v A4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 30, 1981 Street talk A LARGE GROUP of carollers from Calvary Baptist Church made a number of people happy a few nights before Christmas when the familiar sounds of Christmas carols pierced the air. i The carollers first went to the Castlegar Hospital and Rota Villa before splitting up into two groups of about 20 people each, One group under Bryan Reid (merchandising manager for Super Valu in Trail) visited the homes of a number of senior citizens in north Castlegar, while a second group, under KJSS band director Ken Nelson, visited homes in the southern part of the city. Afterwards, the carollers gathered back at the church where Selkirk College instructor Don Jones and his wife, Anne, had a hot apple drink and Christmas goodies ready for the hungry singers. And that is the true meaning of Christmas. PASS CREEK has longe> winters than Castlegar, according to Alec Sperling. Alec notes that while Castlegar got a couple of inches of snow the day before Christmas, they had over a foot up Pass Creek. Winter, he says, comes earlier and stays later in Pass Creek. But he still wouldn't move to Castlegar! TWO YEARS AGO on Jan. 1, 1979 a 20-year tradition came to an end when. the last “First Day of the New Year” curling match between Canada and Scotland was played. For two decades the likes of Johnny Stewart, Jack Cheroff and Alex McKinnon met in a grudge match that alternated between serious curling, hard drinking, and good fellowship. Now, a new tradition has perhaps been started . . . It's a gourmet pre-Christmas social get-together hosted by the lady with the big.heart — realtor Mary Anderson (who sheds her gold jacket for the occasion). With the menu ranging from delicious foie grad (goose ¥y centre TEL 1 THE CHANGING face of d Cc . New liver) with truffles from France, through a avocado based hot sauce — guacomole — (which Mary, in her individual. way, calls "quack- le” since she uses a duck pate dish), €hrough Neiman-Marcus chocolates from Belgium, Street Talk predicts that the Mary Anderson Gourmet At-Home will go on at least as long as the annual Canada-Scotland curling match did, and invitations to attend will be eagerly sought after. (And one more reference to the curling match. This column would be i d in a few ini: and the names of other participants. When we tried phoning the three curlers mentioned above on Dec. 24, we received no answers — last minute Chri: City Centre Motel sign is set in place marking the opening of the newly refurbished Saint Tropez restaurant. IT WAS SURPRISING on Christmas Day how few homes had their outdoor Christmas lights on. Probably a case of people being indoors that day and not thinking of it. : Yet... how pretty they were for people out driving or walking to enjoy. Friday is New Year's Day. If you're not taking your no doubt. If you can tell us the names of some of the participats over the years, and how the match got started, please call 365-3517.) MARIA AND TONY SILVA left Sunday for a t k holiday in California. After a traditional family Christmas here, they and their friends, Rosa and Joe d'Defrvas of Trail, left for the sunshine state via Las Vegas. STREET TALK OPERATIVE No. 2 was out walking on Christmas Day and bumped into Axel Nielsen of David Thompson Stamp Club fame (wasn’t he founding president?) . Axel reports Jack Charters has placed a copy of his book, The Dragon Tree, in the waiting room of the ecereea Hospital. A very nice gesture, Jack, says Axel. Chri: lights down that day, why not turn them on eariy? WALKING THROUGH downtown Castlegar on Boxing Day was a young man who did a lot of his growing up in Castlegar, Tony Whitelock. Tony jokes that he’s “semi-retired” at Riondel. His dad, Terry is gone now, but his mother lives in the Okanagan and still enjoys painting. WAS NICK STOOCHNOFF’S LITTLE grandson him at road hockey during the holiday period? The little toddler may yet be another Wayne Gretzky. SPOTTED IN A snow drift: Harold Webber, manager of Castlegar Savings Credit Union. What was he’ doing? Digging out the walks of a senior citizen. Z And that, too, is the spirit of Christmas. S Roloff Beny : Plans five more books By James Nelson OTTAWA (CP) — Roloff Beny, with two books on the coffee table and gift market in 1981, plans five more in the next five years, then dreams of retirement. In an interview, he said tects in London in the fall and won rave reviews. After seeing the show, the critic for The Financial Times — perhaps London's most in- fluential arts reviewer — said Beny is “one of the finest photographers in the world.” would pi mean continuing to photo- graph interesting places and people without having to meet publisHing deddlines. The tall, slim, graceful man from Medicine Hat, Alta., was in Ottawa for a showing at the National Arts Centre of prints from his book, Ody- ssey: Mirror of the Medi- terranean. It is a tour of the ancient lands — Egypt, Israel, Greece, Italy, Morocco — de- signed to highlight their complex contributions to Western civilization. The show was sponsored by the Canadian Mediterranean In- stitute, an organization now headed by