Castlégar News July 10, 1988 ENTERTAINMENT you'll love CHICKEN & SEAFOOD 365-5304 SUMMER HOURS Monday to Saturday, 5:30 a.m. - 8 p.m. 365-8155 1004 Columbia Ave. Castlegar famous for our... e e — Prime Rib! — Charbroiled Steak — Seafood — Poultry Caesar Salad — Specialties - — LUNCH — Mon.-Sat. 11:15.a.m.-2 p.m — DINNER — 7 Days a Week from 5 p.m. RESERVATIONS 352-5358 Across from Pharmasave 646 Baker St., Nelson COMMUNITY Bulletin Board SOUTH AFRICAN PLAY You Strike the Woman, You Strike the Rock”, written and pertormed by 3 black women at the Capital Theatre, Nelson, Thursday, July 14 at 8 p.m. $6 and $8. Tickets at door. Sponsored by CUSO with Funding assistance trom CIDA. 3. Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit organizations may be listed here. The first 10 words are $3.75 and additional words are 20¢ each. Bold faced words (which must be used for headings) count as two words. There is lor a second insertion while the third consecutive insertion is nt_and the fourth consecytive insertion is half-price. Minimum charge is $3.75 (whether ad is for one,- two or three times) Deodlines are 5 p.m. Thursdays for Sundays paper and 5 p.m. Mondays for w. days-paper: Notices shoutd be brought fo the Castlegar News af 197 Columbia Ave COMMUNITY Bulletin Board Performance by Bowie praised LONDON (CP) — The Montreal dance due La La La Human Steps has won high praise from London critics for a “dynamic” performance with rock legend David Bowie. Louise Lecavalier and Marc Beland put on a “dazzling display of attrac- tion, repulsion and near-misses,” reported Marek Kohn of the Inde- pendent. They “rescued the evening,” added Tim de Lisle of the Telegraph. The critics had mixed overall re- action to last weekend's seven-hour, two-evening extravaganza in aid of the financially troubled Institute for the Contemporary Arts, which prom- otes avant-garde music, dance and visual arts. The benefit also featured three New York acts: David Bryne of the rock group Talking Heads; The Kronos Quartet, which stretches the boundaries of traditional string mu- sic; and Hugo Largo, a band spec- ializing in atmospheric music using natural sounds such as rainstorms, The Independent's Kohn said the performance of La La La Human Steps with Bowie was a highlight. The Montreal dancers, he said, were “graced with the verve of a Red Army dance troupe and aerobatic precision.” BOWIE LEGS Chants of “Bowie! Bowie!” became screams as images of the rock star appeared on a giant screen before he danced, gliding effortessly through the shadows of the stage. He was soon joined in a poetic duet with Lecavalier, who easily balanced the prone Bowie in graceful suspen- sion. Guitars suddenly ripped the air as Bowie took to the microphone with an unusual rendition of his Look Back in Anger while Beland and Lec- avalier performed a series of pre- cision acrobatics designed by their choreographer, Edouard Locke. The Guardian's David Sinclair was disappointed with the “mixed-bag benefit,” mainly because fans stand- ing on seats blocked his view of Lecavalier, a “muscular, blonde her. maphrodite.” Canadi>n TimeAir business or pleasure 365-6616 LISA STRELAEFF y' sail : — TRAVEL CONSULTANT — Lisa can guide you in making your trip a most en- joyable one! Make your arrangements with Totem / Travel. ““A TRUSTED NAME IN TRAVEL!’ NOW IN CASTLEGAR Located Under Castlegar Savings Credit Union 1————-— WITH THIS COUPON —-—-—~—~ THE Ist 200 CUSTOMERS ARE ELIGIBLETO... SUMMER CONCERTS . . + The summer concert series at Kinsmen Park began Thursday with a performance by the Kootenay String Diversion. The free concerts will be held at the park e Thursday this month starting in July. Many people were out Thursday enjoying the first concert. CasNewsPhoto Musical retreat on Once again the Slocan Valley will vibrate with the strains of classical music from July 30 to Aug. 13 when the Valhalla Music Centre will host its annual musical retreat amidst the beauties of the Valhalla Wilderness area. This is a unique international endeavor, involving students from Japan, the-U.S.A.,-and-Canada--The combined creative efforts of Prof. Helmut Brauss, pianist, Kuniko Fur- uhata, vocalist, and a dedi skills. Students will have ample time for lessons asnd practise as well as leisure to participate in a number of recreational activities. Public con- certs will be performed by students on Aug. 12 and 