SPORTS SKUNG OVER . . . some of the 88 Jackrabbit skiers gothered for a recent season-ending wind-up in which CASTLEGAR SENTINEL MINOR BASEBALL Organizational Meeting at Castlegar Arena in Arts & Crafts Room 7 p.m. Thurs., March 13 NEEDED: COACHES, UMPIRES. MANAGERS, DECISIONS NEED TO SET FEES Public Welcome. 7 Tues., Mar. 11 All interested players and teams please attend! each of the participants received a crest gnd one or more badeges. The Jackrabbit ski-league in Castlegar recently held its wind-up. Some 88 young ski- ers took part in the program this year, which is sponsored by the Castlegar Nordic Ski Touring Club. Fifty-five of the skiers took the program for the first time and six took the program for the fourth time. Each child received a crest A successful season for Castlegar cross-country ski racers ended on an even higher note last weekend in Terrace at the B.C. Winter Games. Ten skiers from the Koot enay Zone collected four in dividual medals as well as a medal placing in the relays. Juvenile boys Kari Hart- man (21:07) and Darren Tamelin (21:13) found it tough going in their five-kil- ometre race placing 14th and 15th. CASTLEGAR & AREA RECREATION DEPARTMENT MARCH 9— Public Skating, 1:45-3:30. Adults $1.25 Studen ts, $1.00, Children 75¢ MARCH 10 — Lunch Hour Hockey 12 Tot Skating | - 2 p.m. $1.25. MARCH 11 — Porent & Tot Skating, 11 - 12 p.m. Public Skating, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Second session of Baby Ballet, Baby Tap and Tots Gymnastics starts. Fee $7 Slow Pitch softball general meeting, 7:30 p.m. Com plex. All interested players and teams please attend MARCH 12 — Aduit skote, 11-12 p.m. $1.00. Lunch hour hockey, 12 - 1:00 p.m. $1.00. interior decorating, kit chens and bathrooms SHSS. 7 p.m. $5 MARCH 13 — Parent & Tot skate, 11 - 12 p.m. Public Skating 2 1 p.m. $1.00. Parent & 30 - 4:30. MARCH 14 — Adult Skate, 11 - 12 p.m. Lunch Hour Hockey 12-1 p.m. MARCH 15 — Public Skating, 2:45 - 4:45 MARCH 16 — Public Skating 1:45 - 3:30 p.m Only one week of Public Skating lett this season. Los! day March 23. Minor Soccer Registration March 22 Complex, 10-2 p.m. Softball pitching clinic, April 2, 3 & 5. Level 2 Technical Clinic, April 4, 5 For more information on these clinics coll the Rec Office 2101 - 6th Ave., Castlegar Phone 365-3386 LION'S HEAD SPORTS Castlega Calendar SUNDAY HOCKEY — RECREATIONAL LEAGUE: Playotts, Sondmon Inn vs Hi Arrow, noon: Castlegar Knights vs. Castlegar Playboys. 9:30 p.m. Ci Complex S$ LEAGUE: tt oe. Bill's Heavy Duty. 6 p.m., Community Complex; Dairy Queen vs. Mountain Sports. 7:45 Community Complex Loomis/ AM Ford vs. Gander Creek, 8:45 p.m.. Proneer Arena BASKETBALL — NBA: New York Knicks vs. Chicago Bulls or in diana Pacers vs. Philadelphia 76ers, 40. o.m., channel / AY _ RECREATIONAL LEAGUE: Playotts. Costlegar Playboys vs. Castlegar Knights, 8:30 p.m. Community Complex GENTLEMEN'S LEAGUE: Bills Heavy Duty vs. Mountain Sports 9.30 p.m., Proneer Arena TUESDAY RECREATIONAL LEAGUE: Ployolts. Sondmon Inn vs Community Complex, GENTLEMEN'S Doiry Queen, 930 p.m. Pioneer HOCKEY He Arrow, 8:15 p.m LEAGUE: Kolesnikott vs Arena WEDNESDAY HOCKEY — GENTLEMEN'S LEAGUE: Kolesnikott vs Loomis AM Ford, 9.30 p.m., Pioneer Arena. Their Juvenile girls coun terparts also did not finish in the medals with Andrea Schnider (24:06) of Inver- mere placing 12th and local skier Claire Andrews (27:55) finishing 19th. ‘The pourfng rain and uni versal blister conditions didn't seem to affect Mark Dascher as he earned a bronze medal in the Junior Boys 10-kilometre race with a time of 35. minutes 36.4 seconds. Colin Hamilton, also of Castlegar, completed the 10-kilometres in 40:06 for eighth in a field of 18. Kooenay skier Pauline Orr continued her winning ways, Jackrabbits end season and one or more of technique, speed or racing badges. There were 11 leaders — most of whom are members of the Nordic Club's racing team. The Jackrabbit lessons were held at the Castlegar Golf Course trails every Sat- urday morning. There were eight 1'2-hour lessons. Kootenay skiers bring home medals capturing the silver medal in the Junior Girls 7.5 kilom- etre event in 32:14 with her teammate Karen Rasku of Rossland (39:01) placing sev enth. Local racers faired even better in the Junior Mens and