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By Bob Thomas

HOLLYWOOD (AP) — “I
figured it was time to get
away from Smokey,” Burt
Reynolds explained about his
new movie. “I had been doing
a lot of comedy in recent
years, and people had for-
gotten about Deliverance.”

hadn't

The Orion-Warner-
Brothers film is getting wide
release during the holiday
season, and Reynolds has
more than his usual interest
in its success. He also dir-
ected Sharkey's Machine.

He talked about the movie
between scenes: with Dolly
Parton in The Best Little

Deliverance, the haunting
1978 film about violence on a
southern river, remains a
career milestone in his mind,
so much so that his company
is called Deliverance Pro-
ductions. Reynolds has
played so many good ol’ boys
in recent years that filmgoers
may be shocked to see him as
a crook-hating cop in Shar-
key’s Machine.

Whoreh in Texas.” He
recalled with a grin: “When
Clint (Eastwood) was going
to do Every Which Way but
Loose, he sent me the script
for advice, since he hadn't
done a comedy. I gave him:
some tips but I told him,
‘Now that you're getting into
my territory, I'm going to do
Dirty Harry Goes to At-
lanta.”

Reynolds found just that in

Beachcombers
makes Gibson

(CP) — The fishing com-
munity of Gibson's, B.C., is
renowned throughout Can-
ada, but its fame doesn't
spring from its natural re-
source.

The commuity is where the
CBC television series The
Beachcombers is shot. Once a
quiet town, it now boasts a
shopping centre and has
stopped threatening to tar
and feather developers who
want to rescind the 10-
metre height limit on water-
front buildings.

“We probably have the odd
moment when we don't ap-
preciate them (the show's
cast and crew), but all in
all, we realize how much
they've done for us,” Mayor
pauline Goddard says.

“They really have put us
on the map.”

The annual invasion of
cast, crew and equipment
turns her town into a car-
nival. Traffic pours down the
narrow streets leading to the
water, but comes to a stop

each time a director decides
it’s time for a shot outside
Molly's Reach.

The reach is a fake, an old
dockside building with a
splashy false front that hides
the production facilities for
the show. The cafe inside
fools tourists who come in
asking for meals they see
listed over the counter. It all
looks real, right down to the
doughnuts under glass, but
they’re building sets behind
the kitchen and the upstairs
is crammed with tiny drees-
ing rooms.

The people in Gibsons tol-
erate the crowds that gather
each summer to watch the
filming of The Beachcombers.

Residents aren't complain-
ing about the extra business
and if parking is at a pre-
mium, that just means ano-
ther person from out of the
province has arrived to see
“where Relic lives.”

Relic is actor Robert Cloth-
ier, who portrays a seedy
beachcomber.

$1 million Lennon
deal falls through

What was to have been a
million-dollar deal for a bio-
graphy of slain former Beatle
John Lennon has fallen apart.
. The New York Times says
an agreement between Al-

bert Goldman, author of a_

controversial biography
about Elvis Presley, his
agent, John Hawkins, Avon
Books and William Morrow
and Co, fell apart because of a
disagreement over paper-
back publication.

But Goldman's agent said
the book will still be pub-
lished in England and he ex-
pects to work out arrange-

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United States with another
company.

The author had said in a
television intervew in early
December thet he was apt to
write a nore favorable bi-
ography ¢f'the former Beatle
than the one he wrote on
Elvis Presley. Goidman’s rea-
son: he's mor. .ympathetic
to Lennon's life and work.

comedy

a novel by former Atlanta
newsman William Diehl
about an over-zealous de-
moted to the vice.squad who
uncovers underworld corrup-
tion reaching to high political
office. -
TOUGH TO CAST

The crucial role of Domin-
oe, the $1,000-a-night hook-
er who helps Sharkey crack
the ring, remained uncast
until six days before filming.

“That was like starting
King Kong without the goril-
la,” Reynolds observed. “I
kept saying, ‘She'll turn up,
she'll turn up.’ Then I saw
Time magazine, the one with
Brooke Shields on the cover.
I saw the picture of Rachel
Ward, the fourth highest-
paid model. I wanted an ac-
tress who could speak Italian
and French, and since she
was English, I thought she
might have the kind of
foreign attitude that I was
seeking.

