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CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 30, 1981

Coming to Trail

VSO tours are seldom boring

Toronto is the setting.

: It's just moments before
the VSO is to begin a per-
formance and everything ap-

‘pears to be happening as
planned. Maestro Akiyama
emerges from his dressing
room all set to conduct the
orchestra, He is wearing a
black tuxedo, black socks, a
black tie . . . and brown
loafers. His formal black
shoes had been left behind in
the hotel room. There is
momentary panic, but a last
minute bl to

“I pack a kit which includes
extra ties, cufflinks, and dark
socks, just in case,” says
Nordheimer.

But with or without cuff-
links .and co-ordinated socks,
the VSO has never missed a
performance and is in fact
considered one of the most
professional touring organi-
zations in North American.

So when the orchestra
stops in Trail, Calgary and
Yellowknife in September,
members of the orchestra
and i can rest as-

turn up some appropriate
footwear. The concert goes
on as planned, and on time.

Indeed, anyone who has
ever toured with the VSO
will say there is seldom a dull
moment.

“People get sick, wallets
get stolen and instruments
get left behind,” says Van-
couver Symphony Society
administrative assistant Mar-
gary Hamilton. “Nearly any-
thing can and has happened.”

And while most orchestra
members are touring veter-
ans who know how to travel,
VSO stage manager Gerry
Nordheimer says he takes
nothing for granted when the
musicians head out on the
road.

sured that every eventuality
(well, almost anyway) has
been thought of.

The man responsible for
putting the VSO on }tage for
tour concerts is Doug Kent.
He is a seasoned veteran,
having masterminded the
VSO's itineraries for trips
through the western United
States, its 1976 cross-Canada
trip, its 1974 sojourn to
Japan, the 1979 Kootenay
tour, and last year's trip to
northern British Columbia
and Vancouver Island.

Kent says his main ob-
jective as tour organizer is to
avoid any possibility of
being taken by surprise.

“You cai imagine what
could arise if you try to

picture 95 people, all arriving
in a town at the same time,
requiring hotel accommoda-
tion and eating facilities,”
says Kent.

To ensure that this year's
fall-tour of Trail, Calgary and

Then we must ensure there is
good lighting on stage and
proper risers so the audience
can see the orchestra. Music
stands and even chairs have
to be brought from Vancou-

marketing and communica-
tions director.

As the person responsible
for all concert ticket sales,
Mathieson says the ertire
community must be made
aware that the orchestra is

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Yellowknife runs as smoothly
as possible, Kent plans to
make a pre-tour excursion.

One of the problems he
expects to confront is finding
accommodation for the whole
group in one hotel. In 1979
when the VSO played in
Trail, half the orchestra
stayed in Trail while the
other half had to travel 40
miles to Castlegar to find a
hotel.

The absence of concert
halls also presents a chal-
lenge.

“We're playing in gymna-
siums and in some cases,
arenas. We have to make
sure they're large enough for
the orchestra and audience.

Lennon interviews
to be broadcast

Just 48 hours before he
was murdered in New York,
John Lennon recorded A

interview wi

BBC's Andy Peebles. This
interview, his first for over
five years, developed into a
comprehensive, candid and
humorous discussion of
John's life and career, in
which he talked about the
Beatles, their break-up, his
meeting with Yoko Ono, his
problems with drink, drugs
and songwriting.

CBC Radio’s Summer
Nights has acquired these
three hours of conversation,
combined with some of his
best-loved music. These were
made into five one-hour pro-
grams and form a tribute to
John Lennon. On Thursday,
the first of this five-part
Thursday evening series be-
gins during the second hour
of Summer Nights, heard
from 8:04-10:00 p.m.

