ON). C2 Castlégar News May 10, 1989 44th Field Engineer Squadron OPEN HOUSE Saturday, May 13 1:00 p.m, to 5:00 p.m. Trail Armoury, 1990-7th Avenue, Trail, B.C. DEMONSTRATIONS, DISPLAYS, MILITARY BAND CONCERT, TOUR OF FACILITIES, DOOR PRIZE Fund happy with donation The Kootenay Wildlife Heritage Fund has expressed its appreciation 10 the members of the Canal Flats Wilderness Association and the Trail Wildlife Association for their recent donations of $1,170 and $2,500 respec- tively “Those of’ us who share the rich CASTLEGAR SAVINGS INSURANCE AGENCIES LTD. Slocon Park 226-7216 / Castlegar 5 Kootenay have much to be grateful for,” said Carmen Purdy, president of the fund. ‘We share a diverse and natural wildlife heritage unique in North American — if not the world.”* The contributions made by the Canal Flats Wilderness Club and the Trail Wildlife Association will be put back into our wildlife resource. The executive and directors of the Kootenay Wildlife Heritage Fund are most appreciative, Purdy said, as wildlife is the benefactor of these fun. ds. “We have an. unequalled oppor- tunity to make our significant wildlife heritage a part of our future here in the Kootenays,"’ Purdy said. Environmental concerns are in the news daily, he said. “People now understand that we are Workshop to be held As a follow-up to the successful Refugee/Refugriado | project which ranat the Langham Centre throughout April_involving most of the regions schools, the Langham Centre has organized a special teachers’ workshop Sponsored by the Secretary of State National Forest Week May 7-13, 1989 for Multiculturalism, the workshop, which takes place Saturday, May 13 and Sunday May 14 in Kaslo, has a province-wide and regional focus. The main ‘issue to be addressed is the in- tegration of multiculturalism into B.C. schools. The underlying theme is a growing awareness of the nature of the multicultural society in B.C, and how children can develop a sénse of this throughout their education, a Langham Cultural Society news release says. The agenda and line-up of special guest speakers includes experts from the Vancouver school board, the Equal Emp! C the 845 Columbia Ave., Castlegar OPEN HOUSE Fri., May 12 and Sat., 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. ENTER THE DRAW FOR A FREE HELICOPTER RIDE! Courtesy of Highland Helicopters ‘B.C. FOREST SERVICE Meet the Forestry Staft Free Coffee & Donuts Several Forestry Displays Various Giveaways for Children and Adults In Celebration of National Forest Week! May 13 10 a.m. -4 p.m. GQ Your: Forests — Your Responsibility Educational Development -Depar- tment of the International Red Cross and regional teachers specializing in multicultural education. Lots. of op- portunity for discussion, debate, han- ds-on workshops, participatory ac- ting-out _workships and audio-visual displays will be offered. negatively disrupting our environment and other species we ‘share this land with, We can make changes and take “positive actions to reduce degradation of our environment, especially here in the Kootenays. We still have time and the opportunity to reduce the impact. In many areas of the world it almost seems too late. Here in the Kooteniays we can and have taken positive steps. The commitment of the above clubs reflects this commitment.’ The Kootenay Wildlife Heritage Fund is now in its ninth year of ac- tivity. The fund has assisted in the acquisition of some 8,181 acres of wildlife habitat, has also enhanced more than 5,500 acres of wildlife lands in'recent years. The Kootenay Wildlife Heritage Fund has also been involved in the translocation of wildlife, some to. build existing herdy, some. to establish new populations. Purday is concerned the land could be lost to the citizens of B.C. as aresult of the sale. Tourism program students attend grad dinner The 12 graduates of the recently completed Selkirk College tourism job entry program underway in Nelson since November 1988 held their grad- uation dinner May 4 at the Heritage Inn . For the past six months, students have been receiving instruction in cooking, retail sales, bartending and restaurant service which has been rein- forced with on-the-job training within the local tourism/hespitality industry. “Some of the graduates have found work as a result of their training ex- perience, while others have elected to continue —their—studies—within—the Tourism Department,’’ said Laurie Read, coordinator of the college spon- sored job entry project Receiving completion certificates at the dinner ceremony were Sherri Vital, Mike Sikorski, Jason Kreuzer, Aimee Van. Pelt, Raymond Christie, Tom Graeper, Verne Warner, Julie Scott, Pepi Tretiak, Barney Carmen, Gina Pickard, and David Sheremeto. All graduates are Nelson residents except Kreuzer, whois from Salmo. Also in attendance to congratulate the graduates and present certificates were program