LOCAL NEWS ARROW LAKE ELEVATION CLASSIFIED $195 $20 DISCOUNT FOR CASH! fen i eke Sate San en ap ay eg TR EME Arrival sets off non-stop travelling “A: slow sort of country,”’ said the (White) Queen to Alice. ‘‘Now here you see, it takes all the running that you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you must run at least twice as fast as that.’’ — Allice’s Adventures in Wonderiand: Lewis Carroll 1 can appreciate what the White Queen is saying. I seem to be living in the same kind of country. Shor- tly before I left to teach at Westminster Abbey in Mission last November, | had promised to run a short letter (edited) from Rotary exchange student Devin Turner, who is studying in Jakarta, Indonesia, to his parents Gordon and Alexia Turner. Young people like Devin who are a part of the Rotary Student Exchange program in 100 countries across the world are not only gathering memories of a lifetime, but are raising the levels of international understanding and hopefully, despite the war in the Persian Gulf, future world peace. I am happy, therefore, to help them share their experiences with the community. Devin’s letter is relatively short (personal, family matters have been edited out) so that it should have appeared by Christmas. Unfortunately, there was this matter of running, a little ill health, together with some family concerns which thrust themselves in and elbowed it out. Moreover, it is amazing how easy it is to misplace something in a 10 by 12 study, par- ticularly if one wall is entirely taken up by books. Or perhaps it is because of the books themselves. They seem to devour manuscripts of every description or hold them behind their backs or between their covers or stand on them or hold them above themselves. In fact, the only significant difference between my study and the offices of the teaching instructors that I have seen at Selkirk College is the fact that the sign on my door ‘says bluntly: ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK. ‘So here, only four months late, is that short let- ter from Indonesia. Pronouncing the names is. your problem. When I wrote you that Tittle note in September telling you about this trip, I didn’t have a clue what I was in for. I’ve been all over the place. At the beginning of October, I went to Jakarta. I stayed for about three days. When three other exchange students showed up, we flew to the island of Kalimanta to a small city called Balikpapen. After we were in Balikpapen for a few days; 10 other exchange students and I (along with an adult) drove to the Mahakam River. (In total there are two Americans, two students from Holland, six students from Australia — and me.) We went by boat up the river for five days. We saw crocodiles and dolphins. We even visited an out- of-the-way village that you could only get to by small boat. While we were there, the people performed their traditional dances for us. It was really neat! After the trip up the river was over, we all went back to Balikpapen for another week. From Bulikpapen, we traveled to the island of Sulawesi. To get there was an 18-hour ferry ride. We toured around the city of Ujung Pandang for a couple of days. Next we visited a tiny island off the coast. It was great! The water was sky-blue, and I was able to do some scuba diving. As well, we visited a small city, Toraja. bcd we saw such things as bullfights and very ancient gra’ At one of the villages, there was a slaughter pt sn bulls, We missed the actual slaughtering but got there in time to see all the skins being torn oft the bodies. In total, 13 bulls were slaughtered. Right now I'm in Balikpapen again. The group has been split in half. Six of the group members have gone to Bali, but my group of five are headed for Jakarta and Bandung, eventually ending up in Jogyakarta — my home city — where we'll tour as well. It’s been exciting. We've gone to a lot of discos. and I’m really getting tired of dancing. I've spent a lot of money, but I’m not sorry for spending a lot because it’s all been worth it. For example, I got sunburned last week and it’s the middle of October. Right now, the five of us (Tabatha, Lisa, Kylie, Eric and I) are staying in a five-star hotel. It’s called the Sahid Jaya Hotel. We're staying in the general manager’s apartment and guest room. Just to change the topic, | figure I might do my Kids join women's festivities The Kinnaird Women’s Institute members answered roll call at their February meeting with pennies for friendship. This fund, which is administered by the B.C. Provincial Women’s In- stitute, is used all over the world to help women to further the work done by the parent 1403.21' on March 2 Forecast of Fetes Elevation cane Ads 1404.20’ on March 9 mt LOAN-OUT CAMERA The Castlegor News has two simple-to- loan-out cameras (complete with film) whic pleased to allow groups to use for taking pictures for use pA the Castlegar News. Associated Country Women of the World. To celebrate B.C. Women's In- stitute Week Feb. 17 to 24, the Kin- naird WI sponsored a poster contest for Grade 6 students of Kinnaird elementary school. The subject of the posters is Agriculture in the Kootenays. A second Project for the youth of the taken on by ats for the use of these comeras senate ‘be “made through our News Department at 365-3517. 