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Thursday, February 28

Runs Good, a play about growing
up and growing older, opens its
Provincial tour Feb. 28 and March 1
a ‘the Brilliant Cultural Centre,
moving on to Vancouver and then
back through the province.

The cast and director of Runs
Good haye themselves aged a few
years (three, to be precise) since the
original Kootenay show ran wonder
fully here in 1988, Theatre Energy's
Penny Ruvinsky says in a news
release, Since then, director Meredith
Bain Woodward has directed Odd
Jobs for Theatre Energy, and

Sleeping Dogs for Touchstone in
Vancouver. Woodward has also
played major roles in Vancouver
theatre, including Maddie in Joan
McLeod’s Toronto Mississippi . and
Diane Arbus in Moving Pictures,
Stolen Souls,

Actor Doug MacDonald is seen
less and less at The Book Shop, the
family business in Nelson, and more
often on stage. MacDonald, who
played the -bartender in Theatre
Energy's Malefiea, is the oldtimer of
the cast at age 57. MacDonald is also
known as McTavish, the singing

Author to read at

The and | depar-

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tment of Selkirk College together
with the Canada Council will present
@ reading by Canadian writer Holley
Rubinsky, whose award-winning
short story Rapid Transits is included
in a book of short stories recently
released’ by Polestar Press of

Winlaw. Rubinsk, ll be heard in
Castlegar on t 7 p.m. in
the faculty loi irk College.

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HOLLEY RUBINSKY
. +. reads award-winning story

Originally published in The
Malahat Review in 1988, Rapid
Transits won the gold medal for fic-
tion at the Canadian National
Magazine Awards (1988) and the
i $10,000 McClelland and

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Stewart Journey Prize.

raised: in: Long = Beach. She
studied film at UCLA where she won
the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award
in 1965 and later received her master

degree.
In 1975, she moved to Kaslo,
teaching reading and = special
education part-time in schools in the
West Kootenay. Later, at the Banff
School of Fine Arts, she participated
in W.O. Mitchell's free fall writing
program and eventually joined the
staff. It was in Banff that she met
her husband, Yuri, who was a foun-
ding director of the Banff
Publishing Workshop. She now

Play promises fond memories

streetcar driver in Nelson's 90th bir
thday production, and more recently
in the Capitol Theatre's three reper-
tory productions.

Nicola Harwood can still pass for
under 30, but has aged rapidly, co-
writing. Malefica. and directing the
three Capitol shows last summer,
Ruvinsky says. A writer, actor, direc:
tor and designer, she is an original
cast member of Runs Good.

Norma Kilpatrick learned about
‘aging as 57-year-old Alice, the her-
balist witch. in’ Malefica,

college

Redbook. Her fiction has also ap-
peared in McCalls and Cosmopolitan
as well as in numerous literary jour-
nals such as Descant, Canadian Fic-
tion Magazine, The New Quarterly,
Prism Inter nal and The Malahat
Review.

In addition to her public reading
at Selkirk College, Rubinsky will
read March 8 in Nelson at the SUB
on 10th Street at 8 p.m. On March 9,
she will lead a fiction-writing

for the Koot School

teaches ‘Writing at the Uni ity of
Toronto school of continuing
studies. She divides her time between
Toronto and Kaslo.

Writing under a pseudonym,
Rubinsky’s stories first appeared in

of Writing and read again at 7:30
p.m. at the Vallican Whole. For in-
formation or to register for Rubin-
sky's fiction workshop, contact the
Kootenay School of Writing.

CABLE 10

SHAW CABLE 10 SCHEDULE
Feb. 27, 28, Mar. 1, 3, 1991

5 p.m. (Wed) 9 a.m. (Fri) 5 p.m.
(Sun) West Kootenay Today — This
weekly program previews the Shaw
Cable 10 schedule for the week.

5:30 p.m. (Wed) 9:30 a.m. (Fri)
5:30 p.m. (Sun) Faith Alive — This
month, Pastor Stuart Laurie delivers
an inspiring message and Pastor
Lionor Laurie talks to three young
church-goers about how church
touches their lives. Produced by
Stuart and Lionor Laurie.

6:30 p.m. (Wed) 10:30 a.m. (Fri)
5:30 p.m. (Sun) Chamber Chat —
Bev Kennedy talks to Mike
Balahura, Cathy Lafortune and
Marilyn Mathieson of the Abilities.
Awareness Advisory i for
Castlegar and to Marty Horswill,
Bev Derby and Darlene Penner of
Career Development Services.
Produced by B. Kennedy.

7 p.m. (Wed) 11 a.m. (Fri) 7 p.m.
(Sun) 1990 USCC Youth Festival —
This is part 2 of the 43rd annual
event that was held at the Brilliant
Cultural Centre. This week, the
Kootenay Psalmists and Thrums
Community Choir are featured
Produced by S. Malloff:

8 p.m. (Wed) 12 p.m. (Fri) 8 p.m.
(Sun) Project Discovery (Part 8) —
This program highlights Alberta
music talent and is produced by
Shaw Cable in Edmonton. This.
week, the featured bands are Wear
and Tear, and Ozone Parc.

