m___ Castlegar News _rebrvory 16. 986 ra OPENING CEREMONIES , . . Castlegar pertorms during ete ceremonies of West Kootenay figure skating ch Sotur- Precision team from day at the Community Complex. Local dignitaries were also on hand for the official opening. The cham hips wrap up today at the complex CorttewsPnote by Chery! Cotderbonk Daily Flight _ Service to * Cranbrook * Penticton For the second consecutive year the SHSS Junior Rock- * Kelowna ette’s basketball team suc- ceeded in reaching the cham- pionship game of their home BO5-770 1 | scm sare of ins ome CASTLEGAR & AREA RECREATION DEPARTMENT igure skaters. Public Skating cancelled. Rebels vs Forks Border Bruins. Game No. 3 of Playotts gome time 7:30 p.m. FEB. 17 — Lunch Hour Hockey 12 - 1, Parent and Tot Skating, 9 p.m. $20 Aqua Fit, 6 indman inn, Volleyball KISS $5. Rebels vs. Grand Forks, game p.m. Fea. Le =Water Color Painting, 7 S ond 7 m. Sor FEB. 19 — interior Decorating Workshops, 7 - 9:30 p.m Color. Do color chart tor home, make o color bookie! color chip and FEB. 20 — Women and Contemporery Nutrition Seminar. 7:20 p.m. Complex Hall, R.D. will discuss prenatal and early chil a ounten: ‘osteoporosis PMS, women in fitness. Registration fee $5.00. $2.50 ii registered in Recreation fitness program FEB. 21 — Lunch Hour Hockey 12 - 1. Public Skating, 2 - 3:30 p.m. Gymnastics, Torrys, 4-5 p.m. Winter ice is available for rent at various times. Coll the Recreation office for all the details. 2101 - 6th Ave., Castlegar =». Phone 365-3386 Tu-Dor Sports Castlegar SKIING — CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS: Export A Super Giont cone. 10:30 a.m., Red Mountain Ski Areo. — WEST KOOTENAY on m. yon, Community Complex HOCKEY — KUHL: Castlegar Rebels vs. Grand Forks Border Bruins, playolf game, 7:30 p.m., Community Complex BASKI — NBA: Boston Celtics vs. Los Angeles Lakers 12:45 p.m., channel 7 GOLF — Hawaiian Open, final round trom Honolulu, 1:30 2 Events begin 9 PGA: p.m. channel 6. MONDAY HOCKEY — RECREATIONAL LEAGUE: Checkers/Mallords vs Sandman inn, 8:30 p.m., Community Complex; GENTLEMEN'S LEAGUE: Kalesnikot! vs. Loomis/AM Ford, 9:30 p.m., Pioneer Arena HOCKEY — GENTLEMEN'S LEAGUE: Mountoin Sports vs. Gander Creek. 9:30 p.m., Pioneer Arena; KUHL: Costlegar Rebels vs. Grond Forks Border Bruins, playoll gome, 8 p.m.. Community samo. — CANADIAN 9:30 o.m., Red Mountain Ski Area. WPS: Export A Grant Siatom. AY HOCKEY — GENTLEMEN'S LEAGUE: Dairy Queen vs. Bill's Heavy Dury. 9 9:30 p.m Pioneer Arena, — CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS: Export A Slalom, 9:30 He m. mr Red Mountarn Shi Area Tu-Dor Sports Castlegar Fast Action Hockey Classic — and once again the Laurie Tigerettes wrestled the championships away from the locals and returned vietorious to Cranbrook. The Rockettes opened the weekend tournament with a sound 41-17 thrashing of Southern Okanagan from Oliver. Captain Pamela Braun led the point produc tion with 11 while Jenny Rezanzoff and Arla Goolieff netted eight and seven points respectively. Kim Lees and Vicki Grit chen had four points each, Judi Closkey and Lucy Car- doso got two points each and Carrie Gorkoff had one point. The locals led comfortably 24-8 at half-time and cruised to the win in a fast, neatly played game, according to coach Doug Pilatzke. Other first-day scores in. eluded: Prince Charles 37 Grand Forks 36; Laurie 69 L.V. Rogers 12; and Parkland 34 Rossland 23. In their second game the Rockettes raced ahead of Parkland 14-0 and once again _ coasted to an easy 36-19 win. Rookies Goolieff and Rezan zoff each tallied 10 points, and Lees added eight. Shelly Pakula and Braun contribu Jr. Rockettes come close in Classic ted four points each while Lori Kinakin added a hoop. Other second-day results were Oliver 35 Rossland 27; Grand Forks 37, L.V. Rogers 32; Laurie 56 Prince Charles 17; Rossland 33 L.V. Rogers 22; Oliver 35 Grand Forks 24; Parkland 35 Prince Charles 23. The