The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, May 17, 1995 Some fast facts fite fighting in t Region, which DINE IN DINE OUT CASTLEROCK CAFE a..m--4 ++ ¥y Feiimospnere’ good home-style cooking, full meals, a children's menu and seniors porti6ns.are only are part of what awaits you at Castlerock Cafe, located in downtown the Castlegar beside Fields. Owners Jeannie and Geoff Tellier opened Castlerock in August 1994 and they've been busy-ever since: "We open at 5:30 in ntti Chinese food fresh from our wok... Lunch Smorg * Tues., - Friday 12 pm - 1:30 pm Saturday & Sunday Smorg ¢ 5-8 pm Open Sat., Sun., Mon., Holidays + 49 pm Tues-Friday*llam-9pm ~ oe 932 Columbia Ave, Castiagar, B.C ‘Eastgate Garden 365-7414 GE aD the morning Monday to Saturday,""said Geoft and it didn't take long to build a regular clientele. On the breakfast menu sausages, bacon, hash browns hot cereal and hash. Lunch time finds ther busy sandwiches Mexican inctuding quesadillas, nachos and burritos. Jeannie, can hot cakes, eggs, very popular ham preparing and specialties said. Westem Cuisine OPEN 5:30 AM TO 6 PM Monday to Saturday & 8 pm on Friday BREAKFAST/LUNCH/DINNER, CAFE’ 330 Columbia Ave., Downtown Castlegar Forestry uses new light-handed approach when fighting fires RON NORMAN | Sun Editor The B.C. Forest Service is changing the way it responds to fprest fires. ’ The new approach, dubbed “Light Hand on the Land”, has been d from the U.S. For- est Service, where it has been common practice for a number of years. “Tt emphasizes the use of pro- cedures which limit the impact that firefighting efforts have on the landscape,” explains Gary Shaw, the media coordinator working out of the new Forest Service fire centre in Nelson, And that could mean simply let- ting the fires burn therhselves out. “Light-hand tactics are based on the acknowledgment that there is no reason fire control efforts should have more of an impact on the environment than the fire itself.” Shaw points out that in the past, some forest firefighting tac- tics were still visible long after the effects of the fires themselves had disappeared. That shouldn't “We make all our food from scratch,” customers tell us they taste the difference.” Downstairs the banquet room seats 75 comfortably. business people call ahead and reserve the roomfor their luncheon or dinner meeting,” she From Monday to Saturday, you'll find the seen friendly a ny st Mexican reasonable prices, a non- smoking section great food, just what looking for! said "and our "Some aff and you're Geoff and Jeannie Tellier prepare one of their mexican spec ies. ee or 365-251 I TUESDAY ~ secketrucstes bosecttom | ISALWAYS S=S9PQA9..... PANA’ epecuis SIT = =e 2305 Columbia Ave., Castlegar, B.C. Take home 2 Baked Lasagnas with meat sauce m PLUS 2 Garlic Toast & Piossed Green Salads... TRY OUR DELICIOUS SANDWICHES & BURGERS CHINESE & WESTERN CUISINE Steak ¢ Seafood { Specializing in Chinese Cuisine TAKE OUT ORDERS WELCOME RED LANTERN RESTAVRANT ii Arrow Hotel) 651-18th St., Castlegar, B.C. 365-5020 SENIOR g CHILDREN'S SPECIALS ‘ happen anymore, he says. “The Wildland Fire Service may decide that the best course of action on a remote fire is no action at all.” Under the new approach Shaw ‘says, “The use of bulldozers, the use of foam or long-term retar- dants, the need for construction interfered more and more with this process as a result of his efforts to control forest fires.” rally. Trees which collapse into the forest from age “load” the for- est floor with easily ignitable, fuel, These can then create critical fire sites will be given a “much “Many factors will be consid- ered in making these types of decisions and, for the most part, these decisions will impact areas far from the public eye. Visual esthetics are considered a criti- cal value.” Shaw notes that part of what led to the new “Light Hand on the Land” approach is the recognition that the forest firefighting efforts have been almost too successful. “Wildfire is a natural process in the environment,” he says. “Over the past century, man has fire This fuel loading can also pre- vent wildlife from following tra- ditional trails and from browsing. He points to Lodgepole pine forests as an example. | “Lodgepole pine, also know ‘as Jackpine, can overoccupy eas and make the forest almost wninhabitable for wildlife. As a natural event, for- est fire not only reduces this type of loading, but also pro- vides the Lodgepole pine with the means by which to germi- nate by providing the heat required for the cones to open in order to release their seeds.” Harcourt appoints rapid-response team Submitted Premier Mike Harcourt has appointed a rapid response team of senior regional staff to help communities that rely on the for- est get fast-tracked access to the full range of government services and initiatives. The team's first priority is to help Golden develop and imple- ment economic action plans. When he announced the Koote- nay-Boundary Land-Use Plans in March, Harcourt identified the need to