"NAG 2. CASTLEGAR NEWS, Febaury 28, 1982 : a THIS WEEK ONLY OUR WALLS ARE FULL Framed Decorator Prints Va OFF = FROM THE MASTERS AT “A Taste of Art” Downstalrs at Helen's Flowers 365-2727 Entertainment Advance tickets are now on sale for the upcoming Rossland Light Opera Players’ of the JOIN USFOR Donte con'smarg ryeshord. AivvouCan Baler rsteses seeene EASTGATE GARDENS Restaurant 932 Columbia Ave. 365-7414 COMMUNITY Bulletin Board BOTTLE DRIVE Castlegar North Beavers, Cubs & Scouts are chavigg abot. + tle drive on Sat. morning, Marché, STLEGAR MINUS #1 CLUB Are having o St. Patrick's Smorg and Dance at the Hi Arrow Arms Hotel on Sat., March 13. Music by the Rhythm Drifters (Northport). For tickets and more information please phone 365-5994 or 365-6454, WOMEN'S AGLOW FELLOWSHIP Will be having a meeting on Wed., March 3 at 10:00 a at the Hi Arrow Arms Hotel. The speaker will be Eva Doss feom Egypt. All ladies are invited. Babysitting will be provid DAVID THOMPSON STAMP CLUB Regular monthly meeting will be hald on Mon., March 1 at t. David's Undercroft. OR CITIZENS ASSOCIATIO The regular business meoting will be held on ya Thurs., Mar- ch4at2 p.m: KINWOOD-BELLE DISTRICT LADIES’ AUX, TO cir.oupes General meeting will be held on Wed,, March 3 at 7 p.m., - Kinnaird Elementary School Library. Ail mother are urged toatiend. i: CASTLEGAR HOMEMAKER GROUP. Is i holding thelr second annua! St. Partrick’s Day Teo and p.m. «3 p.m, at the * Catilegar Senior Citizens Centre. Tickets tthe the door. Gilbert and Sullivan mu- sical “The Mikado,” A chance this year is that the tickets will not be for specific seats. As with the Performance ‘81 con- be determined on'a “firat come, first served”. basis on the night of the per- formance. “Mikado” cert series, the seats will » ‘The RLOP executive de- cided to do this to avoid the difficulties involved. with ling ‘specific seats, and also to encourage the mem- bers of the audience to ar-, rive earlier’ so. that’ the show. can start on time. -The show, generally ‘re- garded as the most enter- taining of the Gilbert’ and Sullivan musicals, features ‘avcast of 34 and.an 18.’ piece orchestra. The stage « |(Performing ‘The Mikado’ and ‘music director is Lor- ren Culley. “The -performance at Rossland Secondary School on March 5 is part of the program lined up by the BC. Winter. Games Cul- tural Activities Commit tee, Additional performances will be put on March 6 at The performance ° in Castlegar is sponsored by. the Castlegar Arts Council. Tickets are on: sale: dt L&J Books in Trail, Alpine Drug Mart and Super Look Hairstyling in . Rossland, and Carl's Drugs and ‘the libraries in Castlegar. . This year is RLOP's 80th in Castlegar and at Trail Ju- vnior Secondicy ¥ March 11- director,. is | Lach Farrell’. IN REHEARSAL. . . The Rossland Light Opera Players’ show's Yum-Yum (Becky Sims) pondars whether her love for Nanki-Poo (Brian Shroeder). is (worth it if It means. she must be buried alive — accor: < ding to Gilbert-and-Sullt ‘yas an organi- zation, and this is the third time thoy have put o on “The Mikado.” ‘ ‘“ah-one, ah-two"'-d sare made of — Lawrence Welk tapes final show. HOLLYWoop (AP)'2! Ag: and his Music’ Makei the smiling maestro ave the television ‘camera’ his’ Jast a8, taped Inst’ week’ in'a farnlly celebration, but ‘no “mention was made that it Lawrence Welk taped his ‘final show after a7 years on ‘the air. But the familiar pop of the champagne cork and floating bubbles will be around for'a long time as The Lawrence ‘Welk: Show. will continue’ in reruns on more than 200 U.S, ‘/and’ Canadian TV. atations until September.” . The 1,542nd show {or Welk Drama was different from any other. The: last ‘show. will’‘be | broadcast during the week'of ‘April 11, Afterward, it ‘will be syndicated’ as Memories with’ Lawrence Welk,. with the theme’ of the final show. Before ‘the taping, he and Fern, his wifo of almost 50 years, danced a waltz to the delight of the’ 250° invited if guests, engulfs. ‘actors guild "..LOS ANGELES (AP): — It's ‘the stuff that motion picture and television dramas Ben-Hur vs. Lou Grant — but the battle is not Hollywood make-believe. Since January, .a fight for philosophical control ‘of the Screen. Actors , Guild, the powerful 50,000-member ac- tors union, ‘has divided the entertainment industry and led, to a death threat and a recall movement against its president, Ed Asner,.star of ‘television's’ Lou Grant.