CASTLEGAR NEW!

8, Thursday, February 27, 1975

der on the weekend when local pllot John
Jelly decided it was time to dig out bis Cessna 172, All year-round
flying is possible from the Castlegar Airport where many private
planes are tied down, The maintenance crew, bas kept the local

tlrport in excellent condition, but individual owners have to dig
out the immediate space around thelr aircraft. Ouce the plane is
pulled from the tie-down area, the snow 1s quickly remaved with
heavy equipment.—Castlegar Newa Photo

Bowling League Results by Castlegar and Disirict Players

Recollections by Gerald Wright

Try Hunting the Caribou

“How.” the city editor usk-
ed with a grin, “would you
like to go on a caribou-hunting
expedition?"

It was a hot August after-
noon, the kind of day a per-
son dreams’ of getting away
up north onto a lake some-

here.

“It would suit me just about
right."" 1 answered, before 1
had time to do much real
thinking at all,

at's how I came to joln
four doctors, a theology stu-
dent, a chemist and a carpen-
ter chasing wild .carlbou ‘on
foot over country so-rugged it
might have challenged a
mountain goat.

The editor handed me the
name and phone number of a
wellknown city doctor who
was organizing an expedition
for a society of volunteer con-
servationists.

The soclety had got its
hands’ on a government re-
port describing the threaten-
ed extinction of an obscure
species of caribou in northern
Ontario.

Mon. Night Mixed 7-9 p.m.
(Feb, 17)

LHS Nina Voykin 243.
LET Nina Voykin 657.

MHS John Marshall 263.
MHT Ken Hood 669.

THS Misfires 1050, THT
Mishaps 2770.

Team Points:

Mishaps 56, Sunshiners 48,

- Screwballs 44%, Lucky Fives

43, Misfires 41, Expos 31%.
Other 600's: Dave Calder
600, John Marshall 632, Ab
Dunn 612, Marvy Wood 683.
Tues. Ladies 1 p.m. (Feb. 11)
LHS Irene Hill 242, LHT
Trene Hill 651.
THS Macalister Ins. 928.
THT Macalister Ins. 2731.
Team Points: Macalister
Ins. 61, Independents 33, Boun-
dary Electric 47, Sentinals 38,
Lucky Five 32, Castlegar Drug

Tues. Night Mixed 7-9 pam.
(Feb. 18)
LHS Madeline Melntyre
240. LHT Kay Adshead 553.
MHS Ron Melntyre 249,
MHT Ron Mcintyre 642.
‘THS Ding Bats 1064. THT
+Serewballs 2873.
+ ‘Team Points: Alley Cats 1,
{Regulars 1, Misfits 4, Ding Bats
8, Columbia 8 0, Serewbails 3
+ 60's: Jim Rutland
71, Matt Rohn 640, Marvin
LeRoy 637, Jack Cheveldave

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682, Fred Podmoreff 626, John
Paulson 615.
Tues. Night Mixed 911 p.m.
(Feb. 18)

LHS Marge Bonnett 257.
LHT Marge Bonnett 705.

MHS Matt Rohn 298, MHT
Orlando Vecchio 731.

THS C.P.'s 1017. THT
C.P's 2966,

Team Points: C.P.'s 4,
Roadhogs 1, 7-11's 3, Night-
hawks 1, L.C.Bees 3, Checkers

Other 600's: Matt Rohn
699, Michael Vecchio 669, Wally
Roberts 655, Wes Kirkwood
605, Erma Mykyte 603,

Wed. Night Cut Rate

LHS Dorothy Tipping 244,
LHT Dorothy Tipping 686.

THS Budgies 947. THT
Budgies 2693.

Team Points: Budgies 4,
Swallows 0, Woodpeckers 3,
Eagles 1, Perrots 1, Caparies 3.
‘Thurs. Moraing Laat g

LHS Jean Sylvest 264.
LHT Jean Sylvest 619.

