Page 10A The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, February 1, 1995 100% B.C. OWNED & OPERATED Fresh Whole Grade “A” or Utility RYING CHICKEN 3 per bag e Limit 1 bag/order « 1.72 kg. Previously Frozen SLICED BEEF LIVER 1.96 kg. 8 Ist Choice SODA CRACKERS 450 g. While supplies last Freybe ROAST BEEF 100 g. Garlic or no garlic 39 Gourmet CHEESE WHIZ 500 g. Mexican style Light Plain $388 300 g. tin Regular Fine Extra fine Decaf FLAKED LIGHT TUNA 1.84 g. In water 88 Del Monte PINEAPPLE IN JUICE 398 ml. Asst. varieties California Consumer Pak- NAVEL ORANGES Large size Marked by Sunkist Approx. 14 Ib. \ California LEAF LETTUCE Green or red HOMETOWN PR@UD 100% B.C. OWNED AND OPERATED =c| We now accept a 2717 COLUMBIA AVE., CASTLEGAR 365-5336 — While Quantities Last — Sale dates: January 25 thru January 28 | Accessible Debit Cards Taking one for the team! This Rocker player knows how to lean in to take the foul, That's two points and go to the line for three. SPORTS PHOTO / Jeff Gabert ‘Rockers turn JEFFGABERT Sun Sports The Stanley Humphries Senior Rockers travelled to Rossland on the: weekend and they weren't there for the Winter Carnival. Instead, they were looking to do a little plowing as they faced J.L. Crowe, Rossland and Selkirk in round-robin play. The Rockers are a young and rapidly improving team that features five Grade 10 players, two Grade 11 players arid only one Grade 12. The Rossland tournament was a test of that young talent. Their first game carne against their perennial rivals from J.L. Crowe. It was close game right to the end but the Rockers came through with a 47-45 victory. Unfortunately, they couldn’t put consecutive wins together as they lost in the next game to Rossland 99-87. They finished off the round-robin with a 62- 57 win over Selkirk. After the round-robin, three teams ended up with records of two wins and one loss. That méant the overall winner was decided by total points and Selkirk took home the prize with the Rockers com- ing in second. The tournament did not include a playoff round. The top two players for the Rockers over the weekend were Jason Archambault and Grant'Mosby and they were rewarded for their efforts with tourna- ment all-star selections. Despite the second place finish, coach John Ritchie was pleased with the effort of his young club. It is a team with a bright future. “We're looking down the road with this team,” said Ritchie, “but I"m not going to count them out. If they keep improving anything can happen.” to new wave Their main hurdle to attaining a berth in the Provincial Championships is L.V. Rogers High School in Nelson. That may not be possible this sea- son but Ritchie says the five Grade 10 players on his team give him confidence that great success is not far in the future. The next major action for the Rockers is Feb. 10- 1t when they host their own tournament, the Remax/ Castlegar Realty Senior Boys and Girls Invitational. In other action from the past weekend, the junior girls continued their winning ways in Grand Forks where they demolished the opposition en route to the tournament crown. They easily passed through the four team roynd- robin with a perfect 3-0 record after victories over * Parkland, Keremeos and Grand Forks. Coach Collette Ritchie said her only concern in the area is Lucerne High School of New Denver who beat the junior Rockettes earlier in the year. “They are our only real competitor,” said Ritchie. “But we've improved vastly over that last game and we should be ranking with them next time we meet.” The next action for the junior girls will this week- end when they host their own six-team tournament at Stanley Humphries. Games begin at 4 p.m. on Friday and continue all day Saturday starting at 9:30 am.. Besides the usual teams from around the area the tournament will also feature one of Castlegar's lesser known teams from Kinnaird Middle School The KMS girls have been unstoppable in their own league and will be taking a crack at some better competition this weekend. It should prove to be a good test for Cheryl Closkey’s talented group of Grade 8 Kinnaird girls. Things With Incredible Growth Potential Sa CASTLEGAR SAVINGS Some of the great things in life start out small. Like the mighty oak tree that grows from a humble acorn, your money will grow faster with an RRSP from Castlegar Savings. We're offering incredible rates on guaranteed term deposits, so your little nest egg can be a big one in no time at all. And if you don't have the money to make this year's ’ contribution, no problem. Castlegar Savings is offering great rates on RRSP loans, too Of course, you don't have to open up an RRSP to become a member of Castlegar Savings. We're open to anyone looking for incredible rates, service and value. Drop in to see us today and enjoy some great growth potential Helping You Get There CASTLEGAR