:00 a.m. Revival 7:00 p.m. Bible Study Wed., 7:30 p.m. Pastor Nancy Dykes CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Church services are held each Sunday at 11:15 a.m. in St. John's United Church, Davis Bay. Wed. Eve. Testimony 7:30 p.m. Everyone Welcome' Phone 885-3157 or 886-7882 Stepping up to say thanks for your goodwill and patronage. We get a boot out off serving you. Have a merry2 Campbell's Family Shoes & Leather Goods 885-9345 I 1 I *i 2 I I 1 CIjri��fttta�� Bap SAILINGS O HORSESHOE BAY-LANGDALE To permit as many members of our crews and terminal personnel as possible to be with their families on Christmas Day, the following schedule will be in effect on December 25,1975 only. Horseshoe Bay Lv Langdale 7:55 am 6:45 am 10:10 9:00 12:25 pm 11:15 2:40 1:30 pm 4:55 3:45 7:10 6:00 9:25 8:15 British Columbia Ferries Vancouver 669-1211 Langdale 886-2242 Saltery Bay 487-9333 Department of Transport and Communications Sunshine Coast Regional District NOTICE HOLIDAY SCHEDULE FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION Gibsons Heights, Gower Point , Garbage normally scheduled for collection on Thursday, December 25, 1975, will be collected on Wednesday, December 24, 1975. Wilson Creek, Davis Bay, Selma Park Garbage normally scheduled for collection on Friday, December 26, 1975, will be collected on Saturday, December 27, 1975. Roberts Creek (Cemetery to Provincial Park Site) Garbage normally scheduled for collection on Thursday, January 1, 1975, will be collected oh Wednesday, December 31, 1975. (Mrs.) A. G. Pressley, Secretary-treasurer (TART YOUR CHRISTMAS EARLY ijoy a scrumptious Turkey Dinner on December 21 [SPECIAL. .95 We would like to wish our patrons a/very merry Christmas and thank lem all for their support iince we opened in May Iden City Restaurant WE WILL BE CLOSED FROM DEC 23 - 30 FOR STAFF HOLIDAYS BUT WILL REOPEN FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE 885-2511 WHARF ST. SECHELT Special travel feature is coming of age by STEVE LEE Steve Lee, a graduate of Elphinstone Secondary School, roamed the globe for a while and decided to settle In New Zealand for an undetermined length of time. Steve I* attending the University of Auckland and says he likes it so much there that he may stay on _��� complete his master's degree. From time to time we will be printing special articles by Steve that will deal with New Zealand's reaction to the external and Internal changes tbe country will experience in Its attempt to find a new place In a new world. AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND��� For those who have visited this land, and even for those who have a map of the world before them. New Zealand would seem the last plaice on Earth to be worthy of any political attention. There are few places in the world that are as physically remote from the great centres of human activity, thought and power. In distance and time, Washington, London, Moscow, Paris, New York, Montreal, are all half a world away, in either direction, from these South Pacific islands. The Tasman Sea, as wide as the North Atlantic, puts this coun try's nearest neighbor, Australia, 1300 miles away ��� three or four days by fast liner. The remoteness goes beyond physical isolation. Economic, racial, political and cultural insularity have been the predominant features of New Zealand society. Even the Maoris who journeyed here from their ancestral homeland, Havaiki, soon found themselves cut off from the other Polynesian peoples and out of the mainstream of Polynesian linguistic and cultural development. In modern times, other than the. export of abundant high quality food stuffs and human cannon fodder to meet the needs of its British and more recently American imperial overlords. New .Sea- land has kept to a minimum its interactions with the world-at- large. Dr. Norman Alcock of the Canadian Peace Research Institute commented in an interview earlier this year, that New Zealand had a \"Shangri-la complex.