Page 4A ‘The Castlegar Sun [warms] The search is on By NANCY LINGLEY. Sun Editor ittee ‘mailed ion of two minutes, a two 16 pageant commit letters. of invitation to compete to There's a lot more to holding the position of Miss Castlegar than just a pretty smile at an appropri- . Feeling Blue? ate time : WI Come to Zazco & "It's ‘a part time volunteer posi- tion, which is the honor of repre- ‘senting the City of Castlegar," said organizer Fac Lee, HAVING PROBLEMS WITH YOUR FEET? Consider a One Hour Foot Treatment in the Privacy and Comfort of Your Home. For Appointment i Telephone "Footcare Service” Nurse Alton’s F this week. , Any girl who wishes to com- pete for the title of Miss Castlegar 1991, must submit ber application and resume by’ this Friday. To be eligible the girl must be. 17-years- old by Aug. 1,/1991, but no older than 20-years-old by that date; have completed Grade 10; she must be a Canadian citizen; a per- manent resident of the Castlegar area; single, never married, not living with anyone, have no chil- dren; be in good health, of good moral character and under the care and have the support of a parent or guardian. - The girls who enter the pageant will receive a complete: training minute prepared public specch, ring an and modeling sportswear, after- , noon wear, and an evening gown, At the committee's discretion, Miss Castlegar may go on to com- pete at the Miss Interior Pageant, the stepping stone to the Miss Canada Pageant. _ “And we are always open to invitations for our royalty to - appear in public at all kinds ‘of functions," said Lee. : Qualified candidates receive some funding from their sponsors to help with pageant expenses such as clothing and accessories, ‘The cost to a business or orga- nization to sponsor a candidate is $300, which is tax deductible for a before C Night which will be Friday, May 31, ° during the Sunfest weekend. ‘Training i Flreside Motor Inn Nureo Pr 365-2128 sie $.sttin BH ." , Valentine's Day Special Saturday, February 16 PRIME RIB, SOUP, SALAD BAR, DESERT HOOGEY’S STEAK HOUSE & LOUNGE “FINEST STEAKS FOR OVER 25 YEARS" (509) 446-3901 203 S. Hwy. 6 « Metaline. WA 99152 Banquets, Wedding Ed & Georgia Johnson Receptions, Buffets atc. Owners Attention: Mr. John Jarrett - + Advertising Manager Dear Sir: Re: Our advertising account with your newspaper, the Sun. This letter Is to express my appreciation on the above noted. As you may recall there was a hesitancy to move my advertising account, of five year, from your comp to your Your pursuit for the was Imp You p communications between yourself and this office. - ‘better to note your and 4 public re skin care and make-up sessions, “For that, the girl wears her sponsor's banner at all public func-) tions and keeps the sponsor's name poise and self-imagery, di analysis, posing for cameras, the provincial Super Host program, in the public cye," said Lee, “And the candidate is avail to assist the sponsor with any promotional dance, time eti- quette, and dict and i hed to their basics, “In training a girl can expect to work hard, leam public speaking, leam to read newspapers and keep up to date, how not to say 'um’ all the time, write thank-you letters, meet new people and learn how to handle all kinds of situati a y taking the sponsors and candidates wish- es into consideration, she added. Lee also noted that last year the these young girls are certainly City of Castl pted the responsibility of becoming a major financial backer of the Miss Castlegar pageant. The it is always look- said the current Miss Cast] ing for Tracy Carr. ’ The girls are judged on a talent ; "Individuals who would like to get involved with the shaping of Provincial court report By FRANK ISERNIA Sun staff writer Neil William Lamont appeared in provincial court last Wednesday and pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving under the Motor Vehicle Act. He was fined $400. Two other charges under the MVA were stayed by the prosecu- tion, . with public mischief and breach of probation. He received jail terms of four months and one year of probation and four additional months on the second charge ,to be served concurrently. Douglas Leslic Thompson pleaded guilty to careless driving and was fined $500. ‘ William Curtis Jensen was