AA Castlégar News August 31, 1988 IF YOUR AUTOPLAN EXPIRES THIS MONTH RENEW AT Castlegar Savings Insurance Agencies Te SLOCAN PARK 226-7216 CASTLEGAR 365-3368 Back to School Specials WITH THIS COUPON Nail Tips Y2 Price Offers Expire Sept. 3/'88 WITH THIS COUPON Tanning$ 1 00 3% SCRATCHES le’) ‘n 1 '~ TANLINES No. 2-280 Columbia Ave. Above the City Centre * 365-7700 Stanley Humpries Secondary STUDENTS For students new to the school this year, and students who, due to failures, may require program changes: 1. Counsellors will be available to meet with you on Friday, Sept. 2, 1988 9a.m. to3 p.m. 2. Bring report cards with you to this session. 3. Any program changes should be made on this day. * Remember, school begins on Tuesday, September 6, 1988 at S.H.S.S. —— Police file A 40-year-old man faces assault charges in connection with an early-morning knifing incident Sun- day. Police say two people were taken to Castlegar and District Hospital where they were treated and needed “several stitches to close knife Castlegar RCMP say they attend- ed a “spousal assault” at an undis- closed tlegar residence about 5 a.m. Sunday. As a result of an investigation, Robert Clifford Higgins of no fixed address has been charged with two counts of assault causing bodily harm and two counts of assault with a weapon. ee A Castlegar man suffered minor injuries after the motorcycle he was driving collided with a car Friday morning in Thrums, Robert Lyver was passing a line of traffic on Highway 3A in Thrums on his motorcycle when he struck a vehicle driven by Vera Philipoff of Castlegar, which was making a left turn into a private driveway. Lyver hurt his arm and shoulder in the mishap, which police are still investigating. Damage to the motor- cycle and car were estimated at $1,000 apiece. Charges are pending. B.C. waste information improved KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — British Columbians will get more infor- mation on the 750 companies in the province that have toxic PCBs on their sites, an environmental safety technician said Tuesday. As a result of the PCB fire in St.-Basile-Le-Grand last week, Den- nis Redford said the Environment Ministry would publish an informa- tion package on polychlorinated bi. phenyls. He said the package will make the public more aware of the highly toxic chemical and what the government is doing to prevent similar disasters. Redford said the PCB fire in St. Basil-Le Grand could happen in British Columbia, but he added that the province's special waste regu- lations give residents more protec tion than those in Quebec. PCB storage sites are constantly monitored by ministry officials and private companies are forced to keep their storage sites within the provin cial guidelines, said Redford He said the ministry has identified 750 B.C. companies that have PCBs on site. The province has 270 PCB storage sites and the major PCB storage facilities belong to B.C Hydro, pulp mills and mining companies. Price is just the beginning. 5 Mig. List] Woolco) Sale, Description Price | Price P165/80R13WW | 117.25 |9288 P175/80RI3WW | 130.25 | 102.88 P185/80R13WW | $137 | 107.88 P185/75R14WW 148.75 114.88 | PI9S/75R14WW | 153.25 | 120.88 | P20s/75Ri4ww | 163.50 | 128.88 | $114 | P205/75RISWW | 166.25 | 130.88 | $116 P215/75RISWW | 173.50 | 136.88 | $121 P225/75R1SWW | 179.25 | 140.88 | $125 P235/75R1SWW | $188 | 147.88 | $131 By BILL ANDERSON Canadian Press A raft of new channels will hit Canadian television screens Thursday, creating more choices but ushering in an era of compulsory pay TV for some cable subscribers. Depending on local cable companies, viewers may see channels in English offering weather, religion, family fare, music or sports. In French, viewers may see channels for weather, family fare, music and a mix of material from # consortium of French broadcasters. Cable firms are not obliged to carry any of the new English-language channels — but if they offer a particular channel, they inust deliver it to all subscribers and charge each of them a set fee. An exception is the Family Channel, which will be a regular pay TV channel. With French-language services, cable companies may not choose which services they will offer. If they deliver one, they must deliver all and the consumer pays a set fee. Most consumers will end up paying an extra $1.20 a month for cable, although some could end up paying more when taxes and annual rate increases also take effect Thursday. At a glance, here are the new channels being offered in English to Canada's 6.3 million homes with cable: YTV Schedule: Daily from 6 a.m. to 12 midnight Eastern time. Content: YTV — young people's TV — will look like an independent station for families: lots of off-network reruns of series