CHRISTMAS HOURS:

Mon-Wed 9:00-5:00 Thurs-Fri 9:00-7:00

Jewellers 1955-1995

Sat 9:00-5:00 Closed Sunday |

1598 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver 988-4717

All I Want for Christmas is an IPC

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS
CO/FK & MX°1 Standard hardware

© On-board PCI IDE controller with
high speed serial & paralie! ports
© 1248 PCI SVGA video
fot keyboard
© 101 ke:
® Windows 95 foaded
(manuals incheded) pentium
© Variety of software titles (see below)
« Mouse & mouse pad
© 3 year parts & labour warranty
« First year on-site service

Multimedia hardware

«Quan, NB ROK

speed
* 16-bit sound card
. Amplified external speakers

© Meultor net inchded REAR SAX.BATA

IPC CDIFX Sia 4

| Imaginative Computer Solutions inc.
984-7400 |

1440 Rupert Street, North Vancouver

Shop smartly
at Christmas

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING can
be 2 pleasant and satisfying
experience if you shop smart
according to Valerie MacLean,
Better Business Bureau (BBB)
general manager.

With Christmas Day fast
approaching, the BBB offers the
following 10 suggestions for those
who wish to shop wisely:

B Shop only with those forms
known to be reliable or whose rep-
utation for quality customer ser-
vice can be determined;

M@ All sales are usually final,
unless there is a written agreement
given tu you or posted in the store
to the contrary. Refund and
exchange policies ere the mer-
chant’s privilege, not the cus-
tomer's, Ask if in doubt;

@ Read all papers and agreements
before signing. Keep a copy;

W Keep your sales receipts in a

Common-sense
yuletide rules

safe place where you can find them
if needed;

™@ Do not buy from advertisers
who attempt to discourage you
from buying attractively priced
advertised goods and try to pres-
sure you into something else “bet-
ter" but more expensive. That's the
bait and switch tactic;

@ If you want delivery by
Christmas, be sure you deal with
firms that can deliver on tine;

@ Transient vendors, sidewalk
hawkers and peddlers usually are
not around after Christmas to lis-
ten to complaints. The price may
be right, but the quality of mer-
chandise may be suspect;

@ Get all guarantees and war-
ranties on products in writing.

Choice Canuck
music plentiful

SO YOU find out that live cut Christmas tree you bought was
shipped here from Oregon. The guilt builds, but it’s not too late.
Redeem yourself with a Canadian-content al purchase.

Swinging, singing Can-
ucks worth a listen:
Megan Metcalfe, Love Is
An Outlaw, Stonecutter
Music 1995

West Van country gal
makes good with a fine
debut.
Hallelujah Handel!,
Classical Kids, A&M
Records 1995

Music, history, drama
from Classical Kids series
originator and producer §
Susan Hammond, she of §
Beethoven Lives Upstairs
fame. More than 24 Handel
musical excerpts inclusive.

Cowboy Junkies, 200 More Miles, BMG 1995
It was an obligatory contract drop job, but some nicely intimate live per-

formance circa 1985-1994 are

ited here.

Art Bergmann, What Fresh Heli Is This?, Sony Music 1995
No better tortured companion on the wrong side of the river Styx could be

had than Mr. Bergmann.

Huevos Rancheros, Dig In!, Mint Records 1955
Calgarians do the funky chicken su:fin’ style.
Quartette, Work of the Heart, Denon 1995
Four purest of pure Canadian voices, Cindy Church, Sylvia Tyson, Caitlin
harmonize bandso:

Hanford and Colieen Peterson

mely.

Gob, Too Late... No Friends, Mint Records 1995
A punkish pop ear-pummeling from a misfit bunch in Langley.

“pale Roadcheeis December Bth-Jonvar| 3rd.

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