instructors Lorie Langford, Merle Maerz, Carol Erickson and Read. Louise Sjoquist, developmental program ‘officer with Canada Employment and Im- migration _in_Kelowna,-who_ oversees the Canadian Jobs Strategy operations, was also present of offer congratulations to the graduates. Executive elected at association meeting The Castlegar chapter of the Lear- ning Disabilities Association of B.C. held its annual general meeting on Wednesday, May 3 at Kinnaird elementary school Executive installed for the coming year were Bernice Beckstead — president; Marie Phillips and Sue Popoff — vice-presidents; Elaine Audet — Secretary; Faye Rodgers — tteasurer; Kathy Seville, Pat Foodikoff and Peter Popoff — direc tors. Existing committees remained the same and the past executive was - By joining the extensive Interac® network of automated banking machines, we can offer more people more 24 hour banking convenience than ever before. Now custom- ers of banks and trust companies belonging to the Interac ABM network can use our machines to get at their money. That also means that Kootenay Savings members can use their [KS] cardsin bank machines all over Kootenay Savings Where You Belong Trails Fruitvale « Castlegar «Salmo South Slocan + Nakusp * New Denver « Waneta Plaza ‘Kaslo Trade Mark of Interae Iné. Kootenay Savings Credit Union authorized user ofthe Trad® Mark Now, 24 hour convenience for everyone. Yes, even bank customers. North America to get quick cash Here in the Kootenays, we have two machines open 7 days a week for your convenience; one in Trail and the other in Castlegar. And thanks to the Interac and Exchange networks, we have thousands of machines you can use throughout the continent Now that’s convenience. ||! you can bank on \ thanked for a job well done. Minutes of the previous meeting and the Chapter’s annual report were cir- culated. The financial statement was presented by the treasurer and a provisional budget was approved Guest speaker Terry Rogers gave an overview of his new position as district principal of special services in the Castlegar school district effective July 1. He introduced a list of his duties and responsibilities followed by an open discussion period answering members questions and concerns. Retiring student assessment officer, John Landis, will be presented by the chapter executive with a logo pin and the group’s best wishes. Closing announcements included information sent from the parent representatives on the school board's Education Forum and the Com- munications and Planning Commit- tee, The chapter received a donation from member Evelyn Voykin and a book list compiled by librarian Judy Wearmouth, of books on learning disabilities available at the Castlegar library The next meeting is scheduled for June at Twin Rivers elementary school. Check first: B.C. Tel B. C. Tel advises residents to check overhead for telephone wires or cables before burning any cuttings or rub- bish. “‘Heat carries a great distance above a fire-and-will- damage cable in a very short time,’ Ed Clark, the company’s public affairs manager for the Colum- bia area of operation, says in a news release. “The same goes for telephone poles, many of which have been known to go up in smoke along with spring grass fires. That's because telephone poles are treated with a preservative which is very flammable.” Clark says that any damage caused by carelessly lit fires can mean the loss of telephone service to many people. “‘And it can also mean very expen- sive repair bills for those responsible, especially when fibre optics cable is damaged," he says. “It can be quite serious, especially when telephone service is affected where serious outages occur, therefore, it is advisable that anyone planning to burn any cuttings or rub- bish, looks before lighting the fire.”’ Clark also reminds contractors or anyone planning any type of ex- cavation to phone ‘‘611"" to find out where B.C. Tel’s underground cable is located. Vigil set for May 14 The Rossland-Trail Right to Life Society is holding its annual prayer vigil on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 14 The vigil will begin a 2 p.m. outside the Trail Regional Hospital and will be Hospital, a news release from the society says. The abortion rate rose dramatically in 1988, to 49 from }8 abortions in 1987, the release says. The local executive of the society attributes this May 10, 1989 Castlegar News cs Lasers no longer novelties NEW YORK (AP) — Lasers have been the Superman of the elec- tromagnetic spectrum ever since 1960, when Theodore Maiman of. Hughes Aircraft Co, built the first one from a pink ruby As they near their 30th anniversary, lasers have switched from comic-book novelties to necessities that preoccupy the technology giants of the United States, Europe and Japan. Lasers are not only in compact disc players and bar-code scanners at checkout