TORONTO (CP) — Laura Van Wormer doesn't like battleships.

Neither does she like games about money, compe- titions or strategy.

So the writer and former book editor invented Ladies Night, a board game con- cerned more about relation- ships and communication than winners and losers.

Van Wormer maintains that most games are design- ed to appéal to men or children.

“Women are interested in relationships,” says the 31- year-old New Yorker. “They seem to have a completely insatiable appetite for infor- mation relating to how other women are doing, how they

relate to the outside world,”

Men, she says, “talk about things — the stock market, promotions, money, cars, who won the football game.

“With women, it seems their primary journey is in- ternal —. how one feels, the state of one’s heart, the gratification emotionally from what. they're getting.”

With this in mind, Ladies Night has five color-coded categories: family, work, friends, self, love and sex.

A player rolls a color- coded die, picks up the cor- responding card and reads it to herself.

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Van Wormer considers the game a success if the dis. cussion becomes so animated the players forget. to finish playing.

The winner is the player. who can best anticipate what other players will answer. But who wins is really beside the point, she says.

“The cards bring up an

“Men just don’t get it. They. think it’s a waste of time to talk about how you feel.”

Valentino unveils designs

ROME (AP) — Valentino is a designer for all seasons and all styles. The spring-sum mer_ 1987 collection by the king of Italian couture pre- sents as many fashion options as the versatile stylist can offer.

Daytime is short, soft and demure. By five o'clock, the Valentino woman has shed her innocence and dons a short, tightly bodiced, hip- hugging silk cocktail dress. At night she can pick from opposite ends of her evening wardrobe, choosing either a long, sexy gown with sequins and ruffles or a satin ball- room skirt with glittery sweater top.

“What a talent,” exclaimed Sophia Loren, after the re- cent hour-long show.

The actress, personal friend of the designer and guest of honor at the show, said her personal favorite was a red chiffon, sleeveless evening gown with high neck, shirred bodice and loose skirt open up the front and tied at the hip in a bow.

Other VIPs at the Valen. tino show, always a high point of the five-day semi. annual couture presentations in Rome, included Liza Min- nelli and Burt Reynolds, in town for the filming of a new movie entitled Rent a Cop.

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Minnelli, who plays a pros- titute in the movie, paid special attention to the slink- ier. outfits.

Valentino's daytime silhou- ette was based on a knee- length graceful A-line or flared skirt worn under a trim bolero jacket belted at the waist. Favorite shades for this classical look were grey, navy and beige and a series of pastel colors. The suits were often trimmed in tiny ruffles and worn with V-neck argyle sweaters.

Daytime coats were also belted at the waist and ad- orned with large polo coat pockets. The coats came in prim navy or bold red and

In the millinery depart- ment, Valentino invented the perfect garden party hat lined with the same silk print

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Known for his romantic evening wear, Valentino sur- prised his 600 guests by pro- posing a tight, sexy look for spring-summer 1987 from five o'clock onward.

The extremely close-fitting effect was achieved by shir- ring silk and chiffon from the neckline to the hemline. To soften the look at times, he interspersed the shirring with ruffles or flounces, cre- ating a “lampshade” effect that caused some head-shak- ing among the audi :

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No watershed pact

By SURJ RATTAN Staff Writer

The Slocan Valley Watershed Alli ance and the Ministry of Forests have failed to reach an agreement on the planned logging of the Springer Creek watershed.

The two sides were to meet last Monday in a last-ditch effort to solve their differences, but the meeting was called off after they could not agree on an agenda.

Alliance member Wayne Peppard told the Castlegar News it is his under- standing that the forests ministry had issued the invitation for the meeting because it wanted to resume negoti. ations.

“We (alliance) were willing to resume negotiations but on Monday they (forests ministry) called me up and said that if we were going to place conditions on the meeting then they would not meet with us,” said Peppard.

He added that the ministry had agreed not to issue a cutting permit to Slocan Forest Products until the alli ance felt adequate safeguards had been taken to protect the Springer Creek

watershed from potential damage that could be caused as a result of the logging.

“We wanted them to honor their memorandum of agreement,” Peppard said

He added that once the forests ministry issues a cutting permit to Slocan Forest Products, without the alliance's approval, the alliance will go to court to seek an injunction against the logging.

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us. There has to be a negotiated pro- cess to avoid confrontation.” But Arrow Forest District spokes. man Ted Evans said there is nothing left tq negotiate. He said the ministry will be issuing a cutting permit to Slocan Forest Products. “As far as we are concerned, the negotiations are over. We have decided to issue a cutting permit. The intent of Monday's meeting was to develop committees to implement the water plan,” Evans told the

(ministry) at the Monday meeting but they said we are not going to open up the negotiations, but that we just want to talk to you. We refused to meet because we didn't want to compromise our court case,” Peppard said.

He also charged that the forests ministry has been telephoning alliance members “to try and split us, but that obviously will not happen.”

“We are getting a minimum of one call a day from people all across the province. It’s amazing, just amazing. People are really concerned about this issue,” said Peppard. “They (forests ministry) can't just slap this thing on

Castlegar News. “The alliance set a number of conditions on that meeting and we said we would not agree to any conditions.”

Evans added that the forests minis try has made “a lot of changes to the cutting permit” after receiving feed back from concerned groups and indi viduals.

“The alliance has viewed this cutting permit before; not only in writing, but from the ground as well.

