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McLellan placed fourth overall in Sunday's race and sixth on Saturday. Fiona Martin was second overall on Saturday in the girls’ juvenile category. Mar- tin’s placings in the race were : ninth on Sunday and seventh on Saturday. Melanie Vockeroth was third on Sunday in the girls’ open category. Vockeroth’s placings in the races were third on Sunday and fourth on Saturday. Red Mountain Racer Phil- ippa Johnstone placed 10th in Sunday's race. Colts CRANBROOK (CP) — Cranbrook Colts took 57 shots on the North Shore Winter Club goal Friday night as they downed the Flames 6-3 in the opening game of the B.C. junior B hockey final. Racer Ryan McLellan took third place on Saturday in the boys’ open division, plac- ing third overall in the men’s slalom race. McLellan was disqualified in Sunday's race. Chris Milne took third on Saturday and was second on Sunday in the boys’ juvenile category, placing 15th overall in Saturday's race and 13th ond with a. Sunday's race and 10th on Saturday. Other results saw racer Michael Kennedy placing fourth on Saturday and Sun- day. Bob Walton placed sev- enth on Sunday, but did not finish on Saturday. Ken Ross was sixth Sat- urday and eighth on Sunday, Aaron Friesan was 11th on Saturday and 14th on Sun- day. Steven Ross was 17th on Saturday but did not finish on Sunday. John Cormack was 20th on Saturday and 24th on Sunday. Travis Rhodes was 21st Saturday and 25th on Sun- day. Erie Thorgeirson was 20th on Sunday but did not finish on Saturday. In the Bantam division, bindsey Roberts; ‘Tamer Yockeroth was second Saturday and fourth Sunday. Nathalie Cordiez was third on Sunday. and fifth on Sat- urday. Lisa Spence was fifth on Sunday and fourth Sat- urday. In the boys’ Bantam divi- sion, Tweedale was first both days, while Kennedy was second Saturday and fourth Sunday. Holmes was third Satur- whose acknowledged strengt! leaves more questions to be answered. - Can John Denny repeat the best season of his career, during which he ,won Cy Young, award? Can Steve Carlton, at 39, rebound from his first losing season tna decade? Will Charlie Hudson continye to improve in his second year in the majors? And can Marty Bysttom conquer the inconsistency that has plagued his caréer? ‘Some of the answers may be yes, but probably not. Last year, they finished like this in the NL. East: P hia, Pi rh al, St. Louis, Chicago, New York. Winners of the World Series two years ago, St. Louis stumbled last season when je eth Ma: w Whitey Herzog can't arene - Joaquin pend Bob Forsch, Dave Laboint, John Stuper and maybe Neil Allen — can do so poorly two. successive years. And he's right. With help from a revitalized Bruce Sutter, the Car- dinals’ superb hitting, defence and speed will carry them to another division title. FEWER INJURIES Herzog also faces fewer injury problems with second baseman Tommy Herr (three knee operations) and Willie McGee (separated shoulder) healthy from the outset. The Cardinals also had to do without Lonnie Smith for five years last year when he went in for drug rehabilitation. George Hendrick moves back to right field after trying to sub for traded Keith Hernandez at first, with David Green finally getting his chance at first. While many clubs are crying for pitching, Pittsburgh manager Chuck Tanner sheds tears of joy. Experts think he has the best staff in the league with lefties John Candelaria, Larry McWilliams ‘and John Tudor and righties Jose DeLeon and Lee Tunnell.Back those guys up with Kent Tekulve, Rod Scurry, Manny Sarmiento and Cecilio Guante in the bullpen, and Tanner's tears are for real. Canada rink isa winner dayvand fifth -Sundsy;-Matt.-- "PERTH, SCOTLAND (CP) Hopper was second Sunday — After winning the Can- and eighth Saturday, Andrei adian women's curling cham- Kennedy and Andrew Hol- mes were first, second and third in the boys’ combined. Roberts was first in the Bantams on both days, Vock- eroth was second Sunday and third . And was third Sunday ‘ pionship March 3, skip Con- and ninth Saturday. nie Laliberte said she “felt Sean Brennan was sixth like taking on the world.” Saturday, but did not fin- Laliberte and her Win- ishSunday, Jason Schultz nipeg foursome completed was seventh Saturday and their global conquest Friday 10th Sunday. Hamish Martin by winning the world cham- was 10th Saturday and ninth pionship with a 10-0 pasting Sunday. Sean Valentine was of defending champion Swit- down Flames The Colts recovered from a 3-2 first-period deficit to lead 48 after 40 minutes. They added two goals in the final period, the last into an empty net. 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Cranbrook goalie Mike Daloise made 34 stops, while Keith Innes blocked 51 for North Shore. ‘Pores Tegner EXPOS SPRING LL — USFL, 11:300.m., WEDNESDAY 4 NHL: Divisional semitinal, 5 p.m., channel 9. 10:30 a.m., channel 9. channel 4. 