September 18,1988 61 BONNIE’S FRUIT STAND IMM qh) oniccuensebclenatclaase § Th te A eeale'e Kootenay Savings as Castlégar News September 18, 1988 BUSINESS Chamber discusses Building permits up By CasNews Staff Wood Products mill, at Celgar The building boom jin Castle. - Pulp Co,'s mill and in the Castle- gar continued through August, gar city administrator Dave Gairns Of the $2.8 million in permits reported this week. A total of 30 building permits Sanei P ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to customer demand, we will not close the stand Sept. 18 as previously advertised. We will femain open Fridays and Saturdays until Oct. 15 to fill your 19. freezing and cold storage orders, facility By CasNews Staff Castlegar Chamber of Commerce members got their chance to quiz the Castlegar and District Projects Soci ety about the proposed aquatic cen tre Thursday at.a chamber luncheon. Society representatives Pat Met- ge, Ed Chernoff and Marilyn Gau thier presented chamber members with the aquatic centre proposal and were met with questions about construction costs, the Oct. 15 refer- endum and what will happen to the Bob Brandson pool if the aquatic centre gets the go ahead. Some chamber members were concerned the $2.2 million price tag may increase-as the facility's con- struction begins. Metge and Chernoff both said the consulting company, Camrec Facilities Ltd., has been building aquatic centres on time and on budget for years. They both said the capital cost of the pool is “realistic” and added that they don’t expect any construction overruns. But Chernoff was pressed on the question and asked where the project society would go for funds if the construction cost did surpass the price tag. “We wouldn't be going back to the taxpayers,” Chernoff answered. “We'd raise more funds through fund-raising projects.” But Chernoff and Metge made it clear they do not expect any con- struction cost overruns. Mayor Audrey Moore questioned Metge on the fate of the Brandson pool. Metge's answer was clear. “If the referendum on Oct. 15 passes, I would expect to see a ‘pool closed’ sign on the Brandson pool by the 17th.” He said the Brandson pool is in “rough shape” and would re- quire serious upgrading. He added that construction of a new outdoor pool would cost anywhere “from $550,000 to $650,000.” Moore suggested the Brandson pool site could be turned into a park if the aquatic centre is given the green light. Fund raising chairman Marilyn Gauthier fielded questions on the funds for the pool. Chamber mem bers were concerned the Regional District of Central Kootenay might be able to use the aquatic centre funds for other projects if the refer- endum is rejected. “All the money raised is going into a trust fund in the project society's name,” Gauthier said."It is for the construction of the aquatic centre — nothing else.” Once the facility is built, it will be owned by the regional district and opetated by the local recreation commission, she said. The chamber is surveying its mem. bers to guage their support for the pool proposal. All ballots are expec ted to be in by Monday. The chamber will meet Thursday to discuss the aquatic centre proposal and the results of the survey: College to offer course in tourism By CasNews Staff Selkirk College has been selected as one of 10 colleges across the province to initiate a new course in tourism. The Tourism Supervisory Devel- opment Program begins this fall at Selkirk College's Nelson campus and is a core educational program con- sisting of seven, 30-hour courses. The courses are aimed at individuals pre sently in supervisory positions in any sector of the tourism and hospitality industry or at employees wishing to upgrade their position in the tourism industry, Malcom Ashford, executive direc. tor of the Pacific Rim Institute of Tourism in Vancouver, said the program is geared for success. “This is the first tourism ‘and hos- pitality educational program to be of- ficially recognized by the Institute as leading to professional certification at the supervisory level,” he said. “It's not uncommon for one or two post-secondary institutions to coor. dinate ideas and efforts in developing new programs, but it's highly ui valued at $2.8 million were y 7 issued during August. That compares to 35 permits worth just $463,000 issued in August, 1987. Gairns said the “significant increase” in the value of building permits reflects the work pres- ently being carried out at Wes. tar Timber Ltd.'s Southern Both the number and value of building permits are up sub- stantially for the first eight months of this year compared to the same period in 1987. So far this year the city has issued 226 building permits valued at $4.5 million, compared to 205 permits valued at $1.7 million in 1987. “DISCOUNTS ON BULK ORDERS OPEN FRI. & SAT. Columbia Avenue beside Kal Tire) 0 a.m.