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WEST KOOTENAY N.E.C.
Unique handcrafted gifts by local artists: Pottery,
Weavings, Paintings etc. 12 - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday Sunday
to December 24

CANDLELIGHT SERVICE
Decémber 24, 7:00 p.m. at the Evangelical Free Church,
914 Columbia (Across from the old arena). A worm
welcome awaits everyone. 2/101

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members; $30.00 per couple, non-members. Available
from Johnny's Grocery and Gos: or Groham 365-5002;
Roberta 365-5860; Bill 365-3670 5/99

CHRISTMAS CAROL SING-A-LONG
The Robson Community Memorial Church celebrated its
80th Birthday on Sunday, November 15. Approximately
100 people enjoyed the morning service and atternoon
tea. Everyone is invited to join in a non-demoninational
Family Christmas Carol singe A Long to be held at the
son Church on Sunday, December 20 at 7:00 p.m
the children and enjoy on evening of songs ond
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Good ratings
no respect

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
It's doubtful that any tele-
vision series has had a moré
checkered career than CBS’

Jame-
son Parker ‘and Gerald Mc-
Raney as two San Diego pri-
vate detectives, is back on
the air after having been

season on Tuesdays in 1981-
82, CBS didn’t renew the
show, then made an eleventh-
hour decision to put it back
on the air. It moved to
Thursdays and became a Top
10 show the following season.

Then came The Cosby
Show, the blockbuster com-
edy that NBC put on Thurs-
days the next season. The
ratings for Simon and Simon
sagged. It Was put on hiatus
at the end of last season and
brought back this month.

Parker plays A.J. Simon,
the sophisticated, college-
educated brother, and Me-
Raney is Rick, a down-to-
earth Vietnam veteran. Over
the years, various cast mem-
bers have come and gone.
Last year, Tim Reid played a
detective named Downtown
Brown, but he has left to star
in his own comedy, Frank's
Place.

“It’s really set up as a two-
man show,” said executive
producer John Stephens.
“People tune in to see these
two guys. In the first couple
of years we shot them almost
exclusively in two-shots.
They worked so well to
gether.”

NO RESPECT’

Stephen calls Simon and
Simon the Rodney Danger-
field of television because it

“gets no respect,” despite

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good ratings. “It's an amus-
ing, interesting show,” he
said. “We came on in a blaze
of mediocrity,” -

What's the Simon and

sonalities. People want these
guys in their living rooms.
The television public can tell
instantly if you're a real
person. And if they don’t like
you, you're out of there.”

The show, originally set in
Florida, was first called Pir-
ates Key when it was created
by Philip DeGuere, who
served as executive producer
for several seasons.

“They did two pilots,” said
Stephens. “CBS liked the
show but wanted some
changes. It was moved to San
Diego, and we made 12
shows. I think we were 42nd
out of 43 shows. We stayed
there for a year.

“The next year they need-
ed something after Magnum,
P.L, and they moved us to
Thursday. We got great rat-
ings. But they said it was a
fluke and only ordered 12
shows. Our biggest bres
was a crossover show with
Magnum. We thought we'd
be in the Top 20. We were
first. It caused some ill will.
We finished the year in the
Top 10 just behind Magnum.
The next year we were ahead
of Magnum.”

The series stayed in the
Top 10 until the fifth season,
when it fell to 25th place.

THEN CAME COSBY

“In the fourth season The
Cosby Show came on,” said
Stephens. “It started to beat
Magnum and the next year it
took it apart. We were still
doing OK, but we didn’t think
we'd be picked up after the
fifth season. Then we went a
sixth year and didn’t do well
at all. We do have a hard core
of viewers who will watch us
no matter what.”

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CHRISTMAS PLAY . . . Phil Wiebe, left and Burke Gan-
ton, right, are on the outside ledge of a tall building in
“Ledge, Ledger, and The Legend” presented by

Stanley Humphries secondary students at their annual
Christmas concert Dec. 1 — CasNews Photo by Chery! Calderbonk

CHRISTMAS CONCERT . . . Tarry's elementary school
students Kindergarten nought Grade 3 presented

“Santa and the Space Sleigh” Wednesday at their an-

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1475 Cedar Ave., Trail

Cajun reggae emerges

By TIM O’°CONNOR
Canadian

Press

TORONTO — Taking their last few tugs on some
long-necked beer bottles, the smiling musicians bounce on to
the tiny grey-carpeted stage like a blues band ready to light
a fire under a party.

“A-one, a one-two-three-four,” the burly black bassist
calls out as he lays down a loping line. A snappy snare drum
falls in step. Two sprightly horns kick in. A natty guitarist
begins to chime.

The sound is cooking, but there’s something exotic
about it.

There, in the middle of the band, stands a bored-looking
stout fellow running a knife and fork rhythmically across a
square sheet of corrugated steel that hangs from his
shoulders and down his chest like a bib.

