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February 18, 1990

SPORTS

Drivers gearing up for Daytona

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Dale Earnhardt
and Ken Schrader have the Daytona 500 field surrounded.

Those two have been touted most of the week as the
favorites in today’s $2.1-million US Daytona 500 — and
that has changed only marginally since a crash in his
Thursday qualifying race took Schrader off the pole

The man who has won the top qualifying spot for

By ED MILLS
Staff Writer

women’s volleyball team were a
lant, it wouldn’t be very healthy.

shadow of the more successful
men’s team at the college.

So it was without much fanfare
that the women closed, out the
season with two wins and two
losses in matches last weekend.

The two wins, in the team's last
two matches of the season. against
Columbia Bible College and
Cariboo College, moved the Sain-
ts out of the very bottom of the
B.C. Colleges Athletic
Association league Standings and
intoifth Place with a record of 3-
9.

First-year coach Sheryl!
Thiessen said what began as a
frustrating season ended with her
team coming together and
showing improvement

“We were having a lot of
trouble early in the year just get
ting girls to show up,” she said
“And not just for practices but
for tournaments too.

“‘Finally, in the second half (of
the season, after Christmas) we
had a couple of girls come in and
in tournaments we had a full team
so we did quite well.

“*What I really wished is that we
had the same group in the begin.

If the Selkirk College Saints

The team didn’t get a lot of
sunlight in the basement of the
league standings, or toiling in the

_ Saints’ shadowy
season concludes

ning that we finished up with,’’
she said.

As for playing in the shadow of
the men’s team — which is expec-
ted to win the provincial title and
vie for the national crown next
month — Thiessen, - whose
husband Paul coaches the men’s
team, said there’s a different level
of commitment from the players
in men’s volleyball compared to
the women players at the college.

“‘Women’s volleyball seemed to
be the thing you could cut out. It
was really frustrating in the first
half. We had excuses (of why
some couidn’t play or practise) for
babysitting and things.”

lut when the team started gel-
Pat Christmas, Thiessen said
(they looked to the men’s squad as
something of an inspiration.

In the final analysis, Thiessen,
who hasn't Committed to coaching
the team next season, says she was
pleased with the experience.

“If Christmas would have been
the end (of the season) I would
have been disappointed and felt
like we didn’t get a lot accom-
plished. But they improved a lot in
a short space of time and I was
really happy to see that by the end
of the year.’”

On the men’s side, the Saints
will close out the season with a
tournament at Royal Roads
Military College Feb. 24

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completed the Men's Gold 40
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‘That makes the front row at the green flag pole-sitter
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_ Castlegar upset

in b-ball

By ED MILLS
‘Staff Writer

Castlegar’s Realty’s winning streak
in the Trail men’s Basketball League
couldn’t have come to an end at a
worse time.

Castlegar, which finished first in
the league thanks largely to the 10-
game winning streak dating back to
mid-December, had that streak snap-
ped in a 63-58 upset loss to Smelter
Pub in the first game-of the playoffs
Wednesday at the Cominco Gym in
Trail.

Castlegar had only five players for
the game and that was reduced to four
in the first half when Wayne Tamelin
went to the sidelines with a knee in-
jury.

“He went in to do a layup and it
just buckled,’’ said Wayne McCar-
thy, who led Castlegar with 30 points
on the night.

Despite being shorthanded,
Castlegar jumped out to a 21-9 lead
and still led by five, 25-20 at halftime.

In the second half, Smelter Pub’s
manpower advantage was the differ-
nee, McCarthy said.

“They had nine guys so they just
kept shifting them and running. the
hell out of us.’”

Tamelin, who was sixth in league
scoring during the regular season,
returned in the second half but it was
obvious he wasn’t playing on all
cylinders.

Third in regular season scoring,
Brian Turlock could only manage 13
in his first post-season match of the

Year for Castlegar.

playoffs

Smelter Pub, which finished last in
the regular season with a record of 5.
10, was powered by Dave Vannes’s
22 points while Don Meadow chipped
in with 13,

“Everything went wrong,”’ said
McCarthy, adding that it should bea
different Castlegar club in round two
of the playoffs this Wednesday.

“These things happen but we'll be
back stronger,”’ he said.

In the other first-round game, it
was an upset of milder proportions as
third-place Victoria Place nipped
second-place Kingfisher Bobcat Ser-
vices 78-74,

Victoria Place, which can’t be con-
sidered an underdog in any game as
long as its two big scorers show up,
got all but 16 of its points from the
combination of Ernie Rella and Chad
Coupland.

“Rela, who has played much of the
season with his knee in various states
of disrepair but still managed td™lead
the league in scoring with 350 points,
scored 30 while Coupland canned 32.