“When she came in my
office and I heard her voice,
deep like Bacall's, I thought
she would be ideal. But Cath-
erine Deneuve once told me
that to judge how a beautiful
woman will appear in the
screen you must look through
the camera and see if it was a
love affair with her. I picked
up a viewfinder and looked at
Rachel. I damn near fell
over.”

Sharkey’s Machine starts
out with a slam-bang shoot-
out-chase and ends with one,
with several in between.
Reynolds has no patience
with those who decry film
violence: ‘When critics see it
in The Deer Hunter, they say
it’s ‘brilliant’ and ‘authentic.’
When they see it in pictures
with me or Clint, they say it’s
‘unnecessary.’

Baseball
cards with
San Diego

Padres checken

Children who are baseball
fans spend a lot of time col-
lecting cards of their favorite
heroes.

But many. may be sur-
prised when they find a new
card on the market in the
new year. It hasa picture of a
clown in a chicken suit. But
it’s no ordinary clown in the
picture — it's the San Diego
Padres Chicken, the team
mascot.

Ina set of 660 cards turned
out for the 1982 season, the
Chicken is described as “one
of the most recognizable fig-
ures in sports . . .signed as a
bonus birdie by the San Di-
ego Padres in 1974 for un-
disclosed amount of chicken
feed.”

Authorities say it's the
third time since 1886, when
baseball cards first appeared,
that a non-player has been
honored.

CASTLE NEWS

ENTERTAINMENT

Come and join us
New Year's Day

And enjoy your Italian favorites.
4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

COLANDER

1475 Cedar Ave., Trail

Accepting reservations for
large groups only. Phone 364-1816,

Making everything
fun is profitable

By LISA LEVITT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Welcome to the Funhouse,
Ted Smith, Prop. Shimmy
past the stuffed rabbits, hang
your coat over Joan Craw-
ford's face, pull up a rocking
horse and have a_ seat
amongst the bears.

Here, surrounded by 100
stuffed teddies, an army of
clowns and a handful of an-
gels, Smith — entrepreneur,

this is good for me. It keeps
me young.”
KEEPS HIM PROSPEROUS

It also keeps him well-to-
do, thanks to what he calls
“fun consciousness.”

“That's the whole key to
success. If you're having fun
at what you're doing, you're
going to make money,” says
Smith, gesturing to the cen-
trepiece of this madcap mu-
seum, a shrine to his latest

and p
clown — creates and luxur-
iates in fun.

“Life: isn't worth living
without fun. As long ‘as
you're having fun, it makes
everything a little bit bet-
ter,” says Smith, a 34-year-
old who has made an art, and
a profit, out of having a
riproaring good time.

Smith, is sitting in his
living room flanked by a lion
and giraffe, both stuffed and
life-sized.

Off to one side, a peacock
flaunts its finery; a baby-
sized porcelain angel dangles
overhead; dolls — W.C.
Fields and Mae West — oc-
cupy a corner. The walls are
covered with carnivalesque
color; original circus posters,
massive hangings from side-
shows.

“I don't see why people
have to live in dull surround-
ings,” Smith says. “I think

Little known facts

Gang Was Popular -
There were 221 film pro-
ductions in the Our Gang
comedy series.
+ Smooches Forbidden

Before the Second World®

War, kissing scenes were
banned in Japanese movies.
Gable, Loy ‘Royalty’

A 1938 radio contest
named Clark Gable and
Myrna Loy the king and
queen of Hollywood.

Documentary Introduced

John Grierson's 1929 work
about the British herring
fleet, entitled Drifters, was
the first known film to be
termed a documentary.

Tarzan Sold Well
Edgar Rice Burroughs’

Tarzan books have been
made into 38 movies and 52
television ‘shows.

Joan Crawford.

Paramount's movie version
of Mommie Dearest, the book
by Crawford's adopted dau-
ghter, Christina, has earned
the late actress a cult fol-
lowing, and Smith has come
up with some ways for her
fans to display their ador-
ation.

Shopkeepers from Norfolk
to New York can't seem to
keep their shelves stocked
with his cards and T-shirts,
emblazoned with the actress’
image and things like “Daddy
Dearest” and “The Joan Cra-
wford Day Care Centre,” a
tongue-in-cheek reference to
Christina’s allegations of
abuse at her mother’s hand.

