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DEADLINE - Deadline for listings in AfterHOURS is Friday at 5 p.m. What’s on around the West Kootenay CLUBS CASTLEGAR Banjo’s Pub Kootenay Stew Tonight 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Sunday, 8 p.m. to midnight 365-6933 Brewskies Pub Paradise Alley Tonight 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Exotic Dancers Mondays to Saturdays 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. Karaoke Talent Search Every Monday 9:30 p.m. 365-2700 Dexter’s Pub Sidewinder Tonight 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m 365-5311 Marlane Hotel Exotic Dancers Monday to Saturday Noon to 12:30 a.m. 365-2626 ROBSON Lion’s Head Pub Karaoke Wednesday 8 p.m. to midnight 365-5811 TRAIL Crown Point Pub Eastern Breeze Wednesday to Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.” 368-8232 ROSSLAND Powder Keg Pub Dr. Fun and the Nightcrawlers Tonight 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. 362-7375 “ ELSON Boiler Room Nightclub Comedians ~ Wednesdays 9:30 p.m. ~~ 352-5331 ART GALLERIES NELSON Nelson Museum. Peter Valisek’s Fear of Flying To Jan. 31 352-9813 GRAND FORKS Grand Forks Art Gallery Siddiq Khan: Still Life Drawings and Drawing the Line: Children’s Drawings To Feb. 29 . 442-2211 TRAIL ‘Trail Society for the Performing Arts Performance ’91 Oscar Wilde in Earnest Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m. CASTLEGAR Castle Theatre Tonight through Thursday An American Tale, Fievel Goes West, 7 p.m. only The Last Boscout, 9:30 p.m. 365-7621 ; TRAIL = Royal Theatre Tonight through Thursday An American Tale, Fievel Goes West, 7 p.m. Cape Fear, 9 p.m. 364-2114 NELSON Civic Theatre Tonight through Thursday Star Trek VI 352-5833 Beta Sigma Phi (Exemplar) 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 7:30 pm. Various locations Next Meeting: Feb. 5 365-3114 Beta Sigma Phi (Preceptor) 1st Wednesdays , 7 p.m. Various locations Next meeting: Feb. 5 365-3401 Beta Sigma Phi (Ritual of Jewels) 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Various locations Next meeting:-Feb. 12 365-6892 Canadian Cancer Society (Castlegar Unit) 2nd Monday of every other month 7:00 p.m. Castlegar Health Unit Next meeting: Feb. 10 365-6498 Castlegar and District Senior Citizens Action Committee ist Tuesdays, 10 a.m. Next meeting: Feb. 4 365-8237 or 365-0085 Castlegar City Council Regular meetings ist and 3rd Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Council chambers Next meeting: Feb. 4 365-7227 z Castlegar Hospital Auxiliary 3rd Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Hospital board room Next meeting: Feb. 17 365-6587 Castlegar Hospital Board 4th Thursdays Hospital board room Next meeting: Feb. 28, 7 p.m. 365-7711 : Castlegar School Board 3rd Mondays, 7 p.m. School board office Next meeting: Feb. 17 365-7731 Castleview Care Centre Auxiliary 4th Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m. Castle View Next meeting: Feb. 26 365-3754 Christian Women’s Club 2nd Thursdays Fireside Inn Next meeting: Feb. 13, 7 p.m. 365-7728 David Thompson Stamp Club 2nd Mondays, 7:30 p.m. St. David’s Undercroft Next meeting: Feb. 10 365-5496 Kinnaird Women’s Institute 3rd Thursdays, 1:30 p.m. Next meeting: Feb. 20 365-5441 Kiwanis Club Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Fireside Inn Next meeting: Jan. 28 365-2151 Knights of Pythias — Twin Rivers 1st and 3rd Mondays, 7 p.m. Masonic Hall Next meeting: Feb. 3 365-6149 Kootenay No. 9 Oldtime Fiddlers Monthly ~ 2:30 p.m. Senior Citizen’s Hall Next meeting: Jan. 26 359-7621 Kootenay Temple #37 Pythian Sisters é 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Masonic Hall Next meeting: Feb. 13 365-5282 Lions Club 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Sandman Inn Next meeting: Jan. 28 Regional District of Central Kootenay . Next meeting: Feb. 15 Nelson, 9 a.m. 352-6665 Rotary Club Tuesdays,’6 p.m. Sandman Inn Next meeting: Jan. 28 365-2780 Selkirk Toastmasters 2nd and 4th Mondays, 7 p.m. Selkirk College, Room B17 Next meeting: Jan. 27 365-6442 or 367-6549 Selkirk Weavers and Spinners Guild 3rd Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. Castlegar Doukhobor Museum Next meeting: Feb. 19 365-5918 SHSS Parent Advisory Council 4th Tuesdays, 7 p.m. SHSS Library Next meeting: Jan. 28 365-7735 Strokers Club 2nd Wednesday of each month 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Senior Citizen’s Hall Next meeting: Feb. 12 359-7480 or 365-3540 TOPS Club Tuesdays, weigh in 6 to 7 p.m., meeting follows Next meeting: Jan. 28 Back of Health Unit 365-3114 West Kootenay Family Historians 1st Monday of every month 6:30 p.m. Selkirk College Library Next meeting: Feb. 3 365-6519 ~ West Kootenay Naturalists Association Last Monday of every month Selkirk College, 7:30 p.m. Next meeting: Feb. 24 365-4933 Women’s Aglow Monthly Various locations Next meeting: Feb. 4, 7 p.m. Legion Hall ; 365-3279 Sertior Citizens Association No. 46 . Whist games to be held Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. at the Seniors Hall. Registered Nurses