The record, 7 décembre 1990, Supplément 1

arts and entertainment magazine December 1990 ImmhB - ¦ÀT&i, canada .Canada ffitffcanadf ft 13» 1*1 of canzaa i*< of unaüa i 1*1 of Canaria RECORD/DAN HAWALESHKA • Dunkin’s Laurel Sherrer finishes the biggest project of her career as production manager of Chronicle of Canada. 2—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1990 Friday morning in the “And take upon's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies." Lear It was daylight.Special Agent Tadeusz Bugs’ Letarte rolled over in his wide white bed, opened one eye and looked at the clock.7:19.Damn.Another day.He tried to think what day this was and decided it must be Friday.Damn.He threw back the bedclothes, rolled the other way and swang his feet to the floor.He reached for his slippers with his right hand and put the right slipper on his right foot first.Left-handers, he thought, probably put the left slipper on first.You think of things like that when you’re a spy but the thought gave him no pleasure.He stood up, felt his pyjama bottoms begin to slide and stopped them by spreading his knees, pulling them up and fastening the but-ton over his belly."Molson muscle,” he thought, as he scratched his right buttock with his right hand and headed into the kitchen.He yawned as he reached for the electric kettle and ran water into it from the tap.He looked through the kitchen window and saw a fresh powdering of snow over everything.Damn.He turned off the tap, plugged the kettle into the socket on the back of the stove and scratched his left buttock with his left hand as he padded into the bathroom.He stood over the bowl, found the fo- reskin of his flaccid pecker with the thumb and index finger of his right hand, pulled it out and stared straight ahead at the pattern on the wallpaper as the night’s accumulated poisons ran into the bowl.He farted and sighed.Damn.Another day.Who’s Who By Tadeusz Letarte When he had finished, he went to the bathroom sink, ran cold water into his cupped hands and splashed it onto his face.Something in the Bible about that.Moses or somebody was ordered by the Lord to watch his people drink at the river and choose only those who cupped water in their hands instead of those who stooped to drink it straight.Nobody knows why.He dried his hands and face on the towel and felt the stubble on his chin.Later.The cat’s dish was empty again, which explained the scrabbling he’d heard in the night.The cat had been trying to serve himself but hadn’t been able to open the cat-food box.Stupid cat.He opened the box and poured Purina Cat Chow into the dish.The cat must have heard him because he came quickly in from somewhere and said “Prrp.” “You’re welcome,” Bugs answe- A FOUR LETTER WORD W SHOULD ALL USE MORE OFTEN.GIVE.The giving begins with you.Now Open Factory Outlet The largest selection of gloves in Quebec for the whole family (possibly in the world) Discount Coupon 10% on prusMtalion of this od Valid HI Dacwnbtr 3lit, 1990 r li|lSl 569-2531 #*t#é GANTERIE AUSTIN ^PANNETON, Sherbroï» Sherbrooke Regular Store Hours Mon.-TMt.-Wtd.Tbsa-M.Saturday ?JO oj*.- 5JO pan.0J0 tun.- 9J0 pm 10 a.m.- 5:00 p m.life of a secret agent red.The cat was apricot-colored, pineapple-shaped and made mostly of foam rubber.Leopold Bloom’s cat said “Mrg” or something.Ulysses.Day in the life of.?Special Agent Tadeusz Letarte padded back to the kitchen scratching his right buttock with his right hand, yawning again, and continued on to the bedroom.He found his pants and put his right leg in first.Left-handers probably do it the other way, he thought.The incidence of left-handedness is higher among homosexuals than among the general population.Fact.Nobody knows why.He took a clean shirt from the drawer and put that on, the right arm in the right sleeve first.In heraldry, he thought, the left side is Sinister.Something menacing about that.A Bar Sinister was the sign of illegitimacy.Simon Bar Sinister was the name of a villain in that clever cartoon spoof of the Perils of Pauline.Sweet Polly Purebred versus Simon the Bastard.He took socks from the drawer.You could have a Jewish villain and call him Simon Bar Mitsvah.William the Conqueror was a bastard, son of Robert the Devil.He wondered if the Conqueror's coat of arms had a Bar Sinister.Could ask the lady at the university liba-ry but she wouldn’t know.They never know the answers to anything you ask them.Dressed, he returned to the kitchen and saw with a certain satisfaction that the water in the kettle was boiling, steam clouding the corner of the kitchen window.He opened the cupboard with his right hand, took a teabag from the jar with his left and dropped it into a mug from the drainboard.He unplugged the kettle and poured steaming water over the teabag.It turned brown almost immediately and darkened as he watched.He found a spoon in the dishrack, bounced the teabag up and down three times, then mashed it against the side of the cup with the back of the spoon.He fished it out and dropped it into the garbage.Real spies, he supposed, take black coffee in the morning — stale cof- fee — sweetened with a shot of rye.He added a spoon of sugar, a splash of milk and stirred it with his spoon which he then dropped into the sink.Damn.?His stomach gurgled and he found a donut in the breadbox.Jelly.Strawberry, he supposed, although it was impossible to tell without sending it down to the lab for analysis.He ate it, whatever it was, washing down every couple of bites with a swig of tea while leaning against the sink and staring out the window at the snow.He wondered if the incidence of happily married couples is greater when the party of the first part married a party of the opposite hand.Mix and match.Somebody somewhere was probably drawing taxpayer's money to do research and publish a paper on it.The mind of a spy is a treasure trove of idiot information.You sit in a bar in the afternoon watching the little golden bubbles rise through a glass of cold draft and you think about left-handedness and happy marriages while people look at you and wonder why you aren’t at work like everybody else in the world.You could tell them you are researching a scientific paper.A Dissertation Upon the Mechanical Laws and Properties Appertaining to the Creation, Arising and Dispersal of Gaseous Spheroids in a Glass of Canadian Ale.Friday.He put his empty cup in the sink, got his hat and trenchcoat from the hook behind the door and put them on, right arm first.Won’t you step into my parlor?said the flyder to the spy, and I’ll suck out all your juices.He walked into the living room and sat down before the battered old Underwood upright on his desk.With his right hand, his good right hand, he took a sheet of virgin paper from the drawer and feed it into the machine, then turned up the collar of his trenchcoat, pulled down the brim of his hat and began to type.Every Inch A Cissy; Shocking Confessions of a CSIS Agent.Chapter Two: I Meet Refrigerator Perry’s Big Sister.Damn.Le jardin de» lys Residence for retired people rooms — suites apartments (2'A, 3Vi, 4Vi) lENiCS couse bue ouAtnt saisons JARDIN DES LYS Tf ««il: •NT.ES’ We can accommodate convalescent people and those requiring a short stay.• dining room • central elevator « beauty salon • community center • laundry room « interior dépanneur • chapel e banking service e bus service • maid service • parking # garden path 1150 Quatre-Saisons (near Galeries Quatre-Saisons) 822-1039 von Bulow film realistic, lawyer says By Ingrid Abramovitch The Canadian Press Harvard law professor Alan Der-showitz, who wrote the book on which the movie Reversal of Fortune is based, recalls once trying to correct the grammar of his former client Claus von Bulow.The Danish aristocrat, convicted of trying to murder his millionaire wife Sunny by injecting her with an insulin overdose, gave his lawyer a dark smile.“Oh professor, what you are saying is that I’m better at comas than at commas,” answered the enigmatic von Bulow, whose wife has been comatose since 1980.Reversal of Fortune is the story of how Dershowitz managed to reverse von Bulow’s attempted murder conviction and persuade a higher court that he was innocent.The film is playing at Merrill’s Showplace in Newport.Check the WHATSON listings.As directed by Barbet Schroe-der, it is also about the strange relationship between the scrappy, Brooklyn-born lawyer (played by Ron Silver), and von Bulow, portrayed with sinister elegance by Jeremy Irons.