CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 30, 1978 By JIM KEARNEY (The author writes for the ; Vancouver Sun.) The Canadian hockey play- er may not yet be an en- dangered species, but in a country and province (B.C.) whose populations stand at a - record high, his numbers ere ‘dwindling, . Nationally, the attrition «rate in kids’ hockey is running jat three to four per cent a year, twith the Canadian Amateur ‘Hockey Association. This was {down 30,000 from the season ‘before, When all the figures are in for the current season, a further drop of about the same size is expected, 3 Tn this province during the ssame period, the B.C, Amateur iHockey Association reports a {drop of 2,225 registrations, ‘down from 47,738 to 46,513, and * {down more than 4,500 from the (60,179 boys and youths regis: ttered in 1974-75. This is an ‘attrition rate of about five per ‘cent a year. Is the old national winter ‘pastime losing popularity with the kids? Not really, claim hockéy authorities, such as BCAHA president Bob Mullock of North Vancouver and the association's secretary-manag- ér, Don Freer of Victoria. Check the figures on declining &chool populations, they say. They are running a roughly parallel course. 2 That's true, But now for the anomaly. Against this rec- grd of declining school popula- tions, minor soccer registra- tions in B.C. are increasing annually and have zoomed to a fecord high. % In the 1970-71 season, there were 24,000 youngsters registered with the B.C. Youth joccer Association. Despite the declining school populations, the number of kids playing the game has been increasing at the rate of about 2,000 a year. < There were 32,798 regis- tered for the 1976-77 season and, provincial secretary Les Wilson of Vancouver estimates, this number will increase by more than 3,000 when figures for the current season are com- jiled. ! “The biggest increase,” he aids, “is at the seven to 11 age group, where the youngsters are starting out. Provincially, we're running 20 per cent ahead of last season, The increase has been most spec- taeular on the North Shore. We're up 33 per cent there.” "<> There's a rt irony You Con’t Blame It on the Birth Control Pit Is Soccer Displacing Hockey for Our Kids? $174 TOTAL SKYROCKETING COST of hockey equip- ment relative to soccer Is [illustrated here. Hockey parents usually foot all costs except “we had to turn kids away—as many as 100 a year—and try to find other places for them to If the birth control pill were the sole reason for hockey’s declining youth popu- lation, then the same would apply to soccer. So there must be other reasons why one is going down and the other up. There are, Three of them. ° © Costs. © Immigration patterns, Chinese and East Indian kids don't come to Canada carrying skates. e The growing glamor of - soccer because of the White- caps, the big names coming into the North American League and Canada’s renewed involve- ment in World Cup competi- tion, Ata time when inflation is ipping federall trol: in that last figure, for BCAHA president Mullock says this season will be the first he can remember that the North Van Réercation Centre Association wan't fill its seven to eight- year-old quota of hockey play- ing tads. = “Always before,” he says, led wage increases, and a devalued Canadian dollar has lost 10 per cent of its former ment costs are for lads at the 10-year-old level. If anything, the hockey cost is on the low side, for that single $7 stick probably won't last the season. The boy likely will go through two or three of them. By the time he’s 14 and physically stronger, he may be breaking them at the rate of six a season, He'll want to be wearing $100 skates and more expensive gloves and pads, Parents very easily can have more than $250 tied up ina lad. If they have two or three boys, . they're in’ the market for a credit union loan, As far as the boy or parents are personally concern- ed, subtract the $7. for the sweater and the $5 for the socks, They are usually pro- vided by the team. The same goes for the soccer boy's shirt, shorts and socks. His or his folks’ only equipment expense are the shoes. The $25 is top of the line. Wilson says $20 is a power, wag ing families are finding it more difficult to put their boys into hockey and maintain them here. The comparative equip- Attention Golfers! and more ive price. Registration with his local assocation costs the soccer boy anywhere from $15 to $24 a season. Minor hockey’s regis- tration fees run the gamut from All perst inaci Golf Club membership Bhould | plan to attend a General Meeting Tuesday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Clubhouse on the course. Featured at the meeting will be: © a presentation of the 1977 audited financial statement All persons wishing to join the club are welcome and are invited to take advantage of the Early-Bird discounts. The dues Classification Family 14 Family 2 Family 3 Family 4 Man Lady Student duntor Senior Family Senlor Man