Women's 10-kilometre events. Terry DeLong of Rossland outclassed the field by five minutes, winning the gold medals in 34:37, and Castlegar’s Wendy Guymer (39:29) recovered from a bad fall to bring home the bronze medal for the Kootenays. Dascher, Orr, Delong, and Guymer went on to win the silver medal in the 4x2.5 km relay on a totally different track on Sunday. It was frozen hard and much more to the liking of the Kootenay racers. The future seems bright for cross-country ski racing in the area with better fac ilities becoming available, more coaching, plus funding from the provincial body. It may be as early as next season when Castlegar will host the first ever B.C. Cup race to be held in the Koot enays, says coach Doug Car ter. Loomis/AM Ford nets three points By CasNews Staff Loomis/AM Ford won one game and tied one in Castle- gar Gentlemen's Hockey League play this week. The top team defeated Dairy Queen 5-3 Thursday night and tied Kalesnikoff 6-6 Tuesday. In Wednesday's cick BUCKLE UP! success Kinnaird Junior Secondary School Cobras added two more accomplishments to their long list of hoop sue- cesses this year by winning the West Kootenay cham- pionship over a Grand Forks team in action Wednesday at Selkirk College. The Cobra victory came on the heels of a big tournament win in Cranbrook recently where the Cobras defeated previously unbeaten Laurie Jr. Secondary the host school in the opening round of the East Kootenay Invitational Tournament. As in the East Kootenay tournament, MVP point guard Lise-Ann Abrahamse was the dominant force in the Cobra win over Grand Forks scoring 12 points with 10 of them coming in the’ second half. The Cobras, winners of the West Kootenay champion ship in 1982-83 showed little intensity and allowed the Grand Forks team to stay close until the final moments of the fourth quarter when guards Abrahamse and Brandy Howard broke loose for a combined total of eight points in less than two min- utes to put the game out of reach, according to coach Doug Hickey. Denise Pottle played her usual steady game and found the net three times for a six- TOP AWARDS . . . Castlegar Rebels’ Kelly Hurd (c: national Junior Hockey League awards trom presi entre) accepts Koote! dent Terry Skarbo (ri Inter- it) and Ken Kozlowski Friday night in Trail. Hurd won the West Divisions Most Valuable Player award and the top scorer award. Hurd wins MVP award Kelly Hurd of the Castle- gar Rebels received two tro- phies from Kootenay Interna tional Junior Hockey League president Terry Skarbo dur- ing the Trail-Cranbrook finals Friday night. Hurd won the most valu able player award ‘in the West Division along with the top scorer trophy. Hurd finished the league on top of both divisions with 77 goals and 71 assists. Other trophy winners of the West Division were: Mike McNelly of Grand Forks Border Bruins for top goaltender; GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE point total. Di ively the Cobras were led by the tena. cious duo of Sunny Baker and Sarah Byers and some key rebounding by Leanne Bentley. Shelley Fofonoff led Grand Forks with six points but her totals did not reflect her play on the court. Missed shots by her teammates after good passing by Fofonoff spelled doom for the Grand Forks girls who have improved im mensely since the beginning of the season, says Hickey. The season winds down for the Cobras this weekend with the Beaver Valley In- vitational Tournament in Fruitvale. Hickey, pleased with how the season has pro- gressed believes the pres sure is off the girls with the West Kootenay title under their belts and their recent success in the East Koot. enay. The team plans to en joy this weekend's action as many of the girls will be playing their final game for the Cobras. Garnet Compton of Rossland Warriors for sportsmanship. Three members of the Trail Jr. Smokeaters — Jay Kuknowsky for rookie, Gary Cahoon for top defenceman and Tom Renney for coach of the year, also received tro- phies. Jays edge Twins in 11 DUNEDIN, FLA. (CP) — Outfielder Rick Leach sin- gled to right field in the bottom of the 11th inning Saturday, scoring Lou Thorn- ton and giving Toronto Blue Jays a 3-2 Grapefruit League exhibition win over Minne sota Twins. Thornton, like Leach a non-roster player, led off the 11th