LION'S HEAD PUB in Robson was slated to open to the public today, 4 Built and qwned.by Elmer and Veronica Pellerine of Castlegar, the hood pub was desig with meticuloug_att@ntion to detail for the English Tudor theme carried out in the building’s design and decor. A wine and cheese party for, workers, subtrades, neighbors and friends was held at the pub yesterday. The facility will offer daily luncheon specials with evening dinners featuring dishes from different countries. Lion's Head Pub will open at 11 a.m. daily, with closing hours varying. An official opening is planned for a later date. PLANS BY A Vancouver-based company to build a research and development centre in Nakusp have fallen through. PMC Technologies Ltd. had planned to build the facility on the former Westar Timber property. However, PMC announced this week that while it still intends to proceed with a research centre in B.C., the centre has been given a lower priority. PMC is 100 per cent owned by Precision Microcast Systems of Ventura, Calif, which has just received a -major contract with the U.S. defense and aerospace industry. PMC says it may look at building the research facility later this year or early next year. Meanwhile, Westar Timber is looking for another buyef for its Nakusp property. Westar says a Trout Lake firm has shown interest in the property, along with some individuals in Nakusp. WEST KOOTENAY Power and Light Co. vehicles have been equipped with a new device that helps scare animals off the road. Kaslo Mayor Jack Morris told Saturday's Central Kootenay regional] board meeting WKPL has mounted a high frequency device on the hood of its vehicles which sends out a signal warning off animals. “They've been using it now for six months,” he said. But Area K (rural Nakusp) director Bill Cuthill says the devices aren't all they're cracked up to be. Cuthill says he had one on his car for a year and nearly hit several deer as he came around a corner one day. “They don’t work: very well,” he said. TRAIL COUNCIL agreed Monday night to spend more than $5,000 to change its Expo 86 sign at the bottom of the Cominco hill to a Welcome to Trail sign. Castlegar council has refused a. similar offer from the Ministry of Highways to take over the Expo 86 sign at the Highway 3 interchange. THE B.C. government's plan to roll B.C. Place and the B.C. Development Corp. into one giant Crown corporation called B.C. Enterprise Corp. will have an effect on the West Kootenay. Among the new corporation’s land holdings is Trail’s industrial park. The park will be put on the block along with 12,000 acres of other prime property across B.C. in a bid to reduce the corporation's debt. Economic Development Minister Grace McCarthy says removing the debt directly from the land and offering the land for sale is expected to encourage private sector development. 3 7 Hects — CHICAGO (AP) ~— That jolt of caffeine in a morning cup of coffee or tea improves an impulsive, opposite for thoughtful intro- verts, two psychology pro- fessors said Tuesday. Caffeine in doses equiva- lent to one to three cups of coffee helps both types of people perform simple men“ tal jobs, the pyschologists said. { When the mental tasks be- come more difficult, such as proofreading for grammatical mistakes, impulsive people who thrive on snap decisions perform better in the mor- ning with caffeine, they said. “We found people who des- cribe themselves as less im- pulsive, people who take their time to make a decision, their performance was sev- erely hindered in the morn- Heine PUB PROPRIETORS . . . Elmer and Veronica Pellerine are the owners of the Lion's Head Pub which was scheduled to open today. = CasNews Photo by Burt Compbel! Castlegar's industrial park is not among the new corporation's land holdings. AFTER BIDDING fiercely to win the giant Expo 86 hockey stick, Duncan Mayor Mike Holman is discovering quite a number of residents don't want it. Duncan and North Cowichan Valley, on Vancouver Island, beat Trail and Penticton in a bid to acquire the Expo landmark, which is more than 100 metres tall. But more than 700 people have'signed a petition saying they don’t want to spend $50,000 to erect what they consider an eyesore. Despite financial pledges from the Duncan and North Cowichan councils, another $30,000 is needed to pay for dismantling the stick, transporting it to the island, erecting and maintaining it. say i public money on the project is scandalous when worthy social programs go begging. Holman said he wasn't on Duncan's council when the bid was made but now feels residents should make the best of it. CENTRAL KOOTENAY Imports has received its first shipment of Volkswagens. The cars are being prepared for the Columbia Avenue car dealer on 13th Avenue beside the Portuguese Socia Centre. ing,” said William Revelle, a psychology professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Il. Revelle said his findings on caffeine'’s effects on thinking have been refined from re search begun at Northwest- ern seven years ago with studies on 700 people. Those findings were re- cently corroborated by ps- ychologist Kristen Anderson in a separate study of 1090 people finished last fall. Anderson, an assistant professor at Colgate Univer- sity in Hamilton, N.Y., said she and Revelle feel that in- troverted people are hinder- ed by caffeine in the morning because they already are more aroused and awake then. 