Kingfisher, which finished second
behind Castlegar with a record of 8-7,
got 30 points from John Denison, 24
from Steve Plaa and 10 from Dave
Cox.

The round-robin format playoffs in
which every team plays the other once
to decide-a winner, continue Wed-
nesday in the Cominco Gym with
Castlegar and Victoria Place tipping
off at 7:15 p.m., and Kingfisher
taking on Smelter Pub in the 8:20
P.m. game.

“Just clean the windshield, put in some gas, give me
some water and hold the pedal to the floor.’

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Time to honor local

By HELEN DUNLOP

annual
February event, gives us the oppor-

Next came the twins, Richard and
Ronald, who both became school
teachers. Richard taught at
Valemount, B.C., for a time, then
went into He now lives in

tunity to ‘dust off’ our
land look at ways to preserve our
history. But while we are paying
homage to historical artifacts and
buildings, it is a time to honor our
Pioneer residents as well.

One such pioneer is Ruth Waldie,
who has lived in Robson over $3
years, and has spent all her life in the
Kootenays.

Ruth's many friends will remember
an “‘open house’’ held Oct. 1, 1989,
to celebrate her 80th birthday. It was
also a family reunion, and her four
sons and their families were present.

Born in Nelson in 1909 as Ruth
Helder Craufurd, she grew up in that
city and attended school there. After
graduating from business college, she
worked 10 years as a stenographer in
the law offices of Wragge and
Hamilton.

On Sept. 16, 1936, Ruth married
Robert Turner Waldie and came to
live in Robson. Bob — as he is better
remembered in the area — was office
manager of William Waldie and Sons’
Sawmill in Castlegar, and he was the
youngest of the sons. Ruth and Bob
moved only once since then — to a
new house in the same part of Rob-
son. Bob in 1975, but Ruth con-
tinues to live in the family home.

RUTH WALDIE
... lifelong resident

Robson was different at that time,
Ruth says. Fruit-growing was still a
viable business, and there were other
things going on. However, the
Packing-house was destroyed by fire
and the fruit industry gradually
declined.

The Waldies were both involved in
community affairs — Bob was chair-
man of the board of school trustees
for School District No. 9 (Castlegar)
for several years, and was an active
member of the Boy Scout group
committee.

Ruth took on the job of Secretary
for the Robson Women's Institute, a
Position shé held for six years but
gave up when their first child arrived.

Four sons were born to Ruth and
Bob — Leslie, the oldest, lives in
Prince George, where he is vice-
President of Northwood’s pulp and
Paper mill and is in charge of in-
dustrial relations. Leslie and his wife
Carol have two children, Karla and
Troy.

Second son, James — known to
everyone as Jim — lives in Castlegar.
Jim is a plumbing and heating
technician with the school district
maintenance staff. He and his wife
Trish have one son, Clifford.

Toronto, employed by a firm
manufacturing air-conditioner filters.

Ron stayed with teaching and is
dean of students at George Brown
College in Toronto. This is simialr to
Selkirk College, Ruth says. Before
going to Toronto, Ron was a teacher
at Nelson’s Notre Dame University.

All the boys were Cubs and Scouts
— Leslie and Ron became Queen's
Scouts, while Jim has gone on to be
Seout leader and served as- district
Scout commissioner for several years,

In the days when the boys were
growing up, the SS Minto was still
making regular runs on the Arrow
Lakes and the Waldies could see her
go by from their home.

“‘I always took the boys down to
see the Minto come in,” Ruth said.
“They were not allowed to go alone."’

She had them stand on the bank
above the road to watch for the boat
to appear — then they all went down
together. Ruth treasures a picture of
her four little boys, aged eight and
under, standing in a row intently wat-
ching for the old paddle-wheeler,
unaware a picture was being taken!
Blown up poster-size, it occupies a
special place on her wall,

“On the Minto’s last run (April 24,
1954), Leslie and his friend Byng
Giraud took their bicycles on board
and travelled as far as Syringa Creek,
where they-got off and rode the
bicycles home,” she said.

Above the fireplace in Ruth’s living
room hangs a striking portrait of her
great-great-grandfather, Thomias Ar-
chibald Craufurd, the Laird of Ar-
dmillan. The family estate was near
Edinburgh, and from there her
father, Leslie Craufurd, came to
Canada, settling in Nelson.

A lay-reader at St. Saviour’s
Anglican Church, Craufurd travelled
to Robson and Castlegar one Sunday
each month to conduct services. A
morning service was held in the Rob-
son Community Church and an after-
noon service took place in Castlegar’s
Coronation Hall. This hall stood near
the site of the present city hall. It was
torn down in the mid-1950s.

