after practice.
could feel it coming down my throat and 1 couldn't stop
it.

“I felt faint and dizzy. I couldn't even get out of bed
at times. I lost seven or eight pounds before I got home
Monday night.”

Tanti expects to return to the Vancouver lineup
Thursday in Calgary against the Flames and the right

“Tve broke my nose a couple of times in hockey, but
nothing like this,” he said. “I felt pretty good today in

The Canucks, after a 414-2 start under rookie coach
Bill LaForge, are 8-81 with genera] manager Harry Neale
ai :

‘ 4 ‘3 a lot lot looser vas Harry around
because he told us he'd never scream if we were trying,”
‘Tanti said. “We were tired of listening to everything else
that was going on.

“At the start of the year our goal was to be in the top
seven or eight teams in the league. Maybe we can't get
there, but that doesn’t mean we've given up. Not at all.”

Tanti on a line with centre Patrik
Sundstrom and rookie left winger Petri Skriko.
Sundstrom has only seven goals in 22 games this season
after producing 38 goals last season.

“Patrik was injured at the start of the year and I
think we've played only about five games together,”
added Tanti.

OVER WEEKEND

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Trustees voted to draw up #
levels of service despite the
further cuts in 1986-86.

Phil |
interviews that Heinrich could take. sumberrof actions’ — -
including removing the trusters — if they refuse to submit a
budget he would consider acceptable. |

The board’s move came as an atmosphere of rebellion
against the restraint palieies of Education Minister Jack
Heinrich surfaced at three other school boards.

In Nanaimo, board chairman Bill Holdom said Heinrich’s
rejection of a plan that would stave off teacher layoffs
appears to be motivated by a government desire to force
cuts “regardless of the consequences.”

In Courtenay, where 10 teachers and 30 half-time
teachers’ aides have been given layoff notices effective Feb.
6, board chairman Bob McQuillan forecast “massive
disruption” in the middle of the school year and hinted at
possible defiance of the government to avoid further cuts in
the spring.

to make, but will only work if action is taken quickly,
' Ministry spokesman Dick Melville said, however, there
are “many other boards beside C: jam” and Heinrich is

By paying teacher salaries over 12 months, instead of

usual 10 months, the district could postpone paying.
$1.4 million in salaries until after the end of the school
in June.

Holdom, who attended the meeting Monday between
Heinrich and the Courtenay board, said Heinrich’s rejection
of the plan is “a good case of ideology getting in the way of
sense.

not prepared to move as quickly as Taylor wants.

Melville said Heinrich is giving priority to boards which
have to work within their budget but have problems not of
their own making, such as transportation difficulties.

In this group are about 25 per cent of the province's 75
boards, he said, while a further 65 per cent have ri i
the reality of restraint and been able to work within it.

The remaining 10 per cent are boards which have
chosen not to accept the reality of B.C.'s economic condition,
Melville said, but refused to name any boards in this group.

In Courtenay, the teachers and aides who have received
layoff notices are the first casualties in the battle the school
board has been waging with Victoria for permission to
rejuggle the teacher payment calendar.

Pee Wee Bs win two

Castlegar Pee Wee B's
played their best hockey of
the season to win two games
during weekend play.

Saturday saw a Pee Wee
all-star team from Nelson
head home on the short end
of a 93 seore. Castlegar held

a 31 lead after one period
and a ing 6-1 lead

with three goals, Russell

after two. In the third period
Castlegar outscored their
opponents 3-2 resulting in the
final score.

Seoring in the game for
Castlegar were Chris Stock

Oilers chosen
team of year

TORONTO (CP) — A tri
umphant 1983-84 season, cap-
ped by a Stanley Cup cham
pionship last spring, and an
impressive start to the cur-
rent National Hockey League
campaign have earned Ed.
monton Oilers team-of-the-
year honors in the annual
poll conducted by The Can.
adian Press.

Second place, in voting by
sports writers and broad-
casters responding to the
survey conducted by the
national newsgathering co-
operative, is shared by the
combination of NHL players
who wrested the Canada Cup

NOTICE

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wishes to notify her customers, the of-
fice will be Closed during the month of
December, but will re-open January 7
Jill also wishes her customers
a Safe and Happy Holiday!
278 Columbia Ave., Castlegar

Jill

hockey title away from the
world-champion Soviets last
September and the entire
Canadian contingent to the
Los Angeles Olympics last
summer.

