«Mayor Audrey Moore talks about the design of ia Hancock while Dix Thomas looks on. continued from front page Wheeling back down to Columbia, she remarks over her shoulder: “I understand your office isn’t accessible Mike.” She's right of course. Two stairs at the office entrance of Castlegar News make it off limits to wheelchairs. Up Columbia again, and down Third street where Moore tries Pharmasave. She has no real trouble there. Further down the street, Homestead Soup and Sandwich Shoppe proves, surprisingly, to be inaccessible The door opens too close to the wall and the wheelchair cannot be positioned to serve as a brace. Again people offer help but she refuses, clattering at the doorway until she gives up, almost exhausted. “T can't get in,” she yells to patrons inside. She moves to the corner, heading to the doctor’s office across the street when she bumps into another wheelchair user, Carla Hancock. Hancock has used wheelchairs for years and she tells Moore to use the road, “because its easier.” Hancock is strapped into her chair, which would mean‘an impossible struggle if it flipped. She admits most of the stores are tough to get into and the sidewalk ramps are a struggle — and Moore understands. ~ The doctor's office is no trouble but Taste of Art is out. She crosses the street, again, never able to beat the light. It turns yellow long before she reaches the other side. West's department store is easier to enter and Moore is developing some skill at opening the doors. The aisles are relatively simple to maneuver through and the cash counter is a reasonable height. But once outside, Moore discovers the arms of her white Rick Hansen sweatshirt are blackened by the tires. “I was not aware of this,” she says, shocked. “Dirty hands and dirty ¢lothes forever.” Heading back to city hall, Moore is caught up for a moment on another sidewalk ramp then fears yet another spill due to the steep slope of the walk in front of Field's department store. “How do people do this in a wheelchair,” Moore says quietly, more to herself than anyone in particular. “I feel just a little powerless.” The grade back to city hall is relaxing and Moore coasts up to the wheelchair ramp with ease and manages to open the city hall front door, something she couldn't do only 40 minutes earlier. Sitting on the front steps later, she reflects on her experience. “I think the world looks very different from a wheelchair,” she said. “I certainly didn't feel in control of my situation. “It’s very difficult to get into some businesses. Even that quarter inch sill at the entrance is very difficult,” she said. “I'm sure they (the businesses) are not aware of that. “I know the city has made a commitment to take a look at our ramps and our sidewalks,” she said and that confined to a ir should test the ramps before they are considered complete, “I certainly have a greater appreciation of what these people are going through. I felt dependent dn other people,” she said. “If you all want to know what I feel,” she said. “Just try a wheelchair sometime.” Rae | aii! Ss b of mouthwash i by my head, hit the poo: apace: | voph akan les retrieve We, ost my balanee and knocked over a display of shampoo. core Least sa Yaeee al shopping basket Sagar. horrifying hour; I was an old, old lady. Our, ears were “aged” with plugs and our legs were bound. with elastic bandages to restrict bending. Stumbling through the hallway, I met my first obstacle — @ mirrored pillar, which I crashed into with alarming accuracy. Terrified, I picked my way gingerly along, my usual swift stride becoming a mincing gait not unlike that of many older people. When I entered the drugstore, my impaired hearing could only pick up a muted murmuring — I feit isolated, Costiews Phote by Mike Koleanihe i alone and vulnerable, decipher the list, I became exhausted by the mere _ though tof the challenge ahead. ‘The task of locating the items paled when it came to actually selecting the right product. ‘ ae my glazed goggles were located on shel necessary for me to kneel — legs. I hobbled around and around the store, sometimes dropping the cane, trying to juggle shopping basket, list purse — and feeling a growing sense of resentment. I wanted to sit down and ponder my dilemma — but of course there were no chairs. ny Later, gratefully stripped of the gear, I considered the experience. r For an elderly person with arthritis, failing vision and hearing, shopping can be a burden. Many stores don't have facilities or layouts to accommodate the growing number of older customers. Manufacturers haven't kept pace with a rapidly aging population in their choice of packaging. LARGEST DONATION TO DAT EMLTAIB. ASSOL ALi LOTS OF RIBBON... Castlegar Fall Fair Association easily took the record high on the Rick Hansen