Association of B.C. Castlegar chapter meets Tuesday, Jan. 28, 6:30 p.m. for dinner and election of officers. Fireside Inn @ Saturday, January 25, 1992 ~ OurPEOPLE SCHIZOPHRENI Alone no more Editor’s Note: The following is the second of a two-part series on schizophrenia. Part I looked at the di , the people who have it and some common misconcep- tions. Part II looks at what is being done and what is being planned in Castlegar to help the victims and their families overcome the diffi- culties they face. eee Donna Bertrand NEWS REPORTER ‘Evelyn Kristiansen wants to help. As co-founder of Nelson’s Friends of the Mentally Ill, Kristiansen has seen the members flourish as a result of be- ing in supportive social settings. She has also seen, heard and felt the public’s harsh misunderstandings of the mentally ill. For those reasons, she is in the pro- cess of forming support groups in Castlegar, Trail, Grand Forks and Cranbrook, and making their existence as public as possible so communities learn to accept mental illness. Kristiansen launched Friends in Nelson about two years ago after her husband, who was diagnosed 23 years ago as a manic depressive, made the decision to go public about his illness. “When we moved here to Nelson from Castlegar, I didn’t know anyone and I felt I needed some support sys- tem,” she said in an interview earlier this week. “So I got in touch with mental health and started from there. Then I got in touch with other people in the same sit- uation, by themselves in their own clos- et, not coming out, and formed a branch.” Friends is affiliated with B.C. Friends of Schizophrenics, which is in turn affiliated with the Canadian Schizophrenic Society. Members of the group, which num- ber over 30 but never show up all at the same time, get together once a week at the Presbyterian Church. “Its function is to meet the social and recreation needs of these people — they usually sit in their own dark room and sit there all day long,” Kristiansen ex- plained. “This is to get them out and give them somewhere to drop in.” In addition to weekly activities at the “clubhouse”, such as cooking a din- ner together, watching a video or lis- tening to a guest speaker, the group has started going out together. Last week Kristiansen took a few members cross-country skiing, the week before it was bowling, and next week will be a trip to Ainsworth. “We started that at the end of last February and the mental health work- ers.can’t believe it,” she said. “These are people that never said anything to anyone, and now they’re socializing, actually talking to one an- other and doing things together. “One of the mothers, her son wouldn’t leave his room, and now ev- ery Tuesday at least he gets out.” To get a similar group started in Castlegar, Kristiansen has “All the ones that come through the “clubhouse” are on the GAIN pension through social services so they’re on a— fixed income,” she explained. ' “They’re allowed $300 a month for rent. I know one fellow who started out at $300 a month and within the year its gone up to $450. So where do these people go? al help, but once you’ve got them sta- bilized on medication, they still need a place to stay, they still need to get out.” A group could eventually lobby for government funding to help with hous- ing issues, she said. In the meantime, Kristiansen will continue working with Castlegar and the other Kootenay communities to at least provide a drop-in so- tentatively scheduled a meeting for the early part of February to see how many people are interest- “We've got to find these people first,” she said. ‘The more we know about mental illness, the less we will fear, and the more we can help, and accept. The stigma need not remain with us forever.’ Evelyn Kristiansen cial centre. And, she'll continue public speaking and try- ing to educate the public about the mentally ill. “I guess I’ve talked to over a thousand kids, “Then we'll have an infor- mation workshop to let people know what we're all about.” A training workshop will follow if a branch does form, she said. In addition to forming groups in oth- er communities for the social benefits, Kristiansen said a group can address common concerns better than individ- “Housing is the biggest issue, and that seems to be with anyone I talk to,” she said. “And then you see they do have ill- ness to cope with,” she added. “I mean what would you do if you’ve got voices going on in your head, several voices at once, and you don’t have any energy or mental alertness to go and look for a proper place, and you don’t have the money. That’s the last thing they should, have to worry about, where they’re going to live. “I think the centres are getting bet- ter and better for providing profession- Grade 11 and 12 students that I’ve reached so far,” she said. “We have to start somewhere in be- coming educated. The more we know about mental illness, the less we will fear, and the more we can help, and ac- cept. The stigma need not remain with us forever.. “Society has come a long way in its treatment of the mentally ill, but we have yet a long way to go.”