“sy ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT com August 9, 1995 The best weekly in the west! a! ENTERTAINMENT = ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Branch 17. SUMMER HOURS [Mon.- Thurs. 2 pm- 10pm | Fri. - Sat. 11 am-11 pm Castlegar & District Recreation Department and The Castlegar Sun present ew, County ~ e () Fair A This event 1s sponsored by Thursday, August 10, + 1-4 pm =a Castlegar Community Complex! a * petting 200 + pony rides * animal care stations ¢ crafts + demonstrations + games Open to all ages (children under 7 must bring a buddy | 14 yrs. or older) Wear hat & sunscreen. Bring bathing suit Bring Biggest vegetable; ugliest and towel. vegetable, most unusual vegetable FREE--FREE--FREE--FREE--FREE--FREE Concession Available Py t Slocan Valley Recreation q ng Commission #8 Rec 1 Box 8, Slocan Park, B.C Phone: 226-7744 + 2ND ANNUAL SLOCAN VALLEY POKER FLOAT RACE - It's all in the cards! Float down the Slocan River. Best poker hand wins. Prizes for silliest costume or float and best handmade hat! Inflatable craft only. Entry Fee: $3 per person. Call for details. + MEDIVAL KNIGHTS: AND LADIES - Kids will make a medival goblet and platter, dress up like the days of King Arthur and feast before the day is done. Wed. Aug. 9 9:30 am to 12 noon. Slocan Park Hall. Instr: Lady Ann Popoff. Fee: $15/1 session (inc, mat'ls.). PRE-REGISTER BY AUG. Ist. + A DAY AT CAMP LLAMA - Kids will get to know Llamas real good and go on a mini-trek with them too! Location: Kootenay Llama Trek, Crescent Valley, Instr: Bruce McPherson, Fee: $20/ 1 session. MINI-TREKKERS 1 (Ages 6 to 9 yrs.) Thurs, Aug. 10th 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., MINI-Trekkers 2 (Ages 10 & older) Fri. Aug. 11th, 10 am to 3 pm. SIGN UP TODAY. 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In its style, this novel reminds me of Evelyn Lau's Fresh Girls, which deals with the nitty-gritty of prostitution, or Roger Caron's Go-Boy, which focuses upon prison life. These people have led tough lives, and their books almost rub our noses in the sleaziness. The young strippers that Atkinson writes about spend much of each year on the road traveling from city to city by Greyhound They live out of suitcases, shop in local stores during the day camp out in the local strip-hotel, and do as many as six dance rou- tines daily As Atkinson notes. the pay is good, but conditions of work are often ugly. Some of the rooms where they stay are mere dives, some of the dance-spaces are slovenly, and a few of the bars are out-of-control Many of the men she and others dance for are unfriendly and abu- sive, though a few are appreciative of the provocative routines. Airy Mountain Appliance Service ca ONLY *20 For friendly service anytime call GoRDON to TURNER Most of the friends the strip- pers make are other girls on tour. They share their joys, their annoyances, their costumes and makeup, and their stories. During her two years on the road, Atkin- son secretly kept a journal Journal notes creep into the novel occa- sionally, but usually only add in more details. The ecific details and the fresh look at a life most of us can hardly imagine keep this novel alive. It is written in a direct “here's how I lived” language laden with profanities. It connects us to the reality of life in the bars and the back corridors of rundown hotels. It speaks of men who approach strippers for sex and compan- ionship, men who want to reform them, and men who watch the strip routine as a substitute for the excitement they seem to be missing in their own liyes. But above all, the novel points out that stripping is a job like many others. It has its routines, it is often boring, and it needs a life in the afterhours to keep the strip- per from going crazy. Drugs and alcohol are part of this backdrop, and Atkinson doc- uments how these are linked to strip-life-work as she proceeds from hotel to hotel around the province Almost lost in the detail are two interesting subplots that might have been given more play in the novel As a child, Atkinson was in and out of hospitals with colitis and finally had her bowel removed. How she managed to be a stripper and never revealed her “interna stoma for removing waste prod- ucts from her body is beyond my comprehension. _Soyife Uniforms & Jackets HALL 10 ) suo can sommu S 31 - AUG 6, 1995 7:50 am (Monday to Friday) LIVE SIMULCAST SUNSHINE RADIO BIRTHDAY SHOW 6:00 pm (Wed.) 9:00 am (Thurs.) 11:30 am (Sun.) SUMMER ACTIVE - CASTLEGAR COMPLEX In addition, Atkinson grew up in a familywhere her parents split up-While she was still young and battling her illness. Her father was a university the front row for the best view are husbands and boyfriends from all classes of society. If so many men need to watch a stripper for sexual excitement, ? 4 : Diana Atkinson professor at UBC, so the life of academia was well-known to her. She wanted his love, but he Iefi the family while she was still very young This may account for why she sought a life completely counter to the one she knew once she left home. Her first boyfriend — before she even began stripping — is a case in point How she could have chosen someone so ugly, exploitive, and bummed out is hard te f fe Ironically, during the time he is using her, she comments how lucky she is to have him. While the novel exposes the conditions behind the bright lights, it also is an indictment of male-female relations in our soci- ety. Many of the men sitting in ‘Complete Body & Paint Facilities Auto Glass Replacement Towing 2316 - 6th Ave., Castlegar 365-5114 then what is not happening in their homes? Highways and Dancehalls is worth a read. It is not a brilliant literary text, but it is a first-rate social document written by a young woman with promise Atkinson's hopes and fears — through the medium of stripper- narrator Tabitha parallel! the dreams of many of our young people as they make their way in the world today Let us hope that the backdrop to the jobs they take on the way to something better is not as bleak as the bar-scenes experi- enced by Atkinson. Currently, Atkinson is a stu- dent at McGill University