Castlégar News May 29, 1988

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EDMONTON (CP) — When the Edmonton Oilers won
their fourth Stanley Cup in five years Thursday night, they
proved again that the team is bigger than any individual
star, .
Edmonton's success has alwasy revolved around a
talented core centred on Wayne Gretzky.

But the Oilers’ dominance this spring, after a year of
transition, indicated that even the world’s greatest player is
only one component of the machine.

The names of the Edmonton Oilers on last year's
Stanley Cup included Paul Coffey, Andy Moog, Kent
Nilsson, Dave Hunter, Moe Lemay, Jaroslav Pouzar and
Reijo Ruotsalainen.

They are gone, replaced by Craig Simpson, Bill Ranford,
Dave Hanan, Geoff Courtnall, Normand Lacombe, Jim
Weimer, Keith Acton and Steve Dykstra.

“What happened this year will pay off in the future,”
head coach Glen Sather said of the changes. Some were
forced on him; others were calculated,

“It's a big compliment to Wayne Gretzky, Mark
Messier, Glenn Anderson, Jari Kurri, Kevin Lowe and
Grant Fuhr, because they stayed here and they've been here
for everyone,” Sather said.

“TRADITION’

“They're passing on the tradition, Look in their eyes
and the younger players were as @xcited as the older ones.
They're seeing what it's like to win. And winning is the only
way to play this game.”

Gretzky, the third player to. win the Conn Smythe
Trophy twice as the most valuable player in the playoffs,
said an important part of the veterans’ role is to pass on the
skills that keep the team strong.

Thursday's 6-3 victory over the Boston Bruins, which
completed a four-game sweep of the final, ended a difficult
year. Sather traded Coffey, Moog, Hunter and Lemay and
lost Nilsson, Ruotsalainen and Pouzer to Europe.

But he replaced them with talented young players who
not only lowered the team's average age by almost a year

BIG MONEY . . .The Castlegar and District Projects
Society starts off its fund for a new aquatic centre with
a $5000 cheque from the Castlegar Aquanauts Speed
Swim club. The club raised the money for the centre

mainly through bingos. (From lett) Alexia Turner,
treasurer of the projects society; Pat Metge recreation
director; David Jones, treasurer of the swim club; and
Gus young fundraiser for the swim club.

CosNews photo by Brendan Nogle

LARRY BOWA

Padres manager fired

NEW YORK (AP) — Larry
Bowa, contending he was not
given enough time to rebuild
a young team beset by in.
juries, was fired Saturday as
manager of the San Diego
Padres and replaced by Jack
McKeon, the club's vice-pres.

ident of baseball operations.

“I don’t think I was given a
fair opportunity to turn
around a team in a year and
40 games,” said Bowa, who
made his major league man.
agerial debut with the Na
tional League team last sea

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son. “I know I can manage a
major league team.”

“It was a tough decision,
but a change was necessary,”
said Padres president Chub
Feeney.

Bowa said he was called in
his hotel room by Feeney on
Saturday and told of the
change — about one hour
after learning of his dismissal
from a sports writer.

In 1987, the Padres were
65-97, finishing in last place
in the NL West, 25 games
behind division champion San
Francisco. This season, they
were 16-30 under Bowa, in
fifth place, only a half-game
ahead of the Atlanta Braves.

McKeon said he agreed to
take the job only for the re
mainder of this season.

“They enlisted me. I didn't
ask them,” McKeon said. “I
never solicited the job.”

Bowa, a former major
league infielder, was the sec
ond NL manager fired in the
pas week and the third
major league manager re
leased this season. Atlanta's
Chuck Tanner was dismissed
last Sunday, after the Braves

defeated the Pittsburgh Pir
ates 6-4.

Like Tanner, Bowa was
fired after a victory. The
Padres defeated the New
York Mets 2-0 Friday night in
the opener of a weekend
series.

Bowa blamed the Padres
poor showing on their lack of
experience and injuries this
season to outfielder Tony
Gwynn, the 1984 and 1987
NL batting champion; third
baseman Chris Brown, and
first baseman John Kruk

“Someone has to be a
scapegoat, and in this case, it
was the manager,” Bowa
said. “You have to learn to
deal with it.”

