as Castlegar News June 17, 1990 LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS Trip to Mexico awarded By CasNews Staff Phyllis Bennie of Duncan has won the top prize in the Sunfest lottery button contest of a trip for two to Mazatlan, Mexico, and one week's accommodation. Bennie, sister of Tom Willson of Castlegar, held winning button No. 1725. Willson brought the button into the Castlegar Cham- ber of Commerce office to claim the prize donated to Sunfest by Fiesta West and BCAA Travel. When the Bennies planned their trip to Castlegar to visit Willson it coincided with Sunfest weekend, Sunfest publicity chairwoman Marilyn Strong says in a news release. “Tom phoned after Sunfest and asked if we Still had our but- tons,”’ said Bol Bennie, Phyllis’s husband. ‘‘Phyllis dug them out of her purse and told him the numbers. ‘Well, you've won the trip to Mazatlan,’ Tom said. 1 didn’t believe him at first, but then Brenda (Tom’s wife) came on the line and said it was.true. “We never even thought of winning a prize, we just wanted to support the community and we didn’t want to be put in jail,”” Bennie added, referring to the Gyro Club cops who patrol Sun- —_Cas¢h. Chamber of C Bev K 4 fest looking for people without buttons. and Tom Willson hold the winning button in the Sunfest button lottery. The button earned Willson's sister, Phyllis Bennie of Duncan, a trip tor two to Mazatlan, Mexico. So Close A romantic retreat. 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BRIEFS From Wire Service Hearing cancelled KELOWNA — A board of reference hearing for convicted sex offender Gordon Ledinski was cancelled Thursday. It did not set a new date to consider the fate of the elementary school teacher. EATING OUT A Father’s Day Guide to Dining Out The board, established by the Education Ministry, has been ordered by a B.C. Supreme Court judge to reconsider its earlier decision to reinstate Ledinski. It first met May 16, but adjourned without a new ruling. Ledinski was convicted in March 1988 on a charge of gross with a 15-year-old boy and was fined $1,000. Court was told the boy, who was not one of Ledinski’s students, told the teacher he was 16 and had previous homosexual experiences. The school board suspended Ledinski after he was charged Sept. 29, 1987, and fired him after his conviction. Ledinski appealed the dismissal to a board of reference, which overturned the firing and suspended him without pay for 23 months, retroactive to the date he was charged. He resumed teaching for a week last November, sparking protests by some parents. “Father’’ and Sunday Brunch at the Sandman Inn! SERVED FROM 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Fireside Dining Room SUNDAY 10 A.M. © Enjoy our 8- BRUNCH -2 P.M. Foot Pastry Table! * Omelets Made to Order June 17,1900 Castlegar News 81 c>s Castlegar News SPORTS GET THE PERFECT FIT WITH A KOOTENAY SAVINGS RRSP. WAYNE McCARTHY NHL blockbuster on draft day Hawerchuk to Sabres, Mullen to Penguins VANCOUVER (CP) — Veteran snipers Dale Hawerchuk and Joe Mullen, along with rushing defen- ceman Phil Housley, were traded Saturday during the annual NHL en- try draft when Smythe Division rivals shook up their rosters. Hawerchuk, the disgruntled former Winnipeg captain, was dispatched by the Jets to the Buffalo Sabres in a deal involving fouryplayers and a swap of first-round draft positions. Winnipeg sent centre Hawerchuk and the 14th pick in the first round (tough winger Brad May) to Buffalo for defenceman Phil Housely, left- winger Scott Arniel, centre Jeff Parker and the 19th pick (high schooler Keith Thachuk). The Calgary Flames sent right- winger Mullen to the Pittsburgh Penguins for a second-round pick, defenceman Nicolas Perreault from the Hawksbury Hawks of the tier two Central Ontario Junior Hockey League. PHIL HOUSLEY Calgary president Cliff Fletcher also orchestrated a swap of first- round picks with the New Jersey Devils so the Flames could select goaltender Trevor Kidd of the Bran- don Wheat Kings. Hawerchuk was having a garage “Buffalo definitely was-one of the teams that were on my list of where I wanted to go,”’ said Hawerchuk. “I’m anxious to get things rolling in Buffalo.” Hawerchuk was the cornerstone of the Winnipeg franchise since he was the first overall pick in the 1981 entry draft from the Cornwall Royals. The Toronto native recorded 100 or more points six times during his nine seasons in Winnipeg, but slipped to 81 points last season after losing his cap- taincy. Hawerchuk, 27, was the Jets’ all- time leading scorer with 379 goals and 929 