cS c2__Castlegar News April 27, 1988 IF YOUR AUTOPLAN EXPIRES THIS MONTH RENEW AT: Cy Cc SLOCAN PARK 226-7216 CASTLEGAR 365-3368 By MARLENE ORTON Canadian Press OTTAWA — A new gen eration is hére and it isn't sponsored by any soda pop company, either. ‘They're healthy, well-edu cated and fairly well off fin ancially, and they have grey hair If you're inclined to stop reading here, consider that BIGGEST REFUND With the talk of changes in tax laws, many Canadians are contused as to whether their income tax returns will be affected, At H&R Block, we've got the answers Our specially trained tax preparers will always tind you y deduction, exemption and credit to which you are titled. 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The KITTY WELLS SHOW STARRING THE QUEEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC KITTY WELLS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS JOHNNY WRIGHT, BOBBY WRIGHT AND THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS Sunday, May 1 COMINCO GYM 8 p.m. TRAIL TICKETS: Advance ‘12.00 At Door ‘14.00 TICKETS AVAILABLE AT: NELSON Oliver's Books ROSSLAND Alpine Drug TRAIL L&J Books Parks Board ROCKLANDS TALENT & CASTLEGAR Pete's TV meatting.to old age security DIRECT FROM THE GRAND OLE OPRY a co-production of — Vancouver, B.C CRESTON Summit Music Say hello to new generation Their children — who now had a different JOYS BOOM “The post-war years were boom times,” says Matthews. “Many people in my age bracket benefitted by those boom times in the sense they were able to get jobs, have pensions, own their own homes, write off their mort gages and do wonderful things “In retirement, this has made them more secure,” she says. The council is working behind the scenes with the federal government to sort out what the new generation needs, says Matthews. The council is an advisory group created in 1980 to help the government plan policies for older people. The federal government is planning a national confer. ence in Halifax in late fall specifically to explore prob tems of housing among the retired set Senior groups, the housing industry, financial experts and officials from several government levels plan to meet for several days to dis. cuss how best to accommo date a growing senior pop- ulation, says Matthews. She uses terms like hous: ing, ancillary services and care-giving, but ask her to draw a picture and here's what Matthews sees for the new generation. A retired couple still living in a house built for children who are grown and gone. The house is too big but they still want their own place. LIVE LONGER “It's a strong, strong value especially in the group I call the new generation who are healthier, more financially secure, better educated and will be living longer,” she says. “And there should be some other choice for them be. tween subsidized housing and the $200,000-condos.” Next comes services; from nearby bus routes and re liable repair workers to trustworthy financial con sultants for people who don't want to play the stock market with their pensions. “We should be looking at some type of counselling in neighborhoods that will be able to give some direction to people,” Matthews adds. Matthews also worries about a younger generation of women and the excessive burdens they'll continue to face Our Action Ad Number is 365-2212 piveeg by ables D fvukonmeny | LVANGEUS OY bikie ST yoy RESOURCE AFFAIR . . . Castlegar United Church was the setting for a Kootenay-wide United Church resour ce fair Saturday. Called “Resource Affair”, it featured video, book and filmstrip displays, along with wide range of workshops. TOWN CAUGHT IN BIZARRE VIDEO PIRACY By MIRO CERNETIG Canadian Press DAWSON, Y.T. — People watch television here with trepidation these days, dreading yet another American broadcaster will cotton on to what they're doing and zap their tubes into -blackness Nobody in this isolated frontier town is keen on admitting it, but Dawson has been caught in perhaps the most bizarre and elaborate tale of video piracy yet known. “I've never heard of a town anywhere doing what they did,” says Alan Levy, spokesman for the New York-based pay TV giant Home Box Office The story begins with Peter Jenkins, the-color{ul mayor of this gold rush town, who devised a method to foil U.S. pay TV companies that began scrambling satellite transmissions two years ago to cut down on video piracy Scrambled signals didn't Dawsonites who endure frigid winters of almost perpetual darkness, explains Jenkins. With decoders available only to U.S. residents, the town could only afford to get CBC North's prégramming, much of it dealing with subjects such as surviving arctic winters. “We've always had four U.S. pay TV channels,” says Jenkins. “We liked the variety they gave us.” A similar Canadian: service would cost the town about $3,000 a month . says Jenkins, city council opeted in 1986 to buy one subscription to each of the U.S. channels for about $20 a month and simply rebroadcast them to everyone using the town's tiny, six-watt“trans mitter. ‘The town's scheme began unravelling when the new channel transformed the boob tube into exactly that. At night, HBO's Cinemax channel ran soft-core pornographit niovies, all of them going out to every TV set in Dawson impress the 800 or so The ire of some Dawsonites was raised and they demanded city hall do something. “It wasn't appropriate for kids, ‘Confessions of a Street Hooker,’ that sort of thing,” says school teacher Dan Davidson, who signed a petition with 60 other people. Faced with the uprising, city hall bought blackout boxes — devices that can block out movied on individual television sets — and gave them free of charge to those complaining. But someone apparently didn't Dawson seeing porn films. In New York in mid-March, Levy says, an employee HBO dubs the “video ranger” received a call detailing what was going on. “Someone in Dawson called who was upset about the type of movies being shown,” says Levy. “We called our control centre in San Diego and the satellite turned Dawson's decoder off immediately.” SEES BREACH Levy says U.S. pay TV stations are concerned about what's going on.in Dawson because it is a breach of the copyright they are granted