AVALON PURCHASES COMPANIES MAKE US YOUR TRICK OR channels MONEY FOR UNICEF . Sendra Cram, area representative tor UNICEF, and daughter Karina are well ready to collect funds for UNICEF Primary, Twin Rivers, Woodland Park, Kinnaird Elementary and Valley Vista schools will be collecting funds. Last year area students collected about $1,124 Funds go to help children in countries who are deprived of necessities such as food, water, medicine and education. ConewsProte Halloween caution By The Canadian Press Another Halloween looms for parents, and between deciding what to shell out at their front doors to goblins, ghosts and witches, and keeping track of what their own children haul home, it’s an evening of vigilance In recent years, a few children in Canada have become ill after eating handouts laced with drugs or poisons. Parents must be particularly wary of the “treats” their children receive as they go from house to house. In the book, The Allergy Cookbook — Foods For Festive Occasions, the Allergy Information Centre addresses the problem for children with allergies. They advise that parents discuss with their children ahead of time what is going to be done with their sticky, sugary treasures. “Discourage snacking as they go door to door,” the association says. “It will help if you serve them a good meal before they start trick-or-treating. When the children arrive home, go through the loot sack together Discard any homemake items unless yor: know who mad them.” Sgt. Jackie Hobbs of the Metropolitan Toronto police community affairs division suggests that shell-out goodies be pre-packaged items such as cellophane-wrap- ped candy, chocolate bars, nuts and boxes of raisins. “Don't give out apples or other fruit or homebaked goods — that way the parents don't fiave to throw them out as a precaution,” she says. Many candy manufacturers package special Hallo- ween treats, and it is wise to shop around at super markets and discount stores for a good buy. Hobbs says any treats should be kept at the front door and handed out to the children. “Don't let children into your home.” As a further precaution, Hobbs suggests that parents accompany young children on their rounds. Older children should be given p 8 pre-arranged route hat doesn't go too far afield of their home,” she says. And the actual tricking and treating should ideally start around 6 p.m. and end no later than 8 p.m.” Hobbs says a better solution to making Halloween safe and pleasant is the staging of a neighborhood Hallo- ween party which starts early and end early. Children can share the fun of seeing their friends’ costumes while they bob for apples. EDMONTON (CP) — Shaw Led. Gander, and Central Cable Systems Ltd. of Grand Falls, serve a total of about 17,000 subscribers. If approved by the Can- adian Radio-Television and jTelecommunications Com- mission, the purchase will increase the number of sub- seribers served by Avalon to about 53,000. Avalon is 50 per cent owned by Shaw, which did not disclose the purchase price. Miss Canada chosen TORONTO (CP) Tina TREAT HEADQUARTERS! Select your rewards from our tremendous selection of famous brand Halloween g packages and individually wrapped treats available for ‘everyones protection” qt, bi OWNTREE HALLOWEEN PACKS Ves LOWNEY HALLOWEEN PACKS 10. NELSON $979 By JOHN KOROBANIK EDMONTON (CP) — Veteran offensive tackle Hector Pothier reacted with “disbelief” at his suspension by Canadian Football League commissioner Doug Mitchell for the rest of 1986 and all of 1987 after he pleaded guilty to possessing hashish. Pothier, 34, and a nine-year Edmonton Eskimos veteran, was informed of Mitchell's decision Monday by Edmonton general manager Hugh Campbell. “He was very, very surprised,” Campbell told reporters outside the Eskimos dressing room. “I asked him if he wanted to speak to the media and he said he had been advised not to do so.” The suspension without pay applies to all league-as sociated games. Pothier, a key member of the Eskimos’ five consecu- tive Grey Cup championships, 1978-82, was charged after a small amount of hashish was found Sunday during @ routine check by airport security in Winnipeg. Pothier was about to board a plane with the rest of the Eskimos following their 40-20 loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He pleaded guilty to a charge of possession and received an absolute dischar, In announcing his decision, Mitehell said that if Pothier wants to be reinstated for the 1988 season he will have to formally apply to have the suspension lifted, “and Pothier surprised at suspension associated with illegal drugs to be part of our league.” Campbell said Pothier could appeal the decision, but he didn’t know