jeagu the team of Van Wink @ playoff foumnament winner held at Kinnaird Park Water B ql nal game pitting th ‘B" division winners, Celgar, for whom the final Savink Ten teams par- division winnin ould easily be when this aine-and-one-half pound Kokanee became a trophy when caught during trolling with a gang troll and maggots. Waterski g game was the fifth encounter that day. Shown gbove are the Van Winkle team mem- 183 top, left to right, Ed Z Bottom, | Rich Kanigan and Larry Kerolff. Missing from photo is Paul D'Andrea. Devemey, Marcel Ap Mike Schmitt, Dave Kirby, Scotty Moffat, Norm to right, Pau! Kinakin, Pete Evdokimoff, ‘Doc’ Kline service on Thursday Funeral mass is being held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. from St. Rita’s Catholic Church for Joseph John Kline, 78, of Castlegar, who died Monday. Born July 23, 1901, in Austria, Mr. Kline owned and operated Kline’s Furniture and Hardware in Trai! for many years. Upon retirement he moved to his summer. home on ‘Robson Road and later, when the Hugh Keen-’ leyside Dam was built, he made his home in the former Town of Kinnaird. . He was a past member of the Kiwanis Club and Trail Chamber of Commerce. He was an ardent fisherman and gardener and lover of dogs. Mr. Kline is survived by one stepson, R.J. Barber of Keremeos; two stepdaugh- ters, Cookie Kerr of Trail and Thelma Kirk of Vancouver; four grandchildren; three Not the sport it once was Water skiing was first begun,they will tell you, down in Florida, as a method of trolling for alligators. The gator hunters drew straws and the unlucky one had to be towed behind the boat through the Everglades on a pair of barrel staves. Whoever started it came up with a good thing because water skiing is as popular as snow skiing and is growing every year, Canada’s exciting per- formance at the World Water Ski Championships in Tor- onto last September has fueled interest in the sport and retailers reported record Christmas sales in skiis, ropes and all the other paraphernalia that it takes to be towed behind a boat. A powerboat, not sur- prisingly, is the most essen- tial ingredient for water skiing unless, of course, you are on hell of a paddler. And while anything from an alum- inum fishing boat with a 9.8 horsepower outboard (we kid you not) to a highpowered houseboat will keep most skiers on the surface, there is a good deal more to skiing than that. The ideal ski boat is a fairly beamy stern drive sportboat that holds flat on the turns. A ski pylon set amidships prevents the sev- ere pull of a slalom skier in a deep-water start from fore- ing the bow to lift and the stern to squat. And a stern drive powerplant provides the needed torque for crisp take-offs and the flattish wake for good skiing. Water skiing is best enjoyed in the company of other devotees for it is a great competition sport. The three main categories are slalom, jumping and tricks, and of these three disciplines most skiers learn first how to slalom. Ski jumping is a club activity that will always be restricted to a relatively small number of young thrill- seekers with strong legs, but slalom and tricks can be practised anywhere on water with a minimum of equip- ment, The neglected member of the trio is undoubtedly trick skiing. It offers by far the greatest variety, it is performed at relatively slow speed (in fact, any speed you choose) and it calls for skill rather than strength. All you require is a pair of those banana-skin-shaped skis, a special tow rope and a stern drive towboat, for you rely heavily on the predict- ability of the wake. KINNAIRD TRANSFER LTD. L.A, (Tony) Geronazzo, Manager . Excavating — Trucking Gravel Products Phone 365-7124 UNION SHOP The Canadian Water Ski Association has been casting around for another name for trick skiing in the belief that the present one is misleading and the sport has nothing to do with the tricks. So in this article we'll simply call it ski-tricking. é There are literally dozens of ski-tricking rou- tines you can learn, starting with a simple side slide. As you become more proficient you can graduate to toe-hold tricks, step-overs and turn- arounds and, perhaps even- tually, even a forward flip off the wake. There is no lack of Contest Winner Pictured above is Roy Fi Ight) of Rossland, B,| ficty bove ry Fines (right) of Rosslai winner of a wer, ofa recent Conada-wide Matlwads Contest, Presenting Roy with his prize is John Lennon of Macleods Store in Castlegar. NMACLEODS Columbia