Wednesday, March 1, 1995 The Castlegar Sun Page 3B March 1, 1995 e Castlegar Sun WEDNESD. BUSINESS Organ donors Ei ell b -_ He shoots, he scores! Murphy Kennedy, of Castlegar “Will surely show you how to shoot at the shootout showdown at Peoples Drug Mart” held February 18 at Peoples .For his efforts he received a free stick. SUN STAFF PHOTO / Jeff Gabert NRS Block Bros. change hands RON NORMAN Sun Editor NRS Block Bros. Realty has a new owner. Vancouver investor Ron Dixon has-purchased the emptoyee= _owned company for an undis- closed price However, the change in owner- ship will have little direct impact on the Castlegar NRS office “We're franchised anyway so it doesn’t directly affect us,” said Barry Brown, manager of NRS Mountainview Agencies Lid However, Brown is looking forward to Dixon's presence. “He's going 10 lake the reins of the company and go with it.” Brown said in an interview. He said Dixon should be able to make NRS into “ a major play- er in the industry.” NRS chair Wayne Kinna said he welcomes Dixon ‘Our company needed a strong financial partner, and in Mr Dixon we have one of the best,” Kinna said in a prepared release. “T seé nothing but good things ahead for us, both immediately and in the long term.” Kinna said that more than 90 per cent of the shareholders accepted the offer to sell the employee- Thank You | From the City of Castlegar The City of Castlegar wishes to thank Celgar Pulp Company and Pope & Talbot and their trucking contractors for their willingness to deliver chips and other commodities via Highway 22 and the new Castlegar-Robson Bridge. The re-routing of industrial products from Columbia Avenue and the downtown core has resulted in a less congest risk of accidents. The City appreciates thé Cooperation of the truck operators in making this adjustment to their schedules. The City of Castlegar will be constructing two major road projects in 1995 that will result in delays and inconvenience. Roadway work on Columbia Avenue and Arrow Lakes Drive is scheduled for 1995 and your cooperation will, once again, be requested. The following trucking firms are recognized for their cooperation and our apologies to any that we have missed: Baker Truck Lines BTS Byers Transportation Systems Inc. Bulk Systems CP Express & Transport Clark Freightways DCT Chambers Trucking Ltd. Hunteérline Trucking International Chemical Express Kalesnikoff Lumber Co. Ltd. Matlack Inc. NDB Trucking Puget Tansport Shoreline Transport Ltd. Trimac Transportation Services Ltd. Van-Kam Freightways Ltd. West Arm Truck Lines Ltd. Thank you from the Mayor and Council, Columbia Avenue and reduced the va City of Castlegar Ve Barry Brown owned real estate company, “This aggressive move will allow us to focus our efforts and resources on our core business as a franchiser and provide the cor- poration with the needed capital to take this company into the 21st century,” added Kinna. Dixon, a Vancouver native, said he is “excited” to be part of NRS “We realize the real estate industry is in a time of rapid change and we have to stay on the cutting edge of that change to maintain our position as one of the leading real estate companies in North America,” Dixon said. Vancouver-based NRS was established in 1955. earn Commercial Printing & Bindery High Volume Copying Graphic Design & Typesetting 511 Front Street, Neison (604) 354-1700 FAX (604) 354-1666 INCOME TAX SPECIALISTS Electronic filing...giving you an early return. Now Open Saturday OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Saturday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm B & J TAX SERVICE 1245 - 3rd STREET CASTLEGAR, B.C. VIN 1Z6 365-7033 "| turing a chinesé bulffet éVery weekday-ad § wotRrad event bull. Glance i \d-January Marie Orr of Welcome Wagon reports that between mi and mid-February she visited 21 families who aonfiage to Castlegar. People from such exotic places as an poe and ean Quesnel, Brice George, Revelstoke, Nelson, South Slocan, Sparwood, Vancouver, Hedley, Langley, North Vancouver, Trail and Fernie, BC; as well as folks from the Northwest ‘Teeriorice, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Germany have moved here. Welcome Planning a trip? : If oon pes gids i atrip and need your passport, you may be inter- ested to know that pharmacists are now able to be a guarantor for your application. If they've known you for a while, they'd be glad to perform this service for you On the move ‘ Kiwanis Club of Castlegar is now meeting at Taylor's Place restau- rant, in the banquet room, every Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. Say it with flowers land Park Shelll is helping us think spring. They now sell fresh cut ‘flower bouquets, and, they're open 24-hours-a-day. Now there's no excuse for not saying it with flowers! Think golf With the snow still on the ground, the RCMP are already taunting us with golf. Sometime this coming golf season they will be holding their annual tournament with all proceeds going to raise funds for scholarships. Each year they give a $500 bursary to a graduate of Stanley Humphries Secondary School. RCMP Constable Toma is in charge this year and can be reached at the RCMP office in down- town Castlegar. Renovations continue R to the burned-out g where Cohoe Insurance and Vogue Studios were located, are continuing. The roof is on and the interior walls are starting to be built. Cohoe Insurance anticipates moving back in sometime in April while Vi will be staying at their new location beside the Met Mart at the’ Columbia Plaza. No word yet on who will be beside Cohoe in Vogue's old location. On the move Von's T-shirt shop will be moving from their downtown