\" This passive, relatively homogenous population of three million has enjoyed the twentieth century free of civil strife and violent crime, developing early in the century one of the world's first social welfare states. Maoris and Caucasians of mainly British Des cent inhabit a country that is overwhelming in its physical beauty ��� glacier capped mountain ranges, steaming thermal pools, endless miles of golden beaches, subtropical rain-forests, arid deserts, plains of wheat, smoking volcanoes and sunny vinyards. This, coupled with the nation's historical desire to limit its contact ahd interaction with even its nearest neighbors,, gives substance to the Shangri-la criticisms. And the extent of the complex is such that many New Zealanders do, not regard claims such as Dr. Alcbck's as criticisms, but rather as compliments, referring to their nation as \"God's own\" or \"Godzone.\" With a land area less than that of Papua New Guinea, a smaller population than Toronto, value of international trade less than of Peru or Malaysia, a rank of sixteenth on the economic standard of living scale, and with its physical remoteness and Shangri-la complex it would appear that New Zealand in 1975 is of little political or any other significance. Yet New Zealand is worthy of attention. Events here could well prove of vital interest and importance to the outside world. In the past few years reces sion, inflation, the 'fall' of Indo- China to Communist governments, American neo-isolation- ism, the rise of a new Europe, the oil crisis and the muscle flexing of the Third World have overtaken these islands with great speed and perhaps more immediately serious consequences than in th�� cases of either North America of Europe. New Zealand's reactions to these fast changing political and economic circumstances deserves attention. Att the turn of the century this coun-' try was known as \"the social, laboratory of the world.\" When it gave women the vote in 1891 anil later with its social welfare legislation, New Zealand became a model state and a pace setter for the twentieth century. As we enter the last quarter of the century New Zealand may well prove: itself, once again, a model and a pace setter in its reactions to and handling of economic, environmental and social issues. Sunshine Coast News, December 16, 1975. 7 A NEW HIGH The total value of mineral pro-i duction in the Yukon Territory increased to a new high of $185 million in 1974, up from $151 million in 1973, >' DICK RANNIGER term for Ranniger Dick Ranniger was again elected fire chief of the Howe Sound Fire Protection District. The elections were held at a recent meeting in the Gibsons firehaU. This will be the sixth year that Ranniger will act as Chief. His election this year was by acclamation. Other fire department officers elected were: Ron Leachman and Chris Hummel, captains; Carl Horner and Doug Carmichael, lieutenants; Ken Fiedler, chair-' man; Greg Hogue, secretary- treasurer, and Glen Stubbs, club manager. Elected to the entertainment committee were Murray Crosby, John Smith and Frank Muryn. Public.relations will be handled by Wally Venechuk. Bubbly Cranberry. Punch 2 cans jellied cranberry sauce (16 oz. size) '/_ cup lemon juice IV. cups orange juice 2 large bottles chilled ginger ale (28 oz. bottles) Beat cranberry sauce until smooth and stir in lemon and orange juices. Empty several trays of ice cubes into a punch bowl and pour mixture over them. Carefully add ginger ale and mix. Serve in punch cups. About 20-25 cups. Treat someone with I Gift Boxed chocolates this Christmas I Mushroom Lamps GREA T FOR THE KIDS ROOM OR ANY ROOM IN THE HOUSE Pole Lamps FIBREGLASS GLOBE SHAPED LIGHTS WITH RIPPLE DESIGN Special 5.88 Chocolates $2.95 Tru-Value ^Special Cherry Chocolates $l-66 Check our record Department 10% off all Records 8 track tapes $2.99 $39.95 Comes in RED. WHITE or BLUE GAF 220 POCKET CAMERA Swag Lamps PRICES FROM ASSORTED SIZES, SHAPES AND COLORS ., ^_ ��� _ GLOBES, TIFFANY STLYE, CONTOURED GLASS, AND $Ok OK MANY MORE TO CHOOSE FROM. Troi! Bay Mr?!! ��� gjg 885-2335 Sechelt fc_h__.fc.n. ��m- *%*% _h_> ______i a-a.