THS Chipmunks 1020.
THT Chipmunks 2790,

Team Points: Chipmunks
3, Beavers 4,:Teddy Bears 1,
Lions 1, Squirrels 0, Minks 3.

Other 60's: Dorothy Mar-
lini 603. Strike Out's Joyce
Donald (game 1)

‘Thurs. 10 p.m. Rowdy Rollers
(Feb, 13}

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LHS Joyce Turner 231.
LHT Marg Bonnett 622,

THS Wailers 981. THT
Wailers 2662,

Team Points: Hooters 43,
Screamers 42, Groaners 44,
Wailers'60, Criers 32, Moaners

30. s
Other 600's: Ev Peterman

‘Thurs. Night Mixed (Feb, 20)

LHS Pearl Mott 229, LHT
Helen Kinakin 95,

MHS Bill Osterman 330.
MHT Darcel Rourke 747.

THS Alley Cats 1149. THT
All Stars 3012,

Team Points: Avengers 4,
Stand Bys 3, Untouchables ‘1,
Hee Haws 3, Robson Rollers 3,
Rovers (5) 0, All Stars 3, Alley
Cats 1, Jive Fives 1, The

Robots 1, Early Risers 1, Head
Pins 3.

Other 600's: Bill Davies
733, Matt Rohn 718, Karl
Koreen 685, Bill Osterman 645,
Ted Austin 644, John Cristo-
fanette 631, Ed Adshead 617,

* George Stoochnoff 615.

Stanley Humphries (Feb. 24)
LHS Cathy Calden 207.
LHT Judy Bonthron 650,
MHS Allan Poster’ 02,
MHT Robin Dalziel 684,
THS Team 1 - 999, THT
Team 1 - 2748.
Team Points: Team  - 33,

m
feat 205, am 5-15, Team.
“Other 600's: Allan Poster

674, Bob Shaw 619, Frank
Costa 616,

Pro-life Leader Visiting
Castlegar Next Thursday

The executive director of
the Canadian Coalition for Life,
Marnie de Varent of Port Hope,
Ont., will speak locally on the
abortion issue.

A graduate of the Univer-
sity of Toronto and an Angli-
can, Mrs. de Varent, 28, is
scheduled to give a public
address at the Selkirk College
lecture theatre on the after-
noon of March 6 and at the ‘Trail

Junior High Schoo! library that ,

evening.
Coalition For Life, des-
cribed as “the political arm of

the prolife movement”, works

in conjunction with the Com-
mittee of One Million which wag
formed at the suggestion of
several pro-life members of
parliament.

Its aim is to present a one
million signatures petition to
parliament asking for greater
protection in the law for the
unborn children.

Al the time of the peti-
tion's presentation, Mrs, de
Varent will direct a lobby of
possibly all 265 MP's by the

coalition, Representatives from.

tidings across the nation will
travel tq Ottawa fo meet with
thelr members and diseuss the
issue.

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Sel
Marnie de Varent

Over 43,000 abortions
were performed in Canadian
hospitals in 1973, more than
four times the number per-
formed in 1970. In Toronto and
Vancouver, there is one abor-
tion performed for every live
birth, Studies show the major-
ity of these abortions were not
for health reasons but for
convenience.

‘These facts and others like
them have prompted a number
of area women to organize a
Right To Life society as a
means of educating people
about the facts of abortion and
offering help to those contem-
plating abortion. Information
about the society is available
from: Right To Life, Box 1124,
Rossland, B.C.

Right To Life isa branch of
Alliance For Life—the national
co-ordinating non-sectarian or-
ganization that believes all
human life has a right to care
and protection.

Alliance For Life is spon-
soring Mrs. de Varent’s four-
week’ cross-country speaking
tour,

‘The saw
this as thelr chance to justify
their existence by rescuing
this les of caribou from a
fale like that of the passenger
pigeon and the dodo. They or-
ganized an expedition.