- The drama began in Jan- uary ,when SAG — first awarded its annual award to Ronald Reagan, _ a ‘six-time <' president of the union, and” then retracted it. That move; ostensibly over the. president's handling. of The show plays Fridey in Rossland “and Saturday in Cestlegar: / Door Prize. For more ; ROBSON BEAVERS & CUBS + Regular monthly meeting will be held Tues., March 2at : 7:30 p.m. at Resker Hall. All parents please aitend. WOMEN'S DAY OF PRAYER Will be held at Brilliant Cultural Centre on March 5 ot 11 a.m. All denominations wele: Ye : Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit + organizations are listed here through the courtesy of BC Timber‘s Celgor Pulp and Celgar Lumber Divisions, Pleasu submit notices directly to the Castlegar News by 5 p.m. Thursdays. A Public Service of Celgar Pulp * Division and Celgar Lumber Division BC Timber Ltd. and —ALSO— MAPLE LEAF TRAVEL BOOK.NOW FOR YOUR SUMMER VACATION Cail Mar] or Nesta LEAF TRAVEL Ltd. 365-6616 the air 0 strike last summer, was’ bitterly. criti- cized by actor and: former SAG president Charlton Hes- ton as a gross blunder” and an “example of the radical-— ization of the Guild.” Heston, star of such movie hits as The Ten Command- ments and Ben-Hur, said that ° SAG,. with Asner: as’ presi--~ dent, has drifted deeper into political waters. He pointed to a movement to merge three actors unions, plus the Guild’s donatiqn of money last summer to the striking air traffic controllers | and a board resolution in De- cember that the union speak out more on political issues — including endorsement of ‘candidates. . “Actors are very touchy about, having people speak for them,”. Heston . said. “What they want from their union is attention to the jobs problem,” in’ an industry where, he said, 76 per cent of the SAG membera earned less than $2,500 last year. ‘Arts centre names executive’ Bob Farmer. was elected president- of the-Trail and District Arts Centre Society at the: society's first - ‘annual general meeting Feb. 28. Farmer, a Warfield resi- dent, retired in 1880 as man- ager of Cominco’s moderni- ‘zation and ‘expansion’ pro- gram and is well-known’ for. his organizational and project society in Fecent months, was elected Bill tively set as the date for a th Siddall was elected treasurer and Donna Briggeman sec- retary. - Gabana and Farmer Te. cently” returned from! Van- couver where they consulted with architect Bruno Freschi ‘and designer. Ron. Kellett about the progress’ of the Tues.- iam rasop s Saturday | am. 1pm. Norm Gabana, who had been acting president for the design for the Es- ‘planade Centre Theatre. March 11 has been tenta- det 7 gional District“board. Cost estimates will be included. * Gabana reported that 1981 was a good year for the so- ciety. They have been able to raise more. than: , $100,000 thanks to large grants from the City of Trail and Cominco and a wide range of donations from affiliates of the . Trail "and District Communit; ‘Arts Cor position‘ is very good for ‘a new organization’ apenlling: ; $100,000.” The cost so far has amounted to $82,200. °° | Gabana thanked 'the local consultation “committee chaired by Jim DeLong for. its assistance in ‘ providing’ information for the schematic design. He also praised the -con- Crown Point Hotel PRESENTS A “Sunday Dining Experience” - SMORGASBORD This Sunday (Feb. 28) HIP OF BEEF DRESSED ROAST PORK Carved by Our Chef to the Cut of Your Choice 23 Dish Salad Bar BBQ Chicken Wings Potatoes - Vegetables of the Day Homemade Bread and Borie! $10.50 Per Person Children Under 12 Only Half Price Cominco Meal Vouchers Welcome 10% Discount for Senior Citizens Soft-Touch Controls Auto-Stop PANASONIC VIDEO TAPE | VHS NV-T120-K Rey. $34.95, Show Special Union Peters VIDEO TRADE SHOW Sunday, February 28 Cominco Arena 12 noon to 9 p.m. COME AND'SEE:: * Big Screen TV's © Video Discs & Movies *, Video Tape Machines.