as_Casthigiit News _Febroor 1997 : Capital budget in at $7 coming from a loan, $50,000 from a library development been set aside for street paving. and $95,000 for paving and installed on 7th Avenue from the lane north of Oak Street to Castlegar council is looking at spending nearly reserve fund, and $41,667 from a library reserve capital landscaping Pioneer Arena. Ivy Street and/a six-inch main on 9th Street from Columbia three-quarters of a million dollars on eapital works programs expense ‘fund. Some $26,000 has been proposed for streetlight ‘Avenue to 10th Avenue. The city will also purchase two new in 1987. , : from th vincial conversion and $10,500 for signal light controls on Columbia, fire hydrants. Council has approved a 1987 provisional expital budEet "payer $185.688 Ere a ateablie donations willhelp pay for 9rd and 6th streets. And eetoO' his bee, propoeed for There woo't be any money spent on the north sewer totalling $728,738. the remainder of the library costs. sidewalks on 18th Avenue and Columbia Avenue. - fystem in 1987, though $17,000 will be spent on program- However, more than half of that total — $420,612 — will . 4 . ‘control and a chlorinator for the south end be spent on the new Castlegar and District Public Library. Elsewhere, the city proposes to spend $43,000 on a new ‘The city has also earmarked $71,200 for improvements system. The money will come from a surplus in the south end watermain will be The city will put up $241,667 of that, with $150,000 backhoe and $21,500 for a grass mower. Another $60,000 has Wolw SPECIALS FOR YOUR FAMILY, YOUR HOME, AND YOURSELF - JUST SAY “CHARGE IT” SALES PRICES EFFECTIVE FOR ONE Household Needs ROLL 'N RACK REFILLS— 1 44 30 per pack. 2PKG. s EASY OFF GLASS CLEANER— 1 44 750 mL. cH Fe ROLAIR BATHROOM FRESHENERS— 1 44 3 fragrances. 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Piece of cake I thought. “7 ‘That piece of cake crumbled two weeks ago when my editor came up to me and said: “Surj, do you ski?:” ( “No'l don't,” I replied. \ “Well, I want you to take lessons and write a story about what it is like to learn how to ski,” he replied. “But I don’t want to,” I said. “Well you're going to, and that's-final,” he snapped. Last Monday was my first skiing lesson. Last Monday was also my last skiing lesson, which is not to say that I have mastered the sport. I think it was when I had fallen off my skies into the snow for about the 12th time, and saw a kid no more than 10-years-old go shooting past me mastering the slopes with ease, that I decided that Felix Belezyk really didn't need to be worried about me as a threat. The day started harmlessly enough. I took a nice eisurely drive from Castlegar to Red Mountain. Since my esson didn't start for 45 minutes I walked around the ski odgé, grabbed a coffee and watched some skiers zig and zag along the slopes. Piece of cake I thought. I was born to ski. Then I made my way over to the rental shop to get suited up for my big adventure. I sat down on a beneh and just stared at a whole row of things in different colors that seemed to be shaped like shoes. “First time skiing?” asked a thin, grey-haired man. “Uh, yesh it is,” I replied. “What size of shoe do you take?; he asked. “Oh about a nine and a half I guess,” 1 said. He then picked up a pair of black boots and strapped them on me. I felt like I had rocks tied to my feet. “Alright get up and walk around,” he said. Get up and walk around I thought. He can't be serious. How do I walk around: in these martian boots? Eventually I learned to strut my stuff around the rental shop pretty good. The next step was to fit some bindings onto my skies and pretty soon I was walking out of the ski shop over to where my lesson was to begin. ‘A few minutes later some guy decked out in a red suit with a label on the jacket that read “Red Mountain Ski School” comes over and starts ringing this huge bell. At first I thought we were all going to church and pray before we took to the slopes, which now that I think about it, wouldn't have been a bad idea. 1 soon learned the bell was-to summon all the other ski students. He gave us instructions on how to step onto our skies, warning us to knock off all of the snow Irom we bottom of our boots “or else you'll go flying off your skies.” Next were some basic verbal instructions. “Don't ever lean. Don't ever say the word lean around me. I don't ever want to see any of you lean while you ski,” said the instructor. I glanced over at the person next to me and said: “J don’t know about you, but I'm leaning towards the lounge right about now.” Pretty soon we were doing sonie simple twists and turns on an area of snow which was pretty well level, not very steep at all. So far so good I thought. There's nothing to skiing. 