CHRIS WELT, of the g hockey, will be providing commentary of the action along with Henry Stevens and Jim Draper, tonight at 6:30 p.m. (Community TV / CABLE WEST 10 ACCESS TELEVISION Thursday Night Schedule 5:30—Sign-on and program information. 5:35—Five-day weather re- port from the West Kootenay Environ- ment Office. 5:40—Castlegar Library Storytime with Judy Wearmouth. 6:00—Perspectives on Hu- man Rights — This series of programs was produced by the B.C. Human Rights Commission to inform the people of B.C. about human rights issues in their prov- ince. The topic of to- night's program is ed- ucation. 6:30—Gentlemen’s Summer Hockey — We are presenting two games from this Play For Fun Tournament which took place Aug. 21 in Castlegar. The first game is between Castlegar Good Tim- ers and the Creston Fuddle Ducks, with commentary by Hen- ry Stevens and Jim Draper. Then we go to the Castlegar Old- timers vs. the Trail Gentlemen, with com- mentary by. Chris West and Henry Ste- vens. 9:30—TBA — Programming from Cable West 10 Nelson. 10:30—Sign-off. Raindrops quit NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The raindrips that kept falling on singer B. J. Thomas have given way to a rejuven- ated career and a spot as a regular performer on the Grand Old Opry. Thomas, whose search for esteem plunged him into a ,000-a-week drug habit, ful- filled a longtime dream when he became the 60th member of the 56-year-old country music show. “Joining the Opry is a dream-com-ture,” said Tho- mas, probably best known for his hit Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head. ‘‘The show was my boyhood inspiration. It’s something I've always wanted to do.”” Thomas, 39, remembered that records by Ernest Tubbs and Hank Willimas were among the first he heard. Now Thomas is a regular performer on the Opry with Tubb and other Country Hall- of-Famers like Minnie Pearl, Roy Acuff, Hank Snow, Bill Monroe and Grandpa Jones. Seven years ago, Thomas probably would not have been considered for a spot on the Opry. He was spending $2,000 to $3,000 a week on amphetamines, cocaine and other drugs. The Opry prides itself on the good behavior of its performers, having kicked the legendary Williams off the show at the height of his career about 30 years ago for drinking. “T was looking for some- thing,’’ said Thomas, reflect- ing on his trouble with drugs. “I had low self-esteem. I had not had a good relationship with my dad. I was search- ing.”” - USED DRUGS He said he used drugs for 18 years, and was addicted for 10. ‘I used a horrendous amount,” recalled Thomas, who said that as a child he was abused by an alcoholic father. Six years ago, he became a born-again Christian, quit ART SHOW Sander Attila Tandory Sept. 5 - 30 m Cultural Centre: Kaslo, B.C. FOR INFORMATION CALL 353-2661 on BI wit mrewe drugs cold turkey and, with counselling, put his life back on the right track. “My Christian faith has sustained me,”” he said. “I didn’t sit still..1 found out who Iwas — I was not my father, I was me."" After becoming a Christian, he began recording gospel music and won four Grammy awards. Now he’s concentrating on pop music with a country flavor, and he’s just recorded some of the best material of his career. That means his current songs would rival other hits like Hooked on a Feeling, Another Sombody” Done Somebody Wrong Song, Eyes of a New York Woman and the William's classic I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry. Muddy MONTREAL (CP) — If a movie could be concocted in a food processor, it might look and sound very much like Kings and Desperate Men. The lone Canadian compe- titor at the Montreal World Film Festival has, besides a wan-looking Margaret Tru- deau in a prominent role, choppy editing, a choppy soundtrack, a choppy story line and uneven acting. Which is not to say that 29-year-old Canadian director Alexis Kanner's first movie about a terrorist takeover of a radio station on Christmas Eve is all bad. There are some fine per- formances (Trudeau's is not among them) particularly from Kanner as a university lecturer who becomes a -ter- rorist, from British actor Patrick McGoohan and from Frank Moore and director Robin Spry as a mismatched