Senior Lady Associate Family Associate Man Assoclate Lady April 15, 1978 Early Bird Regular BEREEE BRSER 135 120 of the 1978 p Is as follows: Time Payment Plan April 15 May15 = June 15 100 100 SSSSSsssSSas NOTE: Family 1 — Man, wife and any number of juniors. Family 2 — Man and wife. Family 3 — One parent and any number of juniors. Family 4 — One parent and one junior. The first ‘‘Men’s Night" will be held Wednesday, Apri! 5 at 7:30 p.m. In the Clubhouse. The programme should prove to be a fun evening. sweater and socks, while soccer parents need only pay for boots. $5 to $90, the varying costs of ice rental the main reason for the’ variance. Most registra- tions seem to run between $25 and $45. The vast majority of rinks are community-owned and sub- sidize the. two hours a week (one hour for practice, one hour for a game} the average kids’ team use: ‘Obviously some communi- ties are willing to subsidize more than others, although the general trend now, says Mul- lock, is for the arenas to pass on more’ of the costs. Rising ice costs irk hockey people just a little, inasmuch as the parks boards that operate the arenas also have costs in - maintaining the pitches on which the kids play soccer. But soccer grounds remain rent free. Some associations have moved to eut costs by organi- zing annual.swap and shop sessions, where parents can bring in equipment their kids have outgrown and trade it in _on similar second hand stuff that’s a size or two larger. It's much along the lines of what the skiers do each year. Freer says it is not yet widespread and admits that the BCAHA has been remiss in not promoting the idea and making it much, bigger. Cost-besieged applies in surrounding com: munities. In Burnaby, for instance, 20 to 22 per cent of the school population come. from homes where English is not, the primary language. And where soccer comes more naturally to the youngsters than hockey. . Finally, don't underesti- mate the impact of professional soccer, which has created new heroes—Pele, Beckenbauer and company—for the kids to emu- late. So, suggests Wilson, a Canadian who played first division soccer in the UK, came back home to play for the ‘Whitecaps and now is up to his © | ears in youth soccer. ‘He has'a point, Pro soccer is fast becoming the ‘in’ sport in North America, improving its gly look in this ieee for relief. Swap and shop will grow. That's about their only hope in a retail sporting goods world where hockey equipment costs generally have risen 25 per cent in the last five years; where the cost of sticks has doubled. Federal sources say immi- gration to Canada has slowed down immensely. This may be’ so, but the Vancouver School Board, for one, hasn't really noticed it. Elementary school enrolment in the city at Sept. 80 this year was 84,211. Of this number, more than 14,000— 89.6 per cent of the school population—are kids for whom English is a second language. A further breakdown shows 5,665 Chinese and 1,876 East Indian students. That's more than 53 per cent of the total and hockey (except for field hockey in the case of the East Indians) is getting none of them, Soccer, says Wilson, is attracting many of them. Also most of the next largest group, the 1,765 kids—another 12 per cent of the immigrant group— _who speak Italian in their homes. At the secondary school level, the over-all figure is 27.8 per cént, again with Chinese, East Indian and Italian youths dominating. And playing soc- cer, rather than hockey. While the percentages of the total school populations are more modest, the same situation Slides Close Highways In West Kootenay Area A combination of warm weather and rain is said to be the cause of a number of mud slides on highways throughout West Kootenay over the week- end, And although highways previously closed are open again, the weather man warns more slides will likely follow. Highway 3A between Nel- son and Castlegar was closed for about 12 hours last Thurs- day evening after mud and rocks broke away from the mountainside at Brilliant, Dept. of Highway crews worked through the night to clean up the mess. * Highway 6 between New Denver and Slocan was closed Sunday night at 7:15 and did not re-open again until 6 a.m. Monday. It was reported Mon- day afternoon traffic on High- way 6 was down to one lane. There were also two small- er slides; one north of Nakusp on the Revelstoke Hwy. and another in the Rossland-Red Mountain area. Both roads however are open again. An official at the Dept. of Highways said at this time of year when the slides to occur in the spring and that they will likely continue for about a month. g -y year by signing up more and more foreign stare. Ten years: ago, 300,000 Ameri- can kids played the game. This year the figure is up to 1.6 million. At once it is both the oldest and the newest game in town; the newest in that it has a glamor it never before enjoyed, To the kids it's all fresh and new,... and attractive. In 1970, when Vancouver got into