81 May 29, 1991+ Castlegar News TOURING THE TOWN Ald. Bob Pakula represented the City of Castlegar at Heritage B.C.'s annual meeting last week in Revelstoke. Pakula and Castlega: delegate Bunn both said Revelstoke has done an excellent job of heritage restoration. Some B.C. attended the meeting. Costews photo by Bunny Chorters — WANTED — CLEAN COTTON RAGS Planning a Wedding? We Sell Distinctive Invitations, Napkins, Come See Us At Castlégar News 197 Columbie Ave. Talk to us today, WANETA PLAZA sTeve WHITTLETON Soles Representative 0.6. (DAN) "Area Co OF es. 365-7192 2649 Fourth Aven, we Castlegar, 8.C. vin 251 365.3563 vi dinotor fi School staff loans cost too much, trustee says By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer A loan program set up by the Castlegar school board to help em- ployees buy computers has been im- Proved over previous programs but will cost the board more than it should, trustee Bonnie Horswill said at the board’s monthly meeting last week. Horswill said she supports the concept because computers have become an essential part of education, but doesn’t think the five per cent interest rate attached to the loans is appropriate given current in- terest rates. The money would otherwise be in term deposits gaining interest at 2 (500-300-200) per cent below prime, treasurer John Dascher said. Today's prime rate is 9% per cent “For (the staff) to have the things at home, it's a benefit to us, a benefit to the staff and to the kids, but I don't think we should have to subsidize them to that extent,’’ Hor- swill said However, Dascher said five per cent is appropriate because interest rates are coming down The district will lend $2,000 to a minimum of six and a maximum of 25 employees. This year’s program offers employees an option of one or two years to pay out the loans through payroll deductions. The total amount of interest on a one- year loan is $50 and $100 on a two- year loan. Horswill suggested the interest rate on the loans be set at two to three per cent below the interest rate the board could earn as of June 30, the deadline for staff to apply for the loans. “We'd still be giving them a savings over last year," she said, ex- plaining that interest charged on previous loans was set at 12 per cent, the same rate the board would have earned if the money were in a bank “It’s not a lot per employee per , but at 25, it adds up,”’ she The board did not support her suggestions. SPOKANE INDIAN BINGO Chewelah, Wa. Great Odds! Maximum Seating only 400! SATURDAY $ JUNE 1ST 4:30 Session BONANZA 6:30 Session (500-300-200) . . * SUPER SUNDAY x June 2nd — 4:30 Session $1000 GAMES-LEVEL 4* $250 GAMES-LEVEL 2* 4-750 Flimsies MONDAY JUNE 3RD +500 GAMES-LEVEL 3* $150 GAMES-LEVEL 1 * SPECIAL PKG. DEALS +1000 .. BONANZA PLAY BINGO WHERE THE PAYOUTS ARE BIG! 2.5 MILES SOUTH OF CHEWELAH, WA., U.S. HWY. 395 45 MILES NORTH OF SPOKANE, WA. SESSSION TIMES: SAT. 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The Castlegar News ran- a Canadian Press story Saturday on Page A2-which reported that Junker was arrested by Spokane Police at an early morning party in that city for ‘investigation of possession of liquor by a minor.’’ Junker, 18, a left winger for the Memorial Cup champion Spokane Chiefs, was charged along with a teammate a day af- ter the team returned to Spokane from the hockey tournament in Quebec City. Gee, I wonder if they were celebrating? Junker said he’s been advised by the team not to say anything about the incident, but he did say he “twas pretty choked’’ about the story, which was consistent with a lot of the feedback I got on it. “I don’t know how many kids get MIPs (minor in possession) in this country and they’re (the media) blowing my name up,”’ he Golfer never happy, always good 7 Even though he was one of four golfers from the Kootenays to qualify for the B.C. Amateur In a tournament last weekend Bill Perehudoft's still not satisfied with his game. CosNews photo By ED MILLS Staff Writer That's the thing about Bill Perehudoff — he's never satisfied with his golf game. That's why, even after he shot the fourth best score out of 86 golfers from the East and West Kootenays in a B.C. Amateur qualifying tour- mament last weekend, he was still talking about