Castlégar News June s, 19% ENTERTAINMENT SAVE TUESDAY NIGHTS FOR ME! . 7 Fabulous Performances PERFORMANCE 86 For You! NEW YORK (AP) — Boy George sometimes leaves his Manhattan apartment to buy cigarettes in the middle of the night, tossing his celebrity to the wind. “I realize I should't do it but I do, nonetheless,” the flamboyant lead singer of Culture Club said in a recent interview. “Last night I walked 50 blocks. “When you become famous, the most trivial things excite you, getting on a subway, going for a walk.” Boy George thrives on freetiom, especially personal freedom. When he first sashayed on to the American music scene in 1982 with a spritely ditty called Kissing to Be Clever, and a year later with the melodic Karma Chameleon, he left audiences in a daze with his mascara, eye shadow and lipstick and thrift shop rags. During the interview in the dressing room of a TV LICENCED DINING ROOM OPEN 4 P.M. DAILY WESTAR & COMINCO VOUCHERS ACCEPTED — AIR CONDITIONED Reservations for Private Parties — 365-3294 Located | mile south of Weigh Scoles in Ootischema studio where he was about to appear on a news show, he fussed with his makeup, removing it and reapplying it until he was pleased Boy George, whose main residence is in London, will be spending more time in New York because he plans to do some record production before the Culture Club tour this summer to promote the group's latest LP, From Luxury to Heartache. FEELS LIKE REBEL When the 24-year-old musician writes, he says he feels like “a sort of Irish rebel songwriter.” “I'm always getting something out of my system Bulletin Board BAKE SALE AND AUCTION Kinnoird Hall, June wants Viewing 6 - 7 p.m. Auction 7 - 9 p.m. To Support Girl Guides to Expo. 3/45 BINGO, BINGO, BINGO June 9, Robson Hall. Sponsored by Robson Recreation. All proceeds to Robson Scouting. Early Bird at 6 p.m. $1.00 per card. Regular games 7 p.m. Percentage Bingo. 2/45 Boy George thrives on personal freedom when I'm writing songs,” he says. “I think of clever ways Sy to put things so it confuses people. “I stick with the ambiguity ‘thing; now you see me, now you don't “I love confusing people. I'm fascinated with it.” Culture Club's first three albums sold platinum in the United States, which means one million or more copies of the LP, tape or compact disc. Despite the band’s success, rumors of a split persist. “Everybody asks about splitting up,” Boy George said. “When things looked a bit dodgy, everybody kept saying solo career. “To me it was the easiest thing to do. Even now, | feel I could do it and I would do pretty well. “I feel like I have to take Culture Club to another peak. Not the same things we did before — that would be tacky. If I feel, after reaching that peak, we've really done everything we can, we'll disband. “The sad thing about fame is that, like a flower, when it’s the most beautiful it has to die.” WRITES MUSIC Boy George hopes to write new songs for performance on tour to give “people something else to think about, not just, ‘Here's another single.” ” “I hate the idea of my musie just being there to sell records. It trivializes what you're doing.” Boy George writes the words and melodies, but the songs are structured by the band BOY GEORGE . Summer tour Coming events of Castlegar and District non-protit organizations may be listed here. The first 10 words ore and additional words ore 15¢ each. Boldtoced wor ds (which must be used for headings) count as two words There is no extra charge for a second insertion while the third consecutive insertion is seventy-five percent and the fourth consecutive imsertion ts half-price. Minimum charge is $3.50 (whether ad is for one, two or three times). Deadlines ore 5 p.m. Thursdays tor Susdoy § poper and 5 p.m. Mondays for Wednesdays paper Notices shold be brought to the Gastlegor News ot 197 Columbia Ave. COMMUNITY Bulletin Board Castlegar Expo 86 Committee Srogdly presents Selkirk Weavers’ and Spinners’ Guild KITTY WELLS NASHVILLE, TENN. (AP) — Legendary Kitty Wells was rolling out country hits years before Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton became stars, and she's still drawing crowds 34 years after It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels. The song was the first No. 1 country music hit by a woman. She regularly hops on a tour bus and keeps five booking agencies busy as she gives 200 concerts this year. A Canadian tour is being planned for the fall. “I like going different places and seeing the scenery and meeting the people,” she says. “I've always enjoyed travelling. “It's as good a way as any to spend your time.” “We never fail to have crowds,” says Wells’ husband, Johnny Wright, who also sings. He and their