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Now. 396 Prices Effective ‘til April 7, 1987 STORE HOURS: Monday to Saturday 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday 9:30 a.m.-9:00 p.m. WANETA PLAZA (Vy Highway 3, Trail THE MORE YOU LOOK... THE MORE YOU SAVE! HOUSE OF WAX . . . The Grade 3 boys at Tarrys elementary school are dipping strings of wax into a Students busy at Tarrys The staff at Tarrys elem- entary school have de- veloped a school philoso- phy around three prin- ciples: e provide children with good basic skills; e provide leadership and_... environment for children to learn how to get along with others and help one another; © provide a positive cli- mate to heighten each child's self-esteem. A variety of curricular and extra-curricular acti- vities are offerd to provide children with a number of experiences. Community resource people are used to supplement classroom in: struction. Examples are the RCMP, National Exhi- bition Centre guest speak. ers, and the public health nurse. Intra and extra-murals are centred around athletic parattin dish to make candles as part of Pioneer Days. events give children the physical skills, leadership abilities, and help in build ing self-esteem. BETTER BUTTER . . . Judy Brown from the National Exhibition Centre shows the Grade A class at Tarrys elementary school how to make butter as part of Pioneer Days for Social Studies. MAN IN MOTION. . . Students at Tarrys elementary watch the Rick Hansen video presentation, part of a series of informational discussions in Castlegar Oe schools about Hansen carried out by supporter Kris Stanbra. LOCAL WRITERS' ANTHOLOGY IMPRESSIVE By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer “We get desperate in the boondocks,” Lynne Lidstone writes. Much of this desperation seems to have found a perfect release in a new anthology of short stories and poetry by Kootenay women writers called Journey to the Interior. The anthology, for the most part, is a moving and intricate series of works with styles that shift between the surealism of Hildegard Silversides’ Farmer in the Dale and rythmic, sing-song verse of Lynne Lidstone’s poetry. OOK REVIE One of the most startling works is a short story entitled Treasures by Jaqueline F. Louie. Treasures is a women's recollection of her rural childhood and her fond memories, particularly of her well-off neighbor, Mrs. Flagherty and her prospector father who journeys out into the mountains every spring in search of “heavy, rich and shiny ore,” but not gold. “Gold will make a man crazy,” he says. What makes Louie's story all the more remarkable is, according to a series of short biographies in the back of the book, this tale is the first short story she has ever written. Another fascinating tale is Sandra Hartline’s Songbird, a story about a young women, ironically named Robyn, who gives the gift of a canary to her husband — a canary unable to sing merely because it is female. All the bird seems able to do is lay eggs that promise no life while it remains trapped in a cage listening to Robyn as she frets aloud. At one point the canary manages to slip out the front door only to allow itself to be recaptured after a brief taste of freedom, like Robyn who flirts with the idea of a career or going back to school, only to allow herself to remain trapped in the house. The bird finally dies on Robyn's 32nd birthday and “it is kind of a celebration,” writes Hartline. Also in the book is Sheilagh Phillip’s Joy, a brilliant portrayal of a frustrated adolescent named Joy (who is anything but joyful). Joy has an insatiable curiousity of ly. -science..brought .on by.an. interest .in her own physical reactions which erupt in place of genuine emotion. Joy lives with her father Henry Hunt, a Fuller Brush salesman who gives a nightly commentary about the cleanliness of neighborhood households. “That young Ms. Lindsey has a most untidy ring of dried broccoli all around her stove. Bits of carrot, too. And something that looked like red cabbage; couldn't tell for sure, though. Believe you me, it was that decom} But Joy hates these tales of slovenly living. “She feels that people's domestic habits ought to be a private matter, and views his indiscretion as yet another filthy injustice too small to warrant serious criticism, but serious enough to disturb her gastric juices, and, since he always tells his sordid tales at dinner time . . . digestion is a daily problem.” Other stories include Caroline Woodward's Lucy in Love, about a flighty woman mixed up by her own romantic images of the ideal man. Lucy is more in love with being in love than with ker mate. There is also Vi Plotnikoffs Aunt Sofie and the Soldier, which, despite being entertaining, is flawed by Plotnikoff's tendency to overwrite and unwittingly falls victim to an all too familiar theme — the stylish and seemingly unflappable aunt who is adored and idolized by a naive adolescent girl. Much of the poetry in this anthology is solid but unexceptional though some can be dazzling with vivid, crystaline