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DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER — CLOSE TO MOST ATTRACTIONS CHATEAU GRANVILLE “A Best Western Hotel” 1100 Granville St., Vancouver, B.C. 669-7070, Fax 669-4928 Health board gets grant By CasNews Staff The Central Kootenay Union Board of Health has received a $15,000 grant from the Ministry of Health toshelp educate and inform local families which may be suffering from social problems such as drug and alcohol abuse. The grant is aimed at developing projects within a community under the ministry's “Strengthening the Family Initiative Program.” “The main thrust of the money is to try to get some sort of information out to the community,” said Evelyn Voykin of Castlegar who will chair a committee which will distribute the funds. Voykin said the committee is looking for suggestions for a “really good project” on which to spend the grant. She suggested as possible projects workshops or counselling seminars designed to get information to fami lies to help them deal with their problems. Joining Voykin on the committee are Castlegar Ald. Patti Richards and Ald. Lawrence Bond of Salmo. Castlegar firma finalist Nu-Tech Construction Ltd. of Castlegar has been selected as a finalist in the B.C. Chamber of Com merce’s awards for best business achievement. Ninety-six B.C. companies entered the contest in one or more of eight different categories. From these entries, five finalists were selected in each of the eight categories based on extensive ques tionnaires sent to the entrants. Nu-Tech Construction Ltd. was selected as a alist in the new venture category, which was open to all companies incorporated after Jan. 1, 1985. Representatives of Nu-Tech at tended an awards banquet in Van. couver Nov. 4 where the awards were presented. Call Toll Free 1-800-663-0575 The two billion young trees planted in British Columbia during the past 50 years are the equivalent of a ribbon of reforestation stretching 3 km deep across the entire length of Canada. This year, British Columbia reforested more than 169,000 hectares with a record 200 million seedlings. That’s two new trees for every one harvested. At this rate, we'll see another two billion seedlings planted a What's green, 3 km wide and stretches from coast to coast? B.C’’s reforestation program, contact your MLA, your nearest Government Agent, or write to the Hon. Dave Parker, Minister of Forests, Parliament Buildings, Victoria V8V 1X4. yupingi tlt GE Together. A Better B.C. in less than 10 years. That’s good news for British Columbia and the more than 82,000 men and women employed in our $13 billion forest products sector, a genuine B.C. growth industry. For more information about NEW YORK (REUTER) — For those who have long harbored a dream adventure — perhaps swimming with a dolphin, driving a racing car or watching a voleanic eruption from a helicopter — a new industry is prepared to cater to such exotic whims. The “fantasy resort” has become a new category of the leisure industry. Involved are about 10 huge hotels that allow guests — for a hefty price — to fulfil their dreams, whether it be a big-game hunter or safari or cowboy at a working cattle ranch. The biggest and the most expensive of these resorts, the $360-million Hyatt Regency Waikoloa, opened in Hawaii in October. The. resort's 25 hectares offer manmade waterfalls and lagoons, wild animals and a choice of monorail or canal travel throughout the property. “As long as it's morally acceptable, we are willing to do anything for you,” Hyatt president Darry! Hartley-Leonard said in an interview. “What we are offering is a therapeutic environment to totally remove you from everyday life.” Guests at the resort spend the equivalent of $235 to $360 Cdn per day for a basic room — the Presidential Suite costs $3,000. The exotic activities are extra CHOOSE FANTASY The resort offers some 40 fantasies that can cost anywhere from $30 for two hours of poolside playtime with dolphins to over $600 for a safari hunting trip. So far, programs with dolphins are proving the most popular, Hartley-Leonard said. Besides the dockside experience in which guests can get the dolphins and play ring toss with them, guests can spend $40 to swim with dolphins and for $210 théy can spend a day with a trainer learning how to teach and communicate with them. Despite the heavy costs of staying at mega-resorts, Hartley-Leonard said they have been generating higher occupancy rates than other resorts — at about 80 to 90 per cent. A travel research firm says resort hotels had an average 68-per-cent occupancy rate in 1987. The Hyatt chain now operates about eight fantasy resorts, said Hartley-Leonard., Locations Fantasy resorts ask hefty price include Scottsdale, Ariz., Palm Springs, Fla., Puerto Rico, Orlando, Fla., and two on Australia's Queensland coast in the gities of Coolum and Southport. He said the Hyatt plans to manage a total of about 15 fantasy properties. BEGAN CONCEPT The leisure industry credits Honolulu developer Christopher Hemmeter, who built the Hyatt Regency Waikoloa, with fathering the fantasy resort concept. His first, the Hyatt Regency Maui, opened in 1980. Since then Hemmeter has built three other mega-resorts that are managed by either Hyatt or the Westin hotel chain and 17 more are planned. Future resorts will be built at Laguna Nigel, Calif., Key Biscayne, Fla., St. Martin in the Caribbean, I n Wells near Palm Springs, and in Australi ‘The whole idea of sitting on a beach with a book for a week is a thing of the past,” Hemmeter said in an interview. “Most