as Castlegar News October 3,1990 BUSINESS we, Capital injection considere VANCOUVER (CP) The B.C, government will accelerate plans for $20 billion worth of capital projects if that’s what it would take to avoid a severe recession in the province, says Finance Minister Mel Couvelier “We have about $20 billion of capital projects on the shelf designed, engineered and ready to go," he said during a speech to the Canadian In surance Congress. “If we have to prime the pump, we're in a position to do that. We cer- tainly are going to do everything we possibly can to make sure that the early 1980s are not repeated in the early 1990s."" 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The tone for the terrible triple was set Friday night when the Rebels were handled. easily by the Grand Forks Border Bruins — a team the Rebels had beaten and tied in the preseason — ina 5-2 loss. Dwayne Dergousoff had both goals for Castlegar That loss was nothing compared to the nightmare that was the team’s home opener against the Beaver Valley Nite Hawks at the Community Complex. Starring in this Saturday night horror show was former Rebel and hometown boy Roger Carlson. Carlson, who played for the Rebels last year, scored with under four minutes left to cap a five-goal, third period Beaver Valley comeback in a 7- 6 win. The Rebels led 5-2 after two periods on goals by Dale Bonderud, Stathis Dimoupolis, Chad Alderson, Tyson French and Mike Korzenowski. Branded a troublemaker by Rebels coaching staff, Carlson was cut from the team in training camp this year. His goal was his only point of the game but it couldn't have been any sweeter, he said. **1 was trying to go out and have a good game, just to show him (coach Ed Cooper) that cutting me was a big mistake,"’ said Carlson. ‘1 was hoping I'd get a goal or something, and it kind of came at the right time.” Alderson got his second of the night in the third period while linemate David Green had three assists. Dwayne Boulaine scored twice and linemate Wayne Titas had a goal and two assists to lead the Nite Hawks. The--Kebels might have lost two games in one that night because, sapped of energy and humiliated, players had little time to lick wounds before Sunday's 2 p.m. game against Spokane. Shellacked 10-3 Friday night by the defending West Division champion Nelson Maple Leafs, Spokane took it out on the Rebels, scoring four first period goals and coasting to a 6-3 win. Bonderud, who led the Rebels in scoring last season, Green and Cory Ross scored for Castlegar. Cooper, who had every chance to blame the scheduler for making the Rebels the only team in the league to play three games in a row to open the season, said the schedule had nothing to do with it. “I don’t think it was anything like that. We made a lot of mistakes, young mistakes. Let’s hope, with time, it changes,"’ said a subdued Cooper at the team’s regular practice Tuesday night at the Complex. ‘I'ma ED COOPER . not very happy little upset.”” So far, Cooper is alternating goaltenders with veteran Rick Edwar- ds starting against the Border Bruins and Spokane while rookie Dean Scully got the start against the Nite Hawks. The Rebels host the Maple Leafs here Friday night then travel to Beaver Valley on Saturday. NOTES: The Rebels got another player from the team’s Portland Win- ter Hawks connection — a goaltender yet to be named, who arrived in Castlegar today. 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North of Nelson DONT BE . RESERVE EARLY 625-4466 8.C. COLLEGE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION mais SOCCER STANDINGS w T Venceuver Community 2 Fraser Valley Motaspina Selkirk Royal foods Western a 0 Cariboo scr The Saints, who didn't win a game all last season, waltzed into Victoria and beat B.C. Institute of Technology 1-0 Sunday and tied Royal Roads Military College 3-3 on its home turf Saturday. Kevin Hearnes was the Saints of- fence scoring all four goals in the two games. After going 0-8 last season, the Saints currently sit with a 1-1-1 record and in fourth place in the B.C Colleges Athletic Association. The top four teams make the playoffs. Coach Rob Johnson said if the other teams were taking Selkirk lightly because of past performances, well, surprise. The diffrence this year is simple, he said — talent “This is th strongest team since I’ve been here 1 terms of the number of skill players,"’. he said. ‘‘Our history hasn't been that strong, so teams don’t expect the skill level they are going to see from us this year."’ And the Saints-as-doormats at- titude held by ‘other teams is one Johnson, in his fourth year as coach of the team,’ plans to exploit by throwing as many surprise parties as possible this year “We can use that to our advantage, though I don’t know how much longer that will last now. | certainly don't think that'll be the last victory for_us this year,’’ he said Though Hearnes was the Saints’ man of the shour, Johnson wasn’t limiting his praise to one player, saying every member of the team did what was asked of him. The Saints are inviting Capilano to the next party Oct. 13 at Selkirk Game time is 11 a.m - watch she doesn't Balahura. The highly CosNews photo by Ed Mill LAND OF THE GIANTS Stanley Humphries secondary school's swim club team member Wende Gouk better neck strain trying to listen té the instructions of coach Mike successful school team was practising at the Aquatic Centre Tuesday morning getting set Yor another season, which will get un wey' this month. Fuhr hurts more than himself with drug use By CHRIS CARIOU The Canadian Press On Vic leMire’s dining-room table in Port Moody, B.C., sits a thank-you card from nine-year-old Marc Hall. Inside the card is a drawing of Marc’s idol, Edmonton Oilers goalie Grant Fuhr. It was Marc’s way of thanking LeMire for a goaltending school be conducted in Edmonton. A few weeks after Marc drew the card, Fuhr confessed to substance abuse. “It's very sad," says LeMire, 39, who runs Vic’s Hockey Schools. “Grant doesn’t realize the impact he has on kids, Why would anyone do something like that?”