a. Castlegar News November 9, 1986 COMMUNITY NEWS _ MEDICAL CLINIC CASTLEGAR & KINNAIRD ts pleased to announce DR. J. VAN VLIET samo. . Has resumed his FAMILY PRACTICE , NEW PATIENTS WELCOME For Appointments Call 365-7717 BDE A representative of the Bank will be in Castlegar on N b 13, 1986 to discuss your Business’ Financial and Management needs. Why not call us today at 426-7241 (collect) to arrange an appointment. Federal Business Banque federale Oo Bank de ‘FALCON, PAINTING & DECORATING 2649 FOURTH AVENUE CASTLEGAR 8 © vin 28! seanase? Gary Fleming Dianna Kootnikoftt ADVERTISING SALES CA OFFICE 365-5210 WAGE CONSCIOUS . . . Doreen Mills (left), Ginette Laturnus (centre) and Darleen Ward were among people who turned out recently for the 1st anniversary reunion of New Image courses and Teen Image cour- ses at the Sandman Inn. Oldtime Fi dlers busy HOUSING COMPLEX OPENED The Dr. Brouse Lodge, a 10-unit senior citizens complex in New Denver, was ly opened Oct. 27 Master of ceremonies Bruce Bried, president of the New Denver-Silverton and Area Seniors Housing Society, began the ceremony by welcoming everyone to the official opening. Rev. Ken Bond gave the blessing, after which everyone was asked to join in the singing of 0 Canada lead by Agnes Emary. Bried then gave a brief history of the project before introducing several guests who brought greetings and con gratulations. Senya Mori, mayor of New Denver, and Randolf Harding, mayor of Silverton, spoke on behalf of the villages of New Denver and Silverton in conveying thanks to everyone who worked on the project. Cheryl Scanlon brought greetings and congratulations on behalf of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. Bried then introduced Mary Kerr, Chairman of B.C. Housing Management Commission, who thanked everyone involved for bringing the complex to completition and presented the society with a B.C. flag and a plaque for Dr. Brouse Lodge. Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco was unable to attend but was represented by Bobbie Nesbitt who read Brisco's note of congratulations. J.L. Wilson, who now lives in Nelson and is past treasurer of the housing society and a long-time friend in the community, was then introduced. Wilson presented Bried with a present on behalf of the directors of the society. Walt Thring gave a brief outline of why thé complex was named Dr. BrouseLodge. Dr. Brouse was the pioneer doctor who built the first hospital in New Denver which was situated on the site where the new facility is built. The last to speak was Tom Proudlock, manager, Southern Region, B.C. Housing Commission. Proudlock con gratulated everyone and made special mention of service groups and small societies in small communities that work so hard in getting projects such as this one completed. A meeting of the B.C. Old time Fiddlers was held Nov 2 at the Senior Citizen's Hall in Castlegar with 37 mem bers present Members have been busy since the start of their new season in September playing at the Chahko-Mika Mall in Nelson, Willow Haven, The Sons of Norway, and the Columbia View Lodge. December looks like a busy month for the Fiddlers, as they will be playing for many of the local Christmas par- ties. They will be playing Dec. 4 at Columbia View, Dec. 10 for the Castlegar seniors’ Christmas party to in the Legion Hall in Knights open McBride Manor The Knights of Columbus of Trail held their official opening ceremony of Mc Bride Manor Saturday. The announcement was made by Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco on behalf of Stewart McInnes, minister responsible for Canada Mort gage and Housing Corp A portion of the capital cost of the project, approxi mately $140,722, is being met with a 25-year loan trom the Bank of Montreal. This !oan is insured under the National Housing Act by CMHC. Through CMHC, assis tanee will be provided in the form of a maximum annual subsidy of $12,818 which will reduce the mortgage interest rate to as low as two per cent The British Columbia government provided $45,500 toward the capital cost of this project and will also provide annual operating assistance of $4,044 THE PROBLEM: formal education. THE SOLUTION: THE SELKIRK COLLEGE FOUNDATION Post-secondary Education costs money — a lot of money. These days graduates of a college or university Program can amass a heavy debt load by the time they earn a diploma. For some, student loans can amount to more than $20,000. Other students, discouraged by the prospect of going so far in debt, simply cease their ) Gasoline, cosmetics and clothing. Every five young people. years of operation, and now the Foundation asks you to heip in will allow the ives of to of West the in its 20 receh from the Cascade Pharmaseve (Mo 108) Cobbiers ey CASTLEGAR: Arrow f Hi ri i titi idl " | i at Rn i in 2 Clotting Centre Video Nine GRAND FORKS listed below Civic Esso Service (1984 Shop Nelson Service Nature's Gateway Health Foods 1998 Hair design Norm's Brochures con be obtained at any of the above listed businesses To learn more about acquiring a Foundation Card contact the SELKIRK COLLEGE FOUNDATION 2001 Sitver King Road, Netson, B.C Vil 1C8 oF telephone 352-6601 Hail Pint & Stationers Lic to today’s ] Beach Inn (1974) Lid ratte (1977) Lid ice, Satemo