y U Se «2 Castlégar News September 7, 1986 SPORTS eg By SCOTT WHITE baseball's funny men spent their careers squatting in for territory. A healthy sense of humor would seem to be the No. 1 prerequisite for anyone crazy enough to offer his noggin as an easy target for foul balls and wild pitches. Joe Garagiola, an adequate but unspectacular catcher with the 1940s St. Louis Cardinals, has made a broadcasting career out of the cliche “baseball's a funny game.” Bob Uecker, a backstop with the Braves when they were still in Milwaukee, has made more hits in beer commercials than he did during a six-year career on the diamond. Former Yankee great. Yogi Berra may be the funniest man in a uniform, even if he doesn't mean to be. The newest member of baseball's frivolity fraternity is Ron Luciano, but unlike Garagiola, Uecker and Berra, he wasn't a catcher. Even worse. Luciano was an umpire. ‘An old adage in baseball says umpires are doing a good job when nobody notices them. Everybody noticed Luciano. The fans, the players, the managers. Especially the managers. “There were good umpires, mediocre umpires and then there was me,” says Luciano, who has followed the Garagiola and Uecker example by becoming a master of self-depreciating humor STRIKES AGAIN riantelon 2 tas view, ace has written a book — TORONTO — It's entirely appropriate that most of - OUTSPOKEN LUCIANO STRIKES AGAIN his third — called Fall of the Roman Umpire. Like his first two efforts, The Umpire Strikes Back and Strike Two, Luciano’s latest is a coll of bi . Having pretty well exhausted all his own funny stories in the first two books — like the time he was caught eating a hot dog during a game — Luciano, working with veteran writer David Fisher, takes a different tack this time. Luciano has borrowed the lives of other baseball as he calls journeymen like Tom Paciorek, =vans and Steve Nicosi catcher (what else?) who had the undignified distinction of being cut by both of Canada’s baseball teams in the same season. “I'm out of lives, I don't have that many lives,” explains Luciano, a huge, grinning, gregarious man who speaks as he writes — “no periods, no commas, just constant talk.” Before giving each of the 15 players a chance at his own chapter — the common thread that binds their stories is that they're blue-collar workers in a sport which only pays heed to superstars — Luciano relates his latest unsettling experience: attending a ball game as a spectator. After being part of the action for 11 years and being paid good money to watch over 1,000 American League games. Luciano discovered what many of us already know — it's not always easy being a fan. The seats are uncomfortable. The food can be lousy. Sometimes the beer’s warm. You have to line up for the washroom. “I hate to pay’ for tickets,” Luciano, a resident of upstate New York, said during a trip to Toronto to promote the book. “It hurts me so much.” There were other problems. “First of all, I'm virtually blind,” he lied. “I could see when I was five feet away from the plate. At least I could make out shadows then. But I can't see what's going on from the stands.” Then there are the stadiums those places that used to be called ball parks. He as unimpressed with Montreal's Olympic Stadium, poking fun at its unfinished tower that “looks like a celery stalk.” And there's the food at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. Fall of the Roman Umpire, by Ron Luciano and David Fisher. Published by Bantam; 326 pages; $18.95. LUNCHEON SPECIAL “evizpm. Chicken Snack Til2 p.m 2 pieces of chicken More info call 365-3478 STARTING TUES., SEPT. 9 Tues. 7 to 9 p.m. — Thurs. 7 to 9 p.m. PLACE: Kinnaird Elementary School CASULMEGAR SORTS T ‘wat RE Sports Calendar INDAY SLOWPITCH —» CASTLEGAR SLOWPITCH TOURNAMENT: 16 teams compete for $1.000 first prize. Games stort 8 a.m. with final at 4 p.m. All gomes at Kinnaird Pork FOOTBALL—NFL: Cleveland Browns at Chicago Bears, 10 a.m channel 6; San Francisco 49ers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 10 @.m. channel 7. FOOTBALL—CFL: Homilton Tiger-Cats of Toronto Argonauts 10:30 a.m. channel 9 FOOTBALL—NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers ot Seattle Sechowks. | p.m., channel 6 BASEBALL—MAJOR LEAGUE: Toronto Blue Joys ot Chicago White Sox, 1:30 p.m., channel 