create a government team to help communities implement the economic strategy in the plans. “There are some immediate challenges in the land-use plan implementation,” Harcourt said in a prepared release, “This team is being created to keep my promise that no one will lose their opportunity to work in the woods due to land-use plans.” To begin with, the rapid response team will be led by Wally Penner, Nelson region eco- nomic development manager for Premier Mike Harcourt . ..keeping promise manager, Ministry of Forests, and; + Pat Roy, Kootenay region manager, Ministry of Skills, ining and Labour. “Assembling this expertise and the resources available to these ministry representatives in a rapid response team will enable us to address a wide range of jobs and ne Fi the Ministry of Small B Tourism and Culture. The other team members are: * Peter Fisher, forest industries Youre Tnutted... 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The best team so far this sea- son is the Slocan Valley Royals who ended last week with a record of five wins and one loss thanks to a, t0-7 defeat at the hands of Trail Big O Tire. The Royals ‘won the Castlegar League last season and have been riding the arm of ace starter Kevin Sutherland so far this season. Sutherland has compiled a 3-0 record with 30 strikeouts and a -000 ERA in the first month of play which has made him the best pitcher in the league. How- ever, he has had some trouble over the last week with soreness in his pitching arm and that could mean trouble for the Ryals down the stretch. If the Royals happen to falter, the Castlegar Cobras are pre- pared to take the lead. They are currently tied with Terra Nova ‘Hotel of Trail for sécond spot in the standings with a 4-2 record. Jim Nazaroff leads the Cobras who made a sponsor shift this year from Banjos. They also added another win to their total last Wednesday as they slipped Past Salmo Athletics 9-3. If there has been one surprise in the league this year it has been the play of S: hey are cur- really peiched te roah Slate with 4 4-3 record 4nd have played some exciting games on their Wearing down! Castlegar Big O Cal home field. “Basically, the teams that were Strong last season are still strong,” said League statistician Darryl Dickson. “I guess Salmo wauld be the biggest surprise because most people didn’t expect them to be; right near the top of the-league.”*! ~ One team that“is struggling so far this season is the mighty Castlegar Merchants who blew away the competition in the Castlegar League last year, suf- fering only two losses all sea- son. They finished first in league play but lost in the playoffs to the Royals. This season has been a rough one for the Merchants who have had trouble fielding a full team and are stuck with a 2-4 record. To make matters worse they lost 9-8 to Salmo last week. Howev- er, Merchant player Kelly Keraiff knows his club has tal- ent and isn’t worried this early Monday in Salmo partially due to an inexperienced defence. pitcher Dave Pereversoff had a rough outing last SUN SPORTS PHOTO / Jeff Gabert in the season “If we have all our guys show up we'll do all right,” said Keraiff. “We've had to pick up guys out of the stands some nights and that makes it tough to wit.” Despite the poor record the Merchants still can field a potent line-up with pitchers Greg Berg- eron and Adrian Streleiff supple- mented by strong batting from Ben Markin and Darryl Bojechko. And since every team in the league makes the playoffs, anything can happen after the season ends on July 6. “We're not really worried,” said Keraiff. “We won the league last year but the playoffs are the main thing. We're hitting quite a few tournaments this year so hopefully we'll do better in them than we have in the league games.” The entire league has under- gone a number of changes this season. The biggest has been the amalgamation of the. Castlegar and Trail leagues to ensure that there will be one deciding cham- ! pion this year” Last year a final between the two leagues was never played but there were inter- league games. The creation of the one league means stability and increased competition. “Combining the Trail and Castlegar leagues is a real good idea,” said Dickson. “Before you kept playing the same teams in your own league all the time. Now it's getting quite competitive.” Tim Horcoff is a long-time Castlegar fastball player and the Captain of the Castlegar Big O Team. He was one of the people who advocated the amalgamation because both leagues were play- ing by different standards and inter-league play was tough. Babe Ruth in the fina “The leagues had to do it,” said Horcoff. “There was no way we could keep it the way it was. Now everyone plays by the same set of Standards.” Both Horcoff and Dickson hope to see the league expand in the future and one of the ways they are going about accomplish- ing that goal is through exhibi- tion games with the Slocan Valley Men's Fastball League. Each team will play four exhibi- tion games with valley teams