in Montreal, and spends her sum- mers in the Nelson area. Only * Bases Restaurant You can find ariques colectabien , potte: Located just past the junction on the Slocan Valley Highway See you at Rose's Restaurant ‘OPEN SUNDAY FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE SUNDAY HOURS ARE AS FOLLOWS: Wednesday, August 9, 1995 The Castlegar Sun Page B5 How to become a millionaire in 25 years BRUCE MORRISON For The Sun When attractive investment opportunitics arise, it's not always easy to come up with the cash you need to take advantage of bargains. Your money may be tied up elsewhere, or you simply might not havé saved enough to invest On a.moment's notice Like many Canadians, you've probably been down this road when it’s time to make an annual contribution to your RRSP. The yearly deadline approaches and you scramble for cash, perhaps even borrowing to make your contribution. Periodic contribution plans are an easy way to eliminate this problem. They allow you to invest automatically by regularly transferring a fixed amount from your bank account into an invest- @ Forests ment, such as a mutual fund Such weekly, monthly, or quar terly contributions make invest ing easier because it's less painful financially to contribute, say $300 per month for 12 months than it is to come up $3,600 at once. Plus, your money goes to work earlier, You might be surprised at how quickly your money grows. If you were to invest that $300 at the end of each month is an RRSP earn ing and average annual return of 10: per cent after 25 years you would accumulate $370,277 to put toward your retirement That's even better than you would do by waiting until the end of each year to invest the full $3,600. By making end-of-the- year lump sum investments, you would accumulate $345,049—or $16,228 less. Of course, the benefits of regu- lar investing grow ‘if you invest larger amounts. By contributing $1,000 a month toward an RRSP earning 10 per cent, you would have $1,234,256 at the end of 25 If you wait to contribute 512.000 at the end of each year, you'll have $1,180,165, or $54,091 less. Also, by investing in mutual funds in this manner, you take advantage of dollar-cost averag- ing. In this way you will buy more fund units when unit values are lower, and fewer when prices are higher. This usually means lower average costs, plus it will remove any temptation you might feel to try to “time the market” and invest at just the right moment There's another benefit as well—by contributing through- out the year your money begins earning tax-deferred returns ear- years lier, which could result in a larg er retirement nest egg. Of course, the same early-investing benefit Applies to non-registered investments (although without the,tax shelter) Ask your tinancial advisor about the periodic investment plans available to you Participating is usually as sim ple as filling out a form. Specializing in: Home-made breads, pies & more! Also “RUSSIAN FOOD” including Borsch, Pyrahi, Varenniki, Lapsha Located Playmor Junction Come in & visit ust! Please recycle PUBLIC NOTICE WATER RESTRICTIONS Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 34 of City of Castlegar Water Regulations and Rates Bylaw 703, mandatory water restrictions will be in effect from June 15 to September 15, 1995 between the hours of 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m, daily The above water restrictions also prohibits the use of water for irrigation, sprinkling, private car washing and or construction involving soil removal or replacement. Any person who violates the mandatory water restrictions, is liable on conviction to a fine of not more than $2,000.00. Water usage exemption permits may be applied for at City Hall, 460 Columbia Avenue Dianne Hunter City Clerk Continued from 2B They also need to know exact- ly how much timber is there, what species of timber are repre- sented, how old they are, what the soil and the terrain is like, what special restrictions and environmental considerations may apply, and a thousand other vitally important details. Those answers are increasing- ly being provided by computer- based technology. Small hand-held computers called data loggers allow a forester at a remote site to record vital information for tasks such as tree inventories, tree scaling, machine time studies and field mapping Once this information has been captured, a telephone and a modem are all that’s required to send it back to a larger computer at head office for analysis and stor- age—simply and instantly. You might notice a second little black box mounted in the forester’s vehicle. This one is a miniature satellite receiver that picks up posi- tioning s from the Global Positioning System (GPS) a string of U.S military satellites that gir- dle the entire earth. The receiver provides a con- stant real-time readout of the vehicle's latitude, longitude and speed, with astonishing accuracy. The GPS can also transmit the location coordinates of active log harvesting vehicles to a Geograph- ical Information System (GIS) database located at head office. This is a collection of very accu- rate satellite maps that have been digitized and stored in a computer. “Using the GIS database and GPS technology you can measure / cut-block boundaries extremely accurately, efficiently and at less cost than is possible using con- ventional methods,” says Younas Mirza, Manager of Engineering at the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Timber Harvesting Branch. “Once you've complettd har- vesting a particular cut-block you can also transmit that information to the GIS database in order to update its running inventory of standing timber.” High-tech is also improving the harvesting and construction equipment in our forests. The Forests Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC), has recently helped to develop a much improved control system for forest harvesting and con- struction vehicles. Essentially, the new system, which is now at a pre-commer- cial stage, replaces the current hand and foot controls with a sin- gle control lever. 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