~__ CastlégiairNews _Morhs. 190 Movie March 16 ‘Free, a fea lure motion/pieture based on the true ba of a young American’! jprisonment in a South American country, will be shown on March 16 at Calvary Baptist Church. It was a search that led Gwynn Lewis to leave his comfortable life in the United Selkirk College's Sterts with Paulette Jiles, winner of the Governor General's Award tor poetry (1984). A lecture/poetry reading will take place: Fri., March 7 7:30 p.m. Castlegar Campus Main Lounge host wine and reception to By Love ENTERTAINMENT States ‘to travel to South America. But that search led Lewis into deeper trouble than he and dashed almost forgotten in a dark, musty prison. As his girl friend, Pooka, worked and saved to pay off faithfully for their “freedom.” TV not as good OMAHA, NEB. (AP) — Actor Peter Graves, who starred in the television ser- ies Mission: Impossible, says network programs are not as Unemployed: $2 Phone 365- 7292 for riday, March 7 — 7 - 9:00 p.m. DRAWINGS & PAINTINGS MARCH SPECIAL PRAWN DINNERS 2 For the Price of 1 Open 4 p:m. Daily Until March 31 Call 365-3294 A record-breaking number of entries have been received for the Festival of the Arts ‘86, says Anna Rizzutto, president of the Nelson Musical Festival Association, sponsor for the bi-annual event. Some 125 more participants than before are participating in pianoforte classes, adding two days to the festival timetable, now March 7-21 An extra adjudicator has been hired for the pianoforte classes to help with the overload. Enrolments ip speech arts, choral and vocal sections have remained steady, but a record of 19 bands from the East and West Kootenays, Washington and Idaho have Arts festival entries a record added an extra band day, March 21, and extra sessions have been added in solo instrumental classes and small ps. “We are especially excited by the growth in the string classes” says Rizzutto. In dance, ballet has a healthy number of entries in contrast to other years, but Highland Dance has had to be cancelled because of insufficient entries. Visual Art, consisting of a juried exhibition for high school and adults, and a travelling schools oo for has been led as well “Views Agi tone bushings the dite time as the Liiliiit ze] STE Crown Po tlitiiit Bote pili THE C.P. ytd nae yeaa ae TUESDAY NIGHT — POOL TOURNAMENT Prises tot Top Three Places 1895 RESTAURANT — Ph. 368-8232 Open Monday - Saturday — 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Featuring SALAD BAR (inc. 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Tickets ot nee 19 READY . . . West Council members prepare for | Arts K di enth annuol y Juried Art Show. Show opens Friday night at the Waneta Mall and runs to March 20. Proto tor CosNews by Coral Couch Conservatory results Following are the results of recent University of Tor- onto Royal Conservatory of Music examinations in Trail. ARCT PIANO — PERFORMER First Class Honors — Jean- ette H.W. Chan. GRADE 10 PIANO Honors — Barbara Jean Decosse. y GRADE 9 PIANO First Class Honors — Grant Russell Bonin, Heather Anne McGrath and Teresa Anne Geronazzo. Honors — Laurent Anne Brown. GRADE 8 PIANO First Class Honors — Phil- lippa R. Estall and Jeannine Duguay. Honors — Steven A. Jack- son and Nancy Young. Pass — Donna Kay Wolff. Bonin and Jenni Milner. Honors — Suzanne Mac- Donald and Carla Marie Wil- son. Pass — Moira Sutherland. GRADE 6 PIANO First Class Honors — Gen- evieve Sittig, Paul Knuds- gaard, Elizabeth Erin Fin Honors — Vanessa Dooley, tte Gelzinis, Patrick ¥.Chan and E. Michele Eaton. GRADE 5 PIANO First Class Honors — Amy Zanrosso, Cleo A. Heitmann and Christy D. Terness. Honors — Amanda Rom- ney, Anders Ian Johnson, Robyn Kendrick, Cheryl Re- hill and Sarah Polonicoff. Adrienne George and Rielle Oswald. Honors — Carolyn Ross, Steven Walter Brown, Clau- dine Longworth and Andrew Thomson. Pass — Rebecea Lee King don. " GRADE 3PIANO First Class Honors — Rob- ert Thomas Macdonald, Bradley James Pozin, Wendy Ruth Hall and Rory Perrier. Honors — Alana Michelle Barone, Kerry Jo Finney and Brodie Jay Smith. GRADE 2 PIANO First Class Honors — Kara Messer, Stacey Anne Mow rey, Dana Andrew Smith and Sherry Makortoff. Honors — Julie D. Barker, Melissa Mary Idle, Bridget Mary Palmer, Robin Sitig, Timmy H.W. Chan, Janet Leanne Kalesnikoff, Gregory Ehman, Tommy H.L. Chan and Jane Chang. Pass — Linda Chang and Tad G. Johnson. GRADE 1 PIANO First Class Honors — Coby Mikal Salmon, Sara Dawn Eimer, Rebecca Su Jen Lam, Nora Constance Becker, Irene Guglielmi and Diane Carol Wolff. Honors — Rae Carter, Jennifer S. Barker, Caleb Philip Stanwood, Trudy Anne Clow and Jonathan Honors — Whitney Frie- sen. Pass — Russell Brenton. GRADE 8 TRUMPET Honors — Leah Wallmark and Celine Kaech. GRADE 6 TRUMPET Honors — Annie Kaech. GRADE 8 SINGING Honors — Jennifer Rayan. GRADE 9 VIOLIN Pass — Anna Christa Bar tseh. GRADE 8 VIOLIN First Class Honors — Kar. Pass — Pamela Cann. GRADE 6 FLUTE First Class Honors — Am ber