CLARENCE HEPPELL PRESIDENT “The objective at Overwaitea is very simple: Please our Customers THAT GOAL IS TRANSLATED into many components at all levels throughout our . company. We enjoy our work simply because we never lose sight of our purpose and desire — please you the customer. GUARANTEED MERCHANDISE: We offer an unconditional replacement or money back product guarantee. You must be completely satisfied with the performance of any product purchased at Overwaitea regardless of whether the manufacturer has his own guarantee or not. IF YOU'RE NOT HAPPY, PLEASE BRING IT BACK. GUARANTEED PRICES; one of the important services we offer for your peace of mind. We believe you enjoy shopping when you know you won't pay more. Overwaitea’s DOUBLE THE DIFFERENCE PRICE GUARANTEE gives that assurance. Guarantee details are published regularly in Overwaitea ads and flyers. PAYING BY CHEQUE: We issue cheque - cashing cards ... A simple, convenient method providing instant identity so you can Oli Pay by cheque. If you wish to obtain an Overwaitea identity card, please ask store manager for application form. < RAIN CHEQUES: Occasionally we run short of advertised specials, even though we buy to supply every last customer and then some..- When this exceptional response occurs, we back up special unavailability with our Rain Cheques... A guarantee that YOU’LL GET THE ADVERTISED ‘SPECIAL’ AT THE SALE PRICE when we are oversold. : PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ... If you receive Famous Brand coupons in the mail at home, please bring the coupons you do not wish to use as wall. Deposit them at the exchange table for someone else to redeem. You may also find other coupons there you wish to use. OVERWAITEA REDEEMS all supermarket competitors’ coupons. There’s no need for you to run from store to store to save-more.. BECAUSE WE DERIVE PLEASURE from being part of the community in which we serve and take pride in our work, you'll find us active in community affairs from'time to time. We want to mean more to you than just a neighbourhood food store. ; You'll be rewarded with all possible savings by knowing what each type of Overwaitea ; merchandise signage is all about. — OUR PRICE SIGN: Our everyday regular retailprice ... featured for its timeliness. — OUR SPECIAL SIGN: Advertised and non- advertised Specials — merchandise reduced from regular price for a limited time; usually within one week. Sign also shows you the regular price and savings for. convenience. — THRIFTY BUYS SIGN: Timely product values our buyers obtained from suppliers, at reduced cost, and in turn have passed the savings on to you. — SHELF TALKERS: Usually an integral part of a store wide promotion, to identify a Participating product at a special price. os ah ANN LAUER S DUCA ert pS PETENMA we bot — SHELF TICKETS: These are found in the shelf edge moulding and denote the regular price of product immediately above or below. — WINDOW BANNERS: Different signs every week showing some of our advertised spécials of the week, week-in, week-out. All of which when blended together present a very compe sively priced picture. And we do it to Please Our become one of them. . Customers. We sincerely hope you'll TOWERING TOMATOES, on vines as:high as nine feet four inches tall, have yeld a bountiful: har and Mrs, John Strelioff at 208 Fiftli%. numerous plants are of three varietie: having been given to them by a frien g the third, the lesse Fantasic, ‘an f the plants, Cascade. The largest tomato has been weighed at two pounds and three quarters. While the Cascade variety ields only medium sized fruit, one plant has already been stripped of 65 ripe tomatoes in one picking. The plants were all start in the house from seed in Mar- ch, then transferred to a cold frame. Some have been placed in the garden area while others reach high up one side of the house, both doing equally well in their varied locations. —News/ihitror Foto by Lois Hughes Volcano ash By GAIL MOYLE Naturalist, Creston Valley Wildlife Interpretation Centre 1 As volcanoes steam and. hiss out their tops, they re- semble a pressure cooker ready to blow at any time. What's cooking, of course, is the earth itself. Volcanoes show one. of the more violent. sides of nature: the sometimes unex- pected, often destructive, re- leased energy trapped deep within the earth's interior. Unlike many mountains, volcanoes are not formed by folding or uplift of the earth's crust. They create them- selves out of lava, ash, and dust that they spew out of