tournament final saw the local girls trade hoops with the Tigerettes as the lead changed hands several times before Laurie led by the narrowest of margins 14-13 at the half. The Rock- ettes stalled out in the third quarter as Laurie outpointed the Castlegar girls 14-0, but a furious last frame rush saw the Rockettes outscore the eventual winners 11-8. Final score was 36-24. Lees, Pakula, and Rezan soff had six points each, while Braun added five and Goolieff one point. MVP Mary-Lou MeDonald led Laurie with 14 points. Shelly Pakula was named second team all-star and also won the Hot Shots compe- tition. Goolieff, Lees and Rezan- zoff were all selected to the first all-star team. Orr grabs gold in Cup race Castlegar cross-country ski racers have continued to climb up the standings ac- cording to latest B.C. Cup Race results. Pauline Orr of the local Nordic Ski Touring Club captured the gold medal in the Juvenile Girls five-kil ometre race in 22 minutes and 30 seconds at B.C. Cup Race No. 5 in Salmon Arm. Darren Tamelin had to settle for third place in the 2.5-km race, finishing four one hundredths of a second from the silver in 9:44.6. Mark Dascher improved 50 seconds on his best-ever clocking, hy posting 30 min- utes 54 seconds for 10 km, good enough for fifth spot. This past weekend 23 NSTC racers participated in the Western Canadian Cham- only one other B.C. skier bettered his 6:59 clocking for two km and teammate Alex Hartman was close behind (7:12) in seventh spot. Similarly, Suzanne Orr and Jenny Gibson skied hard to take fifth (8:34) and ninth (8:56) spots in the Midget girls 2-km event Pauline Orr managed to consolidate her third place B.C. ranking even though she finished sixth overall with a 20:39 result for five km. Perhaps the best perfor mance was turned in by Mark Dascher. He posted a 23:02 time for seven-kilometres— good gh for 12th spot in a fiel® bf 24 and ahead of one racer from the B.C. team. Fellow Nordic, Colin Ham. ilton was less than two min- utes behind in 17th place. in Ri wit over 200 racers participating, ii each of the Castlegar Jr. Rebels Hockey Playoffs GAME NO. 4 Sunday, Feb. 16 7:30 p.m. $ GAME NO. 5 ‘Tuesday, Feb. 18 8:00 p.m. Location Castlegar Arena Complex Western provinces as well as the Territories. The only medals won by the locals came in the Pee Wee girls division where Melanie Gibson and Shannon Carter placed second and third. However, the team's over. all performance bodes well for the future. Good races were turned in by a number of skiers. While Darren Tamelin pla ced sixth in the field of 18, This is an im- portant one for a number of NSTC racers. On Saturday eight West Kootenay racers were in Kelowna competing in the B.C. championships. Today the eight return home to race with the local club in the last leg of the Kootenay Cup series taking place in Nelson. Race organ. izers report over 80 entries to date and any local skiers are encouraged to partici pate. Race time is 10:30 a.m. at the turnoff to the White. water ski area. People’s Insulation Services *500 CONTINUES SPORTS Playboys edge Mallards By CasNews Staff Perry Samoyloff notched a goal with 1:06 remaining in play Thursday night scoring what turned out to be the winning goal in Castlegar Playboys’ 4-3 win over Mal- lards Sports in # Castlegar Recreational Hockey League game. The Playboys have eight wins, 18 losses and four ties this season for 20 points and fourth spot. Mallards is last with a 9-191 record for 19 points. Meanwhile Castlegar Knights continue to lead the league with 42 points, Sand- man Inn is second with 33 points, while Hi Arrow is third with 26 points. In individual scoring, Don Deschene of the Knights leads with 89 points on 47 goals and 42 assists. Dan Walker of Sandman Inn is three points behind for sec- ond spot. Don Savinkoff of Mallards has 71 points — good enough for third place. John Horcoff of the Knights is fourth with 66 points, while Terry Halisheff of the