July.10, 1985 vi f N wall Wed. to Sat. — July 10-13 - or while quantities last! Selected Clothing for the Whole Family - 25% to 50% off Ladies Sundresses Poly/Cotton Reg. $14.99.... GymSuits~ Sizes 7-14 Sizes *11” A= 6X. ee sg? S.M.L. A -ted shorts & tops. Poly/Cotton Renin P 2-pce. shorts set. Reg. $13.99 7 ae - “salee Shorts Sets 510 Shorts & Tops 685.49 175G. ; . Reg. $3.99 .... York Barrel Ball Yarn 200 G. Embassy a ic Knitting Worsted Yar Reg. $4.59 ee oe Lawn Chairs CS oe Summer Beach as 1 _Assorted:Colors i Reg. $3.99 ... 00. eee ee eee _ $289 Reg. $ Match Box Cars |Cabbage Patch Kids | *367 | $469 1389) i ene ob is wet Assorted. Boxed Games WY PRICE = Embassy - 3 Photo Albums S $Qo7. $588 Cameo Paper Towels - 2...885 — — | .4"°x20' . Lawn Edging Plastic : _ + Sterilite 2 Litre Bottles. 00 Video Cassettes. Scotch & Maxell Te Super Seal Storage Containers... Ic Ste ~ Castlegar Store Only ‘The family Store with the Home Town Feeling’ SASSER RST RTE ~—too_numerous to mention! Many, many more items 365-7366 (ie eee i 3 =, a Castlégar News SECTION _WIN $1,000 _ BY USING YOUR ‘CASH CARD July 10,1985 ——-¢1 Frant Baron of Likely, B.C. captured the Logger of the Day title at the anhual logger’s sports day Saturday in Glocan. Slocan's Gary Burns was runner-up, along with Dale Quinn of Grand Prairie, Alta. Following is a list af the top three. finishers i in-each event: ~Powe saw (under 100 CCs) — 1. Gary Burns, Slocan, 2. Dale Quinn, Grand Prairie, Alta.,. 3. Frank Baron, Likely, B.C. Novice underhand hop — 1..Gerald-Gange, Canal Flats, 2. Quinn, 3. John Dick, Spokane. Men's axe throw — 1. Baron, 2. Ken Lister, Slocan, 3. Rick. Bezanson, Sorrento, B.C. Novice single buck — 1. Burns 2. Baron, 3. Quinn Novice obstacle’ pole — 1. Quinn 2. Dave Flanagan, “Cranbrook, 3. Clint Stevenson, Spokane. Double buck — 1. Ulanah McCoy and Stevenson, Spokane, 2.Burns and Lister, 3. Baron and Art Williams, Likely, B.C. ~~ -$locan man second = ‘at logger ‘sports day. Ladies axe throw — 1. McCoy; Slocan; 3.; Bonnie Stewart, Kaslo. Chokerman's race — 1. Quinn; 2. Donald Baker. Halifsx;-Nova Scotia, 3. Roni Flynn, Castlegar. 2. Heather Burns, Hot saw — 1. Burns; 2. Baron; 3. Quinn. Open springboard chop — 1. Baron; 2. Williams; 3. Gagne. Ladies choker race — 1. McCoy; 2. Joyce Emshey, Kaslo, 3. Tanya Streichert, Spokane. Open obstacle pole — 1. Baron; 2. Ed Campbell, Revelstoke; 3. Burns. Ladies’ dot split — 1. Emshey; 2. Burns; 3. Bonnie Lister, Slocan. Novice tree climb — 1. Bezanson; 2. Flanagan; 3. Burns. ee Log burling — 1. Campbell; 2. McCoy; 3. Power saw throwing — 1. Norm Blazina, Salmon Arm; 2. Tim. St. Thomas, Slocan 3. Rod Gatenby, Slocan. Photos for CasNews by Gary. Burns Alcohol is big business Editor's note: The production and sale of alcohol employs thousands of people in Canada and pumps billions of dollars into the economy. This is one of a series on the impact’of alcohol on Canadian life. By WENDY ECKERSLEY TORONTO (CP) — A businessman leans forward in his velvent wing-back chair under the glow of the Tiffany lamp and flips’a $50 bill from his wallet. With drinks running at $3.50 a shot.at Brandy's, a downtown Toronto . watering spot for. .well-heeled yuppies, paying for a round may not leave much for the taxi fare home. A few blocks north, students jammed around tables at the Brunswick House tavern dig in jeans pockets to fund-a ‘stream of 90-cent-a-glass draught beer fuelling their chatter and the singalongs with Irene and Carla on stage. The two spots are night and day on the urban drinking-scene- But the dollars_piling up-in their cash registers are a homogencous fraction of the billions flowing into the national economy courtesty of the alcohol industry in Canada. Production, advertising, distribution, sales and service — all blend together to form an economic infras- _cucture that continues to be profitable despite heavy taxes and. moderating