B2 Castlegar News July 21, 1990 SPORTS SIDELINES coach of the Vancouver Canucks. Admirals. Goodwill Games in Seattle. Thursday by a 75-69 loss to Cuba. games, but lost all three. Cubans, 2-1, join the A Canucks name new coach VANCOUVER (CP) — Ron Wilson has been named new assistant He takes over the post vacated by Mike Murphy, who’s been named new head coach of the Canucks’ farm team, the Milwaukee Wilson, 35, was an assistant coach with the Admirals. “*My goal is to eventually be a head coach in the NHL and I’m pleased the Canucks have shown confidence in me,"’ he said Thursday. ‘Wilson said he filled in several times last season as head coach in Milwaukee when Ron Lapointe was ill. Wilson played six seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Minnesota North Stars as a right winger and defenceman. He began his coaching career two years ago at Davos, Switzerland. Wilson will work as an assistant coach with Team USA at the Canadian team out of it ; KUALA LUMPUR (AP) — Canada’s hopes of advancing to the semifinals at the world women’s basketball championship were dashed ‘Canada held a halftime lead in all three of its championship-round The United States finished atop Group A with a 3-0 record. The i in the In Group B, Y: Czechoslovakia. hoping for fifth place. points. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — ended his career. was his sole remedy in the dispute. Marti: into the lineup. by the six- time champion Soviet Union 64-63. The Soviets were 1-2, behind Canada and the U.S.S.R. were relegated to the consolation round, Lori Clarke of Abbotsford, was the top scorer Thursday for Canada, which led 36-33 at the half. Janet Fowler of Victoria added 19 Player's suit dismissed A New York appeals court has upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit by former Buffalo Sabres star Richard Martin charging the team with misdiagnosing a knee injury that The appellate division of state Supreme Court agreed that workman's compensation, which Martin received following the injury, who combined with Gil Perreault and Rene Robert to form the Sabres’ French Connection line in the 1970s, sustained torn knee ligaments during a game in November 1980. His lawsuit claimed that the team physician failed to diagnose the tear and former general manager Scotty Bowman and other team officials concealed the seriousness of the injury and forced him back Martin, second to Perreault on Buffalo’s all-time list for goals (382) and points (695), was traded to the Los Angeles Kings in March 1981, ° but played sparingly before retiring the following season. Tour cyclists stalled in blistering heat BORDEAUX, France (Reuter) — Gianni Bugno of Italy claimed his second stage victory in this year’s Tour de France when he held off Dut- ch rider Eric Breukink on Thursday in the 202-kilometre ride from Pau. Bugno’s late breakaway with Breukink and another Italian Roberto Gusmeroli was the only noteworthy event of a flat 18th stage in which the intense heat di serious at- Bugno clocked five hours 41 minutes 33 seconds, coming in one second ahead of Breukink, three ahead of Gusmeroli and 19 in frontof the main poloton, or pack. He is the only rider to have won two stages in this Tour. Claudio Chiappucci of Italy, clinging to his race leader's yellow jer- sey, rode right behind defending tacks. As the 157 remaining riders out of 198 starters finally left the grey slate roofs of the Pyrenees for the traditional red tiles of the southern heartland of France, temperatures soared to 35 C. WANTED TO INVEST Private individual looking for a good business to invest in. Interested in o partnership and available to possibly work in the business forward all details and Box 3007Q c/o Please amount required t0 Castlegar V Greg LeMond all day. He held on to his five-second lead over the American in the overall stan- dings with Breukink moving up to third past Pedro Delgado of Spain but more than three minutes behind. “My goal in this Tour was to learn and to see what I could do,’’ said Bugno, the Tour of Italy winner, sixth overall in the standings but with no hope of victory in France. ‘‘Next year I will change my program to give myself every chance of winning the Tour de France."” Canadian Steve Bauer, the overall Jeader through the -first nine legs before falling out of contention in the mountain stages, was in the middle of the large pack today, finishing 78th bur only 19 seconds behind the win- ner. 1403 Bay Ave. Trail, B.C. Come In & See Our In-Store Specials! Kootenay, 368-5606 —ae- Seer “SERVICE IS OUR FIRST CONCERN" (OIVIION OF EAGLE ELECTIOC LTD. CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT RECREATION DEPARTMENT set amy 21—12 & Under 6:30. 