b 1a : Wednesday, February 26, 1992 @ After‘HOURS upcoming event or a regular meeting and you want it listed in drop us a line at P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. V1iN 3H4. DEADLINE Deadline for What’s on around the West Kootenay CLUBS MOVIES CASTLEGAR Banjo’s Pub San Jose West Monday to Saturday, 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Sunday, 8 p.m. to midnight Budweiser Talent Search Mondays, 9 p.m. 365-6933 Brewskies Pub Street Fire Thursday to Saturday 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. Comedians Every Tuesday 9:30 p.m. 365-2700 Dexter’s Pub Karaoke Tuesdays, 9p.m. . Crossroads Thursday 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. : Friday and Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m 965-5311 Mariane Hotel Exotic Dancers Mondays to Saturdays Noon to 12:30 a.m. 365-2626 : ROBSON Lion’s Head Pub Karaoke Wednesday and Saturday 8 p.m. to midnight 365-5811, TRAIL Crown Point Pub Eastern Breeze Monday to Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. 368-8232 ROSSLAND Powder Keg Pub Rich and Famous Wednesday to Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m 362-7375 NELSON Boller Room Nightclub Comedians - Wednesdays 9:30 p.m. 352-5331 ART GALLERIES NELSON Nelson Museum Exhibition of paintings by artist Helen Friesan Feb. 3 to Feb. 29 352-9813 GRAND FORKS Grand Forks Art Gallery Khan: Still Life Drawings and Drawing the Line: Children’s Drawings To Feb. 29. 442-2211 CASTLEGAR Castle Theatre Grand Canyon, 7 & 9 p.m. Starting Friday The Prince of Tides 365-7621 TRAIL Royal Theatre Freejack, 7 & 9 p.m. Starting Friday Bugsy 364-2114 . NELSON Civic Theatre Freejack, 7:30 p.m. Thursday Vincent & Theo, 7:30 p.m. Starting Friday The Hand That Rocks The Cradle 352-5833 Beta Sigma Phi (Exemplar) 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. Various locations Next Meeting: Mar. 4 365-3114 Beta Sigma Phi (Preceptor) ist Wednesdays , 7 p.m. Various locations Next meeting: Mar. 4 365-3401 Beta Sigma Phi (Ritual of Jewels) 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 7 30: p.m. Various locations Next meeting: Feb. 26 365-6892I Canadian Cancer Society (Castlegar Unit) 2nd Monday of every other month 7:00 p.m. Castlegar Health Unit Next meeting: Mar. 9 365-6498 Castlegar and District Senior Citizens Action Committee ist Tuesdays, 10 a.m. Next meeting: Mar. 3 365-8237 or 365-0085 Castlegar City Council Regular meetings ist and 3rd Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Council chambers Next meeting: Mar. 3 365-7227 Castlegar Hospital Auxiliary 3rd Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Hospital board room Next meeting: Mar. 16 365-6587 Castlegar Hospital Board 4th Thursdays Hospital board room Next meeting: Feb.:27, 7 p.m. 365-7711 Castlegar School Board 3rd Mondays, 7 p.m. School board office Next meeting: Mar. 16 365-7731 Castleview Care Centre Auxiliary 4th Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m. Castle View Next meeting: Mar. 25 365-3754 Christian Women’s Club 2nd Thursdays Fireside Inn Next meeting: Mar. 12, 7 p.m. 365-7728 David Thompson Stamp Club 2nd Mondays, 7:30 p.m. St. David’s Undercroft ~ Next meeting: Mar. 9 365-5496 Grief Support 8rd Monday of every month Home Support office Next Meeting: Mar. 16, 7 p.m. 365-2148 Hospice (Palliative Care) Last Monday of every month Next Meeting: Mar. 27 Castlegar Hospital Conference Room, 7 p.m. Kinnaird Women’s Institute 3rd Thursdays, 1:30 p.m. Next meeting: Mar. 19 365-5441 Kiwanis Club Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Fireside Inn Next meeting: Mar. 3 365-2151 Knights of Pythias — Twin Rivers ist and 3rd Mondays, 7 p.m. Masonic Hall Next meeting: Mar. 2 365-6149 Kootenay No. 9 Oldtime Fiddlers Monthly 2:30 p.m. Senior Citizen’s Hall Next meeting: Mar. 29 359-7621 : Kootenay Temple #37 Pythian Sisters : 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Masonic Hall Next meeting: Feb. 27 365-5282 Lions Club 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Sandman Inn Next meeting: Mar. 9 Order Of Eastern Star Minto Chapter #79 Third Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. Masonic Hall Next Meeting: Mar. Ls 365-5141 Regional District of Central Kootenay Various times Nelson Next Meeting: Mar. 7, 9 a.m. 352-6665 Rotary Club Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Sandman Inn Next meeting: Mar. 2 365-2780 Selkirk Toastmasters 2nd and 4th Mondays, 7 p.m. Selkirk College, Room B17 ~ Next meeting: Mar. 9 365-6442 or 367-6549 Selkirk Weavers and Spinners Guild 3rd Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. Castlegar Doukhobor Museum Next meeting: Mar. 18 365-5918 SHSS Parent Advisory Council 4th Tuesdays, 7 p.m. SHSS Library Next meeting: Mar, 24 365-7735 Strokers Club 2nd Wednesday of each month 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Senior Citizen’s Hall Next meeting: Mar. 11 359-7480 or 365-3540 TOPS Club Tuesdays, weigh in 6 to 7 p.m., meeting follows Next meeting: Mar. 3 Back of Health Unit 365-3114 West Kootenay Family Historians 1st Monday of every month Next Meeting: Mar. 2, 6:30 p.m. Downstairs, Castlegar Library 365-6519 West Kootenay Flyfishers Club Next Meeting: Mar. 10, 7.p.m. Aasland Taxidermy 365-8288 West Kootenay Naturalists Association Last Monday of every month Selkirk College, 7:30 p.m. Next meeting: Mar. 30 365-4933 Women’s Aglow Monthly Next meeting: Mar. 4, 10 a.m. Legion Hall 365-3279 SPECIAL EVENTS 4-H Public Speaking Friday, Feb. 28 6:30 p.m. Community Complex 365-2352 eh) nie RS: Mon.