Sea ceeeeetie cen mr SPORTS Moms to the rescue $ By STEVE PEDEN Staff Writer It takes the involvement of a lot of parents to make sure Minor Hockey Week's Fri Te runs tics Canada said No. 1 sport in terms of participation, with hockey second. fees and the price of smoothly. However, money is probably the biggest’ factor in determing how things will run and that's the fun- ction of the Castlegar and District Minor Hockey Association said Doug Coulson, the~ association's president. Rita Perrier is president of the parents group, the function of which is to raise money for the association. “She’s a real hard worker," Coulson said. “If we had a half dozen people like her we'd be doing great.”” Perrier’s involvement started when Mark, her oldest son, started in minor hockey five years ago. “When Mark got involved in minor hockey I became a hockey mom,"’ Perrier said, ‘‘From there | moved into the position of secretary and it was just a natural move for me to become president. | felt com- fortable in becoming the president and I had a few ideas that | wanted to try.”” Perrier and her group's ideas are the reason hockey registration fees 3 remained the same as last year and jkept the number 6f youngsters in- : volved constant, Coulson said. hockey equipment were becoming too costly for parents and that’s why the parents group came up with ideas such as the sports swap. “The sport swap was just one of the ideas we got going,"’ Perrier said. “What parents can do is, at the beginning of the season, they can come down with their old equipment and get equipment which will better fit their growing child. This also helps parents who are getting children involved for the first time by reducing the financial burden of equipment.”” As president for the first time last year, she said she wanted,to do as much fundraising as possible using various ideas. One of this year’s goals was to go over last year’s ideas and find out which ones seemed to get the most response, Perrier said. “*What we did last year was to do a lot more different fundraising ideas,"" she said. ‘“‘This year we looked at the most productive ones and decided to go with them.” One of the ideas was the dance held in conjunction with the Frien- dship tournament. 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She said family involvement is the key to keeping minor hockey strongly rooted at the community level. “It's definitely something that the whole entire family should be in- volved with,”’ she added, And because of her involvement, Perrier now enjoys hockey more completely. Coulson said if it weren’t for people like Perrier, minor hockey would be in a lot of trouble. woot bodtien By STEVE PEDEN Trevor Seville finished third and Castlegar’s Rick Young fourth in the weightlifting competition at the Western Canada Winter Games last weekend in Whitehorse, Yukon. Both junior 19-year-old weight lifters, competing in the 75- kilogram division, finished higher in the standings than expected going into the meet. Each lifter hoped to set a new personal record in the field of 15, which included both junior and senior lifters. “I'm very happy with what I accomplished,’’ said Young, who tied his lift total and ent set in the Canada junior national meet last year. In the clean and jerk, Young lifted 105 kilograms and Seville hoisted 120 kilograms, while in Weightlifters finish strong the snatch portion Young lifted 85 kilograms and Seville lifted 90 kilograms. Seville said if he'd been able to lift 10 kilograms more in the =clean and jerk, second place would've been his. But what really hurt Seville was the snatch competition. He said he should have been more relaxed because each lifter is given three lifts in each segment and Seville had only one clean lift in the snatch. “I’m pretty pleased overall, but I’m not pleased with my lif- ts,” he said. ‘‘W’here I placed I'm pleased. But at the beginning when I was doing the snatch I was a little too hyper and I was throwing the weight over my head and putting myself off The next meet for both lifters is the Canada Winter Games held late February in Prince Edward Island. By CasNews Staff Proving once again they're the team to beat in the West Kootenay, the Stanley Humphries y school senior girls Saturday, January 26, 1991 Castlegar Community Complex 9 a.m.