The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, April 1, 1992 AMBER NEWS CASTLEGAR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1995 - 6th Avenue, pet ie B.C. VIN 4B7 + (604) 365-6313 + Fax (604) 365-5778 Travel Info Centre report in visits to the Chamber office ten per cent in 1991 to 2,978. Telephone inquiries were up 13 per cent, but mail inquiries were down eight per cent. This is very significant as the province as a whole experienced a 1.98 per cent decrease in visits to Tourists Infi Centers. MISTER TIRE SALES 215/65R15 215/70R15 225/T5R15 215/75R15 205/75R15 ” 205/75R14 $93.50 185/70R14 $89.95 480 COLUMBIA AVENUE CASTLEGAR, B.C. 365-7145 PRICE $129.95 $99.95 $119.95 $99.95 $96.50 ang In Castlegar Are ang. We need career minded individuals. Retail experience helpful but not necessary. Rapid advancement to management, where current managers are earning 40K plus. Apply In Person To: Sandman Inn 1944 Columbia Ave., Castlegar April 1 + 7-9 p.m. < tT os 2 =] @ am @ o & = <= — ° o = Statistics to date for 1992 show thal we are showing signif- icant increase in tourism growth again this year. Luncheons Luncheons are again being held monthly. Guest speakers dealing with interesting top- ics will be im attendance. This is also a member forum Directors are available to answer your questions about the chamber and to listen to your advice and concerns Each luncheon will be adver- tised. Please call Marci at 365-6313 if you wish to attend What it the Chamber does for you oe _- ™cn Chamber acts as a voice for the business com- munity. In recent times, the Chamber has lobbied for the approval of the Celgar Modem- ization Project, for the wansfer of T.F.L. 23 to Pope and Talbot, and is still lobbying the provin- cial government for an early start of the Robson-Castlegar bridge. Group Insurance for Small —— Chamber have two plans to choose from. The business may have only one employee and still qualify. Call the office for details. BC Business Network — The Chamber has computer access to Merchant alert! The following events in April will bring visitors into our com- munity: April 10,11,12 Old Time Fiddler contest, attracting approximately 100 - 150 out of towners. April 18 World wide Church of God conference aitracting approximate 25 - 30 out of towners. April 24 - 26 West Kootenay Trade Fair. Unknown number of out of towners Home business WOLBSNOP Sponsored by the Castlegar Commerce Facilitator: Bruce Lacroix Selkirk College April 10, 11, 12 Registration: $75 Course will include: Charac- eS ST art « Desert Home Sappect Urgently Needed Volunteers to deliver Meals-On- Wheels approximately 1 hour once a month. Anyone interested please contact: Castlegar Home Support at 365-2148 1464 Columbia Ave. We ane ~ a Excellence in Service Award Presented to: Natalie Hipwell Downtown Shell This award will be presented every week to someone in Castlegar who shows extraordinary service to his/her customers or clients. The recipients will receive an award plaque to keep courtesy of Kats Trophys and a lunch for 2, value to $20.00, courtesy of the Fireside Dining Room. WU We'd like everyone in Castlegar to know there is an “Excellence in Service” in their community, and to congratulate each of them personally. If you know of someone that offers “Excellence in Service,” Jarrett at 365-5266, or drop a letter at the Castlegar Sun with your suggestion. call me, Jon terisnics of an files of successful Home Baad Businesses; Home Based Busi- ness Opportunities: Local Bylaws Home Based Busi es; Sources of Assistance; Busi- It also p and private and services throughout the — The Chamber sponsors seminars and work- shops that may be beneficial \o our members. Super Host is 4 recurrent we sponsor and is one that enhances one's ability to deal with the public. Everyone in a business would benefit from it. On April 10, 11, and 12 we are sponsoring a Home Based Business Workshop at Selkirk College. Please call the mation on investment pon counseling, and wain- ing programs for current employees, Soorka Information Centre Although we provide tourist information for the entire province, our main role is 40 tell this region and Castlegar specifi- cally. Our staff are trained as Tourist Information Officers with emphasis on local recreation, points of interest, restaurants and accommodation, As the business segment of any community strengthens and grows, so does the community itself, Our mandate is to facilitate this process. sored by Castlegar Chamb May $- 10 Tra silver ‘City Days pr 24 Indoor Garage Sale & Custom Car Show. of C Grad ness Plans made simple; Bi records; Time Management: Business Equipment; 10 Secrets to Success; Why businesses fail — avoiding the pitfalls. To register, call Marci at 365- 6313. = Grenby 5 tlegar Pa Jane 5 Miss Castlegar Pageant June 20 Stanley Humphries Secondary SchooiSelial Col- June 26 - 28 Castlegar Sunfest Any event you would like to see in this. Calendar please call us at the Chamber 365-6313 or fax 365-5778. Continued from 3A You can leverage the results of your savings. If you contribute the $4,000 to an RRSP each year. you could then tse your (for example) $1,650 tax savings to pay down the mortgage. Take it one step further. Instead of waiting until the end of the year to make the RRSP contibu- Assuming your RRSP conwi- bution will create or imcrease a tax refund, complete the form from your local tax office giving your employer permission to withhold less tax ai source. Then, for example. increase your mor- gage payment by $137 a month - the additional amount of take- home pay you should find on your paycheque. By throwing $1065 a month at the 25-year 10.5-per-cent $100,000 mongage you just wok out. you will own your home free and clear in 16 years instead of 25 years. That will save you an amazing $74,000 in interest. In the meantime, of course, your $4,000 annual RRSP coniri- bution (earning ah average 10 per cemt a year over 25 years) will grow to $424,728. In other words, brown-bagging it could easily produce a most respectable half-million-dollar payoff. Or, to be negative, eating your lunch out every day over a 25-year period could cost you half a million dollars - not simply the $4,000 a year you spend but what that money could have pro- duced for you. That's called the ty Cost. Of course, your feelings are just as important as your finances. You might hate sand- wich (or other home-made) lunches. Perhaps eating hunch out is an important part of your work. The convenience and variety of eating out might be worth more Accent Carpet Care We have the BEST PRICES! J Carpet Care 365- 2593 to you over the years than the other things you might spend your money On or invest in. And if you have enough money for your other sg; fs saving and investing, you can probably well afford to buy your lunch. All I'm suggesting here is that if you want - or need - to save money, look at some of those habitual, everyday expenses to see which ones might be trimmed or eliminated. If you do decide to cut back, then be sure to redirect your sav- ings to a specific place - special savings instrument, RRSP, debt reduction and so on. Otherwise, that money will simply disappear into general s] Looking at it from another angle, you can see that cutting expenses to save money is far more effective than trying to earn more money. If your taxable income is more than about $30,000 a year, you have to earn roughly between $6,800 and $8,000, then pay income tax on those additional eamings, to end up with that same $4,000 in savings. H&R Block wants to Save you money We dig for every deduc- tion and credit to which you are entitled. We'll find you the biggest tax refund you have coming. Wednesday, April 1, 1992 The Castlegar Sun Page 5B No telling where h I'm pretty proud of my boyfriend, Sugarlips, because he g0es to college, Actually, he's been going for a couple of years now, ever since I convinced him that becoming a duck is not a career goal. He wrote two books: How to. Turn your Bathmb into a Duck Pond, and the ever popular sequel, “What to Tell Your Land- lord About the Results of Book #1.” Actually, it’s a well-known fact that my family is well educated. All of us now have degrees and it worries me. If Uncle Bernie doesn’t quit printing those things, we could end up visiting him in jail. Why, he could end up like my cousin, Julius Rottenberries, who works in the Criminal Justice sys- tem. Julius says that the justice he and all the other criminals get is, well, criminal. My grandfather was highly decorated as a WW II veteran.. Not only was he decorated, he was often very well lit, too. During the war, he headed ion Kissey- Telly. He was trained as a Canadi- an spy in Russia to trade of Trail, B.C. has next to Yokes features fresh west coa’ on the last weekend of ipa’ of the Castlegar branch if Hall eres. eas Weekly inner: The bent tan in ‘ith Siocan now seafood and Mexican food Going pace _ Nick's Cepital actor fas. moved to 4130 Minto Road in the seag! park. national Spy Pension Plan and Missing Person's Pension because he lost his memory in Yugoslavia. We often worried about grand- pa's memory loss. How could he lose something that he never had in the first place? Finally, as a last resort we had him de-pro- grammed, de-regulated, de-sensi- tized and disinfected. He went onto an illustrious career as a door-stop. Due to the confusion he so richly deserved, grandpa often fancied himself as Napoleon or a Pencil eraser, but we loved him right up until the time he was tubbed out. My career has taken a different turn than my grandfathers’. At first, I started out in the workforce where I've noticed that there's a lot of compulsory work going on just to get a lousy little pay cheque. So I became a crime-fighter. Oh, sure, I know I look ordinary to you, but when someone screams, “Help, Super Crime Fighter! Help!” I dash into the nearest phone booth and change into my Super Crime Fighter's pajamas with embroidered epithets got anything better to do than put crime-fighters behind bars? Usual- ly they release me on my own rec- Barker’s Scratches & ~~ Selections wee Lynn Barker aay mother, Mrs: Patsy Inclined, worked for