In one scene from the
movie, Crawford beats the
little girl with a wire coat-
hanger. So for Christmas,
Smith has created a paper-
covered hanger bearing
Crawford's face in a wreath
and the words, “Merry
Christmas, you little . .

DOES PAINTING

“I have really come to love
Joan Crawford doing this,”
admits Smith, who painted a
portrait measuring one me-
tre by 1.5 metre of the ac-

COMMUNITY

Bulletin Board

ST. DAVID'S THRIFT SHOP:

Will be closed for the holidays after Fri.,

Dec. 18. The

tress wearing bejeweled ti-
ara and one of the 80,000
pairs of false eyelashes from
the Crawford estate.

A solid wooden rocking
horse the size of a large pony
dominates what once must
have been a dining room. A
stuffed monkey wearing a
dcowboy hat sits astride the
beast under the watchful eye
of a life-sized Santa Claus,
clutching a huge Pepsi bottle
cap.

A trio of Easter eggs the
size of basketballs rests on
the floor; nearby, a giant jar.
filled with clowns heads; on
the wall, a close-up of the
green, gnarled hands of the
Wicked Witch of the West
closing in on Dorothy's ruby
slippers.

Every room has been plas-
tered with dazzling circus
posters and transformed into
a fantasy-filled menagerie of
stuffed creatures — rabbits,
elephants, dogs and bears —
in chairs, in beds in baskets,
on shelves,in stockings.

The house, says Smith, is a
tribute to childhood.

“The best part of any-
body's life. It passes so
quickly. So you can't be
dreary. You have to let your-
self be open and let the light
come in.

In the beautiful Sheraton
Grand Ballroom, begin
your evening witha °
fabulous dinner. After
your meal,

Stagecoach West

will keep on rolling

with music until

2:00 a.m. for

fop Of? Your Vear
as Sho Sheraton

Out with the old and in with the new. There are so many ways to celebrate
New Year 1982 at the Sheraton-Spokane Hotel.

In our JU’s Lounge, dance
to the sounds of our fan-
tastic THUNDER band,
from 9:00 p.m.-3:00- a.m.
Performing a rock-n-

roll floor show with
special effects at

11:00 p.m. After

the show, share in

a midnight cham-

shop will re-open for business Tues., Jan. 5 ai 10 a.m.
Location: back of Oglow Building.

CASTLEGAR VOLUNTEER EXCHANGE
ring its babysitting course, Tuesday nights trom
.m., starting Jan 5 to Feb. 2
please preregister. There is a $5.00 foe
osts of the course. For more information
please wot 5e3:2448 oF 9652900"

i RISTMAS FAMEY SPECIAL o

The Winnipeg SConremparcry jancers will perform in
Castlegar on Sot., Jan. 30. Reduced family rate until Dec.
24, by the Castlegar Community Arts Council.

WOODEN SHOE
RESTAURANT

For more information phone 365-3226.

1ST BLUEBERRY CREEK BEAVER, CUBS & SCOUTS
Will be having a bottle drive on Jan. 2, 1982 in Blueberry
Creek and Fairview from 10 - 12 a.m. Please leave a note
on your bottles if you are not going to be home.

Raffle postponed until Feb. 4, 1962, Prizes lost in fire.

Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit
organizations are listed here through the courtesy of BC
Timber’s Celgar Pulp and Celgor Lumber Divisions.
Please submit notices directly to the Castlegar News by 5
p.m. Thursdays.

A Public Service of Celgar Pulp
Division and Celgar Lumber Division

BC Timber Ltd.

your dancing

pleasure. At

midnight, put

on your hat,

blow your horn,

and raise your

glass for a

champagne

toast to the new

year.

Party only per couple $59.00
Party anddouble room $94.00
Each additional night . $20.00

Pagne toast,
included in the
cover charge
price. And, there
will be party favors
and lots of New
Year's Eve action.
Your table reserva-
tions will be held
until 9:30 p.m.
Party only percouple $20. 00
Party and double room $55.00
Each additional night $20.00

Wew Years Day

Wake up in a spacious room for two on the first day of

the new year. Then, hurry down to the 1881 Dining

Room for our Champagne Brunch, served from 10:00

a.m.-2:30 p.m. An eye-opener drink in JJ’s Lounge is Ee

included in the $6.95 brunch price. Watch Bowl Games on JJ’s wide screen ca v.

