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MON., TUES — WT RESERVATION. onuy Semi-private areas available tor group dinners Also open tor private luncheons Phone 364-2616 for Reservations (Next door to Konkin's irly Bird Store on the Wetertront Esplanade. “The concert business is not a growth industry right now,” said Ken Cooper of Calgary's Brimstone Produc- tions. “It peaked a few years ago and now we're on a definite slide.” Cooper points to Loverboy, the Vancouver-based group which has been tremendously successful in record sales and has won several Juno awards, as an example. “Our recent Loverboy concerts in Edmonton and Calgary didn't draw as well as expected,” he said. “We were disappointed in the ticket sales. In Montreal, Debra Rathwell, vice-president of Donald K. Donald Productions, said “this slump happens periodically everywhere. “Things are good in the East right now, but six months from now, who knows? “Culture Club here has probably been our fastest seller — two shows completely sold out in four hours. In Ottawa, Culture Club sold out in a day and I can't remember the last time Ottawa has had a sellout.” Sales are also brisk on such acts as Duran Duran, Judas Priest and Saga, said Rathwell. “Those poor guys out West — I just hope-what they are going through doesn’t spill over here.” In Toronto, Liz Braun, publicity manager for Productions International, said “our shows are Coneerts doing beautifully.” She cited such concerts as the coming Duran Duran and UB40 “which sold out in about five minutes.” But Braun said the profile of the act wad a major factor. “We did have trouble selling .88 Special, which is an ineredibly hot act in the States. But they have no Can- adian reputation yet, and we ended up having to cancel the event.” REASONS FOR LAG Promoters in the West offer a variety of reasons for lagging concert attendance. “The worst thing is the volume of traffic we've had in January,” said Cooper. Between Brimstone and Vancou. ver’s Perryscope Concert Productions, four concerts were scheduled for what promoters call the triangle — Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton — within a three-week period in January. FA But Barad said more than economic factors are at work, “The economy is better in Vancouver than it is in Edmonton or Calgary but there's a different problem here,” he said in a telephone interview. “The attitude is more cosmopolitan, and there are more concerts to choose from, so there is more competition.” Promoters agree young audiences tend to go primarily to concerts featuring groups with current top-40 singles. “They don't turn out for the legends any more,” said Cooper. “It’s an enigma to me,” Sabbath) was one of the fastest selling shows we had in Calgary in '82. This year — nothing.” But the Western promoters agreed the music industry has always been erratic and recovery may be dust down the road. “Live performance is a part of rock-and-roll and it “It’s all well and good to turn out a flashy video, but by their very nature most rock bands will still want to perform before a live always will be,” said Cooper. audience.” said O'Connor. “(Black Our Action Ad number is 365-2212! A Magnificent Dining Experience awaits you . . . from light lunches to . . . full course meals. . . at these fine restaurants HI ARROW ARMS MOTOR HOTEL The Place Where Things Happen WATCH FOROUR <¢ DART TOURNAMENT MARCH 1) $450 IN Cash Prizes Mon., Feb. 27 to Sat., March 3 Spaghetti & Meatballs Including Salad te 1:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. SUDSY MELODRAMA ‘Lace’ begins tonight LOS ANGELES (AP) — One is American, one is Eng- lish and one is French, and they share a secret an inter- national sex symbol is trying desperately to learn. 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He and Jacobs are also working ona pilot..In addition, Jacobs is also doing a pilot with writer Diana Gould for NBC called The Barringers, about a depart- ment store family. Kaye Ballard a ‘Broadway baby’ NEW YORK (AP) — 4 quees from the demolished Morosco and Helen Hayes theatres hang in the living room. Autographed baby pic- tures of Burt Reynolds and scores of other stars adorn a bathroom wall. Kaye Ballard, the woman with the mile-wide smile, is a Broadway baby, still stage- struck after nearly 40 years of show business ups and downs. Now, she gathered all her experiences into a one- woman show called Hey Ma - . Kaye Ballard, opening Feb. 27 at the off-Broadway Promenade Theatre. “T'm lucky. I always knew I wanted to be an entertainer. “Always,” Ballard said, sit- ing in her East Side apart- ment surrounded by her three apricot poodles — Poc- kets, Punky and Big Shirley — and momentoes of a rich theatrical life. “I was a character actress at two,” she said. “When I was five years old, I'd bor- row my father's hat and do Maurice Chevalier.” Ballard, 57, was born Cath- erine Gloria Balotta. Her parents — first-generation Italians — didn’t quite un- derstand her. Dad, a cement finisher in Cleveland, thought she was adorable. NPE OLUMBIA STEAK HOUSE OPEN FOR LUNCH Saturday, 11:30 4a mmencing Feb. 28 m.