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A peripatetic letter to my friends: Friday, March
1991

22,

We are CETEC ohreracia flight from Vancouver
to Castlegar after a week's visit to the coast, ee
through thick cloud and I like it. It combines 9
of mystery with a sort of suspension in time, a limbo
or a cocoon, and reflects therefore; my present state
of mind.

On the trip down I read two excellent articles in
the Time Air magazine, The Canadian, One was on
beautiful Leeds Castle, east of London, and a longer
One was on the City of York, both very familiar
Places to us, but | have no wish to read of them so
soon again. On the other hand my 1,026 page-book
Aztec which I am reading for background niaterial

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attendant, Sandy Bisgrove, deh and efficient, pretty
and polite, moves quickly up and down the aisle —
hard candy for ascent and descent, drinks and snacks
for in-between and a sharp eye for all that should be,
She is a pleasure to watch; besides I admire deft and
competent people. She is also undeniably feminine, a
decided asset for all concerned.

I wonder what happened to the concept and
recognition of femininity? While it is a popular
adjective in most women's magazines, it is almost
non-existent in ordinary conversation and particularly
in the feminist vocabulary. Nonetheless it is one of
the most potent weapons in every woman's very
considerable armory, so that to deny it is like going
into the boxing ring with one hand tied behind the
back. Ah, well — ‘*we live in a mad, mad world, my
masters,"' ‘

Now we are back in the valley, our valley of the
West Kootenay and the Lower Arrow, with the

between Vancouver = sob nomied
Canhews photic by

Reflections
and
recollections

By John Charters

sunshine and the Columbia River eres
wandering down below. Our journey on
becomes a movie in 3- D and “hills ace o'er hills,
and Alps on Alps arise.’
I never tire of this ever-varied, ever-changing, yet

I have heard but don’t understand, however,
that there are certain misguided or claustrophobic
folk who feel hemmed in by the hills and prefer
instead the endless stretches of prairies, or even the
glacier-eroded contours of Ontario. De gustibus est
non disputandum (about tastes there is no disputing).

only commiserate — and hope.
We had gone to the coast on the bargain Night

lan — Bunny to a gourmet cooking class, 1 to keep
oie ng-overdue appointment with the editor of the
Beautiful British Columbia magazine, and both of us
to visit with relatives, as well as to make preliminary
plans for a clan gathering in August on our 25th. In
all of these we were successful, thanks to hospitable
and understanding family and friends.

The Castlegar and district walkabout earlier in
the week with CBC radio Daybreak host, Nei
Gillon, and the subsequent broadcast last vot
served as a fine focus for initial discussion w
Beautiful B.C. editor Bryan McGill, (on the Sileane
story scheduled for next year). He had liked the
earlier Zuckerberg Island article which had drawn so
many visitors to the park and now wanted a broader

cope and a more personal point of view of the
Castlegar district — past, present and future —
particularly now with the reconstruction of the Celgar
pulp mill, First draft is due in July. I'll start, I think,
_with our-arrival at the Castlegar Railway Station 43

is to be half done.
Victoria, I paid an all-too-

short two-hour visit to John Munday, oo
missionary to Equador, now invalided hom:
Physically he seems to be coping but cnotonl and
physically he is in the bottom of the b
depressed and without purpose or oaaiitincs A brief
card or note, without expectation of an early reply,
would, I think, be a per help. (107-1130 Pandora St.,
Victoria, B.C. VBV

I have just ih day to my considerable surprise,
my 75th birthday and I would like to thank those

my much admired friends, Marjorie West and Joe
Killough, older but never old, for there is too much
yet to see, to know and to do. And now it is time to
be done.

P.S. Just happened across a journal note | madé

Aactly five years ago. It reads: ‘How do | feel at 70?
Little different than I did at 60 or $0, other than |
have to get up a bit more often in the night and have
a little more difficulty getting my boots on.""

Since 70 is the great life expectancy average for
Canadian males, everything is now on the credit side
of the ledger and all my days pure gain. How lucky
can you get?

Finally, our very best wishes to Rev. Ted Bristow
and his new life in Ontario. Long may your lum reek!
Sorry we couldn't be at your farewell party on
Sunday. We were ai a symphony concert in Spokane.

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The Castlegar and District
Golf Course is now fully
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TRIVIA

Which team holds the
Stanley Cup playoff record
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" TRANSACTIONS _

der the new four-year
agreement signed by major
league umpires Monday, the

Har
Harry Wendelstedt, will aay
$210,000 a year: $175,000 in
salary, $20,000 from the post-
nm pool and $6,000 for
being crew chiefs.

SCHOOL SPORTS

"Given the criteria’ we
have, there wasn't that many

on the college's stiff standar-
ds when it comes to selecting
its male and female student
athletes of the year. See sto
on this page.

SLO-PITCH

t yers
dusting off the gloves and
Sees, Oe out cs the ball parks
thi
Slo-piteh copies and
tecreational leagues in
with games at diamonds
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College athletes make the

To hit the big time as an athlete
Selkirk Sigs you first have to hie

It was a fag thade clear Thursday
night at the Comanunity Complex as
the college handed out awards to
its best seston athletes.

“We don't separate academics
from athletics said college

Rob Johnson,
“Student athletic awards are
recognition for students who are able
to combine outstanding performance
in athletics and academics. And
that’s a reflection of our philosophy
which is that athletics is an integral
part of a total education.’

