ANN Castlegar News Juve 21. 1999 LOTS OF MONEY AVAILABLE June 21, 1989 Talk to us today. STOP SMOKING WITH LASER THERAPY Company helps get grants MONTREAL (CP) = Hey, buddy, want a government handout? Before you avert your eyes and hurry on, take another look. That's a respectable company offering to get legitimate. government: handouts’ tor businesses, and no, there's no need to donate a swimming pool to a member of Parliament CCL Consultech Canada specializes in helping companies take advantage of government grants, loans and ex pertise. Despite budget constraints in gover nments these days, executive vice president Sara Levinson says there is still lots of money available, whether for start-ups or multinationals, There are more than 300 federal, nd municipal government assistance programs, said Levinson and the average doesn’t have time to do the rounds. So Consultech, a firm of 27 emloyees each armed with MBAs, will doit for them Levinson provincial business owner says the practice of outright government grants to business is fading. Voters are touchy about in famous bailouts of failing companies Instead, the new era of government handouts focuses on specific prpjects rather than companies. They maybe in the politically rewarding area of job creation, worke: aining, research, marketing, pollution control, or just starting a new business OFFER HELP government business will grow because of free trade, Governments all Levinson predicts assistance to over the world-are helping companies compete in the world market, she said inaninterview Canada has an a y of low-cost research and available through its foreign consulate network, to help Car expertise dian business penetrate world markets. “They're incredibly helpful, but it doesn’t occur to industry to ask them for help Levinson insists Consultech is not a lobbying company, like ‘other firms that specialize in cultivating high-level contacts for government contracts It’s absolutely Hecessary for us not to be involved in lobbying, or to be allied with a particular political par y Instead, her team works with the senior civil servants holding the purse: strings. She says the bureaucrats ‘‘are part of our team; we help them offer their services. “Success is being able to understand business and government and find a good marriage.” To bridge the gap, Consuliech staft have to keep their hands on the pulse of changing government policies and programs that -affect” business, and must anticipaté changes These could be a modification in policies on pollution control, foreign investment programs PREPARE FILES Staff membérs prepare th illustrated profiles of clients to sell their merits to the bureaucrats. Levin deregulation or social son cites occasions when Consultech has been able to get government help for a firm after the company’s first request, made on its own, was refused. The staff is currently working on $1.1-billion worth of projects for 70 companies, although Levinson notes that only part of that total would come from government financing if all projects got the green light The firm claims a success rate of 75 per cent, although applicants may not get all the funds they shoot for It charges a flat up-front fee, varying from $10,000 to $80,000, depending on the size of the project, and takes a Professional treatment cut of six oF gover Founded five nent funding sultech was Clarke Hooper PLC consulting service in Britain and North irman Barry Clarke said in an in. terview the combined firms will use helping North their expertise in American companies set up it Europe, pest here Consuliech also plans to open an otf fice in Ottawa this summer seven per cent on the years recently ago, Con acquired by ot London, a Highly successful BREAK IT NOW! VANCOUVER (CP) quarter earnings for the B. industry are up eight per cent over the last quarter of 1988 but down almost 16 per cent from the same period last cludes. The survey of Price Waterhouse based on the financial reports of 10 of 11 public forest companies, does not break down prefitabily by sec tor, although strong performances First forest year, a report con fet slumping lumbér profits Dick Bryan, senior economist with the Council of Forest In dustries, said that patiern is likely to remain through 1989 “We still will see strong pulp performance through 89 newsprint a little less strong but still positive," Bryan said Forestry earnings rise eight per cent But