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April 28, 2006
The Columbia Valley Pioneer • 13
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From left: Lions Herb Seel and Rick Hoar; Derm Gorsuch, Joan George, Gordon Bagan, Eileen Fiell, Herb Weller,
Karen Bigalke, Jane Gorsuch, Jim Galloway, Amanda Fedrigo, Robert Firth, Roslyn Pruitt, Lions Harold Hazelaar
and Al Pepper.
Lions hand out $70,000-plus
Th e Lake Windermere District Lions Club roared
on Tuesday night as it donated more than $70,000 to
worthy recipients in the area.
Invermere Public Library was the big winner as it
received $30,000 towards the new library expansion.
Recipients and many Lions, dressed in their yellow
vests, were at the Lions Hall at the Invermere
crossroads for the ceremony on April 25th.
Lions Club President Harold Hazelaar told everyone
assembled that the nine recipients had been chosen
from 15 applications.
Each recipient was called forward to accept a
cheque and explain their use for the money.
Library board representative Sandy McIlwain said
the money will be spent on the library’s children’s area,
buying more books and establishing a teen area.
Other recipients were: the Akisqnuk Rediscovery
Society, $5,500; Invermere Citizens on Patrol, $500;
the J.A. Laird community climbing wall, $1,000; the
Radium Silver Fins swim club, $1,250; the Valley Fitness
Society, $10,000; Wildsight-Lake Windermere
Project, $8,500; Windermere District Historical Society,
$10,500; Windermere Valley Ski Club, $3,000.
Th e money was raised through the lease the Lions
have with the Copper Point Golf Club. Th e golf club
is located on Lions Club land.
At Th e Library
Reading Lolita in Tehran
By Azar Nafi si
Reviewed by Sheila Bonny
Invermere Public Library
Reading Lolita in Tehran is the memoir of English
Professor Nafi si’s experience in Iran immediately
after the revolution to establish the fundamentalist
Muslim regime.
Under the new government, women are forbidden
to run, to laugh aloud in public, to wear makeup,
to speak to a man who is not a relative, or to
appear without every lock of hair covered. In the
universities, study of works containing Western values,
immoral behavior or sex come under attack.
Bristling from the restrictions and expelled from
the University of Tehran for refusing to wear the
veil, Nafi si mourns her teaching career. In defi ance,
she invites seven dedicated women scholars to meet
secretly in her home to study English literature.
Nafi si’s home becomes a haven where the
women can remove their veils and reveal their true
selves.
Th e memoir weaves stories of the women’s
struggles with tyranny around the themes of Vladmir
Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James and
Jane Austen.
Readers will be horrifi ed and fascinated as Nafisi
relates daily incidents of social injustice, demonstrates
the inspiring power of fi ction, and portrays
the determination of each woman to nurture her
individuality.
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