Saturday, April 18, 1 992m upcoming ‘event or a regular meeting and you us know. Call us at 365- 7266, fax us at 365-3334, or drop us a line at Deadline for listings in AfterHOURS is Friday at 5 p.m. What’s on around the West Kootenay CLUBS CASTLEGAR Banjo’s Pub 365-6933 Tonight San Jose West 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Budweiser Talent Search Mondays, 9 p.m. Brewskies Pub 365-2700 Tonight Snake Bite 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Exotic Dancers : Mondays to Saturdays 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. Karaoke Talent Search Every Monday 9:30 p.m. Dexter’s Pub 365-5311 Tonight Flyer . 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m. Marlane Hotel 365-2626 Exotic Dancers Monday to Saturday Noon to 12:30 a.m. ROBSON Lion’s Head Pub 365-5811 Karaoke Wednesday 8 p.m. to midnight TRAIL Crown Point Pub 368-8232 Eastern Breeze Wednesday to Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. ROSSLAND Powder Keg Pub 362-7375 Tonight Dr. Fun an e Nig) 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. NELSON oo rawiers _| The Boiler Room 352-5331 Comedians Wednesdays 9:30 p.m. ART GALLERIES CASTLEGAR National Exhibition Centre Inspired By Tradition: Acontemporary textile exhibition by Joanna Staniszkis March 7 - April 26 Table Of Honour: An exhibition of place settings and goblets created especially for Government House in Victoria March 7 - April 26 365-3337 GRAND FORKS Grand Forks Art Gallery Made By Hand: An exhibition of paper and felt work by B.C. artists April 9 - May 9 442-2211 CASTLEGAR Castle Theatre 365-7621 Tonight through Thursday Wayne's World, 7 p.m. Basic Instinct, 9 p.m. TRAIL Royal Theatre 364-2114 Tonight through Thursday Memoirs Of An Invisible Man, 7 & 9 p.m. NELSON Civic Theatre 352-5833 Wayne’s World, 7 & 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday 7:30 p.m. Thursday Hearts of Darkness, 7:30 p.m. Fireside Inn Next meeting: May 14, 7 p.m. 365-7728 David Thompson Stamp Club 2nd Mondays, 7:30 p.m. St. David’s Undercroft Next meeting: May 11 365-5496 4-H Meetings 8rd Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. Kinnaird Junior Secondary Next Meeting: May 21 . 365-2352 Grief Support 8rd Monday of every month Home Support Office Next Meeting: Apr. 20, 7 p.m 365-2148 or 365-2452 Beta Sigma Phi (Exemplar) 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. Various locations Next Meeting: May 6 365-3114 Beta Sigma Phi (Preceptor) ist Wednesdays , 7 p.m. Various locations Next meeting: May 6 365-3401 Beta Sigma Phi (Ritual of Jewels) 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Various locations Next meeting: Apr. 22 365-6892 Castlegar and District Senior Citizens Action Committee Next meeting: May 5 365-8237 or 365-0085 Castlegar City Council. Regular meetings ist and 3rd Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Council chambers Next meeting: Apr. 21 365-7227 Castlegar Gyro Club Thursdays, 7 p.m. Next meeting: Apr. 16 365-5689 or 365-6308 Castlegar Hospital Auxiliary 3rd Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Hospital board room Next meeting: Apr. 27 365-6587 - Castlegar Hospital Board 4th Thursdays : Hospital board room Next meeting: Apr. 23, 7 p.m. 365-7711 Castlegar School Board __Various Mondays, 7 p.m. School board office Next meeting: Apr. 27 365-7731 Castleview Care Centre Auxiliary 4th Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m. Castle View Next meeting: Apr. 22 365-3754 Christian Women’s Club 2nd Thursdays Hospice (Palliative Care) Last Monday of every month Next Meeting: Apr. 27, 7 p.m. Hospital Conference Room 365-2148 Kinnaird Women’s Institute 3rd Thursdays, 1:30 p.m. Next meeting: May 21- 365-5441 Kiwanis Club Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Fireside Inn Next meeting: Apr. 21 365-2151 Knights of Pythias — Twin Rivers 41st and 3rd Mondays, 7 p.m. Masonic Hall Next meeting: Apr. 20 365-6149 Fiddlers Monthly = 2330 p.m... Sian aoa Senior Citizen’s Hall Next meeting: Apr. 26 359-7621 Kootenay Temple #37 Pythian Sisters 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Masonic Hall Next meeting: Apr. 23 365-5282 Lions Club 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Sandman Inn Next meeting: Apr. 28 Regional District of Central Kootenay Various Times Nelson Next meeting: May 9, 9 a.m. 352-6665 ~~ Rotary Club Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Sandman Inn Next meeting: Apr. 21 365-2780 Selkirk Toastmasters 2nd and 4th Mondays, 7 p.m. Selkirk College, Room B17 Next meeting: Apr. 27 365-6442 or 367-6549 . Selkirk Weavers and Spinners 965-9279". Guild 3rd Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. Castlegar Doukhobor Museum Next meeting: May 20 365-5918 SHSS Parent Advisory Council Last Tuesdays, 7 p.m. SHSS Library Next meeting: Apr. 28 365-7735 Strokers Club 2nd Wednesday of each month 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Senior Citizen's Hall Next meeting: May 13 359-7480 or 365-3540 TOPS Club Tuesdays, weigh in 6 to 7 