JUMPS ON STAGE

Then a bespectacled “black man with collar-length
straight hair jumps on the stage and straps on a beige
accordion. Stanley (Buckwheat) Dural spins around and
launches into a fleet-fingered solo that's greeted with a
couple of shouts of “Wo-eee!” from the gaggle of dancers at
Toronto's BamBoo Club.

The band, Buckwheat Zydeco, has a new sound that's
old, familiar but foreign. There's bits of French, Cajun, R
and B, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll — and certainly blues.

It's zydeco (pronounced zy-decko, with the accent on the
first syllable), the dance music of Louisana’s French-speak-
ing black creoles.

Like reggae and ska, zydeco is the latest backwater
music genre to be embraced by increasing numbers of fans
across North America.

Zydeco’s growing popularity coincides with the

is the prime reason that other zydeco bands like Lucky
Seven and Rockin’ Dopsie are moving from folk festivals to
rock venues.

The term zydeco is believed to have derived from the
Cajun song Les Haricots est pas sals, roughly translated as
“the snap beans are not salty.” French-speaking blacks later
corrupted the title to zydeco.

BEGAN IN ‘50S

Through zydeco has been around since the 1920s, it
wasn’t until accordionist Clifton Chenier started playing
across the southern United States and recording in the 50s
that zydeco began to develop as a distinctive form.

Dural said his father, an accordionist, and friends would
play zydeco at family gatherings in homes around Lafayette,
La.

“A pig would usually be slaughtered. There would be
cooking and dancing all day,” said the 40-year-old Dural, who
has five brothers and seven sisters.

But zydeco was not played in local clubs, mainly because
the Creoles suppressed their culture like many Quebecers
did before the Quiet Revolution.

“Growing up, I wasn't allowed to speak French,” says
Dural. “If you spoke French, you were considered country.”
PLAYED PIANO

Similarly, Dural said he didn’t play the accordion as a
youth because it was considered a French instrument.
Excited by early rockers like Fats Domino, Dural started
piano at age nine and was soon playing boogie woogie.

He progressed to organ and in the early "70s lead a
15-piece band that played R and P hits. But by 1979, he was
bored.

“I wanted to do something that was really me. I had to
do something to offer my roots and I took accordion.”

movement of many young adults away from sy
dance music toward more roots-oriented artists like Los
Lobos.

IT’S HIP

The change in attitude toward the accordion has helped.
The instrument used to be associated with cornball polka
bands, but now the squeeze box is almost hip. Accordion is
featured prominently on recent pop albums by Paul Simon,
John Cougar Mellencamp and Elvis Costello.

“It's just starting to break now, this might be the time
for it,” says the gregarious Dural, who speaks quickly, with
an accent in which French and southern idioms run together.

Dural's six-piece band is the only zydeco group so far
with an album — the current On a Night Like This —
distributed by a major label, Island. The hard-working band

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the first few years the band drew sparse crowds, -but
gradually the word began to spread and audiences

increased.

Thousands of gigs and eight independent albums later,
the group came to the attention of Chris Blackwell, the man
who introduced reggae to a larger audience by signing Bob
Marley in the "70s. Blackwell signed them to his Island
Records label

Even though Dural is now playing larger clubs and
venturing further from home, he said his objectives are
largely unchanged.

“It's not for the dollar. People need to hear this music.
It’s rooted music that you don't have anywhere else in the

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DEAL FAILS
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VICTORIA (CP) — Two major projects that were to
inject millions of dollars into the B.C. economy and create
hundreds of jobs have fallen through, Premier Bill Vander
Zalm said.

Vander Zalm said tentative deals to construct a much-
heralded meat-packing plant in the Prince George area and
an agrifuel plant in northeastern B.C. have both foundered.

The premier said ir February a West German firm had
tentatively agreed to finance a $50-million ‘meat processing
plant that would create 600 jobs. He said the firm has since
decided to set up operations in Alberta.

“One of the problems is there is a good capacity in
Alberta and it’s a more attractive place to go for meat
processing,” Vander Zalm said. “The subsidies there for
grain and feed stock are of a variety that we find it hard to
compete with.”

Since the pullout of the West German firm, the premier
said a New York operation has expressed an interest in
setting up a meat processing plant in B.C.

A tentative $90-million deal to build an agrifuel plant in
the Dawson Creek area has also collapsed.

NO TAX CREDITS.

Vander Zalm said the firm, AgriFuels Canada Ltd.,
could not get certain tax credits from the federal
government necessary to get the project off the ground.

The premier said the firm was also hoping Petro-Canada
would also switch a part of its production to enthanol and
that hasn't happened.

The company’s president, Ian MacGregor, said last
February the company expected to start plant construction
in May. MacGregor also said the company needed to get
more financing in place.

Vander Zalm said of the two failed projects: “So
there's been a couple that haven't come through and they're

major projects. On the other hand, others have come

through so we're doing well.”

