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Notices should be brought to the Castlegar News at 197 Columbia Ave. COMMUNITY Bulictin Board TOM STEVE SELLECK GUTTE Show spews nonsense By BOB COX Canadian Press WINNIPEG — Wild cows roam Manitoba, attacking unsuspecting marathon runners. Mini-pigs and giant pump- kins are in, eating red meat is out. Pierre Berton was wrong about where the last spike was driven in Canada's trans- continental railway. Make sense? Of course not — it’s all part of the merry nonsense spewing forth from CBC’s The Radio Show for three hours every Saturday afternoon. Jack Farr — Captain Radio — is host of the rollicking, offbeat show that has a devoted following of a quarter million Canadians. “If you were going to invite a show to a party, you'd invite our show because we're friendly,” says Farr as he ia Paul says heey no heart in rock SATURDAY 9:30-1:30 p.m. BAND: “FILANDY" Guests must be signed in MILWAUKEE (AP) — Srapes areas ies C8 Guitarist Les Paul, whose Open Mendey te Thursdey 1 invention of the solid-body electric guitar helped start it all, says there's something missing in today’s rock ‘n’ roll. “What we're missing is something that we can hum, something that is romantic, that has some heart and soul in it,” said Paul, who earned 36 gold records with former wife, Mary- Ford, with such hits as How High the Moon. Paul, 72, is credited with the 1940s inventions of the solid-body electric guitar, multitrack recording and the electronic echo sound. He said he came out of re tirement a few years ago and plays dates in New York City. Musicians who some. times sit in include rock stars Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Keith Richards, Jon Bon Jovi and Eddie Van Halen, he said. Wildlife Powers's only love NEW YORK (AP) — Wild- life is the only love of actress Stephanie Powers, who says Friday & Saturday 12 noon - 2.0.m 365-7017 rnc scon” Fresh Bread & Pasta Mode Daily 10% Senior Discount On Meals JOIN US FOR © BREAKFAST © LUNCH © DINNER ° aor SMORG FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL 352-6601 or she hasn't met a man who ( \\ was right for her since the Profess ional death of William Holden in “Why is everybody so ter. ribly concerned about my Training boyfriends?” she said in the magazine. “Sure, I have SELKIRK COLLEGE them, but I haven't met any. NELSON CAMPUS one who's a reason either to leading to a Class | license | his. (unlimited truck operatic: ‘ “It doesn't make sense to Also clese2,.3 onda me to be with someone just in my life. I have a lot of friends, and I don't feel lonely 364 2990 at all so, unless I fall des. reason to change what I do.” ROSEMONT CAMPUS She shares her Beverly Hills home with her mother Includes 2 pieces of chicken and your choice of JoJo's, Fries or our freshly 1981 Driver February issue of McCall's A comprehensive course change my life or to adjust to for the sake of having a man perately in love, there's no BS 2a Coe * — and a dog, cat and parrot. pagel _— ites $i. to relaxes in his spartan office — wooden desk, hard chairs and cluttered metal filing cabinets — at the CBC building in Winnipeg. With Farr at the helm, the show began in 1982 as a T regional summer for the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. It has blossomed into an eclectic mix of music, short interviews and upbeat items that has been called an electronic pub. PEOPLE ON GO It’s designed for a mobile audience of people doing shopping and assorted Saturday chores who can tune in for a refreshing draft of not terribly siynificant information and pop music. Farr's “close personal friends” — regulars who gossip about movies, books, music, sports and life in general — drop by as the afternoon rolls on. Interviews are with “ordinary folks” like champion pumpkin-grower Howard Dill. “There's an information overload during the week,” says Farr. “People are just getting bombarded with it and for three hours on a Saturday afternoon we'd like to give them a recess from all that.” JUST FOR FUN Among the zany campaigns launched by the show, Farr has been pursuing a B.C. pub owner's tongue-in-cheek claim that Berton was wrong about the last spike. Then there are the wild cows, or les vaches sauvages as they're called in the small French communities outside Winnipeg where they were first spotted. Farr compiled a thick file of “official” sightings, including one at the 1987 Manitoba marathon, after