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Comeback falls short

By CasNews Staff
Ken Keraiff scored once and set up
three more in the first period and
Woodland Park staved off a late rally
to beat. Hi Arrow 6-5 in a Castlegar
Recreational Hockey League game at
the Community Complex Thutstay
night
Chris Brodman opened the scoring
28 seconds into the game and Bruno
Tassone made it 2-0 two minutes later
with Keraiff assisting on both

Keraiff got one of his own and then
collected his fourth point of the period
setting up Dan Walker's powerplay
goal which gave Shell a 4-0 lead at the

$:09 mark of the first

Bill Nazaroff, on assists from Bob
Larsh and Niki Hyson, got Hi Arrow
on the scoresheet at 4:21 of the first

Shell made it a five-goal bulge in the
second as Walker and Keraiff hooked
up again and then Kevin Kirby connec-
ted from Walker and Tassone to make
it 6-1 with over half the game still left to
play

Silent to this point, Hi Arrow’s
double-trouble trio of No. 66 Doug
Knowler, No. 44 John Obetkoff and
No. 77 Hyson, came to life as Shell
went into a shell trying to protect the
five-goal lead.

Knowler struck first, his 15th of the

season, converting a

Obetkoff and then returned the favor
setting up Obetkoff to pull Hi Arrow
within three before the second period
was finished.

Hyson got in the act scoring his 26th,
at 6:35 of the third with Knowler the
set-up man this time, Obetkoff got his
second of the night and 25th of the year
on assists from Knowler and Darrel
Bojechko and Hi Arrow was within
one looking to tie with, five minutes
left.

Shell managed to hold off the
surging Hi Arrow to take the two poin-
ts and move them five points up of
third-place Hi Arrow in the CRHL.

Sandman Inn leads the league with 27
points, Shell is second with 20 while Hi
Arrow is sinking fast with a 6-11-3
record,

Shell foward Kelly Keraiff’s three
assists in the game gives him 32 on the
season and 58 points after the first half
of play, good for second in league
scoring, 10 points behind Sandman’s
Clay Martini.

The double-trouble trio of Hyson,
Obetkoff and Knowler are fifth, sixth
and eighth in league scoring respec-
tively.

The CRHL takes a break for the
holidays returning to. action early in
January.

Eremenko novices split pair

Castlegar Eremenko Senior Novice
team took part in Trail’s first.annual
tournament Dec. 9 and 10.

Losing 4-3 to Beaver Valley North
Stars in its opening game, Castlegar
bounced back and tied a strong
Rossland team 2-2 with Jeffery Craig
playing a superb game in goal

Aaron Kinakin, Craig Davis and
Jason Quiding shared scoring in the
first game, while Davis scored a pair in
the Rossland game.

Falling behind 2-0 late in the third
period of its third and final game,
against the Beaver Valley Leafs the
team dug down and came back to tie it
with 3:40 left only to see Beaver Vatley
take the lead two minutes later

But Eremenko was not to be denied
and with a strong effort, Davis tied the
game with just over a minute to go:
Quiding scored the other two goals

STANLEY HUMPHRIES
GRAD BASKETBALL

Boxing Day
Tuesday, Dec. 26

The entire team put out a strong ef-
fort and played exciting hockey all
weekend

The Castlegar Bantam reps took
three of four points in West Kootenay
Minor Hockey League action against
Rossland and Nelson over the past two
weekends

Last weekend, the bantams travelled
to Rossland and skated to an easy 15-2
victory

It was a little tougher in Nelson as
Caastlegar had to comeback twice to
tie and then couldn’t hold on to a one-
goal lead in the third as Nelson scored
to gain the tie.

Four goals by Castlegar in-the first
period against Rossland were all the
team would need for the win but they

Rust faces chall

By BUD LOWTHER

The rink skipped by Gerry Rust
amassed a 6-1 record through the third
week of the second draw to lead the
pack in the senior mens curling league.

Lead Zeke Clements, second Andre
Lamarche, and third Frank Frost
have gelled nicely with Rust into a for-
midable machine with excellent espirit
de corps

Lamarche, the foxy French com-
petitor and Second World War
veteran, was heard to mutter, “Ils ne

added 11 more for good measure.

Nino Dacosta paced the relentless
Castlegar attack with four goals. Ian
Dudley sniped three goals while
Vaughn Welychko, Fred Gienger and
Arron Voykin had a pair apiece.
Steven Brown and Tom Phipps picked
up single markers in the lopsided vic-
tory.

Rossland was nailed for 22 minutes
in penalties in the game while Castlegar
avoided the box for the most part, get-
ting called for two minors.

In Nelson, Castlegar got down early
as Nelson took charge of the game in
the first period chalking up two goals.

However, at 2:02 of the second
period Dacosta scored unassisted to
put Castlegar on the scoreboard. But

Ina game in which spares are hard to
get, Rust can usually count on Lamar-
che to come through since it’s his de
qualite superieure which has gotten the
team where it is

But other rinks are out there lurking,
talented — waiting for the curling to
get back underway after the holiday
break

The Rust rink can still be caught
with two games left on the schedule in
the second draw

Nelson scored again to keep a two-goal
lead.

