OKTOBERFEST FUN BEGINS HERE Toy run biggest ever Sunday’s annual toy run produced an endless line of motorcyclists who made their last run of the season really count for needy children this Christmas. The majority of the 171 riders — each bearing a new toy to be distributed later by the Salvation Army — came from the Prince George area and were joined by others from as far away as Vancouver, Richmond, Fort St. John and Fort St. James. Dressed in traditional motorcycle jackets, boots and helmets, the riders filled and overflowed the Salvation Army Citadel parking lot plus a city block to deposit a room full of toys worth several thousand dollars. MACKENZIE Campaign starts The Mackenzie United Way campaign kicks off Wednesday to raise funds for a social counselling service in the community 200 km north of Prince George. The organization, which is a division of Prince George and District United Way, has set its goal at $17,000 for Project Serenity, which offers a wide variety of social service programs to residents. Programs include individual, marriage and family counselling as well as film presentations and education programs like Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP). Campaign chairman Doug Monroe says the 11:30 a.m. kick-off at the recreation centre will be attended by Mayor Bill Whalley and council members, business operators and corporate representatives as well as United Way volunteers. Funds are expected to come from payroll deductions, corporate donations and community events. All funds raised will remain in Mackenzie just as all funds raised in Prince George will be distributed to 18 member agencies here. They donated dolls and stuffed animals of every shape and size as well as ride ‘em vehicles, Tonka trucks, giant smurfs, spring horses and a variety of power toys. Co-organizer Donna Rochon said this year’s event “makes the heart warm” to see the generous spirit and enthusiasm of participants. “Many cared enough to re-insure bikes for this one day only even though they had removed regular season insurance,” she noted. This fourth annual run, founded by Harley Davidson owners, shows the event is growing when compared to 128 participants last year, 103 in 1983 and 45 in 1982. Makes and models of bikes in the run ranged from average- sized machines to several valued at $14,000 and $15,000. Salvation Army Cap-tian Eric Crowther is grateful for the cyclist’s support and pleased with the increased number of participants. “There are more cyclists here today than there were at the Vancouver run last year,” he said. J. Ua Etmi I IhmUm OPTOMETRISTS J. IAN EVANS JD.O.S. F.AA.O. GREGORY E. EVANS B.Sc., O.O. A LANE EVANS B.Sc.,O.O. DONNA MOCKLER D.Sc, O.O. ROBIN G. SIMPSON B.Sc* O.O. Optical wins 401 Quttec St. Fan* Building, Princt G«k«, B.C. 562*1305 Effective Communication Skills Seminar This two day seminar provides participants with a thorough kowledge of the process of communication, the many problems involved in trying to effectively communicate and the practical skills required to deal with these problems. Participants will be provided with a binder containing extensive reading and reference material including a course outline, articles from the Harvard Business Review, actual case studies and numerous hand outs. . Tests, videotapes, case studies and role-plays will be used to both illustrate and practice the skills being learned. Seminar topics Include: —Communication barriers —Perception and perceptual distortions —Feedback —Non-directive and directive communication —Active listening —Defensive and supportive communication —Non-verbal communication —Assumptions and inferences SATURDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5th & 6th, 1985 Seminar Fed: $225 plus $25 for materials (refreshments Included) PHONE NOW FOR RESERVATIONS: 562*2454 PRINCE GEORGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRINCE GEORGE BULKLEY VALLEY Progressive Conservative Riding Association NOTICE A meeting of members residing in this riding will be held on the 10th day of October, 1985, at 7:30 P.M., at the Discovery Room of the Simon Fraser Hotel in Prince George, B.C., to select 10 delegates and 5 alternates for attendance to the Federal Progressive Conservative Association of British Columbia Annual Convention, to be held in Prince George on November 8th, 9th and 10th, 1985. ROY J. STEWART — Secretary The times they are indeed a changin’. Instead of hopping around a coop, this giant feathered friend K.C. Chicken (top photograph) hopped a ride on an all-terrain vehicle to visit with children in the Oktoberfest parade on Saturday. Later that day the Rhein-gold Club’s popular Oktoberfest offered food, drink and music to enthusiastic participants. Here, Egon Schlick hoists a mug to celebrate the event. Oktoberfest fun continues when the festhall opens in the Coliseum on Thursday. Citizen photo by Lisa Murdoch THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Monday, September 30,1985 — 3 local news "-Citizen HART DRUG MART 4th Ave. Mall These Items available at Both Locations LIMITED QUANTITIES SALE DATES Sept. 30 to Oct. 6 Sale Ends Sunday EFFERDENT TABLETS 84's + 12 bonus *2.89 USTERINE MOUTHWASH 500 ml. + 125 ml bonus. *2.59 PINE-S0L 800 ml *2.49 Ban or Ultra Ban SOLID DEODORANT 60 gr. *1.99 385 ml., limit 4 per customer $66l Always Feminine Hygiene MAXI PADS or MAXI THINS 30’s *4.29 Always Feminine Hygiene *4* AA MINI PAD 30 s *2.99 pantiliners48s*3.94 Vaseline intensive CARE LOTION 500 ml pump *4.13 Extra Strength *3.59 SILK GEL 200 ML. .79 SILK MOUSSE ,50GR$2.17 IIAMOUR FOAMING OATH )0 ML.................................*2.29 LDVS DIAPERS Convenience sizes *9.77 SPRAY KLEEN PUMP 682 ml or refill 909 ml R 2.6 litre box. *4.79 ice 40 s................