A4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, DECEMBER 9, 1981

CASTLE. NEWS

ENTERTAINMENT

Entertainment package

A champagne dinner and
theatre package wraps up
the David Thompson Univer-
sity Centre Theatre program
for 1981.

The DTUC Theatre de-
partment will present Noel
Coward’s “Present Laugh-
ter" in Studio 80 Dec. 11-19,
except Sunday, and the Heri-
tage Inn in Nelson will host a
special dinner menu each
evening of the play.

“The play is a typical
Coward romp, with madcap

visitors arriving all the
time,” says James Hoffman,
theatre coordinator.

“It all takes place in an ac-
tor's apartment. He is trying
to get off to Africa on a
theatre tour and his ex-girl-
friends show up, then his
wife..."

With typical Coward rep-
artee and wit, the actor side-
steps i and

the theatre department and
performances begin at 8 p.m.
“We wanted a comedy,
something light for the
Christmas season,” said Pal-
mer.
“It is a highly entertaining
play and something that the
public should enjoy at this
time of year. We also wanted
to train our students in
d comedy.”

mounting confusion,
“Present Laughter” is dir-
ected by George Palmer, of

Festival coffers
to receive boost

OTTAWA (CP) — The
Canada Council will increase
its grants to the Stratford
and Shaw festivals in 1982 to
$600,000 and $250,000 res-
pectively, Chairman Mavor
Moore announced Tuesday
after a two-day board meet-
ing.
The 1982 grants are up by
4or 15 per cent, in the case of
the Stratford Festival, and
up by 40 per cent for the

Shaw Festival which has al-
ways lagged behind the other
professional theatres.

Moore also announced the
council has recommended a
play to Communications Min-
ister Francis Fox to pay Can-
adian authors for the use of
their books in Canadian li-
braries. The plan will cost
about $1.3 million if intro-
duced in 1982-83, rising to
$2.1 million in 1984-85.

The Cast for “Present
Laughter" is composed of
five first and five second-year
students from the depart-
ment. Several have per-
formed already this year in
productions of “Godspell”
and “Red Emma.”

Cast includes Nikki Sharp,
Len Braumberger, Sue
O'Nonnell, Dave Topliff,
Nancy Cullen, Dareel Keeler,
Simon Back, Doug Doell,

Tracy Rush and Lidvin Van-

derspeck. 2

The Greek classic Lysis-
trata, originally scheduled
for the week of Dec. 11, was
concelled after various com-
plications arose.

“We just couldn't stage it
properly,” Hoffman said.
“We couldn't get the cos-
tumes or the necessary mat-
erial in Nelson and the cost of

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Citizen of the Year?

Nominations should be made in
writing, with all possible detail. Your reasons for
nominating a person as Good Citizen of the Year
need not be confined to the current year . . . they
may extend as far back as you consider
relevant. You are encouraged to nominate
people who have been nominated in previous
years, but who were not chosen at that time.

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ward their nominee's name and resume to: B.

ling to get what we
needed was too high. We are
trying to save money this
year. Also, the staging was a
bit complicated for Studio
80.”

Season ticketholders can
use their Lysistrata tickets
for Present Laughter.

Reservations for the com-
bined package can be made
through DTUC theatre of-
fice, Room 300, St. Martin’s
Hall, or at the Heritage Inn.
Cost for the package is $14.50
per person.

Puppet show
at library

this weekend

The Castlegar Library will
hold its annual Christmas
puppet show at 2 p.m. Sat-
urday, in the Castlegar
Branch,

Puppeteers Sandy Reilly
and John Palmer will present
a varied program of puppets,
songs and Christmas music.
A very special visitor is
expected to drop by and the
winning ticket in the afghan
raffle will be drawn.

Everyone is invited to
come along to the library and
join the fun.

NEC postpones
lectures on
Galapagos Is.

The illustrated lectures on
the Galapagos Islands to be
given by Vern Marsh at the
National Exhibition Centre

this Thursday, have been "

postponed..