2) Po. Castlégar News “A Tradition of Community Journalism Since 1947"' was serving refreshments to the members of the Scout and Guide movements following their Thinking Day service Feb. 24. Following that, a box of cookies was taken to the residents at the new intermediate care lodge since more had been donated by members than could be used. Upcoming activities will include university in Australia. It looks very Now that I have some very close friends from Australia (I'm even starting to speak like them), I have reason to go. It’s a very serious option! My Indonesian language is coming. I can speak the everyday language quite well. When I get back to Jogyakarta, I'll most likely have a tutor. So, in about two months, I should be fairly fluent. Selamat Tinngal Untuk Seharang! Goodbye for now! And while we are on the topic of youth, perhaps you will remember the Canada World Youth Program? Teams of young Canadians went (in our case) to India where they lived and worked for a period with the Indian people. Then they returned with their Indian counterparts to Canada to do the same thing here. Their team leader in Castlegar was Major Suri, a career officer in the Indian Army. Majoy — now Colonel — Suri spent his Christmas with us and I have a picture of him proudly decorating his first Christmas tree. for the hospital, having a table at the Robson flea market and a directors meeting in Nelson on March 6. The hospital tour of the new ex- tended care unit held recently was enjoyed by 12 members. Also in February, four Kinnaird women drove over to Fruitvale to help the Fruitvale WI celebrate its 70th anniversary as a branch. Next meeting will be held March 21 at the home of Marjorie Browlie. Mother of 80 to speak at luncheon Castlegar Women's Aglow Conservationist presents slide lectures on bears Biologist and conservationist Wayne McCrory will present two slide lectures'on bears March 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre in Nelson. ms One will be on ways to hike and camp more safely in bear country. McCrory will explain how to tell black and grizzly bears apart, what field signs to look for and what to This talk will feature three major wilderness proposals which McCrory and his colleagues are actively working to save: the proposed Khut- zeymateen grizzly bear sanctuary near Prince Rupert, a proposed reserve for the spirit bear — a white black bear on the B.C. Coast — and, Valley. Admission will be $5 at the door with all proceeds going towards conservation of bear sanctuaries in B.C. OUR ACTION AD PHONE NUMBER 1S 365-2212 ip will hold its regular lun- _cheon meeting March 6 at 10:30 a.m. at the Sandman Inn. Guest speaker will be Edie Sevy from Colville, Wash. She is a well- known speaker in the Pacific North- west and ministers with humor and vitality, a news release says. She and her husband, John, have been foster parents to more than 80 children over the past 14 years, besides having raised their own family. Local aftist Marg Roller will also share and display some of her art work. All interested women are invited to attend this inter-denominational fe ip meeting. closer to home, the White Grizzly Wilderness area. do in different His second talk will focus on the need to protect more wilderness in B.C. as part of a long-term strategy ing visuals include the photographs of Wayne Lynch, Tim Fitzharris, Peter Thomas and other well-known Canadian and other wildlife The lectures to protect grizzly bear Poaching, habitat losses, garbage dumps_and-other—problems will be outlined. will also feature close-ups of grizzly bears at McNeil Falls Sanctuary in Alaska and in the Khutzeymateen IN MEMORY kirk Col SPRING CARE OF VINEYARDS Sponsored by ie Selkirk Vintners and Saturday, March 9 — 1:30 p.m. FEE: $10 TOPICS INCLUDE: Pruning of young and established vines, pest control con and sheors onda lunch. Call 365-1273 to register. CASTLEGAR CAs concerns. Please bring your pruning Make Sure You're On The Target wes O\ Castlegar and the West Kootenay: Annual Business and GET THE PERFECT Fit WITH A KOOTENAY SAVINGS RRSP pe of season for But a broken ankle is breaking his heart By ED MILLS Staff Writer By his own admission, Kelly Hurd has matured. After all, he has a new wife and a kid (on the way) to think of these days. Not to mention a professional hockey career. “At first it was a dream to play professional hockey and now it’s slowly starting to come true. I’ve realized this and I’m really serious about it now,” Hurd said in a telephone interview from his home on the campus of Michigan Tech University. “Ard yeah, there’s also my family to think about,"’ said the Castlegar native who lives with his January bride, Sherry, in Houghton, Mich., about 12 hours from Detroit. Now Hurd’s serious, as opposed to his carefree days as a 17-year-old hometown product who starred for native i ste poe mene toe eee three years with the Castlegar Rebels of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. Back then, everything came easy Medals just missed Locals fall tad short at Canada Games By CasNews Staff men’s teams," said Gibson, who Industrial Review & Forecast A once-a-year opportunity to tell your firm's story. Once a year this edition provides