aati de te te ee The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, February 26, 1992 Wednesday, February 26, 1992 The Castlegar Sun | BRENDAN HALPER ) rs It's Castlegar Realty’s fourth birthday this month, but they the company and each salesman and are put directly into a ‘Promo Fund’ When deciding which organi- zations (o support, the folks at “We have di One team in particular which receives substantial financial have more to cel than their success thus far, Since their conception four years ago, Castlegar Realty has ; been putting money back into the ‘ community, in the form of dona- tions to local organizations—lots of them, in fact, a total of $25,000 so far. “For each sale we make we take $55 off the top,” said Man- ager Brad Walsh (Walsh co-man- ages with Wayne McCarthy). The funds are contributed by ‘We're just trying to support the community,’ — WAYNE MCCARTHY Castlegar Realty ucognition of evement OhwWNhM— Check and Compare Rates! * Subject to change without notice We Will Be Open Sat., Feb. 22. a Please Phone for an Appointment PLANVEST] 428-2231 (Creston) 365-81 88 (Castlegar) Castlegar Realty try to avoid out- of-town solicitation. They concentrate mainly on the support of local charities, youth sports and the promotion of Castlegar. Silver Rattle Antiques 301-11 Ave. Castlegar (in Tulips Building) 365-5191 Your business is our business. le’d like to hear about your business news. Call Sharlene at 365-5266. The Castlegar Sun met Anne Mann FINANCIAL ADVISOR PI NCR Comma TIO backing from Castlegar Realty, is the Castlegar Junior Rebels hock- ey team. Other organizations include; the ‘Castlegar and District Wildlife Association, local curl- ing, queen candidates, the Royal Canadian Legion's Hamper Fund, the Kiwanis Club, Castleview Care, the Jim Young Celebrity Golf Tournament, Mothers Against Drunk Driving and strong support for the Stanley Humphries Secondary School Senior Boy's Basketball team. Castlegar Realty usually donates around $5,000 to local clubs and societies every year but the amount, “goes up as sales go up,” according to Walsh. They also provided the Castle- gar and District Chamber of Commerce with financial Support for the promotion of the Celgar expansion. Most recently however, they have sponsored a local stock car racer, one of several from Castle- gar who races in Northport Wash- ington. “We're just trying to support the community,” says Wayne McCarthy. Supporting local endeavors - (ler son, SHSS Senior Boys Basket Rocker Dan Kooznetsoff, and Co-manager Brad Walsh. "Lazarus mode' Mulroney in his STERLING NEWS SERVICE The Prime Minister these days is in his ‘Lazarus mode,” as one of his watchers described it, which involves a Superior act of levitation, being that of raising the Tory party from the dead. This is done by way of portents, as gleaned from newspaper clippings like testimonials. which he carries I. 1 OF E. hairstyles by Bonnie 365-8115 Mon. - Sat 501 - 5th Ave. Presented to: PODSINN AF 20° * SARA The recipients will receive an aw courtesy of Kats Trophys and courtesy of the Fireside Dining Room. Excellence in Service Carl Johnson! andthe | Service Dept. Castlegar Mazda This award will be presented every week to someone in Castlegar who shows extraordinary service to his/her customers or clients. ard plaque to keep a lunch for 2, value to $20.00, We'd like everyone in Castlegar to know there is an "Excellence in Service" in their community, and to congratulate each of them personally. If you know of someone that offers "Excellence in Service,” call me, Jon Jarrett at 365-5266, or drop a letter at the Castlegar Sun with your suggestion. on his person and produces, as a sort of show-and-tell exercise, in the event his colleagues and supporters have not themselves read of heard about them All these are, of course favourable notices, such as a recent one written by columnist Richard Gwyn. who is The Toronto Star's man in Europe and adjacent continents. Ln the column in the Prime Minister's pocket, Gwyn wrote of free trade as being a world phe- nhomenon—something akin to Asian flu, some would argue— so that the crux of the issue, as it applied to Canada, was not to struggle against free trade but get on with it and make the best of the hard realities by concentrating on higher educa- tion in the sciences, improving technical skills, and increasing activity in research and devel- opment This might strike a seasoned Star reader as apostasy, since it could easily be read as high orthodox Mulroneyism; any- way, the Gwyn column became both the Quote of the Day and Start to You know you should be investing in RRSP’s but every year it’s the same struggle... coming up with the money before the deadline for contributions. 