p.m., meeting follows Next meeting: Apr. 21 Back of Health Unit 365-3114 West Kootenay Family Historians 1st Monday of every month Next meeting: May 4, 7-9 p.m. Downstairs, Castlegar Library ~ 365-6519 West Kootenay Flyfishers Club Next meeting: May 12, 7 p.m. Aasland Taxidermy 365-8288 West Kootenay Naturalists Association Last Monday of every month Selkirk College, 7:30 p.m. Next meeting: Apr. 27 365-4933 Women’s Aglow > breakfast will my Next meeting: May 6, 10 a.m. Legion Hall ™@ Saturday, April 18, 1992 AroundTOWN Our People Glen Freeman 365-7266 EARLY TO RISE The New Life Assembly is holding a sunrise service at 6 am Easter Sunday at Zuckerberg Island. A $3 pancake follow at 8 am, witha resurrection celebration at 10:30 am. Call 365-5212 for more information. ART’S ; NOT JUST A NAME Inspired by Tradition, a colorful display of contemporary textiles by Joanna Staniszkis, will be leaving the National Exhibition Centre on April 26. Art enthusiasts have only one more week to view this Canadian OurPEOPLE | SPECIAL EVENTS. Selkirk College R.N. Class of ’92 Car Wash, April 18 9:30 a.m. -5.p.m. - Safeway Parking Lot 365-5390 Robson School Grades 5 and 6 Pie Bingo, May 1 6:30 p.m. Robson Hall Life ... ~The best part is sharing it. Society classic. PIE IN THE SKY _ The Robson school will be holding a pie bingo Friday, May 1 at 6:30 pm at the Robson Hall. Glen Freeman NEWS REPORTER Zuckerberg Island is NOT for sale. In fact, to the Castlegar and District Heritage Society and many other local residents, Castlegar’s most distinguished landmark is priceless. It was just over two weeks ago that The Castlegar News played an oh-so-cruel joke on it’s readers, saying that the island had been sold. “The deal, to be approved next month, will see Castlegar’s historic landmark turned over to Wi Phoole Yu Development Corp. for $18.9 million,” the April Fool’s Day gag claimed. People read and responded, so much so that the Heritage Society’s president John Coyle was moved to write to The News. “(We) were besieged with queries and telephone calls from outraged and concerned citizens,” the letter to the editor said. “It is gratifying to discover, once again, that the worth of Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park is recognized and appreciated by so many.” Recognized and appreciated perhaps, but slightly misunderstood. “The island was probably inhabited by Indians some 6,000 years ago,” said the Heritage Society’s founding member John Charters pointing at a Kukuli winter pit house, “but the first white man to see the island was David Thompson in 1806.” By the time Estonia-born Alexander Zuckerberg arrived on the scene in the early 1930s, the natives were long gone. Zuckerberg must have thought he was seeing a vision when he first surveyed the island explains Charters, because it reminded him so much of one of his favorite paintings Beyond Eternal Peace by Russian artist Isaac Levitan. .~ : “It shows an island in the Volga River with a little Russian chapel on it and a little graveyard,” Charters said. “Beyond the island in the background are the Volga Hills. Now you can imagine — the old boy comes to the scene and he sees the island, the river and the hills. Bae “I’m sure it was his dream to build what is here today.” Treasure Island | one is Photo courtesy Gil Zuckerberg Alezander Zuckerberg dreamed a dream, and built his vision. And what is here today is definitely a dream. It was Leo Tolstoy who said “Give a Russian an axe and he will make you a house or a spoon.” Zuckerberg took an axe and built a treasure. In 1935 he began to build his castle, or the Chapel House as it’s known today. “One thing that not many people know is that the house was built with no nails whatsoever,” Charters said. It was fitted and pegged, but it was 4) magnet. 1 from it all. | Stanley Humphries student Melissa Beyond Eternal Peace, above, a painting by Isaac Levitan, was the inspiration behind Zuckerberg Island. Below, the Russian Chapel House became a reality. Pa ie +h probably as strong as any other. “Give a Russian an-axe and he will make you a house or a spoon. : — Leo Tolstoy Also strong is the attraction that Castlegar residents have to the island. It seems to attract solitude-seekers like a The island is constantly alive with guests and visitors, some who are exploring it’s broad shores for the very first time, others who constantly come back just to get away “I guess it’s like a little hide-out,” said Chernoff, who had gone to Zuckerberg’s home during her school’s lunch time. “And it sure is peaceful here,” said fellow classmate Theresa Boka. Part of Alexander Zuckerberg’s favorite painting — and his dream — was a graveyard on a picturesque part of the That dream was realized in 1961 when Zuckerberg passed away. Today not only do his ashes grace the island, but his vision and spirit linger on. Zuckerberg carved history out of the trees and left Castlegar with a monument, to be admired by generations yet to come. Treasures like that are never for sale. Not at any price.