As Castlegar News November 14, 1990 LOCAL NEWS Nelson-Creston NDP candidate Corky Evans, a loqees: discusses logging methods with students from W.E. Graham school while touring Local NDP candidate conducts field trip Fifteen students and teachers from W.E. Graham school in Slocan City learned about selective logging first- hand last week from Corky Evans, the NDP candidate for Nelson- Creston. Evans, who makes his living as a logger, toured several sites in the Slocan Valley with the group, showing them a wide variety of logging methods and discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each. Evans also showed the group several examples of sites he had selectively logged over a 20-year period The field trip was part of a week long environmental awareness event at the school that also featured speakers, panel discussions, debates, workshops and an environmental fair. Other field trips were to the forestry program at Selkirk College, the meteorological station § at Castlegar Airport, the recycling cen- tre in Nelson and a major food store. Although the event was organized by staff and community members, the impetus came from the students “‘Last year the junior-secondary school students indicated a strong desire for programs about environ mental issues,”’ Joanne Ellis, one of the organizers, said in a news release “This event focused on environmen: tal appreciation but also what students can do to change the current trend toward environmental degradation.”” Crisis continued from page A& some cases failing to help the user distinguish the horizon in the desert after dark, the analysts say. * Navigational instruments in some cases have proven inadequate, with tanks becoming lost in the featureless terrain Satellite navigation, already in use with some formations, can solve the problem. © U.S. Patriot surface-to-air missiles, the first line of defence against Iraq’s modified Scud-B ballistic missiles, are reported to have been affected by heat, despite air conditioners that cool the computer software. * Heat can also affect an aircraft's electronic warfare pods used to “blind” an enemy’s air defences * U.S. protective clothing designed for survival under nuclear, biological or chemical attack required filters to be changed “It takes five minutes to change the filter. 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For more information For an information package on the changes to nent ployment Insurance, call UOU-3b 163 For more information on your claim, contact your local Canada Employment Centre. | wy | raincenacenalad ae . Emploi et Banjo's shoots to top of CRHL By CasNews Staff With expansion of the National Hockey League on the horizon, Potential new teams could take lessons on how to succeed from Ban- jo’s Pub in the Castlegar Recreational Hockey League. With a good mix of CRHL veterans and some new faces, Ban- jo’s — the fourth wheel in the rec league this year — has shot to the top of the standings with a 6-2-2 record after two more wins. Banjo’s thumped Woodland Park Shell 15-1 Monday after resting over the weekend following the team’s 5-2 win Friday over Hi Arrow. Hi Arrow scored late in the game Tuesday night to earn a 4-4 tie with Sandman Inn in other action this week. In Monday’s game, Brent Petrick led the goal parade for Banjo’s with four while James Verigin and Chief Mercer each scored three. Mercer League stats, page B2 leads the league in goals with 16 and is tied for first in scoring with Clay Martini of Hi Arrow and Dan Walker of Shell. All three have 34 points. Vince Antignani Jr. with two, Doug Knowler, Lorne Anderson and Adrian Markin with one each also scored for Banjo’s which built up a 9-0 lead before surrendering a power- play goal to Shell’s Bob Larsh early in the third period. Tim Horcoff tended nets for Ban- jo’s and Dan Wallace faced the rub- ber for Shell. In Tuesday’s game, Hi Arrow held the lead three times before Wayne Salekin put Shell ahead 4-3 with just 2:17 to go in the game. But that lead didn’t hold up either as Hi Arrow's Tom Fawley scored less than a minute later to earn the tie. Cory Day, Darwin Anderson and Darrel Bojechko also scored for Sandman Dave Terhune, Kelly Keraiff on the power play and Martini each had a goal for Hi