Saturday, April 25, 1992 &

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CLUBS -

CASTLEGAR
Banjo’s Pub 365-6933
Tonight x
San Jose West
9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.
Budweiser Talent Search

Mondays, 9 p.m.

Brewskies Pub 365-2700
Tonight
Randy Frisky
10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Exotic Dancers
Mondays to Saturdays
3:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Karaoke Talent Search
Every Monday
9:30 p.m.
Dexter’s Pub 365-5311
Tonight
Crossroads
9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m
Karaoke
Tuesdays, 9 p.m.
Marlane Hotel 365-2626
Exotic Dancers
Monday to Saturday
Noon to 12:30 a.m.
ROBSON
Lion’s Head Pub 365-5811
Karaoke
Wednesday
8 p.m. to midnight
TRAIL

Crown Point Pub 368-8232
Eastern Breeze
Wednesday to Saturday
9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.

ROSSLAND
Powder Keg Pub 362-7375
Tonight a
No Excuse

9:25 +9-4:30-a-m=
$330 PMO 1-90 -B-

Castle Theatre 365-7621.
Tonight through Thursday
Ladybugs, 7 p.m.

My Cousin Vinny, 9 p.m:

TRAIL
Royal Theatre 364-2114
Tonight through Thursday
The Hand That Rocks
The Cradle, 7 & 9 p.m.

NELSON
Civic Theatre 352-5833
Tonight Through Thursday
Wayne's World, 7 p.m.
Gladiator, 9 p.m.

Beta Sigma Phi (Exemplar)
1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 7:30
p.m.

Various locations

Next Meeting: May 6
365-3114

Beta Sigma Phi (Preceptor)
ist Wednesdays , 7 p.m.
Various locations

Next meeting: May 6
365-3401

Beta Sigma Phi (Ritual of
Jewels)

2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 8
p.m.

Various locations

Next meeting: May 13
365-6892

Castlegar and District Senior
Citizens Action Committee
ist Tuesdays, 10 a.m.

Next meeting: May 5
365-8237 or 365-0085

Castlegar City Council
— J

Next meeting: May 14; 7 p.m.
365-7728
David Thompson Stamp Club
2nd-Mondays, 7:30 p.m.
St. David's Undercroft
Next meeting: May 11
365-5496
4-H Meetings
8rd Thursdays, 6:30 p.m.
Kinnaird Junior Secondary
Next Meeting: May 21
365-2352

Grief Support

8rd Monday of every month
Home Support Office

Next Meeting: May 18, 7 p.m
365-2148 or 365-2452
Hospice (Palliative Care)
Last Monday of every month
Next Meeting: Apr. 27, 7 p.m.
Hospital Conference Room
365-2148

Kinnaird Women’s Institute
8rd Thursdays, 1:30 p.m.
Next meeting: May 21
365-5441

Kiwanis Club

Tuesdays, 6 p.m.

Fireside Inn

Next meeting: Apr. 28
365-2151

Knights of Pythias — Twin
Rivers

4st and 3rd Mondays, 7 p.m.
Masonic Hall

Next meeting: May 4
365-6149

Kootenay No. 9 Oldtime
Fiddlers

Monthly —

8rd: Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m.
Castlegar Doukhobor Museum
Next meeting: May 20
365-5918

SHSS Parent Advisory
Council ~
Last Tuesdays, 7 p.m.
SHSS Library
Next meeting: Apr. 28
365-7735
Strokers Club
2nd Wednesday of each month
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Senior Citizen’s Hall
Next meeting: May 13
359-7480 or 365-3540
TOPS Club
Tuesdays, weigh in 6 to 7 p.m.,
meeting follows
Next meeting: Apr. 28
Back of Health Unit
365-3114
West Kootenay Family
Historians
1st Monday of every month
Next meeting: May 4, 7-9 p.m.
Downstairs, Castlegar Library
365-6519
West Kootenay Flyfishers
Club
Next meeting: May 12, 7 p.m.
Aasland Taxidermy
365-8288
West Kootenay Naturalists
Association
Last Monday of every month
Selkirk College, 7:30 p.m.
Next meeting: Apr. 27
365-4933 3
Women’s Aglow
Monthly
Next meeting: May 6, 10 a.m:

@ Saturday, April 25, 1992

Around TOWN |.~

Our People
Glen Freeman
_ 365-7266

BOOK ’EM

The Castlegar
and District
Public Library will
play host to the
area’s biggest
literary event of
the year
Thursday, April
30 at 7:30 pm.
As part of the
National Book
Festival,
members of the
Castlegar Writers
Guild, as well
students from
Selkirk College
and Twin Rivers,
will be reading
their works.
Admission is free
and
refreshments will
be served.

QUEEN
SVETLANA?

Svetlana
Ostoforoff, a
Castlegar native,
is one of 12
young ladies in
the running for
the title of Miss
Nanaimo.

or a regular
meeting and you
want it listed in
AfterHOURS, let
us know.

Call us at 365-
7266, 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.

NELSON
The Boiler Room 352-5331
Comedians
Wednesdays
9:30 p.m.

ART GALLERIES

CASTLEGAR
National Exhibition Centre
Inspired By Tradition:
A contemporary textile exhibition
by Joanna Staniszkis
March 7 - April 26

Table Of Honour:

An exhibition of place settings
and goblets created especially
for Government House in
Victoria

March 7 - April 26

365-3337

GRAND FORKS

Made By Hand:

An exhibition of paper and
felt work by B.C. artists
April 9 - May 9

442-2211

___ CASTLEGAR

Regular meetings

1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 7 p.m.
Council chambers

Next meeting: May 5
365-7227

Castlegar Gyro Club
Thursdays, 7 p.m.

Next meeting: Apr. 30
365-5689 or 365-6308
Castlegar Hospital Auxiliary
3rd Mondays, 7:30 p.m.
Hospital board room

Next meeting: Apr. 27
365-6587

Castlegar Hospital Board
4th Thursdays

Hospital board room

Next meeting: May 28, 7 p.m.
365-7711

Castlegar School Board
Various Mondays, 7 p.m.
School board office

Next meeting: Apr. 27. . .
365-7731

Grand Forks Art Gallery Castleview Care Centre —

Auxillary

4th Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m.
Castle View

Next meeting: May 27
365-3754

Christian Women’s Club
2nd Thursdays

Fireside Inn

2:30 p.m.

Senior Citizen's Hall
Next meeting: Apr. 26
359-7621

Kootenay Temple #37 Pythian
Sisters

2nd and 4th Thursdays, 7:30
p.m.

Masonic Hall

Next meeting: May 12
365-5282

Lions Club

2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 7 p.m.
Sandman Inn

Next meeting: Apr. 28

Regional District of Central
Kootenay

Various Times

Nelson

Next meeting: May 9, 9 a.m.
352-6665

-Rotary Club
Tuesdays, 6 p.m.

__ Sandman inn _

Next meeting: Apr. 28

365-2780

Selkirk Toastmasters

2nd and 4th Mondays, 7 p.m.
Selkirk College, Room B17
Next meeting: Apr. 27

365-6442 or 367-6549

Selkirk Weavers and Spinners
Guild

Legion Hall
365-3279

SPECIAL EVENTS

West Kootenay
Francophone Association
AGM, Red Mountain Lodge
April 26, 11:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
226-7326

University Women’s Club
Annual General Meeting
Birchbank Dining Room
April 28, 6:30 p.m.
365-3031

Castlegar Senior Citizens
Association #46

Pot Luck Supper

April 30, 5 p.m.

Seniors Hall

365-6416

Robson School
Grades 5 and 6
Pie Bingo,

May 1, 6:30 p.m.
Robson Hall

OUR ACTION AD
PHONE NUMBER
IS 365-7266

Qstoforoff. will
find out July 7
her blood is blue
enough for the
Vancouver Island
city.