Ruth speaks of Archdeacon F.H
Graham of St. Saviour’s, who was a
familiar figure in the Kootenays,
saying, ‘‘The Archdeacon married my
father and mother in 1907, christened
me, married Bob and I, and
christened our first-born son Leslie.””
These events covered a period of 35
years! ~

Ruth’s maternal relatives came to
British Columbia from Ontario, and
her mother, Agnes Bodwell, was bor
in Brantford. Grandfather Ebenezer
Bodwell was a member of Parliament
in Sir John A. MacDonald's Conser-
vative government. When Sir John
lost his seat in an election, Ruth’s

gave up his
to the prime minister (somewhere
near the Welland Canal, she thinks).
Through a ‘‘deal’’ worked out by the
Party, Bodwell accepted a position
with the CPR in Vancouver.

The Bodwells were on hand to see
tthe first train arrive from the east.

After retirment, Ebenezer moved
his family to Victoria, in the era of
Governor Douglas, the Dunsmuirs,

rand other historic figures. Ruth’s

mother often spoke of knowing the
Douglas family, and of visits to the
Dunsmuirs in the famous
Craigdarroch Castle.

Agnes Bodwell frequently came to
stay with an aunt in Nelson, and
through these visits she met and
married Leslie Craufurd. They had

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WAITING FOR THE MINTO .

Ruth Waldie's four sons, Leslie,

Jim, Ronald and Richard; were captured in this photo as they wait for
the old paddlewheeler to appear on Its trip down the Arrow Lakes.

two children — Ruth and a son,
Robert Clifford. Robert went over-
seas in the Second World War and
was killed in England during an air-
raid in 1942,

The Waldies have attended services
in the Robson Community Church
since coming to Robson. This attrac-
tive little building was owned by the
Baptist congregation and used by
Anglican and United Church mem-
bers as well. Opened in 1908‘and ser-
ving as both school and church until
1914, it was donated to Robson
residents as a war memorial in 1946.
At that time it became the Robson
Community Memorial Church. It is
now operated by a joint board of
Anglican and United churches, each
holding services two Sundays a mon-
th. On Sundays when there is no ser-
vice at Robson, Ruth attends St.
David's. Anglican Church in
Castlegar. Jim Waldie is a lay-reader
in both churches.

Ruth was secretary of the Women’s
Association for the Robson Church, a
group composed of Anglican and
United ladies. The association, no
longer functional, staged various
fund-raising events — church sup-
Pers, coffee parties and, at Christ-
mastime, sold home-made min-
cemeat.

Growing up in a musical family
where both parents were involved in
dramas and plays, often with her
mother directing, it was natural Ruth
would follow their lead. She was a
member of the former Nelson
Operatic Society and took part in all
the best-known Gilbert and Sullivan
operettas. Her father directed many
of these productions.

Operettas were not her only ac-
complishments, however, and she

retiring and was well-known in the
district.

Over the years, Ruth’s interest in
plays and drama continued. When the
Kinnaird Little Theatre was active she
took part in their productions. One
she recalls, Ladies in Retirement, was
directed by Marjorie MacBajn. Some
others in the cast were] Gwilym
Hughes and the late Ella W: ,

While performing with the Robson
Dramatic Society, she acted in
Nothing But The Truth, a play which
won awards at the Kootenay Drama
Festival.

“Best actor award went to Frank
Humphries,” Ruth said.

Also in the play were Bert Lamb,
Fred Giraud and J.T. (Jack) Webster.
The actors mentioned are no longer
living and the society was disbanded
several years ago.

Speaking about hobbies, Ruth
laughs and says, ‘I had no timie for
hobbies — raising my children took
all my time!’’ She explains that Jim
and the twins were very close together
in age and it was like having three
babies to take care of at the same
time.

However, Ruth has a wealth of in-
terests to fill her days. She has been a
member of the Trail Society For the
Performing Arts for yearsand Farely
misses an event. She also enjoys
Playing bridge, having belonged to
the Monday Bridge Club for 15 years,
as well as playing bridge with the
senior citizens on Friday afternoons.
A weekly swim at the local Sandman
Inn with a group of friends is one of
her favorite activities, Ruth says.

After her husband’s death, she
travelled twice to California in the
winter months, accompanied by her

pioneers

won many honors in Koot music
festivals, including the Championship
Cup

While still living in Nelson, Ruth
sang in St. Saviour’s Church Choir
for 14 years, in the alto section.

With such talents, Ruth was kept
busy singing at weddings, concerts
and other occasions. She pays special
tribute to the late -Dr. W.T. Wright,
who was her accompanist for many
years. Formerly a professor of music
at Brandon College in Manitoba,
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