as Castlegar News November 28, 1990 November 28, 1990 CastlegarNews p51 NATIONAL NEWS Hansen keeps motivating ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) — Rick Hansen knows a thing or two about motivation, and he's spreading the word. The wheelchair athlete, celebrated for a gruelling 40,000-kilometre tour around the globe for spinal cord research, told a conference Tuesday that anyone can fulfil dreams by focusing on unique abilities. “It’s important that everybody realize I'm not a special person,"’ Hansen said after a speech to the Newfoundland Safety Council, “Tm an everyday Canadi Hansen, spends part of his time giving motivational seminars to cor and lending inspirati to volunteer groups, He also works as a disability consultant at the University of British Columbia. It's Hansen’s job to encourage universities to conduct research and become more accessible to the disabled. He’s also chairman of In- dependence 92, an_ international contress on disability to be held in April 1992 in Vancouver. But his pet project is integrating disabled athletes into Olympic, Commonwealth and other major sporting competitions with full medal status. “The last area of resistance in society in relation to disability is now in athletics,’’ said Hansen, dressed in a grey pinstripe suit with a bright turquoise tie. ‘*Sport is such a strong mirror.of how society views itself.”” Hansen’s words and easy charm visibly lifted the spirits of some 60 occupational and school safety of- ficers during a speech devoted to the Rick Hansen importance of defining goals and striving for a personal best, regar- dless of how others view it or what they are doing That wasn’t always easy for Han- sen, who lost the use of his legs in 1973 when a truck rolled over and threw him in a ditch, snapping his back like a twig. He was a 15-year-old all-star athlete and a good student who was returing from a fishing trip with a friend. Wilson claims tax OTTAWA (CP) — The first stage of federal tax reform has worked: poor people are paying less income tax and Canadians with six-figure in- comes are paying more, Finance Minister Michael Wilson said. Tax figures from 1988, released Tuesday by Revenue Canada, ‘‘show that, as we promised, the tax system became more progressive and that the burden of taxation was reduced for most Canadians — especially those with low or moderate in- comes,’ Wilson said. Canadians earning less than $15,000 paid $363 million in federal income tax in 1988 — down $520 million or 59 per cent from 1987. Those earning between $15,000 and $30,000 also got a break. They handed over $10.66 billion to the federal government in 1988, down $624 million or 5.5 per cent from 1987. Middle-income Canadians were squeezed a little harder under tax reform. People making between $30,000 and $50,000 paid $16.42 billion in federal income tax, up $518 million or 3.3 per cent But their overall share of the bur- CasNews tile photc “I had a difficult time for a couple of years. 1 was feeling sorry for myself, depressed, insignificant.'’ The break came when Hansen “stopped looking back and looked forward, not comparing himself to other people, and set my own stan- dards.”” He also drew inspiration from his friend, Terry Fox, who died before realizing his goal of walking across Canada to raise money for cancer research. works den was somewhat less — 35.7 per cent of total federal income tax revenues in 1988, compared with 37.3 per cent the year before: People earning more than $50,000 saw their payments to the taxman soar. Those making betwen $50,000 and $100,000 paid $10.92 billion in federal income tax in 1988, up $2.2 billion or 25 per cent from the previous year. People making more than $100,000 paid $7.7 billion in federal income tax in 1988, up $1.84 billion or 31 per cent from 1987. Protesters continued from page A4 homes for the elderly, anyone who shows an interest. While the mean age of Earth First! members in Ottawa is about 30, it appeals to young people. Kaulbars says high school and university students want to be involved but don’t have the background or time to work for mainstream environment groups. Earth First! welcomes them. “They're fighting for their lives,”’ Kaulbars says. ‘‘These kids stand a good chance of skin cancer or blin. dness or having kids with birth defects because our generation wan- ted air conditioning in our cars."