ss. __ Castlégar News Janvary 13, 1988 Janvary 13, 1988 $1,000 CHEQUE . The Castlegar Library received a Pat Donohue. John Holden looked on. The money will $1,000 donation from the Castlegar Kiwanis Club be spent on comfortable seating for patrons like John recently. Kiwanis president Pat Haley (standing on Kelly (seated on left) and Jantji Cohen in the left) presented the cheque to library acting chairman magazine section UBC gets project A young person's dream of a shiny new sports car under the Christmas tree came true this year for Rossland student Christine Gilmartin and 40 other UBC marketing students. And this car — a Korean-made Passport Optima — is so new it isn’t even on the market yet. That's where the challenge comes for the students. General Motors has given them the car and invited them to develop a marketing plan for the Canadian market. The UBC students are participating in a North America wide competition involving nine othe? U.S. and Canadian universities. It's the first time in the 13-year history of the competition that Canadian schools have been involved. “I think we'll acquit ourselves well,” said Commerce professor Jim Forbes, who along with Commerce In structor June Francis, will guide the project UBC's competitors on this side of the border are McGill and York universities. On the American side they include the Massachussets Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, New Jersey. If the UBC team places in the top three, the members will be flown to Detroit to make their winning presentation to the president of General Motors in person. The company donates $15,000 to the university of the winning team and $10,000 and $5,000 to the uni. versities of the second and third-place teams re. spectively During the next four m interview consumers, conduct competitors’ products, design an advertising strategy, and develop dealer training and promotion. “It gives students a chance to work hands-on with a real-life product and construct a market strategy from beginning to end,” Forbes said Unfortunately, they have to return the car to General Motors at the project's end. onths, the UBC team will market research, evaluate BRAVERY AWARD Men save crash victim Two B.C. men have re- unable to release his seat ceived medals for their brav- belt. Perchie grabbed a fire ery in rescuing a Christina Lake man from a burning vehicle. The Royal Canadian Hu mane Association Bronze Medals were presented to Fred Perchie of Surrey and Tom Barrett of Osoyoos in a ceremony held at the Nelson RCMP headquarters last Wednesday Two Christina Lake men were driving separate veh icles to Kootenay lake on Oct 15, 1986 when they lost control of their vehicles on black ice and rolled into the ditch and came to rest near each other. One of the vehicles burst into flames. Police report Perchie of CP Express and Garrett of CP Bulk Systems of Vancouver, who were following the two vehicles, witnessed the acci dent and saw one of the vehicles burst into flames. Perchie found the driver of the burning vehicle trapped behind the steering wheel * red or white potatoes Northern Country © frozen concentrate orange juice extinguisher from his truck and while he emptied it to force the flames away from the trapped man, Garrett calmed the driver and in structed him to push himself up to release the tension on the seat belt assembly. The driver was then able to flee the burning vehicle Perchie and Garrett helped the driver away from the burning vehicle and then led the second-driver-to safety Minutes later, the fuel tank of the burning vehicle ex ploded but by then men were at a safe distance Meanwhile, Supt. M.-F. Torresan also presented long service medals to Sgt. War ren Nelson and also Cpl Barry Watson of Nelson, Cpl. Dave Day of Castlegar and Cst. Terry Skarbo of Trail. The long service medal is a Queen's Award for 20 years exemplary service. Staff Sgt. Gary Carlson and Sgt. Laurie Dewitt of Trail were also honored with the Bronze Clasp to com memorate 25 years exemp lary service Poznikoff passes away Annie Poznikoff of Cres. cent Valley passed away Francis Hospital at the age of 8 Funeral service was held Monday and Tuesday at the Crescent Valley Hall with burial in the Krestova Cem etery. Mrs. Poznikoff was born March 15, 1904, at Arran, Sask. 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A former Liberal MP and Speaker of the Commons, she keeps up on current issues. When she does express her views, politicians are often surprised and annoyed. It's frustrating, trying to persuade others that the Governor General can do more than cut ribbons, hang bravery medals around necks and deliver patriotic Canada Day homilies. Sauve is determined to leave the vice-regal job with more “substance” than it had when she was appointed 3‘ years ago. “It needs to have more substance,” she said in an interview, leaning back in a richly upholstered armchair in Rideau Hall, the Governor General's official residence. PLUS... YOU COU WIN A +1,000°° WANETA = aa ° SHOPPING SPREE Entries 25 Auction Bucks Each “Something‘s Happening Here”’ “I have struggled with that since I came in.” SPEECH HEFTY In 1985, organizers of a meeting of a NATO military committee in Banff, Alta., were stunned when she showed up with a 14-page speech under her arm. Recalled Sauve: “They said, ‘It’s not necessary — all we need her for is to say welcome.’ ” She delivered the address anyway, warning them that technological progress should be geared toward peaceful, not military ends. Although she craves job satisfaction, Sauve is still mindful that she cannot be controversial — that she must appear politically neutral on topics such as the Meech Lake constitutional accord, refugees and Canada's role in South Africa. “There seems to be a great acceptance of it,” she says of the accord which brings Quebec into the Constitution with a recognition of its distinct society. “There is a mood of conciliation, which I think is good for the country.” In the time-honored tradition of previous governors general, she selects her words slowly and with care. PROMOTES UNITY Sauve won't say whether that mood will help increase national unity — one of several themes she has chosen to emphasize during her five-year term as Canada's first female Governor General. Prominent members of the Liberal party, which Sauve represented for 12 years as a Quebec MP, are split on the atcord. Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, who named Sauve to her post early in 1984, testified against it at parliamentary hearings. Liberal Leader John Turner and most of his MPs support it with reservations, “You could say this in general,” commented Sauve: “The Meech Lake accord has a lot of things in it. That's what I can’t discuss. But I can observe that the mood of the country is quite good.” Sauve, born in Prud'homme, Sask., 65 years ago, spent 20 years with CBC broadcasting in both French and English, and she has a sense of humor well known on Parliament Hill. Politicians and journalists attending the Ottawa Press Gallery dinner — an off-the-record event. held annually — give her enthusiastic ovations for her incisive, witty speeches. At these dinners, she has delivered her oratians in the form of “letters” to her boss — Queen Elizabeth. One year she had an aide hold up a sign which read “Applause” at appropriate moments. That same year, she aimed humorous barbs at Prime Minister Brian Mulroney for not inviting her to the 1985 Shamrock Summit with President Ronald Reagan. The meeting was held at the Governor General's official summer residence in Quebec City — the Citadel — and ~~ QUEEN'S REPRESENTATIVE She's angry that she'll probably be as the selfish governor general who kicked joggers, dog-walkers and tourists off the official 36-hectare Ottawa estate and slammed the iron gates shut. “That's completely wrong but I guess I will never be able to change that image,” she complained. “I've accepted it. It's wrong.” Gov.-Gen. Jeanne Sauve, who represents the Queen in Canada, says the office needs more substance some saw Mulroney's decision as a downgrading of the vice-regal role. Sauve meets regularly with Mulroney for con. stitutional briefings on government legislation and cabinet orders. But she will not discuss the atmosphere at those meetings. Ask her about the controversy over the gates of Rideau Hall, however, and she has a lot to say. RCMP were worried by the loose security that allowed.local residents to use the estate “as their private playground.” Now the grounds are closed to the general public, but thousands of people can still visit the estate in organized tours with trained guides. “So, you take your lumps,” she said. “I’m very satisfied to know that I did the right thing. If nobody else thinks I did, well, I'm very sorry.” A hand: petite woman with striking white hair, Sauve appears relaxed and in good health these days. Her installation as Governor General in 1984 was delayed by four months because of a respiratory infection that put her in hospital, and she has suffered several bouts of pneumonia since then. Her low voice has a permanent rasp from the breathing tube temporarily inserted down her throat while she was-in hospital. But that hasn't stopped her from delivering some 400 speeches in the past three years. She's made about 100 trips within Canada and aboard, greeted 32 heads of state and political leaders and plays hostess to 100,000 guests each year at Rideau Hall. HAS A SON Visitors Sauve's elegant office are greeted by official phot s of the Queen and Prince Philip. Pope John Paul s om atop the table he shares with a vase of roses grown in the Rideau Hall greenhouses A portrait of