EV eWh ROOMES SOA SAUTE sag) peer een wee ecTeeererenen meme sae Caen reer mirns SPORTS WEDNESDAY, Septem bay 1991 | Rebels ready for fresh start to new season JiM ZEEBEN Sun staff It’s September, the Canada Cup is in full-swing, and the local hockey season is officially on the doorstep, The Castlegar Rebels begin their effort to improve on several disappointing seasons next Mon- day, when the team, Starts its dry- land camp. The Rebels have made several off-season moves they hope will make their team one of the top ders -in the Koot International Junior Hockey League. An affiliation agreement with the Junior “A” champions, the Vernon Lakers, will undoubtedly help Castlegar’s efforts. The * Lakers, though, will da strong d program for their players in Castlegar. Vernon needs to replace 15 players from their ros- ter of a year ago. “Vernon is rebuilding right now but their looking good,” says Rebels Don Joice, in his acondsoeae with the team, Another move Joice and team president Russ Rilkoff have made is to bring in a new head coach. Kevin Cheveldave, who grew up in Castlegar and played minor hockey here, arrived back in Castlegar last Sunday from Salmon Arm where he coached that city’s midget rep team. Cheveldave replaces Ed Coop- er who has taken a job with another KHL team, the Nelson Maple Leafs. The Rebels new coach says he thinks the affiliation with the Lakers will have an immediate impact. “There's going to be a lot of young talent coming Castlegar’s way from Vernon.” says Chevel- dave, who was at the Lakers rookie training-camp last week. “There going to want us to devel- op a few of their players.” The first look at the new Rebels will be September 9, at the dry-land camp. CASTLEGAR MINOR HOCKEY ASSN. REFEREE CLINIC Level I, Il, Ill be sure to bring skates, whistle & helmet September 15 9-5 pm for more information Graham Read 365-3461 says the four days of orice training with local con- ditioning-instructor Robin. Robertson is strictly optional for: the players, “However I expect to have a 100 per cent tumout by all play- ers who are in Castlegar,” he says. “Including those who have started attending Selkirk Col- lege.” . Around 25 to 30 young men from 16- to 20-years old are expected to be at next weck's camp while as many as 10 more © might be on the way from Ver- non. The camp is designed as a warm up for on-ice training which begins September 16. Until the camp, Cheveldave says no players have earned a spot on the team. “There's 25 spots on the roster that are wide open,” he says. The first chance for Rebels fans to sec this team in action— and decide for themselves if the Rebels are for real—will be in an quad game on 19, and then in an exhibition game against the Nelson Maple Leafs on September 22, ~ Cheveldave says he hopes his version of Rebels hockey will be = people in Castlegar want to ee hope to instill an entertain- ing brand of winning hockey so people who have become discour- aged will come back to the games,” he says. “It’s definitely going to be a fresh start.” Sun staff file photo Real fast and tough is how this year's version of the Rebels promise to be. Seattle Thunderbirds hold 'best camp ever’ JIM _ZEEBEN VT oy Marketing Demystified A3 hour introduction to markating Including the difference between marketing, advertising, promotion & P.R.; how marketing works and how to apply marketing to your fa business. Fireside Motor Inn, Banquet Room. The Seattle Thunderbirds return to Castlegar last week went over well. So well the club has @ already made plans to do it all Tues. Sept. 24 1:00 to 4:00 Advertising & Business Promotion A3 hour seminar including information on how to mix advertising and business promotion ;advantages and! disadvantages of advertis- ing; budgets and promotion| possibilities. Fireside Motor Inn, Banquet Room. Harriett Lemer is V.P., Marketing Services for Ron Einblau & Associates of Vancouver and has more than fifteen years experience h or $90.00 for both. Includes lunch and hand- lout materials. Check your mail for the brochure and registration form and retum to Selkirk College Continulng Education, Castlegar, B.C. or call at 365-1261 for more Information, Both courses are offered at the Fireside Motor Inn Banquet Room, 1810 8h Ave. Castlegar, B.C. over again next year. “That's our tentative plans; right now,” says Dennis Beyak, Seattle’s director of player per- sonal. “It was my first trip to Castlegar and I’d love'to go back.” The Thunderbirds brought 53 players and took up 25 rooms at Castlegar’s Sandman Inn. According to the hotel’s man- ager, Al Wheeler, the team has made arrangements to come back next year, “They've already booked for next year,” he says. “They were great, very well handled boys.” If Seattle stays for the same length of time as they‘did'this'~’ adincat bet ot year—five days—Wheeler can also expect to make $4,500 just in room charges. However the T-Birds consider that a deal compared to holding a All Wool Pants $3995 Wool Underwear (White supplies fast, Shirts. on ‘Hand_ ACCESSORIES _ “For one thing it’s easier for players to come to Castlegar than Seattle,” says Beyak. A big reason for holding the camp in Castlegar is because less players have to cross the border if the camp is held in Canada. “And Castlegar is certainly convenient with the hotel facility ‘sd near the arena complex,” “Beyak adds. “As far as hotel prices and things it's much less than in Seattle.” Aside from the practical rea- sons the Thunderbirds keep com- ing back to Castlegar there's th: SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halper Amid a cluster of pucks the Seattle Thunderbirds take a time out from drills Wi, GLASS & TRIM LTD. By 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE. 1050 COLUMBIA AVE. . for a prestigious provincial tour- ; nament which starts tomorrow. SB Senior swimmers on the way to games. - Sun staff Ever since last October, swim- “\mers have been driving from as far away as Grand Forks to train They have the trim physiques _ and wash-board stomachs of other petitive 77-years ol Every Wednesday an the West Kootenay’s senior swim club has