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On behalf of the USCC Union of Youth, we
wish to thank the following businesses for
making our 40th annual Union of Youth Festival
such a tremendous success:

Tulips Floral Co., Castlegar; Canada
Sateway, Castlegar; Central Foods, Castlegar;
SuperValu, Castleaird Plaza; Overwaitea Foods,
Nelson; SuperValu, Nelson; Overwaitea Foods,
Grand Forks; SuperValu, Grand Forks, and Can
Par Industries, Grand Forks.

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For the months of May and
June we are offering drop in
fitness classes every Mon-
day, Wednesday and Friday
at 9 a.m. and Monday, Wed-
nesday and Thursday at 7
p-m. Drop by the complex

and maintain your fitness

Tevel.

Probst
passes
away

J. Kevin Probst of Castle-
gar died suddenly at Golden,
B.C. on May 22 at age 28.

Mr. Probst is survived by
his parents; grandparents;
three brothers; one sister of
Lougheed, Alta.; fiancee
Michele Quenneville of Nel
son; and many friends in
Castlegar and Nelson.

Castlegar residents will be the first participants in
an event that has been given top priority by Environment
Canada for the forth: National Week.

At 1:30 p.m. Jane 5 in the Selkirk College

The K

Castlegar gets foru

received this recognition from not only the Regional, but
also the Federal, Industrial and Environmental advisory
boards for grant allocations.

“They saw our objective was:one of having faith to

Forum will kick off its tour of Castlegar, Nelson and

Winlaw, courtesy of the Slocan Valley ‘Watershed

| Alliance which has received the biggest grant in B.C.
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problem-solve with government and industry,
which is our goal, to work together as equals,” Maloney
said.

The alliance is presently at loggerheads with the

Ministry of Forests over the Integrated Watershed
M Creek

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from 7:30 to.9:30 p.m. Aa.
mission is $1 and rentals
$1.50, With your admission,
you get a free, drink.

Summer Games

Horseshoe pitehing play-
offs for the B.©, Summer
Games will be held Sunday at
10:30 a.m. at Kinnaird Park.
There’ will be 14 classes of
play — men’s A, B and C, D
and E; senior men’s A and B;
ladies A, B, C and D; juniors
(age 13-17); boys A and B;
and girls open.

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Here is what some of our recent participants have to say:

Registration Deadline: May 29, 1987
‘ourse Duration: 2 Weeks
Location: Castlegar, B.C
Fee: $110 Payable upon registration

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SMALL BUSINESS . . . IS IT FOR YOU
Immersion Program in Small Business

The operation of o small business 1s simulated in a seminar atmosphere. This 1s 0 highly concentrated 120 hour, two week immer.

Financial Management
Business Management
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The purpose of the course is 10 make prospective business owners fully aware of all aspects of running o small business

Excellent, worth the money. glad | attended and will be putting the intormation to use immediately
‘A real eye opener, well worth the time and cost of the course
Would highly recommend the course to anyone going into business
‘Most comprehensive course and very applicable to my business

This two week Immersion Program 1s scheduled fo run June 15. 26, 1987

For further information or to register contact

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in an open forum, the topics will include
Wholistic Forest Use — the alternatives to existing forest
management; Soil/Water Degradation: existing prob-
lems and solutions; Toxic: Chemicals, Pesticides and
Alternatives — hear about what is scheduled for the
Kootenays; and ‘Creative Solutions to Bio-Regional
Concerns — what you can do about it.

Project organizers Midge Maloney and Ian McCut-
cheon will also videotape the Nelson event with the
intention of pursuing phase two funding to develop. an

'y ilable to schools,
and other environmental groups, and to the general

Until now, all Alliance work has cost members their
own time and money, “working long and hard to educate
ourselves and other Special interest groups, egapee
forestry, on use of our
organizers. “We are grateful to be supported by this
federal government department to put on an event of
such scope.”

In keeping with the stated aim of reaching as
diverse a cross-section of the population as possible, to
encourage public responsibility regarding the current
pressing environmental issues, the four forum presenters
will be on a Shaw Cable channel 10 panel discussion to be
aired repeatedly, starting in Nelson today, in Castlegar

public through video distribution outlets.
Alliance members say they are proud to have

Thursday and in Trail June 3, and continuing until June 7.
Local listings will provide details as to times.

Soviet man arrives in
Canada after 36 years

VERNON (CP) — Love of
homeland must come second
to the desire for freedom, a
travel-weary Danylo Shumuk
said after he arrived at his
new home Monday.

Shumuk flew to Calgary on
Saturday after spending
more than 36 years in Soviet
labor camps and internal
exile. His nephew, Ivan Shu-
muk of Vernon met him and
drove him here Monday.

“Everybody has to sacri
fice something every day in
order to get that they want,”
the 72-year-old Russian dis
sident said through his nep
hew. “Freedom was my main
priority, even over my
homeland.

“I'm happy to be alive and
that the (the Soviet author.
ities) didn’t manage to break
me down. I'm the same man I
was before, I still haye my

spiritual beliefs.”

