vr Saturday, January 18, 1992 @ upcoming event or a regular meeting and you —_————— Deadline for listings in | Banjo’s Pub What's on around the West Kootenay CLUBS CASTLEGAR San Jose West Tuesday to Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Sunday, 8 p.m. to midnight 365-6933 Brewskies Pub Bad Reputation Wednesday. 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. 365-2700 Dexter’s Pub Plamondon Brothers Thursday to Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m 365-5311 Mariane Hotel Exotic Dancers Monday to Saturday Noon to 12:30 a.m. 365-2626 “ ROBSON Lion’s Head Pub Karaoke Wednesday 8 p.m. to midnight 365-5811 TRAIL Crown Point Pub Eastern Breeze Wednesday to Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 1:30.a.m. 368-8232 : ROSSLAND Powder Keg Pub Red Hot Ramblers Wendesday 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 Peter Valisek’s Fear of Flying Jan. 6 to Jan. 31 352-9813 : GRAND FORKS Grand Forks Art Gallery Siddiq Khan: Still Life Drawings and Drawing the Line: Children’s Drawings Both exhibits run to Feb. 29 442-2211 TRAIL Trail Society for the Performing Arts Performance '91 Oscar Wilde in Earnest Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m. CASTLEGAR Castle Theatre Tonight through Thursday Star Trek VI ie 365-7621 TRAIL Royal Theatre Tonight through Thursday My Girl 7 and 9:30 p.m. 364-2114 NELSON Civic Theatre é Tonight through Thursda) An American Tale: Fievel Goes West The Last Boyscout 352-5833 ‘MEETINGS Beta Sigma Phi (Exemplar) 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. Various locations Next Meeting:Jan. 22 365-3114 Beta Sigma Phi (Preceptor) 1st Wednesdays , 7 p.m. Various locations Next meeting: Feb. 5 365-3401 Beta Sigma Phi (Ritual of Jewels) 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 8 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. oe 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: Jan.21 365-7227 _ Castlegar Hospital Auxiliary 3rd Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Hospital board room Next meeting: Jan. 20 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: Jan. 20 365-7731 Castieview Care Centre Auxillary 4th Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m. Castle View ‘ Next meeting: Jan. 22 365-3754 Christian Women’s Club 2nd Thursdays Fireside Inn Next meeting: Feb. 13, 11 a.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 3rd Thursdays, 1:30 p.m. “Next meeting: Feb. 20 365-5441 Kiwanis Club Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Fireside Inn . Next meeting: Jan. 21 365-2151 , Knights of Pythias — Twin Rivers 1st and 3rd Mondays, 7 p.m. Masonic Hall ~ Next meeting: Jan. 20 365-6149 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. Sandman Inn _ Next meeting: Jan. 28 Regional District of Central Kootenay Next meeting: Feb. 15 Nelson, 9 a.m. 352-6665 Rotary Club Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Sandman Inn Next meeting: Jan. 21 365-2780 Selkirk Toastmasters 2nd and 4th Mondays, 7 p.m. Selkirk College, Room B17 Next meeting: Jan. 13 365-6442 or 367-6549 Selkirk Weavers and Spinners Gulid 3rd 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 West Kootenay Family Historians ist Monday of every month 6:30 p.m. Selkirk College Library Next meeting: Feb. 3 365-6519 West Kootenay Naturalists Association To be announced 365-4933 Women’s Aglow Monthly . Various locations Next meeting: Feb. 4, 7 p.m. Legion Hall 365-3279 West Kootenay Fliyfishers Float Tubing ; Sunday, Jan..19 10 a.m. , Community Complex 365-6668 Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship Family Banquett Jan. 23, 6:30 p.m. andman Inn 365-5180 Senior Citizens Association No. 46 : January Social: Jan. 23 Whist games to be held Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. at the Seniors Hall. Registered Nurses Association of B.C. Castlegar chapter meets Tuesday, Jan. 28, 6:30 p.m. for dinner and election of officers. Firesdie Inn Wauocnare WHODUNNIT SOLVE THE - MYSTERY AND WIN TERRIFIC _ PRIZES! — PhotoF ILE GREETINGS FROM ABOVE Barbara Murdoch visits her raccoons inside their home, a log cabin of sorts filled with various fixtures to keep them amused. GLAD TO SEE YOU Outside, Solo greets Murdoch with a handshake. GETTING THE GOODS Often times Murdoch will hide food so the animals get some experi- ence foraging. Here, Tigger has found a biscuit in a tree hole and works to get it out. SNACK TIME Got it — finger-lick- ing good. _ NEWS PHOTOS BY DONNA BERTRAND OurPEOPLE Raccoon research in good hands Donna Bertrand NEWS REPORTER ‘ arbara Murdoch’s life- long dream of studying wild animals became a reality last spring when she extended her family to include baby raccoons Rustle, Solo, Tigger and Faye. The Pass Creek resident ‘adopted the orphaned raccoons and, with a special permit to keep wild animals, launched a study into their social behavior, a project she expects to last her lifetime. “This is just the very begin- ning,” Murdoch, 46, said in an interview Thursday. “That’s why it’s so important to me that these guys are happy in their enclosure and stay healthy.” The enclosure includes a _large outdoor area complete with trees to climb, tunnels to craw] through, and an old bath- tub to lounge in. Within the area is a log enclosure with lad- ders, beams and ropes to play on and bales of hay to keep it cozy. Specifically, her project is to study how the raccoons treat each other and to observe their responses to humans, noting degrees of recognition, accep- tance and attachment; she said. “The hardest thing is to justi- fy the importance of my research,” Murdoch said, | explaining that most people are more supportive of research into things like AIDS. However, she believes that the role of wild animals has been unjustly diminished by mankind’s role as the superior “What I really want.to do is build among humans a really healthy respect for other species,” she said. “This is just one little step towards advanc- ing a better understanding of wild animals.” Little or not, the steps Murdoch has taken have already dispelled some common beliefs about raccoons. : For instance, they are believed to be nocturnal. ~ Not necessarily, says Murdoch. ; Letting them set their own schedule, her charges quickly settled into a routine of sleep- ing at night and being active during the day. She also found that: by nature they are not vicious, but will go as far as snorting, growl- ing, barking and biting if they are in a threatening situation. After hundreds of hours of observation, both with and without the raccoons knowing it, the first phase of Murdoch’s research is coming to an end. “This month marks the end of their childhood,” she said. “Next month they go into sea- son so I’ll be seeing some changes in behavior.” In the meantime, she is focussing on all the information she has collected for a research paper which, she hopes, will eventually be published.