with a double off losing pitcher Pete Filson. The Jays, who had the best pre-season record in the majors last season with a 19-9 mark, took a quick 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning on a solo home run by catcher Ernie Whitt. The Twins tied it up in the sixth as Roy Smalley tripled off Dennis Lamp and pinch runner Gary Gaetti scored on a ground-out by Kent Hrbek. The Jays, with new man ager Jimy Williams at the helm, went ahead 2-1 in the seventh as second baseman Mike Sharperson doubled and scored on a single by third baseman Kelly Gruber. The Twins then tied in the eight on consecutive singles by Gaetti, Mickey Hatcher and Mark Davidson. Right-hander Dave Stieb started for the Jays and al lowed four hits in three scoreless innings. He was followed by Lamp, who gave up one run in three innings, and Bill Caudill, who allowed one run on three hits in two innings. Luis Aquino pitched the last three innings and picked up the win after allowing only one hit The Twins started veteran pitcher Bert Blyleven, who gave up one run in the first three innings. He was fol lowed by Dennis Burtt, who gave up no runs on three hits in three innings. Ron Davis pitched the next three, al lowing one run on three hits, before giving way to Filson. The Jays had an opening day sellout crowd of 3,369 in Grant Field Van Vliet first Three Castlegar figure skaters competed in the Rocky Mountain Free Skate competition in Cranbrook last weekend with one skater returning with a gold medal Chelsea Van Vliet placed first in the pre-preliminary ladies 10 and under group C Laura Kosowan was fifth in pre-preliminary ladies group B while Leah Kennedy placed fourth in pre-juvenile ladies 11 and under The club's last badge ska ting lesson is March 17. On March 21, the private les son skaters will be putting on @ pop concert Mid-Week Wrap-up HOCKEY CASTLEGAR GENTLEMEN'S HOCKEY EAGUE STANDINGS Gonde: Dory Queen Mounten Sports Thurs. March @ Queen game, Gander Creek beat jon spons Mountain Sports 7-5. Loomis leads the league with 34 wins, nine losses and four ties for 72 points. Bill's Heavy Duty has 48 points, after getting 21 wins, 17 losses and six ties. Kales- nikoff has a 21-18-5 record for 47 points and third place. Gander Creek is fourth with 42, Dairy Queen is fifth with 31 and Mountain Sports is last with 28 points. For complete statistics, see Weekend Wrap-Up, page B2. CASTLEGAR JR. REBELS Ssssse esse LION'S HEAD SPORTS A Public Service of Lion's Head Sports Ltd. WIND-UP BANQUET Friday, March 14 Fireside Dining Room Tickets $10 at Castlegar Sports Centre Social Hour 6 to7 p.m Dinner ot 7 p.m idenonton 5 Puttaburgh 3 SCOMNG LEADERS 3 otter Friday sree cee Nononet Hockey League scoring a a 138 seeteses = 282 255 289 5: Owvisron 285 29 2 232 204 E-) Por 1 Seortte 120 Castlegar needs signs Last summer I received a phone call from a programmer for CBC Radio in Vancouver. His wife, he told me, had read about the Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park and had insisted that a visit to Castlegar and to the park be included in their summer vacation trip. They found Castlegar without difficulty but spent a full half-hour driving back and forth across town before a stop at the RCMP station enabled them to locate the island. “Just drive down this street to the end. You can't miss it.” They were delighted with what they saw, said my caller, and would be coming back again for a longer visit. They were considerably less happy with the lack of signs which caused such a waste of time in looking for the island. Since the park was dedicated in 1983 and the signs were not put up until 1985 it was a scenario which has repeated itself many times in the two-year interval. Had they called at city hall they would have been equally unsuccessful since the maps prominently displayed there give no indication of the island's exi: . and the fine, clear maps drawn by Bill Hadikin for the 1985 chamber of commerce calendar are nowhere to be seen. This in turn recalled to mind an earlier incident when guests from a natural history society on the coast came for a long weekend visit and workshop at Selkirk College. On the last day we took them to see the beauties. of the West Kootenay, a trip which included a pienie at Champion Lakes Park via