Then, at 15:13 and 19:41 of the
second, Dustin Rilcof and Mike Hun-
ter scored to tie the game 3-3

Castlegar’s Johnny Strilaeff scored
at 7:09 of the last period to give the
Bantami’s a 4-3 lead, only to have it
vanish a minute later as Nelson scored
to make it a4-4 final

Castlegar players picking up assists
were Dacosta with two, and Hunter
and Voykin with one each. Jayce
Moore and Welychko shared netmin-
ding duties.

Castlegar Bantams will be attending
a three-day tournament in Spokan:
over the Christmas holidays and wilt
resume league play on Jan. 6.

enges

The non-combatants — which in-
cludes me these days due to a foot in-
jury — watch from behind the glass in
the viewing area at the Castlegar
Curling Club and, of course, never
miss a shot from that vantage point.

We have seen some exciting curling
from there though. It’s especially hard
not to notice the play of former golf
pro and one of the league’s best
curlers, Nick Verzuh

Sy

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Senior lifegua

Jackie Luker takes the opportunity to have some fun
Friday before her serious work begins in the new year.

$6m tennis
tourney slated

LONDON (AP) — The ruling body
of tennis said its hotly debated $6-
million tournament would take place
next year, but that it wanted to talk
with rival groups to avoid future con-
flicts with the players’ championship
ship.

The Grand Slam Cup, an eight
player event offering one of the richest
prizes in sports, will be played next
Dec. 10-16 in West Germany, the In-
ternational Tennis Federation said

The ITF said it wanted to talk with
the Association of Tennis
Professionals, which is scheduled to
stage its own season-ending tour-
nament in Frankfurt, West Germany,

just before the Cup.

The ATP, the players’ union, was
not contacted when the ITF began
planning the tournament with a West
German television network and has
given a chilly reception to the ITF’s
plan.

The ATP, which feuded with the
federation for years, saw the date, site
and purse as a direct challenge to its
tour

In October, the ITF announced the
Grand Slam Cup, offering $2 million
to the winner in a field of eight players
with the best records from Wimbledon
and the Austrlian, U.S. and French
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Three kings came riding from far away

Melchior and Gaspar and Balthazar

Three Wise Men out of the East were they

And they travelled by night and slept by day

For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful sta
— Henry L

of Wise Men wort

For the first time in my life, I studied and thought
about that picture carefully and it's amazing what one
can come up with when one looks, thinks and does a lit-
tle research as well. Please join me in a brief look at the
result,

Perhaps, in spite of all the uproar and whoopdee
doo, you may have noticed that this is the time of the
year known in some quarters as the Feast of the Nativity
or the Feast of Christmas.

Among other things, its arrival has, for a number
of years, Been marked by a massive exchange of Christ-
mas cards, the majority of which feature! some aspect
of the religious aspect of the season. However, with a
rapidly increasing postal rate, an equally increasing

John Charters

Reflections
and
recollections

hedonism and a broadening and shoaling moral cowar-
dice, the number of cards is dropping rapidly, while the
art work and sentiments have become like many articles
of modern clothing — they fit any size for any occasion.

The universal and basic aspects of the Christmas
season which For 1,000 years have been the inspiration
to great art and literature have given way to scenes of our
winter wonderland and Santa Claus.

‘What has happened to all the pious protesters in the
face of this emasculation of the Christmas message and
limitation to the Northern Hemisphere® Perhaps we
have become so morally spineless that we are prepared
only to stand for nothing rather than risk the chance of
disagreeing with or offending anyone.

Apropos of all this, I had a need recently for a pic-
ture of the Magi, The Three Wise Men of the Christmas
story, which next to pictures or sculptures of the Mother
and Child, have always been the most popular subject in
religious art. .

Moreover, what better time than Christmas to find
a good example of this story? Find’ one indeed — the
homogenizers had almost blotted them out. I finally
found a box of cards with a traditional picture of the
Magi on camelback, dressed in eastern robes, carrying
their gifts and moving toward Bethlehem under the
Star

You the story. It is to be found ifi Mat-
thew 2:1-2, 7-11 and begins: ‘‘Now when Jesus was born
in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king,
behold there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem

It is a story which has inspired artists and

musicians, writers and researchers, the secular and

religious, for almost 2,000 years and is central to the
Nativity story. It is also a tale which belongs in the realm
of myth — not in the materialist or rationalist sense of
an imagined tale, but in the earlier and present day scien-
tific sense of an idea or symbol of a reality whose
meaning cannot be expressed in everyday language. It is
a language in which a man talks of his religious encoun.
ter with God or the theoretical physicist describes space.
time, the uncertainty principle or the eerie world of sub-
atomic particles which are not particles. It is the
language of symbols.

Firstly, though, we must remember that the Magi
were real enough in everyday terms. They were a
scholarly Persian sect who studied the stars and dreams
and were well regarded as prophets in that day. They
were also Gentiles.

