Castlegar News July 13, 1968 Pet has therapeutic value By oor CREIGHTON ‘anadian Press The shisnee was oppressive among the five old people, sitting in a circle in their wheelchairs. Huddling in afghans at the Toronto nursing home es air conditioning kept things cool, they ‘showed no emotion and no apparent interest in their surroundings. That is until Licorice — a coal: black, standard poodle — trotted into the room. Suddenly, five pairs of eyes came alive. Hands that lay listlessly on laps reached to touch the dog. Accompanied by owner Roz Zip pin, the four-year-old dog sniffed and nuzzled its way around the circle before conferring its affection on one elderly woman. PETS AS THERAPY This scene is repeated once a week at the Bayerest Centre for Geriatrics, where apist Karen Grauer brings withdrawn, uncommunicative elderly patients together with pets. One of the purposes of the pro- gram is to encourage social inter. action among participants,” Grauer said in an interview. “The sensory stimulation that patients are getting from petting a dog like Licorice sometimes sparks discussion.” Hundreds of institutions across Canada treat both children and the elderly using pets such as dogs, cats, rabbits and birds While science cannot fully explain why pet therapy works, there are clues. “We have long known that the body's immunity to disease is ad- versely affected by a loss of social contact,” said Aaron Katcher, a pro- fessor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania who has studied the interaction of humans and animals. EASES STRESS Katcher said his studies have shown that blood pressure, which normally rises when people speak to each other, remains thé, same or drops when people speak to their pets. os The reason is that they feel com fortable, temporarily free from an xiety and stress. Douglas Rapelje, director of the senior citizens department for the regional municipality of Niagara in Ontario, introduced pets into retire- ment and nursing homes several years ago. He found that frail and disoriented men and women exhibit normal res- ponses when a pet is in the room. Rapelje also speaks of the tran quillizing effects of animal compan ions “It's a beautiful sight to see a resident lying down or asleep in a chair with a dog in her arms.” At Baycrest, five specially chosen patients spend an hour with a differ. ent dog each week. Parade livens up neighborhood By BOB TAYLOR Canadian Press In the heat of Toronto, a few blocks from the chief shops and hotels, there broods a neighborhood of rickety houses, pizzerias, mom and pop stores, seedy chapels and gutters strewn with hamburger boxes and Coke cans. Through this urban eyesore, re lieved only by the occasional gen trified residence and handsome old chestnut trees, there wound one sunny day recently a parade that would have astonished Miss Quirk. First came a dozen tootling, oom pah-pahing and thumping bands men, all in step and resplendent in green uniforms with gold frogging. Clip-clopping behind them rode three policemen on freshly curry-combed horses — two bays and a roan with white socks. These were followed by some 100 marchers — grownups and children — and an antique fire engine glowing red and gold The purpose of the parade was unusual, perhaps unique: to promote reading and literacy among the neighborhood kids. By the time it was over, those taking part had given away 3,000 new books donated by the city’s booksellers. Miss Quirk, who retired from teaching before television took deep root, would have been shocked that such a parade was needed and scan dalized that kids no longer listed reading as a favorite pastime GOOD FOR LIFE In the days before libraries became centres” and books “re source materials,” Miss Quirk im bued her pupils with a love of reading “resource that stood them in good stead for the rest of their lives. You must have seen them, book in hand, never bored, waiting in a doc tor’s office, eating lunch beside a fountain, making the best of being trapped in an elevator or between planes, giving the rain a chance to let up, resting in a jungle clearing or at base camp on Mount Everest, killing time before the counter-attack, standing in the wings, perhaps sit ting in a prison cell The pocketbook might have been invented for them What did Miss Quirk’s kids read? At first, such standbys as The Wind in the Willows, Robinson Cru soe, Kim, Treasure Island, Anne of Green Gables, Ivanhoe, Tom Sawyer and The Pickwick Papers. Later they graduated to The Golden Treasury, Julius Caesar, Don Quixote, The Canterbury Tales, some even to War and Peace In trying to civilize her little sav- ages, Miss Quirk had two staunch allies. One was Miss Fry, whose golden beauty helped inspire a love of reading in the fat-headed Michael Collier, who might otherwise have progressed no further than an ability to lip-read his way through the en tries at the track This goddess, who wore a pencil thrust through her bun of honey. colored hair, héld sway at the public library situated within easy walking distance of the school where Miss Quirk presided. The two had con spired to make Friday afternoons a treat the kids looked forward to all week: library day Wrestlers killed Canadian Press Even for professional wrestlers, Adorable Adrian Adonis, Wildman and Pat Kelly were eccentric The three were killed Monday when their mini-van plunged into a brook while heading for a bout in the northeastern Newfoundland town of Lewisporte. Kelly's twin brother, Mike, was listed in serious but stable condition in hospital A pair of identical, six-foot-two, bald-but-bearded 240-pounders, the Kelly Twins probably made their biggest impact with an Oh Henry television commercial in which their combined weight at the end of a teeter-totter is balanced by a lone eandy bar. Pat and Mike, actually Victor and William Arko of Hamilton, also ap peared in spots for Pizza Delight, Coors beer and Canada Trust. They also managed a successful career as a tag-team tandem appearing across North America CAREER BLOSSOMS In an interview a couple of years ago, Pat said wrestling had helped pave the way for their blossoming acting