Castlegar and West Kootenay residents with a comprehensive ser of what progress their city and our area has je over the past 12 months. It does this in both words and pictures, thus affording our people with a clear understanding of the growth and development of our community and region. The largest single edition we will publish in 1991. Because of the magnitude of this edition, we have to start putting it together NOW. If you have not yet, been contacted, call us TODAY. We will be more than happy to work with your firm in 9 in adverti ap- Law of Guernsey, England. officiating. Isabella Gordon Isabella Belle Gordon of Mission, formerly of Castlegar and Rossland, passed away suddenly Feb. 22, 1991, at age 70. She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law Janet and Harry Funeral services were held Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 2 p.m. from St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church with Rev. Robin Ross Interment is in Hatzic Cemetery in Mission. Mission Funeral Home was in care of arrangements. BGhydro HUGH KEENLEYSIDE DAM ROAD CLOSURE Tues., March 5 & Wed., March 6 8 a.m.-5 p.m. (Sorry for any inconvenience!) Re yy» Castlegar News “-, obo Advertising 365- 1947” g a e propriate for this special edition. Watch for it... Saturday, March 30 Gord Gibson saw a lot of things he liked at the Canada Winter Games, and not just the scenery in Prince Edward Island. As the coach of Team B.C.'s eight-member biathlon team at the Games, Gibson said the whole event was a great learning experience and a tremendous boost for the sport in the country. And eyen though Team B.C. didn’t win any medals facing some of the best biathletes from all 10 Provinces and both territories last week, Gibson says B.C. ‘biathletes were the surprise team of the Games. “They finished quite stronger then we thought they would,"* Gibson said Thursday from his office at Selkirk College. ‘‘We're quite happy sUBBS N-Bevdseos New Brunswick Newfoundland Territories PEs. The women’s team just missed a trip to the podium, finishing fourth overall, while finished fifth overall in biathion, behind Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan. “The wornen’s team outshot every other team there except two of the returned Sunday from P.E.1. Team Alberta won seven out of the eight biathlon gold medals. Two other Castlegar residents, weightlifters Trevor Seville and Rick Young placed seventh and ninth overall respectively in competition last week. “Rick lifted five kilos under his best and I did 11 kilos under my best, so we weren't very impressed,” Seville said Friday morning from the men’s dorm in the athletes village at the Games. Seville. and Young return to Castlegar on Sunday. The games end today. Gibson said it was great honor to be chosen to coach- the team, but what impressed him most was the way the sport has grown, as eviden- ced by the number of high-quality biathletes at the Games. “it’s still a fairly new sport in Canada. We've been more seriously involved with it since 1980, so to 100 athletes in biathlon there (at the. Games) was extremely encouraging,”” said Gibson. Already Gibson is thinking about 1995, when the next Winter Games will be held in Grande Prairie, Alta. “‘My proposal now is that we start to form that (1955) team right now. If they keep the same age group (15- 19) we'll have three members (off the current team) still cligible,"’ said Gibson. As for his personal experience, Gibson said it was tremendous, but tiring. “It was a really great experience, it was long days and a lot of hard work but it was definitely worth it.”’ for a talented hockey player and Popular guy. “The good old days in Castlegar, yeah, it seems like just yesterday when I was playing in Castlegar.”” Life just kept getting better for Hurd when in 1988 he was drafted in the seventh round by the Detroit Red Wings and the same year took a hockey scholarship in Michigan. But time has a way of slipping by on @ person, especially an athlete, and today Hurd, who will turn 23 in May, isn’t just hoping things work out for him, he’s really working at it. Hurd said he realized that his final year of colleger hockey was a do-or- die year for him in terms of im- Pressing the Red Wings’ scouts. So impress he did, coming to training-camp in the best shape of his life and then going on to have the best season of his college career. Three weeks ago he was among the top five in Western Collegiate Hockey Association league scoring, playing on the Michigan Tech Huskies’ top line and making an im- pression on the Red Wings who were talking about calling him up to their Adirondack farm team after his season ended. But just when things looked the brightest ever for Hurd, the horizon suddenly darkened in a game two weeks ago when something happened to the slick right winger that has never happened to him before — he was injured. **I just went into the corner, a guy was hauling me down from behind and it just snapped at my ankle.”” The broken ankle was literally a tough break at exactly the wrong time for Hurd. “It had to happen right at the end of my senior year when things are happening for me. It’s kind of disappointing to say the least,’’ he said. Hurd was at his school Thursday morning to send off his teammates on the six-hour bus ride to Min- neapolis, where they begin the first round of the NCAA playoffs against the University of Minnesota: Hurd said half-heartedly there’s a couple of positive things about get- ting injured. One, he gets to finish his schooling, something he wouldn’t have been able to do if he accepted a minor league contract from the Red Wings. And two, it’s not that serious an injury. “That's the good thing, it’s not a career threatening thing,’” he said. “I'll be in a cast for two and half more weeks and then we'll see.’