News Apri 10, 1991 e —= BUSINESS George Roberts of Big 4.0 Tir bietyoa an aA Tires Ltd., shows the certificate he he recently attended in Spokane. Wash. BUSINESS BEAT By CasNews Staff Canada losing trees OTTAWA (CP) — Canada’s productive forest decreased by 4,7 million hectares — an area almost as big as Prince Edward Island — bet- ween 1976 and 1986, new federal statistics show. Throughout the decade covered by the study, trees were cut, burnt or destroyed by pests at a faster rate than they grew back, according to a report tabled in the Commons on Tuesday. Despite existing timber shortages in many provinces, the report says there is still room to increase the rate at which forests — especially har- dwood trees — are cut. “In the short term, there is a lot of timber available for harvest now, and a case could be made for in- creasing the current harvest levels,”’ it says. “In the longer term, Canada’s tender supply prospects are less Moyna Laing, who worked for the Bank of Montreal in Castlegar for eight years before moving to the Lower Mainland in 1980, has been named to the bank's Task Force on the Advancement of Women in the Bank. Laing, raised in Nelson, is the bank's district manager for personal loans in Vancouver Centre, She is one of 11 part-time members of the task force which Bank of Montreal president Tony Comper established to identify obstacles that prevent women from advancing up the cor- Porate ladder. Let usknow... If there's something interesting happening at your business the CasNeéws would like to know. Promotions, retirements, awards — it’s all news and we'll put it in Business Beat Pick up a handy form from our news department or give us a call at 365-3517. Kokanee heads east By CasNews Staff The Columbia Brewing Company of Creston has started selling Kokanee beer in Saskatchewan, making it the first B.C. beer available in that province. Marketing manager Mike Cyr said the company has been getting ‘‘many requests’’ to supply Kokanee to Saskatchewan, adding that people have been making *‘Kokamnee runs”’ into Alberta. Kokanee’s ‘‘secret recipe’’ is still the same as it was when the first beer was brewed in 1959 and has been B.C.’s ‘‘favorite beer,’’ since 1985. The company expanded its sales into Alberta‘in 1989, the release said. Tn Saskatchewan, Kokanee will be available through licensed hotels, restaurants and Liquor Board outlets. Brewed only in Creston, limited production capabilities may at first cause demand to exceed sup- ply, Cyr said in the release. T-Ball ... 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And environmentalists denounced the. -report, particularly the suggestion that logging rates could be increased. ¥. ink it’s an absolute disgrace,"’ said Colleen McCrory of Canada’s Future Forests Alliance, who says the figures in the report Probably understate the problem because they come mainly from in- dustry sources. “We cannot pulp the nation and survive as a people. It’s absolute i sanity that they’re not looking at reducing the cut,” said McCrory of ‘New Denver. THE CAKE & CANDY PANTRY Colville m= MOVED... 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Well, it would appear that misery does indeed love company and Pete Ross is going to have a lot of people Join him in his. But it won't be athletes joining Rose ina that Vancouver Blues eyes Hollywoo VANCOUVER (CP) — Cliff Ronning prefers to spread the credit around for the unexpected success of the Vancouver Canucks in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The little centerman scored two game-winners against the favored Los Angeles Kings but talks about NHL ROUNDUP cost him the game he loves, his freedom and perhaps his place in Cooperstown, This time it’s our turn — us regular sports fans. What price we'll pay, I don’t know. At the very least it will cost us money. At the most it will cost families or more in a cycle of self-destructiveness and distorted attitudes that are the hallmarks of compulsive behavior. On an everyday level, 1 know from personal experience that a simple hockey pool with the bud- dies can change the way you wat- ch a game. Where before you put your loyalty behind a team — maybe you had a few bucks riding on the outcme of the game — now you cheer for the individual players in your pool and, by ex- tension, for yourself. The at- titude is: Who. really cares who wins as long as I do. Even the good ol’ hockey pool itself had mutated into much more than just a game with a bunch of pals. Pick up a big-city paper and you can join one of these huge, impersonal hockey pools with a grand pre in the neighborhood of 15 grand. And yet hockey ple are just the tip of the socially sanctioned iceberg. Apparently. our money- Starved gayernments can't generate enough revenue with the indecent amount of money they pinch from our paycheques, so they just legalized the means in which gangsters had long been making their loot. What that amounts to is Las Vegas as close as your corner store. Bookies among the bread and milk. This relatively new peak in gambling on sports is unsettling and it has changed the meaning of spectator sports. 