oy as_Castlegar News November 15, 1989 Editor's note: CasNews columnist John Charters was honored to have been asked to prepare this year's Remembrance Day address. However, since he is currently teaching at the monastery of Westminster Ab- bey in Mission his speech was presented by his son, Bruce Charters, during last Saturday's ceremony at Kin- smen Park in Castlegar. The following is the complete text of the address. We are met once again on this Remembfane’ Day to honour those, who by their sacrifices, have made this simple but profound ceremony possible But we must also ask the question: Is remembrance alone enough? Do we not owe them more? Understan ding, appreciation and a sincere sense of thankfulness a great responsibility. Please let me explain Just after the Second World Wa enrolled for further training at university. The veterans at the University of British Columbia established a UBC » Many veterans branch of the Royal Canadian Legion and shortly after ward, on Nov. 11, held a Remembrance Day service At a social gathering in the caleteria later, Twas seated across the table from a pleasant, blond young man, We began to chat. I noticed something strange about his hands — the first (part) of the thumb of each hand was missing. He saw where | was looking, smiled and said gently: ** The Gestapo, the dreaded Nazi secret police, did that for me.” He then went on to tell me that when Hitler's armies had invaded Holland, he and a high school classmate had joined the Dutch Resistance as runners, carrying messages. One day, near the end of the occupation they were captured by the Gestapo and tortured. He was hung up by his thumbs on piano wire, beaten and in terrogated. The wire cut off the circulation, his thumbs became gangrenous and amputated I said to him: “You must be very bitter over the maiming of your hands. Again he smiled gently time,"” he said good use of my hands. My friend was less fortunate “Bitterness is a waste of “Besides, | am an artis} and still have War dead owed our thankfulness They drove the piano wire through his Achilles tendons and hung him up by his heels, He had been an outstan ding athlete, but afterward, he never walked again."” That thumbless young-man of over 40. years-ago and his crippled friend are reminders to us all that war is no respecter of age, sex or condition and they represent thousands of other equally valiant people who paid for our freedom by their suffering and death, They ex perienced, while little more than children, the ruthlessness of dictatorships, the cruelty of power hungry men, but by their sacrifice saved the lives of many of our own. Yet, despite these terrible lessons and sacrifices, dictatorships continue to drown protest in blood, China being the most recent example, and the cries of the tor tured are heard around the world, We are the fortunate ones. Those sacrifices made by. service people and civilians have freed us from the horrors of war and ruthless repression To many-of our-children and grandchildren, these things are no more real than the image on their TV or They no longer realize that freedom is a cost of bitter personal sacrifice, and but ata price. movie scre maintained at liberty by constant vigilance Remember them, certainly more superb job than the Royal Canadian Legion in keeping their memory fresh, the Torch of Remembran ce bright, But each one of us has a personal respon sibility as well. Dedicate one minute of each day to not id none has done a only remembering them and their sacrifices, but why they made them and how. Do so, and their example will be engraved in your mind and a flame of gratitude tighted in your heart If, on the other hand, we and more particularly, our children and grandchildren, ignore the example, fail to grasp the message and are unprepared to make the necessary sacrifices, then our much-prized freedoms, our hard-won liberty is doomed by history — as surely as the rising of tomorrow’s sun. We cannot, we must not, we dare not think for their sake, forget. It is later than’ you Soviets honor Verigin VANCOUVER (CP) — Doukhobor leader John Verigin he was s prised Saturday night to learn he has been awarded the Soviet Order of People’s Friendship “Lhave no comment to make at the moment,” he said from his home in Grand Forks. “I'd feel deeply honored if this is the case but this is the first I've heard of it.”” The honor was awarded by a decree signed by Soviet President Mikio Gorbachev, the Tass news agency ina brief dispatch The award recognizes Verigin's ‘great contribution to the develop: ment of friendship and understanding between the people of Canada and the Soviet Union,” Tass said. 