the C: tlegar-Salmo cutoff. They loved it. Since they were going home immediately we came back via the Trail highway “When we get to the overpass in Castlegar you turn left for Grand Forks,” we said, “We'll signal.” _ COMMUNITY NEWS —— John Charters . . - Reflections & recollections belong to a service club but the only service club sign I've seen is the Lions Club. I need to stock up on groceries but are there any shopping centres? When I was leaving Vancouver, the Smiths said, “You're driving across the province? Make sure you stop in the West Kootenay area at Castlegar. accommodation, take your golf clubs and rod. They have a wonderful park up there — Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park. Wonderful place for a picnic and an hour's relaxation. “They have a suspension bridge, a long one, and & house they're restoring. Built in the style of a Russian Orthodox country chapel There's nothing like it in B.C. “Then take a free ride on the ferry, over to Robson, it’s fun. There's an old community church by the Robson road, well worth a visit, and a churchyard in the old style. “You can come back over the Keenleyside dam. Great pictures, and perhaps you see the locks in operation. Lots more. They have a tourist information centre.” With all of this in mind I located those ambiguous circular question-mark signs, negotiated by way past the complex of entry ramps and found the tourist information centre which, happil ing into more di There'll be a lot of us this summer and you people in Castlegar have a gold mine here — if you develop it properly. And what did I learn in the brief minutes that I was a fresh and innocent tourist? I was reminded once that we live in one of the beauty spots of British Columbia. The sweep of the valley, the river benches and the ranges of the hills and the mountains is as dramatic and eyecatching as I first remember it almost 40 years ago. But fa: rity ‘brings blindness and we don't see them any more, as strangers do. We need to do a job of selling what we have for profit and pleasure to prospective visitors to our valley and our town. As I (the tourist) come from Grand Forks, for example, there is the Welcome to Castlegar sign but now welcome. There is no place for me to stop and admire the view; no sign which says “We welcome you to Castlegar, the crossroads of the Kootenays. The river below you is the mighty and historic Columbia. The mountains in the back ground are called the Selkirk Mountains, with Selkirk College and the Castlegar airport in the foreground. “We can offer you a wide variety of excellent iy quarters. | am. greeted pleasantly by the helpful receptionist and shown the extensive arrangement of tourist information, including a tourist map of Castlegar. Regretably, it looks-tike a make-over of a make-over, a cartographer’s nightmare which conceals more than it reveals. The pamphlet, Kootenay Country, is more than a hinderance than a help. Only the little blue pamphlet, Shhh! it’s a Secret, is of any real use to me. I like it and I hope the chamber of commerce is doing the necessary revision and updating for 1986. di dining places and recreation. We have a number of interesting and even unique places to visit within a few minutes drive from here. Castlegar is just below you and our tourist information is waiting to serve you.” Add a simple map indicating these items and you've got it. P.S. Did you know that there is no sign to mark the excellent lookout and view on Highway 3 (to Salmo) nor anything to point out the beautiful view from Verigin’s tomb? Receive | Set ot Extra Prints s Or 1-6"x7" enlargement for only ......-« nounce the appointment of Jud Dudley of Castlegar as 2 Reg for the € life insurance company. Mr. Dudley joined Pioneer Life in 1984 and has be- come one of the C ‘stop tatives. Mr. Dudley may be contacted at 601-28th St., Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3R9 or at 365-5702 Pioneer Life is a growing western Canadian com- and life i Pioneer Life Ai Company HEAD OFFICE: P.O. Box 3145 / Regina, Seskatchewen / S4P We arrived at the overpass, slowed down and indicated the turn. One of the two visitor's vehicles turned left and headed for Grand Forks via the Christina Lake Highway. The other, a Volkswagon minibus, completely