Playboys is fifth with a 65-point total. For complete statistics, see Weekend Wrap-Up, page B2. Meanwhile, in Thursday night’s game, the Playboys led 2-0 after the first period on goals by Terry Halisheff and Tony Nazaroff. Assisting were Randy Renz, Clay Mar- tini, Halisheff and Dan Den. isoff. In the second period it was Mallards’ turn to score. Dave McKinnon and Frank Costa each scored a goal to pull their team into a 2-2 tie with the Playboys. Don Savinkoff, Dave McKinnon and Wayne Popoff assisted on the goals. In the final frame, Bill Nazaroff opened the scoring at 8;29, assisted by Tony Nazaroff and Randy Renz. Samoyloff got the winning goal with 1:06 left in the period making the score 4-2 before Terry Sander added the final goal for Mallards with 41 seconds left in the game. Pee Wee finish first Castlegar Pee Wee Reps posted a decisive 11-3 win over Creston to clinch first place in the West Kootenay league for the second year in a row. The Reps go into the playoffs Wednesday with 13 wins, five losses, and three ties to their credit. In Castlegar’s win, in the first period the local team chalked up six goals to Cres- ton’s one. Jamie Muller and Barr; Grunerud shared net duties and allowed Creston no goals in the second frame. The Reps increased their lead to 8-1 at the end of the second, when Roger Carlson and Kevin Rilcof netted one more each for hat tricks in the game, assists going to Ste- phen Junker, Derek Kaza- koff, Frank Strobel, David Josephson, Danny Stelk and Lonnie Schmidt. David Vecchio and Junker came up with a pair of goals each, assisted by David Green, Rilcof, Kazakoff and Josephson. Creston replied with two goals in the third but the Reps made it a no contest. Kazakoff slipped one more goal in the net assisted by Jeff Barr for the final score. The Pee Wees faceoff against Trail in the first playoff game Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Van Vliet skates to bronze Castlegar / figure skater Chelsea Van Vliet won a bronze medal at the Ogopogo Freeskate competition last weekend in Penticton. Van Vliet won the medal in the girls pre-preliminary eight and under category. BALANCING ACT . + Selkirk Saint tries to keep ball in motion during game against Cariboo College in Totem’ Conterence tournament at Selkirk College Saturday. The Saints lost this game to Cariboo but won two other matches against other college CostewsPhoto by Ryan Wilton “Selkirk Saints split games in tourney By CasNews Staff Selkirk Saints women's volleyball team won two games and lost two in a Totem Conference tourna- Saints are in seventh spot in final Totem Conference standings. Trinity Western College is in first place, Capilano is second, Vi ment it hosted on Cc Selkirk defeated Malaspina College 7-15, 15-11 and 15-12 while winning over Capilano College by default. The Selkirk team lost 15-7, 15-12 to Royal Roads . Military College, 12-15, 15-1 and 15-8 to Cariboo College. After tournament play, the Kootenay coaches picked Coaches have been selec. ted to guide six district teams toward competition in the B.C. Cup. The Cup will be held April 24-27 in Summerland and will bring together six district teams — including one from the Kootenays — of the top under 17-year-old players in the province. Coaches for the Kootenay team are Dan Noble, of Elk Valley Blazers junior hockey team, Glen Saunders of Trail Bantams triple A team and Aurel Beaudin of Kimberley Juveniles. The coaches will be select ing their teams from district camps to be held April 11-13. The teams then have two weeks of preparation before competing in the B.C. Cup The B.C. Cup is an im portant step in the identifi cation of the top players in the province. It is an integral part of the “Best Ever” pro- gram which is designed to better prepare B.C. athletes for their possible selection to Olympic teams in 1988 and 1992. Curl-a-thon coming A curl-a-thon is being held in, Castlegar to raise money for the B.C. Heart Founda