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/ Doug Pringle /

CANADA LOVES SUPERTRAMP! And how!! There
was a statistic fiying around during Supertramp's Cana-

dian tour that

ey had played to as many

ple in

peo
Canada on a 17-day tour as they had to on a 50-day tour of

S. The:

cit

Dougie Thompson, Bob

tip of the hat goes to the unofficial sixth band

the U.: y played to over 100,00 people in Toronto at
Exhibition Stadium and had
Montreal’s Jarry Park. Those were only two of the
every across the country ha
ory...sold to the rafters. If you caught one of the shows
'm sure you'll agree Supertramp offers one of the most
professionally-staged and entertaining concert evenings
f any rock act on tour these days, Besides thanking the
Supertramp lads — Rodger Hodgson, Rick Davies;
C. Benberg and the ever enter-
aining John Anthony Helllwell for those magic nights, a

(wo sellout concerts at

id the same

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, August 23, 1979

pia UEA we

Issues warning on options |

The Real Estate Council
of British. Columbia is con-
cerned that property owners
may be harmed by entering
into options for the sale of
their property where only a
token consideration, as little
as $1 is given.

The council's concern is
that the practice, which is
legal, can cause the owner to

Russell Pode, who consistently provided the sound that is

unequalled on the rock circult today. During the eastern

leg of the Canadian tour, Henry Champ of the CTV news

affairs program W5 travelled with the band to put

together an upcoming W5 segment to profile Super-
amp.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Look out for the new
band recently formed by ex-Streertheart guitarist Paul
Pean. If the band's demo tapes are anything to go by,
another musical monster is about to emerge. The band
is In goood hands, too, being managed by Lou Blair, who
manages tie Refinery Club in Calgary and has been
involved in various areas of the ‘biz, and Bruce Allen, the
man who put Bachman-Turner Overdrive on the map and
who currently manages Prism. Also in the band is Mike
Reno, the former vocalist for Hammersmith and Moxy.

. Jun
= that day
= talent lin

utside,

and

an and
Rickie Lee Jones
Street Band were

GOOD AS GOLD: Realizing that Dr. John’s music is as.
good as gold, an enterprising Los Angeles thief ransacked

his car and made off

that Dr. John was recordin
LP. The thief struck in the minute it took Dr. John to run

into_a local

with the charts to several tunes

for his upcoming Horizon

hotel to pick up veteran guitarist Hugh

McCracken for the recording session.

Operates business
information centre

Released by

Trail Chamber of Commerce

The Trail Chamber of
Commerce is operating a
Business Information Centre
at its new office location of
1000 Rossland Ave. (across
from Terra Nova). :

This program was imple-
mented by the ministry of

economic development to.

provide information for peo-
ple planning to establish a
business and to help them
overcome some of the pit:
falls.

Local chambers of com-
merce have been given the
opportunity of implementing
the service. :

There is a wide-range of

informational material on
hand in the chamber office
for the benefit of the business
community. .
Owners, managers, and
those planning to start a
small business can learn how

“to get government grants,

data,

The business informa-
tion officer in Trail is Mrs. J.
Turner, who is managing the
local office. All enquiries are
handled with the strictest of
confidence.

eo)

CRESCENT
VALLEY
ESTATES

Twoacre estates in a

setting overlooking the
Slocan River, just minutes
from downtown Netson.

A varlaty of wooded or

counselling, management
training, “how to‘ books,
business loans and oper-
ating tips.

The

Trail Chamber

urges the public to drop in

and make use of this service.
Enquiries will be channeled
to the person or persons with
expertise in a particular field
where further information
may be obtained.

Opening Soon
mmeJean Team

estates
at the base of the Slocan
Valley.

For more information,

contact your locat realtor in
Nelson, Gastleggr or Trail.

CRESCENT VALLEY
ESTATES

designed by
ECOLOGICALTD.
$67 Spon

ne Street, Teall... VIRIWT

y,

lose ts of
money ina rapidly rising real
estate market because it
effectively takes the prop-
erty off the market for the
duration of the option.

