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September 30, 1987

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MacLennan novel on stage

HALIFAX-(CP) — Hugh MacLennan, the disappoint MacLennan usually ‘doesn't’ ment in his voice quickly

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turning to disgust.

“And the one that was made into‘a movie was Two Solitudes, which was a dis. astrous movie,” he com: plains. “It was so bad, done by absolute amateurs.”

This time, MacLennan is convinced his work is in pro- fessional hands. Neptune Theatre's artistic director, Richard Ouzounian, is plan ning to stage Barometer Rising at the downtown theatre this fall.

“I think he's one of the best artistic directors in the country,” says MacLennan, 80, often called the father of the modern Canadian novel.

“He followed the text very closely,” he says, lighting a cigarette with trembling. hands. “I hadn't read that book for years. It's a lot better than I thought it was.”

In Halifax. recently to check out the script, Mac. Lennan recalls the explosion of 1917 — the event at the centre of Barometer Rising — which claimed 2,000 lives and laid waste to gn entire section of the city.

MacLennan was a lad of 10 getting ready for school when a munitions ship — with barrels of flammable benzol lashed to its deck and its holds packed with tonnes of TNT — collided with a freighter.

“We used to wear bare knees then, and I'd been washing my knees when there was a terrific shaking of the whole house,” he says between sips of soda water and a drag on his cigarette.

“Well, about two minutes later the blast struck, every- thing jumped in, the walls came in. Three steps further ahead and [I'd have been killed, the window would have knocked me out com- pletely.”

Those vivid boyhood mem- ories led to publication of his first novel, Barometer Ris- ing, in 1941.

On Nov. 6, Neptune will give the premiere of the first stage version of the novel which essentially tells of a youthful Canada coming of age. MacLennan'’s father, a doc- tor working in a Halifax hospital during the blast, was equally lucky to have sur- vived thanks to the instine- tive response of soldiers just back from overseas.

“He said that when this great blast came, like an earthquake, every soldier in his bed knew what that meant — that an ammunition dump had gone up,” says MacLennan, a masterful story-teller.

MacLennan, whose trips to his native Nova Scotia have been frequent since moving to Montreal 52 years ago, has spent the last few years writing his memoirs.

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Kortegaard Studio will dis- play their recent oil paintings at the Nelson Museum Oct. 5 - 81. The artists have been studying with Kortegaard on a part-time basis for between one and four years.

This is their second ex- hibition at the Nelson Mu- seum. Previous exhibits at local businesses and at a garden party and tea have been popular with friends and the public.

Exhibiting in the present showing are: Caroll Waters,

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Kortegaard’s classes are conducted in her studio in her home. She began teaching when friends and neighbors who admired her work asked her help in learning to paint.

Her method is to give the student experience in the use of oil paint in a number of different methods and styles, so that they have the exper. ience of what the medium can accomplish, and can go on from there themselves.

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HOLLY NEAR SINGS WITH ‘EYES OPEN’

By JIM MORRIS

WINNIPEG — With beliefs rooted in the flower. child generation of the 1960s, Holly Near has spent 15 years as a social activist, travelling the world singing against war, hate and discrimination.

But in the end, has it made any difference?

“I don't believe you ever come to the end of it,”'the red-haired, freckled Near said recently.

“Struggling to make this planet a place to live is a full-time, life-long choice. You're either going to be part of the people who close their eyes, or part of the people who don’t.”

Then Near flashed a wide, warm grin.

“I find it more exciting to keep my eyes open. You get into trouble, but in exchange for that you meet the grestest people, hear the best music, visit the most

exciting communities and have the best lovers.”

Lovers, friendship and good times are all themes prevalent in Near's latest album, Don't Hold Back. The record is a more pop-orientated, mainstream effort than her previous 12 records, but Near said she’s not afraid of being accused of selling out for commercial success.

“I didn't go through some transformation and decide that social change is for for the birds and that capitalism, money, getting rich and stretch limousines are where it's at,” said the native of Potter Valley, a farming community in northern California.

NORMAL PEOPLE

“What this record says is people who protest a nuclear power plant in-their backyard also go to the movies, also go to picnics, make love, have kids. We are a diverse people. If on one record I'm singing fairly serious songs, it’s not out of character to do a party, love-song album.

Initially influenced by her parent's ideals and love of music, Near began performing in school plays, at community teas and weddings. Her musical appetite was fed by country, broadway, jazz and labor music.

She studied acting at UCLA and eventually worked with directors like John Cassavettes in Minnie Moskowitz and George Hill in Slaughter House Five. She then landed a role in the Broadway production of Hair.

All that was interspersed with television ap- pearances in Room 222, The Bold Ones and The Partridge Family.

The sometimes trite television shows didn’t diminish Near's strong believe in social change. In 1971 she joined Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland in Free The Army, an antiwar show that entertained American soldiers in Asia.

