Kinsmen Park Wading Poo! is Popular: srlth Younger Chlaren The Slide at Clarke's Pool in Castlegar Always Has Someone Shooting Down It Canada Manpower and Selkirk College Fall-Pre-School Teacher: Training Course Canada Manpower, in co- operation with Selkirk College, will again be sponsoring a pre- school teacher training course this fall. Twenty people selected from applicants across the rovince will take the 22-week course starting Sept. 17. The training is primarily intended to train men and women to assume supervisory responsibility at day care centres as required by the Community Care Facilities Lic- ensing Board, Arrangements for all Occasions, Bridal ‘Bouquets and Corsages Telephone 365-7641 VROOM FLOWERS LTD. Gardenias, Shrubs, Bedding Out Plants, 1001 + 9th Ave., Kinnaird A similar program oper- ated at Selkirk College from January to April of this year. The course at that time trained 16 people, 10 of which had their fees and a living allowance supplied by Canada Manpower. The capacity for the September course has been expanded to 20 and Canada Manpower will again be supporting ten of the successful applicants. , The course is made up of eight parts including develop- ment psychology, foundations of early childhood education, children’s literature and lan- guage development, - creative _ art experiences, music and movement, parent-teacher re- lationships; math, science and social studies for pre-schoolers and a practicum, A phone call from Honeymoon Bay, B.C. to Niagara Falls, Ont. Station to Station Customer Dialed Cost for the first minuto {one minute minimum charge: 95 67 30 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 6 p.m, to midnight Sun. 8 a.m. to midnight midnight to 8 a.m. Station to Station Operator Handled Cost for first three minutes (three minute additional ‘min, charge) 3.15 3.15 3.15 minute) 95 67 .30 calls tha diract all costs less when you dial direct. BOTH @ "1972. The Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley A Bundle of Money and Umpteen Steps for Preparation My wife cunnot understand why unyone wants to travel, when he can sit in his own backyard and commune with the gods, y 'm beginning to agree with her, (Getting ready is kind of n puin in the urm, especially if you must have a vaccination, Obtaining « passport sounds easy. Heck, it’s more trouble than getting married or dying, ‘All you have todo is fill ina form. The form is slightly more complicated thin your income tax form. Then, you must find someone who will swear that yo u tire who you sity you ure, ‘his person is called # guarantor and can be practi- cally unyone except your neighbour. Then ou must obtain a birth certificute, This is fairly simple if you know where you were born, If you don't, ‘ou huppened to be born ‘ilch, Yugoslavia, it can ie complex. You must have passport photos taken. You can’t just use un old snapshot in which you look your best. Passport photos are an old joke. They usually make you look like a zombie. Strungely, oul ours turned out well. pose for them. tenes we knew they'd be gruesome, so they came out relaxed. Besides passports and birth certificates, there is a myriad of other pother to look after, und you could use a full-time clerk for a week or two. Air tickets, money arrangements, hotel rese tions, und who's going io feed the cat, A travel agent i: a must in these da half the world seems to be on the move. He or she can smooth a fot of wrinkles and give valuable tips on how to win at least the occasional round in the game. Many people go to Md agencies in the city. travel agent, a personable young local chap, couldn't have been more helpful and efficient. (Aside’ to Bill Mandly: everything, by golly, had better be right, after that.) He told me something about air fares that is almost unbelievable. A return ticket to the U.K. can run all the way from a Christmas char- ter at $187 to a regular flight at $626 (under two weeks). I shudder to think what a first-class ticket would cost in the latter category. f course, a business man after fifty years, that $187 special might represent months ot scrimping. Even so. something smells, in the discrepancy. 