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OFFICIAL THANK YOU to Park Royal merchants for
$1,000 donation to the Vancouver Women’s Musical Club

was made by Mrs. Joyce

Rawlings, chairman of the

Memorial Trast Fund. Park Royal Merchants Association
also donated $500 to the Community Music School of
Greater Vancouver. The presentation teck place during
Park Royal’s recent Silver Jubilee Pageant salute. to

Queen Elizabeth.

Motorists
tailgaters : should not attempt

as utes

-bothered by

by tapping “the brake to

_ Switch on stoplights, says the

B.C. Automobile Associa-

tion, because this may cause.

ACROSS . 11 Wet straw

1 Mental disorder mixture

4 Oozy soil 12 Highest

6 Chinese bear 14 Treat with par-
9 Foxtrot, e.g. tiality, in U.S.
10 Canadian-born 15 Whirlpool

16 Move through
water

economist

PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED

"93 Swept grass

the other driver to jam on his
brakes suddenly.

Instead, the BCAA sug-
gests trying to encourage the
driver to pass by slowing
down slightly.

4 Move within

19 River valley sub-

ject of northern Canada
B.C. Indianland = Expanded, as
claim eyes do .
20 Consumer 6 Rotund
23 Ones 7 Sound
25 Warmly clothed = g Tree

27 Expendenergy 143 pomesticates

29 Gave ' 414 Staves off
30 Ili-timed desir- 17 Beach resort
able event

south of Van-

ot Went out with

32 Knighthood 18 Great lake

21 Calms
22 More circular

24 Protective
barrier

26 Insurance rep-
resentative eg.

28 Played.with
29 Pea cover

clippings
DOWN
1 Brothel keeper

2 Cats reputedly
have them

3 Bible Bill

It won’t be long before
gardens and produce coun-
ters are overflowing with this
year’s harvest. If you have
plans to. preserve some of
this summer’s sunshine for
next winter’s eating pleasur-

es, Start organizing yourself .

now.

The first step is to give
your freezer a facelift! Empty
your freezer and defrost it
completely. Be sure to
unplug the unit before you
start defrosting. Wrap the
food in large bundles with
heavy towels or newspaper.
If it is cooler outside than in
the house, leave the food just

outside the door or on the

patio or balcony, out of the
sunshine, while you defrost

‘the freezer.

If your freezer is self-
defrosting give it a good
cleaning. Wash it with a mild
baking soda and_ water
solution. Rinse and dry it
completely before plugging it
in again.

As you put the food back
into the freezer, take an
inventory of what’s left.
Keep an inventory sheet and
a pencil near the freezer so
that you can check off
anything you use or anything

you put into the freezer.

Plan meals around the
food that is in your freezer
now, and make room for this
year’s produce.

Check the inside tempera-
ture of your freezer to

_determine its operating effic-

iency. Your freezer should
maintain a constant tempera-
ture of -17.8°C (o°F) for

proper storage. of foods.

Special freezer thermome-
ters can be purchased for a
few dollars in most hardware
stores. They are well worth
the investment. If you leave
the thermometer in the
freezer at all times you can
be constantly aware of how
your freezer is operating and
will be alerted to the first
sign of any malfunctioning.

-To use your freezer pro-
perly, keep it % full for
optimum energy _ perfor-
mance. At that point your
operating costs are at their
lowest.

Increasingly stiff fines for
misleading advertising in
Canada may be in _ store
following an Ontario Sup-
reme Court decision setting a
new high for cases of this
kind under the Combines
Investigation Act, writes

Anthony Whittingham in The

Financial Post. That’s bound
to make advertisers increas-
ingly cautious about what
they say.

New York Shoe Store Lid.

a semi-dormant  Toronto-
based company resurrected
to carry out real estate
transactions in Ontario - was
fined a record $40,000 two
weeks ago on four counts of
misleading advertising under
the Combines Act.

The company was found
guilty of misrepresenting the
quality of land it was selling
in Northern Ontario through

Determine what and how

‘much. you want to freeze

during the summer months.
Decide on the size of freezer

bags you will require and

purchase all your supplies

now -- before the big season >

hits.

The thick polyethelene

-**Glad’’ freezer bags are a

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a
a

good choice. They are
available in a _ five-cup,
twenty-cup and _ fifty-cup

sizes -- a good range for. a
variety of freezing purposes.
Since ‘‘Glad’’ freezer bags
come packaged with metal
twist-ties, labels and a straw

- to assist in removing air from

the bag, all of your freezing
supplies can be purchased in
virtually one package.