son, Bobby, who plays in the band, always go with her on the road Bobby appeared as a sailor on the TV series, McHale's Navy from 1962-66. During her 50 years in show business, Wells has recorded 50 albums and has had 23 No. 1 singles. SINGS GOLD From 1953-68, various polls listed her as the No. 1 female country singer. During that time, she had 25 Top 10 country hits, almost twice as many as any other female country singer. She has been known as “the queen of country music” for 30 years. In the mid-1960s, Record World Magazine affirmed the title by registering it as a trademark for her. COCO CES: 2 Fashion Show of Wearable Art Sun., June 15 — 2:30 p.m. Courtyard, Sandman Inn KOS °. lickets available at: Inn or ph 365- 2670 or 365-6313 xX Xx XXX bo 8 ret) ze SIT Bote hot Diiiiitiiritittisitiig THE C.P. PUB OPEN LZ NOON - 2 A.M. 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SUNDAYS — 11 A.M. -10P.M. se i PORTRAITS Large Selection ot B.C. s Wine & Beer © ELEGANT GLASSWARE © CHILLED WINES * COLD BEER © MUNCHIES Country legend rolls on “Although many of us have been called the queen of country music, I still think the one celebrating her 60th birthday today is the real queen to be saluted,” said Dolly Parton in a birthday telegram to Wells six years ago. “What I've done has been satisfying,” Wells said in an interview in her museum north of Nashville. “I wouldn't change a thing.” These days she has joined a health club and is still receiving congratulations for her Pioneer Award presented during an NBC-TV special. “It means to me that I have accomplished something,” she said. “I got a lot of telegrams and phone calls afterwards. “A lot of people on this last tour congratulated me.” It was her second major honor in the last 10 years. In 1976, she was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. She was able to raise three children and manage a thriving career. “My mother lived here and helped keep the kids,” she recalled. “Johnny's sister kept them some. It made it easier for me.” TREASURES HOME Her songs tend’ to treasure domesticity, a departure from the themes of today's country songs, she says. “They get away with a lot more today. They're more (sexually) suggestive today.” Still, she likes some of today's country music. “I like Reba McEntire, George Strait, Ricky Skaggs, George Jones, | like to listen to music of all kinds, but country is my favorite,” she said She sings only her own traditional country songs at her concerts. “That's what the people want to hear.” said. That means she sings It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels and other hits, including Release Me, Making Believe, Amigo's Guitar, Hearbreak USA, Left to Right and I Can't Stop Loving You. Wells, who was born in Nashville, began playing the guitar at age 14 and soon was performing at dances in the Nashville area. her husband Actor a preacher NASHVILLE, TENN (AP) — Demond Wilson, who played Redd Foxx's son on the television series Sanford and Son, says he is drawing from his entertainment back. the ground to be a more effective last program on the Trinity Broadcasting Network in Cal ifornia. Wilson said he “really started to seek God” after 1982 cancellation of his television series, New © T-SHIRTS & HATS Call 365-7282 -_—- “Service in our Own Facilities TIME DOES NOT APPLY TO KODACHROME OR DISC FILM Pentecostal minister. “I'm using what I learned in television and on the stage Odd Couple I took a year off to study the word of God,” said Wil Larson shoots for the top ASHVILLE, TENN. (AP) — Successful rock and pop-country singer Nicolette Larson's latest album, Rose of My Heart, is selling well and keeping the 33-year-old singer on the charts. With six albums out and numerous awards to her credit, Larson is bubbling with confidence and says she can “shoot for the top. I don't feel limited in any field “Since I've been doing this for 10 years, I do have some staying power. I've always been highly visible. I'm see ing some more acceptance in country right now.” Performance Magazine chose Larson the best new rock ‘n’ roll singer in 1979. Disc jockeys voted her best new pop singer in 1980. The Academy of Country Music named her best new female country singer in 1985. “Now I need rhythm and blues, then gospel,” she jokes. Although she has singing country-pop for last couple she is best known for her million-selling rock hit, Lotta Love, in 1979. It was a positive been of years, very song and people don’t want to hear how bad the world is all the time,” she in Nashville “It had a_ nice rhythm and groove PERFORMS SONGS Larson, who lives in Santa Monica, Calif.. performs some songs on her new album with other successful singers, including country