March 26, 1986

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Selkirk College
Requires

A Part-Time (21 Hours a Week)
Audio Visual Technician

To circulate A/V equipment, assist with
productions and make minor repairs to
equipment.

Position begins as soon as possible with
a 4-month summer layoff then continues
to April 30, 1987.

Individuals with Grade 10 education and
l-year of experience in film projec-
tor/slide carousal, tape and video
recorder operation and repair should
oppy | by April 3, 1986 to the personnel

Selkirk College

T1 General ourtax Receceiee will

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Missionary shows
slides at church

NEW SWITCH . . . Employees of CGL Contracting install
manhole next to Castlegar Post Office to accomodate
underground cables for B.C. Tel. The work is being
done in preparation for new switch being installed in

the fall in B.C. Tel building

downtown. The new com-

puterized system will improve telephone service in

the Castlegar area.

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CAMBRIDGE, ONT. (CP)
— A take-h

develops
ofing kit

and a place to attach a
There's also a

ing kit called Streetsmart for
children has been developed
by a Toronto company.

The program includes a
booklet which presents ex-

fingerprinting kit with an ink
strip.

Also included is a kit for
making the child's own per-
sonal Kid Chip, a credit
card-sized identification and

tproofing know-
how in two formats — one for
parents and one for children.

There's a child description

form which can be updated

card. A parent fills
out a special form and sends
it to the company, where it is
transferred to a small plastic
card.

more effectively among their
own people.

A visa to enter Columbia
has been difficult to obtain,
she explained, due to the
Columbian government's re-
luctance to admit foreigners
but has hope that a more
favorable change will be

- taking place shortly.

would enable them to work

Laidlaw left for the coast
to carry out more speaking
engagements.

Recreation news

The Easter Bunny will be
hopping down the trail to the
complex on Saturday at 1
p.m. Plan to attend all the fun
and games. All three to
seven-year-olds are invited to
come out and join in all the
activities. An Easter Ege

held during the event. There
is no charge for the activity,
but pre-registration is neces-
sary by calling the recreation
office at 365-3386.

Session II of our Fitness
Classes starts April 7. We
are once offering Aqua
Fit, Cireuit Weight Training,
Advanced Aerobics, Before
Supper Aerobics and Tone It
Up. Please register in ad.
vance to avoid cancellation of
classes. If there are not

sufficient numbers, classes
will be cancelled before they
start — so don't wait to
register — do it today!
Time

Registration

Minor Soccer, Girls Soft-
ball and Boys Softball reg-
istration is now taking place
at the recreation office dur-
ing office hours Monday to
Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Please note: The Com-
munity Complex will be
closed this Friday and Mon-
day. Have a very Happy
Easter.

Help for
Down's
children

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surgical now are
available to give children
with Down's syndrome a
more normal facial appear.
ance, says a Toronto plastic
surgeon.

Dr. Ron Zuker told a con
ference that the surgery,
which has been performed
for four years at the Toronto
Hospital for Sick Children,
cannot remold the entire face
but can significantly change
facial appearance.

Children with the birth de-
fect, which restricts mental
development, often have
large tongues, slanted eyes,
flat noses lacking bridges,
underdeveloped chins and
depressed cheekbones.

“Our purpose is not to
make these children absol-
utely normal,” Zuker told the
Ontario Chapter of the Amer-
ican Association on Mental
Deficiency.

“That's impossible. Our
goal is to make them look
more normal so they won't be
stigmatized by their appear.
ace.”

Zuker said an oversized
tongue, which can cause ex
cessive drooling and speech
problems, can be reshaped to
form a more functional, nor-
mal-looking tongue. It would
still be thicker and less
mobile than normal, he
added

The surgery allows the
child's jaw to develop more

BUSINESS

DALE KRAMER
A CANADIAN
SUCCESS STORY

EDMONTON (CP) — Dale Kramer's experiment
with a tiny airplane eight years grew into a Canadian
success story.

And while he’s always prepared to build on success,
the athletic-looking, black-haired aircraft manufacturer
from Port Colborne, Ont., isn't about to tamper with it,

aviation went in the beginning,” Kramer said in an
interview.

“If you keep it simple and light and slow-flying, that's
when you can enjoy flying the aircraft and looking at the
scenery rather than worrying about the aireraft and the
instruments.”

Kramer's Ultraflight Ltd. bas diver-
sified in the last few years into specialty tooling for other
southern Ontario firms.

Kramer also took on a design and construction
contract for an airship, a model of which is to be displayed
in Canada Place at Expo ‘86 in Vancouver.

But his business still rests on the foundation design
he created in 1978, an ultralight aircraft called the Lazair.
It is a miniature, one-seat aircraft weighing about 60

and p d by two motors.

‘About 1,000 copies have been sold since 1978. The
design won top honors at three Ex; ital Aircraft
Association conventions in the United States in 1979. The
National Aeronautical Museum of Canada has asked for
the original prototype.

THREE VARIATIONS

The first model has led to three variations, including
a two-seat trainer and a police surveillance model now in
use by the park police at Monterey, Calif.

