May 10, 1989 Taste for exotic frui HAMILTON (CP) — Exotic fruits trendy as increasing numbers of sophisticated shoppers Jook for something unusual with a dif have: become ferent taste. As conversation pieces, you can't go wrong with the kiwano, an African horned melon with a sweet lime-to banana laste when fully ripe Or how about chermimoya, @ heart aaped fruit with alligator-like pale and the combined taste of pineapple, banana and papaya? One sure thing — exotic imports are pricey The most popular tropical, the kiwi fruit, started it all and now has become almost as commonplace as the orange or apple. The demand for exotic fruit is in creasing all the Kevin MacIntyre, advertising and marketing manager of The Barn Fruit Markets in Hamilton and Burlington, Ont WORTH MILLIONS Specialty-produce has become more than $100-million business in Canada time, says because people are travelling all over the world on business and vacations. “They try these things and then want thei they come hor says Macintyre. ‘People are also being exposed to tropical fruits because restaurants are serving fancy desserts and are using them to create arrangements on plates."* Exotic produce at Barn Markets is like a United Nations of fruit, Passion fruit from-New. Zealand may be a neighbor of tamarillos from Colom- bia, red bananas from Equador may rub skins with blood oranges from Italy, mangos from Peru mag sit alongside papaya the United States, and starfuit from Taiwan may share quarters with U.S. kumquats. Macintyre puts jicama = Mexican mango and starfruit at the fruit charts for whe from potato top_of the customers in his area. SEE NEW ITEMS “Just when you think you know them’ something else along. Whoever heard of the atemoya, exotic about comes Put guests to work in the kitchen CALGARY (CP) — A new style of entertaming ironthe rise It takes a little creative thinking to execute, but you wind up with a har monious, well-orchestrated dinner Putting on a dinner party traditionally involved the hosts in preparing and food, hopefully with panache Now some busy people who like to entertain are taking a different ap: proach. They invite friends or tamily for a meal and get the guests to do the has serving quantities of cooking. It’s more a matter of conduc ting a fine food event than slaving in the kitchen Julian Armstrong, the Montreal Gazette, very popular in Quebec small group of guests come for an iniimate supper,” and everyone rolls up their The food and its preparation is the entertainment PICKGUESTS Not everyone is familiar With the concept and you should choose guests carefully, Linda Green, a Calgarian who entertains trequently She said whisking and chopping are food ediior of says the idea is well chosen she said, * sleeves notes great equalizers and conversation star ters First, let people know what your plans are ahead of time, said Green Suggest they dress casually vite too many Don't 1n- Small groups — up to eightat the most — work best Include cannon, one entertainer, a loose who can keep the cooks amused Guests will fall into one of two said-her husband Bruce Calgary volunteer. for categories, lawyer and en grill There are the watchers and the doers Green, a thusiastic duty “Appoint the most reluctant one as wine steward and_have him or her supervise chilling, opening and serving the wines. Plan your menu to suit the group When the Greens entertained some Calgary they reproduced a Jaques Pepin menu, including salmon foodies, encroute Friends trom the Maritimes were delighted to cook fresh Jobster with fresh buttermilk biscuits and a conglomeration salad On another occasion, kept asking if he could go sit down now ‘Don't one fellow said Green serve and even give in, ‘Guests should cook, help clean up. Theme nights such as Hawaiian, Italian or Cajun also work well. BARBECUE FINE Go tor anything done on the bar becue or indgor grill — try top grade beef burgers and home-made french tries or planked salmon with hollan daise For dessert buy or make crepes and let someone fill them with sweetened It you have an ice: cream maker, delegate someone to do truit custard or sorbet “Your only expectation should be to have a good time," said Sharon Bur ton, another Calgarian known for her “Don't invite cream and fruit entertaining evenings. anyone it’s necessary to impress. You want your guests to feel com tortable and relaxed, so don’t clean up too much beforehand. Don't wait on your guests. Let them set the table and