pair of kidnappers. But the movie is so over- laid with visual and auditory confusion as it bounces about a frozen North American city that even the good perfor- mances become fragmented. From what you get on the screen, it's hard to see where the money went. The movie Acting oo began shooting in Montreal in December, 1977, with an announced budget of $1.9 million, and ended up costing $6 million. The world premiere Sat- urday morning, attended by com pared to sleepwalking Maggie flops in movie debut His performance as Lucas Miller, underpaid history lec- turer and embittered son of Irish immigrants who takes over a radio station to. con- duct a public trial, is mod- ulated, believable, and at acting in Kings and Desper- ate Men, her first movie role, that sho is cminently :for- gettable. . She sleepwalks through the part of the loving wife and mother Elizabeth King- ) ENTERTAINMENT a fair sprinkling of media types, was greeted with the unmistakable sound of hiss- ing. The evening screening, to a more general audience, received polite applause. A smiling, relaxed Mar- garet Trudeau received a standing ovation when the spotlight hit her before the movie began. Kanner wore the hats of co-author, cameraman, editor and actor. A man who made a name for himself on the British stage at age 19 and is star of a fine Canadian movie The Ernie Game, Kanner would seem to be at his best in the latter capacity. times poetic. Another fine performance is McGoohan’s stylish piece of business as Charles Kingsley, the talk show host whose wife — played by Trudeau — and child are held hostage. The ch as McGoo- sley. Her voice is totally without inflection or vitality and her most favored facial expression is sucking both cheeks in. There is a classic scene that had the media audience hi when one of the han plays him — not to the hilt, but right up to the arm- pit — is a fanciful portrait of the inflated, male media per- sonality. He is rude, pompous and conceited. At times in Kings and Desperate Men McGoohan reminds one of Pierre Tru- deau at his public showman's best when dealing with duller wits than his own. Let is be said of Margaret's and Desperate Men, director Kanner says Hollywood, ma- jor American and Canadian television networks and com- panies are bidding for the Bam, -'10 pins ‘Russian & 8 Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 170 Guests Must Proper Dress Fri. & Sat. after 9 p.m. Be SIGNED In Thursday Bingo Com & No Sunday Bingo til further notice. lay 2m, - 1:30.a.m. , Mon. - Fri. , Saturday Playing Fel. & Sat. FRASE! SAP COMMODORES mences Sept. 10 Houseowners get little help Amida painfully inflated housing market, Canadians needn't look to govern- ment for relief. Even in provinces that do have some kind of housing aid program, the assistance is token as best. Second of a series. TORONTO (CP) — When it comes to goyern- ment aid to homebuyers, it seems that them that has, ives. The province with the best program for buyers is, not surprisingly, the one with the most spare cash — Alberta. At the other end of the scale, in the Atlantic provinces, only Nova Sco- tia offers buyers assis- tance. And in the middle, heading downward, Ontar- io hasn't offered ald since the. mid-1970s, In general buyers facing record prices and mort- gage rates will find little to hlep them in the provincial plans, Even Alberta's Fam- ily Home PUrchase Pro- gram, with a $480-million budget, will not aid buyers purchasing a home costing more than $74,000. With the average price in Cal- gary now over $128,000 and Ed h Alberta recently raised the maximum income ell- gibility to $88,000 but at the same time it increased the interest it charges to 17 per cent from 18.6. B.C. residents face simi- to those who own homes, RELIEF REDUCED During the spring elec- tion campaign the Parti Quebecois promised voters mortgage relief but rising interest rates forced the loan in the first year, two-thirds in the second year and one-third in the third year. All homes are eligible for the program but again there is a price limit — lar p The pi provides a $1,000 grant to an individual or couple or $2,500 to a family buying a first home. But with the average Vancouver home selling