ec > ‘-) - S = Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1991 z ~ 5 HAVE WE MISSED you? lf you have an upcoming event or a regular meeting and you want it listed in AfterHOURS, let us know. Call our entertainment reporter Donna Bertrand at 365- 3517, fax us at 365-3334, or drop us a line at P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4. DEADLINE Deadline for listings in AfterHOURS is Friday at 5 p.m. What’s on around the West Kootenay CLUBS CASTLEGAR Banjo’s Pub 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 Taxpayers Tonight 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 Wednesdays, 9 p.m. Crossroads Thursday 9p.m. to 1 am, 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 Tonight to Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. 368-8232 ROSSLAND Powder Keg Pub Karaoke Thursday at 9 p.m House of Payne Friday and Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m Musician's Jam Session Sunday starting at 8 p.m. 362-7375 NELSON Library Lounge Chery! Hodge Tuesday toThursday 7to 11 p.m. 352-5331 Boller Room Nightclub Comedians CASTLEGAR National Exhibition Centre Out of Shade, an exhibition of fine woodworking and Festive Treasures, a selection of handcrafted Christmas gifts. Both exhibits open to Dec. 24 365-3337 NELSON Nelson Museum History of the West Arm of Kootenay Lake: The Sourth Side Runs to Dec. 20 352-9813 PERFORMING ARTS NELSON Hickory, Dickory, Dock Capitol Theatre's annual Chit Various locations Next meeting: Dec. 4 365-3401 Beta Sigma Phi (Ritual of Jewels) 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Various locations Next meeting: Dec. 11 365-6892 Canadian Cancer Society (Castlegar Unit) 2nd Monday of every other month 7:00 p.m. Castlegar Health Unit Next meeting: Jan. 13 365-6498 Castlegar and District Senior Citizens Action CG Dec. 5, 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 8 matinee at 2 p.m. TRAIL Trail Society for the Performing Arts Performance '91 Ballet North Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m. 1st Tuesdays, 10 a.m. Next meeting: Jan. 7 365-8237 or 365-0085 Castlegar City Council Regular meetings 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Council chambers Next meeting: Dec. 17 365-7227 Castlegar Hospital Board MOVIES CASTLEGAR Castle Theatre Tonight and Thursday All | Want for Christmas, 7 p.m. The People Under the Stairs, 9 p.m. Starting Friday Curly-Sue, 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday Matinee, 1:30 p.m. 365-7621 TRAIL Royal Theatre Tonight and Thursday Curly Sue, 7 p.m. The People Under the Stairs, 9 p.m. Starting Friday All | Want for Christmas, 7 p.m. Shattered, 9 p.m 364-2114 NELSON Civic Theatre Tonight Other People's Money, 7:30 p.m. Thursday Only Banft Festival of Mountain, 7 p.m. Starting Friday All | want for Christmas The People Under the Stairs 352-5833 MEETINGS Beta Sigma Phi (Exemplar) 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. Various locations Next Meeting: Dec. 4 365-3114 Beta Sigma Phi (Preceptor) 1st Wednesdays , 7 p.m. 4thT Hospital board room Next meeting: Dec. 12, 4 p.m. 365-7711 Castiegar School Board 3rd Mondays, 7 p.m. School board office Next meeting: Dec. 16 365-7731 Castieview Care Centre Auxillary 4th Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m. Castle View Next meeting: Dec. 18 365-3754 Christian Women’s Club 2nd Thursdays Fireside Inn Next meeting: Dec. 12, 11 a.m. 365-7728 Kinnaird Women's institute 3rd Thursdays, 1:30 p.m. Next meeting: Dec. 19 365-5441 Kiwanis Club Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Jenny's Cafe Next meeting: Dec. 10 965-2151 Knights of Pythias — Twin Rivers 1st and 3rd 7 p.m. Next meeting: Dec. 365-7735 Strokers Club 2nd Wednesday of each month 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Senior Citizen's Hall Next meeting: Dec. 11 359-7480 or 365-3540 West Kootenay Naturalists Masonic Hall Next meeting: Dec. 16 365-6149 Kootenay No. 9 Oidtime 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: Dec. 12 365-5282 Lions Club 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Sandman Inn Next meeting: Dec. 10 Regional District of Central Kootenay Various times Next meeting: Nelson, Dec. 14, 9 a.m. 352-6665 Rotary Club Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Sandman Inn Next meeting: Dec. 10 365-2780 Selkirk Weavers and Spinners Gulld 3rd Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. Castlegar Doukhobor Museum Next meeting: Dec. 18 365-5918 SHSS Parent Advisory Council 4th Tuesdays, 7 p.m. SHSS Library Last Monday of every month 7:30 p.m. Selkirk College Next meeting: Dec. 30 4 Various locations Next meeting: Jan. 8, 10:00 a.m., Legion Hall 365-3279 SPECIAL EVENTS Passmore/Vallican Christmas Craft Fair Saturday, Dec. 7 226-7363 . Kootenay Christmas Sories Saturday, Dec. 7 Kootenay School of Writing Musical Celebration of Christmas Sunday, Dec. 8, 2:30 p.m. Castlegar United Church Everyone welcome for an afternoon of song. 4th Annual Festival of Joy Saturday, Dec. 7 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nelson Waldorf Schoo! Seniors Christmas Party Sunday, Dec. 8, 1 to 4.p.m. Slocan Park Hall Robson River Otters Bingo Saturday, Dec. 14 Early bird, 6 p.m. Regular, 7 p.m. Castlegar Community Complex Club's On Dec. 15, the Trail Skating Christmas performance Hook, Skating show promises smiles all year round cluding Peter Pan and Captain Whi and the Seven _ LEGION BRANCH 170 365-7017 Hours: Mon.