B4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 20, 1982
Legal advice may now
be bought at Sears

‘TORONTO (CP) — Just
down the aisle from the
broadloom displays and nes-
tled in behind the optical
department of a suburban
Sears store a customer may
find the correct wording of
his will, or the divorce he has
always wanted.

Several months ago a local
law firm opened an office in
the Toronto Sears store, the
first of its kind in Canada,
and Sears has since opened
two more law offices in the
Vancouver area and is con-
sidering more for Ontario.

Shoppers who tire of pok-
ing through rug samples and
bedroom. furniture on the
second floor of the store in
suburban North York . can
shuffle over to the small law
office of Somjen and Suter
and arrange for an uncon-
tested divorce which, at $450,
may be a more attractive
purchase than a couple of
rooms of broadloom:

A will costs $50, to incor-
porate 2 company is $350
and, as the little black and
orange sign on the recep-
tionist’s desk says, a half
hour of advice on any legal
problem will run you $25.

John Somjen, 87, who ap-
proached Sears more than a
year ago with the concept
borrowed from Montgomery
Ward stores in California,
says he is pleased with the
reaction his Sears outlet has
had.

GETS WIDE VARIETY

“We expected routine legal
matters but we are getting
sophisticated commercial
work and an incredibly wide

variety of other work,” Som-  dise.

je'said.

The suceess of the office
means the firm will probably
need another lawyer: and
secretary and more office
space in the store by the end
of 1982.

‘Somjen and Sears have an
arrangement, not yet in
effect because of provincial
law, that would allow Som-
jen’s clients'to charge their
legal fees on their Sears ac-

count.

“A ‘graduate’: of the “Unt-
versity of Toronto ‘with’ a
sbachelor of commerce degree
in addition to a law degree,
Somjen and partners Heidi
Suter and Gordon Winsor

Few cancers

take turns staffing the office
at Sears because it stays
open as long as the store —
9:80 a.m. to 9:80 p.m. week-"
days, and 9:30 to 5:00 Sat-
urday.

Somjen and Suter also
maintain a more traditional
law. practice downtown,
where. they specialize in
copyright laws.

“The store is a perfect
place for a practice,” says
Somjen, who has been prac-
tising for 11 years. “We are
on the sales floor of a de-

ent store that has
spent billions of dollars on
marketing. It is an: instant
practice.”

Somjen says offices in
stores “is the way of the-

future.”

An obstacle Sears and the
law firm had to overcoine
was liability for malpractice.
“Sears’ lawyers have looked
into it, and we certainly have
looked into it, and it would
appear the store is not liable.

LIKE SUING LANDLORD

“Suing Sears for a mistake
made by us would be like
suing the landlord of profes.
sional building for a mistake
made by a tenant,” Somjen,
says,

George Morris, manager of
the Sears store, thinks the
lawyers are pretty good cli-
ents. “We're delighted to
have them hére — its another
service we can offer our cus-
tomers.”

Somjen, tall, lean, and
dressed in vogue, says their
prices aren't “rock bottom,”
but more in line with Sears
middle-of-the-road merchan-

“They are prices that could
probably be had from nearly
-apy lawyer,” but the location
makes people more inclined
to come in and talk, Somjen
says.

There is no typical cus-
tomer in the office at Sears
which is in a neighborhood.

surrounded by a variety of,

buildings from corporate of-
fices to high-rise apartment
blocks to $200,000 houses.

“We're getting lots. of
interesting work, much tomy
delight,” Somjen says. “Peo-
ple are also coming in from’
outside the Toronto area be-
cause they've heard about us
and like the idea.”

Related to work place

Occupational hazards. are
responsible for only one per
cent or less of the cancer
cases reported in Ontario, an
analysis of Workmen's Com-
pensation Board records in-
dicate: !

A report, published in the bestos

Canadian Medical Associa-
tion Journal, says only one in
300 cancer deaths reported in
Ontario between 1971 .and
1975 was a recipient of
compensation payments he-
cause of cancer traceable to
the work place.

Previous studies had sug-
gested occupational hazards
were involved in up to five
per cent .of cancer cases,
while a 1978 U.S. governm-
ment study suggested that
exposure to’ work place haz-
ards was a factor in as many
as 30.per cent of all cancers,
+ The Ontario compensation
beard records of

cancer and cancer of the
nasal passages accounted for
10 per cent each,

Occupations with the most
cancer hazards involved ex-
posure to nickel fumes during
the refining process; to as-
during mining or
manufacturing; to ionizing
radiation, mainly in uranium
mining; and tocoal tar fumes,
mostly in foundry work.

In all cases, the dangers in

these work place situations —

were recognized and. cor-
rected many years ago.
“For many years to come;
however, cases will continue
to develop in workers!/¢x-:

posed to previously existing

years for cancer: of the 3
sinuses and 44 years fc
Seliome." "The litter caricer:

427 cases in which claim for
compensation was accepted
between 1947 and 1978.
Two-thirds of the cases in-
volved lung cancer while skin

ai exposure to asbestos.
The report was written by
Dr. Alan Chovil and five
other doctors associated with
the compensation board.

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CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 20, 1982

Pingos:

Hazard of the north

When Arctic oil irom the
Beaufort Sea begins to flow
later this decade, tankers
moving the oil will have to
contend not only with ice and
storms, but also with a
curious feature of the north-
ern laridscape and sea bottom
known as the “pingo.”