1973 Declared Banner Year For Easter Seal Dear Sir: We want you to know we have completed our fiscal year as of July 31, our accounts are currently being audited, and we now know the success of our 1973 Easter Seal Appeal. This year is indeed a banner year inasmuch as for the first time in the history of this Society we have exceeded $200,000. In Vancouver our appeal increased $15,080 over B.C. total was $255,773. And finally, we wanted you to have this information be- cause we believe your partici- pation and help is what made the difference, Tom Tait, Post District Governor 19H, Provincial Easter Seal Campaign Chairman, sad : ef : Little John PORTABLE TOILET THE-ECOLOGY WATCHER for mobile homes... travel trailers . . . cal «+» boats... marinas =5 « Ski resorts... poor side dressing roams . . toad crews... contractors = + © golf Courses 26 summer camps. @ No electricity @ No room No chemicais Portable, completely auto- matic. High-speed burn- ing cycle converts human waste to vapor. Now available in the Koo- nays. For further informa- tion, write INTERIOR LAKE SERVICE (1969) Ltd., 608 Railway St., Nelson, B.C. th Travelling is not cheup, unless you want to swim ucross, Which I've contem- plited u couple of times us the bills mount. Only reason J haven’ 1 developed the iden is that my wife is a good swimmer, but only for about thirty yards. I'd hate to see her go down thirty yards off the Halifax docks, and have to do all the rest on my own, with nobody to tell me | was steering the wrong course. Kootenay Has Share of Tilford Semi-Finalists Four Kootenay locations— including three from Inver- mere—have been declared re- gional semi-finalists in the 1973 Park & Tilford Trophy competi- tion for outstanding beautifica- tion in British Columbia. The following locations were selected as region D semi-finalists during a recent review by trophy judges of the 94 nominations received from communities throughout B.C.: Rossland—White Wolf Inn; Invermere—East Kootenay Realty Ltd., Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Rola Holdings Ltd. Medical Dental Centre. A total of 10 nominations were received from region D. The regional winners will be declared later this month with the winner of the 1973 provincial award to be an- nounced Sept. 20 at the annual awards banquet in Vancouver. Not cheup! Good grivy. Just looked over the items before we even left the house. Air ticket — $332; passport proto — $3; He port — $10; birth cerlificute —$3; limousine to uirport — $8; Britrail pass — $70. Those are just the busics. Multiply by two if you're 0 ouple hen there ure the ever- prevent extras: new clothes, 8 to get to city irae nad the inevituble ries, too numerous to mention, as the auction sate ads put it, hat's before you get on the plune. You still have to eat and sleep for three weeks after you gel here However, I've cut the whole thingdown quite a bit by can- celling our two daily pay deliveries for three weeks. Saved about $6.50 right there, - Our Britrail pass allowsus to go unywhere in the U.K. It may come in handy. We muy be riding trains all night, every night, to save hotel bills. And we're taking along an eight-pound salami and six loaves of bread, so we might come through. have a vague tdea that this column will not go down as one of the greutest pieces of exotic travel literature ever written, But it is a little hectic around here. Six hours to takeoff, my wife is just start- ing to pack, I have to go down and sell my soul to the bank manager, get up to the schoo! und look after some items for September, see young Wilson next door ubout feeding the cat, call the boy about mowing the lawn, Brigadier-General Well Known To Many .Casflegar Residents Col. Herbert C. Pitts, a former Nelson boy well known in Castlegar, relinquished com- + mand recently of Canada’s only airborne formation, The Cana- dian Airborne Regiment. On the same day the 44-year-old career officer was promoted to brigadier-general. The new brigadier-general had commanded the regiment in Edmonton since August 1971. He is posted to National Defence Headquarters: in Ot- tawa, where he will be director sneral of Jand operations. * His sutcessor in Edmonton “is Col, Guy H. J. Lesfkof of Montreal. To commemorate the change of command, nearly 250 members of the regiment parachuted on to Drop Zone Buxton, Namo, prior toa formal parade. The son of Mrs. Swea Pitts of Burnaby and the late H. C. Pitts of Castlegar, the brigadier-general holds the Military Cross for gallantry in action in Korea, and the Canadian Fbk Decoration awarded for 12 years’ exemp- lary service in the Canadian armed forges.’ see ey The latter was 5 presented in 1963. pick up the dry: leaning, get the books back to the library, und, somehow in there, try to have a shower and shave. We might muke it, but I wouldn't bet higher than even money, Tl try iS do better next week, when you'll have a «despatch, Pianos & Organs Music Studios and . 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