singer Steve Wariner, Dave Log gins and Linda Ronstadt Larson says some people dislike the rough edges in today’s rock ‘n’ roll, but that “country only place to find a guitar and a melody.” said recently sound music is the ing country-rock, traditional country, and bluegrass. Larson, one of six children. has lived all over the U.S from her native Helena, Mont., to Kansas City, Min neapolis, St. Louis, Boston, Washington, Birmingham, Ala., and Portland, Ore.; all this moving by the time she was 11. Her father worked for the U.S. Treasury De partment and moved often. “I was always the new kid at school and I got adept at making friends and opening up to people fast,” she said It gave me the ability to go on stage and make people feet that they had met me As a young women, she moved to San Francisco to pursue singing. She tually did albums Emmylou Harris and Young “I was a rumor even with Neil People were talking about me.” she recalled She signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. In, 1977 and Lotta Love boos ted her career later two years She lived in Los Angeles for a few years with Linda Ronstadt Album aimed at yuppies NASHVILLE, TENN (AP) — Country music gui tarist Chet Atkins says he has collaborated with radio show host and author Garri Keillor to produce a song-and-talk album aimed at yuppies. son Weekly stocks TORONTO (CP) — of the dollar early in the week that caused market watchers to wonder what interest rates will do over the next few months. Oil prices slipped during the week, U.S. unemployment figures are up — an indication that interest rates won't rise — while other economic statistics re- leased this week sent mixed signals. The TSE’s composite 300 index managed a six-point rally Friday to close at 3,091, but still closed the week 31 points lower than it opened. Meanwhile in New York, the Dow Jones industrial average went up six points just breaking through the old record to hit a new high of 1,886. DALE DONALDSON . local businessman Canada should discontinue talks U.S. President Ronald Reagan is using the 35 per cent tarriff on red cedar shakes and shingles to scare Canada into negotiating a free trade agreement, says Nelson-Creston NDP candidate Corky Evans. “The shake and shingle industry is not big enough on its own to threaten free trade negotiations, so Reagan is saying, “Watch me. I can be tough. You should negotiate free trade or this will happen on all issues, for example: lumber,’ ” Evans says in a prepared release. Evans said Canada should withdraw its negotiator from the bargaining table and tell Reagan, “There is no sense in entering bargaining in a hostile environment. “We should not rise to Reagan's bait and believe we need free trade to protect the lumber industry. As a single issue, lumber is negotiable with the U.S. “There is no way the U.S. can fill its own need for wood. Historically they have relied on B.C. for wood and pulp and paper, and that is not about to change. “If it turns out to be necessary to alter the value of our wood, then of course that tax should be collected in B.C. and applied to silviculture needs here,” Evans said. He said it is important to understand that shakes and shingles are being singled out to teach Canada a lesson, and that “the correct response isn't to be terrified into giving away the whole store. “It would be correct for all B.C. and Canada to back the shake and shingle industry, and the hog farmers and fishermen on the east coast who have been slapped with tariffs during neogitations. We should support them by pulling the plug out of negotiations. “It's interesting that the tariff issue about lumber centres on the U.S. claim that our stumpage prices are too low and that equals a subsidy. “To threaten us with a tariff on lumber, they do it to shakes and shingles, which is largely supplied by independent operators buying cedar on an open market and selling shake bolts to industry “It’s obvious that no subsidy applies there. It's just been singled out as a political manoeuvre.” Evans said the shake industry is one of the labor intensive and largely cash businesses people have turned to in the Kootenays when they have found themselves unemployable in the mainstream industry. They, rather than the large corporations, have been made the subject of the American threat. “The Ameritans are threatening the province as a whole and the major corporations that sell lumber, but without hurting the rich,” he said Evans said the U.S. has “attacked the industry made up largely of little operators and not théir corporate friends.” Evans, himself an independent logger, said that if Prime Minister Brian Mulroney fails to act on behalf of the people of the Kootenays, and