this season and the expansion idea will be discussed after the end of the season. As for Horcoff’s team, Castlegar Big O lost to the Ath- letics in Salmo the other night and are entrenched in the base- ment of the league standings. Big O is one of the few teams who picked up young players this season so Horcoff is content to look to next year. I steps CASTLEGAR: 365-2208 me 368-0134 NELSON-352-1614 2880 Highway Or. Trat, STERLING NEWS SERVICE courtesy Trail Times The countdown to the Babe Ruth World Series is now in double digits. Friday marked 100 days to go before the opening Pitch of the World Series and the Trail orga- nizing i took the opp ity to hold its final press conference at the Memo- rial Centre's Sports Hall of Memories. With Babe Ruth Inc., President and CEO Ron Tellefs in the c i introduced the 31 hosts for the event and announced that Trail’s sister city, Tsukui, prior to the big event. “In my 25-plus years of Babe Ruth League Incorporated, I’ve never seen a city So well organized with committee structure as Trail.” Tellefsen said if this year’s Series, set for Aug. 19 to 26, attracts over 4,000 people it will be a big success. That's good news to the organizing com- mittee who have sold over 1,000 family tick- ets to date. With three or four people per family attending, the goal of 4,000 may have already been reached. Doug Stanley, committee President and Japan, will be the invitational team 4 out the field. Tellefsen told the audience that with the addition of Tsukui, the first Japanese team to play in the Babe Ruth World Series, along with Trail, the first Canadian city to host the event, makes this year's Series truly an international event In return, Tellefson had a surprise of his own for the crowd when he announced that former New York Yankees third baseman and past-president of the American League, Dr. Bobby Brown, will be the featured Speaker at the World Series banquet “We always-give him the choice of which World Series he would like to speak at,” said Tellefsen. “He, himself, chose Trail.” Tellefsen heaped praise on both the city and the committee for being so organized chairperson, thanked those who helped make the} Series possible and individually thanked the'corporate sponsors with mementos. “The economic value of this event in this community is going to equate to about $1.3 million U.S. coming into this community,” said Stanley ‘It is, and it will be, a first-time, world class event,” he added. When the Trail committee first started out it only had $225,000, and now, with the help of 19 major corporate and 38 co-corporate sponsors, it has an excess of $500,000. The latest to come on board are Beneficial Canada Inc., and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce which presented a cheque for $5,000 to the committee on Friday. Gerry Kirsch, CIBC manager for Trail, said in a press release; “As committed cor- porate citizens in Trail, CIBC and our staff are pleased to participate in and support this important community event.” On behalf of the organizing committee, Stanley presented Tellefsen the final cheque of $54,000 completing the guaranteed com- mitment for staging an event. Dan Ashman, executive director of the organizing committee, said he's not overly surprised at how well Trail has taken on the event and said the community is teady to handle an event like the Babe Ruth World Series. “I'm an optimistic person but the support is beyond my wildest dreams,” said Ashman “This event will create millions of dollars with great economic impact as first men- tioned in ‘91. Because of the event, the Kootenays will now be exposed to a com- plete North American market. = Tellefsen said players, as well as the peo- ple of Trail, will have a good experience from this event “The entire community wanted the Series,” he said. “With that kind of impact you get success. Canada is part of Babe Ruth and any league, regardless of location, should have a chance to host “The support from the media and ‘the community will make the 1995 16-18 year- old World Series in Trail one of the finest, ¥f not the best, World Series ever played in the history of Babe Ruth baseball.” Sidelines Admiring the Martial Arts Competitors will be coming from far and wide at the end of May to participate in the third biénnial West Kootenay Martial Arts Championships, The event will take place on Saturday, May 27 in the Badminton Hall in the Nelson Civic Centre. Groups from all over B.C., Alberta, Wash Idaho and M will be com- peting in the event which showcase a wide variety of arts includ- ing kung fu, Karate, tai chi, tae kwon do and kempo. Doors open for registration at 9 a.m. with the event to begin an hour later with a black belt master’s d fol by the i On Sunday two seminars will be taught by world-famous Tai Chi expert Sam Masich of Vancouver. These seminars are open to the public, no experience necessary. For more information call Rex Eastman at the Kootenay Tai Chi Centre, 352-3714. Momma Needs a New Pair of Shoes Zone One Horseshoe Pitching