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Call Lorne 365 2267 180725 GRASSROOTS GARDENING * Landscaping * Power Raking * Forties * installation Fruit Trees) Weekly lawn mowing or complete yard FREE ESTIMATES. 365-843, together with your neighbour in our FREE Share-A-Ride column. We'll run you ad for 3 issues of charge. Phone our Ac tion Line 365-2212 440/25 Lost HUB cop with brown trim, off 1975 Dodge Dart, Please phone 365:7497 after 6 p.m. 7/27 BRAND new Electrolux vacuum: modet 2106N, serial No. 6068188, 365 6450/365-8199 7 3/26 GNE HUB CAP, red centre with letters PMD. 365-6420, 3 NECKLACE of turquoise beads with silver closure, sentimental value. 399-44 3.26 Notices Zuckerberg Island Heritage Pork — open Tuesday to Thur sday, Saturday ond Sunday. Coltee and ot chocolate, CASTLEGAR™ RAIL STATION — Monday through Friday 1 PREGNANT? NEED HELP?- There are caring people to help you at the CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTRE 354-1199 24 Hour Hotline 577 Baker St. (Upstairs) CHAPEL HOUSE tn? 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We wil run your ad for 3 issues at no charge ttn 76 Found MALE DOG, black with white chest and toes, medium-sized, no collor, Upper Pass Creek area. 365-6362 3/27 MARCH 25 ot Arrow Building Supply Castlegar male cat, black/white with large black spot around one eye was hurt but has recovered. If this is your cat, call Trail 368-3829 3/27 SMALLY fluffy, grey, female cot with white collar. North-end of Robson, near dom. 365-3084 32 FOUND items ore not charged fot. If you've found something phone the Ac tion Ad number 365-2212 anytime during business hours. We'll run the ad 3 issues tree of charge tin 85 Business Oppor. ALLURE NATURAL NAIL and skin care needs sales staff for home Large earning potential 423-4170, call collect 325 Notices RED CROSS ‘Annual General Meeting April 10. 7:30 p.m., United Church, 2224 6th Avenue. Colfee served 2 THE WINNER of the one oz. Sunshi Silver Round in our recent subscriptic drive was MW. Keith Kessler of Sloco WANTED POKER PLAYERS Pastime Club — Upstairs City Centre Square. $10 Buy-in. Table stokes Open 7 p.m. Closed Mon. & Wed. Phone 365-2216 RED BARON COINS. Buying — Selling Located in Lavener Bros. Trait. Best to phone tor an appointment, 368-5828 52.83 For Your Convenience We're OPEN MONDAY Find your name below and good luck! WIN @Eaoucoe TICKETS 1d below. If your name appears, you're the ovincial ticket good for draws for the next fiv ! To pick up your FREE tickets, drop into the Castlegar News office Tuesday or Wednesday until 5 p.m., or phone 365-7266 by 5 p.m. Wednesday to tlaim AUTOMOTIVE es Ud Ave 365-2955 MALONEY PONTIAC BUICK SALES AND SERVICE fs 365-2155 365-3311 KAU TIRE DEPARTMENT STORES FIELOS DEPT. STORE Wests OFT STORE 365-7782 CASTLEGAR PHARMASAVE 128-3 365-7813 365-7266 0 Ave . 365-6385 ve. 365-7702 RESTAURANTS tA Colombes Av 365-7414 GG woooWwoRK 222 102nd, Castle WOODWORKING “9 365-3461 BUILDING SUPPLIES Ae Government Aa 352-6661 NELSO Steno ky 352-3624 TRAVEL AGENCY HENNE TRAVEL V4\p Boy Ave. 368-5595 TRAIL SHOPPING CENTRES oa 368-5202 Watucdeecey Phone 365-5210 rsvricm PROVINCE-WIDE CLASSIFIED $159 $10 DISCOUNT FOR CASH! Call us for details! Classified Ads 365-2212 aere «NN Castlegar News Personal THANK YOU St. Jude for prayers an swered J.C.B 27 ALCOHOLICS anonymous and Al-Anon. Phone 365-3663. s 104/71 Announcements MR. ond MRS. E. BERGER ore pleased to ‘announce the birth of their first gran dchild Yvonne Nicole. March 12 in Calgary. Born to Eriko Berger and Danie! Earhart - 27 MR. ond MRS. T. LANDIS and Mr. and Mrs. S. Como wish to announce the for thcoming marriage of their children Eileen and Mario on June 24, 1989. /27 in Memoriam CANADIAN 3292, Castiega CANCER SOCIETY THE B.C. HEART FOUNDATION accepts help Castlega! in Memoriam IN LOVING memory of Lloyd G. Mon. tgomery, who passed away April 1 1984 T60 $00" Taken tronrus: To heor his voice. To see his smile To sit and talk With him awhile To be togethe In the same old woy. Would be our deorest Wish today Deor Lord forgive Asilent teor ‘A constant wish Thot he were here twas your will And that we know But he was ours And we loved him so. We miss ond love you, @s