Page 4A ‘The Castlegar Sun Wedinesitay February 20,:1991 By FRANK ISERNIA ‘Sun staff writer. A recent provincial ‘govemment survey of senior citizens in the Castlegar area proves that senior cit- izen requirements should be looked at more closely and new programs must be put in place to address the needs of the elderly. As a result of that survey it has been recommended that a half-time OLD GROWTH: Community Research Visit Open House for Receiving Community Input: | 4:00 p.m, - 9:00 p.m. The Heritage Inn Interim reports and further ihe formation available thru you local: Ministry, of Foresta ie. trict Office ox Cindy Bertram of PROJECT TEAM |" Const Event Manogenieiy 722. dis be hired to put together a Community Forum for Seniors, with the intent of implementing rec- ommendations that will not require any funding, and to seck funds for ew programs and services that do. . The report, prepared by survey co-ordinator, Carel Scott and pre- sented by her to Castlegar City Council at the regular meeting held Feb. 11, cited six programs that, although would require funding, are needed immediately to serve the interests of the seniors . A prescription drug “brown bag” workshop is required in sev- kshop is Seniors. survey comes 0 Taide available in several languages including English, Russias, ges Portuguese, Individuals’ in‘ the eth: nic communities would need to become involved in its planning and implementation, Doctors and *' pharmacists could consult with the workshops in cach area, ™ “There should be oge telephone number for information and el services available'to seniors with ethnic speaking staff. and‘ volun- teers, This number would have to be displayed in the outlying com- and given an ‘ad campaign,” stated Scott. The report noted that increased homemaker services would permit seniors to feel comfortable staying in their own home for meals, and ded a seniors’ hand: service to assist those incapable of chores in and around 2 WELCOME: CANADIANS Look for advertisement in the West Kootenay Adverliset& t Tod y is Boneless. : BREASTS U.S.D.A. inspeden Avg. wae 4-5 lbs. mill : Southern Grown. Wester Family. 4 1 Ib. quarters TOMATO SOUP Campbell's. 10.75 oz. Reg. or Special Request the home, Council was informed that Trail operates a similar service, and that ‘itis successful. : Recommendations of expanded drop-in centres with more services and programs be made available to that the various organizations may overlap the funding. “We are channeling’ information ' to proper agencies to prevent this,” d Scott. all outlying i manned by a part-time staff todnsure this plan of attack is carried out were also included in the report, Mentioned in the report,'is a Friendly Visitor Program which would use a volunteer coordinator to rectult, train, and place volunteer visitors. Operating capital for trans- portation costs would be, sought from grants and other funds. -.)! Alderman Lawrence Chemoff asked Scott if seniors were being left out of a lot of things. “To some extent that may be true,” Scott replied. “If grants can be obtained, many of these plans will be successful, if not, ‘they may taken up by other agencies, However, Alderman Jim Chap- man was concemed at the prospect ‘The survey revealed that arthri- _ tis was the major health concern among seniors. Heart, cyes, hear-. ing, back ailments, kidney, and - dental problems were also a worry. Almost half of Castlegar's senior citizens who responded to the sur- vey rated their health as fair or poor, but those figures increased to 71 per ‘ cent in the surrounding perimeters. “Programs would be imple- mented to increase Participation in health, and at with some recommendations | bus shelters and benches through out the city, It also ‘suggested the need for a more flexible bus sched- ule and an advertising campaign to promote handi-dart availability. Scott. said that. bus. service between Trail, Castlegar and Nelson bé increased to facilitate seniors wishing to visit in these cities. °:: “When grants are required for Castlegar and area, extra money should be requested so that’ suffi- cient funds are on‘ hand to‘ cover the cost of effectively addressing both the ethnic’ distribution of the community. and the dispersed pop- ulation, including a map of the social programs,” explained Scott. ‘The report stressed the need for phic area so that areas are easier for grant reviewers to see," said Scott. Vehicle accidents result in By FRANK ISERNIA ALL 1991 MODELS PRICED TO MOVE End of Season COME IN TODAY! Sun staff writer A two-car collision in the 2100 block of Crestview Crescent on Feb. 9, 1991, resulted in charges being laid against one of the dri charges Kambara was charged with driving too fast for conditions, oe i A single vehicle accident on the Celgar road, this past Satur- day, sent a conleses man to hos- The accident occurred when a vehicle driven by Hiroki Kambara of Castlegar failed to negotiate a curve, and collided with a vehicle driven by Mark Teindl, also of Castlegar. There were no injuries in the collision. pital injuries. The accident occurred when a vehicle driven: by David Coxford left