Sots owe ey ENTERTAINMENT They're coming to Castlegar from | all over B.C. just to fiddle around By NANCY LINGLEY ‘Sun Editor It’s music to set your toes to tappin’ and there will be plenty of it at the Castlegar and District Community Complex over the weekend of April 12 and 13. The local chapter of the Old Time Fiddlers’ Association, Kootenay Branch #9, will be host- ing their annual fiddlers’ competi- tion and they expect at least several dozen fiddlers to come to Castlegar to compete for hundreds of dollars in prize mt “We hope they’ll come from all over'B.C., Alberta, and the States,” said Pearl Mott, treasurer of the organization. “But we won't know until that night when they roll in.” ‘When they do roll in, the fid- dlers will have the opportunity to take part in a Friday evening jam session that is open to the public at no charge. “Come and dance if you want,” offered Mott. Competition in eight divisions begins at 2 p.m. on Saturday after- noon, Bach fiddler must play a waltz, a jig, and a reel, in that order. In the Duet category, two fiddlers will play together under the scruti- ny of the judges. Those judges will be Don Ferguson of Qualicum Beach, Gerard Fougere of Calgary, and Cy Lovell of Summerland. Admission to the aftemoon competition is just two dollars, The finals will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the public is welcome to attend, Tickets will be available at the door for $4. Following the prize presenta- Castlegar, B.C. room motel unit. worl, INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY .LEASE YOUR OWN 8,000 square foot facility located at 1820 8th Avenue, Features 50 seat LOUNGE, 125 seat RESTAURANT, and 200 seat BANQUET HALL adjacent to a 60 Potential Lessees must be prepared to provide a statement of net worth, business plan and corporate or personal history relating to similar business or For information please phone reply to: E.G.T. Holdings Ltd. Phone 365 - 7287 241 Columbia Ave. Castlegar, BC V1N 1G3 TASTY salsa. CASTLEG: dill pickle. 292 Columbia Ave. Clty Centre Square ¢ 365-7401 — January Special— — HOT DOG DELITES— MEXI - DOG — Chili, chips, tomato, cheddar, jalapeno pepper, AR DOG — Cucumber, tomato, relish, banana pepper, BACON - CHEESE DOG — Bacon, cheddar cheese, mustard. PEPPERONI PIZZA DOG — Pizza sauce, pepperoni, mozz cheese. RELISH - MUSTARD DOG — Just as it sounds. ELITES NACHOS, BURRITOS, Be sure to try same or our tempting: BORSCHT OR HOME STYLE SOUP ee The Castlegar Sun aoe tions a dance will be held at the Complex. Dance tickets will sell for $6 cach. The B.C, Old Time Fiddlers’ Association is a non-profit organi- zation that promotes old-time music and dancing, Old Time fid- dling does not refer to the age of - the fiddlers, who can be as young as preschoolers, but to the music that is played. Throughout the year, the local branch play at many community events, often on a volunteer basis. The group is ee iy looking for! local organizations and businesses who would like to support the monetary contributions which would.be used to purchase tro- - phies, or products or services to presented as door prizes. All donors will be recognized on the programs and trophies may be pre- sented in the donor’s name. Anyone who is interested is asked to’call Debra Tompkins at 365-2883. The local chapter of the Old Time Fiddlers, Kootenay Branch #9, will be hosting their annual fiddle competi- -tlon on Apiil 13. The fiddlers often volunteer their ser- vices, such as this performance at a seniors’ dance. SUN STAFF PHOTO / Nancy Lingley Demonstration to highlight current NEC exhibit Mary Frame, one of North Americas foremost athorities on traditional Perwvian textiles, will be giving demonstrations and a slide lecture on the technical and cultural demensions of the spining and weaving of Tacquile, Peru. ing to West K : y Ge Exhibition Centre direc- tor, Lou Lynn, “Mary's presenta- tion will enhance people’s appreciation of the textile exhibit we're currently inviting the public to see.” The current called the afternoon of Feb. 5. As a fine arts graduate, Mary Frame began visiting the island of the keeps Tecquile alive. Tecquile is an island in the Andes’ Lake Titicaca, There tradi- Tequile to i ig? and social dimensions of the fabric arts, considered to be the very finest traditional work in the world. She has visited. Tequile four times to date and has collect- ed Tequile tools under the Aus- pices of the UBC Museum of Anthropology “from whom the exhibition is on Ioan.” Not only did Frame leam the “A Family Affair; Making Cloth and Tacquile, Peru,” continues at the NEC until February 24. Frame will give her presentation there on ves, which have been handed down among the natives, for many centuries, but she gained insights into the cultural and social structure that tional of cloth and spe- cial garment have long marked various rites of passage, such as suitor’s offering of cloth to his beloved's family, or the giving of certain sorts of garment to chil- ‘dren to signify their having reached a certain stage of maturi- ty. And since the making of cloth involves the whole family — men, women and children — textile arts are the social reality of Tecquile to remarkable extent. On Feb. 5, between 2 and 4 p.m., Frame will give a demon- Stration