c2 CastlegarNews October 24, 1990 For the Best... Christmas Portraits Ever... Vogue Studio Traditional and Contem, Pl phy of Families, Couples am Children City Centre Square 365-7515 LOCAL NEWS YOU USE CASTLEGAR NEWS CLASSIFIED CALL 365-2212 SAVE A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS WHEN BS Next time you stay at Calgary’s Port O’ Call you could end up in New York! Stay with us for a weekend and enter our exciting draw for a New Year's celebration in New York. You could win: ¢ Air fare tor two © FIVE NIGHTS at the worid. tamous Plaza Hotel * Glamorous New Year's Eve party. Draw >e'° be held November 11 Calgary’s best hotel value! just $6 0° a might with this ad °$65 weekdays. Expires july 1/91. © Heated indoor parking * Convernent location near Airport * Indoor pool and whirlpool * Steam room and sauna * Health club and racquetball ¢ Good Food, good value! CLIP THIS AD AND BE A WINNER! 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Hayato Ide, Sadami Honda, Shinya Kubota and Shinchiro Yoshida are dn a one-month pilot program developed jointly by the ministries of education in Japan and B.C. The objective of the program is to provide the visitors with oppor- the B.c. Japanese teachers visit here tunities to observe and to par- ticipate in the B.C. school system. After visiting the Castlegar school district’s Resource Centre, the Japanese teachers joined the West Kootenay education studen- ts in a class on current social issues in education. 19 to Ootischenia The class was conducted by William Bruneau, an associate professor in the University of B.C.’s faculty of education. Following Bruneau's lecture, the Japanese teachers participated in a cooperative learning seminar with the student teachers. October 24, 1990 CastlegarNews c3 * LOCAL NEWS ~—“‘nany More ials! Please recycle The NEWS NDP MLA guest speaker MLA Elizabeth Cull is slated as a guest speaker, along with NDP can- diate Corky Evans, on Oct. 28 in Nelson when area New Democrats hold their annual general meeting. The public is invited to attend the speaking engagement at 3:30 p.m., following a 2 p.m. membership meeting in the Hume Room at Nelson’s Heritage Inn. Cull, MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head, was elected to the provincial legislature last December, the sixth New Democrat elected in a series of provincial byelections. A professional Planner, she is the New De for ur- Greater Victoria school board, where she chaired the district’s facilities planning committee. Cull earned her master’s degree in at the Uni ity of B.C. ban development. She previously worked with the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, where as a senior planner she helped communities throughout B.C. solve problems of growth and resource management, the NDP says in a news release. She also served as a trustee on the and has served as an active member of the Canadian Institute of Planners, the Planning Design Institute of B.C. and the Canadian Housing Design Council. She has also been director of the James Bay Child Care Society and chaired the B.C. Government Em- ployees’ Union local executive. Church to host festival A mission festival involving mem- bers from four West Kootenay au BREEZE SEMI-GLOSS $3099 au ALKYD EGGSHELL OR SEMI-GLOSS In-store Spect “Your Only General Paint Dealer in the Castlegar © Trail © Grand Forks Area’ * Where Point « Wall Poper & Window Blinds ore our only business sideline! 7229-5th $t., Grond Forks PAINT & WALLCOVERING °“2:"" , NATIONAL DECORATING SOCIATION will be held at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Castlegar on Oct. 28. Pastor Vic Fry, missions counsellor for the Alberta-British Columbia District of Lutheran Church-Canada, will bring the message. 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The public is invited to attend these special festivities which begin with the worship service at 10:30 a.m. ALOT LESS! OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: Mon.-Thur. & Sat Friday 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m 6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Closed Sunday Society serves adults All services of the Kootenay * Society for Community Living are directed towards serving adults from the Castlegar area who live with mental handicaps. The society, one of several tocal organizations which receive fun- ding from the United Way, believes that all individuals are capable of learning and growing and that all individuals, regardless of their abilities, can contribute Positively to their community. The society operates two group homes in Castlegar which are home to eight adult men and UNITED WAY FEATURE women. Until recently, operated an apartment situation for two others. The program centre provides a full day program service to ap- Proximately 20 individuals. People at the centre do a variety of activities. They include atten- ding transitional training classes at Selkirk College, grounds main- tenance for different businesses in town and laundry service to medical clinics. While at the cen- tre, people are involved in educational and academic Program using the computer and alternative communication systems. All people who par- ticipate in contract work receive a daily allowance. The society also arranges for respite to families who live with a mentally handicapped member. The respite service matches qualified caregivers with families in need. Once matched, the caregiver can come into the families’ homes or take the family member to their home for short Periods of time. In either case, this respite provides the family with a much-needed break from the con- tinuous demands of caregiving. The society is looking forward to finalizing plans with the Ministry of Social Services and Housing to create a new com- munity-based day service. It will be called Community Options. The service will be tailored to bet- ter meet each person's abilities and needs. Services will include everything from supporting people at real jobs to assisting community volunteer organizations. The service will result in people with mental han- dicaps contributing to a greater extent in the community. it also living ra WY Drive off with A Bargain in the Classified Section. To Place Your Ad Call 365-2212 into Castlegar? Be sure to call Wetec Win, Heather at 365-5490 or Ginny at 365-5549 The Most Famous Basket in the World \reneneennescaeeresces Members of the Castlegar Chictstlion Women's Club look over a table of handicrafts during the club's fourth annual Fall Fair. Women hold Fall Fair Last Thursday marked the date of the fourth annual Fall Fair of the Castlegar Christian Women’s Club. A Dutch auction of contributions of canning, baking and handicrafts generated much good-natured rivalry among the women as they tried to outbid rivals on specific articles. 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