Arrow. Barry Grunerud for Hi Arrow and Tim Swanson for Sandman tended goal In Friday’s game, Verigin got the hattrick to lead Banjo’s to the 5-2 win. Mercer and Antignani Jr. into an empty net added singles. Gary Sauer and Keraiff scored for Hi Arrow Play resumes Thursday with Ban- jo’s taking on Sandman at the Community Complex. Game time is 9:30 p.m. On Friday, Hi Arrow faces off against Shell at Pioneer Arena. Game time is 9 p.m. Hurd scores four By CasNews Staff Right” winger Kelly Hurd of Castlegar had four goals and four assists last weekend in helping the Michigan Tech Huskies to a home- ice sweep of the Alaska-Fairbanks Nanooks. Huskies defenceman Dar- cy Martini, also of Castlegar, picked up one assist on the weekend. On Saturday, Hurd, a draft pick of the Detroit Red Wings, had two goals and three assists to help the Huskies to a 5-3 fi behind Curling Club. Story, page B2. The Castlegar Senior Men's Curling League is back in action for a new season at the Castlegar Curling Club with 16 rinks competing. Eight rinks were in action today at the CasNews photo by Donna Zuber Blues down Nordiques; off to best start ever By KEVIN McGRAN The Canadian Press The St. Louis Blues felt they got away with a sub-par performance. But having an off night is OK for one of the NHL's best teams when it’s playing one of the worst. That was the case Tuesday when St. Louis defeated the Quebec Nor- diques 4-2 “Sometimes when you get into a roll, you can find a way to win,’’ said Geoff Courtnall of the Biues. “twe sure ‘idn’t play as well as we have bee: last two or three weeks and to c ae out with a win is good.” St. Louis improved its record to 13-4-1, its best start after 18 games in team history. The Blues are second overall with 27 points, one fewer than the New York Rangers. The Blues have three games in hand. Quebec, meanwhile, tied a club record for futility. It was the Nor- diques’ 11th loss in a row, tying a record set last season. At 3-13-3, the Nords are last_in the Adams Division and third-last overall “We're working hard,’’ said Quebec forward Tony Hrkac, a for- mer Blue, *‘It’s going to come our way some time.’ Elsewhere, it was: New Jersey 6, Montreal 3; New York Rangers 1, Philadelphia 1; and Pittsburgh 4, Minnesota | Brett Hull, who had gone two games without a goal, scored twice, including the game winner with 1:14 remaining for St. Louis. He controlled a wobbly puck and fired a sharp-angled shot as he skated close to the goal line. “I wasn’t looking anywhere,”” he said. “I just’ knew (goalie Ron Tugnutt) was down and I had to get the puck up. I was running out of room.”* Jeff Brown and Rich Sutter also scored for St. Louis. Hrkac and Aaron Broten scored for Quebec. DEVILS 6 CANADIENS 3 New Jersey’s Dave Maley and John MacLean scored 44 seconds apart in the third period to break open a tié game. Patrik Sundstrom, Laurie Boschman, Alexei Kasatonov and Brendan Shanahan also scored as the Devils beat Montreal for only the second time in their last eight meetings. ; Stephane Richer, Mark Pederson and Russ Courtnall scored for Mon- treal. FLYERS 1 RANGERS 1 New York goalie John Van- biesbrouck stopped Rick Tocchet with two seconds left in regulation time and stopped Dale Kushner with 1:20 left in the overtime period to preserve a tie. New York’s Jan Erixon and Philadelphia's Keith Ac- ton scored early in the second period PENGUINS 4 NORTH STARS 1 Goalie Frank Pietrangelo made 42 saves and Zarley Zalapski scored shorthanded for Pittsburgh. Jaromir Jagr, Paul Coffey and Randy Gilhen, into the empty net, also scored for the Penguins. Brian Bellows was the lone Min nesota marksman in front of a Met Centre crowd announced at 5,429 Lindros sweeps heat up TORONTO (CP) — The meek may not inherit the earth when it comes draft day next June in Buf- falo. Sure the Toronto Maple Leafs pulled into 20th place overall past Edmonton in the NHL standings on Monday night with a 5-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets. But the Oilers have five games in hand. More im- Portant to Edmonton is the im- minent return of team leader Mark Messier. The Leafs, however, lost Gary Leeman for at least 10 weeks on the weekend with a separated shoulder He was the last remnant of the GEM line, which