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CLUBS

CASTLEGAR
Banjo’s Pub 365-6933
Dayshift
Tonight
9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.
San Jose West
Sunday, 8 p.m. to midnight
Budweiser Talent Search

Meee

Brewskies Pub 365-2700
Tonight
Clockwork
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.
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

An exhibition of drawings and
paintings by artist Peter
Velisek

Feb. 20 - March 28

The Victoria Years:

A memorial exhibition
to Ina Unthoff

Mar. 10 - April 4
442-2211

movies

CASTLEGAR
Castle Theatre 365-7621
Tonight through Thursday
Father Of The Bride, 7 & 9 p.m.
= TRAIL
Royal Theatre 364-2114
Tonight through Thursday
Medicine Man, 7 & 9 p.m.

NELSON

Civic Theatre 352-5833
Tonight through Thursday
JFK, 7 p.m.

Beta Sigma Phi (Exemplar)
4st and 3rd Wednesdays, 7:30
p.m. :

Various locations

Next Meeting: Apr. 1

365-3114

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

Next meeting: Apr. 1

Next meeting: Apr. 22
365-3754

Christian Women’s Club
2nd Thursdays

Fireside Inn

Next meeting: Apr. 9, 7 p.m.
365-7728 :
David Thompson Stamp Club
2nd Mondays, 7:30 p.m.

St. David’s Undercroft -°

Next meeting: Apr. 13
365-5496

4-H Meetings

8rd Thursdays, 6:30.p.m.
Kinnaird Junior Secondary
Next Meeting:.Apr. 16
365-2352

Grief Support

83rd Monday of every month
Home Support Office

Next Meeting: Apr. 20; 7 p.m.
365-2148 or 365-2452
Hospice (Palliative Care)
Last Monday of every month
Next Meeting: Mar. 30, 7 p.m.
Hospital Conference Room
365-2148

Kinnaird Women’s Institute
3rd Thursdays, 1:30 p.m.
Next meeting: Apr. 16
365-5441

Kiwanis Club

Tuesdays, 6 p.m.

Fireside Inn

Next meeting: Mar. 31
365-2151

Knights of Pythias — Twin

Next'meeting: Apr. 13
365-6442 or 367-6549

Selkirk Weavers and Spinners
Gulld

83rd Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m.
Castlegar Doukhobor Museum
Next meeting: Apr. 15
365-5918

SHSS Parent Advisory
Council

Last Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

SHSS Library

Next meeting: Mar. 31 Pre

365-7735

_ Strokers Club

2nd Wednesday of each month
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Senior Citizen's Hall

Next meeting: Apr. 8

359-7480 or 365-3540

TOPS Club

Tuesdays, weigh in 6 to 7 p.m.,
meeting follows

Next meeting: Mar. 31

‘Back of Health Unit

365-3114

West Kootenay Family
Historians

1st Monday of every month
Next meeting: Apr. 6, 7-9 p.m.
Downstairs, Castlegar Library
365-6519

West Kootenay Flyfishers
Club

Next meeting: Apr. 14, 7 p.m.
Aasland Taxidermy

365-8288

West Kootenay Naturalists
Association

@ Saturday, Marchi 28, 1992

- OurPEOPLE

you at

Glen Freeman
NEWS REPORTER

so.
Castlegar may not have the flash

‘| and glitter of New York or London,
but no one can accuse this living,
breathing city of being a cultural
void.

Not with the exhibits that are
constantly displayed at the West
Kootenay National Exhibition

‘Centre across the river in
Ootischenia.

“We're quite proud of the exhibits
we get at the gallery,” Education Co-
ordinator Maureen Stelck said.

“We offer a unique cultural
experience — and it’s entirely
approachable.” f

In fact, approachability is a
mandate of the centre’s director, Lou
Lynn.

“Lou has a very definite vision of

the gallery, she wants to make it

entirely accessible to the people of

Castlegar,” Stelck said.

And it is.

“People often tell us that the
gallery gives them a peaceful,
restful feeling,” Stelck said, “and

have that kind of experience.”
Indeed, many folks think that
exhibition centres, art galleries and
museums are stuffy spots, where
the all-too-plastic upper-crust

