! 'S v6 Castlegar News december 17. 1986 Holiday travel panic By FELICITY MUNN Canadian Press MONTREAL — The booking began in early October. The panic began in late November. Christmas is looming, and for thousands of Canadians that means travel — whether across the country to spend the holidays with Aunt ‘Agatha or to southern climes to escape from winter. Most people booked well in advance. Others didn't. and hence the panic. “Travel agents can spend easily up to an hour these dhys just letting the phone ring at a wholesaler's place.” says Montreal travel agent Marnie Cotran. “The Christmas thing begins any time after September, but the panic begins anywhere in late November.’ Actually, panic may not be necessary. You can probably still book a flight to wherever you want to go, or even a package deal south. But it will be costly — possibly twice as much as if you'd booked last month, since almost all cut-fare seats have been sold. A class B return Montreal-Vancouver ticket on Wardair, purchased three weeks in advance, costs $399. But with less than two weeks until Christmas, Wardair's regular economy seats are $678. The same goes at Air Canada and Canadian Pacific Air Lines, which charges $992 for an economy seat versus $620 for a class B fare ‘FORGET IT “After mid-November, just forget it in terms of getting a decent fare,” says Cotran. You may also have to be flexible — at this point chances are you won't be able to get a direct flight to your destination during the peak Dec. 19-Jan. 5 period. “There may still be opportunities to get to where you want to go, if you're prepared to be flexible with your SPECIAL EVENING SERVICE At the Pentecostal Tabernacle On December 21 — Sunday 6 p.m. Israel Slide Presentation By: Pastor Ken Smith Special Music By Pastor Morley Soltys An Evening } se I you will not 3 ? want to miss. ae - itinerary,” advises CP Air spokesman Lise Ravary “And we're pretty much aiming towards full fare now.” Both CP Air's Ravary and Air Canada spokesman Brock Stewart say it's shaping up as a good, but not great, season for the airlines. . “It's not a boom Christmas this year,” says Ravary “But on the other hand we managed to sell off just about everything we have in terms of promotional capacity and we expect to go solidly booked.” So how about the train? There's still room, but Via Rail spokesman Paul Raynor says it’s getting harder to book a seat on a specific train The train is cheaper, although fares went up recently and money-losing Via offers no discounts beyond the basic book-ahead ones over the Christmas period A one-way coach fare between Montreal and Toronto is $49. One-way coach fare betwee Montreal and Vancouver a trip that takes three nights and four days — is $266, $375 for a berth. WEATHER FACTOR The weather is a major factor in the holidays. When conditions turn nasty, the train is usually the transportation mode that keeps operating. In 1983, as record-breaking cold and snow grounded planes and closed roads, Via cancelled only three of séme 2,000 trains. Dry trees demand caution TORONTO (CP) — Chil dren might have visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads at Christmas, but fire fighters have nightmares about millions of dry Christ mas trees strung with hot electric lights. Jack McFadden, director of Toronto's Fire Prevention Bureau, says he is pleased about increased public awareness of the fire hazard dry trees can present. But he says safety officials still worry that people don’t keep their trees as fresh as they could. For starters, McFadden recommends cutting your own tree, if possible, so you know it will be fresh. If you must buy your tree from a commercial lot, there are simple techniques to test for freshness: © Before buying a tree, pinch a group of needles. If they fall off easily, the “tree is probably hazardous,” said McFadden. You can also try to bend the needles: if they break in your hand, the tree is probably too old. Pliable needles indicate freshness. e Bang the tree on the ground. If green needles fall, the tree is probably not fresh, said Bob Irwin, a con sulting manager of the Christmas Tree Growers Association of Ontario. How. ever, brown needles are con stantly being shed by ever greens and aren't a cause for concern. Irwin said you should cut about two centimetres off the tree's base. The fresh cut will allow water to be more easily absorbed. The tree should then be placed in water and stored in a cool place — an unheated basement or garage- A tree shouldn't be kept indoors longer than 10 to 12 days, said Irwin. Are You Interested in Saving Time and Money on Your Total Insurance Program? A TREE GIVEN . . . The Hobbit Hill Children’s