Ave. Castlegar assistance for water skiers in Canada. Apart from the national’ association head- quarters near Ottawa, each province has its own affiliat- ed association. y If your lake happens to be remor.te from an existing club, or you want advice on how to set up a slalom course, build a jump or anything else to do with water skiing, write to the Canadian Water Ski Association, 333 River Road, Place Vanier, Vanier City, Ont. K1L 8B9. They are very nice as well as helpful people up there and you will most certainly receive an early reply. was one of ten winners 3€5-3412 In provincial court July 15 Glenn‘ Jackson pleaded guilty to a charge of being a minor in possession of liquor. great-grandchildren; one bro- ther and one sister-in-law. Rey. Father A, Michael A two-tone blue 1977 GMC sprint is presently being sought by local RCMP. The vehicle is reported stolen from Mike’s Moblte Homes sometime between midnight and 9 a.m. Wednes- day. ' The vehicle bore no plates at the time it was removed from the premises. s id On Wednesday morning police also reported four win- ° dows were broken by rocks in the office of Spilker, Bridge- man law firm, The incident is presently under investigation. eo. * Also under investigation is the unlawful entry of a home on Tenth Avenue when a cash box with approximately $150 was stolen. The incident is believed to have happened Monday or Tuesday. Police report the home appeared to be unlock- ed at the time of the incident. FOR RENT Office or Retail Space In Downtown Castlegar In the Castlegar News building, Street-level entrance. Air con in ditioned ji immer, Private office adjoining, Available within 10 days, Some services possibly available such as phone answering and photocopying, CONTACT: Castlegar News, 197 Columbia Ave: Ask for Burt.Campbell. Ph. 365-7266 daye; 365-5834 Put Us On Your Shopping List For all your T-Shirt Ne Buttons Custom Transfers 253 Baker St. will officiate with Walter Scott, John McLean, Dick Johnson, Jeff Johnson, Jim Clark and Sonny Drake as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers are Howard Efliott, Jim Walker, Tom McColm and Bob Woods. Cremation to follow. Funeral arrangements under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Home. He was fined $125, . s . Keith Cook was fined $450 or in default 20 days in jail after pleading guilty to a charge of attempting to assist a person of escaping. e * o Kenneth Kinakin plead- ed guilty to a charge of stip- plying liquor to a minor. He was given a four-month sus- pended sentence. No one injured - L.A. SUNDAY BINGO STARTS AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER LEGION ANNUAL POOL & DART in basement blaze TOURNAMENT Damage has been esti- mated between $2,500 and $3,000 following a fire early Tuesday morning in a base- ment suite at 305 Lakeview Drive. Fire chief Rene Archam- bault told the Castlegar News the only occupant at the time was Norm Werre who was awaken by a smoke alarm when grease caught fire on the stove. : Approximately a dozen members of the South Castle- gar Volunteer Fire Depart- ment responded to the 3:30 alarm. Archambault said he un- derstood both premises and contents were insured. FROM 1 P.M. July 26/80 Open to all Ordinary Associate & Fraternat Members Su Fest CELEBRATION SPECIALS TOOTHPASTE Crest 150 ml size ... SHAMPOO Head & Shoulders 350 ml size. Regular $3.66 NOW ONLY........-. BUBBLE BATH & BATH OIL Faberge. Regular $3.59. SPECIAL........ . FINE SCOTTISH SOAPS 27 delightful fragrances to choose from. Regular $2.95. SPECIAL. ....es0000 COTY MUSK . 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The meeting with the consultants was requested by the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary’s Project Impact Committee and attended by Castlegar and Regional District of Central Koot- enay representatives as well. “It seemed appropriate that our consultants be presented to the local people so that they could tell you about the study program that they were conducting and provide the local people with an opportunity to ask questions of them, and, said Hydro planning en- gineer Nigel Grant, ‘‘more importantly, raise some of the local concerns that you have so that they're aware of these issues.’” But while many issues were raised and questions asked, Hydro was unable to provide many answers about the dam or its impact. How much ‘revenue will be re- turned to the Kootenays? ‘We've started meeting some of the peak demand for electricity