7:30 pm. All ages 7:30-9:30 p.m SUN., JULY 22 — All ages 1:00-3:00 p.m. Skateboard 3:00-5:00 p.m. MON., JULY 23 — Skateboard 7:00. 9:00 p.m. Tle — PUBLIC SWIM — Pool Closed Sat. & Sun. July 21 & 22 Castlegar Aquanauts Swim Meet REGULAR HOURS RESUME MONDAY, JULY 23 — ROLLERSKATING — SKATE RENTAL $1.50. ADMISSION $1.00 Kids 9:12 Yrs. Cycle to Syringa—Tues., July 24 9-4 p.m. $5.00 6-12 Yrs. Science Experiments Wed., July 25 Dying — Thurs., July 26 Outdoor Adventure to Syringa in the Van — Friday, July 27 THURS... JULY 26 — 12 & Under 11:00 @.m.-1:00 p.m FRI., JULY 27 — 12 & Under 11:00 @.m.-1 00 p.m. All ages 7:30-9:30 p.m By CasNews Staff If Salmo Hotel wins the champion- ship in the Castlegar Mens’ Fastball League, no one is likely to remember where the team finished in the league standings. Where the team is going to finish, with just three games left in the regular season, is dead last. But come playoffs, which began July 28 and 29 at Kinnaird Park and in Salmo, each team starts with the same record, and has the same odds as any other in the four-team league of winning it all. And Salmo may have been sending @ message to the rest of the league with a 4-1 win Thursday night over second-place Banjo’s Pub at Kinnaird Park. That message: Don’t count us out yet. Riding the six-hit pitching of George Plotnikoff, Salmo upended Banjo’s and their pitching ace Eli Soukeroff in a game where Salmo had nothing to lose and Banjo’s — which is fighting for first place in the lague — had considerably more on the line. Plotnikoff, who struck out three and walked two, also had a pair of singles to score one run and scored himself to make his life on the mound a little easier. Salmo catcher John Obetkoff went 2-for-4 with one RBI and scored a run in the win. Soukeroff, who struck out seven and allowed seven hits, was tagged with his fourth loss of the season but ba in the league lead with nine wink win isn't going to help Salmo in the league standings as the team sits well out of contention with a 5-12-1 record. It was a different story for Salmo at home July 16 inst TI or Mechanical, Trainor’s Cam Sookro improved his record to 8-3 and helped team into first place as he threw @five- hitfer and Trainor beat Salmo 9-5. Trainor’s record of 11-6-1 is one point better than. Banjo’s in second place while Labatt’s, which lost 4-0 to Banjo’s in the other game July 16, sits in third place with 18 points. The final week of the regular sesson sees all teams in action Tuesday as Banjo’s meets Trainor at Kinnaird Park in a game with first place up for grabs, while Salmo hosts Labatt's. Trainor finishes its regular season schedule with a game Wednesday against Salmo at Kinnaird and the league wraps up Friday with Banjo’s playing Salmo at Kinnaird. Admission is free to playoff games at Kinnaird Park and a beer garden will be operating both Saturday and Sunday. Gretzky sticks TORONTO (CP) — Wayne Gret- zky is switching hockey sticks and equipment after more than a decade because he couldn’t get up to $1 million US in a long-term deal to con- tinue endorsing the same line, says the sporting goods manufacturer. Doug Barbor, president of Karhu Canada, which makes Titan sticks and Jofa equipment, said his com- pany rejected Gretzky’s proposal when it concluded the size of the hockey market did not warrant that kind of money for one player. “‘We made a business decision not to accept his final offer,’’ Barbor said this week. ‘‘But it has been a great association for 11 years and we wish him all the best of luck wherever he goes.”* Barbor said Karhu offered Gretzky $200,000 Cdn annually for three years to replace his old deal which paid him about $120,000 last year. Gretzky’s representatives countered with a request for $250,000 US a year for three or four years, Barbor added. “*That’s where it ended,’’ he said. It appears Gretzky, the superstar centre of the Los Angeles Kings, is now leaning towards an aluminum stitk and other hockey equipment from U.S.