group attempting to set up a trust fund for the millionaire west of Regina. Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212 ON NOV. 17th Vote for REAL change, REAL representation A much BETTER idea for trustee <> LONG-TIME SERVICE . . . Castlegar Home Support Ser- vices administrator Laura Richards (far right) presents long-time service awards to Vera Zaytsott (left) and Henrietta Brunton. Zaytsotf and Brunton, who have LONG W. EDMONTON (CP) — There is a waiting list of nearly for Edmonton's 15-bed palliative care unit,. says Dr. Hospital. ~* Similar units in British Columbia and Manitoba and education for Ontario's Palliative Care Foundation. However, she said she has not heard of lengthy waiting lists in other provinces. BLUEBERRY TIME OTTAWA (CP) — Canadian blueberries can be enjoyed year-round because they fréeze well, says the food advisory Givision of the federal Agriculture Department. They should be washed, drained and sorted, then spread on a cookie sheet and placed in the freezer until firm. They can then be packed in freezer bags, using a straw to remove air, where they will keep up to a year. Because blueberries do not withstand the shock of transportation well, they are often available only in eacty sdrved eight years with the homemakers, were producing areas. This includes British Columbia where presented with gifts during organization's 10-year an- niversary held recently CASTLEGAR KIWANIS CLUB Skate-a-thon Sat., November 24 10:15 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. at Community Complex PLEDGE FORMS AVAILABLE At Brian Brown's Office 270 Columbia Ave. Free treats for thos. porticipants raising pledges tor skating 100 lops Proceeds to Community Projects — All other clubs will r 4 net proceeds Bilingualism an asset VANCOUVER (CP) — Ina few years, four-year-old Robin Miller will be chatt ering away in three langu ages: Japanese, English and French. The first, he will learn from his mother,Hideko Miller. From his British father, Peter, he'll learn English. The French that Robin al ready picks up from his parents (his mother is fluent, his father speaks a little) will be reinforced at a bilingual preschool, one of several now operating in the Vancouver area. Robin is one of hundreds of anglophone children whose parents, keen to provide their offspring with the chance to learn a second language, send them off at age three to sing songs, play games and listen to stories in French. “This is the time to learn the language, when they're young — and it’s fun for them, it isn't a job,” says John Greenwood. His daugh- ter, Lillie, 3, will join Robin at the East-Side French Pre-School when it opens Sept. 17. Bilingualism is considered an asset in today’s job market, says Margaret Da vidson, a freelance broad caster who lived in Montreal for many years. Her three \assitied soc" s of atiol 55-2212 ogor BS ww year-old son, William Crowe, also is enrolled at East-Side. “There's a general feeling the earlier the better — provided language skills in English are sufficiently de- veloped.” Davidson says. Peter Miller agrees. A recent immigrant from Bri: tain, he says he welcomed the opportunity to live in Can ada. Here, a knowledge of French is accpeted as a matter of course, not as a mark of sophistication as it is in some parts of Europe, he says. OFFERS MOBILITY Dierdre Lott, newsletter editor for Canadian Parents for French, says bilingualism offers mobility, “not just job mobility.” An anthropologist by training, Lott believes knowledge of a second language offers children in tellectual stimulation and a “wider world view.” Lott's older daughter, Jessica, 6, attends Vancou ver's L'Ecole Bilingue Megan, three, attends the Vancouver Bilingual Pre school. Brenda Cottle opened L'Erable (Maple Tree) pre school last January. Unlike East-Side, a parent-run co- operative, L'Erable is pri vately owned and operated DRAFTING & DESIGN SERVICES * Residential * Renovations * Planning Office Interiors * Construction Supervisions 365-2 at City Hall. Michael Heard says it is time for a change The ridiculous level crossing on Columbia Ave., and the shortage of serviceable equipment during the recent snowstorm are but two examples of our old and tired City government. For improvement in City management elect Michael Heard for Alderman. highbush blueberries are cultivated. In Nova Scotia, Quebec, New Brunswick and Newfoundland lowbush blueberries are harvested in their natural habitat. Both kinds are available in August and September. Those that appear in the market as early as May come primarily from Michigan and New Jersey, where producers seem better equipped to transport beyond the loca! market. POLISH ART WINNIPEG (CP) — Names such as Sarowieyski, Flisak and Erol are not well-known in Manitoba's arts community but Jeff Morry is seeking to change that with a collection of Polish posters he hopes to sell. Morry, 23, bought the posters by the artists on a trip behind the Iron Curtain last spring. “They were just different, you could sense it,” he said “It isn't Western, it isn't North American. “It's introspective. There's a lot behind it. That's what attracted me to them.” Morry said the 450 posters he collected say more about Poland's political climate than the subjects they are adver. tising. He referred to a poster for the American movie Norma Rae which featured a bloated, featureless face of a woman, and another poster showing King Lear with brooding, skele- tal features. TODAY'S PARENT TORONTO (CP) — Today's Parent, a glossy magazine aimed at baby boom children who are finally having kids of their own, is making its debut this month. “The postwar baby boomers who deferred having children until they were financially secure