in the Kooteni in the past ‘year and we see that increasing’? was the response of Nigel Grant, who didn’t say how much Hydro is charging for that electricity. How many permanent jobs will the project create? was the follow;up ques- tion. ‘About 20 or 25°" replied Michael Morgan, Hydro’s co-ordinator of en- vironmental impact studies. Could Murphy be used to stabilize water levels in the Arrow Lakes? ‘‘I don't think you could have much ex- change of storage from Arrow to Murphy” said Grant. ‘Those were the morc direct an- swers provided at the meeting. Questions about the dam’s impact on water quality, fluctuations of the water levels in the reservoir and the recreational potential’ of the area are “‘under study.’’ Facilities to allow boats to travel past the dam and the stability of the banks of the proposed reservoir ‘‘will be studied."” ‘ Answers to questions about the height of the dam and Hydro’s pro- cedures in. acquiring property it will need for the reservoir ‘‘will be an- nounced,’* And the impact of the dam on the tax base of local governments, and the effect of the dam on development, are “socio-economic questions."’ “1 don’t think we'll be starting the socio-economic studies probably until fall" said Grant. 5 The Hydro representatives sald the environmental studies must be done. first because people will want to know how the dam will affect their sur- roundIngs before they can voice’ social and economic concerns. And the environmental studies are just in the preliminary stages, the con- sultants said, so they are unable to be very definite about existing conditions, bis ‘alone the probable impact of the lam, - Consultants in early stages of studies All six of the environmental con- sultants introduced by B.C. Hydro at last week's meeting in Castlegar are in the early stages of their studies of the impact of the proposed Murphy dam on the Columbia. : But ‘it seemed appropriate’? said Hydro planning engineer Nigel Grant,” that our consultants be presented to the local people so they could tell you about our study program that they were conducting.” © Heritage and archeological sites are being studied by James Baker of Okanagan College. “‘Basically we are doing a resource inventory, that is, attempting to find all heritage sites of some significance or importance. We aren't basing that on anything but surface observation. We aren't doing any excavation at this stage,’’ said Baker. He said his team of four people is studying a sample of about 15 quad- rants, each 15 metres square, on both sides of the river. ‘‘We simply walk the ground in those thousand metre squares and attempt to see any evidence of past occupation.”” Baker said his team has completed - its visual survey of the sample quad. rants on the west side of the fiver an found eight sites, six of them previously own, . Baker's team has been in the field about a month, he said, and will take another month to complete the visual surveys of the sample quadrants on the museums to gather information about tHe area and hope to talk to as many local historians as possible. © Recreation and tourism is being studied by James Stephenson of Edwin, - Reid and Associates of Vancouver. “We're looking at a wide range of activities: fishing, boating, scenic view- ing, hunting, just driving along, wildlife viewing, anything that could be classed as a recreation and tourism activity’ said Stephenson. His team will do survey interviews during the summer of tourists and of people using the river for recreation, particularly fishing, to try to determine the value of the river for recreation and tourism. Later, in September and Oc- tober, residents will be surveyed, he said, © Water quality is being studied by Dai Jones of. International Environ- mental Consultants of Vancouver. Jones said he is in the third month of a seven month study to predict the effect of the dam on the existing river condition. He explained he is preparing a “water budget’’ that will identify “the amount of. water that, comes in, the amount of water that Cards out’ at ‘present,’ who. takes’ it out, back, and what condition it's taken out in and what condition it comes back."’ - Data is being collected from fed- eral, provincial and municipal govern- ments and from industry, said Jones, and “we're just at the point where the reservoir which we hope to de-bug in the next few weeks so that the runs of the information predicting the effect of the reservoir on the river condition should be available about mid-August.”” ‘ © Forestry, vegetation and agricul- ture is under study by Wayne Biggs of Talisman Projects, Victoria, and map- ping of vegetation and land uses is virtually completed, he said. © Ian Robertson of Beak Consul-. tants, Vancouver, is co-ordinating the wildlife study. This is a year-long study of water- fowl and mammals. The waterfowl. study is virtually complete, he reported, but the mammal study is just beginning + because “it was important for us to have the vegetation mapping of the valley completed”’ to get ‘‘some idea of the habitat potential.’’ Aerial surveys in February will be used to ennumetate mammals, par- ticularly deer, he said. © Fish resources are being studied by Gary Ash of RL & L consultants of Peers 7 Sigeee Also a year-long survey, this study is using a variety of sampling tech- niques to capture fish which are then tagged and released. About 700 to 800 fish have been measured, tagged and released, he said. east side of the river. He said they have visited local we're starting to put the data into the model. We have a computer model on Spawning habitats in the tribu- taries are also being studied, he said. Harlan County, USA, shows Sunday Cominco's w electrolytic melting plant in Trail takes shape as cement panels are hauled into place. The panels were trucked from Spokane, Washington. The plant was viewed last week during o media tour. Inside the construction forms a geometric more. The area is equivalent to that of approximately - six football flelds. Probation for Sons of Freedom Nineteen Sons of Freedom re- ceived suspended sentences and three years probation Monday for the burn- ing of a CP Rail shed in South Slocan last September. Judge Richard D'Andrea said at the sentencing in provincial court in Grand Forks that evidence presented by Mark Mealing, acting chair of the ~ Kootenay Committee on Intergroup Relations, and Greg Cran, committee secretary, indicated the 19 wished to be law-abiding citizens. Defence lawyer Jim Hogan said the 19 were happy that the trial allowed the facts of a 1924 police report to finally be made public.‘ That report absolves the Sons of Freedom of blame for the rail car explosion that killed Doukhobor leader ‘Peter (the Lordly) Verigin. . believe the railway uncoupled Verigin’ car from the train before the explosion killed Verigin. i Sons of Freedom have sai ey 's Before Monday's court session began a fire broke out in the women's washroom and fire officials said the fire appeared to be deliberately set. The courthouse was evacuated for several minutes but damage was minimal. Hogan told the court. that all 19 accused Sons of Freedom were to- gether in another room when the fire occurred and could not be responsible for it. The Kootenay Nuclear tensely human story that con- strikers’ wives and their res- “Was awarded the Oscar for” Study Group and the Energy File announced that they are jointly sponsoring a benefit showing of the film, Harlan ‘County, U.S.A., this Sunday. The film, described as a passionate documentary, tells the story of a coal miners strike in Kentucky, but takes neither a company nor a union stand. centrates on the workers. The issues are all covered, but they are presented through the workers, rather than as disembodied concepts,”’ said Robert Martin in the Toronto Globe and Mail. The human approach takes the film beyond dry documentary and creates a story of community action. It ponse to the situation as it does on the picket line. Director Barbara Kopple uses both traditional and modern songs to relieve the dramatic confrontations in the film, but the strength of feeling on both sides is felt forcefully by the audience. The film won critical approval at the New York and Best Documentary in 1977. It is to be shown in Nelson at 2:30 p.m. at the. Civic Theatre and in Castle- gar at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at the Castle Theatre this Sunday. Proceeds from the film will go to support the activities of the Kootenay Nuclear Study Group and the Energy File, two groups active locally in energy and environmental {s- “What emerges is an in- focusses as much on the Toronto Film Festivals, and sues.. Poor, seniors, children to benefit from new B.C. dental plan British Columbia's long-awaited dental plan was announced today by.