as_Castlégak News morcn2, 1900

District
receives

land

The provincial government
has given the Regional Dis-
trict of Central Kootenay a
free Crown grant of 12.5 hee
tares for community recrea.
tional and cultural use, For.
ests and Lands Minister
Dave Parker announced.

The land, with an esti
«nated value of $60,000, is the
site of the Doukhobor His.
toric Village at Ootischenia.

Parker noted that Ootisch
enia, the Russian word for
“constellation,” means
“group of associated people.”

“It isan appropriate name
» the Doukhobor Village,
which includes a museum,
residences of historic value,
and a restaurant, all of which
are a source of great im
portance to a rich Doukhobor
heritage. We're glad to assist
in the preservation of this
heritage through the Crown
land grant,” the minister
said

“It is the government's
policy to make Crown land
available for recreational and
cultural purposes, where
possible, at no charge to a
regional district,” Parker
said

Lottery
Numbers

The $1 million winning
numbers in Sunday's Super
Loto draw were 2780396 and

were subsidiary
prizes of $100,000, $5,000,
$250, $50 and $10 for mat
ching the last six, five, four
three or two digits respec-
tively of these numbers.
The winning lottery num
bers in The Pick draw
Monday night were: 1, 10, 14,
19, 24, 29, 32 and 39.

ANNIVERSARY YEAR

USCC holds

convention

Nearly 100 authorized del and
members joined a record-breaking crowd that gathered in
Grand Forks last weekend for the annual convention of The
Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ, the largest
organized body of Doukhobors in Canada.

Delegates began with a review of the previous year's
activities, including major events, such the Russian
Canadian Heritage Festival (with its dedications to Leo
Tolstoy), and the 40th Annual Union of Youth Festival.

A favorable financial report was also noted, as was the
significant growth in the official publication ISKRA. The
continued solid support of these and other aspects of the
USCC by the membership was highly commended by all
convention participants.

This year USCC members (sometimes referred to as the
“Orthodox Doukhobors) will observe the 50th anniversary of
the organization's founding. Official celebrations of the
jubilee are tentatively scheduled to take place in Grand
Forks in early August, in conjunction with the annual
observance of Declaration Day.

As well, several historic initiatives were authorized by
delegates. These include a review and possible revision of
the USCC constitution and bylaws, a committee to investi.
gate the ibility of ping a more equitable dues
structure, support for the concept of regional resource
centres for peace, disarmament and a clean environment,
and various measures to help ensure the preservation of the
heritage, language, traditions and culture.

USCC honorary chairman John J. Verigin made a
comprehensive presentation to the convention in which he
reviewed the historical pattern of Doukhobor leadership,
and his own half-century of service to the USCC
membership.

He urged delegates to work harder at developing a

AUTHOR & SCIENTIST

sense of y and ip,
80 as to lessen the reliance on the efforts of one individual.

A ly reaffirmed Verigin
in the position of honorary chairman, thanked him for his
many years of dedi service, and exp! a commit-
ment to make greater efforts to respond to his counsel.

The USCC executive committee for the coming term
consists of (from the West Kootenay area): George Deikoff,
Walter Gorkoff, Joe J. Podovinikoff, Andrew Ozeroff, and
Steve Kinakin, and (from Grand Forks): Mike A. Kanigan,
Bill Pepin, Bill Zarubin, Anne J. Plotnikoff and Elizabeth
Semenoff.

The election of women to the executive committee was
another of the historie firsts which took place at gthis
anniversary-year convention, which was assessed by dele-
gates as one of the most successful ever held.

The convention also elected a five-member revisory
committee for the coming year, made up of Fred Fominoff,
Paul Fomenoff and Jerry Plonidin from the West Kootenay
area, and Michael Strukoff and Jerry Horkoff of Grand
Forks.

Outgoing executive committee members John K.
Novokshonoff and John P. Faminoff (Grand Forks) and
Harry W. Wasilenkoff and Walter W. Kanigan (Kootenays)
were thanked for their dedicated service, as was retiring
member of the revisory committee, John J. Malloff of Grand
Forks.

Chairmanship duties at the convention, which took
place at the USCC Community Centre, were carried out by
Steve J. Malloff of Grand Forks and Alex A. Pereverzoff of
Castlegar.

Convention secretariat consisted of Vera Kanigan and
Janet Cheveldave of Castlegar, and Mable Chiveldave of
Grand Forks.