included Mark Osborne and Ed Olczyk. The other two players were traded to Winnipeg over the weekend Leeman’s loss, coupled with various other ills on and off the ice, puts the Maple Leafs front and cen tre in the Eric Lindros sweepstakes Other contenders are the Quebec Nordiques and New York Islanders Lindros is the gifted junior sen sation pegged to the next franchise player in the NHL Toronto traded its crack at Lin dros lottery to New Jersey for defen ceman Tom Kurvers Win keeps Rebels in playoff hunt By CasNews Staff The Castlegar Rebels stayed in the playoff hunt last weekend despite losing two out of three games. The_Rebels bounced back Sunday to beat Spokane 6-4 after close losses Friday and Saturday to the top two teams in their division. The Trail Smokies nipped Castlegar 5-4 Satur- day a day after the first-place Nelson Maple Leafs squeaked by the Rebels 7-6 in overtime Friday. “The club is going ‘really well,” manager Don Joice said today. “‘I expect that we should start winning really soon in this league.” Joice has brought in two 20-year- old players from Kelowna as he con- tinues to fill out the Rebels roster. Both figured in the team’s scoring on the weekend. Jarret Watts, the leading scorer last year for the Junior A Spartans in Kelowna, notched a goal in the loss to Nelson while Glen Ornsby, who played AAA juvenile tast year, also in Kelowna, scored in the loss to Trail. Both are former Rebels. The Rebels also have a new assistant coach, former Rebel defen- ceman. Kevin Koorbatoff, whom Joice described as ‘‘one of the most inspirational Rebels’’ to have ever played on the team Koorbatoff will become a full-time assistant coach to Ed Cooper on Dec. 1, Joice said. Keith Semenoff led the Rebels with two goals Sunday with singles going to David Green, Dwayne Dergousoff, Dale Bonderud and Mike Korenowski who played despite muscle and tendon damage in his shoulder. Tyson French had two assists and the Rebels defence came up with a big effort, Joice said Green scored twice and added two assists for the Rebels on Saturday against Trail. Ornsby and Rob Maclgod added singles DAVID GREEN . .. three-goal weekend Jason Ward got a pair and French, Watts, Bonderud and Dergousoff each scored once for the Rebels in the overtime loss to Nelson on Friday Joice said the Rebels’ finances are also shaping up and the club has just received its bingo licence which will enable the Rebels to stage more fun- draising events. Joice said the fan support and support from local businesses have been good. More money allows the club to bring in more import players, he said However, Joice stressed that He won't bring in imports unless they're as good or better than local talent “I’m only going after quality players,"’ he said Joice added that there's wrong with the capabilitief of thi Rebels’ local players but there just isn’t enough of them to “stock the team Messier may return against Canucks EDMONTON (CP) — Edmonton Oilers captain Mark Messier says he thinks his sprained left knee is well enough to play hockey tonight — and not a moment too soon for his cellar-dwelling teammates “‘I certainly feel like I could play,”” Messier said Tuesday night after skating full throttle with Esa Tikkanen and Glenn Anderson at practice. Messier sprained his left knee Oct 16 against the St. Louis Blues. Doc tors said then the 29-year-old would likely be out of action for two mon ths “Obviously it’s not 100 per cent right now, and it's probably not going to be 100 per cent for the rest of the year. But there has to come a time when you see if you can go with it. Obviously I feel 1 can go right now."* Messier, the most valuable player in the National Hockey League last season, has been sorely missed in the past month. The Oilers have lost a team-record nine games in a row and are in last place in the 21-team NHL Messier’ is the: Oilers’ undisputed, leader. He scored 129 points last yegr ; and led Edmonton to its fifth Staniy- a Cup title in seven years. Messier says he knows he will have to wear a brace. ‘Il know I'm still going to have to be careful."