-6 p.m 365 BUSINESS DIRECTORY TELEPHONE 365-5210 New insertions, copy changes and cancellations for the @ccepted up to 5 p.m. Wednesday, September 28 for the Castlegar News Business Directory will be month of October . Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Avenue Castlegar © 365-2151 Appliances | APPLIANCE PARTS AND SERVICE DEPT. Call 365-3388 2 Re “we Rise terete: kenmore ingls = Hotpoint» 6. 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The Castlegar Rebels played the first exhibition game of the hockey season Friday night at the Community Complex. The Rebels came up on the short end of a close 6-5 decision against the Trail Junior Smoke Eaters. (Story on page B2) LosNewsPhoto = TOTEM TRAUEL | 365-6616 | 6616 Castlegar * 605-18th Street Below CSCU Otfice Trail © 1560 Bay Ave, Zenith 1-800-224-8647 “TERRIBLY SORRY SIR, BUT IN THE PROCESS OF ESCORTING THE AGH % By HELEN BRANSWELL Canadian Press SEOUL — The opening of the 1988 Summer Olympics was an extravaganza of color and a symphony of sound. Fluttering doves, wafting parachuters, battling warriors and dancing children came together in a three-hour spectacular designed to dazzle a watching world, It was a coming out party of epic proportions for South Korea, which hopes the Games will show the world it is a power to be reckoned with. Threats of terrorism and boycotts and the spectre of Korea's bitter internal struggles were forgotten as thousands of performers and athletes joined in a celebration of the biggest sports competition in the world. Calgary's Carolyn Waldo led 350 Canadian athletes into Olympic Stadium to the strains of Alouette. They delighted the 70,000-strong audience by tossing white Frisbees into the crowd. Toronto sprinter Ben Johnson, world record holder in the 100-metre dash, did not march in the athletes’ parade. His advisers want him out of the limelight until his showdown with American Carl Lewis next week. “The opening ceremonies is a wonderful experience for both spectator and participant alike,” said Carol Anne Letheren of Toronto, the Canadian team leader. “But I think (the athletes) calculate whether the opening ceremonies is something they can handle.” CROWDS CHEER The South Koreans, the last team to enter the stadium, was met with thunderous cheers. Greece — the cradle of the Olympics — led off the parade The 160 participating teams, some dressed in colorful native costumes, entered in order of the Korean alphabet. Canada was in 130th position — well after the United States. Barely able to contain his excitement, Sohn Kee-chung, 76, ran into the stadium with the Olympic me. A marathon gold medallist from the 1936 Berlin Games, Sohn is a Korean sports legend. He was forced to compete under the banner of Japan in 1936 since Korea was under Japanese occupation at the time. Sohn passed. the torch to three runners who mounted a platform which slowly rose 20 metres to the lip of the Olympic cauldron. The ceremony saw East and West join in Olympic competition for the first time since the 1976 Montreal Games. The United States led a western boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow in protest of the Soviets’ intervention While Seoul provided a stage for the U.S.-U.S.S.R. athletic rapproachment, it only heightened the conflict between North and South North Korea separated from its_ southern counterpart since the end of the Second World War — refused to participate in the Games after being denied co-host status, FEW COMPLIED Pyongyang called for a boycott of the Seoul Olympics but only a handful of countries — Cuba the only sports power among them — complied. The continuing conflict between Seoul and Pyongyang caused threats of violence and terrorism and sparked riots among students intent on forcing reunification of Korea. None of that was evident under the dazzling blue skies as a nation's mind turned to staging the best-ever Olympic Games. The ceremonies were held Saturday morning Korean time, Friday night in Canada. There is a 14-hour time difference The ceremony was a marriage of ancient eastern mysticism and modern western glitz, reflecting the Yin and Yang principle on which the show was based Yin and Yang are conflicting forces which merge in a bond of -harmony — one of the themes of the Seoul Games. One thousand young Taekwondo artists staged an impressive display of Korea's