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a aie Castlegar Sun’:

Diony McArthur of Sollee
sank a par putt on the second hole
of a sudden death ‘playoff to cap-

; ture the district four women's

+ women’s zone and

golf crown Sunday afternoon at
the Rosemont Course of the Nel-
son Golf and Recreation Society.
McArthur edged follow club-
mate Dianne McAffce for the

The second hole McArthur
cranked a six {ron onto the green
while: McAffee was short.
McArthur then two-putted for the
title while McAffee once again
scored the bogey.

"Tt was very nice to win," said
a relaxed. McArthur, surprised
that both her and McAffee were
tied g the two-day event.

| a berth in the B.C. Amateur

‘Women's championship July 17-
19 at Victorin’s Gorge Vale Golf
and Country Club.

Both players, completing the

: 36-hole tournament tied at 160,
‘ bogeyed the first playoff hole,

"T didn't putt that well on. the
back nine so it was nice to get
into the playoff . . . and nice to
get it over.”

A sudden-death playoff is the
last place McArthur wanted to

spend her afternoon thinking
> about.

They’ re kind of nerve rack-
ing,” said McArthur, not overly

anticipating great results in Victo-
tia, “I think we both felt the same
way ...and both wanted to get it
over wil

Third overall in the low gross
category was S$! Nikirk of

witha 166. eae

MoArthur appeared to! be the
odds on favorite to win’ the ‘title
after playing the first nine holes
on the Rosemont course. 'The
wife of Castlegar golf profession-
al Denny McArthur held.a five
shot lead over, McAffce after, 27
holes.

However, McAffee battled
back on the final nine holes to
force the sudden-death playoff,

“I never keep track of how I’m
playing .. . I never know how
well I'm playing,” said McA ffee,
the defending champion after
winning title last year in Kimber-
ley.

"I guess I just snuck in a few
(forcing the playoff),”

Despite the sudden-death loss,
McAffee was still pleased with
the weekend results,

"I've never disappointed (with
my round),” said McAfice, cqn-
if she will attend thé

Windermere Golf and Country
Club near Invermere. Local -
favorite Sue Moisey finished
fourth, one shot back of Nikirk

Amateur in Victoria. “If I play
and win, that's great. But if I
don't, no big deal. I just play and
take it as 7 comes.”

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Barb sea pele out of
Rossland-Trail Golf and ‘Country
Club topped, the low'‘net field
with a 125 to win the'Louanne ,
Holmes trophy, Second was Ann

Joan Brown of Elkford ‘took
\ the Lois Caims Trophy, for senior
‘low gross —'50 plus with al66, °
Second was Nelda Harker of
from Fairmont with a 169.)

Masliad dia not ca q caine to the
.. podium to accept ’a trophy," ‘but
“the Nelson’ golfer did achieve a

feat second to none when she
scored a hole-in-one on the num-

Smithson of Nelson with'a 126; National Handicap award * ber seven, an 85-yard, par three. '.
Smithson, finishing in a tie with * Secco made it three trips to the .,’. Mother Nature took time to put
Sheila Marshall of: Bikford, won podium with a‘win in the Nation- a scare into organizers when'a
the honor by - ‘al: Handicap category. 1g storm ‘force’

Secco also won ‘the "Action Sheila Marshall of Sparwood at of play during’ Saturday's open-
Sports Trophy, for top sénicr low 126. ‘Third Marin’ Dimopoulos ' of, .ing round. Play was halted for'10
net with the identical’ score; Sec- . - Nelson with a 127 : minutes, Sunday; golfers toiled
ond was Smithson. EXTRA HOLE:: Colleen under ideal conditions. |

Golf tournament watchboard

Last year, friends of Markin organized a golt
in his

Celebrities coming to Castlegar

tomorrow for Jim Young golf tourney
The Jim Young Celebrity Golf Tournament tees

off tomorrow at 1 p.m.,

All available entries\have been tuken up and
except for a few last minute adjustments the celebri-

ty list has been finalized.
Notable ions include

one of its main
bly in Calgary.

ry to be held

> ‘Tragically, only: two weeks after the first event,
organizers,

Mark Lightle, died hori-

Friends of the two continued the work of

August 4.

ing a tournament and this year it will go ahead

Ronning and Robert Kron, but according to touma-
ment organizer, Pat Metge, he’s working on replace-.

ments,

Although it’s too late to enter the tournament,
which places local golfers on a team of celebrities,
fans can still meet their heroes as it is an informal

event.