serve, ttused to be only women spent kitchen. Let They'll enjoy the evening in the everyone in on the act. Second rough rally planned SAN FRANCISCO (Reuter) — Un deterred by some of the world’s roughest roads and the deaths of two in 1988, aSouth American motor rally is going to be held again this year The Second TransAmazon Rally, scheduled Nov. 4-30; will run from Tierra del southern tip of South America, and Sack bens: abel competitors Lima to Fuego, at the ween Cartagena, Colombia, and Buenos Aires, HALF FINISHED Teams from 15 countries competed last year, and just over half of the 78 entrants finished. But the rally was marred when a two-member Chilean team ran off a road in darkness and was killed ‘It’s sad, but it’s also part of the the babaco, the manzano banana or Sharon fruit? The atemoya is a sweet and juicy heart-shaped fruit frém Florida. The babaco is a large Zeppelin-shaped fruit from New Zealand, very juicy, like a melon in flavor The mansano banana from Mexico is a short, stubby banana that turns black when ripe and tastes like a banana with a hint of strawberry. The Sharon fruit from Israel is a seedless sweet fruit resembling a persimmon: The fruits freshness depends on how it is transported. Some such as Jamaican plantain are flown to the Hamilton area and arrive 24 hours af ter picking. Some fruit comes by truck ts on rise from California and arrives within a week and others come by boat arriving in.aweek to 10 days. Kiwi fruit’ is an example of how popular ‘an fruit becor “When we first hai kiwi, we were lucky to sell a case-a week,"’ says Macintyre. “Now we're looking at 150 unknown can cases a week and more than 250 cases a week if they’re on special.”” He foresees the appearance of many more exotic fruits “Who knows what we'll get wh trade opens with China or what will happen when we deal with Zanzibar and get products native to their par ticular region?” BUSINESS DIRECTORY TELEPHONE 365-5210. reset of June. ond Directory will be caatpied ete $b. Ht for the C New: m. Tuesday, May 30 for. the ene Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Avenue Castlegar’® 365-2151 Certified General Accountant Office 368-6471 Residence 365-2339 1250 Bay Ave., Trail some 14,500 kilometres, the organizers say This is the longest, roughest) race in the toughest, world," says Michel Jean-Pierre, a consultant to the and promoter, San Francisco-based Amazons Co. 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All that jazz y night. — Stanley Humphries secondary school jazz band performs at a band concert at the school Cancer deaths said high By CHERYL CALDERBANK Castlegar school district ranks high provincially in deaths from stomach cancer and gall bladder cancer, says the author of a newly released report mapping cancer deaths in British Columbia. Dr. Pierre Band, head of epidemiology at the Cancer Control Agency in Vancouver, said in an inter view Castlegar ranks first for males for gall bladder cancer, second for females, and third for stomach cancer in males and seventh for females. The study is based on death cer tificates of people who died of cancer over a 27-year period from 1956 to 1983 Band said about 100,000 cancer cases have been mapped in the 74 school districts. “He said Castlegar’s rates for gall biadder-cancer-are higher than the provincial rate. There were 10 deaths in males and 12 for females over the 27 years. Band said researchers might ex: pect the rate to be three times less than the figures show He said Castlegar’s rates for stomach cancer are significantly higher than the provincial average — 1.5 times higher for males and 1.8 times for females. During the 27-year period, there were 31 cases of stomach cancer deaths in males in Castlegar and 15 females died of stomach cancer “We are not talking of an epidemic thing,” he said. ‘But the fact is that there are mo? (cancer deaths) than you would expekt based on the provin- cial rate." Band said what is most interesting is the fact that both stomach cancer and gall bladder cancer is high in Castlegar for both sexes. “It tends to indicate possibly an ex- posure to some environmental cause,”* Band said. But he added that he doesn’t think the presence of a pulp mill in Castlegar is linked to the high rate of stomach cancer deaths. Band said it could be related to a number of things, including dietary compounds However, when looking at all cancer deaths in Castlegar for that period, the school district ranks 46th for