people fantasize about riding off at sundown in a horse-drawn carriage with a drink in their hand. We layer experiences one on top of another. It gives us the ability to appeal to a broad spectrum of the travelling public .. . the blue-collar worker to the chairman of the board.” Hemmeter readily admits that a trip to a fantasy resort is extremely expensive. “People save a long time (to take such a vacation). It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience.” COSTLY PROJECTS Hemmeter said the cost of building the new mega-resorts will run, in Canadian dollars, between $600 million and $1.2 billion. Each needs at least 40 hectares of land in highly desirable vacation spots which offer comfortable year-round temperatures. The' properties are also expensive to run — Waikoloa, for example, has some 1,850 employees. But Hemmeter is convinced the fantasy resort is here to stay. “We see a very, very large future. The fantasy resort has totally revolutionized the hotel resort industry. I think existing resorts will have to adapt and become more active environments or become obsolete.” RVs becoming more popular in Canada By JUDY CREIGHTON Canadian Press Humming along to Willie Nelson's On The Road Again, Canadians are hitting the highways and byways in droves of recreational vehicles. Sales of RVs have increased this year by 10 per cent, says Don Mockford of the Canadian Recrea- tional Vehicle Association. Currently, about 750,000 Canadians own RVs. gh the Ti based can’t say how many of those buyers are seniors, Vancouver author says RV travel is becoming an in- creasingly attractive choice for winter-weary retirees seeking the warmth of Florida, Arizona, New Mexico and other southern climates. “Once you take off in your recreation vehicle, nothing will ever be the same again,"’ says Jurgen Hesse, the author of Mobile Retirement Handbook (Self-Counsel Press, $9.95). PROS AND CONS Hesse, a veteran of the nomadic life having traversed Canada from coast to coast since he emi- grated from West Germany in 1958, points out the pros and cons of mobile-home travel. “The pros include independence, high mobility, manageable costs, adventure, accessibility to a full range of activities, travel with many of the comforts of home and opportunities to make new friends,"’ he says. On the other side, Hesse mentions strain on a couple's relationship, boredom and possible lone- liness. **You may wish to try out the RV existence for a while to see if the experience is right for you,’ he suggests. ‘‘Rent an RV, take off, shake down the nuts and bolts, examine your reaction, come back and discuss the ramifications.’ MANY RV SITES Hesse and his artist wife Charmaine have travel led extensively in the southern United States and have found RV settlements scattered throughout. ‘In Yuma, Arizona — out in the desert near the California border — there’s an RV settlement on the site of a former missile base,’’ he said in an inter- view. Many western Canadians — particularly from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba — migrate to the Yuma area each winter. In fact, most like it so much they book a year in advance to be sure they have the same spot to park their vehicle for the winter, Hesse says. Choosing where to camp is one of the most “challenging and gratifying"’ aspects of your mobile retirement years, Hesse says “If you want, you can change your site 365 times a year, or you can stay in one place | as long as the park ranger will allow you to remain. Drinking rises with sa PHOENIX, ARIZ. (AP) — “Wail- ing, lonesome, self-pitying music” in country-western bars makes drink- ers there consume their alcohol faster, a researcher says. And despite laws to the contrary, bartenders continue to serve patrons they believe to be drunk, James Schaefer of the University of Min- nesota told the American Anthropol ogical Association meeting in Phoe- nix. The findings came from a 10-year study by Schaefer and a team of other anthropologists of a bar in Missoula, Mont., a lumber and paper- milling town. The survey was sup- plemented by a study of about 2,000 ‘yroups of up to nine people each in 65 similar saloons in the Minneapolis area over the past three years. Schaefer even wrote a country- western song on the subject, be- ginning: “Joe, don't play that slow country music, “I drink more, and think sore, and sing right along. . .” Schaefer said: “No doubt about it, country and western can be a pres- cription for trouble among people with little self-control.” One reason, he said, is the lyrics: and songs about lost love, personal romantic winter evening? Turn up the lights. light and wintertime blues that Light increases winter romance SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Want a That's right, brighter. There’s a hormonal link between located under the brain to produce a hormone called melatonin, which can plunge a particularly sensitive per- son into depression and shut down his sexual responses. Similarly, the lengthening daylight -++- el AREHOUSE d songs freedom, truck driving and the solace of drinking. The songs and lyrics of Hank Williams, Jimmy Rodgers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Jerry Jeff Walker, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were particularly powerful drinking inducements, Schaefer found. Their songs celebrate heavy drink ing by making heroes out of drunk ards, he added. In contrast, he said, “rock ‘n’ roll singers don't glorify anything or anyone and their music doesn't seem to have the same effect.” Karl Hager Limb & Brace Ltd. Othotic & Prosthetic MONTHLY CLINIC * Foot © Artitical Supports * Orthopedic Shoes * Body &Leg Bracing Bracing Dec. 20 FOR APPOINTMENTS OR INFO CALL KELOWNA Collect 861-1833 Triple $35 NEWTON INN ul Plenty of free over sized Parking 7300 oy George Hwy. % Restaurant, Lounge and Double $32, Quad $40 Colour Cable TV and Air-Conditioning % Meeting Room tor Up to 20. 