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RENO TOURS JANUARY 19-26 Sands Hotel $289 FEBRUARY 2-7 Colonial Motor Inn $299 FEBRUARY 23-MARCH 2 Riverboat Hotel $299 MARCH 2-9 Riverboat Hotel $319 SOUND OF MUSIC February 21-22 DBL/TW: $154.00 pp LES MISERABLES April 20-21 DBL/TW: $164.00 pp ENTERTAINMENT Local writer gets funding The Kutenai Theatre Energy Society has awarded local writer Rita Moir $2,500 to further her creative writing. The funding comes through the Recommendor program of the cultural services branch of the community who will receive the fun- Moir, a former radio and print journalist, is one of the co-writers of Theatre Energy's recent production, Malefica. The play, which depicts the witch hunts of the 17th century, has recently been rewritten in an- ticipation of a 1992 tour. This April, CBC Radio’s Mor- ningside aired Moir’s first play, a five-part drama about the closing of the David Thompson University Cen- tre in Nelson. A second radio play, Bear, is slated for production carly next year. She has also won a national award for a work of creative non-fiction, Leave Taking, which has also been included in Best Canadian Essays, 1990. Moir is using the Recommendor funding to resume work on a play called Safe as Houses, an old- fashioned girls’ murder mystery in- volving modern social issues. Theatre Energy has a long and rich history in the Kootnays, using igi ng and developing Kootenay directing and acting talent. Their popular show, Runs Good, Some Rust, goes on provincial tour this spring under the directorship of i The is also organizing First Light, a non- alcohol New Year’s Eve celebration in Nelson. Sata Mole (stghal) te the recipient of $2. 500 from the Kutenai Theatre Energy Society to further her creative writing. Moir will use the funding to resume work on a new play. Book delivers Canadian history newspaper-style By ROD CURRIE CP Arts Writer In the beginning there was a speck. And from this speck came the ear- th, and a place on the earth we now hail in our national anthem as the True North, strong and free. Thus begins Chronicle of Canada, a 980-page volume that starts at around 4.6 billion BC to teli the story of Canada from the absolute —aowr” == WestCoast Ridpath Hotel 1-800-426-0670 - W. 515 Spraque - Spokane, WA beginning, with the formation of a molten, lifeless planet earth. It’s all done in newspaper-style ar- ticles — New Planet is Born as Sun Condenses — covering dinosaurs to Meech Lake, with 3,000 illustrations, a third of them in color. Fortunately, the editors of this latest in the worthy series of “‘chronicle’’ books skip lightly over the news-sparse millennia of fossils, ice and emerging reptiles. They do, however, touch on the ming with events like 1885 with ‘‘just massive, huge amounts of news and human interest stuff.’’ For instance, the Northwest Rebellion, the hanging of Metis rebel Louis Riel, the driving of the last spike of the CPR, new voting rights, artist Robert Harris finishing The Fathers of Confederation painting and the formation of the first hcokey league in Kingston, Ont. Chronicle of Canada (distributed milestone event, such as the arrival of the Dorset people in the Arctic. After that the book moves swiftly ahead with more detail. These include: the arrival of Leif Ericsson in North America in 1,000 AD, the French and Iroquois peace pact in 1667, the forming of the anti- slavery society of Toronto in 1851, the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the royal tour of 1939. Right up to AIDS, the Mount Cashel orphanage scandal in Newfoundland and the University of Montreal massacre. The chronicle ends at Dec. 31, 1989, which, in the view of editor-in- chief Elizabeth Abbott, is a great pity “Certainly 1990 would have been such a perfect year to do,”’ she said during a Toronto interview while on tour promoting the book. ‘There by Rai Books of $59.95) is the latest in the chronicle series including Chronicle of the Second World War, of the French Revolution, America and of the World. Written in tabloid style as if the events had just happened, Chronicle of Canada has an easy style, covering such momentous events as battles, revolution. and disaster as well as sports, movies, quirks of fate and stories about the adventures of or- dinary people. Picking the subject matter and deciding what got into the book and what was left on the cutting-room floor was tough, says Abbott. The rough material was recorded by researchers and then passed to a team of consultants headed by J.M.S. Careless, professor emeritus at University of Toronto. 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A few dates are off — for instance, the day Edward Schreyer was sworn in as governor general (Jan.' 22, 1979) instead of Jan. 17) — and there’s a mixup on the woman believed to be Ca: da's oldest living person But the Chronicle remains a han- dy, informative, easy-to-read reference with a good index and is more portable, at about 3.5 kilograms, than most sets of en- cyclopedia. CASTLEGAR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1995-6th Ave. Castleger. B.C VIN 487 365-6313 Bluetop Burger Weekly Special on BURGER Ethical investment choices available By MURRAY OXBY The Canadian Press It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your money is? Like mischievous children, your dollars may be getting into things you'd rather not be involved with. “Everybody who carries a social torch of some kind is realizing they're saying one thing and putting their money in something else,"’ says Marc de Sousa- Shields, of the Social Organization in Toronto. People who want their investments to match their personal values have many choices, he says. They range from mutual funds which avoid buying shares of companies that pollute, to organic food co-operatives, to a fund that offers loans to native-run ventures. Those who are interested in ethical investment should start by assessing their moral and social Priorities, says de Sousa-Shields. Then, says Larry Trunkey, they should determine where their money is now and whether it’s saving their beliefs. lost