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P.O. Box 3007,
Castlegar, B.C.

What’s on around the West Kootenay

CLUBS

CASTLEGAR
Banjo’s Pub 365-6933
Tonight
San Jose West
9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.

Brewskies Pub 365-2700
Tonight

Hard To Handle

10 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Exotic Dancers

Mondays to Saturdays
3:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Karaoke Talent Search
Every Monday

9:30 p.m.

Dexter’s Pub 365-5311
Tonight

Vertigo

9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m
Karaoke

Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Marlane Hotel 365-2626
Exotic Dancers

Monday to Saturday
Noon to 12:30 a.m.

ROBSON
Lion’s Head Pub 365-5811
Karaoke
Wednesday
8 p.m. to midnight

TRAIL
Crown Point Pub 368-8232
Eastern Breeze
Wednesday to Saturday
9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.

ROSSLAND
Powder Keg Pub 362-7375
Tonight
The Jac Band
9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.
Karaoke
Wednesday
9 p.m.

NELSON
The Boiler Room 352-5331
Comedians
Wednesdays
9:30 p.m.

ART GALLERIES

CASTLEGAR
National Exhibition Centre
Vignettes
An exhibit of clay wall pieces

and sculpture by Ed Bamiling.

April 30 - May 31

West Kootenay: Land & Life
An painting and photography
exhibition by West Kootenay
artists of their home region
May 5 - May 31

365-3337

NELSON
Nelson Museum
Oil Painting Display by the

Brush and Palette Art Club
May 2 - May 30
352-9813

GRAND FORKS
Grand Forks Art Gallery
Showna Sculpture
Indigenous sculpture of the
people of Zimbabwe

Paintings From The Outback
A collection of Australia
paintings by Colette Nilsen
May 12 - June 20

442-2211

MOVIES

CASTLEGAR
Castle Theatre 365-7621
Tonight through Thursday
The Cutting Edge, 7 p.m.
Sleepwalkers, 9 p.m.

TRAIL
Royal Theatre 364-2114
Tonight through Thursday
White Men
Can't Jump, 7 & 9 p.m.

NELSON :
Civic Theatre 352-5833
Tonight Through Wednesday
Lethal Weapon 3
Tonight, 7 & 9 p.m.

Sunday to Wednesday
7:30 p.m.

Beta Sigma Phi (Exemplar)
ist and 3rd Wednesdays, 7:30
p.m.

Various locations

Next Meeting: May 20
365-3114

Beta Sigma Phi (Preceptor)
ist Wednesdays , 7 p.m.
Various locations

Next meeting: June 3
365-3401

Beta Sigma Phi (Ritual of
Jewels)

2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 8
p.m.

Various locations

Next meeting: May 27
365-6892

Castlegar and District Senior
Citizens Action Committee
1st Tuesdays, 10 a.m.

Next meeting: June 2
365-8237 or 365-0085
Castlegar City Council
Regular meetings

1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 7 p.m.
Council chambers

Next meeting: May 19
365-7227

Castlegar Gyro Club
Thursdays, 7 p.m.

Next meeting: May 21
365-5689 or 365-6308
Castlegar hig pein Auxiliary
3rd Mondays, 7:30 p.m.
Hospital board room

Next meeting: May 18
365-6587

Castlegar Hospital Board
4th Thursdays

Hospital board room

Next meeting: May-28, 7 p.m.
365-7711

Castlegar School Board
Various Mondays, 7 p.m.
School board office

Next meeting: May 19
365-7731

Castleview Care Centre
Auxiliary

4th Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m.
Castle View

Next meeting: May 27
365-3754

Christian Women’s Club
2nd Thursdays

Fireside Inn

Next meeting: June 11, 7 p.m.
365-7728

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

St. David’s Undercroft

Next meeting: June 8
365-5496

4-H Meetings

3rd Thursdays, 6:30 p.m.
Kinnaird Junior Secondary
Next Meeting: May 21 ‘-
365-2352

Grief Support

3rd Monday of.every month
Home Support Office

Next Meeting: May 18, 7 p.m
365-2148 or 365-2452
Hospice (Palliative Care)
Last Monday of every month
Next Meeting: May 25, 7 p.m.
Hospital Conference Room
365-2148

