wa er, eat June 5, 1991 Casthogar News 61 ie It Ltd. put the touches on the new caysewa: y to Zuckerberg Island this Is to rebuild the link after week. The CasNews photo by John Charters receiving a request for help from the Castl quip on jegar and District Heritage Society. Lumber prices on upswing VANCOUVER (CP) sag Lurttber prices are climbing, providing some optimism in what has otherwise been a bleak five months for British Columbia’s embattled forest com- panies. Since hitting a low of $155 US a thousand board feet in January, the price for B.C. Interior spruce, pine and fir two-by-fours has rebounded to $213 US. The increase has caused the Toronto Stock Exchange forest pr- oducts index to climb 19 per cent since the beginning of the year. In thé United States, the Dow Jones forest-products index has climbed to the 270 range from 193.1 at the close of 1990. “The situation is improving, and I would hope this is part of a longer term trend,” said Dick Bryan, senior economist for B.C.’s Council of Forest Industries. ‘‘But we're a long way from being out: of the woods yet.” The council, which is the industry lobby group, recently reported that B.C. forest companies lost $9 milfion in 1990 compared with a collective profit of $1.15 billion in 1989 The rise in lumber prices is being attributed to a number of factors, both economic and environmental With prices depressed throughout the winter and early spring, many forest companies dramatically reduced lumber production. “There is no inventory being held in the lumber pipeline anywhere,”’ Bryan said. ‘So consequently, where there is a demand for product it's felt very quickly in the market.”’ LOTTERIES These are the winning Jottery numbers [64 last k LOTTO 6/49 June 1 7, 8.13, 28, 38, 44 Bonus 40 EXTRA done t 9, 29, 48. 84 LOTTO BC June t 1,8, 15, 36, 38, 39 EXPRESS June t 349428, 493938, 650766, 707499 PROVINCIAL May 31 $500,000 — 3681967 1109383, 1234683, 1323901, 1436413, 1727886, 2003981, 2772068 4603927, 3 9, 22, 31, 32, 34, 41 Jone 1 SAL 13, 22. 28, 35.3739 1 43,49 i DITION 1D DRAW me 2 $50,000 — 5516580 $10,000 S42A137, 4558706, 5694622. 122A282, 341D781, 2S7ASI4 _386E225, 6568389, 512E920, 1890697, $S0E04s 25SC682, 6596401 These are the official winning lottery numbers provided by the B. and those provided by the B.C. 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His decision was based partly on a Cominco Lid. plan to close its Sullivan lead-zinc mine near Kim- berley in his riding, throwing 700 people out of work. The other three dissidents returned later. Crandall was first elected to represent Columbia River in southeast British Columbia in 1986. He has served as a parliamentary secretary to several cabinet ministers, but has not held a cabinet post. Only Premier Rita Johnston and former finance minister Mel Couvelier are declared candidates for the July 18-20 leadership convention in Vancouver. Forests Minister Claude Richmond and Provincial Secretary Elwood Veitch say they will support John- ston. Municipal Affairs Minister Graham Bruce also declined but is staying neutral. Johnston was chosen by caucus April 2 to succeed Varider’ Zalm, who resigned after being found to have mixed politics with the sale of his Fantasy Gardens theme park. 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Contest is open to all residents 18 years of age or older. No purchase necessary. The winner must correctly anewer & skill-testing question. is t0 be given away and most be accepted a1 awarded. The winner will be chosen by + repreientgtive of Time Air on or before June contest rules ate available wpon request Canadein is a registered trsidemark One prise 21, 1991. Pll Ed Mills ; JAN I attended a lot of sporting events during Sunfest last weekend, but none more Provocative, sexy and cutthroat competitive than the sport of looking good. From Kinnaird Park to the Miss Castlegar Pageant and all points in between, the players were something to behold. Here they were, there they were, preening, posing, puckering and prancing. Oh, the beauty of it all, the youth and sheer strength in perfect symmetry. It was wonderful, fascinating, mesmerizing. Seeing these body beautifuls, I wondered: Could so-called real athletes put any more effort into their chosen sports than the those who play this. game? I doubt it. Imagine the time it must take to apply the lubricants, pluck the hairs, cinch the shorts and pump the muscles to ensure i eye-catching effect. Though a top amateur in, the sport is worth his or her weight in admiring glances and complimen- tary comments, it’s the pros of the game who really cash in. Take Friday’s Miss Castlegar Pageant for example. The competitors were five seasoned players, who have honed their skills for months in Preparation for that one big event — call it the Superbowl of looking good. It has everything commonly reserved for the more traditional events in the hallowed history of sport — displays of physical and mental talent that, more or less, decide the outcome of the game, a standard set of agreed-upon rules that all players must follow, and, of course, scorekeepers and judges watching closely to catch any deviation from the format and assess appropriate penalties when they occur. The points are added up, a winner is declared and the fans go crazy. Sounds like sports to me. All this particular event needed was a top-flight announcer — say, of the Danny Gallivan ilk — to call play-by-play. I can hear the golden-throated Gallivan now: “The resonance of her can- nonading voice careens off the walls in this hallowed shrine of the game (usually a gymnasium of some sort). Her movements sheer majesty as she dances and weaves her way through the stumbling blocks others have so pitifully fallen victim to. This, ladies and gentlemen, is this athlete’s finest hour.”” And just when the crowd is sure the favorite has it wrapped up, the underdog rises from the pack with a surprisingly in- telligent answer in the impromptu question portion of the event to put the