1ith . zerland. “K's just a tremendous feeling; we feel so great,” said Laliberte, who finished the round-robin portion of the. 10-country tournament with a first-place 8-1 record losing only to the West Ger- mans. “We fell like a goal of a lifetime has come true.” Laliberte and her rink — sisters Jan Arnotte and Cor- inne Peters who have been with her three years and Weekend Wrap-up stead : SsuurFsusaee euesefusrs lego 28 47 (x-clinched playott ber C SusdevFo vesus ‘ond onsign bien to Rochewter of the to Rochester invornetional Leopee Boston Red Sox SESS35 FERRE HRRRSS BUSSE. “WE WILL SELL YOU Only the Bike for YOUR YOUR NEEDS. SAT., MARCH 31 a SIZE AND CASTLEGAR REGISTRATION FOR BOYS’ & GIRLS’ SOCCER & APRIL 7 10 a.m. -2 p.m. legar Rec Compl un ‘Detroit Tigers cut pitchers Howard Bailey ‘end John Marfin. Leogue: Cincinnati Reds acquire pitcher Mail trom Detroit T Hf Me $10 per child, $20 per family Boot Exchange — will take place at the Rec Complex at the time of registration. Any interested in CALL RANDY RICHARDSON at 365-5405 F LEVEL.1 coaches clinic sterts April 12. ig Minor soccer WH VEL ANYWHERE FOR THE CLE NEEDS?. THE w Chris More — cruised through the round- robin segment before ousting Norway 84 in the semifinal earlier Friday. The victory is Canada’s second in the six-year history of the tournament and the first since the late Marj Mit- chell of Regina won in 1980. Laliberte said the tour- nament was not as easy as the Canadians made it look. “I guess like every sport you have to some breaks along the wafand there were times when had luck on our side other times when we made the shots we had to make,” Laliberte said. “But it wasn't easier than I thought it would be.” A QUICK START The Canadians stole two in the first end and added dou- bles in the fourth and fifth to take an early lead on Swit- zerland. After adding one in both the sixth and seventh, the Winhipeg’,rink forced the eighth. “I felt we were in controb from the start,” Laliberte said. Kienast had § throu- ghout the match finding her draw weight, a pro La liberte encountered: during round-robin play. “The ice was keener today. than it had been all. week, but there were still quite @ few spots where'the stones would, really dig in,” laliberte said. “We knew she was having trouble with her weight, ‘so HISTORY OF A PIONEER PART THREE At this point I phoned Joe Killough. I had to know more about that drift ferry. How big was it? How did it operate? What kind of load did it carry? Joe remembered it alright, though he claimed (un- convincingly) that the 60 years passage of time had blurred his memory on the details. It was a wooden two-pontoon structure, he said, with a decking on the top, and unlike the barge drift ferry above Arrowhead, the water impacted against the two pontoon surigces, giving it an acceleration equal to the present power-driven Robson ferry. Its struction was @ per between the government and Peter “Lordly” Verigin to service the village of Ootischenia. It had two pulleys running on an overhead cable, a tiller and a windlass for changing the angle of attack of the river against the pon toons. It carried one team and wagon and was operated by a single ferryman. Marc, worked at the mill at Westley for four years (1904-1908). Each weekend he would walk the four miles to this land on the lower bench and work on his first house and each Monday he would walk back to the mill. In the fall of 1908, when the mill closed, he returned home to Antwerp where he found his family preparing for the wedding of his sister, Tilla. Through his family he met Elizabeth Weille who lived with her uncle in Cologne, and the young couple fell in love. When he announced his intention to marry Elizabeth, her uncle was appalled — no niece of his was going to be dragged off to the wilds of North America! However, Elizabeth had made up her mind and when she turned 21 in January of the following year the two were married. Within two weeks they had jeft Antwerp and were on their way to Winlaw where brother Mike was working in J.B. Winlaw’s mill. When they arrived, two feet of snow had buried the small log cabin which was to be their home and it was a bitterly cold February day. Brian Usher writes: “In 1909 Mare and Elizabeth built their own house and in it, on Christmas day, was born their first child, a daughter Rose. “Marc still has a picture of that house. It is located in the centre of a clearing which is surrounded by forest. “Marc and Elizabeth are standing in front. Marc is in his work pants, suspenders, collarless white shirt, holding Rose. Elizabeth is standing at his side wearing stories with a full veranda, does not enjoy the bg sig be jaa of paint. The pioneer family has put down its roots.” In 1918 Mare and his family, now increased by the arrival of Helen, moved to Bridgsvillé’ to join brother Mike at his mill and in that year the twins Liland Isabelle were born. After one year, however, Mare decided to return to his own property, and nrailway-ear, half of it with furniture and half with lumber and horses, they arrived at Kinnaird. He soon got a job with William Waldie and Sons lumber mill across the river from Castlegar and walked to work each day along the railway, the only access route in those days. He then returned in the evening to work on his farm. Later, he got a “speeder,” a three-wheeled hand pumped vehicle which railwaymen used to run on the tracks. Somehow, it has been observed, he managed to avoid the trains and see civilization come to Kinnaird. Since the family was growing — five sons, Mark Jr., Carl, Robert, Paul and Alfred followed the girls — Marc built a large frame house to replace the original home. In the meantime, other families were coming into the area. The Killoughs were oldtimers, having come to this part of the world in 1912 when they bought the 800 acres west of the tracks and from the