*3.34 r soap 4 s $1.34 Personal size 4's... *2.14 Two : escape crash • Two Vanderhoof imen escaped injury jwhen a single-engine jAeronca plane crashed •at the Vanderhoof •airport Saturday at [6:45 p.m. : The plane was about :.200 feet up when it developed engine trouble,' Vanderhoof iRCMP said. | Pilot Karl Matzhold, :29, tried to land the iplane, but it crashed •into bushes during the jattempt. j Bill Dragvik was the ‘passenger in the air-iplane, RCMP said. • Transport Canada is investigating the cause of the crash. \_ ( Brothers' vehicles City proposes big increase in swim fees When the Four Seasons Swimming pool reopens in mid-November after closing Tuesday for six weeks of construction, users may find that they will have to pay a lot more for the improvements. At tonight’s council meeting, Prince George aldermen will consider increasing the fees of the facility, in some cases as much as 75 per cent. Under the proposed increase, the adult fee will increase 50 cents to $2.50, youth and seniors will jump 75 cents to $1.75, children under 12 years old 50 cents to $1.25, disabled 50 cents to $1. Fees for pool rental and most lessons will not change. The $1.1-million expansion will include the addition of a leisure pool and the installation of a weight room and tanning lounge. Council approved the expansion with the hope more people will use the facility which could decrease the city’s annual subsidy to the pool. council tonight collide One brother is dead and another in hospital after a two-vehicle accident on the Germansen Landing Road, northeast of Fort St. James. At 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Parker Gainor, 22, of Fort St. James, was driving a station wagon south and Oakley Gainor, 27, also of Fort St. James, was driving a van north when the two vehicles collided head-on on a sharp curve at the crest of a hill, RCMP said. Parker Gainor was dead on arrival at Fort St. James hospital. Oakley Gainor is in stable condition. Mayor Elmer Mercier thinks the city’s efficient meter maids should show a little restraint and not ticket delivery vehicles making short stops while on business. This is one of many items city council will consider at tonight’s regular meeting. Mercier suggests the city should change its policy of prohibiting delivery trucks from stopping and extend the flexibility granted in major cities. • The recreation department wants council to consider a budget increase to keep the city’s recreation facilities open during statutory holidays. In a report to council, the department says it needs an additional $909 this year and $8,930 next year to provide services during the holidays at several facilities including the Four Seasons swimming pool and the Coliseum. • Revelstoke city council wants Prince George to support a request to the Ministry of Highways to build a paved road from Valemount to the Mica Dam, about 100 kilometres north of Revelstoke. The road would enable tourists to remain in British Columbia instead of travelling on the Icefields Parkway in Alberta, adds the request from Revelstoke. RCMP are investigating. Logger layoffs slated Northwood Pulp and Timber will shut down two company-operated harvesting operations, laying off employee loggers, before the start of the winter logging season. About 65 employees at its McGregor and Houston logging operations will be affected. Results of a vote by the loggers, accepting a package worked out by the company and The International Woodworkers of America, was announced this morning. “The workers will receive severence pay and additional benefits though this wasn’t covered by the collective agreement,” said Jack Higgins, first vice-president of I.W.A. Local 1-424, in Prince George. ‘‘Those affected will also get preferential hiring if openings occur at Northwood operations.” Doug Little, senior vice-president of Northwood said some of the loggers are interested in buying some of the npw surplus equipment that would enable them to start their own businesses. “We’re looking at ways to help them,” he said. IWA holds convention Local 1-424 of the International Woodworkers of America has sent 21 delegates to the union’s Western Canadian region’s annual convention being held this week in Vancouver. Delegates include Frank Everitt, local union president, Roger December, second vice-president, and Shiv Garcha, business agent. Speakers include regional president Jack Munro, Canadian Labor Congress president Denis McDermott, federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent, and B.C. NDP leader Bob Skelly Carnation EVAPORATED LOGGING TRUCKS RIDERS HELP CHILDREN Plan put on hold A plan requiring logging trucks to stop at provincial weigh scales, effective Tuesday morning, has been put on hold. “On Aug. 19, Alex Fraser, the Minister of Transportation and Highways, informed us that logging trucks would have to stop at scales effective Oct. 1,” said Frank Drougel, manager of the Central Interior Logging Association. “Now the proposal has been put on hold until at least April 1,1986.” The proposal was made because some truckers were carrying overweight loads on public highways. In addition, some sawmills in the Southern Interior were not supplying information from their weigh scales tnat would tell the Ministry who was violating the rules. The Ministry has put the plan on hold in return for an undertaking from mills to provide the documentation requested, in a form that can be used by the Ministry. “The majority of the mills have indicated full co-operation in providing the information we need to avoid the requirement of excessive staff time and to give us an alternative means to get the weights of the trucks without the need to weigh them at our weigh stations,” said Keith Jackman, superintendent.of motor vehicles in Victoria. “This is in the interest of the trucker and the mill to cut down the truckers turn-around time.” HART CENTRE LOCATION OPEN 9-9 7-Days a Week. Sunday & Holidays 10-6 — 962-9666 DOWNTOWN LOCATION OPEN 9-6 6-Days a Week ICLOSED Sunday & Holidays - 564-7147 J