Lee Unrau. Weather Girls ‘heavy’ duo MONTREAL (CP) — When singers Martha Wash and Izora Armstead first teamed up in 1979, they call- ed themselves Two Tons of Fun. “I weighed more than 500 pounds then,” recalls Arm- stead. “The only reason I lost weight is I got tired of sew- ing two sheets together to make a custume.” In fact, if Armstead’s sing- ing partner, Martha Wash, hadn't also been on the far side of 150 pounds, the two women would not be per- forming today. “Martha went to audition for (music promoter and en- tertainer) Sylvester and he asked her if she knew ano- ther large woman,” says Armstead. “He took one look at me and we piled in the station wagon — I was so large then — up the whole back seat # and went to meet his piano player. A couple of solo albums later, the duo had built up a following among the dance- music crowd. But it wasn't until 1982 that they had their first hit. They zoomed onto the charts with a catchy tune MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV GREGORY HINES Two men Willing to risk called It’s Raining Men and a new name, the Weather Girls, taken from their hit song’s first line: “Hi, we're your weather girls.” And if the Weather Girls’ spandex pants and sequined sweaters don't attract public attention, the title of their new album — Big Girls Don’t Cry — probably will. With the album and its single, Well-a-Wiggy (by Montreal songwriter Jesse Winchester), soul music lov. ers will discover what many of the duo's fans have known for a while — that the Wea ther Girls are more than two large women with large voices. “When we were called Two Tons of Fun, the name was a drawing card,” says Arm- stead. “People would say: “What the hell is Two Tons of Fun?’ But when they heard our music, they had no prob- lem taking us seriously.” Armstead is evasive about some personal details — “we don't tell our age or our weight” — but not her roots. She began singing in church when she was eight years “All I've known all my life is church, music and school,” says Armstead, who has 11 children and four grandchil- dren. Born in Texas, her family moved to San Fran- ciseo when she was a child. “When I was a little girl, we used to see B.B. King, Bobby (Blue) Band, all the great blues singers. Even af ter we moved to California, my father would never let us forget our roots.” well-established regional juried art exhibition in Trail this mld ate we expected fewer entries, but the should have d more entires,” po to Shawn Lamb, Visua! Arts Co-ordinator. With entries all in, program editor Bob McClure has his festival program at press, and it will be available for purchase at the festival locations. Morning, afternoon and evening sessions of the festival are open to the public free of charge, and a final concert with a small admission fee is scheduled for Trafalgar Auditorium March 21 FIVE WHODUNIT BOOKS A TREAT By DIANE MENZIES ‘The Canadian Press Toa mystery addict, a bundle of new whodunits is more thrilling than Christmas when you're six — and lasts longer. From Macmillan of Canada came a package of five bright, new books: e@ The latest Ellis Peters, who makes life in a 12th-century Benedi abbey more lively than pious. © A reissue of a vintage Julian Symons, who offers murder to tease the intellect. @ Two by Sara Woods, ever-so British although she lived in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., for many years until she died in 19865. BOOK REVIE @ And one by Susan Moody, whose amateur sleuth is as much fun as she is unlikely, being a six-foot, rich, “Bovril-black” woman with a titled British mother and an African father. Peters’s Brother Cadfael is a worldly Benedictine at Shrewsbury Abbey, near the Welsh border, when forces loyal to King Stephen are fighting supporters of his rival, Empress Maud. From another religious house, destroyed in an attack, two Benedictines come seeking refuge. One is war weary and dying and the other, much younger, is mute. Thus begins An Excellent Mystery, the 11th chronicle of Cadfael, who in earlier times fought in crusades and wasn't celebate. A rich young woman has vanished on her way to a convent, a young suitor is determined to find her or her killer and a tormented monk is dangerously attracted to the silent Brother Fidelis. It is an excellent mystery, moving at a gentle pace as Peters’s lively prose casts its spell over the reader eager to learn how Cadfael will solve this one. Symons has been called the high priest of British crime writing, having made the whodunit into an art form. The Narrowing Circle, first published in 1954, is classic Symons. A hack crime writer is so sure of a promotion he celebrates in advance. But Dave Nelson isn't promoted, Willie Strayte is. Strayte is sleeping with Nelson's wife and Strayte is murdered. Nelson is no hero; he’s arrogant, he's not a brilliant writer, he neglects his wife, insults her family and abuses his colleagues. But he's“not a killer, in spite of the moutning evidence against