“14 WEDNESDAY November 6, 1991. w The Castlegar Sun MIXED Weather 3A Vol. 2- No. 45 ‘Leading! the way in serene. local business’ 75 Cents + G.S.7. The young lady in brown pants and sweater (left); and the bear, decide to.do things their own way ‘during the. aerobic warm-up for Selkirk College's 3rd Annual Grin & Bear It Trall'‘Run, on October 27-at Kinnaird pare Luckily, the, Tun was scheduled before, all the white stuff hit! SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halpor _ Project Society working | towards new theatre _ BRENDAN HALPER Sun staff The Castlegar Project Society is hoping to have a new theatre built community for about 20 years now. However, it has only been recently, since the completion of the aquatic centre, that the new Project Society Executive took on the idea of a per- forming arts centre. It was originally tied in with the Stanley Humphries to the C Complex. The of a th /p forming and visual arts centre in Castlegar is not a new idea. According to Lach Farrell president of the Castlegar Project Society, the concept has, in fact, been around the Secondary School “The Stanley Humphries activities room was going to be the site of the theatre,” said Farrell. Unfortunately, the Castlegar Project. Society found that there were too the site, “Tt was not a good:site,” said Far- -orell, “If it had bee key we would have gone ahead with ;. The Society decided to siart over, £ fiom Scratch... ley proceeded -to éontact the "Architects Institute of British “ Columbia’ for archi whose speciality was theatre work. They selected 10, sent out letters and said. “We selected an architect from ‘Vernon, ae Ne Huggins. He's done lots _ of th - Now, ow before they can go any farther “By Leigh Rubin ce RCHP report quiet Halloween : It was a quiet Halloween night for the Castlegar RCMP last Thursday. No major crimes such as vandalism or arson were per- petrated and local police report only two minor incidents on the the Project Society must first establish asite. “As we have seen with the Recre- ation Complex and the Aquatic Centre, one facility can build off the use of another,” stated Farrell. “We would like to see a theatre built adjacent to the Community Recreation Complex and build on the use of those commu- nity facilities.” The theatre would incorporate all modern aspects of theatre, it would offer a meeting room as well as attention to visual arts such as photography and painting. “This really is a natural sort of development, it’s a natural thing for the com- munity.” Castlegar is the only city in the Kootenays without a theatre of this According to Farrell, the initial cost estimate at this particular stage is $52.50 per seat. That trans- See THEATRE 2A Task Force releases survey SHARLENE IMHOFF on drug use by local youths Sun Editor liquor, A task force designed to tabulate the amount of drug and alcohol use by students in School District nine, released its findings to the district's board early Monday evening. Dave O'Brien, the area’s drug and alcohol counsellor and Bemice Kavic, a counsellor at Stanley Humphries High school, presented the survey, which began over one year ago. According to O’Brien, 1,044 students between grades 6-12 in district nine complet- ed the survey, which incl pared district nine results with those across the nation provided by a National PRIDE survey. “Tt "s been a bit of homework forts, to put this statistical jungle tog O'Brien. While the edu of tho survey sels guns in depth, some fast facts from the data cléarly point out that junior high school students tend to experiment more with substances (namely alcohol and marijuana) and then regarding; first use, frequency of use, loca- tion and time of use, availability of sub- stances, peer use and comparative data. “The survey is designed around usage. We want to know how easy it is for these stu- ’ dents to get the stuff, and then we want to know how often they use and where they use it,” said O'Brien. Tabulating results around six different yp a pattern of use when they are in senior high school. : Another fact that students made clear in the survey is the avallanility of alcohol and drugs. “A significant percentage of students sited a fairly Teady access to illicit drugs such as marijuana and cocaine,” said O’Brien. The survey shows significant usage of See SURVEY 2A Reformers launch campaign SHARLENE IMHOFF eral race. Although Ross feels that one will Sun Edit be elected sometime next year. un Editor eee slink ee Local Reformers are joining their counter- * parts across the-nation in launching one of the most itious fund: ip in Canadian Political history. “Save Canada Campaign’ officially begins 6 and will hopefully raise $12 to a recent news release, will be used for the Reform party's full-scale campaign in the next federal election. “We will have approximately 20 active million by‘February 6: The funds; according ~~ approximately yn Retoum party members, most of whom, especially locally, have laid low until after the provincial election. “Now were coming out with guns, blaz- ing,” said Ross, Canada Fund committee, says the party will be taking a grass roots approach during the historic fundraising effort. “Most of the donations will come from our 90,000 bers,” she said. canvassers ‘in the Kootenay We riding gathering funds for our election war- chest,” said Castlegar resident Ron Ross. “At the same time we'll be looking for new mem- bers and at least half a dozen or so people who would be interested in running as a can- didate for this riding.” Currently, the Kootenay West-Revelstoke riding does not have a candidate for the fed- -Entertainment at its very best! This group of youngsters from the grades three and four classes at Kinnaird Ele- mentary, in full Halloween costume, spent an hour singing and entertaining resi- dents of Castleview Care Centre on ‘October 31. “The party has a tearn of 3,000 volunteers in place across the country. We will be talk- ing to individual Canadi: not to corp tions or special interest groups,” she said. Lacroix noted that all funds raised, after expenses, will be evenly split between the See REFORM 2A ‘SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halper According to a report police teceived Friday morning, 5-6 young males outfitted in costume disguises committed some candy- napping as they demanded extra sweets from homeowners. The same troupe’ is accused of wreak- ing havoc with neighborhood jack ‘o lantems. As no complaint was made until the following day, lice have no suspects and can do little with the case. evening involved a of. mischief concerning youths Sun Staff A 19-year-old Castlegar female will appear in court in January after she was arrested for possession of a firearm dangerous to the public peace, November 3. Castlegar RCMP received a phone call from a distraught female located at an Ootischenia' residence around 7:15'p.m.. Upon arriving at the § Scone Police discovered Shauna Louise Lee of Castlegar, in one of with a high calibre rifle. close After threatening to shoot any officer who entered into the room, phone contact was made with the woman for the next two hours by police, 1 relatives and the subject's After a length of time the Dispute results in firearm charge the bedrooms of the house armed aepelee have since determined that a family dispute had occurred earlier in the evening and that a quantity of alcohol had been con- sumed. RCMP have seized the 303 Cali- bre rifle which Lee had armed her- self with, as welll as several rounds with of woman made an RCMP and allowed one officer to Lee, who was released from cus- enter her premises. Upon doing so, _ tody, will appear in court on Jan- the officer wrestled the rifle away . vary 7, 1992. -10-92 NY LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY FARLIAMENT BUILDINGS VICTORIA BC VBV 1k4 eh nana aril Choe toa ta fone oe Kelowna resident. Janet Lacroix, an area: -coordinator-of the: party’s‘national-Save ~-