* Outsiders are uneasy about the group. When it first surfaced in Canada last year there were questions about jts relationship to the American movement, which uses tactics many environment groups denounce as dangerous. One trick is to spike trees — drive metal spikes into tree trunks to damage loggers’ chain saws. Loggers say this can make the chain saw kick backwards, and could seriously injure the person using it. Kaulbars says this and other types of property damage — known as “‘monkeywrenching’’ — aren't part of his group's approach Joe Bird, president of the On- tario Forest Products Association, said he’s heard rumors of tree spiking in Temagami, but has seen no proof of it. The association represents Ontario’s logging com- panies. Ottawa Earth Firsters would rather chain themselves to a fence in protest, Kaulbars says. He prefers a Norco bicycle lock. ‘‘We'll do an endorsement any time.’’ “‘They provide a real contrast to more conventional environment groups like Probe,’’ says McRobert “It’s the whole debate of reform ver- sus revolution.”’ But the movement will have to take its involvement one step beyond “media stunts,’’ he said. ‘‘You have to go beyond just criticizing. They’ve got to get involved in the quicksand of government policy making.”’ Since Earth First! focuses on Protest that doesn’t fit into lobbying or working’ with government, “ I get the imp they’re just a bunch of anarchists,” he said But McRobert movement. ‘‘Ecologists believe in diversity,’’ he says, ‘‘and the en- vironment movement needs a diver- sity of voices.” supports the KITCHEN DESIGN CENTRE 1056: This is a special introductory d Kitchen Craft products for a limited time only! DISCONTINUED DISPLAYS! ONLY 2 AVAILABLE. -ount offer on Kitchen Design Centre 2245-6th Ave., Castlegar, B.C. 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Commercial Rate Ask Classes As of January 1. 1991. new value ranges and rate classes apply to commercial vehicles to account for increases in the price of new vehicles and deregulation in the industry The dividing line between light and heavy commer vehicles is now set at 5.000 kilograms and operating distances have been redefined. Commercial operators need to contact their Autoplan agents to determine how these changes affect them. _ Please Note: These Autoplan changes effective January 1, 1991 errr Wddededebdecdecld- tclettelelel Libtceid % Ken MM NNW AN Sete robe wessensceerounenusaeete® Velataoigh teteat ee MLM MEO MMMM Rebels drop two By STEVE PEDEN Staff Writer Two losses over the weekend. kept the Castlegar Rebels from climbing out of the basement in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League’s West Division. Saturday against the Trail Junior Smoke Eaters, the Rebels blew a three-goal lead in the third period to lose the game 9-7. Remi Lavalee put the Rebels in front 7-4 just 58 seconds into the third period and things looked good for the club. However, the Smoke Eaters rallied with five unanswered goals to win the game. “There was no effort at all in the third,” Rebels’ coach Ed Cooper said Tuesday. ‘‘They shut her down after the second period . . . this is normally not the case, usually we have a strong third period.’’ With only nine points separating top from bottom in the West Division, the Rebels can ill afford to have any lapses against teams within their division. **In this league you've got to be on top of your game,"’ Cooper said. “There can be no lack-luster games, you've to play for the whole 60 minutes.” Brad McLeod got things going for Trail in the third with his second goal of the evening to reduce the deficit to 7-5. Three minutes later Colt Stava pulled Trail within one and then a rash of goals within two minutes of one another gave Trail the lead for good. The league’s leading scorer, Mike Tavaroli, tied things up with his second of the night and then goals by Derek Masaro and Darcy Kaban gave Trail the lead with three minutes left. Aiding Trail’s cause was Tyson Hauschild, who also notched two goals. In a losing effort, Dwayne Dergousoff scored twice, with other goals coming from Keith Semenoff, Mike Korzenowski, David Green and Corey Ross. Friday's