fined $750 plus a 15 per cent vic- i and ibited from Kevin Barry Salekin pleaded guilty to two charges under the Criminal Code. He was charged You're the Man § ~=Who Fills My Heart with Joy, My Life With Love gRonnie-- tim P driving for 18 months. & Surjit Singh Gill pleaded guilty to acharge of careless driving and “was fined $500. Gill also pleaded “guilty to charges of resisting arrest. He was fined $1500 plus a‘ 15 per cent surcharge. Robert Fredrick Zurrin a plus four months probation for dis- turbing the peace. * Norman Richard Higgens : Happy Val st Day! ; : Love Marcy $ lam pap as p considerably more. Your lay up of the individual property are p put pi 9 for to each property being advertised. Recently, at no additional cost to me, your newspaper, specifically your Ms. Lingley, is now providing a one page weekly editorial “Your Home fs Your Castle,” of a home | would wish to be exposed to the public. 1 commend your extensive coverage of local news. | commend your efforts of blanket deliveries, of your newspaper, to every door in the city of Castlegar and to most outlying areas. Your newspaper Is a good citizen of the community. | hope you will continue to provide this community with the service we are all recelving from you now. \ look forward to a continued client retationship with you. Yours truly, Mr. SENTINEL REALTY LTD. W. Tymofievich Owner Stewing Beef p guilty to a charge of breaking an entering and was banded a one year suspended sen- tence. : THis WEEK'S SPECIAL $2.29 Ib. Water Chesinuts, Taipan, sliced 225g. .......59° each 1 1/2 lb.stewing beef 1/3.c, soy sauce 1 clove gar, minced 42¢, water 1/4c. vegetable oll 2 green peppers, siced STIR FRY TOMATO Beer 1 smaii onion, chopped 6stalks celery, sliced water chestnuts, sliced 1-14 02. can tomato sauce with mushrooms 1 small tomato, chopped 2 tbsp, comstarch Cut beef across grain In thin silces. Combine soy sauce, garlle and water; marinate meat 30 min., then drain and reserve marinade. In large skillet of wok brown meat In oll, Push meat to side, add vegetables and cook until tender crisp. (about 2 min.) Mix marinade with tomato sauce and comstarch, stir Into skillet. Stir until thick. Serve over rice, Prices effective Sunday Feb, 10 - Saturday Feb. 16, 1991 Contnal Foods 2717 Columbia Ave., Caillegar to join our said Lee, "Or anyone can help in other areas such as fundraising.” ~ Anyone who would like to sponsor a Miss Castlegar candi- date for the 1991 pageant, any girl who would like to enter, or anyone who wants to help out is urged to call Lee at 365-2287 or her co- Stacie at 365- TALL. Next week: Reigning royalty Miss Castlegar 1990 Tracy Carr and her princess Treena Baker talk about their experiences since the night they won their crowns. we I can't look. Is it my number ? Legion Bingo Chariman Denny Tucker may have your number in the Casitegar Selkirk Lions Radio Bingo being held in conjunction with CKQR Radio to benefit the Extended Care Bus Fund. Cards, ata cost of $1, are available at Johnny's Grocery in Robson, Macleods, Big O Tires, Central Food Mart, The Book Shop, and the Mohawk. To claim a prize, a winner must telephone CKQR by 4:30 p.m. on the day of the win and present the. card in person to verify by noon the following day. Bingos will be con- firmed on the order that the numbers were drawn. More than one winner on the same number will split the prize. Monday's numbers were: N-44, 0-65, N- 31, G-51, and [-16. On Tuesday I-27, O-74, 0-71, N-33, and N-37 were drawn. ‘SUN STAFF PHOTO / Nancy Lingey RLDWATCH “WEDNESDAY, February 13,1991 _ Israel, Syria unofficially cooperate against PLO ‘The Washington Post . MARJUYUN, Lebanon - Israel ‘and Syria, in a small but potentially ‘significant sideshow to the Persian Gulf War, are effectively, but unof- ing in : ificially, near, the southem town of Jazzin, {The rocket attacks and punishing responses broke a two-year truce in southern. Lebanon between Israel and the 7,000 fighters of the PLO’s Lebanon with the common aim of neutralizing the pro-Iraqi militia fforces of the Palestine Liberation Organization, While refraining from any '‘mili- tary action of its own against Iraq, Israel has carried out its most vig- orous offensive in southern | Lebanon in recent years during the past