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Home Hardware
25 years old

Home Hardware, Canada's largest
hardware chain, is 25 years old. The
first store opened in 1963 in St. Jacobs,
Onl. Now, Hoe Hardware, a billion
dollar business, has 1,000’stores across
the country, inchiding Castlegar, Trail
and Nelson.

On Jan, 1,
hardware dealers joined together un
der the name Home Hardware. By
forniing.a large buying group, they
were able to purchase their products
for less. The savings were passed on to
their customers and the dealers were

able to remain competitive with larger

1964, 120 independent

discounters, franchise operations and
department stores

It all started with Walter Hachborn,

owner of a hardware store in St
Jacobs. He saw a trend developing
The competition, larger and more
powerful, waS starting to threaten the
e\istenee of the-smatler, independent
dealer

1n-1963,-he proposed a relationship
to 122 Ontario hardware store ow ners:
1 dealer-owned Company that would

in small independents into a large
buying group so they could purchase
their products for less, The day Home
Hardware was formed, Hachborn was
elected president

The operation of Home Hardware’s
T000 stores is controfled front Home's

head office and huge distribution cen

tre in St, Jacobs, Although its business

has expanded, Home's philosophy has
ined the same.

‘Our’ business is designed around
the home. We began as a business for
the family consumer, with anything
the corisumer needs for the home,”
company officials say

Home Hardware sells a wide range
of merchandise, general hardware and
appliances, building materials, fur
niture and its own line of paints and
products are
marketed under a specialized division
which are all a part of Home Hardware
but have separate marketing identities.

In 1970, Home Hardware formed
two new divisions; HomeAll Building
Centres and Homeland Furniture
These dealers enjoy the benefits of
Home Hardware’s buying power and
corporate services such as ad
ministrative staff, | computers,
distribution and communications net
works to minimize overhead

There are more than 150 HomeAll
Building Centres and 85 Homeland
Furnutre stores across Canada.
HomeAll stores sell building materials
and, renovation products. Homeland
carries a complete range of furniture
and accessories for the home, ,at
reasonable prices

chemicals These

Some Canadian achievements in
science and technology are com
mon knowledge around the world

Alexander Graham Bell's inven
tion of the telephone and Sir
Frederick Banting’s lead role in the
discovery of insulin are among our
Bési-Known and most significant
triumphs.

On a familiar, household level,
credit fo

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Canadian inventors and

Canadians
lead the way

essential scientific research tool is
at least 100 times more powerful
than a regular miscroscope.

© Sir Charles Saunders was a
plant breeder who developed
Marquis wheat, which led to the
large commercial production of
high-quality wheat for bread in
Canada. Since it matured faster
than other varieties, it was less
likely to be damaged by frost

© Terry Allen developed a new
way of delivering drugs to. specific
areas in the body

* Ted Rogers Sr. developed, the
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THE TIES THAT BIND .
crossing in Brilliant wh

peeders
‘time bomb’
for Tarrys

By CLAUDETTESANDECKI
Staff Writer

Slow down before someone gets killed

That's the message the principal and parents” group of
Tarrys elementary school have been trying to get across to
motorists who travel past the school on Highway 3A

And the Castelgar school board reinforced that sen.
timent Monday night ypassing a recommendation stating
the board supports the school in its request of the Ministry
of Transportation and Highways to force drivers to slow
down in that area

The recommendation supports calls to reduce the sp-
ced limit to 60 kilometres per hour, paint two solid lines
down the centre of the highway through the school zone,
install flashing lights at either end of the zone and remove

The biggest danger is from cars swerving around
vehicles stopped at.the crosswalk, Keddy said.

Hesaid he would recommend flashing crosswalk lights
be installed.

Superintendent of schools Terry Wayling said there
are two major problems — children crossing the highway to
get to and from school and school buses swinging slowly on
and off the highway into the school yard

Rilcof said he sees the speeding tfaffic increasing as
enrollment at Selkirk College goes up.

The school has been asking for Highways Ministry
help since 1982, Rilvof said.

