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Province prepares for 11th annual West Coast Music ee

The BC Chapter of CARAS is
pleased to announce for the sec-
ond year that The Vancouver
Province and the Talking Yellow
Pages will co-present The West
Coast Music Awards by enabling

the public voting process,

low Pages.

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The ballot will appear in your
Vancouver Province mid-October
and the voting will be tabulated
electronically by the Talking Yel-

Robson Recreation presents ‘
OLD-TIME COUNTRY BASH

music by: Old-time Fiddlers

$6.00/person - includes midnight snack
tickets from Johnny's Grocery or any Robson Rec. Director
‘NO MINORS ALLOWED’

| CASTLEGAR
ARTS COUNCIL

* WKNEC - until Nov. 3. “Guardians of
H =the Spirit”, clay sculpture by
Christine Dell.
Until Nov. 10 - tapestry works by 4 B.C. artists

* Kootenay Art Club meets every Wed.
from 7 - 10 pm at the Seniors Citizens Hall.
All welcome. Info: 365-6816 or 365-7450.

Call Cathy at 365-5266 days. ,

The Lion's dead Pub

hood Pub , Robson B.C; 365-5811 f

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Karaoke - Wed: & Sat. + sJoin us for lunch

In an effort to involve*all
music fans in the voting process, the ¥ Year
CARAS has added the foll 14 Perf
categorics to the public ballot: of the Year

Best Debut Recording Additionally, CARAS mem-

Gospel Performer(s) of the _ bers only will have the opportuni-
Year ty to decide the winner of a brand

Classical Performer(s) of the new category, the “Originally
Year Music Club of the Year”.

Children’s Performer(s) of the Duc to the importance of clubs
Year that provide the opportunity for

Age Pi

new artists to play, original, mate-
rial, CARAS would like to
acknowledge their’ support
through this award. .

Tickets are on sale now at Tick-
etmaster, Charge by phone at 280-
4444, The West Const Music
Awards will be held, Sunday,
November 10. 1991 at 86th Street
Music Hall. Doors at 7:00 p.m.
Show at 8:00 p.m, Ticket price $8

As this is a licensed venue, all
persons attending this year's event
must be 19 years of age and’ Over,

Watch for the nomination
release and the AllStar: Band per-
formance line-up!) |:

For further. information, please
contact John Penner, Tribute Pub-
licist at’ 872-2906 or'Judy Har-
nett, CARAS, BC, Chapter Office
Co-ordinator at 737-7915. °

Two rpaidents of Ma OntaINNeH Lodge (foreground), try out new v lap blankets sewn and donated by the
Castlegar Thursday Morning Sewing Ladies (back row). The sewing ladies used their own materials as
well as those donated by the local thrift shop and the hospital auxiliary.

‘SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halper

At the Clubs)

Hi Arrow : :

.., At Brewskies pub enjoy the sounds of Jamaican Mistake, a three:
piece local band from the Kootenays,-who specialize in Top 40 Rock
n’ Roll: The band ‘will be playing Wednesday through Saturday,
beginning at 9:30:p.m. Comedians from Vancouver provide laughter
and fun every Tuesday night Combine this with the best snack food
in town, and you can't miss!

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Sandman :
At Dexters in the Sandman enjoy: the sounds of 50's and 60's Rock
n' Roll performed by the local band Vertigo. This is the first time the
four-piece band ‘has played a at the andman. and ‘everyone is antipats
inga great evening. eB

Fireside.

it's‘?
band San Jose West.’ As well, local 1 musicians are invited to: strut their
“stuff i in a jam session Sunday evening. ° %

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Students from Woodland Park School “take a cl
look at the collection found at Assland Taxidermy
and Museum in Castlegar.

‘The Sasloger Sun

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ir Harry’ 's murderer has never been foun

ir Harry Oakes was an enlama, beloved
‘by ‘some, despised by others, He was
: unique In the annals of the mining game,
va Prospector who ended up owning his

own gold mins,

It wasn't easy,
Harry was bom on Dec. 23, 1874 in San-
' gervilte, Maine aod attended Syracuse 2 itedlent School
for two years. He prospected for gold all over the
world, seeking tho elusive metal in the Klondike,
Australi, Ce California, the Belgian Congo and back to
e Ki!
Tn 1886, Devaca City was larger than Winnipeg and
Vancouver, Harry worked long and hard attempting

riches to Max

Harry hi ane about gold around Swastika,
Ont., and that was enough for him to pull up stakes
in. the Klondike and Is luck at yet another loca-
tion. He had his doubts. Gold in‘ any worthwhile
quantities had never been found in Ontario.

