Page 10A The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, April 26, 1995

Complex shines in annual rec report

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The Castlegar Sun WEDNESDAY, April 26, 1995

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The Castlegar Community Complex was heavily used again in 1994. One of the
more popular places was the arena, which is used by the community for things like
recreational hockey, and which saw a big jump in public skating.

Sun file photo

JEFF GABERT
Sun Sports

The Castlegar and District
Community Complex should have
its own television coramercial.

It's fast, efficient and versa-
tile. It's the perfect Christmas
gift for any community that
wants to satisfy its recreational-
ly-inclined citizens.

And you just can't beat the
price.

The Castlegar and District

ditures were only 96.1 per cent of
the budget which meant a savings
of $71,000,

According to Pat Metge, the
director of recreation for Castle-
gar, the expenditures were down
in large part because the depart-
ment did not follow through on
some of the large capital projects
it had planned for, such as
redesigning the meeting rooms.

The increase in revenue was
just a bonus from an overall
increase in attendance at the

Recreation Dep

its 1994 Year End Reyort last
month and it seems the Complex
has led the way once again by
bringing in $18,000 more rev-
enue than budgeted for, and
spending $4,000 less in operating
costs than budgeted for.

Besides the Complex, the
Recreation Department also oper-
ates the Pioneer Arena, Pass
Creek Park and Robson Pool, as
well as the sports fields. It also
runs a wide range of recreational
programs and special events
throughout the year.

Total revenue for the entire
department was 101.8 per cent of
the budgeted amount for 1994
which translated into an extra
$33,000. Meanwhile, total expen-

L and in the programs.
Attendance was up at the Com-
plex in 1994 by 2,000 over 1993
and one of the biggest increases
ame in the area of public skating
where there was a revenue
increase of 42 per cent over 1993.
“That seems to be something
common in the [Kootenay] area,”
said Metge. “For some reason
everyone has seen an increase in
skating.”

One of the other increases
Metge saw in 1994 was in the use
of Pioneer Arena. The need for
ice time was high, with increased
registration in Minor Hockey and
Figure Skating and that meant the
Pioneer's use increased greatly.

Metge said the facility has gone
from being a five-day per week

operation to 6-6.5 day per week

All in all, the increases and
surpluses bode well for this year.

“I think we had a very suc-
cessful year,” said Metge.

jally, it was ful
and we had a high participation
level which shows the interest
people in Castlegar have for
recreational services.”

As for 1995, the department is
still ifoning out some plans and

ies. It has just completed a
public questionnaire which was
forwarded to the board of direc-
tors last week.

Metge said the response from
the community was very positive
and he sees no real need to make
any major changes to facilities or
programs in the future.

Unlike a television commer-
cial, Metge and the Recreation
Department is determined to
make recreation in Castlegar
more than a limited time offer.

Special
Olympians
win big

Submitted

The Castlegar Special
Olympics team came home from
its first event with big wins.

Grand Forks hosted a bowling
tournament on Saturday with 71
athletes competing from Cran-
brook, Nelson, Grand Forks and
Castlegar.

A total of 10 athletes from
Castlegar attended with coaches
Sid Floyd, Eleanor Nichols and
Lori Peill.

Team No. 1, which consisted
of Dan Poznikoff, Trevor Nichols,
Joanna Lorimer and Steven Mid-
dleton, placed third. Team No. 2,
made up of Lara Cherninkoff,
Louise Bate, Pam Jensen and
Julie Jones, placed fourth.

Louise Bate received high
score for ladies, while Shelley
Pion and Bill Bird were door
prize recipients.

The Castlegar athletes hope to
enter a team in Cranbrook's
tournament in October where
over 100 teams will be compet-
ing in the two-day event.

Castlegar athletes have been
training in various sports on a
weekly basis for two years. A
shortage of funds and volunteers
make travelling to event diffi-
cult at this time, a team
spokesperson said.

“We hope to send two athletes
and one coach to a summer
camp in Squamish in June this
year,” the rson said.

The milk run by Kinnaird
Middle School students and the
torch run by the RCMP help
raise money to fund the camps.

“We are trying to generate
funds at this time to cover the
cost of transportation,” the

m said.

Anyone seeking more infor-
mation about Castlegar Special
Olympics can contact local coor-
dinator Lori Peill.

‘STOP The Violence

Violence can be defined as any-
thing that denies human dignity
and leads to a sense of helpless-
ness or hopelessness.

Violence affects all of us. It’s on
the streets, on our televisions
and sometimes, in our homes.

But do we have to accept it sim-
7 ply because it’s there, or can we
begin to do something about it?

And where do you begin to stop
violence in a world in which
bombings, spousal abuse and
child abuse is everyday fare for a
hungry television audience?

The most obvious answer is to
begin with those who will someday
change the world—our children.

Violence Awareness Week
is April 23-30
and in recognition of that
there will be a display of
children’s artwork and cre-
ative writing in the City
Centre Square in downtown
Castlegar all this week.

Projects focus on violence in
our society and ways in which to
create safe homes, schools and
environments.

The Castlegar School district
and Community services have
joined together to raise aware-
ness about violence and to edu-
cate students ways in which they
can deal with it.

Students-within the district wrote
poetry and short essays, and
designed drawings about violence
and its effects on them. Some of
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average of three parents for
every class of elementary
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At least one in nine secondary
school students report being
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dating relationship.

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children as being directly
abused themselves. Resulting
feelings can be confusion,
shame, anger, guilt, fear

and isolation.

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elementary school, they will
have witnessed 8,000 murders
and more than 100,000 other
acts of violence through
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Two out of every three sexual
assaults are committed by
offenders who are known to
their victims.

The only national survey on
abuse of the elderly estimates
that 53 of every 1,000 elderly
persons in private home in B.C.
are abused—the highest
reported rate in Canada.

A study by DAWN Canada of
women with disabilities found
that 53 per cent of those who
had a disability from birth, and
40 per cent of women who had
developed a disability later in
life, had been physically or
sexually assaulted.

In 1989 119 women were
murdered in domestic situations.

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We, as a community can avoid it by
Practicing patience and good sportsmanship

Never walking alone
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