- Thurs. * 3 p.m.- 11 p.m. Fri. & Sat. + Noon- 1 am. & Occasions) GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS every third Tuesday in month 7:30 p.m. + THURSDAYS + Bingo — Early Bird 6 p.m Reg 6:30 p.m. (Licence No. 772268) + SATURDAYS - Meat Draws 4-6 p.m. GUESTS WITH MEMBERS WELCOME! ™ Wednesday, February 26, 1992 _OurPEOPLE Life Goes On Der Inness knows that the Kidney Foundation of Canada is keeping him alive Glen Freeman NEWS REPORTER Five years ago, Don Inness wanted to donate a kidney to his brother. Today, Inness himself is on the waiting list to receive a kidney, and must be attached to a dialysis machine three times a week. ST basically went into the doctor’s office thinking that I was going to do a good deed, and walked out . knowing that I had bad kidney’s,” said Inness. Last _ November, complications from kidney failure. Today Inness, 39, of Castlegar, boards a British Columbia Transit Handy Dart bus for the disabled and takes a half-hour ride to the Trail Regional Hospital three times a week. “In Trail, they hook me up to a dialysis machine for about three and a half hours,” said Inness. “Sometimes it takes six or seven tries to get the one inch needles into my arm, and that can be very painful,” he added. “But I know that I would die without my treatments. The dialysis machine filters out the impurities and poisons that my blood produces, and takes out excess fluid that my body can’t get rid of.” Inness does not feel sorry for himself, but admits that his life is far from perfect. “At this time, I’m just existing,” Inness said. “Yes, at times life can be hard,” added Inness’ wife Sarah. “Don can be pretty testy at times, but he has gotten much better since he has been on dialysis.” Inness agrees. “It’s impossible for me to lead a normal life at the moment,” he said. “But we get by.” Life certainly would be worse for the Inness family if it were not for the B.C. Medical Services Plan and the Kidney Foundation of Canada. “The government has generously provided dialysis machines to a number of regions,” said John. Taylor, the Executive Director of the B.C. Kidney Foundation. “The Kidney Foundation provides research as well as the necessary emotional, financial and educational support to those who are affected by kidney disease,” Taylor said. And many people are touched by this little- known disease — about one in 20 here in B.C. “Currently there are 650 patients in B.C. alone who are on dialysis, 225 of which are patiently waiting to receive a new kidney,” Taylor said. That amounts to a lot of time and effort from the support network, all of which has a price tag. “Certainly it’s costly to assist so many people,” Taylor said. “We rely heavily on the generosity of B.C. residents to fund our projects.” But the Kidney Foundation isn’t just sitting Inness’ brother died of} = Don Inness displays just some of the medication he needs to fight his kidney disease. News photo by Glen Freeman around waiting for the money to come rolling in. During March, the B.C. Branch of the Kidney Foundation will be launching the ‘March Drive’, an-~ annual door-to-door fundraising campaign, in which they they expect to raise $750,000. 4 The Kidney Foundation is looking for assistance in the form of 20,000 volunteers. “Volunteers will be working only for a few hours, and they will be doing a world of good,” Taylor said. “In the past, volunteers have helped us to raise an incredible amount of money,” he added. “Since 1971, the Kidney Foundation has spent approximately $26 million on researching the cause, cure and prevention of kidney disease. During those 20 years, we have seen significant improvements in the treatment and general comfort of kidney patients,” he said. Those improvements have helped to raise the quality of life for patients like Inness, but pain persists. “My kidney’s rule my life, and more often than not I feel terrible,” Inness said. “Eventually I will start to feel better, but I’m still at the early stage of treatment.” Inness said that while the government and Kidney Foundation have assisted him a great deal, he can see room for improvement. “The people who make decisions don’t know what kind of pain my wife and I go through,” he said. “There are some days when looking into my kid’s faces is the only thing that gets me out of bed in the morning. “Other days I drag myself to the bus because I just can’t walk,” Inness said. “If Ihad my way, money raised by the Kidney Foundation would be used to help people who need better transportation, even though the ‘Handy Dart’ system is great.” Another way in which Inness would like to see funds used is in the building of a temporary home where transplant patients and their families could live during recovery. “Even with the foundation’s support, I still have a lot of bills. Right now there is no way I could put my family up in Vancouver if they find a kidney donor for me. They would have to stay here while I recuperate,” Inness said. Yet even though the current system has it’s flaws, Inness insists he is better off in Canada than elsewhere. “I would never have been able to afford these treatments in the States. If I lived in the States, I would more than likely be dead.” “Kidney disease is still the fourth leading cause of death in Canada,” Taylor said. “We are working to stop that.” But Taylor is realistic, too. “Without public support, kidney disease will continue to kill people,” Taylor said. “Just like it killed my brother,” Inness said. To lend your support to the March Drive, please contact Melba White in Trail. :