SS RAE LENT! CALE TE SET: SP nes 3 : aon A local contingent of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee is beginning to take shape. This West Coast organiza- tion has been dedicated to restoration and preservation of key pieces of wilderness for the sake of certain vanishing species and for long-term pos- terity. : Volunteers have spent thousands of hours under the auspices of WCWC making trails and interpretive signs so that ordinary people may dis- cover some of the remnants of a truly natural British Columbia. . WCWC: had been widely successful in the last-years, ex- periencing unforeseen growth and support. Our own people are questioning practices of temperate deforestation here in our backyard. Because most of the human population of B.C. resides in the lower mainland, WCWC is chiefly concerned with coastal issues. It is time to turn a growing focus to interior wild- land depletion. 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Vancouver prices were near the middle, coming in at $466,900. chain that won't _ be broken Jonathan Green NEWS REPORTER Though ducks might come to mind, Mallard’s Source For Sports is not for the birds. For eight years, Dale Donaldson has operated the ‘sporting goods store in the Castleaird Plaza after pulling up stakes in Nelson. ; He came to the city to explore what be believed was an untapped market. “We felt there wasn’t the amount of competition in Castlegar,” he said. “We felt we could do well here and we have.” At the ripe old age of 22, Donaldson and a partner set up shop in Castlegar in 1984. They opehed a second store in Nelson two years later with a third location in Trail starting up in 1989. ‘There are clothes that will sell here and not in Nelson and vice- versa. There are different demands in each market, different tastes.’ — Dale Donaldson “We are one of the largest sporting goods companies outside the Lower Mainland,” he said. Donaldson credits a lot of the success they’ve had to the people who work for them. “We have very good, knowledgeable, skilled people working for us,” he said. “They’re a major component of our business.” Donaldson says the three stores are part of a nation-wide group of dealer owned sporting goods stores numbering 190. Because of this, he says it allows Mallard’s to compete with other sporting goods stores. “Our buying group enables us to be pretty competitive with everybody,” he said. With three stores inside a 75 kilometre radius, ‘you would think that what sells in Castlegar will sell equally well in Trail or Nelson. On the contrary says Donaldson. “There are clothes that will sell here and not in Nelson‘and vice-versa” he said. “There are different demands in each market, different tastes. “The three towns are very distinct markets.” So with that in mind, Donaldson says each store is stocked to accommodate the shoppers in that area, using the people in Castlegar as an example. “They’re not apt to get in their cars and drive for half-an-hour (to one of the other - Mallard’s is one. With stores in Castlegar, Nelson and Trail, Dale Donaldson has a wheelie good thing going. For year-round exercise, West Kootenay athletes can find it at Mallard's Source For Sports. News photo by Jonathan Green stores),” he said. While the Castlegar store may sell more bikes and less clothing than Nelson, Donaldson said all three stores are pretty similar in design and stock. “They’re fairly even,” he said. “There isn’t a gross discrepancy in any one area.” The West Kootenay is home to a climate which allows for year-round outdoor recreation, and Donaldson says. this generates consistent business through all season, “It’s only two or three weeks you can really call slow time,” he said, offering the end of summer-as his quiet time. “I don’t believe a business should have three months of the year when it’s dead.” With more people discovering the benefits of exercise and better eating habits, Donaldson says it has had an affect on annual sales. “Our business has increased every year,” he said. “People are definitely more health conscious.” But health consciousness and increased sales aside, Donaldson says that he, and other local businesses, are lucky to be in a place that has a Celgar. © “We’re very fortunate to have heavy industry- here, a lot of well paying union jobs,” he said, adding that the backbone of this community is union workers. And it’s the community where business has a role to play. “IT think it’s important for business to be involved in the community,” Donaldson said. “In a small, tight-knit community, business has a responsibility.” Through support of local and school sports, Mallard’s lives up to that responsibility. Arid with sales increasing every year, you could say that things are just ducky at Mallard’s.