_ BUSINESS | Youth sponsor local business forum Meeting seeks to resolve differences between retailers, teenage customers Pewee wnwe nw Le ee eK 4 —s<26-"4 The Castlegar Sun WEDNES 26, 1995 Alexa Pongracz Sun Correspondent Teenage theft and the percep- bon of teens by store owners was the subject of an open forum berween Youthspeak and local merchants last Wednesday night. Members of the newty formed Castlegar youth group met with several local merchants at the Tender Care Centre in C: The growp. led by Suzanne McPherson, looked for ways to deal with the conflacts between teenagers and business owners: “We want to @scuss the sues Is «a youth issue © is & a COmmuney iss?” ‘We have to recognize there's a real problem with youth and theft im the community,” said Barb Thien. ome of the owners of Castle Treasures and a Youths- peak member “We have to have & COUMMunay Structure m a ~es- Gve semse. and our group is ready to make a positive stand ~ Youthspeak vice-chair Geoff Fontes Chair said since its begin- ming the group has tried to con- tribute to the community in positive ways. On Earth Day, the SUPPLY: PAT BOAL HRI Supply Ltd Kelowna, B.C. (604) 763-9181 1-800-663-4401 We work for the fimest propie im the world. OUR CUSTOMERS group assisted in a cleanup of downtown Castlegar. Members assisted with the Sunfest parade and went Christmas © The group, which now has a membership of about 40. is open to youth and parents alike “We need acceptance of youth's values and a respect for poim the culprits and we'll deal with them. We're not holding guilty,” said Heidi Community service supervisor. Store owners and local busi- nesses are willing to cooperate and look for alternate solutions. “It's amazing what people will give you if you ask,” said Macin- tosh. She said positive uses for the CPR Station Museum are open to local teens, along with facilisies an Z the thoughts.” sad Yi chair Matthew Pierce “I believe a kx of business own- ers do look down on the youth because a lot of them seal So a's Mmportary to mect wah the comem- mity and listen to them and have them bsten to us.” sued one member Other issues discussed imchad- ed the discmmination that faces teenagers in some local restan- rants. Young people must often make purchases of at least five dollars in order to remain, while adults frequenting the same establishments are allowed to remain for the price of a coffee. The idea that teen thefts affect people and not just faceless stores was also a topec of discussion. “As a business owner. if you lose something that hasn't been paid for, « has an effect So pm- Handy For most of as. a morgage is the largest financial communment of our lives. Yet many homeown- ets put far more effor imto shop pmg for a mew car or housthokd apphances than for a mortgage Mortgage shopping can save ey. whether you re buying a eMe wing an existing ga When you consider how mech meres you'll pay over the lifetume of a morgage. any- thang that cuts costs asa bg help. If you'r buying a new home. rst clement of smart mon- Ow mE as much as 3 Gnamsal usituizon b willing to end may seem like an enhcing way buy a larger home. too fen people struggie to maintain beg homes on a nght budget If you're jookumg for a reason to mot borrow to the bik. consider some figures. If you borrow + youll end up paying $420,860 m imeerest. Reduce that $ pay ost $378,775 m imeress—a savings of more than $42,000 Borrow just $200,000 and you'll pay $336,695 im interes: for a saving of more than S34 2 S2S0.000 morgage. Of course. the higher the interest ratc. the greater the savings Whether you re after a new mortgage of it's tome to renew, here are some more mortgage shopping tips to lower long-term costs. + Negotiate your rae. Mon- gage rates posted by lenders arc l writicm in stonc Magy msutenoms will also make coa- cessioms to win your business. Sumce they also want to keep you a3 a customer. they may give you a beeak om renewal rares. ht’s not uncommon for bargamers to get mortgage moacy at half to three 1 can help with all your advertising needs, Remember - it's easier to work with someone. you know. Wiz, — The Caseig gar Sun omwesedion GAS 455 Contwrantnts foe. 365-2278 re iskand. Youthspeak would like to see a Youth Cemmre developed im Castle- gar, “a place for youth to go, a place where they're welcome selves just by forming this soci- ety and participating in it. By domg a. they‘ve already partici- pated im a positive way in the y.” said Vi Stoush again in a few moaths time Youthspeak meets every third quarters of a percentage point discount * Ask the bank to forego the temewal fee. Financial mstitutions are aware that you can switch to another lender, so theyll often warve thus fee. Then, pur the savings toward your Prmcpal + When renewing. insist on a longer-than-usual interest rate commament from your lender New borrowers frequenth lock im a rate 60 to 90 days im advance. while those renewing mortgages usually get just 30 days. The longer your commitment. the More protection you have against nsing rates. If