G. Hamilton South-ham, which facilitates academic and cultural ex- changes with Egypt, Greece and Italy. Beny has lived in Rome for the last 30 years but still maintains his Canadian ties with Lethbridge, Alta., where his father is retired. When the Odyssey show closes here, it will return to University of Lethbridge. Beny's other new book in 1981 was The Churches of Rome, from which prints were shown at the Royal Institute of British Archi- ROSE’S RESTAURANT We take pride in our HOME COOKED MEALS Canadian & Russian Foods 1,000 ft. north of South Slocan Junction The Daily said: “There is no finer photogra- pher of landscape than Roloff ny.” DESCRIBES BOOK PLANS Sitting in Southam’s office, Beny described his coming books. One has already gone to press — a volume on the gods of Greece and classical mythology. Another new work will be about England, but more 1981 best movie CALGARY (CP) — After an 18-month hiatus, Dan Hill is preparing to tour again. ‘The Canadian singer-song- writer said in a recont in- terviéw he enjoys perform: ing because it “feels more natural on stage than any place else in the world. While eager to tour, he ad- mits to some apprehension. “You wonder whether you've lost it. That mythical ‘it’ —even though you don’t know what ‘it’ is, Will the magic still be there?” : After gaining success with a succession of hits, Hill said he lost touch with both him- self and his audiences. “You lose touch with why you're writing songs — not to collect royalties and . buy houses . .. You're removed .from them (the audience) with the album and statis- tics.” Hill had been reluctant to hit the road again. However, after a recent performance in Vancouver's Soft Rock Cafe — once’a popular, showcase for up-and-coming folk. .ar- tists — he said he again began to feel his audience. “T felt right about halfway, through it,” he said of per- forming in the smaller site, adding he is again ready to take to the ,stage and risk facing critical rebuke. TAKE RISK “The basis of all art is a very presonal expression,” he . “Risk is a part of what you have to do to achieve greater things.” A thrill difficult to describe passes through him when preparing to perform, Hill said, “You become severely ad- renalized before you go on stage. You get the real ex- citement. “[t seems like you spend 22 hours a day preparing for two hours . . . You force yourself to take a psycholo- gical Valium.” The haunting loneliness of such songs as Sometimes When We Touch have be- come Hill's trademark, al- though most fans fail to rea- lize’ these songs only rep- resent frozen moments in his © thoughts and perhaps never sense the joy he sings about as well. Hill admits: he is intros- pective and makes no apol- ogies for it. Dan Hill prepares to tour. “I attempt to be sensitive and look at things with a de- of insight.” zt In his latest album, Pi Surrender, Hill said he “wor- ked hard on the ‘up’ side of relationships” to show people there is more to him “than just the introspective ‘down’ side.” Records Mozart's Concerto And now a new recording star — West German chan- cellor Helmut Schmidt. He may not be the next Roger Williams but Schmidt's recording of Mo- zart's Concerto for Two Pi- anos with the London Phil- ic is bound to be a hit Sotheby's auction house, austere preserve of Old Mas- ters, was besieged Tuesday by nostalgic rock fans at the gallery's first rock 'n’ roll auction. Under the gavel went rare tapes of guitarist Jimi Hen- drix, a bronze bust of Elvis Presley, lyrics notebooks penned by Fleetfood Mac, and a Ford Model T owned by John Bonham of Led Zep- pelin. But Beatles memorabilia predominated — and brought the highest prices. Of the total $185,554 spent, $155,104 was fetched by Fab Four rélics. A pen-and-ink doodle by slain former Beatle John Lennon, valued by Sotheby's at $285, fetched $15,200. George Harrison's 12-string guitar went for $5,700. A New contract Chappell upright piano once once owned by Paul Mc- Cartney took the top bid of $17,100. Hundreds of would-be buyers — from greying col- lectors to youthful, spike- haired punk rockers — jammed the gallery's main auction room. An overflow crowd participated via closed-circuit television from another room and three tel- ephone lines were kept open to bidders in the United States. Sotheby's conceived the sale when it was given a Steinway piano once owned by Lennon, who was shot to death Dec. 8, 1980, outside his New York City apart- ment. The gallery's buyers soon were scouring ware- houses, record stores, fan With Boston Pops Looks as though the Force is with him. « Star Wars composer John Williams, who took over from Arthur Fiedler as conductor than that he would not say. “The theme is in a deep freeze.” He won't give details because he is afraid of having his idea stolen, which has happened before. A third book will be about architecture — how man en- closes space in the 47 coun- tries Beny has visited in his photographic and painting life. A fourth will be about what he calls “pure” nature — trees, stones, flowers, vegetables, everything re- lated to nature. The fifth will be about people. Beny says it’s false that he isn't in- terested