drinking habits. MONEY IS NEEDED Those taxes, now. heaping up well over $4 billion annually in public coffers, are. as irresistible — and necessary — to governments as a brimming martini to an alcoholic. Although alcohol imposes a heavy burden on Canadian life in terms of health, legal and social costs — estimated -at-moré than $6 _billion_annually-—_it-also makes a ‘positive contribution, largely economic. And there are such intangible pleasures as savoring a cold beer at a baseball game on a sunny summer afternoon. The making, distribution and sale of beer alone — Canada is known as a “beer country” because it’s the top-sellilng alcoholic drink — contributed $7.6 billion in 1984 to the gross national product, 1.7 per cent of the GNP. The brewing industry also says it’ ckept 18,900 Canadians working in 1984, plus 65,400 in directly related jobs. The 12 major liquor distillers employed 4,600 people last year — down from 5,500 in ,1981.— and the 50 wineries employed about 4,000 directly and provided a market for 25,000 people in grape growing. BARS ADD MORE alcohol.they drank overall. By and large, Canadians drink at home, buying directly from provincial government stores and other outlets. The essential role of alcohol in the hospitality business was mirrored in the reaction of many of the 11,000' Ontario licensees, over lost business during ~a March lockout that shut down the main breweries. Their collective outrage finally forced the provincial govern- ment to import beer from the United States to ease the drought. In the boom years after the Second World-War, the alcohol business and all its spin-off industries were like a tap spewing money instead of beer. But the miomentum has slowed. Tapping into the so-called liquir gold is “no longer a licence to make money,” says Kay Kendall of the FEATURE REPORT Association of Canadian Distillers. Bar owners across the country. are finding their customers — some unwilling to pay steadily higher prices and some thinking of calories and fitness — are cutting back their drinking, and the profit margin. DRINKING LESS eh tasinlely people are drinking less,” says George Diamant, owner of the two Eye Opener steakhouses in Calgary. “And tax increases are a serious problem. You can't pass them all on (to the customer) so it hits the bottom line. . “If the government keeps bumping up costs, the bottom line will disappear.” Liquor sales have lost ground for the last four years and the beer market is flat. Only wine is shwoing any significant growth in sales Volume — at the modest pace of between three and five per cent a year, and that is mostly due to a surge in imported wine sales. This scenario is hardly cheering for the thousands of Canadians who earn their living in the alcohol industry and related businesses — from the laborers in the corn fields and vineyards to the bartenders in the approximately 30,000 licensed establishments in the country. “It's not a case of people turning away from the product; it's just the cost,” says Del Little, a 26-year Th ‘wages _as_C: downed.-about $3.25 billion worth of drinks last year in bars, restaurants and hotels — about one-quarter ‘of the in the ing department of the Hiram Walker and Sons Ltd. whisky plani at Windsor, Ont. “The thing that bothers me more than anything else is —N.¥,, restaurant for less than it costs us to purchase it (in INOUUUUOULULASUUEAEULLILUALLLUA the government . . . those taxes are-hurting more than anything else.” + SUPPORTS COMPANY Little, 60, gays he drinks only Walker products and proudly promotes them among his friends to help out a company that’s provided him with a secure job, a “comfortable” income of $31,000 a year and the promise of retirement in two years. Bob Spencer, who owns Old Fishmarket restaurants in Toronto, Ottawa and Windsor and says he'd “hate to try to operate an upscale restaurant without having liquor available,” also