Centre had a tree to decorate this week, a Christmas donation from the Castlegar Rotary Club. Pictured (trom left) are: Front row: Mark Jenner, Tyler Geinger, Gillian Borho, Ryan Chambers and Sean Perehodott. Back row: Justin Kanigan (partially hid- den), Teri Todd and leaders Catherine Latortune and Fiona Nicholson WORLD'S OLDEST PASSION By ROD CURRIE It’s appropriate in this Christmas season that a new book brings together the art and words of one of the world's oldest passions — to live in peace. Peace: A Dream Unfolding in the work of Toronto editors Patrick Crean and Penney Kome and a team of researchers. It’s a sort of elegant scrapbook linking biblical-style, modern poster and children’s art with the thoughts of ordinary and extraordinary individuals expressing their yearning for peace throughout history. “Peace is more than the absence of conflict,” Crean and Kome say in their foreward. Although few people in the industrialized world have seen armed conflict since the Second World War, more than 150 local wars have blazed since 1945. And over the whole planet hangs the fear of nuclear destruction, the theme at the core of the book Printed by Friesen Printing, a company owned by a Mennonite family in Altona, Man., the book is published in Canada by Lester and Orpen Dennys Ltd. and in the United States by Sierra Club Books. Because it is something of a hodgepodge of art, it doesn’t meet the glamorous criteria of the traditional coffee-table picture book. And because it's a one-theme book, drawing on many well-worn paeans for peace, it Art and words of peace tends at times to be heavy with cliches. INSPIRING IMPACT Still, it is inspiring its overall impact, raising in chorus the voices of Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Schweit zer, Pope John Paul, Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, Lester Pearson, Bertrand Russell, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Saint Francis of Assisi and Dag Hammarskjold. American Dr. Bernard Lown and Russian Dr Evgueni Chazov, both eminent cardiologists and co-presidents of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, say in their introduction that “history has proven that citizen involvement can ac complish what governments cannot.” How, they ask, can civilization justify world arms expenditures of close to one thousand billion dollars when 40,000 children die daily from starvation? Despite its scrapbook layout, the book is organized under three basic themes: The Dream, touching on Utopian ideas of universal peace; The Nightmare, taking a painful look at the atomic blast effects on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the arms race and the spectre of star wars; and The Awakening, examining the grassroots thrust for peace and a nuclear-free world. (Peace: A Dream Unfolding; edited by Patrick Crean (Peace: A Dream Unfolding; edited by Patrick Crean and Penney Kome; published by Lester and Orpen Dennys; 256 pages, $35.) BUSINESS JAPANESE AUTOMAKERS SCRAMBLING TOYOTA CITY, JAPAN (AP) — Japan's auto- makers are leaving few ideas untried in trying to counter the ill effects of the strong yen, from banning overtime and cutting salaries to restricting the use of copying machines. Dire warnings of corporate disaster are being sounded should they fail. If the yen remains strong or strengthens in the next three to five years, “many Japanese carmakers could go out of business,” says Masami Iwasaki, executive vice-president of Toyota Motor Co., Japan's biggest auto company. The yen has risen by about 58 per cent against the U.S. dollar since September 1985, when economic ministers of five industrialized nations agreed to work to lower the value of the dollar to reduce the United States’ trade deficit. The strong yen, which results in Japanese manufac turers earning less from products sold abroad, has dealt a hard blow to Japan's automakers, who account for nearly 20 per cent of Japan's exports. Toyota and Nissan Motor Co., the second largest automaker, estimate a one-yen increase in the exchange rate means an annual loss for each of about six billion yen, or $48 million Cdn. at current rates. Nissan, which depends on exports for 60 per cent of its sales, recently reported its first unconsolidated business loss of the post-Second World War era, blaming it partly on the yen. The yen value of Nissan's sales between April and September, the first half of Japan's fiscal year, fell 9.9 per cent from the previous year. “It's true that we are faced with a very tough situation,” said Yutaka Suzuki, manager of the company's international public relations division. He added, however, that Nissan is trying to use the opportunity