Bowa’'s job security was
the subject of speculation
since opening day. Feeney
was offended by Bowa’s tan-
trums with players and um-
pires last year, and though
the fiery manager tempered
his style this season, man-
agement thought his tactics
were, contributing to the
Padres’ poor performance.

Trickey wins
golf tourney

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar’s Ruth Trickey
won the Nelson Tournament
of Roses golf competition
earlier this week with an
overall low gross score of 78.
Other Castlegar golfers pla-
ced well in the tourney.

Louise Ferworn posted the
low gross score in the fourth
flight with Linda Moorey
scoring the low net in the
fourth flight.

Second flight runner-up
was Genevieve Jackson with
the low gross, while Alice
Papp was the runner-up in
the fourth flight with the low
gross.

Lesley Johanson posted
the best front nine in the
first flight. Jean Young was
the best on the front nine in
the third flight and Mary
Martin was best on the back
nine in the third flight.

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but allowed the coaching staff — Sather, John Muckler and
‘Ted Green — to change the team's style of play smoothly.
“Last year's team had a lot of raw talent and

bigger than any One star

home ice.
The Calgary Flames finished the regular season first
overall, but swept them in four games and are

it was hard to get them toplay the way we wanted them to,”
Sather said,

“This club has a lot of ability, but a lot of discipline, too.
We played as a team; last year's club played with individual
talent.”

MOOD CHANGED

That was evident in the playoffs as the designated
tough guys, Kevin McClelland and Marty McSorley, turned
aside from high sticks or other challenges they had
responded to through the season.

Meanwhile, Gretzky cleared loose pucks away from the
Edmonton net, And Lowe played with three broken ribs
suffered in the first playoff round against Winnipeg.

* The commitment to “defence first” enabled the Oilers to
dominate every playoff series. They lost only two games,
twice had four-game sweeps and wona record 1} games on

up only 11 goals in what Lowe said was a “special” se:

“I think we gave them a good lesson in what it takes red
be a team.”

In the final, Edmonton held Boston to an average of 18
shots a game.

The Oilers played better defence without Coffey, as
everyone expected they would, but did so without losing
much offensive punch because of Simpson. The third-year
NHLer, obtained in the trade with Pittsburgh, led the team
with 56 regular-season goals, ahd his 13 playoff goals was
second only to Kurri's 14.

“This team is going to be very hard to beat for the next
two or three years,” said Gretzky. “The style of game is now
perfect for us.

“We've got a great goalie, a great personality, great
youth and experience.”

Bruins hungry after
taste of Cup final

EDMONTON (CP) — The Boston Bruins didn't get to
sip champagne this spring. But they got a taste of the
Stanley Cup final and hope to turn that into an unquenchable
thirst for success.

The Bruins’ best year in a decade ended Thursday night
as they lost to the four-time-champion Edmonton Oilers.
While the Bruins were disappointed in being swept in the
best-of-seven final, they went home with heads high.

“We had a great year, but it is disappointing to lose in
four straight,” said veteran defenceman Ray Bourque. Like
most of the Bruins, he was playing in his first Cup final. “Or
is it five straight? But after the initial pain wears off I think
the guys can look back and be very proud of what they did.”

“We've accomplished a lot,” added winger Keith
Crowder. “A lot of critics picked us for fourth in our division,
or to not even make the playoffs.”

Not many of the Bruins were overly confident when
they finished the season with a 44-30-6 record. They were in
fourth overall but, once again, second in the Adams Division
to the Montreal Canadiens.

HANDLED HABS

However, this edition of the Bruins, with nine new
regulars on the roster — including goaltenders Rejean
Lemelin and Andy Moog — beat Montreal for the first time
in 45 years.

That was an emotional triumph. Although the Bruins
went on to defeat ‘the New Jersey Devils, they never
regained the intensity they showed against Montreal.

“We probably hit a peak against Montreal,” said a
sombre Ken Linseman. "We played four games as well as
you can play in shutting down a team.”

Playing in the final for the first time since 1978 — only
forward Rick Middleton remained from, that team — the,
Bruins were never really a threat.

“I don't think you could cajil it enjoyable,” Terry O'Reilly
said of his first time coaching in the final. “I'd say it was
exciting and a great learning experience. —

“But the tension and the pressure, the ups and the
downs, the sort of things that happened with the officials in
New Jersey and the game being blacked out in Boston and
us getting those five-on-threes called against us, well, it was
frustraping.”