Winnipeg Blue Bombers,
winners of the Grey Cup as
Canadian Football League
champions last month, were
next, followed by baseball's
Toronto Blue Jays.

The Oilers received 33
first-place votes, 22 seconds
afd four thirds, for 147 points
based on a 3-2-1 valuation.

Team Canada garnered 13
firsts, nine seconds and eight
thirds for 65 points.

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SATURDAY
NHL: Calgary Flames vs. Edmonton Oilers

HOCKEY
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BASKETBALL HIGH

HURSDAY

HOCKEY—RECREATIONAL LEAGUE:

Castlegar Playboys, 10 p.m., Castlegar Community Complex
FRIDAY

HOCKEY —KIJHL: Castlegar Rebels vs. Grond Forks, 8:30 p.m

SCHOOL: Stoniey Humphries Rockers and
Rockettes vs. Grods. Girls game 6:30 p.m.. boys game 8 p.m

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with two, while
Jason Batchelor, Shane Cut-
ler, Aron Pongracz and Chad
LeHue added singles. Assists
went to Batchelor, Stuckless
an LeHue with three each,
while Ryan Jolly, Mike Lew-
is, Rich Hawkins, Shane
McAfee and Jeff Bevans had
one each.

Sunday saw the Pee Wee
B's defeat Castlegar Atom,
all-star team by a score of 5-0,
Although all Pee Wee play-

Audet and Lonnie Strelaeff
who shared the shutout.
Scoring the Pee Wee's fifth
goal was Jeff Bevans. Assists
also went to Shane McAfee
and Shane Cutler.

Rec news

creation programs have re-
ached a conclusion. The
recreation department will
be closed on Christmas Day,
Boxing Day and New Year's
Day.
PUBLIC SKATING

Public Skating hours over
the holidays are as follows:
Saturday 2:45 - 4:45 p.m.,
Sunday 1:45 - 3:30 p.m.,
Thursday, Dec. 27 1 - 2:30
p.m. free skating sponsored
by West's; Jan. 2, 3 and 4
10:30 a.m. - 12 noon and 2:30
4:30 p.m

LAST DAY

Friday is the last day of fit
ness classes before Chris.
tmas, classes will resume
Jan. 7. If you are disap
pointed about no aerobic
classes over the holidays why
not try a outdoor
activity to keep you in shape.
CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING

Since the snow conditions
are excellent, why not bor
row a rent a pair of cross:
country skies and hit one of
the many trails in the area? If
you want a flat area to learn
to move on your skies try the
Kiwanis soccer pitch adjac
ent to the Complex or try
Kinnaird Park. If you want a

new

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more chalk ion,
try the Ben Shaw trails at
Mud Lake or the Nordie Ski
trails at Nancy Greene Lake.

DOWNHILL SKIING

If downhill skiing is more
your speed, try the excite
ment of Red Mountain,
Whitewater, Morning Star or
Salmo Ski Hill. We are
blessed with many great
mountains in the area so take
to the slopes and have fun in
the great outdoors.

BEST WISHES

Since the festive season is
here, the recreation depart
ment staff would like to wish
each and everyone a very
safe and enjoyable holiday.
May you all have a very
Merry Christmas with best
wishes for a happy New
Year.

COMPETITION . . . Sarah Johnston of Costl

ir Figure Skating Club recently placed

11th in Vancouver Sub-Section competition for novice ladies. She had to pass the
Novice Competition test in order to compete on a provincial level

CosNewsPhote by Rob Popolt

Castlegar skater
finishes eleventh

Castlegar figure skater,
Sarah Johnston placed 11th
in the Vancouver Sub-Section
competition for novice ladies,
but just missed qualifying for
the B.C. Section champion
ships.

Johnston, 15, a member of
the Castlegar Figure Skating
Club, competed in the sub
section earlier this month.

Mare than 50 skaters com
peted in the sub-sections,
but ly the top seven in each
gr were eligible for the
B.C. Sections.

The top four skaters from
the sections qualify for the
Western Canadian finals and
the top four of these skaters
will compete in the Canadian
finals.

