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The Morency Collection Now showing at the Memphremagog Library See page 5 ,* * ™ ^ Townships Week #¦_____ggi MBcorii Friday, September 14, 1990 2—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990 Philately — more than collecting bits of paper To what degree does snobbery exist in the hobby of stamp collecting?Surprisingly, the degree of existance is quite high.In a recent letter to the editor which appeared in Stamp Collector, the reader sent in a quote from an editor of a newsletter from the Fraser Valley Philatelic Club in British Columbia.It reads, as taken from Stamp Collector, “A stamp club should be only for those interested in those little pieces of paper, while a philatelic club must be wide open to all related fields — stamps, postal history, postal stationery, picture postcards, etc.” end of quote.Not wanting to judge the remark, I none-the-less understand it to mean that if one simply collects postage stamps in general, they should seek out a club that involves themselves with those little pieces of paper only.A further indulgence in the hobby would entitle you to belong to a philatelic club.This particular letter sent me right to the dictionaries that I have on hand so that I wouldn’t be mistaken about what I am.My Oxford dictionary describes the word philately as simply, stamp collecting.My Webster’s says that philately is the systematic collecting of postage stamps while a philatelist is a collector of postage stamps.The most complete description of the word philately that I have, comes from my Random House dictionary.It gives the meaning as ; the collection and study of postage stamps, postmarks, and related items.In the first two instances, no mention of related items is made in the meaning of the word philately.Only the Random House dictionary, which is a later edition, takes into consideration the fact that postmarks and items related to stamp collecting fall under the category of philately, We sometimes tend to forget that our introduction to the hobby was more than likely an illustrated world album with a package of stamps.It was also more than likely the patience of the so-called advanced collector that guided us in the advancement and appreciation of the hobby.We also tend to forget that it is only by our efforts in encouraging the novice will the hobby survive.How better to achieve Stamp corner By Peter McCarthy that goal than by belonging to a stamp/philatelic club, where knowledge can be shared by all.This letter could not have appeared at a better time.It gave me the opening I needed to publicize a great society.The British North American Philatelic Society is open to those who wish to collect stamps and related material of British North America, i.e., Canadian and pre-confederation provinces.Within the society there are many study groups, some dealing with the older facet of the hobby while others are involved more with modern Canadian philately.The word society can invoke an air of snobbery.However, that is anything but true.A great crowd of people from all walks of life belong to B.N.A.P.S.They boast of a membership from all over the world, and, they will go out of their way to help each other out, philate-lically speaking.This year’s convention is to be held in Galveston, Texas in mid October.It alternates between Canada and the United States each year.The three-day convention is expected to attract several thousand people including dealers from across the United States and Canada specializing in British North American philately.Last year’s convention saw seven novice, or first-time exhibitors competing.It was refreshing to see and a boost for the hobby.To belong to such a society or to a stamp club is a great experience and usually leads to the making of long lasting friendships.If you are vacationing in Texas the weekend of October 18-20, stop by the Tremont House in Galveston and judge for yourself.The Sherbrooke stamp club has already started it’s activities.They meet the first and third Wednesdays of each month at 1215 Kitchener St., Sherbrooke.Things usually get under way about seven o’clock.COME TO COMPTON for the best APPLES At counter: YELLOW, MELBA, LOBO LA POMMALBONNE Midget apple trees 6291 Rte 147 before Compton 835-9159 Open every day from: 10 a.m.to 8 p.m.Sat.: 10 a.m.to 6 p.m.Welcome to all school groups with reservation U-pick: LOBO / Wagon ride VERGER DU COIN 39 Principale South Compton 835-9159 Open every day from: 10 a.m.to 8 p.m.Sat.: 10 a.m.to 6 p.m.U-pick: MELBA & LOBO Making film was project for spirit By Jane Stevenson VANCOUVER (CP) — The $2.9-million feature film Chaindance was a labor of love for Canadian actor Michael Ironside.Ironside, who is the star, executive producer and co-writer of the movie, said it took him four years to get the project off the ground.“The fact that this film is being produced is an absolute miracle,” Ironside, 40, said in an interview between takes.The action-drama is about a prisoner, played by Ironside, whose rehabilitation program involves looking after a cerebral palsy patient.The title comes from the chain that connects the convict to the patient’s wheelchair so he can’t escape.The cast includes Oscar nominee Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) as the handicapped patient, Rae Dawn Chong as a social worker and Bruce Glover as a hard-edged homosexual prisoner.AFLICTED HELP To prepare for Chaindance.Dourif, 40, sought out the British Columbia Cerebral Palsy Sports Association.Dourif said he wanted to understand the emotional as well as physical aspects of cerebral palsy.“There’s two other guys that I worked with whose approach was more like, ‘OK, let’s see your moves,”’ said Dourif.“And they would sit back in their wheelchairs and go, No, no, no.’ They just worked me really hard.” Ironside, best known for playing heavies in such films as Total Recall and Top Gun, was given Alan Alyward’s original Chaindance screenplay a few years after he moved to Los Angeles from Toronto.Reminded of a cross between The Defiant Ones and Midnight Cowboy, he immediately began rewriting the script but found studios weren't interested.“I was told in the States, ‘Prison films don’t make money and cripple films don’t make money and you’ve got both,”’ said Ironside.CANADIAN MONEY Eventually, Ironside got producer Richard Davis on his side.But Davis was also discouraged by American distributors who told him to make the lead character a “little less handicapped.” “It’s true that without the support of Telefilm and Film B.C.this film could not have been made,” said Davis, who walks around the set looking like Moses circa 1970 with a long grey beard and silver earrings.Davis, a transplanted Austria-lian film-maker, made the $7.5-million Cadence with Martin Sheen and his son Charlie in Kamloops, B.C., last summer.After the long fight to get Chaindance started, Ironside was initially reluctant to turn the film over to director Allan Goldstein (The Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick).But now Goldstein is crouched in front of Ironside and Dourif in a hot, seedy bar shooting Chain-dance’s climax.Even when the cameras aren’t rolling, Ironside rocks Dourif in his arms as they lie on the floor covered in blood.“Basically I’m a director, and whether someone is a producer or a writer or an actor they’re subservient to my decisions,” said Goldstein.“If that weren’t the case, then I wouldn’t be involved in this movie.” USE PRISON Goldstein, 39, had to get special security clearance to shoot scenes at Oakalla prison in Burnaby, B.C.The production also used a deserted building at Coquitlam’s Ri-verview Hospital, which was built in the 1920s.“The institution, by the nature of the fact that it’s over 100 years old, is just filled, saturated, with memories and ghosts,” said Goldstein.“It gives just the right feeling for what we need for our Wilmont Hospital.” Goldstein said the movie’s rehabilitation program currently exists in Los Angeles where gang members are teamed up with cerebral palsy patients.At one point someone with cerebral palsy was considered for Dou-rif’s role, but it was felt that wouldn’t work given the film’s short 30-day shooting schedule.Still, members of the cerebral palsy sports association play wheelchair extras in the film.Once Chaindance is completed — it’s expected to be in theatres next fall — Ironside said he’ll have no problem going back to making commercial movies in the United States.