by Hollywood film studios. Pay TV operators also consider anyone who gets a signal without paying for it a video pirate. ‘There's no question about it,” s Levy. “This was video piracy. But now that we've shut them off we consider the books closed.” Nevertheless, the town is broadcasting without a licence, a summary offence in Canada which carries a fine of up to $1,000 a day, says Virginia Krapiec, a spokesman for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommuni- cations Commission's Vancouver office. Secondly, offering up U.S. pay TV stations like HBO which would be in direct competition with Canadian equivalents like First Choice and Super Channel is not permitted, she says. The CRTC has taken no action against Dawson. In fact, Krapiec says the commission only heard of the situation second-hand “Those decoders are not authorized for use in Canada,” says Krapiec. “It sounds like an action that would normally need a licence. But we haven't really decided what priority to give this case.” want anyone in BUT .. . OUR INVENTORY CLEARANCE Sometimes a Weekend Lasts Forever. April 27, 1988 Castlegar News cs ORCHESTRA IN ACTION . . . Bruce Hunter conducts the Nelson Choral Society and the Selkirk Chamber Orchestra at the gala opening of the Capital Theatre April 17. Hunter will again conduct the chorus and orchestra in Felix Mendelssohn's dramatic oratorio Bery! deJersey Elijah Saturday and Sunday. Soloists will be Linda Hunt alto, Jack Steed — tenor and Al Hiebert This event is presented by the Selkirk Chamber Music Society Narcissus favorite in Canadian gardens TORONTO (CP) Within a few weeks, gardens and parks across the country have transformed from bar ren winter patches into color. ful displays of that signal spring. Tulips, the top-selling spring-flowering bulbs, are likely be the dominant sight But the narcissus, or daffodil as it’s’ more commonly known, has long be a symbol of spring for Can adians. The narcissus was named for Narkissos — the son of the Greek river god Kephi ssos and the nymph Leiriope — who was so entranced by his own reflection in a pool of water that he fell in and drowned. The flower bulb’s trumpet shaped flowers come in sev. eral different varieties. They can be left to propagate in a garden or meadow for years and are suitable for growth in partial shade’ * between shrubs, under trees, in lawns and rock gardens and as borders. One of the loveliest var. blossoms soprano, bass ieties is Carlton, a yellow, large-corona narcissus, says Carol Sutton, a spokesman for the Toronto-based Net herlands Flowerbulb mation Centre Golden Harvest and Dutch Master, both with yellow trumpets, also are popular, Infor: but gaining in use is Ice Follies, with a white cup that opens yellow at its throat, Sutton says. Two-toned narcissi, includ ing Flower Record white perianth and orange crown with red edging are an interesting alternative to the traditional all-yellow variet ies, she adds. Sutton says daffodil bulbs that product double ‘flowers are unusual and been have not cultivated in large numbers. The leaves and stems of narcissi and other bulb flowers act as the lungs of the plant, assimilating nutrients to strengthen the bulb enough to bloom again next year. That's why it is import ant not to cut them off until they have withered, Sutton says. For camouflage, try plant ing perennials among bulb flowers, she suggests. As the perennials begin to send forth new shoots in the spring, they will hide the withering foliage. Until the bulbs begin springing up in gardens, they are available as cut flowers. To choose a bouquet that will last a long time, look for flower buds that have sprung meaning the skin around the bud has just split so the color is peeking through. Sutton says now is the time to begin thinking about summer-flowering bulbs, such as different types of gladioli and lillies, which should be planted late in the spring when all threat of frost has passed. SED IN RL “Although just as attrae tive as their better-known spring-flowering cousins, summer-flowering bulbs are often overlooked in the gar dener's rush to acquire an nuals and perennials,” Sutton says. ‘Junk man’ loves garbage CAMBRIDGE, Ont. (CP) —If your kid would rather be an astronaut than a garbage man, he’s probably never met Jim Charles. To Charles, who hails from Puslinch Township in south ern Ontario, collecting gar bage is not so much a job as an adventure. “I love being my own boss, and the excitement of won. dering every morning when I get up what valuable stuff I might find (that) somebody has thrown away today.” For Charles, one man's junk is another man’s for. tune. “You wouldn't believe the things I've found in the past couple of years,” says Char les, his blue-grey eyes spark. ling with enthusiasm. In his 40 years, Charles has been a farmer, a steeplejack, a retail store clerk, a car- penter, a~mechanic, a truck er, a welder and a shipper for a bread company. But none of these jobs gave him half the personal satis- faction that he gets from running his own business, which he calls The Junk Man. In a little less than two years his infatuation with junk has transformed his life. In his basement storage room he points out some of his latest finds. There's a television set, a soft drink cooler, a clock, camp stove, dining room chairs, floor polisher, oil paintings, a woman's fur coat and dozens of other items. tarter ome like industrial tools, lathes and grinders he keeps in his barn. All of it was discarded as garbage and all of it ,is detined for the market. ~ Probably the most remark able item salvaged was a set of false teeth with pure gold components, which he was able to sell for $55. A recent clean-up yielded a cellular telephone in nearly new con dition. It sold for $400. His career as a junk man began when a neighbor who picked up garbage and debris for a few households asked Charles to take over the route. “There were only 12 cus tomers altogether,” he re- calls. “And at $1 a week from each, he wasn’t getting rich very fast.” Since Charles took the route, it has expanded to a Business with 400 regular customers in Puslinch and neighboring North Dumfries townships. 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