playing better. “I’m not playing that well yet to be honest with you,’’ Perehudoff said in an interview Tuesday while he was playing a round at the Castlegar and District Golf Course. “Everyone’s got their different standards. Everybody says, ‘You're beating all the young guys,’ but that doesn’t mean I’m playing well,’”” he said, then admitted, ‘I’m star to get into it though.” RY Gx Perehudoff shot a first-round 80 Friday at Christina Lake then followed it with a 75 Saturday at Birchbank in Genelle to qualify for one of four spots in the Toyota Men's B.C. Amateur tournament which will be held July 16-19 at Shaughnessy Golf Club in Van- couver. Nelson's Brian De Biasio shot a two-round total of 143 to win the event while Paul Hughes of Fernie was second at 152. Willy Hicks of Valley View was third at 153, two strokes ahead of Perehudoff. The four golfers and spare Mike Pastuk of Nelson will make up the Zone | team at the Amateur. Perehudoff, wtto’s been to the Amateur four times before and has finished in the top 10 once, said this time he has a definite goal in mind. ‘Sure everybody would like to win it, but if you get in the top four you get to go on the B.C. Team, then you get to go with the team to the Canadians. So that’s something to shoot for.’” But against 145 of the province’s best amateur golfers, he doesn't ex- Pect it to be easy, or particularly en- joyable for that matter. “Oh yeah, it’s not a for fun tour- nament. It’s just like a tour event, except it’s amateur,’ Perehudoff said, ‘They start the cuts after two days, so if you don’t get into it and don’t play well, you get cut anyways.”” Perehudoff’s score also qualified him to compete on the four-man Zone team which will play in the B.C. Summer Games July 25-28 in Port Coquitlam. Cory Neil of Salmo (157), Rossland-Trail’s Kim Hay (158) and Brian Smithson of Nelson (158) are the other West Kootenay golfers on the Games team. In juniors, Marty Carew of Castlegar shot 84 at Christina Lake and 82 at Birchbank to qualify for the 9-18 handicap in the Amateur which will take place Aug. 28 at the 108 Golf Club. With the score, Carew, 14 — who had a hole-in-one on the third hole at the Castlegar course two weeks ago — will likely also qualify for the junior Summer Games team, though that team hasn’t been determined Another towards By CasNews Staff Castlegar and District Golf Club Pro Denny McArthur might be looking over his shoulder a bit these days. Because in his rear-view mirror is Pp ing assistant iT Steven Johnston, who on Monday took a step closer to his dream of running his own golf course at an assistant professional tournament in Fairmont. Johnston led the field of 24 assistant pros shooting a one-day, 36-hole round of two-under-par 140 (70 and 70) at the tournament. More importantly for Johnston, who joined the Castlegar club this season, he qualified for his Canadian Professional Golfers Association A and B cards necessary to work as a certified assistant pro. yet. Castlegar golfers Ron Perrier, Brian Turlock, Alex Perehudoff, Doug Wright, Barry Perehudoff and Nick Sherstobitoff also competed in the men’s event at the qualifier while Mark Perrier and Todd Archambault joined Carew in the juniors event. step a dream And his scores were so low he won’t ever have to qualify for his cards again. “*Basically, it means that I could own my own golf course now,” said Johnston, 24, who has said in the Past that he’d like to run his own course. All he has to do now is put in another five years or so and he will be on an equal footing, certification wise, with McArthur. Dan Dupuis of Genelle, who is the assistant pro at his hometown Birch- bank course, was second in the Fairmont tourney with rounds of 71 and 73. Both Johnston and Dupuis will play in the 30th annual Castlegar Sunflower Open here Saturday and Sunday. Johnston has finished second twice in the 240-player tournament. said. ‘“‘We won the M Cup, write about that.’ I’m inclined to agree with him. We have a lot of local kids who do amazing things in sports and I surely wouldn’t be rushing to put their names in the paper if they got nabbed for drinking un- der age. All you have to do is make a weekend stop at the Boiler Room nightclub in Nelson to know that Junker’s not the only underage kid who has the occasional cold one with his pals. Without getting hysterical about the evils of alcohol and the corruption of minors, let’s put Junker’s transgression into per- spective for a minute. Basically, all Junker did was pick the wrong city for his party. He should have gone to Calgary where the drinking age is 18 and the police only bust you if you’re a complete maniac. (Anybody who's seen Calgary during the Stampede knows what I'm talking about.) Now comes the big “‘however.’” However, that’s not: to say what Junker did was right. The guy knew the rules, he broke them and got caught. Now he has to pay the price. I just don’t believe it’s my job, or the media’s in general, to collect the toll or add to the total when the mistake was so minor. Which is one of the reasons that, though I had the chance, I didn’t run the story in the sports section of the paper. In fact, I wouldn’t have run it at all. Not because I’m friends with Steve Junker, or because I feel any pressure to keep his name out of the paper. Yes, I’ve met him and I like him. He seems like a level-headed young guy with a bright future in hockey. I wouldn’t have run the story because I’m not sure how much it meant, and I’m not convinced it had any value as public knowledge. Frankly, unless it ruins his hockey career, which I doubt it will, I don’t think it was @ story at all. Steve Junker made a mistake, @ very minor mistake made by youngsters all the time. I doubt very much that he’s a chronic alcoholic or a danger to himself or others. As one educator I talked to recently said, you can try to stop the kids at Junker’s age from drinking, you can do your best to make sure they don’t get in trouble if they do drink, but good luck if you think you can stop them. Having a beer or two before your time is still, right or wrong, a right of passage. Hey Steve, when you turn 19, I'll buy you a beer. If you have cab fare, I'll buy you one in Alberta tomorrow — after all, your team did win the Memorial Cup, and I think you can handle it. Players reach fourth plateau in Best Ever By CasNews Staff A pair of Castlegar minor hockey Players have reached the fourth plateau in the B.C. Amateur Hockey Association’s Best Ever program. Jaycee Moore and Teddy Hunter have been invited to the 1991 Provin- cial Under-17 Development Camp which is set for Aug. 3 in Osoyoos. They are two of 46 players chosen from across the province and two of only five overall chosen from the West Kootenay. They were selected as a result of their play on the Kootenay team at the six-team Best Ever B.C. Cup tournament April 25-28 in Osoyoos. Moore, 15, played goal for the Castlegar Bantam Reps last season while Hunter,-16, was a forward on the provincial finalists Midget Reps. Moore was one of six goalies selec- ted to attend the camp while Hunter has to fight for a-job with 23 other forwards. The provincial under-17 develop- ment camp is the fourth component of the BCAHA’s Best Ever program which has as an overall objective of increasing the chances of B.C. athletes to compete provincially, nationally and internationally, with the ultimate goal of competing in the Olympic Winter Games. From that camp, 10 players will be identified to represent B.C. on the Pacific Regional team That team, which will also include 10 players from Alberta, will com- pete in the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association’s Program of Excellence. Team Pacific, along with regional teams from the West, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada, will Prepare to compete against national under-17 teams from the Soviet Union, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Finland and the United States in the ESSO International Under-17 Camp Dec. 29 to Jan. 4 in Sudbury, Ont. Trail Midget Reps player Ryan Huska, Beaver Valley junior B player Adam Deadmarsh and Nelson Ban- tam Reps player John Dvorak were the other West Kootenay players selected to the team. Nino DaCosta, a star centreman on the Castlegar Midget Reps this Past season, made it to the third component of the Best Ever program last year. Sharks and Stars work out a deal SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The San Jose Sharks will take at least two