location on April 1 to a smaller space behind Gerick’s Cycle in south Castlegar. Von will be keeping her silkscreening, custom orders and team uni- forms and be closing out retail. Watch for moving sale ads. Sign of the times Syringa Park Marina has installed their own sign on the side of the road at the Robson tumoff to Broadwater Road Returning | Ken-and- Maria Hingwing and Mortey and Soo Lan Der are the | new owners of.the Red Lantesyrestawrant at the, Hi Arrow hotel. Fea- Jong time Castlegar residents are pleased to welcome them bac Renovating Homestead Soup and Sandwich shop has been busy renovating their basement seating area It's a pleasant and quiet place to eat. Renovating The wonderful spring weather is bringing about renovations to many businesses in downtown Castlegar. Currently the liquor store and Pharmasave are having new awnings built. All are in keeping with the downtown revitalization theme of clean and green. Community newspapers are read The Angus Reid Group poll of 1,005 individuals from every region of Canada found that nearly two-thirds read their ¢ ity news- paper. The fact that readership is so high is particularly significant given that 13 million C: read their c ry pap and of those that do, eight out of 10 read it every week. The Castle- gar Sun is proud to be acommunity newspaper! ‘ New faces Countrywide South Centre Realty has two more new reA<ors in their firm.. Welcome Karen Chura and Joyce Cunningham. Joyce was formerly with Black Tusk Realty in Squamish. i Got a cold? Pharmasave in downtown Castlegar carries a homeopathic flu medi- cation. It’s non-medicated, non-drowsy and all natural. Flowers for her, coffee for him Each Wednesday, Mohawk in Castlegar gives out free carnations to the first 50 female customers who come. in after 6 am. On Tuesdays, there’s free coffee for the first 50 men after 6 a.m. Power Smart West Kootenay Power has joined the growing number of businesses which are sponsoring the Power Smart Program. To those who quali- fy, the BC21 Power Smart team will install BC 21 Power Smart products including: a hot water tank insulating jacket; pipe insula- tion, faucet aerators; low-flow showerhead: toilet flush reducer; door weather stripping and draft proofing, all at no charge. The target is 233 homes in the Castlegar so check today’s paper for the Power Smart ad and phone the toll-free number! New faces Harry Mister is the new prof hi pher and o mer of The Picture Place, Icoated in the Castleaird Plaza, Harry has six years experience as a professional Photographer and looks forward to relocating here from Nelson : Call 365-5579 with all your business news ae? Jim Laktin Bernie Krueki Sam Plovnikoft FINANCIAL PLANNING in short supply Kidney Foundation makes appeal RON NORMAN Sun Editor The Kidney Foundation of Canada is appealing to West K ry i sto id becoming organ donors. “At this moment there is a severe shortage of organs avail- able for transplantation in British Columbia,” Inis Vesper, the Foundation's director of individ- ual giving, said in a prepared release. “The number of kidney trans- plants in B.C. decreased by 25 per cent in 1994." Bud Goddetis, coordinator for the Kidney Foundation in the West Kootenay, said volunteers will be talking to residents about becoming organ donors when they undertake their annual door- to-door canvass this month. “We're quite concerned about this shortage,” Godderis said in an interview with The Castlegar Sun. Godderis said the goal province-wide is to raise $675,000 and to distribute half a million organ donor stickers. He said residents place the stickers on their provincial Health Care Cards. However, he said it is impor- tant that donors discuss the issue with their families so that they are aware of the decision. Presently, 285 B.C. resi- dents are awaiting kidney transplant and the average wait is 26 months. Godderis said kidney trans- plants are successful 90 per SLAMS LIBERALS Gouk praises Reform alternative SUN STAFF Kootenay West-Revelstoke MP Jim Gouk last week praised the Reform Party alternative bud- get and criticized the then as-yet unveiled Liberal budget. “In terms of fiscal policy, our budget is the one the Liberals didn't have the guts to write last year, and won't this time either,” Gouk said in a prepared release. “In terms of social policy, our budget is the innovative social review the Liberals didn't have the imagination to conduct.” The Reform Party's alternative budget _was-_unveiled-in Ottawa on Feb. 21. Gouk said the Liberal budget which came down Monday “will prove beyond a doubt just how aimless and inadequate the Liber- al government's budgetary goals really are.” He said the budget will be too weak to deal with the country's debt problem. The Reform Party said its 57- page document would eliminate the $39-billion federal deficit within three years. The plan calls for $25 billion in spending cuts over three years, including $15 billion in cuts to social programs and a $10 billion reduction in government opera- tions and other programs. “People in this riding have been demanding spending cuts and no tax increases, and Reformers agree that Canadians are alrerady being taxed to death,” said Gouk. Bud Godderis -. quite concerned cent of the time and are in fact more cost efficient than dialysis treatment. Dialysis costs about $44,000 a year, while a kidney transplant costs about $20,000, with some $5,000 a year in follow-up experises. Over five years, a transplant ends up being $150,000 cheaper than dialysis. * Godderis pointed out that nearly 50 people in the West Kootenay have received kidney transplants. He notes that transplants are also better than dialysis