outing. against Grand Forks, a team the Rebels were tied with going into the weekend, was a heartbreaker for Castlegar after fighting back to tie at 4-4. It took only 31 seconds of over- time before Darcy Erichuk popped one by Rebels’ backup goalie Dean g netminder Lorin Healy was sidelined in the third after re-injuring his shoulder. lee scored twice to keep his ame scoring streak intact, while Korzenowski and Glenn Or- msby pocketed one each. For the Bruins, Dave Brown got his team on the scoreboard, followed by Ron Loeffler, Darren Dempsey and Doug Fleck. The Rebels’ next game is this Friday in Beaver Valley against the Nite Hawks. Oldtimers get better By STEVE PEDEN Staff Writer Each year it keeps getting bigger and better. The third annual Castlegar Old- timers hockey tournament, for players 35 years old and over, had 12 teams and four differnt divisions comprising this year’s format at the Community Complex and at the Pioneer Arena. “It was a real success for us this year,’’ said Doug Fellman, treasurer of the Castlegar Oldtimers executive committee. ‘‘Every year it’s been get- ting more popular and this year we even had to turn away two teams.” When the tournament first got un- derway three years ago, Fellman and the rest of the executive had problems getting nine teams in- terested in competing. Three years later, more than 300 people took in or participated in the event over the weekend. For the two local contingents, this year’s competition proved a challenge and both teams placed fourth in their respective divisions. All four of the divisions this year had a Soviet overtone and likewise so did some of the names of the local teams. Castlegar Red Army finished with a record of one win, one loss and a tie. Ironically, the team Red Army beat 3-0 was the Trail Oldtimers which went on to win the division The locals also tied the Nelson Maple Leafs Oldtimers 2-2 and lost 4-2 to the Trail Outlaws. In the Spartak division, the Castlegar Borsch Burners finished with one win and two losses. The Burners lost 8-4 to the divisional winners, the Westside Grizzlies, and lost by the same score to Revelstoke’s contingent. The only victory for the Burners came at the Rebels’ goalie Matt Kolle is sharp in traffic. Canucks and $ VANCOUVER (CP) — Jon Casey is having a pretty decent season for a guy whose team has won only five of 26 NHL games. The for the expense of the Vernon 5-4. The Salmon Arm Cavaliers took top honors in the Wings division while the Creston Fuddleducks nab- bed first in the Dynamo group. Next year if it’s possible — depen- ding on the available use of the facilities — the executive committee would like to increase the number of teams to 20 from 18. Blowouts abound in CRHL By CasNews Staff Banjo’s Pub shocked Shell 14-4 Tuesday night in Castlegar Recreational-Hockey League action. Five players for Banjo’s scored twice as the club steamrolled over Shell. Vince Antignani Sr., Al Conroy, Brent Petrick, Don Soroke and Lorne Anderson all scored twice with singles coming from Chris Brodman, James Verigin, Vince An- tignani Jr. and Tony DaRosa. Banjo’s scored five times in the first for a 5-1 lead. The offensive thrust of the first would be more than enough to win the game but Banjo’s kept on scoring with four in the second and five more in the third For Shell goalie Dan Wallace, there wasn’t too much he could do to stop Banjo’s on slaught. Replying for Shell were Dan Walker, John Obetkoff and Dean MacKinnon with two. In Monday’s CRHL game, another one-sided affair took place with Hi Arrow thrashing Sandman 9- 3. Leading the way with four goals was Clay Martini while Tony Rego pocketed a pair. Singles came from Gary Sauer, Jeff Townsend and Steve Simonen to round out the scoring for Hi Arrow. Replying for Sandman in a losing cause were Rod Fayant with two and Cory Day with the other. More CRHL action gets underway tomorrow with Hi Arrow and Ban- SHSS teams fall short of titles By STEVE PEDEN Staff Writer The Stanley Humphries secondary school senior girls’ volleyball squad capped off its performance with a fourth-place finish at the provincial AA championships in Comox last weekend. Meanwhile, the Mount Sentinel high school senior girls placed fifth in their quest for a senior A provin- cial title in Lumby. “It’s about where I thought we would place,’’ said Satoshi Uchida, coach of the Castlegar senior girls. I had hoped for a place in the medals.”’ After losing 2-1 to Prince George’s D.P. Todd in the quarter finals, the Castlegar crew then dropped its next outing 2-0 to Fulton of Vernon for the bronze. “*We started out flat against them (Fulton),"” Uchida said. ‘‘We had a little let down after the Todd game and we were unable to get on track.” Another highlight to the fourth place finish was the nomination of Sherry Makortoff to the first all-star team. In other volleyball action, both SHSS’s junior boys and girls teams were out defending their West Kootenay Junior AA titles and both came up short in t heis, quest. The junior boys went undefeated throughout the round robin, qualifying straight through to the semis. In the semifinals, the hosts met Trail’s LJ Crowe, a team they had defeated in the round robin. In the second matchup between the two, it was Trail’s turn to get the upper hand resulting in a 2-0 victory in set matches. Crowe went on to lose in the finals 2-1 against Trafalgar. “I'm not disappointed at all with the performance of the team,’’ said Castlegar’s rookie coach John Josafatow. ‘‘Overall in the tourney the team played the best they'd played all year . . . we just didn’t have it in the semis.” The junior girls also suffered the same fate as the boys, losing out in the semi finals to the hosts J.L. Crowe, 2-0. Crowe went on to claim the regional title beating out Mount Sentinel 2-1 in the finals. After finishing second in the round robin, the girls were forced to play Nelson's L.V. Rogers in the quarter finals. Castlegar got off to a slow start but bounced back in the first game to win it after trailing 14-6. LVR took the next game and the rubber match went to SHSS. For all the local high school teams, this is the end of the season until next fall. However, some of the players may find themselves involved with club teams and the opportunity to make it to either the peewee or midget squads during the winter months. jo’s facing off at the Community Complex. Game time is 9:30 p.m. Sandman faces Shell on Friday at Pioneer Arena starting at 9 p.m. North Stars lowered his goals-against average to a brilliant 2.74 Tuesday night when he made 32 saves during a 1-1 overtime tie against the Van- couver Canucks. “Our defence limited the quality shots tonight,"’ he said. ‘*You can’t let the one that got by bother you."” Casey was only beaten by Gino Odjick late in the second period when the rookie Canucks winger scored his first NHL goal. The 28-year-old from Grand Rapids, Minn., has been in goal for all five Minnesota wins and five of six ties. his value isn’t lost on North Stars coach Bob Gainey. “Our goaltender was the strength of the game,”’ said Gainey. ‘‘He Closkey looks on. SHSS's Ana-Maria Avila gets down while teammate Wendy By CasNews Staff They'll be singing the praises of the girls’ and boys’ volleyball teams at Kinnaird Junior secon- dary school this week after both teams captured the West Kootenay Grade 8 titles. The boys won their bout at Mount el in South Slocan and the‘girls* won their title at Trafalgar in Nelson. Each local team needed only two games in the best-of-three final to accomplish the task of being the region's best Grade 8 teams. At Mount Sentinel, the boys, Kinnaird on top coached by Diane McAfee, defeated Trafalgar 15-4 and 15-11 after finishing the round-robin segment with a record of seven wins and one loss, which gave the squad a bye into the final match Meanwhile, the girls coached by Geri Bryden, had to face Trafalgar in the semis to gain a berth into the finals. In the finals, the local girls showed great intensity in the match and beat up on Rossland 15-10 and 15-8. For both teams, it was a fine way of finishing their seasons. saved us in the second and third periods.”’ Casey has two shutouts this season — against Hartford and Quebec — and nearly had a third Tuesday. Odjick, 20, picked the far corner on Casey at 19:47 of the second period. It was a perfectly placed shot from the right circle, just inside the far post. Mike Modano scored the Min- nesota goal during a power play early tars tie in the second period before a crowd Of 12,292, the smallest of the season at the Pacific Coliseum. The fans often jeered the Canucks for their poor power play, blanked in five opportunities. Casey challenged the shooters more than usual as he moved out to cut down the angles. “Our goalie coach (Chico Resch) figures I’m too far back in the net at times,"” he said. Leafs win again The Toronto Maple Leafs finally won on the road. And they did it in dramatic style Tuesday night. Wendel Clark picked up Mike Krushelnyski’s rebound and backhanded—it over goalie Curtis Joseph’s left shoulder with 1:02 remaining in overtime. That gave the Leafs their first road win of the season, 4-3 over t he St. Louis Blues. “It’s great to start a three-game road trip with a win,’ Clark said. **We'll try not to think anything of it and go back and play like we have the last six games or so."” OILERS 7 PENGUINS 3 Mark Messier had four assists, and Martin Gelinas and Craig Simpson scored 1:43 apart in the second period as Edmonton scored more than five goals in a game for only the second time this season. Glenn An- dersson scored twice while Peter Klima, Joe Murphy, and Chris Joseph added singles as the Oilers won consecutive road games for the first_ time this _season.. Phil Bourque scored twice once for Pittsburgh. RED WINGS 4 KINGS 3 Bob Probert’s seventh goal, with 2:05 remaining, lifted the Detroit to its third straight win. The Red Wings P their already-impressive home record to 10-3-0, compared with 1-7-3 on the road. FLYERS 5 ISLANDERS 1 Philadelphia rode three power-play goals in a span of 3:17 in the second period, two of them by Pelle Eklund, to victory. Philadelphia goalie Pete Peeters stopped 27 shots and had a shutout going until Dave Chyzowski scored for the Islanders at 15:07 of the third period. College team splits By STEVE PEDEN Staff Writer Despite several players in the lineup being sick with the flu last weekend, the Selkirk Saints men’s volleyball team still managed to win two of its four matches. The host Saints ended the tour nament on a positive note, winning their last: two matches after dropping the first two 3-2 in B.C. College Athletic Association action Tad Lake, the Saints’ outside hit ter, was sidelined for the first game Friday and played less than his usual amount during the next three mat- ches on Saturday. Larry Hills was also sidelined because of illness. Both wins for the Saints, 5-4, proved to be easy for the club as the squad defeated the Christian Bible College and New Caledonia 3-0 in games. But the losses were hard to take, said Saints coach Gerry Fraser Against Cariboo College in the opening match, the Saints dropped a heartbreaker by cores of 9-15, 15-6, 10-15, 18-7 and 12-15 “We had beaten them quite han- dily earlier in the season,’’ Fraser said. ‘‘This loss seemed to rattle us."” The next game for the club was Saturday against the BCCAA’s top- ranked Douglas College and though the Saints played well they fell short of their target, Fraser said With the Christmas break -fast ap- proaching, Saints players can now focus their attention fully on academics. However, as soon as exams are over Fraser plans on holding a mini camp at the college to prepare his team for an exhibition tournament Jan. 12-13 hosted by the University of British Columbia. By the time the tourney comes around, the Saints will have acquired two former players from last year’s team and possibly a third With these additions, Fraser feels his team can accomplish the objec tive at hand, which is to make it to the nationals and to improve on last year’s fourth-place finish Meanwhile, the ninth-placed women’s team, 0-5, is off to Kamloops this weekend for its last tournament of the season before the Christmas break The women will face Douglas College, New Caledonia and the British Columbia Institute of Technology: 6 Opening up By CasNews Staff Whitewater Ski Area is starting its weekend season Dec. | with 160 cen- timetres of snow, said area manager Mike Adams “For this time of year, to have t60 centimetres is a really good start for us." Whitewater will be open on week- ends only until Dec. 22 when the regular season begins. The hours of operation are 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m The ski hill is operated with two chair lifts and one T-bar “We're noted for our powder skiings’ Adams said.