“I thought (von Bulow) was probably guilty when I took the case,” says Dershowitz, whose 29-year-old son was a producer of the film.“Everybody in America thought he was guilty.” WHY TOOK CASE During an interview in Montreal where Dershowitz spoke to McGill University law students, the U.S.lawyer said he accepted von Bulow’s case for several reasons.The first is his affinity for “cases of last resort.” Often, these are also clients who make headlines, like television evangelist Jim Bakker, hotel owner Leona Helmsley and Jeffrey MacDonald, the former Green Beret physician convicted in 1979 of murdering his pregnant wife and children.MacDonald was the subject of the book and television movie Fatal Vision.But the typical Dershowitz case has an element beyond its mere tabloid potential.He is an ardent defender of the U.S.legal system and Bill of Rights, and felt that von Bulow’s case could put both to the test.“Why are we helping guilty people to get off?” an indignant student asks Dershowitz in the film.“Because,” he responds, “the system is there for the one innocent peson who gets accused.” CHANGED VIEW Studying the trial that convicted von Bulow, Dershowitz says he came to believe in his client’s innocence.“Suddenly the evidence started to fall apart," he says.But while evidence of Sunny von Bulow's drug addiction and depression came to light during the See REVERSAL OF FOR TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1990-3 Young singers to present Christmas concert Saturday Rahn leans like a cliff diver over her music stand.Rahn leans like a cliff diver over her music stand.i mm RECORD/ROGER POLLARD I The singers sometimes start laughing anf laughing, said soprano Tessa Wegert.Reversal of Fortune: Continued from previous page trial, von Bulow’s behavior remained both strange and inscrutable.“He was like an extraterrestrial,” Dershowitz says.“Everything he said was inappropriate.He was always too polite, too rehearsed.” At one point, Dershowitz turned to his client and said, “I’m convinced you’re innocent.” “He looked at me and said, Then you’re a fool.’ “I said, ‘What is this, confession time?’ He said, ‘No, I am innocent, but you can’t be convinced of that.You can only believe it on the basis of evidence.’” GHOULISM HUMOR There was also the problem of his client’s image.Von Bulow was intoxicated with his infamy and seemed not to be able to restrain his ghoulish sense of occasion.“What do you call the fear of insulin?” he asks Dershowitz’s students at one point in the film.“Claustrophobia.” While waiting for the verdict, Dershowitz was shocked to discover photos of von Bulow, dressed in tight black leather, in Vanity Fair magazine.“Imagine allowing himself to be photographed in leather on his comatose wife’s bed with his mistress while the jury was still out,” Dershowitz exclaims.Reversal of Fortune, now being shown in major centres, is not an L.A.Law or Perry Mason-style courtroom drama.In scene after scene, Dershowitz and his students are shown poring over notes in Dershowitz’s living room and interviewing von Bulow over Chinese food.“I think it’s the most realistic movie ever made about the law,” Dershowitz says.“It’s a juicy movie, but it’s juice with pulp.I think it wil help educate, titillate and inform.” Dershowitz still believes in von Bulow's innocence and is gratified that he was able to get him his freedom.But he feels the issue of “moral culpability ” is a more difficult one.“Here is a man who met and courted his wife while she was married.He then began to have a series of steamy love affairs while they were married.He was having an affair while she was in a coma.“In one of the last lines of the film, I say, ‘Claus, this was a very significant legal victory.Morally, you’re on your own.’ “I wasn’t his priest, his mother, his rabbi, his friend.I was his lawyer.” The Estrie Young Singers will hold their annual Christmas concert this Sunday in a Sherbrooke church If standing ovations weren't taboo at such venues, this choir would surely receive one.The 32 children and teenagers from the Eastern Townships melt the listener's sou! when they sing, but they never forget to have fun too."We re having our best season so far." said Nancy Rahn.the choir’s founding director, in an interview after a lively Monday night rehersal in Lennoxville Now in its fourth season, the choir has a core of experienced young singers.Rahn and Cheryl Stoud, the choir’s piano accompanist since day-one, continue to enrich them with their musical expertise.Supportive parents keep things humming behind the scenes.They arrange road trips to Ottawa and Montreal, sell geraniums each spring to raise funds ($750 worth this year), file away sheet music, ensure performers’ rosettas aren’t crooked and that hair is combed, and sew from scratch every single uniform.“We even had one — a grandfather — pull the fringe on the kilts,'' said Leila Wegert, president of the parents' board.PREPARATION All are ready for this Sunday’s Christmas concert.The choir has reher-sed 15 pieces since October.Some of these are familiar Christmas songs, but the eclectic program will venture into less well-known, often fun musical territory too.The audience will hear everything from Silver Bells to a gospel song, and two selections from Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carol Many of these pieces are complex.The choir will weave through intricate three-part descants, rich harmonies, and even sing in German It takes gifted 8 to 16 year-olds to sing such music well.Rahn said the choir was formed to provide young people with exceptional musical aptitude the chance to develop their potential.Rahn, who has taught music in schools and now at Bishop's University, and Stroud, a professional accompanist, are certainly qualified to teach them.For two hours every Monday night in the second-floor Band Room at Bishop’s College School, the director and accompanist lead the choir through rigorous vocal and choral training.The singers, open-mouthed and bright-eyed, follow their leader's cues.Rahn, leaning like a cliff diver over her music stand, directs them with sweeping arms and coaxing expressions.FUN TOO Though this training is ehallening, it isn't all strict and serious.“We try to concentrate as much as we can,” said Tessa Wegert, 14.who sings soprano in the senior choir.“But then we just start laughing and laughing.” The young singers said they like their choir master because she doesn't get upset when that happens.“She understands when something’s funny,” said Rachel Bury, a 14 year-old who sings alto.“She listens to our ideas.” For the choir’s director and accompanist, it’s the joy of making music in a group and the pleasure of passing along the gift of musical appreciation that motivates them.“When they’re singing well and they know they’re singing well, it’s almost a high for them,” Stoud said.“It is for us,” she added.Cedric McQuade, a 10 year-old alto, is more down-to-earth.“I like the trips,” he said The public is invited to hear the Estrie Young Singers perform their Christmas concert at St.Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m.ROCKY V'HAS THE CHARM, HEART AND THRILL Of THE ORIGINAL?- Dennis Cunningham, CBS TV ?'kirit'k'k'k'k'k'kw A FILM FAMILIES CAN ENJOY.ftM wilti humor and aclionr — Louis Hobson, CALGARY SUN IB*—* | lâMiii+nw 3050boul PORTLAND 565 0366, C'tMUtfdAr'jffiPiwn k I “ URfutaturi V * Sot., Sun.: 12:30 - 2:45 - 5:00 - 7:15 - 0:30 | Week dap: 7:15 - 9:30 p.m. 4—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1990 Stamps commemorate Canada’s historical conflicts O Canada, our home and native land' We stand on xuard for thee.Those are some of the words from our national anthem.I wonder just how much they really mean.Unlike many countries, Canada is a nation that came into being through negotiation rather than through conflict.The wars involving British North America prior to 1867 were those involving British troops on colonial soil When I say 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Au Four à Bois 1= RESERVE EARLY FOR YOUR HOLIDAY GROUP PARTIES 822-2722 When Canadians were sent in to survey for a road to be built between Fort Garry and Lake of the Woods, the Métis feared losing their land.They went about choosing a leader to defend their rights.That man was one Louis Riel, a well educated and intelligent per- ?A 1927 stamp to commemorate Confederation shows Sir John A.MacDonald.Meanwhile, great efforts were being made to