o husband, father, grandfather and @ triend, And we will for all times to come. With love forever, wife Sandy, Montgomery ond Jollimore Families 2/26 Card of Thanks WOULD like to thank fhe nurses and statt for the wonderful care they gave my father, Doug Kléver, during his stays ot the Castlegar Hospital plies Ltd. and Mary Ann Proctor, and to all our friends and relations who visited and asked about Dad and were so sup: portive of us when he passed away. A special thank you to Dr. Ward for the respect-and the thorough attentive care he always provided for Dad. Sincerely Deanne Picco and family 27 Legals PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT, The Ministry of Environment wildlife branch, will be con ducting prescribed burns in early April at the following locations: Tulip creek and above Scotties’ Marina along lower Arrow Lake; Lost Creek along the south fork of the Salmo river; Grohman Creek southwest of Nelson; and Mcphee Creek south of Thrums. The burns are being carried out by Ministry staff to create additional forage on critical winter range for bighorn sheep, mule deer, whitetailed deer, and elk Weather pérmitting, the prescribed burning will take place between April 1-15 un- der supervision of Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Forests personnel. For fur. ther information phone 354 6333 FOR RENT Office or Retail Space Street-level air-conditioned office or small retail space in Castlegar News (Former Columbia Saws: p Includes general office, private office, storage area. Landlord will do some redecorating. Fax and photocopying service available to tenant. Could also discuss possible phone an swering Apply at CasNews, 197 Columbia Avenue Ask for Burt. Phone 365-7266 HEARING NOTICE Notice is hereby given.that.a. Public Hearing will be held on Tuesday, April 11, 1989 at 6:30 p.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall, 460 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, 8.C., in order to afford all persons who, believe that their interest in property is affected by the following amendments to Zoning Bylaw 160 an oppor- tunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters contained in these amendments BYLAW 520 The iritent of Bylaw 520 is to amend Schedule ‘A’ of City of Castlegar Bylaw 160, being the Zoning Map, to change the zoning designation of Lot 1, Plan 10552, District Lot 181, Kootenay district (901 Tenth Street), and the former portion of 9th_Avenue closed by Bylaw. 468 as shown on Reference Plan 17815 from C3 — Highway Commercial to P} Schools, In- stitutional and Public BYLAW 521 The intent of Bylaw 521 is to amend City of Castlegar Zoning Bylaw 160 by repealing Subsections 17-A-8 and 17-B-8 to permit buildings of wood frame construction in Specialized Industrial (M3 and M4) Zones y Copies of the above bylaws are available for inspection at City Hail during officé. hours, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday; or you may phone 365-7227 for information required BETTY PRICE, City Clerk City of Castlegar network of ABMs. and E XC hange netwec America. 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LOTTERY FEVER Canadians spend $2.7B Editor's note: L i a sin Canada, and it seems almost everyone wins — ernments, hospi cultural programs, even some of the players. But, as the following report indicates, there are some losers in the lottery game — compulsive gamblers and the poor, By JOHN WARD The Canadian Press Lotteries. Those spine-tingling, dream-inducing, pot of-gold-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow everywhere lotteries are Canadians love ‘em, snapping up $2.7 billion worth of lottery tickets in 1986, $600 million more than the charitable donations they claimed on tax returns. Some 40,000 retailers sprinkled across the country from huge'department stores to tiny shopping-mall kiosks — have a soft spot for them too. So dothe provinces, who pocket about 33 cents of every dollar spent on lotteries. No wonder Lotteries are big money. Ranked by sales, Canada’s publicly owned lottery corporations, taken together, dwart such giants as retailer Canadian Tire and.steelmaker Stelco. Yet lotteries have their share of detractors. Critics