@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "27bab48a-c88e-4742-847f-89887f80c257"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:alternative "[Coast News]"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "BC Historical Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:issued "2012-07-25"@en, "1976-02-03"@en ; dcterms:description "Serving the Sunshine Coast since 1945"@en, ""@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xcoastnews/items/1.0171747/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note " Provincial Library, Victoria, B. C. Published at Gibsons, B.C. Volume 29, Number 5 Februarys 1976. 15c per copy LAST WEEK'S WEATHER Low High Preclp. January 24 OC 7C nil January 25 IC 6C nil January 26 IC 6C 17.5 mm January 27 4C 11C 0.5 mm. January'28 4C 11C 7.9 mm. January 29 6C 8C 2,0 mm. January 30 4C 9C nil January 31 OC 7C nil Week's rainfall 27.9 mm. Jan. 170.4 mm. January average 187.2 mm. Daytime high, 1 IC Jan. 27; Overnight low, ���3C January 20. Board wants Island Trust to remain The Sunshine Coast Regional Board has come out in favor of the Islands Trust after five Regional Districts on the coast have indicated they would like to see the trust abolished. Regional Board Chairman John McNevin told the board last week that any attempt to destroy the Islands Trust because of some administrative problems would be a disaster for the entire coast.' The Islands Trust was. established in 1974 to govern the Gulf Islands in Georgia Strait and the islands in and around Howe Sound. One of the prime objectives of the trust is to establish a community plan for each of the islands. McNevin said he attended a meeting in Victoria recently and at that meeting, Jim Campbell, Chairman of the Capital Regional District Board, suggested that the trust be abolished. McNevin said only two regional districts voted against the suggestion. McNevin admitted there were some problems with the Island Trust but he said that this Regional District still believed in the basic principle of the trust which is to preserve and protect the islands. McNevin recommends that the Islands Trust remain in tact until such time as a community plan has been developed for the islands. , In a brief to the Minister of Municipal Affairs, the board points out that it supports the concept of the existence to a separate body charged with the pro- * tection of the islands. \"Although this function is within the powers of the local governments concerned, it is .recognized that the pressures on these local governments may become so great that they cannot adequately perform the function. A separate body is better equipped to maintain the breadth of vision necessary to protect the islands in the long run.\" the brief states. Noting that amendments to the Islands Trust Act may be under consideration, the regional board has suggested several changes: 1. Because of the small size of some islands and. the voting'populations concerned, and the common interests of neighboring islands in some cases, the act should make it possible to designate a group of islands instead of only a single island for election of local trustees. 2. The Regional District Director having a seat on the Trust Dog pound expensive but.. Making the annual rounds to local council and board room offices, the problem of stray dogs was once again a matter of concern at last week's regional board meeting. ' ... . The discussion was initiated by a letter from ' Sechelt council asking for meetings to be set up with local governments to try. and alleviate the problem of stray dogs once and for all. Director Peter Hoemberg said some research into the matter revealed that hiring a dog catcher and establishing a pound would run into a considerable amount of expense. He said he would be hesitant to commit the taxpayer to that expense. There was also some concern over what standards the Regional District would have to meet in the construction of a pound. Direc- Buildings increase The year end building inspector's report for the Sunshine Coast Regional District shows that there were 37 more permits issued over last year, with an increased value of $3,741,300. This condition can be attributed to the rise in permit fees and the increasing number of larger, more costly homes being built in the area. Chief Building Inspector H. Morris-Reade reports. The total number of permits issued in 1975 was 704 with a building value of $12,850,500. During 1974, 667 permits were issued at a value just over $9 million. The building inspector also reports that the building department will be strengthened with the hiring of a new inspector. Robert Bull will join the department on Feb. 10 to take on the duties of an Assistant Plumbing and Building Inspector. Mr. Bull is a journeyman plumber with two years' experience inspecting dwellings for the City of Langley. tor Hoemberg said some municipalities that already have a dog pound are managing without standards. He questioned, what the standards would be and who would set them. Asked this question later. Bill Walkey of Walkey Kennels in Roberts Creek, said there were no established standards. He said the SPCA does have its own standards but the society does not have regulatory powers. At Thursday's board meeting, Director Morgan Thompson suggested the possibility of contracting a private kennel owner to take care of the stray dog.problem. This option will be discussed at a future meeting with Sechelt and Gibsons councils. In the meantime Conservation Officer Pat Mulligan said a lot of stray dogs had been, shot recently. He said he knew of four people shooting dogs in a 24 hour period after the dogs had been spotted chasing deer. Mulligan said it was legal for residents to shoot the dogs as long as they were on their own property. Officials cannot shoot the dogs unless they actually see the dogs chasing the deer. Mulligan also said there was a .pack of stray dogs around the Wilson Creek area but those dogs. have not been seen for three or four months. He felt that some of these dogs may have been attacked by cougars. Commenting on the fact that some of the dogs are diseased, Mulligan said eventually the Sunshine Coast will have to establish a method of dog control. He said the problem was especially bad in Roberts Creek where the dogs follow children to school and then spend all day chasing deer. Mulligan said it just takes one dog to start chasing a deer and the rest follow. should be accorded full voting powers, to balance the interests of local'and general trustees and to adequately represent local governmental views on issues under discussion. 3. The stated object of the Trust should be amended to read \"to assist the Minister of Municipal Affairs to preserve and protect...\". 4. The right to vote in elections for local trustees should not be given to non-resident property owners, as this can lead to violations of the principle of one per- . son ��� one vote at each level of government, and would significantly dilute truly local representation in the trust. 5. The Trust should be involved with approving development bylaws (land use, -subdivision or land use contract) and building permits only where the area concerned is not covered by an Official Community Plan. Approval of the trust should be required for the adoption of such an Official Community Plan, but following this, the Trust should,, only monitor development bylaws for compliance with the plan and advise the minister accordingly. Substantial amendment to section 6 of the Act is required to accomplish this change. 6. The Trust should retain the power to make regulations, to give it the necessary flexibility to respond to changing conditions. In other words, section 11 of the act should be retained. 7. Consideration should be given to expanding the Trust area, to include in particular the remaining, islands in the Sunshine, Coast Regional District, ..* - Diplomas for Elphie students Another school semester has ended at Elphinstone Secondary last week and with it ended an important phase in life for 32 graduates. At press time results of final exams were not yet all tabulated so the graduation list is still to be considered as somewhat tentative. However, according to the Elphinstone administration office, the following people will be receiving their high school diplomas: Dale Benner, Diane Bertoncini, Dawn Brignall, Wayne Campbell, Brenda Derby, Brian Evans, Elaine Gant, Bob Gillmore, Mark Grey, Gwenda Havies, Bernie Hoefsloot, Scott Jackson, Rick Jacobsen, Becky Jones, Susan Lawson, Rene Lizee, Hugh Lynn, Bruce Markwart, Isabelle Martinez, Bill Nygren, Howard Paull, Jim Peers, Rod Powell, Trevor Quarry, Carol Quinn, Brenda Rottluff, Charlene Rudolph, Tammy Schmidt, Steve Sleep, Darcy Tait, Anna Weyburg and John Wilson. Graduation ceremonies will held next June. be Rid Gambier of derelicts Island residents are t6 get rid of dere- Gambier still trying lictcars. ��� In a letter to the Sunshine Coast Regional Board, the Gam- Water inadequate Both the Hopkins and the Granthams Landing areas do not have an adequate water supply for major fire fighting purposes, according to a report by Fire Chief Dick Ranniger. Ranniger stated in the year end report, issued recently to both the village of Gibsons and the Regional District, that fire hydrants should be installed because present standpipes will not supply an adequate amount of water to control a house fire of any magnitude. He said that the addition of a 50,000 gallon reservoir in Hopkins Landing will greatly improve the domestic .water supply in this area but it will not improve the supply for fire fighting; The fire chief said Granthams, Soames Point and Checkwelp have not substantially upgraded their water systems, and although the water supply for domestic use may be adequate, for fire fighting it is not adequate. bier Island Community Association asked for funds to remove the abandoned vehicles. The letter stated that people brought their old cars to the island and as soon as they would no longer run, the cars were abandoned. Residents complained of this problem last year and were at that time given $300 by the Regional District to get rid of the' eyesores. The board noted that the RCMP have the authority to tow away vehicles abandoned along the side of the road. It was also noted that an existing Regional District bylaw prohibits the storage of derelict vehicles on private properties. This does not apply to auto-wrecking establishments. The board will try to remove the derelict vehicles through the RCMP or by means of the bylaw. I ***** ONE LAST LOOK ISABELLE MARTINEZ is one of 32 students who last week said goodbye to Elphinstone Secondary School. Along with the others; Isabelle finished her semester and simultaneously finished her days as a high school student. Graduation ceremonies will take place in the spring. 'Model subdivision! unites village A land, development that members of Gibsons village.council \"have termed a '���''Model subalvl1- sion\" has been given preliminary approval. The subdivision, located between Shaw and Stewart Roads, is presently being surveyed and barring any major problems, the development will add an extra 87 prime residential building lots to the village. The development is a joint venture, between the village, which owns half of the 40 acres involved, and Eric Inglis, owner of the other 20 acres. Apart from the 87 lots, the development will contain an approximate 3lA acre park with tennis courts and picnic tables. A further 15 acres at the southern end will be kept as a greenbelt area. Forseeing the popularity of this subdivision, Gibsons Alderman Stu Metcalfe, head of the planning committee, has stressed that the area will be left as natural as possible and he feels the view of both the Strait of Georgia and Gibsons harbor will make this one of the village's choice residential areas. Metcalfe explained in an interview last week that the village entered into this venture for several reasons. He said it will improve the village's tax base and the sale of the land will provide revenue. It will also encourage development within the village where services such as water, and sewer are Hospital already available. Development outside the village boundaries still relies oii septic tanks/ . The land is described as a natural area for a sub-division because drainage is downhill into the harbor. The land is also adjacent to the village's sewage treatment plant which will make servicing relatively economical. Another important facet of this new sub-division, Metcalfe said, is that it will tie the upper and lower parts of the village together and also open tip the area on the east side of Shaw Road for subsequent development. A recent public hearing brought no objection to the subdivision proposal. Aid. Metcalfe said one resident did suggest that the village's entire 20 acres should be made into a park rather than a housing development. Metcalfe said, however, that the village is already having problems maintaining . present parks and an added park at this point would only incur more expenses tor the village. Presently, a preliminary survey of the property is taking place. There is no indication when excavation work will begin. Meanwhile, a 15 lot subdivision for Shaw Road has also been approved. A recent public hearing resulted in no objection to the re- zoning of the land, near the corner of Shaw and Davis Roads, fromR-4toR-2. << PLAN OF proposed subdivision between Shaw and Stewart Roads. The proposal is a joint venture between the village of Gibsons and Eric Inglis. budget St. Mary's Hospital received approval from the Sunshine Coast Regional Hospital Board for a budget requirement of $90,208. The hospital board, also the Regional Board, gave approval to the 1976 provisional budget Thursday night. Approval was also given by the board to carry $25,000 of this year's budget over to next year. Also included