° TV Games EXAMPLE SHOW SPECIALS: Panasonic. just slightly ahead of our time 2-4-6 Hour Recording Capability Built-In Electronic Digital Clock/Timer siewrree $QQQ95 Only . an : PK-B00K Compact & Easy to Handle Color Video Sound Camera $1849.95” " shoWeres On inty $1074*5 ition of Tom Steven, who resigned as president during * the year due to'a job transfer. ° to Calgary. eee The Freschi pfesentation to the regional board will be pending the approval of the society. The presentation will include detailed estimates of ‘operating costs as ‘well as construction costs, phis esti-’ mates of alternatives for parking and other factors. Farmer and Gabana said that after their latest. meet- ing with Freschi and Kellett they are satisfied it will “do the job and be something the > community can be proud of.” They -are: hopeful’ that it ‘can meet the 5.6’ mill rate established through the, re- gionalization referendum last November. ‘The theatre is designed to have approximately 750 seats BOB FARMER ws. president. \ inthe main area and 250 in’ the balcony, with provision for reducing the size of the theatre through use. of cur- tains for more intimate per- formances. Helen Dahlstrom said she * was concerned ‘about the ef-:” fect the’ reduction of size would have on © acoustics. | Gabana said it was definitely” a “trade-off”. situation,’ but assured her that Norman Young and other professional theatre people * had —been working closely with-. the Freschi firm to ensure that and other ROSE’S RESTAURANT We take pride in our HOME COOKED MEALS Canadian & Russian Foods’ * - .4,000ft.northof 2)" South Slocen Jt Junction. - qualities would be first-rate. If you are in a B.C. . registered car and have a damage accident in Quebec, ICBC pays the total bill if you are totally blameless. If you | are 50. percent: to blame, * ICBC pays half and you can y 50 per cent of your Col- pa: lision’ deductible to’ get the © | “balance “RESTAURAN International Cuisine ina Detch ‘Mon. «Sat. 5 neh Sa ‘Sunday 5 p.m. to 10p.m..: Closed Tuesdays. ne. ca nde tape gener g = go sf By IAN MULOREW “Globe and Mall} “NELSON: (CP) "Louis Magtio’ stabbed the air with a band | for’ emphasis: “People ; have* exagerrated the hardship. T haven't noticed anyone starving,’ Next door at the unemployment office, manager Jack Roddis painta a different picture. There are'more than ‘2,200 unemployed, he safd, and more are coming ini every: » edgaret held betwen the remains of the fingers on his left. . investment Corp., has’ started up ita \plywood mill in felson again, but popular, wisdom ‘says that it will be ‘closed down, Although moat of the 1,600 woodworkers in the area' were laid off at' Christmas, about 900'are now back-at work. But everyone says it’s only temporary — the markets just aren't there for'the lumber. - Nearly all the lumber produced in the southern Interior is shipped to the United States — B.C. supplies about a quarter of U.S, demand — and the green-and-white day. Tho latest Statistics Canada figures estimate the area unemployment rate at 12.5 per cent, but now Mr. Roddis thinks it's closer to 20 per cent. uy About 80 kilometres ‘up Kootenay Lake at Lardeau, vhas been ‘mayor of Nelson on and off since’ 1968. Nat Tm ‘one of the lucky ones,” the tractor grading roads, but there are people'here trying to make . $15,000-a-month payments on their equipment and they: haven't been working for months.” ‘bars and. coffee shops incinerating cigarets and Eric Mautner laughed atthe boosterism of the man who . says. “My equipment can be used to do‘ other’ ‘work like“ Alll across the West Kootenays sullen-faced men sit in | are carrying less and less, Even,in Trail — where the smoke belching from the world’s largest lead-zinc smelter cloaked the valley in ./ paternalism and prosperity — the effects of the recession are being felt. The Cominco Ltd. cloud