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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 21 Jan 1987, p. 16

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[ eA Acbsineisi, popert More®" Canuck Ateated y Bill Usber and percussionist BB \ i TM‘ * Surrounded bY dozens of drum$, actor/ will your _A | fi CA se Poore dyssey %m\ o 22 A; star. wsmmeexdmtohhfl"“w _A Ni l‘; ‘gwq * 4 B\ cBc Televisi q 103020 100 p» & 3.30 p=â€" We GT , im * * . . oc Theatfe I i ' ‘ a h ROUNDUP . .. Happy Birthday to Wateriloo Rotarians: Dave Shortt Jan. 25; Mike Delion Jan. 28; Joe Priamo Jan. 30; Lion lu_q‘mllhfd_.lgn. 28 . . . Last call to buy the Big Sister $50 lottery ticket ... Lioyd Steffier says a St. Valentine‘sâ€"dance, Feb. 14, is being held at St. Michael‘s Parish hall â€" $15 a couple. MAIL ITEMS TO 45 Erb St. E., Waterloo, Ont. N2J 1L7. ts available at the Humanmities Theatre Box Office (885â€"4280) and all other BASS outlets. Hours: Manday to Friday If you are thinking of taking a ski holiday in Quebec this winter, for my money go to Owl‘s Head ski resort near Mansonville, Quebec. It was started by Fred Korman whose parents came from Germany years ago and opened a mink ranch at Val Perkins, Que. Fred became an electrical contractor, saw the ski potentials, bought the 4000 Ft mountain, and installed six chairlifts and a hotel complex. A Kitchener lad won the Canadian Junior ski championship there. It has beginners to expert slopes. and the price is the word ‘‘contest", you‘ll get the impression that you actually won something and that it is free. The next thing you‘ll get is a longâ€"distance phone call and they will want a downâ€"payment instantly on your credit card. The whole operation is run by a Travel Agent in Tennessee. I can‘t stress enough to my readers to be cautious if you receive a "World Travel Inc.‘" postcard from Fort Myers, Florida. The opening line would get you very excited as it states ‘"You have been chosen by the Contest Division to receive a fabulous Florida vacation in a Resort Hotel." By If you have never been downtairs in the Student Centre of the University of Waterioo, you would be amazed. Among other things, it has a bank, post office, beauty parior, book store, clothing store, and a record store. The manager of the record store says his music tape sales reflects the future public tastes. John indicated that six months down the road, CHYM and CKKW start to include the same songs in their top 60 charts. Ont., station. Today Don keeps fit by curling at the Granite Club where he is considered one of the better skips. His big curling rival is Fran Campbell, Kâ€"W Record sports writer. # «s s One of the quiet services that the Waterioo Lions Club provides for the community is drivers for the Blind Bowlers. Every Monday evening the Lions drive all around Kitchener and pick up the sight handicaps and bring them to the Waterioo Bowling Lanes on Princess St. The Blind Bowlers place their hands on a railing in order to guide themseives before they throw the bowling ball. This is the only fiveâ€"pin bowling alley that serves the Kâ€"W sight handicaps. The January drivers are Lions Rudy Schuize, Bil} Smith, Len Snider, and Harold Wak. The radio hockey voice of the Kitchener Rangers Jr. A team, Don Cameron, is a native of Prince Edward Isiand. They say he was a pretty fair ball player in his youth but dMn'tgetmnchlceflmeenthehhnd.Befiuremmluto radio station CKKW, Don was heard over a St. Catharines, m Under \2/““) What is Canada? To Nancy White, Canada‘s sweet "voice of liberal guilt," known for her topical political % performed and written each week for public affairs show Sunday Morning, it means many things. It‘s the ‘crying of the loon,‘ it‘s the swissshhhh . . . . of the falling dollar. It‘s Gretzky worship or. . .the ritualistic exchange of toeâ€"rubbers at an urbane party. It‘s hot dogs in packages of eight, rolls in packages of six. Jumper cables for Christmas. To many, Canada is â€" Nancy White. The awardâ€"winning singer/songwriter, whose wit and talent know no bounds, delighted a near soldâ€"out UW Humanities theatre Saturday. Ne 11 am. to 6 pm Nancy White Saturday. I pm. to planned to have my baby in the backyard in standard _ squatting position, you know, but. . .it was February, . and I can‘t even get my husband to shovel the ; _ sidewalk." M Fiona Freud (Liona Boyd) ‘second lady of guitar,‘ was deliciously nasty, featuring White, lfis wide apart, adorned in blond garland wig, and baby blue gown, as she mimicked Boyd‘s tedious stage personality â€"or _ the lack of it. + s The cutting banter continued with a juicy smite against the doctor‘s strike in protest of the provincial government‘s extraâ€"billing veto, called Freedom Train to Texas. Done up Hallelujah style, White received a wealth of audience support coyly labelling the nations medical profession ‘"‘Contras of the North," riding their BMW‘s to the promised land of Texas, which is trying ‘ to recruit Canadian doctors. Memo to Droola (based on Boccherini‘s string * quartet in E Opus 13, No. 5 "minuetto") depicted a Jlist of expectations for the baby of the ‘80s. White (who now has a oneâ€"yearâ€"old daughter) got the idea from the . theory unborn babies are soothed by Baroque melody. When asked to review this concept for CBC‘s Dayshift, (subbing for Erica Ritter) White constructed this delicate Love Chords ‘in utero.‘ 1 * White‘s hysterical monologue on the and pleasure of her pregnancy was a show filgxligh & "I _ White performed a majority of material from her latest cassette Nancy White: Unimpeachable, lamblasting the politicians in Ottawa Medliey beginning with the Prime Minister (the only song he knows is When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, as he practises for governor of the Sist state), Johnny T, John Turner‘s bottomâ€"pinching incident (if your ass can take the indignity, you‘ve got half the system beat), and NDP supporter {)unh McDermott. ‘"Oh Dennis‘" was a laughâ€"filled Irish shanty with a ‘snort‘ refrain, concerning the retired former president of Canadian labour appointment as ambassador of Ireland by the PM. ‘"Sure and I smell a manly scent from Canada," said White, in a fine Irish brogue. . How Blind Was Our Trust featured a glowing tribute to the solid secrecy and deceit of Noreen and Sinc Stevens‘s ‘trust,‘ in each other, and a $2 million loan ""she never mentioned to him." » Hubba Hubba Newfoundland was based on a Macleans magazine survey, which said > â€" Newfoundlanders rated themselves high in sexual prowess, higher than any other province! White, to a flood of laughter, claimed this phenomena is due to ‘fore and aft play‘ and ‘the extra half hour.‘ (Newfoundland is in a time zone of its own) White, an adept linguist, understands many cultures + and can turn deadly serious at the drop of a punchline. In one poignant moment, she sang a Cuban ballad of * peace depicted through the simple imagery of a cloud melting, as hope appears. White is a devout.member of P.A.N.D. (Performing Artists for Nuclear s Disarmament), has appeared in Nicaraugua with « singer Bruce Cockburn, and Hamburg, Germany. L\ &A 14#"~ T 885â€"4280

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