on the Vi mill funding budget are requests totalling $43,076 for equipment and renovations. Renovations are sharable between the hospital board and the provincial government on a 40-60 percent basis. The province pays the larger share. That leaves the hospital board to pay $ 1,720. For equipment, the hospital district pays 66 percent or $41,356 of the cost and the provincial government pays 33 percent. St. Mary's Hospital largest equipment expense is a new X-ray unit totalling $150,000. On this single item of equipment the regional district's share js only 25 percent with the provincial government paying the rest. Village water priorities named Gibsons council has established this year's priorities for the village water system. At last week's council meeting, Aid. Kurt Hoehne, head of the village's water committee, proposed that one of the priorities should be the installation of the pumping system on the Reed Road reservoir site. This project would also include clearing road allowance for a pipe across Reed , Road and the clearing of a right- of-way from the poweriine to the pumphouse site. The actual construction of the pumphouse would also take place at this stage. Council announced last year that the upgrading of the village's water system would involve the construction of a new two million gallon reservoir at the Reed Road area site. That reservoir is to be completed sometime this summer. Additional pumping equipment has been purchased which will increase the water pressure, especially in the upper Gibsons area. Another of this year's priorities as suggested by Hoehne in volves the clearing of the old reservoir which will be used for added fire protection and for general water supply back-up during the cleaning of the new reservoir. Tenders will be obtained for both these jobs. Other village water priorities involve the cleaning and enlarging of the water intake basin on Enge Creek, renewing the water supply line oil Headlands Road, and the laying of pipe for interconnection with the new well in Kinsmen Park and the distribution system to School Road. Aid; Hoehne also advised council that the laying of the new waterline along Reed Road was progressing with the public works crew experiencing some difficulty because of hardpan. He also' noted that a hose had been stolen from the new well site. Board committees completed Sunshine Coast Regional District Chairman John McNevin completed the appointment of regional directors to various committees last week. Preliminary appointments were announced two weeks ago but some of these have since changed; After a complete re-organization of the committee system, a re-organization Jhat McNevin says will make the board more effective, 7 McNevin has named Peter Hoemberg and Jim Metzler to the management committee which he himself heads as chairman. The finance committee, a sub-committee of the management committee will be headed by Jim Metzler. Chairman of the public utilities committee is Peter Hoemberg. The various sub-committees are cemetery, headed by Ed Johnson, waste disposal headed by Barry Pearson; water, headed by Peter. Hoemberg, and sewer (Continued on Page 7) Permit again refused A building permit for Construction Aggregates near Port Mellon has again been held up because the gravel company has failed to meet environmental standards. R. A. Crouter. manager of the Southern Operations Branch of Environment Canada informed Construction Aggregates recently that the proposed expansion of the hillside plant is not acceptable because of the effluent disposal into Thornborough Channel. Crouter said in his letter, discussed at the last Regional Board meeting that the marine areas adjacent ot the Hillside facility are valuable to local fisheries resources, both commercial and recreational. .-.-..- He said the large discharge of effluent would kill micro-organisms that fish feed on, and the increased surface iurbidhy would degrade the commercial and.recreational potential of the area, as well as form an objectionable aesthetic situation. \"I wish to advise that the Fisheries and Marine service must object to the discharge of effluent which would form bottom depos: its or create a surface turbidity plume in the area,\" Crouter states. He suggests that a wash.water recycling system be considered for the Hillside facility to avoid serious environmental conflict. 1 At last Thursday's Regional Board meeting in Sechelt,. the matter was discussed briefly-and '\"-' Director Peter Hoemberg recommended that the building permit for the Hillside expansion-be withheld until the matter is resolved. A planning committee recommended to the board earlier that Construction Aggregates be informed that settling ponds would be preferred but that \"Otherwise the ocean discharge is acceptable if Construction Aggregates can assure the board that effluent will not rise to the surface.\" The board rejected the planning committee's recommendation at last Thursday's meeting. Firearms V resolution passed* 'A resolution has been passed!' by the Sunshine Coast Regional Board asking the provincial Department of Municipal Affairs, for the function of firearms controls..' The resolution, passed unanimously at last Thursday's hoard; meeting, may give the board the authority to establish firearms regulations. Chairman John McNevin pointed out that this resolution does not necessarily mean the adoption of the proposed firearms bylaw, but that it will only give the board' power to do so if it wishes. ,\\ The proposed gun bylaw has already come under fire from: ar number of Sunshine Coast.resiv dents who feel it would be too- restrictive. The bylaw, if passed;; would restrict the discharge ofs- firearms in populated areas of:\"- the Sunshine Coast. ��� ; McNevin said that once the;: function had been granted,, it; will be up to the individual dk. rectbr to include or exclude hisv area. The resolution states that trj^Tj costs of the function would he- shared by participating member;, municipalities. No debt other; than temporary current borrow*, ing may be incurred for the func-i tion. Commenting on the proposed\" firearms bylaw. Director Morgan\": Thompson, representing the Village of Sechelt. said the villages' already have considerable control, over the use of guns and therefore may not feel the gun bylaw is' necessary. ' ��� '��� i ..��. Sunshine Coast News, February 3, 1976. Sunshine Coast Published at Gibsons, B.C. every Tuesday by Sechelt Peninsula News Ltd. Ronald B. Cruice, Publisher. Rob Dykstra, Editor. Subscription Rates: British Columbia $6.00 per year; $4.00 for six months. ���>'��� Canada except B.C. $8.00 per Year. ��� United States and Foreign $10.00 per Year. Old Age Pensioners $4.50 per year. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0794. Return Postage Guaranteed. Phone 886-2622 P.O. Box460, Gibsons, B.C. Can democracy survive? It is now estimated that fewer than ' fwo dozen democracies exist in the entire world. What, we must ask ourselves, are we doing wrong and how can democracy survive? Or should it? Perhaps we must .turn back to those basic principles of liberty and responsibility. The moral issue has ceased to be the dominant principle. Politicians fail to . realize that ethical judgments must be made when dealing with the ��� business community, not merely profit motives. Citizens respond better to moral issues than to government by expediency Western style democracy, based on the twin foundations of individual liberty \"and moral responsibility, often seems to be in a state of confusion when dealing with the economic, social and political crises of our day. And it seems in serious doubt of its mission when faced with the complexities of modern life. On the one hand the demands of special-interest groups in the realm of big business and big labor baffle our leaders and at the same time there is a tendency to deal with the individual and minorities in a high-handed and autocratic manner. Overseas we see Portugal fighting for even a vestige of democracy, much of the Third World in the grip of one-party or military rule, India denying the heritage of Ghandi while right-wing coups proliferate in Latin America. In Canada we pay lip service to the rule of law, universal suffrage and freedom of expression to back up the two basic principles of democracy yet too often the law is subverted for selfish interests and bent by moral laxity while citizens ignore their right and responsibility to vote or stand by while dominant interests manipulate our right to free communication. We suggest that it will not be the subversion of some dark outside power that will destroy democracy, as Khrushchev once predicted. Rather it will be the denial of those two principles ��� liberty and responsibility ��� that will strike at the very heart of a system that allows us to be free. Get on with the job Among the many problems bothering all elements of society, one of the most troublesome is that of housing. Probably more than any other, it is examined very subjectively. Lower income people looking for rental accommodation have one point of view. People in better income brackets looking for rental accommodation have,.a different view and a different problem asi.does the, prospective house, buyer.- The developer has a most complex set of problems. The owner of rental property has yet another view and another set of problems. Government at all levels have different viewpoints and different problems. The only thing that everybody agrees on is that housing is needed and that there should be an adequate supply. The trouble thus far has been that because of extremely subjective views of everyone interested in housing, a number of ideas and regulations have distorted the greatest regulator of all, supply and demand. . <, The federal government contributed by removing some tax advantages at one time available to the small entrepreneur. This successfully drove him out of the rental housing market. The provincial government instituted rent controls. This also effectively dampened the interest of suppliers of housing. Municipalities applied strictures and requirements which often successfully frustrated developers. The list is almost endless. What we fundamentally need is a lifting of the barriers which have dampened the en thusiasm of builders, developers and entrepreneurs to build rental housing. Even if that rental housing is high priced there, will still be a demand for it. But the general effect could be an increase in the supply of accommodation which, because of marketplace requirements, would have to be rented at lower rates. .Many people would like to.upgrade.,Ai. : \"their present housing. Were they.t6%ipyfer.^ ..,���,. the^u nits ihey.'previously, occupied ji^ay(^;^: become available. This is one ;area in which the improvement in our housing supply would become automatic. At the same time, new devices have to be found which permit the construction of more basic, less flossy housing for those who want and need adequate, comfortable shelter. This may include some relaxation of some of the current regulations, but if that market is there, and it certainly appears to be, then builders will build it and tenants will occupy it. The recent housing conference, held last fall, underlined the problems and isolated the various points of view. The next step is to agree on some new initiatives which permit the private building sector to make a more positive contribution than it is able to do today. The institution of those initiatives is largely in the hands of the three levels of government. Everyone wants to do something. Everyone wants something done. So let's get on with the job. Ultimately supply will prove to be the answer and the market place the regulator. ���Vancouver Board of Trade On marriage When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. ���George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) ^IMI I I I :iiiiiiiiiiiliil:il '���*���*���*���*���!.* f\" FIVE YEARS AGO The Regional District reports 855 users taking domestic water at a cost of $125,482 annually. Building reports for 1970 reveal 16 new homes for Gibsons and six for Sechelt, costing more than $400,000. Fraser River Piledriving Company will repair or alter sections of Gibsons government wharf at a cost of $71,566. 10 YEARS AGO Sechelt's council will continue sponsorship of the Recreation committee provided it will be responsible to council. Jim Drummond was installed as president of Gibsons Kiwanis club, succeeding William (Bill) Wright. MLA Tony Gargrave reports 20 miles of Sechelt Peninsula highway have been reconstructed and paved. 15 YEARS AGO Canadian Forest Products announces a $500,000 flash dryer plant for the Port Mellon Mill. January 1961 was moist with almost 11 inches of rain and snow on 18 days. Legislative members applauded Tony Gargrave's announcement Sechelt Indians had donated land for a hospital. 