career. “Wrestling is like any profession,” he said. “If you don't act, you're not gaing to sell. You got to entertain them.” While the Kellys kept popping up in commercials and on television shows such as CBC's Seeing Things, Wildman — also known as Dave Mc Kigney of Aurora, Ont. — gained at tention in July 1978 when his trained bear Smokey mauled his live-in girlfriend to death Reports at the time said McKigney had allowed the bear, which he used in various sports promotions, to roam his property while cleaning its cage. Smokey, a 462-pound, seven-foot black bear trained to wrestle hu. mans, found his way into the house and attacked the woman in a bed. room. MeKigney, who opted for a hairy, caveman-like image in the ring, was also a wrestling promoter in south. ern Ontario and was promoting the ill-fated Newfoundland venture. Despite the notoriety they had in Canada, neither the Kellys nor Wild. man achieved the stardom of Adrian Adonis, working name for Keith Franke of Los Angeles. Mike Weber, a spokesman for the World Wrestling Federation, recalls Adonis as a “big star” in the early 1980s, when Adonis and Dick Mur doch were the WWF tag-team cham. pions. Adonis's gimmick was to appear ringside with a bow in his blond locks, his face made up, perhaps dangling a rose from his hand, Weber said in a telephone interview from Stamford, Conn. Adonis and the others had been scheduled to appear Tuesday night as part of an East Coast tour by the Big Time Professional Wrestling company, based in Aurora. The rest of the tour has been cancelled. “I look for people who like animals or perhaps have owned a dog in the past,” said Grauer. OWNERS INVOLVED The animals are chosen for their docility and training, and volunteer owners are expected to participate in the program, Grauer said. Bringing pet therapy into the in- stitution wasn't easy. Once the prop- osal was accepted by Baycrest Cen tre officials in 1986, the organizers were faced with the logistics. Taking animals into a hospital set. ting requires reorganization of rou- tines and strict adherence to health regulations, said Graver. A special area in the hospital ap- proved by # government health of. ficer was chosen. By law, this space can't be in an area where food is prepared or served. Once these barriers were crossed, the program began in March, “One patient in the program who was very withdrawn for several years now expresses affection for the animals,” Grauer said. “He has totally opened up and talks to anyone who will listen about the program.” Maximum cutting oon easy to handle, ond Tworld-wide sales end oe organization. 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Chance of recipitotion today and tomorrow is near 0. dpe 60 Cents 2 Sections (A & B) No go for ferry minister says By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer The provincial government will not start operating the Castlegar-Robson cable ferry says provincial Highways Minister Neil Vant In a decision from the Highways Ministry Thursday, Vant said the ferry is not an essential highways service and the government will no longer pay to operate the service. Instead, the ferry has been put up for sale with an asking price of $1 “While the government recognizes the concerns of Robson and Castlegar residents, alternative transpor tation routes allow them to travel the distance in 10 to 15 minutes,” Vant said in a prepared news release. “The service is convenient to Raspberry and Robson residents and important to some businesses but this cable ferry is not an essential extension of the provincial highway network.” The Robson-Raspberry Ferry Users Ad Hoc Committee sent a letter to the ministry Friday afternoon asking the ministry to sell the vessel to the group. Vant said the ministry will not sell the ferry to the group unless it starts operating the vessel. “Mr. Vant said he won't sell it to us if we don't operate it,” committee spokesman Fern Allam told the Castlegar News Saturday. “I expect we will look to see if we can get some sort of funding. It's unbelievable.” Terry Dalton, the lawyer representing the committee in its legal challenge of the ministry's decision to close the ferry without any warning, said the latest ministry offering has only strengthened the committee and its legal position “T'm really greatly relieved and impressed that enthusiasm remains high and that the commitment to try and resolve the issue is greater than ever.” Dalton told the Castlegar News Friday. “We will be proceeding with the litigation and in fact the decision not to commence operations was favorable and strengthened our legal position.” The reasoning behind the government's decision not to re-start the ferry stems from a “new focus” of priorities for the Highways Ministry said Vant. “There are dozens of other transportation problems that need to be addressed throughout the province,” he said. “To be fair to everyone, we must allocate our resources in accordance with an equitable assessment of priorities.” Dalton criticized Vant and Nelson-Creston MLA Howard Dirks for their lack of imput on the ferry decision. The decision was made by the premier and his personal secretary, David Poole, he said ? “All of the information I have leads me to believe that the decision not to open the ferry was made solely by Mr. Vander Zalm and Mr. Poole,” Dalton said. “It does appear to me that Mr. Dirks and Mr. Vant played no part in the decision made by Mr. Vander Zalm and Mr. Poole.” Dirks, who was in Warfield Friday to officially open the B.C. Championships for the physically disabled, refuted Dalton’s comments and said the decision came from the ministry, not the premier's office. “I found the first two (cabinet) meetings to be extremely democratic and not domineered by any single person “or group of people, it’s been free-wheeling,” Dirks said Friday. “There's really no truth to the idea that it's a one-man show.” When asked if the committee's protest outside his Nelson constituency office Tuesday had any effect on the decision not to re-start the ferry, Dirks said no but also said he prefers less vocal protests. “These protests, unfortunately, they