According to the story, their studies reveal to them
that a king will be born in the little Jewish town of
Bethlehem. He will be divinely appointed and have great
power. They therefore undertake the long and hazar-
dous journey to Judea and bring with them suitable gifts
for the occasion — gold, frankincense and myrrh. At

HARD TO FIND.
Christmas cards bearing the Thr.
q

Wise Men,a
of the Ch .

First to consider in this regard is the number
of the searchers — three. The Greek philosopher and

this point, it is essential to examine the of
thestory. *

The searchers and the star come out of the East,
where the dawn originates, thus signalling the dawning
of anew day

Then, the Jews of that time were under the iron rule
of Rome and therefore a subject people. For many years
they had had a prophesy that a Messiah, a king would
come who would lead them once again to freedom and
that he would be born in Bethlehem. The actual
fulfilment of the prophesy, however, is revealed"not to
the Jews of the establishment but to three Gentiles and
then to a group of shepherds, the lowest men an the
Jewish totem pole — a further sign of events and
priorities to come.

The-story of the Three Wise Men, the Three Kings
is, ifvitself, a beautiful story. It also has a beauty in sym-
bolic logic as a mathematician would describe a well-
deleloped, proof of an abstract theorum, or an ecologist
the biome of all of living and non-living things makin,
upaforest :

P called three the ‘perfect
number”’ — expressive, among many other things, of
the beginning, the middle and the end — hence the sym-
bol for the Deity.

The story of the Magi is in three parts — the sear-
ch, the adoration and the departure by another way.

There are three gifts — gold, frankincense and
myrrh. Gold represents royalty, a King; frankincense is
an aromatic gum widely used in religious ceremonies
throughout the ancient world since incense is symbolic
of divinity; myrrh was another aromatic gum used both
as an incense and for anointing the dead, a prophetic
allusion to Christ’s persecution and death.

There were three groups of worshippers at that
Nativity — the angels of God, the Magi, who represen-
ted the most revered class of Gentiles in the ancient
world, and the shepherds.
Then, when the wise men found the Christ Child,
they rejoiced exceedingly, went into the house where He
lay and worshipped Him. Please note that though they

h studying |

CasNews columnist John Charters had a hard time finding

reflection, he says, of the

are men of the highest rank and Gentiles, they fell down
and worshipped Him, thus recognizing that He was not
only above all men but was to be the King of both Jews
and Gentiles. The gifts they presented were recognition
of His earthly and heavenly kingship.

It would only be after the most careful study that
these men would have determined the coming birth of
this God-King, its time and place. It would only be after
the most careful preparation that they would have ven-
tured on the long and hazardous journey to Bethlehem.
But once having started, they put their faith in the star
and completed their quest

The symbolism of the story of the Three Wise Men
is central to the story of the Nativity. It says just this: If
we are to free ourselves from this present aimless, drif-
ting, purposelessness and confusion, three things are
necessary — one, careful study to bring us to an under
standing of the significance of Christmas, that is, the
Nativity; two, the courage and faith to follow the star to
the cradle and the new day; and three, the wisdom and
humility to avoid the Herods of this world and to follow
the path which began for us almost 2,000 years ago.

Worth thinking about at this “holiday time.””

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By CasNews Staff
Stability of the property-tax system
and the level — and recent growth —

‘of school taxes emerged as the concer

ns most frequently eited by taxpayers
during public meetings on property
taxes held throughout the B.C. in
August and September

Problems with property taxes varied
by region and municipality demon-
strating the need for flexibility, says a
report from the four-member property
tax forum which held a public meeting
in Castlegar. The provincial gover-
nment released the report this week.

The report is a summary of the prin-
cipal comments of taxpayers and other
organizations about the property-tax

Valley to

VANCOUVER (CP) — Environ-
mentalists plan to flood the Carmanah
Valley next month with a ‘‘scientific
expedition’ comprised of
hydrologists, foresters and soil experts
from the Western Canada Wilderness
Committee and the Sierra Club.

Committee researcher Clinton
Webb said the army of scientists will
study creek flows. Their findings and
conclusions will be made public.

He said environmentalists fear
future logging could make the valley
more flood-prone, harm young spruce

system the forum obtained during its
tour of the province.
“Although the number of taxpayers

Municipal Affairs and the Union of
B.C. Municipalities.
Conrad Adams, who represented

providing tot
was small in relation to the total num-
ber of taxpayers in the province, I am
satisfied that the concerns expressed
were representative of property tax-
payers in general,” Finance Minister
Mel Couvelier said in a news release.

More than 500 submissions were
submitted to the forum.

Couvelier noted that the recom-
mendations of forum member Marilyn
Baker, mayor of North Vancouver
District, closely match those of a study
of local government financing under-
taken jointly by the Ministry of

be studied

groves and upset the
ecosystem.

“Everyone knows the valley
floods,’* he said. ‘‘But no one under-
stands the actual dynamics of what
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Stan Coleman, an official with
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd., which owns
the logging rights to the valley,
welcomed the study.

“Flooding in the Carmanah valley is
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Minister of Municipal Affairs Lyall
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forward recommendations to cabinet
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Copies of the report will be mailed to
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Ministry of Municipal Affairs,
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