“My ideal would be to do a large picture and then do a small picture like this.One for the pocket and one for the spirit.” Entertainment news this week LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pop sin-ger Madonna, artist David Hockney, Representative Henry Waxman and British actor Ian McKellen were honored for their efforts to combat AIDS during a fund-raiser organizers said generated more than $1 million US.Among the performers at Friday night’s show were Madonna, violinist Joshua Bell, and singers Rod Stewart, Sarah Brightman and Toni Childs.“AIDS is about living people, not just cases,” said Waxman, a California Democrat and chairman of the House subcommittee on health and the environment.David Wexler, chairman ol AIDS Project Los Angeles, said the event raised more than $ 1.1 m illion the non-profit organization.(Eit) THAT’S HOW MANY CANADIANS ARE SWIMMERS Ci EE) © y y y J M FOG l^utyo-Omh/igm V J paRmtpacmnm Others attending included Henry Winkler, Susan Blakely, Marlee Matlin, Bette Midler, Angela Lans-bury, Gregory Harrison and Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave.NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — Rising country music star Garth Brooks says he met his wife, Sandy, when he broke up a fight she was involved in at a nightclub in Stillwater, Okla.Brooks, a finalist for five Country Music Association awards this year, said in an interview that he was a bouncer at the nightspot in 1983 when he was summoned to halt a dispute in the women’s restroom.“These two gals had her cornered,” Brooks recalled.“She took a swing at this one ol’ gal and missed her.But her fist went through the pressed-wood stall and she couldn't get it back out.“She was just madder than a hornet.” Brooks removed her fist and threw her out of the club.But he later began telephoning her and they were married in 1986.Brooks’s hit records include If Tomorrow Never Comes and The Dance.He is a finalist for the CMA’s male vocalist of the year, single of the year, song of the year, IHorizon Award and video of the year.BILOXI, Miss.(AP) — Entertainer Tony Orlando feels something special for those yellow ribbons, the ubiquitous symbol of hope for loved ones held captive.The singer known for Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree said in a telephone interview Friday that he discovered the song’s deep emotional effect shortly after it was released.It was in 1973, and the group Dawn, featuring Orlando as lead singer, was the opening act at a Bob Hope show at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.About 400 or 500 former prisoners of war were seated in front of the stage.The song is based on a Civil War story about the homecoming of a Union soldier from a Confederate prison.In the song, the man is welcomed by yellow ribbons as he comes home from a stint in prison.The message moved the former PoWs.“I'm on stage and I’m singing this song and all of a sudden it was the most spine-chilling moment,” he said.“Up they got, off their chairs, and they’re coming toward the stage and they come on stage and they begin to sing the song.” Orlando said Friday’s interview with the Sun Herald of Biloxi, Miss., was the first he’d ever done about the song, and said the Iraq-Kuwait crisis was the reason. A vulture named ‘Recession’ is TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990—3 waiting in the wings ‘Lookers-on feel most delight “That least perceive a “ juggler’s sleight.Samuel Butler Looks like another interesting autumn.Jean & Michel’s Travelling Magic Show will soon be appearing in an auditorium near you to dazzle the public by pulling new rabbits out of old hats.See them saw a nation in two and mysteriously join it back together again ! Rollup! Roll up! Watch the performing acrobats, the jugglers, tightrope walkers and the clowns — always the clowns.The real purpose of all this razzle-dazzle, the sound and fury, is much like the magician’s legerdemain in drawing attention to one hand while the other does its work.Little Bobby Boubou, Slippery Bob, is hoping the hullabaloo will keep the public happy while he gets a little work done.Boubou has his own Liberal committee producing a separate report on Quebec's future and Blacque Jacques long ago made up his mind.He has just emerged from a two-day nuts-and-bolts PQ meeting making threatening noises and issuing ultimatums.It’s us versus them.Unless ‘English Canada’ agrees to negotiate Quebec sovereignty, we will unilate- Who’s who By TADEUSZ LETARTE_ rally declare independence, stick them with the entire national debt by creating our own currency, confiscate all federal property within our borders because we paid for a quarter of all federal property everywhere and decide upon our consitution with a referendum.“All the rest is strategy,” he said.Ah, if only it were that simple.If this were only a dispute between Quebec and ‘English Canada’, if‘English Canada’ actually existed, then the Magic Show might provide an answer.But it’s no longer that simple — if it ever was.The First Nations have let it be known loud and clear that Canada doesn’t work for them any more either and promise a series of confrontations to enliven the autumn.Western provinces have long been disaffected and are now forging new ties, the Maritimes and Newfoundland feel left out and now the center has collapsed.Premier Bob has taken over control of the engine of the economy with a party that capitalists consider socialist and Americans call commu- nist.Poor Bob.Timing is everything in politics — as it is in a Magic Show — and his couldn’t have been worse.Ontario lost over sixty plants and hundreds of jobs since the beginning of the year, unemployment has escalated while property values have fallen as much as 20 per cent.We have yet to feel the effect of the Mideast conflict on oil prices and the GST is scheduled to kick in on January 1st.Premier Bob and his boys will be blamed for everything and left holding the can while Sheila Copps (a logical successor to Peterson) rides out the recession in opposition where her real talents shine.* * * Davey-Bob Peterson promised his own commission to decide Ontario’s future in a new Canada and not leave everything to Quebec.Frank McKenna has appointed his own New Brunswick commission for the same reasons.“New Brunswick.” he said, “can’t allow Quebec separatists and so-called Western reformers to attemp to carve out special arrangements without our province, and others I hope, being fully involved in defining what is in the best interest of all Canadians.” Our Brian has also said; “There is no question of me, as a Canadian and a Quebecer, sitting quietly by and waiting for a Quebec legislative committee to define a new federation.” Oh, but there is.The vacuum between our prime minister’s ears offers no plans for taking the initiative.The senate cries out for reform, patronage and corruption scale new heights, public distrust of politicians is mushrooming, the natives are restless.and Our Brian does nothing.McKenna favors a Royal Commission, a coast-to-coast Magic Show.“Something has to take place that invites the participation of all Canadians” And why not ?The Soviet Union is fragmenting while the European Economic Community forges new ties.The United States is allied with the U.S.S.R.in opposing aggression in the Middle East and that alone ought to teach us that all things are possible.Instead we have Jean & Michel’s Travelling Magic Show offering entertainment and snake oil while a huge black vulture named Recession roosts overhead.It should be great fun while it lasts.As many people will want their say as spoke out on Meech Lake — and that was virtually everybody.Parizeau has already admitted the commission’s goose is cooked and has virtually no hope of a unanimous report or even a concensus.Jean is a devoted separatist, Michel, a dedicated federalist and the other thirty-four fly off in every direction.“We must take into account.” Bourassa said on June 23rd, “the vitality of our cultural communities, the historic and unique role in Quebec of the Anglophone community as well as the help that we can give to the Francophone communities outside Quebec." But there are no seats on the committee specifically reserved for native or women’s groups, ethnic or anglophone organizations.Prominent businessmen are appointed to the leadership to emphasize that economics will be the major consideration — not “ will a sovereign Quebec be unilingual and unicultural or make room for ethnic diversity", but “will it pay?And, most entertaining of ail.is that Quebec's solution despite all its insistance on recognition as a distinct society — is the traditional Canadian way.Faced with a problem, appoint a commission and study it until it goes away.Or until the vulture makes it irrelevant.Thrash Funk sweeps San Francisco Move Over Rap, Here Comes Thrash Funk By Elisabeth Dunham SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Born of an odd mixture of 1970s funk, punk rock, rap, California surf, skateboard and hippie cultures, a wild musical genre called “thrash funk” has swept the San Francisco club scene.The area that gave rise to acid rock in the 1960s now is the hotbed of the colorful, youth-driven punk-funk, and the record industry is ready to cash in.