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The high style and quality that
class represents isn’t always easy to
define. That’s because people show
|-they-possess class in different ways,
and most often those ways aren't de-
signed to attract attention.

Suffice to say that most of us know
a class act when we see one and if
someone has to ask you what class is,
they probably don’t have much of it.

Unfortunately, class isn’t saturat-
ing the market in today’s sports envi-
ronment. Oh, there’s plenty of class,
as my dad says, it’s just third and
fourth class that’s all. All you have to
do is take a look at professional box-
ing to realize the truth in that.

Still, when you put sports and class
together, certain individuals come to
mind immediately.

Excluding retired athletes — whose
legend of class often grows in direct
correlation to the length they are out
of the game — there are those in pro-
fessional sport that. epitomize the
word — The Ryan Express, Arnie
and The Golden Bear, Conners, The
Great One, Browning, Bird and Mag-
ic, Lee Gartner and Lopez to name a
few. ;

Locally the class list would include
athletes like Belezyk and Bozek, Mar-
tini and Junker, Gamborski and Cher-
noff, but it would also have to include

builders like Closkey, McCarthy,
McArthur and Willis.

At the other end of the spectrum sit
people like Carl Lewis, who has no
class and could give a rotor rooter
what anybody thinks about it.

And locally, I’ve seen more than my
share of people who do senseless
things in the misguided belief that
they are God (or Carl Lewis) to know
that we are not without muttonheads
ourselves.

But unlike Trail, whose list of class-
less acts is added to every year, (you
have to step on some toes to become
the city af champions, just ask Ed-
monton) I would say Castlegar has
more class acts than not.

Case in point, the Castlegar Men’s
Curling Club, which immediately
went to the top of the class acts list at
its year-end awards banquet last
week.

What the club did at that banquet
was realize where it came from. It’s
members realized that winners owe
something to those who allowed them
to be winners. They realized that their
club, the arena it plays in and the tro-
phies it hands out to the best of the
bunch, did not present itself out of
thin air.

But more importantly than just rec-
ognizing these facts, the club recog-

Jim Draper and George Wilson

Now that’s a class act alright _

nized the facts and made sure that at
least one person who was part of mak-
ing the club happen knew that they
knew.

Oh yeah, it was a simple thing to
do. But there are at least a dozen or-
ganizations who still haven’t done it
right. ;

It was a classy thing done to a
classy guy when the Curling Club
named George Wilson its Curler of the
Year at it awards banquet.

Wilson, 84, hasn’t thrown a stone
for years now, but he was not forever
forgotten for all the things he’s done
for the club.

That’s class in my books.

“What we thought we’d do is, in-
stead of always making the Curler of
the Year the guy that wins the most
bonspiels and takes the most money
out of the club, but offers nothing back
other than showing up, what we
thought we’d do is honor a guy that’s
dedicated his life to helping and never
really wanted bugger all for it,” said
Men’s Club member Jim Draper.

“What happened to those guys who
made it possible? Where are they now
and who knows them and who recog-
nizes them?” Draper asks.

There are plenty of organizations,
sports and others, in this town who
could ask themselves those questions.

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News photo by Ed Mills
Every SHSS student who got to the finish line Wednesday morning got a free milk as the school’s
Staff and students did their part in B.C. School Sports 14th annual Milk Run, which raises money
for selected sports organizations in the province. :

NEWS STAFF

Milk, charity, exercise and
a little competition, it doesn’t
get any more wholesome than

A.churning line of about
500 Stanley Humphries Sec-
ondary. School students and
staff wound its way through
downtown Castlegar Wednes-
day doing its part in B.C.
School Sports Milk Run:

About 200 B.C. secondary
schools participated in the
The 14th annual event —
sponsored by B.C. Dairy
Foundation — which raises
money for a selected sport as-
sociation

SHSS students raised
about $138.25, which will go
to the B.C. Blind Sports and
Recreation Association.

Last year the run, which
covers a course of about three
kilometres, generated, close to
$30,000 for the Canadian

SHSS does its _
y part in Milk Run

Wheelchair Sport Association.
“I would say we almost had
total participation,” said
SHSS run organizer Barry De
Paoli. “So we’re pretty happy
with the way it worked out.”