if the player would. He said the Eskimos “support the commissioner's decision and his right to make that decision.” Campbell also noted that the suspension sets a precedent because it was imposed at league, rather than team level. Pothier is the fourth CFL player to be charged with drug possession but the first to be suspended by the league. The other three were all Blue Bombers. In ) 1978 running back mack Herron was found in would be required to meet any rs i then established. “Our message is quite clear: We do not want anyone of ij and cocaine and receiver Jim Thorpe was caught with marijuana, hashish and cocaine. Both were immediately released by the club. During the 1979-80 season, kicker Bernie Ruoff was charged with possession of marijuana. He was almost diately traded to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Pothier’s comes at an for both the Eskimos and the league. The 11-5 Eskimos, already hurt by a string of are in a battle for first place in the West Division with the 10-6 Blue Bombers. Edmonton plays the Rough Riders in Ottawa this weekend in what Campbell said “now looms as our biggest game of the season.” As well, Norm Kimball, chief executive officer of the Montreal Alouettes, and George Reed, head of the CFL Players Association, are about to kick off a drug-edu- cation program and a nation-wide anti-drug television campaign. PP May Simpson, the new Miss Canada, is proud of her name, her hometown and her sex. “I believe the women's lib- eration movement has done wonders for women,” Simp- son, 23, of St. Catharines, Ont., said Tuesday night in a telephone interview. “We got the vote. “Now equals.” Asked her view of the abortion issue, Simpson re- plied: “I feel that it's a free country, we're all individ- uals.” Simpson, Miss Niagara in the pageant televisied Tues- day night, is a five-foot- seven, brown-eyed brunette whose mother nicknamed her Mouse when she was a child. The 40th annual pageant was taped Monday and de- layed a day for television viewers. It was bumped Monday when CTV broadcast HALLOWEEN PACKS 14. $249 PLANTERS BLANCHED PEANUTS 20. ...... i a Kiddy Pops 51.79 Gio Sprayer, $ 2 49 ree oe. we're considered HALLOWEEN Cards Streamers Pins & Buttons Napkins Plates Balloons “In the Heart of Downtown Castlegar’ CLOSED THIS SUNDAY. 365-7813 the final game of the World Series. 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Kimberley remains in third place with three points out of three games. —The Dynamiters see action again Friday night in Nelson while the Royals entertain the Elk Valley Blazers. ATOM PLAY . Geinger Contracting team members (right) and Rossland Esso player battle for puck Mon 3-2 day night during Atom division game. Castlegar won CosNews Photo by Ryan Wilson Pee Wees defeat to this point in the process, but has indicated it wants matters to proceed quickly because of a perceived crisis in the cultural content of Canadian television Canadian TV products to millions more viewers and could push U.S. channels on to tiers that would require a converter to receive clearly. 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Castlegar's next game is at 12:30 p.m. Saturday when they host Creston. KJSS runners in Colville By CasNews Staff Cross-country runners from Kin naird Junior secondary school did well at a meet held Monday in Colville, w KJSS's girls team was first and the boys were third in an end-of-the season meet attended by about five schools. The meet was held at the Elk's golf course and was sponsored by Hawths tetter elementary school In individual results, Aimie Chernoff was first in the 2.41-kilometre race in nine minutes, 22 seconds. Chernoff cut 26 seconds off the old course record In other results, Alena Terry was fourth, Lori Picco was sixth, Andraya Hughes was seventh and Amy Rodgers was ninth. In the boys results, Mario Fehren berg was third, Leo Jones was eighth, Gavin Mealing. was ninth Cross-country teams from KJSS and Stanley Humphries secondary school will be competing in the East-West Kootenays cross-country meet which starts at noon Saturday at Selkirk College in Castlegar By CasNews Staff Checkers/Mallards won its first Castlegar Recreational Hockey League game of the season Sunday, defeating Woodland Park Shell 7-5: In other action, Castlegar Knights tied Castlegar Playboys 5-5 Sunday night while the Playboys beat Wood land Park Shell 7-2 Monday In Checkers/Mallards’ winner, it was a close matchup right from the start The two teams were tied 2-2 after the first period. Checkers/Mallards scored two goals in the second frame to one by Shell for a 43 edge In the final period, Woodland Park Shell scored two goals early in the period to take the lead, but