Restaurant Sales & Service (1983) inc Castlegar, and Dee. 17 for the Kiro Manor Christmas party On Dee. 6 the Fiddlers will be holding their own Christ mas party in the Legion Hall in Castlegar. The member. ship decided to have a pot luck supper which will begin at 5:30 p.m. Each member will be allowed to bring one couple as guests. There was a request from the Castlegar seniors to have the fiddlers play for a seniors’ dance once a month in Castlegar. The fiddlers have decided they will try to fit this into their timetable and to let the seniors know when it will be convenient for them to play The arena complex in Castlegar has been booked by the fiddlers for April 11 and 12, 1987 for their 4th Annual Fiddle Contest. This will be a special con test for Branch No. 9 as they will be hosting the B.C. pro- vincial contest. It will be open to B.C. fiddlers only and will decide the provincial champions. The members remained after the meeting and held a very lively jam session. The next meeting will be Dec. 7 in the seniors’ hall in Castlegar Brisco wants those surveys Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco is requesting con stituents continue to send in the survey included in his recent constituency news letter, in spite of the fact that public hearings on both mat ters in question were held this week “Some people feel that there is no point in filling out the survey because by the time it reaches my office, the hearings will be over. That's not the case at all,” said Brisco. “I will be requesting both the boundaries commission and the utilities commission to allow for a reasonable period of time to collect the surveys.” Brisco added that he has already received several BOB BRISCO grateful hundred completed surveys, and that he is grateful to his constituents for acting so quickly on this request “eft Pyote/ CANADIAN HOSPITALITY HEADQU. ARTERS $ 39 Per Night SINGL IR DOUBLE OCCUPANCY CANADIAN AT PAR \. 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This year's directors are: president — Roberta Zurek, vice-president — Lue La. Freniere, secretary/treasur- er — Graham Allison, and directors — Allan Middleton, Coralea Schuepfer, and Blythe Elliot. The society looks after the Robson Hall, Robson tennis courts and Rebson pool. Ex penses such as heat and light for the hall, fire insurance and liability insurance are all paid by the society from funds received from mem. berships, fund-raising activi ties, donations, hall rentals, and a small grant from the government. The Society will hold its annual general meeting Jan. 21 in the Robson Hall. All Robson and Raspberry resi dents are welcome to attend. hove Ford (2497) General duty nurses to work on @ casual basis ore urgently required in Trail and Rossiond (2333) There is on opportunity to troin as o picture fremer in Troi This is a Job Development Program ond applicants must be unemployed of the last 30 weeks and disadvantaged. (362M) A part-time compenion to on elderly lady is required in Trail (363m) Kootenay roads closed A number of motor vehicle restrictions designed to pro- tect wildlife have been an nounced by the Environment and Parks Ministry. Year-round motor vehicle closures in the Dutch-Find- lay, Flathead Ridge, Sheep Mountain and Premier Ridge areas of the Kootenays will preserve wildlife habitat and prevent harassment of win tering wildlife. in Senne Fast & Efficient ann ice 365-3467 OR MOBILE Se) ° Lotteries ee nee The following are the Lotto West numbers drawn Wed nesday night: The jackpot of $453,599.10 was won by three tickets each worth $151,199.70. The eight numbers drawn were seven, eight, 17, 20, 37, 38, 51, and 55. The bonus number was 25. The winning numbers in Wednesday's Lotto 6-49 draw were 23, 25, 26, 27, 38 and 46. The bonus number was 4. There was no winner of the jackpot pool of $1,845,466.20. NEW IN TOWN? LET US PUT OUT THE MAT FOR YOU! Canada won't grant aslyum at embassies By PAUL MOONEY OTTAWA — Immigration lawyer Barbara Jackman visited a political prisoner in a Santiago jail last year. She says he told her Chilean police had tortured his infant daughter in front of him’ in an effort to extract a confession. When Jackman went to the Canadian embassy that afternoon to intercede for him she says she was told by an official that the Chilean police didn't torture anymore. And, Jackman says, the official added: “Besides, you know, sometimes torture is justified.” Bill Fairburn, associate director of the Toronto- based Inter-church Committee on Human Rights in Latin America, recently tried to help a CI husband is a landed immigrant in Canada. Four plainclothes policemen had smashed in er door after midnight. They arrested the woman and roughed her up, leaving her four-year-old son alone for 24 hours. When Fairburn tried to get her to Canada as quickly as possible, he alleges an embassy official told him: “You shouldn't worry. We're following patterns here and the police aren't killing people these days. Sometimes they slap them around a bit, sometimes there's a bit of torture, but they don’t kill people.” FATHER BEATEN Nancy Pocock, a Toronto Quaker, recently worked on behalf of a Guatemalan family of four which had been harassed by police. The father had been picked up and beaten. She says the family