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PAINT & WALLCOVERINGS 613 Columbia Ave. 7229-Sth Street, Castlegar, B.C. ° 365-6214 Grand Forks, B.C. © 442-2929 Sunflowe Sun staff Local golf aficionados can look forward to the 30th annual Sun- flower Open at the Castlegar Golf Course this upcoming weekend. Over 230 golfers are Participat- ing in seven flights—ygolf's term for skill Ievels—with over $7,000 in prizes for the taking, “We consider it a full field,” says Brian Turlock acting chair- man of the Sunflower Toumament. “Every type of golfer will be out,” he says, “From club professionals to 36 handicappers.” A lot of the talent is exp to hudoff and Danny Walker, both previous winners as well 2s Castle- gar club assistant-pro Steve John- ston who has finished as a runner-up twice, “If I'm ready to win, this year's the year,” says Johnston. “I'm Playing well at the moment.” Turlock says that while they don't normally get a lot of specta- tors, people are welcome to come out and cither follow a group around the holes or sit and watch froma single vantage point. New Jersey Devil spending summer come from outside Castlegar as People travel through the area to take in Sunfest, “The ratio this year is about three out-of-town golfers for every local,” says Turlock, Last year's champ Dan Dupuis has to be considered one of the early favorites but he will be com- peting against cight to 10 guys who have also won the tournament, says Turlock. He says some of the other favorites are: Colville’s Kent Brown; Creston Pro Randy Panton who won in '86; Ross Gibson of the Capilano club; Brian Debiasio, winner in '87 and '88; Bill Pere- mance Tire Far = = Imports = STARTING ‘AT: © STARTING AT! 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The 1991 Sunfest Biathlon will be the third edition of the event, that the Sunfest Biathlon was start- ed a few years ago as a fun event but the nature of the event has quickly, Originally conceived as a family event, the Sunfest Biathlon quickly became a very competitive event with up’ of 60 peti expected to take part on Sunday, June 2, ‘The race begins at 10 am at the Castlegar Community Complex, with seven categories to test each and every age group. The biathlon is a 46.6 kilometre race which has competitors running * and cycling. They will begin with a 5.8 kan run along 6th Ave to 27th St. and on to Columbia Ave. From there, the runners will take 32nd St. to 5th Ave. before retuming to the Castlegar Community Complex via 24th St and 6th Ave, Competitors will have little chance to rest as they will immedi- ately mount their bikes for a 35 kilometre road course. The cyclists will begin an end their joumey at the community complex, and will ride past the airport and the dam as | they make their way back to Columbia Ave. and the finish line. They won't be finished the event at that point though, as they : will leave their bikes and embark “on yet another 5.8 km run along the same course as their first run. and Campbell has been very impressed by the quality of the competitors. “The results have been very impressive, the times have actually been much better than I thought they would be,” Campbell said. “In 1990, Gerald Klassen had the low- est time among the men at one hour 32 minutes while Sharon Best had the lowest time among women at one hour 43 minutes.” In 1989, the first year for the event, 45 competitors took on the 46.6 km course while 55 braved the elements last year, “We just awful weather last year, I was surprised that so many people tumed out,” notes Camp- bell. The Recreation Department are hoping for much better weather this year, allowing for another strong increase in the number of competi- tors and for a large tumout of spec- tators to cheer on the athletes. As mentioned earlier, there are seven categories of competition. Four are set up by age, with 19 and under, 20 -29, 30 - 39 and 40 and aquatic centre reconditioning himself for next season. JIM ZEEBEN Devils. Unf y an injury Sun staff — * Claude Vilgrain, a pro-hockey player whose career has included a brief stint with the Canucks and currently the New Jersey Devils, is in Castlegar this summer and will be taking part in a hockey school along with several other NHLers and local hockey people. “I loved Vancouver,” said Vil- grain. “I was disapointed with the trade” The trade was an off-season move which sent Vilgrain to the THE CANADA EMPLOYMENT TRE CEN FOR STUDENTS is open for business and ready to serve employers and students! 