13. The weekend of Aug. 6 and 7 Brauss will conduct a Teacher's Seminar, open to 30 teachers of piano. Participants-will-explorethe pedagogical and interpretative as. pects of Franz Schubert, impromptus board of directors have established the Valhalla Music Centre for master studénts of piano and voice in an inspiring setting. Brauss and Furuhata, who will lead the centre's classes, currently teach, while not on tour, at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Their performance. and recording credits range worldwide. Prof. Brauss, called “the poet of the piano” by a leading Munich critic, formerly studies with Elly Ney, Hans Ehlers and Edwin Fischer. Furuhata has studied voice with Mme. Neusch in Switzerland, at the Stuttgart “kus- ikhochschule” in West Germany, and at the Musachino in Tokyo. Together they represent a cultural fusion of the East and West They will perform a public concert at the beginning of the program on July 30 in the Silverton Gallery From July 30 to Aug. 13, Brauss and Furuhata will conduct a two- week series of classes for aprox imately 15 intermediate and ad- vanced students who were selected on the basis of a resume and audio tape. Students will spend the two weeks living and working in an at- mosphere of natural beauty and in- spiring instruction which can only enhance their already proven musical and and impres- sionistic music of Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and others. Participants in the teacher's sem- inar and the general public are en- couraged to observe the master classes throughout the two weeks — arich and enjoyable experience. Ad- vance tickets only will be sold for the three concerts to avoid the overflow crowds of last year. Tickets may be ordered through the Valhalla Music Centre or purchased as stores in the jocal-area: July 10 is the deadline to register for the Teacher's Seminar. Although the application deadline is past for applications to join the master classes, late applications will be en- tertained from qualified musicians. Ticket sales up HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Eddie Murphy's Coming to America beat the cartoon comedy Who Framed Roger Rabbit during an explosive July 4th U.S. box-office weekend. Moviegoers spent a record $70 million US over the four-day week- end, said John Krier, whose Ex- hibitor Relations Co. tracks the box- office take. Coming to America, a comedy about an African prince who goes to the United States in search of a bride, hauled in $21.4 million over the weekend to earn $28.4 million since its opening last-Wednesday. Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Disney comedy combining animated cartoon characters with real-life ac- tors drew in $14.5 million for a total gross of $37.2 million since its release two weeks ago. 7 Third place went to another comedy, Big, which grossed $6.5 million on the little-boy antics of Tom Hanks. Big has earned $53 million in five weeks. The romantic baseball film Bull Durham batted in $5.3 million to win fourth place and a three-week score of $21.8 million. Crocodile Dundee II, starring Paul Hogan as an Australian adventurer, jumped from sixth to fifth place and took in another $5.3 million to bring its six-week earnings up to $87.2 million. The Dan Ackroyd-John Candy comedy The Great Outdoors finished sixth with $4.6 million, while the Arnold Schwarzenegger-Jim Belushi action film Red Heat muscled in $4.3 million for seventh place. The female buddy comedy Big Business, starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin as mixed-up twins, placed eighth with $4 million in ticket sales while the fantasy adventure Willow fell a spot to ninth place with $2.5 million in weekend earnings. Remaining at the No. 10 spot, with $1.8 million, was the military thriller The Presidio starring Sean Connery and Mark Harmon. Cat’s Broadway Musical — Aug. 13 1 nts. accommodation at the Sheraton. Best show tickets for the Cat's 8:00 p.m. show. Dinner Butfet at the Sheraton .... FALL TOURS IN SPOKANE .