include the western portion of the country.One problem were the Métis.Métis were half-breeds, the result of Indian and French mating.They lived in the Red River settlement in the Fort Garry, St.Boniface region of Manitoba.This stamp depicts Georges Etienne Cartier, who helped lead Quebec into Confederation in 1867.son.They ensued a rebellion which became known as the Red River Settlement Rebellion, or the Riel Rebellion.The Red River settlement status was eventually settled by an Act in May, 1870 which allowed Manitoba to enter confederation.But that was not the end of Riel.Riel was elected to parliament in 1874; however he didn’t remain in Ottawa.He fled from his enemies and was subsequently banished from Canada.In 1885, along with a band of Cree Indians under the Chief Poundmaker, a Hudson Bay post was raided.A short time later, another Indian chief by the name of Big Bear sacked the small town of Frog Lake and massacred all the inhabitants.Riel was captured on May 15 of that year and convicted of murder by an all English Protestant jury.He was hanged on November 16.1885.The event had a profound effect on the whole country, but nowhere greater than in the predominantly Catholic French-speaking province of Quebec.The issue of Riel’s death is still in dispute today.The centennary of the Riel Rebellion was commemorated by issuing a stamp in 1985 depicting Gabriel Dumont who was chosen by Louis Riel as his Military Chief.QUEBEC REBELLION The government of John A.MacDonald was racked with what became known as the Pacific Scandal in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the link that lured British Columbia into confederation.There were other scandals as time went on.One of the more famous being in the John Diefenbaker cabinet.There has always been a certain rebellionism — for want of a better word — in Quebec.It stems from - Lotis* A 1970 stamp depicts Louis Riel.Gator*! Dumont Batoche* 188! nationalism on the part of French-speaking Canadians.Sometime prior to October, 1970, there had been bombings directed towards Federal institutions, including military buildings and post boxes.The messages left were the initials FLQ (for the Front de Libération de Québec.At first it wasn’t taken too seriously.However, as time went on and as the bombings and graffiti became more frequent, members of the organization known as the FLQ were tagged as terrorists.In October of 1970, the Montreal Police went on strike.A person ^ Pierre Laporte 1921 " 1970 f Post *9* Canada 7 Gabriel Dumont was Riel’s right- hand man.Pierre Laporte was slain by FLQ kidnappers during the 1970 October Crisis.from the British consultât in Montreal by the name of James Cross was taken hostage; the FLQ claimed responsibility.A member of the Quebec National Assembly, Pierre Laporte, stood up in parliament and declared the FLQ as nothing but a bunch of terrorists.The Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau, imposed the War Measures Act because of the police strike and the army took over, making numerous uncalled-for arrests.Then, Laporte was abducted.Pierre Laporte was found dead, slain by his abductors who were consequently allowed to flee to Cuba in exchange for the release of James Cross.The political situation in Quebec and Canada has never been the same since, for out of that one situation was born a party whose aim is to take Canada out of confederation.O Canada.Our home and native land.But, for how long?tourelles 30?S King West, Shcibiookc WELCOME TO Victoria Antiques Gifts for all ages, large selection of toys, Christmas ornaments, jewellery, china, lamps, clocks and furniture.Ideal place to find old time quality at affordable prices.241 Queen St.Lennoxville, Que.J1M1K5 819/567-9715 TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1990-5 Laurel Sherrer plays traffic cop for huge book Laurel Sherrer of Dunkin juggled material from far and wide to get the book done by deadline.By Avril Benoit SHERBROOKE — “This was all Rita’s doing,” Laurel Sherrer said about how she wound up as production manager of one of the most hectic projects in Canadian publishing history.“I was working at the (Montreal) Daily News in its final days, so I was enthusiastic about just about any job offer,” The soft-spoken Sherrer, a native of Dunkin, near Mansonville, was recruited to join the Chronicle of Canada team by Record reporter Rita Legault, who took a leave of absence last winter to work as a contributor to the book.There were more members of the Eastern Townships media squad working on the book: former Record reporter Rossanna Coriandoli wrote captions for photos and laid out pages, Cowansville native Jimmy Manson was chief historical researcher, and Stanstead journalist and author Louise Abbott wrote some of the sections.Both Sherrer and Coriandoli are former editors of Townships Week.“I was at Chronicle for about a week as copy editor when they asked me to be production manager,” Sherrer said in a telephone interview from her Montreal office.“It took me quite a while to figure out what the job entailed,” the 27-year-old added with a chuckle.Research for the thousand-page book was almost done when Sherrer joined the project.Chronicle books are all made according to the same format, with brief articles summarizing the main points of a given event and lots of illustrations.MULTI-NATIONAL The Chronicle of Canada is the most recent in a series of books that includes Chronicle of the 20th Century, Chronicle of the Second World War and Chronicle of Mankind.It was also the first book the Paris-based parent company had produced in Canada; others were put together in places like Hungary, Sweden, Germany and Taiwan.Chronicle of Canada editor-in-chief Elizabeth Abbott led meetings every week for 23 weeks to block out 42 pages at a time.Step by step, column by column, staff got the mammoth task done.Sherrer concerned herself with getting it all done in time.She coaxed university academics into understanding that she was serious about deadlines and about fi-nishing the whole book in 14 months.She arranged for research reports to be sent out to the writers, then for the proposed texts to go to the consultants.At any one time, she was juggling the work of up to 25 writers.She mounted a huge calendar on her office wall and tried to keep a handle on all in-coming and out- Canadians turn bade Fenian invasion Volunteer militia defends against a Fenian invasion near Cook s Corners May 25,1870 ECCLES HILL, Que.- Canadian preparations against a possible Fenian invasion paid off today, as the country’s militia easily drove back an attack led by John O’Neill.Since the Fenian invasions of 1866, Canadians have been vigilant in training their own troops and monitoring Fenian activity.However, the arrival here of dynamic Fenian leader O’Neill spurred the Fenians to launch their latest invasion from Vermont.The Fenians also hoped to take advantage of the fact that many Canadian troops have been sent to put down the Red River uprisings.In their quest to capture Canada and hold it ransom in return for liberating Ireland, the Fenians have pushed relentlessly.The Americans have only looked on and allowed it.Another Fenian allempt to invade Canada lakes place ai Troul River."The Great Fenian Scare.There are a number of references to the Eastern Townships in the book, including this one about the Fenian invasion of Cook’s Corners in 1870.going material, with overlapping eight-week schedules for each block of material.She became the office traffic cop whose raison d’être was to keep everything flowing smoothly.DETERMINATION “Being stern with people is not my strong point,” Sherrer said.“Things were behind schedule all the time.All I could do was maintain this ‘ideal schedule’ on paper and in my mind try and approximate it.” The snags took many forms, but invariably spawned emotional ups and downs for the team.A common problem, she said, was that the staff would come across a great photo but no information about it.Or a researcher would propose a fascinating story idea, but subsequent researchers sent to gather more information and flesh out the story couldn’t find any references to it at all.At one point, they came across a lovely photo of Lady Agnes MacDonald — Sir John A.’s wife — at a ceremony for a new railway bridge.There was a picture, and the story would surely follow.In the heat of production, the page was laid out to include Lady MacDonald and 20 lines of text.Unfortunately, the source of the picture was a newspaper which had run nothing but a brief caption with the photo.There simply weren’t enough facts on which to base a 20-line story.The solution?A general overview of the railway controversy of the day.LET DOWNS Sherrer said there were instances where the editors would leave room in their lay-out for a particular event, and discover that the writer had taken the liberty of changing the focus, hence the date, of the story.The writers often had very good reason for adapting their text to fit the research they were able to come up with; they would sometimes discover that the real climax of a said issue occurred later or earlier than they had anticipated from the outset.