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CLUBS

CASTLEGAR

San Jose West

Tuesday to Saturday

9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Sunday, 8 p.m. to midnight 365-6933

Brewskies Pub

Bad Reputation Wednesday. to Saturday 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.

365-2700

Dexter’s Pub Plamondon Brothers Thursday to Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m 365-5311

Mariane Hotel

Exotic Dancers Monday to Saturday Noon to 12:30 a.m.

365-2626

“ ROBSON Lion’s Head Pub Karaoke Wednesday 8 p.m. to midnight 365-5811

TRAIL

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

: ROSSLAND Powder Keg Pub Red Hot Ramblers Wendesday to Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 1:30.a.m. 362-7375

NELSON

Boller Room Nightclub - Comedians Wednesdays 9:30 p.m. 352-5331

ART GALLERIES

NELSON

Nelson Museum Peter Valisek’s Fear of Flying Jan. 6 to Jan. 31 352-9813

: GRAND FORKS

Grand Forks Art Gallery

Siddiq Khan: Still Life Drawings and Drawing the Line: Children’s Drawings Both exhibits run to Feb. 29 442-2211

TRAIL Trail Society for the Performing Arts Performance '91 Oscar Wilde in Earnest Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m.

CASTLEGAR Castle Theatre Tonight through Thursday Star Trek VI ie 365-7621 TRAIL

Royal Theatre Tonight through Thursday My Girl 7 and 9:30 p.m. 364-2114

NELSON Civic Theatre é Tonight through Thursda) An American Tale: Fievel Goes West The Last Boyscout 352-5833

‘MEETINGS

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

Various locations

Next Meeting:Jan. 22 365-3114

Beta Sigma Phi (Preceptor) 1st Wednesdays , 7 p.m. Various locations

Next meeting: Feb. 5 365-3401

Beta Sigma Phi (Ritual of Jewels)

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

Various locations

Next meeting:Jan. 22 365-6892

Canadian Cancer Society (Castlegar Unit)

2nd Monday of every other month :

7:00 p.m. oe Castlegar Health Unit

Next meeting: Feb. 10 365-6498

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

Next meeting: Feb. 4 365-8237 or 365-0085 Castlegar City Council Regular meetings

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

Next meeting: Jan.21 365-7227

_ Castlegar Hospital Auxiliary

3rd Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Hospital board room

Next meeting: Jan. 20 Castlegar Hospital Board 4th Thursdays

Hospital board room

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

- Castlegar School Board

3rd Mondays, 7 p.m.

.School board office

Next meeting: Jan. 20 365-7731

Castieview Care Centre Auxillary

4th Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m.

Castle View ‘

Next meeting: Jan. 22 365-3754

Christian Women’s Club

2nd Thursdays

Fireside Inn

Next meeting: Feb. 13, 11 a.m. . 365-7728

David Thompson Stamp Club 2nd Mondays, 7:30 p.m.

St. David’s Undercroft

Next meeting: Feb. 10 365-5496 °

Kinnaird Women’s Institute 3rd Thursdays, 1:30 p.m.

“Next meeting: Feb. 20

365-5441

Kiwanis Club Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Fireside Inn .

Next meeting: Jan. 21 365-2151

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Knights of Pythias — Twin Rivers

1st and 3rd Mondays, 7 p.m. Masonic Hall ~

Next meeting: Jan. 20 365-6149

Kootenay No. 9 Oldtime Fiddlers |

Monthly

2:30 p.m.

Senior Citizen’s Hall

Next meeting: Jan. 26 359-7621 =

Kootenay Temple #37 Pythian Sisters

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

Next meeting: Jan. 23 365-5282

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

_ Next meeting: Jan. 28

Regional District of Central Kootenay

Next meeting: Feb. 15 Nelson, 9 a.m.