Part one on September 3,
spans John Lennon's musical
beginnings with The Quarry-
men, his years with The

Beatles and life with Yoko.
On September 10, Lennon
talks about his tune Cold
ning his MBE
and the period of November
1969 to November 1971.
Part three spans the years
1972-1974 and includes dis-
cussion about his New York
deportation case,

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Kent's face still blanches as
he recalls an incident.in San
Francisco which left the VSO
without the timpani or any

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coming, and just as much
care must be taken to do ef-
fective advertising in smaller
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P he
truck didn’t arrive in time for
a rehearsal and we had to
borrow a lot of instruments
from the Oakland Sym-
phony.”

But when things run
smoothly, and they normally
do, VSO musicians can count

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Sold out concerts do not,
financial

Canadian art

KSA to
feature
exhibit

A travelling exhibit from
the CIL Inc.'s collection of
contemporary Canadian art
will show in the. Kootenay
School of Art Gallery in
Nelson from Sept.'8 through
Sept. 25.

The CIL collection, foun-

ded in 1962, cohsists of 88

pieces of Canadian art, the
work of 77 artists.

“CIL’s is a well-rounded
collection, representative of
the various aspects of Can-

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The objectives of the coll-
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Canadian artists
and to bring to as many

spon-
sorship play an equally im-
portant role.

‘This tour to Trail, Calgary

as possible a sam-
pling of the national art

scene. :
“Public response to the

on Kent's expert
put them on stage, rested,
refreshed and ready to per-
form.

Some of the credit for a
successful tour though must
go to Susan Mathieson, VSS

CORRECTION

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for any inconvenience caused
by the incorrect information
in its August 27, schedule.

Frank King was the chief
organizer of the Gentleman's
Hockey Tournament.

Chris Welt organized the
cable coverage and helped
commentate during one
game.

and Y is the result
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few instances in Canadian
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curator of the collection, “and
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Doctors say extra billing benefits all

. By Steve Kerstetter
¢ HALIFAX (CP) — Officials
fof the Canadian Medical As-
fsociation made it clear last
pweek they will be lining up
itheir troops on higher ground
if there is another confront-
sation with the federal gov-
rnment on medicare and

heir right to extra billing.
Many Canadians have

_/ tome to view each skirmish

an attempt by the coun-
‘try's best-paid p |

drugs — services that aren't
covered by health insurance
plans in all provinces.
“There.is no free loaf of
bread,” Dr. Leon Richard of
Moncton, N.B., said shortly
after his installation as CMA:
president at the annual meet-
ing this week. “If the pop-
ulation decides that
health is a priority, they have
to pay for it.” if
Richard and other officials,
h that

to further their own econ-
omic interests at the expense
of patients.

The association now seems
to be actively seeking sup-
port from the public so it can
pressure politicians for a
jnore comprehensive and uni-
form system of public heatlh
Gnsurance.

The’ CMA’s latest. prop-
psals would see substantial
sums of both’ public and pri-
vate money spent on nursing
home care and prescription

shifting the battle lines from
doctor's fees to improving
the system as a whole is a
significant change of empha-
sis.
ET GOALS

Although details of the lat-
est proposals have yet to be
worked out, here's what the
medical association would
like to see in general terms:

— User charges would be-
come a standard feature of
public health care insurance.
Individuals would pay these

charges every time they
visited their doctors or spent
time in hospital. THey would
also pay for some of their
drugs in pharmacies and a
part of the cost of nursing
home care.

— The charges would
apply to all insured services
in all provinces and would be
paid directly by all persons
other than the poor.

— Meanwhile, federal and
provincial governments
would guarantee that the
total amount of these user
charges would be within rea-
sonable limits. No family
should have to pay out-of-
pocket expenses of more than
$1,000 for insured health
care, and no individual should
be forced to pay more than

500.

Doug Geekie, the associ-
ation’s director of communi-
cations, said there would also
be other benefits to the
public if medicare could be

Kootenay River diversion

_ Hydro to release

‘A recently-completed’
‘Kootenay River

pact assessment of the prop-
osed - Kooteni Di

environmental impact dssess-
ment resource atlas will be
‘available soon to local gov-
ernment planners in the
Cranbrook-Golden area.

