y A2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 8, 1981 continued from pago Al Padre Desmond Carrol! will lead prayers, after which the hymn “Faith of Our Fathers” will be re- cited. The community band will then play a selection and Father Michael Guinan will say benediction. The service will close with God Save the Queen. It has been 63 years since the end of World War I and 86 years since the Lest we forget... close of World War II. In all, 109,980 Canadian ser- vicemen and women from those two wars now lie buried in 74 countries on every continent. Graves around the world commemorate these men and women, including the memorial in Kohema, in northern India, upon which the following words are engraved: “When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today.” Local Honor Roll Barry F. Cleeton, Virgil Riley Roy F. Foxlee, A.J. Bule, Ted Foxlee, C. Ken- nedy, Walter A. Houston, R.S. Horswill, Earl Mul- hern, H.J. Slater, Douglas McDonald, W.T. Slater, Jack Frazer, Arthur J. Killough, Dalton MacArt- hur, L.A. Appleton, Samu- el Saprunoff, George Owles. Castlegar philatelists win numerous awards Local philatelists won nu- merous awards, when the David Thompson Stamp Club held its 11th annual stamp exhibition at the community complex. Mrs, Knutson opened the exhibition and expressed her pleasure in being able to attend and to see the grow- ing interest in stamp col- lecting of so many local Late in VANCOUVER (CP) — The provincial government may be holding back doctors’ ser- vice payments totalling $45 million, Dr. David Jones, a general practicioner from Burnaby, said. Jones said the B.C. Medical Services Commission, which administers the medical ser- paying doctors vices plan, is not only late in paying doctors’ bills, but also reduces the amount billed in some cases. Sums outstand- ing are paid later. However, commission chairman Dr. David Bolton said there have been no ser- ious delays “and certainly no policy of withholding pay- ments.” Mary Rozinkin of Glade dies Mary Rozinkin, 61, of Glade died Tuesday. Funeral services began Thursday and concluded Friday from Glade Russian Hall. Born Jan. 14, 1920 at Brilliant, Mrs. Rozinkin moved to Appledale where she married Pete Rozinkin. They then moved to Glade where she lived until the time of her death. Mrs. Rozinkin is survived by her three sons, Harry, Phillip and George, all of Glade and by her parents Nick and Annie Osachoff of Appledale. She was predeceased by her husband Pete, in 1978, and one brother, Angus Os- achoff, in 1979. Burial took place at Glade Cemetery with funeral ar- rangements under the direc- tion of Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Has this Advice for welfare LANGLEY (CP) — Wel- fare mothers considered em- ployable by the human re- sources ministry should take their children with them to job interviews, says a lawyer who izes in adminis mothers care, but the mother can argue that the regulation is contrary to the intention of the Guaranteed Available Income for Need Act — to “relieve poverty, neglect or trative law. Gillian Andrews told a group of Welfare recipients that if they follow this advice, employers are not likely to offer them jobs and the ministry cannot ac cuse them of turning down jobs. Furthermore, she said, the ministry cannot expect wel- fare mothers to afford baby- siters while they are out looking for jobs. The new welfare policy, which came into effect this month, defines persons who “A child psychologist will probably have to appear as a witness to the fact that it isa cause of suffering to a young child to be separated from its parents for large time per- iods such as full-time work involves,” Andrews said. Andrews said her appeal arguments have not been tested. She also offered advice to persons beyond middle age who are denied assistance. The regulations say per- sons younger than age 65 are employable, but not if they are ing from a physical are 5 and are only eligible for short-term assistance. Employables include single mothers with one child older than six months or two children older than age 12. But single mothers with chil- dren who have a “physical or mental condition” making it impossible for the parent to Jeave the home to work are defined as unemployable. . ISILLEGAL The argument, she said, is that it is illegal to leave children unsupervised until they are age 12, and if mothers cannot find either babysitters or day care, they should not be forced to get jobs. Andrews said this argu- ment fails: the ministry can provide a babysitter or day FREE Estimates Automatic Transmission Service Special. *28.60 INCLUDES: road test, remove pan, visual inspection, clean sump and screen, adjust bands and link- ‘ Borderline Transmission * "SPECIALISTS or mental infirmity that renders them incapable of accepting employment. Andrews said a recipient could argue that in a time of high unemployment and con- siderable competition for jobs he or she cannot find work because of a “physical infirmity” — age. FOR OBJECTIVITY VOTE MacBain for Alderman FREE Towing within a 100-mile radius with major repairs. We have Automatic Transmission Shift Kits in stock. One-Day Service in most cases. 