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Registration forms and information available from KREDA, 540 Baker Street, Nelson, B.C VIL 49. (352-1933 2/20 veral topics in mplemen CHRISTIAN WOMEN’S CLUB Thursday, March 16, 9:30 0. dman Inn. Reserv 65-8025 2/20 SAVE THE ROBSON POOL FUND DANCE MARCH 17, Robson Hall. 9 p.m. - 1 Music by Good Fraser. $5.00 per person 3627. Midnight lunch. No npany and Skip ntact Lori 365 2/20 WOMEN'S AGLOW LUNCHEON Wed., March 8, 10:30 o.m., Fireside Inn, Maure Ministry. Babysitting. 365-3279 LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSN Awarness meeting, Monday, Marct F KJ K.J.S.S. Teaching Statt AFRICAN SAFARI Ice Show presented by CASTLEGAR FIGURE SKA Saturday, March 18, Arena Complex, 2:4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Guest ska! Dorran Leaker, 17 one of Canada’s most promising top | katers. Adult dren $2. At door 4g ROBSON RIVER OTTERS BINGO Saturday, March 1° Community Complex. Early bird, 6 & regular 7 p.m Packages available. Everyone welcome 219 SENTINEL BASEBALL REGISTRATION Starting March 6, Complex during jar offite hours. Practice will begir April 3. Scheduled games begin April 17 49 THE KOOTENAY ART CLUB Meets every Wednesday at the Senior Citzens Centre at 7 p.m. Allen Woodrow giving oll painting instructions Everyone weicome-More-intor mation phone 365-3646. 2/19 nizations may be fisted e 20¢ each. Bold faced percent and the fourth seventy-five fs Minimum charge is $4 (whether ad » . japer and 5 p.m. Mondays ore 5 p.m. Thursdays for Sundays paper « p af Soper’ Notices should be brought fo the Castlegar News at 197 Columbia Ave COMMUNITY Bulictin Board By ROBCARRICK The Canadian Press You've read the tax guide, assembled the receipts and forms and scribbled your way through the tax return like a born bean-counter. , Even so, there’s roughly a 15-per-cent chance you'limake some kind of error in filling out the tax form that could delay your refund, Revenue Canada figures indicate. correctly. More likely, though, @ mistake will fall into one of six problem areas Revenue Canada found among 2.7 million of the 17.5 million total tax returns ~ Ont. filed last year. Although the 1988 form has been redesigned to ac commodate changes under the federal government's tax reform, Revenue Canada expects those errors will crop up again this year ERRORS ABOUND In order of frequency, here are the common mistakes 955,000 people forgot or incorrectly calculated the individual surtax last year. This year the surtax is an across-the-board, three-per-cent levy on federal taxes > 450,000 made errors in calculating provincial tax ** credits. available to residents of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario, 230,000 miscalculated their RRSP deductions. People who are not members of an employer pension plan may contribute up to $7,500 a year, or 20 per cent of_earned_ income, whichever is less, to a registered retirement savings plan. Pension plan members may contribute up to $3,500 each year or 20 per cent of their earned income, whichever is less, toan RRSP 215,000 claimed the federal sales-tax credit when they were not entitled to it.--~—— 175,000. made errors in calculations involving the Canada Pension Plan or Quebec Pension Plan 173,000 made math errors in their summary of tax credits, which includes provincial tax credits, child tax credits and credits for income tax deducted at source whichare applied against the acutal amount of tax paid, “*What we have is a completely different way of thinking and most people are really not getting it," says tax expert Evelyn Jacks of Winnipeg. Consider, for instance, the bottom of Page 2 on the tax feturn. The taxpayer starts with a $6,000 personal afnount, than adds in contributions to the Canada Pen- sion Plan, unemployment insurance and so forth. The total is then reduced to 17 per cent to come up with the amount of the tax credit. Mistakes can be as simple as adding figures in- “AL fies ot of people will say, ‘Holy smokes, 'I get this great big tax deduction,’ says Brian Costello, a personal finance commentator based in Burlington, “But when you get to the bottom, you're not allowed to use the whole thing. You're only allowed to use 17 percent.”” HELP AVAILABLE In an attempt to explain the changes wrought by tax reform, Revenue Canada has rewritten the tax guide. But many people still will encounter difficulties. "There are items that can’t be explained any sim: pler, nomatter how hard you try, and yet some people find some confusion in their minds about them,"’ says Joe Permaul, a Revenue Canada spokesman in Toron- Should you find yourself completely