CASTLEGAR NEWS, JUNE 24, 1981 COMMUNITY TV... CABLE WEST 10 ACCESS TELEVSION Thursday Night Schedule §:30—Sign-on and program information. 5:35—Five-day weather re- port from the West - : Kootenay Environ- ment Office, 5:40— santloger. Library storytime 6:00—Doukhobor and Other Ethnic Cultures Workshop — Part Il. This is the final seg- ment of the West Kootenay Multi-Cul- tural Society. work- shop which features a discussion on the joint impact of ethnic iden- tity on Canadian cul- ture by representa- tives of East Indian, * black and native In- dian cultures. Finally, a discussion — answer period and evaluation of the workshop. 7:50—Evelyn Armstrong — Printmaker, is inter- viewed by Eleanor Pujol-Rodriguez of the National Exhibi- tion Centre, during a recent workshop con- ducted by the artist. 8:10—“Two is a Crowd” — This film and follow- up discussion deals with the choices a sin- gle woman faces when she discovers she is pregnant, Carol Albo, Marlene Jones and Art Zaporozan, dis- cuss the film and the support services available to women facing similar situ- ations, This program is produced by the Right to Life Society. 9:10—Castlegar City Coun- - : cil meeting of June 28, presented in its en- tirety. Punk rock singer sets himself afire From the show-must-go-on department: guitarist Wil- lem‘ Strang of the punk rock group: Splodgenessabounds continued strumming Tues-’ day after a fire-breathing stunt went awry and he was briefly engulfed in flames.” | Beer and wet towels were thrown on his head and he performed two more songs before being taken to hos- pital in Great Yarmouth, England, where he was treated and released. He was not seriously hurt. ° Nightclub witnesses said Strang gulped a mouthful of lighter fluid and put a match to his face as part of the group's performance. The lighter fluid ignited and Strang’s face and neck edught fire. PRINTMAKER, Evelyn ‘Armstrong, loft, is interviewed by Eleanor Pujol: Rodrigues of the National Exhibition con. tre Thursday on Channel 10 at 7:50 p.m. MOSCOW (AP-CP) — A National Ballet of Canada duet has reached the finals of the Moscow International Ballet Competition, earning rave reviews in an event often called the Olympics of ballet. Kimberley Glasco, 20, 4 native of Eugene, Ore., and Kevin Pugh, 21, a native of Indianapolis, Ind., both with the National Ballet in Tor- onto, were among the .32 finalists from 11 countries “dancing for medals and cash prizes Tuesday and today at the Bolshoi theatre. “T think it's going really well,” Pugh said before his final performance Tuesday night. “This is my firat international competition and : it would really be. great if we won a medal," ": “Winning a medal would be an honor, but just having the experience of seeing so many dancers in action has been wonderful,” Glasco added. The duet earned. rave re- views from the official Soviet news agency Tass in the first two rounds, in which the ori- ginal field of 103 entrants, from 23 countries ‘was’ trimmed by an international jury. : “The audience and experts were unanimous in: their opinion that their ' perfor- mance was the highlight of the competition,” Tass said of “the senfor pairs sho wing | in’ danced gracefully ‘and emo- Honally, showing great skil f 'INALS Two Canadian ‘born “danc- Peta ae edgy most | of thelt training. In, ; Canada, having . arrived; at’ -the National Baltet School as. children, °° ‘Obviously they were ‘the { : best choice to represent Can- Rivieres, Fee Montague, 18, of Tor- onto, ‘also made the finals in’ the junior category, although -their duet partners were not selected ‘for further consid- eration... < With’ four dancers in the anada fared the best of. any team besides the Soviet Union, all of whose 16, entrants advanced: to’ the National Ballet ipokesman Kathy Holmes * said: both Glasee _ Push had recelved Roy Rogers .. . 50 years of show business By Kiley Armstrong NEW YORK (AP) — Af- ter 60 years in show busi- ness, his shiny cowboy boots walk on soft carpets in posh hotel suites. But forgotten a childhood of yodelling in Duck Run, _ Ohio, Rogers’ clean-cut cow- boy image and his 84-year marriage to co-star Dale Evans have survived the transition from country- + western singer to movie “star, from television per- sonality to businessman. The 69-year-old former farm boy, who worked picking Peaches during the Depression and proposed to Evans on horseback be- fore a show, talks a lot about survival and tradi- tional values. “Money is nice but if the whole thing fell apart today, I would survive,” he . Says, pausing to put on his hat so he'll “look like a cowboy" when a photog- rapher arrived at his hotel suite. gers said he doesn't why he has remained for 50 years, n't care if you've got said, “unless the public ac- cepts you, you're not going to make it. It may be that T'm more than just a cow- boy, that I'm more like 4 member of the family.” young, he wanted to be a dentist, “but we didn't have the financing.” Look- ing back, he says, dentistry “might have been boring compared with my life.” The cowboy got his “ musical start in Ohio, yod- elling at the age of eight and calling square dances at age 10. “My mom and dad played guitar’ and mandolin in the Duck Run country district,” he said. “My three sisters and I manufactured our own en- tertainment, singing at parties.” Rogers got-to California by hitch-hiking in the fall of 1990 after he left his job at a Cincinnati shoe fsctory. After his California em- ployer went into debt dur- ing the Depreasion, he lost his oe hauling cement and gravel. His sinter convinced him “to appear in an amateur show in 1931 and a few days Jater he was invited to join a group called Rocky Mountaineers, “the beginning of my’ 80 years in show business.” Rogers was born Leo- nard Franklin Slye. 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