males out of 74 school districts and 33rd for feinales Band said the cancer mapping statistics should not alarm residents. Benne By GARY KINGSTOM Former B.C VANCOUVER (CP) — “At this time it’s the first step. . . tc go further and investigate why such things happen.” Band said the cancer mapping has shown higher than expected rates of cancer in sonfe areas of the province and lower rates in other areas. continued on page A2 VANCOUVER (CP) — En- vironment Canada will know next week whether fuels laced with toxic wastes are being imported into British Columbia from the United States, a senior official said. “We don’t want to say there is a threat or there isn’t at this point,’? said Bernie Heskin, regional direc- tor ofenvironmental protection. Samples taken this week by the federat agency wilt be analysed during the weekend. “We should know by Tuesday, maybe Wednesday,'’ Heskin said inan interview. ‘On Friday, federat Environment Mihister Lucien Bouchard closed 125 border crossings to fuel tran sporters after reports that fuels Fuel word awaited illegally blended with polychlorinated biphenyls were sold in Ontario and Quebec Trucks hauling fuel will have to enter Canada through $0 designated crossings to make it easier for authorities to find tankers carrying contaminated fuels. Provincial Environment Minister Bruce Strachan said he doubted-contaminated-tuels were entering British Columbia from the United States because the province .felies mostly on British Columbia and Alberta fuels eS yet, We have beerrumabteto find any evidence in our searching, and we've looking Monday,”’ Strachan said. toxic been since City taxes By CasNews Staff Castlegar homeowners will pay more in municipal taxes this year to accommodate a 4.5 per cent city bud. get increase, council finance chairman Ald. Doreen Smecher told Castlegar News. A Castlegar taxpayer with an verage”’ home assessed last year at approximately $50,000 may pay $18 more in municipal taxes, Smecher said However, the $18 figure is not really accurate, she said, because property assessment values have decreased an average of 5.2 per cent this year The most accurate way to describe the increase is as 77 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value, she said. The rate increase was approved Friday at a special council meeting to adopt. the bylaws for the city’s 1989 budget. The budget itself will be adop- ted at a speciai meeting Monday night Castlegar taxpayers will be providing through taxes a total of $2.6 million for the budget that has a reyenue increase of 4.5 per cent over last year’s budget. Total revenue this year will be $8.02 million, said Smecher Major expenditures in the budget’s five-year capital plan include $450,000, for paving next year and $500,000 next year and in 1991 for a new police building, rise Both expenditures will depend on the outcome of referedums planned for next year ‘on the two issues, Smecher said The budget increase includes the ap- proximately $40,000 the city will receive as grants in lieu Of taxes from B.C. Hydro this year. The grant program, announced recently by the provincial government, is designed to make B.C. Hydro pay local gover- nments for its treaty dams which it does not pay property tax on currently. The grant money will go for city signs, work on the ballpark at the Community Complex, the Zuckerberg Island bridge and the railway bridge on Columbia Ave. in the downtown area, Smecher said Frontage tax — which is used for sewer and water upkeep — will remain the same for residents in the north end of town because their sewer system is simple to maintain and had a surplus last year, Smecher said However, residents in the south end will have a frontage tax increase of about 10 per cent, she said, because their more complicated sewer system has not been self-sustaining as it is meant to be and has run in the red for the last two years Council approved a $13,000 transfer from general revenue to the south-end continued on page A2 Mills told to end dioxin production VICTORIA (CP) — British Colum bia pulp mills will be forced to spend $800 million by 1994 to eliminate the production of toxic dioxins, Environ ment Minister Bruce Strachan said “This will bé the most_ stringent dioxin regulation announced so far in Canada,” Strachan told a news con ference Seventeen pulp mills in British Columbia that use chlorine in their bleaching process, a technique that produces dioxins linked to cancer, must build