rates fall below your guaranteed rate by the ume you saga the contract. you ll gci the lower rate. + If you decide to switch to another stitution. acgouate with your mew lender to pay for any tramsfer fees charged by the for- mer morgage or for a property appraisal. if Im the long ran, the best money-saving strategy is to pay off your as quickly as possible. When setting up or remewing 2 mortgage. comsider weekly payments. Paying one quarter of your existing monthly Payment cach week is the same as addimg ome extra monthly pay- ment a year. This knocks years Off the amortization of your mort- gage and cam save you tens of cr —~ are invited to comment the appis he Columbia Power Corporanon Sor the Keenleyside Powerplant Project Invitation for Public Comment Keenleyside Powerplant Project Cotumba Power Corporaton has made an application for a Project C the Environmental Assessment Act for the Vso t ject. The apphcanon ts for approval of a F lant a: Keenieyside Dam near Castlegar, B.C. and transmission lane to Sellark substanon near Seven Mile dam. The apphcanon may be viewed at 602 Stanley Street, Nelson, B.C a Street, Castlegar, B.C 1051 Vietoma Sarees, Comunco Arena, Trail, B.C y. 92 - 6th Avenue, Nakusp, B.C Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, B C <2) Assessment Office Project Registry, Ist Floor. Blanchard Street, Victoria, B.C @ Neisoe Mumec:pal Library © Castlegar Pui ul be available to the public through the Project y uments will be considered as part of the review Comments oc the application for the Keenleyside Powerplant Project ful Seprember 6. 1995. Please forward comments to Y tee Chair Environmental Assessment Office Sth Floor Dougias Stree: Victona, BC V8V 1X4 604) 387-2200 of Fax (604) costs by increasing the amount of your monthly payments. or by making yearly prepayments Most leaders will allow you to Pay as much as double your ong: nal monthly amount. and prepay 10 per cemt of your origmal mor- gage cach year Remember, when = comes to mortgage payments. sooner really is better Thought i The key nylon conga having dreams ... The key to success is making dreams come truc Heritage Calendar available Above photo: Bob Switzer and Deb McIntosh pose with the 1996 Castlegar Heritage Community Calendar. The calendar ‘is now available at the Heritage Society for only five dollars. They're sell- ing quickly, so make sure you get down there soon. Weicome new neighbors The first residents of Stellar Place Phase II developments will be moving im July 28. Welcome! Sorry to see you go (Castiegar's most popular female announcer has left Sunshine Radio Marcella Chernoff has been with the station for 16 years and her love of broadcasting sure showed. We'll miss you, Marcella Sign o° the times Now that a major overhaul and facelift of Pass Creek Park is occur- Ting. it’s time to invite the Ministry of Highways to re-install direc- tonal signage. With Syringa Park ‘overflowing, it is important that visitors stay im our community rather than drive on to some other location. Pass Creek Park has great facilities and overnight camp- ing. and deserves signage reflecting that! New faces Doana and Jim'Draper have sold their Dairy Queen outlet in Castleaard Piaza to Jeff Malin and family of Saskatoon, effective Aug 1. Welcome Malin family' Who you gonna call? li’s Saturday moming. you're in Vancouver and you decide at the last’ moment you want to escon your girlfriend to a wedding in Castlegar. She's already here and you don’t remember the name of the groom. All vou know is that he’s a hockey player. the wedding is that afternoon and it’s already 9 am Who do you call? Well. Gary Head called the Castlegar Sun office, and found Publisher Manilyn Strong there. Within 10 minutes Gary had the location of the wedding (Wendy and Cliff Baker's place in Tarrys). the time (2 P-m.), the mame of the bride and groom (Sunny Baker and Steve Junker) and directions to give to the cabbie when his plane arrived at 1-20 pm And ves. everyone was surprised he made it! | New business | Gale Panchiv has stated VDS. a vehicle detailing speciahies com- pany m Castlegar. Vehicle detailing includes ch shampooing, | polishing and preening your vehicle's interior and exterior She'll work from her home or yours! | Cellular protection t | A quick phone call to B.C. Tel Mobility confirmed that all cellular phone numbers are treated as unlisted numbers unless you tell them otherwise Since you pay for incoming and calls, it's up to the individual to determine whether a number should be generally available Construction started Castlegar Muffler has started the construction’ of its Gar wash on Cobambia Ave. at the top of Sherbiko hill New name! New faces! After 45 years as a privare company distributing Canadian Liquid Ai. OK Welders has been purchased by Canadian Liquid Air In the last two years. as part of a world-wide restructuring, all liquid air Companies falling under the Paris-based company have begun t0 carry the Air Liquide logo and trademark. Air Liquide is based locally im the Castlegar