Castlegar News Update '90 Arts Council keeps local culture alive Arts Council is alive and well and living in Castlegar! Thanks to the continuing efforts of a relatively small number of culture buffs, the past year has been another culturally active one in Castlegar. The seventh annual Concerts in the Park series during July 1989 started the season off with a focus on youth. Young performers and performances for the young spotlighted Ray Yule and the Travelling Milldooies, the Canadian International College Rock Band, Nelson's Jeannetti Spaghetti (Jeannette Grittani), and Pauline Lamb. Attendance increased again over Previous years, confirming the continued Popularity of this series and inspiring co-sponsors (Castlegar Arts Council, Castlegar News and CKQR Radio) to look for- ward to the eighth annual presentations this J uly. The annual general meeting and election of officers in September installed the new executive: president — Donna Moyer; p: ident and touring ro Eleanor Elstone; treasurer — Ron Heuer; recording Secretary — Heidi Berger; correspondence secretary — Jodi Parsons; membership chairman — Agnes Walden; directors — Mary-Beth Small, Beth Marken, Judy Wear- mouth, Margaret Pryce and Lach Farrell. Regular meetings were held throughout the year on the fourth Monday of each month in the Arts Council office on the second floor of the Castlegar Rail Station. It is a credit to its hard-working members that the Castlega¢ Arts Council sponsored no less than six perfor- mances throughout this season! Beginning in September with a wonderful clown/mime act by Mimic Sole, through to the H Theatre p of the p play Sanctuary in October, to the jointly sponsored Peace on Earth pot-luck dinner and concert by folk-singer Fran- cis Xavier in December, the Anna Wyman Dance Theatre in January, Rossland Light Opera's rendering of The Pirates of Penzance-in-February and harmonic master Gerald Laroche in March. The late addition of the RLOP Performance to the season's roster was a special fun- raising endeavor on behalf of the Arts Council and the Stage 9 Theatre committee, and was happily a huge suc- cess — $1,500 in profits was realized and put directly into ‘a newly established theatre fund. Other Arts Council activities this season have in- cluded sponsorship of the Castlegar Slo-Pitch League’s Busy year in the arts The Castlegar Arts Council Continued to organize and Sponsor a number of cultural In the C: area in Bavarian Garden last summer (a general f en- deavor), participation in the Assembly of B.C. Arts ‘Touncils’ Conference and annual general meeting in Vic- TEXACO Now Serving CUSTOMERS Esso Petroleum is pleased to serve Texaco customers since Imperial Oil has united with Texaco Canada. ALLEN JANZEN Agent DIESEL, GASOLINE WHOLESALE MARKETERS OF LUBRICATION PRODUCTS © HOME HEATING FUEL As well, a complete Cardlock facility. & AVIATION FUELS 2201-6th Avenue, Castlegar 365-5185 © 368-3020 ESSO PETROLEUM CANADA 45 Government Road, Nelson 352-3713 1969 Including the seventh annual Concerts In the Park series whic! it year featured a variety of talent including The Travelling Milldooles (above). The council also elected a new executive for the current year Including (back row, left to right) Ron Heuer, Agi Walden, Mary-Beth Small and Heidi ind (front row, left to inor Elstone, Donna Moyer and Margaret Pryce. Missing from the photo are Jodi Parsons, Lach Farrell, Beth Marken and Judy Wearmouth. toria last September, ongoing active involvement in West Kootenay Regional Arts Council's cultural policy development recommendations to the British Columbia government's Ministry_of Municipal Affairs, Recreation and Culture and, most Presently, participation in focal Heritage Week activities. As well, preliminary steps towards presentation of the second annual Castlegar school district Spring Festival of the Arts have been taken and the dates scheduled for this event are May 3 and 4. As in past years, the Arts Council has provided financial assistance to its member groups, who this year include the Castlegar and District Public Library, the Selkirk Weavers and Spinners Guild, the West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre, the Kootenay-Columbia Child Care Society, the Kootenay Art Club, the Castlegar Multicultural Society, the Heritage Society and the Light and Power Theatre Company. And of course, annual scholarship awards will again be presented to deserving Stanley Humphries secondary school graduates in June. Recent receipt of a $500 operating grant from the City of Castlegar is much appreciated by the Arts Coun- cil, whose financial position next season will be further improved by the resulting municipal matching allowance it_will receive from_the-cultural-services branch of the Provincial government. Except for its lingering affliction of Possessing too few active members, the Castlegar Arts Council has Progressed extremely well this past season and the in- vitation to join its ranks remains constantly open to anyone who believes in the intrinsic value of the cultural of our : ening communi Castlegar News Update ‘90 ti] Celgar proposal encouraging By CHRIS D’ARCY Rossland-Trail MLA The cleanup and of the Celgar pulp mill is the most encouraging news since pulp manufacturing started here 30 years ago. As well as ensuring the mill’s jobs and tax benefits, the moder- nization will stabilize the logging, sawmill and tran- portation jobs on which the regional retail and public- service sector is so dependent. Over 1.8 million cubic metres of chips and pulp logs are exported from the West Kootenay-Boundary every year. The Celgar modernization will recapture 1.3 million or 72 per cent of this surplus of pulp fibre which is now benefiting the economies of other cities in B.C. and the United States. It is good to know that more of our sustainable natural resources will be Processed here into a high-quality product essential for the manufacture of new and recycled paper products. And it will be done in a clean mill that will be able to survive the that hit have" assailed resource industries from time to time. The increased truck and general traffic levels have to be dealt with in a positive way. This means the Provincial government, which collects vehicle licence fees and fuel taxes, must move quickly to improve and i i as well as blish @ permanent crossing between Castlegar and Robson- Raspberry. f In 1990, major highways projects to be completed include the | ited West Trail A which will bypass Cominco’s industrial roads and Canadian Pacific Rail crossings, and the repaving of the Trail- Rossland highway from the new bridge to the Rossland city limits. The Fruitvale-Salmo highway will also be completely resurfaced this summer. B.C. Hydro’s proposed Keenleyside power plant is the first of seven power-house and two dam Projects Planned for the Columbia, Pend d’Oreille, Kootenay and Duncan rivers over the next 20 years. It is essential “Its good to know that more of our ble natural r will be processed here into a high-quality pout essential for the manufacture of new and ycled paper prod fe — Rossiand-Trail MLA Chris D’Arcy that political pressure is kept_up to make sure that Hydro, Victoria’s energy arm, meets its corporate obligations for full payment of property taxes, as well as protecting social, wildlife, and recreational values. Speaking of energy, sawmill and logging wood waste, now being burned in polluting bee-hive burners, exported, left to rot, or slash_-burned, may be conver- ted to electrical power in a clean and efficient thermal Power station. Such a development not only resolves CHRIS D’ARCY --- expansion will secure jobs the-ehronic-smoke problems associated-with bee-hive burners and sawmill dumps, but would provide the region with a new source of electricity for consumers and industry alike. 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