13 TENNIS—U.S. OPEN: Men's final, | p.m. chonnel 7 MONDAY FOOTBALL-NFL: New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys. 8 p.m chonnel 4 ‘oat SUPPLIES Castlegar Sports Centre. FITNESS FROLIC Come and see the variety of fitness classes we will offer this fall Enjoy a Skit, Demonstrations, Fitness Classes. Meet our Fitness Instructors! Castlegar Sports Centre Thursday, Sept. 11 7:00 p.m. Complex Hall (NO CHARGE) Start your fall off on the right foot BE FITNESS ORIENTED! Castlegar Area Recreation Dept. 365-3386 THERE . . . Spokane Chiefs defenceman grabs the stick of a Seattle Thunderbirds forward as he rounds the net during an exhibition game Friday at the Castl Cc i Chiefs lost 5-4 in the first of a back-to-back Saclend series which con- cluded Saturday at the Cominco Arena in Trail. CosNews photo Hawks may TORONTO (CP) The offer Chicago Blackhawks submitted might not be Yaremchuk ‘and a fourth fered the Leafs defenceman Jerome Dupont, forward Ken lose Olcyzk in his first two due to serious leg injuries. Nylund, 22, scored two goals and had one goals last year. and a -17 rating last season. Yaremchuk, 22, scored 14 Bonar injured MONTREAL (CP) — Graeme Bonar, a right winger touted as a good bet to crack the Montreal Canadiens lineup this season, has suffered a broken wrist and will miss the NHL club's training camp. Bonar was the club's fifth draft pick in 1964 and has played with Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey Association the last two seasons. He injured the wrist while training last week. Whalers sign HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Hartford Whalers have signed defencemen Tim Bothwell and Mike McEwen to multi-year contracts. Bothwell, 31, was obtained from the St. Louis Blues in a cash transaction prior to last season. He scored two goals and had eight assists for 10 points in 62 games. He played portions of four season with the New York Rangers and three full seasons with the St. Louis Blues before coming to Hartford. McEwen, 30, came to the Whalers from the Rangers in exchange for right winger Bob Crawford last February. He had started the season with the Detroit Red Wings and was traded to the Rangers in December. Canadians third KIEV, Soviet Union (CP) — Sokol Kiev of the Soviet Elite Division defeated Canada 43 at the Sovetzky Sport international hockey tournament Saturday. The Canadian Olympic team finished the tourna. ment in third place with one win and two losses. The Canadians beat the Romanian national team 8-0 and lost 6-4 to Khimik of the Soviet Union. Fabian Joseph of Sydney, N.S., Dave Randall of North Vancouver, B.C., and Ray Cote of Pincher Creek, Alta., scored for Canada. Rookie sidelined WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Red- skins placed Canadian rookie quarterback Mark Rypien on the injured reserve list Saturday and activated defensive end Dexter Manley. Rypien, a native of Calgary who moved to Spo- kane, Wash., when he was eight, has a swollen right knee, the National Football League team said in a statement. Rypien, who had been listed as No. 3 on the Washington's depth chart, played collegiate football at Washington State. Referee suspended MADRID (Reuter) — Spanish soccer referee Raul Garcia de Loza has been suspended for a month for allowing a penalty to be taken in a First Division match while the goalkeeper was standing with his back to the ball. The penalty gave Atletico Madrid a 1-1 tie with Espanol last Sunday. Garcia de Loza said after the match that Espanol's goalkeeper, Cameroon international Thomas Nkono, has been wasting time so he ordered the kick to be taken. COMMUNITY NEWS enough to stop Toronto Maple Leafs from being awarded forward Ed Olezyk in a National Hockey League arbitration hearing, sources say. The teams met for two hours Friday with Judge Edward Houston of Ottawa who will decide what the Leafs should get from the Blackhawks to cémpensate for Chicago signing free agent Toronto defenceman Gary Nylund The Toronto Globe and Mail says 'NHL sources re vealed’ the Blackhawks of round draft choice. In the opinion of two NHL management people, the newspaper says, Chicago general manager Bob Pul. ford’s offer might result in the loss of his prize player, Olezyk, a Chicago native. “Pulford blew it,” said one source. “He-came