The society members were
hardly a trained — wildlife
team. Besides those mention-
ed, the expedition was to In-
clude a janitor, a gunsmith,
a housewife, tas cook), two
velerinaries and several stu-
dents.

wanted a repot

rter
. there too for the sake a3 ade-

quate publicity, and to help
the others chase caribou.

‘On paper the plan
impressively sclentific. It
‘seemed an aerial survey had
shown a herd of about 25 or so
caribou on the Slate Islands,
10 miles ott ne north shore of
Lake Superi

tt should "be an Ideal place
to capture them. the conser-
vationists reasoned, » because
they wouldn't be able to get

away.

‘The assembly point for our
“invaslon™ of the islands was
to be a little place called Pays
Plat on the mainland about
2 les by | boat from the is-

= pn ‘the time the last a9 the”

expedition members « reached
Pays Plat. the first had al-
ready arrived and taken pos-
session of all the seats in the
waiting’ government float
plane. 3

‘There was some nasty mut
tering by the latecomers, and
for the first time a rift began
to appear in the ranks of the

“conservation society.

About the same amount of
planning had been done for
this expedition it seemed. as
‘one would do for a lodge pic;
nic. Not much more than date.
time and place.

Fortunately someone had

had the foresight to charter a
45-foot fishing tug to take the
test of us to the islands.

We had already come 700
miles by land and another 20
by’ sea, Now we were put
ashore just_as dusk was fall-
ing: in a cold rain on an unin-
habited island.

Most of us had to put up
tents in the dark and the rain
in a place where the thin layer
of teaf-mould soil that cover-
ed the rock, defied efforts to
drive in an ordinary tent peg.

Daylight the first. morning
reveated rocky precipices au

leep coulees covered by,
tantted confusion of fatien
trees and thick undergrowth,

Finding and catching even
‘one caribou in the 60 miles of
wilderness which comprised
the Slate group. with the
amount of organization we had,
was going to take an immense
amount of luck.

‘The biggest asset our litle
group had was its enthusiasm.
Tis biggest weakness was its
lack of a leader. Decisions
were made the democratic’
way with lite meetings every
morning.

The only tactle on which
the group agreed was to have

+ walking parties form a rough
h

line abreast across each is-
Jand ina sort of drive.

Each member of the driving
party was to shout, whistle
or bang on a tin can to drive
‘out the caribou and keep from
getting lost himself,

Two small motor.’ boats
were statloned in’ the water
around the target island. of
the day. In each boat was one
member of ‘the conservation
soclety at the motor and one
holding: a rifle with a tran:
quilizing anectine dart, When
we frightened the caribou into
the. water the boat crews
‘would shoot it.

In {heory the drug was sup-

to sort of paralyze the
animal until it could be tied-
up and transported to a corral
“which we had thoughtfully

television. It showed wildlife
officers In northern Manitoba
catching and tagging wild
caribou, Using a system of
aircraft, ground nets and men
with ropes, It took about 15
minutes :to capture, tag and
release each animal.

I guess a wildlife. officer
would get into a plte of trou-
ble If he trled to remove
someone's appendix. but  be-
Neve me, a doctor can get into
a pile of trouble when he tries
tocatch acarlbou.

bullt adjacent to our little «+

camp,

Two days of scrambling
over rocks and through bush
without seelng a caribou
knocked the keen edge off our
optimism. Then late on the
third day one of the boatmen
spotted two swimming. carl-

The marksman, struck one
of them with a: tranquilizing
dart, but the animal just
swam on as though nothing
had touched it. It was quite a
blow to morale.

The following day brought a
slight change of.luck. Two of
our leading conservationists,
a doctor and the gunsmith,
lassoed a half-grown caribou
white it was in the water.

‘The doctor didn't shoot it.
Instead he gave it a needle.

+ The first needle didn’t seem

to have any effect, so he gave
it another, and the animal
keeled over and died. The doc-
tor tried artificial respiration
for 20 minutes. No dice.

