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A family legacy is being carried on through the creative life of landscape watercolorist Barbara Jefferys Allen. She is the daughter and former assistant of Charles William Jefferys, a historical ill ‘and land: painter who still enjoys critical ac- claim years after his death.

Her work is showing ‘at the

Artist Barbara Allen learned from father

Franz Johnston, The lithographer But there was-more to Tallen’s

and landscape artist Fred Brigden was @ special source of encouragement

Langham Gallery in Kaslo until June 9. Gallery hours are from noon to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from | p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

Born in 1916 in York Mills, Ont., Allen’s childhood was influenced by the constant stream of visitors to the Jefferys’ home =- artists such as por- trait painter Sir Wylie Grier and Group of Seven artists J.£.H. Mac- Donald, Franklyn Carmichael and

and criticism, a Langham news release says.

““We were very lucky in that we were expected to act like adults and listen to what these artists would say,’ Allen says in the release. ‘‘My father talked about what he was doing and the other artists talked about their work. We knew what all the ar- tists were up to. . . they-were there all the time."”

early apprenticeship than listening. She ran a summer school on outdoor sketching with her father and assisted him with pen and ink drawings for the three volumes of A Picture Gallery of Canadian History, which was published by Ryerson Press in the 1940s. Some of the pen and ink drawings used to illustrate Fences, written by Harry Symons and published in 1958, were also done by her.

“It was invaluable experience,’

Allen says. ‘When I w Ac all the artists: used to give m@ pointers. My work in pen and ink js very like my father’s because I ined that way — you have to mage every line count, And from that I learned that every brdshstroke shust count for something too."”

Allen’ became a vibrant and prolific artist in her own right, extibjting wi the Ontario Society of Artists and on- ce with the Royal Academy.

Aft@r her marriage in 1939, she travelled to western Canada regularly

and painted and Photographed. the \

Prairies. Her work from this period culminated in a one-person show at Roberts Art Gallery in Toronto.

Canadian .

Hidden history comes to light with Theatre Bnergy’s latest of- fering.

Malefica, opening June 7-10 in a tent at Lakeside Park in Nelson, transports the audience back to the 17th century.

“Thousands of women were hanged or burned as witches as both the church and state attem- Ppted to stamp out paganism and seize control of the land,”’ playwright Rita Moir says in a news release. Moir,- Nicola Har- wood and Norma Kilpatrick co- wrote the play last winter.

“After the vast amount of research we did on this play, we were stunned that we didn’t know about this persecution,”” Moir says. ‘‘This was a time when ‘wit- ches’ were no more than women with special skills. Midwifery, lay healing, anything 5; i considered communing with the devil.’”

But this is not a play about the dark, Moir says.

“It’s a play about the light. About the enduring human spirt.

“Like in any good story, we found lovely moments. These People were a community, men and women together who had a

culture that tegrated.’”

Enhanced by the magic of a full moon, the mystery of a tent set- ting and the festival atmosphere of a May Day blessing, the play Promises to open your eyes and heart.

was being disin-

Playwrights (from left) Norma Kil playwright Rita Moir on location at Lakeside Park in Nelson.

Play brings history to ligh

patrick and Nicola Harwood, director Kate Weiss, and

Theatre Energy has not been one to back away from controver- sial issues. In 1978 the company Produced Power Play, ari expose of B.C. Hydro’s land and tax Policies. Bread anc Circuses revealed the handicaps of a rural lifestyle dictated by urban con-

trol. Runs Good Some Rust faced the issue of the ‘disposable senior’’ in today’s culture.

“This is original, thought Provoking theatre,’’ Moir says. ““We can see the same thing hap- pening today as in. the 17th ceh- tury.””

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7:30 p.m. (Wed) 11:30 a.m. (Fri) 7:30 p.m. (Sun) Castlegar Library Update — Eleanor Elstone takes us along on a look into the operation of the Castlegar Library and the services that are offered. Produced by Eleanor Elstone.

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Nelson hosts Artwalk

Put on your walking shoes, pick up the Nelson Artwalk brochure, /and take a cultural stroll.

Nelson Artwalk '90 takes you on a walking tour for art lovers through the scenic downtown and extraor- dinary art of Nelson. The first show is fast approaching. Sixteen galleries exhibit the work of more than 90 area artists in three summer shows during June, July and August.

Experience sculpture, Photography, painting in all media, illustration, pottery, work in glass, clay, textile, wood, and mixed media. As a special addition this year, Ar- twalk invites you to meet ‘the artists and enjoy refreshments at opening receptions held at many of the galleries on the first Friday night of each month.