20 YEARS AGO A seven inch snowfall skirted Gibsons and extended to Selma Park area. Teenagers of Gibsons area complain through ,the Coast News there is nothing for them to do and seek public help'. The Sunshine Coast Fall Fair committee decides to hold a three day event for 1956 instead of only two days. 25 YEARS AGO Wally Graham, village handi- man and keeper of the waterworks resigned, implying the wages offered were an insult. Road traffic stop signs will be placed on the United Church corner. A UNIQUE VIEW of the sun setting over Vancouver harbour was captured recently by John Gordon. John was a member of a photo club sponsored last fall by the school district's Centre for Continuing Education. The course was taught by local Corrance. For shutterbugs, John lens, f 16 at 1/30 second. photographer Ian used a 200 mm. Credit makes our world go round Many people say that our world today is a consumer credit world . . . that, credit, in its ' many forms, permeates our everyday lives. One thing that makes us more aware of credit today is that credit is carried on by financial institutions, whereas 50 years ago most of the debt of individuals was with other individuals, not companies. Because financial institutions are the creditors today, records are kept and reported to Statistics Canada. The compiled data covering all financial institutions are published in our newspapers and we are told each month how much consumer credit is being used. Contrast that to the situation in Grandad's -day, when the family would \"run a tab\" with the butcher, baker, candlestick maker . . and the grocer, shoe store, seedman, and blacksmith as well. There was no such thing as Statistics Canada to collect the data, even if it could have obtained the cooperation of the thousands of shop owners who ran tabs on slips of paper until the crops were harvested. Besides, back in those days, debts were frequently repaid in kind,not in money. When the neighbours helped raise the barn or thresh the ' grain, they were repaid in services and produce, not Letters to the Editor THANKS BAND The following is an open letter to the Penn Kings: Dear Brian, Graham and Lance On behalf of the executive members of the Sunshine Coast Navy League branch, we would ' like to thank you most sincerely for giving generously of your time and talent on Sunday, January 25, 1976. We owe you three a real great debt of gratitude in helping us to raise money, through your benefit dance, in order that we can establish a Navy League and Sea Cadet Corps on the Peninsula, thus promoting youth programs. It was a delightful dance and stage show and those who did attend, both young and old, thoroughly enjoyed your music\" and those who didn't sure missed a fabulous afternoon of entertainment. Again, our sincere thanks along with special thanks to Pam, Kathy and Pam. VERNA RIVARD, Secretary, Sunshine Coast Navy League branch. THANKS BOARD The following is an open letter to the Chairman and trustees of the Sechelt District School Board: Dear Mrs. Chairman and Board Members: The executive members of the Sunshine Coast Navy League branch wish to thank you for consenting on such short notice to providing the Gibsons Elementary School gymnasium. Without your co-operation, this benefit dance would not have been possible. It was not as successful as the executive had anticipated, but those who did attend, thoroughly enjoyed the music of the Penn Kings as well as the appearance of Miss Sea Cavalcade and her Princess. Again, our sincere thanks in helping us promote youth programs on the Peninsula. ,���VERNA RIVARD, '������ Secretary, Sunshine Coast Navy League. MORE DAMAGE Editor: Regarding the article by John Hind-Smith on Vandals damaging the creeks in the January 20 issue of the Coast News: While his intention is of the best this sort of excess probably does more damage, than good to the cause of conservation. It is doubtful if a backhoe or bulldozer has any effect at all on a salmon run. it is at least equally possible that no hatch in a few hundred yards of stream produces more food further along and healthier fish. At any rate, each fall and spring, floods produce vastly greater amounts of mud. I deplore the use of hyperbole such as \"Gone forever.\" If it is true that a bit of mud will destroy a salmon run, consider the fact that every stream has undergone at least one major mud slide in its history. It therefore seems that all the salmon were destroyed long ago. If this is the case,.there are no salmon in B.C. and there is no cause for concern. ���R. E. HAMMOND REGRET THEFT Editor: We wish to reply to a letter writted by Mrs. M. Rees of Gibsons in last week's paper.\" While we may very much re1- gret the theft of Mrs. Rees' beautiful sweaters, we hardly think it fair to single out Whitaker House on the subject of shoplifting. We know that other businesses on the Sunshine Coast and elsewhere have similar-problems. Those bringing articles on a consignment basis understand that goods are left at owner's risk. . Regarding the attendant in charge, we wish to take this time to express our thanks to the many volunteers who give freely of their time to help make the Art Centre a success. Without them there would be no Art Centre. Some of our volunteers have paintings and crafts for sale at Whitaker House, but many do not, they nevertheless offer their services feeling they are doing a worthwhile public service. Again ��� our thanks. Many expressions of appreciation and pleasure that we-have received since opening a year and a half ago have made all our efforts and hard work seem very worthwhile. Whitaker House Art Centre is operated by the Sunshine Coast Arts Council, a non-profit organization. ���Sunshine Coast Arts Council Gayle German, Corresponding Secretary Doris Crowston, Chairman. money. For all we know or may ever know, credit could have been just as prevalent then as today. The records never were complete. We are made aware of our extensive use of consumer credit because we have so many consumer and household products to buy today. It wasn't all that long ago that such things as refrigerators1, radios, vacuum cleaners, home freezers, cars, electric toasters, and television sets were unkown. Now there is hardly a home without each of them. Many such items were brought on credit and paid for out of income earned in the future. That way we obtained the goods we wanted when we wanted them, and saved for them after their purchase rather than before. Canadians have had reason to be confident about their incomes, too. Gone are the days of most of us working on farms, with in- . comes dependent on the whims of the weather. Now most of us work under union contracts with stable companies. Even if we did face unemployment, we would be assisted by unemployment insurance, medicare, and a variety of other government programs. The confidence that comes from a firmer future has reduced our concern about taking on commitments. ; The increased use of consumer credit over the . years .was also dependent on the growing realization that credit is a financial tool. Every kind . of tool, be it a simple tool like a hammer or scissors, is designed to be useful - providing it is used properly. Credit today, instead of being seen as sinful or the sign of a weak or evil character as it may have been in the past, is being viewed as a valuable implement to be used with care, skill, and respect. (Continued on Page 3) Of shoes and ships and sea I ing wax by ROB DYKSTRA Let me get it right now. The universities are blaming the high schools. The high schools are blaming the elementary' schools. And the elementary schools are saying, yes, but look at the families some of these kids come from. We hear the annual announcement that 40 percent of the students of a first year class at UBC have flunked a standard English exam. We also hear that at least one local school trustee is in favor of re-introducing departmental exams in the high schools. It's the problem of literacy. The general definition of Literacy refers to a person who* is able to read and write. Traditionally we have set standards of literacy for ourselves and ���, since the beginning of the age of enlightenment we expect our society to at least keep up to those standards which today are /( manifested in school tests, exams, essays, and so on. Now if it's true that students today cannot read or write, then on whom do we place\" the blame? Is it the teacher's fault? Is it because exams, which some say prove and maintain high ^ standards, have been practically eliminated? Is it because of the home environment? Let's start first of all with the home environment. Your child is somewhere in the school system, elementary or university, it doesn't matter. The first thing I would like to know is how many books do you have in the house? How many books a week - do you read? Do you encourage your children to read books? How much do you write in a week? Do you hate writing letters, continually procrastinating that task, and then often ending up by phoning that person you were meaning to write? What is the focal point of your living room? What is the focal point of your family activities? How many hours, out of the total number of hours you spend in your house, is the television turned on? How often do your children watch television?., ���: I think, you know- what ,J'm'^ ./,glshingat-.:-^.-''.:.,..l::7;.'^H..* That electronic media sage of, the 60s, Marshall McLuhan probably said it best when he theorized that the electronic media are subtly and constantly altering our perceptual senses. In his own McLuhanistic language, he told us that since the advent of television, we are on the road to developing a whole new set of ' sensory perceptions. The serial '���'' logic of print is fading out before the intuitive mosaic of instant- '���-- aneous communication. We are ���'';��� returning to the values and perceptions of a preliterate culture. McLuhan and his theories have often been referred to as a \"fad\" of the sixties. But like Darwin and his theory, McLuhan has never really been proven wrong. Television became popular around the early 1950s. Since that time, the box has probably weaned and babysat more kids ��� than the average grandmother. As those television babies grew up, TV instilled in that generation what McLuhan calls a sense of rigor mortis. You see, television is a \"cool\" medium because it doesn't require any active participation. You sit, you watch, you listen, and the action both physical and mental all happens before your eyes. Without attempting to place any quality judgment on either print or electronic media (although understandably, I do have a natural bias for the former) I ask the question Is it any wonder that students are having problems communicating through... the printed word? The student in second year university asks his professor if he can do a short video tape rather than an essay. He says he can better communicate what he wants to say through that medium than he can through writing. The professor says sure, because he knows that film, video-tape, television, radio, are accepted, nay,' favored ways that society laps up. both information and entertainment. With the print media no longer monopolizing communication no longer the sole conveyor of human history and culture, is it any wonder that reading and writing are undergoing a relegation? If your sons and daughters can't write or read, don't blame our universities, don't bjame our high school and our elementary school teachers. Blame Howdy Doody. h 1111 ii��wmTw i n tit iwrwwi 11 ii y ii 1i111111111 > i p^^t^w 111 u 111*??????? '''' \"i* \" ' llitim Olympiade XXI , ��� Oiymriad Montreal. -���*��\"*��� Canada 25 Three Olympic stamps OTTAWA - Postmaster General Bryce Mackasey announced the issue of four Olympic commemorative stamps���a set of three featuring the Arts and Culture Pro-, gram, and one depicting the XI1 Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1976. Of the three Arts and Culture stamps, designed by Ray Webber of Toronto, the 50-cent denomination represents the Performing Arts, the 25-cent denomination depicts Handicrafts, and the 20:ccnt denomination portrays Communications Arts. They will be printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company of Ottawa. The Innsbruck Winter Games 20-ccnt stamp, designed by Rolf Harder of Montreal. _shows the official Innsbruck symbol combined with a stylized snowflake. It will be printed by Ashton-Pot- ter Limited of Toronto. Beachcombers second The Sunshine Coast's own Beachcomber volleyball team had. to settle for second spot in the Beachcomber Invitational Volleyball tournament last Saturday after a strong Surrey team captured the two final games to win the championship. The Surrey Olympics took top spot in Saturday's tournament played at Gibsons Elementary school gym by beating out the local girls 15-4 and 16-4 to win the best out of three. The tournament ended with Surrey in first, the Beachcombers in second, Langdale boys in third, and the Beachcomber B team taking fourth spot. Other teams entered in the tournament were the Green Timbers from Surrey Elementary, Gibsons Elementary boys and Gibsons girls. Coach of the Beachcomber team, Ian Jacob, thanked John Lowden, coach of Gibsons girls, for his help in the tournament. The Beachcombers will be playing in a provincial 18 and under tournament in Mission later this month. The team will also be participating in an international tournament in Portland, Oregon, in March. Olympiade XXI Olympiad Montreal 1976 All four stamps will issued February 6, 1976. be All Olympic stamps will be on sale until the end of 1976. Foods Feature Sunshine Coast News. February 3,1976. UP AND OVER BEACHCOMBER'S Ingrid Peterson, right tational volleyball tournament,' Beach- stops a hard spike from a Surrey team combers lost the final against Surrey to member at last week's Beachcomber Invi- end up in second place. Apple time is any time Nothing can compare with a fresh, crisp, Canadian apple for eating out-of-hand! But many people enjoy apples baked or in a variety of desserts. There was an above average apple crop in Canada last fall and apples are a good buy. So why not make the most of them for snacks or dessert! Most of the fresh Canadian apples in the stores now have Credit increase (Continued from Page 2) True to our cautious nature, Canadians tested their use of consumer credit in easy stages. According to the 1974 Canadian Consumer Credit Factbook, recently published by the Canadian Consumer Loan Association and the Federated Council of Sales Finance Companies, consumer credit has been one of the fastest growing economic measurements in Canada ��� and that is because we started out so modestly. Thirty years ago, outstanding consumer credit totalled $449 million compared to $20,595 million at the end of 1974. With the increased use of credit has come an increased skill in its use. And increased skill leads to still further use. Today's Attitude The Factbook says that the most important factor in this development has been the change in public attitudes towards credit. The moral cloak that surrounded the use of credit in years gone by has fallen away. The true nature of credit has been revealed - it is a financial tool. No mystery. No dark evil force. Looked at squarely, credit needs only to be learned to be useful. And learning how to use credit is helped when it is viewed dispassionately. been kept in controlled atmosphere or CA storage. Last fall, freshly picked apples were rushed to CA storage units, and sealed in rooms maintained at 36 deg. F. .The percentage oxygen,, carbon dioxide, and humidity in the air was controlled, so that apples stop maturing and retain their autumn freshness. These apples have the same flavor, freshness and color of newly harvested fruit. Most apples are sold according to grade. If you buy Canada Extra Fancy and Canada Fancy grade apples, you can be assured of mature, well-shaped and well- colored apples with a minimum of skin defects. They are also sized or packed by count. Apples of these grades are most desirable for dessert. Canada Commercial or Canada \"Cee\" grade apples may not have as good coloring as the above grades. These are satisfactory for cooking, where shape, size and color are not so important. Use colorful Canadian apples, unpeeled, diced or sliced in salads. Apple slices or wedges, dipped in lemon juice to prevent browning are attractive additions to fruit salad plates. For baking, choose firm varieties such as Macintosh, Cortland, Spy and Spartan. The Golden Delicious apple variety is also good for baking but it has a much sweeter flavor when baked. The Red Delicious apple is better for eating fresh than baking. Give a good traditional touch to your menu, and serve \"Country- ^Glazed Baked Apples.