B6é CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, August 23, Attive elegantly at partes im a glamorous cape-shawl. Crochet solid yoke, then lacy design of graduated scallops. Use worsted. Pattern 7457 easy-to-follow directions. Soft. flowy tunic and tapered fants with easy-fit elastic walst—a can't-miss combination for summer. Choose long or flared sleeve. Printed Pattern 9486: Misses Sues 8. 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Sze 60-inch, pants | 378 yards. Stroll out this summer in a fucus flettety at the top ine rae eH ie » Sue ia ‘Gust 3?) yatds 45nch fabric ity. Srarborcugh, ® SBS i feshions to Sew (S/S). io 579 Heedlecratt Cata s Gesigner Col ‘etal Quilts. : $1.50 ifts ‘n’ Ornaments. .$1.50 Stitch ‘n’ Patch fulsst25 Easy Needlepoint $1.00 -iastant Gifts... 12 (bust 34) top Iz yards f 47 9408 J 10Yy-20Y, 1979 SAINT stan Paychic reader In Tarot rite problems and Tull ate at birth wath $10,00 to 2633 Eaal pat 8 St., Vancou- ver, ae K 125. Phone bi) 9246, Grooming Boarding and Pet Supplies . _SHASHEEN KENNELS (Rog.) NELSON 352-2164 TOLLA Haynes, Internationally known Rayehic fecturer: and teach- er ewill be. vallable for personal jo regression. For. furth Information Nene 388-5190," 2139 National Ehibition Centre The Children's Art Exhi- bition from China will contin- ue to Aug. 30. a Kootenay History dis- play will be on view all summer at the NEC. _ Silverton Gallery Stuffed and Woven, a textiles show with quilts by Judy Bradford and tapestries by Michael Smith, highlights the Silverton Gallery until Aug. 30. Photos by Ron Wood- ward, packs’ by Forest Folk, pottery and jewelry, also are featured in the last show of the season. Aug. 23 Childgrove plays a con- cert and dance, with tradi- tional rigs, reels and ballads Renaissance, Baroque and Contemporary Folk at the Gray Creek Hall at 9 p.m. _ *# You are invited to list your events and activities in Community Datebook. Send us a note—typewritten or printed—to: Datebook, Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4. Health promotion paying off in fight against VD in B.C. Health Minister Bob McClelland credits his mini- stry's radio advertising cam- paign for an increase in the number of people seeking VD information, advice and treatment, and a consequent reduction in the inci of The minister explained that a toll-free Zenith tele- phone line was installed at VD headquarters ‘in Van- couver. The radio commer- cials encouraged people to phone that number for a Venereal Disease in the province. “There are always cynics who claim that money spent on health promotion and health education is gone with the wind,” said the minister. “They assert that it is almost impossible to prove that this expenditure is worthwhile and effective. “I have just seen the impact of the campaign both on the at our about VD. In February, 1975, when the radio ads first ran, there were 5,632 calls; in March 5,742, The calls dropped to 3,927 in April and 3,516 in May when there were no commercials running. When the commercials were re- sumed in June, July and August the calls again in- creased to 8,207, 6,470, and 7,521 respectively. When the ads were i in S t clinics, and on the number of reported cases of venereal disease. I am pleased to provide some evidence that our efforts here in British Columbia are paying off.” the calls declined and again increased in April and May of this year when advertising resumed. Perhaps the most inter- esting result lies in a compar- ison of the statistics for percentage ‘shifts in gonor- rhea rates in the years 1975 to 1978 in the U.S.A., Canada and British Columbia. In 1975-76, the U.S.A. showed a decline of 152 per cent, Canada an incline of 3.1 per cent, and B.C. a decline of 2.1 per cent. In 1976-77, the U.S.A. had a .98 per cent decline, Canada a 1.5 per cent decline, and B.C. a 1.4 per cent decline. But in 1977-78, the U.S.A. showed a 1.03 per cent incline while Canada showed a 4.5 per cent decline. Contributing to Canada's good showing was the decline’ Not just a watering hole. Almost