ry us _CastlégarNews — oy 18. 1900 MONTHLY GATHERING Robson women meet Robson Women's Institute held its regular monthly meeting, in the form of a lun. cheon at the home of Kathy McGivern. Minutes of the Previous meeting were read and approved and the treas urer's report showed a heal thy balance. . Business from the confer: ence was cleared away, with members writing many thank-you letters. Members were thrilled at how well the conference was attended and enjoyed. The next big event is the Hands Across the Border Pienic June 15 in Colville. Members from eight districts hope to attend. In answering correspon. dence donations were sent to the Kootenay Society for Handicapped to help pur. chase a microwave oven and to the Castlegar and District Community Services Centre. Another letter -informed the Institute that the Fall Fair Association is disband ing and cannot continue with the annua! fall fair in Robson. The Women's Institute is still hoping another organization in Castlegar may become interested in taking over the fair. The institute also re. ceived a letter from Koot: enay West MP Bob Brisco congratulating the institute on 75 years of service. The guest speakers were Sally Williams and Mary Beth Small from the Saen yavong Refugee : Support event Thank You . To the many businesses that donated prizes to the Nelson Sub/Division R.C.M.P. Golf Tour- nament on Monday, May 16 at the Castlegar and District Golf Club. To Denny McArthur for all your help and Anne Bailey and Statt for a’ lovely meal. A special thanks to the 96 participants of R.C,M.P. members from Cranbrook to Lumby and the several friends that joined us in this Your contribution made this an excep- tionally enjoyable day which we were happy to share with you. From all of us at the Castlegar R.C{M.P. Detachment, we again sincerely thank c rs KEDDY) S/S i/c Cas elegar Det. Group. They enlightened the group by telling how families strive to survive in the ref ugee camp in Thailand. This support group of five families here in Castlegar is- ° Selkirk plans wine workshop A letter is being sent out to. groups and individuals in the Castlegar area interested in the production, improvement and appreciation of wines. Originating under the hand of Jim Cromwell, the vener- able master of the Selkirk Vinters, it reads in part: “On the evening of Friday; June 3 the Worshipful Com pany of Selkirk Vintners is planning an evening of wine and related activities as part of the Castlegar Sunfest ac. tivities. “In keeping with the Aus tralian theme we have in vited Bob Lindeman of Aus. tralian wine fame, and wine expert Bruce Lacroix to at. tend and share their know ledge with us. Both have ac cepted and are looking for. ward to the event. “We are contacting various estate wineries and we will A IS COMING! 197 Columbia Ave. 365-5210 — hoping to sponsor a family from Laos: a masher, father, children. After the women saw the videotape and heard the speakers, members were moved by the presentation. have some of their wines available for tasting. The above experts will be in at- tendance to give their com- ments and suggestions on any wine which amateur wine makers like to bring and if requested would be pleased to provide a scientific an- alysis of their wing. No wine competition is planned al- though this could certainly be considered in future years we become more familiar with this kind of event. “Food will be available to nibble .on along with the wine. It will be a post-supper event beginning at around 7 p.m. and ending at 11 p.m. or so. There will be a cover charge to cover the cost of food. The Fireside Place ban. quet room has been booked for this occasion. Anyone interested in hav- ing their wine tested is in- vited to attend and to bring By JOHN CHARTERS their wine for the analysis. Members of the Castlegar Further details will be Rotary club wondered last published as the date ap- Tuesday when their young proaches. speaker for the evening add ressed them in flowing Ger. COMMERO AL peTinG man, whether they had come * Letterheads * Envelopes to the wrong meeting. * Brochures ® Raffle Tickets Rotary exchange student ss. Claudie Braman, the Stan- Castlegar News cy Humphries secondary school student whom they , had sent on exchange over a year ago to study in Germany opened her slide show add. ress in the language of her yearlong host country, then switched just as easily into Great Place To... +. BUY «+. SELL «+. TRADE Call Classifieds 365-2212 A Great Selection of COMPACT Discs Limifed Quantities | Limited Quantities! Enter Your Name To ns ‘lect the changei EXCHANGE STUDENT . . . Dave Daniels (left) and Bert Rourke look at the display on West Germany that Claudie Braman brought English. She had stayed, she said, in Meerbusch a town near Dus- seldorf in West Germany for the 1986-87 term. Before she left for Ger- many in 1986, Claudia had been enrolled in the SHSS independent directed studies program and at a public presentation at the end of the course had given a dramatic sef-written and directed skit on suicide prevention. Her teacher on the course, Doug Carter, introduced and assisted her at the Rotary presentation. When asked BUSINESS May 18, 1988 back recently after spending more than a year in that European country. how he’ liked ‘the show, he said: “I'm a tough evaluator but her program was well laid out, and presented and she got a good response. I'd give her 8'/ to 9 out of 10.” She had the opportunity to travel extensively, including two visits to West Berlin, and the entire experience — in- cluding the cultural exchange and the opportunity to be- come proficient in the lan- guage — had made the ex- perience one of the highest points in her life. The school curriculum she found to be considerably CasNews photo by Jack Charters Exchange student back more