“It was inevitable in a lot of cases and we accepted that,” Sherrer said.“But we had to be careful that we didn’t have someone dying on one page and making a speech on the next.” Chronicle of Canada has enjoyed widespread praise from critics since it was released last month.Not surprisingly, however, advance readers came across some errors in the book.Authors have taken some ribbing for a picture of a man identified as legendary hockey star Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard.The picture’s not Richard.National Archives of Canada made the initial mistake when it sent Chronicle the photo wrongly labelled.NOT OUR FAULT Another notable mistake in the Canada book is the misspelling of British Columbia on some of the maps.Sherrer explained the maps were produced in Europe by graphic artists who may have thought they were doing the Canadians a favor when they changed Columbia to Colombia, in accordance with the spelling of the word they Chronicle 1*1 of Canada were familiar with.“Oh those Canadians, they don't know how to spell!” Sherrer jokingly imagined the map-makers saying.“When there’s a mistake it seems to jump out at you as if there were neon lights on it,” Sherrer said, adding that considering all the information packed into the book, it’s amazing that it’s as factual as it is.She’s hoping her employers will make good use of the knowledge she has gained in doing Chronicle of Canada by sending her to the South Seas for a few months as production manager for Chronicle of Australia.“It’s almost confirmed,” she admitted with a hint of pride, adding that “Head Office” in Paris is considering whether to ask the Montreal team to produce another book.Sherrer and Abbott are the only employees left in the Canadian office now that their baby is on bookstore shelves.They’re tying up the loose ends, such as returning photos to their owners.“I can’t believe my luck,” Sherrer said of the possibility of continuing her career Down Under."Chronicle of Canada isn’t a best-seller yet,” she said, “but I have so many relatives in the Eastern Townships that I’m sure once they find out about it, it will be.” Win a book Hear ye! Hear ye! We re about to give a way a Chronicle of Canada, valued at $60.People of any age can apply, but they have to be up on their history to win.The names of those who mail in correct answers to the following skill-testing questions will be thrown into his hat and drawn by our in-house history expert, editor Charles Bury.1) What was Alexander Galt’s middle name?2) Who was prime minister when Galt was minister of finance?3) To which political party did Galt belong?4) In what year was Bishop s University founded?5) When did the university finally earn the right to confer degrees?The deadline is December 18.Send your answers to: Townships Week book contest 2850 Delorme Street Sherbrooke, J1K 1A1 6-TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1990 A treasured letter Open the mailbox and there on top of the junk mail lies a letter from a relative or an old friend.Your spirits rise.You can hardly wait to get back to the house to spend a few minutes with that someone from Florida or Labrador or Toledo, Ohio.One of life’s little pleasures.Writing letters is one of my hobbies.Consequently my collection of replies from politicians, artists and writers has grown over the years — from the greats and the not-so-greats.These days 1 leave the complaints and causes to the young activitists.I write only for pleasure: for my own and, I hope, for that of those to whom I write.Let me share part of one of those letters with you.When Hugh MacLennan died a few weeks ago I looked up a letter I had received from him in answer to one I had written to him.The reason for my letter was two-fold.I had just finished reading one of his books and was so deeply moved by it I felt I must tell him.And about that same time I had had the opportunity to sit in on one of his lectures at McGill.I sat with a student friend at the back of the room where I would be less visible among the long hair and blue jeans.I was dumbfounded at the lack of attention and disrespect the students showed this great writer.They talked, told jokes, dropped books, worked on assignments or just read.Whatever By Myrtle Gallup “Why were they there?” I wondered in my lettertoMr.MacLennan His reply, two single-spaced typewritten pages done by the great man himself, began: “I was touched by your letter and grateful to you for sending it.” This from a busy man no doubt well into his next novel by then; yet he was not too big to write to me.His humbleness surfaced again as he recalled the thrill he had experienced once as he stood outside a bookstore in New York City where one of his books was on display in the window.As to the actions of the students?Now here is a little gem that may never reach the archives.Mr.MacLennan wrote: “Students here in the back rows of all large classes behave as you saw them.It doesn’t matter much ; they catch anything they want to hear if they are interested, and if not, who cares?” I treasure that letter.Write to someone you know this week.Better still, write to someone you don’t know.The result could be your little reward for walking to the mailbox.By the way if anyone should ask what I’d like for Christmas, nothing would please me more than a postage meter with a lifetime guarantee.Pilsen 'Uj( üQ jIj t ; Restaurant & Pub 55 Main Çt.Norlh Hatley THANK YOU to all patrons of the Pilsen who encouraged us in our second year; we were very pleased to serve you.And now it’s time for our annual “R, R & R” (Renovation, Rest & Relaxation).- We will close November 12 to December 11, 1990.- We will REOPEN DECEMBER 12, 1990.We look forward to seeing you after December 12th to sample our New " .Also, please plan early for your Christmas season “get-togethers" at the Pilsen.Thanks again for your patronage.Gilles & Gail Peloquin & Staff (819) 842-2971 Dunham artist Mary Martin wins 2nd place in Quebec art awards KNOWLTON (SM) — One of Brome Missisquoi’s best loved artists Mary Martin has won second place in the Salon des Peintres for her painting Holyhock.This is the second year in a row the Dunham painter has placed se- cond in this major competition.Martin’s painting was chosen from 520 entries submitted.Forty were chosen for exhibition and final judging by Jacqueline Gougeon, president of la Société Canadienne de l'aquarelle, Litto-rio del Signore, a Montreal oil-painter, and Montreal gallery owner Lydia Monaro.The contest is sponsored by the Montreal botanical gardens, and all entries must be watercolor floral depictions.Hollyhock, the winning painting by Mary Martin.Book traces hockey to Russia MACHINE HOWTHE SOVIETS NEARLY STOLE CANADA’S GAME By Alan Adams The Canadian Press Russians were playing a form of hockey long before the game was embraced by Canadians, says a new book on the history of the sport in the Soviet Union.Lawrence Martin says in The Red Machine that hockey was played in Russia “before the first recorded Canadian exhibition.” In North America, it’s generally recognized that hockey originated from a game played by Englishmen on the frozen harbor at Kingston, Ont., in 1860.There are also claims that hockey — or hurley as it was known then — was played in Nova Scotia as early as 1810.But Martin contends there is “documentary evidence that Russians were playing the game in the middle of the 19th century” in Leningrad, then known as St.Petersburg.“We live under this myth that it is a Canadian game,” Martin said in an interview from Ottawa, where he is a visiting lecturer at Carleton University school of journalism.WORKED IN MOSCOW Martin did research for the book while in Moscow as a correspondent for the Toronto Globe and Mail from 1985 to '88.The hockey he describes is more like bandy, a game thought to have been born in England and played on ice with 11 players aside.The game employs a ball six centimetres in diameter and sticks with upward curving blades, similar to those used for field hockey.