>> as Castlegar News __Febrvory 12, 1989 Credit rating raised VICTORIA (CP) raving A glowing report by a bond British performance has put a big smile on Finance Minister Mel Couvelier’s face I'm very pleased Service OH Columbia's economic being Bond way his government our fiscal policies are Couvelier said’ after Domini praised the recognized Rating Service Ltd is managing the economy 's credit heading The Toronto-based company raised B.C said the budget and notch, and balanced rating a toward a province is possibly even a surplus But NDP finance critic Glen Clark said balancing he budget requires no “magic’’>and id it will be done at the expense of the average person's wallet There is nm to balancing a budget in this Hectively rnment has cut corporation magi the economy $600 ‘million a year and shifted the tax to the average British Columbian. particular juestion is why don't we have vince? s-economy—is_performing use of But he refuse higher-than-ant 1 to predict how the r whether balance arly for that." he said ther about budget wipe out the 1 say is currently stabilizatiom account projected annual The next budget will be March Dominion Bond Rating praised B.C spending pouring in. Mu Likes from the t higher me tax rise tures Dominio warned the bly drop, but revenues from natural gas revenue umpage MEL COUVELIER . all smiles while, booming h of the forest industry rates, and unusually will be brought down. in late revenue a $123 forestry revenue wi partially for contain tax: revenues were results from larger particularly becaus million, one-time low capital expend? | inevit offset. by. higher Weekly stocks TORONTO (CP) — Cone inflation rates Analy combined with inve fil-taking among traders touched off sharp ¢ Jay or the Toronto and markets The Tororito St ts cited some over ¢ Bush's budge about how to straig nment’s buc »11 percent from 10.§ percent disappo U.S. Pr message niment esident Thur $356, 736,512 On the gained gr tain forceful MARKET SLIPS, report tha oods jumped on: heir shary nilar ine of common liminate shares juirements associated wi dividend and petitiveness of xk in relation tc urities day, the Missour 1956 asa way to gain d quidity has relatively few tanding able to realize tax time because -of ment of a dividend yield partially in stock rently have an RRSP and benetits are tor income tax purposes? your situation IF THERE'S EVER A TIME FOR it’s NOW > other oF are thinking about opening one, di » tox specialists at H&R Block. 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He goals in the replaced by Jeff Reese the last for coach John Brophy; who avenged an allowed five first 1wo periods on Dee. 17 before being Toronto lost 7-1 and the game was who was fired two days later FLAMES 2CAPS1 LANDOVER, Md, (AP) — Joe Nicuwendyk 8:46 of the second period gave the Calgary Flames 2-1 triumph ovér the Washington action Saturday night Ss goal at their six th straight victory, a Capitalsin NHL The Flames, now 9-0-1 in their fast 10 games and 0-4-1 12, lead the overall NHL standing with 86 poir ak is the eason; they had a 13-game streak from No in their la ts: Their 10-gaiig unbeaten str the NHL this 10-Dev. 10 econd-longest in The winner came when Calgary had a two-man advan Nieuwendyk took a pass frony Hakan t goalie Clint Malarchuk Gary Suteratso got anassist HABSSDEVILS4 MONTREAL (CP) — Right winger Stephane Richer goal first period, but the quick start Montreal ¢ o one before defe band bea’ hington with a shot from in scored twice inat almost wasn’t enoug th anadiens watched in dwindle ating the New 5-4 inan NHE game Saturday night a five-goal mar Jersey Devil Ttwas th raight victory for the Canadiens, who were pla their first game ina week, which included the all-star break WHALERS7JETS3 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — John Anderson recor Flyers ded his fourth career hat trick and goals by Dean Evas and Brian La period spar the Hartford Whalers to a 7-3 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday night Evason tied the game at 8:20 Whaler at 147 Ferraro added brea make it 4-1 before tford goals to hand the Jets their s wton 3:27 apart in the openin, and Lawton put ixth straight defeat Nords8 Pens 1 QUEBEC (CP) Stastny scored four goats Mike Hough added two a the Quebee Nordique a 8-1 win over Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night Rebounding from a $-2 loss. Thursday in Pittsbur on 10 shots through the open the Nordiques scored three times goaltender Wendell Young midway Stastny four Saturday from close range arked by a brawl at 14:08 of period who has 26 goals this season The third period wa hird period BRUINS 5 OILERS 2 BOSTON (AP) — Rookie Boston Bruins and continued their goals as the Edmonton 5-2 Saturday NHL mastery over Oilers at Boston Garden In- their 16- regular-season against Edmonton, the Bruins arc moved the Bruins three points ahead of second place’ in the. Adams Division Keith Crowder, Andy Brickley an empty: net last games -at 2-2.2. The viet Buffalo also tallied for the Randy into Scoring for the Oilers were Gregg Simpson It was the second victory for Boston over Smythe Division they regained a complement of defencernen from the injury list Thursday's 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings. team since ked slumping Brent Peterson and Ray away goals in the second period