. oa Castlégar News August 27, 1989 ENTERTAINMENT No French news says commission | OTTAWA (CP) — The rejection of the CBC’s bid to run a French all news TV chanriel drew mixed reactio Friday, with a Quebec Conservative MP calling it unacceptable and a media consultant saluting it as a service to Canada demand a French all-news channel. The commission said the French channel wouldn't have carried enough original broadcasting nor offered the quality of Newsworld, the CBC English all-news TV channel which began service July 31 The Crown network expressed disappointment Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Tory MP for Jonquiere, was outraged by the — service decision of the Canadian Radio- But the CBC director of television and Telecommunications _ relations for French-language services Commission argued that market demand might not The CRTC has shown be the key issue respect for us, the francophones,” said **Should it be based only on market Blackburn, who years ago facts or the principle of national ser spearheaded a Tory caucus battle to vice?’’ asked Jean-Marc Lefebvre. It also said the CBC had presented no evidence of a market for the French public ‘a lack of two Taste the Freshness... Trust the Name ! Diielee 2816 Columbia Ave., 365-5304 In celebration of their 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY the family of Frances and Bob Hunter invite their friends to an OPEN HOUSE Sunday, Aug. 27 — 2-4:30 p.m. ireside Banquet Room Please bring “Best Wishes" only! COMMUNITY Bulletin Board THE RCMP MUSICAL RIDE At Creston Rec. Centre Grounds, Creston, 8.C. Sunday, September 3, Show starts at 3 p.m. Adults $5, Seniors and students $3. Get your tickets now at Your local RCMP ottice or in Creston trom Pauls Superetie. Sponsored by Creston Rotary Club 36 Coming events of Castlegar and District non-protit organizations may be listed here. The first 10 words ore $4 and additional words are 20¢ each. Bold taced words (which must be used for headings) count as two w tra charge tor a second insertion while the third half-price and the fourth consecutive insertion is also half-price charge 's $4 (whether ad is tor one, two or three times). Deadlines ore 5 p.m Thursdays for Sundays paper and 5 p.m. Mondays tor Wednesdays paper Notices should be brought fo the Castlegar News at 197 Columbia Ave COMMUNITY Bulletin Board _~ THE RCMP MUSICAL RIDE CRESTON, B.C. Sun., Sept. 3 CALGARY LABRADOR LONGSHOTS GET YOUR TICKETS NOW AT: Your local RCMP office, or in Creston from Paul's Superette any Creston Rotarian or at the gate. Adults $5, Srs. & Students $3 Paty rc Sponsored by Creston Rotary Club - coming to at Creston Rec Centre Grounds Show Starts at 3 p.m. Plus added attractions including the pre ww Stones ready for tour TORONTO (CP) for money. But satisfaction. Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards frankly admits money was a prime motivator behind the forthcoming Stones tour “But after a while, who wants any more of the stuff?"" he said by phone from the band's rehearsal soundstage on Long Island, N.Y “No, one of my biggest fears earlier this year was, ‘What if this ends up being just all right, and nothing more To prevent that, he said, the band members have been pushing themselves to get ready for the which starts Aug. 31 in Philadelphia and stops‘iin Toronto on Sept. 3, Sept. 4nd Dec. 3. A fourth Toronto concert may be announced for Dec. 4, while other Canadian dates in Montreal and Vancouver are rumored but unconfirmed. “I have never seen the boys so conscientious,” said Richards, 45 “GOING BACK’ “It’s funny what a few years off can do. Everybody's been going back to the original albums, the early albums, relearning the exact parts they played on songs like Jumpin’ Jack Flash “I mean, after 10, 20 years of playing a song, you tend to find easy ways to play it, easier than it first written and recorded. Well, nobody’s taking the easy way out on these rehearsals, and I’m not even having to push them at it “Mick (Jagger) is doing back flips and I’m doing backflips to make this thing work. It does mat- ter how we sound.”" Richards remembers Toronto well, from a stay in 1977, when police seized 42 grams of heroin in his hotel bedroom His eventual sentence amounted to playing two charity concerts in Oshawa, Ont ~ Yeah, it’s also for the tour, was Mitchell downplays musician image Canada's Being. The two records combined have sold more than $00,000 copies in Canada, and Shakin’ won the 1987 Juno Award for best album, Now, Mitchell has just released his third solo album, Saturday CLOSED Sundays & Holidays 1004 Columbia Ave., Castlegar mammn. WE ACCEPT WESTAR, CELGA! & COMINCO MEALTICKETS Sw rock Everyman By BILL ANDERSON The Canadian Press Straddling the line between artful composer and street-corner hoser, Kim Mitchell is Canada’s rock Everyman — a guy who's sold