CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, June 9, 1977 “Le ae 8 lative Library THE CHURCH BELL The’ Company to See For Parliament Bldgs. News and Views ,' - ; ; 4 i Victoria, Ba Ce from ‘ : : House Framing * Form Wark — V8V 1X4 REGIONAL ECUMENICAL PARISH g Vanities ¢ Kitchen Cabinels (LEGAR NEW: he rekon ¢ Published Every Thursday Morning at “The Crossroads of the. Kootenays” CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY; JUNE 16, 1977 Arborite Work « All Forms of The spring social for the ladies of St. David's Thrift Shop took the form of a luncheon this year, and was held on the spacious lawn at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Killough. It was a highly successful: affair with a record turnout of ladies to enjoy the bountiful lunch in the warm: sunshine. Conveners were the co- chairman of the shop, Mrs. J. F. Killough and Mrs. J. Buffett, assisted by a refreshment com- mittee. Ina brief business meeting following the meal, a vote of appreciation went to Joe Kil- lough for his help at the shop, and to Mr. and Mrs. B, Trussler for their tireless work with the sale of garage rags. An exten- sive work party in the storage area is planned for once every month, and the Robson ladies offered their assistance on ao regular basis. The summer schedule was discussed, with the reminder that the shop will be open mornings only during July and August, and the public will be so advised. Mrs, J. Donnan proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. and Mrs, Killough for their hospitality, and there was hearty agree- ment that a spring luncheon should become an annual affair. St. David's Thrift Shop wishes to thank the people of the Castlegar area for their past It sary repairs to the area, then all enjoyed a communal chili supper, followed by an evening campfire with humorous skits and hearty singing. Sunday afternoon, the shores of lovely Rosebud Lake provided an ideal setting for an outdoor Eucharist service with Father Bob Purdy and Father Des Carroll officiating. People enjoyed canoeing, walking through the ‘woods, outdoor games and even swimming, Following another picnic supper, the day and the week- end concluded with singing around the campfire. A thoroughly enjoyable time for * * . As a Lenten project, the children of St. David's Anglican Sunday School collected pen- nies, with the help of their parents and other members of the congregation, Each week, the amount collected was ‘shown on a chart, the idea being to get as many feet of - pennies as possible. A final length of 127 feet was ‘reached, with pennies totalling $20.30. The money his now been turned in to the Envelope Secretary to be for- warded to the Primate's World Development Fund. . * at All those who enjoyed the CBC-TV series “Man Alive” will is only with continuing support that the ACW and the UCW of St. David's Church can provide adequate funds for their many ‘charitable projects. Only a few members of the Anglican congregation of St. David's: Church attended ‘the camping weekend held at Rose- bud Lake recently, for the Columbia area parish, but they report an enjoyable time.” About 60 people attended, some arriving on Friday eve- ning, and others throughout Saturday and Sunday. Introductions, fellowship and a sing-song around the campfire on Friday evening made a friendly beginning for the campers. On Saturday there were games and a treas- ure hunt for the children, while the adults made some neces- _Russian Lovers Prefer Machines ‘As Songwriters Some Russian music lovers prefer computer-written mel- odies to the works of human composers, Tass news agency ‘reported recently. * The agency said that 600 musie lovers, asked to choose between songs written . by be to know that the series will be re-run on June 12. ‘WORKMEN have the at the boat ramp in Sen, ep photo, and are now renewing the raft for the the iden area of the park, bottom photo. diving board pald ty a LIP grant General Carpentry aii 365-7485 §.8. No. 1, Site 29, C-1, Castlegar” Is have been supplied by the vitge of Slocan with wages y Les July and August. App! stay, we will notify you. Thank you. The Endicott Centre WIIl once again have o; enn is for summer stay during t e Centre for application forms to enroll your PeNy daughter for this summer stay. Please specify which two-week period you desire and if we can accommodate your son/daughter for a longer, Endicott Centre, Ox. , CRESTON, B.C. .VOB 1G0 Everyone Loves a Home-Cooked Smorgasbord! Especially at Graceanna’s! Adelicious Smorgasbord Featuring some Russian food Delving, by? Borsch, Fresh omemeds Pies and Bread to Go. t Graceanna’ Ss Restourent + AtCrescent Valley Near the Pollce Station NOL! 80, No 2a TWO SECTIONS (AGB). cosy ; ‘MAJOR AWARD SINNERS at Friday | evening’s Stanley. which for tho fire tine was beld inthe Castloger and District “ Centre, are, ltt to right, Karen Walter IODE Lilian OTTAWA -and Small Business ‘An Electrifying Situation by JIM SMITH In the midst of the univer-. sally heralded energy crisis, it comes as some surprise to leam that Canada’s energy. suppliers continue to func- tion in blythe ignorance of this disaster. How else can one explain pricing policies of the na- tion’s electric. utilities that reward extreme consump- tion of this increasingly