Or watt in your room, because you don’t have to check out until the football
ion Is over.

Pia

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Currency al par on package prices.

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was caught by Al

and Barb Olson last May on Kootenay Lake near Ain-
sworth. The mounted trophy has just arrived in time
for diplay in the couple’s home or at Al's office at B.C.
Bearing Engineers, Olson said the big fish are now

running and will be continuin e to run until the end st

May. He and Barb caught 46

8. of fish on Christm

Day last year and were out fishing again this Christ.

mas.

—CosNewsPhoto

Promoter

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Selling gold claims

DAWSON CITY, YUKON
(CP) —. Dick Stevenson,
Yukon promoter and inven-
tor of the famed sour toe
cocktail — which featured a
pickled human toe until one
overzealous drinker swal-
lowed it — has a new plan to
get rich: Selling gold claims
to Germans.

The 51-year-old paddleboat
operator, who sports dia-
mond chips in his front teeth,
thinks he can make millions
with his idea. He and his
partner, Walter Hinnek,

wall,” he said. “The idea isn’t
to make money from the
claims but to have a cer-
tificate. I expect only one out
of 100 people will actually
come to look at their claim.”
Air fare between West
Germany and the Yukon is
about $2,000 return.
Winnek said Germans have
an adventurous streak and
love to buy different things,
making them ideal targets
for the promotion.
Stevenson said a large
wes: German tour operator
I the

hope to sell $60
entitling the bearer to pan
for gold on 2'/s-metre-square
claim just outside Dawson
City. The two men have
125,000 such claims for sale,
Stevenson said each claim
should contain more than $60
worth of gold, but Hinnek
said that is not the point.
“They'll have a helluva
nice-looking document they

can frame and put on the’

cectnatee as part of a
Yukon package tour. Steven-
son added he sold 80 certi-

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ficates to visiting Germans.

last summer.

The men have an agent in
Hamburg to push the plan.

“He checked me out with
the RCMP and the mine re-
corder to see if we had the
claims,” Stevenson said.
“Everything’s got to be black
and white.”

‘

__ Seabed, rights --
‘being negotiated

By PAUL KORING

UNITED NATIONS (CP)
— Britain, France, West
Germany and the United
States are on the verge of
concluding a pact: governing
exploitation of the vast min-
eral wealth lying on the
world’s ocean floors, —-

And their approaching ag:

Canada’s ambassador to
the law of the Sea Con-

KJSS students

adopt a boy

Kinnaird Junior Secondary
school has adopted 10-year-
old Marco Sandoval of Col-
ombia as part of the Canadian
Foster Parents Plans.

CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 28, 198)

“AS

Petroleum consumption down

TORONTO (CP) — It looks
as though Canadians are fi-
nally losing their appetite for
high-priced gasoline, home
heating oil and industrial
fuels, and the big oil com-
panies are worried.

In the first nine months of
1981, the consumption of
home heating oil fell by about
nine per cent and gasoline
demand dropped by between
two and four per cent.

If Canadians continue to
cut their consumption of pet-
roleum products, it could
create big problems for the
oil industry. The oil compan-
ee rush find themselves

tI

Anthony Bomben, the On-

stuck with extra oil trucks,
storage tanks, plants and
employees.

Attriti

tario for
Imperial Oil said demand
could fall by 9.8 per cent each
year until the markét is re-
duced to about 36 per cent of
its current size.

As the market contracts,’
the oil companies will be

isn't d to
take care of all the surplus
workers, so industry plan-
ners are working on schemes
to make the transition as
easy as rossible,

Weldon Hambly, a home
heating oil specialist with

She}l Canada, said some
workers will be offored other
jobs within the company,
when and if the jobs are,
available.

“But there's no way we can,
guarantee a job to everyone,”
he said. “Some people might
have to be let go.”

Other employees may not —
like their transfers and quit.

