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- Canadian composer and. muaician Hagood Hardy recently played to a-

Standing room-only house at the R.E.M. Lea » Theatre as part of his.tour of

the Northwest.

- Audience silenced.

by Hardy concert

If any single audience has ever

shown such respect for the per-
former that every yawn, sneeze,

.sniffle.or blink of the eye. was

reverently contained for two

. solid hours, it was the audience

that counted their blessings for
having. the. good fortune to
witness the Nov. 21 performance
of Hagood Hardy at the R.E.M.
Lee Theatre.

by Tod Strachan

Seldom is an audience, with
such range in ages, assembled

.that offers the performer: the in-

tense and single-minded focus of
a single being awed by the

- Master,

_ This. may seem a little over- -
done ‘but the audience, second

only to the clarity of tone and -

harmony. produced ‘by. Hardy

himself, was the most intriguing .

part of the entire performance. |
-The evening’s offering cast its
spell over the entire audience

with gold and platinum favorites

such as Jennifer's Song, The:
Newcomers, Silent Sky, Anne of :
and The.

Green Gables

Homecoming.
During an interview following

the concert, Hardy said that he

started on the road to stardom at.
. the tender age of nine when he

began seven years of training in
classical piano, but he soon
became interested in jazz after

- listening to songs on the radio.
He said that this early exposure
. to jazz led him to start his own

high school dance band and later
provided him with the means to
work his way through university
where he earned a degree <in
political science and supported
himself by performing at local

nationally

again, or forget it.”’

clubs.
He described how jazz in
those early years became a part

of his personal self-expréssion :

and allowed him to grow as a
musician to the point where he

played with several leading jazz

groups such as Herbie Mann and
George Shearing in the late a

ties.

After Hardy led his own inter-
successful
‘“‘Montage”’ to stardom, he
began composing his own works.

‘in the seventies and was suc-
cessful in producing gold and.
-platinum hits one after. the
other, earning him several major -

awards including the Gemini
Award, three Junos, Billboard’s
‘‘Number One”’ award and Pro-
Canada awards for. his many
contributions to Canadian
music.

In the eighties, Hardy turned
his attention to film scoring and
last year was honored with both
the ProCan Film award and the
first Gemini award to be

‘presented by the Academy. of::

Canadian’ Cinema and = Televi-

sion for his musical score for the

internationally acclaimed televi-
sion presentation of ‘‘Anne of
Green Gables”’, —

‘One constant throughout

Hardy’s career has been his
dedicated love of music. When
asked for a word of advice to the
young performer aiming at star-
dom, Hardy said simply, ‘ ‘Make
sure it’s fun.’’

Hardy said that regardless of
the type.of music chosen by the
individual performer, ‘“‘If it
becomes work, you have to
either find a way to make it fun

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"Terrace Review — — Wednesday, December 2, 1987 7

Flood plain dwellers |
may reap consequences

Herman’s Hole is generating a

-lot of media these days because
- of the . concerns

raised by
Lakelse Lake residents.

.I. am unsympathetic to
Lakelse Lake resident’s fears of
being flooded out.

The: reason: they denied na-
ture and now they’re afraid of
her retribution. Tough. My
home is in a floodplain and I'm

. Not afraid,

1’m going to look into suing.
‘the. local -government if jit is
. damaged; for allowing it to be-

built there in the first place. |
If people are foolish enough
to build on a flood -plain, then
they may well reap their reward,
that is; to be flooded.

Not long ago, people built a
service station under an ava-
lanche chute. between Terrace.

and Rupert, and there was great

woe when an avalanche buried a

number of folks.

But they did it to themselves
just as the people of California
are doing as they construct their

cities in high earthquake risk

areas.
- In the old days, there were no

‘regulations.in place to govern

- where or how a person built and
common sense was supposed to
prevail.

People had to anticipate .

nature with her floods, slides,
volcanos and earthquakes.

If they’ did not, they often -
sibility, now as always.

paid the ultimate price,
So it was at-Britannia Beach

where the mining company built

an earthen dam across Britannia

- Creek. with..a tiny- culvert: that

plugged during a freshet.
- Half the town ended up in

-Howe Sound along with many

of its residents in 1921.

So it was in Pompeii when the ©

whole town ended. up fossilized

by a volcano, to the woe of the
residents but to the joy of an-:

thropologists and historians.