the ground. It was an explosion of unimaginable force that blew off 1,800 feet of the rock and ice top of Mount St. Helens in Washington on May 18, 1980. The ash, which is-fine par- ticles of pulverized rock blewn from an_ explosion vent, rose 60,000 feet, form- ing a dense black cloud, As the ash cloud travelled, it left behind a deposit of materiai which had various effects on animals. The Washington State game department estimated that 1,500,000 wild animals and birds as well as 441,177 game fish were killed directly by the eruption. A report from the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge in Cheney, Wash., located 45 km south of Spokane, told of some ob- served effects of volcanic ash fall-out on animals in their area.- Seven hours after the , Mt. St. Helens eruption, at approximately 3:30 p.m., the sky above the Turnbull Re- fuge resembled a medium ‘heavy snow storm with fall- ing ash. This caused many animals to behave as though it were evening, with robins singing and frogs chorushing. The next day, ash fall was light, however, visibility was poor, with‘many birds: be- having normally. Many birds,. however, were abnormally inactive and spent most of their time perched on Mountéin ‘Marsh ‘Memo branches, while singing acti- vity was very reduced. Many. forms of insects were killed by the: ash on a large scale. In turn, insect- feeding birds, such as swal- lows and nighthawks, were * probably-most affected by the ash as these birds feed aerially -on ‘flying insects. Initially, some birds, such as blackbirds and sparrows, could be seen foraging in the ash, picking up dead insects. This food source became de- pleted quickly. Consequent- ly, many birds were found i dead from starvation. As the ash descended, waters. turned a muddy brown, killing aquatic inver- tebrates. They were found piled three inches deep be- neath the ash at the bottom of ponds and marshes in some places. This, of course, left the fish with nothing to eat. Many nests were in the incubating stage at the time of the eruption, and the eggs were covered with ash. Ap- parently, female birds that returned to clutches covered with ash simply deserted the eggs and/or the nest. How- ever, one female redhead duck. was not discouraged’ after her 13 eggs were-cov- ered by ash. She placed a new layer of bulrush nesting material over the top of the ash-covered eggs and de- posited a clutch of eight eggs over the old clutch, These are just a few of vs animals the observed effects of ash on animals. The long-term (one - five years) impacts of vol- eanic ash or the ecosystems are largely unknown. We have some slides provided by the U.S. Geo- logical Survey of the Mt. St. Helens May. eruption and would be happy to show them to you at the Creston Valley tre. aut 2 Open Ga Branch No. 170 BARE P at _ griday & Saturday, 5 im, cing 9:30 Poon. = Fle L.A. SUNDAY BINGO STARTS AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER Wildlife Interpretation Cen- EVENING COURSES — 7:00 - 10:00 P.M, RIICIRIE a aw wee ie ADMINISTRATION 198 FIRST QUARTER TIMETABLE ee oe cay a7 CouRsE INSTRUCTOR No previous proporetions required: ‘Tuesday & Thuredoy Wednesdoy Tuesday Sept. See calendar for precequisites: Sept. Ho previeus preparation required: ‘Thurs, (anf Mon. a.m.) Monday : * See calender for prerequisites: Thurs. (and Wed, a.m.) MORNING COURSES — 8:90 - 12:90 Mo previove preperation required: ‘Mondoy Sea calender for prerequisites: ar] ‘Sept. Thyreday' se Wednesday Sept. Sas it Introductory Accounting $ a arputar Concept is + Purchaalng Management | BUS. 285 + Incqme Tox! Monday 5. AFTERNOON COURSES (314 hours) — Mon. & Wed. af 1:30 — Tues. & Thurs, 01 3:30 Bill gennest Bi Oxerolf Don Buskas ‘Mark McPhail ill Bennett Don Buthos John Breckenridge + Computer Concepts 1+ Intreduction to Report Writing fl hon A + Introduction to Report Writing 7 + Problem Solving in Business + Personnel It Glover Doug Glover Jack Yollond ill Orerott ware Davi Duane Davis Doug Glover Don Bushos Bill Ozerott For further IMPORTANT: availability of space. Seats in day courses are extremely scarce, and all courses have a maximum, so ENROL EARLY by ‘an application to the Admissions Office, or phone them at 348-5333, 365-7292 or 352-3010 to chect Many people are aware that the ministry of forests maintains recreation areas, picnic sites and trails throughout the province, For several years these wilderness spots have been enjoyed by sportsmen and those wishing to “get: away from it all,” The use of these sites is increasing