counters, they’ are in the phone system, carrying: long-distance calls over hair-thin glass fibres Now lasers are poised to. take a quantum leap. Tiny devices called quantum lasers herald an era in which lasers will be more central to the technology underlying daily life Experts say quantum lasers and their cousins, quantum transistors, could make possible supercomputers the size of baseballs, and television screens of unparalleled clarity that hang on the wall like a painting. THIS ISFUTURE “Quantum devices are the wave of the future,"’ said David Lang, director of the solid state electronics research lab at AT and J Bell Labs. *‘Almost all ~of the research that goes on involves quantum effects in some way or another."" Tiny devices called quantum lasers herald an era in which tasers will be more central to the technology underlying daily life. Lasers are a “*killer’’ technology Compact discs are killing vinyl recor ds, for example, and nobody uses cop- per any more for long-distance phone lines To repeat a familiar story, the Japanese are putting the American invented killer t6 use more effectively than Americans themselves are. Japan’s dominance of mass-market electronics gives its companies unmat ched expertise in making things small, cheap and reliable. For example, Japanese companies dominate the market for CD players, which use more lasers than any other product Japan's twin towers of strength in lasers and semiconductors could allow it to build the first computers in which chips are connected by quantum laser beams instead of electricity. That worries companies like IBM, which is intensively studying quantum-well lasers and quantum-well transistors. PART FROMCD AtAT and T Bell Laboratpries, one of the foremost laser research centres in the United States, Alan Huang is hoping to leapfrog the Japanese. But he admits the competition is tough For an early model of his computer" he had to use a diode laser We-took-from a Japanese-made-CD player : A laser is a directed needle of light purified to one particular color ~or wavelength. In contrast, ordinary light is a jumble of many wavelengths flying inallGirections “Laser’’ stands for light am plification by stimulated emission of radiation. In a cascading effect, photons of light strike an energized material and stimulate the release of more photons in a synchronized pat ‘optical tern The most powerful lasers, big enough for someone to walk inside, are being used to attempt to fuse the nuclei of atoms in flashes of energy a million times more intense than a nuclear blast. Sustained nuclear fusion could be a source of clean, plentiful and cheap electricity A her-end-of the-scale_ase tumors and eliminating cataracts Today, lasers snaked into the body on optical fibre clean arteries and destroy urinary-tract stones. Lasers are used to make pinholes in the nipples of baby bottles, study com would most likely be mounted in space Quantum-well lasers fill only one sion efficiency, president and chief exectutive Donald Scifres said. USEIN MEDICINE Optical surgeons have used laser sin- ce 1970 to weld detached retinas. Later came other medical uses like excising ponents of car exhaust and form the three-dimensional holograms used on credit cards, The U.S, military has ‘’Suar Wars’’ designs for free-electron lasers and powerful X-ray lasers. Laser weapons niche, but dn important one. Their speed and efficiency makes them ideal for rapid-fire communication, initially for long-distance calls, later for links between neighboring com- puters and eventually for the links between chips in computers, said Robert Melcher, alaser expert for 1BM in Zurich Canada Post Corporation ‘Tulameen Trading Post customer products and services through a Retail Postal Outlet. on weekends and in the evenings. 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Confining so many electrons and their receptors (‘*holes’’) to a tiny space makes it easier to get a cascade of photons going, , creating laser light Ifa laser the size of a salt crystal were blown up to the: size of the World Trade Centre in New York, a quantum well would be about the thickness of a rug in an office, said Michael Eten berg, director of the optoelectronics research lab at the David Sarnoff Research Centre in Princeton, N.J Quantum lasers are more precise and require less current, and their ef ficiency in converting electricity to light is unmatched, Spectra Diode Physics of San Jose, Calif., recently produced 76 watts of continuous wave power from a quan tum laser, a record in power conver- the benefits of a Retail Postal Outlet. We’re in rural Canada to stay. In the next few years, the number of retail outlets in rural Canada will grow by 40 percent. Every week, more and more rural Canadians are enjoying Canada Post Corporation is delivering on its promise. 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