In 1983, the ministry promised a double solid line,
which prevenis passing, would be painted infront of the
school. But the ministry painted only a single solid line; he

C.P. Rail work crews replaced a section of track Tuesday at a road
the tracks had been damaged by frost heaves and heavy rail

traffic. The crossing was.closed for about four hours. The roadway over the track will be

repaired in o tew doys wien
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Cape Horn road work
gets green light

By CHERYL CALDERBANK

Work on the Cape Horn Bluffs sec
tion of Highway 6 is set to begin in Sep
tember

Howard Dirks, Minister of State for
Kootenay,
project, expected to cost about $16
njillion, has been included in the
1989-90

has announced that the

provincial government’s
budget

Tenders for the project will be called
during the'first (wo weeks of May with
the closing date set for the last week of
May, said Wally_Penner, tiaison of
ficer for Dirks

The contractor for the project is ex
pected to be on site in the middle of
June to do site preparation, including
drainage work

Peniner said the bluffs area will be
closed shortly after Labor Day
weekend for a three-month period for
the major work

He added that during the closure-a
10-person passenger ferry will be put
into operation. The ferry will be
equipped with emergency supplies and

will operate between Silverton and
Slocan

Highway 31A between Kaslo and
New Denver will be used as an alter
native road during the closure. The
highway, which has broken up in cer

n sections, will be repaired before
the work on the bluffs begins.

Beginning the third week of May,
crews will spend two weeks fixing the
problem sections. In mid-June the en:
tire’ piece of highway: will be" chip
sealed

Fhe —btutts
periodically closed next summer with
completion date set for the fall of 1990."

The Cape Horn Bluffs project was
identified as the top priority for the
Kootenay region for the 1989-90
budget by the Kootenay Region Tran
sportation Task Forces at a meeting
lastjfall. The task forces asked that a
$.5-kilometre piece of road be iden:

section—witt—be

tified. However, the project will ac
tually include 5.9 kilometres of the
road

The road will be expanded to two
lanes, each measuring 3.6 metres wide

Chinaware
touted for college

By Cas NewsStaff

Scikirk ‘College is in the process of
putting together a task force to con
sider the feasibility of a Suggestion to
use china dishes and real silverware in
the college cafeteria instead of
styrofoam and plastic

The college board hag received let

ters from non-teaching staff, members
of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers
of Canada Local 26 and the’ Selkirk
College Faculty Association asking it
to consider the suggestion

Gases given off by certain types of
styrofoam have been blamed fof con
tributing to the depletion of the ozone
layer and plastic which is not
biodegradable contributes tothe filling
of community waste disposal sites

The board Wiscussed the issite at
some length during am in-camera
session of a recent meeting. College

board chairman Elizabeth Fleet ex
plained in a letter to Local 26 president
Rod Retzlaff that *
what might be considered an accep
table rise in cafeteria prices for the

concern arose that

more environmentally conscfous
might be sufficient to put off other
customers, thus worsening the deficit
of the cafeteria,

The bgard has to be concerned
about the financial implications of any
action taken," Fleet said

She added that the board did not
want to dismiss the suggestion because
many board members are also concer
ned about environmental issues.

The board has asked president Leo
Perra to- establish;—within-the—im
mediate future, a task foree to consider
the suggestion and also to consider and
offer practical suggestions concerning

continued on page AZ

A concrete guard will be insial
the new outside shoulder and a 3.6
metre wide ditch will be installed on the
inside shoulder to catch falling rocks.
A 90-metre concrete retaining wall will
also be constructed.

The contractor: for the project will
have to move moré than 400,000 cubic

TTeeSaTOMTE THE HEIs
The situation is a “time bomb
principal Russell Rilcof told Castlegar News
Two children were alinost hit Tuesday morning when
they ran.up to the intersection, Rilcof said.
A car made a ‘panic stop’’ and tetran 18-metre skid
mark, he said
The car literally missed the kids by a couple of feet
Rilcot, who has been principal since the fall, said ‘it’s
only a matter of time” before a child is injured or killed
* ” The Tuesday incident occurred on a bright sunny day,
he pointed out, and the situation is much worse in foggy or

waiting to go off,

icy conditions
The RCMP have “‘an appreciation for the problem

>and the parents have a**valid concern,"’ Castlegar RCMP

Staff Sgt. Jack Keddy said.

Last October, the school and parents’ group prepared
a video on the situation and sent it to the ministry, Bel
Maintenance and Minister of State for Kootenay Howard
Dirks, Rilcof said
Dirks told the shoot to “hold off** on-the problem,

Rilcof said. Rilcof added that the ministry is examining the
problem and doing a feasibility study

A spokesman for the ministry said the school’s
correspondence is being responded to and Highways
Minister Neil Vant does not want to comment on the
situation right now

The parents’ group is currently organizing a meeting
with ministry officials, a representative of Bel Maintenance
and the RCMP,parents’ group spokesman Jim Posnikoff
said

Camozzi quits as

Rossland mayor

By SIMON BIRCH
Editor
Don Camozzi has quit as mayor of
Rossland saying he is frustrated with
the city's bureatieracy-and his inability
tocontrol the city’s rising expenses.
Ald. Joe Zanussi, who ran ona slate
with Camozzi in the November 1987
civic election, has also resigned citing
similar concerns as well as “‘per
sonality conflicts’’ at Rossland city
hall
A byelection will be held June 10,
Andre
Carrel said. Nominations close May
24.
In an interview Tuesday with th
isaianial