In order to be able to
compete on a provineial and
national level, Johnston had
to pass the Novice Com
petition test. In order to
qualify for the test, a skater
must have passed the fourth
figure, which can take sev
eral years.

In taking the Novice com

petition test, Johnston had to
pass in three sections. The
first section was a group of
compulsory figures, the se-
cond section involved putting
all of the elements together
in a solo routine put to music
for three minutes.

In preparing for the test, it
is necessary to skate full
time. Johnston skated at the
Royal Glenora Club in Ed
monton this summer and
passed the test at the end of
the session.

Pee Wees upended 4-2

board at 8:41 in the second.

Castlegar Pee Wee Reps
could not come up with a win
on Sunday against a power
house Cranbrook team, but

an outstanding defensive ef

fort held the Cranbrook
shooters to a 4-2 win.
Cranbrook opened the
scoring at 9:58 in the first
periods when back to back
goals found their mark. Cran
brook eluded the goalie mid
way through the second for a
three goal margin. Stephen
Junker unleashed a shot on a
pass from David Josephson
to put Castlegar on the score

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Castlegar continued to
pressure the Cranbrook team
in exeiting third period ac
tion. Kevan Rilcof blasted a
wrist shot from the point
assisted by Roger Carlson,
for the home teams second
marker

David Vecchio, David

Green and Frank Stroble led
the offense in several perky
shifts, but a good team effort
could not turn the tide.
Castlegar’s netminder Jamie
Mueller made several saves
restricting Cranbrook to one
goal in the third period. The
Reps travel to Nelson on
Saturday.

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SWEDEN 7-4

TRAIL, B.C. (CP) — Trail
Smoke Eaters of the Western
International Hockey League
bet the Swedish national
team, Nacka, 7-4 in exhibition
hockey Tuesday night.

The score was 2-2 after the
first period and 4-2 after two.

For Trail, Leroy Huestis
and Terry Jones scored two
goals each, while singles
were added by Gene Lafren-
ere, Ken McNeil and Guy
Paradis.

For Nacka, Bjorn Hell
quist, Jeff Hallegard, Jacob
Hasseltorp and Mikael Karle.
sson had goals.

The goaltending was even
with Trail’s Steve Handley
and Nacka's Mikael Wrest
ling making 82 saves each

Tuesday's game was the
eighth of the Nacka’s Can
adian tour. The team plays
its final game tonight against
the University of Calgary
Dinosaurs in Claresholm,
Alta.

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HERITAGE MEETING cp
Rail’s Nelson superinten-
dent Wayne Stewart (far
lett) and assistant superin-
tendent Joe Cashin (far
right) met recently with
members of the Castlegar
Heritage Advisory Com-
mittee, including (from
second left) Alex Lutz,
Walter Fields and Gordie
Hill. Discussions centred
on the future of the
Castlegar CP Rail station
building.

CasttewsPhote by John Charters

And in Nanaimo, which cut its teaching staff by 10 per
cent last summer, “defiance” of the government to avoid
further cuts in the spring is “a real possibility,” Holdom said.

Among the possibilities, he said, are deficit budgeting,
“running the system until the money runs out,” mass
resignations by school trustees, and “forcing the govern-
ment’s hand to suspend the board.”

Heinrich, who met with Coquitlam, Prince George and
Williams Lake boards last week and Tuesday travelled to
Kamloops, said after the meeting that if the Courtenay plan
were adopted by all 75 districts in the provinces, the total
bill would be about $93 million.

BCMA may help hospital crisis

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
British Columbia Medical As
sociation offered itself as an
“honest broker” Tuesday to
mediate a growihg funding
crisis between province
and its hospithls that has
shut down beds at a number
of hospitals.

Dr. Gerry Stewart, as
sociation president, said in
making the offer at a news
conference that the doctors
have no vested interest in
hospital budgets.

“However we do have a
vested interest in keeping
hospital beds open, to ensure
the best possible care for our
patients the people of British
Columbia.

“Without taking sides, we
offer our facilities and our
people as intermediaries to
bring the two parties tog
ether, with an aim to come to
a solution that wil] not
damage the quality of B.C.
Health care.”

Stewart's statement fol
lows a warning from the
chairman of the B.C. Health
Association, which repres-
ents hospitals in talks with
the Health Ministry

Dr. Dugal MacGregor, co-
mmenting on bed closures at

Vancouver General Hospital,
said as many as 400 beds
could be closed next year at
hospitals across the province.