9 p.m. (Wed) 1 p.m. (Fri) 9 p.m.
(Sun) Castlegar > City Council —
Gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Mon.
day, Feb.“25 meeting. Produced by
S. Blessin.

NOTE: This schedule is repeated
on Friday at | p.m. and Friday at 5
p.m.

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Power
Sense
expands

If you believe that money. is
power you're going to love the
power savings that West
Kootenay wants to put back in
your pocket in 1991, the com-
pany says.

At press conferences in five
cities which purchase power
wholesale from West Kootenay,
Stu McKay, senior vice-president
of operations, announced a
significant financial expansion of
Power Sense.

Electric customers now have an
opportunity to tap into a $3
million poll of funds from West
Kootenay Power to make energy
efficient improvements to their
homes and businesses. This pool
of funds is up from $611,000
provided in 1990.

‘The financial increase is in part
due to the introduction of Power
Sense to customers in Grand
Forks, Penticton, Summerland,
Kelowna and Nelson. Prior to
this week, Power Sense grants,
loans and rebates were paid out
only to 68,000 direct customers
of West Kootenay.

McKay said Power Sense was
created to help West Kootenay
stretch its power resource over
the long term, By serving the
fastest. growing area in B.C.,
WKP has been caught in a
squeeze between growing demand
and finite supply.

In 1990, West Kootenay Power
Produced 54 per cent of its
energy requirement. The rest
came from other sources at
higher costs than the power
which WKP generates itself.

Historically, West Kootenay
power rates have been a
touchstone for the industry, the
company says. In 1990, the
average residential customer used
13,166 kilowatt-hours at a price
of 3.6 cents per kilowatt-hour,
one of the lowest rates in
Canada.

McKay pointed out that main-
taining this kind of affordability
is a struggle because WKP is for-
ced to buy so much power from
other sources.

Through its $3 million com-

mitment to ‘Power Sense in 1991,
West Kootenay hopes to save
13.5 million kilowatt-hours.
That’s enough power to supply
1,025 average homes for an entire
year.
“It may sound like a lot, but
it’s definitely achievable if all
100,000 customers in our service
area each do a little,"" McKay
said in a news release.

He pointed to the success of
Power Sense in 1990, the
Program's first full year of
Operation, as a measure of what
is possible: 1,175 energy audits
on customer homes, $516,000 in
financial assistance to residential
customers, through HomeGuard,
$69,300 in appliance rebates to
residential customers, and 3.5
million kilowatt-hours saved.

“‘With our industrial and
commercial assistance programs
picking up momentum and our
energy efficient lighting program
in full swing, I’m confident we
can reach our target of 13.5
million kilowatt-hours saved this
year,"” McKay said.

UtiliCorp enjoys
third record year

UtiliCorp” United has confirmed
earlier estimates that the company
achieved records in consolidated net
income, income from operations,
Primary earnings per common share
and revenues.

It is the third consecutive year in
which UtiliCorp, the parent company
of West Kootenay Power, has
achieved record financial results.

In 1990, net income increased 22
Per cent to $58.9 million, compared
to $48.3 million in 1989, UtiliCorp
reported in a news release. Income
from operations was $145 million, up
21 per cent over 1989 income from
operations of $119 million. Primary
earnings per share were $2.13 versus
$2.04 in the prior year and revenues
were $894 million, up 16 per cent
from 1989 revenues of $772 million.

For the fourth quarter ended Dec.
31, 1990, UtiliCorp recorded net in-
come of $21 million and revenues of
$269 million, compared to het in-

come of $13.9 million and revenues
of $250 million in the fourth quarter
of 1989. Primary earnings. per com-
mon share for the 1990 fourth quar-
ter were 74 cents versus 56 cents in
the prior year’s fourth period. All
amounts are in U.S, dollars,

Average common shares outstan- .

ding increased to 24 million in 1990
from 20.9 million in 1989. of
the increase is attributable to pUblic
offerings of two million shares in late
1989 and four million shares in
November 1990, the company said.

Revenues and income from
operations for the current year and
Prior year periods are stated under a
new financial reporting format
designed to ‘simplify analysis of
UtiliCorp’s results.

Based in Kansas City, UtiliCorp
provides. gas and electric service to
828,000 customers in eight states and
British Columbia.

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Layoffs hit sawmill

members of IWA-Canada, local
145,
In @ prepared statement, the

Forest ies Ltd.
begins a temporary shutdown of
sawmill and planer operations at
Canal Flats and Cranbrook in the
East Kootenay.

The closures, which a company
spokesman said could last as long
as two months, are caused by low
Prices for finished lumber and in-
creasing timber supply costs,

The affected workers are

said the current price of
two by four, kiln-dried lumber is
at an eight-year low.

The demand for lumber has
been flat since 1988, the company
said, and has been aggravated by
a strong Canadian dollar,
reduced housing starts, the
recession, and the Persian Gulf
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