-based Easton Sports. That could lead to a significant shift in market share, particularly in the stick business, some industry spokesman say. Other officials believe Easton is willing to sign Gretzky to a major contract in a bid to make inroads in the hockey market and to help in- crease its recognition in other sporting Banjo's Pub pitching ace Eli Soukeroff split a pair of games last week as the Castlegar Men's Fastball league winds down its regular season and heads into the playoffs which start next weekend Kinnaird Park. ‘CosNews photo it to Titan goods. Michael Barnett, Gretzky's business agent, expressed surprise that Karhu would reveal confidential terms of past deals with his client. He stressed money was not a factor in the decision, but declined comment on whether-Gretzky was unhappy with the quality of the Titan and Jofa products. “It was a personal decision and has nothing to do with the economics,”’ Barnett said. ‘‘The fact is that in up- coming NHL seasons, Wayne will be using hockey equipment and sticks supplied by manufacturers other than Titan-Jofa purely out of preference for the products.’” Barnett noted that companies have. offered Gretzky hundreds of thousands of dollars to switch and endorse new skates, but he has refused and stuck to the Daoust brand without a contract. Rose continued from page 81 person I think he is.’’ Rose’s lawyers had hoped to keep him out of jail by offering to have him perform community ser- vice. If Rose succeeds in becoming a local hero again, he'll have come full circle. Rose’s gambling problems got him banned for life from baseball last August. His attempts to hide income will get him a prison record. He pleaded guilty in April to two counts of failing to report income on his tax returns. The former Cincinnati Reds star and manager will remain free on his own recognizance until Aug. 10, when he’s to report to whatever jail is designated. Rose didn’t say anything before or after the sentencing, but told the judge he wants to take respon- sibility and make amends for his fall from grace. “IT really have no excuses because it’s all my fault,"’ Rose said. ‘‘And all I can say is, | hope somewhere, somehow in the future, I'm going to try to make it up to everybody that I disappoin- ted and let down.”* Spiegel said he received many letters from the public as he Ll sidered Rose's sentence. July 21,1990 Castlegar News ~83 Suther': Copt. Osb d(. d) By JOHN CHARTERS Capt. Qsborne (Cap) Sutherland called at the Castlegar Rail Station -last week and in so doing underlined one of the main objectives of the project — to cap- ture as a living museum Castlegar’s heritage and the sense of place the 83-year-old building has in the community and the memories of citizens. Sutherland, who is one of this area’s oldest pioneer citizens, was born on a farm 99 years ago in Castlegar Rail Station. Sutherland, 99, came to the West K im mill starting in 1931 and served with the company for 30 years. —cosnews pheteby John Charters Pioneer tours station one of the models of Kootenay Lake v: and int Cape Joan, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. He came to the West Kootenay in 1908 and worked in a variety of jobs, mainly in the lum- ber mills, until he wrote his exams for commanding inland waters vessels. His first command was the tug Irene. He settled in Robson, married Marion Sanderson, the daughter of Capt. Robert Sander- son, and joined William Waldi¢e and Sons lumber mill as captain of the tugs Elcoe I and Elcoe II in 1931. He served with the company for 30 years until it was dissolved and became a legend on the lakes. When his wife died, he moved to Raspberry Lodge where he now resides. While not as spry as he once was, his mind is still sharp and, accompanied by Cathy Ross and Joe Killough, and welcomed by Diana McLeod, he examined the exhibition of Kootenay Lake vessels crafted by Bert Learmonth of Nelson currently on exhibit at currently on display at the vy tugs for William Waldi lie and Sons the station. Sutherland also studied the Elcoe II model by craf- tsman Art Koch of Castlegar and chatted happily with Learmonth, Lloyd Groutage, Scrapiron Mac- Donald and other visitors and acquaintances at the station, in- cluding Castlegar and District Heritage Society president Sherrel Koreen. The captain will be 100 years old on Dec. 24 and the heritage society and all his many friends look forward to celebrating that. birthday with him. THE NUMBERS FOOTBALL By The Conodion Press (Not including Fridey's gome) i H 3 i : Western Divish Fo--~Foo-- Thursdey Revu! Colgory 30 Saskatchewan 25 Homilton 29 Ottawa 26 Wednesday Result Edmonton 41 8.C. 23 Unofficial CFL scoring leoders etter Thursday gomes: BASEBALL (Not including Fridey gomes) NATIONAL (EAGUE Fest Division Pittsburgh New York a Bonds, Pittsburgh, 344: Dewson. Chicago, .330: Larkin. Cincinnat, .324; McGee, St. Lovis,, 324: Son: aera. Chicoge, 24 indberg, Chicago, 72: Bonillo. Pittsburgh, oo "Orhan Philodeighia. «5: W. Clerk, Sen Frenciaco, 65; Sabo, Bonds. Pit teburgh, 69; W. Clark, Son Bonilla, Pit taburgh, 63: J. Carter, San Diego, 63: Wallach, Mon: teal, 63 St. Louis, 118; Sandberg. Chicago, iphio. 