In 1911, Harry, with exactly $2.65 in his pockets,
was refused credit. to purchase the essentials neces-
sary for bin to'stake out claims in the bush near
Kirkland La

That's ae. he met Tom and George Tough, two
prospectors looking for action. Harry cooked a decal,
The brothers ‘Tough would finance the trip in return
for half of anything found. The claims were staked
rt the Tough-Oakes ‘Mine came into existence.

thin A ae eo was found, but E Harry, Ww with a

nt order to develop his own mine, ai ‘ound it more
difficult raising funds than it had been to find gold in
ihe first place.

_ Quest for funds

Harry kept: on pi
one man, miner Grnle Martin fe tend’ his claims
when he headed ‘south in his ongo! ing quest for funds.
en Ha returned after one such trip, Ernie was
had struck gold.

is new find under the name of

. and went about issuing shares,

} Meenwhie, het sold his share of Tough-Oakes for

i aa sling shares in his new mine was no easy task.
He had two: million shares issued at one dollar par
value;.No one wanted them.

Charlie ‘Che:*,. who ran a rough tough eatery a

: Kirkland ‘Lake, accepted Harry's shares at 50¢ e:
for food ‘and“drink. Each one of Charlie’s fioree
would one day be worth $64.

During the First World War, Harry continued to
develops his mine by the seat of his pants. When he

"hit number two vein and its $60 of gold per ton, he

mew the hard times were over. No one could deny

gotd had been found in Ontario. A special train left

Buffalo full of financiers who wanted to see the mine

__for themselves. Harry, ill at ease in a store bought
‘suit;;made the trip with them::-The--financiers -pur-

chased half a million shares at, 32%4¢ per share.

Each one of these shares would also one day be

: worth $64.

yy 1921 Harry Onkes had brought in the second
largest gold mine in the western hemisphere. He had
des gned every building on his property and had
ed more than 50% of his discovery. He had won

| every court battle over ownership of the mine and he |
‘had done it alll eaiiout breaking a promise or reneg-
ing on a deal. He was also a multi millionaire, soon
‘to become the richest man in the count

While on a world cruise,-Harry met genteel Eunice
Macintyre. They say opposites attract and that was

to'discover gold, put the Klondike never gave up its .

never more true than In the case of Harry and Eun:
Ice, Rough Harry had spent years In the bush, Hs
manners left something to be desired. By contrast,
Eunlce was a lady through and thro
Harry built a fine chateau In Kin Mand Lake and
another, home in Niggara Falls, complete with his
rivate airport, He loved to look over the Niag-
ara. iver, perhaps contemplating the tur of fortune
which had catapulted him from a man with $2.65 in

nas pocket: to one who was lord and master of Oak

Mthose around Niogara Falls who still remember
Harry speak fondly of hlm. He had a large staff and
was, from all accounts, pleasant and falr to them, Ha
gave gencrous gilts of land to the community and
ney, you can walk in formal gardens donated by

‘In 1 1930, when the Bennett Conservatives camo
power, they taxed Harry $250,000 on gifts he had
given the country. Taxes on Lakeshore Mines rose

85%. Harry was fit to bo tied. He felt that laws were
being. enacted specifi cally to claw away at his
weal

“SIR HARRY OAKES—Prospector’s
death remains a mystery after nearly
50 years.

Wlign he learned that there was no income tax In
the Bahamas, he moved there with his family. "One
In Nassau, Harry didn't waste any time purchasing
one of the largest homes on the island. The man who
used to worl untlt his hands bled now. mixed: with
millionalres, Harry's closest friend on the island was
Harold Christlo, wi osc main aim was to develop tour-
ism in the Bahamas,

By 1939, Harry and Eunice had five shildreny

Pitt, Harry and Shirley. The w:
pe was a faraway thing 1 It dla’ affect
the andl set In the Bahamas one little bit. Harry
80 generously to British charities ant ‘he was
mighted. He became Sir Harry Oakes.

‘The tight little island had one couple.every bit as
ilustrious as the Oakes, Winston’ Chureill had
decided to stash the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in
the Bahamas. The Duke, who had :well- publicized
Nazi Icanings, was on embarrassment. More to get
him out of the way than anything: else, Gee
Sprointed the Duke governor of the island. Duchess

‘ally hated the place from the first day she landed,
Still, the former King of England could have found
himself in a more disagreeable place ‘than a safe
tropical iat in which to eat, drink and golf the war

awa:

y.