Checkers, Mallards came back with a tying goal at 16:18 and two more goals within the final two minutes of the game to win 75. Scoring the goals for Checkers/Mal lards were: Sean O'Farrell, Don Savin. koff, Chris Brodman, Al Conroy, Randy Morris, Al Akselson and Rick Christ ianson. Assists came from Don Savin koff with four, Conroy with three, Morris with two and Akselson and Christianson with singles Wes McPherson, Ken Keraiff, Kelly Keraiff, Ron Coe and Bruno Tassone scored for the Shell team. Steve Postnikoff, Tassone, Kelly Keraiff, Doug Makortoff, Pete Moroso and Neil Archambault assisted In Castlegar Knights’ tie with the Playboys, the Knights led 3-0 after the first period and scored two more goals in the second period while the Playboys scored three goals of their own. The Playboys shut out the Knights in the final period while netting two more goals to tie the Knights. Wayne Kinakin scored twice for the Knights while Al Tomkin, Jerry Antignani and Don Deschene potted singles. Chief Mercer assisted twice while Deschene, Antignani, Rick Sand ers, Wayne Kinakin, Bob Evans, Dick Bruan and goaltender Lawrence Cher noff got singles. Tony Nazaroff scored two goals for the Playboys, George Roberts, Terry Halisheff and Lawrence Halisheff had one goal each Mitch Quaedvlieg, Lawrence Hali sheff and Rod Zavaduk got two assists each. Stacey Molnar, George Roberts and Terry Halisheff had singles. In Monday's game, the Playboys led 2-1 after 25 minutes of play and made it 5-2 after the second period. Woodland Park Shell was unable to score in the final period and the Playboys added to more goals to secure the win. Tony Nazaroff scored twice for the Playboys, Bill Nazaroff, Quaedvlieg Lawrence Halisheff, Randy Martin and Checkers/Mallards wins George Roberts added singles. Terry Halisheff assisted on three of the goals, Zavaduk, and Bill Nazaroff had two each while Quaedvlieg. Roberts and Randy Martin had singles Kelly Keraiff seored both goals for Woodland Park Shell, and McPherson and Pete Moroso assisted Recreational League action on Thursday sees Checkers/Mallards playing Sandman Inn at 10 p.m. in the Community Complex SHSS wins under 15 field hockey title Stanely Humphries secondary school's junior girls field hockey team completed its season on Saturday by winning the Under 15 championship and going undefeated after eight games. In the first game of the round robin tournament held at Nelson the SHSS team had little success in scoring against Trafalgar Junior secondary school and the game ended in a 00 tie The second game saw Rossland de feat Trafalgar 2-0. The Stanley Humph ries team had to defeat Rossland to retain the trophy and title. During the first half the Rossland team put a lot of pressure of the SHSS defense and created a penalty stroke situation First year goalie Lohnny Strelaeff came up with a big save by preventing the Rossland team from scoring. With the score 0-0 at half time the teams played strong two-way hockey. Rookie Maya Kanigan scored the first goal for Stanley Humphries on a 10-foot shot along the ground The second goal came off a long corner placed in front of the goal by Karen Voykin and pushed in by centre Dorothy Chaves. With the win the Stanley Humphries team was victor ious. Top goals scorers of the season were Judi Closkey with three goals and Dorothy Chaves with two Selkirk Saints 3-0 Selkirk Saints men’s volleyball team fared well in this year's first Totem Conference Tourney The squad returned from Kamloops with a perfect 30 record. The Saints defeated host Cariboo College 15 12 10-15 and 156 in 2 shaky Saturday morning start. The team picked up their level of play to down Royal Roads Military College of Victoria 15-10 and 15-12. Malaspina College of Nanaimo was Selkirk’s next vietim going down by scores of 15-9, 13-15 and 15-5. Coach Rand Wayling said he was pleased with the total team effort and singled out the strong play of veteran setter and team captain Shaune Mont The Saints have a busy November with two away tournaments and their own Kokanee Invitational Nov 15-16. The tourney promises to have some exciting’ high level volleyball. Teams from Calgary, Spokane, Kelowna and Eastern Washington University will be taking part in the tourney Pivonka helps Caps to 5-2 win By GRANT KERR VANCOUVER (CP) — If the Capitals hadn't played their usual stellar defensive style in Tuesday night's 5-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks, it would have been difficult to some of the i per- formers in their unfamiliar surround. ings. Dave Christian, a 41-goal scorer on right wing last season, skated at centre. His left vinger was Craig Laughlin, a 30-goal scorer last year on right wing. ‘Alan