“If any of these bands break through, you are going to have the entire industry swooping down on San Francisco to scoop up what they can find,” said John Axelrod, director of artist and repertoire for RCA Records in Los Angeles.Inspired largely by George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic era, bands such as Psychefunkapus, Limbomaniacs, Primus, The Smoking Section and Fungo Mungo make up a diverse musical scene linked by seething energy, a thumping bass, sometimes bawdy lyrics and a sense of humor.“It’s about intensity, which is always a good rock ’n’ roll standard,” said Butthouse, lead singer and bassist for Limbomaniacs.MANY INFLUENCES Band members dismiss the label thrash-funk as confining, confusing and misleading, and cite an array of influences led by Clinton and augmented by James Brown, Prince, Jimi Hendrix.Frank Zappa and Led Zeppelin.“To me, each of these bands is completely different than the others,” said Psychefunkapus bassist Atom Ellis.“Primus is really hard-edged.Fungo Mungo is more like James Brown meets the Red Hot Chili Peppers.Limbomaniacs are more of a go-go kind of thing.Smoking Section is a really smooth groove band.It’s hard to say what we are.” Despite the diversity, the so-called punk funksters seem to admire one another’s music.And there’s a street style of long hair, tattoos and muscular physiques shared by some of the band members and many of their fans.Axelrod signed Psychefunkapus in late 1989 when he worked at Atlantic Records, and plans to soon sign The Smoking Section to RCA.He says the bands present a wholly American sound that embodies San Francisco’s liberal past.“These are pseudo-hippies,” he said.“It’s another evolution of what the psychedelic movement was about in the first place — free love and peace, addressing the issues but remembering we are here to have a good time.” ON THEIR OWN The scene appears to have evolved almost by mistake, coming on the heels of the late 1980s success of Los Angeles groups The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fishbone.Both are widely seen as progenitors of the funk-influenced thrash genre, although San Francisco musicians distance themselves from such bands.“It seems like every one of these aggregate groups started on their own, with little influence from the others,” said David Hawkins, drummer of The Smoking Section.“We came in a little later, but we’d never seen them or heard them until we got billed with them.” Primus and the Limbomaniacs came first, standing today as the bands with the strongest instrumental skills and the most funniest and raunchiest lyrics.Both have recorded albums on independent labels.Six-year-old Primus, led by comical bassist-singer Les Clay-pool, is the thrashiest of the thrash-funk bands.After some personnel changes, the band released a self-pressed live album called Suck on This.The band produced its first studio album, Frizzle Fry, on the New York-based Caroline label.FIRST TO SIGN Psychefunkapus was the first San Francisco punk-funk band to sign with a big label.The Marin County-based band represents the psychedelic wing of the genre, a funk sound mixed with rap, reggae and acid rock.The Limbomaniacs go heavy on Washington-rooted go-go street music, rap and funk.The band’s debut album is due out soon on Relativity Records, with Bootsy Collins, of Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic, singing on the opening track, Butt Funkin’.The thrash-funk audience is a heavily white, male crowd.The beat lures listeners to the dance floor.Braver souls head to the core of the throbbing, slam-dancing mob, where people are pushed and shoved, almost against the grain of the music, and some dive or are thrown at the stage.“This is music that has found its root in live performance,” said Creighton Burke, manager of Psychefunkapus.Amy Lee’s playing rock music now — on a harp CHICAGO (AP) — It’s only rock ’n’ roll, but she plays it on a harp.“I hate to play classical,” says Amy Lee, who entertains lunch crowds at The Art Institute of Chicago with hits by the likes of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones.“But when people request it, I get out my bag of Bach and my music stand and sit there, pluck, pluck, plucking.” Lee, 34, got tired of black-tie formais, Bach and lounge-lizard pop tunes like Feelings when she got hooked on rock as a teenager.She’s worked as a disc jockey and symphony musician, but her solo career took off after she performed rock ’n’ roll during a 1981 jazz festival in Chicago.She was dubbed The Angel of Rock.“I remember I got a standing ovation for playing Stairway to Heaven,” she said.Lee looks the part of a rock angel.Decked out in bright colors, a short skirt, bold earrings and dark sunglasses, she taps her feet and sways as her fingers speed across the 1.8-metre, 47-string antique harp her father gave her when she was 7.“The kind of music she makes should be paid attention to,” said Alek Jakich, an inspector for the city of Chicago and a regular at the Art Institute’s outdoor restaurant, where Lee has worked the last eight summers.IT’S GREAT!’ “When was the last time your heard Pink Floyd on the harp?” Jakich asked.“And it’s great!” Playing rock is a switch from when Lee performed with the Northwest Indiana Symphony and the Twin City Symphony of St.Joseph, Mich.Being alone on stage is also a switch.“I’m usually background music,” the 5-foot-5 blonde said at a performance Tuesday.“So I decided, Why not play something I like?’” That day, her songs by the Eurythmies, the Kinks and The Police got her a complimentary glass of wine from two women having lunch, praise from a mother visiting the gallery with her toddler, and applause after nearly every song.Waiters came up to whisper several requests during her performance in the outdoor atrium scattered with white tables and matching parasols.“Once they hear the rock songs, then they want to request them,” said Lee, who also performs in lounges and has her own jazz group.“I’ve gotten requests for Tom Petty and the Grateful Dead.But I also get requests for Lady of Spain.” 4—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990 La Flambée des Couleurs five weeks of festivities By Jean Potvin ORFORD — It all began with the Traversée Internationale du Lac Memphrémagog.But this fall, officials from Station Touristique Mont Oriord hope to make the second edition of La Flambée des Couleurs the other event that will put the Magog area on everyone’s fall destinations list.The Flambée des Couleurs is hardly a new event.Last year, “some 40,000 people showed up over a four-weekend span, depending on the weather,” said Elaine Bernier, marketing assistant at the Mont-Orford Ski resort, at a press conference last Thursday afternoon.This year, however, officials of the ski resort and the Magog Tourism development agency want to make the Flambée, to be held from September 8 to October 8, an international event, filling the gap the slow season creates as well.“For an international tourism resort, there will not be a dead season any further,” said Gilles Houde, Tourism Commissioner for the Memphremagog Tourism Development Agency.“We have the Traversée, and now we have the Flambée, a sort of proliferation of the painting festival,” said Houde in his brief address.PAINTINGS AND MORE The painting exposition, featuring the works of Francesco lacur-to, Gérald Boulanger, Michel Du-guay, Gérard Faulkner and Ray-nald Leclerc, will be held at La Galerie d’Art La Falaise every weekend from Septe mber 22 to October 8.