as Castlegar News May 27, 1990 Possible boycott serious OTTAWA (CP) — The foreign perception that Canada is recklessly destroying its forests could trigger a European boycott of Canadian forest products,warns a member of the federal government. “We have signals from Europe where people make comparisons bet- ween Canada and the Amazon,” said the official, referring to the destruc- tion of Brazil's rain forest. The official, who asked not to be identified, said there are voices in Europe urging a boycott of Canadian products. Canadian forestry exports to Europe were worth about $3.45 billion last year. WKP gives safety tips West Kootenay Power em- hy kl ployees gave a demonstration recently to local school students of how carelessness around power transmission lines can be fatal. WKP safety administrator Bruce Hadley and Salmo lineman Tim Powers will take the safety message to nearly 3,000 students before the end of May and to a similar number in the fall. The program had an immediate impact during a recent spring snowfall in Creston that knocked out power, WKP says in a news release. Finding one power line on the ground, a youngster told his mother not to touch it, “The West Kootenay Power man told us it can kill you,”’ the child said. The safety demonstration also given to crowd around a model of West Phil Gilbert, a for the Council of Forest Industries of British Columbia, said the industry is trying to avoid a boycott by battling what it sees as misinformation in Europe. “The management of Canadian old-growth timber would seem to be becoming more and more a talking point in Europe. We are (trying) to tell people what the real world is about and not just the scare headlines they may be picking up on. “Is the profile of the issue rising? No question. The answer to that is yes."” The problem is being taken seriously due to vivid memories of the European boycott that crippled . Canada’s sealing industry during the 1970s and 1980s. “It’s one thing to have it happen to the seal industry; it’s quite another to have it happen to the forest in- dustry,”’ said the federal official. “It's frustrating when you are, as I am, convinced that we no longer deserve this image.’’ European buyers would have little difficulty in finding other suppliers of wood and pulp products if they choose to do so. “‘They have access to wood in the Soviet Union, the Scandinavian coun- tries. This is still a fiercely competitive business around the world. We don’t need this problem.”’ There have been many negative ar- ticles about Canadian forest management in the foreign press, in- cluding one this month in the prestigious New Yorker magazine by British author Catherine Caufield. Consumers keep. spending OTTAWA (CP) — Consumers kept cash registers ringing in Match despite rising interest rates and gloomy economic predictions. Retail sales edged up 0.4 per cent in March to $16.53 billion from a revised $16.45 billion the month before, after adjustments for seasonal fluc- tuations, Statistics Canada said. But retail sales fell after excluding 0.4 per cent in March following a 0.3 per cent decline in February and a 1.6 per cent gain in January. While rising interest rates may not be driving large numbers of con- sumers away from stores, the high cost of borrowing money is shaking their confidence, the Conference Board of Canada said. The economic think tank said its index of consumer attitudes fell in the first quarter to 90.2 points from 95.6 points in last year’s fourth quarter. “*With high interest rates and con- sumer debt reaching record levels, consumers are very hesitant to extend their borrowing any further,’’ Gilles Rheaume, the board’s director of forecasting, said. West Koot lines for ‘ atety Power's tion by Tim Powers (in cap) and Bruce Hadley. 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Most recently Chernoff took | first place in the girls, 1,500 metres and girls 800 metres events at the East-West Koot- nays track’ and field cham- pionships in Trail and will now. represent her city and-school at the provincial champion- ships in Burnaby June 1-2. TRIVIA Bobby Unser holds the Guinness Book of Sports fecord for the fastest pit stop ever taken, a feat he acom- plished at the Indianapolis 500. How long was Unser’s pit stop? Answer at the bottom of The Numbers on page B2. & GOLF The second half of the Zone I qualifier for the B.C\Amateur and Summer Games gets un- der way at Christina Lake Golf Club today after first round action was completed in Castlegar on Saturday RADIO/TV SUNDAY 8a.m. KXLY — Auto Racing: In dianapolis 500 a.m. TSN — AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL 10:30 a.m. CBUFT — Le Baseball: Le Reds de Cincinnati affrontent les Expos a Montreal 11:30 a.m. TSN — Auto racing: Formula 2000 series Noon TSN — Canadian Soccer League: Hamilton Steelers at Kitchener Esprit 12:30 p.m. KREM — NBA playoffs: Teams to be announced 2 p.m. TSN — Seniors Golf: Bell Atlantic Classic . 