of Tecquile’s spining and weaving technique at the NEC." The spining technique will | include the use of a simple stick and a drop spindle. Her weaving ° demonstration will focus particu- “larly on “edging” technique, including-an older approach all but lost until recently. At7 p.m., Frame will give an informal chat and answer any questions, At 7:30, she’ will present a slide lecture. The NEC extends a welcome to all. A donation will be requested at the door. The West Kootenay National ° Exhibition Centre is located across from the Castlegar Airport © on Highway 3A. Calgary Fiddlers ro tour the Kootenays The catary Fiddlers, This enthusiastic group of ine to 18-year-old musicians pre- sents both traditional and original fiddle tunes. in an innovative and youthful style. Sponsored by Mt. Royal ‘College, Calgary, the group will be performing in various Kootenay locations next week, including Trail and Nelson, on thelr way to perfor- ‘mances in Vancouver, ven, and Seattle. By NANCY HINGLEY, Sun Editor’ - BUSINESS | Adastra cutting medvac service due to, By BARBARA TANDORY Sun'staff writer ~ Adastra Aviation Ltd. is cut- ting its medi-vac service at the Castlegar airport, only a month after pulling out of the Cranbrook airport, 7 The result will be to down- grade emergency flights service out of Castlegar, Adastra presi- dent Dale Nielsen told Castlegar city.council in a presentation to Magic of compound interest Some of the best things in life are simple, Take the magic of compound. ing. The secret behind the magic is quite simple - yet compounding can Produce almost unbelievable results: T hope no magician will cast a spell on me for giving away that secret. But it helps if you under- stand how compounding works, so you can make it work most effec- tively for you. : Compound interest is the most common example, although com- pounding can do its magic when you own stocks with automatic dividend reinvestment plans, or mutual funds which also typically use the growth proceeds to buy more mutual fund units. Let’s say you invest $1,000 for one year at 10 per cent. At the end of the year (assuming the interest is paid annually), you will receive $100 interest. If you take this interest, no com- pounding occurs: you simply have the $1,000 ready to eam another 10 Per cent in the second year. (Actu- ally, with five per cent council's’ committee of the whole.’ meeting on Jan, 22, Adastra will discontinue medi- cal Smergency | flights at the end of January, and the aircraft used for this purpose is going up for sale, said Nielsen. Advising council of bis deci- sion, Nielsen said that low usage - over time has forced his hand in the matter, “The aircraft wasn’t used enough,” he said in an interview. ' $1,394 interest over the 10 years instead of only $1,000. Continue for another 10 years and the magic really begins to multiply. At the end of the 20th year, your $1,000 will have grown to $6,727 - more than two and half times what it was worth after 10 years. After 30 years, your $1,000 will have become $17,.449. So _ another 10 years.of compounding will almost triple your money. After 40 years, your single invest- ment of $1,000 compounding at The usage varied, but Nielsen said there were, 4-8 flights 9 month out _ of Castlegar. (op. Nielsen’ d the medi aged 15 flights a mouth before it closed at the end of Dec. 1990. Nielsen also blamed low usage for the Cranb closure. plane for cight years, and says his business never was brisk but began to suffer recently when the Pp _ the use of government jets to transport medical smerzeney. patients. In Cranbrook the service ‘was in operation since 1984 and aver- 10 per cent a year will grow to $45 And after 50 years, your $1,000 will have turned into - hey, presto—an amazing $117,391. If that isn’t magic, I don’t know what is. After 5G years, compounding has produced $116,391 interest - compared with only $5,000 if you had taken your $100 each year for 50 years instead of leaving it to eam further interest. You can multiply the magic of compound interest by adding to your deposit each year. Now, at the end of 10 years, you will have $17,531. You invested $10,000 ($1,000 times 10 years), Yet compounding has pro- duced $7,531 interest. Once again, time compounds the magic. After 20 years of putting $1,000 annually into your RRSP (still eaming 10 percent ), Adastra has a fleet of seven aircraft operated out of Castlegar airport. With Adastra gone, he noted, the goverment emergency evacu- ation service will fill the vacuum at Castlegar aisport. But the ser- vice will be poorer, he predicted. For one, response time will increase when medical evaluation planes will be used from Calgary, Vancouver or Kelowna. “They have to fly in a plane from one of those places,” said Nielsen. “We could be ready to load a patient in half an hour, but now response time could be from an hour to two hours.” The other concem, he said; is that in bad weather the é low usage won't be anybody. to take (patients) out," be.said. “It's going to downgrade the emergency response out of the area considerably,” he said. Nielsen appeared before coun- - cil to urge ‘the city to lobby for ” permanent edge lights along the airport runway. The need for faster ‘lighting installation will have b more ii cy