114; Lorkin, Cincinnati 1 real, 28; Guerrero, St. 23; Jefferies, New York, 23; McGee. St. Louis, 23: Presley. Atlante, 23 $. Smith, Atlonta, 6: T. Gwynn, Sen ih 5. w"itchell, Sond Francisco, 24: Sor New York, 23; Bonilla, hicage, 19: 0. Davis Chicago 24: Strawberry "50, Loui, 47; Yelding eal. 92: ‘Somuel,_ Loe R. McDowell, Philadelphi AMERICAN LEAGUE z Sorases Stor 33 88 Sesses Toronto, 60: 0; Parker, Milwaukie: 60 its — Gritiey, Seattle, 114: Paimeiro, Texos. 107 Trommall Detroit, 108, Seitrwer, Kansas City, 108 Boggs, Boston Boaton,, 20: Puckett. Min 990, 10. 10; Sosa. Chicago. 9 Cleveland, 6 Burks, Boston, 5: Felix, Toron nd, 2d, McGeil Toren Ocklor Henderson, nd. 42. New York, 23, Pettis, ® Colderon Chicago, 25:~Sem. New York, 21 9) = B. Jones. Chicago ‘Henson. Seattle, 119 Longston, Calitornio, — Thigpen. Chicago, 31; Eckersley. Ookland 30; D. Jones, Cleveland, 26, Schooler, Seotle, 24 Avilero, Minnesota, 22 FASTBALL CASTLEGAR MEN'S FASTBALL LEAGUE Troinor Mechonicol " Bonjo's Pu " Selme Hotel Com ™ Eli Soukerotf, BA Pate Evdokimolf, LA BATTING ‘Adsion Merkin. GA Terry Teranol, BA Ely Chernenkov, TM Gory Fleming, BA Greg Cain, Kelly Keroitf, SH 3. Sookechoft, BA BASKETBALL JOMEN'S WORLD (At Kuale Lumpur) Round Group A United States Cube ‘enodo Surges. nemon TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL con Le wnarota Twine octivate outtielder Rondy Bush trom the 15 ieabled tit option intielder Poul Sorronta to Portlond of tha Pact Cosette Notional eogue Houston Astros activate second baseman Bill Doron ‘disabled | trom the 15. nd pitcher Jay Tibbs ond coth “yo Bultolo of the’ American purchase the contract of pitcher Dallos Mavericks agree to ter 1 terms with quord Phil Nendersen on o one-year contac ign lorward McCann to 0 two-year contr ” = Giccinnot! Bengals sign linebacker Jomes Francis to © live receiver-kickolt 12@ 10 terms with cornerback wee-yeor contract, si Detroit Lion sign linebackers Rab Hinckley ond Mork Brown, cornerback Chris Oldham. sunning beck taurice Hanty. Linebacker Tecy Noverorh ond oe tise lnemen Raton Porn 1 end Cornel Sith Wo terme with running back “Phesmis Cordinels ogres te terme with tight on Dovid Elle ” “ ive lnedhort eve. Kon Durer ith deteraive linemen Kenneth cok"Or lease wide receiver Mike Colors ond Mart tone irom the proctice roster tive a New York Rongers sign defenceman Kord Cernich ond Eric Germain Aquatic Centre gets new deck By JOHN CHARTERS The facilities at the Castlegar Aquatic Centre are being given a new and useful dimension in the form of an outer deck adjacent to the centre’s fennis court, south of the pool. The deck is being built by the Castlegar Rotary Club in cooperation with several local industrial firms and will enable patrons of the pool to hold social events, parties and barbecues in conjunction with thier pool activities. The deck is joined to the pool en- trance by a concrete sidewalk and has a concrete slab for the installation of a barbecue pit on one side. It will have an area of lawn for sunbathing on the other side. The ehtire facility will be surrounded by a protective chain-link fence. Last Tuesday, Rotary Club president Don McDowell, deck project chairman Jim Gouk and director Ron Ross gathered at the work site with Westar Timber Ltd.'s production sales coordinator Rob Parisotto and Celgar Pulp Co.'s public relations manager Ron Belton to inspect the progress of the project. All expressed considerable pleasure at what has been done to date. Westar has donated approximately $3,000 worth of lumber for the deck and forms and Celgar has given $1,000 with further of SF ~~ a... Celgar and Westar officials meet the Aqoete Centre's new deck which is being built mostly by vol: 1@ two companies and the Rotary Club. from ding for the chain-link fencing and the carpentry work is being done by Banshee Contracting Ltd. at cost. The R i will the $4,000 over two years. An anonymous donor is providing fun- fence hardware and erect the fence, as well as sod the lawn, paint the deck with bers of th he Rotary Club CosNews photo by John Charters and provide for any other expenses incurred. Gouk said he hopes to see the project finished by mid-August ‘but can offer no firm date since so much of the work is being done by volunteer labor with d labor. Nonetheless, the Castlegar Aquanauts Swim Club will make use of the deck this weekend when they gather at the pool. Once completed, it is anticipated that the area will see considerable use. Castlegar woman tracks down mother, sisters By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer “Every day of my life | wondered who my parents were,’’ Castlegar resident Linda