by his ninth birthday. Geoffrey's parenits oplit up after 13 years of emotional conflict pushing him into an understand. days marriage, be couldn't “Out of all the kids in the world, I didn't think that I would have to be one of them,” would ever to me.” the boy said. “I didn’t think it Now 11 and living with his father, a younger brother and sister, the shy soft-spoken boy recalls the worst trauma of his young life. “All these times I'd been feeling sorry for these kids who have no mom or dad. Then all of a sudden it just happens to you. You don't know what's going on. You think it's a nightmare or something.” Children are often the walking wounded in a marriage breakup. Cloaking fears and worries in silence, they fre- quently withdraw to their rooms to sulk alone. They think their world is coming to an end. Their school work suffers and family times during holidays are never the same. TASK IMPORTANT “The task of assisting children to cope effectively with family change is one of national importance,” said Rhonda Freeman, the principal investigator for a Toronto-area project that studies and helps-children of divorced parents deal with their feelings. Freeman cited statistical trends that project 40 per cent of all Canadian children born in the 1970s will live in a single parent home. Gaggio, 36, who says his son withdrew into his own world after the split-up, went to the project for help. Conducted by the Family Service Association of Met Some days after, we went to our mom's House to celebrate it with her.” COULDN'T ACCEPT “Geoff was starting to walk around with bricks on his shoulders, not being able to accept some of these realities,” said his father. “It took him a year to figure out she wasn't there. “The first year of school he was doing fine. It was the second year that we went through hell. He almost flunked out. He wasn't interested in his lessons anymore. He wasn't interested in piano anymore. The children hdraw. They - ie — as Brown Accountant 270 Columbia Ave. : Ph. 365-2151 withdraw into themselves and no- matter which parent they're with, they won't talk. They keep all that stuff built up inside.” Geoffrey says the divorce project “helped me get my thoughts out and it relaxed me. “You make new friends that have the same situation We all got each other's phone numbers so we could phone them any time and talk to them about it. It was good to know someone else had the same situation. They understood a lot of the things.” “He can talk about it now,” said his mother. “He understands that it was not something to do with him. He accepts it better now.” SAYS BILL FABREY Fat women are great WINDSOR, ONT. (CP) - Bill Fabrey likes fat women. He hates diets, diet books, and anything that resembles them. At 5-foot-10, 220 pounds, the chairman and founder of the National Association to Aid Fat Americans considers himself “borderline portly.” But he began his support group for overweight adults after he married an over weight woman. He liked her the way she was. Society didn't. And Fabrey had had enough. “If you're fat, there's something wrong with you if you're not on a diet,” he said “Tve always admired fat women. I've always dated them. And that was my original cause for resent. ment.” Saying most no-risk, cure all diet books are actually “very dangerous,” Fabrey has begun a campaign to curtail the number of such books on the market. He plans to promote a code of ethies for the publishing in dustry, forcing them to use some discretion when it comes to publishing the book. They're easily recogniz able, the ones that promise a lean and slinky physique, virtually overnight: From Fat to Skinny, Eating is Okay the Behavioral Control Diet; The Love Diet; Fast- ing, the Ultimate Diet; The Zero Calorie Diet; Doctor Linn's Last Chance Diet; The Drinking Man's Diet; The Computer Diet; The Ice Cream Diet; The Lazy Lady’s Easy Diet; and The Last Best Diet Book. The catch, though, is keep- ing the weight off. The fact is most over- weight people — 95 per cent who go on a diet — don't keep the weight off after three years NEW IN TOWN? LET US PUT OUT THE WAT FOR YOU! “Right now, the books aren't subjected to anybody's view,” Fabrey said. “It's very, very hard to document people dying because of these books. But people keep buy. ing them because they know if they go to a doctor, they'll be put on a sensible, safe diet.” Put simply, said Dr. Rob- ert McGirr of Windsor, pre sident of the Essex County Medical Society, these diet books don't work. “I don't believe in these crash diets at all,” he said. “I think they're dangerous.” McGirr said in most cases the authors are out to make a profit. “They're just interested in selling the diet. If you look at these diets what happens is that you've got the Scarsdale