‘ By MARTIN MEYER Recycle Advisory Group There are 217 government liquor stores in B.C As with so many business- es these days, they are devel- oping strategic plans to deal with the subject of recycling. Each store is being assessed on an individual basis to determine its needs and its ability to dispose of recycled materials. All government liquor stores are now accepting plas- tic six-pack yokes. In fact, they will even accept plastic yokes from pop cans. They are saved up and eventually returned to the manufacturer for reprocessing. Ninety-eight per cent of all domestic beer bottles were returned last year, either directly to the government stores or through privately owned depots. The bottles are sterilized and reused. The government stores also take back the imported beer bottles they sell. These bottles are accumulated in Vancou- ver and are then crushed and sent to a glass recycling plant. There is no longer a limit to how many bottles may be returned at one time. About 81 per cent of the beer cans sold were returned last year. They are crushed and sold to an aluminum pro- cessor. The stores will only refund the deposits on brands get into recycling - they sell, but will also accept U.S. beer cans for recycling. A corporate policy exists saying that all suppliers to the liquor distribution branch must have their packaging approved before their product will be handled. For example, no ceramic materials are allowed since they may contaminate. recy- cled glass. Also, there is a moratorium on use of polyeth- ylene containers until a mar- ket develops in B.C. for recy- cling this material. All beer cans must be 100 per cent aluminum. Fifty-five million paper bags are used each year in the B.C. liquor stores. Research is being done to try to include the use of recycled kraft paper in the bags. Many stores are now selling reusable cotton bags. The ink used for print- ing on these bags is non-toxic. Some brands of wine are sold in cardboard boxes which contain plastic bladders. The cardboard and the plastic can be separated after, and both recycled by the consumer. It is likely that many B.C. stores will eventually get cardboard balers so they can crush cardboard boxes and recycle them back to the paper mills. In Castlegar the boxes are often set outside so anyone who needs them can help themselves. Cheers! PHONE 365-5210 BUSINESS DIRE New Insertions, copy changes and cancellations for the Castlegar News Business Directory will be sccepted up to 5'p.M. Thurs., Aug. 29, for the month of September, TORY PHONE 365-5210 ACCOUNTING Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Avenue Castlegar * 365-2151 Gordon A. Read & Co. 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If they have other interests, that don’t involve abusing alcohol or drugs, breaking the law or unabashed sexual exploits, then fine. Poetry, music and mechanics are just as worthy indulgences as swimming, hockey or handball. But for those kids who are sportsminded (and I would venture to say it’s the majori- ty) there must be options. A city has to provide its youth with an outlet for their ener- gies, or those kids will devise their own outlets. ‘ Which brings us to what is apparently the outlet of choice in Castlegar these days — vandalism. Both local papers have written editori- als calling for something to be done as reports of break-ins, wanton destruction and mindless havoc have reached seemingly epic proportions in the city over the last few weeks. As the local sportswriter I diately drew a tion between the incidents | and the fact that this is the slowest period in the year for organized sports in the city. Without any proof or research into the subject I can’t say the connection made in my mind is anything more than coincidence. In fact, when I ran the the- ory past Castlegar recreation director Pat Metge and local RCMP Const. Pete Redekop, they offered another explana- tion. It’s not the kids in athlet- ics who are the likely culprits in the vandalism, they said. Those are basically good kids. The problem, they said, is a few bad apples who will go about maiming trees, break- ing windows and stealing, regardless of their options. “There’s a lot of idle time for the kids (in the summer) that’s for sure,” said Redekop, who is the president of minor soccer. “But I’m just trying to think of the experience I have with knowing who might be involved with the vandalism. They're not really athletically minded people.” It’s the same with Pat Metge at the Community Complex, who says even when the minor programs end during this period, there's still a lot of options for kids. Some kids just opt out, he said. “Well I know we've tried to put on teen dances and that kind of stuff and they just bombed. It seems they don’t want to be programmed, they want to do their own thing. They’re an awkward age group to deal with,” said Metge. “We get very little vandal- ism up here, but when we do, and if we ever catch any of the kids, they’re kids you would just never see around, you know, being a part of anything. There’s a core of them that are bad and that’s it.” Fair enough. So maybe my theory has some holes. Per- haps there is enough to do and maybe the August heat just turns this core of bad apples into brainless mush. If that’s the case, the chal- lenge is to remove the worms from that core group. I still maintain that getting them involved in sports isn’t a bad solution. Aquanauts honor their own Coaches cover spectrum in swim club's annual awards By CasNews Staff If you know anything at all about the Castlegar Aquanauts you could probably guess at least one of the two athletes who was named best overall swim- mer at the team’s annual awards ceremony Sunday. But guessing the co-winner of the award might not be as easy because coaches Tom Carew and Wendy Pilla went: to both ends of the spectrum in naming its top swimmers. Aimie Chernoff, who led the A with ae ap performances and gold medals at every meet this season, was an easy choice for the award. She shared it with a team- mate who, while not getting the attention Chernoff garnered over the year, nevertheless put in top-three performances all year long. Justin Kanigan, an eight- year-old whom Carew is calling the future of the team, was named co-winner of the club’s top award. The awards were a respite from the daily practise sessions as the 26 Aquanauts who quali- fied for the provincial champi- onships prepare for that,event which