In May, 1942, Harry's 18-year-old daughter Nancy
slipped awa: ‘with 32+ -year-old playboy Alfred ‘ae
Marigny to New York, where they were married,
Alfred was tall, silra and twice divorced. He was an
expert y

uple

Body set
on fire

bedrooms away, Harold Christie heard noth;
intruder exited b: by way of a balcony window,
leaving ; the window open. Wind ting tur furfously
through th tinguished. the: flames.
burning matt

air and came to rest on Borys
morning, Harold Christie awoke. an

elled, he made Las aay to to his host's room and discov-
cred his friend's b ody.

It fell to the Duke of Windsor to do something
about the murder of the Bahamas’ most illustrious
citizen. He could have called on Scotland Yard. After

all, the Bahamas was a British colony.
have elicited aid from the RCMP.
Canad! Instead. ne, inept
Miami and two very ord!

ir Harry was a
overnor called
letectlves were sent |

Me i
Bonen of getecth Miami police, quickly learned of do
"s rather with

Bir

where Alfred ei rel atively hoeeceetal in business,
One thing bugged Sir Harry, His new Son n-law
didn't seem to want a penny from him. Besides, he
and Nancy ap to be extremely happy. Harry
just couldn't cotton to the suave de Marigny.

On the night of July 7, 1943, events were to unfold
which would ee headlines around the world. phat
evening, Sir Hi Played a game of tennis with
friend Harold “Cheistie. The game was followed os
cocktails with friends who left by 11 Fm A tropical
storm was threatening, so it was decided that Chris-
tic would sleep over at Sir Harry's. Both men retired
to their respective bedrooms.

That same night, de Marigny held a dinner party
for 11 guests. Nancy was in the States with her
mother. As the night wore on the storm broke. The
at ae guests remaining at the de Marligny resl-

Mrs. Dorothy Clark and Mrs. Jean Ainslle,
ae of RCAF officers stationed on the island,

Harry. They homed in on him as a eh
the exclusion of anyone else. When
he had driven by the Oakes’ sate wh en the crime
may have taken place, de Marign: and
ed with the murder of Sir Farry Oa i
I interviewed the Sovyear-old Alfred de” Marigny
recently in Toronto, He told me it was all like a
dream to him. Everyone assumed he was gullty. :-
Everyone except his wife Nancy, who stood by him
throughout the trial. He still has a soft spot his
heart for Nancy, although they were divorced about -
two years a is trial. '
de Harieny was acquitted of the murder.
Later, he took a lie detector test under the strictest
of conditions. The test indicated that he had no gullty :
knowledge of the crime.
It bas been almost 50 years since the murder. To
this day the murder of Sir Harry Oakes remains
unsolved.

were offered a lift home by Alfred. He
his Linco!n Continental to drop them off at their
homes on the other side of the Oakes’ estate. He
returned home alone.

The thunder and lightning storm lit up the sky. Sir
Harry Oakes prepared to slip under mosquito netting
with his newspaper. Someone gained entrance to as
room while he was still out of bed. The intra
rained four blows to Sir Harry's skull, killing ie
instantly. Gasoline was poured onto the bed. Harry
he Placed on top and both bed and body were set on

PALM SPRINGS

Your Kootenay’ Tour Company
With Local Pick Ups
1355 Bay Ave., Trail - 368-6666

SUN STAFF PHOTO /Donna Joy

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Schedule for Oct. 23 & 24, oat |

Wed. 7:00 pm, Thurs. 9:00 am: 5
-e Kootenay Kitchen — Blackcat Cupcakes for Halloween. ie
Wed. 7:30 pm, Thurs.
* Foster Parents — Two short videos about what it takes: tp
become a Foster Parent. x :
Wed. 8:00 pm, Thurs. 10:00 am *. '

* Faith Alive — Living Waters Congregation with | Spec

“guest the Living Waters Girls Quartet: :

Oct.26

*'6:30 pm - Trail Minor Soccer — East Trall Aalders
; “on Beaver: Valley. Sho

9:30 am

current compilation of
themost, iarthings
people do, edited by Chuck
Shepherd. ‘
‘Proof that true

ft h © more likely to be shoplifted than

other products,

* Letty Catchings mounted a

last winter to a determi-

nation by San Francisco city offi-
cials that she was not entitled to her
late husband’s municipal pension.
Mr. Catchings, with 37 years in the
city’s rail system, died of a heart
attack on Oct. 1, 1985 — eight
days after he had agreed to cooper-
ate with a company bookkeeping
change and move his retirement
date from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, (The
city has offered to compromise at
50 percent of benefits.)