ignored our signals and turned smartly right and sped off down the road to Salmo (or Nelson). Fortunately, while we were still debating the situation, the minibus reappeared and raced across the overpass to) the accompaniment of shouts and frantically waving arms. Lesson: If it is possible for someone to make a wrong turn, someone will make it. Moreover, Castlegar its, crossroads situation and its confusion of entry and exit ramps, fairly bristles with opportunities for a goof. Even local residents not infrequently end up in the wrong] location. What then would the situation look like to a stranger, a tourist to our community? Last Monday the combination of fog and absent mindedness produced a dead battery, the need for a' jump-start, a good drive to recharge it and a good excuse’ to become a first-time innocent visitor to Castlegar. I went out of town about two kilometres and then turned back, trying to see the situation through new eyes — something easier said than done since habit robs us of our naivety and our eye of its freshness. In starting off, I was pleased to note that the; Ministry of Highways had the towns in the area well posted and the big route map at the Rossland cutoff kept me from straying I was glad to be welcomed to Castlegar by the large wooden signs just outside the city limits, but they looked rather weatherworn and indifferent and the thought) crossed my mind: Welcome to what? The approach views to Castlegar outdo anything in the Kootenay or even anywhere in the province, but what does the town itself do to entice me in for a closer look? I (as tourist) am pulling a trailer, but there is no indication of any trailer parks in the vicinity of the town. I Forestry courses begin soon Selkirk College begins of fering Forestry Crew Work er Training in Nelson this week with courses due to begin soon in Nakusp and Castlegar. cover an introduction to For: estry, Safety (First-Aid), Survival Camping and Base Camp Establishment, Basic Forest Ecology, Elementary Forest Measurements, Bus Jackpot carried over The six winning numbers in Wednesday's Lotto 6-49 draw were 1,7, 17, 28, 41 and 45. The bonus number was 39. There was no winner of the jackpot pool of $1,464,036. The second-prize pool, awarded to those matching five regular numbers and the bonus number, had six win- ners of $92,180. The third-prize pool, awarded to those matching five regular numbers, had 190 winners of $2,226. Meanwhile, winning num- bers drawn Wednesday in British Columbia's Pacific Express lottery were: For $100,000: 301265; For $50,000: 178337; For $10,000: 420632. Bonus numbers: for $5: 51 or 84; for $10: 219 or 006; for $100: 1686 or 2213; for $1,000: 18238 or 59319; for $10,000: 295897 or 250091. iCastieaird Plaza Job openings Details of these and other job opportunities ore available ot Conede Cont: Full and part-time Taxi Drivers needed in Trail. Must have o Closs 4 Drivers Licence. Com mission now 52%. Drivers must je # PATRICK’S DAY SPECIALS Remember all your: ALL GREEN FABRICS & WOOLS Fri., Sat. & Mon., March 14, 15 & 17 Only 1 WOOL WAGON % Ott Knit & Sew Shoppe JACOBSEN’ Irish friends on ST. PATRICK'S DAY MON., MARCH 17 ALL CUSTOMERS WEARING GREEN ON Fri. & Sat., March 14815 Will receive a FREE Skin Saver Lotion or pocket comb. Compliments of the “leprechauns” at THE HAIR The 10-week training is designed to prepare indi viduals for employment in entry level positions in the forest silvicultural contract ing industry Delivery of the program, aimed at chronically unem ployed individuals, is coor dinated across the college re gion by Greg Lay a profes sional forester on short term contract to the college: “Selkirk College has de veloped the training compon ent for several silvicultural projects funded under the Job Development Initiative of the federal Canadian Job Strategy program,” Lay said in a prepared release. Trainees in the program will receive 12 instructional modules over the 10-week duration of the course, that iness Contracting, Fire Sup pression, Silvicultural Prac tices, Small Engine Mainten. ance, Planting Field Work, Juvenile Spacing, Brushing and Weeding Field Work, Evaluation, Testing and Job Search Techniques. pay tor own gas. (51T) Food Server for Trail. 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