V sy, . as Castlegar News 4100»! 13, 1999 UTS On we VANCOUVER (CP) — Harry Longul hasn't hada full-time job since 1971 But Longul, 43, getting a letter from Social Services Minister Claude Richmond telling him and 48,999 other nts they will be cut off unless they proved is pounding the pavement after employable’ welfare recip they were seeking work While Richmond now says his only intention was to get people into offices for appointments, Longul and others interviewed this week say they took the threat “very seriously."* People keep telling me I'm too old, after several hours spent inquiring at different firms “For a job that pays $10 an hour, they want you to have Longul said your own transportation and tools. “1 haven't got the money for that. | don’t even have a phone Longul applied at without. success. A manufacturer unqualified, Several hotel mana hiring and Canadian Tire gave him an application form When he first collected welfare in 1971 Now, 18 years later, he and his com several East End businesses told him he was 's said they weren't he was get ting $280 a month mon-law wife split $581 NOTMUCH LEFT the rent and buy some food and “Once we pay e toiletries, there isn’t anything left to by clothes I ongul, who has a Grade& eduicatio Until a few months ago, he was classified as unem ployable. But in a major re-evaluation, he and thousan dsofothers wererectassified and-cut by $S0-amonth Dave Melvin, ployable although he grew up on welfare and has collec: ted it himself for the last nine years. ‘in always looking for work, buying the paper W job 26, has always been classified em. “he said after an unsuccessful day But every time I look for a job. evdry day hunting Grade 12 or Grade 11 education they want a There's not much you can get with a Grade 7 education. I can’t write too much.”* Richmond says he’s * Melvin’s with his letter “We're trying to help some of these young peopl who are in their 20s so they are not sitting around at $8 or 62 on welfare. W of thes people trying to save lives “Il see if we can save some SHOW PROOF He added no one should feel threater ter which said **no further benefits.will be attac dby th unless you list your efforts on the return it to your local ministry district office prior to tt issue ot the September cheque Ina similar crackdown in the Okanagan recent! Richmond said letters were sent to 699 employables af ter orchardists complained they couldn't get pickers Threat serious to welfare reci chi k ration economist was only due to an influx of' students into the job vark Ogopogo sighting recorded KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) Car salesman Ken Chaplity says he has seen Ogopogo, the mythical serpent-like reature said to inhabit Okanagan Lake, and showed a video Thursday to proveit And the video of the five-to-six metre-long creature filmed by the Salmon Arm, B.C., resident has im pressed a local Ogopago expert and a once-skeptical mayor Ht “What Ken's got is althost a Rem brandt compared to any other kind of pictures that lake,"’ said Arlene Gaal, the city’s Ogopogo ex pert shot on *s in closer than anyone else and we have actual movement and actions There is no doubt in my mind we're. looking at an animal that hasn't been classified yet,"” Mayor Jim Stuart, who said before the video presentation that Ogopogo is a myth that's been perpetrated for years,"” was impressed by. the video and still photos of the creature. “There are sufficient photographs in different positions to indicate there is a creature there that a person who is not familiar with marine biology would have a hard time to identify, said Stuart The likened the some photos to that of a crocodile mayor image in LEFT. WORK Chaplin took time off from his job last month to film the creature after his father, Clem, 77 insisted he had spot ted it July 9 while walking beside the lake “Dad doesn’t lie and he stretch the truth,”’ Chaplin said The edited to keep the ition secret, shows a black or dark frown head swimming through the water with a long half-submerged body behind In one sequence it turns toward the camera then dives During the dive, a pointed tail stands straight up then two hind feet or flip pers follow it into the water Chaplin said the shots were taken about 25 metres away but he has seen CLAUDE RICHMOND . . ‘trying to save lives’ We managed to close 449 cases of the 699. mond said whether it’s two Roslyn Kunin 4 tederal a said while British C olurm available unskilled Mts would qualify for ak We want to encourage people to take doesn hs or one day video, employ me lots of jobs most welfare those paving minimum or are part time For the weil-paid jobs (more than $10 an hour) a r moves closer »yer is asking fora lot of experience,’ she said Some of the employers may well be interested in are people. It depends on the person’sattitude and neere desire to work The B« up from 8.8 per cent in June unemployment rate rose in hy But Kunin said the the creature nine times from as close as 10 metres and his father saw it from as tand the employment situation is still gc closeas five metres Phenomenal Phil completes run at the finish line HALIFAX (CP) Declaring he another 50 kilometres, Phil schedule could run Latulippp splashed some cool water Lgcal org from the Atlantic Ocean on his face Saturday, ner’s second record-setting run from ask him to jc ending the 70-year-old run- cr ‘ coast to coast Under balmy skies, the I Que Point PI Halifax h from Vancouver in 134 days tteville, He does ama finish line at but he does ama said Wright resident crossed the rance to He left Latulippe shaved 16 day on April Lon a6 record for the oldest person ta. com- raise money tor th plete a coast-to. strun A reco! 