A new date for These
presentations has ‘not yet
been set. Please watch for
further details in the new
year or inquire at the NEC.

Compbell, Good Citizen of the Year C
Castlegar Kiwanis Club, Box 3007, Castlegar,
B.C. VIN 3H4.

COLORS STAY FAST
Soak colored clothes in
water with a little vinegar,

TORCH LIGHTING for the B.C. Winter in March of 1982. Ceremonies of the tor-
Games took place Nov. 27 as the area ch lighting will be shown Thursday
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A look
at survival
of the artist

A series of free creative
process seminars at David
Thompson University Centre
will examine the survival of
the artist in a non-academic
setting.

DTUC arts faculty will
present the first seminar at
2:30 p.m. Friday in the
DTUC Student Union Build-

ing.

A panel of nine DTUC
faculty members, represent-
ing all disciplines will briefly
discuss their experiences liv-
ing as artists. Each of the
nine panelists have worked
outside the confines of edu-
cational institutions as ar-
tists.

An open question period
will follow.

The series, entitled “Liv-
ing in the World,” will draw
on DTUC faculty visual ar-
tists, musicians, writers, ac-
tors and dancers, as well as
nationally-known artists and
resource people.

The seminars will deal
with how the artist survives
by promoting and selling the
art, or by working outside
the art form to support the
creative work.

DTUC Holds
auditions
Saturday

Open auditions for the Da-
vid Thompson University
Centre Theatre production of
“The HOT L BALTIMORE”
will be held Saturday in
DTUC's Studio 80, on the

j first floor of St. Martin's Hall.

Director Janet Wright, in-
structor of acting and voice
at DTUC, will meet with
auditioning actors at 1 p.m.
The meeting will be followed
by individual auditions.

“The HOT L_ BALTI-
MORE” will be staged in
Studio 80 Feb. 5 - 13.

Wright said many of the
parts will be filled by theatre
students, however there will

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5:30—Sign-on and program
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5:35—Five-day weather re-
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5:40—Castlegar Library
storytime.

6:00—Immigration to Can-
ada — Part II. This
program deals with
the preparation and
legal aspects of immi-
gration.

6:30—WARP Update —
This program deals
with the timely topic
of decorating your
Christmas season din-
ner table — demon-
strated by Catherine
Delich, hosted by
Roberta Taylor and
Jo Wild.

6:50—SHSS Report — Car-
rie Proud interviews
Mr. Balahara, coach of
the Stanley Humph-
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9:00—B.C. Winter Games
Torch Lighting Cere-
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DISNEYLAND AT SPRING BREAK
Bus Tour and Fly Tour
April 3 — Now taking bookings.

Nov. 27, 1981.

9:20—B.C. Hydro presenta-
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Council on the cur-
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11:00—Sign-off.

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turned from the pro-
vincial schools swim
meet.

7:00—B.C. Legislature
Opening — Nov. 23,
1981 Speech from the
Throne by Lt.-Gov.

. Henry Bell-Irving.

7:45—Castlegar Fiddle Fes-

tival — This is the fi-

nal of this
event which took
place in October.
8:00—Kick Boxing — This
program features a
demonstration by the
Rossland Karate
Club, as well as a
number of profession.

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Castlegar Community Band. Shown above from left are Phil Calder-
bank, an unidentifed Nelson muscian, and Bob Morris. The band

main lounge of Selkirk College Thursday night at 7:30 p.m.
—Community Bond Photo.

Accident victim
feels shortchanged

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
family of a 27-year-old quad-
riplegic is disappointed that
he may receive only a frac-
tion of the $1.3 million in
damages awarded by the
B.C. Supreme Court, his wife
Caro) Nash said Monday.

A spokesman for the law
firm representing Tom Nash
said Monday the Creston
man would receive “substan-
tially less than $100,000" be-
cause the driver he sued fol-
lowing a 1978 car accident
carried only minimal insur-
ance coverage between
$50,000 and $75,000.

Nash, who suffered severe
spinal and head injuries, can
move around only with the
help of an electric wheel-
chair.

