‘ BARS ; es Ais . Wty nt . ‘eveee Josie Carter No. Because I think people can do their shopping at other times. Lawrence Jakobsze erigin Kathy Yes, I think it’s a really good idea actually. It's going to help everyone around here who owns stores. no. I'd say no, because of the work ers. In the cities it's okay. Popoft I probably wouldn't go shopping ona Sunday, so I guess it would be Yes, because it’s convenient. yrhefer Definitely against it. If people can't shop in six days, they need to organize themselves better. THE SAVINGS. sulted in only 37.7 hours of sunshine which is nearly 20 hours below normal. The month opened with cool arctic air over the Inter- ior and a strong system moving inland from the Pac- ific, resulting in 38 em of snow falling in 24 hours — a new daily record for Novem- ber and seven cm more than normal for the whole month. The pattern continued for the rest of the month as a series of frontal systems moved in from the north Pacific at regular intervals to initially give the area snow, which usually turned to rain. *10 Regular Price Less Polaroid Cash-Back Your Cost Only Operators greeting callers = 94=: Regular Price Less Polaroid Cash-Back $11.95/ pack $2.00/ pack Your Cost Only $9.95/pack WINNIPEG (CP) — It may be a blow to comics who for years have parodied the emotionless tone of voice used by telephone operators, but in Manitoba at least the personal touch is taking over. Operators can now wish their callers a good morning or nice day and even a slip in the odd merry Christmas at this time of year. “In the Heart of Downtown Castlegar CLOSED THIS SUNDAY, CARL'S DRUG OPEN. Late hours this Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Next Week, Thurs. & Fri., Dec. 13 & 14, 9.a.m. to 9 p.m. 40 students on KJSS honor roll Twenty-three Grade 8 students and 17 Grade 7 students made the acadmic honor roll at Kinnaird Junior Secondary School this term To achieve honor roll standing, students must achieve a minimum grade average of 4.0 (B average) in qualifying academic subjects GRADE 8 HONOR ROLL David Bristow, Candace Carter, Dorothy Chaves, Sheri Chernenkoff, Judi Closkey, Jason Draginda, Sarah Finney, Darryl Furey, Michael Gerrand, Jarrod Isfeld, Marian Kooznetsoff, Elita Lovernow, Marnie Mitchell, Scott Nelson, Greg Peregrym, Allan Phipps, Brent Pinkney, Andrew Port, Chris Sharp, Lloyd Sherstobitoff, Angela Smee, Lisa Verigin and Allison Zanet GRADE 7 HONOR ROLL Lise-Ann Abrahamse, Roger Carlson, Tracy Carr, Ken Chernoff, Cheryl Duckworth, Kecia Dusseault, Christine Fishwick, Rick Garrett, Christy Gritchen, Walter Hadiken, Ken Halisheff, Maya Kanigan, Cathy Maida, Paige Reibin, Kim Southwell, David Vecchio and Adrienne Wilson. Honorable mention is awarded to those students who have achieved a high standard but haven't met honor roll criteria GRADE 8 HONORABLE MENTION Roger Briscoe, Rick Crowe, Carrie Gorkoff, Kim Hayashi, David Kravski, Tyler Loo, Tyrion Miskell and Lisa Reiben GRADE 7 HONORABLE MENTION Sunny Baker, David Closkey, Ellen Crossley, Michael Esovoloff, Alex Hartman, Tricia Janzen, Dustin Johnson, Jennifer Jones, Stephen Junker, Hamish Nixon, Denise Pottle, Deanne Rourke, Glen Scott, Darren Tamelin and Karen Voykin. Schedule for most DBA Merchonts CASTLEGAR Thurs Fri Dec. 6 | Dec. 7 9 to Dec. 26 Closed Sponsored by: Castlegar Downtown Business Association and Regional Recreation Commission No. 1 nil. VISIT Santa Mrs. Claus Saturday, Dec. 8 10 a.m. Arena Complex Hall Up to 7 years No Charge! Enjoy the moments and the savings. Today. Visit us for details—but hurry, offer ends February 2, 1985 365-7813 DC Come visit Santa and his wife and share cookies and milk in his house. Talk with Santa, enjoy games and receive a treat! LL Jc Fi , a movie for 1 = — —f | CARTOONS PICTURES AVAILABLE Free Movie for Kids! Saturday. $3.00 Bi we Credit Union O'KEEFE WIN. . O'Keefe goalie in scoring Agreement reached on TV revenue TORONTO (CP) — Agree- ment in principle has been reached by 19 of the 21 National Hockey League clubs on shating television revenue, meaning a greater variety of NHL hockey on Canadian TV, the Toronto Globe and Mail says. On Tuesday, the league's governors were sent a con. fidential message from NHL headquarters in New York advising them of the prop: osed agreement, the newspa. per says. The governors will discuss it during a meeting next Tuesday in West Palm Beach, Fila. Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens are the two teams that have not yet agreed to have their tele vision rights covered by the proposal, the newspaper says, adding that the league is asking that the new agree- ment be ratified by all 21 members. Montreal and Toronto have been earning the biggest share of TV revenue from Hockey Night in Canada telecasts on the CBC network under the long-standing Trans Border Agreement. Whether that agreement ex. pired last season or will not expire until the end of this season is a contentious point between NHL teams and is the basis of a lawsuit. The newspaper says a clause in the new proposal calls for the withdrawal of that lawsuit — seeking $22 million and filed by six of the seven Canadian-based clubs in the Supreme Court of Ontario last July If approved, the new agreement would clear the way for NHL hockey to be broadcast on a second Can- adian network — probably CTV — perhaps before the end of the current season. If Toronto and 1 . Castlegar Playboys player topples over Carling in Castlegar Rec O'Keefe. Pp | Hockey League play Tuesday night. Playboys were deteated 9-3 by Carling Costews Photo by Chery! Celderbonk VANCOUVER CANUCKS By GRANT KERR VANCOUVER (CP}..~ It’s not so much what's happened during the schedule as what didn't occur in the off-season which has left Vaneouver Canucks with the poorest record in the National Hockey League. Evidence grows that the Canucks didn't make the necessary deals between seasons to improve on their 82-89-9 record of 1983-84. Today Vancouver is 4-21-2 and in the throes of a nine-game losing streak Many experts focus on poor drafting as the major fault during the team’s 15 seasons in the NHL. Others point to coaching and now general manager Harry Neale, behind the bench for the third time in seven years, bears the brunt of criticism. Neale, 47, joined the Canucks as coach in 1978 and was appointed general manager after the retirement of Jake Milford in 1983. The jovial, outgoing Neale replaced coach Roger Neilson behind the bench last January and returned to coaching again last month when rookie coach Bill LaForge was fired 20 games into the season RECORD EQUALLED Neale has not won in seven games as coach and the Canucks have tied the club record for consecutive losses for the seond time this season. “It took us a while to get into this predicament,” ANALYSIS Neale says, “and we're not going to come out of it overnight.” Neale's future with the Canucks is clearly on the line. It was his decision to hire the inexperienced LaForge over more established coaches, Pat Quinn, now with Los Angeles Kings, and Mike Keenan, hired by Philadelphia Flyers, were available in May when LaForge was selected after leading Kamloops Oilers to the major junior Western Hockey League championship. However, the ailments go much deeper than coaching. The Canucks are a team which has drafted poorly over the years and have made some highly-ques tionable player acquisitions. This is a team that traded defenceman Bob Dailey to Philadelphia for Jack MeIlhargey and Larry Goodenough; traded a No. 1 draft pick to Atlanta Flames for goaltender Curt Ridley; sent the scoring potential of Rick Vaive and Bill Derlago to Toronto Maple Leafs for Dave (Tiger) Williams and Jerry Butler; and dispatched veteran forward Ivan Boldirev to Detroit Red Wings for Mark Kirton. PORREST DEAL The Vaive-Derlago, deal engineered by Milford and Neale in 1980 stands as the team’s biggest