2 Castlegar News November 26, 1986 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GENERAL LUNCHEON Thurs., Nov. 27 12 Noon, Sandman Inn OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. FORMER RESIDENT William Thomson Easton, formerly of Castlegar, died Nov. 21 after a short illness in Kootenay Lake District Hospital. He was 83. Mr. Easton was born in New Pitsligo, Aberdeen- shire, Scotland Feb. 16, 1903, the eldest son of George Easton and Barbara (Thom son) Easton. He was educated in Scot- SHERATON SPOKANE HOTI =S B. J. tish schools and emigrated to Canada in 1921. He worked L PRESENTS THOMAS ce December 28-31, 1986 cot Sheraton Grand Ballroom CONCERT SPECIAL CANADIAN $11 AT PAR Enjoy deluxe accommodations, reserved concert seating and Pnme Rib dinner for two $13 dinner, conce music of th Loose Chan; NEW YEAR’S EVE CANADIAN AT PAR rtand dancing to the 1 50's & 60's from geand New Year festivities i ADDITIONAL TICKETS AVAILABLE 12/28-30/86 Dinner & Concert 7:00 p.m. © Concert only 10:00 p.m 12/31/86 Dinner & Concert 7:30 p.m. (one show only) FOR RESERVATIONS CALL YOUR LOCAL T RAVEL AGENT OR TOLL FREE 1-800-848-9600 THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT! SUBJECT TO SPACE AVAILABILITY Sheraton- “Spokane Hotel The hospitality pec N 3m Spotane Falls Ct ae seem * AED By sw DCESE TOSLED 8Y SHERATON nt aple of ITT © Spokane. WA 99201 © (50%) 455-900 Easton dies his way to the west, usually as a farm hand, and arrived in Nelson in 1929. He worked in the woods for a time and then became a gardener at the Blaylock es- tate. He married Annie By- res of Nelson and then was employed by Cominco at Trail, for whom he worked 32 years while living mostly at Castlegar. He was a very avid gar- dener, since it was his voca- tion as well as his hobby. He was a member of Clan Me- Cleary while in Nelson, and in later years was a long-time Elder of the Castlegar United Church to which he was heavily committed, as was his wife Annie, Castlegar's Citizen of the Year in 1967. Easton resided in Castlegar from 1937-1980, when he moved to Nelson to live with his daughter and son-in-law. He was predeceased by his wife in 1968 and his won, Bill, in 1986 and by brothers George and Alex in Scotland. He is survived by his daugh ter Barbara, (wife of Rev. Wayne MacKenzie) and their children, Susan Embree, Hollie Stich, Carolyn Fortin, and David MacKenzie He is also survived by his daughter-in-law Marlene Easton, and her children, Patti Davies, Colleen Nabata, and Robert Easton. There are also eight great-grand children. In Scotland, Mr. Easton is survived by one sister, Mary Easton, and brothers James, Edward, and Charles, and by many nieces, nephews and cousins. The funeral service will be from Castlegar United Church Friday at 1 p.m., fol lowed by interment in Castle. gar cemetery. Arrangements are in the care of Castlegar Funeral Chapel SIGNED UP . . . Six new members enrolled in the Ist Robson Brownies; (from left) Jenny Wocknitz, Selena Sbitney Charity Dyer, Jenny Lane, Alyssa Watson and Nichole Virgin. Reflections of NFLD Editer’s note: A mainlander reflects on what it's like to arrive in Newfoundland and take up life on the “Rock.” By STEPHEN THORN! jian Press DILDO POND, NFLD. The speed limit says 90 kilometres, but you're doing 100 because, after all, this is the Trans-Canada Highway we're talking about. Wham! The car plummets into a cavernous hole in the road. Your heart leaps into your throat. You slow down. Naw, you say, they can't make potholes that big on the Trans-Canada Highway. You speed up. Wham! So, with one eye peeled for potholes and the other for moose, you stick to 80 km an hour along the only ribbon of road stretching the 900 kilometres across Newfoundland from Port aux Basques to St. John’s. Congratulations. You've just learned your first lesson of Newfoundland life: Slow down. Premiums $25. About a to some extent Collision covet Medium priced vehicle Pleasure use only | $441 | $402 | $4 To or From Work 543) 5007 5 Business use 666 | 553) 5 you Pick a result of a sharp increase in claims for injuries and vehicle damage in 1986 between $26 and $50 more. For about 5,000 commercial vehicles with larger premiums than private passenger cars. the increase will be over $50. For many motorists, an increase in Third Party Legal Liability premiums will be offset Collision will be most affected by the pre mium increases. Premiums are up for most motorists as For the majority, increases will be under quarter of a million will pay it by a reduction in the cost of rage. Those who do not carry Lower Mainland } Vancouver Island 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | South 1985 | 1986 | 1987 26 | $361 | $329 | $349 27) 445| 410 | 432 71 | 546 | 453 | 467 1987 AUTOPLAN MOTORIST KIT Information at ir fingertips! up your copy from any Autoplan agent or Motor cence Office Highlights of Changes to Autoplan Effective January 1, 1987 Liability Limits A limit of $15 million Third Party Legal Liability is now available for all vehicles. 