UTILITY TROUBLE

Boston twice had the lights go out: once in Montreal in
Game 1 of the division final and then in Boston in Game 4 of
the final. The Ed Boston game was and the
series moved back to Edmonton. Boston had to play three of
the four final games on the road.

Boston was also involved in the one-game walkout by
league officials to protest New Jersey -getting a court
injunction allowing Jim Schoenfeld to coach despite an NHL
suspension for harrassing referee Don Koharski after Game

Boston ended up needing seven games to beat the
Devils and 18 to reach the final. They were a tired team
that went into the final against the rested and more talented
Oilers.

Their best game in the final came in Game 4, and that
didn’t count.

Despite the fates that always seemed against them, the
Bruins feel they have taken a necessary first step towards
Stanley Cup success. Several of them noted that the Oilers
lost the final four straight to the New York Islanders the
year before winning their first championship.

“We have a very, very bright future ahead of us,”
predicted rookie defenceman Glen Wesley.

“We accomplished, a lot this, season that we neva
thought we would.”

Umps ban organist

OMAHA, NEB. (AP) — The organist for the Omaha
Royals hit a sour note with an umpire and was ejected for
playing derogatory music.

Lambert Bartak, who has played for the Royals for
15 years, was thrown out of Rosenblatt Stadium by
umpire Tony Maners for playing the theme song from
Mickey Mouse Club during the fifth inning Thursday
night.

“He was playing music derogatory to the profession
of umpiring,” Maners said after the American Association
baseball game.

Bartak disagrees.

“All I was doing was playing to fill during a break in
the action,” Bartak said after Terry Wendlendt, Amaha's
assistant general manager, told him he had played his
last note of the evening.

The incident occurred after Omaha catcher Larry

Owen questioned a call by home plate umpire Angel
Hernandez. Out came Omaha manager Glenn Ezell to join
in the discussion.

While Owen, Hernandez, Ezell and Maners debated,
Bartak played M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-0-U-S-E!

It proved less than a hit with Maners, chief of the
three-man umpiring crew.

“He had been warned about it during one of our
earlier trips here,” Maners said. ;

Maners motioned toward the lower press box, where
the stadium organ is located, and gave Bartak the
heave-ho. However, no one told Bartak he'd been ejected.

During a break in the action in the bottom of the
fifth, Bartak began playing.

Maners stopped play and told Omaha officials the

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umpires would leave the field if Bartak hit one more note.

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Anatares Yacht Club near “
Vladivostok, on the Sea of fey
Japan. It is crewed by seven
Soviets and three American
sailors from Bellingham,
Wash.

The Soviet vessel suffered
some structural damage to
her bow and was forced out
of the race.

Race organizers said the
Soviet captain was protest.
ing the accident, which hap-
pened in Victoria harbor.

The race began in gale
force winds. Some of the 300
boats entered in three separ
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to abandon the race because
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Librarian'says
start reading
in garden

By JULY WEARMOUTH
Librarian

“I feel guilty, reading &
when I should be garden- ©
ing” is a frequent com-
plaint heard in the library
these days. Why not take
the guilt off your shoulders
by reading about garden-
ing and then graduate by
reading in the garden?
Overlook Press has just
re-issued John Covrer
Powys’ mammoth, panor-
amic novel A Glastonbury
. The story begins
with the reading of the will
of the late Canon of Glas-
tonbury, John Crowe. Ig-
noring his heirs, he has
bequeathed his wealth to
his former valet and secre-
tary, John Geard, JUDY WEARMOUTH
It is Geard’s ambition to restore Glastonbury as one
of the great Christian shrines of the world. This vision is
opposed by one of the disappointed heirs, Philip Crowe, a
shrewd industrialist who wants to build factories, mine
for tin and make the town a prosperous industrial centre.
The residents of Glastonbury, stepped in the legend of
the Holy Grail, find themselves influenced by its mystical
power and witness a cruci: a murder, a di 4
flood and an exorcism.

