BUSINESS Condoms may soon hit VSE ENTERTAINMENT. Bloom County says 'bye i Ab Castlégar News August 6, 1989 scccrae Castlégar News a7 TRAVEL INSURANCE - D-sar-D DINING LOUNGE OPEN 4 P.M. TUES. THRU SUN. — CLOSED MONDAY — AIR CONDITIONED RESERVATIONS WESTAR & COMINCO FOR VOUCHERS ACCEPTED Located | Mile South of Weigh Scale in Ootischenia * LICENCED DINING ROOM 365-3294 IScream... For Ice Cream! 16 Columbia Ave. 365-5304 PARENTS! Returning to Work or School? ‘dy hobbit hill 749-1 1th Avenue, Castlegar CHILDREN'S CENTER 365-7280 * NOW ACCEPTING REGISTRATIONS * Quality licenced child care, ages 3-5 Nursery School, ages 3.and 4 — Special Needs Servs Out-of-School Care, ages 5-11 WARM AND FRIENDLY CARE United Way Member Agency COMMUNITY lietin Board HIROSHIMA DAY VIGIL, WALK AND SOCIAL Sunday, August 6 at 6 p.m. at the Castlegar Courthouse. Walk to Zuckerberg Island for music and social, All welcome. ue Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit organizations may be listed here. 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Outland will have its premiere in Sunday, newspapers on Sept.’ 3, featuring a black child who was a Bloom Coanty regular, with Opus possibly making appearances. Bi hed, who lives west of Denver inf Evergreen with his wife and basset hound, is working in Florida on the new strip. In a telephone interview, Breathed had little to say about giving up Bloom County after a successful nine-year run that included a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for cartooning. “I’m pushing on a deadline right now and-I'm working’so hard that I haven't even thought about it,”” he said William Dickinson general manager and editorial director of the Washington Post Writers Group, said Outland is ‘‘kind of a serial comic strip that features a black girl, a child really, living in the ghetto who had a fantasy world outside of it."” Dickinson said the new strip has animal characters **but it’s not clear totally when, or if, Opus will be showing up in the new strip. “We and millions of readers ob: viously hope so,” he said The new strip will appear in as many Shaw to carry conference Shaw Cable 10-has announced it will carry the coverage of the S8th Annual Couchiching Conference on Aug. 11, 12 and 13 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. each night This year’s subject is the environ. ment The speaker list includes Jim Bradley, Ontario’s minister of en vironment, Roy Aiken, executive vice president of INCO Canada and John Willis of Greenpeace. 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The Nashville Network Subscribe to... subscripts wperchannel, Family Chai TM The Family Channet inc y BRAVE 0 warily C8 1989: The music, comedy, rodeos and ae <4zZ¢00 Z00rs as 400 across North America. Dickinson said. he doesn’t know what direction Outland will take. DEPEND ON MARKE “*1t’s beautifully drawn and it seems to have a strong protaganist in the black child but the market will have to make its own judgment after awhile,” he said. “It is quite different from Bloom County visually, and 1 think also will be different editorially. It marks a real newspapers departure from the style that readers have been accustomed to over the last nine years in Bloom County.”* Six collections of Bloom County strips have been published by Little, Brown and Co., with four million sold Breathed, 31, announced in May that he was ending Bloom County, saying “The ugly truth is that in most cases, comics age less gracefully than their creators. Bloom County is retiring before the stretch marks show."” As Bloom County ends in daily newspapers this week, Breathed ap- peared to be setting the stage for Outland Opus has said farewell ‘to strip regulars and teamed with the black Child WhO took him to the ghetto. “We're going over to the wrong side of the tracks?’ Opus asked “‘Llive here,"" the child replied “*Any way out?’’ Opus continued “Funny you should mention ‘out.’ Music Centre students present festival finale The Valhalla Music Centre's star students will close out the centre's summer music festival next weekend The Master Pianists Concert will be held in Silverton Saturday, Aug. 12 at the Memorial Hall and Sunday, Aug 13 at Nelson’s Capitol Theatre. Both performances begin at 8 p.m Paul Dykstra will play selections from Bach and Ravel Dykstra, who teaches piano in Quesnel, was student at the centre in Silverton last summer “One is a student all one’s life, 1 suppose,”’ Dykstra, 33, said He praised the centre's director, Helmut Brauss, for his ability to **make you play the music as you feel it.” Brauss has been featured in the festival's first two concerts. Dykstra will be joined by Koko Yamamoto, a 16-year-old who per formed at Expo 86. She recently won a gold medal for receiving the highest mark in Canada for her Royal Conser vatory Performance exam. She will play selections from Schumann _and Ginastera. Sasha Starcevich, 19, is a first-prize winner in the Young Keyboard Inter «frational Competition, and has been awarded an