- 2 p.m. Great Food, Service & Prices! STEAK HOUSE Deli Sandwiches Extensive Salad Bar Fully Licensed Homemade Hambu: Cold Plates, “S' eeoeeevvee Steak Sandwich, B.B.Q. Ribs, Chicken Beef Stew, Chowder, Salads Lunch Pizzas & Pastas ers ’ Potatoes ate COLUMBIA § STEAK HOUSE SN eout available Ma just wanted to keep her from getting hurt. Her first big-time stage experience was a burlesque tour in the South, travelling in a bus called the Blue Goose. “We had a five-piece band, two strippers and comics,” Ballard recalled. “I did im- pressions of Betty Hutton and Judy Garland — singing impressions mostly. Then I was a straight woman for the comics.” An engagement with Spike Jones and his band brought her to New York, and a ticket broker gave her tickets to see Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie and Ethel Merman in Annie Get Your Gun. After endless auditions, she landed a job in the revue Three to Make Ready, dir- ected by John Murray An- derson, who warned her: “You're going to take the long road. “You haven't made up your mind whether you want to sing, act or do comedy. You do them all,” he told her, “and when you do them all, they can never put you in a direction. They can't give you an image.” In 1954, she scored a per- sonal success in the musical The Golden Apple, which transplanted Homer's Lliad and Odyssey to turn-of-the- century America. Ballard played Helen, wife of Sheriff Menelaus, and sang the show's big hit, Lazy After- noon. TET TELLS. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING = jar & District urling Club wep. APRIL 4 7:30 p.m. Curling Club Lounge Please attend and make your club whot you want if to be. Staff Writer ‘The pay's low — only $1-a-day — but that includes free food.and a roof over your head. ‘The rules are strict: no abuse of alcohol or drugs, no hiteh-hiking —- and no “co-habitation” with a member of the opposite sex. And if you join, you have to do your share of work — which could mean anything from building a house for a refugee family, to working for a community cable television station. But according to Robyn Rothwell, a former Katimavik participant turned recruitment officer for the group, the nine-month experience is not to be missed. “Katimavik people live a conservative lifestyle . . . nothing luxurious. “But I learned to communicate with other people a lot better — people with different personalities. You learn to accept them, they learn to accept you.” Rothwell is in Castlegar for about a week, on the tailend of Katimavik's national recruitment drive from January to March. If you're between 17 and 21, in good physical shape, and “are willing to work hard for a dollar-a-day” and living forms can be ob 205, Fernie, B.C. VOB IMO. d by writing Box Castlegar’s first Katimavik group came last November, and worked at the Zuckerberg Clay Castle National Exhibition Centre, Island Project, the Doukhobor Museum, the the and the C Cable 10 station. A second Katimavik replacement group of 10 arrived earlier this month, continuing with the same projects. Katimavik workers “usually contain a cross-section of people,” said Rothwell. She said the VANCOUVER (CP) — mn. His words are perfectly pronounced, his extensive * ‘yoeabulary filled with formal “cannots” and “if you pleases,” * Yan-Fraser is eight years old. “I eannot really read this, of course,” he says, casually » ipotag the pages of a children's book. “But I do so enjoy the When Jan-Fraser Coward talks, His ‘heroes, he says, are BCTV News anchorman Tony Parsons (“I always listen to him weeknights”) and break- fast-time CFUN disc jockey Fred Latremoiille. Jan-Fraser's appearance belies his serious, adult-sound- tT He has hyd: halus, water on the brain. _ ing _ A slight scar runs from under his earlobe to the base of his neek where a shunt to drain the accumulated fluid was in- ~ stalled when he was just a few months old. ROBYN