ithat for years insulated: the ‘town from: chilly ;, economic ‘winds is becoming a thread-bare Pall, «The profit’ of the world metal prices, droppéd more 'than ros Slr last year — from about $171-million to $64-million.. Cominco continues to say that more layoffs aren't planned, but on day 80. more workers. were told they were no P ig the forest and the —any government, "Thirty of them from Trail have been unemployed only couple of months, but others, like the 70 workers from the Louisians-Pacific Corp. sawmill in Salmo, south of Nelson,’ haven't worked since last summer. Hotel and the coffee shop ‘across the street, alternating reticent about their troubles — they're downright hostile: “How the hell do you think we feel trying to live otf $600.2 month?” ‘they snarl, After a while they allow that most are trying to get by on any odd jobs they can find in the area. and many try to supplement their food supplies with a deer. The Sal-Crest Motel on the’ edge. of Salmo. is in receivership. The new Trapper John's restaurant won't see any customers “until further notice.” After .the “welcome to” signs on the highway,’“house for sale” and “closed” are the first aes greeting visitors to West Ymir,and Nakusp. It is the worst: cae ‘depression tohit the area since the Great Depression — even Mr. Magilo admits: that _ and no one sees it ending soon. since Wednesday, some have been unemployed for only a - The men in Salmo ricochet bétween-the Silver Dollar ” between games of Space Ufi and snooker. They are not BC Timber Ltd., a subsidiary of BC. Roacireea’ - longer needed — bringing to nearly 200 the total number of men who have been laid off since the start of the year. . The union and the company were holding’ talks this ‘ week to discuss the feared layoff of nearly 500 tradesmen. The: local anxiety is aggravated by the company’s eight-year, $700-million modernization..program that when completed will put even more men onto the dole. Nevertheless, there is a waiting list of more than 300 people wanting work and the turnover —.which once hovered around 40 workers a month — has cropped to. zero, And with the economic problons, lo ‘Tocal labor leaders are that family It was tough at Christmas, they Bay» bot i ita’ going to get tougher. : Lonnie: Stuart, an International: Woodworkers of ‘America representative, said that his union is already seeing the signs of the'strain. No one appears to know. the cure for the economic ailment. The bejowelled Mr. Maglio, who runs a building supply company when he's not in the mayor's office, said _ that people just need to live a little less’ well and economise, “All it takes is a little bit of belt tightening,” ‘he said. * trains that haul the lumber south’ ‘\ Many in the. area, however, say jnarp practical - “How Toronto sees West Kootenay ‘measures are called for and more local ‘control of the i economy is needed. » It’s a sore point with the workers that the profits from the natural resources have flowed. with the lumber south into the United States or, to Vancouver. They, suggest that the Government give more timber-cutting licences to the indigenous loggers and sawmill operators, THANK YOu They also say that BC Timber is’ only in making as much’ money as possible, that the’ company’. will upgrade dilapidated mills only when necessary, that when it does refurbish ‘its operations it ‘is always‘ to - inctease automation and profit without giving a thought to the number of men who might lose thelr jobs. Most believe tourism is the economic boost they need. With some of the best skiing and some. of the most and to offer, the Kootenays could generate enough money from tourism to keep the area ‘afloat and bail out the sinking economy. In Castlegar, more than 150 recently crammed a-Town Hall meeting to discuss plans for attracting tourists. In Lardeau, Mr. Mautner says 8 local group is lobbying to get roads improved, to develop ski areas and to promote the fishing. “We're also. making sure that any development that . takes place is controlled by local people,” he said. “In