-12 noon * PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED TO TOP FUND RAISERS Pledge Sheets are Available from * Pharmasave * Jenny's Cafe © Carl's Drugs FOR ADDITIONAL INFO Phone 365-3226 Funds roised are split 50/50 with the Castlegor Kiwanis Club and Participating groups. All funds roised by the Kiwanis Club ore used for local community projects National Ski Week is from January 19 to 27th. This is the time for all skiers to come out and enjoy the great conditions ond sunny skies at the ski area. CKQR will be sponsoting night skiing at the mountain Wednesday. January 23 trom 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. Dinner is $7.60, ski ticket $7.60, rentals $7.60, lesson $7.60. out and join the tun. Season passholders are invited to come Red Mountain will be hosting a media challenge in conjunction with the Rossland Winter Carnival this weekend January 25, 26 & 27. Come out and see TY. Don't let winter. poss you excitement of the mount: Personalities you've gotten to know from . U.S. media competing skiing, bobsledding lie Humphries, Susen ore ROSSLAND SNOW PH 362-5500 GENERAL INF basketball team went 3-0 to win the J.L. Crowe Cagebowl title last weekend. Meanwhile, the senior boys team didn’t fare as well going 1-2 in the Cagebowl tournament in Trail. Jack Closkey, coach of the senior girls, said the Rockettes played up and down throughout the tournament. Fernie was the first team to fall to Stanley Humphries losing 68- 56. Kristy Lees with 17 points and Carilyn Briscoe with 18 led the Rockettes to the win. The Rockettes thumped Grand Forks 67-28 in the second game SHSS seniors Cagebowl winners led by Briscoe’s 21 points. Sherry Makortoff helped out with 12. In the final, the Rockettes beat their hosts, J.L.- Crowe, 42-22. Briscoe and Lees again led the Rockettes’ scoring 18 and eight points respectively. ’ Lees was voted the tournament MVP and teammate Laurel Closkey was nominated to the all-star team. While things went well for the girls, the SHSS senior boys got off to a bad start losing to Fernie 67-54, then rebounded to beat Grand Forks 49-32 but dropped the last game against J.L. Crowe 58-41. Dan Kooznetsoff led the scoring for SHSS with 16 points against Grand Forks and 10 against J.L. Crowe. Ryan Vatkin , scored 11 against Fernie. to strike off; ly, but the Castl Sr. Novice squad The name of the game is fun, fun By CasNews Staff “*Yeah, let’s kick their butts,” came a cry from the locker room of the Castlegar Sr. Novice squad prior to its game Saturday against Spokane at the Community Complex. “Hey, look at the size of that kid. He’s really big,’’ said another Castlegar playing entering the ice surface. “*That’s a girl,”” the coach said. “*Wow, she’s pretty big. same nine-year-old player. Yes, it’s Minor Hockey Week and Castlegar saluted the week-long event with its annual Friendship Tour- nament with teams from Spokane visiting the city. Over 200 players from the Castlegar and District Minor Hockey Association took part in the event which- is now in its second decade, said association president Doug Coulson. and Trail were asked to participate becasue there are so many Pee Wee teams sent up by Spokane. In all, 13 teams made the trip nor- th across the border and once again the tournament was a success. “It’s great to sit back and watch the kids have so much fun,”’ said Rita Perrier, who heads the association's parents group. This year’s Minor Hockey Week theme was ‘Learning the Skills and Having Dun.” Eight-year-old Lisa Miller of Spokane was in town watching her brether play, but she said she was having just as much fun here as her brother even though she wasn’t playing in the tourney. Eight-year-olds Brad Whiddington and Chris Wenger said they enjoyed playing Spokane, but they also used the time to do ‘some hockey-card with their and “We are the only to do something like this,’” Coulson said. “‘If some of the other areas had the opportunity to do this around the West Kootenay, I’m sure they’d jump at the chance.”” Pee Wee teatns from Beaver Valley wWhidei the players from the U.S. “I have a couple of thousand car- ds at home,’’ Whiddington said, holding about 100 in his hand “Yeah, this is a good time to trade cards and play some hockey.” Chris Wenger exchange Brad ind becky Corda tatordey 1 os Cotmenehs Complex. 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