CASTLEGAR NEWS REVIEW, March 24

1985

WELL-STOCKED PARTS

AM Ford has variety

If there's one thing that
AM Ford Sales Lid. offers,
it’s variety

The Trail company located
at 2795 Highway Dr. in
Glenmerry provides

e sales and leasing of new
and used Ford vehicles;

servicing, maintenance,
parts and gas;

© a propane depot, and
propane conversions;

ea depot for Ryder Rental
equipment.

AM Ford Sales Ltd. used
to be Lada and Suzuki fran.

chise for the Trail area, but
since December 1984 have
been selling Ford vehicles,
still under the management
of Dan Ashman.

One of the things that
makes AM Ford Sales Ltd. a
good place to visit is the
company's well-stocked parts
department for Ford and
other vehicle makes.

Over the past year, the
shop and parts and service
areas were enlarged, two
more offices were set up, and

the car wash was converted
into a lube, oil and filter shop.

The friendly and courteous
staff, ready to help you with
your automotive needs are:
Dan Ashman, general man.
ager and preident, Shannon
Duetsch, business manager,
Karen Wallgren, accounting,
Dennis Bedin and Dell Ian-
onne, new car sales consul.
tants, Stan Island, used car
sales consultant, Greg Mar-
ken and Kent Almquist in the
parts department, Peter San
dulescu in service, Bill Fer.

DAN ASHMAN

guson and Lloyd Popoff,

hl Castlegar & Area

CARL'S DRUGS =

Castleaird Plaza

For 25 Years

&
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ait seal
y oF Benne,

hanics, Bob Friedrich and
Ken Prentice, service station
attendents, sharing lot duties
with Ron Blair,

Future plans for AM Ford
Sales Ltd. include enlarging
the showroom and the sales
office. And, of course, to have
many happy Ford customers.

The motto at AM Ford
Sales Ltd.: “We service what
we sell”.

Population
around
7,500

Castlegar's population is
estimated to be more than
7,500. The last concrete fig:
ures come from the 1981
federal census which showed
Castlegar with a population
of 7,251

The district population is
15,000 and includes the City
of Castlegar and adjoining
communities of Blueberry
Creek, Brilliant, Thrums,
Pass Creek, Robson, Shore-
acres and Tarrys. The retail
trade area population is
85,000

Interestingly, the largest
ethnic group in Castlegar is
of British origin (5,570), with
those of Russian origin next
(3,655).

ents of German ori
gin are a distant third (72),
while residents of Seandan-
avian origin are fourth (63).

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CFIB HAD
EVENTFUL,
BUSY YEAR

The Canadian Fi of Ind i had
a busy and eventful year in 1984.

Items of interest in the CFIB’s recently released 1984
year-end report include:

In the fall of 1984 the Federation appointed a new
spokesperson for B.C. and the Yukon. Oksana Exell became
Director of Provincial Affairs.

Exell's work in policy development for the provincial
government, combined with research consulting for both
senior levels of government and private sector experience in
the distributive trades, gives her the background to be a
strong advocate for small and medium- sized businesses in
the province.

With the new appointment, the CFIB office was moved
to Vancouver to give the Federation better access to the
members and the media.

There were three major issues in 1984 that the
provincial office was active in:

e banking practices and small business in Western
Canada,

@ taxation and economic development for B.C., and

© improvement of job training for small business.

As a result of complaints from members that banks
were cutting back on commercial lending to small
businesses, the Canadian Federation of Independent
Business carried out a survey in the four western pi

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Another use for the banking practices survey results at
the federal level was to push for action on bankruptcy
legislation. Draft législation’ tabled the spring of 1984
would place some controls on receivers; these proposed
amendments were side-tracked by the election and the
subsequent change of government.

The CFIB will i working for s to
insolvency laws to’ protect the interest of independent
business both as borrowers and as unsecured creditors.

At the provincial level, the survey results were taken to
government to push for increased commercial lending limits
for finance and trust companies, credit unions and co-ops.

The banking survey results were also used to reinforce
our arguments on the importance of incentives to increase
equity investment in small and medium-sized businesses.