\" It is a simple and quick recipe to prepare and can be attractively served in many ways, < for example with ice cream or whipped cream. Of course many fresh apples find their way into pies, the most' popular way of serving them. Food Advisory Services, Agriculture Canada suggest that the apple pastry combination be used in another form, such as old- fashioned \"Apple Dumplings.\" Each square of pastry encloses one-half of a peeled and cored apple. They may be served warm with cream or with a brown sugar sauce. APPLE DUMPLINGS 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt V* cup shortening V4 to Vi cup ice water 3 medium apples, peeled, cored and halved 1 tablespoon melted margarine V* cup brown sugar Combine flour and salt. Cut in shortening. Sprinkle with water and toss lightly. Form into ball and chill. Roll out to rectangle '/��- inch thick. Cut in six squares. Place apple half in centre of each square. Combine Margarine and sugar and fill cavities in apples. Moisten edges of pastry, draw up the four corners and pinch edges together to seal. Prick pastry. Bake at 425 deg. F. until pastry is golden and apples are tender (25 to 40 minutes depending on variety and size of apples). Serve warm. 6 servings. 1976 Hallmark Calendars are now selling at half price, a good selection still available. Miss Bee's, Sechelt. WANTED Used furniture oc what have yon U'l USED FURNITURE WE BUT BEER BOTTLES . Gibsons ��� 886-2812 I I NOTICE I I Many fresh Canadian apples find their way into pies, the most popular way of serving them. Food Advisory Services,-Agriculture Canada suggest that the apple pastry combination be used in another form, such as old-fashioned \"Apple Dumplings.\" Each square of pastry encloses one-half of a peeled and cored apple and may be served warm with cream or with a brown sugar sauce. ������Agriculture Canada photo. ! COASTAL TIRES i I I I WILL BE CLOSED for ANNUAL VACATION I \\ FROM FEBRUARY 5 - 26 J I 1 J WATCH FOR OUR J a i i e i MARCH RETURN SALE SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE 886-2700 I I I I I .J Gibsons Lanes News from alley by BUD MULCASTER Phyllis Gurney started last week off right with an even 300 game in the Tues. Coffee league and Darlene Maxfield rolled a 303 single in the Wed. Coffee league. In the 7:00 Ball & Chain league Marney Qually almost hit 300 with a 299 single and Ken Johnson bowling in the 9:00 Ball & Chain league rolled his forst 300 game with a 303 single and a triple of 719. Vic Marteddu rolled an even 300 single in the Thurs. Mixed league and in the Legion league June Frandsen had a 310 single and Carole Skytte had a 316 single. Darlene Maxfield rolled the high triple of the week with 789 and Ken Stewart had a 774 triple in the 7:00 Ball & Chain league. Back utilidor Both Sechelt council and the Regional district are backing the concept of a utilidor along the present powerline that would accommodate various utilities. - Sechelt council earlier indicated support for the utilidor and last Thursday the Regional Board voiced support by requesting a meeting with the Sechelt Indian Band, the Department of Municipal Affairs and the Department of Highways, to discuss the concept. FIRST EXHIBITION The first exhibition of Canadian Eskimo carvings was sponsored in 1948 by the Canadian Guild of Crafts in Montreal. The exhibition was sold out in three days. In a rolloff for the Y.B.C. Senior league, Jeff Mulcaster rolled a 359 single and had a triple of 832. Good games bowled in every league last week. Highest games of the week: Toes. Coffee: Phyllis Gurney 300- 620; Myrt Le Noble 288-675; Sandy Lemky 269-708. Swingers: Alice Smith 226-606; Hugh Inglis 260-621. Gibsons A: Dianne Fitchell 238- 645; Vic Marteddu 258-650; Art Holden 289-672; Don MacKay 270-704. Wed. Coffee: Willie Olsen 245- 635; Nora Solinsky 270-667; Darlene Maxfield 303-789. Ball & Chain, 7:00: Marney Qually 299-637; Mercy Lovrich 238-675; Marg Williams 256-681; Don MacKay 229-683; Ron Qually 283-700; Ken Stewart 262-774. Ball & Chain 9:00: Tena You- dell 271-627; Gail Mulcaster 262- 636; Frank Redshaw 245-640; Tom Flieger 246-654; Alex Skytte 270-674; Ken Johnson 303-719. Thurs. Mixed: Hazel Skytte 256-615; Orbita delos Santos 281- 679; Mel Buckmaster 235-691; Vic Marteddu 300-750. Legion: June Frandsen 310- 655; Carole Skytte 316-686; Dan Dawe 240-648; Freeman Reynolds\" 243-660; Ken Skytte 288-749. Y.B.C. Bantams (2): Cheri Adams 140-225; Sean Black 145- 247; Dean LePage 133-248; Darin Macey 150-269. Juniors: Shannon McGivern 192-463; Michele Solinsky 198- 518; Grant GUI 218-572; Ricky Buckmaster 240-539. Seniors: Judith Spence 182- 495; Jeff Mulcaster 359-832. o \\ I / / GIBSONS V FISH MARKET x FRESH FISH AND SHELLFISH Next to ��� / Ken's Lucky Dollar S / Planning for the day you retire or buy your first home means having a master plan for your investment in the future. So we have two plans to help. A Registered Retirement Savings Plan, and a Registered Home Ownership Savings Plan. They both earn you valuable tax savings, and when you subscribe to either one, or both plans your contributions can be applied to any one, or a combination of these investment vehicles: 1. Royal Bank RRSP and RHOSP Deposits. Interest-bearing deposits with The Royal Bank of Canada, offering a high interest return, geared to the general deposit rate structure. Because of the long- term nature of these deposits, it is possible to pay a higher rate of interest than on conventional savings deposits. 2. Income Fund. High-yield bonds, deposit instruments and mortgages insured under the National Housing Act make up this portfolio which is actively managed by professionals. The policy is to achieve as high a current income as is compatible with maintaining reasonable price stability as well as moderate capital appreciation. 3. Equity Fund. Investment mainly in Canadian common stock portfolio which is actively managed by the same professionals. Long-term capital growth with reasonable current income is the objective of this fund. It's all in how you plan your strategy. Your Royal Bank manager can help you work out a master plan. Why not call or visit today. Now it's your move. Bruce Gamble Manager Phone: 886-2201 Royal bank serving British Columbia ^nirnfflmitfirigriifcatrsi-TTisa ���>a���m���iufj\"Tur~1 and times of B.C. logging and loggers from 1778 to the present. The following is an excerpt from Logging, British Columbia's Logging History: The British Columbian who works in the woods in British Columbia is a logger. Not a lumberjack. He is a lumberjack only in novels by retired teachers, by writers who have never been out of ��� Vancouver, by Hollywood : screenwriters and eastern journalists. He may also answer to ape or bush ape, and if he quits and takes a job in a sawmill, tame ape. His language is strong and : strange. The strong part is usually saved for the bush or the beer parlor because a logger is a gentleman around ladies and kids; the strange part he can't repress because it's as much a part of him . as his tin pants - his unbending waterproofs. Some of the terms and phrases have been handed down over the years, others are fairly recent, and the word- building goes on. The B.C. logging industry has a rich background to draw upon. Take bulls, for example:, bulls were used almost from the start. Although they were actually oxen, it's just as well they were called bulls because it's more impressive to call a man who is a drover or teamster a bullpusher than an oxenpusher, isn't it? The word bull seemed to put the wordsmiths into a frenzy because after that they were full of bull: Bull of the Woods (woods boss or owner); bullbucker (foreman or supervisor of the'cutting crew); bullpen (where unsorted logs are dumped); bulldozer (tracked machines for clearing roads or yarding logs); bullchoker (a heavy duty cable used where extra strength is needed to move heavy logs or overcome a hangup ��� which has nothing to do with your neuroses) and bullcook (handyman around the logging camp). If you hear a logger talking about a show? chances'are it'\"s\"a railroad show, a truck show, or, maybe, a skyline show. There are no movies or dancing girls at these shows; the term refers to a piece of country being logged or the method being used. If a logger is just starting out in his chosen career, he'll likely be put setting chokers, that is, placing a cable around logs (\"choking\" them) so they can be yarded, or pulled, into the spar tree, a trimmed and topped tree which has been rigged with blocks and cables so the donkey engine can yard the logs out of the bush. The chokerman works under the loving care and guidance of a hooktender who is also a hooker, but not of the \"happy\" variety, although he may occasionally smile, like when the poor novice is sent off to get a bucket of steam, a left handed hammer a skyhook or a sackful of choker- holes. AH but the chokerholes are imaginary articles dreamed up by skylarking loggers. The. choker- hole is a space the chokerman may have to dig in order to get his choker around a log. . Our hero is driven to work in a crummy, a bus that transports loggers to the job site. He hopes he'II-get the candy site, a unit that's a piece of cake compared to that suicide show he worked yesterday which was staged on a sidehill, all gullies, underbrush and widow-makers, trees with dead tops or trees that have fallen into other trees. He doesn't want to leave camp feet first: dead. Actually, this is a pretty skoo- kum camp. But he'd better cut it here or the super will tell him to pick up his time. Yesterday he really gave her snoose, let 'er rip, high-balled it. Those other apes know he's got the stuff. It's not like that haywire gyppo where he pulled the pin last month. He packed it in, quit, because the independent operation was run on a shoestring. Literally. They had a boom chain for a bull block strap for pet's sakel And the push on that raft camp, a floating operation built oh logs, was always yelling: \"On the ball or on the boat!