players, but no more than four, from Minnesota in a dispersal draft agreed upon long before the North Stars’ surprising run into the Stanley Cup finals. Forwards Ulf Dahlen and Mike Craig, defencemen Brian Glynn, Neil Wilkinson and Rob Zettler and goaltender Brian Hayward could wind up being among the 25 players Selected by the Sharks from the Min- nesota organization, depending upon decisions made by North Stars and Sharks officials. “It’s up to the North Stars,’’ Sharks general manager Jack Ferreira said Tuesday. ‘We'll be happy with any of the group.”” The dispersal draft and an expan- sion draft in which the Sharks and the North Stars each will select 10 players — one from each of the remaining 20 NHL teams — will take Place Thursday. Ferreira said the expansion draft will give the North Stars and Sharks @ shot at the likes of Philadelphia's Tim Kerr, Kelly Kisio of the New York ‘Rangers, Walt Poddubny of the new Jersey Devils and Pittsburgh goalie Wendell Young, who were left unprotected by their respective teams. - Whatever combination of North Stars players finally goes to the Sharks, it will be the result of a negotiated agreement between the two clubs in response to complaints made earlier this year by North Stars owner Norman Green that he would lose too many of his team's young players. Green's complaints stemmed from @ part of the deal that Howard Baldwin and Morris Belzberg arranged to buy the North Stars from George and Gordon Gund, who now own the Sharks. Green eventually bought out Baldwin and Belzberg, but found himself saddled with a deal that allowed the Sharks to select 30 players, almost all Prospects, after the 1990-91 season. The North Stars will decide whether the Sharks will receive either Dahlen and Glynn or Wilkinson and Zettler. Dahlen is a four-year veteran and Glynn has played two seasons, while Wilkinson and Zettler would have been almost sure picks for the Sharks in the original agreement. JUNIOR JUMPER Tuesday for its annual track and rey After being rained out on Friday, Kinnaird Junior secondary school got some good weather field championships. Penguins take Stanley on party tour of steel town PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pit- tsburgh Penguins held the first championship party in their 24-year history, and they invited 80,000 of their closest friends to celebrate. And celebrate they did. They skipped out of work, took a long lunch hour or played hooky to enjoy hockey as one of the unlikeliest champions in NHL history staged a downtown rally Tuesday that was one of the largest in the city’s history. The guest of honor was the Stanley Cup. “*it's getting better every day,” said Phil Bourgue, surveying the thousands of fans who crowded their way into Point State Park for Pit- tsburgh’s first championship bash in 11 years. “It’s just now sinking in what we've done in the last nine or 10 months. We've really won the Stanley Cup."” “This might be the most exciting day of my life,"’ said team owner Edward J. DeBartolo, who said he has lost $24 million on the team since 1977. It was a typical Pittsburgh party — they booed politicians such as Mayor Sophie Masloff but cheered loud and long for the team that won it all after barely winning anything for a quarter-century. ~ The biggest cheers of all were for 19-year-old fan favorite Jaromir Jagr, Conn Smythe Award winner Mario Lemieux, and, of course, Lord Stanley's cup. 5 The 27-pound sterling silver trophy has survived being left alongside a snowy highway, a drop kick into a icy river, a visit to an Edmonton striptease joint and being stolen by a Chicago Blackhawks fan. But its biggest test may be the Penguins. Since being handed to Lemieux by NHL president John Ziegler last Saturday night, the Cup has been carted on two buses and an airplane, briefly been the showpiece of Tom Barrasso’s living room, dunked in Mario Lemieux’s swimming pool and kissed and hoisted by 30 players in front of 80,000 fans. Pittsburgh sports fans haven’t had a title to celebrate since 1980, when the Steelers won the last of their four Super. Bowls. But they’ve made up for lost time since the title-clinching 8-0 victory over the Minnesota North Stars on Saturday. Some fans arrived as early as 7 a.m. for the noon party.