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17, 1993

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Knitting
featured
at NEC

Submitted

How often do you get an
invitation to bring your knit-
ting, a notebook, and a friend
to watch videos at the NEC?
And how often could you do
this surrounded by thick pile
textiles from Finland?

Plan to drop in for two
special showings of Glorious
Colour, the Channel 4 features
on the sources of pattern and
colour inspiration for designer
Kaffe Fassett

The showings will be held
Saturday and Sunday, Febru-
ary 20-21 from 1-4 p.m.. This
is your opportunity to share
this visual stimulation.

Kaffe Fassett has been knit-
ting and doing needlepoint for
20 years and he’s very pas-
sionate about it

“It grabbed me like nothing
else in my life. Something
about the colours pouring
through your fingers. I build
vibrations between colours
and.can't wait to make the
next row come alive. It keeps
you totally on fire and

EnjoyAhe novelty of a man
's knitting with him to

“4 I gardens, an old stone
wall, the Victoria and Albert
Museum, Brighton, Arundel
and other favourite places.

Peek into his pin-up room,
where carpets, puppets, maga-
zine images, pottery, horticul-
ture books, textiles and works
in progress jostle together to
[Create a happenstance space
and provide new possibilities
for his design work

It's not quite virtual reality,
but it’s a good way to F
and with such an enthusiastic
guide too. See you there!

"Forever Young", a romantic drama starring Mel Gib-
son, and Isabel Glassera will be showing Feb.12-18 at
the Castle. Theatre. There will be one showing each
evening at 7:00 p.m.. Don't miss it.

Take the challenge

Submitted

Join the fun and participate in
the Canada Day Poster Chal-
lenge

Each year the Challenge
invites you to submit a specially
imaginative design that show in a
personal way your pride in Cana-
da.

You could be one of the 12
artists (one from each province
and territory) invited by the Sec-
retary of State to the official
Canada Day ceremony on Parlia-
ment Hill on July 1, 1993.

Canadian Airlines will fly you
and your parents to Ottawa where

you will be the guests of Canadi-
an Pacific's historic Chateau Lau-
rier Hotel,

Your design also could be cho-
sen for the official Canada Day
poster to be-distributed across the
country. Join in the challenge and
more importantly, join in the fun
and excitement of Canada Day.

You must be 18 years of age or
younger. Measurements should be
38 cm.xS0 cm. and only one
design may be submitted.
Crayons, pastels, markers and
‘pencils may be used.

A limited number of entry
forms are available at The Castle-
gar Sun office .

Vienna Cafe
Welcomes
Marie
Anneharte
Baker

Submitted

Poet Marie Annharte Baker
will read from her work at the
Vienna Cafe in Nelson on Satur-
day, February 20 at 8 p.m. This
public reading is co-sponsored by
the Kootenay School of the Arts
and the Canada Council.

Annharte’s poetry has been
published in the magazine Fire-
weed, Prairie Fire and Seventh
Generation. Her fitst book of
poetry, Being on the Moon, was
published by Polestar Press of
Winlaw.

Annharte is an Anishinabe
poet, teacher and activist. Born in
1942 to Saulteaux and Irish par-
ents and raised in Winnipeg, her
Poetry combines the rich heritage
of Native traditions with the
harsh reality of life on the street.
She currently lives in Regina.

Writer Patrick Friesen said in
her poem, Being on the Moon,
“Behind the anger you can here a
smile, each laugh holds a sorrow.
This is a poet talking between
the spoken word and the page.
Being on the Moon is a wonder-
ful book.”

Potrebenko...a writer and a feminist

Submitted

When Helen Potrebenko
speaks, we remember the unspo
ken reality; there is a ruling
class.

If you write withoyt any refer-
ence to rich or poor, and the vast
class difference that follows,
then.you are not called a political
writer. If you DO address those
differences, you are called
“political”

know that she exists. But it
seems as though she is called
“feminist”, “socialist”, or “work-
ing class” before she is called a
writer. Why not just a writer?
Helen purposefully chooses,
(embraces) the perspective of
working class women. The
experience of working women
is rarely recorded in history or
fiction because working class
women don't have time to write.
Like a champion, Helen
Potrebenko articulates the

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Because Helen is a writer, we important, widespread and per-
sonal reality of the masses. As
she notes, "There are a lot of
different dungeons’

In Taxi, the experience of a
female cab driver in Vancouver
is told through utterly believable
and frank conversation snippets
between driver and fare. It is

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name of a lawyer who is knowledgeable in a specific field,
sources of legal information, legal aid clinics, the role of a
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“I type like I live, fast-with a
lot of mistakes,” said Helen. She
infuses just enough snarky humor
to perk us up, as we witness the
lives of the working poor.

