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Installed officers were Chancellor Commander A.E. (Slim) Thomas, Vice Chan- ter of Work Anton Schwie- rtz, Master at Arms Gordon Ferguson, Prelate Michael Bycroft, Inner Guard Virgil (Curly) Cook and Outer Guard Bill Bowolin. Installing officers for the Pythian Sisters were Acting Grand Chief Laura Dewis, Acting Grand Manager Rose Soberlak and Acting Grand Senior Joan Marks. New officers are Musician Edith Wilson, Guard Pat Verzuh, Protector Dorothy Schwiertz, Manager Lil Mol- nar, absent treasurer Inis McAdam, Secretary Jan Neumann, Excellent Junior Susan Bycroft, Excellent Se- nior Jean Jones, MEC Myrtle Thomas and Past Chief Lil Neumann. Acting Grand Manager Rose presented PC Lil with her faithful service pin. Following the installation ceremonies was a social even- ing with bingo and refresh- ments. The winner of the ham raf- fled by the Knights was Ruth Maze. $5 billion for testing By GREENAWAY WASHINGTON (CP) — Electrical utilities in the United States say a proposed $5-billion fund to test cleaner, cheaper ways of burning coal should be enough to push some ‘anok into A promising new within the next decade. hd say they are and cringe at spending so much money on proven technology when it could be spent to broaden the use of existing that has sulphur in the coal and falls out as a dry, solid waste. process has the of also emissions, another ingredient already led to reductions in acid-rain causing emissions. Spokesmen for the Edison Electrical Institute, whose members produce three-quarters of the power in the United States, argue current technology, primarily flue gas serubbers on coal-burning power plants, is too costly and inefficent to be forced upon the industry more heavily than already required under the U.S. Clean Air Act. Serubbers, which cost between $60 million and $120 million each and eat up five per cent of the plant's power, use a lime and water solution to remove about 90 per cent of sluphur dioxide emissions, a key ingredient of acid rain, from coal combustion gases. Robert Beck, an air pollution expert with the institute, said a major problem with scrubbers is that every tonne of sulphur dioxide removed creates three tonnes of sludge — “a moonseape of grey toothpaste” — that must be stored at daditi I cost and i h A five-year, $5-billion program to test new clean coal technologies in the United States was the major recommendation of a Canada-U.S. acid rain envoys report submitted this month to President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. SEEN AS COMPROMISE The report was viewed by officials on both sides as a compromise between Canada's desire for stiffer U.S. controls to curb the transborder pollution and the Reagan administration's view that there are still too many scientific uncertainties about the causes and effects of acid rain to warrant an expensive cleanup. Several new technologies designed to curb pollution before, during and after combustion are already being tested at sites across the United States and Congress recently approved $400 million over the next three years for clean-coal demonstration projects. Chuck Linderman, Edison's program manager of fossil fuels, said an assured injection of $5 billion to test clean-coal technologies should result in some being ready for commercial use within 10 years. Among the most promising: burned in a boiler, turning water to steam to generate more electricity in another turbine. The sulphur combines with hydrogen and can be removed. , el Dry is inserted directly into the combustion furnace to absorb coal’s sulphur contest. This produces calcium sulphate which is removed as dry solid waste and disposed of. Current research aims to achieve a 50- to 70-per-cent reduction in sulphur dioxide emissions. Research also is being conducted into a variety of ways of cleaning coal before it is burned. Some involve grinding the coal to sand-like powder and separating out impurities. Others use chemicals or magnetic force to remove sulphur. Linderman predicted no shortage of project ideas from industry if the Reagan administration accepts the envoys’ recommendation. Even before the report was made public, U.S. industry had indicated it is prepared to spend $2.1 billion over the next several years to r 1 Logi But it wants the United States government to kick in too. Advocates of stiffer acid-rain controls maintain the United States cannot afford to wait to tackle the acid problem until new technologies are ready for commercial use. The dainage being caused by acid rain to lakes, rivers and buildings on both sides of the border and the cost of cleaning up will only get worse, they say. Michael Oppenheimer, a senior scientist with the New York-based Environmental Defence Council, says the U.S. government should toughen current laws to force actual emission reductions. Industry should then be told to put existing technology to work while they search for cleaner ways to burn coal, he said. “Nothing focuses their attention like a good hanging,” Oppenheimer said. “If you pass laws, they'll get hopping on the technology.” School teaches circus tricks YOUR SATISFACTION 2 CONVENIENT LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU: IS OUR MAIN CONCERN. * Castleaird Plaza * Downtown Open until 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays Prices Effective Until Saturday, February 1, 1986 SuperValu Has Done It Again! Super Family Pak Citrus Sale California grown new crop ® Sunkist approx. 