368-3231 2865 Highway Drive, Trail Jones said the issue came to a head in August, when members of the B.C. Medical Association, during a meet- ing with Bolton and other commission officials, com- plained about late payments. He said Bolton defended the commission, saying that at least 80 per cent of all bills submitted under the medical plan are paid within 40 days. However, Jones said he advised Bolton he was still owed $1,600 for March. The upshot of the meeting, Jones said, was that the MSC chairman challenged him to compile documentary evi- dence of the outstanding payments and send him cop- ies. He said the commission would look into the matter. Robinson's young people. She praised the local merchants for do- nating the lovely gifts and trophies for the winners. The exhibition was well attended. Chief Judge Jack Harrison stated he found many fine exhibits, even excelling last year’s quality. Available to the public were four bourse tables from which people could purchase stamps, covers or mini sheets from most of the world for their collections. A Canada Post Mobiie Unit was also present. A successful stamp auction was held on the Sunday morning with George Melvin of Vernon as An Mrs. Margaret Munns en- tertained the guests for the evening by showing her slides of Australia, New Zea- land and Fiji from her recent trip down under. The awards were as fol- lows: Grand Award went to Nellie Taylor of Agassiz. Gold awards and trophy to Karen Anderson and Hugh Johnson of Spokane; Nellie Taylor of Agassiz and Dan Rodlie of Trail. Two Juniors receiving trophies were Chuck Kilpatrick and David Jaques. Silver awards and trophies were awarded to Susan For- est, Ivy Nielsen and Ted Dahl of Castlegar and P.M. Wells of Vernon. Silver. awards went to Ken Morris, Axel Nielsen, Dorothy Oaks, J.P. Taylor, Ted Dahl and David Curtz. Bronze awards Anna Gattinger, Ivy Nielsen, J.P. Taylor Maud Wilson, Ted Dahl and Steve Curtz. Honorable mention to Bea, Lunquist, Dorothy Alfano, James Harrison, Lester Small and Chuck Kilpatrick. Out practicing while hall burns COQUITLAM (CP) — The firefighters in this Vanccu- ver-area municipality couldn't believe it. The pump- awards banquet was held on the Saturday night at the Hi Arrow Arms Motor Hotel, where all the trophies and ribbons and certificates was given to the winners by Chief Judge Harrison, assisted by Ted Dahl. erand crews of No. 8 hall were out on a training run Thursday afternoon when the radio crackled with a report of a fire alarm — at their firehall. By the time they raced back, the rear end of the hall was burned out. Two other pumper compan- ies also responded, and, he- tween them, they doused the blaze before it spread to the whole building. No cause was been determined. t FOR MAYOR VOTE Audrey Moore Monte Carlo Motor Inn Castlegar, B.C. 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They are the Living Arts Theatre, Castle- gar’s new community drama club and Gary Stamford is their director. ee They are currently work- ing on the three-act comedy, “Eat Your Heart Out" and hope to ) present it for our en- joyment on the 8rd, 4th and 5th of December. There have been drama groups in town before. The Selkirk Players and Kinnaird Little Theatre provided many good nights of enter- tainment, but as years passed, interest waned, But now Castlegar’s own Living Arts Theatre is back in bus- iness with 20 - 30 members and looking for more. If you're the least bit interested in drama, the Living Arts astic young people go through their lines. Gary sat forward on ‘ay-wooden: chair, script in hand and coached the performers with positive comments. Then he laughed from the pure enjoyment of the play rocking back on the two hind legs of his chair, He told me that the group is now working on a process called “blocking”. “We're con- cerned with the mechanics of the play now, who goes where when. First we get that down.” Next comes re- hearsals by sections and characterizations. Gary Stamford is no new- comer to the drama business. From Grade 8 when he