challenge board at Castlegar Safeway this week with a donation of $3,867.88. The Association raised the money during a bow!l-a-thon last January which was co- sponsored by CKQR radio. Pictured (from left) are Dale with Safeway, Di ie Hart, Tanis Kramer, Tammy Flavin and Dinah Lutze with the association, and (kneeling) Ross Hawse with CKQR. Every dollar donated earns 18 inches of ribbon or, in this case, about one mile. —Cesewarhote Crew makes Man In Motion move By CasNews Staff Although Rick Hansen is independent and does most things by himself, his around the world wheelchair trek would not have been possible without the help of his Man In Motion road crew. The team consists of five full-time members and three part-timers, some who have been with Hansen from the time he left the Oakridge Shopping Centre parking lot in Vancouver and others who have joined him along the way. DON ALDER, who was riding in the back of the pick-up at the time of the accident which paralysed Hansen, has been on the Man In Motion Tour from day one, March 21, 1985. ~ Alder, a boyhood friend of Hansen's, makes sufe ~ Hansen's wheelchairs are kept in top shape and he spends between one and three hours a day making adjustments to the wheelchairs. This includes changing the wheel rim sizes to match the terrain and doing safety checks to ensure the chair is always safe. He also shares in driving the motor home and rides a bicyele along side of Hansen. AMANDA REID joined the Man In Motion tour in Oregon and is not only a member of Hansen's road crew but is also his fiancee. The two of them fell in love and got engaged during the trek and plan to get married on Oct. 10. She is Hansen's physiotherapist and performs between two and three hours of physiotheraphy every day. This includes massage, applying icing or cold packs and sometimes ultrasound. She also puts Hansen through special weight training exercises to work muscle groups not normally used during wheeling. * Reid graduated from Queens University in 1981 with Rossland man remembers Gagnon flight By Bruce Levett Canadian Press Good heavens — was it that long ago? This is the 85th anniversary year of the incredible exploit of Lou Gagnon — one of the first men to go aloft in a heavier-than-air contrivance, and a Canadian to boot. The word comes down to us from the writings of a priest, Rev. Thomas Freney, who was in Rossland, B.C., when it all happened And it all happened a year before the Wright brothers flew in Kitty Hawk, N.C. Lou Gagnon took off in 1902 in a twin engined, steam-powered helicopter he built himself. It wasn’t an easy flight Freney described the airship as resembling a flying steam-shovel with an overhead rotor, powered by a steam turbine. His account is contained in an old book, Rossland, The Golden City. A push-propeller was geared to a one-cylinder piston engine taken from a boat. There was a rudder at the rear end and a box kite on a spar at the front. Midships was the cab, enclosing a coal-fired heater and with a stove-pipe poking up through the roof. Gagnon took over a shed behind the hostelry for his project and talked a blacksmith into forge-welding the parts he needed. On the big day, Lou pried open the front of the shed and skidded out his invention. Black smoke curled from the stack. Gagnon dragged out the prefabricated wings and bolted them on. More coal was shovelled into the fire-box 85 years:ago Lou stepped into the cabin and valved steam into the turbine. Rotor blades flashed in the sun and the machine lurched upward. As the priest tells it, Gagnon fought to keep the contraption on an even keel by dancing fore and aft inside the cabin By the time he cleared the top of the hotel — Freney’s account does not specify just how high that was — the machine was in trouble, spinning with torque problems set up by the push-prop. Lou cut off the power to the propeller and now he was really in trouble. The machine gyrated wildly from the torque set up by the turbine. JUGGLE THROTTLE Lou tried to cut the prop back in, slamming the throttles open and closed. He adjusted the blower and valved steam off from the turbine to cut down on the oscillation of the craft. Suddenly, it dawned on him. His one-lung re- ciprocating engine for the prop was stuck on top dead centre. There was a manual device to correct this, but Lou couldn't reach it. Gagnon turned the upper valve on the turbine casing, then climbed back to off-centre the mainrod. Whatever it was that Lou did with that upper valve, it was disastrous. While he was draped over the engine, the overhead rotors flapped to a standstill The contrivance plunged, narrowly missing the hotel, and landed upside down in a mist of escaping steam Gagnon escaped with a broken leg, burns and shock. a bachelor of science degree in physiotherapy and