tion. The event will take place March 1 at the Castlegar Curling Club. Opening cere monies get underway at 11 a.m Prizes will be given in a number of categories, includ. ing highest pledged teams, highest pledged i Col- lege is third, Cariboo is fourth, Royal Roads is fifth, Malaspina is 6th, BCIT is eighth and Douglas is in last place. The top four teams advance to the Totem Conference championship final. Saints coach Ray LeMoigne singled out two players — Leona Powell and Judy Konkin — who stood out for the Saints on Satur- day. He said Michelle Clements and Nadine Plotn ikoff also performed at their usual high standard. Meanwhile in other results, it was Trinity over VCC 15-18, 15-13, Doublas over BCIT 15-7 15-10, Cari- boo defeated Malaspina 15-5 9-15 and 15-10, Royal Roads beat Doublas 15-0 15-7, Malaspina won over Capilano by default. VCC beat BCIT 15-5 8-15 and 15-12, Royal Roads won 15-0 15-8 over BCIT, while Trinity defeated Cariboo 15-8 15-13. VCC defeated Douglas 15-12 16-14 and Trinity won over Capilano by default. VCC beat Malaspina 15-6 13-15 and 15-12, while Royal Roads beat Trinity 15-8 15-6, Cariboo won over Dougias College 7-15 15-3 and 15-10 while BCIT won its game over Capilano by default. Weekend Wrap-up HOCKEY CASTLEGAR RECREATIONAL UAGUE (Stendings os of Feb. 14) we Contiegar Knights Sondmon inn sure S3e eseeess SEeTIE LSEL Es hal Ssssf seest rink member, highest aggre gate rink and best costume Entry deadline for the curl a-thon is noon on Feb. 28. Organizers are hoping to make the curl-a-thon an an nual event. ron fond UA Lakers 141 Ationto CURLING TRANSACTIONS | Americen Konsos City Royals agree to terms with shortstop On Concepcion on one-year Temas Rangers sign ovthelder Oddibe McDowell to one yeor c COMMUNITY NEWS experiences When I set out for Lyonnese, A hundred miles away. — Thomas Hardy “And there we were at the crowded railway station on our way with our Japanese parents to visit some of the ancient shrines and we were all speaking Japanese. ‘Sumi masen’ (excuse me). ‘Sumi masen.’ ‘Shitsu reshimasu’ (sorry for my rudeness). “And this group of American students were all looking at us as if we were a bunch of morons.” That's how the tape began. I had invited three Rotary exchange students — Julie Higgins who had been to Japan, Chris Bullock who had been to Norway, and Kimiko Mitobe who will be returning to here home in Tokyo after spending an all-too-brief year in Castlegar. ‘The stated purpose of the interview was to discuss Rotex, the newly-formed mutual support club for exchange students. The unstated reason was for me to learn of what they ives had learned and experienced during their year on exchange; in what ways their outlook had changed and their horizons broadened. In mid-question, therefore, I craftily flipped on the recorder then almost immediately forgot it in the pleasure of the ensuing conversation. “Your new language,” said Chris, “you just pick it up, and it comes naturally.” “Last night,” continued Kimiko, “I dreamt in English. In my dream I was in Japan after I got home from Canada and one of my friends who had been in the United States spoke to me in English. So to some of my friends I spoke in Japanese, but to her I spoke English, so I used both languages in my dream, and she giggled delightedly. Then said Chris, “I was travelling with my Norwegian parents when we met an Australian who couldn't speak any Norwegian and was lost.” “Here is our Canadian son,” said my father,” speak to you in English.” “I couldn't believe it,” Chris said, still amazed. “I couldn't get out a single word in English, I had been so long forcing myself not to speak English, putting a brake on myself, not using slang, that it was half an hour before I could speak.” “And how long was this? “By December (4 months) I had enough Norwegian to get by. After that my Norwegian really improved.” Julie: “It really throws you off if you are speaking one language and they