did the complete lighting design jfor the class play, “Anne of Green Gables” to producing 80 plays a week for the Vic- toria Drama Festival, theatre has been Gary's life. He was born in Victoria and lived most of his life in Victoria or on the Lower Mainland. Al- though he is directing the Cast) ducti Theatre is ii in you. One Tuesday night I vis- ited Gary during a rehearsal and watched four enthusi- says he is not really a dir- ector but primarily a lighting designer. “I train crews and super- viso work on sets, costumes, props. I'm éoncerned with the technical side of theatre.” So you're an artist? “Some- what,” hoe replied with a smile. “You decide on the results you want and work backwards. In almost any show there are at least 40 lighting instruments, and sometimes as many as 200 lights.” Gary has done everything from designing to directing and acting. “I enjoy theatre as a whole,” he says, “to be good in any one part of it you must be aware of all parts. That’s why it's good for ac- tors to direct and directors to act and design. There is a rigid discipline in theatre. You have to have it to doa show. To direct effectively you have to have an intimate knowledge of everything else.” I found out that it takes a lot of hard work and dedi- cation. “You quickly learn about the 20-hour work day,” he he told me. “I've done crazy things,” he laughed “like in addition to 22 plays for a festival, at the same time I've done a full-length opera.” For the past two years Gary has been “fi When Gary isn't working in some aspect of theatre he owns and runs his own bus- iness downtown, Pacifica En- tertainment. He sells those satellite dishes for indivi- duals or groups of individuals ._ | who want “68 TV channels figs and 101 by next spring!” Gary also sells professional LINDA HALL Getting to Know Your Neighbor | 4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 8, 1981 A3 drama club ing. He likes to write, “most- ly ph sound micro- phones, mixers and the like. “Star Music,” a branch of Pacifica Entertainment can provide “canned” music for office buildings and stores and music for dances and weddings. Gary finds the paperwork in his business tedious, and keeping ahead of all the gov- ernment red tape, rules and regulations has become “an incredible amount of’ paper- work that costs me money.” But he does like the idea of “being right on the cutting edge of this incredible com- munications explosion.” Since coming to Castlegar in July, Gary has joined the Arts Council and is a member of the Chamber of Com- merce. “I try to take an active interest, but I only have so much time.” He en- joys photography and is cur- in the dramatic field, offering his services to drama groups and festivals. He has been involved in the production of “hundreds of shows”; serious emotional dramas, comedies, Shakespeare, musicals and operas. He even spent time teaching at the Greater Vic- toria Summer Theatre School and did a series of one-act plays for them. I asked Gary to tell me about the time he felt he had the best play and the best audience response. He an- wered immediately. “Doors!” a one-act play which he helped produce for the Victoria Drama Festival last year. “It's a very funny play,” he added, “one that you can simply enjoy on a comedic level or go into the five levels B oof symbolism. It’s about the Members of the Living Arts Theatre 9 rom the setae andthe .yontidurable aftcrts: ft half of° BA tional side and the’ the brain, the logical side, _. just prior to birth.” But Gary has also had his flops. “We had the Mc- Pherson playhouse in Vic- toria for four nights running. It seats 850 people and we had a total of 57 people for all four nights.” “Five Finger Exercise,” was the name of the production. “A play,” claims Gary, but just a case of nothing coming to- gether at the right times for them. rently ting one base- meant room into a darkroom. “I also do silkscreen,” he said picking up a poster ad- © vertising the Miracle Work- er, the Omega Theatre Group's production that he took an active part in direct- stuff," and enjoys sports such as skiing, tennis, water skiing. Much of his time now is spent working with the- Living Arts Theatre group, and he is pleased by the com- munity response. “The whole thrust is to involve people. You don't have to know much. Even if you've never done any acting before. We're here to learn and to have fun. It is amazing the quality of theatre you can put on in community theatre.” Gary would like to see more older people involved. “It greatly expands the scope of plays you can do.” Even if acting is not for you, Gary firmly