Rev. Balfour opens annual spring tea Ladies. Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion No. 170 held its annual spring tea Saturday. The tea was opened by the Legion's Padre, Rev. Charles Balfour of the Anglican Church. Past-president Helen Le- due welcomed the guests at the door. The tables were decorated in gold and blue with spring flowers. Taking care of the bake table was Mrs. Muriel Heagy and Mrs. Joan Blais. The sewing table was under the supervision of Mrs. Pearl Zorn and Mrs. Marg Rafter. Presiding at the white ele- phant table were Mrs. Helen Chernenkoff and Mrs. Dor- een Miscavitch. Mrs. Pearl Mott was in charge of the tea tables with help from Mrs. Anna Johnson son, Mrs. Francis Farkas and Miss June Cherry. The kitchen was handled by Mrs. Erma Mykyte, Mrs. Peggy Guindon, Mrs. Blythe Elliott and Mrs. Connie Ol- son. Tea tickets were sold by Mr. Florence Laycock and Mrs. Joyce Turner. 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(604) 347-9311 Please send me further information on Special Package Rates Name Address [Pest code Two raffles were held with a doily donated by Mrs. F, Layeock and an Easter cake donated by Mrs. Marg Harm- ston. Winners were Mrs. P. Weinert and Mrs. J. Woloca. The door prize, a dainty ornamental doll donated by Mrs. F. Laycock, was won by Mrs. Jessie Donnan. Women meet in Nelson A West Kootenay Wom- en's Network meeting was held at the Selkirk College gym-dance studio April 10. Wen Do instructor Eileen Pedersen of Winlaw gave a demonstration and discussion of self defense for women. Members participated in the demonstration as well as the discussion. Following refreshments, steering committee members Vita Story and Trudy Thor- geirson held a short discus- sion on the future and goals of the Women’s Network. A dinner meeting with a guest speaker is being plan- ned for June 12 at the Fire- side Place. Peace vigil one year old It will be one year on Easter Sunday that Castle gar and area residents have joined thousands of others across the country in a 10- minute silent prayer for peace. At precisely 6 p.m., on the 22nd of every month, small and large groups . have gathered at the Castlegar courthouse parking lot, re- gardiess of weather condi- tions. The gathering brings to- gether individuals with var- ied nationalities and back. grounds to work for a com mon concern, the future of mankind. “With the threat of a nu clear holocaust upon us, it is imperative that each indivi dual involve themselves in some way in the cause for peace,” says participant Olga Kittson. | | _TELOLETEDIRECTORY) EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH — Fellowship — Worship — Bible Study Family Bible Hour 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship Service 11. a.m., Legion Hall Bible Study & Prayer Tues 7:30 p.m. at 1201 - Ist Street Pastor: Tom Mulder Phone: 365-2281 ANGLICAN CHURCH 1401 Columbia Ave. . Sunday Services 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. Robson Community Memorial Church 2nd & 4th Sundays, 10 a.m. Rev. Charles Balfour h. 365-2271 ee SEVENTH-DAY _ADVENTIST CHURCH 1471 Columbia Ave., Trail 364-0117 Regular Saturday Services Pastor Cliff Drieberg 365-2649 UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA 2224-6th Ave. 1% Blocks South of se ST. PETER LUTHERAN 713 - 4th Street Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Pastor Terry Defoe Office 365-3664 Residence 365-7622 Listen to the Lutheran Hour — Sunday, 9 a.m. on Radio CKQR APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF PENTECOST Below Castleaird Plaza Phone: 365-6317 Pastor: Victor Stobbe Phone 365-2374 SUNDAY SERVICES Sunday School 9:45 am wercing Worship 11:00 CALVARY BAPTIST 809 Merry Creek Road Past Fireside Motel Pastor: R.H. Duckworth Family Bible Hour Study & Prayer —7 p.m. Church 365-3430 Pastor 365-2808 PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE hip 6:30 Wednesday: Bible Study and Prayer 7:00 pm HOME OF CASTLEGAR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 365-7818 CHURCH OF GOD 2404 Columbia Avenue Church School 9:45 0.m. Morning Worship a.m. Pastor Ira Johnson Phone 365-6762 GRACE PRESBYTERIAN 767 - 11th Avenue, Castlegar Pastor Ken Smith Church: Phone 365-5212 Sunday Morning Services 8:15 and 11 a.m. Sunday School 9:45a.m. Evening Service 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study and Prayer 7:30 p.m. Fri. Youth Meet., 7:30 p.m. ST. RITA’S CATHOLIC ay Historical Society held its annual meeting last week and hondred community residents who have he the past year photo). Each presented with a Russian spoon: (rear, from left) Pete Swetlico Mike Sookachoff, Fred Swetlico Cheveldave Waite Demoskoft, Mr. Ren- sing, Pete Rozinkin, Pete Kabatoff (for George Barr) and Mike Repin; (front, from left) Marily Verigin, Ne Sookachoff, Bunnie Charters (for John Char- ters), Mrs. |. Rensing and Helen Rozinkin. The Society's directors for 1984 are featured in bottom photo: (rear, from lett) Harry Voykin, Elmer Ver . Christine Faminoff, Bill Junke (front, from left) Paul Moroso, Mike O'Con- nor, Pete Oglow and John Sofonotf. Missing are Mark Mealing, John Mansbridge, Doris Shukin, Walter Kanigan, Ken Cazakoff, Coli Pryce, Jack Polonic Ron Schmidt, Nancy Knight and Alex Lutz. Photos tor CosNews by Carol Couch Nielsen expands on move By CasNews Staff Health Minister Jim Niel- sen officially announced Monday that the amalgama- tion of Nelson's Selkirk Health Unit and the West Kootenay Health Unit in Trail. As of May 1, the two health units will be amalgamated in Castlegar, forming the Cen- tral Kootenay Health Unit. Nielsen said in a prepared release that there will be no changes to the public from the new unit. “There will be no change in the availability of services to the people of the region,” Nielsen