speak another. Even in an international group of students at Rotex, for example, when we met a member of Australian students (and here she slipped rT into an Australian accent), since we were surrounded by Japanese, we automatically started speaking to one another, not in English, but Japanese.” Chris: “Your mind kind of adjusts that way.” Julie: “You also learn a lot about your own country. Some people said to me, ‘Oh, you speak English. You're the first English speaking Canadian we have met. They expected me to speak the language of Canada, as they thought, that is, French.” J.C.: “Kim, how long did you take to learn English and how do you feel about your English now?” Kim: “I can hear now. Sometime I can't say what I want to say but now I feel comfortable.” Julie: “My teacher told me that if you take an English sentence, mix it up as much as you can and then put it word for word into Japanese, then it is This brings a mock indignant cry from Kimiko, who said: “In English we use subject, verb and object in the sentence. In Japanese we use subject, object and verb.” Kim and Julie {in chorus}: “And sometimes we omit the subject. (giggles). Julie: “They (Japanese) don't realize how much they omit, and sometimes they get upset at having to repeat and repeat.” Kim: (firmly) “After the first few sentences we know what we are talking about, so we omit he will John Charters .. . Reflections & recollections EXCHANGE «+» Rotary (trom left) Julie Higgins, Chris Bullock and Kimiko Mitobe Julie: “Then the way the kids talk in school...“ Kim: “Slang?” Julies: “What they are saying and what I am learning are two different things so I was forever having to ask, ‘What does it mean?’ I don't think the kids here use as much slang as they do in Japan.” (Kim raises an quizzical eyebrow to the accompaniment of considerable laughter and Julie continues:) “You can use one word and it cam have multiple meanings.” .C.: “This then explains something about Haiku (the Japanese 17 syllable poetic form). One word can stand for an entire sentence.” Kim: “We Japanese say very simple things, Sometimes we have to imagine what we are talking about, but since we are all Japanese we u! Then followed a discussion of ancient and new cultures, of single ethnic groups and melting pots such as Canada. Julie: “The Japanese have a very different way of thinking and it takes a long time to adjust to that, but once you do it is really neat. I much prefer the Japanese way of thinking — their ideas of what is right and what is wrong.” Japanese more visual than English; more like pictographs?” 4 “Words have different meanings at different levels. My sister told me that the word ‘Canon’ has 12 different intonations and 12 different meanings. Kim: “But ‘Canon’ is not a Japanese word.” Julie: “You see? It sounds like that but they speak so fast and I just take the meaning from what I know and it’s share experiences of living in a different country with John Charters during a recent interview. Costtews Photo by John Chor ters And so our talk went on and on for well over an hour it seemed only minutes which those young people taught me more about education in that little time than I had learned in many years and | thank them for a delightful and enriching evening. ‘They also gave new dimensions and enjoyment to a poem by Thomas Hardy that I learned in my high school days. It Reads: When I Set Out For Lyonnesse When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my lonesomeness When I set out for Lyonnesse A hundred miles away. What would bechance at Lyonnesse While I should sojourn there No prophet durst declare, Nor did the wisest wizard guess What would bechance at Lyonnesse While I should sojourn there. When I came back from Lyonnesse With magic in my eyes, All marked with mute surmise My radiance rare and fathomless, When I came back from Lyonnese With magic in my eyes! J.P. 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