Haworth, a 34-goal man in his first year at centre last season, was back on right wing, his former John Barrett, normally a defenceman, played right wing. Jeff Greenlaw, a 215-pound left winger last year with the Canadian Olympic team, played centre as Wash- ington coach Bryan Murray continued to shuffle his deck in search of the right combMations. “Bryan likes to shake things up when we're not going right,” said David Poile, the Capitals’ general manager. “He won't sit still until we're playing better hockey.” The Capitals gave up an early goal to the Canucks, then scored three first period markers before settling into the tight-checking pattern which has made Washington a consistent contender in the Patrick Division of the National Hockey League ROOKIE SHARP By the end of the game, some of the Washington players had returned to their normal positions. One player who wasn't shuffled about was impressive rookie centre Michal Pivonka The 20-year-old defector from Czechoslovakia scored two goals, giv ing him six in 10 games, and displayed the potential for future stardom with his coolness and sharp-shooting Pivonka’s first goal on a deflection tied the score in the opening period and his other marker in the second was 4 picture of perfection, a rising snap shot from the right circle The Capitals are counting on Pi vonka to replace the offensive punch of the departed Bengt Gustafsson, who returned to his native Sweden this season. “He's a big asset with his excellent shot,” Washington captain Rod Lang way said of Pivonka, who speaks little English. “He's got a lot of talent and looks like a natural scorer like (Mike) Gartner, (Bobby) Carpenter and Christian.” Langway, Lou Franceschetti and Craig Laughlin into an empty net also scored for the Capitals, who stretched their unbeaten string to five games with their third straight victory Washington now has a 5-4-1 record after starting the season 1-4 when they were involved in a number of high-scor ing games. “Maybe the fans thought it was a boring game with all the forechecking but that's our style,” said Capitals’ net minder Pete Peeters. “It sure wasn't boring for the players on the ice.” Moe Lemay and Rich Sutter scored for the Canucks, 2-6-1, who are last in the Smythe Division and have scored only 21 goals in nine games, including just 13 while at even strength “We're working hard, trying our best,” said Canuck winger Tony Tanti who hit the post in the third period while killing a penalty. “We're not getting any bounces with the chances we've had “We're not going to reach for the panic button. We can't afford to get down on ourselves this early. in the season.” Vancouver coach Tom Watt’ said his team is playing well enough defen sively and merely needs a confidence boost to improve the offence Bantam Reps lose twice on weekend By JOAN LOO On Sunday at the Community Com plex, Castlegar Bantam Reps lost 4-3 in an exciting and closely contested game against Creston Two minutes into the game. the visitors opened the scoring by sliding the puck under Castlegar goalie Jamie Muller. Castlegar stormed back but came up empty handed. At the end of the first period, the score remained 10 for Creston. In the second period. with Creston playing ons man_ short, Castlegar swarmed the opponent and 30 seconds into the period, Roger Carlson tied the game up by converting a rebound from Jarrod Isfeld, with Stephen Junker as sisting on the goal Castlegar scored three minutes later when Roger Carlson head manned the puck to Riek Crowe who was breaking across Creston’s blueline. Rick Crowe rifled a well aimed wrist shot between the pads of the Creston Goalie and a minute later, J. Feltham of Creston flipped a shot over Jamie Muller's shoulder to tie the game up once more Although both teams pushed them selves to the limit, the score remained 2-2 at the end of the second period Both teams played a defensive game for the first part of the third period and tthe 11:38 mark, Castlegar’s Junker picked up a loose puck in the neutral scoring chances were few Stephen zone and rushed in unassisted to beat the Creston goalie on the short side Castlegar’s jubilation was short lived as Creston exerted tremendous pres sure on the home team. Their efforts paid off at 3:16 as Creston tied the game. The visitors took advantage of Castlegar's momentary lapse and scor ing the winning goal with onl seconds left in the game On Saturday, Castlegar lost 5 Trail in the Cominco Arena Tra played brutal and physical sane reminiscent of the Philadelphia Five the 70s. Two of Castlegar’s were injured in the game suffered — bruise and Castlegar’s lone goat wa Darryl Furey when be puck into the net with a go rebound from Roger Car