/ Ag Castlégar News March 25, 1990 * BUSINESS Opposition to tax drops WINNIPEG (CP) — Finance Minister Michael Wilson says he's going to win over more and more people to the goods and services tax, despite polls suggesting as many as two in three Canadians oppose it. The key is to sell people on the idea that the GST is good for the country and will put more money in the pockets of the poor, the minister told reporters. ‘More people are in favor of this than there were before, as they begin to understand it better,’’ Wilson said after addressing a Canadian Club lun- cheon. A recent poll on the GST indicated there is increased support for the tax, which comes into effect January 1991. The figures may have had more to do with a drop in the tax rate to seven per cent from nine per cent than with increased public’ knowledge about the levy. An Angus Reid Associates poll released in January — the first after Wilson lowered the rate — suggested 68 per cent of Canadians oppose the tax, down from 87 per cent in a Gallup survey last November. The bill to implement the GST still hasn't been passed by the House of Commons and won't be until debate in the Ci finance i is campaign against the seven-per-cent levy, neither it nor any other to confront the finance minister. concluded. Wilson encountered a lukewarm reception but little overt opposition during his day-long stop in Manitoba, a province where groups of as many as 1,000 people have rallied against the tax and all three main parties are on record as opposing it. Although the Manitoba Federation of Labor is embarking on a major CITY HONORED .. . the Vintage Car Club of Canada pr: Commerce president Jim Craig and Ma: and the chamber for their the GREAT TRAN. DRIVE of tne CENTURY CASTLEGAR. BRITISH COLUMBIA Drive of the Century of vintage cars which passe: journey through the West Kootenay and down to Spokane. cosnews Photo inted Castlegar Chamber of yor Audrey Moore with a certificate honoring the city in helping fund and organize last year's Great Trail through Castlegar at the end of May ona Grit says GST will add to veterinary costs OTTAWA (CP) — Taking Fido to the vet will cost more because of the goods and services tax, Liberal MP Beryl Gaffney said. Prescription drugs for people would be exempt from the proposed seven per cent tax, but drugs for animals would be taxed “How can the minister possibly justify jeopardizing not-only the care of animals, and ultimately humans, just because he wants to grab more money for the government kitty?" Gaffney asked. Junior Finance Minister Gilles Here’s My Card. . . Siam A.M. FORD SALES LTD. Castlegar News Wayne Stolz Dianna Koot Caroline Sov iG ADVERTISIN 65-5210 ° FAX 365-3334 OFFICE 3 nikoff koroff Loiselle said the tax, to take effect next Jan. 1, will reduce the cost of health care: for pi because veterinarians won't have fe pay the existing 13.5 per cent federal sales tax hidden in the price of manufactured products. “This will constitute a considerable diminishment of the prices’ for vet services, Loiselle added. But—Gaffney said—the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association estimates health care costs for small animals will increase by up to 12 per cent under the GST. Liberal MP Joe Fontana also ac- cused the federal - government of giving out incorrect information_on its toll-free telephone goods and ser. vices tax hotline. The Toronto Home Builders’ Association said they called the line 20 times and received correct answers to their questions only five times. “Information that is being given ‘out is—incompiete—and—could cost homeowners thousands of dollars,”* Fontana said. ‘If the 1-800-GST number is not an information line, what is it, a Tory advertising line paid for by taxpayers?” \FaLtcon PAINTING & DECORATING 1649 FOURTH CASTLEGAR 6 2795 wic MWAY OR RAB C vig VE ave NUE JANICE TURNER 362-5923 from the Canadian Club audience were polite, if somewhat critical, and the club member who thanked Wilson gushed over the minister, calling him more a statesman than a politician. Callers to an open-line radio show earlier in the day also muted their criticism. By contrast, about 250 rowdy demonstrators in Edmonton March 6 chanted anti-GST slogans and poun- ded on the doors outside a television debate between Wilson and Liberal finance critic Doug Young. Wilson, who has been criss-crossing the country to promote the tax, said many Canadians