said. “The only major change is to the local medical health officer and senior ad. ministrative staff in the headquarters office at Castle- gar. He stressed that both Trail and Nelson will continue to have health unit offices pro- viding the usual range of ser- vices. “The decision to amal- gamate these health units follows a detailed review by the health ministry involving consultations with the local boards of health, staff of the health units and other inter- ested parties,” said Nielsen. The minister said the two health units have the small- est populations of the 17 units throughout the prov- ince. The new amalgamated unit will service avpopulation of about 75,000, which re- mains below the provincial average of 102,000 for a single unit. Nielsen said that transpor- tation links in the region have been improved since the early 1950s, when the boun- daries of the current two health units were formed. Since that time, he added, the expanding range of ser- vices provided has increased the need for supervisory and consulting staff at a health unit headquarters, making smaller health units less effi- cient to operate. Medical health officer and director of the new health unit will be Dr. Monty Ar- nott, who is currently direc- tor of the West Kootenay Unit and acting director of the Selkirk Unit. At present, there is not enough space in the Castle- gar Health Unit to accom- modate six more positions. Health Ministry spokes- man Ian Smith said the min- istry is currently looking into options of expanding the cur- rent building, located on Castlegar and District Hos- pital property, or leasing space elsewhere in town. Smith added that it may~ not be physically possible to amalgamate by May 1. In addition to offices in Castlegar, Trail and Nelson, other offices of the unit are located at Fruitvale, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Rossland, Kaslo, Nakusp and Salmo. B.C.'’s_ provincial health unit services include public health inspection, immuniza- tion, speech and hearing testing, public health nur- sing, prenatal classes, post- natal services, preventive dental screening for children, and administration of long- term care and home-care services. Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212 Anew name in B.C’s future... There's a bright new name in the forest Westar Mining and Westar Petroleum Products industry in British Columbia — eMifestar Timber Ltd. On April 16, Westar Timber replaced BC Timber as the company’s official corporate name. The Westar name was chosen as a long-term investment which will earty 1983. the world. markets where most of our pulp and lumber is sold. At the same time, it gives our mills and woodlands operations the same family look as other companies in the ~ B.C. Resources Group. For example, have used the new name to identify their operations and products since In the past year, our employees have also developed Westar into the highly successful brand name used on all the lumber we produce and export around Remember the name... Westar Timber. Knapweed has invaded over 100,000 acres of B.C. rangeland. Knapweed destroys rangeland forage vital to cattle and wildlife. THIS WEED MUST BE CONTROLLED! We've expanded our containment and research programmes to check spread of this weed; but we need your help. © LEARN to recognize the weed © REMOVE plants from your vehicle © DO NOT drive across B.C. grasslands Community Complex Ph. 365-7143 © PULL Isolated plants and eradicate 9:40 a.m. — Singing 2605 Columbia Ave. Saturday Night Mass small patches. Wen. _ worl? Rev. Harvey gy: \ inday Phone 365-3816 Sun Masses at nenesn: Ist Sun., 7 p.m. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. 8a.m. and 10a0.m. PEOPLE are THE MAJOR SOURCE OF SPREAD. Sunday, 10 o.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. § Rev. Ted Bristow Junior Congregation” | ST. MARIA GORETTI ry ) Westar Timber Preninee of ivttah Cotemmbts @ 365-8337 or 365-7814 Home Bible Studies Genelle — 12 Noon D, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Many consumers are afraid to buy a home computer, expecting it to become outdated overnight. But the fear is loften groundless. Best-selling machines — including models made by Commodore, Radio Shack and ‘Apple — have remained essentially unchanged for years. Home computers lag behind developments in the field of desk-top business computers, where fierce com petition among dozens of practically identical machines land the customer's willingness to pay mean new technol. logy is adopted quickly. But it’s a different story in the home, where the benefit of computers is still to be proven and the most important feature is a machine's low price. “It is physically impossible to build a Cadillac and loffer it at a Volkswagen price,” says James Copland, vice-president of marketing for Commodore Business Machines Ltd. of Toronto. The Commodore 64, which sells for $350 to $400, is still going strong two years after it was introduced. The lcomputer lacks some of the latest features of more lexpensive hardware, but it offers “full performance at the lowest possible price,” Copland said. TOPS IN SALES Cc di the home market, with anywhere from 65 to 80 per cent of the business in Canada, depending on who you talk to and how the market share is calculated. The high figure iv Com- lmodore's, the low from independent industry observer Evans Research Corp. The Commodore 64 is the company's mainstay product, with 100,000 to 150,000 sold in Canada in 1983 land projections for between 250,000 and 300,000 this year, said Copland. “We are successful because we appeal to the masses,” Copland said. That means making a machine that gives “the greatest bang for the buck.” An aggressive advertising campaign also has had much to do with Commodore's success. In