blunder. The summer of 1984 was relatively quiet for the Canucks, although two popular veterans, Harold Snepsts and Williams, were cut adrift in minor deals. The trading of Snepsts to Minnesota North Stars for Al MacAdam and Williams to Detroit for Rob Poor draft choices McClanahan (now retired) left the Canucks without internal leadership. What the Canucks did not acquire in the off-season were: reliable goaltending; physically-strong defence men; a checking centre who can win faceoffs; and a scoring winger. The Canucks have the worst goals-against record in the NHL, partly because of goaltending and mostly due to poor defensive play Vancouver has the poorest penalty-killing record in the league and the number of goals scored has dipped with the injury to and subsequent retirement of left winger Darcy Rota, who underwent neck surgery in the offseason LOST TOSS Drafting has been a sort point with the Canucks ever since they lost out to Buffalo Sabres in 1970 in the spin of the wheel for Gilbert Perreault. Vancouver took Dale Tallon, passing over Reg Leach and Darryl Sittler. In 1971 Vancouver selected Jocelyn Guevremont with the third pick and bypassed Rick Martin. The next year they took Don Lever and overlooked Steve Shutt and Bill Barber And so it went over the years, including 1977 when Vancouver selected Jere Gillis with the fourth pick. Mike Bossy went to the Islanders with the 15th selection and now has scored 442 NHL goals. Gillis plays with the Vancouver farm club at Fredericton of the American Hockey League The Canucks have attempted to rebuild their defence since 1980, selecting Rick Lanz, Garth Butcher, Michel Petit and J.J. Daigneault in the first rounds. They're with the Canucks today and are part of the season for the poor defensive record Arthur Griffiths, son of majority shareholder Frank Griffiths and assistant to the chairman, says the team will be under Neale’s direction for the balance of the season STILL HOPING “We're optimistic things will turn around” the younger Griffiths said after the firing of LaForge. “My father hopes the team regroups and starts working together as a unit.” Around the NHL, it’s common knowledge that Neale is ripe for picking when it comes to trades. Everyone wants next year's No. 1 draft pick and Neale steadfastly refuses to deal Vancouver's top selection away. “We're in terrible shape mentally,” Neale said after Monday's 5-4 loss to the Islanders. “We are trying but there are a lot of guys who haven't shaken the unconfident feeling Neale refuses to point fingers, although he maintains the Canucks must have inspired play from Swedish centres Thomas Gradin and Patrik Sundstrom in order to have any success during the last two-thirds of a season that already is near writing off. Gradin has eight goals; Sundstrom has six. “When those two guys go, we go,” added Neale. “It's a terrible responsibility but that's what they're paid for Red Wings beat Maple Leafs By NEIL STEVENS The Canadian Press Toronto captain Rick Vaive said in an interview before the Maple Leafs’ game in Detroit on Tuesday night that the Red Wings are not as good as the Leafs. No way should Toronto lose to De troit, Vaive said. The Leafs looked good for two periods as they grabbed leads of 30 and 62. But veteran Detroit right winger John Ogrodnick struck for three goals in the final 20 minutes, including the win. ner with 49 seconds left, to lift the Red Wings to a 76 triumph “We played our game for two periods and forgot about it in the third,” Leaf coach Dan Maloney said. “You let a guy like Ogrodnick shoot from where he wants to and he'll score some goals.” In other games, it was Winnipeg Jets 2 St. Louis Blues 2, Washington Capitals 4 New Jersey Devils 1, and Los Angeles Kings 2 Min nesota North Stars 2. Russ Courtnall, Stewart Gavin and Borje Salming scored for the Leafs in the first eight minutes. Brad Park and Lane Lambert re- plied for Detroit. Toronto's Bill