-i_--._-.-l-. a_> ^. *��� -.-.-.-.-.aa.a.a^-.aaaa^.^.aa.a.^.-.-.**-'-\"*\"*'*\"*'*^' 8 Sunshine Coast News, December 16, 1975. Reach for the top is the name of the game in basketball as members of Elphinstone Cougars and Cariboo Hill Gibsons Lanes High start off the game at Elphinstone last Saturday night. News from the alley \"This column covers the last two weeks of bowling. Last Sunday we had our Golden Age-Peewee Bantam tournament and Celena Moore, Neal Rogers and Alice Smith came out the winners. This is a godd tournament to watch as it brings together the youngest and the youngest at heart. In league bowling, Diane Fitchell took top honors. Bowling in the Thurs. Mixed league, Dianne rolled a 341 single and had 895 for three. Freeman Reynolds broke out of a bit of a slump in the 9:00 p.m. Ball and Chain league with games of 303 and 304 and a three game total of 839. In the 7:00 p.m. Ball and Chain league Ken Stewart rolled a 340 single and Nora Solinski had a 303 single in the Wednesday Coffee league. Good games alii Highest games for the last two weeks: Toes. Coffee: Marie Davidson 225-634; Jean Jorgenson 260-710. Swingers: Mary Benyon 211- 562; Hugh Inglis 277-608. ANIMAL FEASTS Ancient tradition has lt that animals helped spread the joyous tidings of the Birth of Christ. Because of this, barnyard animals in many countries are served a special supper on Christmas eve. Cattle kneel ln their stalls at midnight, on Christmas eve, and for a moment have the power of speech. This belief, an old German legend, has been broadened to include all animals. Gtbaona A: Dianne Fitchell 267- 725; Art Holden 240-699; Art Holden 284-681; Henry Hinz 256-663; Kathy Clark 247-703; Larry Braun 267-696. Wed. Coffee: Nora Solinski 303-689; Marjorie Henderson 273-669; Darlene Maxfield 279- 736; Marilyn Strom 279-789. Ball and Chain 7:00: Linda Leslie 242-684; Don MacKay 290- 680; Tom Burns 291-689; Ron Qually 272-737; Ken Stewart 340- 747. ' ��� ., Ban _ Chain 9:00: Paddy Richardson 251-633; Gerry McConnell 280-753; Freeman Reynolds 304- 839. Than. Mixed: Mavis Stanley 256-659; Dianne Fitchell 341-895; Ron Cruice' 259-651; Vic Marteddu 289-711; Art Holden 277-760. Legion: Joan Peers 238-620; Carol McGivern 281-656; Ken Skytte 263-700; Freeman Reynolds 255-730. Y.B.C. BantamatCathy Hummel 102-202(2) Linda Harding 123-217; Neil Redshaw 103-205; Andy Solinski 125-215. Junta.*: Michele Solinski 191- 471; Don MacKay 206-525; Brian MacKay 213-54Q; Geoff Spence 189-549; Grant GUI 201-572. Senior*: Ann- Carson 227-582; Mark Ranniger 294-734. Ban on Balsam Each year... and this one is no exception . . . the British Columbia Forest Service reminds you it's against the law to cut and move balsam fir trees ahd branches. They also take a dim view on the cutting and transporting of any pine species from one part of the province to another. There's a good reason. The ban on cutting balsam fir as Christ-1 mas trees involves a voracious insect called the balsam wooly aphid. So far the hungry little bug has been contained in a small area of the lower mainland and the south-western region of Vancouver Island, and Forest Service officials want it to stay that way. Its spread could threaten thousands of acres of timber in the interior ahd along the Island coastline. With the pines, it's equally destructive European pine shoot moth which causes all the trouble. \"Moving these trees or their branches only increases the spread of the infestation,\" reports protection officer Mike Finnis. \"We now have both the wooly aphid and the pine moth contained . . thanks to the general public who appreciate our problems.