5 p.m. TSN — Baseball: Toronto at Seattle May 27 through Saturday, June 2. Mon. to Wed. and Saturday Thursday and Friday 9a.m. to 6 p.m. 9a.m. to 9 p.m. We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities: Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m, Drivers INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — There is no substitute for victory in the In dianapolis 500. You can start 33rd and finish second, as Tom Sneva did in 1980; finish in the top five for four straight years, as Roberto Guerrero did from 1984 through 1987; or come within four miles of a victory, as Al Unser Jr. did last year, only to watch the win vanish as he hit the wall Those things are only part of the landscape at the tradition-laden In- Motor Speedway. Win- is everything “When you win here, it changes your life forever,"’ Sneva said when he finally won in 1983 after three second-place finishes. “You are forevermore known as an Indy winner. It becomes practically a part of your name.”’ When the 33 cars take the green flag Sunday at noon EDT for the 74th Indy 500, there will be eight former winners in the lineup. Emerson Fittipaldi, the defending Rivers el -PELE OF THE FUTURE ff shows ro oome sharp moves for the Castlegar No. 2 team ina game against Trail at Twin sch Trail. —cosriews photo by Ed Mills part of the Friendship Tournament staged by the Castlegar game was just one.of many at city soccer pitches as nor Soccer Association with teams from SHSS sends 3 to provincials By CasNews Staff Wendy Closkey is still a little awed by it all at this point. So, how does it feel to be represen- ting your school and thé city at the Provincial track and field champion- ships in Burnaby next weekend? “Oh, um, well I feel good,” said the Grade 9 Stanley Humphries secondary student, after a lengthy Pause to consider the question. Closkey was a surprise qualifier for the provincials after knocking 25 seconds off her best time to place second in the racewalking event at the East-West Kootenay championships at Haley Park in Trail last weekend. In the case of the only other two SHSS athletes who will be joining Closkey at the provincials ~— Amy Chernoff and Amy Rogers — inwas no surprise at all Chernoff was the class of the field in the 800- and 1,500-metre events while Rogers raced to victory in the 400-metre hurdles, But it was Closkey who had coach Jessie Zielkie talking after the event “*I would have to say the most out- standing performance probably belonged to Wendy Closkey. She knocked 25 seconds off her time, that’s excellent,”’ said Zielkie. What makes it more amazing is the fact that, besides dabbling a little in Grade 7, Closkey had never tried competitive racewalking until this year. “‘Mrs. Zielkie taught me how to to it rightin March,”’ she said. Relative no-names emerge as talk of Stanley Cup 1990 BOSTON (CP) — So who are Bill Ranford, Denis Morel and John Druce? Before the 1990 Staniéy.Cup playoffs, only Morel was a recognizable name, a 14-year National Hockey League referee with a flair for controversial calls. Ranford was Edmonton's backup goalie, behind the great Grant Fuhr Druce was the name you skipped over in the NHI Guide while looking up Donald Dufresne. All three became household names in the playoffs. Morel disallowed an apparent goal by the defending champion Calgary Flames in overtime in Game 6 of the first-round series against the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings scored and the heavily favored Flames were out — throwing the Cup race wide open Ranford filled in for Fuhr — out with a shoulder in jury — and backstopped the Edmonton Oilers to their fif- th title in seven years, winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player of the playoffs. Druce, with 14 playoff goals, led the Washington Capitals to their first division championship, before they lost to the Boston Bruins. They are some of the names that stood out in a playoff year that started with uncertainty and ended with a sense of inevitability as Edmonton rolled over Boston in five games The Oilers, rebuilt with new young players, fell behind 3-1 in the opening round to the Winnipeg Jets Ranford-stoned Dale Hawerchuk on a breakaway,in overtime and the Oilers stormed back to win in seven. The Bruins fell behind 2-1 in games to the Hartford Whalers and 5-2 in Game 4 before their inspired, dream- building comeback The Oilers clobbered the Kings and toughed out a six-game win over Mike Keenan’s Chicago Blackhawks. Once past Hartford, the Bruins continued exorciz- ing the decades-old jinx by beating Montreal for the second time in three years in the Adams Division final. The Oilers, without Gretzky, took the advantage in the sweltering heat of the Game | Boston marathon. Peter Klima came off a four-hour bench-sitting session to score a breathtaking goal at 15:13 of the third overtime period. Ranford made 50 saves in the 3-2 win, which