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OUR ENTIRE STOCK WILL BE JANTZEN LONDON FOG PARK ROW PIERRE CARDIN TRIANGLE COTTON PICKERS HOWICK JUMP ESPRIT AND OTHER TOP BRANDS 1% Returning from a winless three-game road trip, the Canucks dozed for nearly two periods before a comeback that produced the deadlock OFFENCE FALTERED Jim Sandlak scored the tying goal for Vancouver mid way.through the third period. In the five-minute overtime period, the Canucks did not havea shot on goal “I's kind of upsetting, but we have to build off the tie,”" said Canuck coach Bob McCammon, who admitted he was anything but pl t to the players before the third period. **We just couldn’t lose to Washington at home." The crowd of 15,370 often grew impatient with the Canucks-when_they_fell_behind-3-2-and-4-2-during the second period The Vancouver power play,gontinued to sputter and now is scoreless in 15 advantages after being blanked four times by the penalty-killing of the Capitals as Canucks, Caps tie “Our power play is non-existent right now, but I really think the best is yet to come,”’ said McCammon, trying to sound upbeat. ‘There were some positives, considering all our injuries * Missing Paul Reinhart and Barry Pederson on the power play, the Canucks relied on Doug Lidster and Robert Nordmark on the points but their shots didn’t reach the staky bad four dasista an Los Angeled shap- ped a 10-game losing streak agaiiist Calgary, including four inthe Smythe finals last season. Steve Kasper had a pair of goals, while Marty McSor arry Robinson, Bernie Nicholls, Mike Allison, John Tonnelli and Luc Robitaille also scored for Los Angeles. Gary Suter, Sergei Makarov, Joe Nieuwendyk, Theoren Fleury, Doug Gilmour and Joe Mullen scored for the Flames, who lost their third straight and first at home. PENGUINS 6 RANGERSO Wendel Young stopped 25 shots for his first NHL shut out and Troy Loney scored twice as the Penguins eased a dismal start to the 1988-89 season by beating the New York Rangers 6-0 Tuesday night Ubriaco’s future, along with that of general manager Tony Esposito, has been the subject of speculation con sidering a 1-3 road trip anda 5-10-2 overall record Rumors were rampant that Ubriaco and Esposito would be unemployed if the Penguins didn’t “beat the Rangers “There was so much going on in the media I think we all decided to put that aside and concentrate-on playing hockey"’, said Young. Mario Lemeiux, John Cullen, Dan Quinn and Mark Reccialso scored for Pittsburgh SNORDIQUES3 Randy Cunneyworth snapped a 3-3 tie at 8:51 of the third period and Teppo Numminen added an insurance goal 52 seconds later to lead Winnipeg. The Jets had a 3-1 lead but goals for Peter Stastny and Claude Loiselle sent the teams deadlocked heading into the final period. Joe Sakic also scored for Quebec while Brent Ashton, Laurie Bosch man and Doug Smail had Winnipeg’s other goals. FLYERSS ISLANDERS 4 Jay Wells scored the winner at 10:22 of the third period but the win was overshadowed by Philadelphia goaltender Ron Hextall who inadvertently struck teammade Ron Sut ter in the face with his stick. Sutter suffered facial cuts and was lielped from the ice. Ilkka Sinisalo had a pair of goals for the Flyers while Don Bigs and Brian Propp also scored The Islanders got goals from Pat Flatley, Dave Chyzowski, Randy Wood and Bryan Trottier WHALERS 3 RED WINGSO Detroit's losing streak stretched to six games and its winless streak 10-H-as-Hartford’s Mike-Liut stopped 26 shots for his third shutout of the 4-11-5 lifetime against Detroit, has 23 career shutouts, tops among active netminders. Ron Francis, Pat Berbeek and Ray Ferrao had power-play goals. ason. Liut, now 2 No teasing, it's freezinggg! EDMONTON (CP) — It was so cold on the practice field Tuesday that wide receiver Walter Murray dropped a pass and just kept on running to the clubhouse to warm up. But despite the frigid -15 C tem peratures and howling winds, where he was. coach Joe Faragalli put the Edmonton. who Eskimos through their paces for about 90 minutes to prepare for Sunday's CFL West Division final against the Saskatchewan Roughriders Itwas more like a scene from an out door masquerade party. Quarterback Tracy Ham wore a white balaclava un der his helmet, only his eyes and mouth they were thrown Other players stuck T-shirts insider their helmets to warm thier ears Linebacker Danny Bass said he never wears a sweatsuit’so he wore shorts along with linebacker Mike Mclean: “It made me cold just looking at them,”* said punt returner Tony Hun er, who has played in cold weather at Boise State University in Idaho. “Ican handle the cold but I don’t think I could ever wear shorts like that," snowman. ** matter."* yet available had in Regina Tu to warmer tempet worried as they Running back Reggie Taylor was a__ field no-show and the coaches didn’t know UNDAY THAW Faragalli stood in the middle of the frozen, snow-dusted field and directed three regular season meetings, in- traffic. The good news for the players, cheered wildly called an end to the paractice, is that is should thawa little by Sunday “You're in God's country now,” Faragalli shouted as the receivers ran their routes. By the end of the practice most were actually catching the **Mind over matter,"” visibile a team that was If you don’t mind, it don’t as mobile as a A weather office spokesman said the long-rage forecast for Sunday wasn’t But he said Saturday calls for a high of about the kind of day the Roughriders esday tures. get his club more prepared for the final Eskimos weren't scampered off the Either way, the They finished 16-2 during the regular season and-aveapped up first place