Take daydreams, for example,
There's the dream of being rich
and famous, the exquisite day-
dream been “rich and famous for
awhile”, but not knowing it. The
ubiquitous hope of winning the
lottery. It's “only cheap day-
dream, okay as long as you
don’t believe that it’s real”

It was, for a Thursday noon
hour, and for a college lecture
hall, a highly responsive audi-
ence

Her narrations are critical
social analysis, but there is noth-
ing lofty, detached or academic
about them. The language and
the power contained therein,
comes straight from the eyes,
ears, mouths, and straight from
the guts of the people who do
the work of the world.”

I just hope that our local
bookstores havé plenty of copies
of each of her six books,
because you just might want to
check them out. Taxi, Hey Wait-
ress, and A Flight of Average
Persons have each knocked
some sense into me.

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are doing a double duty, telling it
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New licences

The City of Castlegar reports
that 11 business licences were
issued during the month of
January, 1993. Among these,
licences were issued for Chi-
ropractic Practices, Physio-
therapy, and a Mobile Disc
Jockey, but none were issued
to businesses related to the
Celgar Expansion Project

Grand opening

Kozy Korner New and Used
is pleased to announce the
grand opening of their Love
Shop on February 27th, at
their location in the former
Sentinel Supply building in
Thrums. Owner Nadia Warren
invites you to join her for the
grand opening that will
include door prizes, Give her
a call and host your own Love
Shop Party. 399-4370

Looking spiffy

The Side Pocket in downtown
Castlegar has completed addi-
tional renovations to their
snack shop area. An enclosure
above the snack counter has
Stained glass with a built in
entertainment centre which
includes a spot for the televi-
sion.

Invitation to tender

The Slocan branch of the
Castlegar Savings Credit
Union is accepting sealed ten-
ders for the construction of
their new building. For more
information on submitting ten-
ders for this Prgject call (604)
435 - 6341

New faces

Welcome to Trevor and Hazel
Fory of Clear Insights Con-
sulting. Clear Insights in
Castlegar, teaches self discov-
ery and inner harmony as well
as physical releases and emo-
tional support using accuprés
sureybetty work and
integrating. To book an
appointment with Trevor or
Hazel call 365 - 5040

Chance to win

Pete's TV in downtown
Castlegar invites you to enter
your name for a chance to win
a Panasonic VHS compact
camcorder with every Pana-
sonic or Technique purchase
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| Ask for more details at their
| Columbia Avenue location

Glance

Grenby offers timely

Go for an RRSP, consider
incorporation if you have
enough sélf employed income,
and, possibly look at a major
move out of Canada

Those are the key tax saving
Strategies Mike Mallin applies to
his own personal financial plan
ning. Mallin is the co-author of
Preparing Your Income Tax
Returns (CCH. Canadian,
$24.95), the most comprehen-
sive (around 700 pages), Best-
selling (about 60,000 copies a
year) guide to both tax prepara-
tion and tax planning. The 1993
edition has just been published.

I like to ask the experts how
they manage their money; we
can all learn from their ideas.

“I still look on registered
retirement savings plans as-the
most useful vehicle for tax sav-
ings,” said the 50 year old
lawyer who specializes in
income tax

“I have rearranged most of my
RRSP holdings into a self direct-
ed plan which allows me to

invest up to 18 per cent of my.

holdings this year (20 per cent in
1994) in foreign investments.

That way, I diversify in case
other countries do better than
Canada.

“I buy mutual funds since I
don't have enough money to
make meaningful individual
investments. And I don’t follow
the markets closely enough, so
on balance the managers of a
fund with a good track record
and stable management should

Mike
Grenby

Syndicated
Columnist

do better than I could.”

Mallin has incorporated part
of his self-employed business
activities.