points. He asked to be traded in April after the Jets were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Edmonton Oilers in a tough, seven- game series. “I’m just worried about getting on with my life,”’ he said. ‘Buffalo fits me just fine . . . they're definitely a contender." Buffalo also got May, a six-foot, 200-pound left winger from the junior Niagara Falls Thunder who had 32 goals, 90 points and 223 penalty minutes last season. “It’s tough to see those guys go,” said Buffalo coach Rick Dudley. really liked those guys.”” In the builders and b category of sports in Castlegar, McCarthy is second to none. The owner of Castlegar Realty has donated his time and money to sports in the city which keeps athletes and teams in Castlegar looking and feeling like they’re No. 1. Just look around and see how many soccer, hockey and baseball teams are sponsored by Castlegar Realty and it’s easy to tell what McCarthy means to sports in the area. TRIVIA Who holds the record for most points scored lifetime in the National Basketball Assoiation? Hint: Now the player scored points for Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles in a career spanning the years 1960-73. Answer at the bottom of The Numbers on page B2. GRAPEVINE ee WHITBY, Ont. (CP) — Billy (the Kid) Taylor, who played for four NHL teams during the 1940s, died AIRING IT Out. Nolan Ist, Nedved to Canucks VANCOUVER (CP) — Rugged right-winger Owen Nolan of the Cor- nwall Royals was selected first overall by the Quebec Nordiques in the NHL entry draft today. The Belfast native combined speed, size and aggressiveness to score 51 goals and accumulate 110 points last season in the major junior Ontario Hockey League. 18, is projected as the prototype pro forward whose belligerence — 240 penalty minutes in 58 OHL games — will benefit the rebuilding Nordiques. The six-foot-one, 194-pounder moved to Canada from Northern Ireland when he was seven months old and lists Thorold, Ont., as his hometown. It was the second straight year the Nordiques, last again in the final NHL standings, selected first overall. In 1989 Quebec took Swedish winger Mats Sundin, who remains unsigned. 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NDP legislator Barry Jones said the petition, signed by 17,000 people from eight B.C. c the annual of lottery grants and a list of lottery money spent on health care. Jones said Premier Bill Vander Zalm ignored a similar petition signed by 10,000 people last year An auditor general's report concluded that a quarter of the grants made last year were improperly handled. Provincial Secretary Howard Dirks has said recent changes to the lottery system will ensure a fair and impartial system of awarding lottery grants. 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Nedved defected from his native c A Pressure is on Aquanauts By ED MILLS Staff Writer Castlegar Aquanauts Swim Club coaches Tom Carew and Wendy Pilla face a fairly common dilemma in sports — how to improve on success? Or, if you can’t improve on it, how can you at least match it? Matching past successes is something the club has been doing for years now. Consistently, the team wins regional championships and it just as consistently sends 20 or so swimmers to the provincial championships. But this year is different, and both Pilla and Carew, who began their swimming careers with the Aquanauts, know it. It’s different for two reasons. First, the club has a new indoor facility in the Castlegar Aquatic Cen- tre which was completed in Decem- ber. The facility means the club, which has swimmers from ages seven to 21 years, is no longer at the mercy of the elements when it comes to practising. Fans go nu Victory celebration turns ugly in Detroit YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — About 2,000 jubilant Detroit Pistons fans greeted their heroes Friday, waving towels that read ‘‘Repeat’’ as they cheered the two-time NBA champions. Pans-tined-up behind «chain-link fence about 100 yards beyond the tarmac where Roundball ed after landing about 4:1 Lm. at Willow Run Airport. John Salley was the first player off the plane and he raised both hands in- to the air to the crowd's cheers. “Salley quickly made his way through a group of reporters and Rain or shine, the team can do its thing in the Aquatic Centic. The second factor is Carew and TOM CAREW Pilla themselves. Both are nationally respected swimmers — Pilla is no longer competing nationally while Carew is on his way up as a member of the University of Alberta swim team, ranked third in Canada. Combine those