for. more than $170,000 the assistance is meagre. Saskatchewan doestn't ing $105,000, the search for a $74,000 home may be a long one. help but its mortgage interest rebate program returns $100 to $250, depending on income, g to scale down its plans after it won re- election. Now, families with at least one child under the age of 12 will be eligible for government-sponsored loans to buy their first home: $10,000 for a new house, $6,000 for an exist- ing one and $4,000 for a mobile home. The province will as- sume all interest on the $60,000 for a single unit. The plan also included a baby bonus. Families which have another child within five years can de- duct $2,000 from the amount they repay. Nova Scotia has offered to guarantee mortgages for 600 new home buyers. It will lend ap to $48,000 at one-half of one percentage point above the’ rate the province is borrowing at. It estimates the program, which eventually will break even as the loans are repaid, will cost $20 million to start, Since it stopped the As- sisted Home Ownership Plan in 1978 the federal government has kept out of direct aid to buyers. In- stead it offers tax breaks to persons saving for .a home. Under a Registered Home Ownership Savings Plan a person can save taxes on up to $2,000 a year, providing the money eventually is used to pur- chase a home. kidnappers, evidently psy-. chotic, suggests dropping the Kingsley child from the apartment window because - the child has a learning prob- lem. “You'll have to kill me first,” Margaret warns in a listless voice. ‘i The lady doesn’t sound as if she could muster the energy to flick away a fly. As for the future of Kings Gary Lewis and Playboys Trying to turn back clock By Kevin Cavanagh ST. CATHARINES, ONT. (CP) — It's been 14 years since Gary Lewis enjoyed a spot in the musical limelight. Squeezed into that stretch have been a stint in Viet Nam, three divorces, a battle with drugs and finally a comeback attempt. Trying for the last four years to regain a slice of the pop pie, Lewis and band have been criss-crossing North America, mainly the United States, playing bars, county fairs and small beery con- certs. This summer Lewis did several Ontario dates on a week-long tour which ended with a show at the miner's convention in tiny Cobalt, Ont. Gary Lewis and the Play- boys pumped out an astound- ing number of hit son; within a brief period of the mid-1960s. Between January, 1966, and May, 1966, Lewis placed in Billboard maga-* zine’s Top 10 no fewer than. seven times with such tunes as - Everybody Loves A’ Clown, Count Me In, Green Grass and She's Just My Style. His standard This Dia- mond Ring, was the first waters keeps on trucking Bluesman Muddy Waters say he doesn’t mind being a legenc, as long as it’s a living legend. “I don't want to go yet,” says the man who was born McKinley Morganfield 66 years ago. He earned his nickname from playing in a muddy creek behind his family's shack in rural Mississippi. Waters has spent most of his life on the road and says he doesn’t plan to change things. “As long as I'm feeling good, I'll keep on going out. Just staying at home would drive me crazy.. When I'm at home I just sit around, cook in the kitchen, feed my dogs and watch a little TV and that's about it. “There's a lot of people who want to see me and I just want to see the people.” For An Evening Out Come To The cu e Badd Manor CABARET. Located under the _ Fireside Dining Room, Castlegar Open from 8 p.m. - 2.4.m. The “Night Spot of the Kootenays" Come and Enj song he ever recorded and his only No. 1 hit, bumping the Beatles’ Eight Days a Week. His whirlwind success came to a halt in 1966 when Lewis was drafted. After a “farewell performance” on The Ed Sullivan Show, Lewis became an Army supply clerk and went to Viet Nam for two months, Korea for eight and back iv the United States for another year. TASTES CHANGED When he was discharged in 1968, Lewis, son of comedian Jerry Lewis, got a band to- gether and nianaged a couple of marginal singles, but by then the world was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin; the days of short hair and conservative middle- America suits were gone. “There were four groups that were