‘ Rafe Mair, Minister of Health. Senior citizens and children under 14 years of age will have half their dental costs, to a maximum of $700 each year, paid for. In addition children under 14 years of age will receive a free preventive care treatment each year. Low income people will have 100 per cent of their costs paid. . ‘The plan will begin January 1. Mair unveiled the plan in a joint announcement with the College of Dental Surgeons of British Columbia. “This néw plan, which is unique in Canada, will help to protect people without private insurance from the high costs associated with basic dental care,’ the minister said. “It gives “complete access to a full range of - preventive services, making life-long dental health a realistic goal, parti- cularly for the more than 400,000 chil- dren who will be covered.”’ “Our negotiations with the min- istry were long and touch, but the outcome was worth the wait,”’ said Dr. Ted Ramage, President of the College of Dental Surgeons. ‘This is a good program that is tailored to the specific conditions of British Columbia. We are especially pleased that the plan is aimed at helping those who need it most — children, senior citizens and the dis- advantaged.”” Dr. Ramage said he will recom- mend the plan to all dentists and en- courage them to participate in it. “The College applauds the min- ister's support of fluoridation,”’ Dr. Ramage continued. ‘*We hope he will convince the government to promote fluoridation throughout British Colum- bia as part of a total preventive dental health program. The plan is expected to cost $85.3 million in the 1981/82 fiscal year, its first full year of operation. It will have a staff of about 60, and administrative costs of $3.8 million. Mr. Mair said the pian wil! pay up to $700.a year per person for basic dental services available from general practice dentists, and for dentures. There will be no premiums and no deductibility. Four groups of persons will be eligible for coverage. © Persons whose Medical Services Plan premiums are paid by the Ministry of Human Resources, and their depen- dents. The plan will cover 100 per cent of insured services. © Persons who receive premium assistance from the Medical Services Plan, including old-age pensioners re- ceiving premium assistance, and de- -pendents. The plan will cover 100 per cent of insured services. (Premium assistance is based on the combined taxable incomes of the subscriber and spouse in the previous tax year. Next year, subscribers with combined 1980 taxable incomes of $2,740 or less will receive premium assistance.) © All other old-age pensioners. The plan will cover SO per cent of insured services. For example, the plan will pay the annual maximum of $700 if @ person receives $1,400 worth of in- sured services. © Children 14 years of age and under who are not covered in other categories. The plan will pay 100 per cent of a once-yearly Preventive Care Package, consisting of an oral check-up, cleaning, scaling and fluoride treat- ment. The plan will cover 50 per cent of other insured services. All eligible persons already regis- tered with the Medical Services Plan will automatically be covered. Basic dental services covered by the plan include check-ups, x-rays, cleaning, fluoride for children under 19, extractions, root canals, fillings. gum and bone treatment, and denture re- pairs. Full dentures provided by a dentist or licenced dental mechanic will be covered, as well as partial dentures provided by a dentist. A detailed booklet: explaining the benefits will be available to the public before the introduction of the plan, which will be promoted by a media advertising campaign. Mr. Mair said dentists will be paid for their services under the plan ac- cording to a fee schedule negotiated with the College of Dental Surgeons of British Columbia. Dental mechanics will be reimbursed under an agreement between the plan and the Public Den- turists’ Society of British Columbia. Dentists who participate in the Dental Care Plan will bill the plan directly on behalf of the patient, who will receive a copy of the claim form submitted by the dentist showing the amount billed to the government. Patients of non-participating den- tists will have to pay their dentist directly, and then submit a claim form to the plan for reimbursement. “Altogether, the Dental Care: Plan will cover nearly 915,000 people when it begins, including 415,000 children and 290,000 senior citizens,"’ said Mr. Mai “Our health-care system is among the’ finest in the world, and the addition of this unique dental insurance plan repre- sents a major step in improving that system even further.’*