Kinnaird Women’s Institute
3rd Thursdays, 1:30 p.m.
Next meeting: May 21
365-5441

Kiwanis Club

Tuesdays, 6 p.m. ©

Fireside Inn

Next meeting: May 19
365-2151

Knights of Pythias — Twin
Rivers

ist and 3rd Mondays, 7 p.m.
Masonic Hall

Next meeting: May 18
365-6149

Kootenay No. 9 Oldtime
Fiddiers

Tuesday Practices, 7 p.m.
Senior Citizen’s Hall

Next performance: May 24
359-7621

Kootenay Temple #37 Pythian
Sisters

2nd and 4th Thursdays, 7:30

p.m.

Masonic Hall

Next meeting: May 26
365-5282

Lions Club

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

Next meeting: May 26
Regional District of Central
Kootenay

Various Times

Nelson

Next meeting: June 11, 6 p.m.
352-6665 :

Rotary Club
Tuesdays, 6 p.m.
Sandman Inn

Next meeting: May 19
365-2780

Selkirk Toastmasters

2nd and 4th Mondays, 7 p.m:
Selkirk College, Room B17
Next meeting: May 25
365-6442 or 367-6549
Selkirk. Weavers and Spinners
Gulld

Spinning and Weaving
Demonstrations
Wednesdays & Sundays -

11 a.m. -3 p.m.

Doukhobor Museum
365-5918

-SHSS Parent Advisory

Council

Last Tuesdays, 7 p.m.
SHSS Library

Next meeting: May 26
365-7735

Strokers Club

2nd Wednesday of each month
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Senior Citizen's Hall

Next meeting: June 10
359-7480 or 365-3540
TOPS Club

Tuesdays, weigh in 6 to 7 p.m.,
meeting follows

Next meeting: May 19

Back of Health Unit
365-3114

West Kootenay Family
Historians

Next meeting: May 26, 7 p.m.
Downstairs, Greater Trail
Community Centre
365-6519

West Kootenay Flyfishers
Club

Next meeting: June 9, 7 p.m.
Aasland Taxidermy
365-8288

West Kootenay Naturalists
Association

Last Monday of every month
Selkirk College, 7:30 p.m.
Next meeting: May 25
365-4933

Women’s Aglow

Monthly

Next meeting: June 1, 7 p.m.
Legion Hall

365-3279

Christian Women’s Club
Tulip Luncheon

May 21, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Fireside Inn

365-8025 or 365-3886

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@ Saturday, May 16, 1992

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Around OWN

Our People
Glen Freeman
365-7266

| WOOD IF

1 COULD

The Royal British
Columbia
Museum, the
Ministry of
Tourism and the
Ministry of
Culture are
sponsoring
Cedar, the Great
Provider at the
West Kootenay
National
Exhibition Centre
Monday, May 25
from 7:30-9:30
pm. This
illustrated lecture
on the historical
use of cedar
wood among
Natives will be
followed by a
question and
answer period.

BUCKLE
YOUR

BABY __

Castlegar’s
Public Health
Nurses, RCMP
and the ICBC are
sponsoring a free
child car seat
safety check
Wednesday,
June 10 from 10
am to 3 pm at
the Castleaird
Plaza. Prizes will
be awarded and _
refreshments will
be served.

SHAKE
YOUR
BOOTIE

The Maxwell
School of Dance
is presenting By
the Sea, a recital
of Maxell
students. The
show takes place
in the Stanley
Humphries
Secondary
Schoo!
gymnasium
Saturday, May.
23 at 2pm, and
again at 7 pm.
Tickets are
available at
West's
Department
Store.

OurPEOPLE

Let’s be careful out there

Some people really
know that playing
safe saves

lives

Glen Freeman
NEWS REPORTER

When you’re young and have
the world by the tail, nothing
could go wrong, right?

Jim Miller says that just
isn’t the case, and he should
know.

For the last eight years
Miller has been confined to a
wheelchair, the result of a
chilling auto accident.