20 lb. box navel oranges Recreation news Registration four our Win ter Program started Monday but we still have lots of room in many of our activities. Fitness Classes If you would like to get back into shape and loose a few pounds register for one of our many fitness classes. We have AM. Aerobics which takes place Tuesdays and Thursday mornings from 9-10 a.m.; Morning Aerobics Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10-11 a.m.; Var iety Hour for three-tofive year olds which corresponds to our morning fitness class. es. As well we have Aqua fit, Cireuit Weight Training, Tone It Up, Jazz Dance, Aerobic Fitness and a new Weight Control Class. So pick up a brochure and regis ter today Marketing Seminar If you are looking for a program that will be inter esting, constructive and help you support and improve a —t Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212 volunteer organization you are involved in why not register in a Marketing Sem- inar. This provincially-spon- sored program will give you many new and innovative ideas on how to better market your organization. This three-session class hap- pens Thursday evening start- ing Feb. 6. Registration fee is $10. If you have children six to 12 years of age, we have lots of new programs to keep them busy and happy. Some of the new activities include Fun With Clay, Dance Gym. nastics, Red Cross Babysit- ting Course, Embroidery, Candy Making, Beginner Modern Dance, Tap/Jazz, Guitar Lessons and Learn to Skate. lee Time Winter ice times are avail able at the Pioneer Arena and the Arena Complex at various times. If you would like to rent ice just call the Recreation Office. The Ree- reation Office is in need of an instructor to teach skating lessons. If you can help call Verona at 365-3386. k Morrison if you don't see it, VU find it! CASTLEGAR CHEVRON 365-2912 . ‘© REPAIR LTD. JOSES'S muro” MONTREAL (CP) -— like Broadway, too, but that’s Clowning around is a serious activity for the 130 or so stu: dents enrolled in Montreal's Ecole nationale de cirque. One of only a handful of schools in North America that trains people to become cireus performers, it offers courses in such arcane’ dis- ciplines as juggling, acroba- ties, clowning, tap-dancing, stilt-walking and unicycling. Its curriculum, however, is based on the Chinese rather than the American concept of a cireus, explains director Guy Caron, who graduated from the Budapest Circus School in Hungary in 1978. “The American circus is glamor — I like glamor and I Campaign up in smoke WINNIPEG (CP) — A manager says his office's no- smoking campaign has fallen apart because smokers are spending a lot of time in the washroom and coffee room and away from their desks. Bruce Robinson of B.A. Robinson Co. Ltd. says his not really the kind of circus we emphasize,” says Caron. Thus, the Ecole nationale de cirque has no courses in lion-taming, horse-riding tricks or seal-training. In stead, its program is design ed to teach students such disciplines as acrobatics or tightrope-walking. And the school has another purpose, says Caron, who is also artistic director of the Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil troupe. “Basically in 1950, when TV came, the traditional con cept of the circus died,” said Caron. “Here, we try to transform the traditional cir cus into something more ap. propriate for the '80s.” For the students, many of whom come from other parts of Canada and as far away as Mexico and Europe, that translates into heavy empha. sis on the technical reqire ments of the circus perfor er. INCLUDES OLYMPIAN The school's 12 instructors include such people as gym nast Andre Vallerand, a for. mer member of the Canadian Olympic team, and Zygmunt Biegaj, a former trainer with Poland's national acrobatics pany’s king pro- gram got off to a great start. “We awarded barbecues and two weekend trips to Vancouver” as prizes for those who had stopped smok. ing, he says. “After that, things didn't go too well.” org ion. There are instructors in commedia dell'arte, classical dance and acting. The only other institution in this country offering a similar program of courses is Toronto's National Circus School ‘of Canada, which has about 50 full-time students. The Ecole nationale de cir que has 35 full-time students who pay a tuition of $1,000 for 30 weeks of classes. The remainder of the stu- dents, the youngest of whom is nine years old, enrol in one or two courses and range from professional circue per- formers to housewives and students. Later this month the school will take on 50 chil- dren from the local day-care centre to begin courses in trampoline, gymnastics and balance beam. “It’s just an experiment, and of course they won't be working with the same equip- ment — the balance beam will be an inch off the floor — but that’s the right age to start,” says Caron. The Ecole nationale de cir- que started in 1980 as a series of workshops on acro- baties. 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