- Thurs. * 3 p.m.- 11 pum. every third Tuesday in month 7:30 p.m. THURSDAYS + . Bingo — Earty Bird 6 p.m Reg 6:30 p.m. (Licence No. 75616) \TURDA' WEST KOOTENAY APPLIANCE We Buy & Sell Used Appliances 352-7787 Nelson D WE CATER TO Al & E Caterew 365-8369 2611-00 Ave. Santioger 1 Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1991 OurPEOPLE Day care on hol Donna Bertrand NEWS REPORTER A $100,000 shortage in funding has forced the Ki Columbia Child @ As families sit in limbo and equipment sits idle, the Kootenay Columbia Child Care Society searches for the final funding needed to complete its $365,000 expansion project Care Society to put the brakes on its expansion project. “We've slowed down considerably,” administrator Katrine Conroy said Monday. “We're taking the fiscally-re- sponsible road and working on the building as money becomes available. We're not going to over-extend the so- ciety.” To date, the society has raised and almost spent $265,000 on the project which includes extensive renovations to the building next to the existing Hobbit Hill Day Care Centre. Upon completion, the new centre will house the first under-three li- censed day care program in the area and a teen support program for young mothers. The speech therapy and physiotherapy programs will also move to the new building. ‘When you know the community needs this service, it’s so frustrating to know you’re almost there, but you’re not.” — Katrine Conroy But in the meantime, 23 children, and their parents, remain in limbo on a waiting list, teenage mothers wait for a support system and a place to take their babies so they can go back to school, and therapy sessions contin- ue to be conducted out of an office not much larger than a closet. As a result of the shortfall, the opening date has been pushed back to September, 1992 from January, 1992. “When you know the community needs this service, it’s so frustrating to know you're almost there, but you're not,” Conroy said. And the need is there, she said. “Some of the moms I've talked to say they want to go back to work but they're not going to until there’s li- censed care,” she said. “People are starting to realize they want quality licensed care for their infants and tod- dlers.” To deal with at least the space problems at Hobbit Hill, the society is hoping to get part of the new buildi opened next month. “What we're trying to do is get the upstairs finished so we can move in and get the office space and the thera- py space organized,” she said. The new building has separate rooms for speech therapy and physio- therapy with an observation room in between so parents can observe and __ News photo by Donna Bertrand Society administrator Katrine Conroy looks around the new centre in frustration with it still so far from completion. The four-baby buggy is one of many pieces of equip- ment that sits idle in the meantime. open were the Kiwanis Club, which painted, and the Selkirk Lions, which has offered to buy and install all the interior doors. ~ “That’s been a real boost for us,” she said. But getting funding has been a struggle since the start of the much- needed expansion, Conroy said. ‘A lot of people were under the impression that everything was paid for by the government and that’s just not the case.” — Katrine Conroy “A lot of people were under the im- pression that everything was paid for by the government and that’s just not the case,” she said. “There's partial funding but its definitely not all the funding.” The society has received about $10,000 from the government. The rest has come through fundraising. It also received a $40,000 GO B.C. grant for equipment purchases. Most of the equipment needed to get the centre open has been purchased, but without funding to finish the building, it sits idle. “B.C. is one of the lowest provinces in Canada for capital funding towards child care,” Conroy said. “We supply one per cent. (the government) tries to say they’re making it up with lottery funds, but even those don't cut it.” To illustrate the lack of provincial funding, Conroy told of a recent trip to a fundraising conference in Toronto. While there she toured a housing complex of 160 apartments and 40 townhouses. It included its own day- care centre. The Ontario equivalent to B.C.’s Ministry of Social Services and Hous- ing funded $600,000 of the project. The remaining $130,000 came from fundraising, she said. “There's no reason why that can't happen here.” lowever, until it does, the society will continue to look for other sources of funding. Conroy said the society has “lots of irons in the fire” but nothing definite yet and i to wel nity support. “We're still doing the plaque pro- gram where people can buy a plaque and have their name on it on a wall in the new centre,” she said, adding that 4 Senne eave talk deckectibl hear their children while in session. that camaraderie is really so impor- “And we're looking at maybe start- _ tant, where they support each other ing just a support program (for teen and know they’re not alone.” mothers) in the new year. Just to have Helping recently to get the upstairs Conroy said anyone is welcome to tour the new facility and see what Castlegar’s young ones have to look forward to.