CHICAGO (AP) — Mike Ditka threatened to resign as coach of the Chicago Bears last week and still may leave the team he led to the Super Bowl championship last year, published reports say. When Ditka first heard last week that Jerry Vainisi, his close friend, was being let go, he tried to talk club president Mika McCaskey out of it and threatened to quit, says the Chicago Tri- bune. y The coach strongly hinted to friends he will not work for McCaskey beyond the 1987 season, when his contract expires. On Friday afternoon, radio station WBBM-AM quoted sources saying the Atlanta Falcons, whose offer of a head coaching position was turned down by UCLA's Terry Donahue, had asked the Bears for permission to talk with Ditka about the va- ancy. GET DOWN! . . . Stanley Humphries secondary school trio work desperately to brush rock into rings during match Saturday morning against Kimberley. Game was part of four-team one-day high school event at the Castlegar Curling Club. CosttewsPhoto by Sur Rotten Saints split pair By CasNews Staff The Selkirk Saints broke even in Totem Conference play on the Lower Mainland this weekend, winning one game and losing another. Fraser Valley thumped the Saints Saturday 122-74. “Fraser Valley is probably the toughest team in the conference. We were also without our starting center, Greg Larson, who has the flu,” coach Ron Woodward said in a telephone interview Saturday night from Van. By CasNews Staff and News Services Rossland’s' Don Stevens came 48th in yesterday's men's World Cup downhill ski race in Wengen, Swit- zerland, while Castlegar na- tive Felix Belezyk missed a gate near the finish and was disqualified. Markus Wasmeier of West Germany won his first-ever couver. World Cup downhill ski race On Friday night the saints with an impressive showing defeated North Vancouver's on the circuit's longest Capilano ‘Collége 80-67." Ray iia Branch picked up 37 points and Troy Thomas managed 17, including 24 r d course. Wasmeier, 23, clocked two minutes 29.62 seconds on the 4,180-metre-long Lauberhorn The next game for the. course under sunny skies and Saints is Jan. 23 when they temperatures bordering on play host to Trinity College. the freezing mark. DISCOVER SALMO SKI AREA THE BEST IN THE WEST! MONDAY MID-WEEK SKIING ee CASTLEGAR SENTINAL MINOR BASEBALL ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Thursday, Jan. 29 7:00 p.m. Recreation Complex Arts & Crafts Room Election of néw executives, and discussion of new issues CASTLEGAR & AREA RECREATION DEPARTMENT JAN. — Public Skating. 2:15 - 4:00 p.m. Admission 18 children 75¢, students $1.00, adult $1.25. m. Ad. mission $1.25 for a parent and all the tots. Lunch Hour Hockey, 12-1 p.m. $1.00. 20 — Parent and Tot Skate, 11 2:30. 4:30 p.m 21 — Lunch Hour Hockey 12 - | p.m. Don't forget about the Robby Burns Dance, Jan. 24 at Seniors Hall, 8 p.m. 11 p.m. $2 22 — Parent and Tot skate, 11 2:30 - 4:30 23 — Lunch Hour Hockey 12 3:45 p.m 24 — Drop-in Fitness, 9 - 10 a.m. $2.00. Public Skating 2:45 p.m. - 4.45 p.m. Rebels ploy host to Spokane Gome time 8 p.m. Minor Hockey weekend begins Hockey action in both arenas 19 — Parent and Tot skate, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p 12 noon. Public skating 12 noon. Public skating 1 p.m. Public skating 2:00 NOTE: A correction concerning the winter programs. Learn, to Skate is for children ages 6-9. Registration for winter progrom starts with the registration evening Jan. 26 — 6-7 p.m at the Complex 2101-6th Ave., Castlegar Phone 365-3386 The West German slalom specialist finished more than a second ahead of runner-up Karl Alpiger of Switzerland, whose time was 2:30.71, and third-place finisher Franz Heinzer, also of Switzerland, who clocked 2:31.17. And Rob Boyd, a surprise winner at Val Gardena, Italy, in December, showed why he is so highly-regarded by the Canadian coaching staff by racing from a 26th start to place 11th — has third top-15 finish