get a little out of hand and they leave a bad taste in everybody's mouth when it's all over, rather than a good taste,” he said. “My attitude has always been to try and work it out quietly behind the scenes, through closed doors and I would've appreciated really if they would've contacted me earlier and sought an appointment. I would have met with them gladly.” Dirks also said that the ferty is more of a local issue than a regional issue and said he would hesitate to approach the government in his new capacity Minister of State for the Kootenay region. “We viewed the Robson-Castlegar ferry as a loca! issue, not a regional issue,” he said. “It was really a matter between the City of Castlegar, the Regional continued on page A2 Pool proposal comes in at $2.2 million for vote By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer The Castlegar Projects Society has decided to take an aquatic centre proposal to referendum with a $2.2. million price tag on it The society met Thursday evening at the Community Complex and plans for the leisure facility's design as well as fund-raising ideas were discussed during the meeting. The referendum is scheduled for Oct. 15 and includes GAMES BEGIN’. . . Nine-year-old Bruce Reding looks up at the official flame of the B.C. 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Championships for the physi cally disasbled The athletes paraded around the track at the park ted by the local Legion members and a bagpipe band It is the first time in the 20-year history of the event the games have been held outside the Vancouver Lower Mainland area and hundreds of athletes from Western Canada and Washington State will be taking part in the competitions. Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco and Nelson-Creston MLA Howard Dirks were both on hand during the opening ceremonies and Dirks pre sented two cheques totalling $57,000 $45,000 went to assisting athletes transportation costs and $12,000 went to the City of Trail for it's role in hosting the Games. Dirks officially opened the petition with the words “Let the Games begin.” The torch was brought in by hon orary Games chairman Steve Tam bellini and was then passed on to com numerous athletes who rar’the torch around the track several times. Nine-year-old Bruce Reding was the final athlete to take the torch and brought it triumphantly to the front of the main grandstand: to the ap plause of the onlookers The events will be held in Trail until today. Events include bowling, swimming, crutch soccer, cyc! track and field, weightlifting, tennis, golf and numerous other activities. Tentative deal in pulp negotiations By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer British Columbia's pulp industry settled contract negotiations Wed- nesday but Pulp, Paper and Wood. workers of Canada Local 1, which represents about 280 workers at Celgar Pulp Co., is disappointed with the agreement Mike Espenhain, first vice-presi dent of PPWC Local 1, earlier told ithe Castlegar News that the union idecided local issues were more im- portant than overall concerns re- garding wages and pension benefits. In particular, Espenhain said the union wants more “reasonable shifts” for relief pool workers. “It hasn't been dealt with,” he said Friday. Terms of the tentative three-year agreement are not being released until ratification. Local 1 will hold a ratification vote Wednesday. If the union doesn't vote in favor of acceptance, “then it will be back to the negotiating tables for the whole industry,” said Espenhain. However, he hinted he thinks it (Local 1) will probably accept the agreement. “Generally our votes have gone along with the wage caucus,” he said. “We will try to solve our problems before the vote is taken.” Castlegar, Area I and Area J resi dents. Ed Sherry, a recreation consultant for Camrec Facilities, presented his company’s design for the facility and offered society members numerous details on economical construction of a sturdy, functional facility for the Castlegar area. The proposed facility will go up right next to the Com munity Complex. Sherry, who has been designing recreational facilities for Camrec since 1972, said quality building materials are important for a project such-as the proposed Castlegar fac ility and added it will be a challenge to construct the facility within the $2.2-million budget. “It is going to be a challenge.” Sherry said. “Even to build a house in most places will cost you a few bucks per square foot.” But Sherry said it's a challenge he is prepared to tackle and offered his latest revised blueprints on the proposed facility. “What I suggested here is to reduce some areas down to size,” he said. “To stay within the budget that's proposed right now, I made some modifications to the original design.” The revised proposal is almost exactly the same as the original except the lounge area, a small portion of the pool deck area and the wading pool were all reduced slightly in size. During the society meeting, Pat Metge and Gus Young poured over DESIGN UNVEILED . . » Consultant Ed Sherry was in Castlegar Thur- sday going over plons for the proposed recreational facility. The project is expected to cost $2.2 million and a'reterendum will be held Oct maps of the electoral areas which will be voting in the referendum to get a better idea of the number of house. holders eligible to take part in the vote. Metge also had some “ballpark estimations” for the cost of operating the facility. He said it will cost about $122,000 a year to operate the facility but added the Brandson pool will probably be shut down once the new facility is completed, freeing up about $20,000 a year which is used to run the outdoor pool. CosNewsPhoto Society president Ron Ross sum: med it up at the end of the meeting by saying: “All we're asking is that the people who vote on the project realize that the entire cost to area homeowners will be about a buck a week.” The plans for the facility include a weight room, sauna, 2§metre-long six-lane pool, a wading peol, a whirl pool and viewing and eating areas. As well the facility will have change rooms and an office.