* * 8

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, South America’s legendary
literary giant, has added another masterpiece to the
impressive list of his works. Love in the Time of Cholera
is a tale of unrequited love, set in the late 19th and early

20th century, tracing the lives of three people and their’

entwining fates. Florentino Ariza has waited for 40 years
to declare his undying love to Fermina Daza. However,
he had the bad grace to make his declaration at the
funeral of Fermina’s husband, and Fermina once again
banishes him from her house. Marques takes us back to
their early days of courtship and shows how they went
different ways, Florentino to his poetry and pursuit of
women and Fermina to be wooed and won by the most
sought-after bachelor of their time, Dr. Juvenal Urbino
de la Calle.

. * .

Here's a third epic novel to ‘counteract os

May 29, 1988 Casthajii News 83

PUBLIC SPEAKING
FINALISTS . . . Robson

@ public speaking
contest for students in
Grades 3 to 5. The
finalists pictured here
are (from leff) Janice
Hawley, Nicole
Harasemow, Brandy
Stanwood, Misty Him,
Sorah Parsons, Justin
Zimmerman, Jarrod
Whitehead, Josh Slavin,
Tyler Clement and Tara
Yaseniuk.

John Charters .. .

Reflections

& recollections

Bureaucracy
in schools is
red tape tangle

“In a bureaucracy thy shoot the bull pass the buck
and make seven copies of everything.”

I was recently shown a copy of an administrative
report to the school superintendent on a teacher. It
started me thinking that I was well out of the
over-growing whirlwind of educational bureaucracy.

We have always had reports on teachers. Originally
when superintendents’ were called inspectors and
represented the provincial government's Education
Ministry, they spent most of their time on the road
inspecting schools and teachers. We kids thought, of

had a lot of schools and a lot of teachers to report on, the
reports were usually terse, factual, one-page affairs.
They were intended to give the recipient an indication as
to how well he or she was doing the job and to offer brief

gardening urge! Robert Littell’s The
vivid blend of fact and fiction, the story of an idealist
caught up in the sweep of history. Alexander Til,
grandson of a Socialist martyr, returns from America to
Petrograd on the eve of the October revolution,
determined to offer his life to transform Russia into a free
and just society. These ideals bring him into
gontrontation with Stalin. More than a historical novel,
The is also an i ive work of

which offers intriguing answers to some still unsolved
mysteries of the Bolshevik Revolution.

* 28 «

Thriller writer, Thomas Perry is known for his ironic
sénd-ups of contemporary political and social follies. In
Island, a husband and wife con team on the run, a soldier
of fortune between wars, a sultry CIA operative with
divided loyalties, are only a few of the 20th century
buccaneers who wash up on a tiny Caribbean Island and
turn it into a multinational cash machine. And that's
when the shooting starts!

* 8 6

Donato and Daughter by Jack Early is a cop novel
with a difference. A serial killer is stalking the streets of
New York. Lieut. Dina Donato leads a group of officers
investigating the case. For her own partner, she chooses
the best cop for the job, her estranged father. He's
currently exiled to one of the city's worst precincts
because of an unsolved case regarding his son.

o 8 6

A new Doris Lessing family novel is always good
news. Fifth Child is all about a loving family striving to
stay traditional in the unconstrained England of the late
"60s. Harriet and David Lovatt defy the greedy and
selfish spirit of their times. They have a large family, a
rich and responsible home life and an obstinate conten-
tedness which they feel will protect them from the world
outside. Then their fifth child is born and everything
changes. He's almost grotesque, insatiably hungry,
abnormally strong and violent. Harriet and David find
they cannot love him, their four older children are afraid
of him and their friends shun them.

For a clearer view of all the turbulence on the West
Bank, The Yellow Wind, by David Grossman is a
revelation of the whole Israeli-Arab tragedy, written not
from the politician's point of view but from that of the
ordinary people living through it. Grossman, a young
Israeli novelist, was commissioned by a local news
magazine to write an article on what’ he saw there. His
impassioned account of his journey to Palestinian camps
and Jewish settlements caused a sensation in Israel. This
book's power lies in its intimacy and in Grossman's own
anguished awareness of the moral dilemmas inherent in
the Palestinian plight.

* 2 8
Easy by Gebell Subak-Sharpe, is a
handbook for asthmatics which shows sufferers how to
make life a bit easier. The author details the latest
treatments used at America’s leading respiratory
medicine research centre, and gives information on diet,
exercise and environmental factors.

