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Brian Amadore, the new

manager of the Immigration ©
Centre in Prince Rupert, coor- -

dinated last Wednesday’s infor-
mation bootirin the Skeena Mall

with the ‘Terrace and District

Multicultural Association.

. -Amadore says the response was

‘pretty good.” ;
They had inquiries from re-
cent immigrants, native-born
Canadians and immigrants who
have been here for a long time.
People wanted information on

how to spansor relatives, current.

immigration requirements and
general: information on im-
migration, © = &, °°

Amadore has set thé ‘ground

for doing something more exten-

‘sive for next year’s Immigration
Week. He has a meeting in
Nanaimo next week to review
the results of this week’s mall

B14 Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 21, 1990
Immigration Week ~~
response "pretty good"

displays and school’ presenta-

tions and to make recommenda-

tions for next year. He would.
like to recommend that-Multi-

cultural Week and Immigration
Week be combined. for ‘a better
use of resource people. and
events, which could be -planned
to celebrate the week. _
_ Through. his travels around
this area, Amadore feels that
there are many immigrants
around who are interested in get-

ting more information and per-
haps a better orientation to.their
new communities and country.

He has entered into discus-
sions with the Terrace and
District Multicultural Associa-

tion about the possibility of set-.
ting up a Immigration Settle-
ment Adaptation Agency
(SAP). He says communities °
- murky sort of way — when a. -

are starting to demand it. -

Roger J. Green is the author of four Gothic novels for young

adults, “‘The Stone Quartet’’. In these he has already proved his .

‘ability to conjure up the atmosphere of another time; to grip his
young readers by the intensity of his tales; to conjure up a sense
of menace from the most ordinary of people and surroundings.

- His latest novel, ‘The Throttlepenny Murder’’, has a sensa-
tional, a melodramatic subject — the unjust condemning to death
of a 13-year-old girl for murder. Yet the law which permitted the
hanging of children for murder was not repealed until 1908 in

- Britain. .

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Jessie Smith works for Ezekiel Dobson, a miserly grocer in a
small Derbyshire town. The pleasures of his shop -- "ruby-red

hams, faded pillars of old gold cheese’? — are twisted by Jessie’s -

misery at the hands of her cruel employer into images of evil and
decay. Much as Jessie dreams of being rid of her unkind and

_ mean employer, she would never left a finger against anyone. It

is all a way of coping with her bitterness and unhappiness.
One evening, when Dobson is visiting his wife’s grave, he is |
struck by a lump of stone falling from one of the old gargoyles

. above the church.’ There are several people in the churchyard at

the time ~— Jessie and her boyfriend John, Fanny, who. longs to
win John herself, Dr. Ball the vicar, on the lookout for
mischievious children, bitter Emma Briddon, and a burly navvy.

who has been working on the railway. Dobson is found dead,
and the way is open for all kinds of misunderstanding, acts of
love, fearful mistakes and mistaken identities. Jessie is taken into

custody for murder, and John, eventually, searches for evidence .

to save her.

The writing is strong, the characters carefully drawn and fully

fleshed, the atmosphere of town and jail, the dramatic inter-
actions of people and place richly, even brilliantly drawn. There
is nothing straightforward about the reactions. John hesitates,
almost fatally, from fear and apprehension. Fanny weaves a-
tangle out of love for John that almost breaks her heart. Poor
Jessie suffers the full rigors of the law. This powerful and ex-
citing book is one that any skilled and enthusiastic young adult
-reader should not miss. ‘‘The Throttlepenny Murder’’ is pub-

lished by Oxford at $19.95.

Li was one of the great kings of ancient Ireland; and the story
of ‘‘The Children of Lir’’ one of the celebrated tales of Irish

‘literature. Lir had four beautiful children whose glorious healing
_ voices are renowned throughout the land. Lir’s queen dies, and,

after a period of mourning, the king feels that his children need a
mother, He takes as wife his dead wife’s sister. ‘All is well ‘to

begin with, but gradually the new queen, unable to have children: .

of her own, grows increasingly jealous of the four children. She °

. .. casts a spell upon them and they are turried into.swans, retaining
-” only their beautiful voices. It is a thousand years before the spell
4g lifted, only. for the children of Lir to find that the world is no
more the world they knew, the world in which they belong. They
walk into the water and swim to the ancient land beneath the

. waves where they live still.

The story of the children of Lir is the story of old ways and

\.gld beliefs giving way to new; but in David Day’s retelling the
~ gimple outline of the original idea is left poetically clear and un- —_
adorned. Direct, simple, yet beautifully told, “The Children of
 Lir’? (Doubleday: $14.95) ‘has been sympathetically and gracefully |
_” filuistrated in soft color by sculptor Richard Evans. °°".