response unit may not be able to fly into Castlegar at all. “There is so easy to learn you will have $63,002. After 30 years, $180.,943, and after 40 years, $485,852, So if you start contributing $1,000 a year to your RRSP at age 25, by age 65 your $40,000 of contributions will have com- pounded to almost half a million dollars. But here’s something even more magical - and although I've used this example before it still impresses me. If you started your $1,000 con- tributions when you were age 18 and stopped at age 25, leaving your $10,436 (the $7,000 of con- tributions plus compounded inter- est) to continue to compound, you'd end up with the same $486,852 produced by contribut- ing $1,000 a year from age 25 65. More P m: agic. Now to top off the trick, try to eam the maximum retum on your funds, Increase your retum by 10 per cent - that is, eam 11 instead of 10 per cent on your money - and you will increase the retum on your investment by far more than 10 per cent over the years, Save $1,000 a year eaming 11 per cent annually for 40 years and you will have $645,827 - almost 33 per cent more than the total produced with your money eam- ing 10 per cent. Increase your retum by 50 per cent - 15 instead of 10 per cent - and you will have $2,045,954. ‘That's a 300-per-cent increase, The secret is the discipline to save/invest on a regular basis, whether you use pre-authorized cheques or an automatic transfer to your RRSP or other instrument, Then let compounding work its magic for you. . when Adastra’s medi-vac service is replaced with government emergency flights, he'said."" °: However, he said in'the inter- view with the Sun that Castlegar airport is poorly prepared for out- side emergency response. Castle- gar doesn’t have paramedics who are highly trained for such emer- gencies, he said. “We don’t have qualified staff to a high enough degree,” he noted. Businesses tum to the Sun for selling their product! * Craft & Wedding Supplies 7-292 Columbia Ave. 365 - 6932 ly ‘ | THE FIRST OF TWO EDUCATION SYSTEM REPORTS: your $1,000 will buy only what $950 bought a year earlier. But coping with the ravages of inflation is atopic for another column.) However, if you add your $100 interest to your original $1,000 deposit, you will have $1,100 ready to ear 10 per cent interest the second year (assuming the rate is fixed or otherwise remains "I've seen them perform. They're wonderful. They're very dynamic, They've got good show- manship, good costumes, and neat choreography -- they don't just stand there." . That's the way Creston music teacher Monte Anderson describes the Calgary Fiddlers, an enthusi- astic group of youngsters ranging in age from nine to 18. Anderson is the local contact for the tour of the Kootenays by the young musi- cians to begin next week. “They're actually on their way to play in Vancouver, Victoria, and, finally, Seattle at the Nation- al Conference of American String Teachers," explained Anderson. “On the way, they're doing a tour of the Kootenays to help with expenses. It costs about $2,000 a day to keep them on the road. In total, the group numbers 28 said Anderson. As well as their musical director, it includes a training group who is travelling with the tour group. The training group will also be performing to hone their showmanship skills and technique. The Calgary Fiddlers have per- formed with the Calgary Philhar- monic Orchestra for ‘Prime Minister Mulroney and have shared the stage with Ian Tyson and kd. lang. As well, they were featured at the Calgary. Winter Olympic Games. Formed in 1981, the group per- forms more than SO times per year throughout C Canada and has toured Baker Street in Nelson. lenge the salt TaN Help Us Celebrate The Start Of "1991." with a (Les i "1991" Barrel Sale. IME So... only 19.91 for a Barrel of 20 peices of - Golden Delicious Chicken save 5.08. ail the Month of January f Dont forget the Salad and Fries 2816 Columbla Ave. On Sat., Feb. 9 the Royal Inn Tug o” War will take place on - Will the Ministry of Forests challenge the West Ann Alliance, will Safeway challenge Overwaitea, will L.V.R. students chal- an be called in to Lonnie.at 354-4448 and will be ' published in ‘the Nelson Daily News Sno'Fest Bulletin. And don’t forget. to buy a button. You could win a Carnival Cruise in the Bahamas... : Sno'Fest 91 - The Summer Carnival ae : February. 7.- 10 : ‘ Sponsored by: * BCAA * Overwaitea * The Chahko-Mika Mall It gets dark early these days! Please leave your porch light on for your Castlegar Sun carrier. b- Wales, Ger- many, Poland, Australia and the United States, They have two albums to their credit and have also becn featured on live TV and radio shows pre- ‘senting both traditional and origi- nal material, "They're sponsored by Mt. Royal College. None of the kids get paid, they're not a professional group,” pointed out Anderson. The. Calgary Fiddlers will be appearing at the Greater Trail Community Center on Feb..9. Tickets are available at Bonnett's Men's Wear. and from membess of i Olan 1 Fiddlers: Phone: 365: If you miss them in Trail, you can catch them in Nelson at the’ Civic’ Centre the next hight. Feb.’ 10, at 7 p.m. Tickets for the :Nel- son appearance are available at! Eddy Music and from members, of. the Selkirk Youth Orchestra.’ \.