playoffs for the B.C. Summer Games in'Pt will be held S: y, June 3 in Castlegar starting at 10 am.. Nine different classes will be ing with four separate divisions in the men’s class and three divisioiis in ladies. There are also two junior mixed divisions. Winners of the Zone play ns will pete in Penti July 27-30. Castlegar has had a long history of excell in h petiti thanks to Jim and Michelle Feeney and that should continue this year. So get out and join them. There’s nothing luckier than a horseshoe, except a rabbit's foot and there is no competition for that at the Games. Registration deadline is May 31 and if you plan to compete call Jim or Michelle at 365-7854. Eighth Year and Still Young Jim Young Celebrity Golf Tournament is getting ready to rock dhe] Wee Kootenay once agin with it’s own special brand of fun and excitement. This year’s toumey at the Castlegar Golf Club will be on Thrusday, July 13 and, as usual, will include a delicious lunch, fi ic golfing, fabul banquet, exciting prizes, a celebrity on every team and all proceeds the the Red Cross. BCTV Personality John McKeachie will once again be on hand as the master-of-ceremonies and he is certainly an attraction not to be missed. For more information-call-the-Red-Cross at 365-39 1t-—— Running Down Leukemia The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1518 are sched- uled to kick off their Fifth Annual Leukemia Light Relay in Prince George on Sunday, May 28 and for the first time ever, the relay will include the Kootenays‘and Vancouver Island. On May 28, a relay will start in Fernie, B.C. and travel through Cranbrook, Cre- ston, Nelson, Trail, Castlegar, Grand Forks, Osoyoos and finally end in Keremoes where the runners will meet up with those start- ing in Prince George. They intend to meet up with them a 1:30 P-m. on June 5. All money raised will fo to: Leukemia Research andthe Tetay-is only one of-several events planned in conjunction ‘wit® the Leukemia Research Fund of Canada to increase aware- ness and raise money. For more information call the UFCW Local 1518 head office at 1-800-661-3708. Castlegar Chamber + C. legar Golf = Castlegar Commerce ‘The’ Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce is getting pre- pared for its Fourth|Annual Golf Tournament and Social coming up June 10 at the Castlegar Golf Course. The chamber tournament is always a big hit for golfers of any skill level and this year should Prove no ption. For more inf ion call the ch office at 365-6313. Gearing up for the Games The 1995 B.C. Summer Games are being held July 27-30 in Pen- ticton and track and field entry trials for those games are rapidly approaching. This year the Zone One trials will be held at East Kootenay College in Cranbrook on June 3. Athletes must be born in 1980 or 1981 and the Kootenay Zone team will be selected using only the results from the Zone One trials. Starting times are noon on Saturday with the boys octathlon starting earlier at 6 p.m. on Friday. Registration will be accepted up until 11 a.m. on June 3 but early entry would be appreciated. For more inf ion please call Bruce Perreault at 367-7163. Having a Sporting Slocan Spring and Summer The Slocan Valley Recreation Commission is always looking for ways to spice up the spring and summer months, Many of their events have already started but they are designed so that People can drop in at any time and still enjoy the values of recreation. The Mt. Sentinel High School hosts Womens’ Volleyball every Tuesday from March 28 - May 30 at 7-9 p.m. for anyone interest- ed in spikes and blocks. Mi and Wednesday see a pk of badminton players at'the school during the same time period from March 27 - May 17. mens Floor Hockey takes the stage on Thursdays from 7-9 p.m. and runs March 30 to May 18. The Winlaw School Gym is the site of both mens and ‘womens Vol- leyball. The women own the floor every Thursday night from 6-8 P-m. March 30 to June 29 while the men Play Wednesday nights until May 17 from 7-9 p.m. Brent Kennedy School has also got into the action when they host mens Basketball on Tuesday nights 7-9 p.m until May 30. A Real Police Chase Castlegar RCMP is participating in the Law Enforcement Torch Run Campaign this year which raises funds for the Special Olympics. It is anticipated this year that all Law Enforcement Torch Runs across Canada will raise $1.5 million fox the program which gives individuals with mental retardation an opportunity to Participate in organized sports. The run is scheduled for Sunday, June 11 at 10 am. along 6th Avenue. The race will Start at the Chamber of Commerce lot and runners can Pick their distances. Pledge sheets can be picked up at the Castlegar detachment or at The Castlegar Sun. Whether you run or walk or how far you go, Participation is the key. If you can't run youare still encouraged to pledge,even the smallest amount will bring a smile to a Special Olympians face. For more information call Const Jeremy Knight at 365-7721 If you have sports to report call Jeff at 365-5579.