the NHL, ‘the same could be said of hockey. While the game had been played here for 60 years, acceptance by the NHL gave it anew glamor, new heroes for kids to emulate. Registrations zoomed. As quickly as they opened, new rinks were filled with kids, playing and practising hockey. Original Canucks of NHL vin- tage, now long forgotten, were worshipped as perhaps much, better players on today's team never will be. It was the new fad, Seven years later it has cooled off a little and soccer has heated up, But even taking this into account, plus the impact of an immigration wave whose chil- dren don’t identify with the game, plus the pill and the declining birth rate, the ever- rising cost of equipping and maintaining kids in hockey figures to be the biggest reason _ for those declining figures. “No doubt thousands of oldtimers, who stuffed maga- zines inside their socks for shin pads, used frozen horse turds for pucks and swept thé snow” off‘the nearest frozen pond to fashion a cost-free rink, will boggle at the thought. But that's how the puck is bouncing as we move into this new era of what our prime’ minister is pleased to call “lowered ex- pectations.” Itseems to run more to $20 ~ soccer shoes than $100 skates. Private Family Service For T. (Mike) Hamilton Private family service was held Tuesday for Thomas Mar- shall (Mike) Hamilton, 63, of Castlegar who died very sud- denly Good Friday. Born Nov. 28, 1914, in Bellevue, Alta, he, attended school in Blairmore and became a miner by trade. He worked in mines at Drumheller and was with the Lord Strathcoma Horse at Calgary, Listowil in, Ontario, Thompson in Mani- -toba, the Kennicot Copper Mines In southern United States and five years at Grand Deer in Stewart, B.C. iO Registrations for Castlegar Minor Soccer [ Saturday. April 1 | Community Recreation Complex. Ages 6 to 12 Years In the latter few years’ he worked with ‘the Mica Dam project and the Kootenay Ca- nal. He has resided in the Kootenay since 1975, Mr. Hamilton is survived by his wife, Dorothy of Castle- gar; one daughter, Gaylo; one son Patrick; his mother, ‘Mra, Olive Hamilton and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Russell, both of Drumheller, Rev. H. N. Harvey of Castlegar Presbyterian Church offictated at the service. Crema- tion followed. will be held pO a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday, April 8 10a.m. to2p.m. at the willbe accepted at th tlon Complex office. Registrations between April 3 and April 7 © Coaches and Asst. Coaches Are Required ia Community Recrea- TO THE motivated and desire siderable responsibility. This position is union fidentlality, Please direc ‘by April? to the: Pereennel whe oe SELKIRK (\/j COLLEGE CASTLEGAR CAMPUS Invites applications for the position of SECRETARY This is a senior secretarial position involving responsibility for the functions of the Bursars office. The applicant should possess excellant secratarial skills and some knowledge of ac- ‘counting procedures with several years ex- perlence in a senior secretarial position, be self femuneration and fringe applications will be treated with ‘strict. con- @ position. with con exempt with excellent benefit program. All tall written applications & PACIFIC AIRLINES Normal reservation service will apply. Phone: TRAIL bt Schedule change, effective April 3, 1978, Is due to the closure of Castlegar Alrport for runway resurfacing. This schedule will remain In effect for approximately two-and-one-half months. CASTLEGAR 365-7044 364-1228 352-2913 ‘with Twn, Otter aircraft, connecting to Pacific Western porary Airlines’ jets at C: will be Penticton and ’ PACIFIC WESTERN AIRLINES Effective April3,1978 450 Flight Number 451 warms up, the top layer of ground soil softens. If it rains, he said it causes it to slide, mostly in the form of mud and rocks, Weather officials at Castle- gar said it is not unusual for Nunchaku Sticks Taken From Youth Castlegar RCMP have re- leased a 16-year-old Kimberley boy who had been picked up while carrying dangerous and illegal weapons. The youth was carrying a hatchet and nunchaku sticks when police picked him up on the evening of March 20. Nunchaku sticks are two pieces of wood connected by a length of chain and used in martial arts. Police say a report will be made through juvenile court authorities to determine if charges will be laid. . | Oly. Ex, Sa. Diy. Ex, 8u. 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Kelowna Lv. brook Ly. * 0845 1028 1635 030 0640 © 1460... 