yearly, re- sulting in the expansion of the recreation program with- in the ministry itself. The Forest Act now rec- ognizes the importance of ° recreation lands for overall forest land management. Presently,, the Arrow Forest District is formulating an inventory of the rec- reation features within the district and, more important- ly, an inventory of the po- tential recreation features which exist. The information collected will be used and considered when assessing future timber harvesting plans and developments and will also be incorporated into the general recreation land management program. ‘Example areas of poten- tial include old trail routes, potential wilderness camping spots, unique or primary ge- ological features and other recreation — oriented fea- tures which exist in the dis- trict. .. Ifyou know of particular . areas which warrant inelu- sion within the district inven- tory, please send them on to the Arrow Forest District Office at 1002 - 8rd St., Castlegar, B.C. VIN 8X6. Isolation or lack of access to an area need not be a factor for, the inventory. Some items can’t be mailed to Viet-Nam The Postal Administra- tion of Socialist Republic of Viet-Nam has advised Can- ada Post of a ban placed on certain goods. | Canada Post can no longer accept, .for mailing to Viet-Nam, products made from non-Vietnamese tobac- co, used clothing, blankets, mosquito nets, shoes and sealed tinned foodstuffs. CASTLEGAR NEWS, Recreation planning Forest Service seeks ARROW § TIMBER SUPPLY AREA ( 9 sxeee \) ae Al w August 27, 1980 input y Forecasts weekend fatalities During the 78-hour Labor Day weekend starting at 6 p.m. Aug. 29, the Canada Safety Council fears between “49 and 654 Canadians -will become traffic fatalities. While severe, the council says this is better than last year's total of 69, and much better than 1966, when Can- adians set a black record of 102 traffic deaths. There have been some continue, although it is too soon to obtain overall totals to date. The council still cites safety belt use as a major™ factor that ean contribute to slight imp over 1980 holiday weekends — a trend the council hopes will a 5 lities, along with a good attitude towards other road users. © School District No. 9 - (Castlegar) SCHOOL OPENING A. Secondary Schools: Tuesday, September 2, 1980 is an “In-Service Day” for Secondary Teachers only; hence, students enrolled in grades 8-12 at Stanle naird Junior Secondary will not attend grades 8-12 who are new to the district shou! y Humphries Secondary and Kin- in o y. | * td register at the appropriate secon- dary school on Tuesday. Report cards from the last schoo! attended should be presented at this time. Wednessoy: September 3, 1980 is a full day for all School District No. 9 students. Buses will bectal d later. B. Elementary Schools: All elementary schools in the district will be in operation on Tuesday, September 2, 1980; this day is not an “In-Service Day" for elementary teachers. Morning bus runs will be in accordance with the However, students will be returnin hlichad ech to be a pperaing en their regular schedules both in the A.M. and P.M. Bus will be publi: blished later. home earlier than usual in the afternoon. Students are advised to bring lunches that day if they normally eat lunch at vay Wednesday, September 3, is a full day for all Schoo! District No. 9 students. Buses will be operating on their regular schedule both in the A.M. and P.M. C. Special:. 1. CORRECTION: Grade 7 students assigned to Kinnaird Junior Secondary School are not to report to school on Tuesday, September 2, 1980. 2. (a) Parents or guardians who have pre-registered their child(ren) for kinder- garten have been or will be notified directly by the school as to class assignment, etc. (b) Parents or guardians of kindergarten students who did not pre-register your child(ren), you are advised to do so at your neighbourhood school or telephone the School Board Office (365-7731) for further information. 3. Students enrolled in Grades 1, 2 and 3 who live in the Kinnaird Elementary School attendance area and who have been assigned to either Castlegar Primary Schoo! or Twin Rivers are ALL asked to assemble in the Activity Room at Castlegar Primary for class and room assignment. 4. Students enrolled in Grade 5 who live in the Kinnaird Elementary School atten- dance area and who have been assigned to Twin Rivers School are advised that the class lists will be posted at Twin Rivers School. Board of School Trustees School District No. 9 Castlegar, B.C.