CRITICIZES PREMIER
New Democratic Party Leader Mike Harcourt called
Vander Zalm's admission “nothing short of scandalous.”
“It's absolutely cruel for the premier to raise people's
expectations, especially when you look at the unemployment
in those areas where the projects were to be built,” Harcourt

“What's more is he conned the media as well as
throwing those people false hope and expectations.”
Harcourt said that by announeing deals before they are

completed Vander Zalm add:

to “the feeling some people
have that you can’t trust politicians. I find it a disgusting
h to ”

Prince George Ald. Monica Becott said Friday that
although she was not aware the project had fallen through,
“it has been on wobbly feet for quite some time.”

Dale McMann, manager of the Prince George region
development corporation, said he knew the project was “by
no means guaranteed. But that it has-completely fallen

through is news to me.”

ment.”
effort.”

He said reaction to the project's fall will be disappoint-
But we've nothing invested other than time and

Vander Zalm had announced the meat packing plant
upon his return from a 18-day trip to Europe in February.

Home opposed

CRANBROOK (CP) — A
contractor is attempting to
set up a. group home for
young offenders on the out-
skirts of this city of 16,000
despite wide-spread opposi-
tion from residents.

Bill Stelmaschuk and As-
sociates told more than 100
residents at a meeting earlier
this week that the company
will apply to have land on the

outskirts of town rezoned for
the eight-bed group home.

Homeowners are against
the group home which would
see troubled youths between
the ages of 13 and 17 attend-
ing the city’s public schools.

Resident Al King said 80
per cent of his neighbors are
against the group home and
intend to fight the rezoning
application.

BERG —- To Mr. and Mrs. Stuart
eat. ot ointov Be. two twin

VALIERO _ em Je, ‘Fone
domes Covelieo of
Costigar, a girl, born Dec. 1

DAVIES — To, Colleen and
Davies of Calgary Alta.,
- |, born Dec.

HAM — To Corinne ond Bruce
Ham of Victoria, B.C., a girl,
born Dec. 7.

HESSON — To Barbra and Bob
Hesson of Calgory, Alta., a boy,
born Nov. 26.

GILCHRIST — To Loriana ond
Murray Gilcheist, © girl, bom

NEDELEC — To oti. ond Greg
Nedelec, a boy, born

NELSON — To ‘Leoh *Kettleweil
and Ward Nelson of Nelson, o
born Dec.10.

SHANNON
bert and Chad Shannon,
born Dec. 1.

—,To Jennine Cuth-
boy,

sT. To Moria and
Beret Denis of Trail, a boy,

SNAUWAI = te Heat!
(nee Rilfough) and J
Snau @irl, born Dec. 11.

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Craig Souker Win e
gid born Dec. 11

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CONNER — James Galt Conner
of Nelson died at mount St. Fran-

cis Private Hospital on Dec. 6. He of

Mr, hcl is psavved
by his brother Char
invlow Elisabeth of ‘Sunny South
Lodge. Coaldale, Alta.,

Jim G. Conner of Sturgeon Lan-
ding, ‘Sask., and George W.
Conner of Calgary, Alta.

DeGIROLAMA — Mairanna

survived her

husband: Jean-Claude; sons

Michael, Jean-Marc, and

; daughter Si 1

Hermans of Dawson Creek ond

dehanie Hormone of , Prince
and nieces

papi, cunts” otibe and
cousins.

scHuttr — ‘Ajbert William
‘Schulli, of Christ Loke,

merly of Trail died. Dec, 9 ot
wand

of chelating t Lake. egechter
Elaine Camy
sisters, Victoria Tuttle of Colville
‘and Mrs. Nick Verona Mason of
Montrose and five gran-
dchildren.

WALTON — R.G. (Bob) Walton of
Nelson died recently. He was 72,

NICHOL — — “Everett Howard
Nichol of Blewett died Nov. 23 in
the See teney Lake District
Hospital. He was 52. Mr. Nichol
is survived by his wite Helen
paserre le ot Blewett; children
Janice

marriage,
CrAltdria Alva’ lotr Nichol
Colgary and Penny Nichol of
Calgary: stepsons, | Edward
Breakwell of BI and Ross
Brockwell of brothers
Alerevde. ' alte
Allen of Vinie sheer Eve Biokey
mne, ; three

and sister gra

stepson Rid
QUAYLE — pay Souter
Quayle of Salmo died Nov

Richmond arikes
decentralization

VANCOUVER (CP) —
provincial government's ae
cision to approve a loan
guarantee to allow a small
aeronautics firm to relocate
part of its operations in Ver- ‘+
non shows the decentraliza-~
tion program is working,
says Social Services Minister
Claude Richmond.

Richmond, who is the min-
ister of state for the Thomp-
son-Okanagan region, said
the loan guarantee will en-
able North American Aero
Dynamics Ltd. to lease in-
dustrial property in Vernon
for’ its plant.

“They had an option on a
piece of property that would
have expired (Friday) and it
was just a case of us helping
ber make a deadline,” he

Na ‘many © times” “the
things get bogged down in
the system . . . that will be
our (ministers of state) main
function. We can get answers

guarantee by Friday it would
have built in Arlington,
Wash.

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