present Castleaird Plaza to Schofield Creek. Marc's property was east of the tracks and down to the river. With the increase in the number of school-age children in the community it was decided to build a school to provide for their education. A petition was sent to the government for grants for lumber, Joe Deschamps a lumberman, gave an acre of ground and the men from the various families — the Des. champs, the Killoughs, the Villemaines, and the Bloomers — got together and put up the first 20-by-24-foot one-room school. “T guess Mare was the leader,” said Joe Killough, “he drove the most nails. “The school opened in January 1918 with about 15 pupils in grades 1 to 8 and with Miss I.M. (Isabelle?) Marshall from Langley, as the first teacher. The school continued until about 1932, then became a Grade 4 classroom after the students were bussed to Castlegar. It closed finally about 1985. The late Tannis Killough taught in the school from 1929. It later became a store (Creighton’s?) and now serves as a private residence. “That old school was typical of many another rural school,” Joe recalls, “a pot-belly stove supplied the heat, the kids carried the water in buckets and there were two outhouses — one for boys and one for girls. On Saturdays VEE OSA IIR SENG. Ge A RN DUMONT they held dances there and with 40 men to three women. The ladies had a marvelous time.” The Dumonts flourished on their little farm by the river flat where they had a large vegetable garden, grew a wide variety of fruit, raised pigs and chickens, and kept a herd of 12 dairy cows. The cream went to the Curley Dairy in Nelson and the skim milk went to the pigs. In the summer of 1925 the Westley fire struck the area. It started on the high bluffs west of Westley, says Joe Killough, and burned down along the railway tracks to Merry Creek. Mare was the superi of the fir crew on the Kinnaird front and Joe a straw-boss. The Dumont home became a refugee centre for the families of Kinnaird settlers while the men fought the fire. “It was a bad one, id Joe, “since the cliffs provided chimney drafts for the fire. The smoke was dense and huge flaming branches would fly across the sky likes burning twigs.” Fortunately, the wind changed before any homes were burned and any lives were lost. Besides being a refugee centre, the Dumont farm became the location of the annual school pienie, though in fact everyone, including all of the bachelors and lumber. jacks, attended, played games and ate huge quantities of food which the women had spent days preparing. Helen Dunlop writes: “If you were.a child, you thought you could never get enough of Mrs. Dumont's super-special cream-puffs or the homemade ice cream and you remembered them all year until the next picnic. “If you could not swim you kept a safe distance from Mr. Dumont who thought the best swimming lesson was to toss you unceremoniously into the river.” The Dumonts left the area in 1928 and moved to Hunter's Siding where Marc became the successful owner-operator of a sawmill. In 1959 Elizabeth and Mare celebrated their golden wedding, but five years later Elizabeth died. In 1966, at the age of 81, he married Nora Wright and undertook several more successful business ventures. Finally, on March 29, 1980, at the age of 95, Marc Dumont, Kinnaird’s first settler, died, being, as the King James version so beautifully states it, “old and full of BROTHERS .. . Photograph taken in 1904 at Westley shows Marc Dumont (sitting, far left), and brother Michael (sitting, second trom lett). In 1950 Marc subdivided and sold the then Dumont Crescent and it became the Dumont subdivision. Thus, while he had geased to be a landowner in the area, his early and active association with it, as well his successful business career in other parts of the province and 91 descendents at the time of his death, have cer. tainly earned him a secure place as a British Columbia pioneer and valued citizen. A final loose thread. Mining, fishing, cattle raising and lumbering are B.C.'s historic industries. Marc's brief incursion into fishing has been recorded. He had been successful in both éattle raising and lumbering, but there is no mention of his very brief brush with the mining industry. Joe Killough tells the story: “It was in the early Depression era — the early 30s. Some of us decided that there might be gold on the bar on the flat near the Dumont place. We had neither skill nor money for placer mining but we were able to pan some black sand containing a lot of very fine gold flakes. “We staked claims, then took our sampies to be assayed in Trail. The color was quite high so The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company (now Cominco) bought the claims, some of which were on Dumont property. “Marc became quite upset because the engineers were digging test-holes in his property. However, it soon settled down. They found that the traces of gold only went about a foot into the gravel and stopped. It had come from a long way up river and had caught on that sandbar. Thus, the Dumont Crescent was spared the excite- ment of a gold rush and another rainbow went aglim- mering. Today, with the possibility of a dam at Murphy Creek a few kilometres up from Trail, a number of homes and the little park in the area which had been donated by Dumont, appear to be threatened. 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