A6 CASTLEGAR NEWS, April 14, 1982 Promised pore WINNIPEG (CP) — It's been about three years since the Vietnamese boat people first set foot on Canadian soil, but for many refugees, the memories of that long voyage are still vivid. Winnipeg playwright Gor- don McCall has captured these experiences in a play called The Promised Land. The play, debuting today at the Prairie Theatre Ex- change, follows three refu- gees in their adjustment to Canadian life. It is the suc- cessor to an earlier project McCall worked on and: in- cludes three cast members who actually made the long voyage from Vietname to Canada. “When the refugees were coming over in big numbers in ‘78 and '79, an organization was set up in Toronto called Operation Lifeline,” said Me- Call, who is also directing the play. “They wanted to fund a show about the refugees and they came to me to put it together.” A group called Theatre lifeline was formed and Me- Call and five actors co-wrote the play, entitled from Sai- gon to Sudbury, “That particular script was very much an overview and it did not have a story line to° it," he said, “It was a collage of the experiences and it con- centrated mainly on Vietnam and on the boats. It didn't deal with Canada very much, However, The Promised Land follows three refugees - through their first week in Canada, examines their prog- ress a year later and includes excerpts from the sea voyage and time spent in Malaysian refugee camps. 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Phuong Thi Nguyen and Dung Pham arrived in Winnipeg two years ago, while Phan.Thi Lan came here last November. “I wanted Vietnam actors in it this time because I wanted the experience to come from a point of view that had direct contact, and for the Vietnamese people to stand up and speak about the issues themselves,” said Mc- Call. Portions of the dialogue are delivered in Vietnamese with Phan Thi Lan serving both as narrator and trans- lator. McCall stressed that all three of these people are ac- tors and not tokens chosen only for their nationality. “It’s not just getting up and saying all you've got to do is put the person on the stage,” he said. “They've lived through the experience. They're actors and they've been working in a very structured form.” Of the three, Phuong Thi Nguyen is the only one who has had any previous acting experience, She studied the- atre in a Vietnamese school which McCall said is equiv- alent to Canada's National Theatre School. McCall said he believes the story’s scope goes beyond the plight of the approximately 4,000 boat people who live in Winnipeg. He is considered FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT . . “Baltazar the ‘agler? (Michel D. /SlocanRecreation/ Spring Recreation Program | Children's Activities: Re- + gional, Recreation Commis- sion No. & presents an in- teresting variety of activities for Slocan .Valley residents. For pre-schoolers there is the i Tiny Tot Activity Hour be- hh ) will be ginning April 19, 10-11 a.m. at W.I. Hall in Slocan and be- ginning April 21, 3-4 p.m. at Winlaw School. For 8-12 year 7 P, Winlaw ‘School and” Chil. dren’s Theatricals.stdrts April 26, 3 - 4 p.m. at Brent Kennedy School. For 6-9 year olds there is bicycle hour 4-5 p.m. Date TBA meeting at Slocan Park Hall. For soccer enthusiasts 6-12 years old there isa soccer. training program beginning April 23, 2:30 - 4 p.m. at Appledale Ball Park. Children must be reg- istered at the recreation of- fice in Slocan Park Hall to take part in the programs. Phone 226-7744 for further information. Youth and Adult Activi- ties: Ladies Keep Fit contin- ; ues at Brent Kennedy and starts April 21, 7:30 - 9 p.m. Exciting Belly Dancing clas- ses begin April 19, 7:30 - 9 p.m. also at Brent Kennedy. Well coached tennis lessons start May 11, 6 - 8 p.m. Tues- days and Thursdays at Slo- can Tennis Courts, and Jazz- Ballet happens at Appledale Hall starting May 5,7-9 p.m. one of several eee at the annual | West Kootenay Trade Fair April 23, 24 and tel and he is ‘considered one ‘of the finest ji d after a high-calibre European style circus ugglers in North America. Don't miss him. starts April 15, 7:80 - 9:30 p.m. at Mt. Sen- tinel School and basketball starts April 15, 7 - 9 p.m. at Video pirates W.E, Graham’ School and April 20, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. at Mt. Sentinel, Phone the rec- reation office at 226-7744 to register for these programs. ‘Treat Your Own Back Lona Munch, director of the’ Department of Physical Medicine at Kootenay Lake District Hospital will conduct one session on how to protect and treat your back by the MacKenzie method, a new approach to back care. This method helps alleviate back problems from gardening. pregnancy, lifting, bending, sports, working, and snow shovelling. Come to Winlaw School, Wednesday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m. for