Thursday, Miller took his
tale of horror to the students at
Stanley Humphries High
School.

“When I became 21, I
decided I wanted to work for
myself,” Miller said, “so my dad
helped me finance a beautiful

“Things were going great for
me. I couldn’t be any happier.”

Miller said that for the next
three weeks, driving his truck
and earning a living took over
his life.

“I wasn’t going to be the
weenie,” he said.

“I was going to show those
30- and 40-year-old truck

drivers that I could keep up
with them.”

Miller pushed himself hard,
and eventually he made a
mistake.

“It was a beautiful fall
evening,” Miller told the more
than 200 SH students, “and I
started to get a little bit tired.”

He rolled down his window,

‘turned up the truck’s stereo,

and pressed on along Highway
2 north of Edmonton.

“About 15 minutes later I
blacked out.

“The truck veered off the
road, and I was in the ditch
running parallel with the road
for about a hundred yards.”

When Miller woke up, he
was staring at a four-foot
embankment.

“I didn’t have time to hit my
air-brakes. I didn’t have time to
do anything other than grab
onto the steering wheel and
brace myself,” Miller said.

The impact threw him into
the top of his cab, and when the
truck stopped, blood soaked his
body and a vertebrae in his
back was crushed.

“I. knew I was in real bad
shape, but I was happy to be
alive.”

Miller reached up to brush
the blood from his forehead and
touched his own skull.

“My scalp was split wide

open from the bridge of my
nose to about two-thirds of the
way to the back of my head,”
Miller told the shocked
students.

Cars slowed down to look at
the accident but no one
stopped.

Miller pulled himself from
the wreck and and dragged
himself to the road. :

Finally a passer-by saw
Miller and stopped to help.

“When he got out of his car
he got about 20 feet away and
looked at me. I can close my
eyes today and still see the
color drain from his face.”

“Say to yourself ‘I want
to go home tonight and
not to an emergency
room’”
— Jim Miller

He was taken to an
Edmonton hospital where he
received some terrible news.

“The doctor told me five
words that I never want any of
you to hear,” Miller said to the
silent students.

“You will never walk again.”

Miller came to Castlegar to
tell local students that he was
not in an accident.

News photo by Glen Freeman

Jim Miller stopped in Castlegar Thursday to let Stanley Humphries students know how important it is to think

of their own safety.

“Accidents are not
preventable, but I could have
prevented what happened to
me.

“For heaven’s sake, I had a
sleeper right in my truck. Why
did I spend the money to get it
if wasn’t going to use it?”

But the damage has been
done, and Miller’s mission is
now to prevent others from
getting hurt.

“There are more spinal cord
injuries in British Columbia

there are anywhere else in
North America per capita,”
Miller said.

“Eighty per cent of those
injuries are to kids 16 to 25
years old.

“At that age we all think
we're invincible, but I’m here to
tell you you’re not.”

He said that there are a
number of ways kids can get |
critically injured —skiing,
motor biking, driving, and so
on, but he insisted he isn’t
asking kids to stop being
active.

“Those things are great. You
should do those things, but
think before you do. Be careful,
that’s all I ask.

“Just approach everything
you do with the attitude ‘I’m
going to do this safely.’ Say to
yourself ‘I want to go home
tonight and not to an
emergency room.”

And the SH students don’t
think that’s too much to ask.

“He really made us think,”
said 17-year-old Angie Strelive.

“He made us see what could
happen if we don’t take those
few seconds to take
precautions.

“It’s hard to believe that
something like that could
happen to anyone in this room.”

Miller said that if he has
changed the kids’ attitudes at
all, he has accomplished his
goal.

“They’re not going to walk
out of here and stop drinking
and driving, but they'll think
about it.”

Miller has picked himself up
after his accident, and is now
leading a productive life.

He is now the manager at

-Anamed, an Edmonton firm

which manufactures mobility
and rehabilitation equipment.

“But I don’t want to have to
sell a wheelchair to any of
these kids,” he said.

“I’m hereto give these kids
some advice before they do
something stupid.” ‘

His advice to the students?

“Life is risky business. Let’s
try to minimalize the risk by
using our heads.”