B2 Castlegar News August 3, 1991

SIDELINES

By News Services

NHL talks hit snag

TORONTO — Collective bargaining talks between the
National Hockey League owners and players have hit a snag,
increasing fears of a September strike.

Judge Joe Kane, one of three men being considered to rule
on’a reported violation of the old agreement by the NHL Play-
ers Association, has resigned as a league arbitrator.

Both sides in the dispute have been unable to agree on one
of the other two arbitrators on the list — John Pearson of
Boston and Ed Sanford of Winchester, Mass. — and want the
option of at least looking at a third party.

It's now up to NHL president John Ziegler and out-going
NHLPA executive director Allan Eagleson to choose a third
person. When an arbitrator is chosen, it will take about a week
to render a verdict.

The NHL claims the players failed to include a proper list of
revi to the new agi when they formally asked to
terminate the old one in May.

If the owners win, the current agreement will stand for
another year. Should the players win, the two sides will go
back to negotiating, facing a Sept. 15 deadline.

Maple Leaf tries soccer

TORONTO — Peter Zezel joined the ranks of the two-sport
athletes Thursday when he signed with the Canadian Soccer
League's North York Rockets. t

The Toronto Maple Leafs centre will remain with the soccer
team until Sept. 5 when NHL training camp opens. The finan-
cial terms of the CSL deal have not been worked out.

Zezel played for Toronto Italia and in 1982 played for both
the Ontario and national under-18 championship teams

Recchi declines invitation

TORONTO — Team Canada suffered another blow Thurs-
day when Pittsburgh Penguin Mark Recchi declined an invita-
tion to the Canada Cup hockey tournament.

Recchi's decision to pull out was for financial reasons — he
didn't feel the insurance coverage for players was adequate
enough to protect him.

Others who have declined include Penguins’

Mario Lemieux, Boston Bruins Ray Bourque and Cam Neely
and Edmonton forward Glenn Anderson.

Players will report to Maple Leafs Gardens on Sunday for
medicals, with workouts beginning Monday.

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Keenan's vacation over

Team Canada coach expects tough challenges in tourney

MIDLAND, Ont. (CP) — Even
on a well-deserved vacation,
Mike Keenan is talking hockey.

Keenan, his wife, Rita, and
daughter, Gayla, are relaxing at.
the family’ on the shore
of Georgian Bay. It's the first
week off for Keenan since his
Chicago Blackhawks were elimi-
nated from the NHL's Stanley
Cup playoffs in April.

It won't be.a long holiday. It
ends today when the Black-
hawks’ head coach and general *

makes the two-hour
drive to Toronto to open the
Team Canada training camp at
Maple Leaf Gardens for the
Canada Cup hockey tourna-
ment.

It's a project that is constant-
ly on Keenan's mind.

Canada faces strong chal-
lenges in the major world tour-
nament. Several Canadian stars
will not compete, the Soviet
Union will have another strong
team and the United States will
be better than ever.

"It will probably be the most
competitive tournament we've
ever had,” says Keenan.

“The Swedes have just won
the world championship. All the
European nations have key play-
ers in the National Hockey
League now. There's no longer a
Canadian mystique. When they
line up against us, they know us
and they know what we can do.”

Keenan is only 41 but already
has a formidable record.

Before moving to the NHL, he
had championship coaching sea-
sons with the intercollegiate
Toronto Blues, the Ontario
Hockey League Jr. A Peterbor- -
ough Petes and the American
Hockey League's Rochester
Americans.

The Philadelphia Flyers hired
him as their head coach in 1984
and in his first three seasons
there were three divisional
championships and two trips to
the Stanley Cup final.

In 1987, he coached Team
Canada to the Canada Cup

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championship, Since joining the
Blackhawks in 1988, there have
been two divisional champi-
onships and one Stanley Cup
semifinal.

The challenge for Keenan this
summer will be to prepare the
Canadian players in four weeks
to defend the Canada Cup. If he
succeeds, he would be the first

coach to win it twice.

It might be that Canada's
greatest stars are playing
despite Keenan, not because of
him.

At the start of the '87 tourna-
ment, he imposed an early cur-
few and refused to allow the
players’ wives on the team bus
after an uninspired effort
against Czechoslovakia, a 4-4
tie.

