Saturday, October 26 1991 m

A brave, brave move. There’s noth-
ing else you can call it.

Knowing that it was going to face
some harsh criticism from bus drivers,
some parents and other teachers, the
Castlegar and District Teachers’ As-
sociation voted Tuesday night to allow
its teachers to drive buses for ex-
tracurricular activities.

What it means is the sports teams,
the drama club, social studies class,
etcetera can go on all the trips they
planned for this year.

It means the extracurricular pro-
gram at Stanley Humphries sec-
ondary -school won't be decimated (as
has happened at a Nelson high school
this year) because of transporta-
tion/money problems.

And the teachers weren't mamby-
pamby about it either. Although I
heard the meeting in which the vote
was held was a heated one with emo-
tional discussion on both sides of the
issue, the vote was more than double
in favor of letting teachers drive the
buses.

It’s a brave move because now the
teachers have to deal with the ire of
their brothers and sisters in the bus
drivers union. In what is supposedly a
a union town (though you'd never
know it sometimes), that’s nothing to
sneeze at. And the Canadian Union of
Public Employees, with its vocal mem-
bership in this area, is not to be trifled
with.

Facing that the teachers made the
decision to put the kids first anyway.
It wasn't only brave it was unselfish.

Like I said before, teachers, by def-
inition, are intelligent and honest peo-
ple. They have the best interest of
their students at heart, and they
proved that Tuesday night.

Now let’s pray to our Gods the
teachers and students have safe trips
on the roads of B.C. Just as we would
no matter who was driving them.

Some people say it’s 8 barbaric, oth-

Brave people and tough dudes

Free
Agent

ers call it

I say chill out —the B.C. Tough
Man Challenge, which makes its local
stop on a cross-province tour in Trail’s
Cominco Gym tonight, might not be
everyone’s cup of java, but it’s still a
free country isn't it?

Until somebody either bans boxing,
(which I would be against) or the
world discovers that violence is truly
for the heathens, then men and wom-
en will always see some attraction in
this base form of competition.(Hunt-
ing is another that fits into this cate-
gory).

Whereas some fighters are ruth-
lessly used by promoters and agents,
the guys in the tough man challenge
have a potential to come out of
nowhere and actually get a shot at a

professional career.

Nobody’s saying there'll be any
Rockys born out of the fight night in

Trail and I’m not inclined to believe it,
but the guys running this show have a
goal in mind.

Promoter Trevor Wallden says he
and partner Don Arnott are using the
challenge series as a springboard to
reviving professional boxing in B.C.

Wallden said he plans to take a
hand-full of the winners of the series
and turn them pro, then stage some
bouts in Vancouver.

I'm inclined to believe Wallden (as

opposed to someone like Don King) be-
cause I know, forone, he and Arnott
probably won't make a dime out of this

gything se
They may still get rich out of it in
the long run but right now they’re
searching for a few diamonds in the
rough to help them out.
And hey, nobody’s twisting the
arms of these would-be fighters to get

lot
a ke geyser
member what happened to the last
guy everybody loved?

Dad

On a quasi-related matter, the
tough man challenge afforded me the
unexpected opportunity to meet a lo-
cal author of world-wide esteem and
unmeasurable charm and grace.

Castlegar poet and novelist Lucy
Ellen Eaton won the name this col-
umn contest and I got a chance to
meet her Thursday when delivering
tickets to the Tough Man Challenge
which were offered as prizes.

While Lucy is a women of far to re-
fined tastes to attend the event her-
self, she has assured me she has many
friends who she can give the tickets’

too.
But while I was there we chatted
about her books, her poetry, her ‘ac-
plishments (

A thoroughly enjoyable and enter-
taining person, she did me the honor
of signing two of her books that I took
home.

Leaving her house I couldn't help
thinking what hidden treasures we
have this community and that some-
how we have to find a way to gain our-
selves from their wealth.

STRETCHING IT

coaches eye.

Old-time shootout
at the CRHL corral

Jaime Kalesnikoff makes a leaping stretch for the-ball and snags it during tryouts for the girls
volleyball team at Kinnaird junior secondary school. No word on whether the move caught the

@ Castlegar Pressure
Wash gets temporary
rights to first place after
goal fest Tuesday night

News Staff

With both barrels blazing
Castlegar Pressure Wash
blasted its way to the top of
the Castlegar Recreational
Hockey League Tuesday

Gord Walker scored five
goals and assisted on four
more as Pressure Wash sur-
vived the two period shootout
to beat Kootenay Computers
14-9 at the Community Com-
plex.

What started as a fairly
tight game, it was 3-2 after
one period for Computers,
evolved into a free-for-all as
Pressure Wash outscored
Computers 5-4 in the second
period and 7-2 in the third.

The win moves Pressure
Wash’s record to 3-2 putting

weren't available at press

ie.

Wayne Kinakin was right
behind Walker in the points
parade scoring once and set-
ting up six others.