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But Olympic offi cials expect to get even more money when they award the U.S. broadcast rights to the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona, Spain. “All three networks seem to be interested and enthusiastic,” said Dick Pound of Montreal, a vice president of the International Olym pic Committee. “We still have to see who shows up at the party, but right now we're optimistic.” The party takes place tomorrow in New York when ABC, NBC and CBS submit sealed bids for the Barcelona Games. CBS is considered the front-runner because it already owns the broad. cast rights to the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France. Since the summer site is in a neighboring country, televising both Olympics would make sense logis tically. It would also allow CBS to promote itself as THE Olympic net work in 1992. ABC, which refused to bid for the Albertville Games as a protest against escalating rights fees, is ready to play the game this time. But after losing $75 million in Calgary at the 1988 Winter Olympics, the net work probably will keep its bid on the conservative side. NOTICE the PRICE is The Price of Pop Shoppe Pop IS NOW EVEN LOWER 24 300 mL Bottles Was $7.75 NOW ONLY (= 31¢ Each) 12 850 mL Bottles Was $8.75 NOW ONLY (= 67¢ Each) 49 Per Case. Plus Deposit. 99 Per Case. Plus Deposit STOCK UP FOR CHRISTMAS. 6 FLAVORS OF SELTZER ALSO AVAILABLE AT SAME LOW PRICE! % 4 WITH THIS COUPON SAV E ADDITIONAL $ 2 0 0 Limit i One Coupon Valid to Dec. 31, 1988 ghts NBC is still smarting from its experience in Seoul, where lower than-expected ratings forced the network to give advertisers millions of dollars worth of free advertising. Look for a third-place bid. Due to the six-hour time difference between Barcelona and New York, prime-time coverage will be taped and most people will already know the results. However, as NBC learned in Seoul, many viewers ap- parently are more interested in pleasant packaging than live cover age. “I really don’t think the tape delay will make a difference,” said Pound, a Montreal lawyer and former Olympic swimmer. “I suspect it's more of a factor in the Winter Games, where the programming is thinner. “At the Summer Games, you've got 2,000 hours of competition and 23 or 24 sports, so it's impossible to show everything live anyway.” One thing that makes Barcelona more attractive than Seoul from a television standpoint is the starting date. The 1988 Summer Olympics didn't start until Sept. 17, forcing NBC to compete with pro and college football and the climax of the baseball pennant races. The 1992 Games begin July 25. “That means less competition from other sports,” Pound said. The network that obtains the Bar- celona rights as expected to share some of the programming with a cable broadcaster. Among the lead- ing contenders for the cable package are ESPN, Turner Broadcasting System and the USA Network ary Fue Your Lung Association 1507 Columbia A Ave., Castieg: {in the Bus Depot The Baha'i Faith Religion is the outer expression of divine reality. Theretore it must vitalized, moving and /@. It it be without motion rogressive it is without the divine lite; it is dead. on of wok. renovation of the lite of mankind. For more information contact The Baha'i Faith Box 120, Robson, B.C Or Call 365-3312 includes a seasonal loss of sexual desire, says Prof. Russel Reiter of the University of Texas Health Science Centre. As the daylight hours grow shorter, so, too, does sexual desire in millions of northern North Ameri- cans affected by the hormonal chan- ges, Reiter said. But. cravings in crease for starchy foods, frequent mood swings, depression and lethar- Reiter said lower light levels force a tiny pine cone-shaped pineal gland Hearing occurs VANCOUVER (CP) — One of every 10 British Columbia construc- tion workers tested in the last year had a serious hearing problem caused by on-the-job noise, says a Workers’ Compensation Board study. At least one-third of the workers tested would benefit from a hearing aid, Margaret Roberts, supervisor of the new testing program, said Wednesday. Fourteen per cent of the workers tested had “serious hearing loss,” the board said in a news release. Roberts said about four percen- of springtime has the opposite effect on the melatonin cycle, shutting down the pineal gland sooner and turning on sexual desire. Reiter said women are four times more likely to be affected than men. ‘The common treatment is sitting in a brightly lit room in the morning for up to two hours, Reiter said. “The bottom line is that light is a drug that can have significant impact,” " said Reiter. “What Mr m more in is sex — ly speaking, that is.” problem on job tage points would be accounted for by workers who have diminished hearing because of other, non-job reasons. Examples of a serious hearing problem would be an inability to carry on a telephone conversation or a dinner-table conversation where there is other noise such as the rattling of cutlery, she said. The board said 26,000 construction workers have had their hearing tested since October 1987. The board certifies testing companies and others to conduct the test. 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