demanding, particular- ly the math and sciences. However, in terms of social skills and maturity, the stu- dents were about the same as they are here and their in- terests in music and their ac- tivities were very similar. In the absence of club president, Hugo Smecher, the meeting was chaired by past-president Jack Cher- noff. The club is entering a float in the Sunfest parade and will again be hosting their ever-popular Sunfest Pan- cake Breakfast. School could get name change Kinnaird Junior secondary school could be renamed Mountainside Middle school. Castlegar school board re- ceived the results of a poll taken at Kinnaird Junior secondary school on the proposed name change to re- suggestions. The board has referred the issue to the building and grounds com. mittee for further discussion. . . The district will see a major shift as 18 teachers will be transferred within the district effective this July. Superintendent of schools Terry Wayling said about 14 of the transfers were re- quested by the teachers themselves and the rest were “initiated at the district level.” Wayling said he is pleased with the transfers and “by and large it has been very well received by the teach- ers.” ig nature of the school. Mountainside Middle school topped the list of 19 Local man passes away Peter Perehudoff of Castle. gar passed away on Sunday May 15, 1988 at the age of 68. Funeral services were held at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel on Tuesday and today with cremation following. Mr. Perehudoff was born S May 13, 1920 at Langham, Sask. and moved to Thrums in 3929. He grew up in Thrums and worked in the construction industry and in sawmills, retiring in 1978. He lived in Castlegar for the past 15 years. He enjoyed music and playing the guitar. He is survived by three brothers, George and Bill of Thrums and John of Pentic- ton; one sister, Mary Kinakin of Toronto; and many nieces and nephews. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chap- el. Want to make a little money goa long way? 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Asan investment, pools break even at best, but they can also deflate a home's value, say real estate representatives. Variables — the price of the home, lot size, the quality of the pool and its maintenance — affect a pool's investment value. Beatrice Kiekens, manager of a branch of Canada Trust Realtor, says the worst pool is one that has been poorly maintained, has a liner on its last legs and filtration equipment that needs replacing. A home with such a pool may sell for thousands of dollars less than one without a pool, Kiekens says. On the other hand, she says, a well-maintained and attractive pool can be a selling feature because many people want a pool but not the expense and bother of having it installed. Allan Appleby of Appleby Real Estate says a pool will never return 100 per cent on the investment. Appleby says an in-ground pool tends to have a better return than an above-ground pool, although the latter is less costly and: can be transported. While some people argue that a pool limits the market to those who want one, Appleby has not found homes with pools more difficult to sell. LIMIT CHOICES He tells customers who are dead set against pools to set aside their objections because they are limiting their choices and may miss a good home. Jim Holody of Jim Holody Realty says the ideal pool in terms of investment is one for an executive-type home — a four-bedroom house 185 square metres (2,000 square feet) or larger. Pools in the backyards of semi-detached homes are usually a poor investment because they will not significantly increase the property value, he says. Pools that fill a small backyard may limit the number of buyers because people with young children will want a safe play area. Holody says a final decision boils down to the homeowner's wishes, not market value. Jarmo Stromberg, real estate manager at a branch of Royal LePage Real Estate, says a variety of people seek homes with pools, but those with children top the list. Quality is the bottom line in any pool installation, says Stromberg. “You get what you pay for. Better pools stay in better condition and look better down the road.” Small houses way of future OTTAWA (CP) — Smaller Frank Clayton, a Toronto lots, smaller houses gnd_ real-estat put VW Bugs resurrected By STEVE MERTL VANCOUVER — Somewhere in southern Alberta is a place where old Volkswagens go to die. Their remains, preserved in the dry air, are hidden like some secret elephant boneyard to protect them as much as possible from scavengers. The Bigsby, brothers won't tell a visitor where that resting place is, but it contains about 350 old Beetles, Karmann Ghia sports cars and “barndoor” vans — so named for their and their aerody ities in a crosswind. The Bigsbys operate a VW rebuilding business in the whitewashed confines of a huge converted bakery on Vancouver's east side. In the back are a handful of hulks that have been trailered in from the site in Alberta where the Bigsbys store their cars. Out front sits a 1954 Bug, complete with semaphore turn signals that flip out behind the doors like little orange flags. The ‘54 is well preserved but, with its spartan interior and 40-horsepower motor, it's strictly for purists. The Bigsbys aren't purists. ‘BRAND-NEW’ BUG They'll sell you a “brand-new” Bug with a two-year, 30,000-kilometre warranty for $9,300. The fact that VW hasn't imported a Beetle into Canada for 10 years is no obstacle. The Bigsbys just build them in the back. “We produce a custom automobile,” says Terry Bigsby, a 26-year-old former industrial arts teacher wh is in partnership with his older brother Duane and two friends. “It just happens to have a Volkswagen shell. It's not much of a Volkswagen any more. It’s