“The Russian archives don’t refer to bandy until the early 1900s,” Martin said.“They use hockey to describe what they were playing in the mid-19th century.“The Canadians played it (hockey) different back then, too.” Both the Canadians and the Russians used a rubber ball in hockey’s early years.Canadians switched to a puck in the late 1870s, but the Soviets stuck with the ball until 1946.“The basic point is they have been passing and skating longer than we have,” Martin said.The Red Machine is a sweeping, well written history of the Russian game that should appeal to avid fans wanting a thoughtful insight into Soviet hockey.FAN WITH CLOUT Martin writes that former Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev was a passionate hockey fan who scolded national coach Konstantin Loktev for resuming a 1976 game against the Philadelphia Flyers.Loktev had ordered the Soviet players off the ice to protest the Flyers’ rough play.“When he (Brezhnev) asked me why I decided to continue the game, I replied that it would have been very simple for me not to do so,” Martin quotes Loktev as saying.“I suggested to him (Brezhnev) that all he had to do was call Philadelphia, tell me to stay in the dressing room, and I would have stayed there.” In 1969, after renowned coach Anatoly Tarasov pulled his team off the ice because of a disallowed goal in a Soviet league game, Brezhnev ordered them back out.“Brezhnev sent down one of his aides and told Tarasov to get out there and start playing the game,” says Martin.“You would hardly see Brian Mulroney or George Bush doing something like that.” The Red Machine, by Lawrence Martin.Published by Doubleday Canada; 293 pages; $26.95.6 TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1990-7 Sci-fi book addresses the issue of dinosaur DNA Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (KNOPF: RANDOM HOUSE): $26, 400 pp.His best novels, such as The Andromeda Strain and The Terminal Man, have been those that skirted along the fine line between contemporary technology and futuristic applications.Michael Crichton’s books about deadly spores and the implantation of computer devices into epileptic humans gave readers a vicarious thrill and the feeling of having insight into current trends in science.With Jurassic Park, Crichton again applies his interesting formulate come up with a technothriller that is considerably more readable than his last two efforts, Congo or Sphere.Taking his cue from the Extinct DNA Study Group at Berkeley University, Crichton imagines that it may someday be possible to extract DNA from fossil remains of dinosaurs.His novel makes the supposition that a greedy entrepreneur is able to use this technology to come up with an island retreat Kaleidoscope By Richard Loney off the coast of Costa Rica that makes Disney World look like a playground for kids.John Hammond’s InGen Incorporated is the corporate criminal which creates a gigantic theme park on an island off the Central American coast, where prospective hundreds of millions of funsee-kers will be able to pass through the domain of dinosaurs much the same way that they cavort among Mickey, Pluto, and friends.Just as Jurassic Park, named after the principal era that dinosaurs flourished in, is about to open, a few flaws begin to creep into the smooth-running enterprise.A small, but deadly dinosaur JURASSIC PARK MICHAEL CRICHTON known as a velociraptor has somehow found its way off the island and is terrorizing the frightened population living along the beaches of Costa Rica.Autocratic John Hammond has summoned Dr.Alan Grant and his graduate assistant Ellie Sattler, both paleontologists actively working on a dig in the badlands of Montana, to spend a weekend on his island so that he can question them about dinosaur lore.Several workmen have been victim of curious injuries that appear to have been the result of animal attacks, and not mere construction accidents.With an egotistical John Hammond convinced that his created world of reconstituted dinosaurs is about to become one of the wonders of the world, not to mention the spin-offs and residuals from minidinosaurs and Jurassic Park memorabilia, the artificial fabric begins to disintegrate.Arthur Crich- ton includes some interesting characters in his thriller, such as the free-thinking mathematician Ian Malcolm, who is based on Heinz Pagels.Malcolm introduces ideas about the relatively recent discovery of the chaos theory, derived from the commentaries of Ivar Ekeland and James Gleick, which are given some controversial practical applications in Crichton’s fictional assault on certain aspects of the scientific community.The action sequences and unfolding drama of the storyline of Jurassic Park are first rate, but the most provocative aspect of Crichton’s book is his manipulation of scientific theories with the subtlety of the better science-fiction creators like Asimov or Bradbury.Jurassic Park adds snippets of information stolen from the pages of The Scientific American to a “what might be” scenario to come up with a sure-fire bestseller.Album reveals Badfinger as a formidable live band RECORDINGS REVIEWED Badfinger Day After Day (RYKO — A & M) Thery began as the Iveys, in Swansea, Wales, signed on with the fledgling Apple label in 1968, caught the attention of Beatles George Harrison and Paul McCartney, and after a name change to the distinctive Badfinger recorded one of Paulie’s tunes, “Come And Get It”, and the rest was history.Magic Christian Music featured soundtrack recordings from one of Ringo Starr’s earliest thespian adventures, and Badfinger’s subsequent string of more than a half dozen albums led to their becoming one of the leading British Invasion exports into the 1970s.The hits came, with “Day After Day” and “Baby Blue” making it to #4 and #14, respectively, in 1972, but their Apple recording contract dissolved in a nasty dispute, as Badfinger moved over to Warner Brothers.Albums such as Wish You Were Here and Ass failed to find the kind of reception accorded No Dice, Straight Up and Christian, but the lack of chart reaction could not dçti act from Badfinger’s quality playing and singing.Day After Day is a rediscovered “live” album recorded at the Cleveland Agora in 1974, when Badfinger’s original quartet was concluding its final tour.A year later Peter Ham, the band’s brilliant songwriter, would take his own life — apparently as a result of over-touring, Badfinger’s waning popular success, and the manipulations of an unscrupulous business manager.In 1979 two of the band’s members, guitarist Joey Molland and drummer Tom Evans, collaborated on Airwaves, which had moments reminiscent of Badfinger’s inspired magic.Four years later Tom Evans fell prey to the suicidal fate that had taken his mate Pete Ham, creating the unusual circumstance of one half of a bastly under-rated rock band having been lost in the space of eight years.Joey Molland had a hand in pre- paring Day After Day for release, and the CD quality sound reveals that Badfinger was a formidable live band in addition to being an inventive, resourceful studio group.Two of the band’s hits are featured, “Day After Day”, and “Baby Blue”, both Ham Compositions, as well as such album cuts as Tom Evan’s “Blind Owl”, and four Joey Molland compositions including the hard driving “Sometimes”, “Give It Up”, and the more mellow “I Don’t Mind”.Badfingers may never have quite come out from under the shadow of the Beatles—George Harrison utilized the guitarists for his Bangladesh Concert album — but aside from James Taylor, they were one of the most enduring Apple acts to benefit from the Beatles’ corporate largesse.As Day After Day testifies, Badfinger could play with the best of the British groups — as spontaneous on stage as The Who, and as vital and energized in their presentation as The Stones.If this CD initiates a concerted effort to put Badfinger’s early Apple and Warner’s catalogue back in print then Day After Day will have achieved a great deal for the devoted following of this Wales group which was marked by such sadness and adversity in their personal lives.SOUNDS LIKE CHRISTMAS Amid the flood of seasonal recordings, several Christmas releases with a distinct country flavor will be