About 160 of Vancouver
General Hospital's 875 acute.
care beds are going to be
shut down

MacGregor said an incre
ase in provincial funding by
$50 million in the next fiscal
year would only allow hos
pitals to maintain the status
quo because of the fast-rising
costs of equipment.

Hospitals say they are
financially constrained and
can only meet budget short
falls by closing beds and
laying off staff.

But the Health Ministry
says there is not more money
for hospitals but that deficits
must be accommodated with.
out bed closures or staff
layoffs, he said

“But health care is far
too important to withstand
policy making in this at
mosphere of confrontaation
The casualities in this con.
frontation are the people of
British Columbia.”

Stewart predicted that
there will be longer waits and
possibly unnecessary deaths
next year if the crisis is not

resolved.

Under questioning by re.
porters, Stewart said that
some might see doctors in a
conflict of interest because

they were currently nego
tiating fee increases which
are part of the same health
care budget
However, he

said that

PARENTS LOST CUSTODY

Father says child wasn't

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
Ministry of Human Resour.
ces is pleased with a Sup
reme Court of Canada deci
sion that blocked a Surrey
couple's attempt to regain
custody of their seven-year.
old daughter from the gov
ernment

But the parents say the
ministry has destroyed their
family and they vowed to
continue the fight to get their
daughter back

“Our lives are hanging by a
thread,” the father said in an
interview. “With Christmas
coming up and everything,
we are really down and out.
I'm behind in my work nad
we're two months behind in
the rent. This case cost us a
lot of money and my family is
torn apart.”

To protect the child's iden.
tity, the father will not be
named

The ministry seized the
child from her home two
years ago after they received
an anonymous tip she was
being sexually abused by her
father

She was examined by Van
couver psychologist Brenda
Knight, who testified in
provincial court that in her
opinion, the child, then five,
had been sexually abused.

The ministry was granted
custody of the child based on
Knight's testimony.

Although the parents ap-
pealed, arguing that second

hand testimony was hearsay
and could not form the basis
of the court's decision, the
B.C. Court of Appeal ruled
that the rules of hearsay
evidence do not apply in a
custody case inquiry

In Ottawa Monday, Justice
William McIntyre denied the
couple leave to appeal the
decision to the Supreme
Court of Canada

“What direct evidence
could conceivably have been
introduced in this
McIntyre asked

The Ottawa lawyer for the

\parents said the judge could

have questioned the child but
he admitted there might
have been problems with a
five-year-old’s account of
what happened
The father.
longshoreman, said he never
sexually abused his daugh
ter.

He said she probably
imitated for Knight the ac
tions of a man she saw doing
obscene things to a doll in a
downtown store a few weeks
before she was apprehended.

He said his family’s only
recourse is to picket Knight's

a 41-year-old

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association's offer was ap
preciated but not needed.
Nielsen said he is puzzled
by the offer and not sure
what the motive behind it is.

doctor's incomes are “insig
nificant” when compared to
hospital budgets.

Health Minister Jim Niel
sen said Monday that the

abused

Larry Ohimann, the dep
uty superintendent of family
and child services in Victoria,
called the Supreme Court
decision a “landmark” case fo
the ministry

“We were hoping this
would happen,” Ohlmann
said. “This decision acknow
ledges the safety of the child
is of paramount importance.”

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809 Merry Creek Rd., Castlegar
365-3430 or 365-2808

DECEMBER 23 — 10:30 - 12 noon. A Family Ser-
vice, 6:30 Sunday School Concert, a full
programme of singing and a play.

DECEMBER 24 — 7 p.m. Xmas Eve Service. Corols
and Musical Evening

DECEMBER 31 — 8 p.m. Watchnight Service

ST. JUDE

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great in virtue and rich in miracles,
near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, Faithful
intercessor of all who invoke your
special patronage in time of need, to
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three Our Fathers, three Hail
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be promised, St. Jude pray for us and
all who invoke your aid. Amen
This Novena has never been known to
fail.
This Novena must be said for 9 con-
secutive days.

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18 until Tuesday, January 8. Please do not leave
donations during that period 3/100

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Parking Lot 102

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