And although Tom man-
aged to pass a driving test in
a specially equipped van af-
ter ext#five' therapy, Carol
said the ticente is next to
useless — they don’t have the
money to convert their 1974
van or buy a new one.

Both Tom and Carol said
they are waiting until lawyer
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Rail traffic
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VANCOUVER (CP) —
Westbound rail traffic to

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By Fred Merriman

I would like to talk about Counterattack, drinking and driving and finking

on your brothers and sisters.
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an
‘down the b ig! y being driven by a driver no.
longer maintaining control of the vehicle. A good Samaritan truck driver
radios the police, the driver is opprehended and the police, and most par-
ticularly the truck driver, have probably saved the impaired motorist's life.
Question: “Is the truck driver a friend or a fink?” Many people, quoting
the famous line that there always shall be “honor among thieves", will say
* that the truck driver is a fink for notifying the authorities that a dangerous
vehicle is loose on the highways.
In my opinion the man is a real friend. Even in the short run it may cost the
impaired and unfortunate drunk driver a small fortune in fines and penalties.
A Castlegar lady told me that she and.her husband were returning home

will face rationi
by 1984, even if the railways
were to begin double-track-
‘ing immediately, says Ross
Walker, Canadian National
Railways mountain region
vice-president.

“I hope like hell we are a
long way from it, but in all
realism I think we will be
extremely lucky if we can get
through 1984 without ration-
ing,” he said Monday. in.an

" interview.

“I don’t see any way we
can get through 1985 without
it, assuming there is not
going to be some sort of
major downturn in the inter-
national economy.”

Walker said the railways’

| financial ability to double-
track depends largely on the
future of the statutory
Crowsnest Pass-rate, which

’ fixed in perpetuity in 1897
the price Western farmers
pay the railways for moving
their grain.

He predicted the federal
government will make a de-
cision on the matter within a

few months,

from Sh one recent ing ans d the same sort of situation.
They did not report it for two very good reasons: their vehicle was not equip-
ped with a CB radio, and they were not aware that the RCMP welcome any
assistance offered for contro! and pr of high They
would much rather issue a warning letter based on citizen observation than to
be called urgently to investigate a serious motor vehicle accident. "

A few years ago, | was pulled over by a Washington State Highway Patrol
for passing another vehicle when it was unsafe to do so. | was fortunate it only
cost me $17 U.S. which he agreed | could mail from Nelson when | returned
home.

He believed my story that | had been following a sports car for 25 miles
over mountainous roads and which for Y would not maintaii
speed and had no intention of allowing me to overtake his dawdling machine.
Finally an opportunity presented itself. | slammed the gas pedal to the floor
and the Thunderbird engine in my ‘55 Ford hardtop convertible moved right,
along. The sports ¢ar driver, now awakened from his sleep, had the same idea
simultaneously.

Simply put, he and | were dragging. While this foolish game was being
played, a State highway partol came upon the scene . . in my passing lane.

1 was committed to complete the pass . . . and did, somewhere between
90 and 100 m.p.h. 3

Even at the time | knew my behaviour was unsatisfactory and my driving
attitude was even worse. | fell back to 60 m.p.h. and the sports car driver fell
back to sleep. . . chuckling to himself. Yes, the State Patro! made a U-turn and
did mea favor. He also believed the true story that | was returning from the
funeral of my younger brother, dead at age 30 of cancer and leaving a wife
and five children. But that is another story:

The policeman suggested | stop up ahead and take on a cup of good strong
black coffee. ~

He also suggested | should slow down or there would be two deaths'in the
Merriman family in the same week. It cost me a little and the advice was worth
perhaps several millior dollars. We can help our brothers by finking. | do it and
shall continue to do it. | hope others will do the same thing because the life we

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“Workers have power in

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work history of the. indivi-

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workers ,and management.
Workers have everything to
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congress's labor education
and studies centre in Ottawa,
was one speaker at a three-
day CLC conference on car-

or chemicals he worked with,
said Fortin. Information on

Deprivation

good incentive

LOGAN LAKE (CP) —
The Logan Lake Recreation
Society could only get 12
people to a meeting to dis-
cuss the soclety's application
to the Canadian Radio-tele-
vision and Telecommunica-
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RESTAURANT

in a Detch Setting

Mon. - Sat. 8 p.m. to Mid,”
Sunday 5 p.m. to 12 p.m.