The document, is a visual
‘summary of the environmen-
tal and socio-economic inven-
formation gathered for

tory
a fut environmental im-

In Vancouver

valleys. It includes biological
and cultural resources as well
hic features of

project. It is to be
as a reference doc-

ument. :
Information in the atlas
would be of practical value to
i-

as top

the study area between Lake
Koocanusa near Wardner to
Donald Station, just north of
Golden.

i infor-

cularly local planners, and
other. groups which have
special interests in the Koot-
enay and Columbia River

mation includes wildlife, wa-

expanded beyond its present

scope,

WOULD FREE BEDS

Broader medicare cover-
age would allow long-term
patients to be transferred to
nursing homes or other fa-
cilities, freeing up more hos-
pital beds for the acutely ill,
he said.

Nursing home costs are
about one-fifth the cost of
hospital care, but chronic-
care patients in some prov-
inces are kept in hospitals
because medicare doesn't
cover nursing homes,

Although the directors did
not ask for a formal endor-
sation at the CMA annual
meeting, the resolutions
passed relating to medicare
and the general tone of de-
bate reflected general sup-
port for their stand.

The federal

charges across the board and
provide protection against
catastrophic health care
costs.

If there are any reser-
vations about the way the
next battle on mi
seems to be shaping up, per-
haps the federal government
has only itself to blame.

In his budget last October,
Finance Minister Allan Mac-
Eachen declared that over
the next few years the
government would give top
priority to energy and econ-
omic development. Spending
on social programs would be
cut by keeping - increases
down to less than the ex-
pected rate of inflation.

The budget pronounce-
ments gave new credence to
the CMA’s claim that more
money is needed for health
care and d that new

has yet to make any detailed
response to the CMA on its
proposals to institute user

atlas

source information includes
land use and lind. status,
agriculture, archaeology and
recreation. ~

Copies of ‘the resource
atlas will be available for
public viewing at local area
B.C. Hydro offices and li-
braries in Golden, Invermere
and C1 k, and at the

terfowl aqua-
tic econology, vegetation and
forestry. The cultural re-

Gang violence growing

VANCOUVER (CP) — Chi-
nese youth gangs in Van-
couver are becoming more

fickin stitution and
jtortion, says a police official:
‘Friday the gangs used to
‘fight each other with fists
jand baseball bats, but they
ow use firearms and melon
feutters, a thin-bladed clea-
iver. is
Farren, assigned to the
Vancouver ‘Integrated Intel-
dligence Unit, was agreeing
with the findings of a report
ireleased last week in Ed-

Train
derailed
by rail

SASKATOON (CF) — The
probably cause of a train de-

resulted in the evacuation of
seven families, was a broken
rail, said Leo Quigley, CN
Rail spokesman, on Friday.
The deraiiment and subse-
muent chemical spill forced
Bhe evacuation until Thurs-
gay, although spokesman
have since learned there was
never any danger.

The 92-car train, travelling

t S.Sgt. MIke Farren! said”

ailment Wednesday which |

monton at a national meeting
of police chiefs.

The report stated that
Chinese youth gangs are be-
coming a serious problem in
the Vancouver area

“Chinese ’ triad’ an
Bangs, mainly ii’Vancoliver,
are involved in several as-

He said the number of
youths in the three main
gangs fluctuates but police
estimate about 100 are in-
volved now. a0

Most of these youths ap-
pear to bef’recént immi-
grants. Farypn safd they tend
to stick to themselves be-
cause of difficulties with the

pects of organized crime such
as.

extortion and drugs, mainly
heroin importation and dis-
tribution,” it said. °

Farren said in an interview
that other youth groups turn
to criminal activities but they
are inter-racial, which makes
it easier for police to get
information about them.

He said the Chinese gangs
often choose other Chinese
people as their targets, some
of whom are reluctant to pass
on information to police.

“Other gangs, such as
motorcycle. gangs, are as
much of a headache to us as
the Chinese gangs but the
motorcycle gangs have been
established a lot longer...
they're easier to handle when
you know more about them.”