Finally, these findings were given to the media to focus
public attention on the problems many businesses are facing
with their financing. The federation also served notice
publicly that it would be repeating its 1982 National Survey
on banking, which included satisfaction ratings for individual
banks.

In the fall of 1984 the Finance Minister Hugh Curtis
undertook a series of hearings around the province to
determine the impact of government tax policies and
practices with a view to making recommendations to the
government for the spring 1985 budget.

The Federation made a submission based on results of a
survey conducted in October 1984.

CFIB members in B.C. had indicated their priorities for
tax decreases as follows: Property taxes on business
premises, corporate income tax, personal income tax, payroll
taxes, social services tax.

The formal submission to Hugh Curtis was built around
these, survey results.

for reducti in other taxes, which have a

The results were truly disturbing. Over one- quarter of
the respondents in the region had seen their lines of credit
reduced, had been required to put up more collateral
coverage, or both. In British Columbia, 29.2 per cent of
respondents had faced lending cutbacks, increased collateral
requirements or both.

The most distressing finding of the survey was that 64.1
per cent of those who experienced restrictions felt their
bank or lending institution had acted unfairly. Detailed
written complaints were received that credit limits had been
reduced with no advance warning causing bounced cheques.

Another frequent grievance was that individual

significant impact on some sectors (i.e. equipment tax) were
also forwarded to the government.

Some of the specific recommendations that the CFIB
made included:

© removal of corporate income tax for small business.
The Federation recommended the introduction of a five-year
tax holiday for Canadian-controlled corporations located in

.C.

© reduction of payroll taxes, especially provincially
regulated WCB premiums. Also a review of how WCB
premiums are calculated, to incorporate incentives for
accident-free companies.

business cir were not idered; in
head office had determined that a certain sector was a bad
risk, and all businesses in that sector were cut back
accordingly.

Although approximately one-third of those affected by
lending cutbacks had no complaints with the way their
financial institutions had treated them, many felt extremely

n of property and business taxes levied by
the municipalities. Provincial government should enter into
partnership with municipalities to encourage the creation of
growth of small business by co-operating in bringing
municipal taxation down through increases in transfer
payments where it is the only alternative.

A major recommendation was the creation of small

angry. Many voiced their that small
businesses in the West were being made to pay for the
banks’ past mistakes in huge energy-related or foreign loans.

Another recurring complaint was of frequent changes of
branch managers and/or lending officers. Far more than in a
previous survey, members indicated that they had changed
lending institutions as a result of this treatment or were
considering doing so.

All financial institutions were advised of the necessity
of examining individual business rather than lumping whole
sectors together.

The survey results were forwarded to the federal
government to support previous submissions on raising the
lending ceiling for foreign chartered banks in Canada. Last
year’s increase was a step in the right direction.

s venture capital corporations (so popular in other
Canadian provinces) to provide an alternate source of equity
financing for small business (see attached brief).

The provincial survey results concerning on-the-job
training for youth were used in submissions to federal and
provincial governments on training. In particular, members’
responses on this subject helped to refute the assertion in a
federal discussion paper that small businesses do not train
workers.

In British Columbia, 67.6 per cent of respondents
currently train young people on the job compared to the
national average of 66.5 per cent

This data, along with the Hard Facts survey results
which showed 170,000 potential jobs unfilled for lack of
suitable workers, is used on many fronts.

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Forest Service continues p

Today's economic ills and the resultant climate of
restraint has led to many a pessimistic outlook for forest
management in our area. Sd eae ee cutainly

difficult

cover removal on snow accumulation and melt. This is the
third season for this research project.
5A stole ea hemn eeoeeenned sBh. ae Meee of

faced with some important and E ine the effects of harvesting on water
Forest Service has to make in achi quality in the Dear Oreak drainage. Results will be used in
the requirements for sound forest management These areas impacts and practices to
are sources for and renewed protect water quality in domestic watersheds.

IN TIMBER MANAGEMENT © The Forest Service also has access to information

being coll by Water Survey of Canada which maintains

©.An opportunity for
has been advertised for southeastern British “Columbia.
Although the location of a new mill has not been specified, a
new or expanded pulping facility would benefit all “
southeastern British Columbia by pr

a stream gauging network in the West Kootenays.
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see if it would be economic to harvest that stand. Because

this system is microcomputer-based, each Forest Distriet

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treated during the 1983 season. Some herbicide

seni! inte lace af preset renin. which severly
limits more labor intensive inventory methods.

