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The Castleg: ar Sun

Wednesday, | December 22, 1993

lassic or skating, your choice

JOHN VAN PUTTEN
Sun Sports

Let it snow, let it snow

This is @ tune that all th

country skiers in the
urea have been singing for some
time now—and it's beginning to
pay off in the form ofa snow
pack at the Paulson Cross-coun

try Ski Trails.

The Castlegar Nordic Ski
Club maintains three shelters
and provides trail grooming and
track-setting along the over 45
km of trails.

local cross

The day-use shelters have
been stocked with enough
firewood to provide a warm
oasis for skiers throughout the
winter

Grooming and track-setting
are now well under way for the
season with. good snow condi
tions. Fall grooming and widen
ing of the trails has made for an
improvement in some areas
where the trail was down to one
track

One major trail extension has

PUBLIC NOTICE

The public is invited to attend an
Information Meeting to discuss the
merits of converting 2nd Street from
Columbia Avenue to 11th Avenue to a
one-way street eastbound.

Public input is important and anyone wishing to express
their views should attend the meeting to held as follows

DATE:, January 4, 1993

TIME: 6:30 p.m

PLACE: Council Chambers
1402 Columbia Avenue

Any inquiries may be made by calling 365-7227 or
writing to: Jim Gustafson, City Administrator, 460
Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C

Dianne Hunter

City Clerk

connected the Seal Creek Road

route being extended to meet up

with the Glenmerry Road loop
The club has added a new

JOHN VAN PUTTEN
Sun Sports

There's more than one way to
gel to the top of a mountain—
actually at Whitewater Ski
Resort there are three

For the start of this ski season
they have added an additional
lift to help streamline the flow
of skiers and to improve. access
to the under utilized east side
ski a

“We have solved the problem
of taking the Hummingbird

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Dec. 1, 1993 — Feb. 28, 1994
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Rules:

Entrants must be 19 yrs or over

Prizes must be accepted as awardec — no substitutions

All photos become the property of the Castlegar Sun and ca
Castlegar Sun retains the right to publish any photo
material.

Employees of the Castlegar Sun and their immediate far
Mail or bring your photo to

The Castlegar Sun, 465 Columbia Ave.,
along with a brief explanation of where and wher
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rto their collection of
grooming hardware

scrap

packed

scraper will break up the ice

This heavy-weight
This new
per will see its b ind leave
behind
to get hard and overly ing

t use oft skiable snow

in the AsOn as the snow They will also be mov

A snoweal up to the trails

which will cut the grooming
time down to near half accord
ing to Ivan Peacock who pro
vides the grooming for the
club.

Ivan Peacock uses the Castlegar Nordic Ski Club's new
at the Paulson Cross-country Ski Trails.

chair and then the
also opens up more
terrain,” said Whitewater Gen benefit takes time
eral Manager Mike Adams. The

It has also open a lot more
beginner terrain as well

The installation of the new
Silver King double chair lift
Started as last. year's ski'season
ended and continued ‘through
out the summer, the
ject. was

years. Planning to find the best

location to gain the maximum

actual chair lift and the
accompanying mechanics were
originally the Olive chair lift at
Whistler-Blackcomb near Van-
couver. Once purchased it was
transferred to Whitewater last
winter, where it was stored until
entire pro: they could stan
wrapped up in We
November. the lift t

construction
rebuilt and refurbished
© bring it up to the cur
rent safety code.”’ Adams said

- Was tough slogging for the crew In addition. the
of 8 during the
* June to Nov

“This was quite the project, it
chair was
i months from — designed for a incline and
mber. They put up ngth that far

ig from torrenti are being used

eed what they
uu Whitewa
riginal hom
onger in actu
vation gar

of
we ee bs
Snowboarders and skiers both will reap the benefits of
the new Silver King Chair

SUN SPORTS PHOTO / John Van Putten

scraper to smooth the trails
SUN SPORTS PHOTO / John Van Putten

Three ways to reach the top

was much higher

As a result Adams says,
“This lift will last forever, the
machinery will never wear out.”

In addition to the new chair
along with-related summer
grooming has improved access
to the runs.

The new Silver King chair
Provides an elevation gain of
270m (900 ft) during the 6 1/2
munute ride

Adams says the 810 m (2700
ft) in length chair can handle
1200 skiers in an hour

Another advantage to the
addition of the Silver King chair
is that it takes some of the pres
sure off the other two chair lift
tthe hill ft will free up the
Hummingbird chair for the
beginner skiers and the Summit
chair will be relieved of some of
the strain of handling the major
ity of use

In total, Adams savs White
water is expecting between 55
60,000 skier visits this season
which will bring a huge amount
of money into the entire area

“It's important that we all
work together to bring people
to the area. For every skier visit
they spend an average of $130 a
day,” Adams said to a collection
of area business during an open
house to unveil the new lift

When trying to sell the ski
hill as a holiday attraction
Adams says it's critical to sell
the City of Nelson’ and the area
as an attraction as well

“The reputatton of White-
water is getting out and it's
important that when people
come...try and make them
feel welcome to Nelson and

Revel.
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Name: Vince Antignani

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BEST FOR
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Age: 17 Height: 6'0"

Hometown: Castlegar
Favorite Hockey Player:
— Cam Neely
Coaches Comments:
His contribution last week of offensive
ability and scoring touch helped extend
our winning streak to 20 games!

