News September 12. 1990

ee LIFESTYLES

Air inflates cost of high-top sneakers.

By TOM SPEARS Onews Chien

OTTAWA (CP) — They walk on air, expensive air,

Little bubbles of it encased im soft plastic and squished imto the heel of a renmang shoe.

We're talking about $110 sucakers for children, and for high school boys who wear men’s sizes, up to $199 for Reebok"s hot-sciling Pump, a vision un heather and polyurethane

Without air, a sucaker’s jaw a sncaker, a piece of canvas and rubber for $39.95 mo kid wants to be caught dead im.

But amr puts the wearer’s feet im the aratosphere_

Ai Jordan. Airurcam Ai Bo

If you're 15 years old and you can pick your own clothes, you pick shoes with an.

If mot, you do a serious job om your

all other shoes im the store burt

Where do they hurt? parents may ask, besides im the wallet.

They just hurt. All of them. Except the Jordans.

Salespeople like Diame Reed and Josh Engel see it five or 10 times a day

Kid’s eyes take om this fined. nothing-can-stop-me-now look. He walks straight to the display, reaches ow, grabs an Ax Jordan. starts squeezing the heel as hard as he cam to feei mt spring back

That"s when paremt sees the price — $109.98 — and the serious negotiating Starts.

“Some kids even cry.” says Reed, a university student. “‘It's the mew fad_ You have to wear Nike Airs to go to school_""

Nike developed the lntle ar bubbles and grabbed the mame Air as a trademark, with a capital A_ Its shoes for adults have two am imserts, fromt and back, but children’s sizes have air only under the hee! and a intle of the imuep.

“They decide before they put it om that m feels better,” says Engel, a gh school student who works part-tme at the store.

“They put om the shoe and even before they stand up they say. “Yeah.

Stores plan to recycle

VANCOUVER (CP) — Over- waitea and Save-On-Foods stores plan to recycie almost all their waste by next year

““We will be able to recover 90

Stores” environmental-concerms manager

Kimsey predicts at least 1.090 tonnes of waste will be diverte? from provincial ‘andfills eve-y month, once the program is im full swing.

While competitors have similar programs, Kimsey said this is the

most comprehensive” among leading Canadian retaillers

The company has hired a dozen im-store recycling clerks to oversee Proper separation of garbage for recycimg. All staff must separate recyclable materials including paper, cardboard, plastic. glass. aluminum, metals and wood.

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People can’t be wrong!

Let's get on with the Celgor Modernization!

\ can fecd the ae”

“Semme parcets give mm because they mow the bids aren’! goung io wear the shoes if they dow’t get the kind they

Haoris Fister of Pickering, Que... jane cou of Mewopolitan Torounm, who Came ime the woe lent werk om ap- dane thew dhow wamdinoies,

Hanis, 14, cihocks soune Nike Airs, wed Ghey Ged ofl vight, Bee sie they're only the cheaper kid (a0 999.29) dey dow't hee the lente wie Gow on the side of thee teel than lens

wow actualy yer the aor mute

He deem bey them “1 Ske wo Beaver otter theta trainin om cike sade hee exphnns.

Ain’s mo good if it’s imvinitte, you se.

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abowt thomas is heed am how Others ser them “hee mend it's peer gece” There's mintong ron

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Almost im pawing, Rous men thomed sie had $1 billion to spend amd ight others B.C. igvesiments om the =.

Bat for af ber weakth and power, ‘see empoys sampbe picasares.

“E play a lot of sports, expecially teams and swimmening.” sie said. “I lowe horseback riding, and I try te jog

She appeared taken aback by references to herself as ome of the wortd’s 10 most chgsbie women. “When I read it im the paper, it really surprised me,” she said_ Roxas seemed more comfortable with talk of billion-dollar budgets tham of boyfriends. Asked if she’s regularty flooded by offers of marriage, she replied briskly: “Next question, please.” 7

Piecet im four languages and a

Handed the $10-billion empire in her late 20s, Roxas is clearly bullish om the Pacific Rim and her new Canadian headquarters.

“This is really a beautiful city, safe and reallly lovely,”” she said. ““Canada has excelled im the attraction of foreign capital, especially the im- pressive growth of investment in Bc”

And she feels Western Canada is poised to cash im on Pacific Rim cx pansion.

“The centre of the world’s economy will undoubtedly be the Asia Pacific region. Canada will be an ex-

Deal in works since last spring

RICHMOND (CP) — Protest rallies at Fantasy Garden World led Premicr Bill Vander Zaim to convince wife Lillian to sell the theme park

“All of a sudden there were protests and theve were demon- Strations,"” Vander Zalm said

“About « year or a year and a

Only 46 per com of the BC respondents waned a ban om old grown logpng

Joe Foy, 2 director of the Western

By ANNE MULLENS

greenhouse oil prices from the Persian Gulf con- flict, geothermal scientists say

The environmentaily friendly resource — which uses magma-heated water to warm people’s houses or drive a turbine to create electric power — may be the one bonus for people living im an carthquake zone, scien- tists say

“*Here on the West Coast, we are especially blessed to be located on one of the geologically hottest. zones of Ghomshei, chairman of the Canadian

Interest in geothermal energy on rise

The idea of tapping that heat sour- ce is not mew. The ancient Romans. among others, treasured naturally oc- curring hot springs, which they used to heat baths and spas. And at the

By the 1930s. New Zealand scien tists began to imvestigate ways to use their geological hot spots\sn the Not- th Island. By 1958, the country’s firs:

**Camada is reaily lagging behind.” said Alan Jessop, research scientist at Calgary’s Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology. a division of the Geological Survey of Canada

Canada’s relatively cheap supply of oil and gas has removed the im

timues and oil prices continue to rise. then energy will become

Geothermal Energy A After a seven-year hiatus, the BC. government has announced that Fair- bank Engineering Lid. has bid on oe of two Crown geothermal exploration permits on land near Terrace.