still don’t have a good grasp on what it will accom- plish. “There are some people who have a very good understanding of it, others who only see certain aspects of it and don’t see the full benefits.”” New pulp mill planned KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — A For Your Convenience We're OPEN MONDAY KETS vere te News office Tuesday 365-7266 by 5 p.m. to claim. uch | tomes Michelson Box 17 Crescent Volley CASTLEGAR DRUG STORES 1128-3ed 54, 4G 0 Nees KAA Tires tid. 1507 Col,, Ave. 365-2955 365-3311 man 214) Columbie Ave. ‘BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD. 2240-6th Ave oy 365-2175 365-7252 ¥ 490-}3th Ave. Sed St - 7782 365 Cyril Burton, 8. 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Material and labor plus sub-trades to any stage. 3. Material and labor plus sub-trades to a “turn-key” completion. For more information on our services or for a FREE estimate call 365-6069 «i... 365-6827 (osisence ey BRAD WHIDDINGTON A budding star centreman for the Castlegar Junior Novices seven-year-old Brad scored tourney Valley last weekend. RECORD BOOK TRIVIA: Name two of the three ways used to break a tie in league standings between clubs at the end of the NHL regular season. Answer can be found at bottom of Weekend Wrap-Up on page B2. ON TAP By The Canadian Press if the New York tstanders miss the playoffs by a point or of blown leads against the Philadelphia Flyers. Through 64 games, Philadelphia was 1-21-1 when NY trailing after two periods. Both the wins (Feb. 18) and the tie (Oct. 14) were against New York, which is 20-1-3 against the rest of the league leading after two QUOTE NOTE ‘*What a nice way to spend an afternoon,’’ said Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent who, after en- during some tense weeks with the baseball lockout, was caught soaking up some well- deserved rays last week down in Port St. Lucie, Fla., the New York Mets’ spring training camp. RADIO/TV SUNDAY AM 8:00 (TSN CH1I5) WOMEN'S WORLD HOCKEY CHAM- PIONSHIPS 9:00 (KREM CH 2) OLYM- PIC WINTERFEST — Coun- tdown to Albertville. 10:00 (CBUT CH 13) SPOR- TSWEEKEND — World Junior Curling Champion- ships. 10:30 (KREM CH 2) COLLEGE BASKETBALL — NCAA Tournament. 11:30 (KHQ CH 6) SPOR- TSWORD — Boxing. P M 12:00 (KXLY CH 4) TENNIS — Lipton International Players Championship 12:30 (KREM CH = 2) COLLEGE BASKETBALL — NCAA Tournament. 1:00 (BCTV CH 7 and KHQ CH 6) PGA — Nestle In- vitational 4:00 (TSN CH 15) SKATE ELECTRIC FIGURE SKATINGGALA._ + Teams put college on ma By ED MILLS Staff Writer If people around the country didn’t know much about a small college in Castlegar, B.C., they do now. The Selkirk College Saints men’s volleyball team and mixed curling squad, did- some enlightening in their respective national champion- ships on the weekend. For the curling team of skip Deane Horning, third Judy Wood, lead Rob Ostrikoff and his sister Patti at second, raising awareness in the coun- try included beating every team in the tourney to take the gold medal as national champions in Kamloops on Saturday afternoon. For the men’s volleyball team, it was a fourth-place finish out of eight teams after losing a five-game hear- tbreaker to Alberta in the bronze medal match Saturday night at Durham College in Oshawa, Ont. “I’ve come too close to winning the big things for the last three years, so it’s nice to finally come out on the winning end of a big one,’’ said Hor- ning in a telephone interview from Kamloops rights after his rink beat Ontario 5-3 to win the championship. “The front end played really solid all weekend. Judy (Wood) often made the difference, she made the really big shots,”’ said Horning. ki ege Down 1-0 after three ends, Horning said it was “‘looking pretty scary for us in the early ends."" But in the fourth, ‘‘they had a big miss from their skip — two actually — that gave us our three and we were never really in trouble after that.’” At the volleyball championships, Selkirk cruised through the preliminary round Thursday and Friday to win their four-team division with a record of 3-0. But the Saints were brought down hard in the semi-final, losing the best of-five in three-straight games to On- tario's Sheridan College Saturday af- ternoon The loss put the Saints into the bronze medal match against Alber- ta, a team Selkirk had beaten earlier in the preliminaries. “We won the first game rather easily and we thought they'd just roll over and die after that,’’ said Saints power-hitter Jason Wishlow from the college gym in Oshawa. “But they didn't. You have to give them credit . we didn’t beat ourselves in the last game, they beat us.”’ Wishlow said the morale on the team was high because, even though they lost, they did accomplish what they had set out to do at the beginning of the season. “We're not feeling any.dejection at all. We set a goal at the beginning of the year to finish in the top four in the country, whether it be one, two, three or four, and we did that. Unfor- tunately it was the latter,”’ said Wishlow Wishlow, his twin brother Wes, IT’S ALL OVER . . . Hockey season has drawn drawn to a close for another year in Castlegar but Danny Steck, 16, got in that one last skate at the Community Complex on Friday afternoon. —co:riexs Proto bytd stile Isles still in hunt EDMONTON (CP) — Pat La- fontaine scored his second goal of the game and Sist of the NHL season with 44 seconds left in the third period to give the New York Islanders a 5-5 tie with the Ed- monton Oilers Saturday night. With New York goaltender Mark Fitzpatrick pulled in favor of an extra attacker, the Islanders stormed the Oiler zone until Craig MacTavish gave up the puck to winger Pat Flatley MAPLE LEAFS 4 NORDIQUES 3 QUEBEC (CP) — Mark Osborne scored his second goal of the game 49 seconds into overtime, lifting the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 4-3 victory over the Quebec Nordiques and clinching a playoff spot in the Norris Division. Osborne, who has 22 goals, beat Nordiques goalten der Ron Tugnutt with a backhander along the ice from high in the slot. Daniel Marois scored his 38th goal on a breakaway at 9:04 of the third period to pull Toronto into a 3-3 tie , WHALERS 7 CANADIENS 4 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — ‘The line of Ron Fran cis, Pat Verbeek and Todd Krygier combined for 12 poin ts — three goals and nine assists — to spark the Hartford Whalers to a 7-4 win over the Montreal Canadiens. Francis, whose 31st goal 43 seconds into the third Period snapped a 4-4 tie, added three asists to boost his season point total to a career-high 98, including a club record 67 assists. Verbeek scored his 43rd goal and collected four assists while Krygier added an insurance goal_with 10:50 and two assist NORTH STARS 7 BRUINS 6 BOSTON (AP) — Neal Broten scored three goals and his brother Aaron had two as the Minnesota North Stars built a 6-2 lead in the second period and held on for a 7-6 victory over the Boston Bruins Brian Bellows, with his 52nd of the season, and Mark Tinordi also scored for the North Stars. Craig Janney, Ray Bourque, Bob Sweeney, Don Sweeney, Jim Wiemer and Dave Christian scored for the Bruins. FLAMES 3 PENGUINS 3 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Brian MacLellan’s goal with 6:28 left in the third period lifted the Calgary Flames into a 3-3 tie with the Pittsburgh Penguins Rookie Mark Recchi’s 30th goal gave Pittsburgh a 3 2 lead at 7:13 of the third period Gary Roberts gave the Flames a 2-2 tie with the only goal of the second period at 8:54. Joe Nieuwendyk’s shot caromed off the backboards and rolled to Roberts, who scored his 35th of the season by beating Pietrangelo from 10 feet m DEVILS 5 FLYERS 2 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Peter Stastny had a goal and two assists and John MacLean added a goal and an assist as the New Jersey Devils beat Philadelphia 5-2, dealing a blow to the Flyers’ playoff hopes. Kirk Muller, Brendan Shanahan and Doug Brown also scored for New Jersey. Kén Linseman and Murray Craven scored for Philadelphia, which had a three-game winning streak snapped RED WINGS 5 BLACKHAWKS 3 DETROIT (AP) — Bob Probert's second goal in as many games since returning from a one-year suspension snapped a tie midway through the final period and lifted Detroit to a 5-3 victory over Chicago. A JASON WISHLOW +++ NO regrets and Mike Perra were named game stars in the Saints three wins — over Nova Scotia, Alberta and Cambrian. College from Ontario — in the preliminary. round. The curlers finished the round- robin portion of the tournament with a 5-0 record to earn a bye to the final. Victories on opening day of the curling championship Wednesday in- cluded an 8-3 win over the host team from Cariboo College, 8-6 over Saskatchewan, and 9-7 and 6-4 wins over Manitoba and Alberta respec- tively