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BN peal Yigind Se CN eae Tournament comes to Castlegar By SUBJ RATTAN ‘Staff Writer Six hockey teams, 116 players, 24 team officials and about 100 parents will converge on Castlegar for five days yeton an ye sorta ne hosts the 1987 Bantam Triple AP ey Ch Including Castlegar, the host city, there are seven teams representing different regions in the province taking Williams Lake, representing the Cariboo-Peace District; Surrey, representing the Fraser Valley Conference; the North Shore Winter Club, representing the Greater Vancouver region; Trail, repre- senting the East and. West Kootenays; Kamloops, representing the Okanagan Mainline; and thé Victoria Raequet Club, representing Vancouver Island. All the games will be played at the Community Complex with Trail and Castlegar kicking things off at 10 a.m. Sunday. At7 p.m. Castlegar faces off against Victoria. There will be'a a of 23 games played during the five days, ending March 19, as “Dinner with John MecKeachie.” BCTV sportscaster John McKeachie will be the keynote speaker. The tournament is funded by local donations and grants from Castlegar council. Following is the tournament schedule: Sunday: 10 a.m, — Kootenay, vs Castlegar; 12:30 p.m. — Greater V vs Ok Mainli 3:30 p.m. — Cariboo-Peace vs Fraser Valley; 6:15 p.m. — vs Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore, Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy and B.C, Amateur Association West Kootenay director Gordon Malcolm will officiate at the opening ceremonies at 6:15 p.m. Sunday. On Tuesday a celebrity banquet will be held for the players, team officials and the public. The banquet is billed Cer 7 p.m. — Ci Island. Monday: 10 a.m. — Fraser Valley vs Vancouver Island; 12:30 p.m. Cariboo-Peace vs Greater Vancouver; 3:30 p.m. — Kootenay vs Okanagan Mainline; 6:30 p.m. — Castlegar vs Fraser Valley. 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They def eight girls basketball team managed to capture the Grade Eight Girls West Kootenay Cham- ionship i d Trail in the semi- finals and Nelson in the final to take the league title. nifer Sallis, Carrit Fayant, Kim Byers left to right Wer Back row left to right Larissa Cheveldave, Jennifer Laurel Closkey, Kristy Lees and Lisa Baker. Bankerf, Sherfy Mackortoff, Jen- lyn Briscoe, Nicole Ruby, Amanda and coach Doug Hickey. Front row dy kachotf, A da: Ri Y. CasNewsPhoto Saints out of playoffs By CasNews Staff The Selkirk College Saints ended their season on“a losing note over the kend, dropping a double-header to Douglas College. . The Saints went down to defeat on Friday night 102-59 and were out- played again on Saturday, this time losing 129-61. Despite Saturday's loss, Saints’ Ray Branch came up with an impressive performance, scoring 39 points, which enabled him to capture the Totem Con- ference scoring title. Branch, who hails from Minneapolis, Minn. is regarded as one of the top scorers in college basketball in Canada. The Saints finished sixth out of the eight-team Totem Conference league. The top four teams in the league will vie for the league ch ionship be- teams and the rest of the teams are pretty evenly matched,” Woodward told the Castlegar News. He added that he will know for cer- tain whether Selkirk College will have a basketball team next season after the ginning Friday. Saints coach Ron Woodward said his team had “an up and down season.” “There were a few games that we lost by only two or four points, so we had a pretty close season. The league is divided into two or three powerhouse PI rs brings down its budget next week. “Like every year, we're sort of at the mercy of the budget. Assuming we are going to have a team next season, three or four of the ballplayers will be coming back,” said Woodward. Molterer captures Legends of Skiing title in Colorado VAIL, COLO. (AP), — The constantly changing leaderboard was transformed into a glittering tableau of skiing history as Eriksen took the lead, only to be eclipsed _ by Sailere and then Klammer, Read, Russi and Mahre. Finally, a feisty 65-year-old Austrian whose physical conditioning is the envy of men 20 years younger prevailed. Anderl Molterer, who was voted the world’s best skier three times in the 1950s, captured the Legends of Skiing downhill Tuesday for the second straight year. Molterer, a native of Kitzubhel, Austria, who now resides in Aspen, Colo., withstood challenges from such FOUR IN A ROW? Rockettes play to win By CasNews Staff The Stanley Humphries Junior Rock ettes wrapped up their