Through the years she has travelled around the United States and Europe, singing in support of gay rights, denouncing nuclear power, speaking against oppression in Chile and questioning American involve- ment in Central America,

STARTS COMPANY

Concerned her songs would never be recorded, Near started her own record company in the early 70s when she was only 23 years old: The company has sold 400,000 copies of Near's solo albums and has expanded to repre- sent a dozen artists, including Sweet Honey in the Rock, Ronnie Gilbert and Ferron.

Cynics accuse Near of still living the dreams of the 1960s, when realism was often a victim of idealism. She shrugs off the suggestion.

“We get a sort of decade mania here,” she said, adding much of the activism people associate with the "60s didn't actually start until 1967 and went to about 1975.

ALL A-BOARD! . . . Work put in the found

for the new home of the historic Castl. ir CP Rail station. The contract to move the old building to its

By CasNews Staff

A Kelowna firm has won the contract to move the historic CP Rail station, despite the fact the company's price is nearly twice that of the lowest bid.

Castlegar council Tuesday awarded the contract to Interior Building Movers Ltd., which submitted a bid of $12,000, $5,000 below the estimated cost.

The bid was one of three submitted to the city. Shuswap Building Movers Ltd. of Grindrod, B.C. sub- mitted a bid of $6,500, while Nickel Bros. of New Westminster submitted a bid of $15,000.

Ald. Carl Henne explained that engineering services manager Kevin Lagan recommended council approve the Interior bid because Shuswap Building is behind on its Workers’ Compensation Board dues.

However, Henne suggested council may want to take another look at the bids in view of the $5,500 difference.

City administrator Dave Gairns pointed out that the Grindrod company was telephoned half a dozen times to see if it could supply more information, but never

Bernsen wants to get married

NEW YORK (AP) — Cor- bin Bernsen, who plays the sleazy divorce lawyer on the television show L.A. Law, wants to get married. The problem is, he hates to date.

“I know what I like and I know what I don’t like,” the 33-year-old actor says in Gla- mor magazine. “I've been through two relationships (actress Heather Thomas and ex-wife Brepda Cooper) where I loved one woman five years at a time.

“Now, if I'm on a date and

my mind is saying, ‘You've to to be kidding,’ I'd pay the cheque and leave in the middle of dinner if it weren't rude.”

The woman he marries will have to be intelligent, soc- ially conscious, concerned, drug free, like the outdoors, and should have well-kept fingernails.

Bernsen says good nails are “usually a good sign of people taking care of them- selves — paint chipped off drives me nuts.”

contacted the city.

was won by Interior Building

dioxins in the environment. “This is a large effort by some powerful -

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‘to provincial tax applied per stay.

Younie said, “Instead of foe- using on cleaning up the in- dustry, these companies spent enormous amounts of time and money trying to gonvince the public — in spite of the evidence — that dioxin pollution is no real problem in the industry.”

Younie said a recent U.S. study indicates a pulping process — in use at Champ- fons's mill in Hinton in western Alberta and at the

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significant amounts of dio- xins into the environment. ‘The study also shows trace amounts of dioxin, con- sidered one of the most toxic chemicals ever produced, are appearing in paper products such as diapers and tissues. Younie suggested the American Pa; i

n Movers Ltd. of Kel

Station contract won

Ald. Len Embree supported the Interior bid, saying the move is a™fairly technical job” and the city would want to have a “reputable, reliable contractor” under- taking it.

Embree added that when the compensation pay- ments arej,overdue, “it telle me that there's some problems with the contractor.”

He also said that when there is such a difference between the low bid and the next lowest bid it “makes me a little leary.”

Ald. Nick Oglow, who initially suggested council have a second look at the contract, agreed when he heard that the low bidder had not responded to the city’s calls.

“We've been trying to notify him for about 10 days,” said Ald. Patti Richards.

Oglow noted: “If he's not responding, then . . .”

Ald. Terry Rogers pointed out the city didn't “go to the trouble we have to salvage a heritage building “to have it possibly end up.‘a pile of firewood.’ ”

“Td hate to lose the building for $6,500.”

using confidentiality agree- ments it has with the U.S. Environmental! Protection Service.

The agreement could po- tentially slow the release of new information relating to dioxin and pulp and paper mills, he said.

Harry Karasiuk, general manager of Champion's Hin-

ton mill, insiits his plant is

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Chinese

interest

in Alberta mill

CALGARY (CP) — The government is holding talks with China to construct a $200-million pulp mill in northwestern Alberta, says the province's agent-general in Hong Kong.

Jack Kennedy said Tues- day total investment in the project could go as high as $400 million if China also opts for a paper mill.

The announcement comes less than a week after the province confirmed it is close to a deal with North Ameri- can investors to build a $360-million newsprint mill.

The two projects would help expand ,Alberta’s bil-

lion-dollar forest industry and help diversify the econ- omy.

Kennedy said no final decision has been made on a site for the Chinese project. But he added both sides will probably settle on the heav- ily wooded area between Hinton and Grande Prairie.

The newsprint mill, plan- ned by a group that includes Vancouver lawyer’ Ronald Stern and several publishers, is to be built near White- court, 150 kilometres north- west of Edmonton.

Stern has said he hopes to close a deal with the province in early October.

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