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GOOD YEAR... Members
of the Robson River Otters
swim club are all smiles
atter finishing their fourth
successful year. Nine of

club's swimmers
competed in the provincial
championships and the
Otters recently held a
wind-up to honor
all the club's swimmers.

Otters cap successful year

By CORALEA SCHUEPFER
Capping its fourth successful, year, the Robson River
Otters held its wind-up last week, Coach John Prescott
expressed his pleasure with the strength and spirit of the
team and hoped that this unique togetherness would
continue in the future within the club.

Provincially, the nine River Otters who participated in
the championships placed higher than ever, surpassing not
only the Kootenay Region swim clubs, but many Okanagan,
Cariboo, Vancouver Island and Lower Mainland teams, only
to be outdone by major clubs like Coquitlam, Boundary Bay,
Richmond and North Shore.

For the majority of the nine regional meets, the Robson

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club had 18 to 20 participants competing to tally up 3,731
points for the 1986 season.

Helping to contribute to this total were the following
top 12 swimmers who tallied individual points: Ariel
McDowell 299, Jeff Schuepfer 296, Jason Schuepfer 262,
Kim Verigin 256, Elaine Prescott 245, Chris Kinakin 206,
Ken Kinakin 205, Silas Bagur 180, Mike Byers 156, Kim
Byers 146, Trevor Seville 128 and Seamus Donohue 94
points.

Aggregate awards were presented to swimmers who
earned the most points in each of their strokes for the club.
To accomplish this, they had to place in the top five or six
positions (according to the number of lanes in each pool).

The George P. Wanjoff Family trophy for best male
breaststroke was awarded to Ken Kinakin (50 points) and
the Gough Electric Ltd. trophy was awarded to Ariel
McDowell (52 points) for best female breaststroke.

The Castle Bow! (1976) Ltd. trophy for best male
backstroke went to Jeff Schuepfer (73 points) while Ariel

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McDowell (67 points) captured the Dr. W.L. Wright
Memorial trophy for best female backstroke.

The Nancy and Stanley Humphries and Family trophy
for best male freestyle was shared between Jeff Schuepfer
for 100-meter length (65 points) and Kim Verigin for the
50-metre length (68 points) while the O.B. Ballard and
Family trophy for the best female freestyle was shared
betweel Chris Kinakin (4] poifits) for thé 100-meter length
and Kim Byers (32 points) for the 50-metre length.

The Captain G.O. and Marion Sutherland and Family
trophy fer best male butterfly was awarded ‘to Jason
Schuepfer (70 points) with Scottie’s Marina trophy for best
female butterly going to Ariel McDowell (77 points).

The combination of each.of the above-mentioned strokes
forms the longest stroke fwhith requires the most endurance
— the individual medley, The John T. and Gertie Webster
Family trophy for best mple individual medley was awarded
to Jason Schuepfer (56 points) and the James and Emily
Martin trophy went to Ariel McDowcll (59 points) for best
female individual medley

The overall male aggregate award, Marg and Art
Anderson Trophy, went to Jeff Schuepfer who tallied a total
of 296 and the Molly and Ed Sorge Trophy went to Ariel
McDowell who tallied 299 points for the overall female
aggregate trophy

For training purposes, the River Otters were divided
into three specific groups named by the swimmers

Throughout this training season, according to their

Calendar

swimmers were awarded a beach towel each week onto
which they embroidered their name as winner of “Swimmer
of the Week.”

The towel for the youngest group, called The Junior

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Otters, was awarded to Sean Pinkerton. The middle group,
called the Galaxians, was won by Seamus Donohue, while
Chris Kinakin won the towel for the oldest group, called the
Sinistars.

On the lighter side of the evening's events, a separate
set of awards was given to swimmers, adding Wumor to the
ceremonies. These awards were determined by the coach
from daily workouts over the four-month season

Keeping everything “ship-shape”, the Woman of the
Year Award went to Heather Sutherland. The Vogue
Swimmers Award went to Kristy Verigin and Kerry
Anderson for their matching bathing suits and swim caps.

The Most Affectionate Swimmer Award went to Anita
Lebidoff with the Best Racer award going to Jane

The A & W Bears recently
returned from a successful
four game road trip to Van
couver.

In their first game the A &

Club comprised of players
from their top Premier
League and from their Senior
League teams. The Bears,
ranging in age from 15-18,

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W Bears took on the Van
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attendance, attitude and the energy put into each practice,

Deschamps, even though in her eagerness she left her
goggles on her forehead!

The David Foster Award went to Curtis Ready for his
contribution to the unique Otter original songs over the past
two years. The Most Courageous Swimmer Award went to
Ariel McDowell for her attempt to improve the local road
conditions off her bike, then turn around and still swim in
the provincial championships.

