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detective series. So I
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oners (1988), re-read Black Cher

ry» Blues (1989), carried on with

A Morning for Flamingos (1990),

and was startled by A Stained
White Radiance (1992). Just last
‘week I spent two days
by In the Electric Mist with Con-
Sederate Dead (1993).

So maybe you don’t want to
take library hardcovers to the

at Super Vala, so I'm sure you can
get then at most outlets which

saga of one man’s life-that of Dave
detective.

Robicheaux,

Dave Robicheaux is a Cajun
hero with a difference. To begin
with, he is a Viet Nam vet and a
These back-

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grounds filter in and out of the
various novels. Also recurring in

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is helped to discover clues and
the truth about events by visits
from cofifederate soldiers from

the deep past who in
the 1860's fought battles in the
local

So vivid and believable are
visions—some

is hallucinating or drinking

hat we accept them as
part of the fabric of the story. In
using dream and suggestion in
this way, Burke is raising the

ings of Robicheaux's mind (his
inadequacies and his triumphs) as

much as he's interested in
adv:

end up with the best of both
worlds—a smooth blend of the
commercial and the literary. And
the pages almost seem to turn by
themselves.

seminar, has | been awarded
¢il's Jean A. Chalmers Fund for The

Felt seminar coming

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textile tradition to felt, the seminar is a first in Canada and one of

Memorial site honors lapanese-Canaians

p-m. with speeches by the various
Submitted and from

‘Yoshihide Mat-

Gapanese-Canadians) in 1943, is the lives and conditions of the

being restored on the site. Other Nikkei who lived in the
include the new hall camps between 1942 and

‘Canada’s only operating histor- subayashi and United Church
ical site dedicated to the thou-

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on July includes performances by the

Notk Soektente, will bo jotned Uzume Taiko troupe, Snake in ‘

‘at the Nikkei Internment Memori- the Grass Moving Theatre,
al Centre by Japan's Consul-Gen- — shakphachi (traditional babmo-
eral Yasuo Nozaka, MP Jim poo flute) player Takeo
Gouk, MLA Corky Evans, Yamashiro and Japanese dancers,
The Nikkei Centre, on

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Sundays 2 pm-8 pm
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collect, conserve,
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Butler’s tie-dyed art

featured i in Nelson

Wall hangings by Ron Butler opens‘ the

technique
Puture” is a collection of new works on the theme of what the future

will

bring.
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University with a degree in geology. He worked in the
geology field for six years, and has continued his studies in related

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artist L.X. Forde. Ron credits his success to developing “a lot of

patience” in his craft.

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abject poverty, assaults, broken es
marriages, broken homes and
long last my life is starting to
make sense ,

It's been exciting to revisit old
haunts like flea-markets where

T’m still recognized by the very,
very old proprietors of junk-
kiosks.

Thexe are also still

second-hand book stores with

on the lives of

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ABUSED, REJECTED, & DESERTED

Submitted by: Pastor McGougan of New Life Assembly

In today’s society we have the distinct privilege of not even having to use our
imaginations to help us graphically picture the hellish suffering of both children and
adults. There is nothing new in saying that it’s difficult to browse through a
newspaper, listen to a news cast or watch the days events on the news hour without
being bombarded with vivid images of pain and suffering. And although the sheer
volume and intensity of the images may to some extent have desensitized those of us
who have not lived in that kind of trauma we can never say that we have not been

rs. We've watched. the extreme close up shots of the painful expression on the face of a
‘suffeting child born in a country dominated by a merciless foreign military

We’ ve seen families flee for their lives from murderous rampages in which even
SL DMRFBS WIRLICA COU ; . the innocent children have been the intended targets of a self seeking madman.
614 Christine Place We’ve been aloud to eavesdrop in our own back yards on families struggling to
SUMMER WORSHIP PRESBYTERIAN | S"tVive scandalous and libelous rumors that have no basis in reality.
9:30 am | We’ve look on as documentaries dissect the plight of the single parent families
FAMILY SERVICE Wership who’s bread winner is no longer around.
We’ ve felt the agony as the cameras caught the starburst of light refracting
through the tears of those who’s efforts to help have met with nothing but

We've seen the down fall of good men and women as their friends and associates
desert them because it is no longer personally expedient to be associated with
someone whose popularity has dissipated.

We’ve been the privileged observers (sometimes willingly and sometimes

unwillingly) at mockeries of justice as the system is
skillfully manipulated to allow the guilty to go free
while the innocent are victimized.

We’ve even been subjected to hidden camera reports
of some of the abusive and torturous form of
punishment that many have suffered at the hands of
hedonistic tyrants at all levels of authority.

It would be difficult to find the end of the list of
tragedies that we are confronted with day after day after
day. But it is not my intention to simply comment on
today’s society. Nor to indict the news media. Nor to
attempt to solicit funds for any needy cause. It is my
desire to help us realize that when we are hurting there
really is someone who has gone through all of this and
more. There is someone you can go to who knows
exactly what it is; to be abused, to be battered, to be
rejected, to be abandoned, to be laughed at, to be
ridiculed, to be lonely and so much more. You see Jesus
Christ went through it all even to the point of giving up
His own life for you and I. SO IF YOU’RE HURTING -
REMEMBER THAT JESUS CARES. He knows exactly
where you’re coming from because He’s been there
AND HE HAS THE POWER TO DO SOMETHING
ABOUT IT IF YOU WILL LET HIM.