lumber is a really difficult area because it’s hit particularly hard®by the appreciation of the dollar vis-a-vis*\the American dollar For each penny increase in the Canadian dollar against the U.S dollar year, Bryan estimated the B.C, forest industry $100 over one loses about million in revenues included Crestbrook Forest Industries Ltd Leading companies which at 19.8 per cent generated the highest the first quarter of this year. Crest brook was Primex Forest Products Ltd. at 15.5 per return on assets in followed by cent Crestbrook had the second highest return on sales at 13.6 per cent. ,Topping that list was Products Lid. 14.9-per-cent Canadian Forest with a return on sales. ‘ Crestbrook, sawmilling, pulping and harvesting operations with centred in the Kootenays, led all companies in 1988 with a return on assets of 16.6 per cent for 1988. It was followed by Doman Industries at 12.7 percent Pulp sales fuelled Crestbrook’s strong performance. Net sales in pulp rose to $131.2 million in 1988 from $110.3 million ip 1987 Net sales in lumber and plywood, meanwhile, dropped 50 per cent to $119.7 million in 1988 from $238.9 million the previous. year Fletcher Challenge Canada Lid., at 12.2 per cent, recorded the highest return on sales in 1988. Process patented PORTLAND, ORE. 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He has five homers, matching his totals for each of the last wo seasons With Nelson Liriano also homering and Fred McGriff's RBI single completing Toronto's two-inning destruction of Kirk McCaskill, Key had no trouble getting his first victory since May 26. **lt was definitely an improvement,"’ said Key, who allowed five hits in seven innings, struck out four and walked none. **But I’ve still got my work cut out (AP) Jimmy Key likes pit *L threw better the first five innings. | wasn't as con: sistent over the last wo. They hit some balls hard, but right at people."” Duane Ward pitched the last two innings for the Blue Jays The victory improved the Blue Jays’ record to 21-12 since Cito Gaston replaced Jimy Williams as manager Toronto remains seven games behind firsi-place Baltimore in baseball’s American League East. The Angels lost for the ninth time in their last 12 games, with McCaskill, a native of Kapuskasing, Ont., losing his third straight **He gavelevery suggestion of liaving a tired arm, California manager Doug Rader said. ‘But there’s no pain, it’s no big deal McCaskill, 7-4, allowed seven hits andfive runs in | 2-3 innings, his shortest outing of the season Junior Felix led off the game with an infield single and Fernandez homered. With one out, George Bell doubled and scored on McGriff’s single to make it 3-0. Liriano hit a solo homer, his second, with one out in the second. One out later, Fernandez connected again, making it 5-0. Kelly Gruber then singled to knock out Me Caskill and bring on Rich Monteleone, who shut out Toronto on two hits over the next $ 1-3 innings California's Lance Parrish led off the fifth with his eighth homer of the season. Loronto’s, Rance Mulliniks hit an RB1 single“in the eighth off Bot McClure, the first run he allowed since opening day, a span of 17 appearances. Chili Davis hit a sacrifice fly in the ninth of f Ward s long as Graf seeks redemption WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND (AP) Sometimes, it takes years for tennis players fo avenge defeats that hurt their pride and shock the world Steffi Graf may have the chance to take revenge on Arantxa Sanchez sooner than expected Graf, the world’s No. | player, was matched Tuesday against British wild. card entry Julie Salmon in the first round of next week's Wimbledon ten: nis championships But Salmon is just a stepping-stone to what lies down the road In the quarter-finals, the defending champion is due to meet Sanchez, the bubbly Spanish teenager who defeated sets. revenge petition Rose’s legal play held up in court CINCINNATI (AP) Pete Rose will have to wait until Thursday for the next step in his legal battle to avoid a possible suspension by baseball com: missioner A. Bartlett Giamatti A county court judge on Tuesday put off for two days a hearing on Rose’s request for a temporary restraining order. Rose wants to block a hearing scheduled ‘for Monday in New York with Giamatti, who is con: The sidering allegations the Cincinnati manager bet with a bookmaker on Reds’ games Meanwhile, Rose was assured no request Graf in the French