in too low.” Houston is to announce his decision Sunday or Monday Olezyx, 20, scored 29 goals in his second pro term last season. Nylund has played four years with the Leafs al though he saw limited action Stanley Cup at bad time OTTAWA (CP) Taking a break from arms talks, eco nomic bargaining and weighty international issues, Czechoslovak Prime Minister Lubomir Strougal com plained that the timing of the annual Stanley Cup playoffs deprives the world of a real showdown in hockey Strougal, meeting with Canadian reporters during his official visit to Canada, said he is disappointed that playoffs for the Stanley Cup. emblematic of supremacy in OPEN PLAY Sat. & Sun. Only WITH THIS COUPON BOWL 3 PAY FOR ONLY 2 mopar good bil end ot Sept enty the National Hockey League, are always scheduled at the same time as the world hockey championships. The prime minister, a keen hockey fan, said he didn't want to interfere in internal Canadtar—affairs, but he couldn't resist the bait when asked by reporters about the sad state of Czechoslovak hockey. The team did poorly at the world ch in of the ‘worst plus-minus ratings — -32 — in the NHL last season, but played well in the playoffs when the Leafs upset the first-place Blackhawks in the Norris Di vision semifinals. Dupont, 24, had two goals In another hearing Friday, Houston accepted submis sions from the New York Is landers and the Boston Bruins, resulting from the Islanders’ recent signing of free-agent Boston defence man Brian Curran. The referees’ association, announcing the ban Friday night, said penalties could not be taken until the players were correctly positioned and that if Nkono was wagting time, he should have been shown a yellow card or sent off. The ban is the fourth that Garcia de Loza, 39, has received during a colorful career as a referee. Weekend Wrap-Up FOOTBALL 33a= ERERt coco voos Bs Basd sry BIBSRES exsss BASEBALL 1985 with some of its better players now competing in the NHL. 1 7E Henke, Toronto. 9-3, 7503.21 ‘Sret Clemens Boston 211. Morrie sees Oahlond 31. Borfeid. Toronto la: Consecog Ovklond. 105 % 3.69. Exchhorn Toronto 124. 750 im: Perker Cincinnets LEAGUE BOWLING STARTS, WED., SEPT. 3 Ledies — Mornings 9:30; Afternoons | p.m. Evening Bowling — Tend 9 p.m. Youth sewting paar Storts. Sept. 13 sic League Storts Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. CASTLE BOWL 206 - 11th Avenue, Castlegar For more information coll 365-5723 © CASTLEGAR JUDO CLUB Regular Classes commence Monday, Sept. 8 at 6:30 p.m Twin Rivers School Anyone over the age of 8 years is welcome. Kegistration of Jumors ond Seniors will take place starting September 8 at the Judo classes. Classes are M: ond Thursdoys trom 6.30 p.m - 8 p.m. at Twin Rivers School. For more intor mation colt 365-3403 (Evenings) peg Bive Bomber ogreement with wide recerer Jolt Boyd Otters onnounce that offensive Houston tochie Hervey Salem hes retur ned 18 Chats sign offensive tockie Kanses City Devs Luts te tour yeor contrect wocmay C7 Herttord Whalers sy) detenc Rothwell ond Mie Mitwen contac To rulyeu: [Ee John ‘Charters Reflections & recollections VANDER ZALMS CHARMED BY ISLAND PARK For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. — Arthur O’Shaunessey. Tread softly for you tread on my dreams. — WB. Yeats “Historically beautiful”, wrote Premier Bill Vander Zalm in the Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park's chapel house visitor book. “Natural”, added Mrs. Vander Zalm — perceptive remarks, both, and I was pleased. The premier has a sharp and critical eye in these matters and I had experienced some concern about the proposed 20-minute tour last week of the park by the premier and his party. How, I worried, will I convey to our special visitors in that brief time hing of the historia! 