points a critical finger at/Canadian alcohol taxes. “I can order a bottle of imported wine in a Buffalo, Ontario) for resale.” Spencer says the retail mark-up on drinks in restaurants and bars ranges froma high of about 250 per cent on liquor to 100. per cent or less on wine. “That sounds as though you're ripping off the public,” he says, “but you have.to consider all the other costs: labor and overhead.” _ The provincial and federal governments collectively reap at least $4.5 billion a year from the control, taxing and sale of alcohol. : FAVOR PROVINCES - That's split roughly two-thirds to the provinces and one-third to Ottawa. Lumped together, however, it's almost half of what Canada will spend on defence next year. Considered a luxury item by governments that also face huge health and social costs from its use, alcohol is taxed at an enormously high rate i Canada. Customers pay on the average 84 per cent tax on liquor, 45 per cent on beer and about 52 per cent on wine. And taxes are levied on a percentage basis one on top of another, multiplying the effect like an inverted pyramid. For instance, the two-per-cent increase in federal excise duty on alcohol announced in the recent federal budget will have a larger impact on the selling price when it is implemented by the end of June because every expansion in the federal tax automatically increases provincial levies, which are applied on top. In Ontario, for example the Liquor Control Board pays a distillery. $2.23 for a 710-millilitre bottle of domestic rye. Federal excise duty — at its pre-budget rate — adds $2.87. Then Ottawa levies a 13-per-cent manufacturer's sales tax (increasing to 14 per cent in January), which adds another 66 cents. The frie tang rye is now $5.76, when the province adds on a 109-per- retail mark-up of $6.29. : events By ALISON WARNER Interpreter, Syringa Cteek Provincial Park This coming week at Syringa Creek Provincial Park a wide variety of events will be offered through the part interpretation program. Take advantage of the beautiful summer weather and enjoy a guided nature walk on the scenic trails within the park. Achildren’s program is held each Saturday — this week a live snake demonstration will be featured. In the evenings come and experience an outdoor show in the amphithreatre which is nestled in the trees within the campground area. Looking ahead, a special evening event will be offered on July 23 by the astronomers of the Vancouver Planetarium . providing a unique opportunity to observe objects in the, night sky. Park interpretation programs will be held Thursdays through Mondays all summet. Day programs.are about 1'/: hours and evening programs afe about‘one hour. The following events will take place this week — hopé'to see you there! * Thursday [July 11] 4:00 p.m. “Forests of Syringa Creek Park” — a walk on the Syringa Trail through the different forests — why-are they different? Meet at the campground information board and wear proper footwear. 8:30 p.m. “The Syringa Story” — a slide presentation to ‘discover the Syringa Creek area. Meet at - park amphithreatre. - ; Friday [July 12) 8:30 p.m. “Death of a Legend” — a film revealing the myths and realities of wolves. Meet at park amphitheatre. Saturday [July 3] 4:00: p.m. Children’ 's Program: “The Secret Life of Snakes” — featuring a liye demonstration of a boa constrictor. Meet at thé beacli change house in the picnic — day use area. 8:00 p.m. Special Guest Speaker: A locan conservation officer will be speaking on wildlife and conservation in the area. Meet at part-amphitheatre. : Sunday [July 14) 10:30 a.m. “Wildflowers Along the Yellow Pine Trail” — come for a walk’and/learn more about the many different flowers of the area. Meet at beach change house at day use area. 8:30 p.m. “The Doukhobors” — a slike presentation of ‘the past and present lifestyle of the Doukhobor community. Meet at park amphitheatre.