* For Bob and Nicole Hall, it had seemed too early to worry about discussing drug use with their soh, who plays hockey in Spruce Grove, the community west of Edmonton where Fuhr grew up. “Until this, we never even thought about drugs,”’ says Nicole. “‘Now, we have to.”” Fuhr admitted recently that he had been a substance abuser for seven years. Oiler general manager Glen Sather said the substance was cocaine. Bob Hall, who owns a welding shop in Spruce Grove, said he and Nicole sat down with Marc. “I asked him what he thought,"’ Bob says. “‘His first reaction was, “‘There’s no way I'd ever take drugs.” We tried to tell him that Grant Fuhr is like everyone else, that he’s human."’ “*I think it has very little significan ce at this point,"’ Bob adds. GRANT FUHR . -- somebody's hero Last chance for Toronto McGriff keeps it alive BALTIMORE (CP) — Tune in tonight for the next exciting episode of Another Life to Live, that topsy- turby, prime-time soap opera starring the Toronto Blue Jays. On Monday’s show, the Jays seemed near death. In Tuesday's episode, they returned to life, inspired by Fred MCGriff, one of their strong, silent leading men Meanwhile, the Boston Red Sox were confronting their troubled past FRED McGRIFF . clutch hit Tuesday's two-out ninth-inning home run by McGriff boosted Toronto to a 2-1 win over the stubborn Baltimore Orioles. About 90 minutes later, the Red Sox lost 3-2 in 11 innings to the Chicago White Sox. The Red Sox remain first in the American League East, by one game. Tonight is the final date on the regular-season schedule; if Toronto can win and Boston loses, the division will be decided in a one-game playoff Thursday after- noon at the SkyDome. ‘The last one is always toughest,”’ our chances.”” said Toronto pitcher Jimmy Key. ** I like Key, who didn’t pitch Tuesday, was one of two dozen Jays who lingered in the dressing room to watch Boston’s game on TV “It would be nice to go back to Toronto,”” “I know Boston doesn’t feel that way.”” the Red Sox had lost manager Cito Gaston said after One of the first players out of the room once the Boston game had been decided was Dave Stieb, who will start tonight Stieb has pitched a no-hitter this year and will be looking for his 19th vic- tory. But throughout his tumultuous career, Stieb has usually had trouble with the big ones. Last Friday he was ineffective in the opener of the three-game series in Boston Stieb beat the Orioles on Aug. 1, his last time out against them, but has won only one game at Memorial Stadium in his career Facing Stieb will be Ben McDonald (8-5, 2.48 ERA), the giant fastballer who has been called a young Nolan Ryan. The Orioles have said they would like to end Toronto's season to pay them back for last year, when Toronto edged Baltimore for the division title. “Nothing against Toronto, but they beat us last year and it would've been nice to beat them, to kind of clinch it for somebody else,”" said pitcher Dave Johnson (13-9), who gave up McGriff’s mile-high homer “*Perfect timing,”” was about all the reticent McGriff had to say about his blast. He didn’t stick around to watch the Boston game Toronto had taken the lead in the fifth on an RBI single by Pat Borders. Baltimore tied it in the eighth on Brady Anderson's shallow sacrifice fly to cen. tre field. Until the eighth, Baltimore managed just one single off Bud Black (13-11), starting his second game after being traded from Cleveland. All is not lost for Expos skipper MONTREAL (CP) - Before reporters could ask Montreal Expos manager Buck Rodgers for a reaction Tuesday night on tying Gene Mauch as the winningest manager in the club’s history, he couldn't resist an unsolicited comment “You didn’t think | was-going to" get to 499 this season, did you?"’ he asked, breaking into a wide grin A 2-1 National League victory over the St. Louis Cardinals enabled him to match in six years at the Montreal helm the number of victories Mauch achieved with the expansion-product Expos of 1969-75 But as the Expos nosedived recen: tly, losing eight straight games and nine of 10 at one point, Rodgers’ chances of joining, and perhaps sur Passing, Mauch in 1990 seemed slim Now, with the final game of the season to be played at Olympic Stadium today, Rodgers has a chance to end a year of shifting emotions on a high note. Kevin Gross, the Expos starting pitcher Tuesday night, who, unlike Rodgers, won't return next season, has already had his spirits uplifted. In pitching five innings and limiting the Cardinals to a single run, Gross, 9-12 won for the first time since June 11 He had made 10 starts and lost eight games in that stretch The Expos scored single runs in the first and second inning off St. Louis starter Omar Olivares, 1-1. Delino DeShields's double-play _ ball produced a run in the first and Andres Galarraga’s RBI double made it 2-0 in the second Gross was lifted in the sixth after St. Louis opened the inning with a pair of singles. Scott Ruskin relieved and allowed an RBI single by Milt Thompson.