Environmentalist in Nelson

soup-on-e ROP?

$7.50
Hrersheve

Dr. Rosalie Bertell, author,
researcher, scientist and Ro-
man Catholic nun, will speak
on “Our Common Future:
Health and Radiation” on
Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at St.
Paul's Trinity-United Church
in Nelson.

Bertell, currently director
of research for the Inter.
national Institute of Concern
for Public Health in Toronto,
has a PhD in biometrics from
the Catholic University of
America. Born in New York
in 1929, she received the In
ternational Right Livelihood
Award in December, 1986.

UBC tracing

sawmill

dioxins

A UBC epid is
painstakingly tracing the job
histories of 40,000 B.C. saw
mill workers to determine
how many of those who came
in contact with chlorophenols
died of, or developed, cancer.
The $500,000 study, large
ly funded by Health and
Welfare Canada, is the most
comprehensive research ever
undertaken into the effects
on humans of chlorophenols
and their biproducts, dioxins,
Dr. Clyde Hertzman
‘The sawmill workers in
B.C. who have worked with
chlorophenols over the last
several decades are the lar-
gest identifiable group in the
world,” said Hertzman.

Chlorop Is are con-
tained in fungicides which
control the growth of sap
stain fungi on lumber. When
most softwood lumber is not
sap stain controlled, the fungi
grows and discolors the wood
so that when it reaches its
export destination, it has
turned black.

Hertzman is delving into
the job histories of workers
at eight B.C. coastal saw
mills, including three in the
Vancouver area

‘We've done urine samp
ling at a couple of mills and
we've found there are very
few jobs involving no ex
posure whatsoever,” said
Hertzman.

She is author of No Im-
mediate Danger? Prognosis
for a Radioactive Earth.

She has a broad knowledge
of environmental and oc.
cupationa! health issues, and
experience gained by fre.
quent travel in Europe, Asia,
the Pacific Islands, Australia
and North America.

Recently, Bertell began a
program of medical assis-
tance to the people of the
Marshall Islands, and works
by preference on behalf of in
digenous peoples and citizen
groups most severely af-
fected by militarism and
pollution.

“The knowledge and skill
needed to handle global hu-
man problems is present in
the world’s people,” Bertell
has stated. “It can be chan
nelled into use, ushering in a
time to bloom, or it can be
stifled by neglect or blasted
out. of existence with a nu.
clear bomb.

“Seeing to the safe birth
ing of the global village is the
task at hand. Its nurturing
and evolution belong to fu
ture generations.”

Bertell’s talk is sponsored
by the Uranium Working
Unit of the B.C. Conference
of the United Church of

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rt of Downtown Castlegar
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COURSE PREPARATIONS . . . Husky World Downhill
workers prepare “willie bags” for the downhill and
Super G runs on Red Mountain. The baas are filled
with air and placed around lift towers and other

solid objects on the course to keep competitors
from suttering serious injuries in the event of a bad
spill. costteses pnt

Downhill 'weasels' work
hard preparing course

By BRENDAN NAGLE
Staff Writer

They call them weasels. They're rarely seen or heard
from during World Cup ski races but they are an integral
part of a successful event.

They are the volunteers who dedicate their time and
effort in the community and on the hill to promote dnd
prepare a ski event.

Right now Red Mountain is crawling with these
weasels who are installing the safety nets, the crowd
control fences, shovelling and packing the snow, and
doing everything else to see the event goes ahead with a
minimum amount of problems.

“T've been at it a month,” said Dave Cochrane who
was busy shovelling and packing snow at a turn in the
downhill course.

Cochrane is one of about 500 volunteers who will be a

| Flyers boun

By GRANT KERR
Canadian Press

VANCOUVER — You can hardly blame Mike Keenan
for having visions of grandeur after the Philadelphia Flyers
have amassed 26 goals in three games.

The normally goal-starved Flyers are on a roll in the
National Hockey League after starting the season with a
prolonged slump in which goals were hard to come by.

Rick Tocchet, tough guy turned sniper, continued his
torrid play Tuesday night when he scored three times —
giving the right winger 10 goals in three games — as the
Flyers crunched the slumping Vancouver Canucks 7-3.

“TI feel better about this team than I did last year when
we went to the Stanley Cup final,” said Keenan. “We've
matured as a group after going to the final and coming
within 20 minutes of the championship.”

The Flyers won only six of their first 22 games this
season, but once they got their lineup settled when
netminder Ron Hextall returned from a suspension, Phil.
adelphia has been the hottest team in the league.