a real car.” The Beetle, the result of Adolf Hitler's setae dream of a people's a volkswag i by Ferdinand Porsche (yes, that Porsche). The tigal little cars became legitimate transportation in postwar North America and opened the door for the hordes of economy cars sold today. But the Beetle's simple virtues and 1930s technology couldn't sustain it past the late 1970s, when it was superseded by more modern Japanese and European econoboxes, including V.W's own new offerings. Compared with the newer cars, the Beetle was a noisy, cramped, underpowered little crate that «anced like a daisy in the wind whenever a semitrailer truck“ passed bing the other way. STILL ON ROADS: Dennis DesRosiers, a Toronto automotive consultant, says more than 35,000 registered Beetles are still on Canadian roads, and that’s just_1967 or later models that show up in his computer database. The cars have been sold in Canada since the early 1950s. “They're second only to Ford Mustangs as a cult vehicle,” says DesRosiers. The Bigsbys caught the bug in Africa, while their father was Kenya's inspector of schools. Living in Nairobi, the brothers began tinkering with the rugged, ubiquitous Beetles and the VW buses favored by travellers. Back in Canada, the brothers continued their sideline in Edmonton while Duane worked as a photographer and Terry taught shop in high school. They soon linked up with Mike Roberge, 34, another shop teacher and car restorations expert, and Greg Milton, 21, who collects auto parts lower expectations.. That's how the new presi- dent of the national associ- ation representing 200 com- panies in real-estate devel- opment and home construc- tion says he would bring down house prices. Michael Geller sympathi zes with young people des- perately seeking houses they can afford, but he says too many are carrying visions of the homes they grew up in. “So many first-time buyers still expect two full bath rooms, a separate family room off the kitchen,” he says. “There is a need to change expectations, scale them down a bit. Too many people want to start at the housing level their parents ended up But Geller admits there is a lot of consumer — and local government — resistance to the idea of smaller homes surrounded by less land. Geller was recently elected president of the Urban De- velopment Institute, a non- profit organization whose members create over $3 bill- ion in development annually. He said it's sad that young couples often postpone hav ing children because “they don't have what they con- sider a suitable home. But more mature buyers whose children have left the nest are often also looking for a smaller home.” If developers can encour- age construction of smaller houses for these two age groups — young first-time buyers and older couples — expectations could start to change. BLAME CITY HALL But consumer attitudes aren't the only factor limiting the ‘supply of lower-cost housing. Both Geller and OFFICE AID Luella Andreashuk Has Changed Location For Income fax er Accounting PHONE 365-6658 24 HOUR CALL RUBBER STAMPS Made to Order CASTLEGAR NEWS 197 Columbie Ave. Phone 365-7266 much of the responsibility on the policies of many mu- nicipalities. Cayton told a recent in- stitute conference that over one-quarter of Canadians are paying more than the trad itional yardstick of 25 per cent to 30 per, cent of take-home pay on rent. The shortage of affordable rental space isn’t caused by a shortage of land, Clayton said in an interview, adding that renters have an even harder time finding housing than do home-buyers. “Municipalities are reluc. tant to develop residential areas because they get more property tax from commer cial and industrial develop. ment.” Some city governments discourage construction of more affordable housing by maintaining controls that now are inappropriate, Geller s the way some people collect stamps Roberge and Terry Bigsby stumbled across the chance to set up their operation in Vancouver while on a holiday. Friends introduced them to an investor who has bankrolled “He hates Volkswagens but he thought it would go big” Terry says of the investor, The Bigsbys love Beetles, but with their eyes open: They rebuild old VWs from the ground up, adding modern conveniences such as dise brakes, improved heaters, lots of sound deadener, stabilizers to tame the Bug's sometimes treacherous rgar axles and, most important, a more powerful version of the wheezy little motor that propelled all but late-model Beetles. Old bodies are stripped, sandBlasted and restored, then filled with new parts, many from VW plants that still supply the Be market outside North America — fenders from Norway, heavy-duty éngine blocks from Mexico, Where original parts can't be found, high-quality replacements are used. 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Apsey said the forest in dustry has been trying to reach a consensus among its members on a new approach to timber-cutting fees. When that is done, the industry will present a proposal to Vander Zalm. Seven Mile Dam Reservoir Closure The reservoir behind Seven Mile Dam will be raised 4.6 metres to its normal maximum level starting May 16, 1988. This will bring the reservoir to its full design level and permit generation of an addi- tional 43 megawatts of electricity for British Columbians as provided by the Skagit River Treaty between the United States and Canada. Geotechnical studies and investigations have indicated that the stability of the shoreline should not be significantly affected by the change in water level. However, in the initial period following reservoir raising, some slough- ing or slides of surrounding slopes may occur without warming, creating waves dangerous to anyone on the reservoir or adjacent shores. 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