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MONDAY, JULY 8,1991
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About 6,000 people In Fort George Park enjoy Sunday night’s Music ’91 concert, which featured Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Lee Aaron and The Young Saints.
9,000 ATTEND ROADSHOW EVENT
Park packed for Music ’91
by ARNOLD OLSON Citizen Staff
The Music ’91 RoadShow weekend in Prince George was a success, despite earlier predictions of a 60-per-cent chance it would be rained out at Fort George Park.
Rain clouds drifted by and the sun shone for the most part.
“We did very, very well,” said Sonya Norris, Music ’91 marketing co-ordinator.
“Saturday we did about 3,000 to 3,500 (ticket sales). That was very good for John Denver, considering the ticket price for the John Denver Show ($25.25).’’
Sunday was a different matter, for the Young Saints, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and the Lee Aaron shows. Tickets for that day cost $14.50 and the crowd swelled to about 6,000.
“We had a walk-up (sales at the gate) of more than 2,000,” said Norris, explaining that the various ticket outlets throughout Prince George were sold out and radio announcements were made advis-
ing that tickets would be sold at the gate on 17th Avenue.
The turnout here matches other Music ’91 venues to date, she said. Kelowna, with a similar number of people to draw upon, had similar numbers. The Victoria area drew almost 10,000 people, she said.
“We’re quite pleased. We had a wonderful weekend and Prince George was wonderful to us.”
Early arrivals began before 11 a.m. Saturday, when the area immediately fronting the Mainstagc area was Filled before noon. John Denver fans weren’t going to miss a chance to see him almost face to face.
For example, the Tom Walton family from Mackenzie was waiting before 11 a.m. for the gates to open. They spread an orange tarpaulin on the ground, blew up their inflatable mattresses and relaxed for the day.
Karen and Sarah Edwards left Vancouver about 1 a.m. to get to Prince George in time to be at Fort George Park before the gates opened. They’d bought a ticket for
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their mother, Lyn, a longtime Denver fan who was disappointed he wasn’t going to play in the Lower Mainland. She slept in, leaving at 3 a.m.
Those who showed up Saturday were an older group for the most part. These were the families.
Many showed up early, with children in tow because they wanted to give the youngsters a chance to enjoy the special events: Music tents where they could try out new electronic instruments or play around with traditional sound-makers like drums, tambourines.
The Drumasaurus had children beating on it all day long. This was a long pipe sculpture in the outline of a dinosaur, with a variety of percussion instruments made from ordinary objects, like metal pots, pot lids, an old re-
frigerator’s radiator and hanging pipes or metal rods.
An air-driven synthesizer allowed youngsters to make music by walking on the keys. This had some technical problems that had to be repeatedly repaired, but the children had fun anyway. A huge teepee offered storytellers.
And, of course, clowns were part of the day.
Not everyone who showed up early came for the children.
Most of the early crowd who staked claims in front of Main-stage brought their own food. The security people at the gate inspected the coolers and tote bags — sometimes even large purses — to ensure liquor would be no problem.
While the Music ’91 security staff didn’t object to a youngster peddling ice cream on 17th Avenue, one of the volunteers did. She assumed authority to confiscate the youngster’s tricycle and told her not to peddle treats within a one-mile radius.
Music ’91 officials questioned
about the matter all agreed this was stepping far beyond the event’s authority.
“We have no problem with that,” said Norris. “Look at all the coolers people brought in, containing their own food and pop.”
For those who didn’t bring their own food, the Prince George Multicultural Folkfest Heritage Society offered hot food and cold drink. Food ranged from buffalo burgers or roast to various European and Chinese dishes.
Scouts Canada was out in force, youngsters rushing about to spear paper plates or candy wrappers and picking up pop cans to keep Fort George Park clean all day long. Seldom was an area littered for more than a minute or so.
Barb Allen of Edmonton commended the Scouts for doing such a good job that she’d barely finished her lunch when a boy offered to take her plate.
This was the character of the two days: Excellent planning, followed by enthusiastic paid and volunteer workers.
Alderman transferred to Coast
Aid. John Last is at Sl Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver after being transferred there Sunday night from Prince George Regional Hospital.
“He’s quite stable and he’s chatting away this moming,” said the St. Paul’s nursing supervisor today. Last, 44, is in the intensive care ward for heart patients. The supervisor said Last will have tests today to determine the cause of chest pains.
Last was admitted to hospital here Friday moming after suffering a heart attack.
Last is operations manager at the Prince George Credit Union. Currently serving his first term on city council, Last was president of the successful B.C. Summer Games here last year. Before his election to council, Last worked for six years on the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission.