Industrial Park. Hard hats and high heels Wath the forest gone from beside the courthouse, the look of down- town Castlegar continues to change This week comstraction con- Gmues on Columbia Ave. on the west side (even numbers) between 13th and 3ed inreets. High heels are safe along Cobumbia Ave. (cast sade, odd numbers) between Ist Avenue (near the theatre) and Dt Donald Elllis’s building. New light standards have been installed berween 4th and 6th streets along the cast side of Columbia. with (ees comming next Hopefully the utility companies are on target t0 remove the them downtown lines and poles New taste treat Panagopoloss Pizza now offers. for a limited time only, BBQ chackea puzza with Buil’s-Eye barbeque sauce. And they mow have that popular summer refresher. Snapple. Cheek it out! Winter Wishes Summer Dreams Whale you're packing for a summer vacanon. remember to include a copy of The Castlegar Sun' Have your pacture taken holding The Sus at your favorite holiday Spot and enter it im our Wimeer Wishes Ss Dreams contest. You could win a trp for two anywhere Canadian Aurhines flies or one of three other great prizes. Drop off your photo at The Castlegar Sun, at 465 Cohambia Ave. in Castlegar. and well provide you with an entry form. Entry forms do work Al 2 recemt open house recepman for the new Castkegar office of Cum- t's Imsaramce, visfors were invieed tw fill out an enary form im The Castlegar Sum to win pracs. The winners wer Heather Diamond of Salmo and Michac! Konkan of Crescent Valley Congranianons' Call 365-5579 with your business news Wednesday, July 26, 1995 The Castlegar Sun Page B3 Stretching B.C.’s forests with science GEORGE COLLICOTT For The Sun Looking for a sure-fire way to stump that know-it-all-friend of yours? Just ask him or her this question, What's the world’s Strongest structural material? They'll probably say steel, or titanium or some other exotic metal alloy. But the right answer — believe it or not — is plain old “wood”. Pound for pound it has no equal! And here's something else that most of us think we know that simply isn't true, Sooner or later, all wood rots— right? Uh-uh, strike two, wood never rots until it is attacked by the right kind of fungi. And in order for those fungi to survive there must be sufficient air, moisture’and food and the right temperature. Per- fectly sound wood has been recovered from Egyptian tombs that are 5,200 years old! About the only thing that’s wrong with wood really is that there's just hot enough of it. It’s the most-commonly used raw material in North America today and in order to preserve our forest resources, scientific researchers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars creating new wood products that produce more value from each tree. Few countries are better at doing it than Canada, and a full sixty per cent of the country’s solid wood products industry. According to Forintek Presi- dent Ian De La Roche: “Technol- ogy and the application of new knowledge, have become abso- lutely essential to the industry's competitiveness. That can involve getting more out of the wood, \capturing a special attribute of a specific wood, or taking trees that we previously considered uneconomical and finding a way to make uscful products out of them,” Take aspen, for example. It's not exactly the cadillac of our tree species. It has a lifespan of Ron Welwood, Assistant Librarian. of Public Services at nizes a librarian who has Made a significant contribu- tion to the design or delivery of library service or to the profile of library issnes in a college. Mr. Welw é the Selkirk librarian honored nity through his work on Aumerous Ron has received other the 1994 B.C: Heritage Trust Award of The Micromedia Award is Presented by the and Technical College recognition for his service to the i ‘the commu- an A of College and University Libraries and by Micromedia Lid. Just sixty years, and it doesn't grow very tall. It’s not the sort of tree that might come to mind if you were looking for a sturdy ship's mast Although there are a lot of aspen in Canada, they have been generally regarded as commer- cially useless, Then, in the 1960s, ideal panels for walls and roofs, among other things. “Wafer- board”, as the product was named, soon evolved into an even better product called “oriented strand board”, in which all of the wafers are aligned. Oriented strand board has since captured 50 per cent of the panel market in Strips of wood up to four feet long. These are glued together, one on top of the other, then treat- ed with heat and. pressure, The result is a continuous beam, up to 18 metres long, that is three times as strong as solid wood Today, Parallam. has been joined by a number of similar “ products” such as “About the only thing that's wrong with wood really is that there's just not enough of it." WILL’S FURNITURE & APPLIANCES We have your next appliance! You can count on Will's to have the quality appliances you need + at prices you can afford! 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