1 can’t see how fostering this kind of selfishness is good for society or individuals. I’m not sure it can continue and I'm pretty sure it isn’t recommended for solid men- tal health. Still 1 can’t be surprised that as society mirrors sports it also goes vice versa. As sports fans sec players year after year holding out for ever larger salary in- creases or breaking contracts because the other guy got a raise, it’s not hard to see why the people who idolize these athletes are similarly preoccupied with self interest. Never mind the Pete Roses who have thousands of dollars to risk and lose. It’s the guy who bets his family’s food money who’s going to quickly run into trouble. I was going to phone Gamblers Anonymous in Vancouver to get some supporting statistics and in- formation for this column, but I figured people don’t need num- bers to know that just about everybody’s gambling in one way or another these days. Ask yourself a question. How many times a week do you gamble? Count them up. Are you already an addict? Do you have to play the lottery like a junkie needs a fix? And_will it someday extend to the gamble of speeding in your car or worse, drinking and driving?. As far as gambling goes | would say it’s probably better to have a twice-a-week addiction to Punto or the hockey pool bug, as to needing a bi-weekly fix of alcohol, drugs or even nicotine. But the point is that gambling has become more popular and as it does, so does the occurence of gambling-related problems. and ive play rather than his four goals. “The goalies, Troy Gamble and Kirk McLean, have Ronning said Tuesday. “We both played great for us,”’ have a good hockey team here but we have room to im- self. Prove, to get better."” Ronning also praised defenceman Jyrki Lumme af- ter the Canucks held the high-scoring Kings to one goal in the third game of the Smythe Division semifinal. The Canucks take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series into Game 4 tonight at the Pacific Coliseum. Ronning came to the Canucks in a March 5 trade Louis Blues involving six players. He credits the arrival of five new players at the trading deadline for bringing the team closer together. “‘In the dressing room, we care about each other as friends,’’ he said. ‘We don’t care who scores. Ronning scored the winning goal when Vancouver prevailed 6-5 in the series opener and added another winner Monday at 3:12 of sudden-death overtime when from the St. the Canucks won 2-1. 6 Vancouver coach Pat Quinn has not attempted to shocker avoid the matchup of Ronning, Geoff Courtnall and Trevor Linden against the Kings checking line of Steve Kasper, Mike Donnelly and Bob Kudelski. Ronning and Courtnall have combined for seven goals in the series.’ Wayne Gretzky has scoted three times for the Kings who finished 37 points ahead of the fourth-place Canucks in the standings, “To be honest, we're scared to death,”’ Ronning said about the prospect of upsetting the first-place Kings. ‘All we've done is win two games. FLAMES YS. OILERS Theoren Fleury doesn’t believe history will repeat it- For his sake, and the Calgary Flame’s prolonged remaining. life in the. NHL’s Smythe Division semifinal playoffs, he’d better be right. The Flames enter tonight’s game against the defen- ding Stanley Cup champion Oilers in Edmonton in a situation similar to the one they faced last year. They trail the best-of-seven series-2-1 after losing a heartbreaking 4-3 decision Monday, Edmonton's Joe Murphy scored the winning goal with just 14 seconds Calgary began the series with a loss Thursday at the Olympic Saddledome, Last spring the Flames opened their Stanley-Cup defence by losing to the Los Angeles Kings at home, but won Game 2. The series’ third game was a nail-biting contest won in overtime by the Kings in Los Angeles. please see NHL ROUNDUP page B2 By ED MILLS Staff Writer A drastic drop of more than 50 per cent in registrations for Castlegar Minor Soccer has the association's president baffled. As of Monday, minor soccer had just over 119 players registered to play this season, down from a record 235 kids last year. With the league set to begin in five days, minor soccer president Pete Redekop is at a loss to ex- plain the dramatic drop. “I don’t know if they're going over to baseball or whether the kids have just lost interest. | wish I knew. I’m very surprised. That's all I can say, “I've talked to some people who say they just fi ied skiing and hockey and just haven’t got around to it, but not that many, not that it would drop by 100 some odd kids,"’ he said. Redekop said registration is especially down in the 10- to 14- year-old age groups. He’s not sure he will have enough players to even form one team in those Soccer sees drastic drop divisions. And that's doubly disappoin- ting because an interlocking league set up this season with teams from Trail, Beaver Valley and Rossland was specifically designed to attract more players in the older age groups to the sport. “The idea was for them to play more games, I thought that would keep interest up, it doesn’t look very good for that now."” Teams will begin play Monday regardless, but istration will remain open indefinitely, he said. “As long as the kids want to come out, I'll keep it (registration) open.’’ So far, Redekop has enough players to form two teams of five- and six-year-olds, five teams in the seven- and eight-year-old division and three teams of nine- and 10-year-olds. “And I thought we were going to have a good season this year,’’ said Redekop. Parents can register their children for soccer for $20 at the Community Complex. No tears for Midgets after loss Coach says locals just met their match By ED MILLS Staff Writer Everything about the Castlegar Midget Reps’ rematch with Hastings was different from the first time the two teams met. Everything that is, except the out- come. For the second straight time in a championship game, Hastings blew out Castlegar, beating the local team 8-1 Friday in the Provincial AA Midget Hockey championships at the Nelson Civic Centre. The last time they played each other, Hastings, a team from Van- couver, scored nine power-play goals to beat Castlegar 10-1 in the gold medal game at th B.C. Winter Games in Duncan in February. Tt was a road-weary and worn-out Castlegar team in Duncan, said Paul Phipps, who coaches the Reps along with Rick Welychko. It was supposed to be different at the 11-team