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The girls camp is entering its 12th season and the interest in the camp is high with the arrival of guest instructor Bev Smith. Smith is a former University of B.C coach and was a Canadian national team member. She will be in the camp for two or three days before heading off to Italy to play professionally this fall @ basketball players of all ages will be returning to SHSS for the 12th season of the girls’ summer camp. Hoopsters meet at SHSS camp The boys camp will head into its second consecutive summer the week following the girls’ session. Hickey is looking at doubling the turnout from last year. The players come to the camp from Nelson, Sparwood and Grand Forks, among other regions, to hone up on their court skills before the start of the new season. “We like to work on the fun- damentals,"" said Hickey. ‘But we're also developing our own program.” Hickey says many of the players that attend the summer camps are members of SSHS_ basketball squads. Other instructors involved with mp are John Eggleton and Jack Closkey, both teachers at SHSS. BCAHA select Rockies’ coach By CasNews Staff The British Columbia Amateur Hockey Association has dipped into the local junior hockey league to fill one of the openings on its development staff. Tom Renney, former coach of the Columbia Valley Rockies Junior B team in the Kootenay International Hockey League, has been named project co-ordinator for the BCAHA Renney joins Bill Ennos and executive director Don Freer as part of the office management team to provide hockey services and to carry out BCAHA policy under the direction of the BCAHA executive. During his coaching career with the Rockies, Renney lead the team to the league championship in the past two seasons and capped it off by capturing the B.C and Western Canadian championships The 34-year-old Renney has been an active participant in the National Coaches Certification Program, com- pleting the Advanced Two level, and in the Best Ever Program, coaching B.C.’s 1987 Canada Winter Games team and the 1988 Pacific Region un der-17 team Both Ennos and Renney will be in- volved in the planning, administration and delivery of hockey programs in B.C., including the National Coaches and Referees Certification Programs, Administrative Development Programs and Player Development Programs. SABERHAGEN GETS VICTORY Toronto bows to Royals KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Four years after a 160-pound Bret Saberhagen won the Cy Young Award, a 190-pound Bret Saberhagen is throwing the ball better than ever The Kansas City right-hander is even starting to beat ina while, the team that’s given him more trouble than any other since he arrived in the major leagues in 1984 A six-hit, 6-2 victory Friday night came on the heels of a three-hit, 2-1 verdict in Toronto's SkyDome. For the season, he’s now 13-5. For his career, he’s 3-7 against the Blue Jays. I’ve got a lot of confidence behind me,’ said Saberhagen, a winner in 10 of his last 11 decisions. “My fastball has improved since came up in 1984 and | think weight has something to do with it. I've filled out quite a bit, gaining about 30 pounds since 1985. My curveball’s been im proving every year. When you've got a lot of confidence, good things can happen."’ Toronto played the last four innings without Tony Fernandez, who took himself ‘out of the game after Striking out three times and commit ting an whose average plained before leaving mental exhaustion Toronto once Fernandez, 241, Toronto of error has slipped to com Saberhagen lost his shutout Friday night in the ninth when George Bell doubled and Fred McGriff hit his league-leading 31st The shutout would have been his third of home run. Injured Lion out of lineup VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C tailback Anthony Cherry broke his jaw in a 33-13 loss to Edmonton on Wed- nesday and will miss two to four weeks, Lions head coach Joe Galat said The diminutive speedster, who had collected 137 yards and one touch down in five games this season, was hurt when he was hit behind the play, Galat said ‘ “When you lose a back of Tony Cherry’s calibre you're always concer ned,” said Galat, who took over as coach last Sunday when he fired Larry Donovan Galat, who is also the Lions general manager, said Darrell Wallace will