Oper earlier this month in one of the year’s biggest up: Now, provided Sanchez gets to the quarter-finals, Graf has a chance to This time, on grass “Grass is a totally different thing, Graf said. ‘Arantxa on grass is a dif ferent story. She doesn’t have much experience yet on the surface MOVINGON Graf said she is over the loss to San: chez and. was raring to return to com “1 feel perfect,’’ Graf said me two or three days to get over Paris disciplinary action will be taken again st him for the rest of this week Rose, who could be banned for life if he is found to have bet on his own — ds team, has gone to court in a bid to have a court, and not Giamatti, decide his guilt or innocence Rose contends Giamatti is biased and has already made up his mind, assertions the commissioner denies. for a restraining order is the first step in Rose’s attempts to get the gambling allegations decided in a courtroom in his hometown rather than by Giamatti but that’s natural, | needed a break at home with my family I'm much more motivated now Graf is seeded to meet~ Martina Navratilova in the final for the third straight year. Navratilova, trying to set a record of nine women’s singles titles at Wimbledon, opens against Jill Hetherington of Peterborough, Ont Helen Kelesi of Thornhill, Ont., the 13th seed, opens against American Shaun Stafford. Toronto's Rene Sim. pson, the only other Canadian in women’s singles, opens against No. 10 Jana Novotna of Czechoslovakia. In the men’s draw, top-seeded Ivan Lend! was paired with Venezuela's Nicolas Pereira, the world junior champion. If Lendl, who has never Wimbledon, makes it to the semifinals, he is scheduled to face two- time champion Boris Becker Defending men’s champion Stefan Edberg opens Monday on Centre Court against Chris Pridham of Oak ville, Ont., and looks to have a safe passage to the semifinals if he main tains his form through the early roun “It took won Glenn Michibata of Toronto meets Marian Vajda of Czechoslovakia in the first round. Martin Laurendeau of Montreal second-round qualifying match Tuesday in his bid to grab one of 16 spots remaining in singles Grant Connell of North Vancouver, was eliminated in {the second round of qualifying, but is seeded 14th with Michibata in men's doubles won a temporary Lions bag three vets COURTENAY (CP) — Three veteran linemen agreed Tuesday to join the B.C. Lions at training camp, Roper, also 29, is a seven-year veteran from the University of Arizona. The six-foot-four, 275 IN TIME . . . Banjo: cond baseman, Tom Adkins, makes the stretch to put out Labatts catcher Don Savinkoff at second. However, Labatts put out Banjos in the game by a score of 4-2. CosNews photo by Donne Zuber Labatts pulling away By GUY BERTRAND ff Writer Labatts continues to dish out the blues in Castlegar Commercial Fast- ball League play The first-place team’s record now stands at 11 wins and only two losses. Nearing the half-way point of the season, Labatts has opened up an ght-p lead over second-place Banjos Pub. The two teams went head- to-head twice in the last three days and Labatts prevailed in both games. Tuesday night, Labatts edged out Banjos 4-2 at Kinnaird Park. On Sun- day, Playmor Field was the site of three games that were rescheduled due to rain. In the first game, Banjos top- ped Tu-Dor Sports 4-0. Labatts then hung a similar shutout on Bajos beating the pub team 3-0. And in the final match of the day, Labatts not- ched its second win downing Tu-Dor 5- LABATTS4BANJOS2 Labatts struck quick and early as it jumped to 4-0 lead in the first inning en route to a4-2 victory Tuesday. Wayne Kuzyk led off the game with a single. Then with two out, Bruce McMillan ‘began a string of five con- secutive Labatts hits to stake the team to an early advantage. Banjos hurler Eli Soukeroff shut the Labatts bats down from,then on, allowing seven hits and striking out four Meanwhile, Labatts — pitcher Joe Tarasoff kept Banjos silent until the third inning when Brian Millar and Clay Liber crossed home plate to get Banjos back in the game making the score 4-2. But Tarasoff refused to buckle, giving up only four hits the rest of the way to nail down his second vic tory over Banjos this week LABATTS 5 TU-DOR SPORTS2 At Playmor Field Sunday, three teams went to solve some rainouts from ealrier in the season. The games featured Tu-Dor squaring off against Labatts and Banjos, while Labatts and Banjos faced off against