ais Wednesday, January 29, 1992 & im Wednésday, Jariuary'29 goge 2s ~ School SPORTS SHSS sweeps Trail tourney Gees Sort “te Paste a weekend of firsts, not to mention seconds, thirds fourths and fifths, for the SHSS senior boys and senior girls basketball teams at the J.L Crowe Cage Bow] tourna- ment in Trail. For starters, it was the first time this season SHSS has swept a tourney as both teams went undefeated in three games. It was the Rockers first tournament victory of the sea- son, while the Rockettes won their fourth straight in five tries. been singled out for individual honors at a tournament. The Rockettes beat provin- cially ranked Fernie 52-38 in their first game Friday, then ° destroyed Crowe’s junior girls — who were a last-minute fill in for a team that cancelled — 85-25. Closkey was in double fig-, ure in all the games (11, 17, 10), while Kelly Davidoff had 16 points against Fernie and 24 against the Crowe juniors to get the nod to the tourna- ment all-star team. Like Ritchie, Rockettes coach Jack Closkey wasn t The Rockers did it the hard way with a 57- 55. overtime win Saturday over the Crowe Hawks. The boys had no prob- lem up to that Saturday. B.C. SECONDARY SCHOOLS GIRLS BASKETBALL ASSOCIA- TION “AA” DIVISION Top Ten to Jan. 14 1. Lambrick Park (1) Van. island 2. Westsyde (4) Okanagan 3. Stanley Humphries (7) W. Koot. 4. Duchess Park (3) N. Central ly 5. Pitt Meadows (2) Fraser Valley 6. Little Flower Acad. (8) L. Mainland 7. Garibaldi (9) Fraser Valley ~ 8. Windsor (10) L. Mainland 9. D.W. Poppy (5) Fraser Valley 10. Femie (6) East Kootenay - Honorable mention: John Barsby, Fernie 69-45 parkland, K.L.O., Correlieu. ‘overly p with the overall effort of his club. . “We won rel- atively easily, but we didn’t play particular- well,” Closkny said. Closkey said the senior girls, who are ranked third in the province in AA basketball, will Despite the win neither coach John Ritchie nor his players were happy with how the team played. “We didn’t play that well, but it was nice to get the first tournament win,” said Dan Kooznetsoff. Kooznetsoff had a season- high 25 points in the win over Fernie and was named to the tournament'’s all-star team. Ryan Vatkin, who sank a back-breaking, -three-point shot in the overtime final, was named most valuable player of the tournament. Vatkin had 12 points in the final and 16 points against Fernie. Marcel Dusseault led the Rockers with 19 points in the final and 17 against Creston, while Bob Baulne chipped in with 15 against Creston. “If it wasn’t for Ryan Vatkin. in the fi- “Overall it was not a very well played tournament, but the boys came up big in the .” he said. pret bain: ily to the tourney title with a 60-29 victory over Crowe. face their toughest test of the season this weekend at a AAA tourney in Penticton. And it won’t get any tougher than their first game against the top AAA team in the province from Salmon Arm. Closkey said his team needs that calibre of competition. “We're going to get beat but it’s going to be a real good ex- perience. “It’s a good opportunity to really push again at this time of year and see what we have to do (to prepare for provin- cials). You don’t know how strong or weak you are until someone really pushes you hard,” ‘he said. Davidoff said a loss to Salmon Arm can be as good as a win for SHSS if they stay close on the scoreboard and play a strong game. “It dosing) doesn’t bother us too much because we know how good this team is going to be. Winning or losing doesn’t matter to us, its just how we play that matters to us. As long as we play ‘well, we'll be OK,” Davidoff said. Meanwhile, the Rockers - will try to make it two in a row as they host a tournament at home this weekend. The SHSS junior boys team ’ will be in Nelson this weekend for a tournament. Dan Kooznetsoft Kelly Davidoff Ryan Vatkin FTOP SMOKING. IN 3 HOURS! ‘ ¢ WRITTEN ¢ NO WITHDRAWAL = ¢ NO WEIGHT GAIN a a GUARANTEE YOU WILL SUCCEED! Director JACK VAN DE VEN S491 ELIMINATE YOUR URGE TO SMOKE FOREVER. ATTEND THIS SEMINAR AND STOP SMOKING — QUICKLY, EASILY AND PERMANENTLY! At last, a major breakthrough now makes it much easier to smoking. 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Unseasonably mild temperatures contributed to a build-up of dirt and other debris in the tracks, and this group at the ferry crossing was at work cleaning it up. National debt our national tragedy Kevin Avram CANADIAN TAXPAYERS FEDERATION I often wonder if Canadians re- ally understand how the nation- al debt affects us. In fact, I’m sure we don't, ’cause if we did, I don’t think we’d allow such rampant borrowing by governments to take place. In order to put our federal debt in perspective, imagine what would happen if every tax dollar you pay the federal government was cut by thirty six cents. Now imagine what would hap- pen to the prosperity of your local community if every business and individual taxpayer had their fed- eral tax bill reduced by 36 per cent. This would include all fed- eral taxes: Income tax, the GST, hidden taxes of one form or an- other, and even the fees people pay for government services. What would happen is that hundreds of millions of dollars would stay in the hands of citi- zens, providing them with the re- sources to buy furniture and clothes, build houses, go on, vaca- tions, expand businesses, and do any number of other things. We would all have more money. . This year the national debt is going to cost over $40 billion dol- lars in interest, and this interest is going to be paid by you and your neighbours. In total, the federal govern- ment will take in roughly $130 billion in taxes, they'll spend be- tween 40 and fifty billion of that paying interest on the national debt, and they'll borrow another $30 billion to pay for other things they want to buy; like bilingual programs, grants to businesses, and million dollar paintings to hang in some art gallery that was built with more borrowed money. (Keep in mind that if the federal government didn’t have to pay in- terest on the debt, and if they didn’t cut spending, the real tax cut would only be about 14 or 15 cents on the dollar. It is, never- theless, correct to say that at pre- sent, 36 cents of every tax dollar collected is used to pay interest on debt.) Recently I was a guest on a ra- dio talk show on CBC radio with a senior official from the office of the Federal Minister of Finance. Dur- ing the program, the Finance Minister’s Press Secretary, Tom Van Dusen, claimed that all monies being raised by the GST were being used to reduce debt. When the host of the program asked him to explain why the deficit was going up instead of down, if all the GST money was going to the debt, Van Dusen didn’t know what to say. In the end of the whole muddled discus- sion, Van Dusen pleaded that he didn’t have the exact numbers in front of him and that he therefore couldn’t elaborate. The radio host kindly allowed him to sidestep the issue, but per- sonally I think it’s about time we took some of these guys to task. Some of our federal politicians are propagating the idea that the en- tire amount of revenue being raised by the GST is being used to reduce the debt, when the facts in- dicate that nothing is further from the truth.