replace Cherry when the 0-5 Lions play host to the Toronto Argos on Tuesday Wallace will be joined by fullback Anthony Parker, sidelined by a kne weeks. “It would be nice to have both An. thonys in the backfield, but I believe we have a good solid football player in Darrell Wallace,” Galat said Wallace, who has been used on punt returns, scored a touchdown against the Hamilton Tiger Cats two weeks ago ona 91-yard return. who been in recent has injury IT'S OUTTA HERE . . . Local teams competed in a slopitch tourney held over this weekend at Kinnaird Park. This hitter cranks a trip! to start @ big rally. Costtews photo by Guy Be the year and tied him for the league lead, His ninth complete games does tie him with California's Chuck Finley for tops in the league. “I guess I was starting to get a little tired, but I wanted to finish the game," the team’s day off Mookie Wilson, who arrived late after encountering travel difficulties during “What happened to Mookie could have happened to anybody,”’ Gaston said. But he was less forgiving of Fer nandez “Anybody on this team who doesn’t want to play, 1 don’t want to play them,” said Gaston Thursday Saberhagen said. The loss prevented the Blue Jays from gaining the AL East race on Baltimore, which split a doubleader with Boston. “We always used to be able to han die him pretty good, even in 1985," Said Toronto Manager Cito Gaston. “But we haven't been able to do a thing with him the last two games.”” “They've given mea lot of trouble in the past,’* Saberhagen said. ‘But two games doesn’t turn around a career against a team. I've still got to go oyt there and throw the ball just as well as I did tonight to have any chance of beating them. They've got an outstan- ding lineup.”” The Royals put their leadoff hitter ‘on base the first five innings against Mike Flanagan, 6-8, but were frustrated by four double plays. Finally, they broke through with four runs in the eighth to give Saberhagen breathing room KANSAS C out of Kansas City striking out thr anerror Gaston. “He Gaston said just came by enough, clubhouse,’ Fernandez, Tony Fernandez took himself Toronto's Cito Gaston, said he would talk to his shortstop before deciding whether he would play on Saturday “Tony took himself out,’ said he’d had enough Fernandez left. “I haven't talked to him — he and Tony is tired ITY, Mo. (AP-CP) weeks earlier in the season when he was struck in the face by a pitch, has just three hits in his last 31 at bats 241. He only game against Friday night after ee times and making and is batting declined comment, saying “It's personal,”’ and walked away clearly angered, from reporters “He's had some adversity and he's never given up, so I guess I am surprised at this,"’ Gaston said said walked by me and Asked if Fernandez would play Saturday, the manager “We'll have to wait and see. That's not a decision | would want tomake without talking tothe man said, he had no idea why and sleeping on it overnight” Fernandez said midway through the week that he was exhausted ‘It’s tough to smile,"” he said “There's too much pressure.” and said he’s had went in the Gaston said who missed five The Blue Jays were without fielder Expos top Bucs to MONTREAL (CP) — The radio blared rock music across the clubhouse and faces creased with concern only hours earlier now crinkled with a smile. For the moment, the crisis had passed for the Montreal Expos, who were effective, if not overhwleming in defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-1 Friday night to end a season-high, seven-game losing streak “*We needed it,”’ said Mark Langston, the left-hander who won his 10th game in 13 decisions with what manager Buck Rodgers termed a workmanlike six-hitter. “* We knew we had to come back home and get things turned around.”* The Expos were greeted by a receptive audience of 30,123 when they first took the field after the 3-7 road trip that knocked them out of first place in the National League East Division. The crowd was equally enthusiastic when the last out was recorded and the Expos had kept pace with the first place Chicago Cubs, whom they trail by 2 1/2 games. “That was important,” said Langston. “We've had people rooting against us on the road. It was good to come home toa nice reception.”” ERRORS COSTLY The Expos also got a gentle push from the Pirates, who committed two costly errors in the third inning. Damaso Garcia, who had followed Otis Nixon’s one-out single with a one-base hit, jarred the ball loose from second baseman LEAFS CHANGE EARL return home and snap slump Jose Lind after he had got a force-out at second base. Nixon, who was running on the pitch to Andres Galarraga, scored on the error Tim Raines followed with a single, and Galarraga, hustling to third, raced home with the second run when cen tre fielder John Cangelosi threw the ball into the Pirates’ dugout for another error The Expos’ offence, which has slumbered in recent weeks, continued to nap through the first seven innings, managing only six hits off starter John Smiley, 9-7 But