There's My Spine award went to Aaron Donohue who at
the regional meet discovered it was easier to go straight
down the swim lane rather than bouncing off each side of the
lane lines.

There were three swimmers who “disliked” to practice
the longer lengths of butterfly, therefore Ken Kinakin, Jeff
Schuepfer and Trevor Seville received the FWU Club
Awards. Josh McInnes surpassed all summertime bike
wipeouts to receive the Ugliest Swimmer Award.

In spite of the confusion in each of the practice lanes and
who was to do what and when, Kevin Wanjoff stayed calm,
cool and collected. For his “being cool” he received a regional
T.dhirt.

Two adults were also given recognition for their efforts
throughout the season. For her vigil of standing guard in the
Otters tent, Sandy Donohue was given the Sheriff Award.
Doug Pinkerton was given a T-shirt entitled “paraphernalia
superintendent” for his ingenious ideas on setting up the
new tarp.

For coming up with their unique places for aches and
pains in order to get out of the harder practice sessions,
coach John Prescott set up appointments at the Florence
Nightingale Medical Clinic for Scott Sutherland, Sarah
Bagur, Anita Lebidoff, Jane Deschamps, Alana Miller,
Tammy Yanagisawa and Rob McGregor

Not to be outdone, the younger swimmers were given
recognition to the Sugar Ray Robinson Boxing Club: Seamus
id “Aaron Donohué; Jody Deschamps, Sarah and -Eric
Petersem, Josh and Deanna McInnes and Ryan Yanagisawa.

The third set of awards, called encouragement awards,
were determined by the coach. The immers’ attitudes,
performances, behavior at practices and meets, partici.

leadership, determination on perfecting their

. goals set and reached, attendance and if they
peaked from practices to their goals were all taken into
consideration.

The Marjorie P. Waldie Trophy for the most improved
female swimmer went to Heather Sutherland. For his deter
mination to reach the finals, the R. Waldie Trophy for the
most improved male swimmer went to brother, Scott
Sutherland, who at the end of the season finally reached the
finals and qualified to participate in the provincial
championships.

The Gordon R. Brown and Family Award for female
sportsmanship went to Chris Kinakin while the Johnny's
Grocery and Gas Sales trophy for male sportsmanship went
to Mike Byers

The Oborne Award for best attendance was awarded to
Rob McGregor for his fourth year of almost a perfect
attendance. The Gillman Trophy for best male encourage
ment award went to Ken Kinakin while the J. Scott Family
Trophy for best female encouragement award went to Kim
Byers.

The last two awards went to swimmers who worked in
practices to gradually peak their performances at regional
and provincial championships.

The R.A. Fowler Trophy (in memory of young Dick
Fowler) for the most valuable male swimmer was shared
between Kim Verigin and Jeff Schuepfer. The P. Horcoff
and Family Trophy for the most valuable female swimmer
went to Ariel McDowell.

Gifts of utility bags and team pictures were given to
John and Elaine Prescott from the parents and swimmers of
the River Otters in appreciation for their coaching over the
1986 season

Bears split games on trip

Jeff DaRosa got a double
and a single

Monday night the Bears
met the Pharaohs Bison
Team and defeated them 11-2
while out hitting them 11-1
Jeff DaRosa went the dis

The Bears led 3-0 after 1'2
innings when the Pharaohs
came alive with eight runs in
the second inning — mostly
as a result of errors com
mitted by a nervous young
Bears team

Adams signs

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey
centre Greg Adams, the Devils’ leading scorer last
season with 35 goals, has signed a multi-year contract
with the National Hockey League club, the team
announced Tuesday.

‘The six-foot-three, 190-pound forward signed a
deal for three seasons plus an option year, the club
said. Adams, a native of Nelson, set club records last
season with his 35 goals, 42 assists and 77 points.

Workers plan pickets

TORONTO (CP) — Striking workers at Gainers
Ine. will expand their push for a boycott of Gainers
meat products from the supermarkets to the hockey
rinks where the Edmonton Oilers play, a union leader
said Tuesday.

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union
hopes that picketing in Edmonton and other National
Hockey League cities will press Peter Pocklington,
who owns both the Oilers and Edmonton-based
Gainers, back to the bargaining table.

“We're formulating a plan to picket every hockey
arena in the National Hockey League when the Oilers
show up,” Frank Benn, one of two Canadian directors
for the union, told a news conference.

Judge to decide

TORONTO (CP) Having failed to work out a
deal themselves, Toronto Maplg Leafs and Chicago
Blackhawks now must rely on an Ottawa judge's
ruling to determine what the Blackhawks owe the
Leafs for signing free-agent defenceman Gary Nylund.

