C8-Wednesday, August 20, 1980 - North Shore News By CHRIS LLOYD Who says nothing stays the same? Anyone up at Grouse Mountain last Sunday might well have thought time had stood still and they were there back in the same month in 1978. After all, the cir- cumstances were just the same — music fans up there at Paradise Bowl waiting to see a band scheduled to play and wondering why the band still hadn’t appeared. Meanwhile, the weather's beautiful and there’s a beer garden that's got to be about the only place with enough beer to sell it outdoors on a Sunday. Memory banks _ start lighting up for some of us as images from the August of two years ago appear, strangely appropriately. The situation is so familiar it’s uncanny. Grouse ' Mountain’s had another bad winter, with little snow to generate the ski dollars and is trying to help balance the year’s financial books by putting on summer concerts. So far they’ve all bombed but this one has all the right circumstances going for it and yet there's this handful of people sitting around on hay bales in Paradise Bowl, wondering just why all they’re listening to is recorded- music when they paid to see a live band. Yet it can’t be still be 1978 because this concert — what concert? - is being put on by Grouse Mountain, whereas the last one was a bunch of people from Toronto who called themselves Pacific North West Production. The gay life at sea LONG BEACH, Calif. (UPI) - A navy board convicted 18-year-old Navy Seaman Alicia Harris of engaging in homosexual activity aboard the USS Norton Sound and ordered her discharged from the service. The conviction was the first in the series of ad- ministrative hearings = for eight women accused of Lesbianism aboard the missile test ship. Two other female crewmembers were cleared of the charges. “It don’t faze me,” Miss Harris said of the ruling. She said she was “glad to be out of the Navy.” The three-officer hearing board announced = shortly after convening Monday that they had reviewed the evidence during the weekend. “The findings of the board are that the respondent has chgaged im homosexuality aboard ship.” the board said ‘The recommendation | 1s that she be discharged on a general discharge undcr honorable conditions ~ Her attorney. Susan McGreivy of the American Civil Liberties Union, said. “It is my heartfelt: opinion that Alicia Harris is not nor had she ever been a Lesbian She made the mistake of being good friends with Wendi Williams. Rumors started going around the ship and look what happened.” Why is it that the last concert in that disastrous series is still so clear? That day we went up to see Toots and the Maytals, Randy Newman and Downchild Blues Band. When Toots never even left Jamaica, Newman refused to go up the mountain because there weren't enough people to see him and then, after several hours of recorded music, Downchild was also can- celled and we all went home again. The audience is just as patient as it was then, sitting back drinking beer from the garden where it can be bought without a_ food purchase being made these days., Goose Creek Symphony was due on at 2 p.m. but they told us at the Sky ride ter- minal it had been put off until 3 p.m. At 3:40 we are told they have arrived and will be here imminently. At 4:30 we're still wondering where they are. The shouts of the audience are getting slurred as the waitresses in the beer gardens shove more of the stuff in to us. “C’mon, guys, you can handle a couple more beer,” they say to anyone who dares to in- dicate they've had enough. At 5:43 p.m.there they are. Goose Creek Symphony appear on stage and start to plantatior i Sale 1509 Open Open Thureday& ime stands still play. Yet people are still leaving. Somehow the music, which would have been fine as entertainment on a sunny afternoon, just didn’t seem special enough to justify the four-hour wait. I think of the things I put off doing that afternoon in order to go to that concert which had been scheduled to end almost two hours before it even began. As I hear murmurings among people about Goose Creek's truck breaking down in Washington while on the way, I feei sorry for the folks of Grouse. After all, it wasn’t their fault Pacific North West screwed up about two years ago. It wasn't their fault that every concert Grouse has arranged up there this summer has been rained out. But even when this latest one is rescheduled from a foggy Tuesday to perfect weather on a Sunday it still doesn’t work. And it wasn't Grouse’s fault either. All they've got out of it ts the expense of running the chair lifts and keeping the entire mountain facilities open for a day which almost certainly didn’t even pay for itself. 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