“People will also be able to purchase paintings created on the spot.During the week of September 17, these artists will be on t he spot, doing artwork right in the area of Mount Orford,” said Fernand Magnan, president of the Station Touristique du Mont Orford.FOR ALL TASTES The festival also features many flagship activities and contests throughout its five-weekend duration this year.They include the panoramic chairlifts, initiation to Scuba (Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus) diving initiation sessions, biathlons, horseback riding, pre-season ski training and the Indiana Orford rally and helicopter rides.Among the many conpetitions and drawings one stands out.The Mini-Passe Orford, a ski pass equivalent to 10 ski tickets, will be drawn every Sunday during the Flambée.A picture-taking safari with prizes totalling $325 is another competitive event.A special promotion in cooperation with St-Hubert Restaurants will reward each youngster 12 and under with a coupon for a free meal.All they have to do is present a fall scenery drawing to any St-Hubert Restaurant in Sherbrooke or Magog.TOP OF THE LIST “But the day of September 28 is probably the most important of all activities.This day is reserved for the schoolchildren and it’s free,” Houde said.On that Friday, the Resort invites primary and high-school students to come spend the day in the wilderness and beauty of the Township’s best-known mountain.Houde said he expects a big turnout for this particular activity.“I anticipate something like 50 schoolbuses full of kids.” he said.“We’ve sent a ton of letters to school directors and comissioners across the region.” FUTURE SKIERS’ Houde was also looking into the future a bit, banking on increasing awareness of the area among the younger set.“We hope our young people will come out here, enjoy the wonderful fall colors and maybe, want to come back to the winter slopes.These kids are our future skiers and patrons of the tourism industry,” he said.Orford MNA Robert Benoit was also on hand for the inauguration.“I think all those who already realise the tourist potential of our region have decided it’s time to show off a bit and they have my support all the way,” he said.Family Brown and Prairie Oyster get top CMA awards By Gwen Dambrofsky EDMONTON (CP) — Just about everybody won something at the Canadian Country Music Awards Saturday night — the Queen of Cowpunk, the First Family of Country, even a bunch of long-due serfs.For the first time in several years, K.D.Lang was held to just a couple of awards.That put her in a tie with Ottawa’s Family Brown and the venerable Toronto troupe Prairie Oyster.Her Absolute Torch and Twang was named best album, but Lang recorded a surprising loss to newly hot Toronto singer Michelle Wright in the female-vocalist category.“In some ways, that's very satis- fying.” Lang said of Wright’s victory in a backstage interview.“I remember when I beat Anne Murray for the first time, so it’s sort of this cyclical thing happening.” Next year Lang is likely to be absent from the awards since she is taking a year off from music.At the moment, she’s preparing for her movie debut as a part-Inuit woman in director Percy Adlon’s Sal-monberries.Adlon is best known for his cult hit Baghdad Cafe.IS NERVOUS “I’m nervous as heck about it because I’m not sure I’m an actress,” said Lang.“Hopefully, the molecules that make you an artist in the first place will kick in and take over.I’ve wanted to be an actress for a long time.” The native of Consort, Alta., also won the revised entertainer of the year award, which was determined this year by balloting at record stores across Canada.Persistence paid off at last for Prairie Oyster, which has been toiling away in the music industry for more than 15 years before landing a major-label record deal earlier this spring.The Toronto band took home awards for best group and single of the year, Goodbye, So Long, Hello.“We’ve been nominated for a few years, but this is our first win,” said lead singer Russell deCarle.“It’s great to get a nod from our peers in the industry.” “Personally, I feel like Sally Fields at the Academy Awards,” added drummer Bruce Moffet.“They like us!” Prairie Oyster’s win in the group category ended the Family Brown’s long-time strangehold on that honor — the Ottawa band had won it 13 of the last 14 years.WIN BEST VIDEO Instead, Family Brown won best video for their hit.Pioneers, while group leader Barry Brown took the songwriters prize.“This song means a lot to us,” said Brown.“Being the son of a pioneer, it’s important to remember and look back.” Family Brown’s manager, Ron Sparling, was also inducted into the Canadian Country Music Association’s hall of honor.Alberta native George Fox beat stiff competition from B.C.singer Gary Fjellgaard to take home the male vocalist prize, the same category he won earlier this year at the Juno Awards.“Last time I was in Calgary I won first prize in a celebrity cowmilking contest, ’ ’ Fox joked backstage.“That’s right up there with the Juno, too.” Fjellgaard and his sometime-partner Linda Kidder took consola- Here are the Top 10 videos, by sales and rentals, as listed in this week’s Billboard magazine.Copyright 1990, Billboard Publications Ltd.Reprinted by permission.SALES 1 The Little Mermaid — Disney 2 New Kids On the Block: Step by Step — CBS 3 Teenage Mutant Turtles: Super Rocksteady — Family 4 M.C.Hammer: Pleaase Hammer Don't Hurt ‘Em — Capital 5 Die Hard — CBS-Fox 6 Lethal Weapon 2 — Warner 7 Elvis : Vol.2 — The Man and the Music — Buena Vista 8 Elvis: Vol.1 — Centre Stage — tion in their duo-of-the-year win.Meanwhile, Nova Scotia’s Rita MacNeil blew away such American heavy-hitters as Sawyer Brown and Clint Black to emerge victorious in the top-selling album category.Patricia Conroy was named country music’s most promising new star.The other hall of honor inductee was Hee-Haw star Gordie Tapp.The awards, held as part of the Canadian Country Music Association’s Country Music Week, will be held next year in Hamilton, Ont.Buena Vista 9 Top Gun — Paramount 10 New Kids on the Block : Hangin' Tough Live — CBS RENTALS 1 Driving Miss Daisy — Warner 2 Born on the Fourth of July — MCA-Universal 3 Hard to Kill — Warner 4 Internal Affairs — Paramount 5 The War of the Roses — CBS-Fox 6 Steel Magnolias — RCA-Columbia 7 Blue Steel — MGM-UA 8 Joe Versus the Volcano — Warner 9 Blaze — Touchstone 10 Revenge — RCA-Columbia False Icons and the Absurd ?Eudice Garmaise, painter Anne Kahane, sculptor Opening Tuesday, September 18, 8:00 p.m.The Public is invited Gallery hours Tuesday to Friday 11:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.and Thursday evening 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.Art Gallery Galerie cl'Arl Bishop's University — Champlain College 2'»'1 floor Marjorie l>onakl Building.Bishop's University Top ten videos this week TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.SEPTEMBER 14.1990—5 An exhibition of photos taken in Tiananman Square during the student demonstrations in 1989.The Morency Collection — dramatic record of tragedy By Claudia Villemaire MAGOG — He’s neither heavy nor light, overweight or too thin.Actually, he’d be hard to find in a crowd if you expected someone so outstanding, your eye would pick him out immediately.But once you speak to this man, and notice the compassion and determination that color his every word, take a look at the photographs he has on display and study just a little the documents scattered here and there, Pierre Morency is a man you’ll never forget.The fighting spirit started young in the Morency family.“I grew up in the worst poverty you can imagine — in the St.Roch section of Quebec city,” Morency said.Morency remembers his determination to buy a hockey stick and to find the odd jobs that would earn him enough money.“No one asked my parents for money.We knew we had to fight for what we wanted and that’s exactly what I did.” That spirit has been a major contributor to Morency’s success, both in business and local political affairs.He has already earned a reputa-tion for his environmental concern.He bounced to centre stage a couple of years ago when U S.garbage imports into Quebec started making headlines.Morency took up the banner for stopping that waste.He surfaced among environmentalists and Green Peace supporters who advocated re-cycling.He also lobbied for selective garbage collection and, together with a dynamic team, managed to persuade politicians — federal and provincial — to recognize that import laws needed changing.Then, when the environmental battle seemed to quieten down a bit, and lawmakers appeared to be listening, Morency decided to take a holiday.“We had planned the trip to China almost a year before departure,” he said.“There was no warning we would have the most distressing visit we could ever imagine.” Morency recalled.He had barely arrived in Beijing, China when demonstrating students in Tiananmen Square began to realize their goal of changing China’s rigid political ideology into a more democratic one.