complain these games of chance are a regressive tax, placing Provincial a heavier burden of low-income Canadians than on those with high incomes, : One thing is clear: From a quiet beginning 20 years ago when they were made legal, lotteries have become a per vasive part of everyday life Small towns. build new arefas with. lottery profits, rural hospitals use lottery cash_to buy equipment,—and community theatre groups are financed from the lottery pot BUSINESSGOOD “It’s a good business,” says Said Aboud, sitting behind the counter of his cramped, musty-smelling little shop ip Ottawa. Retailers like him get a commission of one per cent on the lottery tickets they sell plus a percentage on winning tickets “There are the regulars in every week, sometintes twice,"? Aboud says, pufiching out lottery numbers on a computer terminal — one of 20,000 in a network that links the country’s outlets — or sliding tickets out of the blotter in front of him Mickey King is a keen regular. Standing at a smoke shop counter in Ottawa, his big, square hands dark with the grime of his mechanic's trade, he nimbly shuffles through a sheaf of lottery tickets. “1 won $100 a couple of times and I get $10 every now and then,” he says, double-checking the numbers on the lit tle paper stubs. King is not alone. Virtually every Canadian household has bought_at least one ticket. In 1986, Canadian OTTERY FACTS AND FIGURES Quebec tops in spending Manitoba $108 Saskatchewan $98 Alberta $142 $132 British Columbia $135 Annual lottery sales in Canada $2.7 billion (1986) Prizes: $1.35 billion Average annual _family-expen: diture on lottery tickets: $146 By The Canadian Press Average family expenditure on lotteries, by province (1986) Newfoundland $58 Prince Edward Island $67 Nova Scotia $410 New Brunswick $114 Quebec $187 Ontario $129 households spent an average of $146 on lotteries. By com parison, the average family shells out $132 a year on laun- dry and dry cleaning. QUEBEC AT TOP Quebecers have-the biggest love affair with lotteries. Almost eight in 10 Quebec families buy tickets. And they spent the most —an_average of $187 in 1986. Newfoun: dland families are at the other end of the scale, spending an average of $58 Noteveryone is enamored of lotteries. Critics like Francois Vaillancourt and Julie Grignon, economists at the University of Montreal, complain that lotteries are an unfair type of taxation paid by those least able to support it “The tax associated with lotteries is one of the most regressive taxes levied by the provinces,” they wrote in a tax journal study : People with incomes of $60,000 and more a year spend a lower percentage of their income on lotteries — less than one-quartet of one per cent — than those with smaller in The biggest spenders, in percentage terms, are people with annual incomes of .between $15,000 and ‘$20,000, says Statistics Canada. Seven-tenths of one per cent of their money goes toward lottery tickets “It isn’t any way to fund health and social programs," says Havi Echenberg, executive director of the National Anti-Poverty Organization “You obviously are relying on people's dreams and desperation to fund basic human services."” GAMBLING WORRY The Canadian Federation on Compulsive Gambling also has a complaint The easy availability of lotteries is a trial for people susceptible to the pathological gambling urge, says Tibor Barsony, its executive director ‘Lotteries are not different, as far as the act-of gam- bling is concerned, than horse racing or acasino,"’ Once, lotteries were back-room operations. Irish Sweepstakes tickets were peddled furtively — and the win- but lotterie were gambling and gambling was against the law After the law was changed in 1969, the first big lottery was designed to help pay for the 1976 Montreal Olympics Starting with a $1-million top prize in 1973, it was an immediate hit, raising $230 million for the Games — and $25 million for the provinces THREE NATIONAL Today, there are three national lotteries cial, Super-Loto and Lotto 6/49 games All sorts_of bells and whistles attract players. Some tickets com& wh pre-set numbers. In others, players pick their own nuynbers. There are instant-win games, where players