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What’s on around the West Kootenay

CLUBS

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
Road Rockets
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, 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
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
No Excuse
Thursday 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

CASTLEGAR
National Exhibition Centre
Inspired By Tradition:

A contemporary textile exhibition

by Joanna Staniszkis
March 7 - April 26

NELSON
Nelson Museum

An exhibition on the culture and

GRAND FORKS
Grand Forks Art Gallery
The View Into The Valley:

An exhibition of drawings and
paintings by Peter Velisek
Feb. 20 - March 28

442-2211

CASTLEGAR
Castie Theatre
The Hand That Rocks
The Cradle, 7 & 9 p.m.
Starting Friday
Beauty And The Best, 6 p.m.
Weekend Matinee, 1:30 p.m.

Medicine Man, 7:30 & 9:15 p.m.

365-7621
TRAIL

Royal Theatre
JFK, 7:30 p.m.
Starting Friday
Cusp
364-2114

NELSON
Civic Theatre
Tonight
The Prince Of Tides, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday
Rambling Rose, 7:30 p.m.
Starting Friday :
The Father Of The Bride
352-5833

Beta Sigma Phi (Exemplar)
ist and 3rd Wednesdays, 7:30
p.m. :
Various locations
Next Meeting: Mar. 18
365-3114
Beta Sigma Phi (Preceptor)
1st Wednesdays , 7 p.m.
Various locations
Next meeting: Apr. 1
365-3401
Beta Sigma Phi (Ritual of
Jewels)

. 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 7:30
p.m.
Various locations
Next meeting: Mar. 11
365-68921
Castlegar and District Senior
Citizens Action Committee
1st Tuesdays, 10 a.m.
Next meeting: Apr. 7
365-8237. or 365-0085
Castlegar City Council
Regular meetings
1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 7 p.m.
Council chambers
Next meeting: Mar. 17
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: Mar. 26, 7 p.m.
365-7711

:. Castlegar School Board

8rd 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, 11 a.m.
365-7728

David Thompson Stamp Club
2nd Mondays, 7:30 p.m.

St. David’s Undercroft

Next meeting: Apr. 13
365-5496

Grief Support

83rd 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. 30
Castlegar Hospital
Conference Room, 7 p.m.
Kinnaird Women’s Institute
8rd Thursdays, 1:30 p.m.
Next meeting: Mar. 19
365-5441

Kiwanis Club

Tuesdays, 6 p.m.

Fireside Inn

Next meeting: Mar. 17
365-2151

Knights of Pythias — Twin
Rivers

4st and 3rd Mondays, 7 p.m.
Masonic Hall

Next meeting: Mar. 16
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: Mar. 12
365-5282

Lions Club

2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 7 p.m.
Sandman Inn

Next meeting: Mar. 24

Order Of Eastern Star
Minto Chapter #79

Third Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.
Masonic Hall

Next Meeting: Mar. 17
365-5141

Regional District of Central
Kootenay :
Various times

Nelson

Next Meeting: Mar. 26, 6 p.m.
352-6665

Rotary Club

Tuesdays, 6 p.m.

Sandman Inn

Next meeting: Mar. 17

365-2780

Selkirk Toastmasters

2nd and 4th Mondays, 7 p.m.
Selkirk College, Room B17
Next meeting: Mar. 23°
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

Last Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

SHSS Library

Next meeting: Mar. 31
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. 17

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: Mar. 19, 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: April 8, 10 a.m.
Legion Hall

365-3279

Castlegar Senior Citizens
Association

Whist Games, Mar. 12, 7 p.m.
Dance, Mar. 14, 8 p.m.
365-6252

St. Rita’s Parish Centre

St. Patrick’s Tea & Bake Sale
Saturday Mar. 14, 2-4 p.m.
365-5403

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GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS
every third Tuesday in month 7:30 p.m.

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Kootenay Columbia Child Car

e Society celebrates 20 years

of care giving

Scott David Harrison
EDITOR
The Kootenay Columbia
Child Care Society has come
of age.
Started with eyes closed
and fingers crossed, the
society celebrated 20 years
of exceptional service to
Castlegar and district.

“This is a very special
evening for us,” society
chair Val Lucas said. “We
planned this evening for a
‘long time, sat down and
yakked about, and here we
are.”

Here we are, indeed.

the community wasn’t as
supportive of child care
needs.”

KCCCS got off to a rocky
start 20 years ago. The
much-needed support from
the community and
Castlegar city council
wasn’t there, leaving the
society-to fend for itself and
the needs of children.

“The problem with child
care as a whole is people
saw it as_ glorified
babysitting,” Conroy said.
“Twenty years ago, you had’
mom, dad and 2.5 kids. Dad
would go off to work and

‘The problem with child care as a whole is
people saw it as glorified babysitting.’
— KCCCS administrator Katrine Conroy

The Kootenay Columbia
Child Care Society marked
its 20th year in style
Saturday, honoring its
original board of directors.

“They laid the foundation
for what we have here
today,” society
administrator Katrine
Conroy said. “They
persevered at a time when

from the 20 years that were.

KCCCS original board members (left to right) Ingebo:
Gattinger took a walk down memory lane Saturday,

mom would stay home and
look after the kids.

“But that isn’t the norm
anymore. (The board) saw
this and if it wasn’t for their
hard work, we wouldn’t
have what we have today.” -

The KCCCS board of
directors first met on Oct.
27, 1971. A group of
volunteers committed to

providing the best child care
possible, the original board
included Gerry Ehmen,
Norm Wolfe, Betty Ramsey,
Ranada Belczyk, Ruth
Lewis, Nesta Hale, Don
Campbell, Ray Gattinger
and Ingeborg Thor-Larsen.
The board was enhanced
that much more when
Norma Collier came into the
fold a short while later.

Gattinger, Thor-Larsen
and Collier were on hand
Saturday, representing the
many faces that helped
build KCCCS to what it is
today.

To say the society had a
humble beginning would be
an understatement. Using a
converted Celgar
bunkhouse purchased for
some $600 as the basis for
its Columbia Avenue
operation, the
rubbed pennies together to
make the best out of a bad
situation.

That theme remains true
today as the society
struggles to provide
professional care on a
limited budget.

“We're chronically under-
funded,” Conroy said.

Even with financial
constraints, the society has

rg Thor-Larsen, Norma Collier and Ray
examining photo albums and clippings

_ Castlegar

society

grown leaps and bound in
20 years. And while the
Hobbit Hill Children’s
Centre acts as the most
identifiable feature of the
KCCCS, it’s certainly not
the only thing offered to
and. district
children.

Other programs include
speech therapy,
physiotherapy, home-based
child care and education
and special needs education.

The KCCCS bid to
expand even further is at an
impasse.

A $370,000 expansion
project which will help the
society provide teen-
parenting programs and
much-needéd office and
instructional space has
fallen victim to financial
hard times.

The expansion got a bit of
a boost last month when
Castlegar and area
residents donated some
$10,000 to the Variety Club
telethon. In turn, Variety
Club matched the Castlegar
donations and turned that
money over to the KCCCS
for its expansion project.

Despite that, the
expansion is still some
$60,000 short.. The KCCCS
hopes to have the first
phase of the expansion
complete by spring, followed
by the opening of children’s
variety centre in September.

Those additions will be
another feather in the large
cap of the Kootenay
Columbia Child Care
Society —. a_ society
committed to bringing out
the very best in Castlegar’s

Judy Pollard enters her bid on a bottle of red-wine during the
silent auction segment of Saturday's 20th birthday celebration

at Castlegar’s Fireside Inn. i

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