Guns silenced on Yugoslavia’s fronts
From AP-AFP
BRIONI, Yugoslavia (CP) — Slovenian and federal leaders agreed today on a formula that would give the republic limited control of its borders and time to work out secession peacefully.
As an indication of good will, Slovenia released its last captured federal army troops — fewer than 100 officers — the army command announced today in Belgrade.
In Croatia, which declared independence along with Slovenia on June 25, federal army tanks broke up a firefight Sunday between
Croatian and Serbian fighters. More than a dozen combatants were reported killed.
It was the first time federal troops opened fire in Croatia to break up fighting between Croats and Serbs who have clashed almost daily since May. The village of Tenja, where the fighting took place, was reported quiet today.
An agreement in principle was reached with Slovenian and Croatian leaders by Yugoslavia’s eight-member collective presidency, in a meeting on the island
of Brioni off Yugoslavia’s Adriatic coast.
“Our road to full independence will be long but now it is clear that after three months of negotiations our sovereignty will be full,” Slovenian President Milan Kucan declared.
As did an earlier European Community-brokered ceasefire, the agreement suspends the implementation of the Slovenian and Croatian independence declarations, without suspending the actual declarations.
It also sets a three-month cool-
ing-off period and an Aug. 1 deadline for the start of negotiations on a new federal structure for Yugoslavia’s six republics and two autonomous provinces.
Federal President Stipe Mesic, a Croat, said after the accord was reached that “peace begins today.”
The agreement cements a four-day mice that has largely held in Slovenia since its lightly armed forces repulsed army tanks and warplanes seeking to reimpose Yugoslav sovereignty over the re-
public’s borders with Italy, Austria and Hungary.
The violence in Slovenia left 62 people dead, the Red Cross said.
Under the accord, Slovenian police will control the republic’s 27 border posts but turn over revenue from customs duties to the federal government.
European Community mediators, who have interceded three times since the independence declarations on crisis missions, helped broker the accord.
Prince George bishop resigns
by MARILYN STORIE Citizen Staff
The Most Rev. Hubert Patrick O’Connor, O.M.I., has resigned as bishop responsible for the Diocese of Prince George.
The Apostollo Nunciature officially announced today His Holiness Pope John Paul II has accepted the resignation tendered by the bishop.
O’Connor is standing trial for two counts of indecent assault and two counts of rape. Charges were laid under the former Criminal Code, when one form of sexual assault was referred to as rape.
It was incorrectly reported in a Citizen headline Saturday that O’Connor will stand trial on six
counts of sex assault-related offences. O’Connor was charged with six counts but was ordered to stand trial on only four of the counts after a three-day preliminary hearing ended Friday in Williams Lake Supreme Court.
The four complainants were all adult women at the time of the alleged assaults during the late 1960s when O’Connor served as a priest and principal of the residential school.
Chief Bev Sellars of the Soda Creek band north of Williams Lake and herself a former student at the residential school, said today she welcomed the news the bishop had resigned.
“I think he should have resigned
from his position before,” said Sellars. “I don’t think he should have anything to do with representing the Catholic Church.”
Msgr. Lawrence Turgeon has been acting as interim spiritual head of the Prince George diocese, home to some 36,000 Roman Catholics who live in the northern half of the province, since charges were officially laid against O’Connor in late February.
In tendering his resignation, O’Connor is following an established precedent by Roman Catholic priests under criminal investigation.
They have typically put their regular duties aside until criminal matters can be resolved.
Mulroney should quit, says majority
by Canadian Press
TORONTO — Two of every three Canadians want Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to quit, suggests a new Gallup poll.
Nationally, 68 per cent of Canadians think Mulroney should throw in the towel, indicates the poll, published today. Twenty-four per cent of respondents said he should not resign, while eight per cent expressed no opinion.
Dissatisfaction with Mulroney was greatest in Ontario, where 80 per cent of respondents said he should resign. The lowest proportion who want him ouL 54 per cent, was in Quebec.
This compares with 65 per cent in the Atlantic provinces, 74 per cent on the Prairies and 58 per cent in British Columbia who want Mulroney to quit.
In a similar poll done in June 1988, 33 per cent of respondents thought Mulroney should step down.
Liberal Leader Jean Chretien has repeatedly called on Mulroney to resign or call an election. But in today’s poll, 38 per cent said Chretien should quit himself, while 44 per cent said he should not and 18 per cent gave no opinion.
Only 14 per cent of respondents want NDP Leader Audrey McLaughlin to step aside.
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