Metge says Thursday moming would be a good
time for kids seeking autographs to meet the stars.
Regisiation for the event Starts at 10:30.:

by Cliff

To be known as the Dan Markin/Mark Lightle
olf

will be held at the

the go!
Castlegar Golf Club with part of its proceeds going
to the Cancer Society, °

The fee is $40 and the event will be'a:five-man

scramble format,
365-5006.

of are
in  Castoga Thursday. mening...

The Dan Markin/Mark Lightle
Golf Toumament

Dan Markin loved to golf.

In fact,:almost exactly this date two summers
ago, Makin played his last round of golf before suc-
cumbing to cancer two weeks later on August 2,
1991.

P to arrive
first-place prize.
The profe

For more information contact the clubhouse at

The Rossland/Trail Open
The Rossland/Trail Open, held August 16 to 18,
is a somewhat unique event in the Kootenays as it
features professional golfers competing for a $5,000

which

resented.

for professionals.

over the entire three days, usually ensures top cali-
, bre golf and the resulting low scores.

:. The amateur field, playing on August 16, and 17,

is equally as strong and all levels of ability are rep-

Amateurs are also given the opportunity to play
with professionals on the first day of the tournament,
Registration costs are $90 for amateurs and $120

Mountain biking group being formed

In an effort not only to aid

extensive trail system in the

and
other outdoor sports enthusiasts,
but also to entice tourists into the
Rossland area, a mountain biking
association is being formed.
“Rossland has been dubbed the
ountain bike capital of Cana-
’ said Dave Roberts, one.of

‘the board members ‘of the

fledgling ‘association, adding that:
mountain biking has become
massively popular as a recre-
ational activity. “We're starting to
see a lot of cars coming through

d-Trail area, Roberts said.
Roberts said it was decided to
form the association as there was
not really anyone to speak out for
the recreational users of the trails.

' “We're starting to
see a lot of cars
coming through
with _ bikes. on

with bikes on the roof. If they’re their roofs.”
coming here, they should get bet-
ter service in terms of signage — Dave Roberts
and maps.
“Of course, the other thing we R besisby peesucel
want to promote is exercise,
clean air (and) fun,” he added. Biking Assn.
The Bik- 7
ing Association, which will hold Mountain biking is not the
its inaugural public meeting at only activity that occurs along the
the Miners’ Hall July 15 at 8 trails in the area, Roberts noted.
P-0L., wants to promote the build- They are used year-round for hik-
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Roberts said the group wants
to clean up and expand the trail
system, ‘an exercise which the
board hopes will eventually lead
to signage being i ‘on the

Dewdney Trail.

The group also wants to work
hand in hand with industrial
groups which use the areas
crossed by the trail system,
groups such as Atco Lumber.

‘Roberts said the association

would like to promote the harmo-

-nious use of land for both-recre-

ational and industrial. purposes.
Atco owns much of the land
around Rossland.

"I don’t want it to be an us and
them situation,” Roberts said. “I
want it to be us and us because
there is the potential for conflict.”

Roberts also noted that with
the extra people in the areas uti-
lizing the trails, there will be the
advantage for industrial owners
of having people to report if there
is anything untoward occurring
on their properties. :

The group has been working
with the City of Rossland on the
project. With the city’s support,
Roberts said the group has
applied for Go B.C. funding to
finance its projects. In addition,
the group is negotiating with the
city to have landowners whose
propertics are or will be crossed
by trails covered under the city’ ‘Ss

trails, a map for both local people
and tourists to the various trails
and, possibly, the d of

policy. In the
ty of any accidents occuiring on
Portions of trails crossing private

an interpretive program for some
of the more heritage-oriented
trails in the area such as those
along old railway beds and the

property, such ii would
preclude the owners of any liabil-
ity in such cases,

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ls earthiness enough to win leadership role?