befuddled, Permaul recommends you call one of the telephone in- formation lines run by the 33 Revenue Canada district offices across Canada. They can answer questions to help you avoid mistakes — and delays. Under normal circumstances, you can expect your tax refund within six to eight weeks, Permaul says. Mistakes that can be corrected by Revenue Canada auditors can delay your refund by a few weeks. If you leave out some information, delays will depend on how quickly you can supply the missing figures. “There are a lot of errors that we correct, par. ticularly mathematical or errors of transposition, from a T-4slip toa tax form,” Permaul says “*What we cannot correct are omissions because we don’t know the information that has been left out."’ Kootenay Office Outfitters Ltd 12-9th Avenue South Cranbrook, B.C. 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VIN 3J1 Calki olle 365-7292 to slash its deficit by $9 billion “is un- derscoring what we've been saying for four years now,’’ Finance Minister Michael Wilson said. “They're saying that we still have more to do and that's exactly what we've been saying ourselves."* Specific proposals will have to wait for the budget, which will come shortly after Parliament returns April 3, he said The deficit is resulting in high in- terest rates that are endangering “other good government programs that. I think Canadians want to see us deal with,” said Wilson who was in Meech Lake, Que., for a meeting of the inner cabinet He predicted further heat from the provincial finance ministers over high interest rates. He meets with them Thursday in Ottawa The Canadian dollar came under pressure Tuesday in Europe and North America after. published accounts of the IMF document. The dollar lost almost half a cent, closing down 0.44 cents at 83.47 cents US. Primé Minister Brian Mulroney said the federal government agrées with the spirit but not necessarily the numbers in the report from the IMF, an inter- national watchdog of government nce. The prescriptions for dealing with our problems will be devised by Canadians in Canada,"’ he told repor- ters following the day-long inner cabinet meeting The IMF said Monday that Canada risks a weaker dollar, sharply higher interest rates and a large drop in stock market prices if it does not make the cut innext month's budget. Cominco Resources offers shares. Cominco Resources International Limited’has announced that its direc- tors have approved an-offering to its Shareholders of rights to subscribe for approximately 8.1 million common shares. The offering is expected to raise ap proximately $22 million. First Marathon Securities Limited has been engaged as manager and The Royal Trust Company as the subscription agent of the offering. Following regulatory approval, rights certificates will be issued to or for the benefit of each shareholder of record at the close of business on Mar- ch 22, 1989, on the basis of one right for each common share held on the record date. Four rights and $2.75 will be required to subscribe for eack common share. The expiry date will be April 12, 1989. . Subscribers will have an opportunity to apply for additional common shares not subscribed for by the expiry date. Cominco” Ltd-,~ the|~ majority shareholder of Cominco Resources, has undertaken to subscribe" for all common shares for which it is issuéd rights, to exercise fully its entitlement to subscribe for additional common shares and to purchase all common shares not subscribed for by the other subscribers It-is expected that the rights will be posted for trading on the Vancouver and Toronto stock exchanges. Rights certificates together with a rights offering circular will be forwar- ded to all qualifying shareholders at the end of March Bell charges for fax TORONTO (CP) — Bell Canada is forcing some businesses to pay to have their facsimile-machine numbers prin ted in the phone book while others are listed free Businesses with fax machines can now have their numbers listed in the LEGION BR. 170 DANCE SAT. 9:30 - 1:30 o.m. BAND GONE FISHING ‘Guests must be signed in Proper dress otter 91p.m Open Monday to Thursday "W 1 ®. Friday & Saturde 365-7017 “rencsnc. 31000 white pages or Yellow Pages, but if they had the machines installed before Nov. 1, 1988, they’ll have to pay $25 Bell says it has to charge some fax c to cover the cost of listing the older numbers Prior to Nov. 1, fax numbers weren't allowed to be listed in Ontario, Quebec and some parts of the-North- west Territories Now, new fax customers get the numbers listed free of charge: But the older fax owners, previously banned from the phone book, have been hit with the service charge. Jim Ream president of Toronto- based Wirefab Industries, is angry about the service charge. Dog’gone it! Have yourselves a Get-a-way! 