Tom Trubetskoff had a hat-
trick for Pressure Wash while
Don Soroke had two goals and
two assists and Mike Nevek-
shonoff had two and one.

Doug Knowler scored the
other Pressure Wash goal
while Roger Junker had three
assists and Sheldon Sooka-
choff had two.

Dave MacKinnon led the
attack for Computers, which
drops to 1-2, as he scored three
goals and collected one assist.

Bill Nazaroff and Gary
Sauer both had a goal and
three assists while Gerry Gen-
shorek scored a pair for Com-

puters,
Jeff Townsend and Dave

Castlegar Sports

Complex tonight at 9 p.m.
Shell Computers Mon-
day and o's plays Sports
Centre

— WANTED —
CLEAN COTTON RAGS
TheNéWs

@ Saturday, October 26 1991

Making history
leaves bitter taste

News Staff

Making history has left a
bitter taste in the mouths of
the Stanley Humphries sec-
ondary school’s senior girls
field hockey team.

“This is the first time the
West. Kootenays have not been

d at the pr

ever. About 35 years now I
think. We made history, ” said
coach Verna Chernoff.

Chernoff said its a frus-
trating situation because the
team has to pass up the
Provincials not because it
wasn't good enough, but be-
cause of money and politics.

Chernoff was forced to can-
cel the ve pg trip to Comox
the teachers, " school bus
drivers and the local school
board that put transportation
for the trip in doubt. °

The issue was resolved by
the teachers’ union Tuesday
but that was too late to for the
senior girls.

“Yes we could have gone
but we had to cancel out last
week so the other (teams)
could get on with their plans
and determine who's taking
our place.”

The team concluded its sea-
son at Kinnaird Park Wednes-
- losing 5-2 te 5-2 to Rossland in

Kootenay champi-
ohiy & final

Veteran Kelly Davidoff
scored both goals for SHSS in
the loss.

What makes the situation
even harder to take for Cher-
noff is that this team was just

Kelly Davidott

as good as the one that came
third in the provincials last
year, she said.

“I thought we had a far bet-
ter season than I had expect-
ed at the start and I think the
team came through to be
equivalent to last year’s
team,” she said.

Chernoff pointed to the
team veterans as the people
largely responsible for the

progress

“We had strong leadership
from Denise Grey as the cap-
tain and I was very pleased
with the progress of our grad-
nating athletes — Laurel

Gloskey,-Kelly Davidoff, An-
drea Hughes, Cory Markin,
Terri Roberts and Aimie
Rogers.

For Chernoff, who has been
coaching field hockey for over
20 years, there’s always next
year.

NOT QUITE FAIR

of this Stanley Humphries sec:

News photo by Ed Mills

If at first you don’t succeed, bring three balls and just keep going for it, is apparently the attitude

ondary school’s senior boys volleyball team player.

Setbacks don’t diminish
Olympic hopes of B.C. skiers

Julie Hunter
SPORT B.C.

Espoir may be finished, but
the hope that started it is still

ive.

And that hope is giving four
B.C. skiers a chance to com-
pete for a spot in the Olympics.

The four women, Edith
Rosa, 18, Denise Fitchett, 20,
Tara Williams, 19, and Lind-
sey Roberts, 19, are not only
the best of friends, but they
are also the best technical ski
teamin Canada. .

For the past year the wom-
en have been part of the Es-
poir ski team. Espoir means
hopeful in French. It also
means they were hopeful of
achieving National team sta-

Apa: we
cuts have spelled the end of

ms a with the ominous
prospect of having to retire
from their sport for lack of
funding, Olympic hopes

seemed to be fading. That is
until the Vancouver Ski Foun-
dation, organizers of The Van-
couver Ski and Winter Sports
Show, kicked in over $100,000
to help the team out, said B.C.
Alpine Ski managing director
Bruce Goldsmid.

“We're very, very fortunate
because they have bent over
backwards for us. They have
given us a program exactly
like we had with the National
ski team,” said team member

Tara Williams.

Competing in the technical
events of giant slalom and
slalom is difficult because
most of the best competition is
in Europe, said Williams.

The long season also makes
it necessary to travel in order
to trai

“There are no suitable
mountains open in B.C. yet, so
we have to go out of. the
province to train,” said the
B.C. ski team head coach Scott
Woolley, who has assumed
coaching duties of the former

Espoir members.

Three of the team have sc
returned from a training cam
in Porteo, Chile, and Rosa and

Fitchett leave at the end ofthe _

month to train in Austria for
acouple of weeks.

The travel sounds exotic,
until you hear the training

edule.

“They train about four days
on, one day off. They really
need that time off to rest up,”
said Woolley.

The harsh physical de-
mands of the sport have left
the team at less than full
strength.

Since at one time or anoth-
er every member of the team
has been on the injury list, the
friendship the women have
built is often: responsible for
helping to get them back on
their feet.

“We love each other and
we're the best of friends, but
there is still that competitive
edge,” said Roberts.

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