every day in’ the summer J drop in at The + ‘Oasis, as f think of it. [ know, f know. Nasty- minded readers are already thinking it's some. kind of waterii ing. hole for dry ol Hil conditioned bars that are so dark you can't see a thing for five minutes and have to count your change by the Braille system, Not so. | strongly dislike those joints, Most of them are dark and dirty and stink. They have a few poor, lonely souls who have nowhere else to go, and very often a con- struction gang or a gang, noisy and beer-s com- posal and profane, Sousing it upon athe company's time. Nope. [ avoid those places like the plague. The Oasis is nothing like that. It doesn't have a braying television set, foul-mouthed roisterers and cold-cyed waitresses, It’s just the opposite. True, it is air-conditioned. But not the kind that makes you wish you were wearing a fur coat after five minutes. And true, it is not brightly lighted. But there is enough light to see what you are im- bibing, count your change without using your finger- tips, and read a book or a newspaper, | And that's exactly what [ do there, and why I think of it as The Oasis. It's a charm- ing little place to stop and refresh oneself, to cool out and meditate a bit, and gossip and just plain, sip, before plunging back out in- to the desert of lite. What The Oa provides. for the wandering bedouins who stop there is a little peace and quiet. tt has none-of the plastic jazz of the chain hamburger and submarine joints. But it has a number of the things those places can never offer: charm, friendliness, pood “manners, courtesy, The customers are not made to feel that the manage- ment is doing them a favour by serving them. They are ereeted warmly, they are served quickly and effivient- ly, and they are thanked graciously when they leave, even though they've spent only thirty cents and taken upa seat for half an hour... How many public places to eat and drink are there like that in this country? You could count them without taking your socks off. Sure, we have fancy restaurants in this country where you can pay $50 for a so-so dinner for two, and be patronized by the wine waiter. And we have eleventy-seven. thousand snack bars and lunch bars and grills where everything tastes the same, But we have scarcely any places like The Oasis. It’s not much, physically, Just a half dozen or so tables in the back of a store. Very much like the sort of tearoom you can still find in England, if you get’ off the beaten track. The menu varies tiuie. but there’s a good soup du jour, good coffee and hoi tea, fresh-made sandwiches, and a lot of goodies that are bad- dies for the many little old SALE /” Bill Smiley ¥ of the lady who runs The Qasis, though she does have a beautifut face, figure and walk. In fact, she doesn’t walk, She sashays. * 1 am in fove with a litte place of sanity, sense and . ON USED HARDTOP TENT young ladies who frequent it: home-made pies, butter tarts, niuftins loaded with calories, Part of the fun, for me, is sitting there getting a jolt from my coffee and listening in. “Justa pot of tea, thanks, Well, what are you going to have, Ida? You ware? Well, what kind do you have? Well, maybe just a square of Pincapple cake. And just one butter tart to get started on,"* And half an hour later, those the gentle ladies are walking out with about six hundred calories’ they didn't Each.° Even when The Oasis is busy, there is no sweat. No barking of orders. No getting cross, There's time to laugh and joke with old customers, be pleasant to new ones, and make sure nobody is being neglected. I've watched tourists come in, a little uncasy because they're not used to such in- formality. They tentatively order soup and a sandwich, find them excellent, wind up with a whacking great piece of pie, pay a modest bill, and go out looking as though they couldn’t believe what had happened to them. It’s a place that brings out the decency in people. Seating is limited. The other day, four people walked in and there wasn't a table for four. A young couple, with