Closed Tuesdays ,
Bslow ithe Nelson Briggs

So the society h
the meeting, then turned off
the satellite programming
the day before the meeting.

The second mesting was
more successful — 800 people
showed up to elect new offi-
cers.

Medicine Hat
sues Ottawa

MEDICINE HAT, ALTA.
(CP) — Lawyers represent-
ing the city of Medicine Hat
will be instructed to have the
city’s lawsuit against the
federal government over nat-
ural gas taxes put on the
Court of Queen's Bench doc-
ket, Mayor Ted Grimm said

esday.
City council decided Mon-
day the federal government

, has taken too long to respond

to the suit filed in August
which says Ottawa doesn't
have the constitutional
authority to collect taxes on
municipally-owned natural
gas.

Says actor™
hexed forestry

VICTORIA (CP) — The
late Chief Dan George puta
curse on the B.C. forest
industry in 1972, a Cowichan
Bay, B.C. resident revealed
Tuesday.

Nora Maxwell said that in
1972 the chief told her the
curse, which she wrote down,
but made her promise not to
reveal it until after his death.
The Burrard Indian chief and
actor died a few months ago.

Maxwell. said in a -tele-
phone interview that George

, thought the ‘forest industry
. was greedy. and was, muti-
Greedy. and WEP, Fy

lating the f

However, George's daugh-
ter, Ann Thomas, said Tues-
day that her father never
would have put a curse on
anything because he didn't
know how.

‘Thomas said her father.
was born into the Roman
Catholic religion, and was too
religious to put a curse or hex
on anything.

Telephone 352-9998

Calendar

+ ¢ « Continuing until Jan, 3 is the Dinosaur Show at the
National Exhibition Centre in Castlegor. This interesting
show consists of 1, paintings, ters and books’
that “convey. reasonably accurate impression of en-
vironments none of us can ever see". Disp! ore from
the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Ottawa. Two.

Dec, 10. at} “
rsday, Dec, 10 at} p.m. (for,
(for the general public),
‘ele

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would, like to sing along. A good way to

Prov! if you
get into the spirit of Christmas,
ee
Dec, 10, 13, 12... “Aladdin”, an original musical. play by
ig

Geor; in, will be performed at the Trail Jr. Hi
schoo he St auditors at 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by Theatre
inlimited. tre *

Koctenoy Sehoct "Ait Gallery tn. ihe’ David Thompson
‘cotenay rt. Gallery in the Dav!
University Centre in Nelson from 12 noon to 4 p.m. dally.

Dec. 15 ... . Rossiand/Choral Festival at 7:30 p.m.) at
Rossland High School, featuring a Hallelujah Chorus con-
ducted by Helen Dahlstrom. i :

Give Concerts for Christmas, Performance ‘8) Is offering
season tickets for two professional plays and two concer-
pokane Sym; i
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fudents. Christmas Sale:at the

ete i
The 5 Community Arts Council Is also offering
advance tickets at enticing reduced rates for the highly-
rated Winn; Contemporary Dance Theatre coming to
ir on January 30, A package of tickets consisting
of 2 adults and 2 children will cost only $15 until Dec. 25
and are available at Carl's Orugs and at both libraries,

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Items ‘for’ this. bi-monthly feature’ should ibe
telephoned to Mrs: D. Miller-Tait of the Castlegar
and District Community Arts Council at 365-7850.

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special employment histories of

workers.

“If a fellow employee de-
velops cancer, the first thing
you have to do is get a good
diagnosis of the disease and
have the cancer confirmed,”
she said. “Get medical evi-
dence in the form of a letter,
report, diagnostic procedures
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sults. If the employee died,
get the death certificate.”

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