this in- struction. Introduction to adtiny The president of the B.C. Archery Association, Fred Usher will be at the W.I. Hall in Slocan City on April 16 from 7 - 10 p.m. to tell us what equipment is needed to set up an archery club and to havea brief practical session. Bow hunting will also be dis- cussed. Bye Bye Brazil The last movie of this for- eign film series ‘shows a troupe of musicians and per- formers who travel by truck through Brazil offering en- tertainment in small towns. They discover a Brazil in which the archaic and the modern, misery and abun- dance, tragedy and beauty, and the past and the future, all coexist. April 16, 7:30 p.m. at Slocan Park Hall. Pot of gold being plundered VANCOUVER (CP) — Video pirates are plundering Hollywood's pot of gold by copying its most successful films and selling them to eager movie-lovers at knock- down prices. - a foreign film-maker EDMONTON (CP) — Francis Mankiewicz is one of the rare.breed — a Canadian film-maker who makes films in Canada about Canadians. But the director of Les Bons Debrarras says even in Quebec, where he lives and works, he is considered a “foreign film-maker.” “Even in Quebec, Les Bons Debarras is a foreign film,” Mankiewicz said in an inter- view while in Edmonton to a ont EDIE 2.007 Eco} Dra] Brews’ * won't go "tots speak to a group of film stu- dents. Hollywood so dominat the movie theatres and minds. of the mass movie - audience that - Americans, such as Paul Newman, George Lucas, Diane Keaton and Richard Pryor are per- ceived as the home-grown product, he said. Although his film, which swept the 1980 Genie awards, is about working- class Quebecois who ‘speak the dialect of their distfict — not the polished French of Radio-Canada — the film's audience in Quebec-and the rest of the country is not the mass film-going audience. . Mankiewicz said the audi- ence for Les Bons Debarras’ is the same asthat for! foreign _ art films like Man of-Marble, But even foreign- -film-buffs see a’ Canadian picture untilit has been fa- vorably received in the United States, he’ said. Les Bons ‘Debarras énly did well’ in Canada . after opening to favorable reviews in New York. . Video says: Local stores that legally sell, rent and exchange video- tapes of major motion pic- tures confirm they are meet- ing with increasing compe- tition from the pirates. Martin Gover, manager of Video Only, says the legal video business is one of the fastest growing industries in ~North America. The video- piracy racket, which can be compared with the bootleg record and music-tape rac- kets, has kept pace with this growth. Dave Cameron of Laser “If you can cut costs by 500 per cent, there are going to be people willing to take the chance.” -Cameron and others said ere are operations that ap- ‘pear legitimate in Vancouver * that rent pirated cassettes. “You can call up one guy downtown and ask for a film and he'll say ‘Come on down in a couple of hours and I'll have it made for you.’ It's outra; j= Most legitimate video store owners say they're not Feally_being. hurt- because “they made most of their money from cassette rentals, not from sales. The big losers are the studios that don’t get. ‘their royalties from pirate -tapes. " All the pirate needs is a rented copy of the movie, a blank cassette and two video- tape recorders to hook to- gether. ’ Gover said the quality of: pirated cassettes is generally terrible. On shows on the road. d its coming to your area. Minister of Tourism Pat jeden invites you to see “Reachin; Peaks”, an audio-visual presentation of the Ministry’s ‘snew 5 marketing plan at The Fireside Place in Castlegar, April 17, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. This show will be of icular interest to individuals, business people and groups who have an investment in the future of tourism in our province. TOURISM BRITISH COLUMBIA INISTER. PAT JORDAN, MINI “The movie companies use millions of dollars worth of equipment and they make their copies from the ori- ginal.” oe The pirate, ‘Gover said, is handicapped by poor equip- ment and Copyguard, a sig- nal-jamming system placed on cassettes by the studios. But other video store man- agers said that . although there- would inevitably be some .loss of quality in a duplicate, there is equipment capable of producing pass- able copies. CASSETTES TAKEN Some stores here have also run into another problem — outright cassette theft. Peo- ple have rented a cassette, made a copy, opened ‘the plastic cassette shell and re- placed the good-quality rented tape with a duplicate. Cameron said laws protect- ing copyrights in Canada - have no teeth. In a case in Toronto last year one man pleaded guilty to distributing video tapes illegally copied from major motion pictures. He was fined $500. But there are risks to the pirate. “The only way you are going to make any real money out of Hollywood films is