over the year to'move him. into 10th place in‘ the downhill standings with 40 points. “I ran the top pretty well, but I didn't make a good turn in the road section and I lost some time there,” said Boyd, who was also the top-placed Canadian at the downhill last weekend in Garmisch-Part- enkirchen, West Germany. Team veteran Todd Broo- ker, of Paris, Ont., looking for another top-10 finish to go with a seventh-place last weekend in Garmisch, made crucial errors near the top of the course and ended up 28th of 57 skiers. Swiss ace Pirmin Zurbrig- gen, a favorite going into the race, was a disappointing Seventeen skaters at Rossland By DONNA VAN VLIET Seventeen Castlegar ska- ters entered the Rossland Mini Skating Competition on Jan. 11. It was the first competition for several of the young skaters. Results are as follows: Pre-Preliminary Ladies 8 and Under Group B: Selena Fodor third, Amber Kenne~ way fourth, Heather Shep: pard fifth, Charmaine Garay sixth, Jennifer Datchkoff seventh, Meghan Van Vliet eighth, Tory Merritt ninth. Pre-Preliminary Ladies 9 and 10 Group B: Laura Kos owan fourth, Lisa Datchkoff fifth, Jennifer Fayant sixth, Mina Briggeman_ seventh, Richelle Davis eighth. Pre-Preliminary Ladies 9 and 10 Group C: Averil Sheppard first, Karen Skib- inski third, Tracy Messenger eighth Preliminary Ladies 10 and Under Group A; Chelsea Van Vliet first. Preliminary Ladies 11 and 12: Danielle Crockett sev enth. Many of the skaters are working hard perfecting solos for the West Kootenay championships to be held Feb. 20, 21 and 22 in Beaver Valley. Castlegar will be hosting a test day on Jan. 31 skate. Stevens places 48th Belczyk disqualified ninth with a time of 2:31.55. Despite his poor showing, Zurbriggen remained the leader in the overall World Cup standings and in the downhill event with 172 points and 95 points, respec- tively. Wasmeier advanced to second place from fifth in the downhill standings with his win, edging Heinzer by~one point. Wasmeier has 83 points and Heinzer 82. Wasmeier also remained in second place in the overall standings, with 157 points. The West German clocked an average speed of close to 100 kilometres an hour on the course, which has a drop of 1,028 metres. The Austrian team con- tinued its disappointing sea- son with its top skier, Peter Wirnsberger, placing seven- th in 2:31.39. He was followed by countryman Gerhard Pfaf- fenbichler, who was eighth in 2:31.44. World Cup defending champion Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clocked 2:33.72 to finish 34th. The Austrian- born skier's season has been plagued by a nagging shoul der injury. MONTREAL (CP) Penguins centre Mario Lemieux, who's nursing an injured knee, is the top vote-getter for the National Hockey League's all-star team. ‘ Final results issued by the league had Lemieux with 247,222 votes, His closest competition was Wayne Gret- zky of the Edmonton Oilers, who was _ second overall with 212,246. > Joining Lemieux. in the starting line-up will be right-winger Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders (209,195), left-winger Michel Goulet of the Quebec Nordiques (149,86), and de- fencemen Paul Coffey of the Oilers (209,607) and Mark Howe of the Phil- adelphia Flyers (202,218). The Nordiques’ Clint Malarchuk led all goaltenders with 116;137 votes, and while he is guaranteed to be part of the team which will-face the Soviet na- tional team in a two-game series next month in Quebec City, he isn't guar- anteed to start in net. The choice of goaltenders and the selection.of the rest of the team is the decision of the three coaches and eight general managers. The earliest they will announce their selections is next week, Coffey, winner of the Norris Trophy as the best defenceman in the NHL last season, said earlier this weék that ¥ ballots between Noy. 1 and Dee. 30, the second year the NHL has given the midseason vote to the fans. Gretzky, arguably the greatest play- er