B.C. Hydro, too, after abandoning

development im the carly

1980s, announced this summer it is in-

terested in buying geothermal power

from private companies willing to develop it

economically, a much more attractive ahernative.""

‘Ghomshei cited three elements required to get power from the carth “You need the heat to be there. you need a fracture im the earth or pe?’ meability in the rock and you need water, to go through the fracture or Permeable rock to get the heat and bring it to the surface.”

Relatively low temperatures. below 80 C, cam be used locally to heat

The regions where

thquakes can.also create perfect con- ditions for tapping energy below the earth's crust

Ghomshei said anyone who has worked underground knows the ground temperature increases rapidly

and swim ming pools or to warm soil for agriculture. High temperatures above 160 C. can be used to drive 2 steam turbine to create electric power

When it’s time to drill, weils are sunk to a depth of 2,000 metres or more, at a cost of almost $5 million 2

with depth

Indian grievances rooted in history

By MARK BASTIEN ‘The Camadian Pres Who are Camada’s indians and what do they want? ir the past few mouths they" ve gome to the barricades im imcreasing sumbers oc demand land claims be settled. exif

be

be discussed and dre housing 2nd exemployment com dinous be remedsed

While recent polls suggest most Camadians support mative rights, many people arce’t sere what the term means — or who it affects.

Here, then. is a brief primer om the country’s In- hans

Of Canada’s three mative groups — the Metis and faut ave the other reo — the comtry’s Indians are the largest. with 2 population of about 550.000, or about reo per cent of the coumery’s total.

Last year, there were 466.337 “states” Indians registered with the federal indian Affairs Department. ‘The term means the indians qualify 2s sech under the In-

ANALYSIS

The largest band is a2 Sm Nations group of about 14,900 who ve near Brantford, Out

others relied om fishing or farming for food.

Algonquin is by far the most prevaient language family, with versions of it spoken by about two-thirds of afi Canadian Indians — imcioding central Canada’s Ojib- was, the Pramies’ Crees and the Micmacs im the Maritimes.

lroquots languages are spoken by such groups as the Sm Nations Indians. among them the Mohawks and Oucsdas.

Mamy of the morthern Indians speak Athapaskan

Gan Act and can woke of ona reserved for them: — such as tax breaks and special bun tang and fishing nights Unell five years ago, Indias women eho married soe indians were snpped of them satire states. (Camade bas 596 cegimered Indien bands on 2.254 reserves — areas set aside specifically for natives and fen- ded by govcrament.

while those = Britsh Columbia speak lamguages from several families — the most common being Salishan_

‘The most celebrated bssorkal animosity among In-

Now, Indian groups are for the most part united in them amumosity toward the federal government

Official government policy toward the Indians stems from the Royal Proclamation of 1763 made by the British after their defeat of the French in the Seven Years’ War. As weil as prohibiting anyone other than the government from making treaties with the Indians, it also preserved Inchan bunting grounds.

From this came the idea of aboriginal rights — the main topic of discussion between the federal government and Indians today

In the late 19h century, Ottawa began a fevered drive to sign treaties that took away many land, hunting and other rights from the country’s Indians. The gover- ment also settled Indians on reserves.

Today, Canada’s Indian bands have more than 1,000 specific claims against the government, charging it hasn't lived up to treaties. There are also about 5S multi-million- dollar comprehensive land claims by groups that never signed treaties.

George Erasmus, national chief of the Assembly of Fisst Nations — the country’s largest native group — says Ongwa's failure to speedily resolve the claims is the main cause of current Indian unrest

‘The crisis has also been fuciied by the dire soci cconasis chillies bndlans ved in tor decade, Guughe the $5 billion federal and provincial governments spend

on them each year and the special benefits the under Canadian law

For example, Indians do not pay income tax Thes also have special hunting and fishing rights. plus gu2 for education, housing and other grants

But statistics from both government and nats. ces indicate the country’s Indians still live in unc conditions.

Unemployment among Indians ranges from about ¥ to 90 per cent, depending on the community or they live im. The average Indian this year will make 99.300, about half what the average non-Indian »:ill carn

On some reserves. as many as half of the houses lack heating or indoor plumbing.

Disease rates, infant mortality, suicides and rates of

Indian leaders say the only way to improve the ap palling conditions oftheir people is for them to govern themseives. Public opinion surveys suggest more than half of Canadians believe native people should be allowed to Tun their own affairs.

Now, the Constitution only generally guarantees poriai .

Native groups have vowed to continuc thei protests agains: the federal government until a swifter land claims Process is introduced and meaningful talks acre schcuuled On then constitutional rights.