by flaunting it,” says a local pirate known: as Jake. _ “You've got to advertise and that’s where you invite trou- ble. “Some guys are very up- front and advertise movies for sale long before the com- panies release them officially for sale to the public. Quite obviously what they are of- fering is a pirate version.” RENT COSTS $3 Many. ordinary people are technically bootleggers) — people with a videocassette recorder who'll rent a movie cassette for as little as $3.4 night and hook up to a_ friend's recorder to produce a copy on a $16 blank tape. Jake says bootleg Holly- wood films are really only a sideline for him — netting only five per cent of his estimated income of $5,000 to $10,000 a month. He prefers dealing in por- nography. ‘ “I only charge around $7 a copy for’ a Hollywood film whereas a porn movie can net" up to $75. " Stringband in concert April 20 The Castlegar and District. Community Arts Council’ will present in concert. at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Castle The, atre. For.nearly 10 years String- band has criss-crossed the’ eountry playing and singing their own brand of folk tunes, The group of Bob Bossin, “Marie-Lynn Hammond, Zeke. Mazurek, and Dennis Nichol have sung to large crowds in auditoriums -and to small groups in community halls — but everywhere they go they are much enjoyed. Between the four of them they sing “thoroughly Can- adian” songs toa variety of stringed instruments: ° the autoharp, guitars, banjos, vi- olin, and mandolin. They do traditional folk songs plus numbers written by group guitarist Bob’ Bos- sin, which reflect the Can- adian life-style. -“What kind of music do you play is a question we are fre- quently, asked, and after a decade we still don’t have a good answer. Folk, sort of. Eclectic. Canadian. Songs with a sense of place... We like the notion of singing about Lunerburg N.S. in Powell River, B.C. and we ‘like the notion of singing about Powell River in Powell River... What kind of music -do we play? Songs with roots, Funny things. Orplaned songs. Songs that picke to sing them, Songs tha! oe like and that we think you'll like as well." — Bob Bossin. All tickets for this per- formance must be purchased in advance from Carl's Drugs, both libraries, the Castle Theatre, the NEC or the College Bookstore. / Recreation News uf Easter Party The tiny tots Easter Party was a huge success, Approx- imately 125 children enjoyed an afternoon of games, car- toons and crafts. Everyone enjoyed visiting with the Easter Bunny and hunting for treats, Many thanks to Trudy Williams, Susan, Lisa, Lana, and Lori Stucky, Aud- rey Maxwell, Sandy Reilly, and Leanne Smalley for all their help. Archery Workshop Coming up Saturday, April 17, is-an Archery Workshop for everyone interested in archery: Whether you are an expert or have never shot an arrow before, this workshop is for you. Fred Usher presi- dent of the B.C. Archery Association will; be conduct- ing the workshop in the arena-complex. The . work- shop starts at 9 a.m. and runs until 1-p.m. The fee is $2 and you must pre-register. All equipment is provided. This is a great opportunity to learn the sport of archery so don't miss it. Register now. Spring Registration F Registration for our Spring Programs begins Monday, April 19, with classes com- mencing the following week. Our. fitness classes have a new look this season. We will be offering evening: classes” four nights a week in the hall of the complex. The fee is $1 per class or $20 for’a fitness membership, The member- ship pass, entitles you to attend all our morning and evening fitness classes, We also have fitness classes in Robson and Ootischenia. We do not have a limited number of passes to sell, so if you cannot make it down to the recreation office during reg- istration week, passes will be sold at the first week of classes. Besides just fitness classes we are offering a large number of tiny tots, children, and adult Programs. Look for the ad in this Paper outlining all our spring events. If you have not al-‘ : ready received a Spring Bro--. chure drop down to the rec- reation office located in the community complex Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m, ar ronan renewal net re a st oP ee re oats cen an CASTLEGAR NEWS, April 14, 1982 AZ | Street talk EVERYONE SEES. HER, but, relatively’ few know her, She's Mra, Yvonne Pav- Us, and she's perhaps Castlegar's best-recog- nized walker, .Mrs. Pavlis walks about 2: hours each day — that’s seven days a week, 964 days a year, regardless of the weather. She walks up to Castle- aird Plaza, and down to Eremenko’s Park. She fre- quently walks to the Kin- naird Library, and often to the Nordic Hall. She lives near the ferry on Crescent Street with her husband Dominik, who encourages her in her recreational pursuit. YVONNE PAVLIS +.. she's a walker And she enjoys stopping and chatting with