years u-the house of Parlia- ment in Ottawa where she learned the Par- liamentary National Anthem titled, “The Best Defense is Non- sense.” She was always nervous about going into the women’s washroom and usually get arrested for indecent exposure. I get arrested so often that I’ve Started giving myself up for sheer force of habit. Haven't the police ognizance. If I can recognizance myself in the mirror, they let me go. But it’s sure a hard way to make a living, being in jail all the Where are the censors? Dear Ann Landers: I am still upset about something I read in the papers several weeks ago, At a charity basketball game featuring celebrity rap stars at City College : Bayley) js the WANTED Automotive Parts Person Experience an asset Apply to Box 422 Trail Times 1163 Cedar Ave., Trail V1R 4B8 Did You Know That... Wife abuse is not a symptom of a prob- lem marriage, but is inappropriate, unac- ceptable criminal behaviour. Castlegar Women’s Association 365-2104 in New York, young people stam- Peded into the gymnasium, crush- ing each other. Several people, trapped at the bottom of a stair- well, suffocated to death. Insensi- tive to the My mother noticed my ~-year- old raincoat was looking a bit shabby and I said I was looking for a new one. She went on a senior citizens’ bus trip to one of those big discount dead and dying, fans made a mad rush to get auto- graphs from celebrities. Later they robbed the malls, spotted what she (ought was he most beautiful rain- coat she'd ever seen and bought it, A assuming that I would reim- Ann Landers ‘the most widely read syndicated columnist’ dead. Eight people were killed and 29 were injured. Mayor Dinkins has ordered an burse her for the $200. The coat is burnt orange and ly ugly — I hate it. Also, it Tonight I sat down to enjoy a good TV program, and what was I offered? “Murder Without Motive,” “Lynch Town,” “Bad Influence,” “Hostile Takeover” and “Last Days of John Dillinger.” There was nothing beautiful, nothing uplifting, nothing wholesome or educational — just violence and junk. Do you see a connection here? What is supposed to be entertain- ment ends up as headline news in the paper. Where are the censors? Are they US? If so, what is wrong? We are deep into nutrition, fighting a war against junk food. Why shouldn't we also fight against garbage for the mind? — Heartsick in Alabama Dear Alabama: We've gone over this territory before, but I’m game to go again. The majority of people must want garbage because we're getting a lot of it. Teenagers who grow up watching TV knifin- gs, shootings and rapes can immune to violence. They don’t care who they have to kill or crush to get what they want. The ratings are king. I’ve said it before and 1°11 say it again. Peo- ple who want high-level. no-smut TV can get it on public broadcast- ing. Dear Ann Landers: I’m caught in the middle of a family dispute. I think I’m the innocent victim but everyone else acts as if it’s all my fault. cable 10 ~ Schedule for Apr. 1, 2 & 3 Wed. 6:30 pm, Thurs. 9:00 am + West Kootenay Today —Looks at Home-based Business — held in Castlegar plus this week's highlights. Wed. 7:00 pm, Thurs. 9:30 am + 1991 USCC Youth Festival (Part 9) - Highlights of evening activities. Produced by USCC Video Society. Wed. 8:00 pm, Thurs. 10:30 am * Trail Jr. Smokeater Hockey — Repeat of 2nd game of North/South finals of Rocky Mountain Jr. Hockey league. Thurs. 6:00 pm, Fri. 9:00 am Gavel to gavel coverage - March 31 SPECIAL NOTE: If the North/South Rocky Mountain Hockey League series goes 3 games, the repeat of the 3rd game will begin after the Castlegar Coucil meeting. PLEASE NOTE: Shaw cable will carry the question and answer period pf the B.C. Legislature Monday to Thursday from 2 pm till 2:30 pm Gaily. Sunday, Apr. 5 + 5:30 pm - West Kootenay Today - repeat from above. * 6:00 pr - 1991 USCC Youth Festival- repeat from above + Castlegar City Council — is the wrong style for me. My mother cried and said she meant well. She's on a limited budget and can’t afford to throw away $200. My husband and I have a much higher income and I think we should give Mom the $200 and try to sell the coat. My husband is very thrifty and Says I have to wear the coat if we Pay for it. He claims the color is irrelevant and that the coat will keep the rain off. The whole family is taking sides. What do you think? They will listen to you. Please help. — Crying in the Rain, Rochester, N.Y. Dear Crying: Tell The Last of the Big Spenders that you are going to give your mother the $200, donate the coat to charity and take a tax deduction. Then do it. It sounds to me as if you have a bigger problem than an ugly rain- coat. Volunteers Needed 365-3127 or 365-7512 This 54” roll top with letter or legal size file drawers our $839 ou $298 because a sign on the door said, “Warning: These bathrooms protected by video surveillance cameras with digital igher education can go audio sound coming to a theatre near you. Finally, she quit working for parliament and got a job in air conditioning. 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