- SEPTEMBER 28 Madom Butterfly .. Anne Murray . Reba McEntre 42nd Street une ED --, OCTOBER 2 Dream Girls . +» OCTOBER 4 snare October 1 to7. HENNE TOU ANNOUNCING... RS FALL RENOS! July 10, 1988 Castlégar News a7 Canadian dollars dumped OTTAWA (CP) — The govern- ment dumped close to $3 billion US worth of Canadian dollars on world money markets to hold down the value of the Canadian currency last month, Finance Department figures indicate. The government's holdings of off- icial international reserves, a fund of foreign currencies and gold, rose by $2.8 billion US in Junesto a record $16.2 billion US? The increase reflécts efforts by the government to slow the rise in the value of the Canadian dollar, which last month climbed to a 6'/-year high of 83.19 cents US. The currency later slipped in value, briefly going back below 82 cents US, but now is trading in the 82 cents US to 83 cents US range. The fund of official international reserves is used to stabilize the value of the dollar. All figures are in US dollars because that currency makes up the bulk of the fund. The Bank of Canada, which han- «des the reserve fund for the govern- ment, sells reserves and buys Can- adian dollars when it wants to slow or stop a slide in the value of the currency. And it does“the opposite, as has been the case over the last year, when it wants to resist upward pres. sure on the currency. The strong dollar has been a boon for Canadians travelling outside the country and to importers because it reduces the cost of foreign goods. But it has upset exporters who argue that it is threatening their international competitiveness _be- cause it makes Canadian products expensive for foreigners. LOWER RATES The Bank of Canada could use lower interest rates to reduce that upward pressure on the dollar. This would_tend-to-make the Canadian dollar less attractive to investors and thus reduce its value. However, the central bank fears that lower rates would add fuel to BUSINESS Lotteries addictive OTTAWA (CP) — The provinces may be as addicted to lotteries as the players, a Canadian Tax Journal article suggests. Lotteries are a tax and, along with those on tobacco and booze, are the most regressive taxes levied by the winces, says the article, appearing in the latest edition of the Canadian Tax Foundation publication. Yet lotteries have become big money-makers for the pr rs gan revenue each year, rising to almost $700 million in 1984. Only tobacco taxes are more regre: article’s authors, Francois Vaillancourt, a University of Montreal economics professor and Julie Grignon, a post-graduate economics student at the university. A tax is considered regressive when it hits the poor proportionately as hard or harder than it hits the rich. The authors also show that provincial governments inwly d an oa ig amount of ive, say the are eventually account for one per cent. Vaillancourt and Grignon, as have others, argue that government lotteries are in effect a tax, similar to an excise tax or retail sales tax. In 1984, Canadians spent almost $2.2 billion on lottery tickets, almost 400 per cent more than the amount spent in 1976, the first year that there were a full slate of provincial lotteries, the article says. In 1984, lottery winners collected $1.04 billion in gly lotteries and predict that lotteries, which now account for 0.64 per cent of all provincial revenues in 1983, will prizes, while provincial governments hauled in $698 million in revenue from ticket gales. BIGGEST BUYERS Of Canadians, Quebecers were the biggest lottery- ticket buyers, spending an average 1.24 per cent of their income on lottery tickets, while those in Western Canada spent the least, 0.5 per cent. But in all regions, the poor spent a greater portion of their income on lottery tickets than did the rich. And in Ontario and Western Canada, the lottery e, the article states, because provincial lottery revenue is spent in the field of arts, health and sports, which other studies have shown “tend to favor the high-income groups.” A breakdown of spending on lottery tickets into 10 income groups shows that the poorest 10 per cent spent 0.5 per cent of their income on lottery tickets. That from proportion declines as incomes rise, with the richest 10 per cent spending only 0.2 per cent. Former federal sports minister Otto Jelinek, in announcing the federal government was getting out of the lottery business four years ago, conceded that lotteries are “a tax on the poor, perhaps even an immoral way of collecting taxes.” National And Havi Echenberg, executive director of the Anti-poverty Organization, interview that “when I talk to low-income péople it's pretty clear they all buy lottery tickets,” though so do people who aren't poor. said in an $70-million