‘The disaster cast a pall of
gloom over the camp. Time
was running out and all we
had so far was a serles of fall-
ures to show for our toil.

Friday brought the final
tragedy. Atter a difficult
struggle on foot over the most
mountalnous island, our .driv-

5 “pe party frightened a 300-1b.

* caribow:"intovazsmall «
eating Tear a little cove with
abeach.

Another of our doctors shot
the animal with a tranquil-
lizer, dart. It ran for 100 yards,
then’ vomited and choked it-
self to death.

Whether or not the four doc-
tors, the theology student, the
Janitor and the veterinarian-
Jes might in time have learned
to caplure caribou will never
be known, for the fishing tug
arrived next morning to take
us back to the mainland.

The other night was watch-
ing a wildlife program. on

TN

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Funeral Service this Morning
For Albert Marks of Castlegar

Funeral service is being
held this morning at 11 from
the chapel of the Castlegar
Funeral Home for Albert
Marks, 67, of Castlegar, former-
ly of Breton, Alta, who died
Saturday at the Castlegar and
District Hospital,

Born Aug. 5, 1907, in
England, Mr. Marks came to
Canada and Alberta in the early
1920's. He farmed in the
Sunnybrook area then moved
to Breton, coming to Castlegar
in the early 1960's,

Mr. Mark tock up employ-
ment at the Castlegar ferry,
retlring in 1972,

He was predeceased by his
wife, Dalaey a and is survived by

two sons, Charles of Breton and
Fred of Camrose; two daugh-
ters, Mrs, Ray (Elaine) Plaquin
of Singapore and Mrs. Marie

* Robinson of Camrose; 14 grand-

children and two brothers,
Harry and George, both of
Barrie, Ont.

Rev. Ted Bristow is to
officlate at the service during
which the hymn “Nearer My
God to Thee" will be played,

Pallbearers will be Steve
Meintck, Gilbert Schuepfer,
Pete and Jake Letkeman, Bill
Easton and Jon Ralne.

Burial {s to take place at~
Park Memorial Cemetery in
Kinnaird,

Doukhobor Choir Well
Received at Legislature

“The singing of “The Lord's
Prayer" by the 90-volce SHSS
Doukhobor Student Choir
marked the opening of the

Bislature last. week.

Assembled in the lower
rotunda of the Parliament
Buildings, the choir presented
two further hymns, “My Spirit,
Longs to Sing, O Saviour” and
the hymn “In Honour of Peace
and Freedom", which featured
verses ia French, English and

Public address systems
carried the melodious singing
throughout the buildings and
the grounds of the legislature,
where a crowd of 500 people
were awaiting the arrival of
Lt-Gov. Walter Owen,

ior to their presentation,
the cholr members had met and
chatted informally with Pre-
mier Dave Barrett and his

ck
Denisoff of Glade, Mr. Denisoff
and his two daughters were
also introduced to the premier
and his mother.

Later in the afternoon, the
cholr sang at the official recep-
tion held in the Empress Hotel
where over 2,000 peopte were
in attendance. On behalf of the
students, ladles were also pre-
sented to Lt-Gov. Owen, Pre-

“miler Barrett and Provinelal
8

The’ SL Gov: compli-
mented the performance of the
chofr, stating that this had been
the best opening of the legisla
ture that he had seen.

Premier Barrett wished
the students every success and
thanked them for their hymns
of peace, and Mr. Hall hinted at
future ventures of embassador-
ship for the choir.

‘The students also attended
an’afternoon sitting of the
House, where Tr: land

. MLA Chris D'Arcy introduced
tlie choir and its directors,
Peter Samoyloff and Leo
Voykin to the MLA’s.

While in Victorla, the cholr
performed at two schools—Es-
quimault Senlor Secondary and
Victoria Sentor Secondary,
where they were warmly re-
celved with standing ovations,
The Castlegar area students
were billetted in the homes of
the students from both achools,
thus enabling them to partake
in cultural exchanges.

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, February 27, 1976

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