The Castlegar Sun ’ ; Wednesday, April 20, 1994

Selkirk College end athletics year with awards banquet The Castlegar Sun WEDNESDAY, April 20, 1994

‘The best of the best in Selkirk for Excellence award. Kari

College
this past week in a Ceremony at the

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with members

leaves the.

College.
‘The top recognition this year
went to Greg Roberts and Christine
Mclvor as male and female ethietes
. Of the year, 2
Collecting the Jith) Snook
Memorial Award this yoar was
Carolyn Chernoff, while Candace

the British Columbia Athletics
Association were Lee Malenik tind
Chris Lapierre. *
For.the cross-country team, it
was a chance for Coath Derek
Peregrym to acknowledge those
who rose to the forefront in compe-
tition and team spirit, Mike
icQueen received the Most Out-

In Women's Volleyball Marji
Fisher set her goals high for the
the regular season

on her skills and her
mad
team, she wi

Janet Maloff was named
Valuable

The Men's Volleyball team
was among the loudest group at
the awards ‘banquet, which is a
carry-over from their attitudes on
the court this season, This season
was one filled with ups and
downs for the men's team and for
Lee Malenik, the Most Valuable

Pidyer title topped off his year.

‘Arlen Wocknitz was a team lead-
er both off and on the court and
was rewarded with the Striving
For Excellence honors, Dan
Kooznetsoff is the Rookie of the
Year, while for Ryan Steck this
season was filled with growth and
along with it came the Most
Improved Player title,

In addition to the players on the
varsity teams, each of the coaches
and those who provided help
through the year were also brought
to the forefront.

On the social end of the Selkirk
College Athletics program the
campus recreation winners were
given their rewards for the partici-
pation

A stampede
on wheels.

With 220 horses
the 1994 Dodge Dakota Club Cab V8 4x4

competition in its dust.

Sheila Vaananen, a

Selkirk Physical Eductig

tion instructor presents
the Female Athlete of the
Year award to Christine
Mclvor ‘during the cere-
mony held on Friday.

BUN SPORTS PHOTO / John Ven Putten

\
Top players
from East
and West set
to jump off.

In one last high school basket-
ball fling, the top players from the
East and West Kootenay schools
will come together at Stanley

- Humphries this weekend for the
annual East-West All-star game.

There will be two games Satur-
day,-one featuring the top female
players at 6 p.m. arid the next

match-up will highlight the top _

male players from the past season
set to jump off at 8 p.m.

To field two girls teams, event
organizer Jack Closkey said they
would be combining all the play-
ers from both the East and West
together, then making two evenly
matched teams.

“The East team was weak, with
only ten players nominated,”
Closkey said. To solve the East's
low number of players Closkey
said combining all the players
together was the easiest solution.

From Castlegar’s Stanley
Humphries Secondary school:
Melanie Streliev, Jennifer Fayant,
Lisa Datchkoff and Treena Gooli-
eff will-all be making an appear~
ance on the court. In addition to

athletics were recognized Kuznecov spent her year working >

A labor of lov

lhe Doukhebor history is
abundantly rich in tradi-
tion. All one has to do is
look at the exquisitely hand-
embroidere@ silk shawls “platok”
which are worn on special occa-
sions; or at the satin-smooth fin-
ish of a hand-crafted soup ladle to
know that the Doukhobor pres-
encé has greatly enriched Canadi-
an culture.
Their traditions are woven into a
fabric of sturdy and colorful threads
which, when joined together, form
the tapestry which is the Doukho-
bor’s unique heritage.
’ These traditions survive from
generation to generation with the
aoe of knowledge and skills

rom forefathers who have. the
insight and the patience to pass it
on. Nick Denisolf, of Glade, is one
of those forefathers.

“My idea is to pass it on, that’s
very important. I just wanted to
encourage the kids to take over. We
carried it so far, so it would be nice
if someone carried it on.”

With the financial assistance of
the Kootenay Men’s Group and the
Union of Spiritual Gommunities in
Christ (U.S.C.C.), ion of Youth,
Nick has"been holding workshops
to teach others to carve ladles, a
handicraft which he said is specific
to the Doukhobor’s of Castlegar

. Since 1899.

“This is a Russian-Doukhobor
craft. The craft itself identifies the
Doukhobor people. I feel Castlegar
is at the heart of the traditional

hand-caryed ladles.in ‘the
world.”

Nick said ladles and spoons made
in Castlegar can be found all around
the world. When Queen Elizabeth
and Prince Phillip visited Canada in
the early 1980s they were presented
with a plaque holding two ladles
and a spoon carved by Nick. As
well, both Dave Barrett and Bill
Bennett were presented with ladles
at the opening of their ‘parliaments,
and wooden spoons were on dis-
play at E: in Spokane. There are
even handcrafted wooden spoons
and ladles on display in the Nation-
al Museum in Ottawa.

Thanks to people like Nick
Denisoff, the next generation has a
tradition which they in turn can
pass on to those who follow.

Nick. Denisoff instructs members of the younger generation on the techniques used to form and finish traditional Doukhobor ladles. -

Listening intently to his instructions are Jessie Denisoff and Jarred Ozeroff.

Above: Jarred Ozeroff carefully cuts the shape of the handle from birch
wood. Right: While would-be carvers watch, Nick shows the proper
technique for rough sanding of a ladle. Discarded pieces from which the
ladies were cut lay in a pile waiting for clean up.

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For the Boys West All-star
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Moffat; Mark Perrier, and Simon
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Above: Nick shows Lisa Fomenotf areas on the ladie which are in need of further
sanding while grandson Ryan Denisoff looks on. Left: Ryan Denisoff, carries on
ladle carving traditions passed on to him by his grandfather ‘

. Photography: John Van Putter
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