week, according to Israeli offi- cials, d Responding to rocket attacks on a section of. Lebanon that Israel holds as a “security zone," Israel's army and the local militia it main- tains, the South Lebanon Amy, sheiled Palestinian positions for five days last ‘week, carried out a major air raid and launched a com- bined ground and helicopter assault Fatah based in and \. around the refugee camps at, Tyre and Sidon, Israeli officials charge that Yasser Arafat, who heads the PLO and Fatah, ordered the rocket attacks, which caused no injuries or damage, in an effort to open up a “setond front" on behalf of Iraq in the gulf war. The PLO has denied this, Israel, however, appears to have used the ineffectual barrages of Persian Gulf crisis to-steadily expand its influence in Lebanon, Less than a day after the Israeli offensive against Fatah ended Thursday, seven battalions of the Lebanese army, under the Syrian- BI of. i Elias Hrawi, began deploying southward from Beirut to points north of Israel's self-declared secu- rity.zone. The "zone" is a 325- square-mile strip of land that Israel has held‘along its northem border since withdrawing most of its army from Lebanon in 1985, three years after it invaded. In theory, the.Lebanese army rockets as an opp to deal another political and military blow to Arafat’s PLO at a time when it is already recling from the conse- quences of its tilt toward Baghdad. In this aim, its unlikely, undeclared ally has been Syria, a member of the U.S.-led coalition against Iraq that has taken advantage of the p ‘was part of a plan by Hrawi’s government to assert con- trol over all of the embattled coun- try and displace its many militias this year. But the move to the south appeared to have been hastily arranged after the first rocket aitacks two weeks ago, and it coin- cided with demands from Syrian spokesmen in southem Lebanon that the PLO cease its incipient military activity against Israeli forces, ‘The Lebanese units posted in the south so far, with a total of about 2,500 troops, are as yet no match for the well-armed Palestinian forces, experts said, But Israeli officials said they have already shown surprising assertiveness in their mission to take control of bat- tle-scarred southern Lebanon and halt PLO aciivity, In the four days since being deployed, the Israclis said, the Lebanese have set up checkpoints _ on major roads leading from Pales- tinian camps and other strongholds on the coast, and have disarmed squads of Palestinian fighters in at Jeast two instances. The army also has taken over positions of the pro- Syrian militia Amal, although it’ has not yet challenged the other major force in the area, the pro-Ira- fraqi land mines may contain chemicals, nerve gas Los Angeles Times RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Iraq may have combined two of the most dreaded forms of weaponry to lay a perilous gantlet for foot soldiers readying for a ground attack - land mines armed with deadly chemical weapons. AUS. military official said Monday that mines sown in south- em Kuwait may contain nerve and mustard gases as a way of thwart- ing an allied attack on that front. The official said that the Iragis had laid an estimated half million mines along the Kuwaiti and Iraqi borders. Many of them, he said, may contain not only chemical weapons, but also may be made of hard-to-detect plastics. They may have as little metal as that found in the spring of a ballpoint pen. “We recognize the Iraqis were involved in mine warfare for nine years against the Lranians," said the US. official, who spoke on condi- tion he not be identi "They in the conflict in the 1980s. The use of such chemicals in warfare is banned by international law and has been since World War I, but the Iraqis have consi threat- two battalions of troops, both of which went through a mine field. But the one, not realizing there were mines because there was i ing mortar fire, made it ened to use them against the allies attempting to retake Kuwait. The most common way of deliv- ering the chemical weapons is by air or artillery. The use of chemical mines is but one problem facing allied troops as * they attempt to advance on the Iraqi front lines. The military official said that getting to the Iraqis would involve