took 115 minutes 13 seconds. The Bruins controlled much of the first half of Game 2 but couldn't beat Ranford. Frustration set in and the Oilers piled up a 7-2 win. Jari Kurri’s three goals moved him past Gretzky as the career playoff goal-scoring leader with 92 Boston beat the Oilers 2-1 in Game 3, but two days later Edmonton blew the Bruins out of Northlands Coliseum. Captain Mark Messier, not a factor imthe first three games, dominated in a 5-1 Edmonton wir. The return to Boston had the Bruins’on the brink They played as hard as they had all season, but couldn’t and the. final Edmonton solve Ranford. The Oilers again seemed to score at will in the game and the series — read 4-1 live for Indy 500 champion, will start at the* tront, alongside three-time winner Rick Mears. Those two set the pace for another record-breaking Indy field, with Fittipaldi’s four-lap average of 225.301 and Mears’ 224.215 both bet Andrettis everywhere INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — First there was Mario, then Michael. Now there’s John, and maybe Jeff. There are Andrettis everywhere at the Indianaplis Motor Speedway In the second row. In the fourth row. In the pits. At this rate, in 30 years there will be no one but An- drettis in the entire 33-car field. By that time, says Mario, the 1969 winner and the most famous of them ‘all, “I'll be the team manager."” In two years, though, the An- dretti speedway numbers may be reduced by one. Michael, who starts Sunday in his sixth Indy $00, says he is considering the Formula One circuit Like father, like son. Mario is a former Formula One star wi won the championship in 1978. But he tired of the travel and globetrotting and retired in 1982 to concentrate on Indy cars. Michael says eventually he would like to go Formula One and “*be competitive over there “I think that’s probably in my plans within the next couple of years. I would love nothing better than to carry that American Does that miean no more In dianapolis? ter than the previous mark of 223,885 set by Mears a year ago. The field average of 217,437 broke the year-old record of 216,588. Bobby Rahal, the winner in 1986, and Mario Andretti, the 1969 cham- Pion, will be in the second row, with four-time winner A.J. Foyt — making a record 33rd consecutive start — and 1985 winner Danny Sullivan in the third three-car row. Sneva will start from the inside of the ninth row, with Al Unser, the only other four-time winner, on the out- side of row 10. Rookie Scott Goodyear of Toronto will start on row 7 Rahal said winning Indy makes all the difference in the world to a driver. “When you win, you know the flavor and you want to taste it again,”’ Rahal said. ‘When you win this race, the monkey’s off your back “I’ve won a lot of races, come from behind, but they always ask, ‘Is this your year at Indy? Are you going to win here?’ And now she has a chance to be tops in the province, although neither Zielkie nor Closkey are counting on it. “It's an open-age class meet. That means the girls will be’ competing against Grade 12s so the competition will be that much tougher,”’ said Zielkie. Both Chernoff and Rogers are in Grade 10. Closkey is cautiously “I don't think I'll I'll do pretty good# If she can somehow knock another 1S seconds Off herifiiric before the proving ‘Closkey might have more imstore in Burnaby 4 A surprise on the negative side was & ‘disappointing performance from Grade 9 athlete Rhonda Dawes who, Zielkie said, had an off day in her two events, finishing third in shotput and sixth in javeline. Lee Holden placed sec6nd in the men’s 400 metres for SHSS while Rod Harshenin followed suit with a second in the men’s 800 metres. Though both technically qualified for the provin- cials, Zielkie said it was felt their times were too far behind the stan- dard set at provincial competition Rory Perrier just missed qualifying with a third in girls javelin and a fifth in the girls 100 metres Tim Austin also had a fifth place finish in the pole vault while Mike Esovoloff was fourth in the long jump to round up the SHSS results at the meet. Labatts pitcher Peter Evdokimoff does his impersonation of Jack Nicholson in The Shining on « he puts game against C a ne yoodoo on mn the ballina Banjo's Pub is ee incon factteal tourney wae winds up with 1000 champion: ip game tonight. CasNews photo by Ed Mills Fastball boys are playing for keeps By CasNews Staff If anybody tells you the fastball tournament in Castlegar this weekend is just for fun — don't believe them. Because with $1,000 first-place prize money on the line, you can bet these boys aren’t fooling around The Banjo’s Pub fastball tourney attracted seven out-of-town teams, one from as far away as Montana, and three local squads who will all be looking to walk away with the grand prize. The tourney, being played ex- Clusively at Kinnaird Park, started yesterday morning and ends with the $1,000 championship game tonight.