While most walked the
course, others took it as a
challenge.

Martin Guido was the
fastest Grade 12 boy across
the line, while Christina
Rowsell was the fastest girl.

In Grade 11, Greg Ehman
led the way for the boys and
Wendy Closkey was the
fastest girl.

Shane Ruljanchic and
Averil Sheppard were the two
fastest in Grade 10, while
Donald Young and Melissa
Chernoff were the Grade 9
pace setters.

De Paoli said the school’s
goal next year will be among
the top 10 fund-raisers in the
province.

Local pensioners

back on the links

Bud Lowther
COLUMNIST :

Forty-three retiree's made
it out April 9 for the opening
day of the Castlegar Pension-
ers Golf Club.

Setting the early pace in the
low net event were Frank
Holdsworth, Tom Ellis, Art
Lewis, Gord Pettit, H. Ackney,
F. Steenvoorden, Jim Moore
Arnie Akselson and Miles
Ringheim, who all won golf
balls after the first round.

Tom Wilson and Buzz Mac-
Donald also won balls as they
tied at 44 for the low gross
score of the day.

As a new member the re-
cently retired Wilf Sweeney
was given a golf ball, along
with Ken Price and Kare
Gjennestad. :

Rain and wind greeted
about 50 Pensioners at the

course April 16. \

W. Janicki, Jim MacDon-
ald, Bill Cheveldave, W. Braun
and Gord Brady were given
golf balls as the club’s latest
new members. SP

Ringheim made it two
straight golf ball wins in the
low net event, while L. Harm-
ston, C Christianson, D
Hiebert, J Wichert and G Hop-
kins also won balls.

George Crossley shot 42 to
win the ball in the low gross
event, while Sweeney was a

_just a shot behind. —_-

The Long Ball
By Bud Lowther

I had a good swing,

was 5
Until I tried for a long ball—
Then I lost it all.

I went to the pro
He said let us go,
To the driving range now,
And I'll show you how.

You must change your grip,
And pivot your hip,
While your shoulder you turn,
These things you must learn.

Your right knee should stay
nt,
Before your backswing is spent,
But don’t be toolate |
At shifting your weight.

You swing easy to go far —
That’s the way that things are,
But don’t look up too fast
Before the'club head has
passed.

And try not to sway —
While the club’s on the way,
But follow right through —

This too you must do.

And practice and pray —
You'll hit a long ball
Before the snow comes this fall.

That is me in the rain
You see swinging in pain,
Please God I need rest —
From this terrible quest.

Golfers respond to
coach's orders

Training
Divers
Professionally
For
16 YEARS

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Lewis took over as club
president and Sweeney joined
the executive.

If your vehicle is pictured here, drop by the

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NEWS STAFF

SHSS coach Bill Lunn got a
few things he wanted and one
thing he could have done with-
out Wednesday at a golf tour-
nament in Nakusp.

What Lunn wanted enter-
ing the tournament was for his
top players to shoot lower
scores and for the team to
maintain its second place
standing in the eight school
league.

He got both those things as
Jody Carew and Todd Ar-
chambault shot 74 and 77 re-
spectively on the par 68 course
to lead SHSS to a second place
finish.

But Nakusp, the team
SHSS will be fighting with all
season for a playoff spot, took
advance of its home course to
win the event.

“Tm glad we got second but
I don’t like being behind
Nakusp,” Lunn said.

Lunn said he would have
liked even lower scores from
his team, but was pleased with
the effort considering his play-
ers aren't familiar with the
Nakusp course.

Nelson’s L.V. Rogers Sec-
ondary, which is favored to fin-
ish first overall, left some of its
best players at home and fin-
ished third in Nakusp.

The top two teams advance
to the East/West Kootenay fi-
nals. ¢

Mark Perrier and Kris

Chernenkoff had 86s for —

SHSS, while Scott Clifford
shot an 87.

SHSS hosts the next round
of play at the Castlegar Golf
Course April 30.

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