has worked at the G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre in Vancouver and is the daughter of former Expo commissioner general Patrick Reid. NANCY THOMPSON is another one who has been with Hansen from the very start. She met Hansen while working to promote wheelchair sports and has worked in the Man In Motion headquarters doing logistics. She went on the road early in the tour as an advance “reconnaissance” person in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Australia. Thompson is now the tour manager and assists the crew, works on routing, determines Hansen's schedule for attending special events and manages the tour budget. Thompson, who has a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from the University of B.C., is the main liaison between the tour and the headquarters. MARKETING PROGRAM . . . Duane Crandall, MLA for Columbia River and parliamentary secretary to tourism, recreation and culture minister Bill Reid, un- veiled details here this morning of the expanded MIKE REID joined the Hansen crew in January 1986 in New Zealand after graduating with a physical education degree from U.B.C. He is the tour cook and prepares nutritionally sound meals for Hansen and the other crew members. In addition, he drives the motor home, bicycles beside Hansen and is responsible for Hansen's personal security and acts as a back-up mechanic on wheelchair maintenance. SIMON CUMMING’S first assignment since joining the tour in May 1986 was to do the eight-week advance on the eastern seaboard of the United States. He was a member of the “Up With People” organizing team in 1980-81 and has assisted in the production of live performances in over 100 cities in the United States and Europe. He is a graduate of U.B.C. with a degree in Internationa! Relations. i is Pi D MEMBERS school’s Junior By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff W: Stanley Humphries secondary school band may have to dig deep in its own pocket if the group is to accept an invitation to per- form in Ottawa next month. The band so impréssed adjudicators at Nelson's Music Fest last week that the entire group has been invited to perform at Ot- tawa’s Music Fest Canada taking place May 13 - 16. “All those things that go towards a great perfor- mance, they had,” said Lorren Culley, band direc- tor at SHSS. “They re- ceived a superior rating which makes them eligible to participate in this na. tion-wide event.” Unfortunately, the ex- Wn i i ii hy, Caan AN MONET eRe en A se . +. Stanley Humphries secondary Concert band and Senior Jazz bond Lorre Cy! have both been invited to take port in competitions penses for the trip could reach as high as $30,000, an amount neither the school's parent's nor the school board can afford. “This is an educational experience,” explained Culley. “Not a giant playoff to be named the best band in. Canada... “But if we polish our pieces between then and now, we are in contention for some national recogni- tion.” The band intends to raise some of its expense money in this year's “garb- a-thon,” a pledge-oriented event in which band mem- bers collect enough litter throughout Castlegar to fill some 400 large garbage bags. Culley hopes to raise up to $10,000 from the event. “We certainly don't mind doing something for the community,” he said. “If we are supported by the community in turn.” Unfortunately, parents of those in the band may still have to pitch in some $545 apiece to offset the coat “of: tHe _ cross-Canada train ride. “We wouldn't be going if we had to fly,” said Culley. He explained that. while in Ottawa a Winnipeg-based group will organize all their activities and accom- odations for only $27 a day. In Ottawa, the band will have a chance to compare their skills to school bands from across the country. Culley also pointed out that top-quality “show case” groups and single musicians will perform for ds are under the direction of = Cashews Photos by Mike Kalesniko Band needs money the students possibly, the Brass. “['m very proud of these students,” said Culley. “But I said to these kids, I probably know about as much as any other music teacher does about teach- ing tusié; but, it’s them, it's their motivation, that got them this invitation. “Last week they blew those adjudicators away,” he said, adding that only three bands were invited to Ottawa out of the 24 that competed. But Culley emphasizes his band’s talent. “That (the win in Nel- son) is not because of me, that’s because of them,” he said. “Musically, we are in the ballpark with the best bands across Canada.” including, Canadian a, rinting Any Printing! forget our “Fast Print” Service. For details, call us. CASTLEGAR NEWS 191 Columbt (385-7266 ministry's 1987 marketing program. 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