coe We ey ey Nc See cee aerate eaten alten met an as Seba After(HOURS j | agen nag oe NOL SY en oe Wednesday, January 22, 1992 @ HAVE WE MISSED You? if you have an upcoming event or a regular meeting and you want it listed in AftertHOURS, let us know.” Call our entertainment reporter Donna Bertrand at 365- 3517, fax us at 365-3334, or drop us a line at P.O. Box 3007, jar, B.C. ViN 3H4. DEADLINE Deadline for Friday at 5 p.m. What’s on around the West Kootenay CLUBS CASTLEGAR Banjo’s Pub San Jose West Tuesday to Thursday, 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Kootenay Stew Friday and Saturday, 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Sunday, 8 p.m. to midnight 365-6933. Brewskies Pub Paradise Alley Tonight 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 - Wednesdays, 9 p.m. Sidewinder Thursday 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m 365-5311 Marlane 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 Tonight to Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 1:30.a.m. 368-8232 ROSSLAND Powder Keg Pub. Dr. Fun and the Nightcrawlers Friday and Saturday 9:30'p.m. to 1:30 a.m 362-7375 NELSON Boiler Room Nightclub Comedians Wednesdays 9:30 p.m. 352-5331: ART GALLERIES NELSON Neilson 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. MOVIES CASTLEGAR Castle Theatre Tonight and Thursday Star Trek VI 7 and 9 p.m. Starting Friday An American Tale, Fievel Goes West, 7 p.m.only Saturday matinee, 1:30 p.m. The Last Boyscout, 9:30 p.m. 365-7621 TRAIL Royal Theatre Tonight andThursday My Girl. 7 and 9 p.m. Starting Friday An American Tale, Fievel Goes West, 7 p.m. Cape Fear, 9 p.m. 364-2114 NELSON Civic Theatre Tonight An American Tale: Fievel Goes West, 7 p.m. The Last Boyscout, 8:30 p.m. Thursday Tales from the Snow Zone Starting Friday Star Trek VI 352-5833 Beta Sigma Phi (Exemplar) ist and 3rd Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. Various locations Next Meeting: Jan. 22 365-3114 Beta Sigma Phi (Preceptor) ist Wednesdays , 7 p.m. Various locations Next meeting: Feb. 5 365-3401 Beta Sigma Phi (Ritual of Jewels) 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. Various locations Next meeting: Jan. 22 365-6892 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 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Council chambers Next meeting: Feb. 4 365-7227 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: Jan. 23, 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 8rd 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 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Masonic Hall Next meeting: Jan. 23 365-5282 Lions Club 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 7 p.m. & LEGION Mon.- Thurs. «3 p.m-'11 p.m. Fri. & Sat. + Noon - 1 am. “eentaee EMBERSHIP 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 - is Meat Draws 4-6 p.m. GUESTS WITH MEMBERS WELCOME! Sandman Inn “Next meeting: Jan. 28 Regional District of Central Kootenay Various times Next meeting: Nelson, Feb. 15 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 Gulld 83rd 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, weight 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 Royal Canadian Tickets available at Legion. @ Wednesday, January 22, 1992 OurPEOPLE SCHIZOPHRENIA: The Stranger Within Editor’s Note: The following is the first of a. two-part series on schizophrenia. Part I looks at the di , the people it affects and some common misconceptions. Part II will focus on what is cur- rently being done in and around Castlegar and what is being planned to help overcome the dif- ficulties faced by both the victims of schizophrenia and their friends and families. eee Donna Bertrand NEWS REPORTER Mental illness isn’t something peo- ple want to talk about. It’s not some- thing the public gives much sympathy to and it’s not something the public” wants to deal with. And that has got to change, says Evelyn Kristiansen, co-founder of Nel- son’s Friends of the Mentally Ill. Kristiansen — who has lived with mental illness since her husband was diagnosed 23 years ago as a manic de- pressive — has set out to do just that. The first step, she says, is increas- ing public awareness about mental ill- ness. In particular, she has focused her attention on schizophrenia — “the com- mon cold of mental illness.” “Mental illness is not an attractive disease which attracts public sympa- thy,” Kristiansen says. “Public attitude is one of fear where they pull back and try to explain it away as a weakness.” However, schizophrenia is not a weakness, she explains, but a biologi- cal illness of the brain, as for example, diabetes is a biological illness of the pancreas. Yet a recent survey shows that 71 per cent of the public believe that men- tal illness is caused by emotional ill- ness; 65 per cent by bad upbringing; and 35 per cent by sinful behavior. An- other 50 per cent believe that patients can turn off their illness if they want to, she said. Schizophrenia, the name given to a group of severe mental disorders, strikes about one person in every 100 — about 30,000 people in British Columbia alone. It strikes people in all walks of life but primarily young adults. Kristiansen said people with schizophrenia fill more hospital beds in Canada than cancer patients, and almost as many as those with heart disease; more than patients with dia- betes and arthritis combined; 10 times more than those with muscular dys- trophy or.multiple sclerosis; 20 times more than people with cystic fibrosis and 30 times more than women with breast cancer. “Yet there is an outrageous discrep- ancy in money allocated towards re- search,” she said. “In Canada, $100 per cancer victim per year is allocated towards research; $1,000 per person with MD; $3,000 per patient with AIDS; and only $3.95 per . person for schizophrenia.” Kristiansen said the disease garners such little attention largely because most people believe schizophrenits are uncontrollable and violent. However the ne is far more of- ten characterized by the patient re- treating from what he or she perceives - asa frightening and hostile world. Farther, “many (schizophrenics) are very capable people,” she said. “In our history we have Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln that functioned very well. The ones that are in the institu- tions are the ones who have a more se- vere problem, but there are others else- where who are functioning very well.” Citing her husband as an example, she adds, “He’s one of the finest people I know who just happens to have a mental illness. It’s just like a real fine person who has diabetes or something. “When my husband came out, peo- ple were just flabbergasted because it’s not something that shows, you're not out there ranting and raving.” People who are able to cope outside of an institution are able to do so be- ‘ cause of medication and a support sys- tem, like The Friends of the Mentally Il, which usually includes medical and emotional support. However; those people are often re- luctant to “come out” because of public perception. That becomes a Catch 22 because the ones who can cope, their friends and families, are the ones who can change public perception. “Patients, family members and friends have to come ‘out of the closet’ and start making more demands. The more we learn about the illness, the more control we'll have over it.” she said. “Members of the community will see and need to accept people in their midst who are struggling with mental illness. “It’s the same as accepting people with a physical handicap. We’ve made it possible for people in wheelchairs to be in the community. A similar attitude change has to occur with mental ill- ness. Then it won't be so strange or un- familiar to us.” The most noticeable symptoms of schizophrenia include hallucinations, delusions, thought disorder or some bizarre behavior. Less obvious symp- toms include losses of interest, energy, warmth and humor. These conditions come and go and can vary in degrees of severity. Schizophrenia can not be cured “in the true sense”, but it can be effective- ly controlled, Kristiansen said. “Much can be done for a person with a mental illness,” she said. “It’s not easy, but it’s not hopeless either. “We, the public, must become in- formed.” Part II will appear in the Satur- day, Jan. 25 issue of The News.