* Hurd may even be able to join his college team, the Huskies, if they advance past the first round of the playoffs. And he still might have a chance to get on with the Red Wings. “They've (the Red Wings) always been positive with me. They just wanted to see how my season went this year and see what That's what I’m waiting for now, pag see what they think.’ In the meantime, Hurd is getting used to the new reality of life by working out every day and working on getting his business ad- ministration degree before the end of the year. His dream remains alive, he just has more time, and more reasons, to think seriously about it these days. ‘I want to keep playing hockey for a while. A lot of guys stay for a long time in the minors, some guys don’t. It just depends on how the guy's apprenticeship goes. “A lot of guys play out their first contract and if they think they can play, and that they're improving, they keep going, and that’s what I want to do.” A TEETH CLENCHER Christion Evdokimott dares Ither all ina a intramural oduiates gome at Stanley Ed Mills Playoff dutonce By CasNews Staff If they’re playing defence, it must be the playoffs in the Castlegar Recreational Hockey League. Though not stressed during the regular season, where double-digit scoring is the rule rather than the ex- ception, defence, as even score-crazy CRHL teams know, wins in the playoffs. Hi Arrow Hotel proved that true once again Thursday night as Barry Grunerud stopped all but one shot in a 5-1 win over Woodland Park Shell at the Community Complex. Dave Terhune scored twice and Kelly Keraiff had three assists for Hi Arrow, which improved its playoff record to 1-1. Shell drops to 1-2 Frank Costa opened the scoring for Hi Arrow converting a pass by Mitch Quaedvlieg at the midway mark of the first period. Terhune scored the winner with eight minutes to go in the first on assists from Clay Martini and Keraiff.. Defence was the key in the second as netminders Dan Wallace and Grunerud let nothing get by. Terhune scored his second goal early in the third and Martini made it 4-0 with 12 minutes to go in the game. Shell made it 4-1 when John Obetkoff scored from Bruno Tassone with seven minutes left, but Steve Simonen wrapped it up for good for Hi Arrow when he scored fron Martini and Gary Sauer late in the period. CRHL playoffs continue Monday with Hi Arrow meeting Banjo’s, and Tuesday as Shell meets Sandman. Player walks away from lifelong dream By CHRIS CARIOU The Canadian Press Al Stewart was 16 years old when he decided he had to play in the NHL. Eleven hard years later, he finally made it to the big league with the New Jersey Devils. Now, months after achieving his goal, he's quit- At age 27, he’s throwing it all away. “tL just don't enjoy playing any more,"’ Stewart said from New Jersey after he retired this week. ‘‘It doesn’t mean I don't love hockey. I just don’t love Theiven became one of those ex-players this week. Gites. Hie He Neeeaan. of & Louis, throw to ised wae Oe ae oe But Stewart's case itterees. After seven years WEEKEND FEATURE and a big struggle but I did it,” he said. ‘‘As time went on, I played better but it was a struggle to develop as a goal-scorer and as a player “I never really felt I was doing it naturally, being a player,”’ added the Grande Centre, Alt native. “I looked at other players and sensed things were happening more naturally for them."’ Being a fighter, he said, was a burden he carried through seven years in the American Hockey League and his first full season in the NHL. “I'm glad of the fact I'll never again have to face the fighting aspect of the game,"’ Stewart said with a laugh. “‘Who wants to get hit in the face all the time?"" He blames no one for forcing him out. He said he'll remember the people he met in the game, in- “Playing in the NHL was what I expected. ht was good. But it’s my life and no one else lives it, I've been thinking about this for a long time. Now I'm just going to take it day by day.” He’s single and things would have been different if he had a family, he said. After taking care of bills and other business in New Jersey, he'll head back to Prince Albert. “Social work is an option. But I've got a whole bunch of options. It doesn’t really matter what you do, you can do anything and live a good life."’ But leaving a hockey player’s life? After spen- ding all of his adult years scratching to reach the top? oer Players are an elite group,”’ Stewart AN beak sey how Ue You just have to go os Aosheeadalgin fought with. He was given am- Ble Opportunity to show he could score, but he never with the flow, no matter what you do. We never really know if we're making the right decision, we ean only hope we are.”