\" He got on the boat ��� when it eventually came ��� because he was bushed and stakey ��� too long in isolation and money burning a hole in his pocket. The food at that camp was rotten. The cook was a gut- burner, a bean-burner, a meat burner and a can-opener artist. He cooked nothing but cackle- berries, hen fruit, that is, eggs. And' Klondike spuds, raw potatoes fried in the pan. No sow bosom at least. Salt pork is thankfully a thing of the past. And the monkey blankets were okay. You can't do much wrong to a flapjack, hotcake, pancake. They weren't your Aunt Jeminas either. They stuck to your ribs. After he went to town, Vancouver that is, he looked up his skirt. (No, he wasn't wearing a kilt or staring at girls' knees on the bus. He visited his girlfriend.) He sometimes calls her his old lady, just as his Dad called his mother \"the old lady\". He calls his mother Mom and dad is Dad. The Old Man is reserved for the Bull of the Woods or the superintendent, if he's a pretty good head. He's decided the next time in town he'll bank some dough instead of blowing it on_beer and clothes and then having to rely on drag from other loggers or the man-catcher to get back. Luckily, he knew he could get a loan ' from the firm's representative or he wouldn't have been able to get here in the first place, he'd probably be on the skid road. He has no desire to join those poor burned-out loggers in the flophouses and at the Sally Ann putting in time until they go to the big logging camp in the sky. They're burned out because they always ate and ran, dosed their indigestion with generous amounts of baking soda and then burned out what was left of their stomach linings with undiluted liquor. A lot of them have logger's small pox, marks on their face from a fight after somebody took the boots to them, stomped on them with their caulk (pronounced \"cork\") boots, the ones with the nails on the bottom that keep a logger from falling from slippery logs. He's not thinking about that anymore. Right after he's finished building this Molly Hogan (a link made of wire strands) he'll head for Hogan's Alley (wooden walkway between the bunkhouses), wash up and get some chow, grub, food at the cpokshack. The cook's helper, flunky or hasher, is getting ready to beat that old guthammer (triangular piece of metal) with a hunk of iron. There's just time for a slug of moose milk (a deadly mixture of rum, milk and coffee ��� sometimes not coffee, and mostly rum) before calling it a day. Here's looking at you! Excerpted from Logging: British Columbia's Logging History by Ed Gould, published by Han-\" cock House, 3215 Island View Road, Saanichton. BiC. at $14.95. NARROW GAUGE logging locomotive used near Mission in the Fraser Valley in the 1930s. $250 raised at dance Officials of the Sunshine Coast Navy League branch report that about $250 was raised by means of the benefit dance at Gibsons Elementary School gym last Sunday afternoon. The money will go towards the cost of establishing and maintaining the two groups, the Navy League and the Sea Cadets. About $3,500 per year is needed for both groups. An executive of the Navy League branch said a bigger crowd had been anticipated but, in general, the dance was considered a success with about 75 people attending. The executive thanks all those who donated their time to help with the fund raising project. Music was supplied by the Penn Kings. The Navy League branch will be initiating further fund raising activities throughout the year. Officials of the Sunshine Coast Navy League branch report that the initial response of both parents and future cadets has been excellent. The first registration took place in the Gibsons Legion Hall.in December arid a second registration was held in Sechelt February 2. Two groups of young people are involved: the Navy League Cadets, aged 11 to 13 years, and the Royal Canadian Sea cadets, aged 14 to 18. The Navy League cadets met for the first time January 31 for the purpose of being measured for uniforms. Parade dates for both the Navy League and the Sea Cadet Corps will be announced shortly. Any enquiries can be made by writing the Navy League of Canada, Box 1121, Gibsons, or by phoning 886-7055. )��� Survival First Aid An eight hour Survival First Aid course will be offered at Elphinstone on February 6, Friday at 7:30 pirn. The fee for the course is $7.50 and students who pass the examination will receive a certificate from Workers Compensation. Participants must be at least 16 years old. Please register with the instructor Mary Fraser, 886-2512. Films A dash of humor, a touch of romance Writer-director John Milius has always been fascinated by Teddy Roosevelt, and when he first read about a little known incident when Roosevelt illegally sent the U.S. Marines into Morocco to rescue an American family named Pedecaris, he knew he had to use it as a story in a spectacularly produced motion picture ��� thus the concept for \"The Wind and the Lion\" was born.\"He also sparked producer Hero Jaffe's interest in the project and the two combined their talents to make the picture. Taking some liberties with the facts, Milius has made \"The Wind and the Lion\" as an epic adventure story, laced with a dash of humor and a touch of romance, but truly reflecting an era when the great powers were playing a vast and deadly chess game using the lesser nations as pawns. Film Society In the starring roles are Sean Connery as Raisuli; Candice Bergen as Eden Pedecaris, the feisty kidnap victim; Brian Keith as the flamboyant Teddy Roosevelt and John Huston as the cautious Secretary of State, John Hay. The lavish production was filmed entirely in Spain where, in many locations, the classic Moorish architecture more accurately resembles the 1904 period of the film than does modern day Morocco. Two-time Academy Award winning production designer Gil Par- rondo, transformed Madrid's Palace Hotel hall, card room and salon into the Presidential White House of 1904. Seville's Alcazar, one of the most perfectly preserved examples of Moorish architecture in the world was utilized as the Sultan's palace. Almeria served as the back ground for the bulk of the picture. The huge battle sequences, the last confrontation of the warriors riding to battle with swords and guns at their side, symbolizing the desperate attempt of the past to resist the \"civilized\" present, were filmed at Cabo de Gata, a unique seawashed desert area. The film plays at the Twilight Theatre in Gibsons February 8, 9 and 10. Rating is mature. , Three days prior to that, February 5, 6 and 7, the same theatre features Don Knotts ��� often referred to as \"that nervous little, fellow who lets big guys kick sand in his face\" ��� stars as a bungling bank robber in Walt Disney's \"The Apple Dumpling Gang.\" Knotts stars with Tim Conway as two criminals who encircle an early California gold town. The film is rated General. Comedy replaces Shop on Main Street by ALLAN J. CRANE Shop on the Main Street has had changes in distribution and could not be shipped safely with sufficient time to guard the Film Society's scheduled playdate next Wednesday, February 4. I have, however, been fortunate in being able to schedule a most attractive film in its place prior to its first commercial release at Vancouver's Dunbar Theatre, February 10. �� . No one in British Columbia except for the staff of the Department of Motion Picture Classification has seen this comedy entitled L'Emmerdeur ��� A pain in the A . . ., a Franco-Italian production made in 1973, adapted from Francis Weber's plat L'Con- trat. Lino Ventura and Jacques Brel star in Wednesday night's screen comedy L'Emmerdeur, a review of which will follow the details concerning The Magician and Gate of Hell. Due to an error in the shipping department at New Cinema Enterprises Corporation's Toronto operation, the film, The Magician was not forwarded on January 15 as scheduled and was still on the shelf when I telephoned last Wednesday. Fortunately New Cinema's 'print of Gate of Hell was at Odeon's Vancouver headquarters, and thanks to the help of their chief booker, Ron Keillor, I was able to screen this. It is now playing at the Dunbar cinema. I am also indebted to Ron for tonight's film which we are playing before it has its first engagement at the Dunbar Cinema commencing in February. I thought Gate of Hell was a good substitute for the unavailable film, and altogether an enchanting film, but I am aware that some of the audience were bored by the film and found it slow- moving. I think that somehow for a film like Gate of Hell one has to view it with other than Westernized eyes. Understandably, devotees of Bergman were disappointed not to have been able to see The Magician, particularly since prior notice of it's non-appearance was not possible. Ray Boothroyd of the Twilight Theatre has kindly undertaken to investigate the possibility of extending the Film Society's season by one week to accommodate a screening of the film. The Twilight Theatre's programs, like the Film Society's, have to be arranged a long way in advance, and I should {point out that an extension may not be possible if big, popular attractions are scheduled for early or mid- May since it would not be possible to reschedule such programs The review which follows for L'Emmerdeur was sent to me by Canadian Federation of Film Societies chairperson Anneke Schoemaker, and they come from the British publication, The Monthly Film Bulletin: Ralph, a contract killer, is called in by a big organization to assassinate Random, who is to give testimony in a series of trials. Having rented a hotel room overlooking the Palais de Justice, Ralph waits for his victim; in the next room, separated only by a communicating door, is the dejected Pignon, a travelling salesman in ladies' underwear, who has been deceived by his wife. Ralph discovers Pignon in the toilet, unsuccessfully trying to hang himself from the cistern, and takes him into his room, both to calm him and to avoid the attention which another suicide at- tempe might attract. .. ; ^ But Pignon then continually pesters him until Ralph agrees to driye him to a reconciliation with his wife. Pignon inadvertantly causes Ralph to drive a car off the road, and the occupants, a pregnant woman about to give birth and her husband, persuade Ralph to take them to a hospital. Unable to take any more of Pignon's jabbering, Ralph ejects him from the car, and Pignon makes his own way to see his wife, who firmly refuses to return home with him. Having delivered the couple to the hospital, Ralph returns to the hotel to discover Pignon making yet another suicide attempt from a window ledge. In pulling him back into the room, Ralph himself falls, out and crashes, to the balcony of the room below. He is pulled back inside the room by Pignon and given a sedative by a doctor who believes him to be the neurotic Pignon. When Ralph regains consciousness and discovers his drugged state, he and Pignon drive to the doctor's clinic, where Ralph forces the doctor to give him a restorative shot and then returns to his room to carry out the assassination. But he is again disturbed by Pignon, and there is a struggle for the rifle; it goes off, causing the police on guard outside the Palais de Justice to return the fire. Ralph, his mission thwarted, makes his escape over the rooftop, hotly pursued by Pignon. They are both caught and end up sharing the same cell. Many a screen version of a stage comedy has fallen flat because of the screenwriter's in- ' ability to transpose his subject , from one medium to another without betraying its origins. It is therefore to Molinaro and Weber's credit that they have successfully opened up Weber's popular French stage comedy without damaging the humor of the central relationship. By venturing out-side, in fact, and showing Ralph's vain attempts to rid him- ., self of the leech-like Pignon, they succeed in strengthening the basic situation. Even Ralph's escape from the police over the hotel rooftop is upstaged and hindered by the clinging Pignon. Ventura as the stony-faced resolute killer of few words is the perfect foil for Brel's bumbling, neurotically prattling commercial traveller, and both are ably directed by Molinaro. It's not exactly a masterpiece of comedy, but it's pleasantly crazy enough to raise a few laughs and a nice example of contemporary French commercial ��� cinema. One only wishes we had something similar. ��itetft ���(ectric Itb. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & CONTRACTING Serving Sechelt, Gibsons, Roberts Creek. & Madeira Park 8853133 J. McKenzie Ron Blair, P. Eng, Porpoise Bay Rd. Sechelt P.O. Box 3S7 VON\" 3A0 C.T.C. Graduate Your Gateway tt 3us. 886-2855 Gibsons . 1 F S H M.V. Titanium M.V. Hungry One WILL BE AT GIBSpNS WHARF WITH LING COD RED COD for sale February 14 & 15 F I S H Sean Connery stars as a Berber Chieftain in the adventure saga \"The Wind and the Lion.\" Thurs., Fri., Sat.; February 5, 6,7.' Evenings at 8 p.m.; Matinee Sat. at 2 p.iti. GENERAL * * * * Sun., Mon., Tues., Feb. 8, 9, lb * MATURE ��� Some violent scenes^ # Showtime���8p.m. > & . . * ******************************** Wfelifon Roberts Creek Cable Subscribers FREE CABLE FOR SIX MONTHS WITH EACH NEW PHILIPS COLOR T. V. PHILIPS $649 IN THE HEART OF SECHELT J & C ELECTRONICS & APPLIANCES Ltd. 885-2568 We Service What We Sell Opening new doors fe-ito small J ���Jbusiness -i Financial assistance Management counselling . Management training Information on government programs for business ���>] On Wednesday, February 11th, one of our representatives will be at Bella Beach Motel, Sechelt. Tel. 885-9561 If you require financing to start/modernize or expand your business and are unable to obtain it elsewhere on reasonable terms and conditions or if you are interested in the FBDB management services of counselling and training or wish information on government programs available for your business, talk to our representative. ; i FEDERAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT BANK 145 West 15th Street, North Vancouver, B.C. 980-6571; -.�� ��� MP ��t|����mi��wmMiHj 'UJ\"!!!\"*'M^*^\"**\"'! '\"iawtlf\"1i'WW\"���'iB���LI\"1 ^B\"^W i%^ H \"> Sunshine Coast News, February 3, 1976. COAST NEWS CLASSIFIED ADS Phone 886-2622 DEADLINE ��� SATURDAY NOON MINIMUM $1.50 ���15 WORDS. 10* a word thereafter. SUBSEQUENT INSERTIONS Vi PRICE Legal ads 50c per count line Subscription Rates: B.C. ��� 1 year ��� $6.00; 6 months ��� $4.00 Canada except B.C. ��� 1 year ��� $8.00 U.S. and Foreign ��� 1 year ��� $10.00 O.A.P. ��� l year ���$4.50 It is agreed by any advertiser requesting space that liability of the Sunshine Coast News in event of failure to publish any advertisement or in event of errors in publishing of an advertisement shall be limited to the amount paid by the advertiser for that portion of the advertising space occupied by the incorrect item only, and that there shall be no liability in any event beyond amount paid for such advertisement. No responsibility is accepted by the newspaper when copy is not submitted in writing, or verified in writing. ��� COMING EVENTS 1ST-Thursday of every month: Weit Gibsons Ratepayers Association meeting, at Wildlife Club, 8 p.mi Chairman, Frank West, 886- 2147; Secretary Mrs. Sluis 886- 9690. Every Thursday. 7:30 p.m., Whitaker House, Sechelt. Introductory lecture Transcendental Meditation. Tel. 885-3342. Every Monday night, 8 p.m., Bingo, New Legion Hall, Gibson^. 