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that DEBBY JOHNSON has successfully
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acquired’ her: li¢ence. Debby also

to jpeg from
went off the tracks and 29
cars overturned on the
CNR's main line in a sparsely

ulated area about 12 kil-
ometres west of Saskatoon.
Up to 600,000 litres of caustic
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received her Realty World Certificate of
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Professional Listing Services. ;

Ever since Debby and her husband made
Castlegar their home she has worked locally in
retail sales and as an advertising sales -

English

themselves from the rest of ,

the Chinese community.
Farren said Vancouver po-

lice have responded by as-

signing special detectives to

look at crimes that involve °

Chinese people.

Vancouver police have also
re-established a beat patrol
in Chinatown manned by
officers of Chinese origin or
officers who speak Chinese.

So far, said Farren, the
gangs haven't been as violent
as similar Chinese gangs in
the U.S. The most violent
crime so far was the Sunday
afternoon last November
when one gang attacked an-
other with iron bars and
meat cleavers. Four people
went to hospital.

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d with

has joined them

main libraries in Castlegar,
Creston, Nelson and Trai.
There have been recent
changes in personnel as-
signed to the proposed di-
version project. Graeme
Simpson replaced Nigel
Grant as project planning
engineer, Don Wooldridge
replaced Harold Etter as en-
vironmental studies co-ordin-
ator and Bill Mykes replaces
Jill Davidson as community
relations co-ordinator. Simp-
son, Grant and Mykes are
expected to have introduc-
tory meetings with local gov-
ernment offi the proj-
ect area dufifig’ the second
week of September. .

sources of funds must be
tapped.

A special Parliamentary
committee will bring down a
report Monday on how fed-
eral-provincial fiscal arrange-
ments for medicare and other
major cost-shared programs

should be revised next year.

The CMA's executive and
top officials of its provincial
divisions will meet three
days later to review it.

If the committee comes
down hard against the views
taken by doctors in recent
months, delegates to the an-
nual meeting could be re-
called for an emergency se-
ssion.

AS

CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 30, 1981

CLEAN
COTTON RAGS
WANTED

Castlegar News
197 Columbia Ave.

“I wouldn't be ised
and I wouldn't be scandal-
ized,” Richard said of this
possibility.

CMA officials haven't said
much about the tactics they
could use to win public or
political support: for their
position, but Richard con-
firmed that contingency
plans have been made.

Any call next week for an
emergency CMA convention
would be a clear signal that
something major is in the
works, f

The only other time an
emergency session of the as-:
sociation was held came as a
result of a truly extrador-
dinary event — the 1962 doc-
tors’ strike in Saskatchewan.

(COURT NEWS /

Fin

gains
nard Kichler in Provincial
Court in Castlegar.

Kichler was fined $400 on
one count of common assault,
$3800 on one count of breaking
ad entering, and $200 on one
count of intimidation.

s . *.

Richard McAfee was sen-
tenced to two 60-day jail
terms, to be served concur-
rently, on two charges of
driving with a blood alcohol
count over .08.

s . .

Guy Burdett was fined
$400 on one count of driving
with a blood alcoho! content
over .08.

* ¢ «#

A $350 fine was levied
against Kenneth Calder
wood, for one count of refus-
ing to take a breathalyzer
test.

= s 8
John Zebert was fined $300

for driving while his driver's
+Hieense was suspended.

A $250 fine was levied
against Ernie Efanoff, for one

surance.

countof driving without in-

* s *
Daniel Muller was fined
$200 for one count of minor in

ion,

A $100 fine was levied
against Michael Heroux, also
for one count of minor in
possession. ‘

s s .

Karl Duske was fined $75
for one count of possession of
a narcotic.

s . °

Paul Semenoff was fined
$45 - $85 on one count of
speeding, and $10 for failure
to produce a driver's license.

* . * 3

Andrew Argatoff was

(fined $85 on one count of

speeding.
*

.
Christo:pher wi
fined $85 for

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