“I was there, in that square, the largest in the world, with over one million students demonstrating peaeably at that point.” Morency explained the admiration students have in a country where barely one percent of the young people ever get to a university.“A university student in China is looked upon something like a hero or a young god People are becoming more aware of the lack of democratic rule in this country, but the majority feel any improvements would be in the hands of the students,” he said.So an organized manifestation demanding changes in government and the ruling group of se- ven was undertaken by thousands of students as Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sat with Chinese heads of state.“At that point, the whole thing seemed to be working.Dialogue had begun and democracy didn’t seem so far away,” Morency said.But everything changed when the Soviet president left.The old socialist hard-line policy was back, even tougher than before.Warnings to fasting students in the square were blasted over loudspeakers 24 hours a day.“Students would kind of work in shifts, one group singing all night to drown out the loudspeakers, another group circling the singers for protection.Then another group would take over as singers and guards began to drop from exhaustion.” Morency described.“And the students realized they had been trapped.Their identity was known because of the long days of demonstration, their hopes of a more democratic government were gone and most felt the only honor would be to stay in the square and either die at the hands of the army or committ suicide,” Morency said.Morency said student leaders told him he was the only Canadian in that entire mass of people.He stayed with them for six days.During that time he was able to visit clandestine, makeshift hospitals where injured students were taken during the hours of the massacre.He talked to injured students.“I visited wards where attempted suicide victims lay, suffering excruciating agony from self inflicted burns — the result of dousing themselves with gas and igniting it.” Morency attended a funeral for 27 students in a village nearby.Everyone a suicide, their last hope for finding honor — in death.“Whenever I moved out of the square, it sometimes took an hour or more of negotiating before army personnel would let me back in,” he explained.see, opening up a new chapter in the story of the fight for democracy that seemed to start so well and ended in terrible tragedy.“I guess I was destined to be there,” Morency added.“I’m not quite sure what that same destiny has in store for me now.But one thing is certain.I feel these photographs and documents, including letters from students who claim they are ready to die for their cause — who have given up the faint hope they once had and feel only in death they’ll find honor — these are real.They are written by real people who have since disappeared and are presumed dead or in prison camps.Their zeal and determination and final sacrifice cannot go unnoticed," Morency insisted.The Morency collection will remain at the Memphremagog Library on Merry Street until the end of the month.And Morency had his camera.No one stopped him most days and he tried to chronicle the tragic events that eventually took the lives of thousands of students in the fateful square.“Students pressed letters into my hands, they sat and talked with me day and night,” he said.“We were in the unique position of being one to one, a Canadian and over one million desperate people willing to die for a more democratic way of life.It was moments and hours I’ll never forget,” he said.“That's why I’ve brought this collection of photos and documents, much of it in English, to the Magog Library.” “People should finally realize the desperation of these students,” Morency emphasised.“Newspaper reports often were inaccurate and sometimes conflicting.While the China Daily played down the events in Tiananman Square, I knew and photographed students.doctors and nurses who would disappear in a few days, crushed under army tanks trying to quell the revolt.” Morency’s photographs depict the determination and solidarity of the students.They give a picture of China few westerners will ever Pierre Morency’s photographs depict the determination and despair of students in Beijing during the tragic Tiananman Square massacre in May, 1989.¦¦S 6—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14.1990 American Dreamer, sitcom with a twist, debuts Sept.20 By Stephen Nicholls CP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (CP) — Ameri can Dreamer revives the sleeping art of the television soliloquy.Sure, there have been recent examples of a TV hero talking directly to the audience — Gary Shandling, for instance.But most have tended to be ironic asides, with the actors often slipping out of character.American Dreamer, on the other hand, harks back to the days of Do-bie Gillis.Remember how, in each episode of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Dwayne Hickman would explain his thoughts to the audience as he sat next to a replica of Rodin’s statue The Thinker?The same kind of idea is used in American Dreamer, with Robert Urich musing on life for the benefit of the viewer.At various points in the half-hour show, Urich talks to the audience, WIN 1 of 5 TRIPS FOR 2 TO FLORIDA HOT SPOTS CONTEST Every day, K-900 will play 2 "Hot Spot" songs at 7:45 and at 4:20 weekdays and at 10:20 and 3:20 weekends Name each of the 14 Hot Spot songs played each week from Monday to Sunday and mail your list to: K-900 Hot Spots, 901 Galt Street East, Sherbrooke J1G1Y6.Contest schedule: Week 1: September 17 to 23 -Winner: September 27th Week 2: September 24 to 30 Wnner: October 4 Week 3: October 1 to 7 - Win ner: October 11 Week 4: October 8 to 14 Winner: October 18 Week 5: October 15 to 21 -Winner: October 25.revealing the thinking-dreaming creative process of his character, a newspaper columnist.It’s a mix of philosophy, recollection and fantasy.And it works.Beautifully.IN SMALL TOWN The NBC series, which will also run on Global Television and seve-ral Canadian independents, centres on a former TV network reporter (Urich) who lives with his two children in small town Wisconsin where he writes a lifestyles column, called American Dreamer, for a Chicago newspaper.We’re told in the first episode that his wife, a TV photographer, was killed while the two were covering the war in Lebanon.That’s when he decided to pack it in and move to the sticks.Now, as the opening episode unfolds, he’s looking for a research assistant to help with his column.He characterizes his column as about “things that are very personal to me, things that touch my life.’’ The job applicant he’s interviewing puts it another way — “fluff.” The applicant, played with frenetic hilarity by Carol Kane, is a somewhat addle-brained individual suffering roller-coaster emotions since her husband left her for another woman.“Since my divorce, I’ve become very mistrustful of men,” she hisses.“If I see a man walking down the street toward me, I will just cross to the other side.“I can't even walk past a men’s room!” Urich thanks her for coming, to which Kane harrumphs: “You said that like you’re never going to see me again!” INTO FANTASY Cut to a blacked-out stage.Urich enters.Ruffled by the Kane interview, he’s toying with the idea of using his kids as assistants.He wonders why he feels guilty about not hiring Kane and he ruminates on her accusation of “fluff,” recalling his experiences as a hard-news journalist.As he reminisces about an inter- view with Margaret Thatcher, a fantasy sketch begins in which he is dining with the British prime minister.Thatcher praises Urich’s series on South Africa for its “very manly writing.” (And, in case we didn’t get the cheap sexist shot, we’re clubbed over the head with Urich’s réponse: “Coming from you, that’s a real compliment ”) When he spills red wine on Thatcher, he starts laughing uncontrollably.End of dream sequence.Urich wakes in bed, with his precocious 12-year-old son shaking him.We also meet his sharp-tongued, teenage daughter, who’s currently on the warpath against boys.STOOD UP GIRL Urich has three such dream-sequence episodes in the opening show.In the second, he relives his high school prom night when he stood up his girlfriend.Out of guilt for his past insensitivity, he decides to hire the man-wronged Kane and to seek out his old girlfriend to apologize.He plans to write a column about the latter experience.That doesn’t thrill his hardnose urban-snob editor (Jeffrey Tam-bor), who visits the