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The two met at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary while Vil- grain was playing for the Canadian Olympic team. Five from SHSS move on to track provincials “Sun Staff 7. Stanley Humphries Senior Sec- ondary will be sending five ath- Ietes to the B.C, Provincial Track and Field championships at Swan- gard Stadium in Vancouver, Wendy Closkey and Amy Rogers will be making their sec- ond consecutive trip to the high school provincials, having quali- fied in racewalking and 400 meters respectively, Closkey finished in second Place in racewalking at last week's zone meet in Cranbrook, finishing in a time of eight minutes, 55 sec- onds, Rogers also earned a second place finish in the 400 meters. Three other athletes from SHSS will be joining Closkey and Rogers at provincials, as high Jumper Rory Perrier, discus throw- er Rhonda Dawes and shot putter _ Alex Fasthuber eamed regional berths, Perrier carned SHSS' only first place finish at the Cranbrook meet, taking top honors in the high jump despite a pulled thigh muscie. Dawes and Fasthuber placed second in their respective events, Racers promising that records will fall It’s damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead as Fraser Valley Drag Boat Association racers attempt to set a new Canadian record for the quarter- 1 mile on the Columbia River at Castlegar during the Sunfest weekend. “That the place to set a record,” stated Gary Bergeron, Chairman of the Canadian Boating Federation for BC and FVDBA club announcer. “The "water is smooth and perfect and there are no spectator boats driving around. > The guys (racers) don’t have to worry and they set their boats on kill. You 3 Can tune a boat to run fast. Or you can tune a boat to mun really fast. That’s “why you see boats blow up so much up there.” Drag boat racing is not a sport for the faint of heart, or the poor of pock- et. “All boats that run the quarter mile in 11 seconds or quicker must have a parachute for the driver,” explained Bergeron. “It’s for safety reasons, to slow the guy down before he hits the water if there is an accident.” As well, some of the boats, including all of the soon rucled racers, equipped with parachutes to bring the boat to a stop following the race. It can, in fact, take another quarter of a mile to stop a drag boat even with the help of a parachute. Spectators will see a variety of drag boats at the Castlegar event. Flats, or flat-bottom aviation-fueled boats, will run he quarter-mile straight track in anywhere from eight to 15 seconds; outboards can cover the distance in 11 to 12 seconds; and the stars of the show, the alcohol fueled hydro boats, fly over the course in under seven seconds. “The record right now is 6.58 seconds, that’s 180 mph unofficially,” said Bergeron. he added that the time is official and the speed computed from the time. Missoula is the only American representative in the 11-team tour- nament and by going through the round-robin undefeated they've become the favorites to take home the $1000 first-place prize-money. Anderson and his team travel the Western U.S. and Canada entering fast-ball toumneys. He says that most of the Canadian series they play in have money rid- ing on them and that they plan to get a piece of the $2200 pot today. becoming over making up the different events, There will be a large assort- ment of prizes, supplied by Gerick Cycle and Sports, for the top finish- ers among both the men and women in each event. Banjos, helped in part by a cou- ple of carly home runs off of Nel- Son’s starting pitcher, takes an early lead over the Athletics and go on to win the game 7-3. The victory sets up a classic patcheap for the last game of the Ys The home-team's champions, Castlegar Banjos, against the only team to beat them in the touma- ment so far—Missoula, Montana, No matter what happens the Spectators are the real winners. The foul weather that plagued the opening of the on ps field in weekend tournament American guns losing ina quick they bad good sticks—all nine bat- game 8-0, “We were expecting a pretty good ball game,” says Anderson. “We jumped out pretty early and set the tone in the first inning,” Eli Soukeroff was on the mound for Banjos in defeat. “I tried to keep the ball low,” he says, “But ters were good batters,” Soukeroff says that they were even hitting his pitch-outs, “Their pitching was hitable but their sticks were unbelievable.” For their second place finish Banjos took home $600 in prize money, — NOTICEQF "ANNUAL GENERAL MEETIN Saturday morning threatened to tum the field into a mud bowl. But the fans prevailed and now line the perimeters of the diamond to take in the summer weather and watch some competitive tourna- ment fastball. Unfortunately, for the home town crowd, the Castlegar team comes up flat against the big Your Family Restaurant Off Highway 38, Trall, B.C. 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