people. So... if you meet her, stop her and say, “hi.” She'd love you to introduce yourself. AND SPEAKING of walking, there are others who can be seen out fairly regularly. Jim and Lil McKay are out every morning, walking for their separate ways! As Mrs. McKay comments: “He goes at his pace, and I go at mini Lil's “constant companion” on her walks is her‘ little dog, Puddles, who is part poodle and part terrier. ANOTHER regular walker, who can be spotted hiking ~ along the highway, is the Boundary, group of companies’ Alex he cheats, and ‘uses a bicycle, x STILL ANOTHER walker is George Cheveldave, 8 retired businessman (and one of Castlegar's first two commissioners or aldermen} who owned a store where Crossroads Printing is now located. George walks in the early morning and late at night (and, yes, he wears sneakers!), and he often enjoys stopping and chatting with the young people at the ‘Wizard's Palace which is located next to his home. _ Murray Little, retired from Celgar and a former mayor, walks every morning and is accompanied by his friend of 12 years, his dog Billy: Wife June keeps the homefires burning and has the coffee on when he returns. In 1975, Murray went to England — and walked from one end of it to the other! ID A FINAL walker (we know there are more) is former alderman G.8. [Gerry] Rust who lives atop Milestone Road on 10th Avenue. Gerry had a serious heart problem and now walks about 3'/: miles a day taking a 35-minute stroll along 10th Avenue and parts of 9th. His wife, Lorette, sometimes wants to burden him down with baggage, but he prefers to walk unen- cumbered. IT’S A SMALL WORLD, as Street Talk learned this week that one of the 10 Canadians‘caught in-the middle‘of: the Falkland Islands” showdown between Britain and ina has West Koot Bill Curtis, who is trapped on the Falklands’ with his wife and two children, grew up in Trail where his father, Jim Curtis lived and worked for 52 years. dim was a purchasing agent at Cominco and lived on Topping Street, where Bill was raised. When his wife died, Jim moved to North Vancouver to be closer to his where he is a teacher. Bill, 87, lived in Mission before moving to the Falklands last September to start a new life. Latest word was that Jim, his wife, Barbara, 31, and two children, Jimmy, 7, and Annette, 5, have rejected an offer to leave the island capital of Port Stanley, where Jim says they just finished building a new three-bedroom house. anywhere from half-an-hour to 1 hours. But they go - two sons. His other son, Russell, now lives in Britain q Bill was a quiet boy, when he lived in Trail, say - neighbors —‘“an average type.” After graduating from J.L. Crowe secondary school, Bill enrolled in an electronics course at Selkirk College. His wife, Barbara is from Salmon Arm. TALK OF THE TOWN this week is Mitzi Dupree, star attraction at the Marlane Hotel pub. Mitzi, you may remember, was arrested some’ weeks back while performing at a Kamloops pub. It seems the Kamloops RCMPobjected to her use of ping pong balls, flutes: and other assorted paraphenalia in her “act.” Well, Mitzi has since brought her act to Castlegar and has been filling the Marlane to the rafters night after night. Now we hear she's been held over for a third week because of her “popularity” with Castlegar residents. Oh yes, the ping pong balls and flute are still part of the performance. THAT. $1 million price tag for the new RCMP detachment is as close an estimate to the actual cost as you're going to get, says city administrator Larry Cruikshank. Cruikshank says the city used a cost of $125 a square foot for the 6,000 square foot facility to arrive at the total cost. That amounts to $760,000, with the rest going for other things like furnishings. Cruikshank pointed out the new RCMP. detachments in Fruitvale and Salmo were both built for $185 a square foot, with Fruitvale’s new building costing some $700,000 before furnishings. THE PROVINCIAL government's new Crown land lease-to-own program for first home buyers is now available, but doesn’t include any property around Castlegar. Of the 3,000 lots in 69 communities, Rossland will have six “urban” lots available. Warfield ‘will also have 48 urban lots and four rural lots available, while Creston will: have a total of eight lots under the program. If you Jive in Elkford, you'll be happy — Elkford has 16 urban lots available — though by our money Elkford isn't exactly what we'd call: “urban.” The first home buyer who takes up the government on its new program pays 12 per cent of the. lot's purchase price for the first yéar's rent, which then increases by ai six * per cent a year for the next four years. THE HERITAGE Conservation Branch has taken over control of the historic Earl Gray Cabin just west of Invermere. The five acres of Crown land on which the cabin sits is located near Toby Creek, east of Duncan Lake. The