on top for two years,” he said in an inter- view. “They were the Bea- tles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys and Gary Lewis and the Playboys. “Then I was drafted. You ask me if I'm bitter?” Lewis played for about 18 months after his army ca- reer, but turned to “uppers and downers” to ease the trauma of being washed up at 25, as well as the tumbles his personal life had taken — two divorces by that time. He ended up in a Los Angeles hospital, seriously ill, in 1974. Since forming the Gary Lewis Band in 1977 there have been numerous tries for a recording contract, but Lewis says record companies qOur 5) ROG ‘A DISNEY ANIMATION FESTIVAL, FEATURING 60 YEARS are no longer willing to put up front money for recording and distribution costs of an album that might not sell. There will be an LP coming out, but that’s'a sore point with Lewis. Last year the band recorded some of th old hits as well as some new material, but an ex-manager “pirate” likely will os — an unauthorized record from which not a cent goes back to the artist. Bootlegs are illegal, but difficult to trace back to their distri- butors. USES MORE ROCK Dressed in jeans, baggy Hawaiian shirt and sporting long wiry hair, Lewis still plays most of his hits ‘in con- ert. He realizes that many people come out to hear the old chestnuts, so he uses them to get the crowd's at- tention before launching into the rockier, more electric material he’s written in the last few years. Lewis's voice still meets most of the necessary de- mands, although the thunder of powerhouse rock 'n’ roll takes much of the onus off his vocals these days. And if time has changed ‘Lewis's voice a bit it’s changed his finances a lot. In 1965-66 he made more than $500,000 “but my first wife’s got that now — if she hasn't spent it,” he said with a wry smile. “I got raked over the coals pretty good.” supposed to be enemies. TECHN! [COLOR ‘OF CLASSICS. ALAN ALDA » CAROL BURNETT STARTS went the Four Seasons Working the bar circuit earns him about $1,000 a month, but he’s confident things will get better. His enthusiasm gives him the de- termination of a man younger than his 86 years. “I believe something will happen with this band —I know it’s going to. 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Desmond Carroll 1471 Columbia Ave., Trail 364-0117 Regular Saturday Services Pastor Dirk Zinner: 365-2649 OF CANADA 2224-6th Ave. a Ya Blocks south of 713 - 4th Street Worship Service 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:15a.m. ._ “Vacancy - Pastor” Ph, 365-7502 or 365-8354 Listen to the Lutheran Hour Sunday, 11:30 a.m. > onRadio CKQR MEETS SUNDAY : below Castleaird Plaza Phone 365-6317 Service for Summer — 10:30 a.m. Sunday School and Worship combined. Summer Services: 10 a.m. Except July 26th and August 23rd when we worship at the Robson Community Church, 10 a.m. ‘ 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship lla.m,. 7 p.m. F ip Service . Ed. Wegner, Pastor Phone 365-2374 AFull Gospel Church 2605 Columbia Ave. . Sundays: 9:45,a.m, Sunday School A. WORSHIP SERVICE 11:00 a.m. — Junior Congregation & Nursery Rev. Harvey Self Phone 365-3816 809 Merry Creek Road Next to Cloverleaf Motel Castleaird Plaza Family Bible Hour 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Evening Praise . 6:30 p.m. WED. NIGHT Bible Study & Prayer Service 7 p.m. - Church Office 365-3430 Pastor Ro} Church: Ph. Christian Education Hour 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 8:30 a.m. & 11 a.m. Evening Service 7pm. i Tuesday: Bible Study 230 p.m. Saturday: Young People 7:30 p.m. ~ Rev. Michael Guinan Ph. -7143 Saturday Night Mass 7 p.m, Sunday Masses at 8 a.m. and 10.a.m. ST. MARIA GORETTI Genelle — 12 Noon West's store part of enlarged chain “Customers of West's De- partment Store: may ‘have noticed’ the, name Home Hardware Stores Ltd. re- placing the name. of Link Hardware Company. Ltd., Home Hardware of St. Ja- cobs, Ont. and Link Hard- ware of Edmonton, Alta., merged Jan. .1,.this year to form a national distribution organization, which will oper- ate under the name Home . Hardware Stores Ltd. With ‘more than 1,000 stores operating in all prov- monton, St, Jacobs and De- t, -N, By