‘The first thing you notice about
“Rita Johnston is her earthiness,

Tired'of being hounded ‘about
; Fantasy Gardens last year, she
"fended off one reporter with “Did
“someone pee in your Wheaties
this moming?” She is always par

Hi 'tisan, sometimes gleefully as
“when heckling | the opposition
with the grin ‘of a happy. warrior
jon her face, sometimes fiercely,
ps when she refused to let New
Democratic MLA ‘Tom Perry into
‘her office after he called the
Socred government the “most
corrupt” in B.C.'s history.

Bom Rita Leichert in Melville,
Saskatchewan in 1935, she grew

+ -up-in the Vancouver area and like
fellow candidate Norman Jacob-
sen, had to leave school early to

«work, in her case at age 16, in the
:family cafe. The same year she
:met and married millwright
George Johnston. After a work

i accident disabled him, she went
back to work, rising to the posi-
‘tion: of office manager for a
finance company.

In 1970 she entered Surrey
municipal politics, serving on the
council for eight years but losing

‘ two bids to succeed ally Bill Van-
‘der Zalm as mayor. In 1983 she
won her seat in the legislature
and in 1986 Van-

der Zalm's leadership bid. Per-

haps as a reward, or perhaps

because he was psychic, she was

made municipal affairs minister.
As an and

As premier, one of her first
acts was to freeze loans and
grants to businesses, The govern-
ment’ 's job. was to build roads and

she demonstrated the, same hard-
working, practical and humble
qualities, the same willingness,
say ministry insiders, to listen to
her experts or to “client” groups
and promote their views. Peter
Taylor, executive director of the
Union of B.C, Municipalities, says
“she was an extremely accommo-
dating minister, the best in recent
memory.” Under her auspices, the
municipalities were finally disen-

and social }» not
start businesses, she said.

Early in the leadership cam-
paign’'she lost the support of
,Women’s Programs Minister
“Carol Gran (who went to Mr.
Jacobsen) because she wouldn't
back Mrs. Gran’s hot lunch plan
for school children.

The program, reportedly,
would ‘have extended to all chil-
dren, rather than just’ those who
actually needed it, a violation of

tangled from the school prop Mrs. Joh *s app h to

tax, those cities which paid for _ social services.

their own police and health ser- If there is to be no free lunch

vices received provincial'reim- _ for children, then there will be no
other iti free ride for natives,

got grants in lieu of taxes ‘for Be Mrs. Johnston has apparently

Hydro dams and i dicted her earlier p

thorny issues of longstanding i Hes
tation. As transportation minister,
out of her depth, she became in
the view of some a mere mouth-
piece for deputies.

Mrs. Johnston is a fierce, ideo-
logical free enterpriser who
fought the NDP’s formation of
the Agricultural Land Reserve in
the 1970s,-In Transportation, she
argued for.B.C. Ferries to buy the

ffshore boats.

that B.C, would pay ‘its “fair
share” of land claims,

Much is made in Mrs. John-
ston’s campaign literature of her
“down-to-earth” qualities and she
or her advisers have wisely
focused on matter-of-fact issues
such as crime, affordable housing
and bashing the New Democrats
for the huge deficit the NDP gov-
emment in Ontario has budgeted.

Though now Norman Jacob-

Former ‘waste wood’ now being sent
south as potential cancer treatment

VICTORIA- ‘The p

Chemical R ic

cabinet has issued export licenses
for the bark of the Pacific Yew, a
species regarded as waste wood
until research recently indicated
its value as a cancer treatment, to

of Boulder, Golan to process
the yew bark.

B.C.’s yew-bark is headed for
Hauser, Yew-Can’s Gary Pruitt
told SNS.

the U.S. He planned to keep 10 bark
D&F&D of Camp- seven months
bell River has been permitted to a year on the harvest.

export 68,000 kg of bark, and
Yew-Can Products of Amnstrong
can export another 89,000 kg.
Some harvesting of the bark-has
-already-been underway in’ antici-
~phtion'Ofthe licenses,’ with ‘prides
of $2.50 to $5 per kg reportedly
being paid.