They've won five straight to run their record to 28-9-4 in
their last 41 games, a turnaround which has taken them to
the top of the difficult Patrick Division.

LOOKING AHEAD

“The players have been to the final and want back very
badly,” Keenan said. “Everyone on the team feels strongly
about this.”

Philadelphia will get a stern test of its new-found
offence this week with road games Thursday against the
Calgary Flames and Friday against the Stanley Cup
champion Edmonton Oilers.

Hextall is one player who's overly concerned with the
Flyer scoring burst — 11 goals against the Detroit Red
Wings and eight against the Los Angeles Kings before
rolling a seven in Vancouver — because the Flyers have
allowed 15 in those three games.

“We've got to play smarter down the stretch,” said
Hextall after a solid 28-save performance against the
Canucks. “We're not going to score six or eight goals a game
in the playoffs.”

Tocchet had a career high 21 goals last season. Now he's
turned into the Flyers’ most reliable producer with the
absence of power-play specialist Tim Kerr, sidelined all
season with a shoulder injury.

“He's tried to ignite the offence and he's done it through

part of the Husky World Downhill.

Sam Inch is another weasel who is working the
course right now. He was down at Boutry’s curve where
800 feet of safety net went up to keep the skiers from
crashing into the trees in case of a fall.

On hill, volunteers include boot packers — people
who spray fertilizer on the run and pack it down with
their ski boots td make it hard and fast — shovellers,
people who move snow to where its needed on the course,
and fence setters, who install the crowd control fencing.

There are more volunteers working in the downhill
office preparing for the onslaught of 450 media members
from around the world and even cookie bakers to keep
the folks in the lift lineups happy during the event.

When the dust finally clears and the Husky World
Downhill event has come to a successful finish, the
weasels will have played a large, but silent role.

Gretzky sets new
NHL scoring record

By JOHN KOROBANIK
Canadian Press

EDMONTON — When Wayne Gretzky goes into the
National Hockey League Hall of Fame, teammate Kevin
Lowe figures he shouldn't go just in the players section
but the builders also.

“He's been the greatest ambassador for the NHL for
the last nine years,” Lowe said Tuesday after his former
roommate surpassed Gordie Howe as the league's
all-time greatest playmaker.

Gretzky, 27 and playing in his 681st game in his ninth
season, set up Jari Kurri to earn his 1,050th assist as the
Edmonton Oilers defeated the Los Angeles Kings 5-3.
And Gretzky's assist is one more than the career mark
Howe set through 1,767 games in 26 seasons.

“I've witnessed just about every one of those
assists,” Lowe said. “It's great to be part of the whole
thing, to be part of history but more so to be part of a guy
who's done so much for the game.

“There's no doubt he'll be a Hall of Famer and he
almost should be in the builders’ side of the hall as well
because he’s done so much for the notoriety and exposure
of the game.”

The play that gave Gretzky the record was typical of
so many of the Gretzky-Kurri combinations. Gretzky
circled to the side of goaltender Roland Melanson and at
the precise moment flicked a pass to Kurri, moving
through the slot, who smartly slapped it into the Los
Angeles net.

“The first goal I scored eight years ago, and this one,
it was the same pass,” said Kurri, who has accepted 298
Gretzky passes and turned them into goals.

GAME HALTED

The play touched off a long, deafening standing
ovation by the 16,615 spectators and halted the game for
a series of presentations.

The NHL gave Gretzky a silver mantle clock, the
Edmonton players gave him a gold stick to be engraved

with the statistics of the moment and the Oilers
presented a $50,000 bond to be given to Gretzky on the
oceasion of his first child's 21st birthday. Gretzky is
engaged to be married in July to actress Janet Jones.

Howe couldn't attend the game but in a telephone
message piped over the Coliseum sound system, the
former Detroit Red Wing-Hartford Whaler said “there's
no one on earth that I'd rather see break it so
congratulations to the king of assists.”

Gretzky admitted there was a feeling of relief to get
the record that he had tied nearly two weeks ago. He
missed three games with an eye injury and was heid
without an assist in his first game back on Sunday

“I'd have to say, right now, it’s No. 1,” Gretzky said
when asked where this record ranked among the 45 he
holds or shares. “One of the knocks against me when I
finally made the NHL was that I wasn’t consistent, that
people wouldn't rate Wayne Gretzky until he did it for
nine or 10 years.