went to the Canadian embassy three times and each time failed to get past the receptionist Canada enjoys a worldwide reputation as a haven for those in danger from totalitarian regimes. But immi. them to get out of the country any way they can and then come to Canada. - “Tve had clients in Peru told they couldn't possibly be refugees — that there are no refugees there. There is a democratic government in Peru, but we know the army still does what it wants. But Canadian officials there will still wink at you and say there's no refugee problem in that country.” SHUNS EMBASSY ‘The human rights of Chilean P churches, FASIC, says publicly it will not take emer- gency cases to the Canadian embassy. “They take them to the French embassy, to the Swedish embassy or over the hills into Argentina,” Fairburn said. “But they won't go near our embassy.” Pocock said: “There doesn't seem to be any clear instructions from the government to our foreign service officials abroad. A minister should issue a clear directive that if someone is in trouble, we get them out.” External Affairs official Denis Tessier said Canada does not grant political asylum at its embassies because Retirement to bring changes at city hall By FELICITY MUNN Canadian Press MONTREAL — Jean Drapeau retires this month after 26 years as mayor, but his departure will likely be just the first of some big changes at city hall. Public opinion polls suggest an overwhelming vietory by the M Citizens’ Mi in Sunday’ 1 election and that could open up the civic administration for the first time in the memories of many of Montreal’s.700,000 voters. Drapeau, 70, has ruled with an iron fist throughout his tenure. Jean Dore, leader of the citizens’ movement, has “democratizing” city hall will be his priority. The Civie party administration, Dore says, runs Montreal “as if it were a shoe store in the 1950s, a store where the boss runs everything, controls everything and looks after the smallest details.” Two Montreal newspapers, Le Devoir and the Gazette, cited Dore's promise to open up city hall as one of the primary reasons for endorsing him. But there will likely be a change even if Dore’s main opponent, Claude Dupras, pulls off an upset victory. He too his “we could have thousands showing up at our saying they're in danger. In some cases it would be true, but in other cases it would be a fake just to get a free ride to Canada.” HELPED HUNDREDS Canada helped hundreds to leave Guatemala last year, NDP MP-Dan Heap noted. The Canadian embassy loaned many airline tickets and called ahead to ensure a speedy transfer at Miami. “I'm very proud of that,” said the NDP immigration. critic. “But in other countries there seems to be un- believable obstruction.” Fairburn describes the case of a Luthern official from West Germany who was clubbed on a Santiago street, gration lawyers and church refugee workers say emergency cases are handled by Canadian officials differently from country to country They're deeply concerned about those who may have as little as 24 hours to flee their native country or face torture or death “I never advise clients, especially those in danger, to go to a Canadian embassy, Toronto immigration lawyer Jeffrey House said in an interview “They'll be told to come back in three or four weeks, and from then on they're marked men or women. I tell dragged onto a police bus, passed from officer to officer who sexually molested and beat her, and thrown off the bus several hours later. When he carried the protests of the Luthern Church to the Canadian embassy in Chile, a senior official told him: “Well, sometimes these things are more complex than they appear — and that woman has visited East Germany.” “It's very disturbing to me as a Canadian,” Fairburn said. “This is the position of a representative of my government.” has pi is ‘ation would consult the public. A 54-year-old consulting engineer and Drapeau's successor as leader of the Civic party, Dupras (pronounced Du-prah) is trailing Dore by some 40 percentage points in the polls. The operations of the Civic party have been shrouded in secrecy since Drapeau founded it in 1960. It never had a platform before this campaign and admits no members besides its councillors. Its 40 councillors rarely speak in council and few vote against the party. Their average age is 54, compared with 41 for the 14 with Dore's party. There are three independents at city hall. Virtually all the power has been held by Drapeau and his right-hand man Yvon Lamarre, chairman of the execu- tive committee — the six-member inner cabinet that runs city hall. Dore (pronounced Dor-ay), a smooth, bilingual 41-year- old labor lawyer, plans to change all that by distributing the power throughout a network of councillors and civil servants. He says the executive committee would work as a team, accountable to both city council and the public. Dore has pledged to hold referendums on zoning changes, make access to city services and information easier, appoint an to oversee icipal services and set Plants glow WASHINGTON (AP) Scientists say they have transferred the light of fire flies imto'tobaeto plants, pro- ducing generations of leafy lanterns that glow in the dark. Taking the gene that lights up fireflies and moving it into plants is