nearly a million records but still drives a Honda Accord with smashed cookies and two McDonald's boxes on the floor With his wife and two preschoolers, Mitchell lives in an unassuming semi-detached house near downtown Toronto. There’s a tricycle parked on the porch and a pleasant living room is viewed through the screen door. A visitor wonders if it can even be the right place. Is this where one of Canada’s loudest and hardest rockin’ guitarists really lives? Then you see some big sneakers on the mat and a thin, towering figure with long hair silhouetted against the back window. Yup, this is the place. “Daddy has to go to a meeting now,”’ Mitchell says to one of his toddlers, pointing the child back into the living room and heading for the Honda. The visitor follows, gets in, crunches a toy airplane underfoot, and the car heads for anearby coffee shop GOT NOAIRS “I don’t step in and out of limousines,"’ Mitchell says later. ‘I don’t think there should be anything pretentious about performers ‘| know there's a certain mystique they carry, just because an artist is a different type of person than the rest of the people walking the face of the earth. But 1 don’t mean they’re above, I just mean different.”” Mitchell's thoughtful comments come as something of a surprise, although they shouldn't His party-hearty songs have always been deceptively simple constructions — keen, playful rock given depth and durability by the sly lyrics of Pye Dubois, the pen name for * Mitchell’s reclusive buddy from teenage years in Sarnia, unt Dubois’s words have been heard since the days of Max Webster, when Dubois was the unseen fifth member of the band and Mitchell led the group through six gold albums in the’70s. In 1979, Mitchell struck out on his own, eventually producing Akimbo Alogo and Shakin’ Like a Human Rockland — an infectious, glistening work that has torank as his best yet and one of the finest rock records of the year. It's Something of a return to the heavy sound of Akim- bo Alogo, with less of the commercial ring of Shakin’. The result is an almost perfect blend of loud rock and introspec- tive pop that can hardly be beaten for sheer enjoyment. But if Mitchell's craft is at a new plateau, his persona hasn’t changed, Just check the album jacket, which reads at the end of the credits: ‘And finally, all you knucklehead party animals: Raise your hands and repeat after me ‘lama wild party animal, RAH RAH OLE!’"’ TALK TOFANS “That's just my way of talking to my fans,’’ says Mit- chell. ‘‘It’s not like they’ re any strangers to me. “They see me strolling along, you know, the third floor of Eaton's, and they ustally come up and say ‘Hi.” It’s not like ‘Oh my God, there he is!’ and then my bodyguards push "em outof the way.”” In approaching his work and fame, Mitchell finds in- spiration in the antics of American bozo rocker David Lee Roth. “1 like his perspective on his role as an entertainer,"” Mitchell says. “It’s like he says, ‘Hey man, | ain’t gonna Be like some cult band and tell some young kid on LSD to go axe-murder his grandmother “This is entertainment, folks. Have a yuk, have fun with it, get into the groove of it and that’s it, Walk away fromit.’"” NOT PACKAGED American audiences, alas, have barely discovered the delights of Mitchell — and small wonder. A rock industry built around pretty-metal pinups has trouble packaging a guy who looks like a stork and wears Ontario Provincial Police baseball caps. “If you're talking about making a fashion statement — you know, making the mags, making the rags, making the vids — then yeah, you need a bouf (bouffant) and a young face,"’ says Mitchell. ‘If you're talking about making music, you need a soul and some talent.’’ Mitchell’s age, 36, also gives the image consultants a problem — but it really just completes the effect. Rock music may not be the fountain of youth, but being creative and having fun sure is. “My message is not that you can rock at any age, but you can be creative at any age,” says Mitchell. “‘My medium happens to be my guitar, and I plug it in and turn it up and play it loud most of the time. “I guess that’s rock,’’ he says, then pauses and grins. *‘Itsureis a lot of racket though.” Sculptures on display EWDNEY : Call: 1-800-332-0282 TOURS 1355 Bay Ave., Trail | WEST'S TRAVE 365-7782 FALL RENO TOURS SEPTEMBER 23 8, RIVERBOAT .® OCTOBER 1 7 Day Ex CIRCUS CIRCUS OCTOBER 7 8 Day RIVERBOAT . 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Each year she produces a new selection of sculptures and some of this year’s work is now on view at the Gallery of the Kootenays on Ward St. The work as just returned from an exhibition of women artists of B.C. in Vancouver Martino has also had work in the Nor- th American Sculpture Exhibition in Colorado this summer and examples of her latest work are currently being marketed in Banff, Alverta at the Marika Gallery In Western Canada and the United States, most of the bronze sculpture seen is of the western tradition depic- ting the local history of the cowboy and Indian culture and the native wildlife Martino’s sculpture has |ts roots in the European tradition and she uses this approach to express timeless qualities in relationships between women, the release says. 