town and whose sarcastic anti-rural comments rile a local waitress.She tells him ominously there are “no laws at all out here .sometimes bald city guys just disappear.” Urich visits the former girlfriend, now a lawyer in St.Louis.We won’t give away what happens.In the final soliloquy, presumably the wording of his column, Urich muses eloquently on the emotional differences of men and women.These speeches, filled with nuggets of insight into human nature, set the series apart from the average sitcom.Because it is a little different — and is running opposite much-lauded Twin Peaks in the States — it may not go over like gangbus-ters.But given time, American Dreamer could be a real sleeper.Top ten country music Here are the week’s Top 10 country songs in Canada, based on radio play, as compiled by the national music trade source, The Record.Bracketed figures indicate position the previous week.1 (2) Wanted — Alan Jackson 2(1) Next To You Next To Me — Shenandoah 3(3) Nothing’s News — Clint Black 4 (5) I Meant Every Word He Said — Ricky Van Shelton 5 (7) Jukebox In My Mind — Alabama 6(4) Don’t Go Out — Tanya Tucker and T.Graham Brown 7 (12) Holding A Good Hand — Lee Greenwood 8 (11) Fourteen Minutes Old — Doug Stone 9(14)1 Could Be Persuaded — Bellamy Brothers 10 (10) Something Of A Dream — Mary Chapin Carpenter To donate money for research, to pledge your kidneys for transplant, or to find out more, contact your'local Kidney Foundation of Canada. Get Shorty — Elmore Leonard’s EIIMDE Kaleidoscope CLI^lffllE By RICHARD LONEY 01 r MWfWo Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard IDELACORTE-DOUBLEDAY): $24.95, 292 pp.Long before he became the most celebrated, praised and imitated crime writer in America.Elmore Leonard toiled as a Hollywood scriptwriter and hack.His story “Valdez Is Coming" was turned into one of the most suspenseful of 1950’s westerns, “3:10 To Yuma”: an early Paul Newman vehicle, “Hombre" came from his pen: “The Moonshine War”, starring Richard Widmark, and a Randolph Scott "duster", “The Bounty Hunters”, won Leonard recognition, as did his “Mr.Majestyk”, an early Charles Bronson brawl-epic.So it is with not a little insight into the wheeling, dealing and unsavoury tactics of motion picture producers manipulating screenwriters that Elmore Leonard reaches into his past for the script of his latest novel.Get Shorty.Easily Leonard’s most ambitious crime story, this one begins in the steamy Miami setting that he oftens adopts, only to conclude in one of those precariously poised houses that may be seen overlooking the many canyons leading out of the city of Los Angeles.A smalltime hood name Chili Palmer is employed as a “shy-lock”, chasing down tardy victims of the loansharking racket in Miami, when he stumbles across an ingenious, flukey scheme that one of his “clients” has used to defraud the airlines of a considerable hunk of money.Unfortunately this party has also stiffed Chill’s bosses, which puts him hot on his prey’s tail, tracing him all the way to L.A.When Chili finds himself in the motion picture capital of the world, he discovers that the same kind of outrageous b.s.that he has built his trade and reputation on is standard fare for operating producers and lesser fry on the Hollywood scene.It is with Chili’s grandiose schemes of elaborating a clunker of a possible script to the filmed with his own inserted plot angles and situations, that Leonard begins to have fun with Get Shorty.Chili Palmer’s street smarts serve him well when it comes to convincing producer Harry Zimm, of ZigZag Productions, that the changes he adds to the abominable script of Mr.Lovejoy will make for daring, innovative cinema.Leonard does a delicate job of allowing Chili Palmer to insert bits of the storyline of this actual novel into the projected film project in order to convince Zimm and his investors that it will be a dynamite property.This story-within-a-story effect, and the subtle tricks that Leonard does with the plotline make Get Shorty quite a departure for the writer who has been deemed the "Dickens Of Detroit”.The shifty characters have been maintained, but the violence has been replaced by plot trickery and a story effect that is like a snake swallowing its own tale, (pun intended!) for want of a better term.Along the way, as he attemps to track down his loan-skippee.Chili has to encounter a big-name “star”, named Michael Weir — a cross between Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise — and a parade of minor villains, such as Bo Catlett and his idiot boss Ronnie Wingate.Add a busty, semi-glamorous, faded starlet named Karen who was famous for her screaming in Grotesque, Part Two, a behemoth of a weightlifter named Bear, whose cover at LAX is carrying around his three-year old daughter when he makes drug pick-ups and cash transfers, and Elmore Leonard’s scenario in the real plot of Get Shorty becomes almost as bizarre as Chili Palmer’s recipe for success in the version that he sells Harry Zimm.For readers who have admired Elmore Leonard’s work for several decades, and who have witnessed his rise through the ranks of hacks and quick change scriptwriters until his name has become sy-nonomous with gutsy crime writing, Get Shorty is a delight.Every fresh character that he brings onto the page has the smack of verisimilitude about him, whether its the minor punks trying to launder dirty drug money by buying into risky film properties, or sleezy producers who owe their notoriety to a string of pictures “featuring mutations fed on nuclear waste, your slime people, your seven-foot rats, your maggots the size of submarines”.Leonard proves with Get Shorty that he can still unfold the most believable dialogue in the business, even as he skilfully blends the two subject areas about which he displays infinite knowledge — the behind the scenes Hollywood manipulation of plots and writers, and the domain of minor criminals like Chili Palmer, whose outrageous behaviour makes Get Shorty a quick read.RECORDINGS REVIEWED 1927 The Other Side (WARNER-ELEKTRA—ATLANTIC) The long, slow demise of Australia’s fine group Little River Band, after a loss of lead singer, change in personnel, and the release of questionable material, is perhaps lessened in impact with the arrival of Sydney’s 1927.Although The Other Side is not their first North American release, it is undoubtedly heads and shoulders above their first release in sophistication of material and overall sound.Basically a quartet, led by the songwriting of Eric Weideman, whos also handles the guitars, 1927 includes Bill Frost on bass, Charlie Cole on keyboards, and James Barton on drums.The dimension of 1927 that is instantly apparent to the casual listener is that all of these players are more than competetent on vocals.Perhaps it is this finely honed vocal aspect of 1927 that represents such a maturity of development after their first recording that saw U.S./Canadian distribution.The ten songs on The Other Side have been carefully selected to display the rounded stylistic abilities of 1927; they add their voices to those of the despairing nations of the world with their aching ballad “Africa”, full of undying hope that the dark continent will be able to be freed from its primitive bonds through the healing power of love; with “Don't Forget Me” they offer a song (for Elvis) that has fleeting images of a lonely Elvis listening to his “mama", and being trapped by the seeminly insignificant deprivations that must have doomed him to the life that this song hints at with understated pathos.On “Why” they strike an admirable balance between Charlie Cole’s underpinning of solid keyboards and their co-producer Garry Frost’s powerful songcrafting on a catchy, memorable tune.1927’s songs, like the best work of Little River Band, grow on the listener, with music like the simplistic “Call On Me” captivating with its circular, repetitive riffs, or “The Other Side”, which actually sounds like a couple of the tracks that LRB did with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra on Backstage Pass.Indeed, anybody listening to 1927’s recording for a couple of plays who doesn’t come away humming at least one of the six or seven easy on the memory compositions should have an ear examination as soon as possible! George Jones You Oughta Be Here With Me (EPIC-COLUMBIA) Ask country fans who has the voice considered to be the definitive one in the genre and the answers will range from Johnny Cash, to Willy, to Dolly, to Waylon, or Merle.But when the country singers themselves talk about the man whose voice really