Sauve's husband, Maurice, a former Liberal cabinet minister and businessman, sits closer to her green-leather-topped oak desk. They were married in 1948 and have a son, Jean Francois, now 28. The bookcase is filled with Sauve's personal collection of well-worn volumes — Victor Hugo, Moliere and other classics — mostly in French. And the names of Canada's governd?y general, starting with Sir Charles Monck in 1867, gown the carved oak panelling that runs around three office walls. Some of her predecessors may not have approved but Sauve is trying to avoid the “pitfall” of having her speeches sound as if they were written by Pollyanna — the fictional heroine who suffered from terminal optimism. “I accept to a certain degree to do that,” Sauve said, referring to the Christmas cards and 50th wedding anniversary messages she sends out. JOBS FOR YOUNG But what good can she find when she talks on one of her favorite topics — student unemployment? Several speeches on that issue — including a call for business leaders to reduce profits to create jobs for young people — have been greeted with horror by politicians, she said. “Everybody was up in arms except me,” she said. “The people are very happy, it’s the political people who are worried about these things.” Her biggest surprise with her job is how often people ask for her opinion on political issues and how easily politicians and constitutional advisers get their noses out of joint when’she responds with real answers. “The way that you deal with substance is certainly not easy because you cannot be controversial. So you have to think very hard: what are the subjects you can tackle and how can you present them to the people.” Sauve enjoyed her years in active politics — eleeted in 1972 in a Montreal riding, she served eight years as a cabinet minister and four as the first female Commons Speaker. Those years helped groom Sauve for her current role, but she won't go back to politics when her term as Governor General expires in 1989. “Tm not sure that would be good for the office,” she said. “You would appear to have used the office to get yourself better known.” Will she write her memoirs? “Oh my God,” she laughed heartily. “It's a temptation but I try not to succumb to it. I'm not sure that I can be objective and I would hate to write a book that isn’t . . . (There’s) a possibility of writing a book, but not memoirs.” CONSUMERS!’ ASSOCIATION HELPS SENIORS By JUDY CREIGHTON Canadian Press ‘ It galls Emmy Weicz to see older people fall into the clutches of retirement planners who are “often not qualified very intimidating and many feel closed out of the market place.” She cites federal tax reform as a major challenge facing the committee. Finance Minister Michael Wilson's proposals, which include taxing services and long-distance telephone calls and increasing sales tax, will hurt seniors considerably, she said. MONEY TO SPEND In addition, she says the marketplace “has discovered that seniors have a considerable amount of disposable inéome. “I think it is up to the CAC to look at consumer protection as it affects an aging population.” to give advice” and are really selling their own i services. In fact, the Hamilton social worker has numerous concerns about elderly consumers in today’s marketplace where they are too often “vulnerable and unprotected.” So it was with relief that Weicz, 57, saw a resolution adopted by the Consumers’ Association of Canada at a policy convention last June that no decisions of the organization will be against the interests of seniors. “It means that ail resolutions that the CAC makes in the future will consider what it does to an aging population,” says Weicz, former president of the association's Hamilton chapter. The Consumers’ Association of Canada was formed 40 years ago, initially to challenge laws prohibiting the sale of margarine in Canada. It encourages “positive complaining” to promote imp for CONSUMERS AGE “In the past we have been helping young families by dealing with such issues as infant car seats and diaper standards,” Weicz said. “But let's face it, there aren't that many babies any more, but there are a lot of aging consumers out there.” Weicz is chairman pf a special committee set up by the association to deal with concerns of older consumers. She has a rich background in dealing with the aged. She recently set up a specialized counselling service for the elderly and their families in Hamilton, is a former co-ordinator of social work at St. Joseph's Villa, a home for the aged in Dundas, Ont., and she's a founding member of the Hamilton-Wentworth Alzheimers Society. “The world has become so complicated for any con- sumer,” she said. “For older consumers, it certainly becomes ‘For older consumers, it certainly becomes very intimidating and many feel closed out of the marketplace’ She