are now well-established and having babies,” publisher Beverly Topping says in a news release “They require a unique publication to help them raise their children better.” Today's Parent, to be available through doctors’ offices, subscriptions and at newsstands, will be published by Pro- fessional Publishing Associates, which also publishes Great Expectations, a prenatal magazine distributed by the medical profession. SPECIAL BIRTHDAYS KITCHENER, ONT. (CP) Three Kitchener-area women, the veterans of many birthday parties for their own kids, have started a company specializing in custom-catered parties in children's homes. Sandra Chalmers, Irene Telfer and Yvonne Stanton spent months planning all the details before starting Yum Yums. But with nearly six of 10 mothers working and pack aged restaurant parties g gly popular, they were sure their alternative would be a hit “We've found that working mothers in particular love our parties and so do the kids,” says Chalmers. “The mothers can arrive home from work and the party is set up and ready to go. “Since we provide disposable plates, cups and cloths, all she has to do afterwards is scoop them up and put them in the garbage.” The parties are organized around themes such as Mexican Fiesta or Teddy Bear's Picnic. Younger children can feast on decorated sandwiches while older children eat stuffed pita bread pockets. And every party regardless of theme has the big favorite: a chocolate and marshmallow pizza. MAKING CHANGES . . . The Castlegar Savings Credit new roof installed. The root should be completed by Union in Slocan Park recently had the scattolding ot a next month, a spokesman said. magazines nervous By GORD McINTOSH TORONTO (CP) — For the past eight years Canadian have flourished under the imp: jon they were d from foreign petitors by two important pieces ition. a! Now those federal regulations are being tested by the entry of two American competitors — Newsweek and National Geographic — into the Canadian market. ' ‘The domestic magazines fear that once the door is ajar things will revert to the old days when the industry was kept anemic by the flow of advertising dollars south of the border. “Our concern is the fact that the advent of Newsweek and National Geographic might open the door to others coming to Canada, which would have a very serious effect on magazines in Canada,” said John Crosbie, president of Magazines Canada, an industry association. This week the inaugural edition of Newsweek Canada hit the newsstands in response to what the New York-based publisher says is a growing demand by Canadian adver- tisers. Although all the editorial material originates from New York, the Canadian edition is printed in Owen Sound, By CHARLES HANLEY The Associated Press More and more capitalist investors are buying their way into Communist economies. To Marx they may have been “plunderers,” but to his heirs they are partners. At last count, more than half the governments of Comecon, the Soviet-led Communist economic com munity, had laws offering joint business venture ies. The latest to open arr to western their doors: Cuba and North Korea. Cc ist-capitali i include a comp’ parts factory in Romania, a beach resort in China and a chemical plant in Hungary. “It’s a trend,” said Carm McMillan, an Ottawa economist who has studied the growth of joint ventures. “The holdouts are the ideologically conservative countries, the Soviet Union among them,” he said. “But I wouldn't rule it out for the Russians . . . There are signs they may be ready to consider it.” The most aggressive courter of capitalists is Deng Kiaoping’s China. Last spring it designated 14 cities as 3 economic zones where foreign investors get tax breaks and cheap land if they build factories. By cutting western entrepreneurs in on the action, Communist governments are sinning against a command- ment of Marx — capitalists shall not be allowed to exploit labor. CHEAP LABOR But cheap labor is what the Communists can offer. What they want in return is the new technology. “It is not so much’ matter of needing the money, but of needing know-how, of faining a partnership in il technology,” said McMillan, who teaches at Carleton University. Some do need the money. When it adopted its joint-venture law in February 1982, Fidel Castro's government in Cuba said it envisioned enterprises that would bring in “more financial resources, raw materials, enacted the first joint-venture law in 1970. Since then, eight other Communist governments have followed Comecon member Hungary, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Cub and Vietnam, and non-members China and North Korean. Four Comecon members do not have such laws — the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czech and Communist investments HUNGARY Regarded as the most successful East European country in attracting foreign investment, Hungary tas tl joint ventures. The U.S. drug company Eli Lilly and Co. is the partner in one, a chemical plant just getting off the ground. The government in 1983 liberalized conditions for foreigh investment, exempting foreign partners from customs, trade and currency regulations. CUBA Economists say the Cubans must establish manu facturing industries to create new jobs. Officials promote the Communist island to foreign investors as politically stable, with high education levels, low wages and no strikes. But no deals have been reported. The U.S. trade embargdaghich cuts Cuba off from it natural nearby market, is one factor discouraging investors. YUGOSLAVIA The Yugoslavs are debating a liberalized law, possibly taking effect this winter, that would allow foreigners a majority stake in joint ventures. Local enterprises in Yugoslavia's