Shumuk will live here with
Ivan, 67, and his wife Nina,

He left two children in the
Ukraine but says that after
the time he spent in labor
camps and internal exile,
even his children agreed he
would be better off in the
West.

“They want me to die a
free man.”

Shumuk was greeted at his
new home by a dozen Can-
adian Ukranians who gave
him a bouquet of flowers and
sang a traditional Ukrainian
folk song, wishing him many
years to come.

REST FIRST

He said his first impression
of Canada was that he had
never seen such a clean place.
“It feels like I've come to a
completely different world.”

Shumuk said his immedi-
ate plans include rest and

going to church, but he hopes
to meet as many people as
possible in the near future
and then to write his mem-
oirs.

He also wants to meet Ex-
ternal Affairs Minister Joe
Clark to personally thank
Clark for his 10-year cam-
paign to get Soviet officials to
allow Shumuk to emmigrate.

A staunch Communist as a
young man, Shumuk turned
against the Soviet regime af-
ter seeing the devastation in
the Ukraine caused by forced
famines during the Stalinist
period.

A Ukranian resistance fi.
ghter during the Second
World War, Shumuk was
charged with treason in 1945
and sentenced to death. The
sentence was commuted and
he served 1112 years of hard
labor in Siberia.

Notices
on way

Finance and Corporate
Relations Minister Mel Cou-
velier announced that prop-
erty tax notices have been
mailed to approximately
350,000 property owners in
rural areas.

Property tax notices pre-
pared under the Taxation
(Rural Area) Act for prop-
erty owners on land outside
the province's 144 organized
municipalities are usually re-
leased on or before May 31 of
each year. The early mailing
of notices this year allows
taxpayers more time to ar-
range to make payment be-
fore the July 2 deadline.

Notices which cannot be
delivered by Canada Post
will be returned to the Gov-
ernment Agent for the area
in which the property is situ.
ated. Taxpayers who do not
receive their tax notices
should contact their local
Government Agent.

Drinkers invited to attend

By ED JAY
Editor's note: Ed Jay isa
Castlegar resident.

True happiness is hard to
find today, but I honestly say
that many of us in A.A. do
find it when we quit trying to
act as though the world owed
us something.

Instead, I find that I liter.
ally owe my life to A.A. and a
higher power.

So, to any of you who have
a drinking problem and are
still doubtful of what we have
to offer, come on in, the
water is fine!

Even now, after more than
20 years, I still find that the
most important person in

A.A. is the new member who
still reminds me that because
we cannot guarantee sobri-
ety tomorrow, we all wake
each morning on all equal
footing, to try and stay sober
for another day.

That is why I look for the
new person to walk with me
for many more years of hap
piness, along that path of so-
briety, provided for us in the
A.A. program. To those of
you already in A.A. and those
who are yet to come, I be-
lieve the message in the fol
lowing poem is important.

DO YOU BELONG?

Are you an active member,

the kind that would be

missed.

Or are you just content
that

your name is on the list?

Do you attend the meet
ings,

and mingle with the flock,

Or do you stay away and

criticize and knock?

Do you take an active part

to help the work along,

Or are you satisfied to be
the

kind that just belong:

Do you ever go to visit or

call on a member that is
sick.

Or leave the work to just a

few and then call them the
“clique.”

There's quite a program
schedule

that I'm sure you've heard
about.

And we'll appreciate it if
you too,

will come and help us out.

So come to meetings often
and

help with hand and heart,

Don't just be a member,
but take

an active part.

Think this over, you know
right from wrong,

Be an active member and
not just belong.

Telephone number in the
Castlegar area for A.A. is

55-3663.

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IN CHINA

VANCOUVER (CP) — The advertisement wouldn't
be out of place in the back pages of a North American
pulp romance magazine.

There's a side view of a woman's torso, demurely clad
in a, slip, and below it a crude diagram of a cone-shaped
device with a suction pump which is supposed to help
enlarge breasts.

The surprise is that the ad — complete with
accompanying text full of testimonials from satisfied
customers — is from a women's magazine published in
China.

The ad represents the leading edge in sales pitches in
China, where the only advertising a decade ago was word
of mouth, say two University of British Columbia
instructors who have studied marketing in thé country.

The path from Mao's Little Red Book to
bust has been short,
taking even experts by surprise.

TEACH CONSUMERS

The Communist government's drive to modernize
the Chinese economy has unleashed a wave of
consumerism. Advertising, once condemned as a
capitalist tool, has become a socially acceptable way of
educating consumers.

Government regulations introduced in 1982 warn
against rebtedener that makes false claims or is morally
y, but there's no central
control, pee Richard Pollay, a UBC commerce professor

4 jedturen al UBC who shakide Gethons Fessarch terape tate:
China. é

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For instance, newspapers and magazines carried no
before the early 1980s. A ground-
breaking ad for a women’s patent medicine at first simply
showed the item’s box, Tse says.
In a 1983 ad, the box was set against a scenic
ph, By 1984 it had evolved into what any
executive

dominates the ad with a picture of the product tucked in
the corner,
Pollay believes the growing volume of such lifestyles
— which suggest having these

advertising -is-part—
of a better life — is political dynamite. It would be hard to
return to the austere Maoism of the past once
consumerism is entrenched.