begins Friday in Coquit- lam. Once again asked to come up with: superlatives to describe + Chernoff, Carew dug deep and didn’t disappoint. “She’s a great swimmer, pret- ty dedicated, always works hard. What can I say?” Carew said about the team veteran. As for Kanigan, Carew said he’s a bright spot in a group of younger swimmers on the team making the future look pretty secure. “Justin is always consistently placing top three in all his please see AWARDS, page B2 + AIMIE CHERNOFF obvious choice ...the future RIGHT TO THE POINT CasNews photo by Ed Mills Castlegar Primary school principal John Eggleton passes on some of the finer points of the game during the boys basketball camp Tues- day at Stanley Humphries secondary school. The camp, run by local teachers, runs all this week. A girls camp is set for next week. By CasNews Staff make weekend. “We've been got.a good team.” while Shell and will play first ba Shlakoff, will play in the field. bell River at 5 p.m. ‘Trail Auto Body squad. Amigos lone local in slo-pitch provincials Regardless of their name, the Amigos won't be looking to any buddies as the lone hometown entry in the provin- cial C mixed slo-pitch championships at Kinnaird Park this “We want to win it,” said Amigos manager Kris Stanbra practising twice a week for four weeks now. We've To reach their goal, the Amigos have to get by eight other entries including teams from Parksville, Fort St. John, Camp- bell River, Vernon, Fernie, Victoria, Richmond and Trail. “This is good ball. These teams are going to be really good. Well, they're the best in their regions,” said Stanbra. ® The tournament, the first-ever slo-pitch provincials held here, begins with a- two-game slate Friday at 5 p.m. Official opening ceremonies take place at 11 a.m. Saturday. The Amigos, who won the B division title in the Sunfest tourney, came second in the Castlegar Slo-pitch League’s wind- up t i up $500 and hardware in a tourney in Elkford, bring essentially their regular lineup to this week- end’s tourney. In the field the Amigos will have Deanna Bankert, Marilyn Richardson, Kim Southwell, Sterling Chambers, Adrian , Adrian Strelaeff, Denis Nursey and Gary Sauer. In the infield, Larry Stanbra will pitch, Ross Saunders is at shortstop, Netta Kinakin will play third and Southwell and Bankert will alternate behind the plate. was picked ise. Another Shell player, Marian The Amigos first see action at 8 a.m. Saturday against Fer- nie, then play Vernon at 11 a.m., Victoria at 2 p.m. and Camp- $lo-pitch coordinator Robin Tomlin says Castlegar should have-its hands full with strong teams from the coast and the ad. ae -. (One team will be eliminated after action and the Volleyball boys make B.C. team SHSS kid selected By CasNews Staff . Castlegar’s Lee Malinek was one of four players chosen to represent the province from the Kootenay Zone under-16 volley- ball team which won the bronze medal at the B.C. Summer Games last month. Malinek has been in Pentic- ton since the end of the Games on July 28, training with Team B.C. The team will compete in a national tournament in Grand Prairie, Alta., next week. South Slocan native Theo Laktin, Troy Wolfenden of Briscoe, north of Inveremere, and Jeremy Chambers of Win- dermere were also selected from the Kootenay team. Another Castlegar native, Dan Kooznetsoff, was selected as first alternate for the team, but didn’t make the trip to Pen- ticton. The players were chosen after the Kootenay team staged a ral- ly to capture the bronze medal at the Games which were held in Coquitlam. After going winless in three final eight will play « double-knockout Sunday to di hes during the round-robin portion of the eight-team tour- ney, the Kootenay boys upset pega DAN KOOZNETSOFF ...picked as alternate the tournament favorites from Vancouver in the first round of the playoffs to secure a spot in the medal round. In the semi-final against regional powerhouse Vancouver Island, the Kootenay boys won the first game 1§-1 but lost the next two straight and were rele- gated to the bronze medal match, which they won easily in two games over the host team from the Fraser Valley. “Better passing (than in the round-robin), serappy defence and awesome outside hitting were the keys to returning home with the medal,” coach Rand Wayling said in a news release. B team tops in Creston meet By CasNews Staff The Castlegar Aquanauts could do a commercial for one of those pimple creams because they’re a team with few blem- ishes this season. With the provincials-bound swimmers at home training for the championships which start this Friday in Coquitlam, 26 The Numbers, Page B2 Aquanauts went down to Cre- ston last weekend and racked up the club’s sixth win of the season. Led by Shelley Stansbury in division 4, who picked up the team’s only gold medal, the Aquanauts collected a total of 342 points to edge the Creston Kokanee Cruisers by five points. It marks the second straight meet the Aquanauts have won by a narrow margin — they beat the Nelson Neptunes by two points in the regional cham- pionships two weeks ago — and brings their season record to 6- 2. (The Aquanauts finished sec- ond in meets in Kimberley and Nelson) Division 4 boys was the strongest group for the Aqua- nauts with Cory Quiding win- ning the overall bronze medal while Jamie Jmieff and Rob Campbell tied for the silver. Brian John won Castlegar’s only other medal of the event with a silver in division 3 boys. Alisha Pion was a winner in the 50-metre butterfly for the Aquanauts in division 1 girls while Danielle Jmieff won the 50-metre breaststroke and San- dra Ellis won the 50-metre backstroke. Justin Balahura won the 100-metre individual medley and the 50-metre butterfly in the division 1 boys event while finishing second in the 50-metre freestyle and third in the 50- metre breaststroke. In division 2 girls, Marissa Balahura won the 100-metre individual medley while Cheryl Ellis won the 50-metre freestyle and the 50-metre butterfly in division 3 girls. Senior club swimmers Aimie Chernoff and Neil Jones stepped in as coaches for the meet as head coach Tom Carew and assistant Wendy Pilla host- ed provincials-bound swimmers from throughout the Kootenays and from Colville in a regional practise session at the Aquatic Centre. Colville came third at the meet with 312 points followed by the Trail-Warfield Stingrays, Robson River Otters, Green- wood, Grand Forks, Nelson, Fernie, Beaver Valley and Kim- berley.