eliminating wholesaler. profits, Home ‘dealers are able to provide a high degree. of personal service to their . customers while still main- taining highly. competitive prices. i Western Canadians. will soon start to see former Link Hardware stores re-identi- fied as Home. Hardware stores. In an age of deteriorating service, the independent re- inces and Home - now is the largest dealer- assumes a ma- jor responsibility for assist- owned pany in Canada and one of the largest in North America. Merchandise will be shipped to dealers from three distribution centres, in Ed- Saprikin in solving their The first Home Hardware national flyer will be dis- tributed in the Aug. 80 issue of the Castlegar News. services were held today cet pas ES pee Home Hardware trailers will replace the old Link Hardware vehicles, Help your carrier Your Castlegar News carrier will be collecting for the per during the next jew days. The job of your carrier is made easier if he or she doesn't have to make a second or even a third call. Please consider your carrier, He or she is an independent business person and they don’t earn their rotit until you've paid jor your paper. That's why they'll appreciate ‘it, Y ) On “Helen Sap apf rikinn, “wife ' of Wiltiant’Si rikin of Glade, passed away at the age of 59 years. Prayers began Tuesday evening, at the Glade Rus- sian Hall and continued to- day, with burial at 1 p.m. in the Glade Cemetery. Besides her husband, Wil- liam, Mrs. Saprikin is sur- vived by three daughters, Mrs. Mabel Wasilenkoff, of Shoreacres, Mrs. Vera Cher- noff, of Castlegar, and Mrs. Naida Homoline, of Telkwa. Eight grandchildren, nu- merous nieces and nephews, her mother, Mzs. Mabel Swetlishoff of S. Slocan, a sister, Florence Swetlikoff, of C three th LURE es 9 48 68 os ots om Ges é Sane: BRUNSWICK" RADIAL 165-13 (slze corresponding to price above) time, we're going one better | sae lay prices on our Brunswick tires are as good as youll find at any department store. And now, for a limited — vringing you prices so low even department stores probably can’t match them. But only until Sept, 1. Same skill Castlegar. LIVESTOCK ACT (S.B.C. 1980, Chapter 24) Notice of Cancellation of Pound Keeper pl quality, same and service you've come to expect from OK Tire,, ER78-14 FR78-14 GR78-15 HR78-15 DR-78-14 $73.75 1, William Marshall McConnell, Recorder of Brands, do hereby, p to Section 6(3) of the Livestock Act, cancel the appoin- tment of R.W. Oborne of Site 33, C.1, R.R.. Walter Swetlishoff, of Grand Forks, Steve Swetlishoff, of Kelowna and Bill Swetlishoff, of South Slocan. She was predeceased by her father, Steve, in 1970. Mrs. Saprikin was born Dec. .11, 1921 at Crescent Valley and married William Saprikin in 1989, at which time she moved to Glade where she has since lived. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Kids’: art exhibited. at NEC The National Exhibition Centre will be the site of “Our Town” on Thuredsy from 7 to 8 p.m. “Our Town" is a mixed media exhibition, the result of the children’s summer art classes which were held every Tuesday and Wednes- day throughout August. The public is. cordially in- vited to come and see the work of these young artists. Refreshments will be served. #1, Ci gar, B.C. VIN 3H7, as pound Keeper for the Robson Pound District. August 20, 1981 W.M. McConnell Recorder of Brands PUBLIC NOTICE REGIONAL DISTRICT OF CENTRAL KOOTENAY Synopsis of By-law No. 372 This is. a. By-law to-regu or Prohibit the making or causing of Noises or Sounds in Elec- toral Area “J” in the Regional District of Central Kootenay. The Regional District of Central Kootenay has, by |: way of Supplementary Letters Patent issued on . the 4th day of June 1981 been granted the fun- ction of noise control and authority to exercise ‘the: powers of clauses (c).and (d) of Section 932 of the Municipal Act. The By-law has interp of C i Construction Equipment Conveyance, Board, Highway, Motor Vehicle, Motorized Conveyan- ce, Noise, Point of Reception and Residential Area, it olso states General Prohibitions, a schedule of Prohibitions by’ Time and Place, Grant of Exemption, Severability and Penalty. 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