“8 «

What is the world like for a new-born baby? How
does it taste, smell, feel? Do infants see and hear the
same way adults do? In The World of the Newborn,
Daphne and Chatles Maurer take us into the laboratories
where are g infant . Their
exciting discoveries prove that the infant's world is
startlingly different from our own. Although babies
appear to sleep most of the time, they are in fact
conscious 24 hours a day. They may see stationary
objects as moving and vice versa. Noises that we hear as
single sounds are d by them as a of
echoes. Knowing about these mysteries can help parents

on how, if necessary, he or she might
improve on that job.

Gradually, over the years, the superintendent
became a part of the school district administration and
the main responsibility for making reports on teachers
was shifted to the principal. Theoretically, this was a

decentralizing process for administrative simplification.
In fact, since the superintendent became more and more
involved in the spagh of s,
meetings creating and issuing newer and more complex
forms, together with political manoeuverings at various
levels, he had less and less time to spend on the
educational front lines.

In the meantime, the principal, saddled with this new
responsibility, had to spend more time writing up reports
and less time teaching. At first the reports were as
before, terse and factual. However, the principal, lacking
the i ion of the ible superintendent
and faced with greater demands from his staff, began
writing reports that were couched in ever-more elaborate
and "in order to
avoid being sued | by some irate recipient of the report. He
also had to have more office staff to type them, collate
them, run off seven duplicates (seven being a cryptic
number) and send them out in all Seoctions:

By this time the super di 10 was
to read these elaborations (God forbid), gies demanding
and getting an assistant (sometimes two) to visit the
schools, to create new forms, issue district directives and
more inter-office memos.

By this time both he and the office staff were
requiring more staff to handle the new pay sheets, order
forms for new paper and telephones, and as well, operate
all the new electronic equipment which, in theory, would
simplify and speed up this increased administrative
activity.

All of this beehive fly about brought back to mind the
witty and discerning book by Dr. C. Northcote Parkinson,
Parkinson's Law and Other Studies of Administration,
and I took out a copy for a refresher look.

Parkinson prefaces his work with the observation:
“To the very young, to school teachers, and also to those
who compile textbooks about institutional history,
politics and current affairs, the world is a more or less
rational place.” (The book was written in 1957 so he might
not be so sanguine today, at least as far as teachers are
concerned.) These people, he says “visualize the election
of representatives, freely chosen, of whom the wisest
become ministers (of the Crown) and captains |jof industry
chosen for their managerial responsibility. Moreover, “he
says “there are many books written which support this
impression.”

However, these assumptions for anyone experienced
in public affairs, “are merely ludicrous... . figments of the
teacher's mind. Though, Heaven forbid, that students
should cease to read books on the science of public or
business administration . . . provided that these works
are classified as fiction.”

course, that they were inspecting us. Since the inspector -

Professor Parkinson did his early, studies on the
development of the bureaueracy of the British Navy in
which he observed that between the years 1914-1928 the
number of capital ships decreased by 67.74 per cent while
the number of dockyard officials increased by 40.28 per
cent and the Admiralty officials by 78.45 per cent. From
these and other investigations he developed Parkinson's
Law which states that: “In organization — educational,
public service business or municipal — work expands to
fill the time available for its completion.” Thus, in any
organization the number of subordinates multiplies at a
determinable rate regardless of the work turned out.

Moreover, this increase grows steadily at between
5.17 per cent and 6.56 per cent per year, even if the actual
output decreases.

However, this does not mean that there is less
activity since it turns upon two axioms: “(a) Any official
wants to multiply the number of subordinates, not
rivals;” and “(b) officials must make work for each other.”

Now, in applying the law to that report, we find that
like most bureaucratic offerings ope word is never used
where two or more will do (time expands, etc.). Thus, the
report states that: Miss X “uses assertive, discipline of
name and checks on the board to ensure positive, fair and
consistent method of dealing with misbehavior while
minimizing class interruption. The pupils appear to
respond to this approach and discipline in the classroom is
maintained at an acceptable level.”

To test the statement I rewrote it as follows: The
names of misbehaving students are written on the board
—a simple, workable solution which both preserves good
discipline and saves class time. (24 words)

‘One word is
never used where
two or more will do’

I repeated the process with the rest of the report
whie saying the same thing and redyced the whole from
940 words to 450, thus saving two pages of writing,
typing and reading — all an added expense to the
taxpayer. Had I rewritten the report to cover only the
pertinent information that it contained I could have pared
it down to less than 115 words or half a page.