Pi Wilip eirdhentatgaricives

. number of seedlings planted in the region has
increased by two million in 1984 over the number planted in
the 1983 season. This increase is part of an on-going plan by
Rarer en 02 Telorect arean os Giey: two MEveREE.

INVENTOR’
e With the acquisition of “GEOMAP,” a
jing system, the forest inventory can eventually

harvesting stands of pulpwood timber and creating a Dotter
market for wood chips from existing mills. Tenders will be
opened July 11, 1985.

e New forest industry opportunities have been created
with the surrender of the forest licences of Westar Timber in
Nelson and, T and H Sawmills in Kaslo.

Three new long-term timber sale licences of 20,000 cubic
metres each will become available in the near future in the
Kootenay Lake Forest District. These licences will be open
to new or existing mills in the area.

Also, an opportunity for a new forest licence has been
advertised for the Nelson area. This new opportunity is
intended to replace Westar’s licence and is conditional upon
the construction of a new mill in the Nelson area. It is

‘The Arrow Forest District has
seen a particularly successfull
small business enterprise
program over the last year'

anticipated that a new facility would bring with it state-of-
the-art technology in manufacturing and waste disposal and
an outlook of long term stability.

e A new forest licence was awarded last year to
Smallwood Enterprises Ltd. in the Salmo area. Operation of
their facturing facility is scheduled to begin during the
summer of 1985.

e The Arrow Forest District has seen a particularly
successful small business enterprise program over the past
year.

e In the Nakusp area, cedar salvage from old logged
areas has contributed to the local economy by creating
approximately 100 jobs in the bush and another 100 jobs in
local mills.

IN FOREST RECREATION

© The Nelson Forest Region has recently acquired the
services of a permanent Landscape Management Coordin-
ator to work with the forest industry and the public. His job
is to make forest harvesting activities more appealing to the
eye.

e A landscape inventory has been completed for all
major hi and r waterways
in the Nelson-Castlegar area. This inventory information
will be analyzed shortly, placing visual quality objectives on
the landscape. The purpose of this is to obtain an under-
standing of the amount of alteration that could possibly
oceur while still maintaining the visual integrity of the
landscape.

e@ The West Kootenay area has seen a doubling of
cross-country ski trails over the past two years. Trail
development has been done in cooperation with local ski
clubs and is in response to local demand for greater
opportunities. The Forest Service estimates that cross-
country skiing user-days have doubled in the past two years.

@ Information on local recreation sites and trails are
ble from any Forest Service office.

IN FIRE PROTECTION

e@ In 1985, the Nelson Forest Region will have 10
automated weather stations in oon in remote locations.
Where information was pi Ib d by
visiting the site, these new stations can be read by a central
computer via radio repeaters. This means that weather
readings for fire planning purposes can be taken and
recorded at any time.

© For the past three years, the region has had the
benefit of an automated lightning detection system.
Detection finders receive signals from lightning strikes and,
through triangulation, automatically pinpoint the location of
each strike and transfer the location to a central computer.
The computer analyzes the data and prints out the pattern of
lightning strikes. This information is particularly useful as it
allows the Forest Service to make the most efficient and
effective use of its aerial patrols by sending aircraft along
specific lightning storm tracks.

© Again this season, a 13-man “rappel” crew will be
stationed in Revelstoke. This is one of two such crews in the
province which fight fire in remote locations by “rappelling”
from helicopters. This crew took action on 71 fires in the
Nelson Region in 1984.

A complement of air tankers will be stationed at the
Castlegar airport again this year to fight forest fires. About
25 per cent of forest fires are fought from the air in the initial
stages while ground crews are travelling to the fire.

@ There were more than 2,500 forest fires in British
Columbia last year. The Nelson Region average is about 475
fires per year. Of these, approximately 56 per cent are
lightning-caused and 45 per cent are man-caused.