\" Sports Page OTTAWA and Small Business Be prepared for wilderness End this collective blackmail By KENNETH McDONALD WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS TREE In 1923, the first National Community Christmas Tree in the United States was set up on the White House lawn. The tree was a spruce from President Calvin Cool- idge's home state, Vermont. The following, year, he presided at a ceremony under the sponsorship of the American Forestry Association, to urge the use of living Christmas trees. Gibsons Winter Club has Advertising space available Your order may be placed with O. HINCKS AND V. SCHNEIDER 886-7896 886-9906 M.E.TURNER 886-2184 Are you going out into the woods for a hike? Or now with the snow here are you planning to do some cross-country skiing? Travelling nature's trails can be a beautiful experience when it is done with common sense and ar respect for nature. >j Your walk or your crosscountry ski, however, could turn . into a tragedy if you walk off the' beaten track and find yourself lost or with a sprained ankle. The Gibsons Wildlife Club in a recent newsletter notes that when going into wilderness areas, even if only for a few hours, it is important to be properly prepared. Before you leave on your trek, tell a responsible person where you are going, and when you will be back. Dress properly for the. season and also dress for the potential weather conditions. Check your compass and make sure it is working. Check all the rest of your equipment to make sure it is servicable and mark all your small items with colored tape or bright paint for easy identification and recovery. When you're on the trail, tra vel at the speed of the slowest member of the parry. When building a fire make sure it is on sand or gravel. Conserve body energy and stay comfortable. Do not overwork yourself . One of the things you must not do when going out into the woods is wear brand new boots. If you have purchased some new hiking boots wear them around your neighborhood for a while. If you then get a blister you're close to home. Do not leave an open fire unattended. Do not overheat your body and get your clothing wet with perspiration. Don't be overconfident and don't panic if you are confronted with an unusual situation. If you meet trouble, stop and think. If you plan to spend a lot of time outdoors, either winter or summer, make sure you know the ABC's of wilderness travel. The provincial government has a pamphlet available on what to do and what not to do in the woods. A copy tnay.be obtained by writing to the Fish and Wildlife Branch, Parliament Buildings, Victoria. CHRISTMAS BIRD FEEDER Those of you'who are kind to our fine, feathered friends all year 'round'will want to add some extra holiday fare to your bird feeder. Cranberries and popcorn make a special treat as do small boxes of suet ana seed. Decorating a .small tree near your house will provide color for you, and nourishment for the birds. Here are a few suggestioits for decorating your bird tree: The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has recommended that public service strikes at the federal level be ruled out in all areas which prejudice public health and safety, or which result in serious economic damage. The collective blackmail of the public service ... strike must be replaced by a form of compulsory arbitration or by final offer selection, where each party presents a proposal to an impartial arbitrator knowing that one of the proposals will be selected and will become binding on both parties. Thisr prevents either side from proposing an unreasonable solution��� which the arbitrator would be obliged to reject.- The wage part of Ottawa's wage and price controls is aimed not at industrial trade unions, where settlements are already declining in step with the declining economy, but at the unchecked monopoly power of public service unions. That's why the postal union heads tried so desperately to. keep their strike going. It wasn't the posties they were thinking of, but defeat of the Government's anti-inflation program. > in and ace the _ ; from the vtaa ronnti-tn, fera-t. Mia* Bee'a, Scchek. Wai O . .9. o -<\\ a o L. ���__,-V�� - . \"���$ttn 885-9973 When renovating or spring cleaning Call us for your disposal needs Commercial Containers available ��� ELECTRICIANS SIM ELECTRIC Ltd. Electrical Contractor Sechelt ��� Phone 885-2062 ��_)\\B. ELECTRIC h*. Phone 886-7605 Box 860 Gibsons ������POWER TO THE PEOPLE\" ��� HEATING TED HUME \" SERVICES Gibsons, B.C. : 886-2951 Parts, Service, Installations Stoves, Furnaces,, Heaters, etc. Certified Instrument Mechanic ��� MACHINE SHOP At the sign of the Chevron HILL'S : MACHINE SHOP & Marine Service Ltd Arc and Acty. Welding. Machine Shop Steel Fabricating i Automotive - Marine Repair Marine Ways Phone 886-7721 Res. 886-9958 LEN WRAY'S TRANSFER Ltd. Household Moving & Storage Complete Packing Packing Materials for Sale , Member Allied Van Lines Phone 886-2664-R.R. 1, Gibsons ��� PAINTING ABC GENERAL PAINTING SPRA Y - BRUSH - ROLL Call 886-2512 ��� PAVING COAST PAVING PA VING FROM DRIVEWA YS TO HIGHWAYS Highways, Parking Areas Driveways, Crushed Gravel Equipment Rentals Main Office Box 95, Powell River, 485-6118 Branch Office: Sechelt, Ph. 885-2343 9:30 to 3:30 p.m. ��� PLUMBING RAY NEWMAN PLUMBING SALES & SERVICE Hot Water Heating Buildihg and Alterations Davis Bay Rd., R.R. 1, Sechelt-Ph. 885-2116 PENINSULA PLUMBING CONTRACTING - Port Mellon - Pender Harbour Free Estimates Phone 886-9533 Rick 886-7838 Tom 886-7834 ��� PLUMBING (Cont) G&E PLUMBING & HEATING Ltd. Certified Plumbers Box 165, Gibsons, B.C. PHONE 886-7638 New Installations, Renovations Repairs, Hot Water Heating Pump Repairs 24 HOUR SERVICE SEASIDE PLUMBING PLUMBING - PIPEFITTING STEAMFITTING HOT WA TER HE A TING ' 886-7017 All Work Guaranteed ��� REFRIGERATION JOHN HIND-SMITH REFRIGERATION & MAJOR APPLIANCE SERVICE Port Mellon to Pender Harbour Used Refrigerators for Sale Phone 886-2231 From 9a.m. to5:30p.m. Res. 886-9949 ��� RETAIL STORES ��� RETAIL STORES (Cont) MISS BEE'S Card and Gift Shop Wharf Rd., Sechelt P.O. Box 213 Ph. 885-9066 Coutts-Hallmark Cards & wrappings, Gifts, Picture Puzzles; English Bone China cups, saucers, etc. Boutique Items Local Artists' Paintings C & S HARDWARE & APPLIANCES Sechelt ��� 885-9713 BERNINA SEWING MACHINES NOTIONS etc. REPAIRS AND SERVICE TO ALL MAKES FABRIC HOUSE Marine Drive Gibsons 886-7525 ��� ROOFING STAN HILSTAD ROOFING DUROID, SHAKES OR REROOFINQ R.R. 1, Port Mellon Highway Gibsons Phone 886-2923 ���SURVEYORS ROY& WAGENAAR B.C. LAND SURVEYORS CIVIL ENGINEERS Marine Building -Wharf Street Box 609, Sechelt, B.C. 885-2332 ROBERT W.ALLEN B.C.LAND SURVEYOR Sechelt Lumber Building Wharf St., Box 607 Sechelt, B.C. Office 885-2625 Res. 885-9581 ��� T.V. & RADIO SUNSHINE COAST TV SALES & SERVICE ADMIRAL ��� ELECTROHOME and ZEN ITH DEALERS Gordon Oliver - Ed Nicholson \"IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN SECHELT\" Box 799, Sechelt Phone 885-9816 CLOSED ON MONDAYS ���TV & RADIO (cont) NEVENS' TV Service Depot for PHILIPS ��� ZENITH PANASONIC ��� ADMIRAL FLEETWOOD DEALER MASTERCHARGE Phone 886-2280 J &C ELECTRONICS & APPLIANCES Charles (Chuck) Stephens SALES and SERVICE INGLIS & PHILIPS MARINE ELECTRONICS Across from Red _ White Sechelt 885-2568 PAJAK ELECTRONICS CO. LTD. RCA & ELECTROHOME Authorized Dealer Sales and Service 886-7333 . Gibsons ��� TRAILER PARK SUNSHINE COAST TRAILER PARK 1 Mile West of Gibsons, Hlway Laundromat Extra Large Lots and Recreation area Parklike Setting Phone 886-9826 ��� TREE TOPPING TREETOPPING VIEW DEVELOPMENTS L TD. Marv Volen Phone 886-9597 Clean . up your wooded areas Remove lower limbs for VIEW Top tall trees adacent to building ��� TRUCKING DOUBLE *R' TRUCKING LTD. SAND. GRAVEL. FILL DRAIN ROCK. ETC. Chaster Rd Gibsons, B.C. 886-7109 J ) \"^.