fact, Copland said the company spent more on advertising in 1983 than all other home computer companies combined and will ontinue that trend this year. Commodore plans to spend $5 million to $7 million promoting its products in Canada in 1984, Copland said, slightly more than last year. PROGRAMS GROW The longevity of the Commodore 64 is partly attribu- table to a growing volume of software for the machine. A without —> the that make it play games, process words or keep a budget — is as useless as a record player without records. All those Commodore owners create a demand for jsoftware which i ies are leager to satisfy. And as more programs become available, the machine becomes more appealing to computer shop- pers. Apple's lowest-priced have also benefitted from the availability of lots of software. Another strategy Apple used to keep the Apple I alive was to make the machine easily upgradable. The Commodore 64 cannot be upgraded in at least lone key area — memory capacity (the name refers to the ,000 character memory). But Copland says “there isn’t lany obsolescence factor in the Commodore 64.” HAS MANY USES The availability of good software for the machine means it can continue to be used for a variety of purposes. Asked about the possibility of eventually phasing out ithe machine, Copland said: “As long as the customer demands the product be made and its economically viable to make it, we will continue to market it.” Some home computers have come and gone in the , notably machines made by Texas Instruments ittel. But Copland says: (the Commodore 64) won't be around for years to Home security has “April 18, 1984 NNOVATION | VANCOUVER (CP) — Building a better mousetrap won't get the world to beat a path to your door, but the British Columbia government is trying to make it easier for investors and manufacturers to find you. As British Columbia inventors and innovators have found, having the idea is just the first step. The biggest problem is getting the mousetrap into the stores, and that means patent searches, funding, building prototypes, finding or setting up manufacturing, packaging, marketing, advertising and distributing the product. Many inventors sell their idea and move to the next project. But some see it as a chance to run their own busi- ness and get some financial security. The B.C. economic and political climate is ripe for inno- vators. Unemployment has pushed people to risk developing their own products. And that fits with the provincial gov- ernment’'s emphasis on “privatization” and the “entrepre- neurial spirit.” hi ot, ABLISHED One of the most common problems cited by inventors is not knowing what to do or where to go for help. SIMPLIFIES PROCESS The province is making a concerted effort to simplify that process. The Department of Industry and Small Business has a program called Starting a Business and the B.C. Innovation office has been set up. The office opened in October 1982 with funds from the Science Council of B.C., the Discovery Foundation and the Department of Universities, Science and Communications. On a “moderate” operating budget, the three-person office encourages innovators to create jobs and start small manufacturing within the province. Spokesman Valerie McNicol said the office handles about 600 enquiries a month, with at least half from innovators and the rest from associations and investors. MeNicol said the office is trying to narrow “the great nee helps inventors credibility gap between the people with the ideas and the people with the mafiey.” The office has been working on a computer cross-reference system which has about 3,000 contacts in it and She said the aim is to take an inventor and an investor and “marry the two.” The office has general guidelines for developing new products and acts as a referral service to associations or other government agencies. There are also counselling services available tl the Federal Business Development Bank, which uses about 120 retired business people as advisers. Called Counselling Assistance for Small Business Enterprises (CASE), it charges $13.90 an hour for its services. The Department of Industry, Trade and Commeree also offers advice on sources of funds and the Export Devel- opment Corp. can help with contacts for foreign markets. on Burlington carpets of Du Pont Antron’ Nyion...plus come a long way TORONTO (CP) — Today's burglar may still be using the ever-reliable jimmy but those trying to stop him can call on an array of sophisticated de- vices. An intruder may be greet- ed by a menacing growl, news that he’s about to meet a hostile 200-pound football player or a casual comment that the police have been called. Home security systems have come a long way from the deadbolt lock. Chubb Alarms, a division of Chubb Industries Ltd., of- fers a security system which, when triggered, uses a silicon chip to broadcast comments’ through intercoms in a house. “We find a lot of flashing lights or beeps can be con- fusing for many people, so we have introduced a security system which gives its mes- sage by the spoken word,” says marketing manager Sandy Hislop..“In the home security system we have de- signed the response can be ‘I have called the police’ or ‘Get away from that window’ or whatever you wish.” Hislop says some systems silently contact a control centre, which then calle the > police, but the burglar is not going to know he has been i detected. Most people just want the intruder to leave in a big hurry when he's detected. cupnene te alo An “SUSE sonia - ube Sa. 30 China Creek “Drive a Little to Save a Lot” get a FREE Home computer Burlington Antron c it pet for your home— a free Home Computer for you and your family. Limited time! Sales ends Monday, May 14! 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