Kramer's work won him a Vanier Award this year, a
Canadian Junior Chamber of Commerce honor presented
annually to five Canadians under age 39 who have made
significant contributions to Canada.

In Edmonton to receive the award, he said his firm
got a headstart at the outset of the ultralight design
revolution because of his background in regular aircraft

Kramer began building model planes at age five and
was doing his own welding and machining for motorized
carts by age 10. Licensed as a pilot at the minimum age of
17 and a glider pilot a year later, he entered aerospace
engineering studies at the University of Toronto and took
in airshows in his spare time.

It was a period when the new availability of light,
two-stroke engines was hatching innovations in flight.

“I was watching people putting motors onto hang
gliders,” he said. “I wasn't too enthused about that other
than the fact they were flying slow and inexpensively —

ee La
caer people in the ultralight industry.”

Others caught up about three years ago, but by then
the whole tndustry had hit a down cycle. Kramer said his
firm is one of about 19 survivors from the approximately
70 firms which had a significant presence in the North
American ultralight market several years ago.

Construction down

By CasNews Staff
Construction activity in
Castlegar continues to lag
behind last year’s pace.
The City of Castlegar
issued only 10 building per-
mits in February totalling
just $55,650. That's down
$97,400 or 64 per cent from
the same month last year
when 17 permits totalled
$153,050.
Every category but new
residential housing was

February industrial activity
accounted for $100,000. This
year it was only $550.
Commercial permits total
led $25,850 last February,
compared to just $5,700 this

year.
And building permit values
for the first two months of

this year are also trailing last
year.

A total of $225,600 in per-
mits have been issued in
January and February —
down 40 per cent or $146,960
from last year's total of
$372,550.

As well, the number of
permits has fallen off, from
37 issued in the first two
months last year to only 23
this year.

Gas stations suffering

These are the best of times and the worst of times for
gas stations along the Canada-U.8. border.
ke emt is the bad Cina are Ol oh thee Coneeien

With the price of gas dtopping steadily south of the
border, close-by Canadians are finding it well worth their
while, despite the lower value of their dollar, to scoot across
the line to fill up their tanks.

“We've had 10 or 12 Canadian customers the last hour
or so,” said Corrie Muth at Pembina (N.D.) Interstate Gas, a
small town just across the border from Emerson, Man.,
about an hour's drive from Winnipeg.

“They (Canadians) come from 20 to 30 miles away for
our gas,” Muth said, noting about half her gasoline
customers are Canadian.

She was selling regular leaded gas for 89.9 cents U.S.
gallon, which translates into about 33 cents a litre in
Canadian funds, compared with the 52 cents a litre the same
gas was selling for on the same day in Emerson.

HAS CUT PRICE
Sharp cuts in world crude oil prices have brought the

respond to lower crude oil
prices, though Energy Minister Pat Carney says the price at
the pump should fall this month. The average price across
the country is 51.2 cents a litre for regular leaded.

Motorists in St. Stephen, N.B., have been driving to
Calais, Me., where regular gas was selling for $1.16 U.S. a
gallon, the equivalent of 43 cents a litre in Canadian funds. In
St. Stephen, the price was 58.8 cents a litre.

A spokesman at the Hardwick Ammex Ltd. station in
Calais said the recent drop in U.S. prices hasn't resulted in a
significant number of new customers from New Brunswick,
because 65 per cent of his business has been coming from St.
Stephen for the past year anyway.

BLAMES DISTANCE

Prices are higher on both sides of the border in that
region becausé of the long distance from refineries, the
spokesman said.

A Canada Customs inspector in Windsor, Ont., said
motorists are trooping across the border to buy cheaper fuel
in Detroit, though some gas stations on both sides fail to see
a noticeable difference in sales.

“There are a lot of Canadians going over to buy gas
only,” said the customs official. He said four motorists in one
hour told him they were en route to Detroit for cheaper fuel.

Technically, a Canadian should declare gasoline
purchases and pay duty if that is his stated reason for going

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United States lowered its gas prices.
Business has picked up sharply in the past few weeks,
he said.

Course for nannies

TORONTO (CP) — Nan-
nies. The word conjectures
Mary Poppins or someone
imported. But a Toronto
woman is trying to change
that.

Caroline Tapp-McDougall,
aware of the youth unem-
ployment situation and the
need for good child care,
wants to develop homegrown
nannies. She's conducting

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6.3.

District Hi

Nelson Highway District

$6.4 m
in ICBC
claims

Trail and Nelson are two of
14 communities featured in
the Insurance Corp. of B.C.'s
1985 annual report, released
in Victoria last week.

In a of major
ICBC-related activities in the
area, the report notes that
the Trail Claim Centre han-
died 7,862 claims resulting in
payments of $6.4 million in
1985.

The area served by the
Centre includes Nelson, Nak-
usp, New Denver, Castlegar
and Slocan, with a vehicle
population of more than
19,500.

The annual report focuses
on the work of community
volunteers, including Nelson
Branch Office Manager
George Anderson who is ac-
tively involved with the

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