“When you look back and see how much Gordie
Howe accomplished it's a great feeling. I feel grateful that
I've played with some great players, on some great
teams.”

It’s the first major record of Howe's — his childhood
idol — that Gretzky has broken and that, he said, will
always make it special.

“I guess the best way to describe it is that, when you
grow up you have heroes and a lot of times you put your
hero on a pedestal and when you meet your hero they
turn out to be as great as you imagine

“For me, when I met Gordie . . . he’s better and nicer
than they say. He's a great man, a great ambassador . . .
and I just hope I can try to be as good a person as
Gordie.”

Winner of the NHL scoring title the last seven years
— he tied for the lead in his rookie season — Gretzky now
has 1,629 points, behind only New York Ranger centre
Marcel Dionne’s 1,738 and Howe's 1,850.

Fog cancels event

By RON SUDLOW
Press

NORTH VANCOUVER — Alberto Tomba, the Italian
stallion, is going out to pasture among the palm trees of
Hawaii to get his mind off ski racing for the next week.

It's probably just as well because what was supposed to
be the day Tomba would clinch the World Cup giant slalom
title was lost Tuesday in the fog that blanketed Grouse
Mountain.

Only 10 racers left the starting gate in the first of a
planned two-run race before the race jury halted the event,
then decided to cancel it because the swirling fog was unfair
to all competitors.

Safety was another factor because the racers were
travelling about 80 kilometres an hour and could see only
two gates ahead. Austrian skier Rudolph Nierlich missed a
sidehill gate and went off the course.

The other starters managed to finish, but were well
behind the leading time of one minute, 13.36 seconds posted
by Austrian Helmut Mayer, who trails Tomba in the giant

ce Canucks

hard work,” Kennan said of Tocchet. “He's playing much
more relaxed and with the confidence you need to score
goals.”

STREAK GROWS

Ilka Sinisalo, Derek Smith, Craig Berube and Murray
Craven also scored for the Flyers as they stretched their
unbeaten string to seven games — six wins and a t

The Flyers also added veteran defenceman Willie
Huber before the game by trading left winger Paul Lawless
to the Canucks.

Lawless was one of five additions to the Vancouver
lineup, but the Canucks still lost their fifth straight and are
in danger of dropping out of the playoff race in the Smythe
Division.

While the Flyers lead the second-place New York
Islanders by four points in the Patrick Division standings,
the Canucks are last in the Smythe, six points back of Los
Angeles.

“I just didn’t fit into the Philadelphia system,” said
Lawless. “I'm not going to sulk because it didn't work out.”

The speedy Lawless, often criticized by coaches for
being overweight, began the season with the Hartford
Whalers and last month was traded to the Flyers for
Lindsay Carson. He had five assists in eight games with the
Flyers. -

BERRY SHARP

Petri Skriko, Claude Vilgrain and David Bruce scored
for V. , with imp: Ken Berry assisting on goals
by linemates Vilgrain and Bruce.

Berry and Vilgrain made their Vancouver debuts —
Vilgrain on his 25th birthday — after playing for the
Canadian Olympic team this season.

“It was a great sensation to score on my second shift in
the league,” said the Haiti-born Vilgrain who was raised
near Montreal. “It's a great feeling to score on one of the
best goalies (Hextall) in the NHL.”

Vancouver didn't use centre Steve Tambellini, loaned to
the Canadian national team for the Winter Olympic Games
in Calgary which ended Sunday. Tambellini has a hand
injury.

The Flyers scored five times in the opening period and
the Canucks pulled starting netminder Kirk McLean at the
start of the second and replaced him with Frank Caprice. He
was not beaten until Tocchet iced the game with two goals
late in the game.

slalom dings by 15 points.

Mayer skied in sunshine but the fog had rolled in for
Tomba’s run and he was more than two seconds slower in
1:15.45. Hubert Strolz of Austria, third in the GS standings,
had the second-best time of 1:14.25 while Swiss star Pirmin
Zubriggen was third in (1:14.25.

IN AUSTRIA

Peter Andrews, Canadian delegate to the International
Ski Federation, said Salbach, Austria, will be given first
refusal to play host to the last giant slalom between March
22-26 when there is a World Cup downhill scheduled there.

Italian team coach Josef Messmer said the Hawaiian
vacation was organized during the Olympics “because he
(Tomba) had a good time . . . a difficult time but a good time.