Classroom for seniors

NORTH VANCOUVER
(CP) — Senior citizens in this

surplus
property, people and equip-
ment.
Gasoline stations and even
refineries may have to be
josed. Some workers may
lose their jobs. And compe-
tition conld get hot as the
companies fight for a re-
maining share of the market.
The drop in demand is
partly a result of conser-

. vation measures adopted by

Canadians in recent years,

| The switch to smaller cars

‘The school joined PLAN in §

1975 and have previously
supported a needy child in
Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

The school’s small monthly
contribution brings help to
the foster child, his family
and the community.

Marco is a thin boy with
brown eyes and hair. He is
currently in Grade 2 at a
school located in his com-
munity — Barrio El Jordan.

Marco is one of five chil-
dren, four boys and a single
girl. He says he enjoys play-
ing with marbles, balls and
cars, and would like to be a
fireman,

His father, a farmer, at-
tended school until Grade 3,
when he was forced to leave
because of lack of financial
support,

His father earns about
$100 and the family lives in a
house made of paste walls

, swith a.cement floor.and zinc.

ference, Alan Beesley, ech-:

oed Djalal’s concerns:

“If they are actually div-
iding up the seabed ... then
it is potentially a very ser-
ious threat.”

Eskin said the “interim re-
gime’ wasn't intended “to be

h ing or to imperil” the

without
fanfare, is seen as a threat to
prospects for concluding a
meaningful global Law of the
Sea treaty.

This gloomy view is sup-
ported by confidential infor-
mation obtained by The Can-
adian Press and diplomats at
the United Nations.

They expressed fears this
week that years of frust-
rating negotiations might be
jeopardized by a mini-treaty
among the few countries with
the money and technology to
mine ‘the oceans.

A U.S. State Department
spokesman said: the four
countries “have made good
progress” on the pact. Un-
confirmed reports at the UN

say it will be d Jan.

Law of the Sea treaty.

* /But Law of the Sea nego:

tiations have been stalled
since U.S. President Reagan
ordered a -policy review of
the U.S. position 8 the
nearly-completed draft short-
ly after he took office.

roof. Fs eke
It has only two rooms, one
of which is a kitchen.
PLAN's objective is not
dependency, but to help the
family become independent

and natural gas or electric
heating is beginning to ‘cut
into demand.
PRICE INCREASES

But the whole process has
been given an extra kick by
the latest round of oil price
increases, and the promise of
more to come. As a result of
the energy agreements be-
tween Ottawa and the oil-

* producing. provinces, Cana-

b
MARCO SANDOVAL
aged to attend school. Foster
parents are advised annually
of the family's progress, and
a regular exchange of letters
builds a warm and meaning-

.ful-relationship,.the spokes: +

man.added,-i. -.. ~
Through” Foster Parents’
Plan, individuals, groups and
families in Canada, Australia,
the Netherlands, the United
Kingdom and the U.S. are

and self- through

of medical and
dental care, vocational train-
ing, and counselling by social
workers, says a Foster Ear;
ents spokesman.

All programs are adapted
to the needs of the people,
and tend to be concentrated
in rural areas where the
whole community can benefit
through the provision of
wells, schools, and much
more. é

Education is stressed, and
all school-age members of
foster families are encour-

more than
165,000 children in 18 coun-
tries of the. Third World.
PLAN is a_ non-profit,
non-sectarian, non-political
social service organization
officially registered with the
Canadian government. All
contributions are tax-deduct-
ible.
Information on “adopting”

‘a child through PLAN can be

obtained by writing to 158 St.
Clair Avenue West, Toronto,
Ontario M4V 1P8, or by call-
ing toll-free anytime: 112-
800-268-7174.

Original recipe included

By Judy Creighton

(CP) — For those who
enjoy curling up with a tan-
talizing cookbook, The Best
of Canada Cookbook is bound
to be a bedside favorite.

Food writer Jim White of
the Toronto Star and veteran

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Delegates from Canada
and other countries are wor-
ried about the impact such an
agreement, or mini-treaty,
might have on the nearly-
completed work of the law of
the Sea conference.

Indonesian delegate Has-
jim Djalal said he has “very
serious concerns.”