1708 Read Down lead Up To 374 “Tore T0370 Fm 314 Fm 300 Fm 373 _ Cominco’s $ Cominco's five-man Recl- mation Research staff has won : the 1978 Reclamation Award, sponsored jointly by the British Columbia Ministry of Mines and, Petroleum Resources and the Mining Association of 5 Cc. ‘The com assistant reclamation agrono- mist Erie Stathers and recla- mation technicians Dave Rus- nell, Gordon Wright and Bob Frew, The presentation took place at the Mine Reclamation ny’ specialists were cited rs their “outatanding contribution © to mine reclamation research in British Columbia.” “Cominco has been promi- nent in information exchange, dod has’ made ‘its research in Vernon earlier this ‘month, “Twelve companies, groups | and individuals were nominated for the 1978 award. Kaiser *Resources Ltd, and Elko Min. ing Ltd. received citations and Canex Placer Ltd. received le mention. The award the B.C, mining ee the cita- tion continued. ©, : Nigel Doyle, manager of environmental control for Co- iminco, said the award “is an honor for Cominco and well- fleserved recognition for the butstanding people in our recla- ination group.” : Mines Minister James Che. pot presented the award and Bob Gardiner, the company’s thief reclamation agronomist, accepted it on behalf of himself, was first presented last year by the ministry and the MABC. Gardiner and his staff re- search, ‘co-ordinate and carry out revegetation and rehabili- tation programs for. Cominco mining operations. throughout Canada. He said they currently have ‘active Projecta_ at’ nine locations in B.C, and the North: west Territories. Doyle said the company plans to put the 46-pound jade trophy on public aieplay later this month, atax (T4U) in the mail. If the slip arriv hasn't If you didnt get a T4U from us, go to your local post office. Pick up a postal reply card to a oappy for for dupli cates. F mail it. % itin and ull get your duplicate T4U.i timeto “ifyou, aida get a T4U but Spleen for any reason, also‘use the postal reply card. Mark “replace- ment” on the card in the upper right hand corner. If the slip has arrived but mation... uu need more infor- If you did get a T4U and still need an itemized state- ment, fill in the same card. You must write the total ° Ul benefits you got in 1977 somewhere on the card. This is important. It will help us get your statement to you in time. You'll find the total benefits figure in Box “B” of your TAU slip. itand iv Empioymentand Bud Cullen, Minister Bud Cullen, binietre cd a RECLAMATION AWARD is minco. Shown here In thelr ‘‘natural winter habitat,’’ Cominco’s reclamation ind the 45-pound Jade trophy by the B.C. Ministry of awarded Jointly Reclomation Research Award pecialists Tops in 1978 at won by Co- © CanCel Shares Drop $.73 From Previous Year Canadian Cellulose Ltd, reports net earnings of $17.9 million or $1.41 a share for the year onded Dec. 8%, down from $28.1 million or $2.14 a share for 1976. Net sales dropped to $161 million from $179 in the same period. The net earnings for 1917 included extraordinary items etaling 388 cents a share from the proceeds of a fire insurance * ¢laim and other revenues. ' Reclamation Agronomist Bob Gardiner. Tho room they’re In is the growth chamber at the Trall Mines and the Mining Association of B.C. Left to rig, they are Reclamation Techni- clan Gordon Wright, Assistant Reclamation Agrenomist Eric Stathers, ‘Technicians Dave Rus: ind Bob Frew and Reclamation fluo operations. cent lig _provien artifielal CanCel Ignores Agreement Editor, Castlegar News: At the recent closed meet- ing between CanCel and city council it was decided that the 1960 agreement between the two parties stating CanCel's responsibility to’ provide Castlegar with an adequate water supply would be ignored, At the time of the-agree- ment CanCel, then Celgar, provided the city with a total of 000 to sink three wells replacing the previous water source of the Columbia River which was rendered unusable because of the upstream loca- tion of their pulp operations. The company also signed an agreement that “in the event it is not financially feasible for the village to obtain its normal water requirements from wells - 1 within the, village at any, time i; during the next 20. years ft from the date hereof (1960), Celgar | shall negotiate with the village for a the village with a water source comparable to satisfactory wells within the village: and Celgar further agrees that it will pay any additional costs to provide a satisfactory alterna- tive water source agreed upon as aforesaid.” CanCel's present e Are the people of Castle- " gar to forget the terms of the 1960 agreement because it will cause trouble, result in an unco- operative relationship between the two parties? The people of Castlegar have a right to the answers to these i and many. is that since the above-men- tioned agreement was conclud- ed between them and the “village”, not the “City” of Castlegar, it is no longer valid. Instead, CanCel now sug- gests that they and the city jointly seek funding for a new water supply from’ available government outlets. It is apparent by the terms of the.1960 agreement that the responsibility for any joint -funding lies solely between CanCel., and, the Severnmene. more. City council, our elected representatives, -have a res- ponsibility to state their posi- tion clearly and make them- selves open to the people on this issue. The most effective means of facilitating this exchange of