This is not to deny that the report could have been a
constructive, compact and helpful document of 940 words.
It was simply not so in this case, nor is it, I suspect in
most others or in most other organizations. I recall the
late Bob Cail, a man who loved and respected the
language, and who while taking his doctoral degree in a
large university in the States said in disgust: “Most of
what I am required to do is piffle and the proliferation of
piffle.”

Puffery and piffle and the use of language to distort
truth and responsibility, is a way of life today. That one
report is one tiny, visible tumor and represents a cancer
which is invading every aspect of a public life, and I
suspect, that if Professor Northcott Parkinson were here
now, his ironic humor might grow a little strained. We
are also probably close that we would come to admit to
some kind of totalitarian society in which process is all
and peoples values and human progress caught for little,
drowned in a Saragossa sea of red tape and printers’ ink.
p-s.

The report on Mr. X concludes with the note that
“he has become more ‘proactive’ in his dealings (!) with
parents and pupils.”

If you have never heard of this expression, you are
not alone, neither had Mr. X or the dictionaries. I am
indebted to editor Ron Norman who informs me that it is
the latest buzzword in the bureaucratic bafflegab lexicon
and is intended to say that the person acts spontaneously
rather than reacts to — the Lord only knows what.

To this irate observer, it is just one more phantom

finger-post on the evermore cluttered and twisted
bureaucratic road to the Orwellian world.of 1984.

Kinnaird WI hears of England

The highlight of the May
meeting of the Kinnaird
Women's Institute was hear-
ing about a branch of the
organization that is active in
a suburb of London, England.

The president of that
group, Edith Ison, sister of
local resident Margaret
Reith, told many interesting
stories of her WI.

The WI in England owns

better support and enjoy their baby’s

a a college for
‘women that offers courses to

members, including such
things as sewing, nutrition,
flower arranging, writing
arts and business. A small
gift and a book outlining the
history of WI in Canada was
presented to Edith.

Roll call was answered
with each member contribut-
ing a flower or two from her
own garden to make up a
bouquet. A draw was made
and Sopie Janicki won and
took home an armload of
flowers.

The garage sale held in
April was a great success,
despite the day being very
cold.

Cultural convener Kay
Bate showed the recent edi
tion of stamps displaying ex.
plorers of Canada and read a
brief history of each of the
four depicted on the stamps.

Consumer affairs convenor
Sophie Janicki told of a
recent independent survey
which took place recently on
toasters. In a price range of

$18 to $80 the cheaper model
of the Procter-Silex toaster
proved the most satisfactory.

Members from Kinnaird
will be attending the Hands-
Across-The-Border Pienic at
the museum in Colville on
June 15.

The group corresponding
to the Canadian WI which
will be hosting the picnic is
known as Homemakers in the
U.S. The next WI meeting
will be June 16 at Helen
Kriel's.

Local grads
win awards

By CasNews Staff

Seventeen of the more
than 4,000 academic degrees
given to graduating students
at the University of British
Columbia went this week to
Castlegar students.

This year's UBC graduates
from Castlegar are: Gerald
Robert Dooley, Bachelor of
Science, major in Computer
Science; Barbara Jean Jan
kola, Bachelor of Science,
major in Zoology; Janice
Anne King, Bachelor of Arts,
major in Sociology; Linda
Francine King, Bachelor of
Arts, honors in English; Ste-
phen Jack Kranz, Bachelor of
Applied Science in Chemical
Engineering; Cyril William
Nevakshonoff, Bachelor of
Arts, major in Sociology;
Christopher Luke Parfeniuk,
Bachelor of Applied Science
in Metallurgical and Mater-
ials Engineering; David Ker-
ry Picton, Bachelor of Com
merce; Trevin Brian Macph-
erson Rogers, Bachelor of
Laws; R.O. Danial Sahl-
strom, Bachelor of Applied
Science in Civil Engineering:
Steven Mark Sather, Bache-
lor of Applied Science in Ge-
ological Engineering; Kevin
John Semenoff, Bachelor of
Applied Science in Civil En-
gineering; Brian David Willi-
amson, Bachelor of Arts,
major in Political Science;
Brenda Jean Young, Bache-
lor of Social Work.

In addition, six West Koot
enay students were honored

with awards, two of them
graduating at the head of
their classes.