to Anderson scored the finagthree Har cruised to scored all the Craig Janney scored two on the home ‘ory for and Ken Linseman Bruins. and Craig a strong full for 14 months to the day busy little metropolis called ¢ It's been that I've been residing in this arrived Dec. 12, 1987, astlegar. | and started on what I hope will be along and fruitful career in the newspaper business. Un fortunately, the beginnings of tong and fruitful careers in this racket are publications Realizing t Castleg: surprised to be raught with moves to other cities and s at the time, Fknew that my stay in So I should not be that would probably be brief telling you now I'm shoving off..:and I’m not. It’s not a surprise as much as it is a pain...1 hate moving. So it goes Sporting Views By Brendon Nagle Adios Castlegar: took the gloves off because 1 heard they burned my predecessor in effigy at a hockey game Being the biggest game in town, the Rebels should be prepared for some knocks on the sports pages...it But whe comes with the turf a team goes down the dumper ina single apie making the second round of the KIJHL play dike Re previous year, the team's got some serious explainit But I find it diggicult to relay mation on these Rebels fans whegi with any commeng that the franchise todotoits fans any pertinent infor kes to the dwindling number of he current coach won't go on tape 1'F just hope for the sake of the fans fy its house in order for thé next season because thé Rebel fans ate loyal? % Despite a poor poprne by the Rebels this season, home games at the Od@mmunity Complex saw more fans per game than dow@the road in Trail. The City of Champions has a slg team that placed second in the West Division sg mes didn’t s during bet a loyal f8t>/.how jon but some home even see enough fai46 collect all the priz ween-period draws. Rebel fans get full marks Now before | get over Van Vliet calling about npt seeing the amped telling you about me up and rattling my cage names of her children in the sports séction Chelsea and Meagan are with: the the last 14 months have been a roller coaster ride for myself and any other sports fan who has However been paying any both locally and internationally Fhe-capper,-of course, was the Olympics get-a of twisted satisfaction knowing that I was able to attention to the world of sports as it exists today kind peddle my jaded views on gloabal sporting spectacles Wasn't the 1988 Olympiad just the greatest thing in sports since the invention of the hockey stick? And the past Olympiad has yet to die bec like the Olympics ‘ause the braintrust of Canadian amateur is currently tself for Ben rgive me if_I’m wrong, but are sport examining followin Seoul ame people wh drug problems among its athletes Johnson's steroid-related fallout © are responsible for covertly devising ways for their athletes to beat drug tests? I know it'sa cynical opinion of a pervasive problem in amateur sport— or any sport sotvecometo-tearn but you must-remember these people are the same folks who turned the words “best ever into .catchy ad slogans for every carpet-bagger from Petro C Cola Youwantto Hs the problem and get drugs out of anto Coca amateur sport in Canada? Kangaroo-court-marshall the entire bunch and start from scratch before this inquiry makes an Olly North-like hero out of some two-facec double-talking sports swivel servant Thank you for letting me indulge myself in that lit tle tirade, it may be the last time I get to do so. Fortunately, the people involved in sport here haven't given me as many reasons to blast them as much as have bushwhacked other targets further afield. The Casi any real criticism on my part locally ar Rebels have been the focal point of But I never really Do you want us to send ene out to you?... SHOT ATTEMPT . . . A Stanley Humphries senior Rockette goes up for two points in Friday night's high school girls basketball contest between 'SHSS and the J.L. Crowe 4 The Ri beat the Hi 75- Youngsters’ attitudes towards sport change i By KIRK LaPOINTE The Canadian Press At the rink the other day, post-game chatter was in full flight among par snack bar tumbled-upand those ents and children near the Zamboni down the ice. It as the was one of great Canadian scenes Only this time, the sation that could be heard had very little to do with the joy of bites of conver sport or competition. It was a’ if the Me Decade hockey — all talk was about personal achievement had hit minor how many goals, how how many saves had been made The question :"Did you have fun didn't come up Len Wankel says this is something many assists Canadians should get used to. he says, Fun is being related could mean {declining intetest in sport as time goes on Wankel girls differently a losing team of boys would while tend to be boys. At said coached from halftime normally be given a pep talk girls would be Wankel's even more help to given a rest Girls need they enjoy message ensure the game Some believe that the expense of sport has driven people away, but Wankel believes it could also be the unsatisfying experience. How to get back that spirit of participation for its own sake is a problem that faces a range of sports organizations, teach ers and parents today We have to get back to empha sizing the development of skills, Wankel says One of the best ways to do that is to group children in leagues accord- ing to their