2 — The Prince George Citizen — Friday, November 3,1989 Provincial ir quality index •fe * HAZARD Bad weather has some good points in Prince George: It carries away air pollution. The provincial government’s testing stations all showed no traces of total reduced sulphur compounds for the second successive day. 0 Kamloopi Vlcfwki fc/10 Tomorrow's forecast. Temperatures: tonight's low/tomorrow's high. Weather Immediate Prince George area: Clouds and showers with windy periods are expected to continue today, overnight and Saturday. The showers could turn to snow near the mountains overnight and early Saturday. Today’s high temperature is expected to be near 7 dropping to near zero overnight and rising to near 6 Saturday. The probability of precipitation is 100 per cent today, 60 per cent overnight and 50 per cent Saturday. A high temperature of 5.4, an overnight low of 3.4, no sunshine, 8.4 mm of rain and .6 cm of snow were recorded at the airport weather office on Thursday. A year ago on this date we had a high of 8.5, an overnight low of -0.9, 2.4 mm of rain and 1.7 hours of sunshine. The sun will set at 4:33 p.m. today and rise at 7:17 a.m. Saturday. Chilcotin-Cariboo: Periods of rain ending this afternoon. Windy. High 7. Tonight, cloudy. Chance of showers or snowflurries. Low zero. Saturday, cloudy with sunny per- iods. Chance of morning showers or flurries. High 5. Probability of precipitation 100 per cent today, 60 tonight and Saturday. Parsnip: Cloudy. Periods of rain this morning. High 6. Tonight, a few showers changing to snowfiur-ries overnight. Low -1. Saturday, cloudy. Chance of showers or flurries. High 4. Probability of precipitation 90 per cent today, 60 tonight and Saturday. Bulkley Valley-The Lakes: Cloudy. Periods of rain this morning. Chance of a shower this afternoon. High 8. Tonight, cloudy. Chance of showers or snowflurries. Low zero. Greater Vancouver: Rain heavy at times. High 10. Tonight, rain at times heavy changing to showers overnight. Low 6. Saturday, cloudy with sunny periods. Chance of morning showers. High 10. Probability of precipitation 100 per cent today and tonight, 60 Saturday. Greater Victoria: Periods of rain. High 11. Tonight, rain at times heavy changing to showers overnight. Low 6. Saturday, cloudy with sunny periods. Chance of morning showers. High 10. Probability of precipitation 100 per cent today and tonight, 60 Saturday. Temperatures TORONTO (CP) - Temperatures in Celsius; precipitation in millimetres: Vancouver Victoria Comox Port Hardy Prince Rupert Penticton Abbotsford Cranbrook Williams Lake Prince George Mackenzie Fort Nelson Dease Lake 9 6019 0 9 8 002.6 9 7005.7 8 7 025.2 II 10 032 8 6 4 003.8 9 6012.4 6 3 000.0 3 1021.4 5 3 006.6 3 3 000.0 -5 -9 000.0 4 0 004.8 Peace River 7 0000.0 Kenora -9 -15000.2 Whitehorse 7 2 000.0 Thunder Bay -1 21y000.2 Yellowknife -10 -13 001 0 North Bay 2 -8 004 6 Inuvik •13 -16 002.4 Toronto 8 0 001.2 Resolute Bay •24 -29 000.0 Ottawa 6 1000.6 Eureka -38 -41 000.0 Montreal 7 4 000 6 Alert -27 •32 000.0 Fredericton 9 2 000.0 Cambridge Bay •16 -22 000.0 Charlottetown 8 1000 0 Calgary 12 6000.0 Halifax 11 4 000.0 Edmonton 7 4 002.2 Seattle 9 7 000.0 Medicine Hat 9 5000.0 Spokane 7 -1002.5 Swift Current 4 2 000.0 Portland 14 7 000 0 Regina -2 -6005.0 San Francisco 22 9 000 0 Saskatoon 1 -2 004.0 Los Angeles 29 13 000.0 Prince Albert -2 -6011.0 North Battleford 4 0 005.0 Las Vegas 19 3 000.0 Winnipeg -7 -13 000.2 Eyno 16 -4 000.0 Brandon -6 -10 002.2 Phoenix 27 11000.0 Churchill -14 -23 000.0 New York City 13 9002.0 The Pas -8 -10005.2 Miami 31 22 000.0 PROGRAM TO HELP DISABLED Rick Hansen gets new UBC post VANCOUVER (CP) - Two million dollars from the federal government will help establish the Rick Hansen National Fellow program to help people with disabilities, says the president of the University of British Columbia. David Strangway, who was accompanied by Hansen and Secretary of State Gerry Weiner for the announcement Thursday, also said Hansen will fill the new fellowship position. “This program will work to ensure that people with disabilities, whether they are students, staff, faculty or visitors, are given equal opportunity to benefit from all the university has to offer,” he said. A former student at the university, Hansen was the first disabled student to enrol in the School of Physical Education in 1976. He was awarded an honorary degree by the university after raising $20 million for spinal cord research, rehabilitation, wheelchair sport and recreation in a round-the-world wheelchair odyssey. The fellow program will also promote education, awareness and research in the community. The incumbent fellow will be closely linked to the activities of the proposed UBC Disability Centre, which will cost between $6 million and $8 million. Plans call for the centre to be in interim operation by June, 1990, and fully operational by September, 1991. Hansen, who joined the university in March as a special consultant to help the university develop better programs for the disabled on campus, said he is proud of Thursday’s announcement. “If ever there was an environment to succeed in this area, it is here at the University of British Columbia.” Hansen said the program will spur other universities to do the same. "There’s nothing like this in this country and very little like it throughout the world.” Weiner said the federal government is committed to helping the disabled because “the level of education among disabled Canadians is considerably inferior to the (average) Canadian.” OFF-STAGE DIRECTOR NEEDED A review by ARNOLD OLSON Staff reporter The current Centrestage