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August 26, 1968

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August 28, 1988

Castlegar Figure Skating Club
has hired Beverly Vatkin as club
skating professional for the up-
coming season.

Vatkin comes to Castlegar
from Grand Forks, where she re-
ceived the female athlete of the
year award this year in honor of
Celebration ‘88. She was also a
torchbearer for the Olympic
torch run.

Her figure skating accomplish-
ments include:

* currently working on her
gold figure. She passed the
seventh figure in. 1985;

* has passed both the Can-
adian and American Gold in
freeskate;

© currently working on her
gold dances. She passed her
Senior Silver Dances in 1985;

* has passed preliminary
pair's test in pair's skating.

Vatkin has also been involved
in judging and has been a
welcomed guest skater at var-
ious skating carnivals. Castlegar
residents who attended the
March 1987 skating carnival will
remember her lively and dyna-
mic freesete solo to the Broad-
way hit ‘New York, New York."’

Fall skating school will begin
Sept. 12 and conclude Sept. 30.
The three elements of figure
skating — patch, freeskate and
dance — will be offered, as well
as powerskating for hockey play-
ers

Registration forms will be
available at the Community
Complex Aug. 29 and deadline
for registration will be Sept. 6.

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Skating club gets new pro

NEW PRO .. . The Castlegar Figure Skating Club gets a new
skating professional for this season. Beverly Vatkin, from
Grand Forks, is working on her gold figure, gold dances and
has passed her Canadian and American gold freeskate and
preliminary pair's test.

Thank You!

The Lion's Head Sports
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All the people who supported

our raffle, car washes and

dance.

Last but not least CAROL for

Lafleur trains
for Rangers

MONTREAL (CP) — For anyone
who saw right winger Guy Lafleur in

back four years after retiring from
the Montreal Canadiens.

Leg injury keeps
Bo Jackson benched

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Bo Jackson is batting
192 since tearing a hamstring May 31 and sitting out
more than a month, but the Kansas City Royals say it's
not because he has football on his mind.

Jackson, who reports to the Los Angeles Raiders
for running-back duty in October, is maintaining his
strict policy of not discussing football during the
baseball season. But he says he feels great.

General manager John Schuerholz does not sub-
scribe to the theory that Jackson's second-half tailspins
tailspins
in the past two seasons are tied to a preoccupation with
football.

“That's absolutely absurd,"’ says Schuerholz. ‘I
think it's an unfair criticism of Bo to say his mind has
wandered. His mind hasn't wandered. He tore up a
hamstring, that’s all

Jackson was Off to a blazing start before the injury.

“*He was the best player on our team when he hurt
himself," Schuerholz said. ‘‘He was on his way to being
recognized as one of the most exciting players in the
league.”

After hitting .309 with nine home runs, 30 RBIs and
14 stolen bases in 46 games before the injury, he has
batted .192 with 11 homers and 24 RBIs with eight
stolen bases in 46 games since returning.

Overall, he’s batting .251.

“I'm not hitting the way I was,"’ Jackson said,
‘but 1'm hitting the long ball every now and then, and
that’s keeping my spirits up."

On the Royals’ just-completed road trip, Jackson
was 3-for-18, All three hits were solo homers.

If Jackson hadn't been hurt, ‘‘his stats would be
pretty awesome right now,"’ says teammate George
Brett.

And despite the slump, manager John~ Wathan
remains enthusiastic about Jackson.

“There's no telling what he'll be able to accomplish
once he plays a few more years,"” Wathan said. ‘‘They
talk about Jose Canseco being a 40-40 guy, but Bo's got
an obvious chance to do that as well.

40-40 VISION

“He could be looking at 30-30 right now had he not

missed a month."

being a super coach

his prime, golden locks flying as he
skated down the ice, the scene in a
local boxing-club gymnasium was a
marked contrast

There he was this week, hammer-
ing a punching bag, skipping rope
and riding a stationary bicycl

“‘T haven't sweated this much in 20
years,"’ said Lafleur, 36, preparing
for a National Hockey League come-

AUG. 28 — Public swimming, BBP.
1:30-3:30 p.m. & 6:30-8 p.m

AUG. 29 — Public swimming, BBP
1:30-3:30 p.m. & 6:30-8 p.m. Morning
Aerobics, Complex, 9-10 a.m. Even
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Aqua Fit, BBP, 8-9 p.m. Registration
for fall F.S. School starts today
AUG.-30 — ice available at Complex
$42/hr. Evening Aerobics, Complex
7-8 p.m. Masters Swim, BBP, 7-8 p.m
(new time). Public swimming, BBP
1:30-3:30 p.m

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1:30-3:30 p.m. Masters swim, BBP, 7
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2 — Morning Aerobics, Com

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SEPT. 3 — Public swimming, BBP
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3:30 p.m. Last day, pool closes.
Thank you for participating

“Nobody is going to give me the
legs of a 20-year-old,"’ Lafleur ac-
knowledged, but he hopes to earn a
spot on the New York Rangers, who
have invited him to their training
camp which opens in Trois-Rivieres,
Que., on Sept. 10.

“I'm not here because I plan on
becoming a goon,"’ Lafleur said with
a laugh. ‘‘We felt it was the best
Place to get into the best physical
condition, given the fact I only have
two weeks to get ready."’

‘IN GOOD SHAPE’

““He’s surprised me so far,"’ said
Robert Beaulne, a boxing trainer
overseeing Lafleur’s workouts. ‘He
recuperates very quickly; I think he's
in good shape.”*

Lafleur’s comeback attempt has
met plenty of skepticism, but ‘also
much encouragement from his legion
of fans.