abilities. Many leagues make children aren't out of their depth. But that, too. is not without its problems We have broken up neighbor players in exchange for competition,” new do so to sure hoods of roughly Wankel equal says I think we have to get back aspect of sport. That means we must find a way to get the neighborhood back together to play the sogial Ski agents upset Castlegar Figure Skating Club and Michael is with the Red Mountain Racers if you didn’t already know going to Im cut this thing short and try to provide a little sporting perspective that came to me recently by way of Srabotution. of evolution, then First came Darwin's theory Devo's Devolution and now Szabolution One of Szabolution’s many simple, revealing in tricacies is that sport, essentially, is a game that is played It came to me when the creator of Szabolution, Dan Szabo, was doing a live remote radio broadcast from the ice arena in Rossland during the Rossland Winter Car nival a coupleof weeks ago. Twas in the car listening to the radio when Szabo did his live report on a hockey game between Shoppers Drug Mart and “the little Lemieuxs inthe red uniforms He went on to say the kids were all very talented and were enjoying the fact that they were “playing”? in the game It’s a blatantly simple truth that should not be overlooked. It’s a game. And it’s not worth a plug nickel the minute you take the fun out of it, Remember that the next Hime you're at @ game, any game, gore red-taced over a lousy call or a missed goal Ask yourself if you're having fun. If you're not you missed the essence of sport Adios Castlegar, it's beena loaf A couple of quick notes to pass on My heartfelt condolences to Al Riddell who turned Also. local radio news broadcaster Jim Compton who is off to Prince Rupert ina couple of weeks to take over for Rick Donkers. thirty-something | today congratulations to seeth thes ft INTEREST WANES Wankel versity of who teaches at the Alberta's ation and leisure Uni department of reere studies, feels dismayed by today’s prevailing at titudes to games by children More emphasis on simply playing for fun is and more, experts say, the diminishing when children apply themselves to a specific sports.skill, For a vareity of reasons with kids practice playing lack of sons they don't know time. shortened se today’s child is more likely to be en joving the smaller picture of personal than the game offers. performance that the bigger picture You do notice a difference says Joy Harrison of the Fair The fun of just playing is not these days Ottawa-based Play nearly Commission— for as evident In an array of youth-aged league across Canada hockey and baseball to football and soccer from parti cipation is declining Particularly a finding in a recent study, of children aged ugh 15. by Wankel for the Ottawa-based Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Institute Com. girls aren't as optimistic troubling is eight thr Research pared with boys who lose a about their They tend to be fatalistic about the outcome of a game. And without the provoke a good effort game futureychances of winning optimism to this attitude TORONTO (CP) The the Canadian men's A agents of lashed out at Wurtele borski for head and former skier St their commer Colo.. this week Wurtete, angered showing of the skiers at the h Dbenships in Vail, said seen racers before have pr justing to the fact they and a lot of But priorities sudden have an agent business opportunities they've got to get their straight in their head Podborski; the former World Cup champion, suggested the racers have become too comfortable and lost sight of the goal of winning should be _n¢ Podborski said Vail parents and here. We There comprom iscs. citing the dis tractions in caused by girl Just had friends look that Podborski said CorpSport of T Albrecht is the co-ordinator of the men's Alpine team. He Michael Barnett's firm following the Calgary Olympics agents around never has a short memory agent Kevin Albrecht yronto, former program joined and now represents skiers Rob Boyd Brian Stemmle and Mike Carney RECALLS BMW Steve and the worked Canucks to where paint a Crazy very hard to get they are. but he likes to picture of himself and the rest of the zy Canucks riding around, Europe a beat-up Volkswagen van for all Albrecht. “My 1983-84 around those years."" said mpression of Steve from the season was of him running Europe in a BMW Glen Calkins of Toronto-based handles Felix Belczyk the direct object of Wurtele’s sweep Communique ing remarks entirely un them to the Calkins told His comments were to make Felix professional media and not the Toronto Star Both monton Barnett. speaking from Ed and Albrecht said the major demanded one during the have not hour of the skiers World Cup season Barnett get “into a sponsors time who said he didn't want to war of words.” theless suggested Wurtele and Pod borski are putting the blame in the Barnett handles who won a silver medal none wrong place also Karen Percy in Vail Steve Podborski did a lot for Canada Barnett that he chose to make about parents and the agents is a shame Percy's parents were in Vail — I skiing in The fact said those comments was in Vail — and it didn't seem to Today's than (the they make kids simply affect her performance different Canucks). Sure. But these to be the best.” racers are no Crazy more money