It’s Time to Say **Thank You’’ Through Air Canada’s **Heart of Gold”? Award Do you know someone who goes out of his or her way to make your community a better place to live? Air Canada and your community newspaper would like to help salute these individuals. ° You can start things off by nominating someone you know ‘Castlégar News Box 3007 Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4 Grad Parent MEETING Mon., June 13 $.H.S.S. Library CONCERNING GRAD NIGHT ACTIVITIES ‘The Magic of Mike!"’ * Floating People * Disappearing Acts * Spectacular Stage Show Tues., June 14 7:00 p.m. S.H.S.S. toed raiser for SHSS Grod Closs. jickets — Students $4. Adults $5. Has Pharmasave, Klothes Kloset, Pete's TV, Carl's Drugs, Mallards, Picture Place. impulse pay TV touted HALIFAX (CP) — Pay-per-view hasn't been appi in Canada yet but salesmen at a recent cable television trade show were demonstrating a modified version which residents in a small Saskat- chewan town have been getting for more than a year. SaskTel International, of provincially owned Sa: Global Technologies Ine., a high-tech manufacturing company, have devel- oped what they call impulse pay TV, getting around the fact that pay-per- view is illegal in Canada. The system allows people to re- ceive pay TV services such as Much- Music and The Sports Network but pay only for what they actually watch. If someone watches only 15 minutes of a movie and shuts it off, he's only billed for 15 minutes worth. With American pay-per-view sys- tems, people are charged flat fees for every program they watch. “It's very consumer oriented,” Kelly Megson, marketing director for SaskTel, said in an interview during the trade show at the Canadian Cable Television Association's convention. The system is called the Penny Pincher. When a cable subscriber decides to watch MuchMusic, for ex. ample, he presses the button on the small control box sitting on his tele. vision set and the pay TV signal is unscrambled. The box records how long he watches and starts scram bling the signal as soon as he turns the box off. ANHOUNCING 40. «the, Sunfest '88 Lottery Button Winners 1st 5127 2nd 6028 3rd 4066 4th §912 623 Columbia Ave., Castlegar SEW IT UP! WITH 100% COTTON CALICOS CARTER’S SEWING CENTRE sau’. © 365-3810 St., 365-7232 Insurance 365-3368 CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION : Your Community Financial Centre’ CASTLEGAR ” SLOCAN en 601. _ 46-7212 insurance 226-7216 The Premium Savings Account High Yield With Flexibility! GOLD PATRONS . . . The Castl: BUSINESS evening with special awards. The gold patrons, those who donated cash or service exceeding $1,000, received hand-carved Doukhobor Festivals Society recog d its Foster's Lager; Lawrence Flynn of B.C. Hydro; Mark Rutherglen of corporate sponsors at the Selkirk Vintners win: appreciation BCAA Travel in Nelson representing Qantas Airlines, and Ald. Bob spoons or gold plates. They included (from left) Terry Desmond of NDP’s Sihota rapped VANCOUVER (CP) — The NDP’s judicial affairs critic is responsible for “an alarming number of factual inaccuracies” about regulation of the Vancouver Stock Exchange, says the B.C. Superintendent of Brokers. Neil de Gelder, in an open letter to New Democrat Moe Sihota, said vir- tually all the matters raised in the legislature by Sihota have come to the attention of the B.C. Securities Commission. Sihota, who represents Esquimalt- Port Renfrew, has committed “an alarming number of factual inaccur- acies and allegations which are un- supported by any evidence availa- ble,” he said. In recent weeks, Sihota has lev- elled accusations of regulatory in- competence against the provincial government and the Vancouve Stock Exchange, both inside and outside the legislature. Most of his comments have been prompted by a B.C. Supreme Court civil suit filed by a Texas-based mu- tual fund, which he used as a spring. board to call for a legislative inquiry into regulation of the exchange. United Services Funds of San Antonio was awarded $16 million in damages in a ruling May 17 against stock promoters Edward Carter and David Ward. Evidence during a 21-day trial showed Ward and Carter paid $1.4 million in secret commisisons to Carl Lazell, manager of one of United Service's mutual funds, to buy $27 million in Carter-Ward companies listed on the V: BRONZE PATRONS. . . Bronze patron awards for donations of goods or services in excess of $250 went to (from left) Michael Heard of Sandman Inn, Serge Plotnikoff of CKQR Radio, Erica Selent of Pharmasave and Carol Magaw of the Kootenay MacBain of the City of Castlegar. Missing is Celgar Pulp Co. Festivals Society director Jim Ferrier (right) made the presentations. CosNews Photo Broadcasting System. Missing are Air BC, Colour-” mix Advertising and Scottie’s Marina. Silver patrons, who donated more than $500, included BCAA Travel, Canada Safeway, Esso (Brilliant) and Hi Arrow Arms Motor Hotel. CosNews Photo B.C. firm makes replica Porsches VANCOUVER (CP) — In nearly 30 years of building cars, Frank Reisner has operated on his own terms. “T've learned you have to survive,” says Reisner. “But I don’t like to sell myelf.” The cost of doing it his way is written on Reisner's face and in his bank book. Our Business Is t JOIN US & TRAVEL IN TO: Calgary Stampede — July 7-10 Tour includes: All transportation; Accommodation; Grandstand Heritage Park tour and More! show & Chuckwagon races; Rodeo, orm LOY Nashville — August 13-28 Tour includes: Best show tickets to