-.r: 10 Sunshine Coast News, December 16, 1975. Opinion Sizing up the potential cabinet by MURRAY HERRON With the stunning defeat of the Barrett government by the free enterprise horde led by Billy the Kid, who will be in the cabinet? The province's top job, naturally has to go to the Kid, as he led the forces. . \"Behind every good man there is supposed to be a good woman\" the old saying goes, but in this case, it is possibly a persistant 75 year old father. Education is going to the enlightened religious man from. Chilliwack, Harvey Schroeder. The reverend is just what B.C. Teachers Federation needs to get them back in line. It will be very interesting to see how teachers like Frank Fuller and his associates react to the Reverend. The transport minister's job is wide open with three candidates in the running: George the Giant Killer Kerster, George Mussal- lem, and Evan Wolfe, the veteran who returns to the house after a three year absence. There is only one way to solve this problem, in the free enterprise method and that is which ever car dealer gets the highest sales volume for the month of January gets the job. Two new portfolios could have been created as a result of this election, but since Alan Lau lost in his constituency, there will not need to be a department of Dinner Buying and Shady Practices. What now needs to be formed is the Department of possible shoplifters headed by the Honorable Walter Davidson. Minister of Gutter Sniping goes to the noted representative from Langley, Bob McLelland. In the last session of the house, he charged the former transport minister. Bob Strachan. Strachan is still waiting for McClelland's apology after he was wrong on the charges. The four turncoats, McGeer, Williams, Gardom and Curtis all figure to he in the cabinet. Look for these four to have the posi tions of Municipal affairs, Attor- f Quickie Tops! PRINTED PATTERN 4666 TEEN . SIZES 10-16 V^����*y& w; Wheirit's too hot. cool dowu in a quickie top! Sew wrap style with/without ruffles and scooped Tee in a few minutes for few dollars: Printed Pattern 4666: Teen Sizes 10, 12. 14. 1G. Size 12 (bu_i 32) tee shirt takes % yard 60-inch. $1.00 for each pattern��� cash, cheque or money order. Add 15* each pattern for first- class mail and special handling. Print plainly Size, Name, Address, Style Number. Send to Anne Adams, Coast News, Pattern Dept., 60 Progress Ave., Scarborough, Ont. M1T4P7. IT PAYS TO SEW���you save so much money! Send now for New Spring-Summer Pattern Catalog! Over 100 partners, pants, long, short styles. Free pattern coupon; 75$. Sew and Knit Book S1.25 Instant Money Craftc ... SI .00 Instant Sewing Book $1.00 Instant Fashion Book ...$1.00 For all your Sewing and Knitting Needs FABRIC HOUSE Marine Drive 886-7525 ney General, Finance and the Speaker's post. It ought to be interesting to see Gardom as the Speaker, as under ' his guidance, debate can now reach to the level of the party scene in the old TV Laugh In series. For the labor portfolio none other than the former minister Jim Chabot of Columbia River. Skeena MLA and former Agriculture minister Cyril Shelford will again hold down this post. Under Shelford, most agriculture experts publicly stated he was the best minister in his field in the country. Human Resources will be going to none other than Grace McCarthy. McCarthy should do well. After all, certain authorities have stated that if you get along with your plants then you are able to get on with people. McCarthy's trade by the way is a florist. This is her only claim to fame. A special by-election will be held to allow our new minister of recreation to get his seat in the legislature. Herb Capozzi should do a great job. He was once the head man with the Lions of the C.F.L. and the Whitecaps in the North American Soccer League. Former federal cabinet minister Jack Davis should probably get the Lands and Forests ministry. Under the former government, this department became the most powerful ministry in the cabinet under the guidance of Bob Williams. Newcomer Bill Van Der Zalm should either be the new provincial secretary or the minister in charge of public works. Economic Development will be going to the north's most prolific talker Don Phillips of Dawson Creek. To solve the problems of the highways department, look to one of the unsuccessful candidates who was after the transport job. After all, if the minister was a car dealer, he definitely would want good roads, wouldn't he? Cariboo MLA Alex Fraser fits into the plans of the cabinet but where? The former mayor of Quesnel could either be the minister of northern affairs or Victoria's ambassador to the Cariboo* A colleague of mine from Broadcast News remarked to me, \"There sure are a lot of dogs going into the house this time.