the road, rolled over, and landed on an. embankment. ‘Alcohol is suspected as the cause of the accident, and a'police spokesperson said charges are pending. Local male youths charged with attempting to steal gas Two local male youths were arrested and charged with theft, Feb., 10, 1991 as they attempted to steal gas from parked vehicles near Mitchell Supply Ltd. in‘ the downtown area. Names have not been released, but the two are expected to appear in court March 27, 1991. N - end of the line Joe Stoopnikoff, right, was the first winner of the Castlegar Selkirk Lion's radio bingo in support of the Extended Care Bus Drive. Joe won $50 by complet- ing one full line under the "N°. The winning number was.N-45 drawn Wednesday. This game continues for two more prizes awarded for “around the house” and a "blackout". The brown card for the next game will go on sale Tuesday, Feb. 19. Cards are available for $1at Macleods, The Bookstoré, Mohawk, Big O Tire, Central Foods, Johnny's in Robson, and two new locations Kootenay Computer at Slocan Park and Kitchen Design in South Castlegar. SUN STAFF PHOTO / Nancy Lingey CASTLEGAR SELKIRK LIONS CLUB Fundraising Progress Report for Hospital Society Intermediate & Extended Care Extension Bus This Week's Totai: $13,432 ’ "Come on Castlegar Let’ S Get this Bus Moving” Your gonetien large. or: small, wl make : a difference! Pei tin INS The 7 Sun “Anyone wishing to make donations to ‘the'Bus Project, please contact: | Hugh Wilson 365-2165 Leo Plamondon 365-3067. - Galgarpuie Company _ : We‘ are happy to be spon : the "bus drive." : Help the Lions with your support! WORLDWATCH NICOSIA, Cyprus, Reuter - The Gulf War seemed hours away from fateful decisions Tuesday — Iraq's acceptance of a Sovict peace plan or the U,S.-led allies launching one of «the biggest land battles in history, ‘The campaign to drive Iraq from -Kuwait went into its 34th day with . the ‘allies tightening the screw on « Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. ‘Waves of bombers blasted cen- tral Baghhad all through the night ne in some of the heaviest raids on his capital. Iraq's deputy prime minister was quoted in Iran as saying his country chad suffered more than 20,000 dead * -and 60,000 wounded in the first 26 days of the war — 20 times higher than previous official lists, Iraqi Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz left Iran’s capital, Tehran, for home carrying a peace plan handed to him by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Aziz told Iranian President Ali _ Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Tues- day that Baghdad was serious in ii es i Moscow ‘sald it wanted a swift decision from Saddam on its propos- als, which reportedly include an ble delay in launching a ground offensive because ‘of Gorbachev's 11th-hour peace overture, told I from Kuwait in exchange for a pledge to : “I wouldn't make ary assumptions. ‘a A ' for ( The Sovict Union gave no details of the proposals, but one Moscow official said foreign news accounts “more or less” reflected its contents, President Bush studied terms of the plan cabled from Moscow. But he and other U.S. officials played down expectations that a diplomatic breakthrough was in the making. "All of our hopes at this point are on the conflict in the air and on the ground,” said White House said - Tuesday that no time limit had been Placed on Saddam's response but implied he had 48 hours at the most. "There was no fixed’ time, But ‘we expect a response in the coming days — in one day or two. That is logical, of course,” said spokes- man Karen Karagezyan. Co on the war front said allied forces were Gulf war teeters between peace and ground war vast area near the Rashid covered with rubble anif twisted metal. ‘There was no word of casualties. Iraq said in its 54th military comminque of the war that the allics had carried out 244 raids in the past 24 hours, 65 of them on civilian targets, Tran’s national news agency ~IRNA reported more allied bomb- ing raids and missile attacks on Iraq's southern port of Basra. France said its Jaguar fighter- bombers hit artillery positions in southern Iraq and Kuw: into final positions for a land battle after a month-long air onslaught of Traqi strategic targets and troops. + Gulf tides are high — right for an amphibious landing. The next few nights are moonless — well- suited to allied high-tech, night- and the Persian Gulf stressed eye were pressing on with plans for a ground war between 500,000 allied troops and half of Saddam’ 5 1 mil- 1B on ing its troops from Kuwait, Tehran radio said. army hed in southern Iraq and Kuwait. Fitzwater, asked about a possi- Anti-war parade on Egyptian campus The Daily Telegraph CAIRO-The first anti-war demon- stration of any note was staged in Egypt Monday. About 200 students paraded on the campus of the Uni- versity of Assiut, 240 miles south of Cairo, This was just the sort of protest President Hosni Mubarak has been trying to avoid. He shut all univer- sities when the conflict began and only reopened them a week ago. Since then, campuses in Cairo, A ia, Assiut and h have