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producer and new look. It is being “eighties-ized,” says
new producer Phil Savath.

The new host is 17-year-old Andrew Cochrane,
whose poise, wavy-haired good looks and wry sense of
humor will connect the show's various segments.

Vancouver's Switchback is the daddy of similar
programs in other regions across Canada, including
Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg and Halifax. Another is
starting in Toronto this season.

Basically, it is a 90-minute Sunday morning program
of patter, interviews, rock videos, phone-ins, contests,
cartoons, serials and kid reports.

NEEDS PUNCH

“Shows get tired and they just need to be punched in
the arm a little,” says Savath. “I don't mean to imply that
the show wasn't in the ‘80s before; it's just that we
wanted to look forward rather than re-create our own
youth.”

This year, the ravamped Switchback is aiming for a
slightly older audience — 10 to 15

“It's easier to lose an older audience, who feel that a
show is too young for them, than it is to lose a younger
audience,” says Savath. “Younger kids like to see older
kids, hang out with them and see what the older kids are
wanting to do. I'm trying to stretch the show so that I
don’t lose the older end.”

The formula will also be more elastic this season.

“One of the main reasons I wanted to go with
Andrew as the host is that we would be making our show
by our audience as opposed to for our audience,” says
Savath.

“The show is golng to be more — more comedy; more
reports, more everything. And we're going to deal with
issues we've shied away from before.”

BE A FORUM

Savath hopes to provide a forum for matters that
concern his audience, from the effects of restraint on
education to video censorship. “That doesn't mean we are
just going to be an information show.

“But there are a lot of issues that are being fought
with our audience as the battleground, and no one is
asking them what they think about it. When the issues
are there, we'll deal with them.”

Cochrane, a Grade 12 student, agrees. “I know a lot
of people have said that there is no place for us to say
what we feel. We do to each other, of course, and every
once in a while, a camera and a mike will wander into a
school and ask us. But it's pretty hard to get out your
opinion in a 30- secon segment.”

Va S back is seen throughout British
Columbia, the "Yukon and parts of the Northwest
Territories. The show even gets calls from New Mexico
and Hawaii where it is picked up on satellite dishes.

The budget is minuscule, says Savath. “I figured out
that we deliver Switchback to the audience for something
like 2 cents a viewer.”

He's talking about an audience between 75,000 and
100,000, “somewhere between a 24 and 30 per cent
share.” The show is up against a mixture of American
football, religion and cartoons

GET KIDS UP

“But the main competition is against the pillow,”

admits Savath. “It's getting people awake to watch the

show.”

Switchback starts at 9 a.m. Sundays and Cochrane
must be on the set much earlier, something that may put
acrimp in his Saturday night social life. He also has to
juggle rehearsals, research and homework. “So far, the
grades are good.”

His background is in a type of improvisational
theatre called theatresports and that kind of experience,
thinking on his feet, can’t hurt. He is also familiar with
the show; last season he was a reporter for the program
and did a stint as host.

TOUR TIME . . . Karen Zimmerman and tellow Mich-
ae] Jackson contest winners file into the display

centre at B.C. place for a tour betore the concert

earlier this month.

THE RIGHT WAY . . . Castlegar postmaster Ben
Evans with a properly packaged parcel. He warns

Jacksons

Editer’s Note: 16-year-old Karen Zimmerman was the
winner of the Castlegar News Thriller contest. She won a
trip to Vancouver to see superstar Michael Jackson in
concert. Following is her account of the event.

. . .

By KAREN ZIMMERMAN
The Jackson's Victory Tour:

a thriller

luxurious hotel and it was a very exciting place to stay —
even if it was just overnight.

There were so many things to do there

Now the concert: The concert was something to
remember. It was a fantastic show ever if I don't really
like Michael Jackson.

You don't have to like the Jackson's to see their
concert. Just their stage show is fabulous and the light

Handling

By CasNews Staff
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mail either don't reach their destination or they're
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know I'll never do again.

I thought it was an exciting experience and one I

The tour of the expo Expo 86 site was fantastic and
something every one should see.
The hotel we stayed in The Four Seasons was a very

show was excellent.

I think it was really worth all the hassles at school to
go. It's not every day you get to win something as
spectacular as that. I really enjoyed the trip. It was

great!! A real thriller!

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Rooney at the races

LAUREL, MD. (AP)
Mickey Rooney still has
painful memories of that day,
long ago, when he let about
$128,000 slip through his
hands at the race track

“Idiocy set in,” the 68-year
old stage and screen star
said, trying to explain how he
ran his bankrull from $300 to
$2,500 but was then touted
off a longshot after placing
$2,000 in bets.

Imitating the Hollywood
Park track announcer, Roo-
ney described how Vicksburg
won a seven-furlong race
with ease and paid $128 for a
$2 winning ticket

Two minutes before the

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race started, however, Roo
ney had sold his tickets on
Vicksburg after his manager
had introduced a trainer with
a “can't lose” entry

A bystander offered to buy
the tickets and, even now,
Rooney wonders why

“But that was many years
ago when I was a punk kid,”
Rooney chuckles. “I've never
changed a bet since and I
don't bet that big any long
er

EASES TENSION
Maybe not, but the vener
able actor still finds a day at
the races a great way to ease

the tension of a demanding
profession

“T've been to race tracks all
over the world,” Rooney said
during one of his visits to
Laurel Race Course, close to
Washington where he was
appearing in the musicial
Sugar Babies. Beirut, Malta
and Hong Kong are among
his more exotic stops on a
lengthy list

“Racing has always been a
magnate for me,” he said. “I
love the sport, the horses,
and the people around race
tracks.”