\" Jake, I agree with you, there are some real winners 1 John Mackin, of CKDA in Victoria, summed it up when he said, \"The good men won't be back.\" talking with some of my fellow scribes, we thought of the Kennedy quote,' \"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.\" Then we saw Bennett senior on the tube saying, \"Now we are going to have good government, with social conscience.\" ��� I thought to myself we are going to have what? to whom? For a veiy special Christmasqreeting __A send the fe_ ___D FTD ���__=___. HOUDAY GLOW��� BOCIQCIEr f.LCMCXJD 'I'LL SEE IF HE'S TOO BUSY TO COME TO THE PHONE! What to do in a quake The Sunshine Coast has been the centra of several earthquakes recently. A series of tremors that measured 4.5 on the Richter scale were felt In this area two weeks ago and farther tremors occurred Thursday morning of last week. The west coast of British Colombia Is located on one of the earth's mqjor faults that runs from Alaska, through the Queen Charlotte Islands, down tbe west coast of Vancouver Island, along the California coast and into Mexico. The tremors that were felt on the Snnahms Coast were either reverberations from quakes along the mq|or fault or they are part of secondary fissures that run off the m_Jor fault. The following article was found In a Coast News dated December 30, 1965. It was written by Wes B. Hodgson, late of Gibsons, after this area felt the reverberations of a small quake centred in Seattle. When we hear over the radio, or read in the newspaper of a major disaster, it is astounding ' how many people, while fully sympathetic, take the mental attitude \"It cannot happen here.\" However, since the last earthquake tremor which was felt by most people in the Gibsons area, I am not surprised at the number of people who have, asked me (as a trained Civil Defence co-ordinator) just what one.should do in theeventofan earthqu ake. We must face the fact that we are living in a seismic area, and while we pray we may never have the experience, to be prepared might save the lives of many including your own. Because ��� It can happen here. It is with this knowledge, while praying it may never happen, the following safety rules to observe during an earthquake are offered.. In case af a noticeable earthquake movement ��� Don't panic. The maximum violence of a shock is usually reached within 10 seconds of the first tremor. Most casualties in earthquakes have been caused by falling tiles and masonry and far more debris falls in streets than inside buildings. If indoors, remain indoors and take advantage of the safest available ' areas, under desks, tables, or benches, in doorways, in corridors, or against walls. Stay away from glass windows or under skylights. If out-of-doors, move quickly away from buildings to areas completely in the clear of falling walls and overhead wires, if in highly congested areas, get inside the nearest building and take advantage of the safest area. If the disturbance is severe and causes plaster, bricks or other debris to fall, a quick reconnai- sance should be made as soon as possible after the earthquake movements have subsided to determine safe route of exit which does not present an added peril from falling insecure material. Under all circumstances ��� do not panic, keep cool. Don't rush through or outside of the building, exposing yourself to falling debris, live wires, etc. Keep cool ��� Experience has shown that the greatest point of danger is just outside of the entrance and close to the sides of buildings. , If damage is severe make no attempt to re-enter buildings which have been damaged. , Where possible check all utilities after an earthquake to ascertain if there, are any gas leaks ��� broken water pipes ���or shorted electrical circuits. If dangerous conditions are encountered take steps to either control or shut off the said utility. At business and industrial __POPCORN STRINGS���String.. popcorn onto 20 to 24 inch lengths of heavy duty thread. Hang, looped, onto bird tree. !