“We hear of situations
where these options are
currently being sought for as
much as six months," a coun-
cil spokesman noted. The
practice appears to be grow-
ing in popularity, he added,
which is why the council
feels that the hazards of the’
practice should be drawn to
public attention.

At present, increases of
five to 10 per cent in real
estate prices over short
periods of time are not
uncommon in B.C., the coun-
cil spokesman said.

The spokesman express-
ed the opinion that those

conditions make the option
highly favorable to the
buyer whose interest is to tie
up the property in order to
then make a sale to a third
party at a higher price with

the difference being pocketed
by the intermediary holding

sell on demand so that there
are three serious disadvant-,

the option and not by the: ages to the owner in the

owner, vie
With an option in exist-
ence, the owner is forced to

Creek nroject |

SS PS

dedicated this Friday

The National Second
Century Fund of B.C, will
dedicate Friday its new Red-
fish Creek project in an
on-site ceremony at 10:30
a.m. i

Redfish Creek, about 28
kilometres northeast of Nel-
son on Highway 3A, is one of
only three productive fish
spawning streams left on the
West Arm of Kootenay Lake.
The creek is valued at up to
$1 million to sport fisheries
supporting 30 to 40 per cent
of the West Arm's production
of kokanee or “lake-locked”
sockeye salmon. H

The organization pur-
chased 7.8 acres of land on
the mouth of Redfish Creek
to ensure the creek's contin-

wee

ued existence as a spawning
stream and the B.C, Fish and
Wildlife Branch has leased
the land from the Fund for 99
years for $1.

Redfish Creek is one of
27 projects completed by the
organization to date involv-
ing over 5,000 acres of “ecol-
ogically-important” land in

Bert Hoffmeister, chair-
man of the fund, will be
officially presenting the lease
to the assistant deputy envi-
ronment minister at the
ceremony. Harvey Andru-
sak, regional fisheries biolo-
gist for the branch, will
explain the branch’s plans for
enhancing the creek for fish
production.

option system wnder, rising
market conditions. bi

The Real Estate Council
points out that an owner
offering to sell property
privately can take his prop-
erty off the market at any
time. If a listing agreement
has been entered into with a
real estate agent, the owner
may still refuse to soll even
at the listed price, h

UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
" scHOgi OF SOCIAL WORK

DECENTRALIZED BACHELOR OF
SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM

The B,S.W. program has been approved by’ the
Senate of the University of Victoria for students
who have a BA degree or 2 years’ undergraduate
studies, and a minimum of 2 years’ work experien-
ce in the field of social welfare (volunteer work ex-
perience may quality). ¢

n lized

The program will provide part-time

studies leading to a B.S.W. for students in the in-

terior of B.C, Courses are offered on a part-time

studies format, allowing g an kend

studies, The object of the B.S.W. program is to

prepare general practitioners, who can respond to
ni

he would then be liable to pay
‘the agent a commission, (An
offer below the listed price
can, of course, be refused
without any liability.) With
an option in existence, he
must sell, and at the optior

price. 3

The council also’ noted
that persons endeavoring to

assemble land parcels fre-.,

quently use an cption system
~as a legitimate practice,
although in those circum-
stances owners lly ol

and ina social
systems context,
The following courses are offered:
SOCIAL WORK. 200: An introductor course to
- social welfare in Canada.
SOCIAL WORK 350: Social work and the law
SOCIAL WORK 301: Interpersonal ‘communi-
cation, fy
For further information contact:
Harland Magheson, ° :
_ KELOWNA, B.C.
Phone 762-7237

or write:

tain a reasonable consider-
ation for granting the option.
Owners should of course,
satisfy themselves that the
price under the option re-
flects good market value.

of 5
“School of Social Work,
- 1000 KLO Road,
KELOWNA, B.C.
VIY 4X8

NELSON AND KAMLOOPS Fore:
their résources to contract a-unique fire fighting force, .

bed the fi

- Aerial forest reconnaissance.
- anything but a ple

Brian. Cullum rarely:
starts his morning with a

m fresh cup of coffee,

‘The reason for the sacri-
fice is simple to understand.
Brian spends his days as an
air observer spotting forest
fires from the cockpit of a
twin engine Cessna that's
minus a restroom.

