Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 29, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press june 1987 pages 1322 love of horses not a Short term sesame Street still tops after 18 by Dave Haynes Winnipeg free press Crystal Grade 12 students at Thomas Greenway collegiate got to Gether months Back and chose a philosophical theme for their graduation when one Road another that new Road starts beyond the struggling farm implement dealer ships on the Highway that roars past Crystal 502 and a but one of the town High schools 16 graduates will soon hit the few of them Ever coming Back for More than a with pomp that took an entire school year to the class of 87 officially graduated last Friday night at the local mennonite ate Ham at a banquet Laid on by the Grade los and their and danced in a gym that took a month to Start scattering it was a last Celebration for a close group of friends who have been together since Grade class valedictorian Paula spoke in her speech of me Mories and shared soon she and her classmates will Start scattering to the Leav ing because theres Little future for Young Man or woman who Sticks around this Small southwestern Manitoba farming because the farm Economy seems stuck in hard times and big Industry rarely locates in Small Prairie the grads of Crys Tal City and the other farming towns across the province Are being forced More than Ever to look elsewhere for jobs and parents no longer encourage their boys to stick around and keep the farm theres a joke going around these says school principal Dennis a father gives his son a Section of land and gets accused of child apart from someone sticking around after High school Hast much Choice of work beyond waiting tables at one of the local cafes or pumping so the exo dus has accelerated in recent at a clip that is making retirement communities out of towns like Crystal standing in the lobby of the 23 year old High named in Honor of a Long deceased provincial Premier who owned a big part of the her tier notes How the situation can be summed up by the graduation class photos hanging near the the class of 65 had More than 30 but the numbers shrink As the years unless some families move into the the class of 1993 will have Only 12 mixed emotions a sparsely populated the High school pulls its students from nearby farms and Steven lives in within View of the and spends two hours a Day on a school bus Riding to school and to share resources and broaden the students Greenway collegiate shares senior classes with Pilot Mound a shuttle school bus regularly runs students Back and Forth to gathered one Day to talk about their futures and their the students had typically mixed emotions about some expressed honest fears about making the transition from a Small town to a huge City and some frustration with being forced to look elsewhere for a others Felt Happy to escape an environment that at their age feels like a i dont necessarily want to live in a big but i dont want to just stick around says 17year old Corena Turnbull of who Phil free press most of the class of 87 from Greenway school in Crystal City will soon be seeking Greener Rural grads hit the Road Bleak work opportunities Force Rural students to leave Home Phil free press valedictorian Paula Penman poses under is enrolled in the arts program at the University of Manitoba this want to see other things travel i think a lot of the parents out Here think that even if we do go to the big Well be coming because that what were used says Cynthia who is leaving her parents farm in near by Clearwater to Chase a registered nursing diploma and career in win they dont exactly say it but i think most of them expect Dale is the Only Grad staying raised on a he plans to stick around for a year before deciding his next his interests remain in so unlike the his future May be in his Moir much like Crystal cites John Deere dealer Bill now Mckitrick graduated from a Large class in the late 60s and is one of maybe three grads who still live in the to be theres not much for them to come Back in terms of except for the Odd one who might take agriculture and get involved in like All Small town Mckitrick has worked at trying to secure his 108yearold towns fun a group of local businessmen and Farmers tried for several years to lure a Fla processing Plant that would draw its workforce from Crystal City and Pilot about eight Kilometres up the High but the Plant is still just an idea and there Are no other big projects even being we Are receptive to says but Industry seems to look for a workforce and its a vicious we need the Industry to establish the a healthy two hour drive South West of through the Roll ing Hills of the Pembina Valley and just Kilometres from the Bor Crystal City was built and survives on the tallest buildings in town Are the Manitoba Pool elevators and the outskirts Are littered with the unsold tractors and combines of implement people smile the future Doest hold a lot of but Crystal City is far from wasting you go Down the main Street of youre not going to see boarded up As a matter of youre going to see an insurance Agency that just opened that sort of says i think the town is quite Well supported by the and by the feeder i certainly dont think it is a disappearing commune not by any stretch of the image there is too much Grain still being hauled to the elevators for that to it is the kind of town where people smile and wave at strangers driving people pull up chairs and Horn in on conversations at lunchtime in the Crystal City hotels most of the town turns out for socials and the Curling which produced this years provincial High school is Busy in the parents mostly leave education in the hands of the who in turn tend to stay at the school for Long Thomas Greenway collegiate has developed a reputation for academic no one gets marked on a curved Grade scale at the while her tier understands the provincial average for students going immediately on to pos secondary education is roughly 28 per he notes that about 80 per cent of Thomas Green Way grads go on to College or major production graduation Day has developed into about the biggest thing Hap pening in town each a major production it takes months to Jennifer who starts nursing school this ordered streamers from a supplier in wis Consin last to ensure it All arrived in the gym was closed for decoration june so the grads mostly the the if threatened could Start tap ing huge tropical landscape murals on the Wall and hanging what ends up to be some eight Kilometres of once about the Only thing left to suggest its a gym Are the basketball court lines on the so Many townspeople now turn up