the past we've had outside people reaping the Profits and leaving us with the problems.” In Nelson, the previous council and. mayor began the city’s old buil as a tourist There are a number of impressive turn-of-the-century “heritage sites” — some designed by F.M. Rattenbury, the of the Parl: id in Victoria and the Empress Hotel — scattered about the town being restored at a cost of nearly $1-million. Even Mr. Maglio, while he has reservations about the cost to the city, supports the move and is convinced that tourism is the area's hope.. - But he said that businesses are surviving, that Nelson is doing well. Some of the businesses may have felt a bit of = pinch over Christmas, he ‘conceded, but they're surviving. And — if you ignore the boarded-yp stero shop, the empty shell of a store on Vernon Street-and the vacant areas in the city’s mall and plaza — there's evidence that the mayor may be right about the region. After all, “Crusher,” “Carl” and a host, of others haven't, yet returned to reclaim the $1, $2 and $5 bills that Paper the wall behind the bar in the Silver Dollar down in Salmo. Castl Volu Fire Dept. and everyone for thier support. STAFF & MANAGEMENT . MITCHELL SUPPLY LTD. i eed | 10% x PLAZA CLEANERS 365-31 y, X Castleaird Plaza OFF Reg. Pr. gah Pulpit & Pew. by Ministers in the West Koatenay Pea and would give him no rest until he'came over and con- fessed his ‘“crime” n- fered to pay for, itl... At the other end of the By IRA JOHNSON - Pastor of Kinnaird and of-, ponse ‘or’ principle within us, which decides on the right- ness or wrongness of our own actions and. effections, Every. person comes equipped with. 8 conscience, but for some reason there is a wide differ- ence in what troubles or com-, mends different people's con- sciences. For example, there was the 16-year-old boy who had |: ged been given the task of look- ing after the neighbor's yard and house while they. were away.for two weeks on ya- cation. One day as he checked over the house, he noticed a stick. of gum on one of the * tables, Being fond of gum; he took it and chewed it, but im- mediately began to. have pangs of conscience over his “theft.” Long after his neigh- bors had returned, this boy's conscience still troubled him Vv CORD 85% cottoni15% poly. 115 em: isa ais a's) spectrum would be the al- most, total lack of conscience of men. like Adolf. Hitler, especially in relation to his “setting in mgtion the horrible extermination of six million Jews. Or. that of Joseph Stalin, who during his long dictatorship is said to have murdered between 20 and 30 million people — as he pur- those who to him were “undesirables.” Obviously, an inside you. and: gives you pain. But if you keep ignoring its warnings it bared: become, rounded ‘on the, ts and doesn't ‘trouble | Saat ‘any - more!” It would seem then, that in order for one’s conscience to bea safe guide, it needs to be properly trained and heeded. One of the great values of the Bible is it's setting forth of'a © worthy standard of conduct by which’ to measure our lives. Many people. think of the Ten Commandments as being the ultimete list. of. rules for living, but‘ Jesus. these even further or one that is trained to be ‘insen- sitive cannot be trusted. Someone asked an Indian, what he thought'a person's conscience was like, to which he replied very wisely, “Your conscience is like a- sharp three-cornered stone that sits within your heart. When you do what is right, it does .not burt you but when you do bad things it twists and turns VV ‘vv 15-DAY. SUPER SALE Friday, Feb. 19-Saturday, Mar..6 IN APPRECIATION 'TO PAST CUSTOMERS AND THE BUILDING NOT LEASED — WE'VE ACCEPTED FACTORY OFFERS ON .. « DENIM Top quality, 100% cotton. 115 cm. oes VELVETEEN . - 100% cotton. 90 cm. UPHOLSTERY $25-$60 reg. value, wide widths - "ODDS 'N ENDS AND. MUCH MORE" N. TT boos vyd. up i by saying that we should love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul mind and strength,'‘and then love our neighbor as ourselves! 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