Pingos, like giant pimples,
rise up to 80 metres above
otherwise flat or rolling, bar-
ren country north of the tree
line in the Ter-

Collecting data on under-
water features at 100-metre
intervals, the oceanogra-
phers located 25 pingos in a
160-kilometre stretch of the
corridor. Twenty of the pin-
gos had not previously been
recorded.

None of the newly-mapped
pingos would pose a threat
to the proposed tankers,
which have a draft of 20
metres, but there is no doubt

ritories and the Yukon.

The core of a pingo on land
consists of ice with a covering
of rock, clay and soil. Under-
water pingos are similar and’
Ukely were originally formed
above sea level, then were
covered as the sea rose fol-
lowing the most recent ice
age.

. Canadian oceanographers
on the research ship Hudson,
charting a proposed tanker
corridor through. the Beau-
fort Sea in the Western Arc-
tic in 1981, found there are
many more submerged pin-
gos than had been believed.

Submitted

Men and teens joined the
ladies at the Hi Arrow for an
evening meeting of Women’s
Aglow Fellowship.

After the dessert and cof-
fee, Mra. Betty Sahlstrom led
the meeting in the singing of
praises. Guest speaker, Pas-
tor Don McMillan, stated
“God lives in praise” and that
it is in direct proportion to
praise of Him that He will
release His power.

Mr. and Mrs. Rod Killougi:
sang their beautiful arrange-
ments of the Lord's Prayer.

Pastor Don McMillan of
Trail used as his texts Gen-
esis 3:15 and 1 Samuel 18:8.
From these texts Pastor Mc-
Millan explained why it was
necessary for Jesus to come
to earth a5 a baby. only, to
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espe, ‘

man’s lost ‘authority. When
man sinned he lost his auth-
ority to Satan. Satan gained
that authority illegally, as
legal authority is obtained
only through birth. Hence,”
explained Mr: McMillan, “the
birth of Jesus was necessary
to regain this authority, =

“Secondly, Jesus came to
cut a blood covenant with
mankind.” 1 Samuel 18:8 tells
us that Jonathan and David
made.a covenant, How does
one cut a‘ blood covenant?
Throughout early history
mankind in many ‘various

Local woman
receives
award

When the giant U.S, tank-
er Manhattan navigated the
corridor following the dis-
covery of Alaskan oil several
years ago, one of the escort
ice-breakers struck a pingo.

The
crosses a 300-kilometre
stretch of the Beaufort Sea
and is 15 kilometres wide.
Half the corridor has not yet
been mapped in detail and it
is expected that such map-
ping, to be carried out this
summer, will reveal the loca-
tions of many unknown pin-

cultures used the following
form of nine parts to cut a
blood covenant.

The taking off of a coat or
robe and giving it to the
other party was the first
step. This is representative
of the giving of self. Secondly
was the takitig off of the belt
which held all the weapons.
By giving of his weapons the
man is symbolically giving all
his strength to the other.

The third step was split-
ting an animal in two. This
was the symbol of anew walk

‘unto death together. Next

the men raised their right
arms and cut their wrists to
“let their blood intermingle.
This made them. one.

‘There was an exchange of
last names. The sixth step
was to make a scar by mixing -
dirt into the eut so it would,

. not heal, This gyarant teed the’

convenant would be life-long.
The next step the men would
take was to give the terms of
the covenant in front of wit-
nesses..Then they would eat
a memorial meal of bread and
wine together.

The final step was to plant
a memorial tree after first
sprinkling it with the animal

blood. :

“Jesus came to cut coven-
ant with each one‘ of us,”
stated Pastor MeMillan.
Then Pastor McMillan
showed how each of the nine
parts of the old covenant
cutting ceremony corres-
ponds to our relationship
with Jesus.

First Jesus gave of him-
self and gives us a cloak of
righteousness. In Ephesians
6:11 we learn that Jesus
gives us the whole armour of
God. At Calvary Jesus shed
blood and a covénant would
never be cut without the
shedding of blood. If one ac-
cepts the covenant of Jesus
he receives the name’ of
Christian. The scar of Jesus”
was seen by Thomas on His
hands and feet. This assured
Thomas of.Jesua’ identity.

The terms of the covenant
are the. 10 Commandments.

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A Castlegar girl has been
named winner of a $160 Dow
Chemical of Canada Ltd.
scholarship for her first year
work at the B.C. Institute of
Technology in Burnaby.

Tammy Ozeroff was pre-
sented with the award at a
recent BCIT management
division scholarship © cere-
mony.

Tammy is presently in her
second year of transportation
distribution in the Oper-
ations Management Technol-
ogy Division.

symbolic of that. memorial
meal. The cross with the
poured blood of Jesus is the
memorial tree and the Holy
Spirit is the constant re-
minder of what Jesus did for
each one of us.

Pastor McMillan gave each
person present the oppor-
tunity to accept that cov-
enant at the close of the
meeting.

Feb. 10 is the date of the
next ‘luncheon meeting of.
Women's Agiow. It will be
held at the Hi Arrow at 10:30
a.m. Guest speaker will be
Julie Buchenaver. All ladies
are welcome.

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