“The ministry has addressed. each concern in writing, giving a rationale for why we are doing what we are doing.” said Evans

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A fire that gutted a storage building in downtown Castlegar Thursday night might have been worse if a firewall hadn't prevented the blaze from spreading to nearby buildings, Castle- gar Fire Chief Bob Mann said.

A Castlegar man was injured in the fire that destroyed the storage building located between 11th Avenue and Columbia Avenue behind Bosse's Jew- eliry.

Rick Hynes was taken to Castlegar and District Hospital where he was treated for burns to his left arm and released.

Mann said he was concerned that the fire could have spread to the adjacent building which houses Pharmasave and is the temporary quarters for the Castlegar and District Public Library.

“It’s a wonderful thing to have the firewall... or we would have had a real thing,” Mann told the Castlegar News in an interview.

The storage building was used by MacLeod's hardware store as a ware-

house and Hynes, the store owner, was in the building when the fire broke out shortly after 9 p.m.

“I tripped over some tires and fell back over some cases of methyl hy- drate,” Hynes said in an interview.

He said the cases apparently broke and methyl hydrate began to leak toward an electric heater.

“I guess it contacted through the heater somehow,” Hynes said.

He. said the methyl hydrate didn't explode, but burst into flames which “just rolled along. It goes very, very quickly.”

Hynes ran next door to Castlegar Taxi where he asked Ken Carter to call the ‘fire department.

“The fellow from MacLeod’s came running in with his arm badly burned,” said Carter. “He said, ‘There's a fire.’"

Mann said his department received the call at 9:16 p.m. and 18 firefighters along with two pumpers responded.

“It was fully involved when we got there,” he said.

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“You couldn't fight the fire at all without breathing apparatus with the toxic fumes coming out of there,” he said. At one point a large crowd gathered to watch the firefighters battle the blaze, but as a cloud of smoke gather- ed over the spectators, Mann issued a terse warning over a loudspeaker for people to clear the area.

The glow from the fire and the column of smoke could be seen for kilometres. ‘

Firefighters brought the blaze under control in about 20 minutes, but it took them three hours to put out the stubborn fire.

Mann said he also posted a fireman at the scene overnight Thursday to ensure the fire didn't start again.

The building is owned by Fred Bojey, but Mann was unable to confirm if the building was insured,

Damage to the MacLeod’s stock was estimated at $10,000 to $20,000. The stock was insured.

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Radon study plann

By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer

First there was air pollution and tobacco smoke; then lead particulates and second-hand smoke. Now there's radon.

According to Dave Morley of the Radiation Protection Service with the Ministry of Health, radon is a radio active gas which can naturally per- meate a home, and a 1798 study de- tected levels of it in Castlegar base- ments.

“I wouldn't get overly anxious about it,” Morley told the Central Kootenay Union Board of Health Thursday. “It's just another indoor pollution problem.”

Morley explained to the beard that radon is created by the decay of radium found naturally in the soil. Through the decaying process, radium turns into a substance called gadium 226, which in turn generates radon.

Radon enters the basements of homes dnd attaches itself to dust particles.

“These dust particles can lodge in the bronchia, radiate that area and give rise to lung cancer,” said Morley.

But Morley said estimates from U.S studies on the risks associated with radon are sketchy.

Morley said radon is not associated with other health ailments such as heart disease, but he said little is known about how serious a threat it is to human health.

He added that no individual cases of lung cancer have been traced to radon gas.

‘According to the Ministry of Health, Castlegar is a good place to study radon levels since the ground is rela

tively porous and dry.

Castlegar also has higher radon levels than Vancouver, (a wet coastal climate keeps levels low there) but it is comparable to the rest of Canada.

“An area like Nelson isn't a good place to study radon either,” said Morley. “Homes there are built on solid rock rather than gravel.”

Morley said radon is relatively simple to combat. He guggested sealing all cracks in the basement, sealing the areas where pipes enter the home and ventilating the basement. He also, said a sump in the basement may add {6 the

problem and he suggested Sealing that angpyentilating it outside.

ere is no harm of radon outside,” he said. “Once outside, it just disap- peats.”

The Central Kootenay Union Board of Health has alloted about some $4,000 from its 1987 budget to study radon in the area.

The study will involve 160 detectors in 80 homes.

Morley said the money will be put to buying commercially manufactured radon detectors. Certain households

Solution for health board?

By CasNews Staff

The problem-plagued Central Koot enay Union Board of Health may have finally devised a solution to its diffi culties.

At its first general meeting of the year Thursday night, the board was asked to consider a proposal to meet regularly in east and west sections, as opposed to gathering all the members together in Castlegar for meetings.

The 25-member board — canczlled meetings twice last year due to diffi culties getting a quorum of 13 mem bers.

Members must come from Nelson,

Trail, Fruitvale, Midway and Green wood to attend meetings in Castlegar.

With the new system, members would split into two smaller ‘groups, then gather in Castlegar as one large group only two or three times a year.

CKUBH member Shelagh Leach: wood suggested meeting in “pockets” for one year, as a pilot project only.

Leachwood said a clear proposal must be drawn up to define the boundaries of the east and west groups. She also said the potential extra burden on CKUBH chairman Judith John to attend each individual meeting must be addressed.

A committee has been assigned to work on the proposal and the motion will see final discussion at the board's next general meeting April 16.

In other news, board member Ean Gower has replaced medical health of. ficer Dr. Monty Arnott as the CKUBH's secretary.

Arnott had previously come under fire from some members of the board for serving as both medical health officer and secretary — positions in conflict with CKUBH bylaws -which state that a secretary must be elected.

Gower, as a board member, will still retain his right to vote.