scratch off coatings to find winning symbols. Some comes. ning numbers reported in every newspaper the Provin as well as regional games combir The biggest winners? The provinces, who run the country’s lotteries through the Interprovincial Lottery Corp. and five regional marketing agencies. nstant-win with drawn winning numbers. Average annual family expen: diture on laundry and dry cleaning Chance of winning top prize in Lotto 6/49: one in 14 million Chance of being killed by light ning (1985): one in eight million Chance of drawing a royal flush in poker: one in 650,000 t winners keep the Editor's note: What would you do if you won a big lottery prize? G ona spending spree or tuck it away? Here's how some Canadian lottery winners have handled their tax-free riches. By JOHN WARD The Canadian Press So you finally won that big pot of lostery money. Tax free money. What now? Well, there’s always the temptation to head out ona spree. Some winners have done just that, blowing thousan dsin one long party and ending up flat broke within weeks Take seaman Jim Cohoon, a generous Nova Scotian who won $500,000 in the Provincial lottery in 1984. In barely 11 weeks, Cohoon, now in his late 50s, was down to his last $11 Old shipmates received thousands of dollars in cash and gifts. Winos and prostitutes also benefited from Cohoon’s largesse. In one incident, he passed out $50,000 incash in askid-row park in Toronto. “You don’t regret,” he said at the time. “I mean, it’s gone, and Tdon’thaveit: twoutd have done it differentif t hadn’t been drinking so much."* Or consider the unemployed vagrant in Edmonton who won $100,000 and blew the whole bundle in an outlan: dish three-month spree in 1985. He ended up wandering through the city hoping to find acondominium on which he was sure he’d made a $20,000 down payment. Trouble was, he couldn't remember the seller's name or where the condo was located Even the prospect of a big payoff can result in some unusual behavior. A couple in Pennsylvania sold ‘their house and blew their life savings on lottery tickets, deter mined tc strike it rich. They won dozens of small prizes, but finished with far less than they started with Most winners, though, are more restrained ’ “I gave just under $1 million to family, friends and charities in the first four months,’ said Myrtle Smith, a retired Vancouver elementary school teacher who won $2.2 million in 1986 Smith, a widow for 11 years when she hit the jackpot, put most of the rest of her money into government treasury bills and bonds. There’s always travel, of course, that dream vacation Anne Chaplin and ‘her husband toured Europe and England after winning $233,000.in Lotto 6/49 Earl Hamm and his son Robert split $1 million two years ago; They paid off $100,000 in business and-personal debts and used a chink of the winnings to expand their bird-breeding and supply business in Victoria i Everybody probably has extravagant fantasies of how The provinces pay Ottawa $24 milliona year, adjusted according to the rate of inflation, and keep the rest — about $900 million a year after expenses Some provinces earmark lottery money for specific causes — sports and recreation, cultural activities, medical research and the like, Other simply plunk the proceeds into the general revenue pot In Ontario, for example, money from the three national lotteries is used for such areas as health and en vironmental research. Money from Ontario-only games goes for culture, recreation and fitness projects Even fans of baseball's Blue Jays benefit: $30 million in-lottery profits is helping put a retractable dome on Toronto's new stadium . FEWBIG WINNERS Lotteries are a long shot. Most ef the prize money dribbles out in $5 and $10 prizes, although about 100 prizes of a million or more are won each year. The winnings are not taxed- The odds against winning the jackpot in the popular Lotto 6/49 are about 14 million to one: But as atmost every lottery player says, in explaining the latest ticket purchase “Somebody's got to win."” In January 1984, Stuart and Lillian Kelly picked up a Lotto 6/49 cheque for $13,830,588 jackpot in Canadian lottery history people shareda $14,206,841 pot The people who pick up