receiving airplay in the next few weeks.Of these, an a capella collection of songs by such singers as Ricky Skaggs, Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette, and newcomer Tim Mensy serves to point out the purest voices in country.Skaggs performs “0 Come All Ye Faithful”, Willie warbles on “Away In A Manger”, Tammy makes a valliant attempt at “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear”, while Mensy sings the spiritual favorite “Go Tell It On The Mountain”.Standard holiday fare, much of this music on Voices Of The Season: A Capella (EPIC—COLUMBIA), but the show is completely stolen by a resoundingly tight harmonic effort on “Silent Night” by a group known as Zaca Creek.Their unique arrangement of barbershop quartet treatment laid against countrified vocal flourishes is truly the highlight of A Capella.If the rest of their recorded work comes anything near sounding as wonderful as Zaca's rendition of the traditional carol, then groups such as The Oak Ridge Boys, Alabama, and Restless Heart have some very serious vocal competition.A sampler of prominent BMG-RCA artists titled Home For The Holidays is notable for a powerful interpretation of “The Little Drummer Boy” by Restless Heart, with some stirring acoustic guitar playing and synthesized orchestral effects.Vocal harmonies on this track, as well as on “In A Manger” by Baillie And The Boys, and Foster and Lloyd’s “Christmas List”, are outstanding.K.T.Oslin almost makes us forget Elvis’s enduring, captivating “Blue Christmas”, as she gives this classic the cocktail lounge, sexually-charged vocal treatment.Unfortunately Canadian group Prairie Oyster’s tasteless “Christmas In Jail” tries to make us laugh at the pitiable idea of a drunk having been caught doing 75 miles an hour in the wrong lane, who, fortunately we are meant to think, only hits a cop car.Keith Whitley’s “There’s A New Kid In Town”, and Don Williams’s velvet intonations on “O Come, All Ye Faithful”, manage to get the album back onto a serious note.Songs by hot artist Clint Black and Paul Overstreet round out this set.A different kind of Christmas from our northern version is celebrated on Charlie Daniels’ Christmas Time Down South (EPIC-COLUMBIA).The title track is a Daniels original, as are several other songs here, “My Christmas Love Song To You” and “Mississip- pi Christmas Eve” representing the more inventive of them.“Carolina I Hear You Calling” and “Carolina (I Remember You)” allow Charlie Daniels and his full band to mix a bit of nostalgia with the Christmas spirit on this distinctly regional country album.When it comes to purely traditional country versions of seasonal standards such as “We Three Kings”, “Joy To The World” or “O i m Little Town of Bethlehem”, Dolly Parton’s Home For Christmas (COLUMBIA) is sure to warm many a country heart.Dolly attacks these favorites with her big-voiced gusto and all her enthusiasm.Remarkable on all of these collections is the standard of the Nashville players, who obviously all find that Christmas brings out something special in their session playing, just as it does in these familiar country artists.¦ (]*qt (jAmtmaa 8—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1990 Escorted motorcoach tours expect a rosy future Rv Feliritv Mnnn ^ By Felicity Munn CP Travel Writer People who take escorted motor-coach tours are becoming more sophisticated, and that’s just fine with the tour operators who cater to them.“The traditional markets — the mature travellers — are healthier, better travelled, more worldly,” Tom Frenkel, president of the National Tour Association, said in an interview during the association’s annual convention in Montreal.“As a result, we’re finding a lot of activities on tours that we’ve never seen before.We’re finding polar bear trips to Northern Ontario, river rafting, dune buggy rides, snowmobile rides on icefields, bicycling, photo safaris .“We are more desirable to younger people and so now the tours are becoming popular with (people in) the workforce.” The average age of the 10.3 million Americans who took escorted coach tours in 1989 was 55, a recent survey indicates.ROSY MARKET The National Tour Association, the largest escorted-tour trade group in North America, represents 3,700 tour companies, hotels and tourism associations in Canada, the United States and Mexico.Changing demographics paint a rosy future for the industry.Lillian Morgenthau, president of the Canadian Association of Retired Persons — CARP — says “mature” Canadians, those aged 50 and up, currently comprise about a quarter of the population.By the year 2000, the proportion is expected to approach one in three.Baby boomers are “a huge popu- lation bulge,” she points out.“All those yuppies are going to become muppies, as in mature.” The buying power of older people also is rising.As it is, CARP estimates the mature population is responsible for 75 to 80 per cent of all leisure travel.“Somebody who’s working is confined to one or two trips a year,” said Morgenthau.“But a person over 50 who has no obligations can go any time.” As with all types of travel, however, the immediate future of escorted tours is uncertain.“There are so many imponderables,” George Guenther, outgoing president of the tour association, said at the Montreal meeting.“The Middle East, the economy .it’s fuzzy.” Frenkel said his company, Presley Tours of Makanda, 111., has found that people are waiting longer to book but overall the numbers are about even with last year.WHERE THEY GO Favorite destinations for mature travellers are natural wonders and national parks, historical sites, warm-weather destinations and beaches, fall foliage trips and special events and festivals, the association has found.There’s something out there for everyone, says Frenkel.“For the person who’s looking for a trip that allows them to see a lot of terrain, there are trips that move to different destinations every night.“For the ones who want perhaps a more in-depth experience in a particular area, there is the trip that goes there and spends a few nights.” STAN CUV IPARIS:.’589 Quebae Permit LEAVES: 18 DEC.RETURNS: 2 JAN.Ta» Included What is the Club?• Advance reservations, with discounts of 5% to 8%.• Last minute specials every week with discounts from 10% to 50% of regular prices listed in brochures.» Seat and Hotel reservations only.No waiting at airport on "stand by".?Complete car rental service, train tickets, hotel reservations, cruise reservations and guided tours around the world.> Competent councillors who will aid you with a courteous service in planning your voyage.SERVING THE TOWNSHIPS FOR 5 YEARS WITH SATISFIED CLIENTS 219 WELLINGTON ST.S., SHERBROOKE 566-5595 Many factors go into making a coach tour a success, Frenkel added, but key among them is the escort.“They are educators, they arc entertainers, they are people who you feel safe in following because they know where they’re going.“There is no particular area of employment we find our escorts in, there is no particular age group.It takes a very special kind of person.“Actually, (entertainer) Joel Grey was here last night.And I was thinking what a good escort he would be,” Frenkel added with a laugh.“He was personable and warm and outgoing.Some day if he ever wants to get off the big stage and go on the little one .” For more information on escor- ted tours, call the National Tour Association’s toll-free consumer number, 1-800-755-TOUR.For more information on CARP, which costs $10 to join and offers a newsletter, travel discounts and other benefits for people aged 50 and up, write: The Canadian Association of Retired Persons, 27 Queen St.E„ Suite 304, Toronto, Ont.Book inspired by Chateau Laurier By Julia Elliott OTTAWA (CP) — Meet Me at the Chateau implores the paperback's title.It’s a familiar invitation, heard often throughout the 78-year history of this regal Ottawa hotel.A beacon of comfort and elegance for common folk and famous people from around the globe, the walls of the Chateau Laurier hold a history of Canadian times unparalleled in the country.Joan Rankin, a 71-year-old grandmother, lets us relive some of these memories in a 190-page book called Meet Me at the Chateau (published by Natural Heritage - price $24.95).It’s an account of her memories of the “Grande Dame of Rideau Street” and those of others who worked there.Rankin’s love affair with the “dignified and hospitable” French Gothic-style hotel began in the 1920s when “my dad took our