1 ^BIRTHS KE0GH: To Sheila and Brian Keogh, a new baby son, Jonathan 8 lbs., 9 oz. Born on January 23. A brother for Adrian. We would like to thank Dr. Hobson and staff of St. Mary's Hospital. ���DEATHS LONGLEY: Passed away Jan. 26, 1976, Charles Ernest Longley, P. Eng., late of Gibsons, B.C., age 70 years. Survived by his loving wife, Jean; a son, John; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Bremmer, and 6 grandchildren. Mr. Longley was a life member of the Professional Engineering Assoc., also a past Lieut Governor of the Kiwanis Club. Funeral service was held Friday. Jan. 30 at Vancouver, conducted by Rev. H. Lennox. Cremation followed. Harvey Funeral Home, directors. MYLROTE: Passed away Jan. 31, 1976. Harry Mylroie, late of Gib- sdfisr Survived by his loving wife Jd; daughter Carol Skytte and husband Alex; Granddaughter Hanna; a sister Lillian; a brother Robert and his family; a brother- in-law and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Dunn and family. Funeral service Wednesday, Feb. 4 at?2 p.m. in the Harvey Funeral Home, Gibsons. Rev. D. Brown officiating. Cremation. In lieu of flowers donations to the children's ward of St. Mary's Hospital appreciated. TAYLOR? Passed away Jan. 31, 1976, Fred Taylor, late of Sechelt, in his 81st year. Survived by his loving wife Alice; daughter Frances Anne Wood; 2 grandchildren, Bobbie and Scott. Memorial service Tuesday, February 3 at 1:30 p.m. in St. Hilda's Anglican Church, Sechelt. Rev. N. J. God- kin officiating. Cremation. Harvey Funeral Home, directors. In lieu of flowers donation to the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund appreciated. ��� IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of our daughter Sharon, passed away February lst,T970: We mourn for her in silence. No eyes can see us weep. But many a silent tear is shed. While others are asleep. The leaves and flowers may whither. The golden sun may set. But the hearts that loved so dearly Are-the ones who won't forget. -i-Bill and Inez Malyea. also ; her sister. Marilyn Davidson. ���FOUND Pair!of child's binoculars on Stewart Road, on Saturday, January 17. Phone 886-2538. Sarah Coventry ring at Gibsons United Church. Phone 886-2928. ��� HELP WANTED Mature woman to look after toddler, light housekeeping. Phone 885-2910. Mature person for cash and typing duties. Part time initially. Reply Box 3045. c/o Coast News. ��� WORK WANTED RENOVATION WORK WANTED Inside or outside, large or small. Reasonable, competent and Reliable.' Free estimates. Phone 886-7547. NEED YOUR MUFFLER WELDED? L. H. GASWELDING Cutting and Soldering Call 886-9625 ��� WORK WTD.Cont. Your PICTURES FRAMED and mounted from Artistic Woodwork stock. Matboards. Non-glare and regular glass. Needlepoint a specialty. Moved to 1450 Sechelt Inlet Rd.. Porpoise Bay, Sechelt. Phone 885-9573. CHIMNEYSWEEPING Oil Stoves and heaters cleaned and repaired Phone Ron Crook, 885-3401 after 5 p.m. Small high-lead contractor with 70' spar available. Ph. 112-892- 5482. Two high school boys 15 and 16, will do work of any kind. Phone 886-9503. Painter, 24 years experience, have big spray outfit, quick, efficient. Contract or hourly rates. Call 886-2512. Backhoe available for drainage, ditches, water lines, etc. Phone 885-2921, Roberts Creek. TYPEWRITER & ADDING MACHINE SALES AND SERVICE Phone 886-7111 FURNACE INSTALLATIONS OIL BURNER SERVICE Financing Available Call Thomas Heating 886-7111 HIGH FUEL COSTS? Peerless Tree Services Ltd. will turn your problem trees into firewood, $18 per cord. We do danger tree falling, topping, and limbing too. Expert insured work. \"Know the cost before you start\" Call us 885-2109. Free estimates. John Risbey. ��� MISC. FOR SALE GIBSONS LANES Open Bowling Fri., 7-11 p.m. Sat., 2-11 p.m.- Sun.. 2-11 p.m. 18\" cedar shakes, 2nd quality, $22 per square. Phone 886-9697. 1973 Honda, CL 125, excellent condition. Phone 886-7697. Knitting machine, $65; wringer washer $50. Phone 886-9615. 'A h.p. electric water pump, $125. Phone 886-2131. 50 lb. sacks No. 1 Canada Pontiac Red potatoes, $4 a sack. Phone 886-2778. Underwood typewriter plus table and typing supplies. Good for student. Phone 886-7743. Good mixed hay, 400 bales, special price. Phone 886-2887. ��� CARS, TRUCKS FOR SALE 72 VW, one owner, 40,000 miles, A-l condition, $1750 firm. Will take as part payment washer and dr^er. Phone 885-3605. '69 VW and a '69 Datsun, both good condition. $900 ea. Phone 886-9173. 1975 Hodaka 100 cc. trail bike in A-l cond. 1975 T.M. Suzuki, 100 cc. MX in A-l condition. Phone 886-9072. '74, Econoline 300, camperized, F.G. roof, toilet, ice box, stove, V8. auto., P.S. & P;B., radio, $7800. Consider small trade in. South Fletcher, Gibsons, across from Health Centre. ��� BOATS FOR SALE MARINE INSURANCE PROBLEMS? New insurance advice Re-insurance advice Claims settled Capt. W. Y. Higgs Marine Surveyor j Box 339. Gibsons Phones 886-9546 or 885-9425 23HURSTON 225 OMC. F.W. Cooled. Bennett trim tabs, low hours. Never moored, loaded with options. In perfect condition. Sell boat separate or as a complete package including 6500 lbs. RR. trailer with electric winch and '65 GMC V* - 1 ton 283, 4 sp., original miles. 46,000. Offers. Phone 885- 9849. BOATS for SALE Cont. 15'/2ft. Sangstercraft boat with 85hp. Merc. O/B. Both VA yrs. old; plus rebuilt 1973, 80hp. Merc. O/B. All three for $3,500. Phone 885-3306 12 ft. aluminum boat, 6 hp. motor day tank, oars and tilt trailer with winch. Phone 885-9849. ��� WANTED LOGS WANTED Top Prices Paid for Fir-Hem. - Ced. L&KLUMBER (North Shore) Ltd. Phone 886-7033 Sorting Grounds, Twin Creeks Elphinstone Secondary School student council would like used furniture in good condition to furnish the student lounge. If you have furniture that you would like to donate or sell, phone 885-9669 after 4 p.m. Timber wanted, plus alder. Poles bought and sold. Let us give you an estimate. D & O Log Sorting Ltd. Phone 886-7896 or 886-7700. ��� PETS For sale, registered Irish Setter, female, 6 months old, $150. Ph. 886-2571. AH breed dog grooming, clipping, terrier stripping, bathing. Walkey Kennels, 885-2505. Part Husky, 6 month old pup. Needs a home, very friendly with children. Phone 885-2014. ��� LIVESTOCK Registered dapple grey Arab Stallion, 5 years old, well mannered. Phone 886-9880. Toggenburg goat for sale, 2 years Phone 885-9200. ��� FOR RENT Gibsons. 3 bedroom suite, carpet throughout. Fridge, stove. Utilities included. No pets. $225. Phone 886-2106. Clean, spacious 1 bedroom suite. Terrific view, fireplace, fridge, stove, and drapes. Ideal for working person or couple.' Must have references.' No pets. Please phone 886-7769. Maple Crescent Aprs., 1662 School Road, Gibsons. Suites for rent. Cablevision, parking, close to schools and shopping. Reasonable rent. Apply Suite 103A. Office space for rent, central Gibsons. Phone 885-3547. Seaside Plaza, suites for rent, 1 bedroom units. No pets or children. Phone 886-2309. ��� WANTED TO RENT Garage needed for storage of car. Phone 886-2636 anytime. Fenced acreage for horse, preferred near Sechelt area. Phone 886-2542. Responsible young adult working at Port Mellon mill looking for small house in Ginsons area. Phone 886-2540. 1 - 2 bedroom house on water. March or June. Ph. 886-7734 or 685-1182 after 7 p.m. Furnished houses in Gibsons area March 1, 1976 to October 31, 1976 Contact Paddy Moore, 665-8024. ��� ROOM & BOARD Nice rooms with view over the ocean, very good meals, $275 per month. Phone 886-9033. ��� ANNOUNCEMENTS Mount Elphinstone Cemetery Grave Plots $50 Contact F. J. Wyngaert 886-9340 If you are concerned about someone with a drinking problem, call Al-Anon at 885-9638 or 886- 9193. Meetings St. Aidan's Hall, Tuesday, 8 p.m. For Latter Day Saints in this area contact 886-2546. For membership or explosive requirements contact R. Nimmo, Cemetery Road. Ph. 886-7778. Howe Sound Farmers' Institute. Stumping or ditching powder, dynamite, electric or regular caps, prima-cord. Alcoholics Anonymous. Phone 886-9904 or 885-9327. Gibsons meeting Monday. 8:30 p.m. in Gibsons Athletic Hall. ���PROPERTY FOR SALE New 3 bedroom house for sale. Basement. Phone 886-2417. I large view lot near waterfront at Gower Point. Phone 886-2887. Gibsons, semi-waterfront lot with all facilities, selectively cleared. 886-2738. ��� Property For Sale (Cont'd) Cleared level lot, with driveway. 125 x 67 ft., serviced, corner of Pratt Rd. and Chaster, Gibsons. Full price $10,000 with terms. Phone 886-9857. For sale by owner: 2 bdrm. home, lge. kitchen, utility room and 3rd bdrm. in bsmt. Covered sun porch, close to beach and store. 886-2464 after 4:30 p.m. Mid 30s. Roberts Creek. Fully serviced lots for sale on Marlene Road. Phone 886-7896 or 886-7700. ��� MOBILE HOMES SUNSHINE COAST MOBILE HOME PARK & SALES 12 x 60 Meadowbrook. 2 bedroom bay window, carpeted throughout fully furnished, including washer and dryer. Individually decorated 12 x 68 Berkshire. 3 bedroom, bay window, carpeted throughout, fully furnished, including washer and dryer. Individually decorated On view at Sunshine Coast Trailer Park. Phone 886-9826 frailer on pad, V/2 x 32Vi ft. Lean-to 8 x 10. Close to shopping centre. Suitable for pensioner, $900 down, $65 a month. For rent if preferred. Phone 886-9615. ��� BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES PART TIME VENDING Men and women required as dealers to operate own route. A startling new Space-Age Vending Machine has been developed to give you a maximum of profit with a minimum of service. Over 50% profit per serving. No selling. All locations supplied by company. To start you must have car, 6 to 8 hours per week and $1,795.00 to invest for stock and equipment. Phone or write to Canadian Rotor Vend, 3651 Mc- Rae Cres., Port Coquitlam, B.C. Phone 939-6401 or 941-6449, ask for Mr. Walker. Couple to operate general store on a consignment basis. Some investment required. For further information, please contact Secret Cove Marina at 885-3533. Legal NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of the Deceased: WINN, Annie Louisa, late of Gibson, B.C. Creditors and others having claims against the said estate(s) are hereby required to send them duly verified, to the PUBLIC TRUSTEE, 635 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 3L7, before the 10th day of March, 1976, after which date the assets of the said estates(s) will be distributed, having regard only to claims that have been received. CLINTON W. FOOTE, PUBLIC TRUSTEE. T��t CCv��*NMtNTO' BOvn.CC 0�� B\"'TISN COw����i�� GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS MACKENZIE ELECTORAL DISTRICT PROJECT T.F. 189 - LITTLE RIVER & WESTVD2W FERRY TERMINALS CONTRACT 1 ��� MARINE STRUCTURES ��� WESTVTEW NOTICE TO QUALIFIED CONTRACTORS Sealed tenders on forms supplied by the Department of Highways will be received by the Department of Highways at the Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. up to 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, the 18th day of February, 19f6 and opened in public at that time and date. Tenders must be delivered only to Room 237, Douglas Building, Victoria, B.C., between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 m. Monday to Friday, except olidays. Tender Forms with envelopes, conditions of tender, plans and specifications shall be. obtained from the Provincial Government Plan Viewing Room, 108-501 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver 9, B.C. V5Z 1M4 (telephone 879- 7531) or from the undersigned for the sum of $10.00. Department of Highways General Specifications and full size plans, it not available with tender documents, are also available for the sum of $10.00 each. Cheques and money orders are to be made payable to the Minister of Finance. No such purchases are refundable. The Notice to Contractors form specifies the Bonding and/or Certified Cheque deposit requirements for this contract. The lowest or any Tender not necessarily accepted. H. F. STURROCK, DEPUTY MINISTER. I E. McMYNN AGENCY Real Estate & Insurance Gibsons WFT: Lovely 2 bdrm home on beautifully landscaped lot. Full drive with garage. Home has nice F.P. in large Ivgrm. Electric heat. Asking $65,000. On Gower Point Rd. in Gibsons: Large 3 bdrm home, all electric, 2 FPs, large rec room, sundeck with view. $58,500. Some terms. Roberts Creek: Vi acre lot on paved road, creek on property, nicely treed. Only $18,000. Good view lot in new S.D., facuities. Only $12,500. West Sechelt: New S/D of 8 lots. Good level property, nicely treed. Priced from $11,500 - $13,500. COMPLETE REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE SERVICE CALLUS TO SELL YOUR HOME OR LAND RONMcSAVANEY 885-3339 J. L. BLACK 886-7316 Phone 886-2248 Box 238 ��� Gibsons, B. C. CONSULT US FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS MEMBER - MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICE YOUR AUTO PLAN CENTRE GIBSONS: Near new waterfront home, 2 levels. 2 bdrms. Spacious livingroom has fireplace, sliding glass doors to large deck. Convenient step-saver kitchen, vanity bath, utility room. Full basement. Plus 14 x 16 boat house with power and water in. This is a terrific buy at $59,500. ROBERTS CREEK: Large semi- clear lot. Well located. Serviced. Only $11,000. LISTINGS WANTED ���Clients waiting. DROP IN AND SEE US SEASIDE PLAZA Norm Peterson ���886-2607 Karl Bull ��� 886-2814 Phone 886-2000 ��� Gibsons, B.C. CHARLES ENGLISH LTD. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE APPRAISALS Gibsons, B.C. 886-2481 PHONE TOLL FREE: 687-6445 WRITE OR DROP IN FOR OUR FREE - PROPERTY BROCHURE HOMES Two houses, both brand new with view. Both 3 bdrms. with no dinky rooms. One in Langdale, $55,000, the other on N. Fletcher, Gibsons, $46,500. Buy this home for $59,500, then subdivide this large lot. The property is an excellent investment both for living in and for developing. The home is an attractive post and beam type construction with view and large curving driveway.' Should be seen by all looking for homes in this area. 10 acres developed with private road. Stream, cleared land. Good water system. Many value extras. Attractive Homeco home. One of our best 10 acres ever. $75,000. Cheryl-Ann Park. 3 bdrms., full basement. Covered deck. Concrete driveway. Large lot. Chimney to take Franklin fireplace. Only 3 years old. Make an offer on the asking price of $52,000. Gibsons. 