4 , the thought, the concern, the effort and the expense whieh has gone into the development of the park? How could I indicate the dreams and hopes of its volunteer workers and patrons and what it is coming to mean in the lives of citizens and the framework of the community? Its évolving uniqueness and continuing dream? How to get started? I could have saved myself the bother. The weatherman, cooperated perfectly. Our guests, though a bit late, were charming, enthusiastic, intelligently terested and complimentary. And as for starting, the island — as always — took. care of itself The day before, as on cue, I received a letter from Sister Joseph who was raised in this area and is now a nun in the monastery of St. Clare (The Poor Clares - a praying order) in Mission. She and her family had been deeply involved in restoration work in the Grand Forks area, she still loves these parts and had written to thank me for some stories I had sent and to comment on matters she understands well. “It seems to me,” she wrote, “that one must die for the dream .. . to let go of everything.” With this as a start I was able to say: “Mr. Premier, this park in its special setting and its unusual buildings is unique in British Columbia, if not in Canada. It is both millenniums old and as young as yesterday. Most importantly, it is a thing of dreams. Young braves of the Lakes People thousands of years ago ‘Beautiful, said the premier, absolutely beautiful’ probably dreamed their name-dreams here; 200 years ago, the explorer David Thompson, dreaming of a water route to the Pacific Ocean, camped across the river and recorded it on his charts; Alexander Zuckerberg saw it as a sanctuary of peace and dreamed of it as a special park for children. He died in 1961 with the dream unfulfilled. “Three years ago, 22 years after his death the Castlegar Rotary club awoke the dream and with the cooperation of the city and the assistance of a federal works grant, a team of college students and local volunteers, we started the creation of the park. Interest was such that by fall a heritage advisory board had been formed and, with a grant from the British Columbia Heri tage Branch matched by the city, we started the restora tion of the so-called Russian Orthodox chapel house at the crest of the island. “At the end of 1983 the 44th Field Engineers, a militia unit in Trail, came forward with an offer to build a suspension bridge to provide year-round access to the park — if we supplied the materials. That sign over there is an acknowledgement of local industrial, business, media and private citizen support “For example the Rotary Club started it off with $2,000 fer the 20-ton anchors, Cominco provided the cables, some machinery and engineering know-how, West Kootenay Power provided the towers and Celgar the lumber. I like to see it as a symbol of all-level community support. And speaking of support, several engineers, including a Dutch visitor a couple of weeks ago, have assured me that if it were wide enough, I could drive my light truck over it. You are quite safe.” By this time we were halfway across the bridge. The sun was glimmering on the pond, the bridge was making another bridge "in the depths of the pond, while the Columbia River against an almost cloudless sky danced and murmured ‘on its way to the sea “Beautiful,” said the premier, pausing for a long look “Absolutely beautiful.” “And this, I said, is our circular path — the first path we made. It goes around the island above high water level. The circle, you know is symbolic of eternity or the universe.” “And that?”, said the premier not to be distracted “That, sir, is a kukuli or Indian winter pit house. This is a model, full-scale, built for us by the Selkirk College PARK TOUR . . . Columnist Charters with Premier Bill Vander Zalm on the Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park suspension bridge CosNews Photo anthropology students. There are many pits on the island indicating a longer, early occupation. They are an essential part of our heritage. Some day we hope to get* an anthr logist and, with y cooperation, develop one or two for historical research “And this?” asked the premier after a careful examination of the Kukuli, “a grave?” “No, sir, a memorial to the dead of the Hiroshima bombing. Because of its association with the concept of peace the Castlegar Peace Group planted a Japanese maple here last year. This year they built this memorial.” “Most fitting and attractive.” “And now the path, sir, if I may We have now been joined by a dozen small children The party has expanded to over a score. The sunlight dappliés the pathway and somewhere in the ifees™a woodpecker machineguns a few choice insects. “When he came here in the early ‘30s to teach the Doukhobor children he built this tiny one-man