him. Symons’ characters, while not particularly endearing, are memorable because they're flawed and they mess things up just like the rest of us. Woods's prime character, Antony Maitland, is a London barrister who, in at least 28 books, has outsmarted the police to solve a crime. Neither endearing nor memorable, insufferably genteel and snobbish. Maitland is Woods, whose real name was Lana Bowen Judd, lived in Canada for many years but her books are firmly set in a sort of British time-warp. The plots of her final two books, An Obscure Grave and Put Out the Light, aren’t bad. Babies are murdered in the first and an actress in the second. But there is page after page of incessantly polite chat. The women generally defer to the men, no one ever gets angry, drunk, or swears or throws crockery Even the murders are neat. These are books for those who want murders without violence and killers to meet certain social standards. Today's Penny Wanawake rather enjoys upsetting social standards. As Wanawake points out — when you're six feet tall and black, there's no point trying to be inconspicuous. Shock the local gentry right down to their lily-white pedigrees. In Penny Post, Kendal Sartain, a none-too-bright lord of a north country manor, is sure someone is trying to kill him and he enlists Wanawake to keep him alive. She tries, but Sartain gets it anyway, leaving his pregnant widow Emerald, also black, in charge of the manor. There are any number of people who don't want Lady Emerald around, not all of them because of her color. An Excellent Mystery, by Ellis Peters, 190 pages, $15.95. The Narrowing Circle, by Julian Symons, 224 pages, $16.95. An Obscure Grave, by Sara Woods, 184 pages, $15.95. Put Out the Light, by Sara Woods, 224 pages, $16.95. Penny Post, by Susan Moody, 223 pages, $16.95. All published by Macmillan of Canada. Castlegar & District 1985 CITIZEN OF THE YEAR Jack Charters ds (which must be used for headings) count os two words There ts no extra charge for a second insertion while the cherge te ts 99.50 (whether ad is tor one. Deadlines ore 5 p.m. Thursdays for Sunday's ) ond Spm. Mondeys tor Wedresdey’s paper Notices should be brought to the Costlegar News at 197 Columbia Ave Bulictin Board ‘erenseay Tmomanay, Pena wore srecia, srowrmas “WSS eae pa. 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A government report released Tuesday says all necessary steps willbe taken to prohibit discrimination against homosexuals and expand the role of women in the armed forces — possibly including combat — but critics say the lack of conerete proposals is ominous, Without specific | to end diser minority groups and women will be forced to take their battles to the Supreme Court of Canada, opposition MPs say. Mandatory retirement is one of the few questions addressed directly as the government examined its laws, practices and policies to determine if they conform with equality provisions in the Charter of Rights. Justice Minister John Crosbie told the Commons Tuesday that di will be immediately in the federal publie » service and eventually outlawed for most jobs in federally regulated industries. He said that after discussing his plans with the private sector, he will amend the Canadian Human Rights Act, presumably to lift a section that now permits discrimination on the basis of age when a person has reached the “normal age of retirement.” Mandatory retirement will still be permitted when an upper age limit is necessary to ensure efficiency, economy and safety. For example, Crosbie said there may be legitimate reasons for requiring jet pilots and judges to retire at a certain age. Crosbie also promised legislative action to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation but refused to say if the Canadian Human Rights Act will be amended, as recommended by an all-party subcommittee on equality Crosbie acknowledged that his plans may not help homosexuals and lesbians gain employment in the armed forces or the RCMP, two areas where they are not now knowingly employed. He insisted it is not for the government to decide if the ban is just. “If there's an argument about that, there's a human rights commission, a human Rs ays tribunal and ‘ultimately there are the courts,” he said. Liberal MP Sheila Finestone complained later that the government's decision to leave many important matters to the courts means the review by the to committee was a waste of time and money. The government report pledges that women will be able to compete for all trades and occupations as long as their participation would not keep the armed forces from being pe lly effective in the i of national security.” Women, like men, may be rejected for some roles if they are too short ot lack the necessary physical strength, said Crosbie. But they will no longer be excluded on an arbitrary basis. Crosbie told reporters the defence minister will decide whether women should be allowed into combat. Again, it appears any disagreement would go to the courts. NDP MP Svend Robinson said later he fears the report is “an exercise in the fine art of using weasle words” because the Tories made many vague promises they don't intend to keep. Tory backbencher Alex Kindy said half the Tory caucus is opposed to the idea of guaranteeing rights for homo- sexuals and allowing women to take new roles — such as combat — in the armed forces. Plans for protecting homosexuals would .