the Grand Ole Oprey August 19; Salt Lake City; Tour of Elvis Presley's home, Graceland and More! Evita’ — July 4 The Eva Peron Story — An Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical. Tour includes: | nts. accommodation at the Sheraton. Best show tickets for ‘Evita’ 8:00 p.m. show. Dinner buttet at the Sheraton Cat’s Broadway Musical — Aug. 13 I nts. accommodation at the Sheraton, Best show tickets for the Kort 's 8:00 p.m. show. ‘Dinner Buttet at the Sherat: FORM wt pi 368-559 Inter International Ltd. produces four replica Porsche convertibles each month from a little factory on Vancouver's eastern outskirts. It has an eight-month backlog of orders for the $24,000 cars, but Reisner isn't flush. Turning out good, plastic-bodied imitations of the famous old Porsche 356 is a long way from being one of Europe's better known sports car builders of the 1960s. The Hungarian-born, Canadian-bred Reisner went from a' million-dollar car-making operation in Turin, Italy, to being broke and stranded in California. There, his Fiberglas knockoffs of the famous Porsche Speedster helped turn replicas into socially acceptable transportation. BUILDS CARS For the last six years Reisner, 56, has been back in Canada building another Porsche replica he dubbed the Roadster RS. It has kept food on the table but he nurtures the dream of creating one more original sports car. In a corner of his “showroom” the steel body of Reisner’s last design — the Indra — clad only in white primer paint, waits like a ghostly skeleton. The heady smell of glass-fibre epoxy fills Reisner's small office, a few steps from the bay where his son, Henry, final of three di 's. His wife, Paula, fields calls in the next room. Reisner is a big man, more than six feet tall, who has, in automotive terms, a low centre of gravity. With his snowy beard and safari shirt he could pass for Ernest Hemingway — ignoring the mid-European accent. Reisner grew up in Montreal but took engineering at the University of Michigan in Detroit. Instead of disappearing into Motor City’s automaking machinery, he and Pauia toured Europe. They settled in Turin in 1959 and, using $5,000 in seed money, set up shop and made performance equipment for sports cars. FEW PRODUCED It was the heyday of Europe's specialty car builders, who produced at most a few hundred copies of one model. Some designed all the components but more ofteh they used engines and other equipment from ae manufacturers and wrapped them in exotic bodies. Intermeccanica Automobili built its first car . 1960. The Imp was a two-seater coupe powered b; two-cylinder engine. Only 21 were built but Reisner says a racing version still holds the class record at West Germany's Nurburgring race track. The V8-powered Apollo GT was more successful, selling about 100 copies between 1961 and 1965. But Reisner was still operating hand to mouth. “These things are always done on ambition, but we didn’t have any strong backers,” he says. “You had to quickly sell one car to build the next one.” Reisner’s best-known car was the Italia, a ight (1,100 kik V8-p t that sold 700 copies and led to the project that nearly ruined him. ATTRACTED GM The Italia’s popularity attracted General Motors’ West German subsidiary Opel, which wanted Intermec- canica to build a sports car based on Opel's top-line Diplomat sedan. Reisner produced a prototype in less than a year and the car, christened the Indra, was a hit at the 1970 Geneva auto show. “It was top of the heap,” Reisner remembers. But the deal turned sour. The people crowding around the Indra show car at Geneva,many clutching chequebooks, convinced Opel it had seriously under- estimated the car's potential. It wanted to move production to a larger German plant. When Reisner balked, Opel cut off the supply of parts. Production stopped after about 125 cars. Later, Opel introduced its own version of the car in co-operation with Eich Bitter, who was Intermeccani- ca’s West German distributor and had midwifed the original project. The same car is sold today under Bitter's name. SUIT DIED Reisner tried to sue General Motors for breaking its agreement but the case dragged on until 1980 before finally petering out. A white knight appeared in the form of a California government agency that offered .a grant if Reisner would produce the Indra on the West Coast. But by the time Reisner packed up his factory and his family, the agency’s funding dried up. When they reached California, he says, “I had $800 in my pocket.” However, Reisner soon tied up with io businessmen and developed his first plastic «: replica of the 1950s Speedster. The company sold 200 cars over three years before the partnership broke up in 1979. Reisner sold his share of the Speedster business to his ex-partner, who still produces the car in Florida. After a couple of other abortive projects, he developed another version — the Roadster RS — and has sold about 140 of them since moving back to Canada in 1982. Why did he return to this country? "I'm Canadian,” says Reisner. “I have three children and they've never seen Canada.” June 68,1988 + The Kalispel College Choir of Montana visited York. The Castlegar recently. to assist the Castlegar Doukhobor Youth Choi raising funds for their singing tour to the United Nations in New Ukrainians celebrate PP ber shied (CP) — Ukrainian “It is the Ukrainians who are are i 1,000 of Vladimir,” said Da- years of Christianity in their home- land this year despite attempts by the Soviet Union to