ROTHWELL . deadline March 7 Then it was on to Denfield, Ont. (near London) where Rothwell’s Katimavik group helped restore an old general store, where the group lived as well. Apart from work skills developed, and the experience of living with people from different social and cultural are selected by computers, although they reflect the Canadian population — meaning each group includes a couple of French-Canadian members, for example. Participants should be prepared for an active lifestyle that inckodes physical work five days a week, and leisure ‘ that include horseback skating, and riding. When Rothwell first took part in Katimavik in 1961-82, Just. cum_poreen in ber group dropped ost: . But she was into drugs and drinking, and chasing guys.” ‘explained Rothwell. Rothwell's group spent three months in three different places in Canada — the usual practice for K: » part of the Ki natural materials to survive,” is to “use says Rothwell. “You have a house, and you plant trees by the house . . . It’s wind resistent, and it gets the house cooler.” Another Katimavik objective, although not insisted upon, is learning a second language — English or French. “It’s not a school atmosphere . . . but) if you want to coon. © with &@ person, you have to learn to com- “It comes Because of his brain damage, Jan-Fraser is blind. His brown eyes, fringed with long, curling lashes, are hidden behind thick, thick glasses. Jan-Fraser also suffers from cerebral palsy and” epilepsy. His skin is translucent. An adult's hand could encircle his delicate wrists at least twice. He cannot hold onto pencils, finds it difficult to remember things like the order in which to eat his lunch, and has about one minor seizure a month. But Jan-Fraser is a fighter. Since September, he has been integrated with a regular, mixed grade 1 and 2 class. He bored his homework and some lessons in the school's psou: room with hy Linda Weston and Donald Gallo. “School is fine, just fine,” he says. “I learn many things here. Look, I am trying to draw a line between these words.” (The exercise is to connect one column words such as “he is” with their contractions in the next column.) Jan-Fraser is one of eight visually impaired students between the ages of six to 11 being “mainstreamed” into Trafalgar school's general student population but their future at the school is th by provi gover cutbacks. “Because the schoolboard is trying to avoid cutting back on teachers, it's the support staff that are being hit,” said principal Dan Larsen. “These people are vital to kids like Jan-Fraser.” Jan-Fraser didn’t always love school. In September, he was frightened, lonely — and difficult — struggling to find an identity amid often insensitive classmates. But by November, the irrepressible boy had won his i He even had a best friend, Kitiaaeh also includes a military option for one of its three-month stints, of which about 20 esis said Roth per cent of the In B.C. it takes place at the Canadian Forces Base in “We normally did jobs that other people wouldn't do,” she said. In Chetwynd, B.C. (near Prince George) Rothwell helped clear anarea for a campground, and fixed the floor of a ski lodge. Her group then went to Lister, Que., where they built a basement for a dwelling intended for a refugee family. The next Katimavik group’ built the walls, and the following group completed the roof. and pi basic military training. Katimavik is a federally-funded program that was started in 1976. This year 7,200 people are expected to enter — up about 130 per cent — because federal funding was in- $86 million to $77 million. The next program starts June 20, and the application deadline is March 7. And what does Katimavik, an Inuit word, stand for? * “Tt''means ‘meeting place’,” said Rothwell. POOR ECONOMY CITED Tax discounts popular MONTREAL (cP) — The number of mail. They say low- income Canadians sooty out tax discount services for instant cash refunds this year is ex- ted to increase dramati- cally from 1983, say business and government officials. Under the tax discount schemes, taxpayers give up 15 per cent of their income tax refunds — the earners, of unemployment-insurance benefits or welfare, make up most of their clientele. The service has been grow- ing steadily in popularity since the Tax Rebate Dis- counting Act was passed in 1979. The act regulated an industry where some dis- had been ch: permitted by law — to the firms that complete their re- turns. 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