Both National Hockey League clubs will make
their presentations Friday to Judge Edward Houston.
A decision is expected Monday

The Blackhawks signed Nylund, 22, to a four-year
contract last week after the Leafs failed to reach
agreement with the six-foot-four, four-year veteran
from Surrey, B.C

Because Nylund has played less than five years in
the NHL, he falls into a category that calls for an
arbitrator to determine compensation in cases where
teams can't reach agreement.

Expos in no hurry

MONTREAL (CP) — It appears the Montreal
Expos Wiig Tim Raines and Andre Dawson become
free agents* before the National League club will
reopen contract talks with the veteran outfielders.

“I do not anticipate much in the way of talks until
after the season is over,” general manager Murray
Cook said Tuesday. “We do not want to begin
negotiations until after the season.”

Dawson, 32, and Raines, 26, are in the option
years of their contracts and become eligible for free
agency at the end of the season.

Brett out —

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Third baseman
George Brett has bursitis in his right shoulder and
may be sidelined for two weeks, the Kansas City
Royals said Tuesday night

“The diagnosis is a sprain in the shoulder and
some severe bursitis,” Royals spokesman Dean
Voegelaar said. “He will be taking medication and
rejoin the club and undergo thereapy in the training
room

“There are no tears in the rotator cuff and no
separation.”

Mid-Week Wrap-up

A & W Bears came back
with one run in the third
inning and allowed three in
the third and three more in
the fifth while limiting the
Pharaohs to only one hit from
the third inning on.

Adrian Strelaeff had a
triple and a single for the
Bears.

In the second game the
Bears settled down and for
ced the older and more
experienced Pharaohs to the
last out at home plate in the
seventh inning before suc
cumbing 65. Both Mickey
Muller and Mike Gomez
pitched well for the Bears
while Chris Findley was
strong behind the plate.

tance, striking out 10 batters.

Adrian Strelaeff continued
to be strong at the plate
getting a home run while Rod
Gretchen got a home run and
a double. Craig Ruff and Stan
Strelaeff each had two RBIs.

The Bears took on the
North Delta Pirates Bison
team and defeated them 11-2
while collecting 10 hits along
the way

Rod Gretchen was the
winning pitcher. Both Jeff
DaRosa and“Cory Ross
picked up two singles while
Gretchen had a triple

The game was called be
cause of darkness with two
Bears on base and two out.

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Sept. 3, 1986 Castlegar News 83

Farmers face many health risks

WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) — If
the chemicals farmers use
are toxic to weeds, insects
and other crop hazards, what
impact do they have on the
health of those who use
them?

“There is just very, very
little medical information
about the hazards associated
with the use of agricultural
chemicals,” says Richard
Richards, who last year was
chairman of the province's
task force on health and
safety in agriculture.

Lacking the funding to
pursue the issue further, the
task force had to settle for a
review of existing informa-

tion compiled by Dr. John
Chong at McMaster Univer-

sity’s occupational-health ~

program in Hamilton.
Drawing from localized and
sometimes inconclusive
studies done in other regions,
he concluded farmers face a
variety of work-related
health risks and many of
them stem from chemicals.

Farmers have shown a
propensity for developing
cancers such as leukemia and

raised the question of a link
between chemical exposures

and neurological diseases in
farmers.

“There is a general lack of
information available re-
garding exposure to pesti-
cides and organic chemicals
in Ontario,” Chong says in his
report. “There is also a lack
of awareness on the part of
the agricultural community
and the medical community
as to the dangers involved
with exposure to these toxic
substances.”

and illnesses in Canada do
not make a correlation with

and rep Pr

Recreation news

September is a month
when life seems to return toa
more normal state. Students
are back at school and
routines are in tack once
more. If you are looking for a
new activity to keep you
busy this fall be sure to pick
up a Fall Recreation Program
Brochire. The brochures will
be available next week at the
local grocery stores, the re-
creation department, or your
elementary school child will
be bringing one home. Some
of the exciting new programs
we have happening include

Music for tots

This class is an informal
introduction into the magical
land of music through the use
of rhythm, listening games,
simple musical instruments,
singing and dancing.

Friends for dinner

Invite your friends or
family for dinner. In this
class you will make two
complete meals. It will be a
great experience for every
one.

Becoming your personal best

These sessions are for
women of all ages. Come and
learn helpful hints and new
information on skin care,
nutrition and exercise. Some
of the classes will include

Recognizing Skin Problems
and Types, Making Nutrition
Work for You, Body and
Lifestyle Assessment. This
class is designed especially
for you. Plan to attend.

FITNESS FROLIC

These are only three new
classes we will be offering.
We also have a large variety
of fitness classes. Be sure to
attend our Fitness Frolic
Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. at the
complex - hall. It will give
you a chance to meet our
fitness instructors, see a skit
and demonstrations, ask
questions and participate in a
mini-theme class. Start your
fall off on the right — be
sure to attend this session.

