Starts Olymple Sports in’ 1984 WELCOME Anyone. Getinto shape. Tues. BtoF gm , Thurs. 7 to 9p. m, Moro info call 363-5028: : PLACE . - Kinnaird Elementary School Castlegar & District Arts Counc Adults $4.00 Seniors & 28200" under | present Ss “COMMUNITY 730 pm. G SHS. ‘By DAVE MULHOLLAND ‘Teaming : ‘up. the two premier artists ‘in’ pure-country music should produce an sareeially emorable album, right? Well, perhaps it’s just that expectations ‘run too’ high, but, after listening several times to the Merle Haggard ‘and George Jones album, A Taste of Yester- ; lay's Wine (Epic Record), T'm disappointed: ” It’s not that the album: is bad. ‘The two singers work well enough ‘together, but the chemistry one ) nd reasonably expect —. simply problem lies with the material.’ All five 1 are ‘int ve ballads. With the exception of Willie Nelson's Leceeniey Wine, they're 3 that or relate to the contrivances of Freddie Hart. : Side'2 gets. under way with C.C. Waterback, a Haggard ‘number that finally has the two singers. putting some energy into their.act. The album's best song, Silver Eagle, concerns the | experience, had. been for Bunny: : oral English student, ‘a brief walk in the: ‘Abbey’ parklands, .. Thomas Cromwell; 1o:raualcal ; think, a ite dappintd ste our early arith but the dogs Nore Oratatic. WHE And renos, particularly, soaring amon; re enough to make the; tears start, ‘We drove ‘home’ last’ night Finally, nicnth-long : teach tint: at Westininster “Abbey with ‘whereabou : perhaps a more 2 usual mixture. of : nostalgia ‘and ~ giest-master and: satisfaction, What, for me, had : “supper. This time T was in luck forthe andor hal declied lastonbury Abbey and its unhappy; weekend ‘at least — a somew! Sasartaye for example, exhaust pipe which made their progress-sound like the | ‘It: ¥ i ; a = advance ofa regiment of tanks; they then ran into snow and : ;'Benedictine place ‘of many, Jegends. on of Christ, Joseph and: arri driving rain and by a combination of pitch darkness ‘and mis- '* direction’ took the wrong ‘road ‘and fae horoughly lost After breakfast came the final 40-miitite lesson with my "500 guests at a sit! ‘parade of doom and-disaster, murder and mayhem from ‘any other month; ‘only the moans: lad beon changed.” : . he ““Levin’: my Scottish Field calendar (January) gave way:to ‘Sunset over, the Firth of Lorne.’ My desk calendar also had y be L ASSOCIATION. ‘at -7:30 p.m: at 137. =; IE Persons Interested in minor .- ‘2477 or turther detalts. | © March 23... Koo tre’in Casth vary Calendar * y+. continuing until March 11th of Med Natlonal Exhibition Centra in in Castlegar Is the dis; jive tile en. | titled ‘Tiles Tell i Tale” from the aevct Ontario Museum in Toronto. ing on on Merch’ 4th is the annual Com: leaturing the work of arists from the | rea, ‘tntinge, drawings, and batik will be shown during |.’ Centre hours. An openin, Ing reception w veil Be held on Mon- , March 14th ‘at: 7:30 p.m. when en! freshments will be avaliable, The. exhibit |e co-spons, by th tha Kootenay Art Club, Castlegar Arts Council and tho’, » Short: Sto Coatedt: ‘sponsored by th bd Viriter's Guild, diine. Cant Cantley tact Linda Hall ey March We, “comimunt olen Niobe fgaton 2 galny loco! entertalners, ‘at 7: * Shugea will bo'the ‘Kootenay youth Choir, Piratn’ vocalists, SHSS Stage Band and much, more. Don't you ae cpr nan nity Arts Covel, : ing reception for the Community Art Persil 4 “the qe ie 7:30 p.m. Entertainment by b ly. dancer “Malika” and refreshments ava! valloble, bes! the ian cle arty done here. ' " in @ ploy by Thea ‘ En inidadin in ie Pao Parforminnce Series. Camission “| Selwyn Redivo, eloanea guitare; wilt op. EC in concert at 6 p.m re Workshop by Sven Sorenson, to ey held at the NEC. Register early at it i .: * i West Kootenay Juried Artech juried by Cohadian a luried by: Molly. Thomsen Gan forms available from: Joe! aria at David’ - re Concert Series: presen iced Chote! from Toronto in the Nalson * poe ce an Club meets in thesr. Cit. Cen- p.m: Guests Pat Freschl and genet wre teal “ cle will roe a Presentation : f .DOWNHILL CHAMP. -Jim Gove of Rossland infer- ‘ene views Steve Podborski, defending World Cup Men’ + down-hill vise la Podborski won. the Shell Cup pressures of being a country star, but again, it relates more to people in the music business than it does to the. fans. © - . . Must’ve Been. Drunk is:a ‘parody that works, but No Show Jones, playing on George Jones's well-known ping in my suite and a pleasant’. High Chamberlain; ‘manipulated | pone : CITIZENS ASSOCIATION The regular Bitiness mesting of the Sttocition wilt bs 2 + March bho ner germnte Work: some: preparatory: housek a : held on Thurs. Maret Sat Bem fs berg to. -UP COMING EVENTS- FINE ARTS FESTIVAL. March 14th Spring Band Concert‘ March 15th fo 18th West Kootenay Drama by. rep that‘order); ‘The old man: ‘was quickly hanged, Festival COME JOIN US AT S.H.S.S. EIT . This time he’s fighting WARNING: Some cRmEgEEE Y Occasiol for his life. “STALLONE FANS SHOULD GO NUTS.:. ook LINCOLN CLARKES- VANCOUVER (CP) — Lin- coln Clarkes normally comes out only at night, He starts. work at about 3 a.m., arriving at: local con: suitcase filled with a dozen says the urban art guerrilla, he can get the feeling of a ‘real world out there. Inthe bi “three years, aches’ has ied paintings. ‘His most not- ; orious is a dripping splotch of ‘ ’ yed-with a black, gun in: the struction sites with a small. cans of paint. At that time, blitzed Vancoa, >: Coit eHE NYE inéoin TOMEKS *T've' been beateti’ ip? pee ‘oronto with ‘about’ “stitiks,” Undér ‘thats a'reply; “tered and seduced,” he Bait centre. He calls it Television. Recent paintings by the 25-year-old are located, as “usual, at construction sites. One ‘of them,. a blood-red heart pierced by a thin, wavy blue: line, is entitled Ro-* mantie Slut. - Vancouver Burning depicts a grid of highrise squares engulfed in crimson flames. Beside one painting is, the 'S0 moron,” “does your. opinion, WI you're going to be. -hated,” 840 Rossland Ave. _ Guitar Headquarters the .Kootenays . . Degas, Libra. Music Gibson, Washburn, ed Sigma,, Yamaha, Anjo, Aria’ ‘Pro ll, Mann, Custom Made Electric Guitars. * 364-2922 Trail loved, you're going to be black leather pants are spec- kled with red‘paint. A back and white polka-dot’ scarf is. bunched around his neck. ° Clarkes used to have look- outs at the end of each block where he worked. But now- adays he works alone, taking his chances. Accomplices dis- tract him, “I’ve. lost’ count of the police.’ hassles. Some have been like art critics. Some pull up and. : stick guns in my face. A lot of | the.time they've been coh-, ‘fused and didn't know ‘what to do. They're used to crim- inals and car crashes. I: tell them that I'm doing it be- cause it's modern art.” Clarkes, who calls -his paintings “illegal. street works,” was born’ in Scar- borough, Ont, and arrived in Vancouver in 1976 after which he spent a lot of time in California. He has two chil- dren who live with their mother in Vancouver's West End. : He's applied for a $5,000 Canada Council grant, which said Clarkes, whose Not just a prattittt artist he said would enable him'to # leave art around every major North American city, plus London and Paris. He'd also lorthern Ireland, ‘such a danger thi something out ‘there oie : than Robert Bateman.” couver is a colorless city’ that. doesn't seem to care about its* Inndmarks. “It's too-much a little cor-" ner of the world,” he said of the city. “I did like it once but it just breaks my heart, this town. I feel like a goldfish ina little bowl. I need a stronger dose. The song is over. “The Vancouver Art Gal- lery should be collecting my work. Instead, they destroy- ed five of my best pieces at the new site — just painted them over with the construc. tion credits.” * new double album, ‘Anniversary fSple Records), illus- reputation for missing concerts, is a tragedy consid- ering the underlying reason for the song. In the liner notes, Leona Williams: -Haggard says, “Miracles appear in the strangest of places,” The: miracle here is that | there: is no miracle. The Eagles’ ibn Prey is ited as saying, “The only difference between ‘boring’ and ‘laid back’ is one million: dollars.” Merle. Haggard’s new. solo album, Going Where ; the ‘Lonely Go. (Epic Records), is definitely laid back. _ Although it’s a good album, it:lacks the magic and emotional intensity of previous Haggard albums, such as 1979's Serving 190 Proof... - * ‘The thread running throughout the new album is that, Haggard is a loner uriable to have a satisfying, lasting relationship with: woman, But the theme is expressed in songs with the usual lost-love laments. Excopt for Willie Nelson's Half A Man and Leona h Williams's You°Take' Me‘ Fot. Griited wo stngs hat create tholr own! atttiosph (ére's ‘tiathitig’ new, and only Haggard’s incisive, country-blues baritone gives the other songs any significance. How many times can asinger get: ‘any. ries into, a song like Why Am I Drink'n, about — suetoed it —