. So it may be one day for Lake
residents who have homes on the
alluvial fan of an unstable creek,
known to have flooded and me-
andered for millenia, and slated

Kitimat
to host
hockey

Kitimat is hosting the first
minor hockey tournament of the |

season this weekend when 14

teams in the 10 and 11 ‘atoms’ |
age ‘group play a total of 26

games overall at the old ice rink
and Tamitik from Friday to
Sunday.

‘The minor hockey event has
attracted three teams from Ter-

race plus a single entry from -

Stewart. Prince Rupert, Smith-

ers and Houston are supplying [

two teams each while Kitimat
has four local teams for the
roster.

They’re using a modified
double-knockout series with
each team guaranteed three
games. Seven teams will be in a
rep or all-star division, while the

other division will be strictly

house league teams.

- SCOUTS CANADA _

-ment’s hesitation. -

by Jorma Jyrkkanen a

for the unsettling effects OF log-
ging.
‘So it may be for the residents

of. Usk, where the high water.

mark is flush with their.
chimneys.

Libya is today - a desert
wasteland, a parched, im-

poverished tribute to human
greed and lack of respect for
nature, but: 2, 000 ‘years ago it
was forested. .

I bring Libya into this because
that experience and these newer
ones teach -us an. important
lesson,

Human greed overcomes sen-

-In the rush to subdivide and
profit, people pass on risks to
future residents without .a mo-

Herman's Hole is B, Cc s best
fish spawning habitat, gen-
erating millions of dollars
revenue and a virtually. endless
food supply if preserved into
perpetuity.

If we destroy it, we jeopardize
a most valuable natural asset.

A proposal has been put for-
ward to remove the gravels to
protect the residents of Lakelse
Lake who did not plan or obey
regulations pertaining to
flooding,

It is to divert Herman’s Creek -

to below the gravel recruitment
area,
A principle of hydrology, as I

_. had it explained te me by an ex-

pert, makes. this a harmful

‘endeavor for:Lakelse River.

Rivers adjust their whole gra-
dient, if tampered with, which
would lead to downstream scour
in the case of Lakelse River. -

This would, in all Probability,

Northern
Motor
Inn

‘spawning gravels

lead to damage to the -whole
Tiver not to mention what the
loss of gravel from the spawning a

areas would do.
- The: proposal: would risk our

‘most vital food resource for the
: short-sightedness of those same
people.

The proposal would make the a
fishery pay for the excess log-

ging in the watershed that now
increases the threat to the lake
levels.

i. The proposal asks the rest of.

us to bail out those people who

‘failed to plan or obey: regula- |

tions or those who failed toen-, =

‘force regulations, to pay: ‘for

| their foolishness. -

'. “Is there’a simple solution to

: this’ dilemma? ~ 7
We could ‘demand: that ;

residents in violation of bylaws

aise their. homes, at direct cost

to those who purchased or con. .
structed in the high risk area, a
‘solution I prefer.

Perhaps an alternative ; answer

lies in ‘building an overflow

flood channel around the gravel

‘bed of Herman’s Hole, with an .

adequate gate on it.

It could be used to enhance :
spawning habitat during normal ©

times or to replace it if. ad-
justments need to be made to
in the
mainstem.

Who should: pay for it?

The Regional District for fail-
ing to implement or develop
regulations soon enough; mostly
the original builders who are in
the flood plain; the Ministry of

- Lands, Parks and: Housing of

old; and the. Forestry, for, in-
creasing the risk.
. This all comes back to you

and me, the taxpayers, because -

our tax monies from general
revenue would be- used to bail
out the government : agencies. and
those eager builders. -

We all pay for the lessons we

haven’t learned.

I always look to nature to see
if we have come by our defects
naturally.

There is a precedent in nature

amongst the beavers. I once saw
a beaver dam built just upstream
of their lodge, thereby leaving
the lodge high and dry and
uninhabitable.

It is also a fact that beavers

often drop. trees on their own .

heads, as we do. Perhaps it’s our
beaver genes that are behind
these . actions, coupled to our
mischievous,.:greedy little
monkey genes. :. oo,

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night life —
the “who

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when" for
entertainment.

Outstanding
Entertalnment
nightly!