In fact, the only time
Brian or pilot Chris Gibson
earn a respite from their
yeoman service is when the
fire season ends and with it

ea the need for aerial reconnais-

t Regions have pocled

re fi , of

a

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‘egular practice drills.

: roppallers from: Salix Resources. Ltd. Rappeller. Dave
Sidda 3 ~ aati hii,

by ‘rope from a helicopter.to battle spot
The crew, which
is on contract to
ore based In Rev:

includes a spotter and
@ Forest Service until
toke where they con-

The glamor ends
at end of the rope

‘, ©. The Revelstoke air tank-
er base may one day have
bleachers around its peri-

 miéters.

‘\ High fire hazard alerts
escalate air base activity and
the. number of spectators
spellbound by a dramatic
matinee feature.

The free air show is a,
drill by the 12-inan ¢appelling
team of their descent from
helicopter by rope to assault

res _in-the Nelson and
Kamloops f6reat regions. “~~

The team of specialists is
on contract to the forest.
service from Salix Resources

Ltd. until Sept. 16 and have |

already been credited. with
the initial suppression of
more than 50 fires. 5

The staged rehearsals
“have spectacular appeal but
project manager Wil Paliquin

is quick to say, “In actual fire -

conditions, the glamor ends
at the end of the rope.
When needed, three-
man crews, a spotter and two
Ttappelling experts scramble
to an Okanagan Helicopter
and are airlifted to the fire
scene. With them is a 125-
pound fire pack, a utility box
jammed with fire suppres-

 Prongura on the rope. _

sion tools: andsurvival gear
to last two days.

Spotters like Tom Wil-
liamson coordinate airborne
missions from the cockpit and
tell the pilot when, where
and what is about to happen.

The drop, usually from a

easy with the aid of an almost

sance,

Brian has already logged
more, than 200 hours of
spotting. duties reporting

many of the 550 plus fires to *;

date in the Nelson forest
region.

“Many fires,” says Brian,
“can be sighted only from the
alr in areas remote from
lookout coverage or public
viewing. —~
You have to train your
eye to. look for’ traces of
smoke. Thut's complicated by
the availability and the angle
of light.” pote

Brian has been strapped
to his seat long enough to
consider it, “just an airborne
office’, but to a jittery
passenger the job is anything
but routine.

UES Naren
CHRIS GIBSON,
spotter pl:

. Once a fire has been
spotted Chris jockeys the
six-seat plane through a
usual tight gauntlet of moun-
tains and valleys in such a

left, the pilot of a Ce:

contract to the Nelson
forest service makes ‘last minute flight
preparations before he and air observer
Brian Cullum take to the alr. The pair have
logged more than 200 hours in the alr

way to erase any notion of |

the job being a pleasure ride
and a lump in your throat
begins. :

Erma

Bombeck

Did you know ‘that’ for ‘$12.50 you “ean buy a

reallstic-looking, Inflatable, plastic torso of a

place Ina
when not at home?

person to

passenger seat when driving alone or In a chair

I've seen several of these ‘‘allent partners’ that are
being sold for ‘protection for women Ilving afone."’
Save your money. For a few bucks more you can get’

a full-sized model that you

can prop up at the breakfast

-table, watch TV with, or use to fill in at a dinner party.

They're called husbands.

