_—~ Castlegar News Update ‘90 Now celebrating our. 2nd Anniversary r 365-3003 GENCY SERVICE Alex Fasthuber, Marcelle Wright, Kevin Blackman, Jeff Johnson e RENOVATION WINDOWS © PATIO DOORS © SEALED UNITS ® MIRRORS ¢ ALUMINUM DOORS ¢ PLATE GLASS ¢ AUTOGLASS CASTLE GLASS AND WINDSHIELDS LTD. 2228-6th Ave., Castlegar 365-7666 Hair Annex on 3rd Street in Annex knows hair care Hair Annex stylist Cindy Mairs ta! son of Hair Annex owner Loree Krac! time out to chat with two-year-old Gerrad Krachenfels, Firm likes t Castlegar has been in business at the same location now for 13 years. The salon, which provides a full range of hair styling including colors, streaking, perming, cutting and roller sets, is currently under renovations which owner/manager Loree Krachenfels hopes to have finished by fall. Krachenfels purchased the business from Johnnie Parkin in March 1987, “We have achieved a great reputation for great family hair care,’’ Krachenfels says. ‘We have an excellent understanding of hair care, new styles, new product$. We take the time to care about you \and your hair in a comfortable and friendly at- mosphere.”” Krachenfels says all of the stylists at Hair Annex are professionals who are courteous and helpful. “If you’re looking for a new look, we take the time to find a style that suits you and your everyday busy lifestyle,’’ she says. Future plans for the business are to complete the renovations and accom- plish an -even better reputation for family hair care, Krachenfels says Hair Annex also provides tanning sessions and ear piercing. o stay local Kootenay Computers Inc. is the business that has been known as Kootenay Informatics for the past five years. The name change was made to comply with government regulations regarding the naming of businesses seeking company status. The business is owned and operated by the founders, the Swanson family of the Slocan Valley — Karl and Esther, their son Tim and his wife Jean. They work out of the South Kootenay Informatiics, has a large selection of computers We’ve Changed Our Name But Our Quality Sales & Service Remains the Same! Kootenay Computers Inc., a family business that prides it- self in SERVICE and DEDICATION fo their customers as welt os offering products they know they can maintain and service for years to come IDM 386 Performance Leader Intel 80386 CPU 20/25 MHz 0 Wait State. SIM Module Ex Tower/Baby/Full Size Cases DOS, OS/2, XENIX, PC-MOS NOVELL & PICK Compatibility 64 K Cache Optional a ; ve £9 Ca 1 Chee a4 G4ee dG a 7 Cth a4 4 t HOURS OF BUSINESS Mon.-Fri. 9.a.m.-5.pim Sat. 10.a.m.-3 p.m t * PERSONAL COMPUTER SYSTEM ergs, — FOR INFORMATIVE SALES, SERVICE & SUPPORT CALL — Kootenay Computers Inc. FORMERLY KOOTENAY INFORMATICS “Your Computer Professionals” DIVISION OF KOOTENAY COMPUTERS INC * XT BAT 286 * AUTHORIZED NOVEL We Care About The Way You Look! Seated: Loree Krachentels (owner). 6 yeors experience styling. Left: Cindy Mairs 5 years experience styling. Right: Marianne Grazlatto 4 years experience UNISEX HAIRSTYLING © CUTS * PERMS * COLOURS ® STREAKS You can trust your appearance to our experienced staff. We regularly attend hair shows in order to bring you the most current hair fashions styling SUNTAN SALON We also feature a CALL FOR AN APPOINTMENT OR DROP IN HOURS Tues.-Sat 9ea.m-5 pom EVENING APPTS. AVAILABLE Slocan premises with their technician Darwin Anderson and salesman Roger Terhune. The company is represented in Trail by A&G Compu Systems with two people on staff. The company has proudty become the authorized retail outlet, installer and service centre for many reputable computer products. Some of these are Laser Computers, IDM Computer Systems, AutoCad, Novell Net- working Systems, AccPac Business Software Systems, Commodore and Amiga products, Aldus Pagemaker Desktop Publishing, AST Computers and Roland Music products. Kootenay Computers has ac- cumulated in its five years of com- puter business probably the largest collection and selection of parts and pieces in the Kootenays. With four people available for service work on the road throughout the West Kootenay area, Kootenay Computers staff are becoming known as the dependable response team who try their best to keep all types of com- puter users up and running. The company prides itself in having hired six people who have attended Selkirk College. The motto is ‘keep it focal."’ Also, a very strict adherance to ‘‘legal software’’ use is a rule at Kootenay Computers. All technicians and installers are being continually sent to Vancouver, Toronto and other upgrading centres to upgrade, qualify, and gain legitimate cer- tification in order to properly look af- ter all customer needs. This family business prides itself in service and dedication to its customers as well as offering products the staff know they can maintain and service for years to come. Hydro saves power B.C. Hydro has saved 48.7 gigawatt hours of electricity, enough to service 5,000 homes, in the first year of its Power Smart conservation program, Hydro of- ficials say. Blair Trousdell, Power Smart project manager, said the Crown- owned utility hopes to save 2,300 gigawatt hours of electricity each year over the next 10 years as a result of Power Smart. “That's equivalent to the an- nual power needs of 230,000 homes,”’ said Trousdell. The Power Smart program — |_ introduced one year ago — is the most high-profile of Hydro’s at- tempts to postpone expensive dam-building projects for as long as possible. For example, building the Site C dam on the Peace River in northeast of British Columbia would cost Hydro about $3 billion and force it to borrow money on world financial markets. Programs include buying elec- tricity from independent power producers and the more efficient use of Hydro’s generating facilities In the residential market, energy-efficient refrigerators and water heaters (which together con- sume about 40 per cent of the elec- tricity used by a typical residence) have contributed the most savings; in the commercial sector, The mining industry in the Kootenays has grown and matured since