regular season on Friday by defeating Rossland 73-39. Jennifer Rezansoff was the top scorer in the game, picking up 27 points while Arla Goolieff settled for 21. The Rockettes finished the season on top of the West Kootenay Junior Girls League with a total of 24 points in 12 games. The Rockettes, under the leadership of coach Doug Pilatzke, managed to win all 12 games. Trail's J.L. Crowe settled for second spot in the league with 14 points, followed by Nelson's L.V. Rogers with 10 points and Grand Forks and Rossland, each with six points. However, Grand Forks finished fourth because they had a better record against Rossland. Playoff action started this week. Grand Forks and Rossland will play and the winner will face off against the Rockettes Thursday night at Selkirk College. The winner of a game between L.V. Rogers and J.L. Crowe will go on to play the winner of the Thursday night's Rockettes game for the league cham. pionship. That will take place Friday night at Selkirk College. Pilatzke said the Rockettes have played well all season long and the squad is pretty conficent going into the playoffs. “As long as we keep our running game going, and playing everyone on the team, we'll be in good shape,” Pilatzke told the Castlegar News. He added that he plays everyone on the team in short shifts in an attempt to wear the opposition out. The Junior Rockettes have won the West Kootenay Championship for the last three years and are gunning for their fourth straight victory The only other team to capture the league championship four years in a row was a Trail team which achieved the feat 23 years ago. Rangers get Dionne former di as Canadii Steve Podborski and Ken Read, Billy Kidd and Phil Mahre, both of the United States, fellow Austrian Franz Klammer, Toni Sailer, Karl Schranz, Stein Eriksen, and Bernhard Russi. The 30 skiers who competed Tuesday combined to win 89 World Cup races during their careers. Racers times for two runs were calculated on the basis of handicaps to account for age differences. Molterer had a handicap of 5.9, meaning 5.9 seconds were subtracted from both his runs. He finished with a combined time of two minutes 31.04 seconds. Molterer led after the first run. Mahre-didn't benefit from a handicap, placing second in 2:31.72. The 29-year-old, the finest all-round male skier in U.S. history, won World Cup overall titles in 1981, 1982 and 1983, but his best finish in a downhill on the World Cup circuit was a fifth. Hansi Hinterseer, 33, one of Austria's greatest slalom and giant skiers of the 1970s, was third in 2:32.24, followed by Russi, the 1972 Olympic downhill champion from Switzerland, in 2:33.82, and Read, the Calgary native who was the first North American male ever to win a World Cup downhill, in 2:34.19. Klammer, the best downhiller of all time with 25 World Cup victories — including nine straight at one streteh — was sixth in 2:34.62. st Hinterseer, Read and Klammer all raced without handicaps, while Russi, 38, had a 1.5-second handicap. In the first Legends downhill ever held for women, former U.S. Ski Team member Kiki Cutter triumphed. Atoms end season By MARY HUNTER The Castlegar Atom All-stars played their last two games of the playoffs over the weekend. They lost to Trail on Saturday, in a game marred by 42 minutes in penalty time for Castlegar and 24 minutes for Trail. Mike Hunter scored both of the goals for Castlegar and Fred Geinger picked up one assist. On Sunday, Castlegar beat Beaver Valley 4-1. Scoring one goal a piece were Rick Fauth, Geinger, Brian Harshenin and Mike Byers. Players collecting assists were Hunter with two and Ian Dudley, Tedd Bonderoff and Geinger with one each. Trail and Beaver Valley have yet to play two games between thembefore the overall winner of the playoffs is determined. NEW YORK (AP) — Marcel Dionne got what he wanted. The New York Rangers think they got what they needed. “Marcel is the man who can help the Rangers right now,” general manager Phil Esposito said Tuesday in announcing the acquisition of the veteran centre from the Los Angeles Kings. “Our feeling is the Rangers have a chance to win (the Stanley Cup) this year or next year.” To acquire the National Hockey League's second all-time scorer, along with left winger Jeff Crossman, the Rangers sent centre Bobby Carpenter and defenceman Tom Laidlaw to Los Angeles. The Rangers also got the Kings’ third-round draft choice in 1989. For Dionne, the trade was something he initiated and something that literally happened overnight. He said he called Kings general manager Rogie Vachon on Monday night and asked to be moved before Tuesday's afternoon trading deadline< “It was a combination of a few things,” Dionne said. “I had asked the general manager to renegotiate (his contract) and could see that I was struggling a little bit the last couple of months. “J didn't have a chance to sit down and make my point. I don't think I was going to go anywhere (in: the renegotiation), so that’s why the trade