opinions and information would be a public forum on this isque between city council ‘and the people of Castlegar. We strongly urge council . to take this step in opening up a much needed channel of. com- what is “ not the issue. There are many pertinent arrangement which will provice | Paperwork | | Costing | . Billions Smell are that arise from this situation; questions that’ not only should but must be an- swered: @ Why isn’t the city coun- cil “sticking to its guns” on its previous position regarding CanCel’s responsibility? © elf the agreement is taken to the courts for inter- being harassed by a flood of needless government — paper- work that is costing billions of dollars each year, says John Bulloch, president of the Cana- dian Federation of Independent Businesses. ° “They're harassing us to death with unnecessary regu- lations and” paperwork,” he said. "Governments can do a fair amount but in most cases, if you talk to the average small businessman, they would just . like to get them out of their hair.” Bulloch estimated that the average small businessman spends about $5,000 annually to "process government paper- work, “Big firms don't know it’s there because they’ve got hun- dreds of people down below who are looking‘after it; but in a small firm, it all collapses on one individual,” he said. “It could be costing the Canadian economy up to $2 billion a year in unnecessary paperwork and non- productive spending.” However, Bulloch conced- ed that the federal government - has -begun to cut -back on * paperwork directed at small business even though provin- cial governments continue the flow Announcing the‘arrival of our new Effective immediately we will have. extended hours, to serve you better. 1101 - MONDAY — SATURDAY, 8 A.M. TO 5 P.M. TIRE STORES a! = Tth Ave., South Castlegar 365-9433 P that tun out. the remaining two ‘years left in the term of the agreement? = ° e Nowhere in the closed meeting as reported by the Castlegar News, was the ques- tion of CanCel's moral respon- sibility to the people of Castle- gar raised by either the com- pany or city council. Are we to take this silence on the moral issue to be in fact their answer? e We quote Mr. Murphy, CanCel spokesman: ‘We shouldn't really let that agree- ment hold-up progress. The object was not to get mad at one another but to clarify points of view.” Mayor Moore's statement ‘on the agreement was that “(it) “would be left on one side temporarily.” In other words, are the terms of the 1960 agreement, ignored in 1978 .by CanCel, being equally ignored by City, Council? _Cameron/Cairns Take Bridge Pairs Trophy Ten-and-a-half tables took part in Monday night's play at "the Joy Keillor Bridge Club with the following results: North-South Firat, Bill Ahrens and Judy. Sheppard with 187; second, Bev MacDonald and Inez Walker with 185’; third, Joy Keillor and John Sokolowski with 182%; fourth, Bert Tyson and lan Glover’ with 182. East-West First, Lois Cairns and Etuka Cameron with 152; sec- ond, Alex Pereverzoff and Ted Vockeroth with 140%; third, John Davis and Dan Horan with.189%; fourth; Grace Don- aldson and Jean Fischer with 190, , Spring Pairs Trophy was won by Lois Cairns and Etuka Cameron, : Rob Melnick, R Newest Edition Of ‘Vista’ Now Available The newest edition’ of “Vista”, the Ministry of Educa- tion's annual listing of all post- secondary education and train- ing’ programs available in Brit- ish Columbia, -has been pub- Ushed and is now being dis- tributed to secondary. schools, public libraries, manpower counsellors and other interest- ed individuals and organiza- tions. “Vista '78" lists some 450 programs available at colleges, universities, provincial inst!- tutes'and the British Columbia . Institute of and CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 80, 1978 BACKHOE SERVICE For Slocan Valley Residents 352-5980 354-4033 or 359-7358 after 5 p.m. Woodcrest Holdings Lid. The folks at the City Conte Reston are greeting those sleepy yawns with a amile and their home-made treats. New Summer Hours are: Monday through Saturday Open 8 a.m. Sundays Open 4 p.m. Sy yor (OD) iN » schools of nursing. It also contains ‘information on finan- cial assistance, student hous- ing, admission standards and various other matters of con- cern to students, Colleges and institutes at which the programs are given, time required \for completion and prerequisites are listed as well, ‘ “Vista” is used widely by career counsellors in and out of the school system, and is used by the ministry to answer individual enquiries from all over the world. ; Only limited’ copies of “Vista” -are available from the ministry but any persons wish- ing to know what programs are available in the province, and where they are offered, should consult.school counsellors, local Canada Manpower offices, the registrar of any post-secondary institution, or the ministry itself. The book may also be read in any library. 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