gathered at the Castlegar Aquatic centre to train for the © 1991 B.C. Seniors games. “There's 16 swimmers in the club,” says the team's coach Norma Kinicki. “They’: re as . i Minor Hockey Roistration & Equipment Swap Saturday, ciaekribes 7 & September 14 > 20.am -2 pm Arena Complex hockey. Seattle players seem to concentrate better on the game and on the camp when they're staying in this area. “Our organization felt to a man that this year’s camp was the best we ever had,” says Beyak, Of the 53 players who put ona show for local crowds last week, Jonly half made it to Seattle: “We brought 26 back with us but of those who didn’t some were just too young,” says Beyak. “They were just there to take a look at.” Two of those “too-young “* players were also two of the largest on the team. The T-Birds had a couple of 15-year olds who measured in at 6°6" 212 Ibs, and 6°3" 220 Ibs, respectively. Seattle was also impressed by - their older players. Dody Woods, a 19-year old who belongs to the San Jose Sharks, scored four goals and had three assists in an inter-squad game on Saturday. “Dody has the potential to lead our club in scoring,” says Beyak. “Overall we were very pleased with the performance of our vet The Seattle club played an exhibition game against the Taco- ma Rockets in Trail on Sunday before a disappointing crowd of - only a few hundred. The T-Birds were attracting up - to 200 fans for inter squad games. in Castlegar. And because of that interest, the club is i Wednesday, September 4, 1991 The Castlegar Sun Castlegar IM. zEEen Sun staff ‘Tradition isn’t, something that can happen in only two seasons: But, its foundation can be laid, And that’s what Castlegar’s fig- ure-skating coach Eliane Steine- mann—in her second year with the club— hopes to do this year, Steinemann is originally from Switzerland but has taught fig- ure skating for more than 25- “I'd very much like this club to be the top one In the Kootenays ” — Elyane Steinemann Figure skating coach ar figure skating aah | prepares for winter salvo winter is Joanne Nadaline who moved to Castlegar from Surrey. “I'd very much like this club to be the top one in the Kootenays,” says Steincemann. “The club shouid t be: better because we (ihe are working her” The president of the Castlegar figure skating club, Pam Hackett, agrees that the two instructors will help the club this year. “Joanne. is freelancing for us this ycar,” she says, “She moved up here to teach skating andto learn from Steinemann,” Hackett says the club has already improved under the Swiss coach, “There's been a lot of improvement,” she says. “A lot of girls worked very diligently last year. She (Steinemann) wants them to start realizing they’re competing as a group—win together and lose together.” years in Vancquver, B.C., and Hinton, Alberta. Advanced skaters from the Castlegar club were at the arena complex last week to take part in a fall-school. The private lessons are a warm up to the regular skat- ing season which begins in September, The clubs first competition is an October try-out for the B.C. Winter games. Assisting Steinemann this says one of the problems she has noticed about the club was an inconsistency in instruction, It’s something she hopes can be worked out by a “change in attitudes. “Most of the kids are capable of skating well,” says Steine- mann. “It all hinges on how dedi- cated the kids are." In their first year with the Swiss native guiding the way, Castlegar won the Barclay Tro- phy for the first time since 1978. H A well, Stcinemann says of the, four or five regional. competitions her club. went to, Castlegar skaters. consistently Placed among the ope: f ' we Skaters range in age from % to 15-years and are divided into Canskate—group skaters working through levels of ‘budges—and advanced skaters. The Jatter must om Laura Kosowan, 15, took part in tha fall school. Soccer set to start second season JIM ZEEBEN Sun staff The West Kootenay Soccer League is scheduled to begin its second-half next Sunday with both Castlegar teams in action. The Dexter's Dynamo will +. play Nelson O.T. at Kiwana’s + park field while the Hi-Arrow Devils kick-off in Fruitvale. 1" The Devils got a jump on the i+ new season last ‘Thursday with an exhibition game against the pe gue-| ig Nelson. i Nelgon jumpéd‘ahead with + two-quick goals only to have Hi- .+ Arrow come back with two just w+ as quick. The Devils have been » chasing Nelson in the standings all year and even though the * game was meaningless Castlegar .» would have savoured a win, t The only consistent sniper for . the Devils, Herb Ammaral, t+ scored one pretty goal for his team—one of the rare offensive highlights for Hi-Arrow in the game. Ammaral streaked across the »: Nelson goal crease and got the . goalie to follow. him, then batted + the ball off the inside of his foot into the opposite comer. ». The Devils were without sev- eral starting players and were forced to play with their lineup. The resulting confusion allowed ry: a number of defensive lapses ~~ and three goals by Nelson in the last ten minutes. “It’s just an exhibition,” says Devil John Foglia. “We were ;:. missing some key players on the zc fallback line but we were right + in there until the end.” holding an exhibition game here during next:year’s camp. Kinicki won't be able to attend. : the games with her team but she’: S. confident they’ll come back suc- * cessful, “If the men's relay team. doesn’t win I'll be amazed,” says Kinicki. “They had a best practise time that was three-seconds faster . than last year’s winning tire,” » The men's relay team consists . of Nelson's Bill DeKlerk, Gus Conacher—who along with Chuck Wills is the oldest member at 77-years old—Castlegar Beattie and Bill Van Yzerloo, “The women's relay team will be really fast this time as well,” says Kinicki. She says DeKierk i is also pef- forming well individually. “His progress in the back- ‘s Jim. Sell it quick - in the Sun classifieds Call 365-7848 @ aaa ieee — “s SA SSan 365-6761 Sas a 6 2) TTnarve weave corey espa esemnmace * CALL 365.7848 TODAY xe" Sun FAL AA Ad Sak 200 ae 8 Pu henner a shnrvee