through quickly; the other battalion took two hours and heavy casual- ties, While much of the technique of traversing a mine field has been around for decades, there are some new wrinkles, including such devices as fuel air explosives. Those bombs, dropped by parachute, deliver a spray of gaso- line over a large area, which is then going th h wire, h berms and other obstacles, includ- ing burning ditches. The Iraqis shave leamed their method of lay- ing obstacles from the Soviets, who believe in a tiered system of defenses. . Tronically, the lineup of obsta~ cles is one of the things U.S. offi- cials believe is causing so few bought large quantities from every- ote in the world Who would:sell them ‘and the mines they have include the most sophisticated they can buy.” .. The official said that the mines could well be armed with the same kind of chemicals used to kill both Iranian troops and Kurdish rebels’ across the line. They have speculated that Iraqi troops simply 2 get thr own deddly't eadly maze.” : The‘ official said that minefields ~ Present such terror to troops that they can slow down a ground assault by hours, as soldiers gin- gerly make their way through the explosives, He gave the example of Grandmother arrested for protesting against Canada's role in war TORONTO, Reuter - A 64- year-old grandmother arrested for squirting blood on a defense con- tractor’s building has gone ‘on a hunger strike to protest Canada’s involvement in the Gulf War, peace activists said Monday. Police have held the woman in a Toronto jail for the past week because she has refused to identi- fy herself. The police call her Jane Doe, but peace activists identified her as Joanne Young. “She’s on a hunger strike while she's in jail because she feels it’s unjust to arrest her when she was peacefully protesting the war,” said Maggie Hellwig, an activist -with Act for Disarmament. The woman was one of 11 peo- ple arrested Feb. 4:after they sprayed human blood on a Litton Systems Canada building. Litton es part of the system for U.S. cruise missiles. Young is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 22, charged with petty trespass and public mischief. h their causing a high-pressure blast that can knock out some types When the allies do go through a mine field, they will probably begin with what is called a mine- clearing line charge, which is a string of explosives fired across a targeted area. That would be followed by heavy equipment moving across the mine field, digging up or deto- nating the explosives, The method of finding mines in some cases might also be as simple as a soldier with a mine detector. "You can’t just use one system to get through a minefield," he said. The official said American troops were prepared for the possi- bility of minefields filled with of mines. The di ge, said the U.S. official, is that the parachute drops can be inaccurate and that not all mines are detonat- ed. Bombs dropped from airplanes can also detonate some mines. But, again, the shrapnel pattem riiay not get them all. Iran will not remain neutral. . 'P But he also said that having to go through such fields offered the worst scenario, The best method of getting past a mine field, he said, was to go around it. “I want to bypass it," he said. “T want to use whatever method I can to bypass the obstacles." if Israel becomes involved NEW YORK, Reuter - Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velay- ati said Monday his country would no longer remain neutral if Israel became directly involved in the Gulf War. Asked by CBS News what Iran's reaction would be if Israel were to become involved, Velayati said: “If any Moslem country is attacked by Israel we cannot remain indifferent.” When asked directly whether Iran would no longer remain neu- tral if Israel were to take an active role, Velayati replied: “Yes, this is our firm position.” Israel has not retaliated against Iraq, which has fired at least 33 missiles in 13 barrages at the Jew- ish state since the beginning of the war Jan. 16. Four people have been killed and 300 wounded in previous attacks by missiles carrying con- ventional warheads. Velayati was asked to explain the discrepancy between Iran’s assertion that 22 Iraqi planes had landed in Iran since the-beginning