decentralized system are often unable to put up the capital needed for 51-per-cent shares. CHINA Elements of free enterprise have been introduced in agriculture and industry and western business partners are sought out. Some examples: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. will produce cigarettes in China for sale there and abroad; Otis Elevator Co. will manufacture elevators and the French-owned Club Mediterranee has agreed to part-ownership and operation of a South China Spersist for the outside investor. Western businessmen grumble about such every day problems as obtaining telephone service, finding good local materials and low worker productivity. One French company with a plant in Poland imports western consumer goods as incentive “pay” for its Polish workers Despite the problems, the movement is clearly toward joint ventures. The passage of an investment law by ideological hard-liner North Korea in September may have been the best evidence of it. McMillan, who recently attended an International Mongolia. Here is the joint-venture picture in four countries: Economies A meeting in Hungary, said C "8 ec show interest in getting lists in our local Ont. Canadian advertising is handled by a Toronto sales rep house, but all officials of Newsweek Canada are based on New York. USES LOOPHOLES Early next year, National Geographic, also based in New York, plans to split its U.S. print run to carry Canadian advertising in magazines imported into this country through a loophole in the Customs Act. Unlike Newsweek, National Geographic has no plans to open a small editorial office here next year. Neither development was supposed to happen after the federal government drafted measures over the past 20 years to protect the domestic industry, which employs 25,000 people according to Statistics Canada. Foreign publications held 60.5 per cent of all newsstand and subscription sales in Canada in 1981, compared with 70.1 per cent in 1971 Now the domestie industry is concerned the two American magazines will be the first wave of publications slipping through gaps in the regulations. MacLeod's may expand WINNIPEG (CP) — Mac. Leod-Stedman Inc., a hard ware and general retailer based here, is negotiating to buy a controlling interest in For Alderman RE-ELECT Marilyn Mathieson . «tl PAKULA, robert (Bob FOR ALDERMAN The Royal Canadian Legion Grateful Thanks To all those who participated in our P. ry Campaign in Castlegar & District from Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 170 Castlegar-Robson. West Kootenay Power & Light Credit Co. Lt nion Bosse's Jewellery Medical Clinic hl Castlegar Selkirk Lions Club RCMP. City of Castlegar Twin Rivers L No. 70 Mol SuperValu (Plaza) Liquor Store Castlegor Amnesty International No. 66 Century 21 Castlegar Co-Op Transportation Society Robson Evening Group Cominco Taks Furniture Store Kootenay Savings Credit Chris D'Arcy, MLA Castlegar Savings Knights of Pythios Castlegar United Church Stonley Humphries Secondary School Kiwanis Club of Castlegar Robson Women's institute Senior Citizen's Association Branch No. 46 $1. Joseph's Catholic Women's nde Costie Tire Knights of Columbus Central Food Store Adco Floors Caldset Groceries eogue Auxiliary to Castlegar & District Hospital Sentinel Lodge No. 146 Minto Chapter No. 79 Order of Eastern Stor CKQR Radio ILW.A. Local 1-405, Myron F. Bevans, D.M.O Mountain View Agencies Due to a mislaid list of contributors, we logize for any issi P Robinson Little and Co. Ltd., another Winnipeg-based firm which operates about 175 small department stores throughout Western Canada The talks involve shares owned by Clare Leckie, pres- ident and major shareholder of Robinson Little, said a statement issued when the negotiations got under way Leckie holds an 81-per-cent interest in Robinson Little. In April, the company re ported a $1.9-million opera ting loss for 1983, the second consecutive loss. Robinson Little has about 150 employees in Winnipeg. ‘Hot tips' a m VANCOUVER (CP) — The biggest mistake an investor can make is to follow “a hot tip,” Dr. Morton Shulman told a money-making sem inar, wright and lecturer Betty also said that women inves tors allow emotions to in fluence their financial de cisions. Freelance author, play Another major mistake is Jane Wylie of Toronto, 53, to make an investment in agreed that women often do haste, he said. allow their emotions to play a Speaking to about 2,000 role in making an invest people who each paid $15 to ment. attend the seminar, the 59 A woman who is thinking year-old Toronto author, lec- of buying a house is likely to turer and financial adviser take into consideration how istake the purchase would affect her family, she said. Her advice to women about to make an important in vestment decision: “Don't be scared.” Shulman, who writes a monthly column in The Money Letter, a personal fi- nance newsletter, said most of his readers never invest. They read his remarks to keep informed of what is going on, he said. *Health Care *Weight Control *Catlo Gel *Skin Core *Make-Up *Hair Gare Including a special line for athletes AVACARE Natural Source Products ‘By People Who Core Ava Products etain the true values of the plant gel and actually bring changes you can see and feel All are HYPO-ALLERGENIC and within proper PH range PRODUCTS FOR Also household and animat core products. “4 For More information Pleose Cal! GLORIA FOMENOFF at 365-8367 Cl COURTESY FREE. VAN: Jefferson Jtouse MOTOR /NAJ CELEBRATING OUR /Oth YEAR OF SERVICE TO THE INLAND EMPIRE W 1203 STH SPOKANE, WA 99204 ALS eg Maelo BREAKFAST * AIR CONDITIONING ° SUITES AVAILABLE British Columbians Back To Work. 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