diet, the Mayo diet and so on. Called the Blackmail Diet, Every year there's a diff- John Bear blackmailed him erent one.” self into losing weight Theoretically, most people Sparked by a group of who want to lose weight know exactly how to do it: eat less, eat from the four basic food groups, and ex ercise. “I think Canadians, as a whole, think these books are absolute rubbish,” said Mc Girr. “Dieting is a very in dividual thing. It's a con stant, difficult thing all the way around. It depends on your lifestyle and individual habits.” BLACKMAILS SELF One of the latest in a series of diet books comes from a man who promised to pay $5,000 to the American Nazi party if he didn't lose 70 pounds in one year. friends, who pointed out that Bear's middle was beginning to resemble an inner-tube, he knew it was time for action. In the book, Bear says he hates “the fact that every body and his brother who has managed to lose 20 pounds and keep it off for more than three days seems to feel compelled to write a book about the experience.” Y¢ he failed to mention this is exactly what he has done. Barbara Billey, a dietitian at Grace Hospital in Windsor, said these books are the cause of something she calls the “yo-yo syndrome.” Mosby’s Men Ivar’s Sandra Kay’s Wear ~ Mode 0’ Day Shop Canadian Maple Leaf at These Participating Stores: J.C. Penney Co. 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But o eat it all? parents, Walter ond Elsie there enough people to Canttews Photo by Ron Normor 2 Sections (A & B) a The Castlegar Kootenay Society for FOR HANDICAPPED By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer the Handicapped signed a $350,000-a year contract Thursday to provide six former Tranquille patients and two Jocal handicapped individuals with two fully-staffed group homes here, the Castlegar News has learned. Although the KSH has compiled a short list of possible houses, selections still have to be finalized by the Min. istry of Lands, Parks and Housing, said Vianne Timmons, KSH president. Timmons declined to disclose the loeations of houses under considera tion, but said she didn’t anticipate any objections to the group homes from neighbors. “We feel the quality of staff and homes we will provide will not encour age a negative community response,” she explained. The group homes will be functioning by Jan. 1. The six former Tranquille Institution | patients are “very severely handi capped,” said Nancy Clay, co-ordinator of services for the KSH. All six are and physical: ‘one is confined | to a wheelchair, one is jrisually impaired, and one has « hear. } ing impairment. Timmons said most of the ‘former Tranquille patients have spent their lives in institutions, and have had little, if any, life skills training “Their transition into the community will be a slow and structured process by us,” she said. Timmons said the six former Tran quille patients are among 22 patients homes are from Despite Human communities, 65 VIANNE TIMMONS . open by Jan. 1 transferred to the Kootenays when the Kamloops facility was closed by the Ministry of Human Resources. She said all six are from the West Kootenay area, although none are from Castlegar. The other two handicapped individuals who will live in the group Castlegar. More than 300 patients had to be re- located when Tranquille was closed. Grace McCarthy's promise that all patients would be placed in their home ferred in a controversial move to Glen dale Lodge in Victoria. Clay said 14 full-time staff positions Society to run two group homes have opened up to take care of the patients 24-hours-a-day, in three eight hour shifts. On the average, two staff will be at each home at one time. The KSH beard is in charge, and Clay is co-ordinating the project. “We are responsible for every aspect of their daily living in this community,” said. ff hirings will begin next week. and employees will undergo a month long training program, said Clay. Staff will not only help take care of the patients, but will also teach them living skills, and assist them with ree- reation and other activities. The only special modification to the group homes will be wheelchair access, as the emphasis will be on helping the patients to become as independent as possible. “Anybody, no matter what their handicap is, can progress and learn new skills,” Timmons said. She said the funding is based on an equation of $114 per person per day for one group home, and $127 per person per day for the other. The money will cover all costs of the project, including staff wages, food, clothing, adminis tration, maintenance on the house and a van with.wbeelchair access. Clay says the group homes will con tinue indefinitely. “These are going to be considered their permanent homes,” she said “They're not going