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Bonus Question - posted October 8, 2004

To all the candidates:

The Public Library Board, staff and customers (that's everyone in Red Deer!) want to know:

"What is your favourite book, movie or music album?"

Now you can read, listen to or watch your favourite candidates' books, CDs and movies!  Find them in the online catalogue - you can put a hold on an item from your home - or come down to the Downtown and Dawe Branches and check them out.  If we don't have one of these titles, let us know if you'd like us to order it for the collection.

Go to these replies:

1. K.C. Pavlick	2. Larry Pimm	3. Fred Scaife
4. Phil Hyde	5. Lorna Watkinson-Zimmer	6. Cathy Peacocke
7. Cindy Jefferies	8. Elliott Bessey	9. Lynne Mulder
10. Steve Cross	11. Blake King	12. John Cockerell
13. Morris Flewwelling

From K.C. Pavlick, candidate for City Council

Favorite Book: Funk and Wagnalls College Dictionary
Favorite CD: Anything by Colin James or Stevie Ray Vaughn [check out Vaughan's CDs "In Step" and "Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble" - CD BLUES VAU]
Favorite Movie: OLD: Monty Python, In Search of the Holy Grail - [the DVD of this film is available Downtown - DVD MON] - NEW: Pirates of the Caribbean - [Downtown, DVD PIR]

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From Larry Pimm, candidate for City Council

Favorite Book - A Fine Balance - [by Rohinton Mistry - the Library has copies in the Adult Fiction sections of the Dawe & Downtown Branches - F MIS]
Favorite Movie - Bye Bye Blues - [Anne Wheeler's film - shot in Southern Alberta - can be found on VHS video on Level 2 of the Downtown Branch - AVC BYE]
Favorite Album - Phantom of the Opera - [the Library has copies of the Soundtrack to Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical based on the Gaston Leroux classic, both Downtown and at Dawe - CD SNDTRACK PHA ]

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From Fred Scaife, candidate for City Council

Strange as it may seem I believe I have learned more life lessons in my favorite book than most things I have read. The Velveteen Rabbit is a children’s book with wisdom way beyond the understanding of many adults. I encourage all to go to children’s section and check out the Velveteen Rabbit, see if you can remember your Skin Horse and find the point you started to become real.  [Copies of The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams are available in the Easy Picture Book sections of the Children's Department Downtown, and at the Dawe Branch - JE WIL]

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From Phil Hyde, candidate for City Council

Easy....My favourite series of books are by Tom Clancy, especially those involving the Jack Ryan character. My music is all over the board but I admit to being a huge Elvis Presley fan and have most of his albums and movies. Favourite all time movie and television series ..... MASH.....

[The Library has 53 titles by Tom Clancy - one of the most prolific and popular of today's authors.  Check out his books in the Fiction and Paperback sections of the Dawe and Downtown Branches.  Elvis' music is well-represented in the CD collection as well - in the ROCK/POP, GOSPEL and CHRISTMAS CD sections at both branches.]

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From Lorna Watkinson-Zimmer, candidate for City Council

My all time favourite book is 'Sarum' by Edward Rutherfurd. I am a history buff and thoroughly enjoyed the history of the British Isles. The detail of the era and the characters kept me awake many-a-night reading! He also wrote 'London, Ruska, The Forest and the Princes of Ireland.' The 'Princes of Ireland' is not the best of the set. I need to re-read 'Sarum,' it's worth it. There are so many books out there and so little time!

[Rutherfurd's books are available in the Fiction and Paperback sections at both branches.]

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From Cathy Peacocke, candidate for Public School Trustee

I don’t believe I could ever list one particular book as my favorite. The type of story I most enjoy reading though, is historical novels which are well researched and closely follow actual historical events. The author’s invention of characters who lived in that era permits readers to immerse themselves into the period, and see the world as it was lived by people of that time. I am fascinated by stories in which characters travels back in time, taking the knowledge of a past age back with them, to the period when the events actually occurred. I believe my interest in this type of book was fostered when, as a child, I read A Traveler in Time, by Alison Uttley. Many years later, I still remember that book with great fondness.