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Missing: Sara Koochin

1993

Tough competition in the West Kootenay Volleyball Championships, held in Ross-
land, made going rough for the Kinnaird Middle School girls. team—but they were
successful in their bid for top honors. The Championship final, matched the talents
of the Kinnaird Middle school team up against the crew from Mt. Sentinel. It took
three games to decide the winner with KMS coming out on top. Back (I-r): Jennifer
Datchkoff, Ayron Sklapsky, Jennifer Bonderoff, Leanna Gritchen, Angela Stan. Mid-
dle: Medallion sponsor Dale Donaldson, Jasmine Drazdoff, Jennifer Lane, Tamara
Rilkoff, and coach Jeannie Oudomsouk. Front: Catherine Cernie, Kathleen Cowen.

SUN SPORTS PHOTO / Karen Kerkhott

5 stlegar Sun

Page 3B

Past and present unite

Sun Sports

Happy Boxing Day, or perhaps
if basketball is your sport, then
Happy Basketball day

The centre of activity in Castle
gar will be centre court at Stanley
Humphries Secondary School for
the annual Alumni Basketball
games. The girls game is sched
uled for 6 p.m. on December 26
and the boys take to the court at 8
pm.

It is always fun seeing the old
guys come back to see what they
are going to do against the young
guys,” said SHSS Senior Boys
Coach John Ritchie

Some of the players Ritchie is
expecting to play in the boys
game are Ryan Vatkin, Dan
Kooznetsoff, Marcel Dusseault
who were all on last year’s SHSS
team. In addition he is expecting
Tom Demeo who played for the
Rockers in the early 1980's, and
graduated from the school in
1982

We are expecting a few sur
prises, | am looking forward to
seeing some of the old-timers
come out,” Ritchie said

For the Girls game,
players expected to make an
appearance are: Laurel Closkey;
Wendy Closkey; Rhonda Dawes

some of

SHSS Basketball teams lacking wins

JOHN VAN PUTTEN
Sun Sports

Both the Stanley Humphries
Senior boys and girls ketball
teams found positive nefits
from a weekend trip to C.
even though between both teams
they only won one game.

The Rockers returned home
from the Burt Church Tourna-
ment in Calgary sporting a record
of one win and two losses while
the Rockettes lost the three
games they played. Even with th
majority of games ending in
favor of their opposition both
coaches say it was a positiv
weekend all-in-all

“There was no winning but lots
of learning. There
improvement during this tourna
ment than | have ever seen from
Senior

was more

any of my teams in the past
girls coach Jack Closkey said

For the boys teams their mixed
results still gave coach John
Ritchie a positive feeling concer.
ing the improvement of his crew
of players.

“Our defence is good, we still
need to work on putting the ball in
the basket,” Ritchie said

In addition Ritchie said his
players are going to have to pick
up the pace, work on their shoot-
ing skills and try not to let the
pressure of the game get to them.

“We are a good team, we arc
going to have to learn to handle
the pressure. This weekend they
learned a lot, they are going to
have to tum it up a notch to be
successful,” Ritchie said.

Opening with a 72-52 loss to
the Kai Nai Warriors from Card.
ston Alberta was a big eye-opener
for the Rockers according to
coach Ritchie. “Overall their (Kai
Nai) press took everything out of
our game, (the Rockers) did not
handle the pressure well.”

Their first win of the tourney
came at the expense of the Mt
Baker team in a 71-63 game
which saw Todd Bonderoff score
14 points for the Rockers.

A 82-59 loss to Salsbury Sec
ondary from Edmonton gave the
team their sixth place overall fin
ish. “They were a very aggressive
team, they had us with their full
court press and man-to-man cov
erage...we also had ‘trouble
putting the ball in the basket.”

In girls action as their weekend
progressed the difference in
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39 score was the final result

We really improved on our
defence,” said Closkey comment-
ing on the improvement. in scores
during the tourney

“Trenna Goolieff played tough
on defence, she was a real tiger
Closkey said

Both teams will be holding a
practice during the Christmas
break and participating the annual
Boxing Day Alumni game. The

ing by, began to deteriorate. They
opened their tourney with a 78-37
loss to Salsbury Secondary from
Edmonton. “They absolutely
haramered us,” Closkey said

Next action for the Rockettes
was against Chestermere from the
Calgary area who downed the inside,”
SHSS squad 54-39. Their last game
of the tourney saw the closest game
of the weekend against the Mt
Baker squad from Cranbrook, a 46-

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girls hit the court at 6 p.m. and the
boys game starts at 8 p.m

Last week the Senior Boys
team made a stop in Cranbrook to
play the Mt. Baker team and came
away with a “interesting game,
according to coach Ritchie. The
score of 101-55 was in favor of
the Rockers, but Ritchie said Mt
Baker was missing their starting
centre which had an effect in the
outcome of the game

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league ranks
Another players who will hit the
court according to Senior girl
Couch Jack Closkey, ts Kell
Davidott who plays,for the McGill
University team in Montreal
Looking into his crystal ball
senior girls coach Jack ClosSkey
made a prediction on the outcome
of the boys match The higt
school boys team should win

In the past Closkey said the

boys school team “usually gets
reamed

As for the girls game, he says
1S IN yeary past he expects this to
close panic
Last years’ Alumni

to be cancelled as the school gym

be another
game had

nasium floor was ruined by a
flood earlier in the school year. So
Closkey is looking forward to the
reinstatement of the traditional
Boxing Day games

they have a good team this year

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Tournament would like
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Dec. 4th & 5th.
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