Rossland city administrator

Camozzi also cited expenses for of
fice equipment which in 1989 so far, he
said, have cost the city $45,500. As an
example of what he said is wasted
money-tor-office equipment, Camozzi
noted that Rossland city hall has 13
telephones, one of which, he said, is in
a ‘‘closet’’ in council chambers. He
said he has seen the telephone used just
once

“I couldn't change it because 1 don't
have a majority behind me,”* Camozzi
said of the situation at city hall. *‘Some
people thought | was too picayune.
Maybe I wasn't tough enough

In a news release announcing his
esignation delivered to the Castlegar

Camozzi writes, “il have failed

metres of rock
Approximately 130,000 tons of
grayel will be required for road
building and paving

Preliminary work for the- recon
struction of the bluffs road got under
way last fall when about $1 million was
spent rebuilding some poor areas of

and benefits paid to Rossland’s five
senior city employees as one of his con
cerns. He said the salaries and benetits
will cost the city $266,000 this fiscal
year, which he said is (oo much “ina
little town like Rossland.’* Camozzi
said $67,544 of that total will be paid to

to give city hall back to the people as
promised, but honestly, | tied. 1
wasn't successful becau
autocratic system that is deeply entren
Ched-and has-been ptacetor-quite
some time

In spite of this type of government

more has to be done so that people can
feel comfortable with city tiatt.
Perhaps a ratepayers’ association
is the answer, or a weekly newspaper
which-could- accurately report on what
takes place in our city
continued on page A2

INSIDE

Special
supplement

Inside today's CasNews is

annual Progress

ion featuring a look at

the good things that are

happening cround us in
the West Kootenay.

the road, Carrel

some progress has been made, but a lot

Lottery

By CLAUDETTESANDECKI
Staff Writer

A local man who is the speaker for the B.C. Green
Party was arrested in Vancouver Friday while protesting
the use of foam containers in McDonald's restaurants

David Lewis of Crescent Valley told the Castlegar
News he was protesting -with about 10 others outside a
McDonald's in East Vancouver and was arrested after
going inside the restaurant to distribute leaflets to the
restaurant's customers

Fhe police arrested him for tréspassing and breach
of the peace, Lewis said, and drove him around to “cool
off." He was released about 10 blocks from the
restaurant, he said.

Lewis and the protesters, calling themselves Green
Party and Friends, are angry because they say Me
Donald's has not lived up to its promise to switch to con
tainers made from safer hydrocarbons from foam con:
tainers made from environmentally hazardous
chlorofluorocarbons (CF€s).

On Aug. 6, 1987, a Globe and Mail report quotes a
U.S. spokesman for the company, Lana Ehrsam, as
saying McDonald's products would continue to be sold
in_foam packages, but the containers would be
manufactured with hydrocarbon-based agents which
are considered safe by U.S. government officials.

The Canadian division of the company” said it
would foltow-suit, the article said, with the old con-
iainers being phased out over the following 18 nionths
(by January 1989)

Instead, the company has only switched to a less

Local Green nabbed
at McDonald's protest

numbers

The winning numbers
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27,31, 33, 41, 43, and 44.
damaging form of CFC trom CK
Lewis said.
Although CFC
twentieth as damaging to the earth's protective ozone

22 is thought only one

layer as CEC-I1, if the rate of release of CFC-22 con

tinues at present rates, it will destroy as much ozone as,

the two most common CFCs, 11 and 12, by the year

Back to
Russia?

2000, according to a report in the September 1988 issue
of New Scientist magazine

However, McDonald's of Canad:
president Ron Mareoux said the company

hydrocarbon-based product last fall. The substance is

hed toa
alled formacel-S and is manufactured by Dupont of
Canada, he said

Marcous said Lewis is misinformed page A2
We said we were going away from CFCs and we

have gone away trom CFCs, "* he said

Lewis said the industry must restructure its

manufacturing to accommodate the use of less en
sironmentally damaging products

The planet is in peril," he said, and ‘They (in
dustry) may have already killed it

Lewis said he plarsvo enlist the help of Mt. Sentinel

NHL
playoffs

junior-senior high school Conscious Party students in
his fight against McDonald’s

The students participate in projects to protect the
earth and stop nuclear armament

Lewis-said-he will ask the students to join him ina
protest against the McDonald's in Trail. page B1
“It's a way forthe kids to influence the company’s

global policy,"* Lewis said