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The radio's blaring the Ode To Newfoundland, a beautiful choral hymn that can bring mist to a Newfoundlander’s eye even at 6 a.m It can also bring many Newfoundlanders to attention quicker than Canada’s national anthem. For them, Confederation in 1949 is only yesterday, and Canada is still Canada and Ni diand is still New di; The road signs flit past — Gambo, Chapel Arm, Dildo Pond You need gas, so you pull into a service station. Well, in Alberta they may be paying 29 cents a litre and in Cape Breton, just across the water, it's 42 cents but here it's 53 cents and you pour it yourself. Better pick up some milk and a pack of cigarettes That's $3.50 for 20 smokes and $2.85 for two litres of milk. CLEAR MOOSE You mention that you've nearly hit three moose in the last 50 kilometres and the guy at the cash register offers you a moose whistle for $15. You put it on the hood of the car and it whistles. You can't hear it but a moose can and clears out of the way When in Rome Besides, you're rolling into Monday and there's a game on the tube tonight. Baseball and beer. Hours later, as you pull into St. John's, aching and tired, your first priority is to get to a liquor store. You stop to ask directions but you're having trouble because the guy speaks a mile-a-minute with a thick Irish brogue, or is it something else? He's helpful and he understands, even if you don't ‘TIS HOLIDAY “Slow down, pleas: you say. “OK. Two blocks down and take a left. Got it.” “What wasit-cha wanted — beer? You nod Not today, my son. Sure, Orangemen’s Day Orangemen's Day? Take heart, you'll soon learn that Newfoundland has more holidays than any other Canadian province. Besides, you can get your beer at the corner store. Your Newfoundland friend with the brogue chuckles and mumbles something about the poor old CFAs CFAs? Come-From Aways. Thanks, you say,and off you go to the corner store GOT IT ALL But this is not your typical Canadian-style corner store bread, milk, candy and cans. This corner store's got erything You grab your beer and wait, while the cashier rings up some guy's big order of fresh fruit and vegetables, toilet tissue and salted beef. There's a full-blown supermarket a few blocks away, but never mind, this guy's been buying groceries and fishing licences here long before there were supermarkets in St. John’s (Or ADASTRA a tday’s a holiday.” Learn To Fly For Pleasure or Career PRIVATE AND COMMERCIAL PILOT COURSES ADVANCED RATINGS Night, , Multi-Engine, | NEXT GROUND SCHOOL STARTS JANUARY 6, 1986 TRY OUR $20.00 Gift INTRODUCTORY FLIGHT Certificates Gov 1. Approved Flying Schoo! Available Courses ore Tax Deductible CASTLEGAR 365-3035 AIRPORT 365-7701 BUSINESS By BRENDA DALGLISH TORONTO — There is almost certainly illegal insider trading on Canadian stock exchanges but it doesn't appear to be occurring on the same scale as on Wall Street, securities regulators say. But they add that the multimillion-dollar insider trading ring in New York was discovered this year only because regulators were tipped off by an informer. The latest surprise in the investigation in New York was the involvement of Ivan Boesky, a New York stock trader who specialized in the shares of takeover targets. He pleaded guilty to security fraud and was fined a record $100 million U.S. “Insider trading is one of the most difficult kinds of activities to uncover,” said Ermanno Pascutto, director of the Ontario Securities Commission. “We would certainly encourage anyone who . . . is aware of insider trading to come forward and let us know. And they can let us know on a confidential basis.” Pascutto said the commission has been tipped in the past, but none of its investigations has turned up large-scale abuses. The Ontario has had three in