That prompted the players to
complain to tournament organiz-
er Alan Eagleson that they
shouldn't be treated so harshly
since they were getting paid
next to nothing to compete and
were giving up half of their sum-
mer. A meeting with Keenan
was held and the dispute was
settied.

Asked about the tension
between the players and the
coaching staff at the last tourna-
ment, Keenan smiled thinly and
said, "Well, we handled them
well enough to win. . . .

“Ninety per cent isn't good
enough. You're asking for abnor-
mal behavior and change. And
most of us find that difficult.”

Keenan has every practice for
the next month planned and

sive team.

Wayne Gretzky will be his
captain, and the leading candi-
date to play on his right wing is
Steve Larmer, who had 44 goals
with the Blackhawks last sea-

son,

Mario Lemieux, who emerged
as the new Canadian superstar
in the last Canada Cup when he
played with Gretzky, has not
confirmed he will compete. A
bad back sidelined him most of
last season. (A Toronto newspa-
per reported last week Lemieux
will not play.)

Fifty-five players have been
invited to camp.'At least 10
spots on the final 23-man roster
are locked up, which means a lot
‘of players won't make the team.

When Keenan meets with
them today, it will be his job te
explain why someone ranked
eighth or ninth on the depth
chart should bother to give his
all, Keenan's answer will be that
injuries occur and players
change positions.

But more important, he will
tell them that for Canada to win,
its star players will have to be
challenged, so they are at their
best when they meet the tough

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Ontario residents take
bath in Dome’s red ink

TORONTO (CP) — Domed
stadiums ensure anyone who
can fork over the bucks for a
ticket to a ball game won't; get
soaked . . . that’s reserved for
the taxpayer.

The people of Ontario have
taken a bath in the red ink that
has flowed from the ledger
books of the SkyDome — Toron-
to's glittering playpen for mil-
lionaire athletes and corporate
big shots.

Even though the 52,000-seat
stadium is paced whenever the
baseball Blue Jays play and
nearly full when the CFL's Arg-
onauts are at home, that has
meant little to the SkyDome's
bottom line.

The two-year-old SkyDome
makes a profit on operations.
But it loses a pile of money over-
all because it has to pay interest
on a huge debt — money critics
say was unwisely spent on lav-
ish restaurants, a hotel and a
fitness club that inflated the
stadium's pricetag to $578 mil-
lion.

That bill grows by $76,000 a
day as interest is added to the
$345 million the Ontario gov-
ernment borrowed to finish con-
struction when cost overruns
pushed the price through the
retractable roof.

“It's a first-rate facility and
well managed but the predic-
tions of what it was going to cost
were obviously completely out of
whack,” says Canadian Auto
Workers president Bob White,
who has been asked by the NDP
government to sell the
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White is trying to coax com-
panies that helped finance the
dome's construction — and now
are part owners — to buy the
government's 51 per cent stake
in the stadium. White acknowl-
edges they “aren't exactly fight-
ing to get to the bargaining
table.”

Without a deal, the debt will
climb to $500 million from each
of 30 companies.

Another $60 million came
from the sale of luxury boxes
and prime seats and the consor-
tium persuaded’ the previous
Liberal governmént to cover the
remaining costs.

Author Pierre Berton has
called for an inquiry into the
deal between the government
and the consortium.

Some of the companies, such
as McDonald's Restaurants of
Canada Ltd. were given lucra-
tive concessions at the stadium
for putting up their money.

But former Liberal premier
David Peterson and others: cite

the benefits the stadium has
brought, such as tourism and
U.S. exposure through events
like the recent Major League all-
star game.

The SkyDome's problem is
simple.

It lost $39.2 million last year
as interest payments, deprecia-
tion and taxes wiped out an
operating profit of $27.4 million.

“It's not forseeable that we

could make a significant dent in
the capital costs with the way
things are now,” says Jamie
MacArthur, vice-president of
finance for Stadco.

White says he'll learn at an
Aug. 12 meeting with the inter-
ested consortium members
whether there's a realistic
chance they will buy the
province's stake.

“We're looking for a lump
sum of cash up front that will go
toward paying down the debt."

But no matter how they jug-
gle the books, White says, part
of the tab will still land in the
lap of the taxpayers.

