BUSINESS e Castlegar Sun WEDNESDAY, Aug Provincial grant lends a hand to | downtown revitalization program Columbia Ave. business to benefit from exterior improvement money Submitted A $6,326 Downtown Revital- wzation Program grant has been given to a Castlegar business in support of the city’s program to upgrade core-area commercial facades, Rossland-Trail MLA Ed Conroy has announced. “The exterior remodelling of thes busumess premuse 1s enhancing the attractiveness and feel of the surrounding area.” said Conroy on behaif of B.C Munic ipal Affairs Minister Darlene Marzari — whose department is responsible for assismng wath city improvement prow “The renovations are part of Castlegar’s continuing program of upgrading the community's appeal for residents and visitors.” The DRP facade unprovement grant has been provided to help renovate the exterior of Oglow Holdings Lid. at 615 Columbia Ave i funds one-third of nts to front-facing to a maximum of $350 per metre The funding also cov- ers 20 per cent of renovanons to sade and rear surfaces fo 4 maxr mum of $200 per metre “Downtown revitalization grams are helpwg to strengthen local economues throughout B.C. by supporting mumicrpal uta tives to revitalize the look and feel of core areas.” sad Marzan, spealang from Victona of Byiaw sample uthe w the lands comprsmg same Lad Inc. #2 So Avene Casc Diamme Hamser, City Clerk PUBLIC NOTICE f the City of Castlegar insends aon of public highway lyung % Hane Ed Conroy DRP grants are provided from inferest money generated by cape tal works loans previously issued under the program Grants from the capital loan revolving fund are available in ail regions of the province under a range of fev GLANCE Thought of the week Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow day for it is life Hard and high hi = sana coutliartin is nearing completion High heel areas include the new sidewalk on the west side of Columbia Ave. in front of city hall and the RCMP station, Complete re-paving of Cobumbia Ave. from ist St. to 6th Ave. will be starting soon. Hard hat areas are confined to parts of Columbia Ave. prior to the paving. Rumor has it that all the work will be done (except for the a vision Of Nope” Look to this programs designed to respond to each community's particular needs in revitalizmg economical- ly strategic areas. such as Castie- gar’s downtown busimess core Most of the revitalizanon work along Columbia Ave. is sched- uled for completion by mid- August Keep a close eye on your Investments For The Sun A basic, but critical, rule for improving your mvestment returns iS to review your portfolo a2 kast once 2 year By doug this you will see if your portfobo ss sil meennag your financial needs and goals. Sounds easy. doesn't it? 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BF mcome eee fom voor ie Ths as where we hac by gomng thew fences produc: working for yow de SE PER OS CTT Ta Be cow wom Somcepes thar wort Coma ws todiay fox 2 free comeuitianicm | Sun at your f | Camadian Remon | Castlegar and fil i of telepi and hydro poles) by mid-August, BC Tel and West Kootenay Power are stepping up their efforts to have all the poles and old lines refnoved in time for the official ‘fooferall’ and grand opening in mid-September New faces Jan Bragg is the new constituency assistant for Kootenay West MP Jum Gouk. Jan has lived in Castlegar for the last five yeats and she and hubby Geoff and them tecnagers enjoy the communay ts Jan's friendly voice you hear when you call the office, and she is the first person you see when you go into Gouk's local office in the Castleaird Plaza. Welcome Jan' From here to the moon What imctudes photos from carly Castlegar and Robson, important holidays, phases of the moon and Aunt Effie's 90th birthday? The 1996 Castlegar Heritage Community Calendar! Calendars are now available for only $5.00 at the Castlegar Railway Museum Only 2500 have been printed, and proceeds go to the Herirtage Society They're selling quickly’ New business Nadime Chernoff and Bev Gustavsson of Genelle have started their own home-based business. Snapshot Video transfers photos and onto video. complete with background music. They've done it before and figure it’s a good business proposition! Awarded Heather Zanussi of Rossland was honored recently at the Royal Bodycare International Conference in Dallas. Heather placed among the top 10 Canadian reps and was selected, along with 5 others, to be the first nationally certified trainers for Royal Body- care in Canada, 'to help people learn how to regain their health and build their own Royal Bodycare business at the same time Same faces, new places Chris Osachoff has joined the staff at the new Kal Tire store mn the Castlegar Industrial Park. Welcome! Sign o° the times Doctors Cunsolo and Robens, dentists as well as co-owners of th Kootenay Orthopedic Service. have installed their new sign at former ‘Kanigan Professional building on Columbia Ave. near Cotumbia Plaza. Permit approved VanCorp Investmetits. the developer of the forested