multimillion-dollar ¢ and saunter off into the sunset tend to use their money wisely the largest unshared Last spring, four heques Surveys show that most major prize winners may pay off the mortgage, buy anew car or take one wild trip — one 80-year-old woman spent part of her winnings to fly the Concorde to Britain to visit relatives — and then invest the rest to spend a huge lottery prize. The reality, however, is much more mundane Lottery corporation surveys show that eight out of 10 winners of big money — about 100 prizes of $1 million or more are won each year in Canadian lotteries — don't go or wild sprees. Instead, they tend to pay off the mortgage, maybe take a dream vacation and buy a new car or truck. The rest of the money gets invested ‘lL would have done it different if | hadn't been drinking so much.’ — Jim Cohoon, who spent $500,000 in 11 weeks More than two-thirds of these new millionaires even keep working “Of course some of them tend to be close to retirement anyway,"’ said Annette Corp. For example, Stuart and Lillian Kelly of Brantford. Ont., who won the largest unshared prize in Canadian lot tery history in 1984 — $13.9 million — invested their win. Taylor of the Ontario Lottery BOOST TO BUSINESS . . . retailers large-and small are benefitting from sales of lottery tickets on which Canadians spent $2.7 billion in 1986. Th: computer terminals across Canada that spit out 6/49-type ticket: one per cent on ticket sales as well as a share of winning tickets. are approximately 40,000 Retailers collect Two-thirds of million-dollar winners even keep their jobs. While most people take a flyer on a lottery once ina while, some have the psychological makeup that leads to compulsive gambling, a syndrome where they pour money into bettin Sipping coffee in a booth ina steamy cafe, Paul hardly looks the part of a wild-eyed compulsive gambler But the 35-year-old professional, who asked not be iden- heedless of the consequences. tified, admits he has a barely controlled madness within him when it ¢ome to gambling SurveyS show that most major prize winners may pay off the mortgage, buy a new car or take one wild trip... People don’t look at lotteries as gambling, he said, stirring his cup absently. ‘*But when you spend $50 or $60 at acrack on lottery tickets, that’s gambling He’s staying away from wagers these days, helped by friends and Gambler’s Anonymous “Lottery tickets are for sale on every corner and that doesn’t makeit easy There are those who worry that the prevalence of lot- teries is encouraging an addiction to gambling Barsony, of the federation on compulsive gambling, would like to see a warning printed on lottery tickets, telling people of the dangers of compulsive gambling. South of the bordér, the'states of New York and New Jersey require such messages. We also need public education. Many people do not recognize compulsive gambling as a disease ir cool nings with little fanfare. Kelly, a truck driver, died of can cer six months after winning the lottery The surveys also show that most big winners share their jackpots with family, friends or charity and that few have any complaints about being solicited for donations. ““Life pretty much goes on as usual,” said Taylor The lottery coporations usually offer special booklets to winners. They offer advice on how to cope with a win dfall. They describe the various kinds of investments the corporations don't pretend to be financial advisers, though — and most of their suggestions generally available are basic common sense: Take time to plan what to do with the winnings Don’t feel pressured by solicitations. Think carefully about quitting your job The British Célumbia Lottery Corp. also warns that some people have trouble enjoying theit money. **After a lifetime of saving, some people find it hard to start spen ding The most down-to-earth comment about lottery win ners may have come from Guy Simonis; former general manager of the Western Canada Lottery Foundation “If the individual is a rational person, he or she will handle the money rationally. If the person is a fool, there has been no research done that would suggest that winning a large sum of money will make the person smarter.”