SAVINGS Castlegar Branch #100 — 630 17th Street Castlegar, B.C. VIN 4G7 Tel: (604) 365-7232 ws) Slocan Valley Branch 3014 Highway 6 Slocan Park, B.C. VOG 2E0 Tel: (604) 226-7212 BUSINESS The Castlegar Sun WEDNE February 1, 1995 Glance Still building Sandalwood Court, the adult-oriented development adjacent to Stel- lar Place on Columbia Avenue, has one home near completion and work ‘started on another. Once finished, it will be a gated community, the first one in Castlegar. Environmental alert Concerned about the volume of unsolicited mail you receive? The Liberal MP for Waterloo, Ontario, Andrew Telegdi, has presented a bill to Parliament to amend the Canada Post Corp. Act to allow indi- viduals the right to refuse unaddressed mail. Letters of support can be sent to him c/o House of Commons, Ottawa.’ No stamp required. New marketing Fabricland, the largest Canadian fabric retailer, is introducing a new marketing plan, Called Sew Low Everyday Pricing, it will establish everyday lower retail prices. How low? Try eight to 35 per cent lower on all its regular fabric prices. The chain is accomplishing this through a number of changes, including lowering its profit margins cutting back on promotion costs on some of its gala sales events, and using its mass purchasing power. The new changes will take effect on Feb. 2. That's when over 60 Fabricland stores in Western Canada will re-open following a two-day closure during which they will implement theit new marketing plan. Art scholarship The Nelson and District Arts Council invites all West Kootenay artists and artisans to apply for a new scholarship. The only way to apply is to enter the 16th annual Kootenay Boundary Juried Exhibi- tion and be selected by the jurors to represent the West Kootenay region in the annual provincial juried art ibition. The ful artist or artisan will win a i k sum- mer program at the Atlin Arts Centre in Atlin. The winner will also receive a round-trip bus ticket to Atlin, donated by Greyhound Lines of Canada. Golf anyone? The B.C. Lung Association has a golf stroke of genius for Valen- tine’s Day: the Golf Privilege Card. For only $25 the card offers great golfing and a chance to win a set pf Callaway golf clubs. As well, golfers get free rounds or reduced green fees at 105 B.C. golf course and more than 490 courses in Alberta and the nine western US. states along with 23 golf and hotel package deals. The card is good until Oct. 31, 1995. Proceeds go to the B.C. Lung Association. How about a paint job? A total of $50,000 worth of paint is available free to non-profit orga- nizations across Canada this spring. Any Castlegar-area service group whose wish list includes a fresh coat of paint can contact the folks at Dulux Paints for information of the donation program. Dead- line for applications is April 21. Send your request to: Dulux Com- munity Paint Donations, 415 Yonge St., 10th Floor, Toronto, Ont MS5B 2E7 Sunfest plans The Castlegar Festival Society will be holding its annual general meeting tonight (Feb. 1) at 7 p.m. at the downtown Castlegar fire- hall. The society is looking for directors and for people interested in helping with the 1995 Sunfest celebrations. Businesses or groups sponsoring an event in this year’s Sunfest are asked to attend and register. Order of B.C. The provincial government is accepting nominations for the 1995 Order of Britjsh Columbia. The OBC, the province's highest award, was first presented in 1990. Since then 80 British Columbians from nearly all walks of life and from many regions of the province have .| received this honor. However, there has never been a recipient from the Castlegar area. The closest we came was skier Kerrin Lee-Gart- ner, who was originally from Rossland. Now is as good a time as any to i from our ¢ ity. Deadline for nomina- 365-2111 Assessment values climb SUN STAFF The 41995 assessment values for Castlegar increased more than 16 per cent, according to the area assessor's annual report The city's total assessment is valued at some $439 million That's up $62 million from the year previous when the total value was $377 million. The report indicates the mar- ket value of properties as of July 1, 1994, A large reason for the increase is the jump in property values. How- ever, $11.5 million of the increase came from new construction. The biggest hike came in resi- dential properties, which increased 25 per cent to $278 million. Of that, some $9 million ‘was new construction. Homes in south Castlehgar saw their values rise some 20 to 25 per cent with a typical 25- year-old, 1,200-square-foot bun- A strong residential market. helped push up the city’s 1995 assessment values. Lot values increased 15 per cent overall in north Castlegar. galow on 9th Avenue having an assessed value of $140,000, com- SUN STAFF PHOTO pared to $115,000 the year before. Gouk criticizes