2 bdrm home in commercial zoned lot. 50 x 160. Offers on $55,000. Selma Park. Majestic view from picture livingroom window. 3 bdrms., 83' of beach front. Extras. Asking $75,000. LOTS Langdale: Wharf Rd. First time offered ��� 18 choice large building lots in growing area. Prices ranging from $7,500 to $13,500. Drop in for a print of this attractive subdivision called ' 'The Ridge.\" Gibsons Village: 11 building or holding lots 63 x 160. Fully serviced. Road will be paved. Nicely treed and some with view. These lots are offered at $12,000. GoorgvCoopar 886-9344 Don Sutherland 885-9362 J. W. Vizser 885-3300 Anno Gurney 886-2164 Have Your Furnace SERVICED OR REPAIRED When you need furnace repairs, you'll want to make certain the work is done by experienced technicians you can trust. We guarantee our repair services. WE ALSO INSTALL ELECTRIC OR OIL FURNACES FOR FREE ESTIMATES Emergency service FAST DEPENDABLE SERVICE I R.D. THOMAS & Co 886-7111 ihiiisiiioei UNITED CHURCH Rev. Annette M. Reinhardt 9:30 a.m.���St. John's, Davis Bay 11:15 a.m. ���Gibsons Office ��� for appointments Tues ���9:30-12:30 Wed. ���12:30-3:30 Fri.���9:30-12:30 886-2333 BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor F. Napora Office 886-2611. Res. 885-9905 CALVARY - Park Rd.. Gibsons SUNDAYS Morning Worship 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:45 a.m. Evening Fellowship 7:00 p.m. 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday Thursday ��� Prayer and _Bible Study 7:30p.m. ANGLICAN Rev. David H. P. Brown St. Bartholomew's Morning Service ��� 11:15 a.m. 2nd and 4th Sundays 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion St. Aidan's Worship Service 2 p.m. 4th Sunday only / Family Service 11 a.m. ROMAN CATHOLIC SERVICES Rev. T. Nicholson, Pastor TIMES OF SUNDAY MASS 7:30 p.m. Sat. eve. at Our Lady of Lourdes Church on the Sechelt Indian Reserve. 9:00 a.m. at The Holy Family Church in Sechelt. 11:00 a.m. at St. Mary's Church in Gibsons. Phone 885-9526 GIBSONS PENTECOSTAL Member P.A.O.C. Phone 886-7107 Highway and Martin Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Evening Service 7 p.m. Wed. Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Pastor G. W.Foster GLAD TIDINGS TABERNACLE Gower Point Road Phone 886-2660 Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Worship Service 11:00 a.m. Revival 7:00 p.m. Bible Study Wed.. 7:30p.m. Pastor Nancy Dykes ~ CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Church services are held each Sunday at 11:15 a.m. in St. John's United Church, Davis Bay. Wed. Eve. Testimony 7:30 p.m. Everyone Welcome Phone 885-3157 or 886-7882 Printed Pattern High Drama! From the high drama of one draped shoulder above a high waist, this dress flows liquidly down the body. Sew it short or long in knit, crepe. Printed Pattern 4572: Misses' Sizes 8, 10. 12, 14, 16. 18. 20. Size 12 (bust 34) takes . 2% yards 60-inch fabric. $1.00 for each pattern- cash, cheque or money order. Add 15* each pattern for first- class mail and special handling. Print plainly Size, Name, Address, Style Number. Send to Anne Adams, Coast News, Pattern Dept., 60 Progress Ave., Scarborough, Ont. M1T4P7. IT PAYS TO SEW���you save so much money! Send now for New Spring-Summer Pattern Catalog! Over 100. partners, pants, long, short styles. Free pattern coupon, 75*. Sew and Knit Book $1.25 Instant Money Crafts ... SI .00 Instant Sewing Book $1.00 Instant Fashion Book ...SI .00 SEW EASY 4572 SIZES 8-20 Cowrie St. Sechelt 885-2725 This is Your Life Horoscope for the next week By TRENT VARRO ARIES - March 21 to April 20 - A great deal of activity, coupled with some very \"lucky breaks\" are facing Aries persons now. If you are careful in evaluating 'fact' from 'fiction' you have much to look forward to. TAURUS - April 21 to May 21- Your ruling planet Venus is aiding you tremendously at this time. There may be a rebellious feeling with \"the way things .are\" but the planets will help you to overcome this. GEMINI - May 22 to June 21- Home and family matters, combined with romance and social pastime are highlighted again this week. -Business matters aren't quite so favourably affected. You would be wise to put off any major desicions. CANCER - June 22 to July 22 ��� This coming week could start off quite badly in an emotional sense, but by the next Thursday, all should be well. This is nothing to worry extensively over, but don't become confused. LEO - July 23 to August 23 ��� Jupiter, the 'great benefactor' in astrology is sitting on the doorstep. This can bring great benefit if you take a POSITIVE attitude and will do something constructive. VIRGO - August 24 to Sept. 2Z- The tremendously strong aspects that have been aiding you are still powerful, but they are starting to \"ease-off.\" Don't try to 'bite off, more than you can chew.\" LIBRA ��� Sept. 23 to October 23 - The Sun enters the sign of Libra on Friday, and this, combined with every planet in the zodiac in beneficial aspect, could mark some startling changes in your life. SCORPIO . Oct. 24 to Nov. 22- If business matters seem slow, just \"hang on to your hat\" and wait a couple of weeks. Conditions in your chart will be much more favourable at that time. SAGITTARIUS - Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 A sudden \"change of luck\" could bring you a lot of gain at this time. This relates more to the realm of business, especially dealing with real estate, than it does in purely speculative gambling. CAPRICORN - Dec. 22 to Jan. 20 This week may start out with a \"bang\" and end up with what seems to be a \"lost cause\" but don't be fooled! You will have gained far more than you presently realize. AQUARIUS - Jan. 21 to Feb. 18 - Things are much the same as they were last wek for Aquarius, with perhaps a \"stroke of luck\" paving the way to a much more secure future for you. Bide,your time! PISCES - Feb. 19 to' March 20- The zodiac is pretty well 'balanced' for Pisces now. There are some rather poor aspects but they are Countered with some very beneficial ones also. Don't overtire yourself. (Copyright 1975 by Trent Varro. All rights reserved.) 5>> New books in Library YOUNG ADULT Arts and Crafts: Nomadic Furniture by James Hennessey. Woodcarving by Walter Sack. Stitchery by Nik Krevitsky Bargello ��� A Golden Hands Book. The Complete Chronicles of Narina, Series of 7 by C. S. Lewis. ADULT ��� NON-FICTION Cooking: Secrets of Chinese Cooking by Tsuifeng and Hsiangju Lin. Gardening: Plants for Pots by Castle Books. , History: Hampton Court by R. J. Minney. The Other Conquest by John Julius Norwich. Hobbies: 838 Ways to Amuse a Child by June Johnson. Painting: Creative Illustration by Andrew Loom is. Psychology: Child Psychology by Arthur T. Jersild. Science: A Sense of the Earth by David Leveson. Travel: Fatu Hiva Back to Nature by Thor Heyerdahl. Miscellaneous: The Garage Sale Manual by Jean and Jim Young. ADULT ��� FICTION Travels in Hihilon by Alan Sillitoe. DEADLINE FEB. 29, 1976 FOR AUTO INSURANCE 1976 IlIK^^Smfl INSURANCE AND . LICENCE . WE ARE READY AND FULLY STAFFED FOR NEW PLATES, NEW REGISTRATIONS, TRANSFERS, SPECIAL COVERAGES AND RENEWALS. DEAL WITH CONFIDENCE WITH A LICENSED INSURANCE AGENT PROVIDING YEAR ROUND SERVICE 6 DAYS A WEEK SEASIDE PLAZA PHONE 886-2000 I feature Sunshine Coast News, February 3, 1976. T Wells: The other gold town Every year, thousands of people pour east from Quesnel on the road to the restored gold town of Barkerville. Most of them spare no more than a glance for the town that sits above the highway just a few miles before Barkerville. And that's a pity. This town of Wells is the type of place movie directors choose when they are looking for a set for a western movie. False fronts loom above the town's main street; wooden houses crowd the dusty side- roads; there's a sign on the liquor vendor's store that declares \"Closed for lunch\"; and there seem to be more dogs than people roving the streets. The Jack of Clubs Saloon and old Mike's pool hall ��� lit by swaying light bulbs over pool tables that arrived in the 1930s ���share the main street with such places as the Good Eats Cafe, the Wells Hotel and the Barkerville Stage Line office. Wells was a latecomer on the Cariboo mining scene. Barkerville was born in the 1860s, during the first Cariboo gold rush. Wells came along 70' years later, as the Great Depression took over the country. The Cariboo Gold Quartz Company brought the Wells mine into production in 1933 and immediately set about building a company ^''-V'A Wells is the type of place movie directors choose when they're looking for a set for a western movie. ���B.C. Government Photo. $fci******************************jfc PARI YTRADFRQ * * * * A THE RGOSY FIBREGLASS PROFESSIONALS WHEN IT'S DONE BY US, IT'S DONE PROPERLY CAMPER TOPS SUNDECKS CUSTOM FIBREGLASSING BOAT REPAIRS CALL US NOW: ARGOSY FISHING EQUIPMENT LIMITED * * *. I 885-2695 885-3844 I * ��� ���������.*��� Canadian Eskimos first began trading carvings with members of American whaling parties and exploratory expeditions in the 19th century. Pretty girls and boats herald the fact that the annual Vancouver Boat & Sport Show ��� largest production of its kind in Canada -��� is coming to five PNE buildings Feb. 27 through Mar. 7. Show, sponsored by the Marine Trades Association of B.C., features every kind of boat as well as a full line of allied marine products. town. By the end of 1934, there were 40 buildings in Wells, including a motion picture theatre where W. C. Fields and Deanna Durbin flashed across the silver screen. By 1942, there were 4,500 people in Wells. But by the end of the war, many of these had left, never to return to Wells. Yet Wells did not become a ghost town, even though the big mine closed down in 1967. Some 400 people live there now, most of them employed in logging, at Barkerville Historic Park, at nearby Bowron Lakes or in service industries. The mine -still dominates the town from above, but it's closed now to the public, lest souvenir hunters slip through the rotting boards of its buildings. There is an attempt underway to bring some of the 30s atmosphere back to Wells. On weekend evenings in the summer, you can see some of the great movies of that era: My Little Chickadee, the Grapes of Wrath, others that kept an earlier audience enthralled. The Wells museum is now a going concern, with exhibits from the mine and the surrounding area. There is some attempt being made to preserve some of the picturesque old buildings in the town. And all this in the hopes that some of those Barkerville-bound people will stop for a while in Wells, the Cariboo's other gold town. 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H10a813HSV 12 Osceola or Pontiac (2 wds.) 16 Roll-call word 19 Diana ��� 22 ���Bator 23 Historian Henry ��� Commager 24 Roofing substance 25 Styptic 27 Took part in 29 Drama segment 30 Arkansas town 31 Divert from 36 Excavate 37 Aromatic herb ���i.e. i Oil -i'A Board committees (Continued from Page 1) headed by Morgan Thompson; Pender Harbour director J. Paterson will head the planning committee, a committee that consists of the entire board. The building committee will be headed by Jim Ironside. Ironside, director for Roberts Creek, will also be the board's representative on the airport committee. The emergency program will be taken by Peter Hoemberg, Coast Garibaldi Health by Barry Pearson, Municipal Finance Authority will be looked after by Q Jim Metzler, St. Mary's Hospital board will be the responsibility/,0 $ of J. Paterson, and the Sunshineyyj Coast Park and Recreation com-,>n3 mission will be represented byv__'-^ Jim Ironside. ,-';\"��� Commenting on the re-organiza ���''-; tion of the committee system, Di- ;\\jj rector Peter Hoemberg said atr ^ last Thursday's board meeting;;0rj that each director now has aj-iiT) specific responsibility and he*��-'-{ hoped that numerous committee>-v;-> meetings can be avoided by each- '^ - director working more actively in5!''\" his specified area. NORTHWEST TRAVEL LTD. #*^ . Agnes Labonte i Ik* 9. FAIRMONT ROAD 886-7710 GIBSONS Sunshine Business Directory 'f-'t -('< >>; ��� AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES NEED TIRES? Come in to COASTAL TIRES at the S-BENDS on Highway 101 Phone886-2700 Automotive - Parts Sales and Service ���Rotor lather service for disc Brakes and Drum Brakes ��� Valve and Seat Grinding ALL MAKES SERVICED DATSUN SPECIALISTS JAMIESON AUTOMOTIVE AL JAMIESON Gibsons Phone 886-7919 ���BANKS ROYAL BANK OFCANADA GIBSONS Branch-Ph. 886-2201 SECHELT Branch-Ph. 885-2201 HOURS G/osons.-Mon - Thurs. 10a.-m. -3 p.m. Fri., 10a.m. -6p.m. Sechelt: Tues - Thurs. 10a.m.-3p.m. Frt., 10a.m. -6p.m. ��� Sat., 10a.m.