land in down town Castlegar. has had its development permit approved by the city and ts currently preparing the working drawings for the sate. Con Straction of the shopping plaza is expected to start in early October. wath the roof on by winter and store occupancy scheduled for March 1996. Work will be sarting simultaneously on the development’s comdonzums. with occupancy slated for April 1996. No name for the development has yet been announced. Souvenir scouting? If you're looking for the perfect souvenir of Castlegar and the area. hamd carved Doukhobor ladies in various sizes are available from Ogiow Paunt and Wallcovering or from the Spinning Wheel Restav- ramt beside the Doukhobor Museum. And the Railway Station Museum has postcards. coffee mugs and other souvenirs available to send home with relatives and friends. Special order Doug Thompson of Thompson Guitars in Bonnington reports that a customer recently came into his store to buy a custom-made acous- tc gumar This is not unusual. What is unusual is thaf the customer flew over from Takamine, Japan to buy the guitar and then flew back Natural. there were pictures taken and Thompsor hopes the castomer will send him copies of the photos and more customers. The mext scheduled overseas customer is coming in from France sometume im August or September. Thompson's acoustic guitars are known the world over for their hand-crafted elegance and are built night here m the Kootenays. Way to go, Doug! Paving paradise The portion of Pass Creek Road leading up to Suicide Hill has beem re-paved and the concrete abutments along the edge of the hall are being replaced Motel improvements ‘The folks a the Castlegar Motel, at the top of Sherbiko hill in Castle- gar have renovated thei small storage building and tumed it into a laundromat for the exclusive use of their residents and RV guests. Help sought BC Tel Interior Region Communications Manager Ed Clark is seeking support of the business community Tegarding a change that will allow other telephone companies in the country, but not BC el to broadcast other services such as cable TV. By not allowing | BC Tel a distribution undertaking licence, BC Tei believes that Braush Cotumbsa residents won't have the same choices as other Canadians Letters should be addressed to the Honourabié John Maniey. MP . Mimser. Industry Canada or the Honourable Michel Dupey. MP. Mani f Canadian Heritage Market open The folks # Bluecrop Farms have opened t her market buil Thrums mear the turnoff to their farm. Che — ck out thew blueberries and raspbermes Winter Wishes Summer Dreams While 5 fe packing for a summer Vacation, remember to include ee a Have your picture taken holding The ic he Y Spot and enter it in our Winter Wishes omest. You could win a tnp for two anywhere Aurline $ thes Of one of three other great prizes. ne Castlegar Sun at 468 Columbia Ave. in Summer Dreams o Bring vou pi m@ an official entry form Wednesday, August 2, 1995 The Castlegar Sun Page By ‘New economy’ gives new meaning to wealth GEORGE COLLICOTT For The Sun The long talked-about global village economy really has arrived and yep — it’s not just your imagination — just about eosin has changed! Bid a fond farewell to the days when B.C. was a cozy, remote corner of the world. Today, Asia and Europe are just nano-seconds away by phone, fax and modem. That means we're now compet- ing with everybody on earth. The playing field has changed. Ditto the rules. In her 1992 bestseller, “Shift- wealth that is available to us today is knowledge itself. “That's what today's brain-based busi- nesses are all about,” says Strong “We have to develop the human intelligence and view it both us a product and a driving force. And I believe that approach will lead to future sustainability on the to buy yourself a Rolls Royce by now for about $1.33--and you'd get several thousand kilometres to the litre! As a result of all this, the most important “engines” of wealth creation today are the companies doing research, development, design and engineering. Compare that with Japan, which spends 200 hours per yea Canada is 15th in research and development and last in terms of our ability to apply new technolo- gies effectively. The good news is that compa- nies here in B.C. are already world leaders in satellite commu- Bryan, chief economist for the Council of Forest Industries of British Columbia, our forest indus- try will continue to play a vital role in the provincial economy. Technology has allowed us to remain internationally competi- s and subsea technol “Believe it or not, if current trends continue, B.C.'s information technology business will be second in economic importance only to the pow- erful forest industry, just three years from now.” Comp s developed in B.C, controls thie Canadian space arm on the U.S. space shuttle Innovative distance-learning pro- grams pioneered at B.C. colleges are being marketed around the world. Although the majority of British Columbia's knowledge- consultant Nuala Beck explains that the “engines” of