secondary..effluent -treat ment systems by Dec. 31, 1991, said Strachan Production|of chlorinated organic compounds — which include dioxins — must also be cut in 1994 to 1.5 kilograms for every tonne of pulp produced, said Strachan. Mills now produce an average of seven kilograms of chlorinated organics for every tonne of pulp. ‘These—controls will... virtually eliminate dioxins from the effluent discharges, "’ said Strachan The regulatory changes comes after the federal government closed three fisheries in Howe Sound last Novem- ber following the discovery of dioxins in_shelifish. A popular tourist spot within a half-hour's drive of Van- Howe Sound is home to two pulp mills. continued on page A2 couver, tts found not guilty and smiling Bennett said after plioning his wife at home premitr Bill in Kelowna, B.C “It will be said Doug Hyndman, a while before we finish reviewing the chairman of the times and what was discussed.” “there is no direct evidence of who called whom And he rejected several Bennett and his brother Russell were typical stock market gamblers who won big by taking their brokers’ advice, not by using an inside tip, a provincial court judge ruled Friday Judge Wallace Craig acquitted the millionaire businessmen and their longtime friend Herb Doman of charges of insider trading in shares of Doman Industries, a Vancouver Island based forest company He found that ‘‘on a balance of probabilities’ the Crown had in fact established. that the Bennetts instructed their brokers to sell more than 500,000 Doman shares last Nov, 4 before they could possibly have received any tip Outside the court, Bill Bennett expressed Satis- faction, but the former Social Credit premier refused to say if he felt relieved. “Thad mentioned when I came into the court when the proceedings first started that I have done nothing wrong. I'm not guilty and I reiterate that,” a tanned Russell Bennett and Doman, who share ownership of several race horses, made similar comments as they waded through a throng of reporters on the sidewalk outside the courthouse in a seedy area of town. All three ignored a‘persistent heckler who wanted to know ‘‘what about-the tittle guy?” The charges Jaid’ last January alleged that the Bennetts sold shares on the basis ‘of information not generally disclosed to the public. Doman was charged with conveying that information Documents introduced during the two-week trial — the most high-profile set of insider-trading allegations ever tried in Canada — showed the Bennetts made a profit of $2.1 million by dumping their shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange an hour before a trading halt. PROFITS FROZEN Those profits were frozen_pending the outcome of the trial and a possible B.C. Securities Commission hearing. securities commission The Bennetts have also been charged on Ontario and all three face a civil lawsuit filed by the CBC pension fund, which bought 350,000 shares from the Bennetts on Nov. 4 The-price-of-Doman_stock-fell_about $4_to_ $7.50 when trading resumed after an announcement that a proposed takeover of Doman by U.S.-based Louisiana Pacific Corp. had fallen through The Crown's case of circumstantial evidence was based mainly on telephone calls the morning of Nov. 4 Thé key call — made at 10:09 a.m. from Doman's Duncan, B.C.. office to the Bennetts Kelowna office — came minutes after Doman had been told by Louisiana-Pacific the deal was off. Within minutes of the calt to Kelowna ending, the Bennetts’ stockbfokers called Toronto with orders to sell their clients shares In his 60-page judgement, two Craig noted several arguments the Crown made. in asking him to infer Doman had made the call “It would be speculation and best and cynicism at least to infer that Doman immediately placed-the call to (the Bennett's office),"” said Craig URGED TO SELL Crhig also noted that stockbrokers Stan Steed and Dick McNaughton had been urging: their clients for some time to sell some or all of their Doman shares. And he accepted their testimony that on Nov. 4, they had been instructed before 10:10 a.m. to sell the shares. In its summation, the Crown had said it would be an “abandonment of common. sense’ to see the circumstances of Nov. 4 as a series of lucky breaks. The defence called no witnesses and ridiculed the Crown's case, saying it did-more to prove their clients" innocence than their guilt If convicted, each of the defendants faced fines of up to $100,000 and five years in prison