¢ In a muddy Thailand farm
yard in April, Yooket Paen, 57,
slipped and grabbed a wire to
brace her fall, but it was a live
power line, which electrocuted
her. Later in the day, her sister,
Pan, 52, was demonstrating to

ighb how. the
occurred, grabbed the same wire
and was electrocuted.

« A recent study of the U.S.
Postal Service by the Cato Insti-

; weirder than made-up.
f “) gtories,
Néw London, Wis., alderman
d Craig Bain was convicted in
june én gigolo charges. The evi-
fen against him included a con- ©
and a sales brochure featuring
‘a money-back guarantee and'a .
iprice list of the various services he
‘would perform. (Intercourse was
$65.) One service was described as
a “treatment program” offering‘
“most women only dream
He hired,two women to

store in‘ Chapel Hill, N.C., agreed ©
to move a shelf of Aftican-Ameri- i
d hair p

«In March, a Rite-Aid drug-

tute d that an internal
USPS angi found properly.
d in the

Professor Bill Robert Cathey, 49,
arrested for kidnapping a 22-year-
old woman, as -saying he was real-

* ly only conducting an “experiment”

to turn the victim into a “model
woman.” The woman said Cathey
held her for two weeks, often
forced her to kneel in front of him
for 45 minutes at a time, chanting,
“I will obey,” and chained her
inside a closet.

¢ Seven high school students in
Syracuse, N.Y., were arrested in
April after they had begun to dis-
mantle, piece by piece, their school
building. Police said they had
unscrewed light switch plates, taken
apart desks and shelves, and stuffed
lockers with fliers reading, ‘“Liber-
ate your life! Smash your school!””

« James Allen Manuel, 23, was
arrested in Baltimore in June after
walking into a police station and
asking for help in getting his
money back from a drug dealer so
he could go pay for a prostitute.
Cocaine residue around Manuel's
nose provoked police to search his
pockets, where they found more.

The Internal Revenue Service

trash at 76 p porate of the post
offices visited.

° Khaled Kamadan, an Egyp-
tian injured in Kuwait during the
Gulf War, was operated on twice
during a two-week period in July
in Kuwait City — the second time
to remove the surgical scissors left

inside him ‘during the first opera-_

tion.

+ Passengers on the Greek enise :

ship Oceanos, which: sank in

_ August in the Indian Ocean,
accused

in June that it would pur-
chase health club memberships for
125 employees who work in its
L’Enfant Plaza building in Wash-
ington, D.C. because it would be
too difficult for them to walk the'
7/10 of a mile to use the agency's
sym ‘on Constitution Avenue. :
emes
° Shreveport, La., police

‘ charged city employee and part-

time sports coach Jeff Norbury in
May with persuading three teen-

age boys to allow him to measure
‘their-penises and to give him

semen samples. Norbury

WINTER
GETAWAY

Jan. 14, 1992 Departure

Enjoy 23 days away from the cold. Stay 11 nights in Palm Springs at the
brand new Holiday Inn with microwave, fridge and coffee maker in each
room. Breakfast each morning in Palm Springs is included. Visit Hoover
Dam: Laughlin; Oatman — see the wild burros in the street; Lake Havasu
City — see the Old London Bridge; Palm Springs Aerial Tramway and many
more side trips; OR spend ycur days golfing. OR — optional 7 day
MEXICAN RIVIERA CRUISE. There's something for everyone on this great
relaxing holiday! Catch the early bird payment by Nov. 1!

AMERICAN THANKSGIVING
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKEND

November 29-December 1, 1991
(Spokane, Washington)

You'll enjoy this weekend, ride the Antique Carousel in
Riverfront Park; lunch at the beautiful Highlands Golf
and Country Club located near the Outlet Mall; enjoy the
Westcoast Ridpath for two days in downtown Spokane;
enjoy an evening with dinner and Cliff Carl a local
Popular singer, who will entertain you with all the old sing

NUTCRACKER NUTCRACKER

SUITE BALLET

December 7,1991 Spokane Opera House.

_ Welcome to the very special magic of Tchaikovsky's immortal
dream ballet, the Nutcracker Suite.. This traditional, lovely
Christmas classic creates lasting memories for the whole family.

. ¢, Showed the boys a letter from a

away «
from the. front. of. the store.
teas ‘a store clerk had told a
‘that! the’ shelf was

California university lauding an

-.athletic: program that would

increase their chances of making

i ‘the, U.S. Olympic team if they
‘Wwould.supply. various fluid sam-

ples and. body.. measurements
directly to nein cos coach, for for-
ding to Cali sit

FLYER COMING OUT. TH
MIDDLE ‘OF NOVEMBER: i