like The Edison Twins and some new series like YTV Rocks, a music information-entertainment program. Latest television channels costly Commercials: Twelve minutes maximum ar hour, but in the first yéar plans call for only five ads an hour. Number of cable homes at launch: About 6.1 million, Outlook: By providing quick hits of usefu information, WeatherNow may catch on fast. But the dizzy pace makes it fodder for channel zappers and 8 hazard for advertisers. Vision TV Schedule: 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. Eastern. The first three hours of the day are repeated once. Content: One stream of material will aim for » general audience, with talk shows, dramas, music and documentaries about religion, val id human spirituality. A second stream of programming will be produced by individual religious groups and aimed more at their particular followers. Cost to consumér: Two cents a month. Commercials: Maximum six minutes an hour. Number of cable homes at launch: About four million. Outlook: At its best, with regular contributions from the National Film Board, Vision TV might be compelling TV. At its worst, it will be a ghetto of low-budget material with virtually no one watching. the Family Channel Schedule: Daily from 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern and Mountain. Content: About 60 per cent of material will be imported from U.S. pay TV's The Disney Channel About 25 per cent of programs will be produced in Canada. Cost to consumer: $9.95 a month, but only if the consumer chooses to buy it. Priced less in a package with other pay TV channels. Commercials: None. Number of cable homes at launch: Since service is pay TV and new, it is being offered free for the EDITOR'S NOTE: All chi Is will be labl. to Castlegar residents starting tomorrow. YTV will be on channel 14; WeatherNow on 23; Vision TV on 24 and Family Channel on 17. Cost to consumer: 32 cents a month. Commercials: Commercial-free between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Other hours contain a maximum of eight minutes. Number of cable homes at launch: About four million. Outlook: Price is low and programming could be popular, but viewers may still wonder how they ended up paying to see Bonanza. WeatherNow Schedule: 24 hours. Weather broadcasters are live between 5 p.m. and midnight and from 6 a.m. tc 1 p.m. Eastern. Two hours daily are repeats; early-morning hours and mid-afternoon hours are alphanumerics and graphics only. Content: Brief, rapidly changing segments designed to give viewers the full national, regiona and local weather situation within six minutes o/ tuning in. Reports for special interests like agri culture, boating and gardening also appear. Cost to consumer: 22 cents a month. month of September to cable customers who already have another pay TV channel. Customers with basic cable and a converter will receive the channel free from Sept. 25 to Oct. 1. The company wants 220,000 subscribers by the end of the first year. Outlook: Pay TV is often the first thing to go when a family starts watching its budget, but the Disney name is magic and the channel will probably carve out a niche. TWO SWITCH Also on Thursday, two other networks will make their debut to many viewers as basic cable channels. MuchMusic, composed mainly of rock videos, will be “migrating” to basic from pay TV over the course of the next year and will be fed into about three million cable homes on Thursday at a cost of eight cents a month. The network runs non-stop but carries only one live segment from noon to 8 p.m. Eastern daily. The Sports Network, or TSN, will also move to basic from pay TV, one cable company at a time. However, the cost of 82 cents a month has made some cable companies fear a consumer backlash, and only 1.6 million cable homes will have TSN on basic starting Thursday. SPIKE continued from front page Terry Dalton, the lawyer who represented the protest group, said stopping the spraying was a “very important victory.” “It will do much to safeguard the health of all the families in our valleys and both my clients and I are very pleased about that.” Dalton, who deputized all the demonstrators at the Brilliant crossing two weeks ago in order to place the spraying crew under citizens’ arrest, also said he was happy none of the demonstrators were arrested. “The only arrests which were made didn't involve my clients and that, of course, is a great relief to any Wolc Price is just the beginning. lawyer,” he said with a chuckle. “I hope my clients would always be proud to be part of one of the last great posses of the Canadian West.” Dalton said his unusual approach of putting the spray crew and officials under citizens’ arrest was part of his plan to let the officials know