“condone a third sex, in a way — something that is not exactly normal. I think we would be changing the moral fabric of the nation da utility 3-8 kg sizes young turkeys rights. this way.” Postal walkouts on Friday? OTTAWA (CP) — Talks setween Canada Post and regotiators for its 21,000 le- er carriers went into the ‘inal day today before a 12:01 um. Thursday strike dead. ine that could lead to the ‘irst national mail shutdown n five years. The union says walkouts, if hey occur, will begin Friday. Canada Post remains opti nistic a settlement will be seached, averting plans by he carriers to stage rotating ocal and regional walkout& ind escalate gradually to a country-wide strike: “The longer we're at the able the closer we're getting © a settlement,” Canada 2est spokesman John Caines aid after the two sides bar- gained non-stop through the night at the downtown Cha- teau Laurier hotel. “We're not looking at the strike deadline. We're look- ing at the agreement we're going to get.” Union vice-president Bill Findley declined to discuss what was happening at the bargaining table but cleared up conflicting reports over the timing of the first walk- outs if they occur. “We've got an extra 24 hours to try and get a set- tlement. We've agreed to that. We'll be able to strike Thursday but we've agreed to hold off until Friday.” The talks, which had bro- ken down, were restarted Monday under the direction of federal mediator Bill Kelly, ‘an associate deputy labor Campaign launched in South Africa LONDON (AP) — Am esty International launched campaign today to end tor are, imprisonment on racial nd political grounds, and ther abuses in South Africa. In a letter to President -W. Botha, the London. ased human rights organiza on called on South Africa to westigate killings of gov rnment critics, curb police owers of arbitrary arrest ad detention without trial, nd immediately abolish the ast laws restricting move- rent of blacks. The letter, from Amnesty's ecretary General Thomas ‘ammarberg, listed 10 steps e said must be taken by the overnment: e Establish an independent wquiry into allegations gov- rnment critics have disap eared, been attacked or illed. © Investigate all police illings of civilians to es tblish whether they con ituted “extrajudicial exe stions,” and bring police of- cers to trial for such kill gs. e Abolish immediately the ass laws. Botha pledged last month » do away with the travel ygulations by July 1, but sartheid critics fear the overnment will impose me other form of control More than 200,000 blacks are arrested each year for travelling into urban areas for more than 72 hours with- out a valid stamp in their pass book, the government says. Amnesty also urged South Africa: @ to curb emergency reg- ulations allowing police to arbitrarily arrest and detain suspects indefinitely without trial. to release immediately all people held solely because of their political or religious be- liefs or ethnic origins. e To release all political prisoners without delay, un- less they are to be brought to trial promptly for criminal offences. @ to guarantee all trials of political prisoners are carried out according to “interna- tionally recognized stan- dards,” and to review the prisoners cases if their trials “did not conform to these standards.” e To put an end to torture of prisoners by withdrawing police immunity from pros- ecution. To arrange an indepen- dent inquiry into the deaths of political detainees while in custody. e To abolish the death penalty and extend clemency in all cases to people under minister who heads the fed- eral mediation and concili ation service. Sources say the high-pro- file Kelly agreed to a request by the two sides to get in- volved in the talks only after determining that issues sep- arating them could probably be resolved without a strike. The main stumbling block is job security with the union fighting to save jobs at the same time that Canada Post is scrambling to obey a Tory government order to cut its $243-million annual deficit to zero within two years. The issue is directly re- lated to the struggle by the letter carriers to preserve and expand door-to-door mail delivery while Canada Post attempts to move increasing: ly to cheaper group and com- munity box delivery. Wages are not considered a serious stumbling block for the carriers, who earn $12.98 an hour. They've been with- out a contract since Jan. 1. You Get e Sense of Security When You Business With A Leader KEN F. 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