aa Castlegar News November 23, 1908 “An Excellent Way to Build RRSP; CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION For All Your Financial & Insurance Needs CASTLEGAR SLOCAN PARK 601- 18th $1,, 365-7232 Hwy. 6 © 226-7212 Your Future" SELKIRK COLLEGE invites you to attend THE FIRST ANNUAL CAREER FAIR Thursday, Nov. 24 12-9 p.m. at the Chahko Mika Mall, Nelson, B.C. ° See College Program Displays © Meet Instructors ° Register for Door Prizes Colkirk sos CASTLEGAR CAMPUS Ikir Ww Box 1200, Castiegor, B.C. VIN 3J1 lede : Only 1 Month ‘til Christmas . . . Are You Ready? 20 orr Ea & 26 EVERYTHING REGULAR AND SALE PRICED ITEMS * New Winter Wear V * Festive Fashions ‘prpepbletany. * Great Gift Items reat OUR PERSONAL SERVICE MAKES A DIFFERENCE Fashion Crossroads 105 N. Main, Colville * (509) 684-6105 We Carry CONTEST WINNER . . . Barb Bray submitted the winning proposal for this year's Sunfest theme. Bray suggesjed this year's theme by Pioneer Days and the festivals society chose her theme over other entries. (From left) Lisa Dodds, society president Joy Jenner, Barb Bray and Helen Fehrenberg. CosNewsPhoto Sunfest theme announced By CasNews Staff Dust off your grandmother's dress and dig out your gold pan — Pioneer Days will be the theme of the 1989 Sunfest celebrations. The theme was announced Tues- day night at Castlegar council and was chosen from several entries re. ceived by the Castlegar Festivals Soviety. Barb Bray submitted the winning entry and will receive a complimen tary dinner for two to the value of $25 from Macy's Restaurant. “We had some excellent entries and it was a tough decision to make,” said Dick Wayling, last year's Sunfest vice-president Bray said she entered the com- petition because she thought that people dressed in period costume, perhaps a gold panning competition, horse and buggies in the parade and old-style food and entertainment would be a great idea for Sunfest. She also thought it would be “an opportunity to re-live and learn more about our history.” The Festivals Society is coordina ting and planning some of the events to tie in with the theme, including a family barbeque on the Saturday and a full day Sunday of old-fashioned family games and events. Other events include an even better Drag Boat show in 1989, the annual City of Castlegar Parade, the 2nd annual Chili Cookoff, and the Worshipful Company of Selkirk Vintners are anticipating another sold out crowd for their Vintners Celebration. Society secretary-treasurer Mar. ilyn Strong also suggested council may want to host a cow-milking com: petition where it could challenge other West Kootenay councils. The Society will also hold another button design competition. Any Castlegar or area resident can enter a design for the Sunfest Lottery Button. “With a theme of Pioneer Days, we are anticipating a lot of old-fashioned designs for the Sunfest button,” said Joy Jenner, president of Festivals Society. “We hope that people will phone the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce to get the necessary information on how to enter.” Jenner also said the chamber has been generous in allowing Sunfest to use the chamber and its building for a central coordinating plant. The deadline for button design entries is Dec. 31. “We will display all the entries in West's Department store front win- dow, right after the New Year,” Jenner said. “Judging will take place in early January and the winner will be announced at the Jan. 10, 1989 meeting.” Sunfest this year runs June 2, 3 and 4, 1989. What's up with B.C’s economy. The numbers are In, and for to B.C. - more people now British Columbia’s moving here than to any economy, 1988 is quite the year, one other province. with a string of well © Capital earned successes. investment in Year-to-date figures show: * 60,000 more British Columbians are employed today than at this time | | last year - more —— people working than at any time in history. * BC. exports are up 15 per cent to $12 billion. ¢ The “Help Wanted” index has increased 32 per cent. For more information about British Columbia’s expanding economy, contact your MLA, your nearest Government Agent, or write to the Ministry of Regional Development, Parliament Buildings, Victoria V8V 1X4. British Columbia forecast to climb a record 16 per cent to $13 billio: Retail sales are up 9 per cent to * $12 billion. Castlegar News TREET TALK CASTLEGAR SAVINGS Credit’ Union will celebrate its 40th year of service to the communities of Castlegar and the Slocan Valley on Thursday, Nov. 24. The credit union was started in 1948 by a group of local people who felt there was a need for such a service for this community. In 1974, through a merger with Slocan Valley Credit Union, the credit union expanded its services to include the Slocan Valley. Castlegar Savings Credit Union further en hanced its services to members in 1982 by forming a subsidiary company — Castlegar Savings Insurance Agencies Ltd., which provides insurance products for the community. The credit union has grown steadily since it was formed and now has assets in excess of $30 million. A formal celebration will be held early in 1989. THE NEW BALLOT form used in the Castlegar municipal election on Saturday was a hit. Returning officer Betty Price, says less than .2 per cent of the ballots were rejected. That compares with four per cent rejected in the recent aquatic centre referendum. Price called it “the least rejected ballots on record in a municipal election in our municipality. We were most pleased with this