provincials in Nelson. “This time we're sleeping in our own beds, eating homecooked meals. We're healthy and we feel we can beat them,” said Phipps before Friday’s game. Apparently the Midgets could have slept in the Queen of England’s bed and eaten caviar from silver spoons and it wouldn't have mattered. Phipps didn’t quite put it that way but he did say Castlegar had met its match in Hastings. “They’re big, they're fast, they’re well disciplined, and well, they're better than us,’’ he said. But Phipps said his team has nothing to be ashamed o! i a team of Hastings’ especially considering Castlegar Minor By ED MILLS Staff Writer Rick Biller’s no radical. So the man who will be named the new president of the Castlegar and District Minor Hockey Association tonight isn’t planning any extreme changes to the organization. In fact, Biller likes minor hockey in Castlegar pretty much the way it is. “Our enrolment is going up when ‘Most associations are going down, so basically I'm going to keep things classified as an A team but moved up to AA this season. ““We tried twice to overcome their poWer, their superiority and we just couldn’t do it. I think the boys feel good about how they played against Hastings. They know, and I know, they played their best. “If there is any disappointment it NINO DACOSTA --- team Is happy was the way we played in Duncan, but I wasn’t disappointed with the way the boys played and with their effort in Nelson, not at all. If anything this second time tells me even more how good Hastings is."” Castlegar goaltender Vaughn Welychko was peppered for three periods as the Reps fell behind 2-0 after the first and 6-0 after two. Nino DaCosta scored Castlegar’s only goal in the third period. And just like the first time the two teams met, Hastings got the majority of its goals on special teams — four shorthanded and two on the power- play. In the other game Friday, Aldergrove —. the team Castlegar beat to advance to the finals — beat Salmon Arm 10-3 in the bronze medal game. The only person Phipps was pointing a finger at after it was over was himself. “I worry sometimes that” I may have let the boys down in terms of not being better prepared for a team like Hastings. I guess that’s my lim- itation as a coach (because) I did my best and I’m not sure how we could have done it differently,” said Phip- ps, who said he probably won’t be coaching next year after five seasons of Rep hockey in Castlegar. DaCosta, who stored 27 points, including 13 goals, in six games in the tournament, said the Reps knew what they were facing against Hastings so no one should have been surprised when they stepped on the ice Friday. ‘‘We knew what we had to do to get pumped for it and I think he (Phipps) did his best job trying to get us pumped. I think we could have done a little better doing our job,” said DaCosta. Despite the two losses to Hastings, DaCosta said the Reps weren’t crying when they walked out of the dressing room in Nelson. “It was a good year and we gave it our best shot and we succeeded. We set our goals and we made it, so we're happy.”” The Reps went undefeated in the round-robin portion of the tour- nament beating Whitehorse, Salmon Arm, 100 Mile House, Fernie and Port McNiej. Hastings advanced to the final beating Nelson, rs . Terrace and Dawson Creek. (Castlegar won the Playfair Trophy which is given to the least penalized team in the provincials. division manager in the system, Biller said he knows Castlegar minor hockey has several strong suits and what he’s going to do is build on those over his two-year term. “In the whole West Kootenay area, Castlegar is well known for its refereeing program. Right now we have more adults in the program than ever. I'd like to get more kids involved, start the refereeing Program at the younger ages and keep it going.”” Training more quality coaches for older age divisions is another item on Biller’s agenda. ‘Sat the 14-and-over ages where we start losing a lot of kids, so we have to have good coaches to pe more kids in the game,” he ilies (ils ee reams be doesn’ eed to make wholesale changes is Coat h Midget Paul Phipp: Wwe Bes nade prtktens ste ame hoe toa Pty in an 8-1 loss in the provincial championship game in Nelson last Friday. —casnews photo by Ed Mills because his predecessor in the job, Doug Coulson, left him a solid organization to work with. “*He did a tremendous job,”’ Biller said. ‘‘He put a lot of structure into the organization, so that's made it a lot easier for everybody else.”’ Coulson, who was named the win- ner of the Marvin Le Roy Trophy for outstanding contribution to minor hockey in Castlegar by the association this year, said Biller has been groomed for the president's job by his stint as vice-president and has proven he’s more than capable of handling it “1 don’t think he’s going to have any problems at all. He’s got a really strong executive and he’s definitely capable “In my personal opinion, the reason we approached Rick about becoming the vice-president is that hockey president no radical we thought he had the potential to be a good president. I think we have the best person for the job,”’ said Coulson. In other news of the meeting: The first thing on Biller’s plate will be to raise the salaries of minor hockey referees to bring them up to Par with what other associations are Paying. A motion will be made at the meeting to increase the per-game stipend for referees to $15 from $$ while linesman will get a raise to $5 from $3. Also running for executive positions are Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce president Jim Craig, who will run for the-vice~ President’s position, Ivonne Moore for secretary and Bruna Horcoff and Debbie Fauth, who will run again as treasurer and registrar respectively.