Granted, they're not as believable as the Inflatable

models, but they

t come ina variety of sizes, stay
height of 150 feet.is made preagurized,:and are self-cl
1 don't mean. to. imp!

leaning. i
ly ‘that the ‘Inflatable-men

magical device ‘called a ‘sky manufacturers aren't on the right track. Frankly, there is
genie’. ‘Rope spirals around: still a need for a male presence. | have found that in
the unit enabling rappellers_ making a major purchase like a car or furniture, salemen
will not. pay any attention to you unless a.man Is.along. :
‘(this inspite. of the fact that my husband releases the

to -cantro} their speed . by.
simply applying.or releasing

“Resources intro:

, duced the unique force in

1971, -long enough; says Pali-
guin, to prove its effective
ness, Ba
“The system has other
applications to forest work
such as emergency rescue
and forest management.”
Mica Creek ranger Dunc
Cummings ‘applauds the ef-
forts of the team for helping

the July.1st weekend.
“The rappelling crews

ready to work. Some of the’ .teenager was learning tiow'to ‘drive.
At the end of an hour, the. poor

men worked on more than

ood every time he thinks he Is releasing the emergency -
ep deat Net rey 2 Fete

SRT

wrakes)is <*>:

Single people going-out to dinner will be assured of

getting a table away from
along.

the wall witha mate figure

‘And you don't have to Ilaten'to his whining about

how dancing Is a fad like the hula hoop and mood rings
and will eventually go out of style. i '

They'd be wonderful to play bridge with or sit on the
beach with (they wouldn’t burn), and ona vacation they

would fold to envelope size
your plastic raincoat. .

In your luggage right next to

You could toss ‘em Into a playpen and give tho
childrén a feeling of warmth and security that they have
a Daddy who plays with them, use them for throw pillows
quell some of 86, fires. that for lonely wives who can curl up with them on a winter
threatened his district during gyening by the fire (not too close to the fire), and send
one to his mother on Mother's Day to show her you care. .
a Ww A frlend of mine, being practical, decided to buy an
get into battle spot fires inflatable plastic torso and put it on thepassenger side of
when they are fresh and the car so it would look IIke a licensed ‘driver white her

inflatable was

one fire-a day. That's the reduced to a flat plece of rubber with a slow leak.
Maybe they’re ‘more realistic than we think.

beauty of the system.

a
night!
Set the table with Toscano tonight.
Robust red or delightful white—
it’s a dry, fine quality wine that adds to

every meal, enhances any occasion.
Toscano...surprisingly good!

Ste-Michetle Wines ah

50 YEARS OF FINE WINES

to

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to

Just as your life passes
before you and a wall of rock,
Chris commands the aircraft
into an impossible bank put-
ting the plane into a safe
upright posture and life back
into your lungs.

Brian, a veteran at this
sort of thing remains cucum-
ber cool to say, “I don’t look
at the job as an adventure.
We're up there to do a job.
The important thing is that
Chris and I have a good
working relationship. I have
every confidence in Chris’
ability.”

When smoke is spotted
Brian whips out a portfolio of
grid maps and radios the
sighting to the nearest rang-
er station. Information fed
includes an estimate of the
elevation of the fire, the slope
athe terrain and the type of
Fesmbustible fuel. -

‘He'll also keep tabs on
the availability of water, the
accessibility to the scene
either by boat, road or by air
and list man-made improve-
.ments like hydro lines and
note any tourist activity.

=: He'll also recommend
the use of tanker: action, but

ployment..depentis. 0...

on thé duty officer, the man
who coordinates the - fire
fighting. campaign ‘at. each
ranger station.

asure ride

spotting and reporting many of the 550
plus fires recorded In the Nelson forest
region this year. it's a nerve racking but
necessary job to’ spot those fires that
would otherwise go undetected by
lookout towers,

By the time Brian fini-
shes his dialogue Chris is set
to begin the tricky By pass to
closely inspect the scene. As
if to celebrate the act Brian
throws out enough paper (the

biodegradable kind) to simu-,

late a ticker tape parade. The
paper marks the fire and

minimizes the chance of

duplicate reports.

: The spotter plane ridden
by Brian is one of several
such planes contracted to the
Nelson forest service to
provide the best possible
“eoverage of the region by
supplementing existing look-
out coverage.

Seren ere

‘CASTLEGAR NEWS tiurscay, August 23, 1979

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