result.” WATCHING THE BIRDS at your feeder on a wintry Saturday morning while drinking coffee and reading the paper doesn't sound like science. Yet thousands of participants in Project FeederWatch, a continentwide bird feeder survey, are proving that even their armchair observations can answer some important questions about the abundances and distributions of birds at feeders. Feeder owners ask such questions as: Why aren't there many Evening Grosbeaks this winter; What can I do to discourage Starlings; Why does my neighbor get all the nuthatches while I have none? By simply counting the numbers and kinds of birds. at their feeders, FeederWatch observers across North America gather data that are helping to provide answers to these and similar questions. At the same time, the information helps scientists to monitor changes in winter bird distributions and to study the effects of weather and habitat on the number of customers at bird feeders. “Project FeederWatch was started in 1987 by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology,” explains Dr. Erica Dunn, project coordinator. “The results from the first year are already providing us with insights about birds at feeders. For example, we're learning that the most abundant birds, such as House Sparrows or Starlings, are not necessarily the most widespread — of the 244 bird species reported by FeederWatch participants. Dark-eyed Duncos were present at more feeders than any other kind of bird. Anyone whos is able to identify the birds at their feeders is welcome to jpin Project Feeder- Watch. Counts are made on one or two days every two weeks from November until April, and then recorded on special computer-readable forms. To enroll, send your name, address and $9 to: Project FeederWatch, Long Point Bird Observatory, P.O. Box 160, Port Rowan, ON. NOE 1MO. ME orning sizes up to EE 354-4410 € BABY STo a\ 402 Baker St. Nelson Re Now Offers a great selection of clothing and gift items, including plush, books and toys. Nov. 23-30 Featuring: Three killed in unrest MOSCOW (REUTER) — Renewed ethnic fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijanis killed three soldiers and injured 126 people, an Azer- November 23, 1988 AS ‘% CASTLEGAR SAFEW baijani Foreign Ministry said today. The spokesman told Reuters the casualties occurred Tuesday after troops were called to quell rioting in the town of Kirovobad and villages in the Nakhichevan region, both in the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. A cur- few has been imposed in Kirovobad, he said. Few other details were immedi- ately available about the violence, the latest in a lon, over the Azerbaijai Nagorno-Karabakh in which more than 30 people have already died this year. The spokesman said the latest casualties included North Armenians and Azerbaijanis. Meanwhile, 200,000 to 400,000 Azerbaijanis demonstrated in the centre of the Azerbaijani capital Baku, and most factories in the city were on strike in a protest begun a week ago over the territory, the spokesman said. Armenian sources said film of the Baku meeting on | Azerbaijani tele- vision showed people waving Muslim flags and declaring solidarity with an Azerbaijani youth sentenced to death for his part in ethnic riots in Feb- ruary. The youth, Akhmed Akhmedov, was one of three Azerbaijanis charged with organizing and taking part in seven murders during three days of riots in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgajt which killed 32 people, mostly | Armenians. . One of the banners at the meeting read: Freedom to the Heroes of Sumgait, a journalist at the Armen- jan news agency Armenpress told Reuters. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman said he thought there had only been one Muslin flag at the meeting. GUARD HOMES Interior Ministry troops were guarding Armenian homes in Baku, and there were no reports of casu- alties in the city, he said. A spokesman for the regional Communist party committee in the town of Nakhichevan declined to give details when contacted by Reuters, saying, “Do not interfere in our internal affairs.” Meanwhile, in the Armenian capi tal Yerevan, large crowds gathered in the central Opera Square and some workers also went on strike, a spokesman for the Armenian news agency Armenpress said. News of the unrest poses a further serious problem for the Kremlin, which already faces a peaceful revolt in Estonia, the other two Baltic republics and elsewhere in the Soviet Union over planned changes to the Soviet constitution. Although the Supreme Soviet, or parliament, in Latvia stepped back Tuesday from an immediate clash with Moscow over the reshaped con- stitution, journalists in Riga said the problem was not resolved, only pushed away. “It is quite clear the widespread popular feeling in all three Baltic republics is very strong — that the changes as drafted in Moscow could easily be used to diminish our na- tional rights just as we are beginning to exercise them,” one said. The Supreme Soviet of Estonia, the most radical of the three repub- lies, voted last week to give itself veto powers over any decision of the federal Supreme Soviet in Moscow which meets next Tuesday under call from Gorbachev to approve the federal constitutional changes. This Christmas Include a Gift Subscription to the Castlegar News Pertect for friends or neighbors who have moved away Perfect . . . for a son or daughter no longer living at home Pork Loin Roast Fresh © Whole or Half $$3.95 is. 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