It takes 8,900 kg of yew bark
to produce one kg of taxol, the
chemical which has proved effec-
tive ‘against leukemia and some
cancers;especially ovarian.

According to B.C. forest ser-
vice Alvin Yanchuk

To prevent an overharvest
(which occurred with the bark of
the cascara tree in the 1950s after

its, laxative, properties .were
exploited) the forest service will
allow only: yew whiclnisabdot to
be logged anyway to be debarked.

The newly issued regulations
require harvesters to leave 15-cm
stumps so that the hardy plant can
coppice. That should provide for
their regeneration, said the forest
services,’s Campbell River dis-
trict manager, Don Sluggett,

the U.S. government has made
taxol production the exclusive

be current logging practice

has abandoned the “scarifying”

and deep buming of logged sitcs
which i

Preserve of Bristol-N
which in turn has hired Hauser

d the past, and
which would have eliminated the

Hurricane winds require
immediate harvesting

STEVE WEATHERBE
Sterling News Services

the “biggest clearcut in the
world,” most recently in a story
in TIME

VICTORIA - Hurricane-force
winds blew down 100,000 cubic
metres of old-growth timber 40
km cast of Burns Lake last Tues-
day, the Forests Ministry has just
announced, and to prevent its
wastage it will be immediately
harvested.

“I want to make it clear,” said
Forest Minister Claude Rich-
mond, “before the forest service

“gets the blame, that this was
‘nature's work. Nature can do the
‘same damage to mature and old-
} growth trees in other areas too.”

A large blowdown and insect
festation near the Bowron Lake

;the early ‘80s, and is. frequently
«described by environmentalists as

, Chain was similarly harvested in -

The trees, many over 100 feet
high and over 150 years old,
were mostly lodge pole pine,
with some spruce, said Milt
Moore, the operations manager
for the Lakes Forest District.

“If we don't log them within a

year or two,” said Mr. Moore, -

“sap rot will get to them and
they'll be no no good for
sawlogs.”'

The cut will be divvied up
among 10 or more small contrac-
tors through the Small Business
Enterprise Program, while areas

scheduled for the program will be Be

postponed.
Over 300 hectares were blown

-.down in the storm.

Bad

B:C. kids not keeping up

Fewer British Columbians are
-educating themselves beyond the
‘necessary grade i2.

according to the Canadian *

In order to help boost post-sec-
ondary participation, the BC gov-
emmment introduced a $690-million ©
Access for All plan in 1989-90,.

iaged pauean, 16 and 24. studying:

tin post-secondary institutions ‘are
fewer and dropping

ibehind the national average.

‘said the

‘rate in BC.is-nhot keeping up with

ithe national: ‘rate, despite the

finerense in post-secondary partic.
jipation since 1970-71.

According to Levign,. BC";

‘rate’ *

shad risen in 1989-90 to 21.4 per

cent from -16.8:per cent:in the

‘early.70s, But: the national aver-;:

Brad Lévign, BC's CES repre- i

andis in the process of
building ¢ the peheny. of North-
em

a A a

now valuable yew.

Mr. Yanchuk said a B.C. pro- ;

cessor of taxol was expected to
enter the market soon.

28

’ sen is being promoted as a com-
promise candidate between Mrs,
Johnston's and Grace McCarthy's

..camps, Mrs. Johnston herself was

pushed as a compromise succes-
sor to Bill Vander Zalm, who

, would be acceptable to ‘those who

opposed Mr, Vander Zalm, and
the majority of party members,
who cither Supported him person-

ally or believed that the Icader,
whoever he was, deserved loyalty
until proved in the wrong.

Her chosen role as a unifier
has sometimes turned out to be a
strait jacket,’ hampering her from
attacking her opponents, Lately,
however she has grown bolder,
and slighted Mrs, McCarthy for
the latter's declaration she would

not run in the next’ election if not
chosen as leader,

Expect her to grow bolder still...

as the convention nears,
4 oon

"A feature arcticle on one of the
leadership candidates for the
Social Credit party by SNS Victo-
ria reporter Steve Weatherbe.

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