rare and vital energy? Several decades ago, when there. was, in most parts of the country, sufficient water power to generate far more cheap electricity than the na- tion could use, the utilities devised a’ pricing scheme to creased. Ultimately, the ener- gy-hungry major industrial users ended up with by far the cheapest rate per unit of electricity. The electrical supply tion has changed dramatical- _ ly in recent years, of course. For the most part, Canada’s hydro potential has been ex- hausted. Additional electri- city means construction of coal, oil, or nuclear genera- ting stations, all of them very expensive to build and enor- mously costly to operate, The basic engineering fact of electrical life, however, is that Canada has far more gen- erating capacity on hand ° tight now than we need for the le future — ex. Russian and others produced by a computer programmed to write music, judged the machine mightier than the man. greater tion. Small-scale consumers were charged a base rate per kilowatt hour; as consump- tion increased, the cost de- Aluminum siding on my house for about the cost of a paint job... Aluminum siding on your house would actually pay for itself in a few short years Let us give you an accurate ‘estimate on our Great — © Metalux Aluminum Siding ® Choice of Many Colour Combinations © 20-Year Written Guarantee © Carefully Installed by Competent People Call 493-3878 Collect or Write E& H Aluminum Specialties Ltd. “Southern British Columbia's Progressive Siding Contractor” cept for some very brief pe- tiods during the day when demand jumps sharply. These brief periods of extra demand are called “peak periods” and the electric utilities plan their capacity to meet the peak demands, not the average demands, And what causes these peak .periods? A few very ‘heavy users of power. The same firms that get the low- est rates because they use the most power. Or, to put the matter another way, the users who are responsible for the highest costs pay the lowest prices. The small users of electri- city — both smaller firms and households— pay much more- _ for electricity than it costs the utility to provide it. The big users pay less than the cost. « Janitorial & Carpet Cleanin leaning * Fire Damage * Residential & Commer- cial Cleaning © Bonded 365-2326 or 365-5948 ‘ AIRWAY Maintenance Service Leo & Ray Plamondon Universal _P protection is here. Universal Pharmacare is a new concept in. health care for British Columbians—a plan to offer you and your family peace of mind and against ly high for prescrip- tion drugs. It will be especially helpful to people who suffer from long-term or unexpected illness. A brochure outlining the plan in detail has been mailed to all house-» holders in the province. Please read it carefully and keep it handy for future reference. It would be wonderful if | none of us ever required this protection—but if you should, we think you'll be relieved:to know it's there when it's needed. The Hon. William N. Vander Zalm your pharmacist will be paid directly by - Pharmacare. Are there any new benefits? _ Yes. For the first time, ostomy supplies and d permanent p will be fully oe for. Syringes for diabetics are another new benefit. Pharmacare will pay the supplier directly for these items, Whois not eligible for benefits? Tourists, transients and other temporary visitors to British Columbia are ineligible for Pharmacare benefits. People receiving fully- paid drug benefits from union- or d plans, or from DV.A., D.LA., Workers’ Compensation or Home Care will continue to What are the changes under the - new plan? * For the first time, all individuals or families registered with Medical Services Plan of British Columbia are eligible for benefits. You will be re- imbursed for 80% of any amount over $100 spent for eligible prescription items in each calendar year. This means that if such drugs cost you, for example, $300 ina year, Pharmacare would pay $160. \ . Are existing benefits continuing? Yes, Fully-paid benefits for eligible drug items will continue unchanged if you: =” 1. are 65 years of age or older and hold a valid Pharmacare card 2. receive the Handicapped Personal Income Assistance allowance 3. hold a valid Mental Health | Benefits.card 4. hold a valid Human Resourses Medical Benefits Program “W" card for yourself and your ‘dependents or o §. reside ina § licensed long- term care facility. If you are the recipient of --fullypaid benefits, be p d by those p What drug items are covered? Most drugs prescribed by your doctor, dentist or podiastrist are eligible. However, such items as patent 5, artificial vitamin i ives and over-the-counter drugs will continue to be your own financial responsibility, Your pharmacist can advise you on specific items. How are claims submitted? To receive benefits, all you do is submit a Pharmacare Claim Form, available from any pharmacist. Unless you are receiving fully-paid benefits, your pharmacist will give you an official Pharmacare receipt when you pay for eligible items. Please attach the receipt to the Claim Form. No duplicate receipts will be issued. Receipts for ostomy supplies and permanent hetics should also be hed to the Claim Form, and Extended Benefit portion of the form completed. When you and your dependents have receipts