in NHL history, was running third in the results for several weeks behind the Nordiques’ Peter Stastny, who was the early leader, and Lemieux. ‘The ‘media in Edmonton and some other NHL cities reacted with predic- table complaints that there was ballot- stuffing in Quebec City, site of the me. Marcel Aubut, the Nordiques presi- dent who also heads Rendez-Vous 87, said in November that Quebec officials were pushing Nordiques fans to_vote. NHL won't games for u ner ub (CP) — Federal Sports finister Ottd Jelinek said the National Hockey Lea; “pnequivocally re- jected” the idea of postponing part of its 1987-88 schedule sf help Canada in the Olympic Games. Jelinek said he mad@ the proposal so that Canada’s Olympi¢ hockey team Gretzky, meanwhile, has had the last laugh against Quebec. ‘ In three Edmonton-Quebec skirmish- es this season, the Oilers have scored 14 goals, and Gretzky has 12 points on five goals and seven assists, After a 4-1 triumph in Quebec on ‘Thursday, Oilers coach Glen Sather said he hopes the Quebec fans took note of his star centre, who had a goal and an assist. “I really think he wanted to show Quebec fans he was number one all the time,” said Sather. “] think it's a farce if anyone doesn’t think he’s the best in the league,” Sather added. postpone Olympics the owners of the seven Canadian franchises in the NHL to ask them to make some players available. Ziegler, however, said the league would suffer if just a handful of star players was made available. “We put on a thousand events a year,” he said. “Most of our sales are he may not play in the series because of continuing back problems. “If you're not 100 per cent against the Russians, you might as well forget it,” he said. “I've still got a couple of weeks to see what happens.’ Bossy has already said he may.miss the games because of a nagging injury. More than one million fans cast their Pothier may be OTTAWA (CP) — The Ot- tawa Citizen says the season- long drug ion of the could take advantage an Interna- tional Olympic: Committee decision athletes. to open the Games He said the NHL had y obj tions, including that it was | ing penalty reduced The source said Pothier plans to take the suspension ’ Hector to arbit with the com- Pothier could be reduced to four games during the 1987 CFL season. The Citizen says a decision may be made within a week. A high-ranking league source who requested anony- mity said commissioner Doug Mitchell has planned a news conference to announce his decision, basing his action on the results of a meeting he had with the giant offensive tackle and his lawyers in Ed- monton last Nov. 20. Mitchell suspended Pot- hier early last November for the rest of the season and all of 1987. Pothier had pleaded guilty in a Winnipeg court after being found in posses- sion of a small amount of hashish at Winnipeg airport Oct. 26. Pothier, 34, was given an absolute discharge. if the isn't dropped completely for the forthcoming season. In 1980, Winnipeg Blue Bomber kicker Bernie Ruoff was convicted of marijuana possession but he wasn’t sus- pended. In 1978, New York Rangers forward Don Mur- doch was suspended for a year for marijuana posses- sion, but NHL president John Ziegler later reduced the penalty to 40 games. Pothier, a nine-year vet- eran out of St. Mary's Uni- versity, refused to discuss the matter in a phone call from Vancouver last night, where he is the Eskimos’ player representative attend- ing CFL Players Association meetings. “I have nothing to say at all,” he said. TOP SKATERS .. . Four of the 17 Castlegar skaters who finished among the top three for figures, dance and free- in their class at the Rossland Mini Skating Competition included: (from lett) Karen Skibinski, Chelsea Van Vliet, Selena Fodor and Averil Sheppard. to forgo the $10 million in earns every week of the season. ig rénues jt Jelinek said he now is approachii professional season tickets. “] don’t think it's fair to