cabin. One table, one chair, one bed and one stove and a bookshelf for his books. As a disciple of Count Leo Tolstoy he believed that a man should be able to do all the things he needed He could and did. It has been restored by volunteer craftsman Art Koch “The building at the head of this path is called the Russian Orthodox chapel house. It was totally vandalized but is being restored under the direction of our restoration superintendent Alex Lutz with the assistance of craftsmen Gordie Hill and Ralph Desaulniers the Rotary club and Celgar.” Time is slipping away rapidly. We make our way past the Stump Woman — “after 50 years in the open she has just got a roof over her head”. Then we cross the causeway, “for a different view of our symbolic bridge and a look as well at our old-fashioned telephone lines They are a special gesture from B.C. Tel in order to keep the heritage aspect of our park — much appreciated There is a question about the causeway and the bridge “It is very innocent right now, Mr. Premier. Last week it was covered with several feet. of ver water and still looked innocent. Nonetheless, some 10 people have within living memory lost their : and someone tried to make it 11 a couple of weeks ago The bridge is both a link and a lifesaver Finally, since I don't wear that Scottish hat for nothing, I asked, “Having seén our park. do you suggestions?” “It's lovely,” keep it as it is.” That kind of advice we can use Or, to quote Sister Joseph again really die, it was buried like a seed, to germin in some one’s listening heart. I am praying continues to blossom as something special for Kootenays.” With that kind of support we can't lose y dangerous said both our visitors. “Keep it natural The dre Births & Funerals omTHs: BLIGH — To Wendy and Russell Bligh of Fruitvale, @ girl, born 2 CHAPMAN. Don Chapman of Nelson, a boy. born Aug. 28 CURLE /KUSCH — To Debro Curle ‘ond Kenton Kusch of Nakusp, @ girl, born Aug. 28 MAKORTOFF — To Noelia and Jomes Makortolt of Crescent Volley. a girl, born Aug. 25. MORISETTE — To Mr. and Mrs. Steve Morisette of Fruitvale, a boy. born Aug. 12 OusoFF ‘0 Mary ond Allen Olisott dt Plt Pork, @ boy. Sept. RODRIGUES — To Sharon ond George Rodrigues of Robson, o boy, born Aug. 28. SRA To Lokhwinder and Norankar Singh Sra of Castlegar 2 girl, born Aug. 29 SWETLISHOFF — To Valerie and Bill Swetlishotf of South Slocan, a girl, born Aug. 27. TARASOFF /PLOTNIKOFF To Annie Torasoft and Ernie Plot nikott of Castlegar, o girl.” born Sept TOIVOLA/FARENHOLTZ To Borb Toivola and Robert Forenholtz of Nelson, a boy born Sept. 1 WILLIAMSON — To Wendy and Keith Williamson of Westbank, o girl, born Aug. 24 DEA’ Jenniter and Alex Hadikin of Elk- ford, Valerie and Chris Larsen ot Slocan, Sylvie and Scott Hamilton of Kamloops, and Candy and Clit Gagnon of Balfour; 23 gran dchildren; eight great great grandchildren; brothers Russell ‘of Nanaimo and John of Balfour half-brother Wayne of Edmon- ‘ond half-sister irene of CHERNENKOFF — Dora S. Cher nenkolt of Raspberry Village formerly of Nelson, died Aug. 30 at age 97. She is survived by her sons Mike of Victoria and John of Nelson: five grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren 0022! — Oditio Dozzi of Nelson died Aug. 29 at age 84. He is sur vived by his doughter and son-n low Clara and Al Bendie of Kim berley .son.ond daughter-in-law Argilio and Bibi of Terrace; son Don of Nelson; brother Adorino Dozzi; sister Romano Casali of Codroipo, Itely; nine gran dchildren four great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews Rusty) Audrey Now in Stock ! NEW FALL & WINTER BELTS GINETTE’S BOUTIQUE Cestleaird Piero Gray of Trail died suddenly Aug. si ct ope 64 She is survived by Server Ann Morrison of Pentic- ton; sor James of Elktord; tive sisters Evelyn Cory of New sister Charlotte Island LUND — Violet Lund, formerly of Rossland and Nelson, died 23 in Vancouver atter o brief illness at age 62. She is survived by her husband Bert; son David: twin sister sisters Alma end two grandsons OOK : merly of Trail, died Aug. 21 in New Denver ot age 93. He is sur- vived by his wife Hilda (Austin) Davies of Nakusp: dchildren and randchildren tions may Robertson United Church renovation tund, Box 187. Nokusp. Welcome home. 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