CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 31, 1983 Vallican benefit Sunday It's time again for the annual Vallican Whole Com? munity Centre benefit in the Slocan Valley. This year's fundraiser is set for Sunday, Sept. 4, and all proceeds go to the operation of the com- munity centre. , The event, which starts at 2p.m., features kids’ games, good food, singing and danc- ing. Entertainment includes Joe Irving, Nadia and Tanya, the Images Ad Hoc Singers, Kim and Mike, The Anteater Theatre, square dancing, auc- tions, and an evening boogie with The 88s. Visitors to the community hall will notice several major changes in the building, in- cluding finished beams span- ning the enormous roof, anda |, finished kitchen, complete with a sunburst pattern built p_from cedar. _ Attention Men & Boys! For All Seasons s is Bonnett’ simon Weer 233Columbia 365-6761 Li Remember 10% OFF for Cash & NEW IN TOWN? LET US PUT OUT THE MAT FOR YOU! . aia, 4 SAVINGS ARE GREAT! LLLLLLLLL4 Get a FREE PAIR of POWER SPORT SOCKS (Reg. $3.98) With the purchase of any Pair of RUNNERS BEST-EVER SELECTION Adidas, Power, Polaris and New Balance Available now at PeDores Offer Effective to Sept. 3, 1983 i IDYLLIC SCENE Provincial Park Is evident in this photograph. Park Quiet beauty of Champion Lakes Answer to Stinday, Cryptoquip: “FANATICAL _ FIS! FRIENDS§; ‘I'M. 10 MONTHS = INTEREST FREE! On Purchase of Chesterfield Suites — Dining Room Suites Dinettes —- Bedroom Suites — Sofa Sleepers SHERMAN TO FLOCK I'M HOOKED. Saal OHA Sleep Units (Mattress/Boxspring Sets) Living Room Table Groups — Recliners Wall Units — Swivel Rockers On Approved Credit Only — Put 25% Down — Make 12 Monthly Payments PARKS. PROGRAM | - WINDS BOWN By NANCIE DOHAN Park Interpreter. This is the last week of the interpretation program at Champion Lakes Park. This has been a successful season thanks to all local residents and visitors in the area who participated in the two-month interpretation program. This Saturday at Champion Lakes leaving at 10 a.m. from the campground information board is guided walk of all the “incredible edibles” in the park. 3 e ‘The excellent 20-minute film, “Come Into My Parlour” will be shown at the amphitheatre at 8 p.m. Saturday evening. This film focuses on spiders and their fascinating lives — a must to see for anyone with a “Miss Muffet” phobia. During Sunday's children event at 2:30 p.m. the park interpreter will be doing nature crafts with children. Leaf prints and collages may be taken home. Meet at the camp- ground information board. Everyone is invited to join in an “owl prowl” on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the amphitheatre. Success rate has been high in viewing the large. Barred Ow! only a few feet away 80 a flashlight and your camera. : Monday at 9 a.m. is the final “Bird” walk. There is still the possibility of seeing the resident pair of osprey as the walk takes visitors to their large nest on third Champion Lakes. At the emphitheatre at 7 p.m. on Monday evening the park interpreter will be discussing fall and winter activities available within the parks system in B.C., with a particular focus on West Kootenay Region parks. This is a chance for everyone to discover the world of winter and the pos- _ sibilities for outdoor recreation for their family. Champion Lakes Provincial Park will remain open to. campers and day-users until the third week in September at by Dione Strandberg: IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE Quebec tourism do MONTREAL (CP) — Que- becers are hitting the beach- es of Maine again, but Amer- icans it seems ate finding Quebec too dear. Favorable or unfavorable exchange rates notwith- standing, the one-way tourist flow may have more to do with the price of Yankee gas- oline and the U.S. rate of inflation: A Quebecer can go farther for less in the United States. aan 4 Maine has always been a traditional vacation spot for year they've returned in their more ‘usual high num- bers. Figures compiled by Stat- ‘istics Canada show that trips by Quebecers to the U.S. in the first six months of this year increased by 12 per cent over the same period in 1982, following an overall drop last year of 11 per cent. A further indicator comes from a U.S. tourist office in Montreal which says re- quests for information about places along the Eastern sea- board were up 52 per cent in May, June and July, com- pared with a drop of 40. per cent in the same period last year. And an on-the-spot assess- ment from Bill Frazier, city manager in Ogunuit, Me., who says the present sum- mer season has been the best ever, and Quebecers are the reason for it. Some tourist industry spokesmen attribute the im- provement to a lower rate of inflation in the U.S. with the result. that the real cost ‘of travel in the U.S. is down by 6.5 per cent this year. * Pierre Payette, who repre- sents Cape May County in New Jersey, notes still an- other factor: the increase in the maximum value of goods that a Canadian can carry back duty free ‘from the ends or longer holidays, and French is the summertime, lingua franca on the beaches there. For day trips, Lake Champlain is within easier striking distance — the New York side or Vermont. which time the water system will be shut down. ment of Commerce: shows that, in terms of sheer tum- bers rather than length of stay or money spent, New York State is the prime tar- get for Quebecers on pleas- ure trips — mostly Lake Champlain, or New York City for longer jaunts. Then comes Vermont, followed by Florida for winter vacation- ers and Maine for the boiled lobster look in‘the summer. Americans, on the other hand, don’t seem to find Que- bec as appealing. Trips by Americans into Quebec int the first half of thie yean dropped by one-half of one per cent — not much perhaps. But the Hotel Asso- ciation of Greater Montreal notes that the occupancy rate has fallen this year to 61 per cent from 76 per cent in 1962. stays, compared with 269,000 in the same month last year. Montreal tourism commis. sioner Pierre Labrie calls the season dismal 90 far, but he has brighter hopes for Sep- tember and October. Michel Archambault, dep- uty minister of is Admin- also counting on better luck istration of the U.S. Depart- in September. Crafts directory planned VICTORIA — A new direc- tory of the artisans and crafts that comprise the B.C. crafts industry is to be produced under the sponsorship of the Canada-British Columbia Tra Industry Develop- ment Subsidiary Agreement “{TIDSA). The directory will improve public awareness of British Columbia's artisans and their products which are emerging as a major element of the tourism industry. The directory will be com- piled by the Craftsmen's =< Association of B.C. and will provide a catalogue of ar- tisans, crafts, manufacturers, wholesalers and others in the growing B.C. crafts industry, plus’an inventory of infor- mation on the quality and quantity of B.C. products available for crafts produc- tion. One of the key issues to be examined by the authors will be the potential for replacing ‘imported materials used in B.C.-produced crafts with domestic materials. The Association believes that using British Columbia desirable in an expanding B.C. tourist market. Research conducted under TIDSA is cost-shared equally by the federal Department of Industry, Trade and Com- merce and Regional Econom- ie Expansion and by the B.C. Ministry of Industry and Small Business Develop- ment, i oe GINA LGaHD. ‘ sBuinns spBajysn I, | iH SUO]SIBAUCD eundosg. 42, i ili PAH Hi mt i i f i ' a is i Hae as di il | es #8 i ul Hi 2% | i 4) i : i i i ) i 10, hl al BEER ! ij zl if Hy He i I i if ig rf He i ih! 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