Saturday, October 19, 1991 @

WHEEUSICECAREC ARE

FUNDRAISER

‘Owner’s manual

gives precautions

If like most buyers of cars,
vans and light trucks, you
failed to read your owner's
manual carefully, be | ata
to pay for your oversight.

Few bother to read them,

Virtually every vehicle
manufacturer specifies that
drain holes in doors, quarter
panels and fender wells must
be kept open to prevent mud
and moisture buildup in corro-

yet the owner's J spells
out every precaution an owner
must take to satisfy the man-
ufacturer’s warranties on the
vehicle.

Most of these precautions
are especially critical when it
comes to preparing your vehi-
cle for winter.

The average owner pays at-
tention to such things as en-
gine coolants, batteries, tires,
belts and windshield wipers.
However, they seldom bother
to check unseen areas that are
equally critical to warranty
maintenance.

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High-pressure cleaning of
enclosed areas and metal un-
derbody parts to remove dirt,
mud and dust-control chemi-
cals is recommended, along
with treatment of surfaces
that are exposed to continual
d caused by humidi

from salt-laden snow.
Manufacturers also caution

vehicle owners to wash exteri-

or body metals frequently to

remove contaminants like in- 4

dustrial pollutants and chem-
icals that attack painted sur-
faces.

a y. October 19, 1991

‘Jewel of the Kootenays’
becoming better known

one I saw in un-

The Chapel House on
Zuckerberg Island Heritage
Park closes at the end of this
month.

Would-be visitors there-
fore have. only two more
weeks in which to call. The
park, of course, is open all
the year round thanks to the
Argo causeway.

John CHARTERS

Reflections

Recollections

der the weeds the other day
appeared to be stomping and
muttering.

“We also have a visiting
beaver cutting out

aspen under the bridge on
the mainland side. These
trees usually just send up

welcome.

“Our resident kingfisher
came back,this summer to
the pond and the pond is also
host to blue heron, Canada

and

Not everyone can cross on
the bridge but anyone and fire engines can
cross the causeway at will. Furthermore, after

a full eight years of work and eight years of —

publicity, the whereabouts of this now inter-
nationally known “Jewel of the Kootenays” is
now known to the majority of local citizens,
while the majority of that majority have even
visited it at least once.

The rest are held in the toils of what we are
pleased to call the “Tower Synd:

géese and assorted ducks,
the latter two with young ones this year. We
also have a turtle who lives in the pond. Verna
(Keraiff) one day reported ‘these funny fish
with a big back fin playing on the sandy bot-
tom near the causeway. Sherrel (Koreen) en-
lightened her on the birds and the bees and

jpawning
She concludes: “We have had people say
‘Aak, what a dirty place — it should be

I coined it a number of years ago when we
were visiting London

— referring to the pond in low wa-
ter. “These are people who obviously don’t
know much about

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ponds and the wealth
of life they contain
and support.”
She goes on tartly:
“There are proba-
bly more living things
that pond that sup-
port and encourage

“The probability of any individual
making a visit to a well known his-
toric site or beauty spot is in inverse
proportion to his proximity to that
particular site.”

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5-minute maintenance check
can prevent costly repairs

tires. The tires are out of align- sadftine Snes needs ty bs remeced.

Auto dealers and mechan-
ics agree — giving your car a
quick five-minute mainte-
nance check each week will
prevent costly repair bills and
prolong the life of your car.

The only tools necessary for
the check are a rag or paper
towel, tire gauge and a multi-
purpose lubricant.

On a weekly basis, or when
filling up at a gas station, pro-
fessional mechanics recom-
mend:

© Check and change oil on
a regular basis.

* Check automatic trans-
mission fluid monthly by park-
ing with engine running (not
hot) Add fluid if dipstick reads
low.

* Check the brake fluid

has

ment if there is uneven wear
on the threads. Check tire
pressure with a pressure
gauge.

© Check radiator fluid level
when car is cool by examining
coolant overflow tank or re- ¢
moving raver cap. Add wa-

eck windshield solvent
cane wipers monthly.

Test front, rear, brake,
parking, low and high beams
and turn indicators monthly.
Replace bulbs and fuses and
: ‘keep lights clean.

{To help identify problems in

ter

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also suggest
“a fuel and oil log for

ally.

* Check for clean battery
connections. Make sure termi-
nal and cables are free of cor-
rosion and are firmly at-
tached.

A quick spray of WD-40 will
remove this corrosion. (It also
helps unstick power antennas,
gummed door locks and can
even remove tree sap and road
tar from car's chrome and
painted surfaces.

Check car for frayed fan ..

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London couple,
florists, who lived in nearby Lambeth district,
just across the Thames. She, we learned, had
just come back from a trip to Hawaii. He, a
man in his 70s, on the other hand, stated firm-
ly he had never left London for a day in his life
and had no intention of doing so. Had he vis-
ited the Tower of London?

“No,” he said, but the would “some day.”

The tower had been there for hundreds of
years and would be there for hundreds more.
The probability, of course was that while it
would be, he wouldn't, thus the syndrome
which states: “The probability of any individ-
ual making a visit to a well known historic site
or beauty spot is in inverse proportion to his
proximity to that particular site.”

Thus, for the citizen who lives within a
short walk of the island, there is always “to-
morrow” while for the one who lives many
miles away it is “must not miss.”

re are, however, two other groups —
those who visit the island almost every day
amd know its every mood throughout the year
and for whom it is very dear, and those who
knew it in other times and keep it ina special
corner of memory.

Doris Sweeney, the Castlegar | and District
Heritage Society's island supervisor, is one of
this former er group and her special interest is

in her of flo-
sal platcgunghe 0 tan Ghagel Eavwre bet ia r0-
flected in her September re; in which un-
der the heading Island Wildlife, she writes:

“We have two resident muskrats in the
pond. They have been there all summer but
by now must be quite ticked off by the fluctu-
ating water level these last few weeks. The

the above mentioned
wildlife than on the river shoreline.”

This is the naturalists’ view of the island.

Two others, Iver Ostrom and Wesley Sha-
fonsky, reveal their memories by correspon-
dence. Iver was a member of my first Grade 9
class here in 1947 and after many years of si-
lence I received a letter from

Init, Iver, now retired, tells both of a much
varied and very successful career, and now a
new venture into the field of writing. He has
just completed a novel, he said, (Castlegar
must breed novelists). He had, during this
past summer, compiled some poems of the ar-
eas of the area where he grew up.

“It was an exhilarating journey,” he wrote.

He included a copy of this book with the
hope that “it would bring back a memory or
two foryou too.” It did and I am deeply grate-
ful. He looks at the setting of the jewel and so
he writes of Robson and the Lion’s Head, of the
Minto and the Kettle Valley Railway Line, of
the people of the Kootenay and “The Inner Is-
a — two rivers join at Castlegar.

It begins:
Ju bea. then end, only to begin again
ing from
Pris draped castles to the saline sea —

Stirring stuff and recollections. If you want
his address give me a call at 365-5241.

Gil Zuckerberg, Alexander Zuckerberg’s
son, made his annual tour of inspection of the
Chapel House last month and was also very

d and P ised to send a
for its collection.

Slowly but surely we rescue our past in or-
der to place a foundation under feet of our fu-
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