“After many races he needs one week for relaxing. He's
a little nervous and it is necessary for him to get away from
snow and skiing.”

SKI VICTORIES

The 22-year-old curly haired Tomba, a heart-throb
hoping to lead the renaissance of Italian skiing, had plenty of
pressure on his broad shoulders heading into the Olympics.

He hadn't won on the World Cup circuit during his first
two years but La Bomba rocketed to the top of the World
Cup overall standings by winning five of the first! six slalom
and giant slalom races on the circuit.

At the Olympics, he blitzed the field in the giant slalém
and eked out a victory in the slalom by six one-hundredths
second. He announced his father would buy him a Ferrari
and he wanted to meet figure skating queen “beautiful
Katarina Witt.”

NOT UPSET

Tomba just shrugged after he saw his time Tuesday
while Messmer began buttonholing jury members for a
postponement or cancellation.

“I did not have a good time because of the fog,” said
Tomba. “Sorry for me . . . bad day.”

Tomba has 82 giant slalom points while Mayer has 67.
Under the World Cup points system, Tomba would have to
finish fifth or better to beat Mayer for the GS title if Mayer
wins the final race.

The overall World Cup points race is only between
Tomba and Zurbriggen who leads 219 points to 213.

Zerbriggen, the Olympic downhill winner, will be trying
to pad his lead Saturday in the downhill event at Whistler,
north of here, while Tomba, not a downhill specialist, soaks
up some rays.

There was no possibility of holding the Grouse giant
slalom today because training runs were scheduled for the
downhillers at Whistler, a 90-minute drive away.

The Grouse cancellation came after high winds played
havoc with Olympic Alpine events at Mount Allen. A 1982
World Cup downhill at Whistler was also cancelled by fog.

“You can't put this mountain or any other mountain
indoors,” Andrews said after the jury made its final decision
on Grouse.

Red Mountain Racers win
Sunday in Kimberley

By CasNews Staff
Susan Buskey won the 13-14-year
old girls giant slalom in Kimberley
Sunday as the Red Mountain Racers
were busy over the weekend skiing in

ranked number one
overall in her age group, beat out
fellow team member Anna Knudsgaard
for the victory. The Red Mountain boys
and girls took part in a slalom event at
Fairmont on Saturday and a giant
slalom in Kimberley on Sunday.

Saturday's slalom course was a
difficult one for the Red Mountain
squad as only 26 of the 44 girls and 44
of the 60 boys completed the course.

In J8 girls (12 and under) slalom on
Saturday Claire Chapman placed fifth,
Janet Kalesnikoff placed ninth and
Kristen Davies placed 12th.

In J2 girls (13-14 year olds)

Maro 24th.

Belinda Wallace cam first, Danielle
Rizzuto placed fourth, Tara O'Flanagan
was ninth and Shana Lum was 11th

In Saturday's slalom event the
Red Mountain boys fared well despite
the small number of finishers. The

In J1 boys (15 and over) Greg
Spence came in second, John Mathie.
son fourth and Mike Kalesnikoff fifth

Neil Jones was sixth in J2 boys
competition, Winston Giles was sev.
enth and Kenny Young placed 11th.

In J3 boys Mike Van Vliet placed
fifth, Chris Helmer eighth, Maury Lum
ninth, Jamie Rizzuto 14th, Kristoff
Steinruck 16th, Ryan Vatkin 18th, Dan
Grey 22nd, Simon Davies 23rd and Jeff

O'Flanagan was 10th and Jennifer
Byden 11th.

J3 girls saw Janet Kalesnikoff

take eighth place, Jill Bryden take 12th
and Kristen Davies take 16th.
RMR boys did well in
Sunday's giant slalom as well. Greg
Spence took seventh in J1 boys. Jesse
Robinson was ninth, John Mathieson
10th and Mike Kalesnikoff 11th.

Deller Watson was second in J2
boys competition, Winston Giles was
seventh and Neil Jones “10th in
Sunday's GS event

Kevin West won the J3 boy's giant
slalom event, Mike Van Vliet was
fourth, Maury Lum was seventh,
Kristoff Steinruck was 18th, Ryan
Vatkin was 14th and Jami: Rizzuto was

In Sunday's giant slalom Danielle 16th.
Rizzuto was fourth behind both Buskey
and Knudsgaard in J2 girls compet
ition. Shana Lum was sixth, Tara

The racers have returned to Red
Mountain to train for upcoming zone
and provincial finals later this month,