43 hobnob and exchange recipes that

Wednesday to Saturday 365-3401 Rivers Last Monday of every month
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If you have an ROSStAN Jewels) Masonic Hall Next meeting: Mar. 30
upcoming event | Powder Keg Pub 362-7375 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 8 Next meeting: Apr. 6 365-4933
or a regular hee Pm: : 365-6149 Women’s Agiow
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AfterHOURS, let g NELSON pep iste epee ae . Next meeting: Apr. 8, 10. a.m.
ro latectk The Boller Room 352-5331 Monthl Legion Hall
| Call us at 365- Comedi Castlegar and District Senior onthly 365-3279
i 7266, fax us at re eset Citizens Action Committee 2:30 p.m.
i 365-3334, or aes 4st Tuesdays, 10 a.m- Senior Citizen’s Hall
\ crop ag ole eee Next meeting: Apr. 7 Next meeting: Mar. 29 SPECIAL EVENTS
Castlegar BS 365-8237 or 365-0085 359-7621
ae ART GALLERIES
VIN 3H4. Castlegar City Council Kootenay Temple #37 Pythian —sginto Chapter No. 79
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CASTLEGAR 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 7 p.m. 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 7:30 Coffee P Manion 28.102
National Exhibition Centre Council chambers p.m. offee hoe co
Inspired By Tradition: Next meeting: Apr. 7 Masonic Hall Senior Citizens Hal
DEADLINE | Acontemporary textile exhibition 365-7227 Next meeting: Apr. 9 peace
; by Joanna Staniszkis Castlegar Hospital Auxiliary 365-5282 Selkirk College
peal gg March 7 - April 26 ard Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Lions Club AN Class - = ae
AfterHOURS is Hospital board room 4th Tuesdays, 7 p.m. ar Wash, April 4, 9:30 -
Friday atSp.m. | Table Of Honour: Next meeting: Apr. 20 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 7 p

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

March 7 - April 26

365-3337

365-6587

Castlegar Hospital Board
4th Thursdays

Hospital board room

Next meeting: Apr. 23, 7 p.m.
365-7711

"NELSON
Nelson Museum
An exhibition on the culture and
history of Tibet
March 5 - April 4
352-9813

GRAND FORKS
Grand Forks Art Gallery
The View Into The Valley:

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

Next meeting: Apr. 27
365-7731

Castleview Care Centre
Auxillary

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

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Sandman Inn
Next meeting: Apr. 14

Regional District of Central
Kootenay

Various Times

Nelson

Next meeting: Apr. 9, 6 p.m.

Safeway Parking Lot
365-5390

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Rotary Club
Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Smart | im.
Sandman Inn =
Next meeting: Mar. 31 MOl /
365-2780 oj toute ma. te
Selkirk Toastmasters |,

2nd and 4th Mondays, 7 p.m.
Selkirk College, Room B17

The West Kootenay
National Exhibition
Centre is the place to
be in Castlegar if you
are interested in art,
science or history.
Above, Maureen Stelck
displays one of the
many works of art on
sale at the gallery’s gift
shop, while Margaret
Hill (right) takes time out
of her busy schedule as
an English teacher to
admire Inspired by
Tradition, contemporary
textiles by Joanna

News Photos by
Glen Freeman

many of them weren’t expecting to ©

the Gallery

call for Grey Poupon and caviar.
If that’s what is holding you back

Culture in Castlegar? Say it isn’t from going to the centre, think
again.

“I suggest that people come in
and take a look around,” Stelck said.
“I think they’ll be pleasantly
surprised.”

What’s no surprise is that to get a
gallery like the National Exhibition
Centre in show-shape takes a huge
effort.

“We put in some very long hours
and do some hard work,” Stelck
said, “but we still wouldn't be able to
run without the dedication of our 20
or so volunteers.”

But at times 20 just isn’t enough.

The gallery is always looking for
more people to help out, regardless
of qualifications. ~

“It would be nice to get some
people on board to help with the
day-to-day problems we face here,”
Stelck said.

“Carpenters, electricians and so
on would really come in handy, but ©
anyone who is willing to help would
be appreciated.”

However, you don't have to devote
your life to the gallery to get —

something out of it. A quick visit
will suffice.

“Exhibits are changed every four
to six weeks,” Stelck said, “so we get
quite a selection of work from
regional and national artists.”

Promotion of regional art is one of
the main reasons the federal

government decided to build the
National Exhibition Centre.

“They wanted to establish 42
exhibition centres around the
nation, so that regional artists
would have a place to show their
work,” Stelck said.

The idea was that artists would
; show their creations locally, then be
able to send them off to other
regional centres where they would
also have an audience.

“But the government ran out of
money after only 17 exhibition
centres,” Stelck said.

“We were very lucky to get one
here in Castlegar.”

The 13-year-old National
Exhibition Centre focuses on
artistic, scientific and historic
displays, and has a “high-calibre gift
shop which enables B.C. artists to
have an outlet for their work.”

While admission is by donation
only, yearly memberships to the
gallery are available for $20. Along

with four newsletters, invitations to

is)

at the gift shop, Stelck says
members get a “warm fuzzy feeling
that they are supporting the arts in
the West Kootenay.”

So take Stelck’s advice and make
your way to Castlegar’s cultural
gallery.

It’s a lot cheaper than hobnobbing
in New York.

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