claim it for their own, says a Ukrainian Catholic bishop. “There weren't even any Chris- tians in Russia 1,000 years ago,” Bishop Myron Daciuk said. The Soviet Union is promoting the millennium as a celebration for all Soviet people and have even re- turned a restored Moscow monastery to the church as a sign of good will “In a way, it is a time of sadness because Ukrainians are not allowed to worship freely,” said Daciuk who wore a heavy ‘gold cross,on-a_thick ehain around his neck. “But it is also a time of joy because the Ukrainian people have not fal- tered during religious Persecution and have held onto their faith.” » Christianity was brought to Uk- fainé-in-AD 968-after_ruler King. Viadimire realized that his mostly- pagan nation required spiritual unity te prosper. He sent out emissaries to imvestigate the other major religions of the time. According to an 11th century Kie- van monk, the agents were put off by the self- ince of Judaism, hor- rified by m's prohibition of wine, and uninspired by the sombre cathe- drals bal Roman Catholicism. NATION The fosai recommended Greek Orthodoxy, and Vladimir baptized his nation. ciuk, speaking to reporters in a room adorned with two giant bronze busts of church dignitaries. “What have the Russians got to do with Kiev? It is a paradox.” The Ukrainians have accused the Soviets of being hypocrites. While they plan celebrations, the Soviets continue to refuse to allow Ukrain- ians to worship openly, said Rev. Maxim Hermaniuk, metropolitan of Canada. “They accept as a ‘fait accompli’ the enslavement of the Ukrainian people by the Russian Communist regime,” Hermaniuk said. “Now they boldly invite all other Christian churches to join them in the celebration of this millennium.” Celebrations have been going on in Canada and throughout the world since last year and will continue into the fall. Members of the Ukrainian Catholic—diocese-.in— Winnipeg - are~ commemorating the occasion this weekend with a reniewal of baptis- mal vows, a banquet, and a concert featuring the popular performer Luba. Daciuk admitted things have im- proved for Ijrainian Christians in the Soviet Union, but said there was still a long way to go. “The situation is quite a lot better, but though there are a few who are free, there are still many who are imprisoned. “There is a lot more that could be done — should be done.” Russian clergy criticize Stalin MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Ortho- ox clergy demanded Tuesday that ehurch leaders join widespread crit- feism in the Soviet Union of the late Soviet leader Josef Stalin. “It's. the, responsibility of the ehurch to announce which side it is on his personal life unless he repents. This.js true ofthe church, .too;” Yakunin and other clergy met with reporters on the second day of the Russian Orthodox..-Church’s local’ council on Zagorsk, northeast of. . Megson The council is at the centre of the faith’s 1,000th — ‘the side of pe (restruc- turing) or the side of Stalinism,” Father Gleb Yakunin said. “A person cannot be renewed in Service pl nai Soviet society is re-evaluating Stalin's role in history, and Soviets including Communist party leader Mikhail Gorbachev have sharply criticized purges launched by the late Soviet leader in which millions of people were killed or exiled. roup arrived at the Kootenay Doukhobor Historical in. Museum and were given a tour and orientation lecture. SHOWPLACE STAIN-RELEASE feature, attractive jute-backed cut Kalispel choir visits By JOHN CHARTERS The Castlegar Doukhobor Youth Choir played host recently to the Kalispel College Choir of Montana. Some 70 visitors, singers and staff, under the direction of conductor Don Goddard, were paying a return visit to the Castlegar choir to assist them in raising funds for their singing tour to the United Nations in New York. The group had stopped at Nelson and, accompanied by Youth Choir director Peter Samoyloff, arrived at the Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Museum in two tour buses. They were met by Pete Oglow and man. ager Christine Faminoff and given an orientation lecture and tour of the museum. That evening, at the Cultural Centre, the Youth Choir led by Paul Samsonoff and the college choir led by Don Goddard gave a rich, varied and well-received concert. ano Congoleum Carpeting and Resilient Flooring Knock Down High Carpet gar as Get Your Message Across Fast! CALL... Classified Ads 365-2212 Unita ‘VLAN WEST KOOTENAY FELLOWSHIP Second Sunday Monthly Student Union Building Nelson Sunday, June 12 lam, Rev. 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The Crown corporation bought ac- cess rights for its vehicles but didn't the road allowance. So Beattie — who purchased the land two ago’ is charging non-Hydro vehicles on his 600-metre stretch of the access road to the city Yakunin and others have demanded the hierarchy join in the criticism of Stalin. Yakunin and others releaged cop- ies of an appeal they.sent {to Patri- arch Pimen, the Russian odox Chureh leader, asking the church council condémn a 1949 letter the council sent to Stalin for his 70th birthday, “basically canonizing” the dictator. Several months ago, Yakunin called on the 77-year-old Pimen to resign to allow a younger, more energetic church leader to take ad- vantage of Gorbachev's reforms. Yakunin was barred from perform-” ing religious rites from 1966 until last year because of his criticism of church officials. 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