of the Gulf War and allied asser- tions that 147 planes had landed. “What we have said, that is the correct number. Some of them have tried to cross our borders but they were crushed ... The number of the planes that landed in our country is 22 as I have said.” Velayati restated Iran’s position that the Iraqi planes and their crews would remain in Iran until war’s end, ‘The commander of allied naval operations, U.S. Vice Adm. Stan- ley Arthur, said Friday that French- made Mirage F-1s equipped with ship-killing Exocet missiles were among the first Iraqi planes to flee to Iran. He said they posed a potentially greater threat to ships in the Per- sian Gulf than they did at home, adding that he did not think the Planes had flown to Iraq “just fora vacation.” nian Hezbollah, Local observers said no “Lebanese army force has attempted to exert such authority over the ‘many militias in southem Lebanon since 1975, when the civil war began. Commanders of the South Lebanon Amy (SLA), the 2,500- financed man militia organized and by Israel to police the security zone, express enthusiasm about the development. "The deployment is very good for us, because the mission is to avoid terrorist infiltration into this area," SLA commander Gen. Antoine Lahad told reporters visit- ing here Sunday. "All parties sup- port the deployment of the Lebanese army into the region, except the PLO." : ‘ Israeli officials are more ‘circum-' spect, especially with regard to Syria's long-term intentions’ in the; area. "It’s maybe the beginning of, the test. The test is whether the Lebanese army will be able to pre- vent terrorist activity," said Gen, Yossi Peled, chief of the Isracli army’s northern command. Col. Raanan = Gissin, | an. army spokesman, added: "The Syrians obviously want quiet in their back yard in Lebanon right now. But we don’t know if this is temporary or permanent.” Portable breathalysers up drunk driving tally By Steve Weatherbe (SNS) VICTORIA - Putting hand-held breath testers into the hands of the ordinary patrolmen resulted in 33 Per cent more impaired driving charges being laid last Christmas, and 45 per cent more 24-hour sus- _ Pensions. Jim Rabbit, who as minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs is also in charge of alcohol abuse pro- grams, said last week that the Christ- mas 1990 CounterAttack was the: most effective on record. Police across the province, armed with 200 portable breath testers just provided by the provincial govem- ment, were able to lay 2.8 charges per 1,000 vehicles stopped, up from 2.1 per 1,000 in 1989: in all 931 charges were laid, whenever the alcohol content in the driver’s blood is at .08 per cent or more, Counter Attackers also gave 24- hour suspensions to 2,064 drivers, or 63 per 1,000 vehicles stopped, well up from 4.3 suspensions per 1,000 the Christmas a year earlier. The Labour Ministry’s Ed Wall said that while suspensions were levied on the basis of the portable tester, to those whose alcohol level was close to the legal limit, those whose levels clearly exceeded the limit were sent to police headquar- ters to be tested on the larger, more precise, and legally valid breathal- ysers. More charges and suspensions were being laid, according to Mr. ‘Wall, because people who were slip- ping through the old roadside testing were now getting caught. The old test involved walking a straight line and touching the tip of the nose. “I don't know if that method was all that valid,” said Constable Ross Poulson of the Saanich Police Department. “People have different levels of co-ordination to begin with. And it was pretty dangerous stuff to be doing at the roadside anyway.” Each breath tester costs $1,000. 1991 have been mailed. City Hall, 365-7227. NOTICE ‘To all City of Castlegar water and sewer users Please be advised that all water and sewer billings for If you have not received your billing please contact In order to Peter Ozeroff Deputy Treasurer/Collector your 10% pay must be received at City Hall no later than 4:30 pm Friday, March 1, 1991. February 14 First 50 Gas Customers Will Receive a Camation UNG? TURBO 10/30 5 Lt. Motor Oi! BA? vo, 12% 25 oz. TRIV DOG FOOD Beef or Chicken CASTLEGAR SELKIRK LIONS CLUB. 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