1 should have taken the sport up ages ago. In fact, I'm going to go skiing every weekend. Next, the instructor took us up to a monster of a device called the T-bar. To this day I still wake up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat and screaming at the top of my lungs. I have this thing called the T-bar to thank. “Whatever you do, don't sit down on it. Just stand and let it pull you along,” the instructor shouted at us. “We're going up as far as the third tower.” Can't we take a bus? I didn’t really care which tower we were going to, I just knew that I didn’t want to go on this thing. We were paired off in twos, and one by one each couple would get on the T-bar and go shooting up the mountain. As it turned out I was paired off with the instruetor..Maybe that was because I was hiding at the back of the line. We lined up at the starting point and shot off like a rocket up the hill. . “Keep your skies straight, keep your skies straight,” the instructor shouted at me. I don’t know what he was thinking, but I was thinking only one thing: “God, if you get me out of this situation alive I promise I will never try skiing again.” I nearly fell off the T-bar three times as we were going up, and I would have if the instructor had not reached over and grabbed me all three times. “You look nervous! Relax, just relax, don’t be so nervous,” he shouted. I looked nervous? You're kidding. I wonder why? Then all of a sudden the instructor began waving his o 2 LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY . . . Red Mountain employee Lorilie Jones attempts to i poi Castlegar News sports wri she did her best in instructing Rattan her attempts right arm (his left was still holding onto me), and began shouting at the top of his lungs. “Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Leave your skies and get the hell out of the way!” I looked towards where he was shouting, and what I saw told me that my life was about to end in a matter of seconds. There, at the third tower, was one of the ski students. His skies had fallen off at the point where people were to disembark from the T-bar and he was standing right in the middle of our path bent over casually picking up his skies. “What do I do? What do I do? Oh my God, we're going to hit him,” I shouted over to the instructor. “No we're not! Just ski off'to the side when you get to the top,” the instructor shouted back. Ski off to the side? But I don't know how to ski; that’s why I'm up here today. were useless as Rattan spent a majority of the time lying in the snow. rather than skiing on it. —Costiews photo by Mike Kolegekio Well somehow — I don’t know how — I managed to make it off the T-bar without hitting the guy who was attempting’ to retrieve his skiex.~"~ apace The fest of the time was spent trying to get back down the hill. Still shaking from the T-bar nightmare, I would ski down the hill a few feet until I began to pick up speed and then I would deliberately throw myself into the snow in an attempt to stop. - I did this all the way down the hill. When I finally did get down the hill, I couldn't get my skies and boots off fast enough. Then I ran to my car and burned rubber all the way back to Castlegar. Now, some people may say I'm a quitter, but they'd be wrong. The fact of the matter is that while I was on the T-bar I had made a deal with God and I was now living up to my end of it. 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After he'd shot it the first time he picked it up, took it into a bedroom and shot it again. A random check of women's shel- ters in the United States revealed they always receive an increase in the number of women physically abused by their husbands on Super Bow! Sunday. A spokeswoman for a women's shelter in Denver, Colo. said after some men place heavy bets on foot- ball games and lose they take the frustration out on their wives. And there are conflicting reports that a man who was at last Sunday's Super Bowl actually ran onto the field at the end of the game wth a gun in his hands. Other reports dropped his gun from his holster. If you ask me, I'd say there was a guy from the stands who ran onto the field with a gun. That's how crazy some people who watch sports are. The nut with the gun was obviously intending to kill someone — and more than likely it was one of the football players. If he was a Denver fan then he might have been trying for a shot at one of the New York players for having won. On the other hand, he might have been gunning for one of the Denver players for losing the game. But what on earth would possess some- one to go to such extreme levels over one lousy football game? Anyone who tries to tell me that this crazed would-be assassin on the football field, the wife-beaters across the United States, and the anima! killer in Hamilton are just dedicated football fans is as insane as those three. And it’s not only some American and Canadians who seem to have a bizarre and scary infatuation with sports, it’s several other countries as well. Riots and fires have been started in the stands of soccer games in Europe and South America by fans frustrated with the result of a par- ticular game. This madness has ac- tually reached the point where someone due to the outcome of a sporting event. In fact, it's even gone beyond the point of killing other people, some even kill themselves, as was the case with a 12-year-old boy in Spain who hung himself from a tree after he let in one of many goals during a soccer game. I could go on and on, listing the numerous cases in which violence by , fans (and I use the word very loosely) has occurred during sport- ing events. But that’s not necessary. What is necessary and