Leckie said. Now the woman who was adopted by a Castlegar family when she was young knows who her biological Parents are and has met not only her mother but two sisters she never knew she had. Leckie travelled June 22 to Ender- by, B.C., the small Qkanagan com- munity where she was born, to meet her mother, her sister Joanne and her half-sister Wendy, who all live in the area. She hasn’t yet met another sister, Pat, who lives in Abbotsford, but the two women have spoken on the phone and written to each other since 1984. For Leckie, who has been searching for her parents since the early 1980s when her adopted parents died, the meeting was nerve-wracking and a bit frightening, particularly when she fir- st met the women and didn’t notice any family resemblances, she said. But two friends who accompanied her on the trip picked up the many similar traits, from carbon-copy noses to hand gestures, Leckie said. “That kind of brought it all together. Then I could believe that we were sisters.’” The meeting was all the more dif- ficult to believe because of the way Leckie found her family, she said. After years of searching, some of it with her sister, Pat, a hastily written notice placed in the Enderby newspaper just before it went to press had an unexpected effect, she said. When the paper came out, Leckie received a phone call from the editor, who had searched for her own family members, to say Leckie’s mother, two sisters and an aunt had to LINDA LECKIE - ‘Thave a family’ Leckie and her sister, Pat, were given up for adoption at different times but ended up with the same Castlegar couple, Marg and Louis Korody. Later, the Korodys found two children too much to handle and Pat was turned over to another family out of the area, Leckie said. Meanwhile, Leckie’s mother had two children with another man but that relationship became difficult for the young woman as well, Leckie said. The two children, Leckie’s half- sister, Wendy, and a boy that Leckie has not yet found, were taken by welfare officials and put up for adop- tion. Leckie said she wants to make = the notice. “*She said, ‘We've found them and your mother wants to hear from you,’ ’’ Leckie sail. Leckie called the woman who claimed to be her mother and as they began to talk about dates and times and places, ‘‘everything fit,”’ Leckie said Leckie’s mother was a teenager when she began having children and Leckie’s father, a forestry worker and an alcoholic, made life miserable for the young woman found family as possible and is searching for her half. brother. She believes his name is William Smith but she has no idea where he may be. For now, she is keeping in close contact with her mother and sisters and said she hopes to meet Pat some day. I’ve been searching for a long time and I honestly didn’t. believe it would come to an end,”’ Leckie said. “I feel I have a family,’’ she said simply, summing up the surprising events of the last few weeks. Consumer group meets with Hydro Ken Peterson, B.C. Hydro’s direc. tor of planning, and several staff members met June 14 in Vancouver with Don Scarlett, spokesman for the Kootenay-Okanagan Electric Con. sumers Association and other mem- bers of the B.C. Energy Coalition to plan public participation in the utility's upcoming energy conser- vation study The study, expected to take place in the last half of the year, will identify how much energy can be | saved throughout the province and in what Power have habitually derestimated conservation while overemphasizing expensive power projects. A thorough and realistic in- ventory of conservation potential is Yong overdue,” Scarlett said in the release. Now that B.C. Hydro is committed to a conservation study, the ECA believes that grassroots organizations representing the public should be full collaborators with the utility in the process, not just be ‘‘consulted,”’ said Scarlett, :a resident of Kaslo. Many un- manner for B.C. Hydro to or feel such forecast its long-term electrical load, the ECA says in a news release. The B.C. Energy Coalition, which consists of environmental and con- sumer organizations from all over the province, has strongly lobbied B.C. Hydro to conduct this study because the utility's past estimates of conser- vation potential have been below those from other jurisdictions. “B.C. Hydro and West Kootenay in the past has been a token for the sake of appearance, rather than a serious effort for public involvement, he said. B.C. Hydro has agreed to meet with energy coalition members within the next few weeks to set terms of reference for the study and the method of public participation. The ECA expects to