Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 22, 1990 B13

Who has the Duffus family landscape?

by Betty Barton

"Who bought my painting?"
questions Marian Duffus, "And
how can I get it back?" Long-time
Terrace resident, Marian Duffus

sadly recounts the tale of her ‘lost’.

painting, hopeful of having it
returned to its rightful place at her
Walsh Ave. home.

Earlier this summer, a group
garage sale was held by the Sen-
iors Games Society and friends, to
raise funds for their upcoming trip
to Courtenay in September to
participate in the B.C. Seniors
Games. An active participant in the
Seniors’ swimming events and a
Strong supporter of the Games,
Mrs. Duffus felt this was a prime
Opportunity to clear out her base-
ment, and support a very worth
cause. a

Marian and Gerry Duffus, witha
now-grown family of seven
children, had lots to give away.
Marian says they had seldom
parted with anything over the
years. In the zeal of the ’garage
sale moment’, a precious painting
was inadvertently packed away
with two Safeway prints, acquired
in a promotional give-away’.

The painting in question was off
the wall, (where it had hung in the
Duffus household for the last thir-
teen years), only ‘because it was
finally going to be re-framed. Mrs.
Duffus, a teacher at Skeena Jr.
Secondary School for 13 years,
had‘ received the painting as a

going-away present when she:

‘Tetired from teaching in 1977. She

loved the painting, but the frame

was becoming outdated.
Thirteen years ago, when Ted

Wells, then secretary-treasurer of

School District #88 asked Marian's
husband, Gerry, for advise on a
gift, he suggested a photograph or
painting. Local artist Nina Rae was
' commissioned to do a painting of
their favourite *camping spot’,

rendered from a ‘superb panoramic

photograph, taken by Walter Man-
tel. The Duffus family had, for
many years, journeyed out to
Kalum Lake on frequent camping
trips, to visit Elizabeth and Walter
Mantel. Their ’camping spot’ was
up the old Telegraph Trail, half-
way between the Kalum Lake
Hotel site and Maroon Creek,
where Elizabeth and Walter Mantel
had their home, from 1962 to
1974,

All that is known about the cur-
rent whereabouts of the. Duffus
painting is that someone with very
good taste bought it from the B.C,
Senior Games garage sale. And

they were so thrilled with their
‘purchase that one of the garage

sale organizers received a phone

call from the buyer, thanking the

Society for this great find! -

Mrs. Duffus would be etemally
grateful. if. the painting were ©
returned, And she would be glad
to re-imburse the buyer for the
Price of the painting from the

Local woman
searches for painting
given away in error

Marion Duffus points to the place in her Terrace home where the painting she was given on
retirement from School District 88 used to hang. The landscape of Kalum Lake was taken down
for re-framing and accidently ended up with articles given to.a Seniors: Games garage sale.

garage sale, or whatever they see
‘fit. Please call her at 635-5885.

For a cool, placid
moment in your hot, hectic

day visit

The Terrace Art Gallery
Downstairs from the library

The Terrace Inn
Gigi's - "Double Vision"

Kitimat Centennial Museum my
euntil Sept. 9 - the museum features the most recent works by local artists.

Landscapes, portraits, wildlife, native design, abstract and social commentary in.
water colours, oils, ink, clay and photography.

calendar

K’san Exhibition Centre, Old Hazelton:
euntil the end of August - a-serigraph retrospective. by native artist Ken Mowatt
“for, the month of September - - etchings and engravings bY Lida Watson of Brazil.

Terrace Art Gallery

until September 1 - mixed media summer show by focal artists.

“Augie's - Karin Liungh and Glen Fossum. | |.

Northern Motor Inn, George’s Pub
euntil Sept. 1 - Charlie Wells |

_ Arts and entertainment —

Born on the Fourth of July

Starring Tom Cruise. Pro-
duced by A. Kitman Ho and
Oliver Stone. Directed by
Oliver Stone. Rating: R. Run-
ning time: 145 minutes,

Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise)
couldn’t wait to finish high
school and join the Marine
Corps. His country needed him

| in Vietnam to stamp out com-

munism, Ron is full of

' youthful fire; he will do
' anything for his country, even

sacrifice his life if need be. But
reality is a harsh task master.
After witnessing countless hor-
rors, he is shot and paralyzed
from the waist down.

Now the real war for Ron

_ Kovic begins. He must fight the

attitudes of family and friends
who-now see him as only half a

-man, and the attitudes of those

who protest against the Viet- .
nam war by holding marches’
and burning the flag. But the

demon raging within himself is —

the real enemy.

He slides down into a
nightmare world of alcohol,
drugs and self-pity. Bitter,
twisted memories of the war

-cause him to sink deeper and

deeper into his own private
hell. But Ron is too much a

fighter to just lay down and
die. Someone points out that
his anger could be put to good
use elsewhere. -

This is a good movie, but it’s
too long. It leaves you feeling
slightly shell-shocked.

As you can see, I’ve reviewed
only one movie this time instead
of the usual two. I had two re- .

- served but only one movie:

came back in. Someone forgot
about the five o’clock deadline

- on all video rentals (1 tried

again at seven and the movie
still hadn’t been returned).

This happens quite often; at
the last minute I’m left scram-
bling to find another video that
everybody and his great aunt
Sarah hasn’t already seen. If
you read this column faithfully
I’m sure by now you've won-
dered at a few of the choices
I’ve made.

So please remember to return
your videos on time. I know
it’s easy to forget, it happens
to all of us at one time or an-
other, but all those waiting in

line for the movie will greatly

appreciate your promptness.
And don’t forget to rewind the
tape for the next viewer!.