contributor Peter (Scoop) Jordan did a spoof about cattle on the loose. “It was a fun, frivolous sort of campaign that we ran and the people seemed to enjoy it,” said Farr. Executive producer Havoc Franklin is quick to add there's substance as well as spoof. “The program isn't a joke, it’s fun,” says Franklin, who recently joined the show after Robert Ouimet left for Toronto to produce Dayshift, CBC's weekday afternoon show. FARR IS KEY “Franklin gives credit for the show's success to a strong staff, but says Farr is the key. He's a fountain of trivial knowledge about pop culture and is always thirsting for more. No sooner has he finished interviewing a woman about her pet mini-pig, than he is wondering aloud into the studio microphone: “What do they eat?” Associate producer Mike Harding suggests Niblets. At 46, Farr's dark hair is showing its first signs of grey, but there's little evidence of aging in his boyish-looking face. “T still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up,” he volunteers, adding he hopes he never has to face that choice. “If you say, ‘Hey I'm going to do this the rest of the my life,’ you're just cutting off all your options.” HE’S A LAWYER Farr never cut off his options. The grey sweatshirt, worn brown corduroy pants and running shoes he sports during a show are a far cry from the three-piece suits in which he started his alleged adult life, first as a banker and then as a lawyer in Toronto. Radio came by accident, when Danny Finkleman, Farr's boyhood chum from Winnipeg, introduced him to some CBC types in Toronto and he began doing freelance spots on a variety of topics. “This was a hell of a lot more fun than practising law and I was better at it,” Farr says He returned to Winnipeg in 1977 to behind-the scenes jobs with CBC TV, then resumed freelance work. In 1982 he started highlighting the music, fashion and popular culture of years gone by for a local show CBC Winnipeg was experimenting with as a replacement for the opera. That led to an offer to host The Radio Show where Farr has found as permanent a home as can be expected in the fickle world of radio. “This job has got more positive things than I've done in the past it’s got fewer negative things, so I've got to be a winner.” People meters, which results for tabulation. watched. measurement. at CBC-TV. advertise every product.” the new system. stations like ours.” the new system. itself. results aren't accurate.” change that currency.” = TO USE NEW PEOPLE METER TORONTO (CP) — CBC-TV and its French counter- part, Radio-Canada, have become the first Canadian to agree to measure their audiences using the new people meter technology. The devices are being introduced co-operatively by two rival ratings services, the A.C. Nielsen Co. of Canada Ltd. and the BBM Bureau of Measurement. The new system will come into effect Sept. 1. have been the industry standard in the U.S. since last September, will replace the previous handwritten system. Under the old system, survey participants kept notes on the programs they watched and mailed in the Under the new system, viewers push buttons on an electronic panel that directly transmits information such as age and sex of the viewer as well as the shows being The purpose of the new system is to deliver information more quickly to broadcasters and ad- vertisers, who both want to know how many viewers are watching a show and what kind of viewers they are. DOES TESTS People meter tests have been done in about 1,000 Canadian homes for the last four months. More than 2,000 homes, selected to form a representative national sample, will be involved by next September. Cost of the new system is estimated at about $7 million, at least double the current cost of audience The immediate impact of the new system in Canada will be to provide broadcasters with overnight ratings rather than the usual delay of two weeks or more. “But the biggest benefit will be in selling TV shows to advertisers,” said Peter Kretz, director of marketing “The people meter captures audience far more accurately than any other reporting method, especially for off-prime (time) and low-profile programs. “It will tell advertisers who's watching their commericals and allow us to find an appropriate time to A spokesman for CTV was unable to say whether the network would also use the new system. Roger Hone, marketing director of the Ontario-based Global network, called the new technology “irresistable.” SEES PRES: Dennis Fitz-Gerald, general manager at Toronto CITY-TV and its sister operation MuchMusic, said CBC's decision will tend to push his enterprise toward adopting SURE He said results in the U.S. “are faster and more accurate and therefore more beneficial to independent NBC, CBS and ABC, while accepting the inevitability of people meters, have complained about problems with They say it's difficult to get people to participate, because of the TV re-wiring involved, and that those who do take part become weary of pushing buttons every time the TV is turned on or a channel is changed. Hone said the people meter system has to prove “No one's going to want to pay that much extra if the He added that “audience research is the currency of the TV marketing business, and this new method will Sheila E. no Prince protege By PARRY McSHANE iated Press Cable 10 TV NEW YORK — Don't lump Sheila E. in with lingerie clad Prince proteges of the past, lovely ladies in lace named Washington are shown in concert at Selkirk College. This program was produced 5:30 pam. [Wed.] 9 a.m. in the early 1980s by Cable (Fri.] 1 p.m. (Sum.] Down hill west 10. anyway you can — Produced 7.39 p.m. (Wed.] 11 p.m. by the War Amps of Canada, [Fri.] 3 p.m. [Sun.] High this program features Karl school basketball The Hilzinger and members of the Stanley Humphries Rockers child amputee program and take on the Summerland shows the challenges that team in the final of the 18th had to be met in order for annual Rockers invitational these children to learn to ski. tournament. Commentary is 6 p.m. [Wed.] 9:30 a.m. Provided by Mika Takamaki (Fri.] 1:30 pm. (Sun.] Shaw and Mike Rodgers. SHAW CABLE 10 TV Jan, 27, 29 and 31 Sheraton-Spokane flotel Your Entertainment Headquarters ... Singing in the Rain Opera House, February 3 & 4, 1967 $119.00 Canadian per night plus tax Cable — This 8:55 p.m.[Wed.] 12:25 p.m. monthly program produced [Fri.] 3:25 p.m. [Sun.] Trial by Shaw Cable in Vancouver by Jury — Rossland Light highlights programs and Opera Players present Gil events appearing on CNN/- bert and Sullivan's Trial by MuchMusic/ISN and Super channel for January. 6:30 p.m. [Wed.] 10 a.m. (Fri.] 2 p.m. [Sun.] Steve and Maureen — The two folk. singers from Port Orchard, Jury. This mini-operetta was first produced in 1875. 9:30 p.m. [Wed.] 1 p.m. {Fri.] 4 p.m. [Sun.) Castlegar council meeting — Coverage of the Jan. 26 meeting. Vanity and A I Sheila E. turns heads but would rather do it with her timbales than a teddy. “I want to show the public that I do know how to play drums — a lot of people don’t know that. And for the press, I want to prove to them that I'm a musician,” she said in a recent interview. “I'm a drummer first, not a singer, not a sex symbol. I'm not trying to sell sex.” To prove it, Sheila says she's put her solo career on hold to play drums in Prince's latest band (and his movie Sign O’ The Times) and re- establish her reputation as a musician. “I worked very, very hard, and Prince didn’t have any- thing to do with it,” Sheila says of her musical past. It bothers her that people be- lieve Prince was responsible for her solo successes, hit singles The Glamorous Life, Sister Fate and Hold Me. Work — and playing the drums, congas and timbales — began at age 14 for Sheila Escovedo, daughter of for- mer Santana member Pete Escovedo. “I was around music every day. No one ever taught me how to play drums, and I've never sat down and practiced — never in my whole life,” she said. “I just one day started playing, and two months later I was in a band. Six months after that, I was on tour with my father. So it happened really fast.” “I didn’t know if I could sing until Prince said, ‘Why don't you sing on Erotic City? So I did and that’s when he suggested to me, ‘Why don't you do your own thing?” Sheila recalled. The result was her debut album The Glamorous Life, with its Top 10 single and video of the same title. With stardom came misconcep- tions that still bother her. SAFEWAY WHOLE FRYING HICKEN Utility Grade. Frozen i Of 7 re | At this Low Price, Limit 6 with Family Purchase. BAKE SHOP CHOCOLATE FUDGE LAYER CAKE 7-Inch.. EDWARD’S GROUND COFFEE Regular, Fine or Extra Fine Ground DEEP BROWN Beans win PORK é ¢ PAPER TOWE 2-Ply. J 2 Roll Pita, 6:s:s0:5i6 04's cp:ceiesiegseiee ia Taste Tell Or Red Kidney Beans Or Spaghetti in Tomato Sauce. 398 mL Tin. 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