production of The Owl and The Pussycat uses a word during the first scene — enervating — which could sometimes have been used for the play itself. Enervating means to deprive of strength — lifeless. The scene’s slow pace sapped energy and made the mind drift. Produced at the Holiday Inn as dinner theatre, the play opened Thursday night. The original Wednesday opening was cancelled for lack of an audience. Only a few tables were filled Thursday night. The play was ragged because cues were not picked up quickly enough. In that first scene it ruined what should have been a sparking and sparkling argument. The fault was mostly John Keates’s. As both director and actor, he proved what many famous actors have found before this: during rehearsals, an actor needs someone standing and watching to coax the best that can be given and to indicate that what works in the mind doesn’t necessarily work for an audience. As director, he did a darned fine job with his partner, Llewelyn Po-lis. She’s a superb actress who uses her entire body as a tool for projecting from the stage. The hiccup scene was an excellent example — her chest and tummy often silently twitched before she finally went “Hick!” In other parts of the play her body slumped or became erect, depending upon whether her character, Doris Willgus, was dejected or happy. Her face and voice — especially her ability to vocally tremble — were also used to excellent advantage. The Bill Mahoff play is almost Pygmalion in reverse: Instead of being a brilliant man who creates a high-class woman from a street kid, Felix Sherman (Keates) is a self-centred twit who thinks he’s a mental giant and tries to teach a street-wise, sometimes hooker how to improve herself. The stuff for good drama is here. That was proved by its stage success and tnat it was made into a movie. In this production the lack of a director to guide two extremely capable actors showed: meanings of iines were lost or not amplified enough. Keates was almost too static in his interpretation, while he should have shown a more marked transition from self-content superiority to self doubt and finally to the pathetic level he enters in the last scenes. The play continues tonight and Saturday. Tickets are $30 each, which includes a gourmet meal. Table 10 agreed the meal was flawed only because the usual chocolate-covered cherries were missing and the bar had only B and B — no Benedictine to sip with black coffee. One of the staff actually prepared some cherries, but couldn’t do anything about the liqueur. Southam acquires mining paper TORONTO (CP) — Communications giant Southam Inc. said Thursday it has acquired a mining tabloid and a commercial printing firm, a week after announcing it will sell its money-losing Financial Times newspaper. The shuffle includes the sale of its specialty packaging printer, Offset Print and Litho, announced this week. Southam put no price-tag on its purchase of both the Northern Miner, a weekly newspaper, and the paper’s sister company, Norgraph-ics (Canada) Ltd., a printer specializing in corporate annual reports and financial documents. Combined annual revenue from the two is expected to be about $24 million, Southam said in a statement. CANCUN MEXICO February 16 - March 3,1990 Escorted Prince George Group ONLY Includes: *1234 pp dbl. SAVE $700 per Couple Over Leading Competitor - Non stop Boeing 757! Air Travel - Direct Vancouver - Cancun - Vancouver - In flight meals and bar - First class accommodation on beach (4 - 6 star rating) - Escorted by Seven Seas Travel ‘Taxes and Representative! Insurance Extra - Welcome Cocktail Party 564-7000 564-8700 DOWNTOWN PARKWOOD MALL 564-9700 567-4751 PINE CENTRE MALL VANDERHOOF Representative No One Knows Tiravel Better. Closer labor ties suggested VANCOUVER (CP) - The new president of the Confederation of Canadian Unions says he will likely work more closely with the B.C. Federation of Labor to further the interests of workers. Gary Worth, a pulp worker from Kamloops, was acclaimed to the top position of the 40,000-member national organization earlier this week in Sudbury, Ont. He believes his organization, traditionally a rival of the labor federation, will work with the federation on some issues. The greater willingness to cooperate comes in part from the fact Worth’s own union, the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers’ of Canada, bargains jointly with the Canadian Paperworkers’ Union, which is an affiliate of the federation, he said Thursday. But Worth said the 18 member unions of the confederation still have many differences from the federation. The confederation, which represents 20,000 members in British Columbia, is committed to putting the administration of Canadian union members exclusively in the hands of Canadians, rather than allowing control of Canadian workers by U.S.-based “international” unions. Federation president Ken Geor- getti was cautious in his reaction to Worth’s suggestion of greater co-operation. “A majority of our affiliates are Canadian unions but nonetheless we’ve received nothing but abuse from the (confederation) under (former president Jess) Succa-more,” said Georgetti. But he did not rule out the possi-blity of greater co-operation, adding, “our doors are wide open” to communication. WHATSYDUR HURRY BX.? ICBC and your local police remind you to watch your speed. YOUR LOCAL POLICE □ ICBC hm ■ S&fe (Dtvvvtiq Tlr OF THE WEEK cat ________ The Prinee George A message from the City of P.G. Citizen Traffic Safety Committee and “The Heartbeat of Your City" While they last! 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