In several unannounced
meetings over the last few
months the four countries
have hammered out a multi-
lateral understanding which
identifies seabed mining
sites, provides for reciproca
recognition of exploration li-
cences and .creates a mech-
anism to arbitrate overlap-
ping claims.

“We would like to have an
agreement by January,” said
Otho Eskin, director of the
Ocean Law Policy office in
Washington.

Bernardo Zuleta, special
representative of UN Secre-
tary General Kurt Waldhen
to the Law of the Sea Con-
ference, says the four coun-
tries have offered “no official
information” on the agree-
ment.

. Thanks,

chef Tony Roldan spent 18

-months assembling the al-

most 200 recipes. More than
half‘ are original creations
while others are variations

He served as chef at many
leading Toronto hotels as

* well as being captain of the

Canadian team,‘at the 1976
World Culinary Olympics. He
now is corporate chef for a
chain. of hotels.

The Best of Canada Cook-
book contains such lip-smack-
ing.dishes as Grand Banks
lobster crepes, Selkirk spin-
ach quiche, Ottawa Valley
strawberry pie, New Bruns-

n

White's love affair with
food began as a child. At
ving, White and his
father would go to Toronto's
Westbury Hotel where Rol-
dan was chef, pick up one of
Roldan’s roasted, stuffed tur:
keys, and take it home for the
family celebration.

Roldan was born in Spain
and emigrated to Canada in
1957 after working in an inn
near St. Emilion in France
where he learned his culinary
ski

wick (green pasta
and mussels) and Prince

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Roldan and White also
have offerings of the lighter
nouvelle cuisine and a menu
planner for every season.

The only thing missing are
illustrations — with such de-
licious sounding recipes,
surely pictorial evidence
should have been provided.

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dian crude oil
move closer to world levels
over the next five years.
These higher prices should
provide industries and con-
sumers with incentive to cut
demand.

Imperial Oil Ltd. of Tor-
onto estimates that Cana-
dians could be using 64 per
cent less heating oil in 1990
than they do today and gas-
oline consumption could fall
by as much as 25 per cent.

All this spells good news

ver suburb are going
back to scliool, not as tea-
chers or students but as
friends and neighbors.

Highlands Community
School recently converted a
classroom — vacated due to
declining enrolment — into a
drop-in centre for seniors
from the neighborhood.
Every week, seniors are in-
vited to meet at the el-
ementary school, play cards,
have!luncheon meetings or
gather for organized trips.

But the centre is not just
for seniors — students are
invited to drop in too.

The Highlands Neighbors’
Group currently has 25
members and Community
School coordinator Ellie
Thorburn hopes the number
will increase to 60 by next

‘summer. The group was

formed in the spring ‘after
two friendship luncheons

will were sponsored by the school

for nearby senior citizens,
who expressed a need for a
place to meet.

School principal Tom Robb
said there are 1,800 homes in
the area, but only 290 stu-
dents attend the school.

“You see a lot of white
heads in the area,” he said.
“We had a room we could
spare and- we thought it
would be great to bring the
old and young people of the

for the federal g

‘which desperately wants to

reduce Canada’s reliance on
imported oil. 3
But it raises:a number of

‘major problems forthe top

planners in the oil industry.

“It’s not-an easy job coping
with shrinking markets,”
said Robert Naden, general
manager of supply for Tor-
onto-based Shell Canada Ltd.

The most immediate prob-

lem facing the oil industry is |

the shrinking market for
home heating oil. The oil
companies .will lose thou-
sands of customers as more
natural gas pipelines are laid

Flows to!

About a third of the blood”

in the human body is in the
legs.

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The classroom, once used
as a music room, was con-
verted into the seniors’, can;.,
,tre.with a.federal govern-

$6,117. Desks and black-
boards have been replaced by
a couch, chairs, card tables, a
stereo, pool table and dining
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“We have a lot of senior
citizens in the area who live
by themselves,” said Thor-
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one of the best ways to meet
the needs of this community
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She said the seniors are
invited to attend student
concerts and other school -
functions. In turn, students
pour tea and help serve at
the seniors’ functions..

Walt Stewart, 76, thinks
having a seniors’ centre in an
elementary school is a et
idea.

“The kids are 0 fresh and
young, so eager,” he said.
“There seems to:be no gen-

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