Reform Party Transport Critic Jim Gouk is opposed to the feder- al government's announcement that it will proceed with a gradual commercialization of govern- ment-owned CN Rail. In a prepared release Gouk called the CN task force's list of recommendations “a smoke- screen for inaction, coming from a government with no direction and no philosophy on Canadian transportation in the 1990s.” Gouk said much needs to be clar- ified about the Liberal’s long- term plans for CN and its company assets. “I’m glad they've at least con- ceded that it’s no longer realistic for this inefficient, cash-strapped government of ours to own and operate CN Rail,” said Gouk. “But this announcement is still ridiculously vague in terms of details. For statters, there’s sim- ply no definition of this obscure concept of commercialization, as d to true privatization - tions is March 9. Nomination forms can be d by contacting the nearest Government Agent's office or by writing to Honors and Awards Secretariat, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. V8X 1X4, or by calling 356-7294. Recycle those cans and bottles! Castlegar resid now have top c when they want to return their soft drink cans and bottles. Machado Bottle Depot on 4th Street gives full cash refunds on most soft drink cans and bot- tles—and there’s no limit on the number you can retum. Machados is now part of Encorp Pacific Inc., a joint initiative of major food retail- ers and soft drink packagers to simplify and improve the convenient recycling of beverage containers. Grants for groups Castlegar council has handed out a number of grants to community groups, among them: $200 for the 1995 Pitch-in anti-litter campaign that will run from May 1-7; $200 to the Stanley Humphries Sec- ondary School swim team; and $250 to the Light and Power Theatre Company of Nelson. More grants The Areal library lobby group was given $250 from the Area I regional district grant-in-aid fund. The Kootenay-Columbia Child Care Society received $500 from the Lower Arrow-Columbia grant- in-aid fund. Changing places The City of Castlegar has changed the location of its council meet- ings. The meetings will no longer be held in the basement of the B.C. Hydro building, but in the Fireside Inn banquet room. The meetings are usually at 7 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. The move is the third in a little more than a one year The city saved some $48,000 when it moved the council meetings from the building on top of Sherbiko Hill to the Hydro basement. 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And as we all know, that's already been done. So all I can really assume here is that the Liberals might support selling off a few of CN’s secondary lines, while keeping the main track under the realm of indirect gov- ernment ownership. Well, that’s just not good enough.” Gouk said he was somewhat encouraged by a few of the rec- ommendations made by an all- Liberal task force, such as a proposal that all railway compa- nies can be allowed full running rights over Canada's remaining tail lines. He described the present situa- tion as a “huge impediment” to the viability of short-line rail operators, who would be aided by a revised national running rights policy - “but only if it’s realistic and practical.” However, Gouk complained about a number of ideas in the task force recommendations “For example, the proposal to transfer CN’s non-rail assets: into a new Cyown corporation goes ~ Bashet'‘N' Things Unique Valentine Gift Boxes & Gift Baskets ® may be directed to: Richard Fish Trail Operations (604) 364-4235 Chief Public Relations Officer Waneta Turbine Upgrade Project Cominco Ltd. is proposing to upgrade four generating units at its Waneta power generating station on the lower Pend dOreille River. The project involves the replacement of mechanical and electrical components on the existing units to increase their capacity and efficiency. No new structures will be built as part of this project. The proposed project will increase the capacity of the Waneta generating station by up to 117 MW by 1998. Environmental impacts of the project are expected to be minimal. The Upgrade Project should result in some improvement in local fish habitat by reducing the volume of water spilled over the dam. The agreement reached between the Province and Cominco in March 1994 for the purchase of expansion rights at Waneta takes into account the upgrading of the existing turbine units. The Upgrade Project will contribute to the-optimal expansion of generating Capacity at the dam Cominco has.submitted an application for an Energy Project Certificate under the Provincial Government's Energy Project Review Process, and has also submitted an application for a water license to be issued under the terms of the Water Act. 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