for the formal ceremonies Grad organizers had to move festivities from the towns United Church to the mennonite which could hold More but there still int room for after the the diploma ceremonies and the the students and crowd head Back to the gym for the grand after a couple of twirls on the dance the grads Are allowed to Clear get Back into jeans and and get into the Wilder part of the this Guil Fords parents agreed to hold the party in their farm booze is but the students Are hold ing a Parent supervised Safe beyond the the grads try to hang on As Best they can to their Circle of in the they go Home on weekends and catch up with those same maybe go Down to Rock Lake for a Bonfire and some but As they get settled and make new feelings for the old crowd and the town usually Start to they Stop driving Home on and Crystal like countless other Little turns a Little More into just the place where Peoples parents still show bits cruise drops Back in car race from the news services actor Tom cruise slipped from top gun to teaming to finish 14th yester Day in an Simsa Firestone fire Hawk grand sports endurance race at Road it was his first race As a professional the race was won by John Heinricy of and Stuart Hayner of Yorba who completed 100 laps in a Chevrolet Star of the movie top gun and Paul newmans costar in the color of started the teams Nissan 300 Zyx Turbo and drove the first hour and 20 minutes of the three hour sniffle test passed Charlottetown Anne of Green Gables passed the sniffle test again Friday at its first Public showing of the Charlottetown Festi Val when Matthew Cuthbert a wave of sniffles passed through the As it has done for the last 23 we think its an absolutely Superb said Peter a Clergyman who used to live on the soviet to coming Ottawa live soviet television is coming to Carleton University in the fall under a new program de signed mainly for students and re four television sets around Cam pus will pick up the same news and sports shows broadcast in the soviet says Larry director of the University Institute for soviet and East european rap Star ducks order rap music Star Cool j failed to appear in court to face charges of violating a City lewdness police the 19yearold whose real name is James forfeited a Bond for not showing up recently in recorders said police chief Jim Smith was arrested after he Alleg edly simulated sexual Intercourse on stage at municipal police Bernstein honoured London Leonard the american conductor and com has been awarded the Royal philharmonic society 73rd Gold joining such musical greats As Johannes Jean Sibelius and Sergei composer sir Michael Tibbett presented the award to Bernstein yesterday after the 68yearold Ameri can conducted the Amsterdam concert Gebow orchestra in works by Franz Schubert and Gustav Mahler at barbican concert polyp removed los Angeles Lew Wasser chairman and chief executive of entertainment conglomerate Mca had a polyp removed from his a spokesman for Cedar Sinai medical Centre once an agent whose clients included Ronald Rea built Mca into an entertain ment he has been with Mca for half a Grodin is Bright spot in ishtar Charles Grodin plays overzealous Cia agent in by Desmond Ryan Knight Ridder newspapers York before they meet in ishtar Busy Middle Eastern Charles Grodin and the sup Posedly Blind Camel have each Sto Len every scene allotted they look at each other with the air of wily veterans sizing up the oppose director Elaine Mays which casts Grodin As yet another of the unscrupulous manipulators he has played in his Calls for the Camel to place its Hoof on Grodins the Camel did this with a demure for although the animal fit the classic israeli Defini Tion of a Camel a horse put together by a committee it was certainly not walked gingerly i think maybe it knew that i was responsible for the death of King Kong in the 1976 so it walked very gingerly around reported neither the Camel in question nor its several standing was actually its the beasts Blue eyes found Only in an especially rare and expensive Breed give it the spaced out look of sightless dispatched by emis Saries from ishtar walked Miles for such a All Over it was a frustrating on one occasion they returned to bargain what they were certain was the perfect Blu eyed animal Only to have the dealer youre too we ate such tales of whim and excess Are Likely to leave a spaced out look in the eyes of the executives who approved the budgeted at a reported million excluding promotional brought in a dismal million in its first two weekends at the Box of the uproar Over Money has like Wise obscured the merits of ishtar among which Grodins consummate piece of comedy As Cia station chief Jim Harris is the most instead of Fielding questions about his considerable contribution to the Grodin finds during faced Only with queries about what ishtar like Woody Grodin is a diehard new yorker an actor deeply involved in the theatre and his own writing who is a bemused Spectator when movies and television Force him into reluctant by since starting in Holly Wood in the Early 60s As a villain in to the 52yearold Pitts Burgh native has made tiny movies his own movers and shakers and real life for Albert sums that even feed the camels on the ishtar and he has done megabucks productions like King Kong and in the latter the salaries for Dustin Hoff Warren Beatty and May put the movie in a Hole before a foot of film had been sex not the Way it works what people dont understand is that if ishtar didst get it be any easier to make Low budget said its not like you would be allowed to do 10 Small movies for the same amount of that not the Way it people talk about Dustin and Warren getting All this but Eddie Murphy gets twice As and so does if they didst get it would just go Back to coca cola owns co Lumbia the studio responsible for speaking More generally of what gets made in Hollywood and How much it ends up Grodin contends that the Root of the problem is who makes the the movie business is essentially run by people who never made a said whose first film appearance was As the doctor in Rosemary baby its a very unusual skill to be Able to judge a piece of material especially a but the Assumption is made by people who have no experience in doing that they and they you have people who Arent Grodins own experience in movies has been a curious Ever since May cast him As the philandering bridegroom who fell for cybill Shepherd in the heart break kid he has been limited by his singular Talent to for the last 15 at least in its become a casting directors axiom if you want a curmudgeon who gets his Call Dabney Coleman As in nine to if you want a disarming Call Charles ;