we aapee hE City rejects aid request — for Orpheum_s & Terrace Council has turned down a plea for help from Mayor Gordon Campbell of Vancouver to save the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver. Council agreed unanimously that it is a good cause, but also agreed there are a number of local heri- tage projects more valuable to Terrace that are also short of funds. According to Campbell, ‘The Orpheum Theatre is one of the most cherished heritage buildings in Canada and serves as the home of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Van- couver Bach Choir and the Van- couver Chamber Choir. Although the symphony and choirs are based in Vancouver, the excelience of their work reflects on all of the Province.”’ Campbell revealed a plan whereby the Orpheum Theatre Foundation hoped to insure the future of the three performing arts groups by asking com- munities such as Terrace to con- sider the groups and their home, The Orpheum, a provincial asset at a cost of $1,000 to $3,000 depending on the location in the theatre. . os ‘In recognition of Terrace’s support,’? said Campbell, ‘‘a personalized brass plaque will be permanently. affixed to the seat you sponsor, The endowed seats and the names they bear will become an inseparable part of the legacy of fine music per- formed in the Orpheum, season after season.’’ Campbell added that sponsor- ship payments to save the theatre could be made in full or in equal payments over three years. Alderman Ruth Hallock responded to the request by say- ing it is deplorable that funding isn’t available from senior government. “I think there are things like this in the province that should be looked after,” she said. Hallock said she agreed with Campbell that the Orpheum Theatre and groups like the Van- couver Symphony were a pro- vincial treasure, but ‘‘Terrace and sponsor a seat in the theatre can’t help.” Books For Adults A Shields mystery, biography of Nash by Andrea Deakin Mary Swann, the ‘‘Swann’”’ of Carol Sheilds new novel, has had a bleak and unhappy life - a bad marriage, a lifetime of hard work on an uproductive Ontario farm, and sudden violent death just before her S0th birthday. One liberating achievement is the paperbag full of poems which she leaves with publisher Frederic Cruzzi on the morning of her death. ‘Mary Swann is ‘discovered’, and the academics gather for a sym- posium on her work,only 250 copies of which were ever published. Sarah Maloney, a young professor of English and a liberated woman, searches for the real Mary Swann. Morton Jimroy, a biographer of poets, his insecurity jaggedly fueling his outbursts at any assumed belittlement - there is a telling scene with the immigra- tion official as he enters Canada for the symposium - is anxious to build a-reputation around Mary Swann. Rose Hindmarch, the librarian from Mary Swann’s home town, finds herself inventing an intimacy with the poet to satisfy the intense pressure from various academics looking for clues, and then has to protect her postition. These and many more gather to discuss the primitive poet. They have gathered to discover Mary Swann, but she remains.as much of an enigma as ever. Carol Shields instead discovers to us the inner being of Mary Swann’s investigators. Meanwhile, someone is steal- ing Swann’s first editions, her photograph, her journal, and the professor’s notes for the symposium. Carol Shield’s novel is beautifully crafted, as we would expect. Her characters brilliantly and perfectly presented, like miniatures, and her touch is true, and at times devastatingly funny, as she observes the academics dissection the text for clues, looking beyond the obvious that Rose sees for something deeper. The plot, cunning- ly conceived, holds interest to the very last page. ‘“‘Swann’’ is published by Stoddart at $22.95. James King begins his biography of the artist Paul Nash, “‘In- terior Landscapes’’, with the proposition that Nash’s work as a landscape painter was paralleled by the inner landscapes of his . mind; that Nash saw landscape as an important staging ground ‘‘for _important questions about death, the distrust of men by women, the depiction of the absent, and the place of the artist in the modern world’. King then continues to elaborate on Nash's language of visual symbols by reference to various key pictures and designs. Nash was not only a modernist painter, but also a designer, print- maker, sculptor and able writer. His imagination was fueled not on- ly by the visualization of inner conflicts, but also by literary ex- perience. James King makes a particularly interesting analysis of the illustrative work Nash did for Sir Thomas Browne’s ‘‘Urn Burial’ and ‘*The Garden of Cyrus”’. He also makes point of Nash's emotional involvement with Sur- realism which Nash felt was native of Britain. It began to live in the world created by the poetry of Coleridge and Wordsworth, a world that had inherited the songs and visions of William Blake. ‘Inner Landscapes”’ is a sound, thoughtful work which draws not only on Nash’s autobiography, but also on the archives in the Tate Gallery, and on many as yet unpublished letters. James King’s book is published by Methuen at $39,95. _ Roberts. Northwest Community College Nursing students Jennifer Stephens and Don Roberts received Letters of Commen- 7 dation recently for their outstanding clinical performance in the NWCC Nursing Program. Pictured with Stephens .. and Roberts are Instructors Marilyn Webster and Ester Brisch and Health Programs Coordinator Alerralee School board opposed | ~ to northern university — TERRACE — Trustees of School District 88 voted at a board meeting Jan. 12 not to support the concept of a nor- thern university located in Prince George. The vote came in answer to a letter from a group of Prince George residents called the In- terior University Society, which asked for the board’s backing in a lobby effort directed at the Ministry of Advanced Educa- tion and Job Training. Although trustees Barbara Ross and John Pousette express- ed support for the idea of a nor- thern university, with Pousette saying it would ‘‘break the university monopoly ‘of the South’? and Ross speculating it would keep graduates closer to home and provide easier access to higher education, the majori- ty of the board disliked the -concept. . Delbert Morgan noted that university-age students are usu- ally attracted to ‘‘the big city’, and trustee. Kirsten Chapman, said that in terms of air access Prince George is no closer to this district than Vancouver, Francis Sabine expressed apprehension that a university in Prince George would have a detrimen- - tal effect on enrolments in nor- thern regional colleges, and he added that most students would” probably transfer to Vancouver or Victoria universities after the first or second year. Trustee Ed- na Cooper agreed,’ saying it would have to be ‘‘something special’? to compete with the southern institutions. © a It was also noted that the only other university outside the Vancouver-Victoria area, David Thompson University in Nelson, - “was closed down by the govern- ment due to lack of enrolment. Board chairperson Val Napo- leon simply stated, ‘“‘It would not meet the needs of the North,”’ and the motion of sup- port was defeated. . Ford Escort 7 The world’s best-sellingcar, $500 Cash Bonus* plus value package savings on 1988 Escort L Standard Equipment ¢ front wheel drive ® 5 speed manual transaxle ® Electronic Fuel injection © 1.9L engine ® power brakes * reclining front bucket seats * rear window defroster * cloth seat trim *® independent 4 wheel suspension SS gashponvs’ diet SAVE $500 | {4631 Keith Ave., Terrace, B.C. 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