-3 p.m. ~ ���BUILDING SUPPLIES TWIN CREEK LUMBER & BUILDING SUPPLIES Ltd. Everything for your building Needs Free Estimates Phone 886-2291-2 ��� BUILDING SUPPLIES (Cont) L& H SWANSON Ltd. Sand and Gravel ��� BACKHOES Ditching - Excavations Porpoise Bay Road 885-9666, Box 172, Sechelt, B.C. ��� CABINET MAKING WINDSOR PLYWOOD (THE PL YWOOD PEOPLE) Construction Plywood Fancy Panels Doors, Bifolds, Insulation Sidings and all Accessories Delivery Highway 101, Gibsons Phone 886-9221 ��� BULLDOZING BACKHOE CUSTOM BACKHOE WORK SEPTIC TANKS INSTALLED Government Approved Free Estimates Excavations - Drainage Waterlines, etc. Ph. 885-2921 Roberts Creek BOUTIN BULLDOZING Clearing ��� Landscaping Backhoe Work Phone 886-9824 R.R. 1 Gibsons FOR YOUR PRINTING PHONE 886-2622 OCEANSIDE FURNITURE & CABINET SHOP : Hardwood Specialists Custom Designed Furniture Kitchen and Bathroom Cabinetry Remodelling R.BIRKIN Beach Ave., Roberts Creek Phone 885-3417 ���CLEANERS ARGOSHEEN We Clean Carpets Chesterfields, etc. No Soap Buildup Stay Clean Longer FREE ESTIMATES TOM SINCLAIR Box 294, Sechelt Phone 885-9327 1-2-1 or after 5 p.m. ��� CONSTRUCTION GIBSONS BUILDING SUPPLIES (1971) LTD. ALL BUILDING MATERIALS READY-MIX CONCRETE-GRAVEL 'GENERAL PAINT Highway 101 -Gibsons 886-2642 886-7833 ��� DISPOSAL SERVICES VMSSIFfE&Jim SUNSHINE COAST DISPOSAL SERVICES i Port Mellon to Ole's Cove 886-2938 885-9973 When renovating or spring cleaning Call us for your disposal needs Commercial Containers . available ��� ELECTRICIANS SIM ELECTRIC Ltd. Electrical Contractor Sechelt ��� Phone 885-2062 ��� MOVING & STORAGE ^\\BE ELECTRIC JTd. Phone 886-7605 Box 860 Gibsons \"POWER TO THE PEOPLE\" ��� HEATING TED HUME SERVICES ' Gibsons, B.C. 886-2951 . Parts, Service, Installations Stoves, Furnaces, Heaters, etc. Certified Instrument Mechanic ��� MACHINE SHOP LENWRAY'S TRANSFER Ltd. Household Moving & Storage Complete Packing Packing Materials for Sale Member Allied Van Lines Phone 886-2664 - R.R. 1, Gibsons ��� PAINTING ABC GENERAL PAINTING SPRAY-BRUSH-ROLL Call 886-2512 ��� PAVING At the sign of the Chevron HILL'S MACHINE SHOP & Marine Service Ltd Arc and Acty. Welding ' Machine Shop Steel Fabricating Automotive- Marine Repair. Marine Ways Phone 886-7721 Res. 886-9956 COAST PAVING PA VING FROM DRIVEWA YS TO HIGHWAYS Highways, Parking Areas Driveways, Crushed Gravel Equipment Rentals Main Office Box 95, Powell River, 485-6118 Branch Office: Sechelt, Ph. 885-2343 9:30 to 3:30 p.m. ��� PLUMBING RAY NEWMAN PLUMBING SALES & SERVICE Hot Water Heating Building and Alterations Davis Bay Rd.,R.R. 1, Sechelt-Ph. 885-2116 PENINSULA PLUMBING CONTRACTING Port Mellon - Pender Harbour Free Estimates Phone 886-9533 Rick 886-7838 Tom 886-7834 ��� PLUMBING (Cont) G&E PLUMBING & HEATING Ltd. Certified Plumbers Box 165, Gibsons, B.C. PHONE 886-7638 New Installations, Renovations Repairs, Hot Water Heating Pump Repairs 24 HOUR SERVICE SEASIDE PLUMBING PLUMBING - PIPEFITTING STEAMFITTING HO T WA TER HEA TING 886-7017 All Work Guaranteed ��� REFRIGERATION JOHN HIND-SMITH REFRIGERATION <& MAJOR APPLIANCE SERVICE Port Mellon to Pender Harbour Used Refrigerators for Sale Phone 886-2231 From 9a.m. to 5:30p.m. Res. 886-9949 ��� RETAIL STORES MISS BEE'S Card and Gift Shop Wharf Rd., Sechelt P.O. Box 213 Ph. 885-9066 Coutts-Hallmark Cards & wrappings, Gifts, Picture Puzzles; English Bone China cups, saucers, etc. Boutique Items Local Artists' Paintings c & s HARDWARE & APPLIANCES Sechelt ��� 885-9713 ��� RETAIL STORES (Cont) BERNINA SEWING MACHINES NOTIONS etc. REPAIRS AND SERVICE TO ALL MAKES SEW EASY Cowrie St. Sechelt 885-2725 ��� ROOFING STANHILSTAD ROOFING DUROID, SHAKES ORREROOFING R.R. 1, Port Mellon Highway Gibsons Phone 886-2923 ���SURVEYORS . ROY& WAGENAAR B.C. LAND -SURVEYORS CIVIL ENGINEERS Marine Building - Wharf Street Box 609, Sechelt, B.C. 885-2332 ROBERT W.ALLEN B.C.LAND SURVEYOR Sechelt Lumber Building Wharf St., Box 607 Sechelt, B.C. Office 885-2625 Res. 885-9581 ��� T.V.& RADIO SUNSHINE COAST TV SALES & SERVICE ADMIRAL ��� ELECTROHOME and ZENITH DEALERS Gordon Oliver - Ed Nicholson \"IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN SECHELT\" Box 799, Sechelt Phone 885-9816 CLOSED ON MONDAYS ��� TV & RADIO (cont) NEVENS' TV ;,S Service Depot for ':\"'''- PHILIPS���ZENITH PANASONIC ��� ADMIRAL '���. -*, FLEETWOOD DEALER MASTERCHA RGE ,-.( Phone 886-2280 ���������.. ,-u. J &C ELECTRONICS & APPLIANCES Charles (Chuck) Stephens SALES and SERVICE INGLIS & PHILIPS MARINE ELECTRONICS Across from Red & White Sechelt ���.������������ ���)'*���, ,!r.\\7 ;>i >.. \" ���A :^f 885-2568I PAJAK ELECTRONICS CO. LTD. ���* ^ RCA & ELECTROHOME A u thorized Dealer Sales and Service . 886-7333 Gibsons-' ��� TRAILER PARK ! ���j Hi' SUNSHINE COAST :~U TRAILER PARK 1 Mile West of Gibsons, HI way Laundromat Extra Large Lots and Recreation area .,. ��� Parklike Setting .;, Phone 886-9826 *~ >���*> ..*>,�� ��� TREE TOPPING jj TREE TOPPING VIEW DEVELOPMENTS LTD. Marv Volen Phone 886-9597, Clean up your wooded areas, > Remove lower limbs for VIEW. Top tall trees adacent to building ��� ' ��� TRUCKING DOUBLE'R' TRUCKING LTD. SAND, GRAVEL, FILL DRAIN ROCK, ETC. Chaster Rd Gibsons, B.C. 886-7109 ���:''\". \"���<2 'rmrji~'wnj an m T^flwiEp'^Kri^i\" w *m 'N 8 Sunshine Coast News, February 3, 1976. That's Granny A personality that cannot be resisted byKENSUDHUES To her former students she was always known as \"Granny\", to all her young friends at the Dogwood, she's Eileen. With a penchant for off-color anecdotes and a memory for names and events that could fill a good sized encyclopedia, Eileen Glassford is one of the most intriguing characters on the Sunshine Coast. Her house above Armour's Beach is full of artifacts and memorabilia from bygone years. The old family pic- ��� ture albums are full of photographs taken by the Glassford 7 family when they visited here every summer. One picture caught my eye in particular, because it showed that even many years ago, the Gibsons area was a popular tourist spot. The picture is of Armour's Beach taken in the summer of 1911, and the beach was crowded even then. Eileen has been in Gibsons permanently since 1948, but she had visited the area with her family every summer since 1912. Being a naturally curious person, Eileen probably knows the area better than some of the original settlers. She spoke with the Indians at Sechelt and with the last Indians on the Chekwelp Reserve on Soames Point, who came up by canoe every summer from what is now Stanley Park in Vancouver. Old Johnny and Sally Joe paddled up here by themselves even when they were both well into their eighties. As a teacher at Port Mellon in the Forties and at Elphinstone from 1952 until 1973 she became somewhat of a legend. She was loved and respected by all of her students and these feelings are reflected in her collection of yearbooks that have accumulated over the years into a complete history of the high school. Comments such as \"To Granny, with love\" and \"For all of the happy times\" fill the autograph pages and overflow onto the pictures of the students. EILEEN GLASSFORD, known to, many as \"Granny\", spends a quiet moment in her home overlooking Armour's Beach. Local artist exhibits at Brackendale Through the full month of February Brackendale Gallery in Squamish is featuring watercolors by Joan Thompson Warn of the Sunshine Coast. Included are works inspired while staying at Brackendale as artist-in-resi- dence ��� the old knot-Filled trees of Squamish, still nourishing last year's leaves. The show is a celebration of the B.C. Coast, lovingly portraying that damp, dark, yet fertile quality that binds us to its rocky mantle. Many of the large watercolors are individual portraits of unusual trees about Gibsons and Sechelt, several of them strange old trees from about Bonniebrook and Gower Point, others from the coastline near Selma Park. The tree series began last year when the artist was deeply struck by the curious and lovely atmosphere of mist rising from the snow in the elderly deciduous forest at Squamish. A number of the paintings were inspired by the wind and rain-swept trees of this area. Their late-wintery setting is similar at this time'of year. Some of the paintings represent the advance of spring from that time. \"Snow on the Logging Trail\" shows a scene of late March high up the Jackson logging road, Wilson Creek. Another logging road painting is a string of melting ice puddles along a striking avenue of cedars back of Andy Vandcrhorn's Automotive. When Joan Warn returned to paint the scene later in the year, the beautiful tunnel of trees had been bulldozed off for a building site. A second series of paintings is also being exhibited: a number of views of Gibsons harbour, conspicuous for their strong patterns of hulls, masts, pilings, and patchwork of buildings and houses. Also showing is a little series of bird paintings on rice paper, the originals of the lithoed water- colors offered locally and in Vancouver. The artist has lived all her life along the B.C. coast and spent childhood years in a tiny and iso lated island community. Also, her first 14 years of married life were spent on Gambier Island before coming to the Sechelt Peninsula. Woods and trees and birds are as close to her as people. She exhibited first as Joan Thompson, water-colors and oil portraits with the Atelier Society at Vancouver Art Gallery. During teacher-training years she studied with W. P. Weston. Later, after teaching and specializing somewhat in the teaching of art in this community, she took leave of absence and spent a full year majoring in painting at U.B.C. Another session of study was at San Miguel Institute in Mexico with James Pinto and Bob Osman as teachers. Since she left teaching in the local elementary schools she has been painting and drawing regularly. Her work has been ehxibit- ed in the past two years at Exposition Gallery in Gastown, Studio Gallery in Dundarave and at Brackendale, as well as locally. Her work is in various homes on the peninsula, on the Canadian prairie, and as far south as Mexico and Venezuela. Brackendale Gallery-Theatre and Restaurant is well known to Vancouverites and to some local skiers from(this area. Some of the best lower mainland drama and small-group music has been performed there in the past two years since it opened, as well as much contemporary art. It is a beautiful rustic gallery with spacious walls and imaginative architecture. One may dine in a warm, firelit and companionable atmosphere, enjoying excellent food in unusually attractive surroundings. Thor Froslev is the host. The gallery and restaurant are open 12 to 10 Friday, Saturday and Sunday, most entertainment taking place on Sunday evenings starting at 8 p.m. Brackendale is reached by travelling along the Squamish highway from. Horseshoe Bay, four miles beyond the town of Squamish on the Whistler Mountain Highway. Phone number is 898- 3333. Her following at the Dogwood, Gibsons watering hole, is quite large. Every day you can see Eileen, surrounded by her entourage of local artists, transients and itinerant news reporters, discussing politics, religion, local gossip, ancient history, philosophy or whatever subject happens to cross someone's mind. These little kaffeeklatches go on for hours, but the focal point is always the same person, Eileen Glassford. She's a personality that cannot be resisted. A storehouse of history with a storyteller's talents for expounding ��� that's our Granny. Resource office The Sunshine Coast Community Resource Society office will be open commencing Monday, February 2. Over the next two months, a thorough indexing of all agencies, boards, clubs, and service oriented projects will be done by the staff. In the future the Board hopes to further develop this information service. The indexing will also help to reassess priorities in the development of services. Present services under the auspices of the Society are: Minibus, Homemakers' Service, Services to Seniors, and Gibsons Tot Lot. Applications now pending are for an Alcohol and Drug Counsellor; and a special project counsellor funded by Manpower, classified as an Outreach Worker. The next general meeting will be held February 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the music room of the Sechelt Elementary School. The main item on the agenda will be constitution amendments. Please come out and voice your opinion and quench your thirst on a good cup of coffee. For information about services available phone 885-3821. f Ask B.C., a central telephone information service of the Department of the Provincial Secretary, is now fully operational. A staff of 10 Information Counsellors can answer enquiries about provincial government programs toll-free from anywhere in the province. The new service can handle up to 10,000 calls per month dealing with any matter involving the provincial government. In most cases questions can be answered imr mediately from Ask B.C.'s unique computerized retrieval system. Where information is not readily available, counsellors have the skills and telecommunications equipment to locate it. The Director of Ask B.C.,. Mr. John Olsen, has announced: the hours of service are from 8:30; a.m. to 4:00 p.m. \"Weareexperi-: menting with the hours of service; to determine the most convenient; times for the calling public,\" he; said. For toll-free access to Ask B.C., call your telephone operator and ask for ZENITH 95000. VLJ1SS1FIED JI27S BRITISH COLUMBIA HYDRO AND POWER AUTHORITY SECHELT, B.C. UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT, EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 1, 1976, OUR REVISED OFFICE HOURS WILL BE AS FOLLOWS: FROM 8:00a.m. - 4:00 p.m. DAILY MONDAY TO FRIDAY KEN STEWART has been appointed alternate director for Regional District Area E (Gower Point) Stewart backs up director Ed Johnson. CARPETS CLEANED with ARGOSHEEN NO SOAP BUILD-UP T. Sinclair, 885-9327 Call between 5:30 & 7 pm. Sunshine Coast Regional District NOTICE OF MEETING The next regular meeting of the Sunshine Coast Regional District Board will be held in Electoral Area\"F\". Date: Thursday, February 12,1976 Time: 7:30 p.m. Place: Langdale Elementary School All interested persons are invited to attend. A. G. Press ley Secretary-Treasurer YOUR DOLLARS WILL EARN YOU MORE WHEN YOU INVEST YOUR SAVINGS AT THE SUNSHINE COAST CREDIT UNION Cowrie St. Sechelt 885-3255. Take a look for yourself... 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I. 4\" *1.39 ���1.60 00* Bacon By The Piece '1.59 lb. lb. lb. ������ Coffee Margarine Cheese Slices Fabric Softener Cat Chow MONARCH MOM'S 3 lb. pkg. CO-OP Mild or Nippy, 8 oz. CO-OP 64 oz. rMffS PURINA 1 kg. pkg. Boiling Onions Cabbage Oranges Small, 3 lb. bag No. 1 Green Size 163s 40* T2*,b lbs. 00* Prices effective Thurs., Fri., Sat., Feb. 5, 6, 7 WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES YOUR FOOD SERVICE CENTRE Ph. 886-2522 GIBSONS, B.C. i t Vi."@en, "Titled \"The Coast News\" from 1945-07-11 to 1957-03-28 and 1992-03-19 to 1995-01-09

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