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LA LA LA Human Steps will be swinging into the Vancouver Playhouse November 9-12 at 8 p.m. These frenetic dancers from Montreal are touring their new work New Demons around the world. Tickets are

available at TICKETMASTER locations.

AROUND TOWN, the North Shore News’ entertainmcitt fisting, is a free service provided for North Shore and Vancouver cultural events. Deadline is the Friday prior to the Wednesday appearance that you re- quest. Only written information can be accepted. The News will do its best to ensure the items appear in the paper, but space constraints may

limit the number of submissions that can be printed. North Shore events

are given priority.

Note: Due to Remembrance Day holiday the deadline for Nov. 15

listings is 2 p.m., Nov. 9.

North Shore Presentation House: How Dees Your Garden Grow, A new comedy. Tues. to

Sat., Nov. 7-18 at 8 p.m. $10/$7. Res: 986-1351.

Hendry Hall: A Chorus of Disapproval. Atan Ayckbourn’s comic look at ama- teur opera. Nov. 8-11 at 8 p.m. Res: 983-2633.

North Shore

Presentation House Gallery: China Between The Revolutions: Photographs By Sidney 0. Gamble. Fascinating photographs taken from 1917-1927. Exhibition includes rare film footage taken by Gamble. Gallery hours: Wed.-Sun. 12 to 5 p.m., Thurs. 12 to9

7, P Picture Rental. New works from local artists for rent or sale. Nov. 8, 6 to 8 p.m. Info: 988-6844. N,V. City Hall: Terrisa Adems and Blair Ayling. Oils. Nov. 8.

: Ivor Cohen and Elizabeth McLaren. Watercolors. Opening night Nov. 9, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 143 W. 14th.

N.V. District Hall: Rick McDiarmid, mixed media. Mon.-Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 355 W. Queens. . W.V. Memorial Library: Giovanni Bitelli. Through Nov.

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N,V. Court House: North Shore Photographie Society.

The Ferry Building, W.V.: Historical Display. To Nov. 12, 12 to 8 p.m.

: Sunny DeGong. Opens Nov. 14, 6 to 9 p.m. Info: 925-3605. . Seymour Avt Gallery: juried Drawing Competition. To Nov. 24. Gallery

hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 to 4 p.m., Wed. eve.

7to9 p.m.

Centennial Theatre Lobby: Two Views.

Jas. W. Felter, artist. Theatre hours, or call 984-4484. To Dec. 4.

Alexander Harrison Galleries: jose Salvador.

Park Royal: W.V. Sketch Club. Fall show. To Nov. 12. Mal! hours. North mall.

North Shore

Centennial Theatre: Quartet Canada. Opening concert of the Community Concerts Series. Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. Adm. is by membership only. Info: 988-4636 or 988-8696.

North Shore

Centennial Theatre: World Adventure

Tours Film prasents Song of Ireland.

wey, 9 at 6 and 8:30 p.m. Res: 280- 44,

Tues., Nov. 30 Jues., Nov. 14 Mon., Nov. 13 Mon., Nov. 27 Mon., Nov. 27

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books ‘Now.

Missing chi

idren

3 BOOKS EXPLORE TRAGEDY, JOY

OME ARE the innocent pawn re victims of violent crimes. Some are,

s in custody battles. Some in rebellion

against grievances both real and imagined, runaways.

And some are simply but flawed adoption systems.

Yet regardless of the cis- cumstances that severed them from their homes and families they all have one thing in common: they are Canada’s missing children.

The three books we will be ex- amining this week contain ele- ments which range from the tragic to the joyful. None is a perfect vehicle for exploring what has ac- curately been described as ‘a parent’s worst nightmare’ but each contributes important and essen- tial information critical to an un- derstanding of the scope of this problem which, directly or in- directly, affects us all.

MIKE STEELE

book review

Of the three, Child Finder (Prentice-Hall; 255 pp.; $22.95 in hardcover) provides the broadest overview and greatest amount of hard, useful data.

Written by Colin Maxwell (‘Canada’s #1 Tracker of Missing Children’’) and Allan Gould {author of The Top Secret Tory Handbook and The Great Wiped-Out North), Child Finder details Maxwell's haphazard entry into the field and many of his cases.

Maxwell's success in locating missing kids is phenomenal (some 60 runaways, abductees and kid- nap victims found in just six years), but these emotionally-charged stories owe more to their poignant human content than to the author's technical writing style.

The self-deprecating, gee-whiz approach wears quickly; Child Finder would certainly have benefited from strong editorial! guidance but this book’s failings are outweighed by the services it renders.

In addition to details on how a search is mounted and avenues that parents might take in locating a missing child, Maxwell offers names, telephone numbers and addresses of organizations invalv- ed in this human deam> 9 infer.

Room 209 at 3:30 Room 008 at 3:30 Room 219 at 3:30 Room 300 at 3:00 Room 236 at 3:30

lost in the provinces’ well-intentioned

ence or instruction he also offers some sound advice on child pro-

tection. ee

Barrie Clark’s My Search For Catherine Anne (Lorimer; 156 pp.; paperback) deals specifically with the obstacles that hamper birth parents in their search for their Children and attempts by offspring to locate their biological parents.

Now this one is well-written and one heck of a tear-jerker at that. If you can read it without getting misty-eyed then you're made of far sterner stuff than this professional cynic.

In 1982, Clark, a well-known broadcaster and former Liberal MLA, discovered that he had fa- thered a child decades before. The baby girl had, for quite under- standable reasons, been put up for adoption. Also understandable was Clark’s intense interest in discovering his daughter's whereabouts, but the difficulties he would face in accomplishing this quest cannot be imagined.

I’m not giving anything away by telling you that Clark succeeded: he did find his Catherine Anne as the book jacket itself reveals, but how this was achieved and the years of perseverence the hunt en- tailed constitute a story of epic proportions — and one in which love does triumph over adversity.

Clark is a compassionate and eloquent man who succeeds in conveying te the reader much of the outrage, frustration, agony and exhilaration of this highly personal odyssey.

While not all of the options available to Clark and Catherine Anne (yes, she was trying to find her birth parents) are necessarily open to others in the same predicament, My Search For Catherine Anne will supply useful guidelines that may at least assist them in their pu rsuits.

A book which has garnered a disproportionate amount of publicity recently is the brutally frank story of a young Vancouver giri’s escape from rigid, demand- ing parents into the hell of drugs and street prostitution.

{ say ‘‘disproportionate’”’

because Runaway (Harper & Col- lins; 341 pp.; $5.95 in paperback), while informative and certainly in- teresting, is the product of a writer whose developing skills would not normally cate the attention they have.

This is not to say that Runaway is badly done {it most assuredly is not) but Lau’s autcbiographical account of two years as a street

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