WHERE’S
THE FIRE

The Ootischenia
Volunteer Fire
Department is
holding an open
house Saturday,
May 2 from noon
to 4 pm at the
fire hallon-1190
Ootischenia Rd.
Light snack will
be served.

OurPEOPLE

Caught in the crossfire

Glen Freeman
NEWS REPORTER

No question about it — war
is hell.

Most people understand that
fact because they’ve seen
Platoon or sat on their sofa as
the Cable News Network
bombarded the airways with
full-color footage of the Gulf
War.

For the viewing public war is

can be turned off when dinner
is ready.

However, there is an ever
increasing number of victims of
war, desperate men, women
and children without any
political ties who have nowhere
to run.

And _ that’s why the
International Red Cross and
Red Crescent have decided to
focus attention on the plight of
war victims with their latest
campaign — Light the
Darkness. :

When most people think of
the Red Cross they think of
donating blood, but actually its
roots go much deeper than
that.

. The Red Cross was the
brain-child of Henry Dunant, a
young Swiss who witnessed a
terrible battle between the
Italian troops and the Austrian

pss

clean and easy, something that*

fact sheet. :

“By World War II they
represented 65 per cent. In
today’s conflicts 90 per cent of
the victims are civilians.”

And that fact does not sit too
well with the Red Cross.

“It is almost safer to be a
soldier in a war zone than a
civilian,” Grossmith said.

“But this has taught us a
lesson — war can no longer be a
resolution for conflicts. We must
find another solution.”

While still observing the
strict neutrality and
impartiality that is the policy of-
the Red Cross, Grossmith
explained the institution’s
newest mandate.

“War has historically not
resolved too many issues,”
Grossmith said.

“We could not stand silent
any longer, and that’s why the
Light the Darkness campaign
was.organized.”

Grossmith explained that the
organization is not condemning
nations, but defending the
millions of innocent people who
are suffering only because they
were born in the wrong place. °

The campaign. includes
raising money to assist in the

~ worldwide relief of war victims.

According to a Red Cross
news release, “funds are being
collected to support work on

1859.

Dunant watched as soldiers
were cut down and left to suffer
before they died.

“It struck him as being
unusual and pathetic that no
one was helping the injured
soldiers,” said Kootenay Red
Cross co-ordinator Harry
Grossmith.

“He was moved by the
inhumanity of what he saw and
began to develop the Red Cross
in 1863.” 2

Today the Red Cross and Red
Crescent have become
international icons, with more
than 150 member-nations
contributing to the cause.
However, wars continue to
rage, and more and more
innocent people are getting
caught in the crossfire. :
Even though so-called smart
bombs are surgically placed on
strategic locations, easily
destroying their targets, non-—
military blood is still being
shed. _ :

In fact, according to recent
Red Cross statistics, civilian
casualties are on the rise.

“In World War I civilians
represented 15 per cent of war
victims,” states a Red Cross

behalf of war victims in Africa,
Asia, Latin America and
Eastern Europe.

“We want to make the plight
of innocent victims of war better
known to Canadians and we
want to raise funds to use on
their behalf.”

The Red Cross may have lofty
goals, but the organization is
realistic.

About 32 active conflicts are

raging today, and the Red Cross -

does not expect them to be
immediately stopped.

However, they know that
money donated by Castlegar
residents will make a difference.

Each dollar collected is one
more chance for suffering to be
stopped — every penny used to
comfort innocent children will
end their own personal ‘war. is

Canadians are fortunate. It
would be a difficult task to find
someone here who has felt the
bitter sting of battle —

This is Castlegar’s chance to
help another forget that sting, to
finally leave behind that hell we
so fondly call war. :

Tax deductible donations to
the campaign may be mailed to
the Red Cross at 625 Columbia
Avenue, Castlegar, VIN 1G9.

LIGHT THE