With his short stature per
haps a factor, Rooney was

involved in many racing films

— Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
with Judy Garland, Stable
mates with Wallace Beery,
National Velvet with Eliza
beth Taylor, and Black Stal-
lion, which earned him an
Oscar nomination.

“I've also been in some
‘dogs’ too,” he said. “Some
$1,000 claimers.”

Rooney has been an owner
of thoroughbreds, off and on,
since the age of 16. After an
absence of three or four
years, he recently rejoined
the ranks with the purchase
of five horses. The only one
currently in training is a filly
Sin Adios.

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parcels.

Castlegar postmaster Ben Evans says about 10 per
cent of parcels mailed are improperly packaged, and two
per cent of those get damaged.

And even though many parcels go through the postal
‘system without any damage Evans warns that people
who improperly package their parcels are “taking an
awful chance.”

“Fragile items and perishables that aren't wrapped
properly become damaged through handling,” he says.

Evans said when packaging a parcel, package it so
that it can’t move around in the container or box.

When shipping something fragile — like a vase —
make sure it is stuffed with proper packing styrofoam so
it is secure. The container for mailing should also be
strong.

Evans cited a recent instance where a bottle of
Seotch was sent through the mail. To begin with, sending
liquor in the mail is illegal, but the sender also didn't
package the Scotch properly.

The screw top on the bottle eventually worked itself
loose and the Scotch spilled over everything.

Evans says the post office doesn't insure for damage
through normal handling. However, he says if an item is
broken or damaged and it’s discovered that the item was
properly packaged and that damage occurred through
mishandling, the sender will be reimbursed.

If the post office finds the item wasn't properly

that people who send improperly packaged mafl
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packaged, then the chances are slim that the sender will
be reimbursed.

Evans says notices like FRAGILE can help. When
the word FRAGILE is written on the parcel, it is noticed
by postal employees and the fragile parcels are put on the
top of the pile.

But Evans says that once the parcel is in transit the
post office “can't vouch for anything after that.”

If parcels dp break open the post office has plastic
bags they put the parcel in to prevent anything else frem
falling out.

“We would notify the customer that he had a
damaged parcel and ask him to examine it to see if
something is missing, before taking the parcel home,”
Evans said.

Evans notes that it’s not that expensive to insure a
parcel.

Items which often get broken include, picture
frames, vases, radios — “just about anything,” says
Evans.

Another problem for the post office is they ~

sometimes get parcels without addresses.

“People wrap them with paper and put the address
on the paper and it’s torn off. Sometimes it’s a parce! full
of presents and we don’t know who it belongs to.”

Those parcels are sent to the undeliverable mail
office in Ottawa until owners claim them.

Evans suggests that the sender write their address
and the address of the receiver on the box as well as on
the wrapping paper

Castlegar post office receives very few parcels
without addresses, but thousands of parcels across the
country go to the undeliverable mail office for this reason,
he says.

FOLLOWING

BOY'S DEATH

Katimavik solo trips cancelled

VICTORIA (CP) — All outdoor solo programs included in
the federal government's Katimavik program for young
people have been cancelled following a coroner's report on the
death of an 18-yqgr-old boy on Vancouver Island

Coroner ms Cherneff recommended in his report
made public Monday that the activities be stopped and that
three Katimavik employees be fired. Cherneff investigated
the cause of Tim Livingston's death.

He found that Livingston fell on a stake, punctured the
femoral vein in his right thigh and bled to death during an
overnight camping trip at Mount Good near Cowichan Lake
Feb. 25.

Paul Phaneuf, Katimavik's national executive director,
cancelled any furtehr camping trips Tuesday saying, “There
is no need for risky trips in katimavik, so we should be careful
what type of trip we offer.”

Katimavik, a national volunteer program for youths aged
17 to 21, was set up in 1977 and now has a budget of $77
million. Since then close to 20,000 youths have participated in
its community service pgorams.

‘The young people work for $1 a day plus travel and living
expenses. At the end of their stint, they get $1,000.

Phaneuf said in an interview from Saskatoon that there
have been three other deaths in Katimavik programs — two
people died when struck by a car in Quebec and one man
participating in Katimavik's military arm drowned at
Esquimalt.

Phaneuf said Sheldon Rempel, 23, who led Livingston's
group and was one of three the coroner
recommended should be fired beeause of insufficient

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one-year contract expired in May.

The executive director said he has also reviewed the
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district group leader Rosemary Baird and found them to be

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continuing until Nov. 28 at the National Exhibition
Centre in Castlegar is “The Art of Twins”. the floral pain:
Senay of Grand Forks and Phyllis Bruce of

pon's Modern Prints” from the Art Gallery of
Greater Victoria. The Japonese print has always been on
important component of Western art! Don't miss this
show

The Paintings of Dave Adams of Castiegor will
be featured in the Presentation Series, sponsored by the
Costlegor Arts Council at the Homestead Restovront in
Costiegar. Opening is on Dec. 7 trom 7 - 10 p.m

Dec. 7,8, 9 ‘A Christmas Stocking’. o play tor
children at the Nelson Civic Theatre pertormed by
Theatre Energy. Christmas Stocking” will be perfor
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