in photographing people, a belief which has arisen because he uses few of \ named by critics Reds may have been chosen the best movie of 1981 by the New York Film Critics but its star, director and pro- ducer, Warren Beatty, fin- ished out of the money. The best actor prize went to Burt Lancaster for his portrayal of an aging num- bers runner in Atlantic City and Glenda Jackson won best actress for playing the Brit- ish poet Stevie Smith in Stevie. Sidney Lumet was named best director for Prince of the City, while Beatty finished fourth, behind Lous Malle for Atlantic City and Hugh Hud- son for Chariots of Fire. The two supporting-perfor- mance prizes were voted to John Gielgud in Arthur and Mona Washbourne in Stevie. of the Boston Pops, has signed a new two-year con- tract with the orchestra. them as subjects for his major works. _ Yousuf Karsh is the Can- adian who has a world repu- tation as a portrait photog- rapher, and Beny willingly acknowledges that. But his own collection of pictures of people “who have passed through my camera lenses in the last 40 years” will make ‘an interesting book, he said, including as they do every class from royalty to people in the villages of North Africa. TOOK QUEEN MOTHER Queen Elizabeth, the Queen mother, will: be the frontispiece of the book. He has her permission to publish the first picture he ever took, which was of her and King George VI during their royal visit to Medicine Hat, Alta., in 1939, when he was a boy scout with a Brownje box camera. “That's five books, five Williams is the 19th con- ductor of the Boston Pops, which is part of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It be- Quest for Fire, an extra- vagant Canada-France movie co-production about prehis- toric man, has attracted 180,000 viewers and grossed about $640,000 in a five-day period in Paris. - The ambitious movie — shot in Scotland, Kenya and the marshes of Ontario and using a language crafted by Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess — is slated to open in Toronto, Montreal, came famous under the direc- tion of Fiedler, who was con- ductor for 50 years. Williams, who also wrote the scores for Jaws and.Close Encounters of the Third Kind, thinks he has another hit on his hands with the Pops. “We are building toward a future which will be as bright as that glorious past has been.’ Quest of Fire; ambitious movie Los Angeles and New York in mid-February. It will have its North American premiere at a gala benefit for Mon- treal's World Film Festival. Released by Twentieth- Century Fox, the film is directed by Frenchman jean- Jacques Annaud and pro- duced by the Montreal: pro- duction company Internation- al Cinema Corp., headed by producers John Kemeny and Denis Heroux. conceptions in five years, and each of them takes nine months’ gestation,” Beny said with a chuckle. Then he casually mentioned retiring. “T'd love to retire,” he said, “but I guess I'd just continue making picture books for my own pleasure, not to please A A any publishers,” F x Potiday tine. is aglow, in the SHOWING When they met they heard bells. 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Open 1 p.m. Saturday Proper Dress Fri. & Sat. after 9 p.m. Playing Fri. & Sat. NO BAND THIS ot WEEKEND ONLY Thursday Bingo Commences Sept. 10 Cominco com TRAIL — West Kootenay { residents can say goodbye to ie those “red clouds” that used to emerge occasionally from » Cominco's foundry. f The company has com- pleted a $585,000 project to | eliminate the reddish dis- © charge. The project was one of the many environmental |. . upgrading projects at the | Cominco operations this year. . The upgrading of ventil- ation systems on the electric furnaces of the foundry is working “just beautifully, says foundry superintendent 7 Tain Martin. The foundry is joe part of the company’s central shops complex. The new sys- tem provides exhaust from ventilation hoods located on the furnaces. The project — which in- volved erection of a new bag- house, a new 50-foot-high stack, and the addition of fan and ventilation hoods to the 10-ton electric arc furnace — has improved working condi- tions in the plant and elim- inated an unsightly problem. Before, during steel-mak- ing operations at the foun- dry, there would be dis- charges of a reddish plume of fee iron oxide smoke to the at- mosphere. This occurred on average about three times a week. | The discharges could be vis- ually startling when viewed from West Trail or parts of downtown Trail. Martin reports that the new system has been work: ing very well since it began operation in August, and the reddish discharges have been eliminated. The foundry project was not part of the company’s $700 million modernization and expansion program. It was in the category of proj- ects that are undertaken in an average year to sustain other parts of the operations. Winlaw golf club sneaks” * under wire Winlaw’s Valley View Golf Club was one of the lucky few recreation projects to sneak in under the wire and gain approval for a_ provincial Recreation Facilities Assis- tance Program grant. result of a BEFORE . . . AND. AFTER at Cominco's Foundry, Trail — has lost one “landmark” and gained another as a $585,000 Cominco project. Steel-making at the Cominco foundry used to produce.gusts of reddish WOODEN SHOE RESTAURANT 4 Below the Netson Bridge on Nelson Avenue Tolophone 382-9998 y “Come and join us New Year's Day And enjoy your Italian favorites. 