A S0-goal scorer for six straight
seasons starting in the mid-1970s,

George Bell
most hated

**A lot of people think because we make a lot of
money and we're performers that we don’t have a
right to be hurt. But we do and we are and that’s my
point.’”

So Bell rarely reads his mail. Occasionally, he is
touched by a letter from a kid and he will send an

Blue Jay

By STEPHEN THORNE
The Canadian Press ,

There’s a white coffee mug on the shelf of
George Bell's locker in the Toronto Blue Jays club-
house embossed with the words: To Someone Who's
Outstending In the Field.

“Gift from a friend,”’ grins Bell, who leads the
league with a club-record 15 outfield errors.

Toronto’s moody $6-million man does have a
sense of humor, even while all about him seems to
be falling apart. After signing the biggest contract in
club history, last year’s most valuable player is this
year’s most hated Blue Jay.

But the man who scatters inquisitive onlookers
with one sweep of his mighty arm is a father of three
who loves children, dreads fan mail and still calls his
parents Mommy and Daddy. .

His oversized locker — alongside that of team-
mate Jesse Barfield — tells the story of a man who
has risen from simplicity and happiness on the dirt

i of the Domini ic to the top of his
game and all the rewards and pitfalls that go with it.

Strewn about his locker floor in front of 12 pairs
of neatly stacked Nike Air baseball shoes are. 9.
letters in all shapes and sizes, some from as far away
as Europe, South America and Japan. All are opened
but few are read.

GOOD AND BAD

“I get about 150 a week,"’ Bell said in a clipped
Spanish accent as he prepared for a recent game
with the Chicago White Sox. “I get some good mails
and I get some bad mails. Most of it is bad.

“‘A bunch of stupid people. People who have
nothing better to do, they write bad stuff.

picture or baseball card.
Bell, whose confrontations with manager Jimy
Williams have broadened his notoriety, is a proud
man.
“That's why I have a lot of controversial things
happening to me right now," he says, pausing to
peruse a minor league stat sheet. ‘‘I never let
anybody step over me and keep walking.
“That's the way I grew up — that’s the kind of
ion we got from our mommy and daddy at

The child-like references to his parents are
probably a nuance of language, but they project a
kind innocence in the 29-year-old that defies his big
talk and brazen attitude.

LOTS OF ROOM

Major league lockers aren’t really lockers;
they're cubicles — two metres tall, a metre deep and
more than a metre wide.

At any given time they may bear an assortment
of lotions and potions, gifts and golf clubs. Some-
times baseball gear is almost incidental.

Bell's is littered with five hats, four size 40 uni-
forms, assorted underwear, a water bottle, shaving
powder, a travel kit, two family-sized bottles of
moisturizing hair tonic, a deck of playing cards and
four big Dominican cigars.

Bell and Barfield also share a vacant locker
between them — for the overflow.

Stacked beside - his. Bell's. new Nikes-— the
company pays him a princely sum to wear its shoes
— are two dozen Franklin batting gloves, new, and
strewn about the rest of his locker are half-a-dozen
used ones. Franklin Pays him, too.

He turns the endorsement money over to
children’s projects back home where, he says,
“people need help and that’s what I do.

“I never wore a batting glove as a kid but now
it’s so easy to get all this stuff and everything I get is
free, so why not?”’

BIBLE SCHOOL . . . The Living
Waters Faith Fellowship
Vacation Bible School closed
Friday after tive days of fun-
filled activity The Bible
message was presented
western style as with old west
decorations, costumes and ac-
tivities.

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abuse

OTTAWA (CP) — It would've been
unthinkable perhaps even five years
ago to talk to a three-year-old about
sexual activity and bed time.

But incest and sexual abuse are a
fact of life for thousands of Ganadian
youngsters, and a special kit for
day-care workers uses songs, games
and brightly colored pictures to help
reach out to potentially abused chil-
dren who may face bed time each
night in terror.

The kit, supported by a $93,000
federal grant, was developed by the
Ottawa-based Canadian Institute of
Child Health and Outreach Abuse
Prevention of Toronto.

It was sent to 10,000 licensed day-
care centres across the country ear-
lier this summer with a special in
formation package for parents and a
detailed evaluation form

Trisha Willis, a social policy re-
searcher specializing in child care at
the University of Toronto, hasn't
seen the package yet, but she’s
concerned about a program that
caters to licensed day-care centres
where, she says, sexual abuse is less
likely to occur.

As well, she fears children won't
tisk telling on incestuous parents if
the family will break up

Bible
school
success

It's been the most fun I've ever
had!’’ was the comment of one
youngster as a week of vacation Bible
school drew to a close at Living

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Waters Faith Fellowship.,
Every morning a busload of chil.

dren was picked up at various
locations throughout Castlegar and
delivered with much noise, singing
and laughter to the church.

The 75 children who attended were
kept busy with Bible quiz contests,
‘games, teaching times, puppet shows
and other events. The theme of the
week centcred around the Bible
message that God loves you and
Jesus came to this earth’to give us
abundant life.

Vido presentations from ‘Gospel
Bill and Friends’’ were shown on a
large screen as the children stepped
back into a setting out of the old west
in Dry Gulch County

Refreshments were served. every
day with treats like ‘‘cactus juice’’
and '‘green slime’ heading the list
of favorites.

The week ended with a final
roundup on Friday evening with par-
ents, children and teachers attend-
ing. Prizes, diplomas and awards
were distributed as the children sang
songs and some of the teachers per-
formed skits and puppet shows.

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Lafleur’s production in his
last four years with B . He
scored two goals in 19 games in 1984
before retiring two months into the
season

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