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CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION “Your Community Financial Centre” te SLOCAN PARK Highway 6 226-7212 they belong ); Co-manager Wayne McCarthy, Agent Jordan Wat- ball coach John Ritchie, SHSS Rocker Ryan Vatkin, SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halper reform, property rights, and the devolution of powers, and the public fora have served the government if only by reducing the numbers of Canadians who believed, as in Meech, that all this business had becn a gov- ernment plot, and if Quebec seceeded it would be just what Brian Mulroney deserved The Ottawa meeting of the Prime Minister with most of the Provincial premiers seemed also faithful to the pre- sent growing mood of sweet reason abroad in the land. One sure way of introducing reason into any discussions about the economy by the liege lords of the Liberal, NDP, and Conser- vative parties is to have all of them in chorus pronounce upon their inability to borrow and to spend their way out of the recession. This is heresy of another kind, and those now Preaching it are merely late- coming adherents to fiscal Mulroneyism. Clearly, the notion that, although the Provinces dare not willfully add a dime to their debt, the federal government should add a few billion to its own burden, simply does not ‘wash with the nation’s all-purpose, single- source taxpayers mention among friends. Ask us about electronically filing your tax return. Canada’s Tax Team. Standing up for you! 305 VERNON ST. 354-4210 TRAL tose SPOKANE ST. 364-1617 1458 COLUMBIA ST, News of the * A London firm recently began marketing cigarettes under the brand name "Death." Said firm director B.J Cunningham: "I'm being honest. I am selling death.” A skull and crossbones are on every package along with this warning: "Cigarettes are addictive and debilitating. If you don't smoke, don’t start, If you smoke, quit." Cunningham, a heavy smoker, said sales are g ing fine. WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME * In October, an unidentified man in Paducah, Ky., who was seen earlier in the airport trying to trade his leather jacket for a ticket to California, was killed shortly afterward when he fell off the wing of a Northwest Airlines commuter plane he was hitching a ride on when it had reached an altitude of 300 feet. * In November, Danny Shaune Clemons, 32, was released from the Pennsylvania State Correction- al Institution in Greensburg (after having served five years for assault and burglary) and had by custom been given $75 by the State to tide him over. Less than an hour later, while waiting for a train to take him to King of Prussia, Pa., where a job awaited him, he was robbed. + William James Oden, 20, tried to break into a Pancake Pantry restaurant in Nashville in Septem- ber after hours, through an air duct On top of the building, for a reason about which police could only speculate. Because the duct was caked with grease, he slid down faster than he had expected and snagged in the vent with his arm lodged tightly under his neck, strangling himself to death. + James Bullock, 22, and Paul McGuire, 22, attempting to flee after netting $8,000 in a Bronx, N.Y., robbery but encountering a traffic jam, leaped over the side rail of a four-story elevated road- way, landing in an abandoned lot glistening with broken glass. One was critically injured: the other suffered minor injuries: both were captured easily. * Bobby Joe Reid died in December in Taylors, S.C., of a seizure and cerebral hemorrhage while having sex with his married Girlfriend, on the floor of her liv- ing room. The frightened woman dragged Reid into her backyard, then called police to report a Prowler. Reid still had his pants around his ankles when police arrived. PEOPLE UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT * According to The Economist, @ government scientist in Wales last year discovered a way to grow four-leaf clovers after cracking the Plant's genetic code. He plans to Start marketing them this year. * To resoive-a neighborhood noise dispute in San Louis Obispo, Calif., municipal judge Donald Umbofer ruled in December that the three basset hounds belonging to Bruce and Brigitte Howey may bark only once an hour, for no more than two minutes at a time, and must remain silent from 8 a stolen car to the exam and parked it illegally outside the station. * The U.S. Treasury Depart- Ment reported in September that in the latest monthly tally, it had ived 22 licited ib tions toward retiring the national debt, ranging from $5 to $45,344. About $20 million has been raised since 1961. The national debt is currently $3.9 trillion — about $15,000 per person. * In August, Wichita, Kan., Police reported they suspected that a man had beaten his three chil- dren with a board because they had refused to wear red ribbons in support of anti-abortion protests. * The Tokyo newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported in November that a good-conduct code had been drawn up by Yam- aguchi-gumi, Japan's