because they allow the individuals more freedom. “It’s just a different lifestyle for them.” The Kidney Foundation can- vassers begin their annual fundraising drive today. budget He also slammed the Liberal target to reduce the deficit to three per cent of the gross domestic product at the end of three years’ time. “A $25-billion deficit by 1997 is a failure, not a success,” he said. “We have to balance the budget and we'd better do it before the next recession hits or there will be massive problems.” Gouk said the Reform alterna- tive budget calls for less govern- ment intervention in the lives of Canadians and seeks “instead to provide citizens and businesses with the tools they need to suc- ceed in the modern economy.” “We can have better social security at less cost to the tax- payers and more good jobs can be created. Ultimately, the best way to achieve these things is not through government, but by empowering people to take charge of their own affairs,” said Gouk. He added that no one likes spending cuts, but either the gov- emment cuts spending now while it has a choice and can control the reductions, or it waits “until the inevitable financial crisis comes and lose everything.” He said the Reform cuts would be at the “top end”. “Couples with high combined income would not receive any old age security. Middle income seniors would have their bene- fits reduced depnding on their actual needs.” Copies of the Reform budget are available through Gouk's Castlegar office SUN STAFF ‘The Castlegar and District Public Library board has a new. chair David Williams replaces Jean Sylvest. Sylvest will be the vice- chair and the board treasarer, while Joy Andersen was elect- ed secretary. ‘The board moved to increase Williams elected library board chair its fee'for Area I residents from $50 to $60 a year. Meanwhile, a committee of Asea J residents is working on the March 18 library referendum. The committee has prepared a brochure and has undertaken atel campaign. As well, a committee of Area I residents is in the plan- ning stages for a referendum sometime in the future. Feeling hungry? Want to be pampered? Do you want it your way? Well Leo's Gourmet Pizza and Greek Dishes Restaurant located in downtown Castlegar at 1101-2nd Street is the place for you Owners Leo and Angela Dimitriadis promise a friendly, family atmosphere laced with excellent food prepared fresh from only the finest quality ingredients. That's their promise to you, their valued customer. Their full menu is guaranteed to please even the most discriminating tastes. And the bonus is quality food for an affordable price. The Dimitriadis family ‘is pleased to offer to you 20 years experience in food preparation and gourmet food prepared fresh daily by Leo. Savory, full-bodied pizza sauces, real cheeses, fresh, crisp vegetables, and quality meats crown a pizza shell which has been baked to perfection. It will leave you clamoring for more And if you want more, Leo's offers two-for-one specials on all their takeout pizzas and pasta dishes, Where else can you feed a family of four for around $20. But pizza isn't the only dish that Leo's excels in. Delicious and authentic Greek dishes are also prepared by Leo, Tzatziki and pita bread, dolmades, kalamari and tzatziki and more can be found on their menu for a Price you can afford. And for the die-hard Greek food aficionados, Leo's plans on offering Greek food specials on a regular basis. But along with the food, Leo Dimitriadis (left) holds three-and-a-half year old Katina, while Angela holds eight-month-old Thomas. Congratulations We were pleased to have serviced the refrigeration. Angela said Serving up full customer service “We're here to please the people with good quality food at an affordable price.” | But don’t stop there; barbecued back ‘jh chicken and Greek ribs can all be ordered for under $15. Also on the menu is charboiled steak and shrimp. If pasta is your fancy Leo's offers a full-complement of authentic pasta dishes. Spaghetti carbonara, seafood fettucini, baked ravioli and spaghetti are only some of the pasta dishes which can be ordered for an economical price. Seafood,i'side dishes, salads, appetizers, and soup are also reasonably priced. The Dimitriadis say the community has been warm and gracious since they opened their they plan on dishes. of doors Jan, 5, Formerly from Nelson, the two have noticed a distinct difference in clientele. “In Nelson they wanted their food quick. Here people like to slow down and enjoy their meal,” explained Angela Both Angela and Leo appreciate the quality of living offered in Castlegar and plan to move here soon. They believe that they want to give back to the community in which they work. “We .havé a business in Castlegar and we should be part of the community,” said Angela. So the next time you get a hankering for food that satisfies, stop by Leo's Gourmet Pizza and Greek Dishes Restaurant and get ready for a taste extravaganza. Leo's also offers takeout and will take call ahead orders for dining in. CONGRATULATIONS! We were pleased to have been a part of your refrigeration, air conditioning and gas servicing requirements. CASTLEGAR . cP PLUMBING iy & HEATING — 1008 Columbia Ave., Castlegar 365-3388 Congratulations! Pleased to have been your printer (604) 354-1700 FAX (604) 354-1666 nee aia | "] Controls and Refrigeration Ltd. We are pleased to have provided you with quality signage SiS SIGN TECH Advertsing Sysiems inc | 1-800-667-2455 © FAX 365-7692 365-7672 Sera CENSED ac SERVICE ‘LEE Mth FAX 365-0210 Pleased to be your supplier for all bakery products. | 660 Baker Nelson, B.C. 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