The two who managed to best
juggle sports and school in the 1990-
91 school year were Kevin Hearne of
Salmo and Holly Pommier of South
Slocan who were named the college's
male and female student athletes of
the year at the ceremon

“You got me, I don't know what
to say,"’ Hearne said Friday mor-
ning. ‘It's a little different than get-
ting (just) athlete of the year. It’s a
student athlete, so it's a little more,
and there’salot of good athletes
here this year. It's a great feeling.”

A co-captain of the men's soccer
team for the last two years, Hearne
was selected as a provincial -all-star
this season by coaches from other
colleges in the B.C. Colleges Athletic
Association.

The physical education and
biology major also shared the team's

this

He did all of that while main-
taining a 3.5 grade point average
(out of a possible four poin

“What can you say about him?

He’s an exceptional person," said
Johnson, who was a member
five-person selection committee that
picked Pommier and Hearne for the
s.
Hearne said there's really no secret
to making the grade on and off the
eld

field.

“Athletics takes a lot of your
time, so athletes tend to have lower
marks. But you can k them
(marks) up with hard work and a lit-
tle bit of brains. It's difficult, but
you just have to use your time

Pommier, a first-year dag
transfer student major ng in

KEVIN HEARNE
-++ almost speechless

own. beat Hearne by a per-
entage point with a 3.6 GPA and
layed this season for the women's
volleyball t
fou pies, she's just- a really
nice kid, she’s a good person," ae
Johnson. “She's a
student and a very
athlete.”’
Other award winners included
Castlegar's Sheri Chernenkoff who

dedicated

‘as named most val

uable player in

wi
of the“ women's volleyball while Victoria

Gritchen of Castlegar won the
striving for excellence award. Robin
Wartiner of Nelson was the team's
rookie of the year

All-Canadian selection Tad. Lake”

B also
recognized with the athictic excellen-

excellence award and Ch
of Slocan Park was rookie of the

cross- comey running
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Anna Riggio of Nelson was rookie
runner of the year.

iggio was also campus
recreation’s female participant
champion while Bill

good sportsmanship, egntributign to
team spirit and mor: and sifce
dedication.1o the sport and team ob
jectives

Joe Moreira of Mount Sentinel
secondary school was named the
recipient of the Award of Merit for
his outstanding contributions tc
Perea volleyball coaching and of.
ficiat

Women’ 8 volleyball team member
Lara Podmorow of South Slocan
won the Columbia Brewing Co
scholarship which is based on high
GPA and participation.

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Expos, Blue Jays still searching
for Series after all these years

By TERRY SCOTT
The Canadian Press

Change one word in a Paul Simon
song title and you have, in a nut-
shell, a historical perspective of the
Montreal Expos and Toronto Bluc

SATURDAY FEATURE

Pete Rose and Mark Langston into a
long-established, some might say
blase, unit. Each time, the test tube
blew up in the face of Expos
management.

The Blue Jays, for the most part,
tried a different approach. Gener:
manager Pat Gillick long eschewed
the parachuting of outside help,
preferring to let the Bells, the Bar-
elds and the Mosebys develop a
continuity that would provide the
key ingredient 10 eee
baseball. It almost resulted in
World Series in

But. when that failed, so-called

Players, like Mookie
added

“Fernandez, Fred McGriff and Bell

have been dispatched, like Barfield
and Moseby before them, in the
hopes that Joe Carter or Roberto
Alomar might be ad forall element
in the chemical

“You've got to cadets when

Dennis Martinez 4s a potential leader
and a le solution to what the
veteran pitcher perceived as the ab-
sence of a take-charge person in the
clubhou:
Sitting quietly i in the dugout before
@ Spring-traifing game in West Palm
McRae,
instructor,
chuckled when the issue of team
erecta and proper chemistry was
ret
s a player with the Kansas City
Py from 1973 et 1986, hea
was_segarded as -
spirational leader.
So just how important is
chemistry, in McRac's view?

“Really, with the Royals, it was
just something that evolved,"" McRae
said, “I had been there a number of
years and gradually, we kept getting
new players through our system,

McNall
courts’
ismail

TORONTO (CP) — From boar-
drooms to ballgames and nightspots
to a quick jaunt to the west coast
and the Stanley Cup playoffs, the
courtship of Raghib (Rocket) Ismail
has begun in earnest for the CFL’s
Toronto Argos.

And if Israall, the all-American
wide receiver-kick returner from
Notre Dame, is at all im
glamor and ro’ treatment,
goodbye NFL, hello SkyDome.

Ismail, projected as the first

it’s

Argo owner Bruce McNall treats his
people during a whirlwind, coast-to-
~~ tour which Wed:
in South Bend, Ind., and will wind
up peer weekend in Los Angeles.

smail

whisked to the SkyDome, where they
met with Sue Waks, vice-chairman

of McNall Sports and Entertainment,
and Roy Mlakar, executive
President of McNall’s Los Angeles
Kin,

Bs.
Then, they met with
media prior to the 2 ee Blue Jay-
Boston Red Sox
After that, it was sar tt, to check out
the nightlife of Toronto along with
Matt Dunigan,

morning, a fight to the west coast in
the afternoon for meetings with Mc-