to be kicked out be cause staff can't cope with them. “It's a different model from in stitutions where you get moved around if you don't fit.” Resources Minister were recently trans MUNICIPAL ELECTION By RON NORMAN Editor More than 4,000 registered Castle gar voters — 4,043 to be exact — will go to the polls in little over a month to elect three aldermen Seats currently held by aldermen Len Embree, Marilyn Mathieson and Bob Pakula are up for grabs in the Nov 17 election Each is a two-year term and so far only Embree has announced his inten tion to seek re-election. He told the Castlegar News Friday he has picked up his nomination papers, though he hasn't filed them yet. Nominations close Oct. 29. Voters around mills The provincial government earlier this year discussed changing municipal tion area. Shuttle solves problems CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. (AP) — Astronaut ly Ride secured a balky antenna with Challenger's n- built robot arm Saturday, while two of her igues transferred volatile fuel from one tank to another: in a ful test of ques for refuelling inSrbit “We completed the transfer in 26 minutes and everything looked good,” astronaut Kathy Sullivan reported after she and David Leestma had pumped 81 kilograms of hydrazine fuel from tank to tank by remote control. The capability of refuelling control jets could extend the . of oe F A radar antenna taken into orbit to gather data about Earth and its oceans failed to latch down property, and NASA directed Ride, the chief arm operator, to nudge it with the shuttle’s 15-metre Canadarm. “We got the latch engaged,” she “Outstanding.” Mission Control replied. “Every handy- man ought to have one of those arms in his tool box.” “It looke like the icebusters strike again,” Ridesaid. She was refetfing to the last shuttle mission, when the arm was used to knock off a chunk of ice that had formed at a wastewater dump op Discovery's port side. She also used the crane to deploy # 2,270-kilogram scientific satellite Friday, the first day of the eight-day mission. Another antenna problem persisted. A dish antenna used to relay data from a radar camera to a transfer satellite for high speed transmission to the ground had aiming problems. Officials said that if it can't be fixed, more than 80 per cent of the mission's Earth sciences information would be lost. However, the antenna failure did not affect other —— or normal spaceerafi-to-ground communica ~~ spacecraft is healthy and doing well Cleon Lacefield. “The director Mare Garneau, the first Canadian astronaut to go aloft, conducted science experiments, and Paul Scully-Power, a US. navy oceanographer, For safety's sake, the tanks for the fuel transfer test were in the shuttle’s cargo bay, and Sullivan and Leestma few is doing great studied the Earth's oceasn. operated from a station inside the cabin. Hydrazine is the fuel used for the shuttle's steering jets and for the control jets thet ‘‘haintain the stability of most unmatined satellites. “It's toxie rocket fuel, and if it's heated up or gets too high « said flight elections to every three years, with the whole of council elected at one time The idea was put forward as a way to Creston, voters cut election costs. However, it was not carried any further. This year is considered an “off” year for municipal elections in Castlegar be- cause Mayor Audrey Moore and the three other aldermen are in the middle of their two-year terms. As well, no referendums are planned for the November city election. But that's not the case in the Central Kootenay Regional three referendums will be held. cast ballots on a referendum asking them to raise the maximum spent on garbage collection from one to two In the New Denver area, voters are being asked to extend the fire protec And in the Goat River area around approve a referendum calling for the Embree to run again regional district to enter into negoti ations with the provincial government As well, seven regional district seats are up for election, including director John Voykin's seat in Area I. All but one are two-year terms. Voters in the rural Slocan Valley will also go to the polia Nov. 17 to choose a replacement for direetor Corky Evans, who resigned with one year still left in his term. Myrna Strom has'already announced her intention to seek re-election in Area A which is near Creston. Other seats up for election are Area C near Creston where Marv Henker is the in- cumbent, Area E near Nelsom where Wally Penner is director, Area G near Salmo where Dorothy Kinakin is the incumbent and Area K near Nakusp where H. Murphy is the director. Voters not on the registered+voters list will still have a chance to vote on Nov. 17 at the “courtesy” poll. District where the Nakusp area will be asked to will