the customer if we say, ‘You've paid $16 for your ticket — oh by the way, for the next three weeks you're not going to see the Gretzkys, the Paul Coffeys and the Bourques and so forth. “What would that do to the integrity of the competition? Weekend Wrap-Up sorns one point. and are not included Cronbrook . Valley Kimberley Castiegor Rossland Trot 8. Valley Elk Volley Cranbrook Nee WALES CONFERENCE Patrick Divi sion ester 3 Adirondack 4 Springtield 3 BRSLSS BRSLELL Kamloops 6 Seattle 4 BASKETBALL _ EASTERN CONFERENCE ‘Atlantic Division Final results of fan balloting tor Golden Store 118 LA Clippers 106 SOCCER ENGLISH LEAGUE Division | 1. Chris Chelios, Montreal, 66,54 075. 13. Ke on St Washington. 49,408. 15. Dove Bobych Ho 29.719 ‘Miche! Goulet. Quebec 1 Mike c 720 of shootout Aberdeen TRANSACTIONS Iaypmetion ot scout iim Russo, acquire ou! Bossy NY Islon sign pitcher Rand) red him to Portland of detencemon ’ decision ot the ANU v3 . , YULE . accepted accountant Local man accepted Geoffrey W. Yule, son of Dr. and Mrs. W.M. Yule, has recently been accepted as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of B.C. Yule graduated from Stan- ley Humphries secondary school in 1977 and afterwards obtained a Batchelor of Bus- COMMUNITY NEWS MARRIED 63 YEARS . . . John and Annie Kalmakoff cel: anniversary Wednesday. The Castlegar coup! b d their 63rd weddi re le was married Jan. 14, 1924, Annie said the 63 years “just flew”. The couple has 10 grandchildren and 10 great- grandchildren. —CasNewsPhoto Price Waterhouse Chartered Accountants in Vancouver and is currently employed with the same firm in their overseas office in Geneva, Switzerland. Bridge results Seven pairs of duplicate bridge players competed Jan. 12. The average bridge score was 24 with the following winners: first — Hugh Auld and Myrna Baulne 28'/2; sec- ond — Dr. Ron Perrier and Hubert Hunchak 27; and tied for third with 24% were Helen Batchelor and Mary Stewart with Joy Ramsedn and Phyllis Matteucci. Births & Funerals LOTTERIES | ‘The following are the Lotto West numbers drawn Wed- nesday night: The jackpot of $150,000 was carried over. The eight numbers drawn were 5, 14, 20, 22, 26, 31, 48 and 54. ‘The bonus number was 6. ‘The five correct plus bonus number ®ategory was carried over. The 62 winners of the five correct category win $369.40 each. The 1,557 winners of the four correct category win $42.90 each. The 17,528 winners of the three correct category win a prize of $5 each? Next Wednesday's jackpot is estimated at $195,000. The winning numbers of Wednesday's Lotto 6-49 draw were 4, 21, 23, 33, 34 and 36. ‘The bonus number was 31. The jackpot pool of $1,747,533.90 ‘was. divided into three prizes of $582,511.90. The second-prize pool, those HOMEGOODS FURNITURE | WAREHOUSE China Creek “Drive a Little to Save a Lot” ners of $132,035.90. The fourt-prize pool, awarded to those matching four regular numbers, had 12,222 winners of $79.40. In addition there were 251,770 prizes of $10 awarded to those matching three reg- ular numbers. There was a total of 264,211 = prizes = worth $6,400,678.90. In the event of a diserep- ancy between these numbers and the official winning list, the official list. shall prevail. HERE IS MY CONSTITUENCY OFFICE PHONE NUMBER: -CALL TOLL-FREE 1-800-663-2130 The above toll-free number for my constituency oftice in Castlegar was omitted in error trom white pages of all telephone directories in my riding. B.C. Tel hos expressed regret for any incon- venience this might cause. Meanwhile, until the next directory is published, please make a note of my number, and feel free to contact me for any matter which concerns you. BOBBRISCO, M.P. — KOOTENAY WEST Inventory Clearance © 25% 50%: Embroidered Jump Suits, Cotton Dresses, Shorts & Tops, Bathing Suits, Cotton Sweaters BIRTHS HOCKLEY — To Julie and Mike Hockley of Trail, a boy, born January 5. 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