[Uttley's classic can be found both in the Children's Department Downtown, F UTT, and in the Adult Science Fiction Collection Downtown, SF UTT.]

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From Cindy Jefferies, candidate for City Council

It's so hard to just pick one. At this point in time, I would have to say Santana is a favourite. His fairly recent CD "Supernatural" is my favourite. One of my favourite Canadian artists is Colin James, I particularly like his CD "Fuse".

[There are three Santana titles in the Downtown CD Collection - CD POP/ROCK SAN - including the multi-Grammy award winner "Supernatural."  We need to order Colin James CDs: this is the second time he's been mentioned!]

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From Elliott Bessey, candidate for City Council

Favorite Book: the Art of war (any translation) by SUN TZU. [Downtown Nonfiction - 355.02 SUN] - I am also a huge Dale Brown fan Day of the Cheetah was my first Dale Brown book.

[Dale Brown's many books are in hardcover and paperback fiction - Day of the Cheetah is available Downtown - F BRO - and at Dawe - A PB BRO]

Favorite CD: well the Visit by Lorenna McKinnet is my all time favorite. Followed closely by East of Edson by Captain tractor.

Favorite movie: Older: would be Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Newer movies i enjoy Boondock Saints and Army of darkness

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From Lynne Mulder, candidate for City Council

Favorite Music is country and western with Johnny Cash being my favorite! [The Library has a good selection of the music of the late, great Johnny Cash in the CD collection: CD COUNTRY CAS.]

Favorite Book - I would have to go with favorite subject I think - I love books about lawyers and criminalists - Jeffrey Deaver, Jonathan Kellerman, Lisa
Scottoline , Cathy Reich........ [Check out these authors in the Mystery sections of our hardcover and paperback Fiction areas, both Downtown and at Dawe. You'll probably need to put a hold on the most recent book by each author, but there are lots of titles by these authors on our shelves right now.]

Favorite Movie - The Sound of Music will always be my favorite I think!! [We have a widescreen DVD of this film classic at the Dawe Branch - DVD SOU - you'll appreciate seeing the whole alpine panorama and hearing the great digital sound on DVD]

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From Steve Cross, candidate for City Council

Favorite Book - Grizzly Country by Andy Russell - [599.784 RUS, at the Dawe Branch]

Favorite CD's - Hits Compilation Package-The Turtles' 20 Greatest Hits
and also Time Passages by Al Stewart

Favorite Movie - Dragon Heart - [We don't have this film, but we do have a novel based on the screenplay - A PB POG - at the Dawe Branch].

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From Blake King, candidate for City Council

I read over 20 novels each year and watch at least as many movies. I have a few favorite books and many favorite movies. My two favorite books are Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet [F FOL - Adult Fiction, both branches], and The Stand by Stephen King [F KIN, Adult Fiction Downtown, and PB F KIN, Adult Fiction Paperback at Dawe]. If I was to pick my favorite movie it would be True Romance written by Quentin Tarantino, it encompasses action, comedy, drama and of course a little romance. [Not yet in the collection, though there are movies on DVD and VHS by Tarantino and True Romance director Tony Scott].  I can't narrow down my favorite album however my favorite performers/groups would include Match Box 20, Garth Brooks, Eminem and Kid Rock.

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From John Cockerell, candidate for Public School Trustee

Book: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. - [F RAN - Adult Fiction at both branches]
Movie: Chinatown 1974 dir: R. Polanski stars Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson - [on VHS at both branches - AVC CHI]
Album: Bitches Brew by Miles Davis. - [four titles by the great Miles Davis in the CD collection, but not this title - CD JAZZ DAV]

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From Morris Flewwelling, candidate for Mayor

Favourite Book: Whatever I'm currrently reading.  Right now, it's The wheatgrass mechanism : science and imagination in the Western Canadian landscape, by Don Gayton.  [508.712 GAY 1990 - Downtown Adult Non-Fiction]

Favourite Music: Everything from Corb Lund's Five-Dollar Bill to Beethoven's Emperor Concerto [the complete piano concertos with Murray Perahia: CD CLASSICAL BEE].

Favourite Film (Old): Gone With The Wine [available on VHS and DVD, both Downtown and at Dawe] - (More Recent) Open Range, Hidalgo

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