Saturday, December 7, 1991 @ Doctor, teacher speak at meeting Education psychologist Dr. Karl Mueller was the guest speaker at the Learning Dis- abilities Association meeting on Nov. 25. Mueller presented the group with a variety of assess- ments used to determine if a person had a learning disabil- ity. He also explained the dif- ferent classifications of LD and showed hypothetical psy- choeducational profiles of learning disabilities. After an- swering many questions, Muell d witha CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Avenue Castlegar - 365-2151 was pr logo pin from the LDABC. Also speaking to the group was Marilee Papau, LD teach- er at Stanley Humphries sec- ondary school. Papau shared information she received at the eighth na- tional Conference of the Learning Disabilities Associa- tion of Canada in Banff. Pa- pau attended several sessions at the conference and gave the group an interesting synopsis of each. 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In other words we can start looking forward to a wide switch towards fuels like Propane, ethanol and methanol. BORDER BLUES According to Washington economist Dennis Murphy, the cross-border shopping craze has peaked. Murphy said recent moves by British Columbia merchants to be competitive with their American counterparts has helped slow down the cross- border shopping madness. An estimated $1 billion a year is spent by British Columbians on shopping trips. WINGING Ls Pan Am touched down for the last time Taxidermists are on the cutting edge Jonathan Green NEWS REPORTER The West Kootenay is home to a variety of wildlife, and Castle- gar’s two taxidermists would just as soon keep it that way. Steve Davis and Lino Grifone have been in the taxidermy busi- ness for a combined 41 years. And while their trades are similar, their starts have been altogether different. “T just sort of fell into it,” said Davis, who has spent the past fiv- er years of a 21-year career in Castlegar. “I started hanging around a taxidermy shop. One day they handed me a knife and said ‘skin something.” Grifone, meanwhile, used his family’s strong art background to pave the way for Grifone Taxi- dermy. “A lot of people think I prostitute wildlife, the more people kill the happier I am.” — Steve Davis gs had the talent and developed The company went out of business after Detta Air Lines backed out of a multi-million dollar deal to keep Pan Am in the air. it th ” he said. “It was easier to portray the beauty of the animals that way.” While Davis was lucky enough to learn the trade through the eyes of other’s, Grifone didn't have that juxury. “I would visit taxidermy shops, but no one would show me any- thing,” Grifone said. “Basically, it was trial and error.” Grifone persevered, though, and began doing busi. in 1976. News photo by Ed Milis Mike Miller shows off the tools of the trade while working and learning at Grifone Taxidermy, one of two Castlegar shops public is perceiving taxidermy. “In the last five years, taxi- dermy has been more widely ac- cepted as an art form,” he said. Art or not, there are still prob- lems, Davis says. The biggest among them are poachers. He and Grifone agreed that poachers attempting to mount their illegal prizes have given taxi- dermy a black eye. It’s something the two and the government are trying to deal with. “There is a problem with poach- ing, ” he said, “but the Ministry of In 1987, shortly after Davis set up Aasland Museum Taxidermy, Gri- fone took a leave of absence from the trade for the trade. It was a self-imposed exile that helped him master his work: “I went home to learn and per- fect methods,” he said. Grifone took periodic breaks from his own exile to travel and see what other taxidermists were up to. “I visited as many taxidermy experts as I could,” he said. “I went to as many taxidermy seminars as possible.” It was during that time that Grifone saw a change in how the keeps a close eye on Anything suspicious, I Envir things. refuse it.” Despite having the proper pa- pers in order, Davis was visited by a conservation officer last week, who confiscated a mule-deer cape and antlers believed to be illegal. Grifone, too, is concerned with the poaching element that exists. “Any suspicion it wasn't taken in fair chase, we refuse it,” he said. He adds that not only is deali with poachers wrong, but it’s bad for business. “The worst one you can have isar with a taxidermists in the area, some- thing Grifone attributes to changes in the field. “There are two to three times as many taxidermists in this region than five years ago.” he said. Davis put a rough dollar figure on fee amount of: taxidermy done in the area annually, say it the bills, ying it pays “There's $100,000 of taxidermy work done in the Trail-Castlegar area yearly,” he said. “That's a poacher,” he cg “It’s just not good for business.” Recent years have shown a sharp i increase in the number of “Any taxidermist who can make money as a taxidermist could probably be a millionaire at any- thing else,” he said. ‘Tm certainly not here for the money.” basically what you did,” he said. “These days, the animal is ‘pre- served, prepared and mounted.” And in these days of animal ac- tivists, Davis says people have the wrong idea about taxidermists. “A lot of people think that I prostitute wildlife, the more peo- ple kill, the happier I am,” he said, dismissing that logic.“I'd rather see (animals) walking around than the last one hanging around.”