outcome back in doubt — like a last-minute goal to force overtime! Even without the swimsuit af- fair, they were turning away fans at the door for this stuff. Not surprising really, when you con- sider that as far as sports go, there could hardly be better fare for the spectator. And if you can’t afford the cost of the pageants — which, you have to admit, have lost some pizzazz without the swim- suit affair — all you have to do is go to the beach, spread a blanket, get out the munchies and pop and take in the game. Sure, some scenes at Kinnaird Park featuring scrimpily clad female players and three- quarters-nude male participants may not have been suitable for the youngsters, but in that sense it would hardly make it much different from the gory escapades witnessed by adolescents all the time in hockey or boxing, Let's just say parental discretion is ad- vised. I’m serious, looking good is a sport akin to synchronized swimming — and that’s in the Olympics! There’s beauty and gface and all that stuff built right into looking good. Maybe next year we can petition the Olympic committee to have it entered in the Games as a demonstration event. Out of towners wrap up in Sunfest sportsfest By CasNews Staff Like the events themselves, the winners of the Sunfest sports events last weekend were an eclectic bunch — and for the most part, they were out-of-towners. In the endurance and fitness event, 49-year-old Rob Grey of Rossland surprised the field to win the Sunfest Biathlon in a time of one hour, 36 minues, 13 seconds Sunday at the Community Complex. Gerald Klassen, who had won the event the previous two years and holds the record time, did not race this year leaving the door open for Grey. The top woman in the event was no surprise to anyone as Nelson’s Sharon Best retained the title she has won every year since the Sunfest Biathlon was first run in 1989 coming home at 1:42.01. The biathlon, which consists of two 5.8-kilometre runs and a 35- kilometre bike race, attracted a record 63 competitors. Without anybody else in her division, Castlegar’s Jen Small won the #9-and-under category in the biathlon and was the third overall female finisher in a time of 2:05:27. Derek Peregrym was Castlegar’s fastest male in the race coming tied for eighth with a time of 1:40:52 In the everyone-can-play slo-pitch tournament held at various parks Friday through Sunday, the eventual champs from Nelson narrowly missed getting knocked off in the li round of the 26-team tourney before pulling it together to ‘beat @ Castlegar team in the A final. The Savoy Inn crew of Nelson beat Woodland Park Shell 18-15 Sunday at Kinnaird Park to take the championship while the Amigos of Castlegar topped Minute Muffler of Cranbrook 19-9 to win the B division title. It was the battle of a pair of Castlegar teams in the C division as NRS cruised to a 20-10 victory over Williams Moving and Storage. In the speed and power sport of drag boat racing, Surrey’s Tom Rasmussen wowed the crowd in his blown alcohol hydro dubbed Air Time by burning up the quarter mile in a time of 6.83 seconds. And an unlikely winner in the 12- second class emerged from Calgary, where when they talk about hor- sepower they really mean _ horses. Cowtown's Bill Cottrell posted a blistering 12.28 to win the event. Greg Eigenhuis of Washington won the 13-second event while Mike Connor: came down from Maple Ridge and picked up the trophy for the fastest time in the 14-second class. Castlegar’s only entrant in the fourth annual event was Doug Oliver who wasn’t a winner in his class. Then there was the daredevil snowmobile racers from Castlegar who sped across the river on their crafts to the delight of the thousands who attended the races, the most popular spectator event at Sunfest. About the only event almost en- tirely dominated by Castlegar residents was the Legion Darts tour- mament where accuracy and precision counted and every winner but one was local. Wayne McCargar took first place in the singles division while Jim Olson came second. Those two then teamed up-to win the doubles event ahead of Dean McDonald and Van- couver’s Bob MacLachie. was a three-time winner as he posted the highest one-throw score of the tourncy at 140 while Ray Olson was the high double out with 36. ‘What all the winners had in com- mon was hardware of some sort as a ton of it was handed out during Sun- fest, especially in the drag boat races and the slo-pitchgourney. SPORTS FEST Hf you didn't out either porticipate in Complex banks of for drag boat races, left) who is consol Leslie Beatson after he Columbia River bywite © completed the gruelling race. See story below and The Numbers on Page 82 fora wrap up of Sunfest sports. Costews photo by Ed Mills Nelson golfer comes up roses in Sunflower By ED MILLS Staff Writer For the third time in the last five years and the fourth time overall, Nelson’s Brian De Biasio came up roses in the Sunflower Open. De Biasio shot a second-round 75 Sunday at the Castlegar course on the heels of a first-round 74 to lead wire to wire at the 30th an- nual open. “It means a lot to me,"’ said De Biasio, a high school vice- principal who won the Open in 1980, '87 and "88. “I always look forward to the Castlegar Open, it’s a big one. There’s a great field, a lot of great golfers and it’s the most challenging course in the Kootenays,’’ he said. De Biasio's two-round total of 149 in the 17-player champion- ship flight (0-3 handicap) was two shots better than Castlegar’s lan Lorimer and Kelowna’s Marc Pezzin But it was Castlegar’s Arron Stoushnow, who played in final foursome with De Biasio, who put the pressure on the Nelson golfer Sunday with four birdies on the back nine, including one on the 17th which put him two back with a hole to play. But the steady De Biasio parred the 18th to finish birdie, par, par while Stoushnow bogied which dropped him to fourth with a two-round total of 152. “I definitely was aware of where everyone was in terms of score,"’ said De Biasio please see SUNFLOWER page 82 when