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_ Fleld of Dreams

Starring ‘Kevin Costner, Amy -

Madigan, James Earl Jones. :
Produced by Lawrence Gor-
don, Charles Gordon. Directed
by Alden Robinson, Rating:
PG. Running time, 106 —

minutes.

‘Suppose-for just a minute . -
that you’re a-farmer in Iowa. -

_And one day you're out walk-:

ing in your cornfield and sud- -

denly you hear this strange
- voice telling you to mow down

the corn and build a baseball

diamond. What would you do? -

“Well, when Ray Kinsella

(Kevin Costner) hears voices in -

his cornfield, he.thinks he’s
permanently fallen off his

rocker! No doubt about it, he.

can practically feel the butterfly

‘net descending over his head.

But all is made clear — in a

mirage appears. Ray now

knows what he has to do. He’s

just not sure why he has to do
it.

_ Ray plows the corn under
and builds a world class
baseball diamond. His
neighbors think he’s nuts. But
Ray doesn’t care. Memories of

- his ex-baseball player father,

back in the days before he lost _
his dreams of greatness, come
flooding back.

He remembers stories his
father would ‘tell about his
hero, the great Shoeless Joe
Jackson. Even though there
was never any proof he was in-
volved, Shoeless Joe was one

._ of eight memsuspended in 1919.

for throwing a world series
game.
Ray is still pretty much in

. the dark until_a long dead

Shoeless Joe shows up on the
diamond. Before long he’s got
the whole White Sox team that
was banned playing again for
the first time in 30 years. But

‘this is only the beginning. ..

You needn’t be a baseball .
fan to enjoy this movie. It’s all

. about the magic of dreams. _
- Sometimes, against all odds,
. they really do come true.

-- Phantom of the Opera

Starring Robert Englund, Jill

Schoelen, Alex Flyde-White.
~ Produced by. Harvey Alan.
-Fowers. Directed by Dwight H..

Little. Rating: R. Running.

‘time, 93 minutes.

In this version of the classic

- tale, composer Erik Destler

(Robert Englund) sells his soul
to the devil in exchange for the
survival of his beloved opera
music through the ages.

And just to be sure he

‘doesn’t forget who is his new

master, the devil hideously dis-
figures Destler’s face by goug-
ing out great chunks of flesh .

. that will never heal.

Meanwhile, back in the pres-
ent, Christine (Jill Schoelen) —
a girl with dreams of operatic
greatness — finds an old play’
of Destler’s. She sings the piece

during a try-out for a major

part in an opera play.

.- Through an accident she is
knocked unconscious, and is

catapulted back through time.
She is still a young opera
hopeful, but now she has the
most unusual teacher, .
This is really-quite'a goéd ~
movie. Robert Englund is

“superb. Parts of this film are.

very realistic though. I nearly

_ chucked-my cookies-when the

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Harriett Fjaagesund

Phantom sewed patches of skin _

on his face. It looked like the
real thing. Throw away the »
snacks if you’ve got a weak

- stomach!

War Party
Starring Billy Wirth, Kevin

- Dillon, Tim Sampson, Pro-
duced by John Daly, Derek. .

Gibson, Bernard Williams.
Directed by Franc Roddam.
Rating: PG. Running time, 97
minutes.

To draw in more tourists the
band council on the reservation

“in Binger, Montana decides to

do a re-enactment of a battle
that happened there 100 years
ago.
Some of the older members:
of the tribe don’t much like.the
idea. The Indians were
slaughtered by the cavalry that
day; rehashing that long-ago
battle could be opening old
wounds. a

But to younger members of

‘the tribe like Sonny and Skiddy

(Billy Wirth and Kevin Dillon),
it simply means a day’s pay |
and a chance to whoop it up.
Old battles.don't mean much
to them.

Then an Indian brave is shot
dead during the re-enactment.
And what was meant to be a
staged play suddenly becomes
the real thing.

A small band of warriors,
led by Sonny and Skiddy, make
arun for it. They form a war -
party, then head for Canada.

-But this time around it isn’t".

just the cavalry they’re running
from. Le
This film has been listed as
one of the year’s best movies.
It says a lot about prejudice.

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Terrace. Art Gallery — |
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Northern Motor Inn, George’s Pub —
-@ Until March 31 — Floyd Tolman Duo.

Kitimat Mount Elizabeth Theatre —
@ March 28 — Marang, Talking Drums

.\@ March 30, 8 p.m. — Tausig & Enem
side of Victor Borge”).
Prince Rupert Performing Arts Centre —
@® March 25, 7:30 p.m.
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@ March 29, 8 p.m. —

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“Tausig & Enemies”, presented by the-P.R. Con-

@ March 30, 31 and April 1 —

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Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 13 —

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Regional Juried Art Show with 62 entries.

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