COSTS GO THROUGH ROOF

By The Canadian Press

The cost of Toronto's SkyDome has gone through the retractable
roof and it's taxpayers who'll pay the most. The bill is now $578 million

— and rising.
Some facts about the stadium:

Status: Third dome built in Canada following B.C. Place in Vancou-
ver in 1983 and Olympic Stadium in Montreal in 1976.

Tenants: Home of the Toronto Blue Jays of baseball's American
League, the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and
the site of concerts and conventions.

Seats: Field-level stands form a rounded V when aligned for base-
ball and are parallel to the field when aligned for football.

The four-section roof takes 20 minutes to open and leaves
the field and 91 per cent of seats uncovered.

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READY TO FLY

A senior Cadet for Castle-
gar’s Royal Canadian Air
Cadets squadron will travel to
Quebec in mid-August as part
of a citizenship tour put togeth-
er by the Air Cadet- League and
assisted by the fedeal Depart-
ment of National Defence.

Sgt. Johnothan Bryson will
travel to Quebec with one
Cadet from every other Air
Cadet squadron in B.C

Air Cadets are young men
and women between the ages
of 12 and 18 years. They are
involved in leadership training,
glider and powered aircraft fly-
ing, bush survival, first-aid,

Sgt. Dave Power (left) prepares for a familiarization flight with Cpl. Steve Power and Cpl. Candice Larch.

Castiegar Air Cadet
off to Quebec for tour

target shooting, sports and
many other activities.

These activities are done at
weekly parades during the
school year, occasional week-
ends and at summer camps
located throughout Canada.

The goal of Air Cadets is to
develop the leadership, citizen-
ship and physical fitness of its
members,

Air Cadets is co-sponsored
by the Air Cadet League of
Canada, a civilian non-profit
organization, and the Depart-
ment of National Defence.

Air Cadets is also looking
for interested adults to help in

the training of the squadron.

The 1991-92 training year
for the squadron starts Sept. 3.

The training year will
include weekend survival exer-
cises, familiarization rides in
gliding and powered aircraft,
tours of local spots of interest,
training in aircraft simulators
and sports, as well as the
squadron’s weekly parade and
training.

Weekly training will include
aircraft identification, first
aide, sports, airframes,
engines, public speaking and
other aircraft- and leadership-
based subjects.

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By Pastor IRA JOHNSON
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Do you believe in God?

Many people claim to believe,
but their belief seems to maxe
very little difference in their
lives. Oh, they may acknowledge
God occasionally and call out to
God in emergencies, but beyond
that there is little attempt to
make contact, or receive direc-
tion.

True belief in God is more
than a vague agreement that
there must be a God out there
somewhere that got our uni-
verse going in the dark distant
past.

It is a firm conviction that
God exists eternally, currently,
and ‘can be known personally. It
is trusting God’s promises to for-
give, to lead and guide and work
through all who truly believe.

The word believe really
means “to live by.” The Apostle
James went so far as to say,
“You say you believe that there
is one God. Good! Even the
Demons believe that .. . and

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shudder.” (James 2:19)
He was warning people that

it is not enough to believe there
is a God — we need to live in
harmony with God and live by
His truth.

God’s nature and will can be
known in many ways, but there
are three ways God speaks very
clearly to mankind.

The first is through nature
(His handiwork), the second is
through Christ, who was God in
human form, and the third
through the word of God (the
Bible).

Therefore, anyone who is
serious about knowing God and
living by God’s truth will be
eager to allow God to speak to
his or her life in every way pos-
sible.

Could it be that people often
prefer to tell God what to do for
them, rather than approaching
God with true worship and
humility and asking “Lord, what
would you have me to do?” (see
Acts 9:6 KJV)

William Willimon, dean of the
Chapel at Duke University, says
many people convey the
thought, “Are you lonely, is
there something missing in your

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life? Would you like peace, joy,
love, happiness, good health,
good sex, good times? Come to
Jesus!” In other words, God
what can you do for me?

John Kennedy’s famous
words come to mind: “. . . ask
not what your country can do for
you; ask what you can do for
your country.”

Let's be that serious and that
practical in our relationship
with God. God blesses that kind
of believing.

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