a babe in arms, offered to move to a table for two that had just been vacated, transferring their food, uten- sils and baby. The new- comers were so shocked they could scarcely say thanks. Very often, The Ticket- Seller is there. He sells tickets Crunchy Baked Pears © 6 pears 1/2 cup water 1 teaspoon Fruit-Fresh ascorbic acid 1/2 cup oatmeal 1/4 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup flour 1/2 teaspoon ginger 3 tablespoons butter.) : 2 tablespoons chopped almonds Cut pears in half and core. Place cut side up in ashallow™ baking dish. Dissolve Fruit- Fresh in water and pour over pears making sure all cut surfaces are moistenend, Mix oatmeal, brown sugar, flour and ginger. Blend in butter until mixture is crumbly. Stir in chopped almonds. Fill Pear centres with crumb mixture. Coyer ‘and bake at 350°F for 15 minutes, Remove cover and bake for another 15 minutes until Pears are tender. Makes 6 servings. need, serenity in this snerensinaly ; ugly svorld TRIUMPH | SPITFIRE CAMPERS 10% Off LIST PRICES MIKE’S RV RANCH CASTLEGAR D. No. 00112A on every lottery you've ever heard of, He loves children and jokes and talks to the little guys in The Oasis. He drinks a.coffee, displays his tickets, usually selling one or two, and hits the street. The Columnist observes. Two teenagers grab a table. The Columnist listens, “So, 1 said to him, not’on your. life.’* Giggtes guess what he says?" gles, And so on. Despite what my wife * thinks, [am not enamoured Phong 952.2029 R.R.No, 1 330A, So, Gig: 965-5741 i THAT'S RIGHT! $1000 OFF ON THE FOLLOWING ADVERTISED CARS AND TRUCKS, PLUS OTHER HUGE SAVINGS ON,,NON- ADVERTISED ITEMS. u 1979 1979 , LEMANS STATION WAGON BUICK CENTURY Stk. Na, 2-4449-0 Stk. No. 6-9236-0 GM LIST $8205.72 GM LIST $8460.25 $ DAYS’ DISCOUNT $1000 $ DAYS' DISCOUNT $1000 cuearance price. $7 205.72 | | cucarance price. $7460.25 1979 PONTIAC CATALINA Stk. No. 1-6100-0 GM LIST $8548. 60 $ DAYS’ DISCOUNT $1000 CLEARANCE PRICE. $7548 -60 1979 PONTIAC STATION WAGON . Stk. No. 1-2545-0 GM UST $9626. 55 ~ §$DAYS' DISCOUNT $1000 CLEARANCE FRICE. $8626.55 1979 PONTIAC PARISIENNE Stk. 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Adventist Releasd Coming from as far away as Takoma Park, Md., and Carson City, Nev., as well as many points in B.C, and Washington, some 70 volun- teers helped Nelson Sev- enth-day Adventists accom- plish a task that would . otherwise have taken years, “It was only {n February of this year, after several years of searching for a suitable site, that the two-acre prop- erty on Granite Road was purchased; and since then it’s been an active time for our small local congregation,” reports Pastor Zinner. Plans. were drawn up . ff and approved by various. committees and government: officials. Excavation was done May 8 and progress was steady until June 17 and 18 > | when dozens of volunteers swarmed in to assist in the . erection of the new Nelson , Seventh-day Adventist Church. On the first day, alone, of the actual “Maranatha Workbee", the four main walls were erected, as well as 60 trusses being made on site. The next day the trusses were.all man handled and put into place on the roof. The third day the roof was put on. And that was the rate of progress—fast. In mid-May one local resident, upon seeing the footings being worked on by small crew of three to four men and then noticing a sign announcing the official open- ing for June 80, was a bit skeptical; but as the Big Day was approaching, he became Assisting Pastor Zinner and the local congregation in the special opening activities While some work still needs completion, the new Seventh-day Adventist Church is func Wall-to- New church ‘realized at Nelson ~ rusting. Reg. $1095. Now .......... 1971 TORINO S.W. Rag. S895.NOW.. 2... eee ee ees cen ec eeee 1973 MONTEGO $4200 aun root. Reg. $2495. Now ..........56 2000 Teall, B.C. | Speedway | Dealer Licence No. S757 LINCOLN 964-2515 Eaulement for. Campors} and Trallers al BEAVER VALLEY CAMPER & TRAILER . 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