largest (30,000 members) crime syndicate, “tO not inconvenience the public,” as the Japanese police begin a crackdown on underworld crime According to the code, members should not throw cigarette butts on I’m not bending over backwards for fitness Lately, Sugarlips by boyfriend, has tried to get me interested in Physical fitness and diet. He says he needs to start with very gently exercise that gets his heart beating faster and cause him to sweat, so he watches the ladies in aerobics class. He keeps bringing me health- care books. He showed me a magazine call, “The Canadian Good and Graphic” and it had a desperately go on all liquid diets It’s no surprise that I enjoy good food. How can you diet when you go to restaurants where they have tables piles high with great delica- cies like raw seafood and leaping frogs? And then there's the philo- sophical question: why eat only two Oreo cookies when there's eight on the plate? But, I guess you have to Scratches tules, so I do. I never eat anything with white- Out on it, and I never eat standing on Barker’s going to a new meat market for story titled, “Terrorized Donut Tells the Hole Truth.” I don't want to read stuff like that. I'll have nightmares for a week. Actually, I’m interested in healthcare and the law. I want to know why PMS. is a defense, but chocoholism is not. I'd like to know why old-age pensioners have to commit a crime and go to jail in order to improve their diets. And T'd like to take a course on how to tell when your cupcakes are on fire. I took a cooking course though, and thanks to my instructor Dolly Varden, I'm a much better cook than my mother. I've learned how to toughen up steaks to cut down on calories and how to présent grey matter more attractively. I've leamed how to be thrifty and save the environment. For example, this yummy steak is made from recy- cled bubblegum. Sometimes I think it was better in the good old days when men wee men because they didn't have sex change operations. People back then didn't have to lift weights or jobto stay in shape. They only has to stook hay, haul water, or pull that team of oxen to stay in shape. . Nowadays, our men wear t-shirts that"say, “contents have settled over the years.” A lot of people leaner cuts. There's a meat-packing plant upstairs and a taxidermist down- Stairs so they get every possible critter. The deli man has hair like a coon-ski cap with the coon still in it. I asked him what was on special. “T got your standing rib roast or your sitting rump roast,” he said. “We call it, “Sitting bull. Yep, we got everything here. They don’t call me the Deli Lama for nothing. We got your stimulated bacon bits on special, too.” “What else do you have?” “That's it. New business “OK, I'll have two pounds of standing rib.” “Sorry. It's spoken for." “OK. I'll have sitting rump. “Nope.” he said. “Spoken for No bacon bits either. I'm catering a Tupperwear Party.” Well, that didn't work so I ended up eating jello for supper. Depressed, I dug out my video tape titled, “How to Have a Perfect Body in Thirty Days or Less”. The darn thing didn’t work for me at all. I've watch it for three weeks and I don't look the slightest bit different. To tell you the truth, I think things like weightlifting and aerobicsiare silly, I'd rather be home in my own kitchen, creating food that makes guests nérvous. the ground, make grand entries into rooms, or give out business cards with the ‘s Onn LEAST C MPETENT PERSON + LATEST NEGATIVE CASH- FLOW ROBBERY: A man held up a Circle K store in Waco, Texas, on Nov. 29 after first diverting the clerk’s attention by putting a $20 bill on the counter and asking for change. When the robber pulled a gun and demanded the entire contents of the cash reg- ister, the clerk put everything in a bag and handed it to the robber « all $15, The robber left the $20 bill on the counter as he fled. CREME DE LA WEIRD + In December, police in Genoa, N.Y., shot and killed farmer Rolf Rahn, 37, who had shot a plumber during an argument and then holed up for 16 hours. Rahn Claimed that he was an alien and the plumber an android, and demanded that police provide him with a spaceship for his getaway. Later, investigators discovered the weird by Chuck Sheperd remains of 50 cats in Rahn's freez €r, some in plastic bags with labels indicating that their cause of death was "because of a demon.” THE DIMINISHING VALUE OF LIFE * Robert G. Hill, 24, was shot to death in Tarpon Springs, Fla., in Need money for a vacation? Looking for a job? Does your home require help from a contractor? You've got what it takes. . . And it’s right under your nose! The Castlegar Sun 365-5266 September, and his was wounded, both allegedly by Charles W. Sutton, who had become exasperated that the roommate would not acknowledge the magnificence of Sutton’s car Hill did not own a car. 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