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PENTICTON — Regional and Economic Development Minister Stan Hagen has announced three new financial assistance programs to sup- Port and promote the growth of British Columbia's business ‘com- “munity, —

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Programs have been carefully con- ceived to encourage growth in sectors which provide the greatest return to our economy with the least impact on our environment,"’ said Hagen. ‘‘It is these~sectors—that will lead British Columbia into the next century.

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Hagen said in a news release. . The Business Start Up program, the Small Business Assistance program and the Business Expansion program will replace previous financial for i Hagen told delegates at the British Columbia Chamber of Commerce annual general meeting in Penticton. “In addition to our existing business equity programs, these

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CP News Analysis By CLYDE GRAHAM

OTTAWA (CP) — Trouble over the Meech Lake con- stitutional accord is the last thing the Canadian economy needs.

There’s already risk of a recession, interest rates are at an eight-year high and the dollar is wobbly.

So last week’s decision by En- vironment Minister Lucien Bouchard to quit the federal government to praise sovereignty- association for Quebec just added to the air of instability and crisis.

There were articles in the in- fluential Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times of London speculating on the disintegration of Canada if a way to save the deal couldn’t be reached by the June 23 deadline for approving Meech Lake.

The dollar tumbled until the Bank 6f Canada propped it up with a one-quarter percentage point boost in interest rates, making Canadian short-term bonds and treasury bills more at- tractive. The bank rate now stands at 14.05 per cent, with the threat of higher consumer and business loans if it moves much higher.

Finance Minister Michael Wilson, not a key player in the constitutional battles, admitted that trouble over Meech Lake is bad for business.

Markets frown on instability.

It didn’t take long for the powerful Business Council on National Issues to jump into the fray.

“At a time when Canadian Producers, consumers and workers are facing a significantly tougher economic climate, the constitutional impasse is adding a dangerous dimension to our economic problems,’’ council president Tom d’ Aquino said in a

Meech impasse rocking economy

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letter to the prime minister and the 10 premiers.

“As disturbing as are the demonstrable and immediate economic consequences of the constitutional impasse, they may be the harbinger of much more serious and lasting damage in the months to come if this matter is not resolved quickly,’’ he added.

D’Aquino didn’t offer any solutions to the issue that has been smouldering for: the last three years.

But a change in the Bank of Canada’s interest rate policy can’t bring Quebec back into the con- Stitutional fold. And a cut in spending or raising taxes won’t heal rifts between English and French.

So Wilson, sensing there is little he can do other than put his best business-as-usual face on it, returned to a touchstone of his economic policy.

Inflation — not Meech Lake — is the greatest threat to the wealth and health of the economy he said in speech delivered in Georgetown, Ont.

Wilson said inflation, and the high interest rates he has used to fight it, have already cost con- sumers and businesses. But he said he’s sticking by his policy — for what he says is the long-term good of the country.

The debate over the Con- stitution may cost Canadians by hurting the economy. But Wilson seemed to indicate that some issues go beyond dollars and cen- ts.

And maybe neither opponents nor supporters of the Meech Lake accord should be swayed by sim-

ple economics.

Investment up

OTTAWA (CP) — Foreign invest- ment in Canada rose eight per cent in 1989 as Japanese and Americans snapped up high-interest Canadian bonds, Statistics Canada reported.

Total foreign investment, including direct ownership of companies and

« indirect investments such as bonds,

rose to $409.8 billion from $377.8 billion in 1988.

The largest increase in dollar terms was in foreign holdings of Canadian bonds — basically loans to Canadian companies or governments. They rose 8.4 per cent to $162 billion.

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Doug Peters, chief economist of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, said the huge foreign investment in Canadian bonds doesn’t leave the Bank of Canada much room to lower interest rates.

“That's not something. that any central bank governor would look at with any glee,’’ Peters said. ‘‘It makes it very hard to change course."”

Because the money flowed into Canada to take advantage of interest rates that have been five percentage points higher than in the United States, any drop in those rates could cause an exodus of that cash, he said.

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OTTAWA (CP) — Interest rates aré probably at least one percentage point higher, and some Canadians can’t borrow money, because of the Meech Lake deadlock, the chief economist of the country’s largest bank said.

And another economist said the Canadian dollar could plunge to 75 cents US if Prime Minister Brian Mulroney fails in his bid to salvage the troubled constitutional accord.

“The rates are higher than they would otherwise be,’’ Ed Neufeld,

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dollar down to 75 cents US, said Carl Beigie, chief economist at McLean McCarthy Ltd.

“It is not inconceivable that you could get into a kind of panic situation where people just sell, sell, sell their Canadian bonds,’’ he said after at the finance com-

at

the Royal Bank of Canada, told the

Commons finance committee Mon- day night.

“Admitting quite frankly~that ac-

curate measurement is not possible , .

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mittee.

Earlier, Neufeld told reporters political uncertainty over Meech Lake is already hurting business profits and lifting the cost of credit out of reach

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