cabin was built in 1908 for Governor-General Earl: Gray fora hunting trip in the Purcell Range and has been used and maintained in recent years as a forestry service patrol} cabin. — The heritage branch requested control for conservation ‘and eventual development as a historic site. SELKIRK COLLEGE has a new controller — he's 92-year-old Poul Henriksen. Poul comes to the college from the Alberta Wheat Pool in Vancouver. He is a registered member of the Society of Management and a grad f the Ryerson Poly of Business diploma program. OTHER NEW addition to Selkirk College ‘is psychologist Dr. Jerry Ells, who replaces instructor Paul Forestell. Elis has been teaching at the college this past term, and his’ wife Gayle Belsher, say: they have been trying to move to this area for the last 2/2: years. Ells for and on the broadcast cTV Program One for the Road: The Second | National Driving Test. WRITING a literary lished by David Thompson University Centre’s writing depart- ment, has been awarded a $1,500 Canada Council grant. The grant will help cover printing and distribution costs. The magazine is published quarterly and can be obtained locally from the writing department or local bookstores. FINALLY AT SELKIRK, Fred Wah, DTUC writing program co-ordinator, has captured one of Canada’s most prestigious literary honors. Wah was recently named recipient of an $18,000 year-long Canada Council senior arts award, one of only‘ four granted this spring to Canadian writers. Wah's most recent publications include a collection of poems entitled “Breathing’ My Name With A Sigh,” published by Talonbooks last fall, and “Owner's Manual,” also published last fall by Nanaimo’s Island Press. Commercial draws mixed responses BARRIE, ONT. (CP) — While some viewers have been getting a bang out of a commercial made for area General Motors dealers, others have condemned it as violent and racist. The locally produced com- merical shows two young girls talking to each other, with their conversation: lib- erally punctuated with shots of imported cars exploding every time they use the word “imports.” ° ‘John McCullough, sales manager for CKVR-TV, a° CBC affiliate in Barrie, said the commercial has drawn more response than any other locally produced ad. hk “We've had people writing in saying ‘Way to go,’ and others that have said it's racist or anti-Japanese,” said McCullough. “Some people have said it’s violent because we blew up cars,” In the ad, the two girls, both professional actresses, are discussing the economy in front of a lemonade stand carrying a sign reading: “Dad laid off.” At one point, one girl says: “My dad says our economy is hurting because of the im- ports.” (Explosion). Her friend replies: “Dad told me he lost his job because of the imports.” (Explosion). The conversation ends with one girl saying: “I hope I don't have to go to Japan for Rocks 2. Concrete a.m. to 4:00 PUBLIC NOTICE TO THE RESIDENTS OF THE . CITY OF CASTLEGAR SPRING CLEAN-UP PROGRAM The City's Spring Clean-U day, April 19, 1982 through to Friday, April 30, 1982. Garden shrubbery and household retuse will be picked up provided the householder 1. Branches MUST be tied and piled in neat fundies: 2. Leaves, garden refuse, and paper MUST be placed in plastic garbage bags or cardboard boxes and tied. The following items WILL NOT be picked up: Program will take place from Mon- plies with the - 3. Any other objects that cannot be handled by one man. Refuse should be put out on your normal garbage pickup day and be placed at property line close to the area where your weekly garbage pickup is. made. Schedule will be the same as the normal weekly garbage pickup: The Ootischenia Disposal Site is open: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturdays — from 9: :00 .m. Thursdays and Fridays — from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. for anyone wishing to haul, their own refuse. | IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE: For pickup of old stoves, refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, hot water tanks, and chesterfields — please phone City Hell at 365-7227. This service will only be offered for the duration of the Spring Cleanup as advertised above. . YOU ARE ASKED TO HELP KEEP OUR CITY CLEAN. CITY OF CASTLEGAR Oglow's 5th Annual QUE SSS WOODCRAFT STAINS HOME DECORATING PROMOTION OUR IMPERIAL MAJESTY— still the King-sized value. General Paint still gives you the good old galion- ‘ Semi-Transparen tor Solid Color: ' Made in the West — for the West Breeze Interior and Exterior Latex....... |\Drape” Obes 613 Columbia Ave. GENERAL PAINT Interior & Exterior Enamels Wallcovering Sale SAVEUPTO.3.....-.-+-- 50 % wanrcoverines .. 15 % Off LouverDrape’Verticals- LaDetite One Inch Decorator Venetian Blinds VERTICALS & VENETIANS 20% Off aint & Wallcoverings Ltd. 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