each other in the third game. Tu-Dor grabbed a 1-0 lead as W Sheloff scored on a Dave Zarikoff single in the first inning. The lead grew to 2-0 in the fourth as Tu-Dor capitalized on two Labatts errors. Labatts finally got untracked in its half of the fourth when Rod Gretchen homered to send McMillan home ahead of him to tie the-game at two apiece. Tu-Dor'’s fate was sealed in the next inning as Labatts put four back-to- back hits together scoring Bob Essaun ce, Don Savinkoff and Gretchen to take a 5-2 stranglehold. Pete Ev dokimoff was credited with the Labat- ts win, Evdokimoff struck out five and allowed only five hits, while Cam Sookro was tagged with Tu-Dor’s defeat LABATTS 3 BANJOSO Tarasoff was Labatts’ star on the mound Sunday as he pitched a no- hitter and refused to allow a walk ina 3-0 blanking of Banjos. The only black mark on an otherwise perfect outing for Tarasoff was Gaty Fleming of Ban- jos who reached first base onan error. Labatts picked up two runs in the third inning as Savinkoff andGretchen teamed up to lead off the inning with consecutive hits. Then, two hits later, one by Tarasoff and the other by Chris Tereposky, the score stood at 2-0. Labatts added its third run in the six:- thas McMillan homered with the bases empty to round off the scoring. Tarasoff did the job at the plate as well as on the mound. He went 2-for-3 at the plate and drove in a run, Banjos’ Soukeroff was charged with the loss. BANJOS 4 TU-DOR SPORTS 0 Banjos started its Sunday on a strong note scoring two runs in its first at bat, sparking the team to a 4-0 win over Tu-Dor. Soukeroff and Gretchen combined for Banjos to allow five hits to pick up the shutout. Soukeroff was credited with the win and Gretchen picked up the save. Tu-Dor’s Tony Kabatoff put in a strong pitching performance as well, allowing five hits and striking out four Banjos hitters. "A triple by Terry Taranoff and a walk by Fleming set the table for Jim Nazaroff to pick up two RBIs in the first and give Banjos the winning margin. Lyle Stoushnow added a run in the third and Tim Smoch crossed home in the fifth to give Banjos a final tally of 4-0. ending a prolonged wrangle with player agent George Chayka. Holdouts Gereald Roper and lan Sinclair,main: stays of the offensive line, will return with the promise of renegotiated contracts once the Canadian Football League team is sold to private interests Defensive tackle Rick Klassen, a former Lion, was re-acquired from the Saskatchewan Roughriders for future considerations. He had retired rather than report to Saskatchewan Joe Galat, general manager of football operations for the Lions, was delighted by the co-operation of a year ago orchestrated existing contracts negotiated downward to conform with league-imposed Chayka, who problems for B.C. when salary caps for each team. “Give George a lot of credit far doing these deals,"” Galat said at training camp. “He arranged for cars for Ropere and Sinclair in exchange for promotional ap pearances. “I think he felt a commitment to the team because they were already under contract."* Galat said Chayka also arranged for Klassen to sign a new contract with Saskatchewan that was then tran. sferred to the Lions. WASTRADED Klassen, 29, a native of Chilliwack, played seven years for the Lions before he was traded last year after a prolonged salary dispute. The six-foot, 24S-pound pass rusher isa product of Simon Fraser University Galat said he wants all three under long-term con tracts so there won't be further salary disputes next season “We agreed that Roper and Sinclair would return and play in the option year of their contr understanding that after the club is sold, we'll talk about a longer commitment withthe Lions," Galat said played four “B.C numerous were ago. a position. chewan cts, with the pound guard from Vancouver native was a territorial protection of the Lions in 1982 Sinclair, 28, is a siz-four, 265-pound centre who has years with the Lions. acquired in 1985 from the Montreal Alouettes *m happy to be back after doing something | felt I had to do,”’ Roper said from Vancouver. “B.C home and lan and I havea business here is where | want to end my career have played somewhere else, if I'd got a big offer. Now I want to bring the Grey Cup back.”” Galat said the Ottawa Rough Riders made an at tractive offer for Roper involving a trade for a draft choice. Roper and Sinclair were put on the trade block Monday when head coacl Larry Donovan said it was time to add more offensive linemen to the thin roster Mills, an off-season free agent whoreluctantly re-signed with the Lions last Friday after failing to gain a contract in the National Football League Roper and Sinclair were expected in camp late Tuesday, along with the outspoken Klassen, who was extremely critical of Galat’s negotiating tactics a year Klassen was a starter in the defensive line for several years with the Lions, but Donov. has to beat holdovers Bri **We went to the Grey Cup with Belway and Tur ner, so Klassen isn’t being conceded a position,”” said Donovan.