national sport. A squadron of 50 skydivers formed a free-fall Olympic emblem before their red, green, yellow, blue and black parachutes landed in the centre of the field. Girls in daffodil-yellow dresses and boys in blue and Olympics changed The opening ceremonies were true to form, a fitting prelude to mark the beginning of the games of the XXIV Olympiad. Thousands of athletes, reporters and spectators looked on in Seoul as the white doves flew high overhead and music filled the air. Ninety minutes down the road U.S. and South Korean troups watched over the DMZ in Panmunjom to make sure the North Koreans weren't plotting any devious scheme to make the Games unsafe. It's very reassuring to hear U.S. military officials talk of the Games being “safe” — especially when there are 620,000 South Korean armed forces regulars, 120,000 national police, 40,000 U.S troups, the U.S. Navy and a ship load of specially-trained anti-terrorist forces ready to quash any attempt to raid the Games. There will be more men dedicated to the protection of the Seoul Olympics than there were U.S. troups in the Vietnam war. So where’s the enemy? North Korea has said it will not do anything to disrupt the Games. It didn’t even bother to send a team. a ny leaves any number of groups on the list of potential threats: South Korean students, Sikh extremists, the Iranians, the IRA, Libya, the Armenian extremists, the Red Brigade, the Japanese Red Army, a host of Moslem fundamental- ist groups and, of course, the PLO. You remember them. That fatuous little group of terrorists bent on securing a strip of real estate the size of a postage stamp at any cost. It was their party at the "72 Munich’Summer Games that totally changed forever the face of the Olympics. The Games weren't remembered for the athletic accomplishments — Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut made her stunning debut and Mark Spitz took seven gold medals in the pool for the U.S. — as much as they were_remembered for the horifically bizarre events on the tarmac at Munich international airport; events that left a large, permanent asterisk on the history of the Games and an even larger question mark on the future. In the end there were 11 dead Israelis, one dead West German policeman, five dead Palistinians and three taken as prisoners. But the Games did not die. Instead they changed, It had now become apparent to every lunatic fringe group, politically-motivated organiza. tion and banana republic that the Games could be more than a showcase of athletic skill and determination. The Games could be now used as the most visible and powerful means to prove a political point, e Views By Brendan Nagie whether through terrorist acts or more moderate measures such as boycotts. So it went. The '76 Olympics in Montreal were hit with boycotts as departing African teams denounced Rhodesia’s presence at the Games. The U.S. was next in 1980, followed by the cowering western nations who all used the Games to denounce the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The merry-go-round continued with the Soviet Union's boycott of the '84 Games in L.A. Of course the rest of the Eastern Bloc followed suit. The big bad Soviets figured their team would be unsafe in the fishbowl that is Los Angeles. It was their choice. As the playground minds of the world’s political leaders scheme of ways to use the Games as a political lever, the athletes spend years in training only to find their country will not compete. It will instead opt out of competition in favor making some important political point. But the change provides a bitter irony following the resolve of the International Olympic Committee to continue the ‘72 Summer Games. Instead of cancelling the Games as was suggested by the West German government, 84-year-old Avery Brundage, head of the IOC in '72, delivered a solemn address to the world. “The Games must go on,” he stated. “We have only the strength of a great ideal.” The committee clung to the Olympic ideal, over and above what would have been the ultimate respect paid to the slain athletes in the cancellation of the Games. However, it appears no one since then has paid any attention to that lofty ideal, except for the athletes. The Games go on — for most countries this time around — while the ideal is lost somewhere in a slag heap of nonsensical, petty politicking that is more at home in a kindergarten class. Let the doves fly, let the music play, keep your weapons locked and loaded and let the Games begin. in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union followed suit with an eastern bloc boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. white took to the field with hoops, skipping ropes and pinwheels to signify the country’s future. Johnson "Ready" SEOUL (CP) — Canadian Ben Johnson, the world record holder for the 100-metre dash, worked out today and pronounced himself fit for the forthcoming Olympic competi. tion. “I'm ready to go,” he said. “I haven't felt this good since Rome.” The Toronto Star reported John. son suffered an infl ion of the munications with the Caribbean island are difficult. Jamaica, from which Johnson's family came to Canada when the world champion was still a youth, was hard hit by Gilbert. At latest count, 26 people were killed and an estimated 80 per cent of the country’s 500,000 homes severely d dor yyed. An estimated heel during a pre-Olympic training camp in Japan, but Johnsen said after his workout that “everything’s healed.” Johnson set the world mark of 9.83 seconds last year at the world championships in Rome. “T've lost six pounds and I'm back,” he said. Johnson said he has fully recov ered from the hamstring injury he suffered during the indoor season. He showed no sign of injury during his workout and said he anticipates an extremely fast race in his 100-metre duel with American rival Carl Lewis. The qualifying heats in the event are set for Friday (4:50 p.m. Castlegar time, Thursday), with semifinals and finals scheduled Sat- urday 7 p.m. Castlegar time, Friday). “It's going to be good,” Johnson said. “I can’t wait.” The Star, describing the injury as bursitis, said the foot would require treatment and considerable rest. Johnson did not march with the rest of the Canadian team in Friday's. opening ceremony, but Canadian team leader Carol Anne Letheren suggested Johnson's late arrival from Japan had more to do with it WITH MOTHER Johnson is staying at a Seoul hotel with his mother. She said Johnson likely will return to the athletes’ village shortly before his event. Letheren said the family has not heard from Johnson's father, who was supposed to attend the Games, since Hurricane Gilbert hit Jamaica on Tuesday. Johnson's father is not ‘on any list of missing peoplt in his home town of Falmouth but com- $9.78 billion Cdn. damage was done the Jamaican economy. The Canadian Olympic team issued a news release that did not mention any injury to Johnson, but Diane Clement, the leader for the the Canadian track team, was quoted as saying the sprinter has been dist raught “since hearing about the hurricane in Jamaica. “Ben has been trying frantically to reach his father,” Gement said. Johnson's decision not to march in the opening was made several weeks ago, she said “We travelled Friday and he knew that his training session (today) would be very important. He felt that training would be difficult if he marched in the parade.” Canada drops opening game SEOUL (CP) — Brazil used the outside shooting of Oscar Schmidt and the medium-range touch of Gerson Victalino to defeat defence less Canada 125-19 yesterday in the Olympic Games basketball tourna ment. The tempermental Schmidt sank several shots from outside the three-point line in scoring 38 points, while the slender Victalino added 28 more from inside. The Canadians had hoped to hold the favored Brazilians to under 75 points, but surrendered 56 by half. time. Canada made a brief run midway through the second half to pull within 80, but Marcel Souza put the game away with two straight three pointers. Souza finished with 29 points, mostly from long range. The best of the Canadians were reserve forwards Alan Kristmanson of Ladner, and Wayne Yearwood of Montreal. Kristmanson scored 23 points with a variety of shots and Yearwood used his strength inside for 25 more. Four teams from each of two six-team pools advance to the quar- ter-finals after round-robin play. Canada next plays the favored United States on Tuesday (9;45 p.m. EDT Monday). The other countries in the pool are Spain, China and Egypt. In the opening game of the tournament, China beat Egypt 98-84. The deadly-accurate Brazilians took a 56-45 lead by halftime, using the outside game rried them to the Pan. Am Games gold medal last year at Indianapolis. ~ After Brazil scored the opening six points, Canada battled back bri lead 13-11 on “ ter Pasquale of Victoria Brazil took advantage of several Canadian misses inside and slowly pulled ahead, leading by as much as 15 points just at the half. Schmidt scored 17 points in the opening 20 minutes, including three from three-point range. Kristmanson came off the bench to spark the Canadian attack early in the game and had 12 points by the half.