Derlago made it 42 be- fore the end of the period and two second-period goals by Miroslav Frycer gave the Leafs a four-goal cushion. Ogrodnick touched off De- troit’s five-goal, third-period outburst with a power-play goal at 5:18. Frantisek Cer- nik seored at 6:27 and Steve Yzerman, with Ogrodnick assisting, made it 6-5 with another power-play goal at 10:44. Ogrodnick tied it at 14:17 and won it at 19:11 when he beat Leaf goaltender Ken Wregget with a slap shot from the top of a faceoff circle for his 14th goal of the season. “It's the best night I've had as coach of the Detoit Red Wings,” said Nick Polano, who heard taunts of Goodbye Nick echoing around Joe Louis Arena for 40 minutes. “There's been some bad press lately, a lot of stuff the team doesn't really need.” The Red Wings, 7-14-3, moved five points ahead of the last-place Leafs, 4-17-4, in the Norris Division. Toronto is winless in seven and has won only one of its last 10 games. The teams play again tonight in Toronto. BLUES 2 JETS 2 In St. Louis, Doug Gilmour backhanded a rebound past Winnipeg goaltender Mare Behrend on a power play at 10:18 of the second period to earn the Blues the tie and a share of first place in the Norris Division with the idle Chicago Black Hawks. The Blues, 6-1-1 in their last eight games, got their other goal from Joe Mullen. Captain 500 career points. Wilson and Dale Hawerchuk scored the Winnipeg goals. CAPITALS 4 DEVILS 1 In Landover, Md., left winger Greg Adams scored his first two goals of the sea. son after being summoned from the minors five days ago. Adams, 24, of Duncan, had been demoted this sea: son after scoring only two goals in 57 NHL games last year. Bob Carpenter added his 19th and Gaetan Dech esne produced a short-hand ed goal as Washington won its sixth game in a row and ran its record to 1304 against New Jersey since thé franchise was moved from Colorado at the start of the 1982-83 season. Goaltender Pat Riggin lost his shutout when the Devils’ Bob Lor imer scored in the third period. KINGS 2 STARS 2 In Bloomington, Minn., Jim Fox and Bernie Nicholls scored goals 29 seconds apart in the third period to wipe out a 20 Minnesota lead. Steve Payne and Willi Plett had scored for the North Stars. Nicholls's 17th goal, the 100th of his career, gave him a point in 22 straight games, wiping out Dave Taylor's 21-game 1981 mark. Sandman Inn triumphs over Playboys team By CasNews Staff Dan Walker, Mike Nevak shonoff and Jim Frost scored two goals each to power Sandman Inn to a 92 tri umpth over Castlegar Play boys in Castlegar Recre ational Hockey League action Sunday afternoon In a game Sunday night, Don Savinkoff scored two goals as Williams Moving de feated Valley Contractors 84 In Sandman Inn's victory, the two teams were tied 1-1 after the first period, but Sandman Inn went ahead in the middle frame scoring three goals to lead 4-1 The hotel team added five goals in the third period, to put the game out of reach The Playboys scored only once in the third period. Other goalscorers for Sandman Inn were Perry Klit, John Obetkoff and Al Isackson. Assists came from Kevin Kirby with three, Nevakshonoff, Dan Friedel and Klit with two apiece, and Dan Markin, Obetkoff, Isaek son, Tony DaRosa, Walker and Frost had one each Clay Martini scored the two goals for the Playboys, one of them unassisted. The other goal was assisted by Perry Samoykoff. In Williams Moving’s vie tory, the winners led 3-2 after the first period with goals by Al Conroy, Steve Sanders and Al Akselson Frank Costa, Peter Moroso, and Terry Sanders got the assists. Nick Voykin and Brett Me Guire got goals for Valley continue to hold out, there _ would be some restrictions on the second network. On nights when those teams play at home, other games would have to be blacked out in the city where the home team is playing. But the impact would be minimal since plans for expanded coverage are for Friday and Sunday games and Toronto