FIGURE SKATING

The 1986 Fall Figure
Skating School starts Mon-
day. Brochures and registra.
tion available at the recrea-
tion office.

Come down to the arena
complex on Friday and see an
exhibition hockey game be
tween the Seattle Thunder
birds and the Spokane Chiefs
of the Western Canada Major
Jr. A Hockey League. Game
time is 8 p.m. Come and take
part in all the exciting hockey
action

and health com-
plaints from farmers are

lemme Harkin, founder of
Women for the Survival of
Agriculture, and her family,
who farm in the Ottawa area,
were poisoned a few years
ago by a that had
travelled to their well

of a spring flu, but when she
started having muscle
spasms, she had government
test the well.
That's when the contami-
nation was discovered and
the family began hauling in
water from a neighboring
village until it could install a
water filtration system.

The family has since
switched to organic farming,
a method of crop rotation
that does away with the use
of pesticides. But Harkin still
has a nagging concern be-
cause the pesticide contami-
nating their water was a

“It's the long-term effects,
what's it going to do?” she
asks.

Dieter Riedel, a toxi
gist in the federal H
Department's pesticide divi-
sion, agrees the long-term
impact of exposure to agri-
cultural chemicals is not
known.

While cheinical companies

Pei ti Cada
pesticide

of both countries .to under-
take a reanalysis of all pesti-
cide ingredients.

Study links 2,4-D
to rare lymph cancer

CHICAGO (AP) — Far
mers who use a common
herbicide without wearing
protective clothing face in-
creased risk of developing a
rare lymph cancer, says a
U.S. study.

The two-year study of
Kansas farmers “points out
the dangers of using herbi
cides, but also shows that
wearing protective clothing
reduces the risk,” said Rob-
ert Robel, a Kansas State
University researcher who
helped conduct the study.

Farmers exposed to the
herbicide more than 20 days
a year are six times as likely
as non-farmers to develop the
cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymp-
homa, said the study, to
appear in next week's edition
of the Journal of the Ameri.
can Medical Association.

The study was performed
by researchers from the
National Cancer Institute,
the University of Kansas and
Kansas State University. It
found the higher cancer risk
linked mainly to pheno
xyacetic acid herbicides. es

Kootenay residents
donate money for tools

By CasNews Staff

British Columbia
ters have delivered three
“Kootenay Tool Kits” valued
at $180 each to the Can
ada-Nicaragua Carpenters
Training School in Esteli
province, Nicaragua

The kits were paid for with
donations from West Koote
nay residents, mainly from
Kaslo, Argenta, Cooper
Creek, Procter, Balfour,
Gray Creek and Nelson, says
a press release from Linda
Lynch of Tools for Peace

Lynch says the tool kits
were the offshoot of a slide
show discussion in Kaslo last
February by Chyrse Gibson
of Vancouver,

Gibson is a CUSO-B.C
Carpenters’ Union represent
ative who helped set up the
training school in Nicaragua
She said at the Kaslo meeting
the ideal equipment for a
carpenter trainee would be a

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tool kit consisting of 14
specific tools.

Kaslo area residents took
up the suggestion and, under
the coordination of Kaslo's
Open Door Group, purchased
a set of these tools which was
then displayed in the window
of Kaslo's Kootenay Lake
Hardware Store

Subsequent donations en
abled the purchase of two
additional kits. As well, $240
was sent to Gibson to pur
chase used tools in Van
couver for later delivery to
Nicaragua.

Lisa Ross, a student from
Cooper Creek who is study
ing Spanish in Esteli prov
ince, delivered one set of
tools. A group of eight B.C

CHRYSE GIBSON
helped set up school

carpenters who visited the
training school Aug. 20 de
livered the other two sets.

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pecially 2,4-Dichloro
phenoxyacetic acid, com
monly known as 2,4-D.

Dow Chemical Co., a major
producer of the 2,4-D herbi
cide, had no immediate com.
ment.

“2,4-D is the most com.
monly used herbicide in the
United States today and
there could be a serious can.
cer risk associated with that
chemical’s use,” said Sheila
Hoar, one of the National
Cancer Institute researchers
in a telephone interview
Friday.

“People should be very

careful (when using the
herbicide) and use protective
equipment.”

She said researchers found
the cancer risk dropped 40
per cent among farmers who
used protective equipment,
such as wearing rubber
gloves and a mask, when

applying the herbicide.

The researchers studied
1,372 Kansas men, 961 of
whom were or had once been
farmers. Of the total number
studied, 424 men were diag.
nosed between 1976 and 1982
to have one of the three types
of cancer examined.

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