family to the Chateau Cafeteria for hot chocolate and muffins” one cold and snowy November day after a Remembrance Day ceremony on Parliament Hill.Then from 1943 to 1952, as a passenger agent for Trans Canada Airlines (now Air Canada) with a desk in the lobby’s west corner, ' Rankin had an excellent vantage point from which to watch prime ministers, ambassadors and movie stars who came through the Chateu’s bronze-and-glass revolving doors.She remembers Winston Churchill’s “V-for-Victory salute,” Dwight Eisenhower’s flashy “big grin” and Charles de Gaulle's “ramrod-straight” posture.HOLLYWOOD GUESTS Hollywood guests such as Randolph Scott, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich and Nelson Eddy felt the Chateau’s castle-like magic.Ottawa-born actor Lome Greene said his goodbyes to Canada at the Chateau.Paul Martin Sr., Canada’s former high commissioner to Britain, remembers meeting Greene on his way out of the hotel Greene told him : “I’m off to Hollywood to make my fortune.” In the early 1900s, an American — Charles Melville Hays, general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, dreamed of building a large central railway station in Ottawa and, nearby, the finest hotel yet to be built in Canada.The hotel, to be called the Chateau Laurier in honor of then-prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier, would cost between $1.25 million and $1.5 million.Two months before the hotel’s official opening on June 1, 1912, Hays died in the fateful Atlantic crossing of the Titanic.But he left a legacy in the Chateau.Built of smooth granite blocks and light-buff Indiana limestone, its dazzling copper crown (turned green through oxidization) features turrets, dormers and gables.DISLIKED NOSE Laurier was the first to sign the guest register, but was reportedly miffed because the nose of his marble bust in the lobby was askew.The nose had been chipped when the workman carrying the bust into the hotel dropped it.Another sculptor repaired it, but apparently the prime minister was not impressed.In early years, Chateau employees dealing with the public were inspected at the beginning of each shift for personal grooming and fresh uniforms.Debutantes “in fashionable white gowns, elaborately trimmed with trains, long white kid gloves and head-dresses of white ostrich plumes” enjoyed grand “coming out” receptions with the governor general in attendance, says Rankin.In the 1920s, former bus boy and waiter Danny Lupino remembers maitre d’hotel John Adam as a “real disciplinarian.” “If the platters weren’t red-hot, if the Welsh rarebit wasn’t bubbling in the chafing dish, if you forgot the parsley with the fish or the watercress for the roast beef, he would order you to go back and do it properly.” When the east wing was added in 1929, legend has it that the roofing contractor, a copper-and-oxidization expert, told workmen that “whenever it became necessary for them to urinate while on the job, they do so into a pail.When a pail was full, it was to be dumped over the new copper roof ’ — speeding up the oxidization process, says Rankin. WHAT’S ON TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1990—9 WHAT’S ON WHAT’S ON notes For those anxious to buy copies of Kay Kinsman’s Len-noxville Sketch book that was featured in last Friday’s issue of Townships Week, here is where they are already on sale : Lennoxville town hall.The municipality acted as publisher of Kinsman’s book and printed a thousand copies.Look out for them on bookstore shelves in the weeks to come.?Children with an interest in art should get themselves over to Champlain Regional College this Saturday.Fine Arts teacher Ken Madokoro will be holding another of his innovative workshops for artists between 10 and 14 years of age.This is the last workshop of the season, and will be followed by a public exhibition of the kids’ work in the foyer of the Molson Fine Arts building.Madokoro initiated the visual arts workshops because he felt that art education for youngsters was lacking in our Eastern Townships schools.Madokoro is sympathetic to efforts of elementary school teachers to get serious art education into the mainstream curriculum.He was a school teacher in British Columbia and Ontario before coming to Champlain."I have two sons in Grade 5,” he writes, who “are being short-changed in this area of education.” “We have music and physical education specialists but no one in the area of visual arts,” Madokoro says.He feels the Champlain workshops are a small step toward more structured art activities for “young people who are at a stage of great potential.” Hopefully Champlain College will offer another series of workshops this January.NOTES will be the first to let you know.?Insiders at CBC Radio’s Quebec Community Network in Quebec City say they were assured in November by the Mother Corp.’s top brass, Donna Logan, that their jobs were secure despite impending layoffs elsewhere.The massive budget cuts announced this week shut down entire TV news operations in many cities across Canada; shows like Monday Night Special from CBC Montreal were axed.The radio service was, for the most part, spared this time around.By AVRIL BENOIT That’s a relief for us in the Eastern Townships.The Radio News reporter job in Sherbrooke has been vacant since early summer when David Tweedie left to become news supervisor in Montreal.The Oka crisis sapped the news budget so much that managers decided to save a few dollars by leaving the Sherbrooke bureau vacant for a while.Finally, after all these months without CBC news coverage of our region, it looks like David Tweedie’s replacement may soon be making his or her way here to open all the mail that’s piled up in the CBC office.Three journalists made the short list of applicants and were interviewed yesterday.Two of the applicants are from Montreal’s newsroom, while the other is from the Quebec City service.NOTES will keep you posted.By the way: the much beloved David MacLaughlin, who held the Townships job a few years ago, was rumored to be considering a come-back, but decided to stay in Winnipeg.?Canadian author Margaret Laurence lived in West Africa between 1950 and 1959, when she was in her early twenties.This was a frantic time when colonial powers were losing their grip on nations which fought for independence.Laurence wrote a collection of stories about her experiences there: The Tomorrow-Tamer.Those stories have been dramatized for radio and will be aired as this week’s Momingside Drama at 11:30 weekdays.The dialogue in Laurence’s African book is said to be so good they can be lifted from the page.Tune in 91.7 FM.events AMNESTY MEETING: The Sherbrooke branch of Amnesty International invites you to hear a speech by Chinese national Fang Nengda, who will speak about human rights violations in his country.Eighteen months after the massacre at Tiananmen Square, what happened to all the students who were demonstrating?According to Amnesty International, many of them languish in prisons, where torture is the norm.There will be a slide show to drive home the message that we mustn’t forget those brave students — even if we don’t hear about them in the media anymore.The meeting is open to all: Monday at 7, at Mont Notre Dame, 114 Cathédrale in downtown Sherbrooke.; » >irry>v'rr^ Au Bon Marchéj 45 King W.^ w 14—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1990 And the winners are.TORONTO (CP) — Here are the winners of 1990 Gemini Awards announced Tuesday by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television: Best Dramatic Series: — ENG, Robert Lantos, Jeff King, R.B.Carney, Jennifer Black.Best Dramatic Mini-Series: — Love and Hate, Bernard Zukerman.Best TV Movie: — Where The Spirit Lives, Paul Stephens, Heather Goldin.Eric Jordan, Mary Young Leckie.Best Variety Series: — Codco, Michael Donovan, J.William Ritchie, Stephen Reynolds, Jack Kellum.Best Information Series: — The Journal, Mark Starowicz.Best Documentary Program: — The Journal, At The Lodge, Jim Williamson, Sharon Bartlett, Christine Nielsen.Best Performance By a Lead Actor in a Continuing Dramatic Role : — Art Hindle, ENG, Division of Labor.Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Continuing Dramatic Role: — Jackie Burroughs, Road to Avonlea, Malcolm and the Baby.Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series: — Kenneth Welsh, Love and Hate.Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series: — Michelle St.John, Where The Spirit Lives.Best Overall Broadcast Journalist (Gordon Sinclair Awar) : —.Peter Mansbridge.The National.Best Performance by a Host, Interviewer or Anchor: — Norm Perry, Canada AM, Nov.17,1989.Best Performance by a Sports Broadcaster: — Brian Williams, XIVth Commonwealth Games.Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series: — Francis Mankiewicz, Love and Hate.Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series: — Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, Scott Thompson.The Kids in the Hall.John Labatt Entertainment Award for Most Popular Program: — Road to Avonlea.Geminis float despite CBC cuts Diamond Sweets.By Bill Anderson TORONTO (CP) — With a script right out of The Twilight Zone, the Canadian TV industry held its annual Gemini Awards bash on Tuesday — trumpeting its bright future despite massive budget cuts hitting the CBC.Reports of devastating blows to local CBC-TV service came late in the day Tuesday — too late apparently to change the script for the event broadcast live on the national CBC network.The show went on as if nothing had happened, and host Joe Flaherty steered the program through various skits and gags about the rosy prospects for Canadian television in the ’90s.Off screen, however, reporters swarmed CBC chairman-designate Patrick Watson, who declined comment until a CBC news conference today in Ottawa.National anchor Peter Mansbridge.who won a Gemini as best overall broadcast journalist, said afterwards in an interview: “It’s very hard to determine right now what the effect will be on The National, but let me tell you, it’s hard to celebrate when I know a lot of my colleagues will be losing their jobs.” Journal executive producer Mark Starowicz, whose program picked up two Geminis, also said it was unclear how The Journal would be affected.But he said the CBC is not a fat cow but “a scrawny alleycat living by its wits,” The bad news about the CBC overshadowed the honors being given out for some genuinely splendid Canadian TV.TOOK AWARDS Leading the way was the CBC mini-series Love and Hate, which took three awards on Tuesday and claimed the most Geminis — five — in the three-day event honoring work in more than 50 categories.Other big winners named by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television included CBC’s family series Road to Avonlea, the CBC movie Where The Spirit Lives and the CTV newsroom drama ENG.Love and Hate, about Saskatche- Satisfying a womans craving for elegance.Iflurture that consuming passion.(Diamonds.Gome in to savour many other tempting designs in the ‘Diamond Sweets Gollection.Sweet Dreams.D diamond is forever.Consult îRoncilà 35>rKcr Inc.certified gemologist Downtown Shorbrooko, 43 Wellington, N.Where you will find a wide selection, knowledgeable advice and super service.wan politician and wife-murderer Colin Thatcher, earned star Kenneth Welsh a Gemini for best actor in a dramatic program or miniseries.Director Francis Mankiewicz was also honored and the show was named best dramatic mini-series.Avonlea’s big prizes on Tuesday went to Jackie Burroughs, for best performance by a lead actress in a continuing dramatic role, and the series also won a "people’s choice” prize based on votes from readers of TV Guide.ENG scored a key win as best dramatic series, and star Art Hindle upset sentimental pick Bruno Gerussi to win best performance by a lead actor in a continuing dramatic role.Where The Spirit Lives, a drama about a native girl abducted by the government and taken to a residential school, had four Geminis overall, including awards Tuesday for best TV movie and to star Michelle St John for best performance by a lead actress in a dra- matic program or mini-series.ENG had three wins overall, including a writing award.The Gemini broadcast itself was hardly a winner.The show ran 25 minutes past its scheduled two hours and rarely rose above the level of the banal.HUMAN ELEMENT The most human moment came during a tribute to the comedy team of Frank Shuster and the late Johnny Wayne.After a video retrospective of their career, Shuster said “that was so generous.I’m sure Johnny heard it.” In other awards, CBC’s Codco was named best variety series while The Kids in the Hall, also on CBC, won best writing in a comedy or variety program or series.Norm Perry, formerly of Canada AM, won for best performance by a host, interviewer or anchor.Highlights of the first two days of the Geminis will be shown Sunday on the cable channel YTV.The Gemeaux, for excellence in French-language television, will be given Dec.16 in Montreal.Comedian Joe Flaherty plowed ahead even though rumors about the CBC budget slashing swept the industry on Gemini Awards night.la mai/on du cadre • L» plus grand d'art au Quat»« a framed painting or a reproduction.miniature sue »" * io" 50 reg.$50 to $170 frame included 24’ x 36’ *P" reg.$130 to $160 we accept rebate coupons from our competitors! 2626 King St West Sherbrooke 822-3651 TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 199ft—15 This week's TV STATIONS LISTED Listings for this week's television programs as supplied by j uiimiiriMiMiiiWiiiKl While we make every effort to ensure their l accuracy, they are subject to change without notice.Channel Station ID CFTM e CBFT S) CFCF o WCAX as WVNY o WPTZ CD ETV o CBMT MM o CHLT FC o WMTW TSN o CKSH PC Saturday MORNING 5:00 (9 FAMILY TIES Steven and Elyse order Mallory to quit her part-time job.g (MM) VJ DAN GALLAGHER (1 hr.) (PC) MOVIE ** “EMBRASSE-MOI VAMPIRE" (1988, Drame d horreur) Nicolas Cage.Maria-Conchila Alonso Un jeune agent littéraire de Manhattan se rend compte que ses relations avec les femmes sont réduites a zero et que.jour apres jour, il s aliéné ses amis.(1 hr., 45 min.) 5:15 IB HIS & HERS g 5:30 0 WEBSTER Katherine and George plan Aunt Charlotte s wedding.(FC) MOVIE* “Teen Wolf Too” (1987.Comedy) Jason Bateman, Kim Darby (1 hr, 35 min.) 5:45 O VIDEO GOLD 6:00 O RICHIE RICH O SAMEDI DE CONGE O WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY Hacksaw" In the Canadian Rockies, a modern-day cowboy trains a wild stallion and enters it in a chuck wagon race.A 1971 movie starring Tab Hunter and Susan Bracken (Part 1 of 2) (1 hr.) 0 HERCULES (MM) BLUE SPOTLIGHT SPECIAL Depeche Mode.(TSN) SKI WORLD (Season Premiere) 6:30 O (MM) TEST PATTERN Host: Dan Gallagher 0 FANTASTIC MAX 0 TALE SPIN 0 GHOSTBUSTERS (TSN) SPEEDWEEK (R) 6:45 (PC) MOVIE **V2 “LE DIABLE A 4 HEURES” (1961.Drame) Spencer Tracy.Frank Sinatra.Un jeune pretre vient remplacer le vieux missionnaire d une ile du Pacifique.(1 hr., 55 min.) 7:00 O TINY TOON ADVENTURES 0 ADVENTURES OF DON COYOTE AND SANCHO PANDA O PEPPERMINT PLACE 0 ROCKETS Nick is hospitalized, g 0 GHOSTBUSTERS (MM) FAX (TSN) SPORTSDESK g 7:15 Q MIRE ET MUSIQUE (FC) MOVIE** “The Americano" (1955, Drama) Glenn Ford.Cesar Romero.(1 hr., 25 min.) 7:30 0 0 GABBY ET LES PETITS MALINS O TINY TOON ADVENTURES 0 MIDNIGHT PATROL O CAPTAIN PLANET AND THE PLA-NETEERS 0 WONDER WHY?The senses of taste and sight, g 0 DRAGON WARRIOR 0 TODAY'S SPECIAL (MM) MUCHWEST WITH TERRY DAVID MULLIGAN (TSN) HOCKEY WEEK (R) 7:45 0 THOUGHT FOR TODAY 7:50 O YOGA FOR STRESS 8:00 O 0 LA SAGESSE DES GNOMES O JIM HENSON'S MUPPET BABIES g(1 hr.) O GUYS NEXT DOOR g O UNDER THE UMBRELLA TREE O 0 0 NEW ADVENTURES OF WINNIE THE POOH g 0 MA PETITE POULICHE 0 SESAME STREET g (1 hr.) (MM) VJ STEVE ANTHONY (3 hrs ) (TSN) ROAD TO THE SKINS GAME Highlights of the SuperSpiel 90 West from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, and the SuperSpiel '90 from Florence-ville, N.B (R) 8:30 O O TOUFTOUFS ET POLLUARDS 0 WIDGET O SESAME STREET (1 hr.) O 0 WIZARD OF OZ g 0 G.I.JOE 0 WHIZ KIDS (TSN) THOROUGHBRED DIGEST (R) 8:40 (PC) MOVIE ** "FIERRO.L'ETE DES SECRETS" (1989.Comedy Hector Altiero, China Zorilla.La proprietaire d'un ranch argentin offre a son fils et au fils de son contremaître le choix d’un poulain.(1 hr., 40 min.) 8:45 (FC) MOVIE**1/! “Immediate Family” (1989, Drama) Glenn Close, James Woods.(1 hr, 40 min.) 9:00 0 O LE LIVRE DE LA JUNGLE O GARFIELD AND FRIENDS g (1 hr.) O GREATEST ADVENTURE: STORIES FROM THE BIBLE Samson and Delilah" Animated.(R) O SAMEDI DE CONGE 0 0 SLIMER! AND THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS g (1 hr.) 0 TRANSFORMEURS 0 OWL/TV Swimming with dolphins; a tiger beetle; how an artificial arm works; Hoot Club members become rock n' rollers, g 0 COMPUTER CHRONICLES High memory use and products for managing it.(TSN) WORLD OF HORSE RACING