to increase efficiency. In April, Nissan launched a “Stingy Operations” campaign for some serious belt-tightening, beginning with 10 per cent salary cuts for each of its 49 directors. Suzuki would not disclose the monetary value of the cuts, but increases in efficiency during the first half of this fiscal year brought savings equivalent to $490 million U.S. for Nissan, he said. About $122 million U.S. was saved at the factory level, he said. In August, Nissan experimentally operated seven main plants on weekends, when electricity is cheaper, and closed them on two weekdays, saving $1.84 million U.S. Successful negotiations for better prices from subcontractors and imported parts saved an additional $245 million U.S. Administrators are operating on a budget 20 per noftt, John Sofonoftf and Brent Gatenby. By CasNews Staff The Arrow Forest Dis- trict has hired five more people under its Forest Social Assistance Recipi FORSAR provides six months of work and train. ing in the forest sector for income assistance recipi ents. The program began cent lower than last year. KSCU cards good in U.S. Kootenay Savings Credit tive officer for the Union members now have million West Kootenay credit access to their cash accounts union, said in a prepared re. $140 plus many more low prices throughout our store from thousands of locations in the U.S. Members with PIN (Per sonal Identification Number) encoded Kootenay Sa. vings’ Cue or Mastercard cash cards have been able to access cash through Cue. Strata automatic teller cen tres in B.C. since January, 1985 when ATMs were es tablished at Kootenay Sa lease The Kootenay Savings’ news release also reports that plans have been under way to link with the Interac network of shared banking in Canada which, says Stanley, “is being heralded as a major step forward for the entire financial industry.” Under this further exten sion of service, a Kootenay ents (FORSAR) program. in July in the Arrow Dis. FORSAR coordinator trict with one crew in Jackie Hamilton said the Castlegar and a second latest crew was hired in crew in Nakusp. October, thanks to an So far the crews have additional allocation. The worked on the following Arrow Forest District has projects: juvenile spacing, now received a total of recreation trail construe $216,904 under the tion, bridge construction, FORSAR program. pruning of white pine, site NEW CREW . . . The members of the Arrow Forest's newest FORSAR crew in- cludes: (from left) Lorne Plotnikotf, Wayne Menzies (foreman), Walter Cher- Five hired under FORSAR program preparation (for planting), roadside brushing, remov al of bark beetle infested trees, and upgrading of cross-country ski trails. They have received training in chainsaw and brush saw use and main tenance, firefighting and first aid. The program is expected to last until January, 1987 for the original FORSAR crews and until March, 1987 for the new crew. Rotary offers award By JOHN CHARTERS “Life is not so short that there is always time enough for courtesy,” wrote the poet, Lord Byron. Unfortunately, too often in our hurried society — particularly in everyday affairs — there is a tendency to overlook the value of even the common courtesies of the “pleases,” “thank yous,” and “service with a smile” is more often honored in the breach than in practise. What is worse, even when it is practised, it is given little recognition. Therefore, with a view to giving recognition (and hope- fully, increasing) courtesy in the local marketplace, the Castlegar Rotary Club is off- ering a service award to members of the Castlegar and district service and retail industry. Notice of this service award has been distributed to local business firms by service award committee chairman Hugo Smecher. Possible candidates will be nominated by a nominating committee, shortlisted and observed in their workplace by a selection committee. 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Interior The study will also focus on Nelson to determine whether or not it is a logical and feasible location from which to operate a research station, Brisco said in a prepared release Brisco also said Merrithew’s directive fulfills a major campaign promise in Kootenay West. “During the ‘84 election campaign, the prime minister said that the possiblity of establishing a forestry research | station in Nelson would be examined,” said Brisco. “Now we are following through on that promise.” As well, Brisco pointed to the study as further proof of his government's continued commitment to the forest sector. jot available in conjunction with other discount programs. MOHAWK CASTLEGAR Welcomes Santa Sat. 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