**Knuckles (Klassen) was a backup in Saskat and doesn’t win the pass rush derby by not being here (for a year) The Lions lost one player Tuesday when rookie defensive back Mark Nykolaichuk from theUniversity of B.C. walked out of camp. He was competing at the safety position with holdover Rick Ryan and rookie Rdbin Belanger from McGill His rights were is my | might kle Jim n indicated Klassen in Belway and Mark Turnerdor Raines dampens Mets NEW YORK (AP) — One of the hardest things to measure in sports is desire. How much heart a player has and how much a team wants to win are questions that will always create debate. For the moment, think about Tim Raines and the New York Mets. Raines has always been considered One of baseball's big-game players, someone who comes through in the clut- ch. He did it again Tuesday night, tying the score with a two-run single in the eighth inning and winning it with a two-run single in the ninth as the Montreal Expos beat the Mets 8-5. “That's the type of situation I want to be in,” Raines said. *‘I'lltakethat.”* The Mets, meanwhile, blew a 5-0 lead in the first inning. They squandered several other chances to score and lost when their bullpen fell apart Many of the Mets’ critics this season have claimed the team takes its talent for granted and doesn’t try hard enough. The Mets, their detractors say, don’t have the killer instinct. Raines is too smart t6 say something like that about the competition. He only knows what he saw. “They had us 5-0. They had chances to blow’us out and so instead of behind down 9-0 or 10-0 or 11-0, it gave us hope,” he said The Expos, arguably not as good on paper as the Mets, are 37-33 and in second place in the National League East, two games behind the Chicago Cubs. The Mets are 35-32 The Mets may have lost more than a game. X-rays during the day showed that Darryl Strawberry had a simple fracture of his right small toe, and the team said he could be out of action for a week or longer. Strawberry was hit by a pitch from Montreal’s Kevin Gross on Monday night but stayed in the game; he was scratched from the lineup Tuesday “It hurts to walk. If it doesn’t respond by Friday, I guess it's the disabled list,”” Strawberry said. ‘*That’s the last place I want to be. Raines is in a different place, too. He's been batting cleanup for the last three weeks, and went into the game hit- ting .244 with only nine RBIs in 23 games in the fourth spot Raines had batted cleanup only once before this year Manager Buck Rodgers put the switch-hitting Raines there this season to break up'the row of right-handers — Andres Galarraga, Hubie Brooks and Tim Wallach. Raines, who tied a career-high with four RBIs, ended a 1-for-17 slump with a two-out, two-run single in the eighth against Rick Aguilera that tied the score at $. Otis Nixon and Rex Hudler singled with one out, finishing Randy Myers, and they were running when Raines singled on a full-count pitch. In the ninth, Spike Owen beat out an infield hit and Mike Fitzgerald singled. Pinch hitter Dave Martinez struck out, but pinch hitter Tém Foley worked out of an 0-2 hole and walked and so did Galarraga, loading the bases. Raines singled sharply to centre field on a 2-2 pitch, and then worked a double steal with Galarraga for another run. Aguilera, 3-2, had allowed only one run in 39 innings before the game. Tim Burke, 5-1, worked two innings for the victory. Howard Johnson went 4-for-5 for the Mets, including a double im the first inning against Dennis Martinez, Con- secutive run-scoring singles by Mookie Wilson, Mackey Sasser, Kevin Elster and pitcher Sid Fernandez made it 5-0. Martinez gave up 13 hits in seven innings, but no runs after the first. The Mets left the bases loaded in the first two innings and several other runners in scoring position.