people find they have given no thought to integrating the use of their money in a way that serves their own values,’ says Trunkey, a broker in Chilliwack, who pioneered ethical and social investment in Canada. The choice of an investment should also be based on the investor’s financial needs, such as the desired level of income and risk, says de Sousa- Shields. “*It’s virtually identical to any financial planning Process, Trunkey says, ‘‘except it recognizes that our money and its use has social and environmental consequences.’” He says that anyone with less than $50,000 to invest should first consider the ethical mutual funds. These funds — there are about half a dozen in Canada — use a set of ethical conditions called screens to select investments. For example, the Summa Fund, managed by the Winnipeg-based Investors Group, avoids companies involved in alcohol, tobacco, gambling, pornography, poor environmental practices, or showing support for ‘‘repressive regimes."’ These restrictions eliminate half of the companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, says Patrick Ireland, Investors’ marketing co- ordinator for investment funds. rer, the restricti half of the companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, says Patrick Ireland, Investors’ marketing co- ordinator for investment funds. However, the restrictions don’t mean ethical ADVICE funds are less profitable than other mutual funds, says Beverly Sklar of the Vancouver City Savings Credit Union, which sponors the Ethical Growth Fund. “*People look at it as if we're investing with one arm tied behind our back,"* says Sklar. ‘‘(But) we have to take a second and sometimes a third look at companies to see how they do business. We feel we've been able to dodge a few bullets by doing that."” Concern over the environment is making itself felt, with the Ethical Growth Fund adding an environmental screen this year and with Desjardins Trust of its Fund this fall. The Social Investment Organization estimates there is $133 million in Canadian ethical funds. But even though the funds are an easy ‘‘off-the- shelf” buy, investors should still be prepared to do some research, says ethical-investment consultant Michael Jantzi. “Take a look at what the screen actually entails,”’ he says. ‘‘Some (funds) leave something to be desired as far as an environmental screen goes.”” “*Does the fund have the research capabilities to make an informed decision? . . . Look at the companies they’re investing in. You may not like some of the companies.”’ An investor might prefer to set up his own portfolio, based on his own screens, with the help of CIBC posts record profits TORONTO (CP) — The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce posted a record profit of $802 million this year. The results are an increase of 78 Per cent over 1989's $450 million. However, the bank’s 1989 earnings were reduced by $313 million after because of provisions for loan losses, most of which involved developing countries. But even after the loans to Third World countries are excluded, the CIBC says it posted a six per cent in- crease in earnings. The improvement was the result of increased income on its loans and service charges and of a recovery of $126 million on loans to developing countries, the bank said. A recovery occurs when payments are made on a loan the bank had previously written off as a loss. Earnings per share were $4.03 for 1990, including $1 for the fourth quarter ending Oct. 3f. Earnings per share in 1989 were $1.75. But the bank said higher loan losses, increased expenses and a $58- million loss at Wood Gundy Inc., its a broker, says Jantzi, who works at in Toronto. Other social investments include co-operatives, schemes, and loan pools and funds that provide capital to groups which would have difficulty getting it from more traditional sources. “*(It’s) economic activity that expresses a social ideal in the way it functions,"’ says de Sousa-Shields. Information on social investment is available from brokers who specialize in that area and from the profit Social Or ion. It charges nominal fees, which are reduced for those who become members. is a fee-fe vice a database on 1,500 companies in Canad. Neither group will recommend a specific investment. The Social Inyestment Organization can be reached at Suite 447, 366 Adelaide St. E., Toronto. MSA 3X9. Phone 416-360-6047. firm with News agency appoints new chief to Ottawa bureau TORONTO (CP) — Kirk LaPoin- LaPointe, 33, was a 10-year manager of CKLN, the campus radio te, a seasoned print and broadcast veteran of CP before joining has been chief of the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press, the national news agency has announced. LaPointe, currently a reporter- with CBC 'sWorld, takes over his new post Jan. 7, CP president Keith Kincaid said in a written statement. He succeeds Wen- dy Eckersley, who requested Id on its launch in July 1989, most recently as news editor of the Ottawa bureau for 2% years. His earlier assignments included three years on the Ottawa reporting staff and stints as national television writer and lifestyles editor based in Toronto. The Toronto native’s resume also includes terms at the Toronto Globe station at Ryerson Polytechnical In- stitute, where he graduated in jour- nalism CP distributes news to more than 100 daily and several community newspapers — including the Castlegar News — radio and TV stations countrywide through its af- filiate, Broadcast News. It maintains bureaus across Canada, including a reassignment. and Mail, Toronto Star and as staff of about 40 in Ottawa. Save 50° on the purchase of one roll of KODACOLOR GOLD Film VOGUE PORTRAITS AND CAMERAS LTD. (Limit one coupon per > December 24, 1990 ARROW LAKE ELEVATION 1439.63' on Dec. 8 Forecast of Elevation 1436.68" by Dec. 15 PORTRAITS and cameras Itd. © 2nd Set of Prints 14) OR © One 5'x7’ Print With ech roll of Ct film developed end (No Disc Film Pleose) OFFER VALID UNTIL DEC. 22 Meet one of the Kodak Kolorkins and see The Magic Show! 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