needed is some kind of action to put an end to all this violence connected with sports. I haven't got all the answers, but I do have two suggestions. First of all I think everyone — and I mean everyone — entering a stadium should be frisked by authorities. Critics may argue that doing this is time consuming, es- pecially if 80,000, 90,000 or 100,000 people are going through the turn- stiles. But as far as I'm concerned, even if one life is saved, then the time is well worth it. And my other suggestion? Well this might sound just a little crazy but wouldn't athletes be setting a good example for fans if they ac- tually stoped fighting during the course of 4 game? Ya, I guess you're right, it is a crazy idea. NEELY, SIMMER SCORE @ Bruins do Cam Neely and Charlie Simmer scored two goals each Saturday to lead the Boston Bruins to a 6-3 NHL victory over the Winnipeg Jets. The victory was Boston's seventh in its last eight games, while the loss was Winnipeg's first in five games. With the score tied 1-1 after one period on goals by Winnipeg’s Randy Carlyle and Neely, the Bruins scored two goals in 16 seconds in the second period. Rookie Bob Sweeney scored his second goal of the season at 12:55 when he todk a pass from sprawled Boston defencemen Ray Bourque and beat goalie Daniel Berthiaume between the pads. S Simmer gave Boston a 3-1 lead when he tipped in Keith Crowder’s slapshot at 13:11. Neely increased Boston's lead to 4-1 just more than 5'/: minutes into the third period with his 20th goal of the year. ‘Tim Watters pulled Winnipeg to 4-2 at 12:39, but Boston regained a three-goal lead at 13:02 on a goal by Nevin Markwart. Paul MacLean ¢losed the scoring for Winnipeg at 14:54, and Simmer added another for Boston, his 19th of the year, at 19:52. CANADIENS 5 KINGS 3 MONTREAL (CP) — Brian Skrudland set up Bob Gainey's winning goal in the third period and then added an insurance marker himself to help the 1 di uble Jets The loss was the sixth in a row for the beleagured Leafs, who played the game without nine injured regulars. The victory also snapped Detroit's two-game losing streak and was only the Red Wings’ second win over the Leafs in the teams eight meetings this season. The Leafs won the series 5-2-1. , Detroit's Shawn Burr set up the go-ahead goal when he took the puck off Vincent Damphousse along the boards inside the Toronto blue line. Burr sent a soft pass to Kocur, who moved into the high slot and beat goaltender Allan Bester with a hard wrist shot just inside the goal post. Kocur scored his second of the game and seventh of the season a little more than four minutes later, again on perfect set up from Burr. RANGERS 3FLYERS 1 _ PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pierre Larouche scored at 8:53 of the third period to snap a tie and former Flyer Bob Froese stopped 28 shots in goal as the New York Rangers d Phi Iphia 3- in an NHL game. With the score 1-1, Larouche fired the puck past Flyers rookie goaltender Ron Hextall on a rebound of teammate James Patrick's shot. Don Maloney scored an open-net goal for the Rangers with 16 seconds remaining in the game, with Bob Carpenter getting the assist. P defeat the Los Angeles Kings 5-3 in NHL action Saturday night. The victory moved Montreal into first place in the Adams Division, one point of the Hartford Whalers who dropped a 4-2 decision to the New York Islanders. Skrudland outmuscled two Los Angeles defenders and set up Gainey in front for the winning goal at 6:04, and then pounced on his own rebound before beating Kings netminder Roland Melanson for the insurance. gog] at 12:12. Bobby Smith, Dave Maley and Chris Chelios also tallied for Montreal. Jimmy Folx scored two goalf and Marcel Dionne added one for the improving Kings, who had lost only one of their previous seven games. Montreal goaltender Patrick Roy was outstanding over the final two periods, using his quick glove hand to rob the Kings of several excellent scoring chances. RED WINGS 4 MAPLE LEAFS 2 TORONTO (CP) — Joe Kocur scored two goals early in the third period to break a 1-1 tie and send the Detroit Red Wings on their way to a 4-2 NHL victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night. ia's Murray Craven had tied the game at 10:38 in the second period when he took a pass from Derrick Smith and placed a low wrist shot past Froese. The game was the first for Froese against his former team. Froese was traded from Philadelphia on Dec. 18 for defenceman Kjell Samuelsson and a second-round draft pick in 1989. New York took a 1-0 lead in the first period when Tomas Sandstrom took a pass in the slot and fired a 35-foot wrist shot past Hextall at 13:50. ISLANDERS 4 WHALERS 2 UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Pat Flatley scored two goals and added an assist as thé New York Islanders broke a five-game home winless streak with a 4-2 NHL victory over the Hartford Whalers on Saturday~hight. The game marked the return to action of Islanders all-star right winger Bike Bossy, who had missed six games with a lower back sprain. He last saw action against the Philadelphia Flyers on January 17. The Islanders were 0-3-2 at home before Saturday night's victory and had lost three previous games to Hartford at home .