these miners worked the Le Roi Mine in Rossland in 1908. Chamber of Mines provides vital link The Chamber of Mines of Eastern B.C. was born in 1925 out of the old Protective A iati numerous miscellaneous volumes per- taining to the mineral industry, The PPA was organized in 1921 as a and topographic maps and a com- Guidelines for Mineral Exploration, as well'as a limited number of local geologic maps. Each year thg chamber conducts a vehicle whereby often uneducated and unsophisticated (in those days) could protect themselves from the unscrupulous mining promoters of that era. The function of the PPA was to look after the interests of prospectors, to act as a lobby for government legislation affecting them, to advise on the best handling of their_proper- ties and to help get capital to develop those properties. Formation of the Chamber of Mines in | 1925 reflected both the growth, and increasing maturity, of the industry as distrust of the promoters faded, andthe chamber took on the additional responsibilities of looking after the interests of mining and allied industries as well. The Chamber of Mines of Eastern B.C. continues in its role of prospec- tors’ advocate, maintaining close links with the prospecting fraternity and with exploration and mining companies. The chamber is an in- dependent, non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to the support and encouragement of mining and exploration activity and investment in southeastern B.C: It provides a forum for information exchange and education about the industry and a link between prospectors, gover- nment, industry and the public. The chamber continues to monitor proposed changes in legislation which might affect the industry and to communicate the views and counsel of industry to government. The chamber is interested in land use issues and continues to advise gover- nment on the local impacts of —its policies and decisions. The chamber has representatives on both the Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce and on the Kootenay Region’s Natural Resources Task Force and Regional Advisory Group, and in this fashion represents the in- terests of the industry in a variety of forums in which “land-use and-en- vironmental issues are becoming ever more important. It also is a source of information about mining in the region, which the chamber considers to encompass the area enclosed by the Alberta and in- ternational borders, north to Revelstoke and west to the Okanagan and maintains an extensive library of reference materials dating from 1876. There is a complete set of the old annual reports of the B.C. Depar- tment of Mines, reports of the Geological Survey of Canada, business. PI ive mineral ion mainly of samples i pr course aimed at i with a well- B.C., as well as from around the world, available through the cham- ber. Its collection of ores is one of the best in B.C. and over the years cap- tured many of the top awards at the functions at which they were exhibited. The chamber also distributes safety manuals, pamphlets on proper road- building techniques, and the rounded basic introduction to the mineral arts and graduates have an important impact on the area’s economy. Their research and success in locating and assembling good properties and their hard work have been instrumental in bringing several million dollars in exploration activity to the area over the past few years alone. By GEORGE ADDIE The Kootenay area has one of. the highest concentrations of mineral deposits in Canada. In a relatively small area the whole geologic time scale is represented. At Kimberley there is the Precambrian Aldridge For- mation. Moving westward, this is foltowedby- younger Cambrian rocks, which include the “Kootenay Arc’’ deposits of massive lead and zinc in a dolomite host rock called the Bad- shot Formation. At present. Mikado Resources and Turner energy are exploring such a deposit at Mt. Abbot, east of Trout Lake. In lower Jurassic time the Rossland Formation of volcanic rocks and sediments was formed. These are now being explored by Pacific Sentinel Gold Corp.,-and others, for large gold-bearing shear zones and other types of gold deposits. During the Cretaceous period the intrusion of the Nelson Batholith into the area produced several mining camps. These in- clude_the famous silver_mining camp at Slocan which once rivalled the silver camp of Coeur d’Alene in Idaho. One should note that the Dickenson Mine at Sandon is one of the oldest con- tinuously producing mines in British Columbia. The Rossland mining camp, which is ranked as the second most productive gold producing area in the province, is again being actively explored by Antelope The familiar yellow Loomis vans and trucks serve thousands of Canadian companies every day. Why? Because we’re in business for Future exciting for local mining * for mineral exploration because of Resources and severat-other com= panies. The Sheep Creek-Ymir mining camp ranked as the seventh most productive gold producing area in British Columbia, is another famous gold camp produced by the Batholith. It is currently being re-examined by Gunsteel Resour- ces, and by Baloit Resources Ltd: For several years now a new gold mining area has been ex- plored by Esperanza at Tillicum Mountain, east of Burton. The southern part of British Columbia offers great advantages excellent access, and good coverage > of geology, aeromagnetic surveys, and regional geochemical data. This information is all available in the district geologist’s office and at the Chamber of Mines in Eastern British Columbia. A considerable amount of unpublished infor- mation is also available from local prospectors. The obvious has been done. However, by applying new geology, geophysics and geochemistry, there is no doubt that hew mines will be found. Lately, Nelson prospectors have discovered large epithermal gold prospects. This is a new type of exploration target for the area With the recent increase in the price of gold the future of the Kootenays looks exciting. 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