just how important the issue is to his clients. He is now hopeful the group's recent victory will lead to more amicable negotiations between the rail company and concerned residents on possible alternatives to spraying the area. “I hope this will form a sound basis for negotiations that will address alternative methods of control (of weed growth along the track line)”, he said. eee == AS ARCA Player's Ley, causing problems REGINA (CP) — You can stop it from seeping into the house, but the problem with radon — a radioactive gas — is knowing it's there in the first place. The gas, produced naturall? in many parts of the country from uran- ium in the ground, can seep into basements through cracks and open- ings in concrete or floor drains. Sometimes it is found in building materials — concrete or drywall. Whether traces of radon in a home can actually cause lung cancer is still in dispute. But Wally Senft isn’t taking chances. The Regina businessman wanted to test his own home for radon levels after reading about the radioactive gas. He bought a home test kit and last November opened Radon Alert Systems to market the kits himself. Since then, Senft has sold more than 150 kits at $40 to $50 each in Regina and southern Saskatchewan. Dr. Michael Moss, a medical pro- fessor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, has estimated radon causes at least 400 lung-cancer deaths a year in Canada. But Roger Eaton, a researcher at the federal health protection branch in Ottawa, said a link between radon and lung cancer is difficult to deter- mine because most cases are caused by cigarette smoking and may be only aggravated by radon. But the department still accepts that about five per cent of all lung cancers may be related to radon. “I consider it something people should be aware of and be educated about,"’ says Cliff Potter, a manager in the mines and pollution branch of the Saskatchewan Department of En- vironment and Public Safety. Al- though much of Canada’s uranium is mined in Saskatchewan, Potter says radon in the home is not a serious concern. Senft disagrees. “People are interested in knowing more about radon. It's frustrating be- cause there is no public information for people."’ Senft’s test kit, a canister con- taining activated charcoal, traps ra- don for seven days. -The price includes the cost of shipping the charcoal sample to a laboratory in Pittsburgh, Penn., where it is check- ed for radon levels. Homeowners with high levels can seal cracks and openings, cover ex- posed dirt in basement cold rooms, storage or drain areas and increase natural ventilation. SOLUTIONS VARY Or for about $3,000, a worried homeowner can install a continuous air system to pump air through the house. Finding areas where radon might be a problem is a relatively new en- deavor, says Dennis Novitsky of the radiation health section in Alberta's Community and Occupational Health Department. “Geology can tell you a certain area of the country may tend to have a problem with radon, but it’s not just the amount of uranium present that determines it — it could be the surrounding rock or soil is particular- ly porous and allows more radon to escape. “It can predict what area of the country to zero in on, but if you're looking at the neighborhood level, geology doesn’t help you much.” Novitsky says some regions of Saskatchewan, including the city of Regina, and northern Ontario are known to have radon gas seepage, and limited testing is being con- ducted in British Columbia (in Cas- tlegar) and elsewhere. Senft acknowledges readings from the kits he sells can vary between neighboring homes of similar con- struction as well as between seasons. For spme reason those taken in summer are 30 per cent lower than those taken in winter. While research into radon con- tinues the federal Health Department and the Atomic Energy Control Board have set an interim guideline of 20 picocuries of radon per litre of air before homeowner action is re- commended. In the United States the Environmental Protection Agency August 31, 1988 SIZZLING b9 SUMMER SAVINGS! RGE EGGS _*1.28 Grade A White. BONELESS UMP ROAST Or Outside Round Roast Cut from Canada Grade A Beet «4.37 California Grown kg. 26° 12° Snow Star ICE CREAM 4 Litre Pail * Assorted Flavours limit 2 with Min. $25 Family Purchase 53.48 yo” BBO. ~ CHICKEN 2'% to 2'/ Ibs. Average Weight Before Cooking 54.99 Labor Day Weekend HOLIDAY HOURS Thursday & Friday 9a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday 9a.m.-6p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. OPEN MONDAY HOLIDAY September 5 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Old Dutch POTATO CHIPS Assorted Varieties. 200 G. 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