if retiring Premier Bill Bennett fails to recommend withdrawal from the free trade talks, then Donaldson speaks to Castlegar Rotary Club By JOHN CHARTERS “If 20 per cent of the popu- lation is unemployed, then 80 per cent must be working and this means that at least 80 per cent of the population regular meeting at the Fire- side Place. While it was billed as an introductory speech, it might well have been titled “The Power of Positive Merchan- dising.” Though he is young and a relative newcomer to Castle- gar, Donaldson is a third generation Nelsonite and well acquainted with the West Kootenay and its needs. He is also a strong prop- onent of the value of though- optimism in business, careful market research in the field and the values of healthy competition in the marketplace. WESTAR MINING Workers locked out CRANBROOK (CP) — Westar Mining Ltd., frus. trated by six weeks of rotat- ing strikes by its 950 union- ized employees at the Balmer mine, has announced it is locking the workers out for 48 hours. Company spokesman Christopher Humble said members of the United Mine Workers of America can re turn to work Monday morn. ing, but if the walkouts con. tinue, the lockout will be reimposed. “If the UMWA stops ro- tating action, we will contin. ue to operate,” he said. “If they don't, we will shut down indefinitely.” The company and union met for two hours Thursday morning, but failed to reach any agreement. The previous contract expired Dec. 31, 1985. “We felt we made a serious effort to get bargaining started,” said Humble “We've made numerous sug- gestions to settl ethe griev- ances.” Humble said the company has attempted to follow a provision in the contracts that allows grievances to go to arbitration. However, the union has refused to appear before a panel. We're being thwarted in our attempt to resolve this thing stonewalled,” said Humble. The rotating strikes began CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT SERVICE ASSOCIATION ond it's affiliated project (MEALS-ON-WHEELS. AL GENERAL MEETING Will be held in the Legion Hall on April 25, disrupting shifts, stalling train shipments and losing the company about 640,000 tonnes of coal produc tion and 160,000 tonnes of coal sales. Humble said the company’s costs have risen 50 per cent since the dispute began, par- tially because the union has been working weekends, on time-and-a-half and double time, while imposing rotating strikes on weekdays. The company has proposed a two-year contract with no wage increase, but a $400 bonus in the second year. “In order to stay competitive, we cannot afford to have an ex. cessive wage settlement,” said Humble. Last week, workers at the company's Greenhills coal mine, who are members of the Greenhills Workers Asso- ciation, voted to accept a three-year agreement. Retro- Ca not only one of the most rapidly growing, but one of the most rapidly changing and trendy areas in mar- keting. Watching the trends, and if possible, anticipating them, is essential to business success. There is no room for complacency today. “I make at least three sur- vey and buying trips each year to Vancouver, and at least one to Toronto. It is im- possible to cover the entire field, particularly with the “I also study the buying practices of the competition and buy in between so that the customer has a choice,” Donaldson says. you've got to make a profit or you're not in business.” And what, he was asked in peal «> Solgar amt as Moma veakive st- at- tude, It’s surprising how much better things go when accompanied with a smile.” In other business, the Rotary Club is again sponsor- ‘ing a candidate for the Miss Castlegar 1986 pageant and this year’s candidate is Ste- phanie Swetlishoff. The club will be sending members to the reception June 25 at the Fireside Place. The day previous, June 24, the club will hold i are steadily more popular, in the West Kootenay he said. “But since the clientele is much less sophisticated here than on the coast I can buy last year's models at a re- duced price, pass on the sa- vings to my customers and still make a profit — and active'to April 1, 1985, it provides for a three-per-cent wage increase in the first year, a wage freeze in the second year and an increase in the third year based on a cost-of-living formula. Want to make a little money goa long way? Try Business Directory Advertising! Necklaces and Earrings Repaired and Restrung GINETTE'S ‘Here's my card F.J. McLEOD LTD. CASTLEGAR, ic: * GENERAL CONTRACTING * INDUSTRIAL & Cc * CRAWLER tgaoure wack BULDING * BOBCAT serv; KHOE R.F. (Dick) McLEOD 365-3566 SS | of officers at the home of President Jack Cher- noff and his wife, Bev. 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