25 ~ Friday, August 19, 1988 - North Shore News

inning song spurs

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HER SONG When the Smoke Clears turned aut to be
a winner for North Vancouver’s Suzanne Malcolm,
who won second place in a songwriting contest for
Vancouver radio station CKKS-FM.

“I'd been sitting on this for about a year,’
Malcolm, 42, said of her winning entry. ‘‘l’m con-
stantly working on songs, so it takes a while to get the
finished product.

“There’s always changes to make them better.”’

Along with the $3,000 cash prize, Malcolm was able
to sit in on recording at Westward Communications in
Vancouver, where vocalist Troy Reid and producer
Graham Coleman put her song to tape.

Writing songs for about two years, Malcolm sports
no formal musical training, describing herself as
mainly a listener who likes all kinds of music.

With the music of David Houle and Malcolm’s
lyrics, When the Smoke Clears took second spot out
of 5,000 entries, and is guaranteed airplay on the
Vancouver station for one year as part of the prize

COHO FESTIVAL

to keep writing

package.

Fans of North Vancouver entertainer Norman
Foote’s latest album can hear some of Malcolm’s
work on the track My Nephew John, which she penn-
ed for the recording.

Next on the agenda for the adult car worker/
songwriter is a four-track recorder and songwriting
courses paid for with the prize winnings.

“I’ve got many, many more songs,”’ she says. ‘‘I’m
constantly working on them.’’

The first songwriting contest sponsored by a radio
station in Canada, the CKKS contest attracted entries
from as far away as California and Japan.

“As part of our licensing agreement we have to
promote Canadian music,’’ explained station program
director Marty Forbes. ‘We wanted to do something
a little different and help songwriters get into the
business.”

Listeners can tune to 97 on the FM dial to hear
When the Smoke Clears.

Photo submitted

SODA POP advertisements such as these will be on
display at the North Shore Museum until Aug. 28 as part
of its latest exhibition, The Refreshing Pause: Early Soft
Drink Promotions.

MP opens exhibit

automatic gear shift and ZAKS,
space-age building blocks that are

in the
a bicycle

used
bomber,

CAPILANO MP Mary Collins will
on Aug. 20 open the PNE
Rollertand Building’s Bravo
Canada! exhibition heralding

WW. Shore talent lined up

A SPARKLING line-up of local
talent will entertain this year’s
Coho Festival crowds Sept. 11 in
the climax of the annual six days
of fun that draws thousands to
West Vancouver’s Ambleside Park
on what has become a ‘‘second
Labour Day weekend.’’

Morning performances start at
11 a.m., and feature the interna-
tionally acclaimed North Van-
couver Youth Band and Doreen
Sillery’s Swingtime Dancers.

Following, during the afternoon
come Ronald McDonald and his
Magic Show with children’s enter-
tainment, the Nanci Davis Pop

Singers, classical jazz guitarist
Sandro Carlos Camerin and the
Squamish Nation Dancers.

Street entertainers and actors
will also be active around the park
all day.

The preceding Wednesday to
Saturday, Sept. 7-10, brings fre-
quent performances in the south
mali of Park Royal Shopping Cen-
tre by renowned Indian storyteller
Leonard George.

Guitarist Sandro Carlos
Camerin has two albums on the
Pacific Wave record label, his lat-
est being Shadows in the Dark,
available in local record stores and
the theme music for the

Crimestoppers public service an-
nouncements.

The 12 dancers, singers and
drums of the Squamish Nation
Dancers present the centuries-old
traditional songs and dances of
their people, which they perform
regularly for charities and benefits
throughout the Lower Mainland.

‘‘Never a dull moment’’ is the
promise from Coho Festival enter-
tainment coordinator Kelly Millin.

notable achievements by Cana-
dians.

Included in the exhibit is a violin
made-of the carbon fibre/plastic

cutting into Lego’s market niche.

Bravo Canada! runs for the
duration of the PNE fair, through
Labour Day.

Ex-con tells his story

From page 24

But this is no stripes-to-halo
story: even McGilvary’s publisher
describes him as ‘‘...immense and
overbearing...’’ and his co-author,
Marlene Webber, refers to him as
s« erratic, unreliable and
flighty.’’

The reason they persevered is
quite simply because McGilvary’s
HELP project has successfully
placed some 14,000 ex-cons in jobs
since 1977. He is still a consum-

mate ‘con-man’, but the skills he
honed hustling illegal bucks have
since been applied to worthwhile
pursuits.

Square John (University of
Toronto Press; 193 pp.; $14.95 in
paperback) i isa brutally honest but
encouraging story of one man’s
personal efforts to reverse the
habits of a lifetime, while at the
same time proving that recidivism
need not be the rule of every crim-
inal’s jot.

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