happened.” Only Gordie Howe, with 1,850, has scored more points than Dionne’s 1,673. Dionne is also second on the NHL's all-time goals-scored list with with 689 to Howe's 801 The Rangers are fourth in the Patrick Division with 64 points and struggling for a playoff spot. The Kings are fourth in the Smythe Division with 60 points, but have a solid lead over the Vancouver Canucks for.fhe last playoff spot. Dionne, 35, began his NHL career in 1971 with the Detroit Red Wings and signed with Los Angeles as a free agent prior to the 1975 season. In his second season with the Kings, Dionne scored 53 goals and added five 50-goal seasons after that — with a high of 59 in 1978-79. He led the league in scoring in 1979-80 with 53 goals and 84 assists for 137 points — making him the last player to win the Art Ross Trophy before Wayne Gretzky began his reign as the NHL's top scorer. This season, his 16th, Dionne has 24 goals and 50 assists for 74 points. Dionne scored his 1,000th NHL point during the 1980-81 season in his 740th game — at that point the fastest pace ever, since broken by Montreal's Guy Lafleur and Gretzky. Also on Wednesday, the Rangers traded centre Raimo Helminen to the Minnesota North Stars for future considerations and acquired right winger Stu Kulak from the Edmonton Oilers to complete the trade made Oct. 24 for defenceman Reijo Ruotsalainen The Oilers made another deal, sending left winger Raimo Summanen to the Canucks for left winger Moe Lemay. The Hartford Whalers acquired right-winger Pat Hughes on waivers from the St. Louis Blues and the Rangers sent centre Raimo Helminen to the Minnesota for future considerations. VANCOUVER DEFEATS DETROIT VANCOUVER (CP) — More ice time may be the answer in the development of rookie Jim Sandlak of the Vancouver Canucks. Sandlak was moved to a line with veterans Barry Pederson and Petri Skriko, replacing captain Stan Smyl, and the right winger scored the winning goal Tuesday night in a 7-4 Vancouver upset of the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League. Skriko and Rich Sutter added two goals each as the desperate Canucks moved to within eight points of the fourth-place Los Angeles Kings, who occupy the final playoff berth in the Smythe Division. “I do what the coach wants and I hope I can help the team make the playoffs,” said the six-foot-four, 210-pound Sandlak. “The more I play, the more confident I get.” Sandlak broke a 4-4 tie in the third period after he hauled down Detroit defenceman Mike O'Connell near centre without being penalized. A quick transition to offence allowed Sandlak to blast a 50-foot shot past netminder Glen Hanlon for the first of three unanswered Canuck goals. Vancouver coach Tom Watt has been reluctant to play some of his younger players down the stretch, but elected to move the veteran Smy]l onto a checking line with Brent Peterson and Dave Lowry STILL A CANUCK “I think the coach should play his best players a lot every night,” said Smyl, who was relieved not to be traded when the NHL deadline passed earlier in the day. “The younger players have to earn their spots “Sandlak played well tonight and I'm sure he'll get more ice time next game.” Dan Hodgson and Patrik Sundstrom also scored for the Canucks, who have the worst record (22-40-8) in the league. Vancouver has 10 games left and the Kings have 13. Detroit lost its second straight road game despite twogoals by Gerard Gallant, giving the left winger 37 for the season, and singles by Steve Yzerman and Petr Klima. The Wings 30-29-9, remained in first place in the Norris Division, four points in front of St. Louis Blues. Detroit coach Jacques Demers said his team made many mistakes in its zone and the Wings were hesitant instead of forcing the issue. VICTIM THE SAME Sandlak also stole the puck from O'Connell for Skriko's insurance goal at 7:49 of the third period, his 26th of the season. Sutter’s second goal went into an empty net with 23 seconds to play. The game deteriorated into a brawl with five seconds left as referee Dan Marouelli had problems with five fights. Both coaches blamed the other team. “It was cheap coaching on his (Watt's) part; he should know better,” said Demers. “We wanted to leave with class, to avoid any kind of incident.” Watt said the Wings werre frustrated. “He (Demers) can say what he wants, but Detroit has the most penalized team in the league,” said Watt. “We held them to 19 shots on goal, only three in the third, so don't you think there was some frustration on their part.” Demers pulled starting netminder Mark LaForest early in the second. period with the score tied 3-3 and repiaced him with Hanion. Vancouver outshot Detroit 33-19. Vancouver did not use Raimo Summanen, acquired Tuesday from Edmonton in a trade involving Moe Lemay, while the Wings dressed Mel Bridgman, obtained Monday from the New Jersey Devils for Chris Cichoeki. Bridgman took a regular shift but was in the penalty box for power-play goals by Skriko andSundstrom. i ae sie if