“You're on a slippery slope in terms of trying to stop

dominant ad vehicle, but television ownership is
exploding. Upwards of 50 per cent of residents in major
cities have access to TV.

For foreign advertisers, it's a bargain. Industry
statistics show they can pay as little as $4,000 US — a
fraction of typical fees in North America — for a
30-second spot which can reach 300 million péople.

Wei Jiong, completing a masters degree in
commeree at UBC before returning to his native Shangai
to teach marketing at Jiao Tong University, says that
with a shortage of major consumer items, China remains
a sellers’ market.

Many Chinese are still preoccupied with getting
their hands on a TV, any TV. Agonizing over which brand
to buy is a luxury. When they do have a choice, they pick
the brand with the best reputation for service and the
most system, Wei says.

Pollay says businesses exporting to China have been
treading cautiously. Foreign ad agencies recommend
sticking to literal, ig! ward product i
when marketing products in China.

However, China's state-owned advertising houses
are rushing ahead at warp speed, says David Tse, a

Returning to a country where service is spotty and
sometimes non-existent, Wei says his most vivid memory
will be of a TV ad he saw in Canada: a carefree couple
lying on the beach while American Express hustles to
replace their missing traveller's cheques.

“With such kinds of ads in China,” says Wei, “people
will buy your product.”

-CasNews helps

job hunters.

By CasNews Staff

Are you a student looking for a summer job, but
haven't had any luck? The Castlegar News is here to help.

Students 13 to 21 years old seeking full-time and
part-timke summer employment may place a free ad in the
Student Placement section of the CasNews’ Action Ads.

Students may offer their services for full-time or
part-time jobs, such as babysitting, lawn mowing: Redes 9
cutting or house painting. Simply phone the
number 365-2212.

Students should be planning to resume their studies
in the fall to be eligible.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Ottawa pushes too hard

By MARIO POSSAMAI

Hundreds of years stand between Dome Petroleum Ltd.
and the failed bid to set up a foundry in New France, but the
two have more in common than meets the eye, says historian
Michael Bliss.

Both fell victim to a malaise that runs through Canada’s
history — the state stepping into areas where the private
sector feared to tread, explains Bliss, the author of Northern
Enterprise, a history of Canadian business.

“The notion that you can force growth beyond levels
that the private sector thinks will work turns to be wrong,”
the soft-spoken Bliss said in a recent interview.

Take Canada’s first manufacturing facility — built in
1737 in New France to exploit the deposits of soft iron in
bogs near Trois-Rivieres.

Burdened by technical woes and cost overruns, it went
bankrupt in 1741, despite substantial aid from the French
crown.

More recently, the government has mishandled Dome
Petroleum, said Bliss.

TAKEOVER BINGE

In the 1970s and early ‘80s, the Calgary-based oil and
gas giant, bolstered by the Trudeau Liberals’ plans to put a
Canadian stamp on the oil patch, went on a takeover binge
that peaked in 1981 when Dome bought Hudson’s Bay Oil
and Gas for $4 billion.

Then the roof caved in.

Interest rates soared, pushing the costs of financing
those acquisitions through the roof. And oil prices began
declining after rising from about $3 U.S. a barrel in the early
1970s to more than $30 in 1981. They fell to as low as $10 a
barrel in 1986. (Some analysts in the early '80s had predicted
prices of more than $50 a barrel by 1986.)

“The supreme irony of Canada’s national energy
program was that it stimulated Canadian buy-outs of foreign
oil interests at the highest prices of the century,” writes
Bliss. “The greatest beneficiaries were foreign capitalists.”

Dome — with a debt that now totals 6.3 billion — was
left teetering on the edge of bankruptcy before U.S. oil giant
Amoco Corp. of Chicago stepped in to buy it for $5.2 billion.

STILL WEAK

But Dome isn't out of the woods yet. The deal is still
subject to the approval of creditors, shareholders and
federal regulators and the major creditors have expressed
displeasure with the pact.

Bilss says Canadians are too impatient and want a high
standard of living too quickly. If Canadians had bided their
time, they might live in a richer country, he argues.

“We've done so much to (get this) .. .
probably lowered our standard of living by wasting money in
attempts to found enterprises that won't work and promote
development that the country wasn’t ready for.

“We've poured billions into building excessive rail-
ways,” Bliss said in the interview. “We've poured billions
into black holes in energy policy.

“If we hadn't done these things, the model would have
been a country with fewer people today enjoying a higher
standard of living.”

Canada should have followed the example of Scandina-
vian countries, he said.

“The Scandinavians are more socialist (than Canadians),
but the state leaves enterprise largely to the private sector.”

Bliss said he’s not hopeful that Canadian governments
are about to change their ways.

“I have confidence that we're probably an enterprising
people, but I'm not sure that our politicians are ready to
make the hard choices that will really liberate our energies.”

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