and Montreal rarely play at home on those days. VANCOUVER (CP) — The li-year National Hockey League career of popular Darcy Rota came to a sudden end Tuesday when Vancou- ver Canucks announced the left winger had retired ra ther than risk permanent in . jury after an off-season neck surgery. retires Rota underwent « spinal fusion June 29 and had hoped Darcy Rota to return to the Vancouver lineup Monday against New the first round of the 1973 York Islanders. He skated with the Can uecks in practice for almost two months before experi. eneing severe pain during a contact drill Nov. 19. Rota, 31, a Vancouver na. tive, scored 256 goals in 794 NHL regular-season games with Chicago Black Hawks, Atlanta Flames and the Can- ucks after being selected in with Atlanta and joined the Canucks in 1980, along with Ivan Boldirev. Rota was a key member of the Canucks in the spring of 1982 when they won three playoff sereis before losing to the Islanders in the Stanley Cup fina) in four straight games. The 5-foot-11, 180-pounder was a crowd favorite at the Pacific Coliseum and scored a career high 42 goals in 1982-83 to set a club record broken last season by Tony Tanti's 45-goal effort. Rota was injured Feb. 2 in Los Angeles when dumped by Kings’ defenceman Jay Wells during « routine col lision in front of the net. Contractors. Brian Segriff, Yuri Jmaeff and Dean Keller got the assists. Williams Moving domin ated the middle frame, scor ing two goals to go ahead 5-2 Terry Sanders scored unas- sisted and Savinkoff scored with help by Akselson and Ken Ross. In the third period, Wil liams Moving scored three times, Valley Contractors scored only twice Frank Costa, Savinkoff and Dean McKinnon scored for Williams Moving. Assists came from Terry Sanders, Al Conroy, Dean McKinnon, Ross and Dave McKinnon Scoring Valley Contrac tors’ goals were Keller and Voykin, with his second goal Assists came from Yuri Jmaeff, James Verigin, Mc Guire and Rich Klassen. Recreational League action this week sees a rematch of the Valley Contractors and Williams Moving at 10 p.m. Thursday night at the Com munity Complex On Sunday, Castlegar Playboys play Sandman Inn. at noon while at 9:30 p.m., Williams Moving plays Car ling O'Keefe Rangers sign Cliff Johnson “HOUSTON (AP) Texas Rangers announced today they have signed free-agent designated hitter Cliff John. son to a three-year contract. Johnson, who appeared in 127 games with Toronto Blue Jays last season, batted 304 with 16 homers and 61 runs batted in. Financial terms were not disclosed Johnson, 37, joined the Blue Jays in November, 1982, from Oakland, where he had played for two seasons Johnson started his major league career in 1972 with Houston, and has played for New York Yankees, Cleve land Indians and Chicago Cubs. Johnson's most productive year was 1983 when he drove in 76 runs with 22 homers for the Blue. Jays. The Blue Jays retained negotiating rights to John son, but club vice- Pat Gillick said prior to the opening of the winter meet ings that the Jays had made their final offer to the burly Rangers general manager Tom Grieve said Larry Par. rish, who was the team's designated hitter last season, would return to right field. where he played in 1963. However, Parrish, unhap- py with the DH role, is rumored to be headed to Pittsburgh Pirates in a multi- player swap that would bring the Rangers second baseman Johnny Ray among others. “We had an idea that one of was one that we had extra interest in. Grieve refused to say the signing of Johnson had any thing to do with the rumored deal involving the Pirates. “This has no bearing on what else we have in mind. It makes Larry Parrish our right fielder.” Johneon, who indicated he left Toronto with some ill feelings, said he was gied to be playing near his San An tonio, Tex., home. “It’s hard to say what hap- pened (in Toronto) when there are feelings involved,” Johnson said. “I don't think money is happiness.