If you are planting a
garden and intend to freeze
the vegetables, select seed
varieties that are suitable for
freezing. . Otherwise, you
may be disappointed in the
results. The seed package
should indicate that the
variety is good for freezing.
If you are purchasing seed-
ling plants, ask the owner, of
the nursery for suitable
varieties. —

BE WARY

If you see good bargains at
produce counters early in the
season, be wary of purchas-
ing large quantities for
freezing. The early, imported
varieties of many vegetables
are usually meant tol nurture
your cravings. for fresh
vegetables and are best
eaten fresh. They are usually
not. suitable for’ ‘freezing. .

One ‘such vegetable you
may see at this time of year is
asparagus. The bulk of

Canadian asparagus usually —
hits the market in mid-to-late |

May. But imported aspara-
gus is in our supermarkets
long before our own varieties
begin to appear. These
imports are usually early
varieties grown especially to
withstand travelling.

Canadian-grown  aspara-
gus is a succulent, mild-

flavored vegetable with a
very short growing season. It
is the only Canadian vege-
table available this early in
the year which is suitable for
freezing.

the use of such _ enticing
phrases as ‘‘bubbling trout
streams, coursing rivers and
charming wooded ridges’’ to
describe land that was
actually little more than
-swampland and scrub bush.

Provincial Judge Ss.
Gordon Tinker doubled the
fine (to $40,000 from
$20,000) that had previously
been informally agreed upon
‘by lawyers for. both sides.
The judge said he did not
think a fine of $5,000 (for
each of the four counts of
misleading advertising) was

‘sufficient’ -- even though
this amount would be in itself
have been considered a
relatively stiff fine.

This marks a sharp accele-
ration in the trend toward
higher fines handed down in
misleading advertising cases
in recent years.

Asparagus loses quality
quickly after harvest so look
for stalks that are young and
tender. The asparagus heads
should be tightly closed with
a purple-green coloring. The
cut end should look moist
and greenish-white in color.
Avoid dried, pink-colored
bottoms.

SPEARS

Wash asparagus spears in
cold water, removing any
sand under leaflets. Grade
stocks into small, medium
and large. Remove butt ends
by ‘‘snapping off’’ near the
bottom. If the butts bend
instead of snapping off, you
don’t have fresh spears! The
butts can be blanched,
packaged in freezer bags,
frozen and used for soup.

To blanch asparagus wrap
the spears (a pound at a
time) in cheesecloth or a wire
basket and gently dunk them
into one gallon of rapidly
boiling water. When. the
water returns to a boil, start
counting blanching time.
Small spears take 2 minutes,
medium 3 minutes and large
spears 4 minutes of blanch-
ing.

Quickly lift the asparagus
from the water and dunk into
ice-cold water. Prompt cool-
ing is the key to insuring top
quality, so work quickly.
When the vegetable feels
cool, drain well.

The ideal package for
freezing asparagus is a
freezer bag. When packing,
alternate stem and tip ends
filling only enough for
convenient use later.

CANTONESE

Open Mon. - Sun.

10:30 am - 3:00 pm.
6:30 pm - 10:00 pm.
Closed Wednesday.

Gol

Chinese cooking center.

A gaet aor ee

sed ahaa acetate Ante sera

1 Relax by the crackling fire.

;/ The Pub—have an evening of
[fun and sing-along. You’ve got
i to come early and be prepared
Eto get involved.

UNIQUE PEKING _«&
PALACE DECOR
AUTHENTIC

OVER 250 DIFFERENT DISHES

Advance reservations for par-
tles, luncheons, etc. 5 banquet
rooms available, senting for
over 1,000.

iden Crown
Restaurant

124 West Hastings St. Vancouver -

Honoured to be the advanced

Remove the air by insert-
ing a straw in the bag,
holding the bag tightly

around the straw and sucking
the air out. Twist tie, label,
freeze and look forward to
enjoying summer sunshine
during the winter months.

The Tudor Room—dine in the |
quiet and charm of an English |
inn Atmosphere. An exper- |
ience you’d be proud to share [
with friends and relatives.

Table reservations
926-5511
922-2828

440 Ciyde Ave.
West Vancouver

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