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Cash registers rang up (otal sales of $14.5 billion in both months, Statistics Canada reported, an indication of cor tinued slowing in the interest-rate-ser sitive retail sector. Retail sales ros¢-on average by 0.2 per cent'a month in the first half of 1989, the federal agency said, in con trast with an average monthly increase of about 0.8 per cent in the last six months of 1988. Women’s clothing stores, which have suffered slumping sales for mon ths, had the highest sales growth in June — 5.2 per cent. But that was of fset by sales declines of 2.2 per cent for car dealers and 4.6 per cent for spor ting goods stores. “Looking at what consumers told thé Conference Board (of Canada), Employees need personal problem help, study says TORONTO (CP) — More than 80 per cent of industrial companies in Canada have no formal method of dealing with employees’ personal problems, a study conducted in three Provinces suggests. The survey, prepared by Work For ce, a national industrial employment agency, indicates that only nine per cent of companies in the industrial sec- smaller firms to have an assistance program. But even small companies, with staff of 20 or 30, will reap benefits from trained help on staff, Raesaid. **It doesn’t have to be a full-time counsellor, who is sitting around with folded hands most of the day. It can be on top of another job — but just a per- son who is trained in guiding people tor have a formal emp program. A further 11 per cent offer mental- health counselling under an employee benefit plan The remaining companies at best referred the person to a specialist, had some kind of informal counselling, or counted on the employee's supervisor to handle the situation. Employers who introduce assistance programs soon benefit from them, said Work Force president Barbara Rae **From the company’s balance-sheet point of view, when a person is struggling with personal problems, their productivity is on the floor,” Rae said from the company's Vancouver office. “But if there is a program, up front, just because they have got help and it has calmed them, they will be more productive.”” POTENTIAL CLIENTS The survey was conducted at 308 in dustrial and wareh: P in who have tofind help.” Work Force’s estimates of how many companies provide formal em- ployee assistance might be low, said Jamie Broad, clinical director of the corporate health division of the Family Service Association in Toronto. “Now, there are very few big com- panies that don’t have some kind of program,” he said Family Services has contracts with 30 firms to provide employee coun- selling. Clients range from breweries and banks to hospitals and a theme park. Peggy Nash, director of munications for the National Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers Union of Canada, said most of the programs available to its members are for treatment of substance abuse About half the union’s members + or-80,000 workers — have access to some form of assistance program, she estimated com- gcom British Columbia, Alberta and On tario that are either clients or potential clients of Work Force It indicated that companies with 200 or 300 employees are more likely than Under le workers’ tracts, trained union members are paid by the company for the time they spend helping co-workers find substance- abuse treatment or counselling for other personal problems con- Weekly stocks TORONTO (CP) — Gold pushed back prices on the Toronto exchange Friday, but optimism was still running high in New York The Toronto Stock Exchange's 300 composite index slipped 4.78 points amid heavy trading to close at 3,974.68, a 7.29-point loss for the week The Dow Jones average of 30 in dustrials moved back 2.28 points to 2,732.36. That left the average with a net gain of 44.39 points for the week The average had climbed $6.53 points Thursday, carrying the market to record highs. U.S. analysts said the market has been able to recoup the last of the losses it suffered in the crash of 1987 with help frontincreasing confidence that the Federal Reserve can restrain inflation without causing a recesssion They also said corporate earnings have risen in the past two years, making the perceived rish in stocks less than it was when the market peaked exagtly two years ago. Sagging gold bullion prices were at the heart of Toronto's problems, said day of instruction tact the Maintenance Office at 365-833! C. KINDERGARTEN struction CD 8US INFORMATION r mation related to routes 9:30 und 3:30, Monday through Friday SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 9 (CASTLEGAR) SCHOOL OPENING A. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1989 September 5 will be a shortened school day for students, starting at the regular time and dismissing two hours later. Shortening the day will allow students an opportunity to become acquainted with their school, while at the same time enabling teachers to tinalize their preparations for September 6, the first full Registration of students new to the District will take place on this day B. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1989 Schools will be in session for the full day schedules. It you are unsure of the time that your child will be picked up, con Kindergarten students will not attend school on September 5 Porents or guardians who have pre-registered their child for Kindergarten will be notified directly by the schoo! regarding class assignment and hours of in Parents or guardians or Kindergarten students who have NOT registered thes child are urged to do so at their neighborhood school as soon as possible, or telephone the Schoo! Boord Otfice (365-7731) for turther intormation times, bus stops. etc independent analyst Leon Tuey “‘Gold bullion was on the dowside, closing slightly’ above $360 (US an ounce) which is of course hurting a lot of gold and gold-related stocks,"” Tuey said. Only five of the Toronto index’s 14 subgroups rose on Friday, led by paper and up 0.98 per and financial services, up 0.51 per cent Gold led decliners, off 1.33 per cent, followed by metals and minerals, down 0.71 per cent and utilities, off 0.33 percent Advancers led decliners 322 to 317 with 394 unchanged on 33,754,168 shares traded worth $360,686,557. For the week, six of the subgroups were up, led by consumer products, up 1.63 per cent and paper and forests rose 1.49 per cent Gold and silver led decliners, down 3.78 per cent. Merchandising was off 1.25 per cent and ‘communications dropped 1.22 per cent On other Canadian markets, the Montreal Exchange portfolio index slipped 3.40 points to close at 2,022.73 for a gain of 8.11 points on the week forests, cent Buses will operate on their regular call 365-8331 between BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES School District No. 9, Castlega: you would have expected a significant decline,"’ analyst John Wifter said ‘After the conference board figures, | was expecting a considerable drop.”’ The board reported last week that consumer confidence, an indication of spending intentions, collapsed in the second quarter to its lowest point since the 1981-82 recession. Consumer spending accounts for 55 per cent of all spending in ihe economy, Government and ‘business account for the balance. IN DOLDRUMS Winter said that although sales of costly purchases such as cars, applian ces and furniture are still winding down, “the figures for women's clothing are good news because they’ ve been in the doldrums for some time. The Royal Bank of Canada said last _ week it thinks there will be no growth © in spending on big-ticket items this year. The slide in spending on durable goods will be the main factor accoun ting for an overall decline in growth of consumer spending to 1.9 per cent by the end of the year compared with 4,1 per cent for 1988, the bank said That assessment was reinforced by an August analysis of business con ditions from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce “Following_.a surge in caused by higher-than-normal income: tax rebates and advance buying prior to the (April) ris in the federal sales tax, growth in household demand is expected to during the remainder of this year and into 1990," the CIBC report said “High interest rates, higher income taxes and a marked erosion of con. likely cause demand for new homes and for con sumer goods to slow sharply.”” Statistics Canada said there wide differences among regions in June retail spending. 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See one of our award win ning salesmen, you won't be disappointed We have a fully equipped high tech service depar tment and our service and autobody technicians are thoroughly trained to care for your car well into the 1990s We will continue to honor all the Maloney Gold Cards that have been issued and we will be expanding the Gold Card program under the Kalawsky Gold Card Banner We want you to be satisfied in every respect, each time you visit Kalawsky Pontiac Buick GMC 1 am anxious to meet as many people as possible in this area Castlegar for a coffee 7 rs as soon as possible everyone in this area to drop in and | sincerely invite to our dealership in A \ ncerely yours, Neil W. Kalawsky President and General Manager d KALAWSICY |. Pontiac Buick GMC | 1700 Columbia Ave Castlegar DI. 8917 365-2155 Collect