in the West with about a month left in the schedule They beat the Roughriders twice in cluding a 49-17 pasting at common. wealth Stadium to close out the schedule. Saskatchewan also won an exhibition game against Edmonton, 9 Oat home this season. But Faragalli said Saskatchewan is coming off a big win over Calgary in the division semifinal last week and they're getting many of their injured players back “*Lcan’t think of a better team that we should lose twice to, because that makes our guys more alert,”” he said “‘It’s not a case of we’ re playing the Ot tawa Rough Riders. Saskatchewan Roughriders.” He said Saskatchewan was missing So many starters for that final game of the season that he can use that fact to when Faraglli yelled Ham to These are the in Edmonton and a return and nip any sense of overconfidence immediately FIGHT NIGHT the fight was on in the Castlegar Rebels game against Beaver Valley Friday night at the Complex, and like the game, which the Rebels won 8-0, the fight seems to be going the Rebels (dark sweater) way too. (oss Rebels netibadir proves a point against former team By ED MILLS Staff Writer Castlegar Rebels goaltender Rick Edwards had something to prove when he faced the Beaver Valley Nite Hawks in Kootenay International Hockey League game at the Community Com plex Friday nigh It was around this time last year that the Nite Hawks released Edwards because the coaching staff in Beaver Valley felt he was inconsistent. He didn’t agree with the assessment then and still does So it was a little sweet revenge for Edwards as he stuck it to his old team by backstopping the Rebels to an 8-0 blowout over the Nite Hawks and was RICK EDWARDS . haunts Nite Hawks between the pipes again in Sunday’s 5 4 win over the Spokane Braves in Spokane. The five-foot-seven netminder said he couldn't have written a better script for the game against his former team “To me the game was just like heaven. Everything went right for us and everything went wrong for them. | couldn't’ have asked for anything more," Edwards said By his own admission, Edwards was severely tested only in the first period and by the time that was over the Rebels were up 5-0 and could afford to concentrate on defence, which they did The Rebels wrapped up the scoring with three in the second period and then just shut down the Nite Hawks to perserve the shutout The line of Dale Bonderud, Shawn McCaddie and David Vecchio accoun- ted for 13 points in the win with Bon derud getting the hat trick and adding two assists, McCaddie with two and three and Vecchio with one and two. Remi Lavallee and Keith Seman also collected a goa h for the Rebels It was the Rebels’ first shutout of the season and ended a three-game losing streak The-win over Spokane Sunday marked the first time the team has won two straight While two wins in a row is hardly proof of consistency, for Edwards it’s a start and a good jab at the team that didn’t want him. ‘0 them (the Nite Hawks) that I can play in this league and now I want to prove I can be “<1 just wanted to prove consistent,” he said Against Spokane, Edwards was sur prised and happy to learn he'd be star ting again because he and Stan Makor toff had been splitting the goaltending duties for the Rebels evenly until that point Rebels co-coach Ed Cooper said the shutout was a good confidence builder for his 20-year-old goaltender. The other factor in Cooper's choice to break the goalie rotation was another confidence-builder for Edwards “He's been our best and most con: sistent goalie all year long,"’ said Cooper at the team’s regular Tuesday night practice at the Complex If Edwards’ feet were starting to leave the ground, he was pulled back to earth quickly in Spokane as the Braves scored on their first shot on their way to a 3-0 lead after one period But Edwards returned to form in the second and third periods, allowing his team time to mount a comeback Which was capped on a goal by Jeff Fletcher with 36 seconds left in the game, for a5-4 Rebels win The Lavallee brothers, Dan and Remi, picked up a goal each along with Dwayne Dergousoff. Bonderud got his fourth goal in two games for the Rebels. Had the Rebels held to the form exhibited so far this season, the team would have folded its tent after being down three goals, but co-coaéh Don Soroke says the team is beginning to show a little character and most impor tantly, they're beginning to play good defence “They got tired of losing, so they decided to try it our way,’’ said Soroke. ‘The forwards helped out on defence and the defence themselves played a lot tougher.”