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. COLANDER 1475 Cedar Ave., Trail Accepting reservations for large groups only. Phone 364-1816. The provincial government iron oxide to the atmosphere (top photo). The bottom pletes project. photo, taken while steel-making was going on at the Foundry, shows no trace of smoke. The shiny new stack and baghouse which were built as’ part of the project are an attractive addition to the Trail skyline. announced earlier this month that the recreation funding program has been shelved for . the next 18 months in light of the province's bleak financial picture. The pro; Castlegar regional library was one of a host of provincial recreation projects affected by the freeze. The Valley View Golf Club's grant approval came in a Dec. 1 letter to club president Peter Kabatoff from provincial secretary Evan Wolfe. ~ Joy Keillor : Bridge Club - Five and one half tables took part in play Monday at the Joy Keillor Bridge Club with the following results: Average 48. First, Judy Sheppard and Bill Martin with 63%; second Ron Per- rier and Hubert Hunchak with 59; tied for third were Bev. MacDonald and Inez Walker with Heather Pottle and Rita Perrier. Next week is beat the champs. Crombie eyes prime minister's job | “TORONTO (CP) — David Crombie makes no bones about his desire to be prime minister of Canada, but his approach is cautious. He says he will not alight himself with any group open- ly trying to dump Joe Clark as leader of the Progressive Conservative party, nor will he openly run or campaign against Clark while he still is leader. Crombie, 48, member for the Toronto riding of Rose- dale, also says he will abide by the party’s decision not to hold a -general meeting and vote on a leadership con- instrigue or cabal. .. “People ask me if I'll run and I say ‘Yes.’ People ask me when and I have a stock answer: ‘I expect to be prime minister when Joe Clark is no longer ‘prime minister.’ ” Crombie, who for six years was one of the most popular ‘mayors in Toronto history, says “there are a lot ‘better things we can do than chase our own leader.” “We iveed a policy confer- ence in Mcv because we have alot of decisions to make, O. It woudl be. tragic to turn that inte, general meeting vention until January, 1983. “People ask questions about the leadership‘for.their own benefit, not for the benefit of the answer,” he said in an interview in the kitchen of his north Toronto home. _ “Sure I want to be leader of the party, sure Iwant to be prime minister, but Ihave no timetable, I’m not part of any NEW YORK (REUTER) — Major U.S. airlines, buffeted by economic woes and the air-controllers strike, are ex- pected to report losses to- talling about $500 million this year with little improvement likely before the second and vote on the leadership question becaue it would , over-rule everything. “It's also tragic that this leadership thing} has ob- scured a lot of the good things we've done in Ottawa as a party on the budget and the constitution. That was good opposition work and we all worked hard at it. It was.a bad, bad budget and we worked to change it.” Appearing lean and fit, Crombie has obviously re- gained his health since De- cember, 1979, when he suf- fered a heart attack. He knows the heart attack is a problem in his bid for the prime minister's job but: be- lieves he has overcome it: He has his weight down to 130 pounds (on a five-foot-five frame), jogs every morning, quit smoking and watches his diet carefully. z Since his. heart attack, Crombie has subtly. changed Your Cast! month. P! . i won ready when he or she calls’ Your Carrier is Collecting ir News carrier will now be collecting for delivery of the paper for the past jea: 't you have your money Chuistraas orp, tail BOSSE’S JEWELLERY CASTLEGAR We Extend Season's Greetings and warm appreciation We'll be CLOSED Sat., Dec. 2 oud his image in Ottawa. He has built a reputation as one of Example needed to stop problem By CasNews Staff Central Kootenay Regional District has made some head- way on its problem of bark falling from logging trucks travelling between the Hugh Keenleyside Dam and Nel- son, The regional district in’ mid-November complained to highways ministry about the problem, and asked for in- creased enforcement of litter laws, Ina Nov. 26 reply, district just east of the dam.” [Keown said it isn't through enforcement by the CMP.’ However, he agreed to in- struct the area highways foreman to erect a sign as soon as possible. Poisonous ‘mushrooms kills girls variety she and two friends thought they had picked, authorities say. Dec. 18 along with two young men, 17 and 18 years old. The :three had,,become,,jil , with stomach cramps nd,diarrhea.., The girl later lapsed into a coma from which she didn’t - ard Steury, who treated the youths. 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