West Kootenay students
honored with awgards are:
Janna Lynne—Sylvest ~ of
Castlegar, the Ferguson Gif.
ford — C. Georgé Robson QC
and Bruce D. Robson Mem:
orial Prize in Labor Law,
$400, for outstanding
achievement in a course in
Labor. Law;

David Stuart Mathieson of
Castlegar, the Mary Macaree
Prize in Agricultural Sci
ences, $125 for excellence in
writing and bibliographical
research for the best term
paper in Agricultural Sci
ences 410;

Rose-Marie Ooschizza of
Nelson, the Professor C.F.A.
Culling — Bachelor of Med-
ical Laboratory Science
Prize, $250 for the greatest
overall academic excellence
in the graduating class of the
Bachelor of Medical Lab-
oratory Science degree;

Mary-Ann McCallum of
Trail, the Helen L. Balfour
Prize, $850 as the head of the
graduating class in Nursing
BSN degree;

Fabiane Monique Hirsch of
Trail, the German Govern.
ment Book of Prizes for pro-
ficiency in Germanic Studies;

Mary-ann McCallum of
Trail the Sarah A. Service
Prize, $150, as the graduat-
ing student with the highest
standing who entered Uni.
versity as an RN.

Slocan youth
makes choir

Jacqueline Cole of Slocan
Park has been selected on a
basis of audition and recom-
mendation for membership in
the 1988 Canadian Youth on
Tour honors’ band and choir
program which will make a
“good-will” concert tour of
seven European countries
this July

This select organization,
consisting of players and sin-
gers from Newfoundland
through British Columbia,
will travel for three weeks in
England, France, West Ger-
many, Switzerland, Italy,
Belgium, Austria and the
Netherlands.

In addition to performing
concerts in many of Europe's
great cities this ensemble
will visit musical shrines,
museums, and places of mu-
sical shrines, museums, and
places of musical interest, as
well as attend select concerts
and performances in various
British and European concert
halls and opera houses.

Canadian Youth on Tour
provides Canada’s outstand
ing student performers with
an opportunity to perform»
the best of concert band and
choir literature in an organ.
ization of musical excellence

Births &

BIRTHS
BLOOMQUIST — To Rosanna and
Wayne Bloomquist of Trail, a
girl, born May 10.

BROWN — To Kathy and Lonce
Brown, a girl, born May 10.

CLIFTON — To Sharleen (nee
Martini) and Clint Clifton of Prin-
ceton, a boy, born May 21

D'LERMA To Debra and
William D'Lerma of Nelson, o
boy, born May 18

LABELLE — To Judy and Bruce
Labelle of Montrose, a boy, born
May |

SOKOLOSKI To Susan and
Herb Sokoloski of Balfour, a boy
born May

DEATHS
BERTOIA — Wallace (Wally) Ber
toia of Rossland died suddenly
May 21 ot home, He was 57. Mr
Bertoic is survived by his wite
Connie; son John of Genelle;

Funerals

of Trail; daughters Cesare D’An.
drea of Trail and Fernando
Crema of Italy; four gran
dchildren; and three great
grandchildren

JONKMAN — Menno F

man of Victoria

Grand
Thring ‘of Mrs. Gorrit (Fenny)
Fikkert of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Mrs. Garrit (Fenny) Fikkert of
Grand Rapids, Mich., Mrs. Chuck
(Ali) Thring of Princeton and
Mrs. Ron. (Jenny) Park of Vic
toria, 21 grandchildrea and 29
great-grandchildren
SOOKEROFF — Mabel Sookerott
of Castlegar died May 20. She
was 68. Mrs. Sookerolt is sur
vived by hee | husband Witlom of
Castlegar, thers, Ale:
Bilt w eeresett
. and Henry of

Bev of
Popine Beach, Calif., Pat Holford
‘and Nancy Shelley
is very special friend
Inger; brothers Lido of
ind, and Albert of Victoria;
8 Sec Martin and Lola Beilli,
both of Rossland and three gran.
children
CREMA Tony and Maria
Creme died in Trail, May

survived

Troll; ter Doris Colbalchini

disson, Sask.; one

eased by one

brother,
TREWHELLA — Gwendoline
Phillio Trewhello of Troil died
May 36 alter © brie iliness. She
Mrs. Trewheilo is sur
wed by mony nieces and