“My six year old daughter
used her family allowance
money to buy the common
shares in that busin he said
“So that income is taxed at only
about 22 per cent instead of at
my higher personal rate

“This is my personal version
of a registered education savings
plan for her, without any of the
restrictions on how the money
must be used

Otherwise, said Mallin, there

Submitted

With their recent donation to
the Rockers Sr. Invitational Bas-
ketball Tournament, Castlegar
Realty has topped $30,000 in
donations to various groups in
the community over the last 4
years.

Instead of sending a percent-
age of sales to a head office for
franchise fees, the agents at
Castlegar Realty have created a
special fund and allocated the
monies it would have sent out of
the community to clubs, organi
zations and groups in the com
munity

Owners Wayne McCarthy
and Brad Walsh believe in giv-
ing back to the Community that
has given business to them

When asked about priorities

Castlegar Realty contributes to community

McCarthy indicated that they
often donate team uniforms for
kids teams as well as supporting
tournaments and service groups.

They have alsa donated
money to Castleview Care and
the Salvation Army.

“We have some very tough
decisions to. make,” said
McCarthy. “We get hundreds of
requests and we wish we~-could
fill them all, but we can’t.”

Over the years, both Walsh
and McCarthy have kept very
low profiles about their contri-
bution to the community.

“Is not a big deal, it’s just
our way of thanking the com-
munity that supports us,”
McCarthy said quietly

For the clubs and organiza-
tions that have benefited from
their donations, a big thank
you!

Your business is our business.
We'd like to hear about
your business news.

Call Sharlene at 365-5266

isn't much more he can do to
improve his financial situation
short of moving to another coun
try with a lower tax rate

| could work much harder
and under greater pressure to
earn more money and spend less
time at home,” he said. “But
having to pay 50 per cent in tax
makes the extra effort hardly
worthwhile

‘If | moved to a tropical tax
haven, I could still use phone,
fax and computer to do perhaps
two thirds of the work I do now
Even though my income would
drop, the tax savings would
probably leave me dollars
ahead.”

Mallin said in the years ahead,
“modern technology may open
Similar opportunities to ever
larger segments of the middle
class.”

Places like Bermuda, Costa
Rica and some of the Caribbean
islands offer special financial
attractions, usually including a
very low flat tax rate to attract
both entrepreneurs and retirees

The temptation to move to a
warmer ineteorological and
financial climate ‘would mean a
loss to Canada of both capital
and entrepreneurship.

Dig your way
through a
prospecting
course

The Chamber of Mines is
offering a Basic Prospecting
Course that will take place at the
Chamber office at 215 Hall
Street in Nelson.

The course will begin March
1 and will end on April 26. Qual-
ified professionals will guide stu-
dents through subjects from
mineral identification, research
techniques, map reading and
some hands on panning practice

For more information or to
pre-register call 352 - 5242

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“As a Canadian, you'd have
the difficult choice of balancing
personal advantage and public
welfare; you'd have to put a dol-
lar value on how much you love
your country,” said Mallin.

In the meantime, you still face
the challenge of keeping your
income tax to minimum while
you are a Canadian resident

One change announced late
last year affects many people
whose spouses died during 1992

Under the old rule, & spousal
RRSP contribution could be
made on behalf of the deceased
up to 60 days after death. This
deadline often passed before the
surviving spouse or other execu-
tor could make the contribution

Under the new rule, the dead-
line has been extended to 60
days after the end of the calendar
year of death, effective with the
1992 tax year.

So if your spouse died last
year, you have until March | to
make a spousal RRSP contribu
tion and so reduce taxes for
1992

Because most common-law
couples now are treated the same
as married couples for tax pur-
poses, “you also have until
March 1 to make a ‘spousal

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tax strategies |

RRSP contribution for 1992,”
said Mallin

“That contribution can be
based not only on earned income
in 1991 but also, for the special
$6,000 spousal rollover, on regu-.:
lar pension or deferred profit--;
sharing plan income received in :
1992.”

Finance Minister Don
Mazankowski also announced :
late last year the Home Buyers’
Plan has been extended another
year. But, warned Mallin, if you
decide to borrow up to $20,000
from your RRSP under the plan
to buy a home in which you will
live, you could run into double
taxation if you also contribute to
an RRSP - get expert advice
here.

Mike Grenby is a Vancouver
based columnist and independent
financial adviser who works with
individuals; he will answer your
questions as space allows - write
to him c/o The Castlegar Sun

1480 COLUMBIA AVE.
CASTLEGAR, B.C, VIN 3K3
(604) 365-7616
Res 365-3253

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