not aimed at creat ing living night lights for the bedroom or self-lit tobacco fields, however. Rather, scientists said, the experiment promises to be a valuable research tool for learning how and when dif ferent genetic instructions switeh on and off in higher organisms, and for tracing the development of plants and animals. “This is the first time anyone has taken a gene that codes for light production and transferred it into the genetic material of a com plex, multi-cellular organ ism,” said Dr. Ronald Helin ski, one of the researchers on the project : The experiments résulted in normal-sized tobacco plants that give off a low, soft glow in the dark, said Dr. Stephen Howell, another re searcher on the project. “The light is very faint and is best viewed by using special instruments,” Howell said in a telephone interview “You can't use these plants as a flashlight.” In a report to be published in the Nov. 14 issue of the journal Science, the research ers outline how they used gene splicing technology to insert the gene that produces a glowing enzyme called luci ferase into the plant's DNA INHERIT QUALITIES Genes are small pieces of DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, the basic substance of heredity. Strands of DNA make up the chromosomes within cells that pass on their characteristics to subsequent in the dark Within these chromosomes are genes which make pro- teins that influence the chem. istry of the organism. Gene. tie engineers transfer genes to and from organisms to give them different charac teristics. The California scientists said “tagging” various genes with firefly luminescense would allow researchers to visually tell when the genes kicked on or off. In the case of plants, scientists could see how genes respond to changes such as varying light, stress and temperatures. The researchers took the luciferase gene, spliced it to a plant gene and inserted the composite into a type of bacteria capable of injecting genetic material into plant tissue. Some cells in the tissue gene into their own genetic material, and researchers grew entire plants from these cells. The scientists took seeds from the transformed plants and grew a nursery full of tobacco plants containing the firefly gene. “The use of tobacco plants has no special significance,” Howell said. “It is a well understood model for plant scientists, sort of the lab rat of the plant world.” up a public question period at city council meetings. When founded, the citizens’ movement was a fractious French-English coalition of New Democrats, Pa: i supporters, union activists and citizens’ com: advocated, among other things, abolishing public transit fares. But the party's reformist bent has moderated and under Dore, who became leader in 1982, it has evolved into a slick political machine of the centre left. Its platform also calls for lower taxes where possible, incentives to attract business, more parks, formulation of a“ cohesive cultural policy and more hiring of women and minorities — although only 15 of its 58 candidates for councillor are women, versus 11 for the Civie party. Dupras has charged Dore's promises would add $325 million to the city's $1.3-billion budget this year. He arrived at that figure by estimating the cost of every article in the Dore’s program and adding them to the cost of some of the party's election promises. But Dore, while refusing to estimate how much his proposals would cost, has insisted they can be done within the city budget. rr CANADIAN LIQUID AIR LTD. ATTENTION LIQUID AIR CUSTOMERS For your welding supplies Industrial and Medical Gases We are located at — Trail Auto Body Ltd. 2316 - 6th Ave., Castlegar © Call 365-5114 WIN incorporated the generations. COMMUNITY Bulletin Board ART SHOW — SALMO LEGION HALL November 15 and 16 10. a.m. - 4.p.m. Guest Artist Brion OHera. Locel orts and cratts tor sale 2/89 MINTO CHAPTER No. 79 0.E.S Teo ond Bazaar. Legion Hall, Saturday. November 15 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Boke Table 3.89 AMALING FACTS Revelation Seminar continues with the following exciting topics on video and side projection Sunday. Nov 9 Babylon. Mon Nov. 10 - The Beast The Dragon and the Womon. Wednesday Nov. 12 -. Three Steps to Heaven Thursday. Nov 13 — Protestantism Follows the Beost Friday, Nov. 14 — Gods Test of Loyalty Sunday, Nov. 16 ‘Mark of the Beas! Resker Hall, Robson 7 pm. Ad mission free. All welcome 2 CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR November 28 and 29. Robson Hall, Nov 28 109m 9 p.m.. Nov. 29, 10. a.m. - 4pm. Meals and snacks will be served. To reserve tables call 365.5772 of 365-3558. 4 90 16. 914 sharing time and 3/90 CASTLEGAR EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH Five-year anniversary celebration 7 pm Ni Columbia Avenue. Special music retreshments. Everyone welcome CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR ; November 2! ond 22 of Castlegar Recreation Complex Sponsored by Blueberry Creek Recreation Commissio Coming events of Castiego: orgonization $3.50 and additional words ore ds (which mus! be used for heodir There 1s no extra charge tc 1 non profit 110 words are Boldtoced wor Deodiines ore 5 pm Thursdays tor Sundey's mm. 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