@ The forest fire season runs from April 15 to Oct. 15.
Anyone spotting a fire should report it toll-free by dialing
“O” and asking for Zenith 5555.

IN PEST MANAGEMENT

© During 1984, $5 million were allocated to combat more
than 500,000 hectares of bark beetle infestations in British
Columbia. In the Nelson Forest Region where more than
24,000 hectares of mature lodgepole pine and Engelmann
spruce forests are infested with bark beetles, $850,000 was
approved for 38 projects.

Funds for these projects are being used for bark beetle
surveys to priorize infested stands for salvage control
harvesting, road access into infested stands, trap trees, and
felling and burning infested trees. The projects are
scheduled for completion by March 31, 1985.

IN ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

A broad ecological classification has recently been
competed for the Nelson Forest Region. This information
about plant limate inter- provides the
Forest Service with a sound basis for recommending tree
species for reforestation, proposing acceptable site
— and tree stocking levels, alerting managers to

i | hazards and past recom
mendations and their application in the future.

Much work remains to be done and is now beginning in
refining the classification system, mapping selected areas in
more det.i!. and monitoring the effectiveness of the
recommenda | ns being applied.

N\ *YDROLOGY BESEARCH

© Streamflow the West Kootenays is determined
largely by snow accunui. tion and melt. As a result, the
hydrological research section has undertaken studies to
verify the research done elsewhere on the effects of forest

be updated on a daily basis if necessary.

Areas harvested or burned can be identified through a
satellite images which can then be used to update the forest
cover maps via GEOMAP. The inclusion of computerized
terrain models (slope, aspect, elevation) into the forest

60 per cent of harvested areas in the Nelson
Region are planted while the remaining 40 per cent
regenerate naturally.

© The capacity of the seedling nursery at Harrop on the
West Arm of Kootenay Lake has been ii d from five

© Stand tending (controlling the number of trees on a
ite) Sipe NETL ®t ay pretrems wove. the past Sow zeae,
the

million to 7.5 million seedlings per year. Most of Harrop's
increased capacity will be planted in the Nelson Region. The

inventory data, in with ized

will assist foresters at all levels of forest management.
‘The manager could conceivably assign a dollar value to

each stand and using all the associated costs of harvesting,

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Overwaitea

will become for planting in the
1985 and 1986 seasons.

e Brushing and weeding (maintaining sites that have
been planted) has doubled in the region in 1984 over the area

Overwaite

that's a funny name!

A lot of people have made that remark and silently wondered how a store
could arrive at a name like Overwaitea. Is it the name of a man? The name
of a group of people? Do the letters mean something?

Well in fact, it is none of these!

The name goes back to the days of the early B.C. settlers when the general
and the trading post was “a thing of the past.”

food ingredients were stil sold by the keg or sack or barrel .

were sold by the bolt and tea was sold by the measure.

The town pioneers knew of a store where you could always get a handsome
measure for your money and the store also specialized in tea. In fact, you
got over the weight that you actually paid for. In those days this was very
seven days a week for your
money. Also in those days, as we do today, phrases were shortened and in-

important because you toiled long hours,

forefathers of our

Some things haven't changed much because as in the “older
continue to receive an extra measure for your money but not just in tea. We
thought it was a good idea to carry on with the policy lai

" you can

down by the

g low prices in our

bins and on our shelves throught the store. When you actually compare
price, weights and measures, you will find that at Over weight tea (pardon

Most

. yard goods

try us?

stead of the weight in tea and other food stuffs it eventually became known

as Overwaitea.

We all know that our grandmothers were w
enjoyed their cup of tea. Now you know why.

us) Overweightea you always receive a little extra for your money.

women and they certainly

It still may be a funny name to some people and our story may seem a little
far-fetched to you, but it will mean (or save) alot of cents for you. Why not

Just say “Grandma sent me.”

DAVID CRAIG
Asst. Store Manoger

GARRY G. YORGA
Store Monoger

DAN VEZINA

Meo! Monoger

DOUG GIBSON
Produce Monoger

RON WILLIAMS BUD EDGAR
Bokery Monoger Bulk Monoger

Overwaitea: B.C.’s Very Own

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