two factors and suddenly ordinary expectations for success from parents and the com- munity, and the swimmers them- selves, turn into great expectations. What it all translates into is in- creased pressure on Carew, Pilla and the team as a whole. “*Yeah, I think everyone's expec- ting a little more this season,’ said Carew, who is in his second year as head coach of the Aquanauts but has coached the team in various capacities for the last four years. “It hasn't really been a problem but I think most of the kids are working pretty hard now to live up to those expectations,’” he said. Pilla, 19, a University of British Columbia student in her first year as coach with the team — she coached in Beaver Valley last year — said there's no less pressure on the coaches. “Tom and I both swam here and this team’s been very successful in the past so yes, there’s some pressure to succeed. (But) that’s not what we're focusing on with the kids,’’ she said. ““We're trying to teach them to have fun, work as a team and set goals for the summer.”” ‘Carew has his own goals for the team though. “We're working towards the provincial championships (Aug. 17-19 in Trail and Castlegar). It’s our ultimate goal for the summer along with the regional championships two weeks prior to that,’’ he said. Carew, 22, said he'd like to im- prove on the 24 swimmers the Aquanauts qualified ‘for the provin- cials last year, as well as it’s overall finish (24th out of 50 teams) at the provincials. “This year, I'd like to qualify at least 30 or more (for the provin- cials),”’ said Carew. Some of the Aquanauts are in Beaver Valley this weekend for a B meet which is for swimmers who didn’t qualify for regionals last year in January 1989 and made a successful transition to North American lifestyle. The slender, six-foot-three centre was described by many WHL coaches as the best player in the league when he scored 65 goals and had 145 points in his first junior season. Nedved is a native of Litvinov, Czechoslovakia, and defected after playing in a major midget tournament in Calgary. Seattle acquired his WHL rights from the Moose Jaw Warriors and Nedved became an immediate star in junior. Six-foot-four centre Keith Primeau of the Niagara Falls Thunder was selected third by the Detroit Red Wings after leading the OHI in scoring with 127 points, including 57 goals. Centre Mike Ricci of the Peter- borough Petes, ranked first by the NHL Central Scouting Bureau, was picked fourth by the Philadelphia Flyers. Ricci said he wasn’t “‘that disap- pointed’’ with fourth. The Flyers wanted a centre after Mike Bullard elected to play in Europe next season. The_soft-spoken Ricci was named the Canadian Hockey League major please see DRAFT page B2 s as Pistons repeat Photographers to the fence where he tossed his game sneakers into the crowd. One shoe was picked up and han- ded to Lenny Stewart, 10, who was in his wheelchair just in front of the fen- ce. Salley autographed the shoe and handed it to the boy who clutched it with both hands. Lenny, who has cerebral palsy, wanted to greet the victors, said his stepmother, Lora Stewart. The other shoe was snatched by Albert Yahya, 19, who handed the shoe to his sister. She took it to their car for safe keeping. “You can’t touch them,’’ Yahya said, reprising the chorus fans chan- ted early Friday The bloodiest incident occurred at 1:15 a.m. Friday when a car slam- med into a crowd that had gathered to elebrate. The accident killed a nine- the series. Not long after Detroit's victory, fans rushed from their homes to dan- ce in the streets and on car roofs. But the merriment quickly turned ry. Eight people died and hundreds were hurt by gunfire, stabbings and fighting as the city was turned into what police called ‘‘a madhouse’’ year-old boy, a 10-year-old, a 15-year- old girl and a 21-year-old man, said police Sgt. Christopher Buck. A man with a broken leg was admitted to hospital, Buck said. Police arrested the 41-year-old driver of the car Two other pedestrians were killed ‘by cars in separate celebration-related accidents and a 21-year-old reveler was killed when he fell from an apar- tment roof. A parking-lot shooting killed a 19- year-old man and critically injured a 25-year-old man at 2:15 a.m., but Leavens said that stemmed from an that to the post-victory outbursts. Robert Egan, a Mount Carmel Hospital nurse, said fights even broke out in the hospital’s emergency room early Friday. “We were running around like crazy. We registered something like 20 gunshot wounds between midnight and 4 a.m. It was ridiculous.”