it awoke against reliever Doug Bair in the eighth, as Galarraga slammed a two-out solo home run; his 17th, and Hubie Brooks delivered a single that scored Tim Raines, who had singled and stolen second base. The runs were timely, since Barry Bonds's double-play ball, with Bobby Bonilla and Glenn Wilson at the corners, after a double and single respectively to open the inning, had cut Montreal's margin to 2-1 in the seventh Langston, who has won eight of his last nine decisions, loweréd his earned-run average to 1.90, the best in the league. Expos notes: Shortstop Spike Owen leads the National League in intentional walks with 22. . . The Expos have lost 202 career games against the Pirates, the most against any NL team . . . Right-hander Bryn Smith celebrated his 34th birthday Friday Y Toronto GM resigns TORONTO (CP) — Gord Stellick, who left the general manager’s job with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday, didn’t even get a chance to file for unemployment, says a Toronto radio station. CICL reported Saturday that Stellick, 32, has reached an agreement to join the New York Rangers as the assistant geperal manager of the National Hockey League club. Speculation had Stellick heading for Detroit or the Rangers, where ex-Red Wing chief scout Neil Smith has replaced Phil Esposito as general manager. Joe Bucchino, Esposito’s assistant, was fired recently When it was suggested to Stellick on a radio phone-in show Friday night that he had a job waiting in New York, he said I have no formal contract discussions with anyone. But to be honest, Neil Smith and I have always got along very well.”” A spokesman for the Rangers, however, said the report was “‘positively not true.” “‘What?"’ said the spokesman. GM (Smith) is out of the country.”” “My first thought is, what are we going to do without him,”’ said George Armstrong, the coach and director of player personnel. Stellick handed Leafs owner Harold Ballard his resignation and the perks that accompany it — the $115,000 annual salary, the company credit cards and keys to acom pany car. At a news conference Friday, Stellick said he ap- proached Ballard in his office at Maple Leaf Gardens in the morning. He said he understood Ballard was unhappy with his work “Mr. Ballard said, ‘Well, you're just not getting results,’ ** recalled Stellick. ‘‘Then I told him I thought it was in the best interests of the team that I resign." Stellick, 32, had worked at the Gardens for 4 years in Progressive positions. By 1987, he had become assistant general manager and in April 1988, when Gerry McNamara was fired, he assumed the GM role. He did not have a con. tract “If he doesn’t want to stay around, | don’t want him working around here,”’ the cantankerous Ballard growled toa reporter. But he added: *‘I was sorry to see him go. He was with mea long time. But he spent too much time trying to pacify the media. ‘*He didn’t have enough experience. When | first hired “It’s not true. Our him, I thought he could do it, but we must have bitten off more than we could chew Ballard said he would replace Stellick from within the organization. However, he told a Toronto Star columnist that Frank Bonello, a former Toronto Marlboro coach now with the NHL Scouting Bureau, was the favored can didate When McNamara Calgary Flames — learned about the resignation, he said “‘Mr. Ballard gives you the Chinese water torture and then you quit. The difference between (Stellick) and myself is that I had a four-year contract and he didn’t Leafs forward Ed Olczyk said pressure was building and something had to give now an advance scout for the “From a player's standpoint, these are things I can’t control. | have other things to worry about. On the ninth of September, we have to be prepared.for training camp,”’ he said FINALSTRAW Stellick said Ballard started a campaign to undermine him last December when he fired coach John Brophy again st the owner’s wishes. The final straw came in a weekend newspaper inter in which Ballard, who just turned 86, said that Stellick was too young for the job. He indicated a suc- cessor was chosen view I tried to be a general manager, that’s what hap: pened,"’ Stellick said. ‘*I think (Ballard) still likes me. But 1 think after Punch (Imlach) he didn’t want a real GM any more. “I still think he’s a great man} He has a great zeal for life. It's just that the hockey is now second or third around here. I hope he starts considering what's good for the hockey club again, not just what's right for Harold Ballard."* Stellick made a number of trades during his short tenure, but the deal that became a ‘public relations night mare"’ came in November when the Leafs sent fleet centre Russ Courtnall to the Montreal Canadiens for tough guy John Kordic. Courtnall, whose finesse style of play wasn’t ap- preciated by Brophy, received limited ice time in Toronto He went to Montreal, where he became one of the ‘Canadiens topoffensive threats duringuhie playorts. Kordic, meanwhile, spent most of his time-on the ben- chin Toronto.