epitomizes true country, inevitably the name you hear is that of George Jones.He may have a bad rep for late arrivals and no-shows galore, but Jones has to be the Sinatra or Bennett when it comes to interpreting aching, hurtin’ country songs.TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.SEPTEMBER 14.1990—7 best crime novel yet the other With producer Billy Sherrill again guiding George through the tracks on his latest album, Jones has once again found the perfect songs to complement his growly, sadly deteriorating vocal range.Roger Miller’s tune “You Outa Be Here With Me” is a perfect example of George’s ability to infuse a song with loads of whiskey-soaked lamentation: “If you think it’s lonesome where you are tonight, then you oughta be here with me”.This one even has a drawled recitation, shades of “Are You Lonesome Tonight”, which allows George to get his message across.With “Somebody Always Paints The Wall”, the wry country humour comes across in the great opening lines: “If my old truck was a horse.I’d hafta shoot it/Lord the day my ship came in, I was waitin’ for a train .seems like everytime I make my mark, somebody always paints the wall ! ” These are the kinds of sings that you hear once and realize that only someone with George Jones’s chequered career and seasoned voice could even attempt to interpret with the feeling that they require.Opening with some mournful steel guitar slides, “I Sleep Just Like A Baby” gets the full Nashville treatment, right down to the sweet fiddle part layered on and the Jordanaires-style echoing chorus, which is also heard on “I Want To Grow Old With You”.Unfortunately Goerge’s recording contains none of the usual and handy musician credits, but you can bet that Billy Sherrill has everyone from David Briggs on piano to Buddy Harmon, Norbert Putnam, and Jerry Carrigan as session personnel.Whoever’s on board, they manage to replicate the George Jones “sound” to the finest degree, making this an album that will be readily welcomed by the country establishment.whoo Grus a 550,000 people work hard top Cana endan species You can help too For more Information contact: Canadian Wildlife .Mon rvooranon 1673 Carting Avenue Ottawa.Ontario K2A 3Z1 (6131 725-2191 8—TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990 Travel —____ftgl KBCOra Muntjac deer favorites Tampa’s Busch Gardens reports more than 700 births and hatchings since Jan.1,1990, welcome newcomers to the park’s collection of more than 3,300 animals.The newest members of Busch Gardens’ animal family include a sturdy Cape Buffalo baby, two gangly reticulated giraffe, two shy nyala, an addra gazelle, a Grant’s zebra, 10 scarlet ibis, an Abysin-nian blue-winged goose, three East African crowned cranes, 59 Burmese pythons and a tiny muntjac.The beautiful — and ever-so-tiny- muntjac deer is just one of 20 species of exotic hoofed stock dotting the landscape of the Gardens’ Serengeti Plain.The smallest of the true deer species, muntjacs weigh less than two pounds at birth, standing 20 inches high and weighing just 30 to 40 pounds at maturity.Muntjacs are closely related to the small musk deer of northeastern Asia and China.The muntjacs’ range includes India and southeast Asia and the islands of Java, Borneo and Taiwan.Their habitats are densely vegetated, hilly areas from sea level to medium elevations.Muntjacs may make a barking noise when alarmed, and are often referred to as ‘barking deer’.They are found both singly and in pairs and are always near water.Both males and females will scent mark using two pairs of glands, one pair directly in front of the eye (able to open almost as large as the eye itself) and another which forms the familiar ‘V’ on their forehead.Tigers and leopards are the muntjacs’ chief predators but they have been hunted by man for their meat and hide.Visitors to Tampa’s Busch Gardens may see muntjacs and a host of other beautiful species by train, monorail or skyride tours of the park’s Serengeti Plain.AN ENDURING TRIBUTE Many people find deep satisfaction in making contributions to the Quebec Heart Foundation Memorial Fund as a thoughtful and lasting tribute to the memory of a relative or friend.Your gift allows Heart and Stroke Research and Education to continue.1-800-361-7650 Call in or mail your contribution to: QUEBEC HEART FOUNDATION 1358 King West, Suite 103 Sherbrooke, Quebec J1J 2B6 — (819) 562-7942 $2,490.00 VACATION OWNERSHIP PRICED RIGHT.IT'S ABOUT TIME! EASTERN SLOPE INN, the premiere RCI resort in New Hampshire, is now offering the remaining phase 1 inventory on a first come, first served basis, at incredibly low prices.^ In the heart of North Conway Village with over 2,400 vacation owners, the EASTERN SLOPE INN has long been the Mt.Washington Valley's showplace.The lovely units in this National Historic Register Resort range from studios to 2 bedrooms.Perfectly located within 15 minutes of 4 major ski areas and all summer and foliage activities.Large indoor pool, tennis courts and home of the renowned Mt.Washington Valley Playhouse.North Conway's factory outlet shopping is legendary, drawing folks from all over New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and eastern Canada.Through the 1980's our vacation weeks were marketed very successfully for $5,000 to $16,000.Now you can purchase directly from the developer.With no gifts, salespeople or marketing costs we can slash 45% off the above prices.ie a prime March ski week, one bedroom sleeps 4-6 is now $5,990.00.An early December ski or Christmas shopping week in a studio is $2,490.00.Vacation Ownership (forever), membership in the RCI exchange club (over 1800 resorts worldwide) and the opportunity to experience North Conway Village.Seller pays all closing costs.Excellent bank financing available.Remember inventory is limited and it is first come, first served.Developer reserves the right to withdraw this offer at any time.Want more information?(603)356-8766 7 days 9 a.m.- 9 p.m.at Busch Gardens’ Serengeti Plain Orlando top U.S.vacation spot ¦mrnj ORLANDO, Fla.(AP) — America has gone Goofy this summer.And Mickey.And King Kong.And Shamu.Central Florida draws 13 million visitors a year.And this summer should cement the region’s reputation as the favorite vacation destination in the United States.Universal Studios Florida, a high-tech version of the California attraction, opened June 7 in Orlando, Fla., and is expected to be a strong competitor to the year-old Disney-MGM studios.Either of the two movie parks would be the largest attraction almost anywhere else.But in Florida they stand in the shadow of Disney World, and next to Sea World, Cypress Gardens and other older tourist attractions.But Central Florida isn’t the only hot tourism spot in the United States.Voit Gilmore, president of the American Society of Travel Agents, says Hawaii, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, New York City and Alaska are also attracting droves of tourists.Here’s a closer look at the popular U.S.vacation spots.CENTRAL FLORIDA To meet the Universal challenge, Disney-MGM introduced a live Muppet show, audience-participation performances of Mutant Ninja Turtles and a rousing musical show based on the Dick Tracy characters.Sea World is offering an all-new Shamu extravaganza as well.The outer islands are prized by frequent visitors.There are few tourist attractions; instead, vacationers must be satisfied with the lush beauty of tropical islands.GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Forget Yosemite.Forget Yellowstone.Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most popular national park in the United States, drawing 8.5 million visitors last year.The park is conveniently located within a two-day drive of half the U.S.population.The park’s 210,000 hectares straddle the Tennessee-North Carolina border and features 16 mountains — all more than 1,800 metres high — more than 1,500 kilometres of hiking trails and 1,120 kilometres of fishable streams.NEW YORK CITY People still want to see the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Centre and Times Square, but that’s not all.They have a hankering to visit the New York Stock Exchange.“Everyone wants to see that,” said Jack MacBean, a spokesman for the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau.“I guess because it’s been in the news so much lately.All 1 know is that they had to reorganize their whole tour schedule to handle the crowds.” Another popular spot is Trump Tower.Myron and Holly Civils of Miami put it on their sightseeing agenda.Were they going to see the place or the man?