��� CRANBERRIES ��� Using wire, string cranberries and shape into a circle, leaving a length of wire at the end, to attach to the tree. plants, school and other buildings representatives of safety groups should take charge of the situation immediately and give instructions in a firm, calm voice to reassure the nervous in order to prevent the possibility of hysteria or panic. A supervised exit drill should be conducted either to safe areas within the building if in highly congested areas ��� or to the outside in safe locations -away from affected buildings. The possibility of panic is present during or immediately following an earthquake, or any major - disaster for that matter. The best precaution fo take to prevent such panic, is to organize safety groups whose responsibility it is to supervise and control all movements during fire or evacuation. We have a great selection of model trains . o'so BARRIWOOD STROMBECKER LEGO COX . AND MUCH, MUCH MORE TYDEWATER CRAFTS AND HOBBIES Lower Village ' 886-2811 GIBSONS KEN DeVRIES & SON LTD. For CARPETS for the WHOLE HOUSE 1659 Sunshine Coast Hiway Gibsons ���\" 886-7112 IT'S PARTY TIME!' Make sure your Christmas Party is remembered all year long BUY OR SWAP YOUR TAPES NOW WHILE THE SELECTION IS AT ITS BEST DONTWALKBY.COMEONIN ..' TAPE EXCHANGE SECHELT FAMILY MART LTD opposite the bus depot In sechelt ��� A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words take yours with your new Christmas HALINA 126 Gadget bag, film and magicube Professional $11.95 Shoulder Strap (4.49 Gibsons Christmas Cards 25 COZY CORNER CAMERAS 886-7822 II II II II II II II II II II II II II II 1L SIX WEEKS IN SPAIN IN YOUR OWN PERSONAL APARTMENT IN ONE OF THESE FABULOUS COMPLEXES PLAYMAR LA NOGALERA ALOHA TORRES DELTA DEL, SOR CRUZ DEL SOR from *Pw IV (includes air ft_j��| Stopover in London, England for small additional charge '������������. BE IN HAWAII IN JANUARY STAYATTHE FROM CARO EDGEWATER HOTEL q>��t*JJr REEF HOTEL OUTRIGGER EAST CALL YOUR TRAVEL AGENT and BOOK NOW 885-2910 SECHELT 922-0221 II II II II II II II II II II II II II School board Trustee Celia Fisher told the board she would like to see further discussion on the proposed budget for the year 1976. She said she personally believed there was more staff needed in some of the district schools and indicated'J that funds for additional staff members were not included in the budget. Trustee-elect Spiekermann had suggested earlier in the meeting that all schools in the district be reviewed for staff and space so that those needs do not surface after the budget has been finalized. The board will discuss this matter in the first meeting in January. <*��*��* WESTERN DRUG MART Where You're Treated Right CHRISTMAS SPECIALS UNTIL DECEMBER 21st CUTEX New Herbal Scent 49 Polish Remover, 3 oz. TIM EX Watches 10% Assorted Styles OFF TOOTHPASTE McCLEANS 100 ml. $1.09 AFTER EIGHT 4.29 Choc. Covered Mints QIIAlfF Non aerosol $1 4 A OUnVE. HairSDrav lit* Hair Spray 7.9 oz. WALLETS iu/o Men's and Ladies' 10%OFF BR0M0 SELTZER �����* 5.3 oz. BIC & CRICKET '1.09 Disposable Lighters Games People Play PAYDAY '5.49 MASTERMIND '4.39 from Parker Bros. CURL & GO '8.99 Curling Iron Automatic Electric Coffee '13.77 Maker (12 cup) Walkie Talkie '13.98 Solid State Scotch Brand Magic Tape 3 rolls '1.39 PARTY SET 1 table cover ��� ' ��� ��� . 16 luncheon napkins $1 00 16cocktail napkins *��y^ Cards & Seals '1.19 300D160M LIGHTS1\"*\"- '1.57 ���������*\"���������' w Mini 20 lites RIBBON Asst icon 99< ARM IN ARM 63' Deodorant 2.5 oz. FIRST LADY PANTI HOSE *-* 99* FOR HER _ FRAGRANCES. COTY'S SACHET ��� WIND SONG ��� L'AIMANT EMERAUDE ��� IMPREVU ��� NUANCE CHANEL #5 - CHARLIE-CHANTILLY - MIGUET QUELQUE FLEURS ��� MUSK ��� BELLODGIA & ON THE WIND ALL IN GIFT SETS C JEWELLERY. 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