* Coach John Muckler was to decide this morning if Messier will be in the lineup against the Vancouver Canucks tonight “He looks very good, he’s skating very well. He's only had two full Practices. I guess it’s going to be a mutual agreement between Mark Messier and the coaching staff."" Messier says he has always recovered quickly from injuries. “The third day after the injury | was in the weight room lifting weights to strengthen the quads (muscles) in the thighs." Eskimos hope fun continues on Sunday EDMONTON (CP) — For the fir- st time in a long time, the Edmonton Eskimos had a lot of fun as they defeated the Saskatchewan Roughriders in last weekend’s CFL West Division semifinal. A jovial Pierre Vercheval just wan- ts the frolic to continue Sunday when the Eskimos travel to Calgary to play win. Hurd scored twice and added an assist Friday in Michigan Tech’s 6-2 win over the Nanooks. Both Hurd and Martini are playing exceptionally well, Huskies head coach Newell Brown said Michigan Tech is 4-4-1 overall this season and 1-4-1 in Western Collegiate Hockey Association play. The Huskies travel to St. Cloud State University for a two-game WCHA set.this weekend. the sin the Western final (1:30 p.m. PST, CBC). “In the huddle it was just in- credible,’’ said the 275-pound offen- sive lineman from Trois Rivieres, Que. ‘‘We were all fired up and that was the first time I had seen that in a while. had been a little down because of that stump,”’ he added, referring to Edmonton’s losses in five of its last six games during the regular season. ‘But on Sunday, it was a great feeling to be in the hud- CFL dle and to work as a team The 43-27 victory over Saskat chewan, the defending Grey Cup champions, saw a return to form for Edmonton quarterback Tracy Ham He threw three touchdown passes, two of them to slotback Craig Ellis. “Calgary is a good team,"’ said Ellis. ‘‘They’ve got to be riding pret- ty high because they beat us in their home the last game of the season. We've seen everything they've got, and they've seen everything that we've got “"We've just got to line up and play good, sound football.’’ The Stampeders, after an in- credible record of futility against their rivals from the North, defeated the Eskimos 34-32 in Calgary on the last day of the regular season It was their only victory in four games against Edmonton in 1990. Head coach Joe Faragalli remin- ded reporters that the Eskimos finished second in the West in 1987 and went on to win the Grey Cup. It was the last time before this season that Edmonton won a playoff game “Who knows, maybe history is going t6 repeat itself."’ Ham has been entirely matter-of. fact about Edmonton’s playoff prospects and wasn’t surprised at all by the Eskimos’ convincing win over the Roughriders after weeks of indif- ferent play And last year’s most valuable player in the league doesn’t see his team's prospects dimming against the Stampeders — as long as the Eskimos can win the battles up front “The difference from this week and last week was that we didn’t control the line of scrimmage in Calgary, while we controlled the line of scrimmage here. If we're goihg to beat Calgary, we've got to control the line of scrimmage.” Ellis, Vercheval, running backs Blake Marshall and Brian Walling and others gave Ham credit for spreading the offence around against the Roughriders, while running effec tively himself Leary of giving the Stampeders any reason to believe the Eskimos could be over-confident heading into Sunday's final at McMahon Stadium, Ham hedged when asked if Edmonton was a better team than Calgary “That's to be seen,"’ he said. ‘‘I don't think it's a case of a better team, it’s a case of who’s playing the best on that particular day. If we can go out and play better that day, then that day we're a better team “It’s a day-to-day thing.” Walling, who sparked the Eskimos’ offence by leading in rushing and in receiving against the Roughriders, said everything is-star- ting to come together again for an Edmonton team that had broken up into tiny pieces “Now it seems like we're a little more together,’’ said the Toronto- born runner, ‘It's perfect timing for us to be more together because we're going to need it to keep on winning. “We know that Calgary’s going to be fired up because it’s going to be their first opportunity to get into a Grey Cup in years,"’ he added. *‘We know we're going to have to work hard to beat them.""