“The place, but if I get to see the man I’ll be just as happy,” Holly Civils said.ALASKA In New York, tourists flock to the stock exchange to see the home of the market crash.In Alaska, vacationers are boarding sightseeing boats to see another disaster — Bligh Reef, where the tanker Exxon Valdez went aground last year.The resulting spill affected the Alaskan tourist industry; visitors declined by 40,000 a year in 1987 and 1988, and there was reason to believe tourism would join wildlife and the shoreline as victims of the black goop. TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14.1990-9 WHAT’S ON Notes Once again, the circle has come round and we re at the threshold of another season of activities that promises more and better entertainment than ever.The Centennial Theatre fall and winter program is fairly bursting with a variety of events that cover just about every taste possible.They are offering season’s tickets at particularly interesting rates, a fact the concert-lover should not ignore.A call to the box office will get you all the info you need.Siskop’s Smbersitp ftmgtrs have started rehearsals for the 90-91 concert season.They are on every Tuesday evening from 7 to 9.For more information call the music department at (819) 822-9642.After an overwhelmingly successful first season, the Orchestre de Chambre de 1'Estrie, formerly the Orchestre de Chabre de Sherbrooke, under the direction of Marc David will present three subscription series concerts.The program will be highlighted by superb soloists from the region in the four gala events already well past the planning stages.The first concert is coming right up — September 29 at St.Andrew’s Church on Frontenac Street in Sherbrooke — with trumpeter Claude Berger performing works by Albinoni and Purcell.Season’s subscription is $40, tickets are $15 at the door.Student fee is $30 or $12 at the door.Send payments to Orchestre de Chambre de l’Estrie, P.O.305, Sherbrooke, Que., J1H 5J1 or call (819) 821-4101.CBC SPOTLIGHT Once each year, the CBC network makes a block of prime time programming available to its regional stations.CBC 6 Pemières is an evening of very special, Quebec produced programs beginning with Another Labor Day at 7 on Tuesday, Sept.18.At 7:30 Danceworks presents four modern dance pieces choreographed and directed specifically for television.At 8, Dora Wasserman and her Montreal Yiddish Theatre Troupe make an unprecedented tour of the Soviet Union.Joy and sorrow are expressed in the pulsating rhythms of World Beat music on Rythme du Monde at 8:30.The sounds of South Africa and Zimbabwe are showcased with performances by Lorraine Klaasen and Thomas Mapfumo.At 9 the story of how the Oscar-winning Canadian documentary If You Love this Planet was branded as political propaganda by the United States Justice Department unfolds.The finale is Russian Diary at 9:30 chronicling the Soviet visit of two Canadian peace activists as seen through the eyes of Oscar-winning Claire Riley.Claire Riley, Newswatch at 11 Weatherperson and Scott Russell, Newswatch Sports Commentator co-host the evening’s pro-gram.Canada’s hottest comedy ensemble, The Kids in the Hall, begin their second season Sept.20 at 9:30.The five actors/ writers/comedians, self-described ‘products of the hollow ’70s’ make their sharp insights into contemporary life come alive as they doggedly pursue their often edgy subject matter.On Thursday, Spot.20 at 8, Adrienne Clarkson Presents kicks off its new season with The Earth in Balance.His Royal Highness Prince Charles’ documentary is an impassioned call for a reassessment of man’s relationship with the natural world.Please note Adrienne Clarkson Presents will be seen on a new night and time — Thursdays at 8.A brand new music special starring Canada's newest country singing sensation and winner of the 1990 Juno Award for Male Country Vocalist — George Fox — will air Saturday, Sept.22 at 8.CTV HIGHLIGHTS A CTV Special Presentation — The 42nd Annual Prime-Time Emmy Awards with a special feature honoring Jim Hensen on Sunday, Sept.16 at 8.WCFE — Plattsburgh Sunday, Sept.16, a haunting, animated version of Beauty and the Beast, narrated by Mia Farrow, will begin the second season of the critically acclaimed international storytelling series — Long Ago and Far Away.At 9 a.m.on Channel 57.The 13-part series includes a dozen animated programs and one live-action film making the series a must-see for both children and people of all ages.The Decade of Destruction, a Frontline Special Series, will be broadcast on WCFE Channel 57 over four consecutive nights, premiering with a two-hour broadcast on Tuesday, Sept.18 at 9.The series continues with one-hour pro- By Claudia Villemaire grams Wednesday through Friday, Sept.19 to 21 at 10.The series shows the exploitation of one of the world’s last frontiers and is filled with stories of greed, violence and politics.Exhibitions The Memphremagog Library will present an outstanding display of photographs taken by Pierre Morency.Morency was at Tienanmen Square, China in May ’89 at the time of the student revolt and the consequent massacre and brutal repression.This display of photographs taken by Morency as well as newspapers and other documents giving accounts of the tragic events will also be at the library.Most of the commentary is in English and the exhibition does not spare the senses of the viewer.An outstanding and rare experience recorded as Morency saw it.The exhibition continues until the end of the month and is well worth a visit.Opening Sept.18 at #ishop’« SnOursitr Art Gallery— False Icons and the Absurd — a collaborative exhibition by Eu-dice Garmaise.painter and Anne Kahane.sculptor.To produce this series of works in oil on large panels of laminated wood.Kahane invented shapes which she cut through the wood, and the sinuous edges that shape the panels.Garmaise conceived and executed the surfaces ^ covin' ^ 1- BLAZE OF GLORY Jon Bon Jovi 5 2- UNSKINNY BOP Poison 3 3- VISION OF LOVE Mariah Carey 1 4- RELEASE ME Wilson Phillips 7 5- HAVE YOU SEEN HER M.C.Hammer 8 6- SOMETHING HAPPENED.Phil Collins 15 7- TONIGHT New Kids on the Block 2 8- IF WISHES CAME TRUE Sweet Sensation 13 9- CAN’T STOP FALLING INTO LOVE Cheap Trick 16 10- JOEY Concrete Blonde 6 11- ALL THE LOVERS IN THE WORLD Gowan 11 12- THE POWER Snap 4 13- POLICY OF TRUTH Depeche Mode 17 14- COME BACK TO ME Janet Jackson 9 15- HANKY PANKY Madonna 10 16- UNISON Celine Dion 18 17- JERK OUT The Time 19 18- THIEVES IN THE TEMPLE Prince 28 19- OH GIRL Paul Young 21 20- DO ME Bell Biv Devoe 30 21- LOVE AND AFFECTION Nelson 33 22- EPIC Faith No More 32 23- 1 DIDN’T WANT TO NEED YOU Heart 20 24- LOVE AND EMOTION Stevie B.27 25- PRAYING FOR TIME George Michael 37 26- ACROSS THE RIVER Bruce Hornsby 12 27- CLOSE TO YOU Maxi Priest 31 28- SHE AIN’T WORTH IT G.Medeiros & B.Brown 14 29- EVERY LITTLE THING Jeff Lynne 24 30- HEART OF STONE Taylor Dayne 36 31- THAT’S LIFE Sue Medley 35 32- THE OTHER SIDE Aerosmith 22 33- ROMEO Dino 34 34- SUICIDE BLONDE INKS 40 35- JUST CAME BACK Collins James 23 36- BLACK CAT Janet Jackson PL 37- GIVING YOU THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT Pebbles PL 38- THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME Lisa Stansfield 39 39- MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY Alias PL 40- SAY A PRAYER Breathe PL 10—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990 WHAT’S ON painted in oil around the cutout shapes.If each work in the series has been titled by the allusion envisaged, each panel stands on its own strength as a work of art The vernissage is Sept.18 at 8.In the library at Collège du Sacré Coeur, 155 Belvédère Nord.Sherbrooke, there wiil be an exhibition titled Mirais, wooden tableaux created by Hughes Mercier.The display opens Sept.17 and continues till Oct.30.It may be viewed during regular library hours, every day from 8:30 to 4.The public is welcome.Musée des Beaux Arts de Sherbrooke begin their fall-winter season September 15 with an exhibition featuring the 6th edition of Musée de nos Maisons, a display of art works and artifacts kindly loaned by local people to the museum.New fall hours at the Louis St-Laurent Historic Site — to October 14 — From Wednesday to Sunday from 10 to 5.Equipax Gallery in Newport, Vermont will open an exhibition entitled International Autumn Show August 31, continuing until October 27.The Canadian artist featured is René Durocher from Magog with Vermont artists Nancy Bandy.Curtis Hempt and Frank Wallace.The gallery is located in the Hood Building, 30 Coventry Street, Newport.Telephone