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CASTLEGAR’S TOP SALESMAN Now, an-Owner/Manager of CASTLEGAR REALTY LTD., Wayne is accompanied by an AWARD WIN- NING Soles Staff who in just ONE short year, have made Castlegar Realty, Ltd. NUMBER ONE in Castlegar. é eal ROSEMARY RAY ANDREW BYSTROM BARLEY GROOM CASTLEGAR REALTY — FOR ALL YOUR REAL ESTATE NEEDS PETER BLACKWELL BROUGHTON ISLAND, N.W.T (CP) — Inuit on this peaceful Arctic island have been told they won't have to abandon their 10,000-year-old diet of wild game — even though it is highly contaminated with PCBs. But the news, delivered during a five-hour session between federal seientists-and-officials with members of the hamlet couneil, was not all good. Test results show PCB con tamination in breast milk from mothers and in the blood of some Inuit on Broughton Island, 2,500 kilometres north of Montreal, are at the threshold of recommended federal safety levels. Dr. David Kinloch of the federal Health and Welfare Department refused to release the results of four years of studies to reporters until a report is presented Friday to the Nor- thwest Territories legislature. Hamlet manager Elwood Johnston said PCB counts were between .25 and one “They say one is the ultimate limit they feel is acgeptable,"’ Johnston said Safety levels for the «toxin were calculated by feeding it to animals until they became ill, then dividing it by 500, he said Johnston believes the 450 Inuit on the island, many who still hunt for their livelihood, are not in any im- mediate danger from eating the con- taminated high-fat game known.in the north as country food “They said it’s higher than normal but it’s not dangerous," he said. “There are more good points than bad, but even with the amount of PC- Bs it’s still a lot better than store- bought foods. “I'm not sure they are totally truth- ful, but you’d have to be a medical doctor or a scientist to follow all the graphs and charts.”’ The community, surrounded by jagged mountain peaks and the frozen Davis Strait, has been -anxiously awaiting the test results since reports last December suggested con- tamination was so severe the Inuit may have to alter their traditional diet Mayor Stevey Audlakiak said he’s still not certain his people are out of danger- “I'm not sure if levels are past the allowable level,’” Audlakiak said in his native tongue, Inuktitut. ‘I don’t know which foods have the most PC- Bs.”" Kinloch said polychlorinated biphenyls concentrate in fat. The Inuit are more susceptible to contamination because much of their diet is high-fat foods such as seal, narwhale, walrus and polar bear Narwhale, combined with seal blubber to make the popular Inuit delicacy of maktak (pronounced muktuk), and walrus were found to have the highest concentration of PC Bs. “PCBs are everywhere,"’ Kinloch said. ‘‘They are present in very small quantities" in~foods-everybody—eats. There is no escape.” Kinloch said the only way the body can rid itself of the toxin is through breast milk, therefore: ‘‘The PCBs men eat remains in their bodies.’’ Driver fined PENTICTON, B.C. (CP) A young woman’s driving lesson fesulted in more than $8,000 worth of property damage, provincial court was told. Inderjit Dhaliwal, 20, of Penticton pleaded guilty to a charge of driving without duecareand attention and was fined $100. Judge Gale Sinclair was told that Dhaliwal lost control of her car Feb. 4 while a relative was giving her a driving lesson. The caf left rhe street-and ran onto the sidewalk, knocking a shopping cart out’ of a pedestrian’s hand. The pedestrian was shaken but unhurt Dhaliwal’s car continued on, striking ‘the fence in front of a restaurant then crashing through the front wall of a skateboard store After knocking down a no-parking sign, the car finally came to rest facing the wrong way in a one-way alley across the street Dhaliwal and her instructor were the only ones injured in the accident (§) rou SERVICE DELICATESSEN OPENING SOON! Chicken Legs Bulk Pack. Back Attached Previously Frozen $2.16 xs. 98. Cod Fillets Fresh © B.C. 666 100 9. 2.99 Beef Liver f © Bulk * Previously Frozen 51.96 15. 89. — Bake Shop — Dinner Rolls White or 60 Whole Wheat 12 FOR 1.99 2. —\Bake Shop — Danis Pastry Assorted Fruit 4 FOR Navel Oranges California Grown ® Sunkist Approximately 14 Ib. Carton 4.99 B.C. Cukes Long English * Canada No. 1 1.09. Light Tuna Chunk © Pantry Shelf © 184g. Empress argarine Vegetable * 1.36 kg. /3 lb. 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