images. Eighteen-year-old Dymphny Koenig-Clement, in her poem Nigtit Blossoms, writes of a sorry bar-fly, a woman ENAY WOMEN WAITER JOURNEY . . . The cover of the first anthology of works by Kootenay women writers. Included in the book are local writers Alexa West, Vi Plotnikoft and Sujata-Bodhi. able to reach her full, luxuriant bloom only when intoxicated. “Rosa dances/light-headed, heavy-footed/cocaine bright eyes/laugh at herself/and life.” And later she writes, “Rosa leans over/mescal breath/kisses my face,/confesses something serious,/ suddenly my best friend.” Another poem — the first in the book — is Making, by Luanne Armstrong. Armstrong was asked to write the:work specifically for Journey tv the-Interior and its place as the first poem is more than appropriate. Armstrong writes of writing, of “walking daily discipline into circles” and “use words as if they are true.” “Shape tales of old pain” she writes, but then throws in the curveball which should serve as a warning to anyone who finds female confessional writing a bit repetitive and unbelievable. . The poetry in this book tends to make an appeal to all women as though they bear some unshakable genetic and cultura! undercurrent in common. Instead, the poetry in this book serves as a glaring admission of how vague the common bonds really are between women. In general, much of the reminder of the poetry is sometimes inciteful and subtly disquieting with Nicola Harwood’s uncomfortably vengeful Glass Houses and Patty Kelly's cerebral observance in Images. Others are only readable at best, with Alexa West's completely uninspired work entitled simply A Poem, which reads with the cliche of “an arrow to your heart” and Deb Thomas's dreary and thoroughly unconvincing I Praise the Older Woman. The only real sour note in the entire anthology is a horribly written, condescending piece called Shirley by Trail's Deirdre Hendrie. Hendrie’s work is completely out of place in this book, which is really a major editorial flaw for letting it slip by. Shirley would probably be better suited in B.C. Woman's magazine. The writing is trite and the characters two-dimensional, and Hendrie’s only skill is stating the obvious. The only thing disturbing about Shirley is having to read it. Clocks ahead one hour By BRUCE LEVETT Canadian Press What day is Sunday, April 5? Well, it’s the end of the British income tax year, the date of the Ching Ming festival in Hong Kong and Arbor Day in South Korea. But — first and foremost — it’s the day Canadians from coast to coast (or most of them, anyway) go onto daylight time by putting their clocks ahead one hour. The big move comes three weeks early this year, mainly to conform with a U.S. decision. Both countries will revert to standard time as usual at the end of October. It was easy for the Americans, for whom time is a federal responsibility; for Canadians, however, it was a little more complicated as each province grappled with the situation individually. Even Newfoundland has gone along with the switch for now. Canada’s easternmost province — which is generally half an hour out of step — is, meanwhile, studying the possibility of overhauling its complicated time-zone situation. As things stand now, during daylight time in mid-June dawn breaks as earty as 4:08, about three hours earlier than the average Newfoundlander gets out of bed. Half a continent away, the province of Saskatchewan is holding fast to its traditiohal stand and no matter what Canada and the U.S. do, it will stay on Central Standard Time. Things could have been worse. In the U.S., supporters of daylight time had been pushing not only to start it early but to run it right through to the'end of November. The campaign for a longer stretch of daylight time had been going on for more than 10 years. The U.S. transportation department argued such a move would result in fewer highway fatalities because drivers would spend less time on dark roads. Also pushing for the change were U.S. sporting goods and other leisure-products manufacturers seeking increased sales for their wares, and a group representing the approximately 400,000 Americans suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, or night blindness. For a while, when various provinces were merely considering going along with the U.S., Canadian bankers, the Air Transport Association of Canada and officials of Canadian stock exchanges all expressed concern. Bankers pointed out that because most international money market transactions occur at the end of the day, Canadians would be forced to react to market fluctuations an hour ahead of time. Airlines said transborder services would be disrupted The idea of putting the clocks ahead in spring to take advantage of increased daylight hours is generally credited to an American — Benjamin Franklin, diplomat, patriot and author. It is said Franklin was peering from his window in a Paris garret one morning in 1784 and was stricken with the thought that the average Parisian could save a bundle by greeting the dawn an hour earlier during spring and summer.