ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT eee 26, 1995 Wednesday, July 26, 1995 The Castlegar Sun Page BS HOMEFINDERS... A GOOD PLACE FOR IDEAS ===: ENTERTAINMENT | ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION sor SUMMER HOURS Hot mysteries for the summer You might not want to about snow while you're plac « mn the beach soaking up the sun You might not want to know that Greenlanders have 26 ways describe snow Bat if you wam a good read. you'll grab Danish wruer Peter Hoeg’s novel Smuila's Sense of Smow — despme the tithe This manguing adventure takes place mostly m Denmark A for- mer Greeniand chikt w killed It looks like he killed himself by amping off a sadw- 1-4 pm Castlegar Community Complex s Tims Danish-Greeniander nove! reads like a Kafka novel—where a's bard to pan down who's purse- tng the heroune and why Eventual- ty, she sorts our why. but she needs to wavel clandesunely bound for 2 mystenous island near Greenland to dascower who The final chapters amongst xe and snow on an Arctic island are worth waiting for Only there do we find out what the Greenland Child knew that was worth having hum killed If you'd prefer warmer cli- 2 ship Oo a ship - Relay races - Obstacle course - Crafts ~Opening & Closing ceremonies P 1364 Foeest Ros (Lasarr’s Bune.) Tums at 14mm Ave. + 365-2505 mates while y basking m the nN ve James Lee $ mew book Dixie City In a few f his mos recem books, Burke has shifted locales between New Orkcans and Mon- tana Diss Jam sticks with the New Orleans area with its jatz-haunts. ms multi-racial pope- FROM WHERE ISIT... GORDON TURNER safons. and us bayous not far off This ts another Dave Rotachaud detective novel. and perhaps a is best of the Robichaud senes a will wind through the mio the ocean tk sunken World War I boat. It scems a lot sunken U-boat. For some reason. that discovery brings a lot of action Robichaud’s way. Now a small-town detective. Robichaud would like to stay out of the New Orteans graft and slaughter mill But he has no choxe, because those wanting what he knows come out to his isolated home and make life difficult. The actiog, thereafter. makes this. novel hard to put down. Perhaps ‘you'd like a climate comparable to the hot ome you'll be experiencing while on yaca- thon. How about a bestselling mystery that takes place in Madrid. Spain? The Flanders Panel, wrmen by Spamish writer Arturo Perez- Revere, uses the European art community as ms background It remands me a kot of the novels of Josephine Tey where the writer goes back m time to solve a mys- tery. The clues used are those from the past, but present detec- tom techmigucs and modern forensic science are brought to bear on the case. In this chamber mystery, Julia, @ young art expert m Madrid. is hired to clean a 15th century painting by a Flemish master Using modern X-ray techniques. she discovers beneath the paint an inscription hidden in a corner Who killed the knight? Julia becomes obsessed with the question: The painting itself depicts a chess match between the Duke of Flanders, his knight, and a dark lady in the background who is reading a book near a win- dow. Hiring a bizarre chessmaster to help her unravel the clues — methodically replaying the chess game depicted on the painting — Julia soon finds her life in sort Ss. among her colk and friends doesn’t want her to discover the truth. If you like chess, this novel comes with diagrams. If you like the artworld, this novel resonates with the smell of paint and canvas. Eventually, we do find out who kalled the knight, but the route to conclusion is an intricate one Some other mystery novels I'd recommend include Joe Gore's 32 Cadillacs (extremely funny), Karen Kijewski's new Kat Colorado mystery Wild Kat (strong but with a lousy ending): Toronto-based writer Peter Robinson's Final Account (an Inspector Banks mystery from the Yorkshire dales), and Linda Barnes’ Snapshot (a Carlotta Carlyle detective stunner set in Boston). Enjoy! ‘Are you a poet and Two legged races were al! part of the fun during the Summer Active Program at the Recreation Complex, last Thursday afternoon. 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Any subject or Style is acceptable and there is no entry fee. Contest deadline is Aug 30th. The poem should be original and consist of 24 lines >t less. In addition to the pos- sibility of winning a prize. many of the poems will be published in the Institute's annual a beautiful Anthology of Verse To enter, contestants shou!d send one original poem only to: The Poetry Institute of Canada, P.O. Box 158, Nanaimo, B.C. VOR SK4. Name and address should be included at the top of the same Page on which the poem appears. Poems that are typed or in block capital letters are pre- ferred but not essential Entries should _be_post- marked not later than Aug 30, 1995 “OPEN SUNDAY FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE : SUNDAY HOURS ARE AS FOLLOWS: MITCHELL SUPPLY LTD. 490-13th Avenue © 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. PHARMASAVE 1128-3rd Street « 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. PLAZA I.D.A. PHARMACY 646-18 St, Castieaird Piazo « 12 a.m. - 4_p.m. PANAGOPOULOS PIZZA PLACE 2305 Columbia Aveune « 3 p.m. - MIDNIGHT MACHADO'S GROCERY LTD. BOTTLE DEPOT 1108-4th street 5 p.m. $40,000 grant keeps doors open DEREK ZEISMAN Sun Editor library's operations. Coun. Bob Pakula expressed Castlegar city council came to the rescue of the district library at its last meeting July 11, provid- ing it with an additional one-time grant of $40,000 to cover a tem- porary revenue shortfall. Council voted unanimously in favor of extending the financial aid to the library. Coun. Ron Armbruster, the city’s representative on the library board, recommended the grant to the Castlegar and District Public Library in order to head off the need for a ten-week library closure to make up its financial shortfall. Armbruster called the possi- bility of an extended closure “not acceptable”. The $40,000 funding shortfall arose as a result of a delay by Area I of the Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK) in holding a referendum on partially funding the library. Lower Arrow Lakes-Columbia (Regional Area J) held a success- ful referendum earlier this year, paving the way for residents there to pay taxes to the library board in order to gain cost-free access to the library and its facili- ties. Lower Arrow revenues were about $45,000 this year. However, Area I delayed hold- ing its referendum at the same time as Lower Arrow’s. The ref- erendum will still be held, but not until later this year - too late for residents to pay library taxes for the 1995 fiscal year, even if the referendum is successful. The delay has meant an unexpected $40,000 revenue shortfall for the the library's fi difficulties will only be temporary. “The regional district is now on stream. But we've got to keep the library up and running in the meantime,” Pakula said. Coun. Kirk Duff was also sup- portive of the grant, noting that “it would be a sign of good faith in our library.” “Hopefully the referendum [in Area I] will be successful and we won't have to debate this again.” Armbruster agreed it would be good if the referendum is suc- cessful and the library’s funding concerms are put to bed once and for all, but cautioned that “we still need a solution if the referen- dum fails. “Personally, I don't think it will fail, but we should sit down with the region and try to work something out for a worst-case scenario.” Armbruster acknowledged there have been proposals for the district library to become a pure- ly municipal facility, but pointed out it would be much more expensive to operate if such a change took place. “It would be a city department, not a regionally- funded society” under that sce- nario, he said. “Still, it's something that should be considered, if we lose.” Armbruster stressed that if Area I residents refuse to pass the referendum later this year, anyone in the area wishing to use the district library would be forced to pay a $60 annual user fee. 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