exceeding the annual $100 deductible amount, just - ’ complete the front of the Claim Form. It is already addressed. Simply fold and fasten it, affix sufficient : postage and drop it in the nearest mailbox. Who can‘answer questions about Universal Pharmacare? Your pharmacist is completely familiar with the: details of this new health plan. | ‘nant Province of “Ministry of ‘British Columbia Human Resources Parliament Buildings Victoria, B.C. VBV 1X4 ‘Arena and Chapter-Fishwick Award preseated by Mrs.’ ae F. “Killough : Killough; Rob her : Forty awards, ‘auling oe Rt 908 were presented at the 1977 Commencement Exercises of 3 paints the ‘Ag; Award and $50° was" Robert Stanley ig of Inst we Three students, ‘feded on: academic ‘ability, ‘service: and oy citizenship, received the three top awards Presented by the c on? year, by, Dan Obedkatt, Tt) was). fompanied ne ‘$75 send was ‘Sal ‘Operation program from’ kindergarten ‘to Grade 6, to. assist in the safo ‘operation of bicycles, is pres- ehtly. underway i in School Dis- ict. No. 9. . Conducted by the local HEMP, Cst. Norm Blaney says othe program will carry: much- more impact this year thanks to ‘cooperation of the board of stees for School District No. ‘9; Selkirk Lions Club and Re- gional Recreation: Commission The: police. are condueting je inspections ‘concentrat- more on’ its ‘mechanical while the Leader: : Award, : also accompanied by pee prkarorest irae orr att “Raspberry Village Dispute Goes Both Sides Heard Tonight 7 Both sides in the Rasp- . berry Lodge nursing home ex- pansion dispute are scheduled to present. their points-of-view to the Regional District of Central Kootenay board to night, About 26 residents in the . Raspberry Village area have retained legal aunaal in their fight against attempts by own- er Walter Holuboff to rezone for public use an adjacent building in which he plans:to expand the home.” “When you make any building public it makes more traffic," residents’. spokesman George Rilkoff told the Castle- gar News. “We've got nice big lots here and we want to have as little traffic as possible.” : “We've got children play- ing in the street and there are old people on the road and some building will create more traffic Seen Sate preety |. Norria. $50 ‘went to'Lou ‘Normandeau. ae gate Roth students were presented . follow ‘with their. awards” by Ald, B, ‘CasNewsFoto by. Lois oats other retpets were as from P ppl ig to visit, It's. Meadowbrook residents and developers © both «asked Castlegar city council for equal- ity Tuesday night. A delegation of Meadow: Raspberry Ladge (Let and Proposed Rezoning ta not'a place ‘to put a nursing home.” Rikoff—who said he has lived in the area 13 years—said he did not know how. Holuboff acquired public zoning for the « existing home when it opened six years ago. Residents in the area were not consulted in the rezoning of the first building, he said. ; He sald Holuboif had re- modelled ‘the .-inside of the building, a/ former Doukhobor communal: home, . without a building permit before applying to the RDCK for its rezoning from single residential develop- ment. Rilkoff said 25 of the 86 to 40 residents affected by the proposed rezoning signed a Position opposing 4 “although _fecries Aad Water Commas to each’ Lsueowner: “well above” what most. Castlegar residents » pay, although ‘the road remains' unpaved, “A gravel road, aside from places a burden Rob: n Legion Branch 170 bursaries of $100 to Winnifred | Giraud,’ Robert said Friday’ pickets ‘set up to. [- -'protest:'a Labatt's Breweries decision to distribute their own +products in the ‘Kootenay: re- gion have been. removed. Langley said Skyway Dis- tributors Ltd, will’ continue to’ . distribute Carling-O'Keefe and Molson’s products in Castlegar and Cranbrook while Labstt’s will continue to distribute their own products: Four of 10 union*members brook D: for equality in paving ‘and other services for their taxes ‘while, in a ‘Separate brief, _Fepre-, of the J “ster Ee award ‘of $65. to .Win- f tinued 0 on page 14A) “Development, Corporation’ ask- if ed ‘for equal treatment of alo y " Complaints. ‘from frustrat- ed. landowners: at. an. Agri- cultural Land Reserve hearing last: Wednesday. resulted in. a request for investigation of soil ‘cities in Ootisch +r, at Skyway in Castlegar. and Cranbrook lost their jobs June 1 when, Labatt’s, the recent buyers’, of Columbia ‘Brewing Co.. Li to ‘tak Landowners at the meet-; ing—one of.a series ‘set-up. to discuss. the 'B.C.* Land Com--. over its own distribution. " Skyway. employees ‘picket- ed the Columbia plant in Cran- brook ‘and the Columbia ware- house in Cranbrook while union members in Nanaimo, Kelowna and Kamloops ‘boycotted La-.. + people : before’ they. ‘go. else- ’ where,” he said. “By the time they've started it’s ready, too late.” Ald.’ Andy Shutek ‘told Ashton® he ‘had ‘reservations about approving the’ practice. because it could lead to Castle- gar taxpayers being “beles- guered by. : sal of’ all will allow a‘new. “‘which it’should be operating,” Harder said, “I think somebod; should be working there‘as ¢ administrator by Oct.:.1,". must! * ..-quits ia June in order to “create a sense of heed” with its educational pro- “grams, he‘ said. F “It takes time:to develop (continued on page 14A)