* “We (he and Cooper) had faith in them all the time but they had no faith in themselves. I think that's changing now,” he said After being’ outscored -20-6 in the two previous games against Nelson and Rossland, the Rebels returned to the plus side last weekend with 13 goals for and four against. Overall, only the last place Rossland Warriors have a worse goals against record, two more than the Rebels total of 86. The team's 62 goals for is fourth in the KIJHL’s West Division. The four-point weekend moves the Rebels into a fourth place tie with Beaver Valley with 10 points. The Nite Hawks have a game in hand. The Rebels are just two points behind the Grand Forks Border Bruins with two games in hand, and four points behind the second place Trail Smokies, a with two games in hand The Rebels host the Kimberley Knights at 8 p.m., Friday at the Com plex, than travel to Nelson to take the West Division-leading Maple | on Saturday BENCH BANTER staff says attendance for Friday's The coa was around 300, while some p s said it looked more like 175-200. Either number is too low for the Rebe managements liking. Dale Bonder took a shot off his foot but is practising and is probable for this weekend while Keith Kalawski has a twisted knee an is a doubtful start against Kimberley Taylor Hardy was released last week the coaches citing discipline problems Nail biting begins in high school sports By ED MILLS Staff Writer it'$ a one match, best-of-five playoff against_Nelson’s L.V Nelson squad off its game and to show Rogers high it something different from the last “LAYAWAY FOR CHRISTMAS" oe | i = Door wr 359 Columbia Ave., CASTLEGAR 365-7589 1330 Cedar Ave., TRAIL 368-5454 It’s tense time in sports at Stanley Humphries secondary school as four teams enter the most crucial parts of their seasons this week The ball started rolling today as SHSS hosts the senior boys volleyball championships in the gym at 4:30p.m On Thursday the cross-country team travels (o Victoria for the provin cial high school championships while the swim team leaves for the University of British Columbia to compete in the provincials there over the weekend The senior girls volleyball team will be looking for a berth in the provincials when they take the highway to J.L Crowe secondary school in Trail for a literally four-team playoff For the senior boys volleyball team school to determine who will go to the provincials in Prince George later this month Coach Don Lust says his team is the underdog going into the match but doesn’t mind that at all because he Says it gives the Rockers that something ex tra to bring them together as a unit for an important game. But even then, he says, Nelsons going to be tough “The difference between us and Nelson is that: they have two phenomenal players, probably the best two in the Kootenays,” says Lust “For us to win, we have to have six players playing great. If even one of our guys isa bit off we're going to have a tough time.”” Lust adds that he has implemented a few new plays to try to throw the time the teams met two weeks ago in a match that Nelson won “We're going to throw a little razzle dazzle at them with @ few spikes and things,” he says. Losing would mean the end of the season for the team. In cross-country running, three SHSS athletes qualified for provincial competition in Victoria with outstan ding runner Colin Bush expected to finish at least in the top 10 in the seven-kilometre race. Coach Tessi Zelke will also be watching the progress of Greg Ehman and Eric Ruljancich who will try to keep pace with Bush. The SHSS swim team got the trip to UBC by virture of a first-place overall showing in the regional cham pionships Nov. 5 in Nelson. It’s the ninth year in a row the team has ac complished the feat Swim coach Mike Balahura says his swimmers historically finish in the top 10 at the provincial level and have placed as high as third. Last year SHSS was fourth competition “We're not as strong this year but I think we should be able to remain in the top 10,” said Balahura. “‘I'm really happy to be associated with these kids They've worked really against province-wide Fourteen students will be making the trip including six senior swimmers and one grade nine swimmer Balahura says two particular teams merit note because they could come up big in the pool at UBC. Team captain Gavin Ratke leads the boys 200-metré medley with Alex Hartman, James Welychko and Trevor Seville. The other team to watch is the 4x200 mixed freestyle team Young and Aimee Chernoff along with Hartman and Seville Balahura says he especially enjoys the high school championships because they tend to be relay-oriented which fosters team spirit and is the facet of the sport on which the te: has concentrated all season For coach Stoch Uchida and the senior girls volleyball team, it’s a long tough road tga provincial title. First, the team hat weekend in a round-robin-type tour to emerge on top this ney in Trail against some tough com petition — host team J.L. Crowe, Cranbrook and LV. Rogers Uchida says he has a good but young team, with no Grade 12 starting players. The lack of seniors, he says, can hurt when a team needs the ex perierice in the playoffs. Also working against him is the flu bug which yester day claimed his best power hitter Carilyn Briscoe ‘I think she'll be OK, but if she’s gone we're in trouble,"’ says Uchida “Lf she’s the way they can, then it will be close, i just depends on who wants it more."" ¢ and everyone plays the Again the Nelson team will be the toughest competition for the Rocket tes in the battle to move on to the provincials in Kamloops Nov. 29 All the teams will have returned to Castlegar by Sunday and all resitlts will appear in the CasNews