the last couple of years that uncovered improper behavior, Pascutto said One involved a company president who bought shares in his company just before a significant discovery was announced. Another turned up a vice-president who sold shares in his company, through his girlfriend's account, before an announcement of poor earnings. Both cases resulted in convictions and small fines. The third involved a writer for the Toronto-based The Ke who was buying stock, through an associate, in companies he later recommended in column. The commission didn't prosecute that case because the offence wasn't clearly within Ontario's restrictions on insider trading rules because the writer wasn't by definition an insider of the companies he was writing about, Paseutto said. When a Wall Street Journal reporter was caught telling other people about stock tips his influential column would contain, a U.S. court sentenced him to 18 months in prison. In Ontario, illegal insider trading is that involving stock owned by people with a “special relationship” to the company and based on information not available to the public Insiders, by Ontario law, include the company’s and affiliated companies’ directors and senior officers, their close family and associates and other individuels working Illegal stock trading here, too for the company in a professional capacity, such as lawyers. BASED ON NOTION It is based on the notion that to make stock market investing fair, everyone is entitled to the same information. Companies have a responsibility to disclose promptly any information that could affect share prices. Pascutto said he would like Ontario law strengthen- ed to expand the insider definition to include tipsters who aren't connected with the company but who get confidential information, and to increase the penalties for conviction. Currently the maximum penalty for an individual is a fine of $2,000 and a prison term of one year. Although there have been few insider trading prosecutions, there appears to be evidence that abuses are occurring. “We've recently had some takeover bids that have had significant price increases before the announcement of the bid,” said Garfield Emerson, a Toronto lawyer known for his expertise in takeovers. The securities commission is investigating the possibility that illegal trading was responsible for the price increase in Genstar Corp. shares before Imasco Inc.'s takeover bid this spring. Genstar shares jumped $8 to $55 in heavy trading in the seven days before the takeover was announced. UNION TO BUY GIFTS EDMONTON (CP) Their parents will be short of cash this Christmas, but the 557 children of striking work. ers at Gainers Inc. will still find gifts under the tree. Members of other Cana dian unions will buy Christ: mas gifts for the children who are 14 years of age or younger. Ed Seymour, a spokesman for the United Food and Commercial Workers union that represents the 1,080 striking workers, said mem ers of other unions across Canada have paid for the children’s gifts. Support for the campaign has been so strong that Sey. mour said additional spon. sors will be asked to buy gifts for the children of workers on strike at Zeidler Forest Prod. ucts in Slave Lake, Alta Seymour said in a tele phone interview that his union came up with the idea and passed it on to the Can adian Labor Congress, which quickly agreed to back the plan. The campaign had barely started when St. Thomas and Lanon, Ont. trade unionists announced sponsorship for seven children. “There's strong support for them,” said Jim Pare, president of the London and District Labor Council Two strikers aré scheduled to drive two truckloads of presents for the children from Ontario during the first week in December Kevin Park, staff represen tative of the United Food and Commercial Workers, said the aim of the campaign is to provide the children with a normal assortment of Christ mas gifts that their parents won't be able to give them this year. Gainers workers, on strike since June 1, get $140 a week strike pay But support from other unions has extended beyond Christmas gifts. Union mem bers across Canada have been reaching into their poc kets for money to provide additional aid to the strikers. Park said more than $500,000 has been contribu ted to the Gainers strike fund from plant gate collections by unions and labor councils. 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