been virtually surrounded by riot police. Previously only a handful of intellectuals in Cairo and a group of women peace activists have dared to defy the goverment. _, On both occasions the authori- ‘thes swarmed about protests, fielded 0 so fialiy baton-carrying ‘officers that demonstrators were silenced before they could get organized. Assiut is a notorious outpost of Muslim fundamentalism, and numerous arrests of Islamic activists have been reported in recent weeks, bottled up the students, But they still managed to stage a cohesive march with banners that denounced the US-led Gulf coalition, which includes Egypt, as “devils”. Participants simultaneously decried Saddam Hussein as “the tyrant of Iraq”. Demonstrators called on Egypt to withdraw its 35,000 troops from their base at Hafar al-Batin, Saudi Arabia, where a colonel has been quoted as saying: “We miss our women and the life in Cairo. This is no place for an Egyptian to be.” Mr Mubarak, who seems con- vinced that Saddam has tried to humiliate him personally, is grow- ing increasingly hawkish in his support for the war. He has asserted that the Iraqi leader deceived him in the weeks leading up to the crisis‘and then “stabbed me in the back". Meanwhile, Tone wpe of Pales- gear. Rep on the British frigate Brave said the biggest invasion fleet since the Korean War was closing in on the coast of Kuwait, Reuter correspondent Maamoun Youseff reported from Baghdad that the night of bombing began at 8 p.m. Monday and continued until dawn Tuesday. More than 30 explosions rocked the Rashid Hotel, forcing most of the 40 foreign journalists staying there to retreat to basement shel- ters. They said the bombing was so intense that they breathed smoke from the blasts. Flames lit up the night sky from huge explosions within half a mile of the Rashid. The walls of the 9- year-old 15-s story hotel heaved and shuddered with the blasts, ‘The first light of dawn showed a One Gorbachev aide closely involved in the Kremlin's Gulf diplomacy of the past week, Yevge- ny Primakov, said be was optimistic peace could be achieved and insist- ed Moscow wanted an uncondition- al Iraqi pullout from Kuwait. "The main thing'as I see.it is to ensure the unconditional withdraw- al of Iraqi troops from Kuwait — unconditional, may I stress that word — and then put an end to the war and all remaining issues can then be resolved,” he said. Iraq said Friday it was ready to have talks on United Nations Securi- ty Council Resolution 660, which calls for an immediate and uncondi- tional Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait. But Baghdad’s offer — the first since war began Jan.17 — was swift- ly rejected by the U.S.-led allies, A Tehran newspaper said Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Saadoun Hammadi had told an Iranian offi- cial that allied air raids in the first 26 days of the war had killed 20,000 people. Hammadi put the material dam- age to Iraq at $200 billion, the daily Jomburi Eslami said. tinian in Cairo. The authorities fear that Egypt, where a leading politician was recently gunned down outside a hotel i Police p 10 lorry-load: of officers in streets around the uni- versity, tactics which successfully the Nile, is likely to be a target for a spectacular Asab terrorist operation. Killers convention will push for drop in parole TORONTO (SNS) - Murderers from across Canada are being invited to a three-day convention this spring, sponsored by the fed- eral government to examine how well treatment programs are work- ing for long-term inmates. ‘The event at Joyceville peniten- tiary near Kingston is going to be big, said Harry MacDonald, a Corrections Canada liaison officer with inmates at the prison. “This »_ has never been done before.” Pierre Cadieux, the federal " Solicitor-General, is also in favour. The prisoners plan to discuss ways of lobbying Ottawa to drop the parole eligibility date for first- degree murder from 25 years to 15, MacDonald said. Janis Grant, acting warden of Joyceville, said officials wanted t bring together inmates and correc- tional authorities to exchange ideas in a brainstorming session, instead of discussing concerns with inmates individually. Corrections officials also thought it was important for inmates to talk to paroled offend- ers about their experiences since their release, she said. “The thing people forget is that almost every lifer is back in society at some point,” Grant said. “We want them to tell us what they need in the way of treatment Programs, cr Electoral Area J, combination thereof. - Regional District of Central Kootenay Invitation to Tender Construction of Fire Hall Sealed tenders for the construction of a fire hall In Electoral Area J of the Regional District of Central Kootenay will be recelved by the undersigned under the following terms: 1. One fire hall Is to be constructed In the Ootischenla area of 2. The fire hail will be constructed of wood frame, cement block, metal, pre-cast concrete or any other acceptable bullding material or 3. A10% bid bond will be required. ~ 4. 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