particularly wants to investigate the area of retire- ment financial planning, which “is rampant with unqualified people who most often have a product to‘sell,” such as annuities and mutual funds. Another concern is the move toward home shopping by phone. “This, of course, is a big boon to the elderly who in many instances are housebound, but there should be built-in safe guards.” She's worried about possible abuses in which the elderly could be misled by “fly-by-nighters” selling mediocre goods. IMPROVE DESIGN Another problem that Weicz and her committee want to address is accessibility in the marketplace. “You just have to take a look at the physical environ ment in stores to realize they are not designed for slower, older people with impaired sight. How many stores even have chairs to sit on?” She said some large supermarkets are being equipped with electronic wheelchairs for older or disabled customers. “But older people tell me that such amenities are degrading, they smack of ageism. I think we'll have to sensitize the business world on how to treat the elderly.” HONOLULU (CP) — When Capt. James Cook reached the Hawaiian Islands more than two centuries ago, he discovered a paradise so warm the native peoople had no word for weather. For Canadians facing another season of cold and snow, Hawaii's perfect climate makes it a tempting destination — despite recent weakness in the Canadian dollar and the lure of other, more exotic vacation spots. “I always chuckle when people tell me nobody goes to Hawaii any more because it's so crowded,” says Bert Olivier, manager of the Hawaiian Visitors Bureau in Vancouver. “Obviously somebody's still going.” In fact, more than five million people visited Hawaii last year, about 275,000 of them Canadian, just shy of the 1976 record of 300,000. “The Canadian figure tends to go up and down along with the dollar,” Olivier says. The dollar is still higher than it was a year ago compared with its U.S. counter. part. SERVE ISLANDS Three airlines serve the seven main jslands in the 123-island Hawaiian chain, giving visitors a chance to explore unspoiled areas steeped in history and charm. For the winter season ending in April, two-week packages, including hotel and air fare, start at $800 Cdn with a Vancouver departure. It’s higher from other Canadian cities — from Toronto, for example, it costs about $450 more. Even the isolated island of Niihau is now accessible. A 12-minute helicopter ride from Kauai, Niihau is home to about 200 native Hawaiians. There are no con- i like electricity, ing or on the island, and only Hawaiian is spoken there. Until recently, only a few outsiders had set foot on the island. Even now, tour operators are careful to avoid contact with the residents of the village of Puuwai. “We ask them to let us know where they're going to be so we can stay away from them,” says pilot Tom Mishler. “IL consider this more of a National Geographic-type ition than just a heli trip.” Hawaii sti Il popular While commercial development on the outer tslands is breathing econimic life into areas once dominated by sugar plantations, the state government has moved to protect some areas from exploitation. The tiny island of Lanai, with its first resort due to open before the end of the year, has had restrictions places on the number of permanent residences. Eighty per cent of the 360-square-kilometre island will either be developed for agricultural use or remain untouched. Kauai is another success story. Dotted with private and public botanical gardens, the island also has a state park encompassing scenic Waimea Canyon. Its north shore has broad, empty sweeps of white coral sand dunes and sheer cliffs rising hundreds of metres from the ocean. JUST A TRAIL No highway mars thg beauty of Kauai’s No Pali coast, where only a narrow, clinging trail ventures into the wilderness and even that stops beyond the Kalalau Lookout. The canyons and hidden valleys of Na Pali are so narrow that most remain inaccessible. But wherever vacationers head, the bathtub-warm ocean remains Hawaii's biggest drawing card. Hawaiian beaches are among the world's most beautiful, and with few ptions they remain unshad by highrises. In 1886, a young reporter from the Sacramento Union newspaper tried to explain the intricacies of the “surf-bathing” he'd observed on the beach. The reporter was Mark Twain and he described how people would paddle out with a short board and wait for the right wave to come “whizzing in like a bombshell.” Twain even tried surfing himself. “I got the board placed right, and at the right moment, too,” he wrote, “but missed the connection myself.” In the end, Hawaii w a “Instead of wretched cobblestone, I walked on a firm foundation of coral sand; instead of the combined stenches of slaughter houses, I breathed the balmy fragrance of jasmine.”