believes that everyone can enjoy wat- ching a play put on by our community club. “Come and enjoy the show,” he urges. “Hopefully we'll remove you. from Castlegar 1981 and place you somewhere else. It's a nice evening out, and community theatre at five bucks a ticket is a bargain.” GARY STAMFORD... director A credit to the Arts Council I met that same little boy, JOHN CHARTERS’ iterpart, in Reflections & Recollections The pipes and drums of Sukay — music of the Andes, played their ancient rhythms last Tuesday night to a full Castlegar Theatre and marked something of a tri- umph for the Castlegar Arts Council. and “other fard- members of the arts council, citizens were able to hear this talented group and at considerably reduced prices. Too often, worthwhile programs are put on at a financial loss and are not repeated. If we want good enter- tainment and cultural enrich- ment, we must be p or at least, his count a beautiful and touching fan- ° tasy film (kind of) called the « “Stairway ‘to Heaven.” A small, naked shepherd boy is piping on a sea bank on the south coast of England at dawn while the hero, an @ some anelbit. nfonster and up the long shallow beach, leaving a line of abandoned pieces of equip- ment as he goes. On the other hand, I have never met the “Flogellantes,” a sect which draws its ad- herents from ‘the remoter peasant villages of Mexico and*which seeks atonement of sins during Lent by re- to support the arts council its programs, starting bership in the ing Christ's His struggle along the Via Daloros and His crucification. with couneil. They will sell you one music. I will never cease to marvel how music, even a single note or chord, will not only raise up present moods ? and images but send out ever-widening ripples of memory — like a stone dropped in a pond. . The pipes and drums are the most ancient of instru- ments and have the most profound potential for reach- ing back into what must be ancestral memories. As a Scottish soldier and as one whose ancestors, as. my mother used to say, delighted in “harrying across the bor- der (of Scotland and En- gland) carrying off the sheep and the maidens” — it would seem natural that I would in the wailing of these pipes on Tuesday night and the thud of the drums, I could hear the tread of sandalled feet, the swish of love the lilt of the pipes and the roar of the drums. But what of the little Italian gentlemen who, when the allies took Rome and the sea-forth pipe band played in the main square, rushed out from the crowd shouting, “Viva, viva, encore, encore,” embraced the astounded pipe-major and kissed him enthusiastically on both sides of his shiny black whiskers? Or the little shepherd boy, almost completely naked, sitting on a tussock of sea grass on an empty beach near Reggio, south Italy, playing a. kind of tarantella on a wooden flute, seoming com- “pletely oblivious to the rum- ble of guns in the nearby hills. Time collapsed into the world of classical mythology : with its nymphs, fauns and Great step-pyramids to the curved altar stone centaurs in that. moment and the guns became a kind of olympian thunder quite apart from the world of men. oe leather and cactus whips and mountain paths to where held it up, still beating, to the sun god. Nor have I ever seen An- dean village dancers, but oné sees them in the music. Music isa universal language which Music is a universal language which bridges both space and time. It is an enriching experience. they would. crucify one of their own number — chosen by lot for the honor. Ihave never been present — in any capacity — at the bloody Aztec rites at’ which sacrificial victims walked up the great step-pyramids to the curved altar stone where the sun priests tore the heart. out of their living bodies and ANDEAN _ INSTRUMENTS: kenas, sikus in pairs and bridges. both space and time. It is'an enriching experience. May we have many more. And, in fact, we aré. The Victoria Symphony Orches- tra is coming to Castlegar on Nov. 25 on its first time ever — signs that not only is the arts council doing a lot: of work, but that Castlegar is growing up culturally. These include moxenos, various sizes, dulzainas, rondador, ocarina, tarkas and charango. hii sien ni ela Advance tickets are.$7 or, ‘Trail is any.eriterion, one would be well advised to.” grab the. adv: tickets. There were none left for sale at the door in Trail. Drogs Non-medical uses of drugs instrue- contribute to poor vision. The Canadian National ‘Institute for the Blind discourages the non-medical use:of drugs and suggests that medication al- ways be taken as. per. in- structions. :