Associate of First Class by the Royal Conservatory in Toronto. He is currently studying in the United States and will piay selections from Chopin and Brahms Fans continue to flock to Jimi Hendrix memorial SEATTLE (AP) — Every other month, cemetery workers tending Jimi Hendrix's grave replace the lawn worn away by fans Every day they take away the of ferings left near his granite marker the night. before; marijuana butts, lighters, guitar picks Twenty years ater. Woodstock and 19 years after Hendrix — admirers still come to sit and think about the young helped psychedelic rock When Hendrix cranked up his Fen der Stratocaster, the Earth became The Third Stone From the Sun, and a nation of rebellious youth grooved to The Star-Spangled Banner When he hit Woodstock in August 1969, his music and his career were soaring. A year and a month later they crashed He died in his sleep Sept. 18, 1970, while on a European tour. The coroner’s report said he choked on his The trace of barbituates in his blood was small, not enough to kill, the coroner said Hendrix was born in Seattle in 1942 He left Garfield High’ School after his junior year to join the Army because he didn’t want to spend another summer mowing the lawns for man who define own vomit 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Saturday CLOSED Sundays & Holidays PH. 365-8155 1004 Columbia Ave., Castlegar WE ACCEPT WESTAR, CELGAR & COMINCO MEALTICKETS SO his father’s landscape business “He wanted one of those screaming eagles on his shoulder,” said James Hendrix, referring to the patch worn by paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division SERVES IN NAM Hendrix served after Korea and before Vietnam, when lyrics from his songs would be scribbled on soldiers’ helmets. He went by Jimmy in those days and was shy, his father said. The shortened name and stage antics, such as squir ting lighter fluid on his burning guitar, were just show business he adopted later He was a good boy,”’ the 70-year old Hendrix said. ‘*He played Little League, football, swimming. We called him Buster ‘til he was nine or 10 Then he wanted to be called Jimmy Jimmy and his younger brother Leon, were raised by their father. His parents were divorced and his mother died when he was 10. New series hits tube this week By JERRY BUCK AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Hays says the idea behind his new NBC summer FM, which will be televised for the first time this week, was to doa comedy about a young man and his problems with women. The show is set ‘against the background of a listener-supported radio station in Washington, D.C Hays, who starred in Airplane and the ABC series Starman, plays the Program director and on-air per- sonality at: the small station. The frenetic pace of the job forces him to A COMEDY THRILLER BY PETER COLLEY 2 for 1 Opening Night August 10 August 10, 11, 12 17, 18,19 8:00 p.m. Late Shows August 12. 19 1:00 p.m ALL CANADIAN SUMMER SEASON ‘AT THe “APITOL THEATRE 417 VICTORIA STREET, NELSON Accapted: Phone 352 4363 postpone many decisions affecting his personal life “‘He has a problem making a com mitment," says"Hays, ‘‘and when a woman gets too close he gets scared Yet, he’s surrounded by women. His ex-wife, his teen-age daughter, his at tractive new assistant, his boss and others, as well as a fan named Misty who keeps asking him to play ‘Laura “He hires his ex-wife to come back and liven up an opinion show. Ever since she'd left, the conservative had carried on alone and it was so dull. His ex-wife gets jealous when-he hires a pretty new assistant.”* All Beet Potty CHEESE DELUXE = $945 CALL AHEAD. DRIVE THROUGH SERVICE erie fon] 1521 Columbia Ave. 365-8388 B AY SPECIAL August 7 Only! PRIME RIB $995 DINNER .. Includes: Salad bor and all the trimmings. Served from 5 p.m daily SALAD BAR AVAILABLE Mon.-Fri. 5 p.m.-Midnight Sat. & Sun., 12 noon - Closing 365-6887 VANCOUVER (CP) — A Van- couver Stock Exchange-listed com- pany, after ventures involving pizza chains, cellular phones and swimming pool alarms, is putting its efforts into marketing a condom in gas stations. Under the wrapper, the Love Gasket is no different from any other condom. It’s the packaging CTI Technologies hopes will save it from being delisted from the Vancouver Stock Exchange. “One of the ideas was to put the word love back into condoms,”’ said company secretary-treasurer John Tompkins, who envisions the Love Gasket being sold in gas stations, auto parts shops and corner stores throughout the United States. The company has announced details of a joint marketing agreement with personal hygiene product giant Car- ter-Wallace Inc. of New York, maker of the Trojan brand of condoms. Tompkins said Carter-Wallace says it is withholding its signature from a acquisition of the trademarks from a Seattle entrepreneur. A spokesman fot Carter-Wallace said its policy is to not reveal what products it may be testing until they go. tomarket. While it awaits word from Carter- Wallace, CTI is trying to fend off regulatory authorities. Tompkins said CT1 produced such a plan, but exchange officials “'were not too-happy that the Love Gasket was an integral part of it.”’ Ina letter to CTI, the exchange said it “considers the promotion of a trademark for a product which con- sists entirely of an untested marketing concept which has no evidence of prior On April 7, the Stock Exchange designated CTI as inactive formal licensing untiPit has finished consumer testing. Until then, CTI in turn will not finalize the the company produce a reactivation plan, or risk being delisted. By BRENDA DALG of trading stamps. destinations in North America. who fly only once or twice a year. FREETOGO a second ticket at half price. But unlike some business travelling must plan carefully. The Canadian Press Christopher Johnston started out flying from Toronto to London to visit his father. By the time he got back to Toronto, he'd earned a free flight to Vancouver Johnston is a typical traveller who got lucky with his airline’s frequent flyer plans, the space-age version With oneflight to London — a new route Wardair was promoting — he racked up enough points to allow him to collect two free tickets to any of the airline’s “The flight to London is 7,000 miles but there was also a signing up bonus, a new route bonus and a quadruple miles bonus on top of that,’’ Johnston said. “‘When I got home I discovered that I’d got 40,112 miles. It felt as if I'd won at the slot machines.” The major airlines offer frequent flyer plans to en- courage customer loyalty among their most frequent business flyers. But the plans can pay off even for people The plans offer free tickets plus a variety of other bonuses to members who have flown specified numbers of miles. As the miles increase so do the rewards. For example, a traveller who racks up 40,000 miles under Air Canada’s Aeroplan can collect, among other things, two free economy class tickets to anywhere Air ‘Canada flies in North America. Or he can buy one full economy fare ticket to Asia or the South Pacifit and get Usually people use the free tickets for a splurge trip “They go to Paris for a long weekend and pretend they're millionaires for three days, things like that,”’ says Gordon Young, manager of Aeroplan. travellers who ac- cumulate tens or even hundreds of thousands of miles in @ year, the infrequent flyer who hopes to do some free Randy Petersen, publisher of a newsletter for Free flights feasible for frequent flyers frequent flyers, recommends that before joining a plan you get a copy of its reward chart, which lists the mem- bership terms as well as the number of miles needed to collect bonuses. to Europe. onany flight. TWOIN CANADA In Canada there are only two choices. Canadian Airlines International (which includes Wardair) has the Canadian Pius plan, which is free. Air Canada charges a membership fee of $20 to join its Aeroplan. However, if the United States is one of your more frequent destinations you may want to also look at the plans offered by the U.S. airlines that serve your city. Then decide what reward you'd like to collect. “Sometimes people go out and sign up for one program and then realize later that it isn’t the best one for their goal," said Petersen, whose Colorado-based newsletter, Frequent, is for hard-core flyers who may be members of six or seven plans. Maybe you’ve always wanted to go to Fiji, or perhaps Rome is the city of your dreams. Then it helps to know that Canadian Airlines tends to specialize in the Asia Pacific region while Air Canada offers more flights CHECKS THE WAYS Petersen also recommends that you look at ways the airlines allow you to add mileage points without ever leaving the ground. r example, Canadian adds mileage points for paymehts made with Royal Trust MasterCard and Royal Bank Diners Club credit card. Ofcourse, as with every free lunch, there’s a catch. Reward seats are intended to be seats that would otherwise have been empty. Consequently, only a few seats at most are available to the frequent flyer program “They're opening up a little bit more now,”” said Jennifer Coutts, the owner-manager of an Algonquin Travel office in Toronto. “‘But we recommend that people book well in ad- vance of the time they want to fly,” Coutts said. on its or feasibility, to be an unsuitable basis for public investment in an exchange listed company.’’ Since it began trading on the Van- couver exchange in May 1986, a series of ventures — a pilotless airplane, a swimming pool alarm, a cellular telephone system ahd a plan to buy pizza outlets — have left CTI with an accumulated deficit of $4.8 million Its ‘stock, which hit $2.55 briefly in July 1986, now trades at eight cents BC Rail choses president VANCOUVER (CP) — The president of the third-targest bus tine in North America has been chosen to head up BC Rail, the Crown-owned railway has announced. Paul McElligott of Voyageur Enter: prises of Montreal will become president and chief executive officer of Canada’s third-largest railway Sept 18 McEilligott, 37, Norris, whois retiring. ““McElligott was chosen from among more than 400 applicants,”’ said BC Rail chairman Gerry Strongman. “The company faces major changes and we wanted a young person in charge. This guy is equipped to handle things.”’ McElligott was a vice-president of Voyageur at age 29. Norris began his railway career with CP Rail in 1952 and joined BC Rail in 1970. He was made a vice-president in1974 and president four years later. Major works during Norris’s tenure as president include construction of an electrified branch line to tap coal deposits in northeastern British succeeds Mac Columbia. “Never Leave Home Without It!" 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Selkirk College is offering a 10 hour workshop in Study Skills to help students succeed Four separate workshops will be offered in Room B17 at the Castlegar campus August 21-25 — 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. August 21-25 — | p.m. to 3 p.m. August 28-31 — 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. August 28-31 — 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Topics covered will include: MEMORY TRAINING READING SKILLS STUDY TECHNIQUES NOTE-TAKING — ASSIGNMENT PREPARATION — EXAM PREPARATION EXAM-TAKING STRATEGIES The fee is $10. There will be a maximum of 20 students per session, so register early. To register, or for more intor- mation, contact Continuing Education, 365-1208. CASTLEGAR CAMPUS Box 1200, Castlegar. B.C. VIN 3J1 7292 lege Credit cards for kids DENVER (AP) — A bank in Colorado dedicated to young customers is offering what it says is the first-ever credit card for children Young Americans Bank introduced the new credit cards this week at a party marking the institution’s second an- niversay Like most cregit cards, these have restrictions. Youngsters must talk a parent or other adult into co-signing and guaranteeing payment on their ac- counts. Although cardholders’ must be at least 12 years old and cannot exceed a $100 credit limit, the bank will consider increasing credit limits and lowering age requirements for particularly Weekly stocks TORONTO (CP) — Falconbridge fever helped propel the Toronto stock market upward Friday, while New York took a fall in response to a stronger-than-expected report on U.S. employment The Toronto Stock Exchange's composite index was up 4.13 points in active trading to 3,985.11, yet another post-crash high. For the week, the ex- change was up 18.33 points. New York's Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 8.16 points to 2,653.45, trimming its gain for the week to 18.21 More than one million Falconbridge shares traded in Toronto on Friday, pushing the stock up 38 cents to $36.38 ona volume of more than one million. The trading came on speculation that a bidding war might break out over Falconbridge, the object of a friendly takeover bid by AMAX Inc., an American resource producer. Investors were hoping the $36.13- per-cent offer from AMAX would be bettered by Noranda, a Canadian resources company that already owns about 24 per cent of Falconbridge, said BLUEBERRIES FOR SALE Se ~ . U-Pick PICKERS NEEDED CALL BLUE CRO Thrums 399-47 analyst John Ing of Maison Placemen- ts Canada. Investors in New York reacted with disappointment to a U.S. Labor Department report that the civilian unemployment rate dropped to 5.2 per cent in July from 5.3 per cent the mon- th before, said Lyle Stein of Nesbitt Thomson. creditworthy children, said Leanne Cadman, who heads the bank’s loan department. Otherwise, the MasterCards issued by United Bank of Denver are just like Mom's and Dad’s. Monthly statemen- ts will tell kids they can make a minimum monthly payment or pay off the whole balance. Interest will accrue on the balance at the annual rate of 18.8 per cent, Cadman said. Young Americans Bank, a full- service, state-chartered and federally insured bank, already offers chequing accounts for children 12 or older. In its two years of service, it has signed up 10,000 depositors. United Bank of Denver officials were on hand at the anniversary party this week to counsel young applicants about using credit cards. “We tell them they need to use credit cards with care and not to abuse them,’’ Cadman said. ‘And of course, we impress on them that whatever you charge you have to pay back.”” Provides trai: This program is recognized by the Pacific Rim Institute of Tourism NELSON CAMPUS. a 30,000 NEW JOBS IN TOURISM BY 1992 You can be ready! Investigate how Selkirk College's eight-month TOURISM CERTIFICATE PROGRAM FOR SUPERVISORS Can prepare you for mid-management positions in Recreation and Resort Operations ond Food and Beverage Operations Receive practical industry experience along with classroom instruction. The Tourism Careers Department invites ap- plications for the course starting October 2, 1989. COOK TRAINING LEVEL! ing in Short Order Cooking. Pre-Requisites: Good health and the ability to move efficiently as required during busy period. 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