Thursday. The last match of the round-robin was a foreshadow of the champion- ship as Selkirk beat Ontario 8-6. Perhaps Selkirk College ‘athletic director Rob Johnson, who was with the volleyball team in Oshawa, -sum- med it up best for both teams Satur- day. **We should really be proud that a college as small as Selkirk can come in here against giant colleges, with huge athletic programs, and do as well as we have done.’” Both teams are returning home today. Ice wars on WHL By The Canadian Press The Saskatoon Blades scored four consecutive goals in the third period to beat the Medicine Hat Tigers 7-4 in Western Hockey League playoff action Friday. The Blades lead the best-of-five East Division quarterfinal series 1-0. In other games, the Regina Pats took a 1-0 lead in their best-of-five East Division quarterfinal series with a 4-3 overtime win over the Swift Current Broncos. In the West Division, the Spokane Chiefs doubled the Kamloops Blazers 4-2 to take a one-game lead in their best-of-nine semifinal series. In Saskatoon, Blades’ coach Terry Ruskowski said the win gives his team a CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) — Ray Podloski’s second goal of the game at 18:48 of the third period gave Canada a 3-2 victory over the Czechoslovaleian* ‘Olympic team in the semifinal game of the Atlantic Cup International Hockey psychological boost Tournament on Friday. Canada will play the Soviet Union's Olympic squad in the final tonight in Charlottetown For the winning goal Friday, Podloski took a pass from the left side and-cut into the slot to snap a wrist shot between the legs of Czech goalie Robert Horyna “‘E had a second to get it on my forehand and I was going to deke but I saw his legs wide open so I shot for it and said luckily it went right through,” Podloski ALLAN CUP CHILLIWACK, B.C. (CP) — The Stony Plain, Alta., Eagles defeated the Abbotsford, B.C., Flyers 7-5 Friday night in the opening game of an Allan Cup western semifinal hockey game The best-of-five senior series continues tonight. The winner will play the St. Boniface, Man 23 . Mohawks starting April 7. The Allan Cup final begins April BCJ HL Darren Naylor scored two goals, including the overtime winner, to lead the Vernon lakers to a 6-5 win over the Merritt Centennials and the B.C. Junior Hockey League Interior Division championship Friday night. Naylor, who forced overtime by scoring late in the third period in Vernon, * said his goal at 8:29 of overtime was the high point of his career so far Peewees an air horn from title By ED MILLS Staff Writer Anyone who says home ice doesn’t mean much has never been a 13-year old kid, playing in the biggest game of his life in the other team’s arena, in front of 4,000-plus screaming fans. That's what the Castlegar Peewees faced in the provincial championship game against Port Hardy Peewees in Port Hardy last Wednesday night “*I don’t know the numbers exactly but I know it was pretty damn full,"’ assistant coach Doug Coulson said, referring to ‘the Port Hardy arena “*There were banners all over the place and people with those air hor- ns.”” Despite the partisan and raucous crowd, the Castlegar squad seemed immune for the first two periods, get- ting goals from Darren Pottle, Derek Read and defenceman Rick Fauth, to build a 3-1 lead heading into the third But in the third period, with the “fans roaring everyk time Port Hardy did something right," Port Hardy came back with three unanswered goals to win the provincial title “4 think if it had been any other team but the hometown one, we would have won it,’’ Coulson said. “The fans were pretty intimidating for our kids."” Coulson said the team was ‘‘hear tbroken"’ over the loss, their only one in five games in the week-long tour- ney “*But when it was all over and done with, and they had time to reflect on it, they were kind of proud of them- selves,"’ he said. ‘‘Second in the province, that's quite an accomplish- ment. And we came one period away from winning it al 1 ced \, "Shan wangr Be DARREN POTTLE . .. two point night Wayne Stolz went all the way in the nets for Castlegar, stopping 27 of the 31 shots he faced Pottle and Teddy Hunter picked up assists for Castlegar which fired 24 shots on the Port Hardy goalie. The team returned to Castlegar Friday and is finished playing hockey for-the season with the knowledge that it went further in. than- any other team in the city this year.