compensation too little for growers OTTAWA (CP) — The federal government has proposed a $70-mill- ion compensation program for On- tario grape growers, but that is less than half the money they need to reduce production under the prop- osed free-trade deal with the United States, says Liberal MP Maurice Foster. Under the deal, the federal gov- ernment would pay $35 million and the Ontario government $35 million. However, the provincial government won't pay its share because Ontario won't take part in any compensation programs made necessary by a deal it opposes, Foster said in an inter- view. reduce in to a ruling by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Under the free trade ruling, On- tario and British Columbia must drop rules by next January which require provincial wineries to use locally- grown grapes. The provinces must also stop marking up the price of U.S. wines, which is done to keep domes tic vintners competitive. In March, the full council of GATT adopted a report which criticized provincial liquor board practices as discriminatory against imported spirits, wine and beer. Canada accepted the report, which means the federal government has to Foster said he has ob’ da copy of the agreement that would require farmers to tear out vines and not plant new ones for at least five years. what is still a hot in central Canada, and could in turn cause an outbreak of higher inflation. Late last month bank governor John Grew: reiterated his warning that inflation remains the biggest threat to the Canadian economy, sending out a signal that he is not prepared to let interest rates drop. However, exchanging Canadian dollars for foreign currencies, mostly U.S. dollars, has led to a virtual quadrupling of the reserve fund over the last 18 months. A breakdown of the latest reserve figures, shows U.S. dollar holdings at $13.4 billion US, roughly $3 billion US more than at the end of last month, $662.5 million US in other foreign currencies, $828.5 million US in gold, $802.2 million US special drawing rights — a currency of the International Monetary Fund — and a $540.4 million reserve position in the IMF. Gold holdings are kept in the fund at a book value that is roughly one-tenth of its market value. Last month the government sold 72,000 ounces of gold, which reduced the book value of gold holdings by $3.4 million US, but which added $33.2 million US to reserve holdings. The government also redeemed $218.2 million US in Canada bills, in effect the repayment of a loan. for Agriculture Min- ister John Wise said announcement of the federal program is close, but he didn’t know when it would be made. the pi to remove Allan’s Sewing Machine Service For Sergers, and & Ottawa started i in December with provincial govern ments and growers about a program to help farmers switch to other crops or quit agriculture. The federal government said last year it would offer ion to industrial RR Sewing Machines _ 5 * Factory Trained Technic © Free Pickup & Delivery Trail — 368-8485 the growers because the free trade deal and an international trade ruling will reduce the demand for Canadian grapes, grown primarily in Ontario and British Columbia. Foster said the Ontario growers have calculated they need $156 million in assistance over a five-year period to convert 4,400 hectares (11,000 acres) of grapes to other crops. Grapes now are grown on about 9,600 hectares (24,000 acres) in the province. He says that farmers would be eligible for payments of $20,000 a hectare for regular grapes and (CasNews |) Printing Letterheads & Envelopes Business Cards Brochures Business Forms Invitations Any Printing $27,000 a hectare for p grapes. The money would be for tearing out the vines and preparing the land for other fruit or vegetable crops. But the Ontario government says it will only participate in a program that would give farmers 12 years to Don't forget our Web Printing Service. For details, call us. ffending liquor board rules which restrict the sale or inflate the price of foreign products. Ottawa has to report to GATT by the end of this year on what action it has taken on the report. The gov- ernment has said it will allow a 12-year phase-out or rules which protect the wine industry and that it won't push for an end to provincial laws which force beer companies to establish breweries in most prov. 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