our old economy were mass manufactur- ers. Their “fuel” was cheap and abundant every derived from nat- ural resources—oil, coal, gas and water. They created wealth by converting those raw materials into finished goods. But that was then. According to University of Victoria Presi- dent Dr. David Strong, the true planet earth.” And our new fuel, the means of tuming that knowledge into a valuable, saleable product, is the tiny microchip. It's plentiful, it's cheap and it's getting cheaper all the time, even as its power con- tinues to multiply at a dizzying rate. In fact, if the automotive industry had developed like the microchip you'd probably be able The question is; how well is Canada performing in this new game? In fact, the picture is a lit- le disturbing. As of 1993, Canada ranked 11th among 23 industrialized countries in terms of overall com- petitiveness. We rank 20th in terms of job training. In fact, we spend an average of seven hours per worker per year on training. based firms are still quite small, their numbers have been increas- ing at 15 to 20 per cent per year for the past ten years. Believe it or not, if current trends continue, B.C.'s informa- tion technology business will be second in economic importance only to the powerful forest indus- try, just three years from now. But don't jump to any hasty conclusions. According to Dick Local centre sees increase in student employment Official notes 40 per cent increase in job placements over '94 SUN STAFF The recent 11-day casual job competition held between the Trail/Castlegar, Nelson and Grand Forks Canada Employ- ment Centres for students has ended with “outstanding results,” says a spokesman for the local employment centre. “The Trail/Castlegar area showed great support of local youth during the competition,” said local summer employment officer Jeromy Schmidt. “This year’s result of 43 place- ments shows a 40 per cent increase in casual job orders com- pared to last year’s final total of 30 placements.” The final tally between the three participating employment centres was close, with the City of Nelson winning the competi- tion with a total of 52 place- ments, Trail/Castlegar in second with 43 placements, and Grand Forks coming in third with 40 placements. All three Student Employment Offices showed great improvement in casual job orders over the two week period compared to last year. Schmidt pointed out that just because the competition is over does not mean that employers and homeowners can no longer hire students to perform summer work. He said there are still many students looking for work this summer. Castlegar’s Canada Employ- ment Centre for students is open until late August to meet the needs of both students and employers. “While some people nifght think that by August most stu- dents and employers have met their job requirements, this proba- ‘Local boy’ makes good with Order of Canada award Submitted Dr. Carl Goresky of Montreal, Quebec, has been named as an officer of the Order of Canada for his years of work in science and medicine. Dr. Goresky, nephew of local residents Vicky and Gordon Pet- titt, grew up in Castlegar. He is the son of Dr. Victor Goresky, a well-known physician who prac- tised in Castlegar from 1937 until his death in 1965. Carl Goresky is the Head of the Division of Gastroenterology at Montreal General Hospital and Professor of Medicine at McGill University. He took his medical training at McGill University. After five years of specialty and research training, mostly in the United States, he returned to McGill and began work in the new laboratories of the McGill University Medical Clinic at Montreal General Hospital. There, he was appointed a career research investigator of the Medical Research Council of Canada. Dr. Goresky's research has focused on the circulation of blood in the liver; in particular, how nutrients and medicines are transported from the blood into the cells of the organ, where they are used as fuel or metabolized. We weld anything... Anytime ¢ Anywhere iCcCE METAL WORKS 5-811 Dr. Carl Goresky Dr. Goresky has recently becn honored for his work by the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and by the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease. Carl Goresky and his wife Vicky and their children have lived in West Montreal since 1964. Carl is an avid outdoors man. He loves fishing and hunt- ing and has returned almost every summer to the Kootenays, where he likes to visit and to climb Kokanee Glacier with his friend Allan Woodrow of Castlegar. _/ Spider beetles -Pest Remedies Nien #21 bly won't be the case this year,” said Schmidt. “There will still be lots of students looking for jobs, especially in Castlegar, And with the Babe Ruth World Series hap- pening in Trail next month, a lot of casual help will probably be needed.” This area’s Canada Employ- ment Centre for students is locat- ed at 835 Spokane St. in Trail. Schmidt can be reached there at 368-5566, ext. 119. 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