352-6665

Rotary Club Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Sandman Inn

Next meeting: Jan. 21 365-2780

Selkirk Toastmasters

2nd and 4th Mondays, 7 p.m. Selkirk College, Room B17 Next meeting: Jan. 13 365-6442 or 367-6549

Selkirk Weavers and Spinners Gulid

3rd Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. Castlegar Doukhobor Museum Next meeting: Feb. 19 365-5918

SHSS Parent Advisory Council 4th Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

SHSS Library. Next meeting: Jan. 28 365-7735

Strokers Club

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

Senior Citizen’s Hall

Next meeting: Feb. 12 359-7480 or 365-3540

West Kootenay Family Historians

ist Monday of every month

6:30 p.m. Selkirk College Library Next meeting: Feb. 3

365-6519

West Kootenay Naturalists Association

To be announced

365-4933

Women’s Aglow

Monthly .

Various locations

Next meeting: Feb. 4, 7 p.m. Legion Hall

365-3279

West Kootenay Fliyfishers Float Tubing ; Sunday, Jan..19 10 a.m. , Community Complex 365-6668 Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship Family Banquett Jan. 23, 6:30 p.m.

andman Inn 365-5180 Senior Citizens Association No. 46 : January Social: Jan. 23 Whist games to be held Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. at the Seniors Hall. Registered Nurses Association of B.C. Castlegar chapter meets Tuesday, Jan. 28, 6:30 p.m. for dinner and election of officers. Firesdie Inn

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Barbara Murdoch visits her raccoons inside their home, a log cabin of sorts filled with various fixtures to keep them amused.

GLAD TO SEE YOU Outside, Solo

greets Murdoch with a handshake.

GETTING THE GOODS Often times Murdoch will hide food so the animals get some experi- ence foraging. Here, Tigger has found a biscuit in a tree hole and works to get it out.

SNACK TIME

Got it — finger-lick- ing good. _

NEWS PHOTOS BY DONNA

BERTRAND

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Raccoon research in good hands

Donna Bertrand NEWS REPORTER ‘ arbara Murdoch’s life- long dream of studying wild animals became a reality last spring when she extended her family to include baby raccoons Rustle, Solo, Tigger and Faye. The Pass Creek resident

‘adopted the orphaned raccoons

and, with a special permit to keep wild animals, launched a study into their social behavior, a project she expects to last her lifetime.

“This is just the very begin- ning,” Murdoch, 46, said in an interview Thursday. “That’s why it’s so important to me that these guys are happy in their enclosure and stay healthy.”

The enclosure includes a

_large outdoor area complete

with trees to climb, tunnels to craw] through, and an old bath- tub to lounge in. Within the area is a log enclosure with lad- ders, beams and ropes to play on and bales of hay to keep it cozy.

Specifically, her project is to study how the raccoons treat each other and to observe their responses to humans, noting degrees of recognition, accep- tance and attachment; she said.

“The hardest thing is to justi- fy the importance of my research,” Murdoch said,

| explaining that most people are

more supportive of research into things like AIDS. However, she believes that

the role of wild animals has been unjustly diminished by mankind’s role as the superior “What I really want.to do is build among humans a really healthy respect for other species,” she said. “This is just one little step towards advanc- ing a better understanding of wild animals.”

Little or not, the steps Murdoch has taken have already dispelled some common beliefs about raccoons. :

For instance, they are believed to be nocturnal. ~

Not necessarily, says Murdoch. ;

Letting them set their own schedule, her charges quickly settled into a routine of sleep- ing at night and being active during the day.

She also found that: by nature they are not vicious, but will go as far as snorting, growl- ing, barking and biting if they are in a threatening situation.

After hundreds of hours of observation, both with and without the raccoons knowing it, the first phase of Murdoch’s research is coming to an end.

“This month marks the end of their childhood,” she said. “Next month they go into sea- son so I’ll be seeing some changes in behavior.”

In the meantime, she is focussing on all the information she has collected for a research paper which, she hopes, will eventually be published.