Castlegar News sonvory 29,1999 SKATEATHON . . Mila Hockley skates around the arena at the Community Complex during the Kiwanis skateathon yesterday. The skater completed the full 100 laps and raised $18 for the Kiwanis Club and the Castlegar Figure Skating Club IRA pledges to reduce casualties DUBLIN (REUTER) The Irish Republican Army has pledged to re after killing duce civilian casualties 23 peopie by mistake in a string of botched attacks Many civilians died in operations nted the confidence of some of our supoporters,”’ an IRA spokes man said in an interview with Re News, its Irish nationalist which d publican weekly The interview coincided with the opening in Dublin on Friday of the annual conference of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA. which is fighting to end British rule in North ernjIreland Since November 1987, 23 people have died in bungled IRA attacks. and the spokesman said: ‘There is a greater realization than ever of the need for the IRA to casualties. The IRA one of its avoid civilian disarmed and disbanded border ‘‘active service units” last Tuesday after two civilian killings provoked widespread revul sion Alluding to the rare highlighted disarray in the guerrilla group. the IRA "We have tried to rectify the reasons move that spokesman said why mistakes were made ‘WE MUST REFINE He added We have ifity to correct the problems and refine our activities, a responsib is trying to widen the revolutionary popular support. hoping to win the backing of non-IRA supporters among Irish nationalists Adams, eager for ballot gains in party’s base of Northern Ireland's local elections in May and the elections in June critical of bungled IRA attacks, tell get their house in or European Parliament has been sharply ing them to * der The IRA spokesman said in the interview: Undoubtedly some oper ations—within—the—past—year—have created difficulties for everyone.” Aircraft designer dies at age 101 LONDON (AP) — Aviation pioneer Sir Thomas Sopwith, who gave Brit- ain its finest fighter planes three wars and designed the aircraft that brought down Germany's infamous Red Baron in the First World War, died Friday. He was 101 “The genius of flight is dead,” said a headline in London's Evening Standard newspaper Tommy Sopwith died in his sleep in. his mansion near Winchester in southern England. ‘Really he died of old age, but he’s had a miarvellous innings (life),"’ said his son, Thomas Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith was born Jan. 18, 1888, into a wealthy engineering family. He was the first son after seven daughters He was an accomplished race car driver, yachtsman and — balloonist when he taught himself to fly in 1910. The Wright brothers had made the first powered flight in 1903 in the United States After walking away from several crashes, Sopwith was given the 31st aviator's licence issued in Britain. We had a lot of crashes in those days, but, bless you, it was fun,"’ he recalled on his 100th birthday He was soon breaking flying rec ords in Britain and the United States and was the first pilot to drop mail onto-a ship's deck wheri he delivered a parcel to the liner Olympic as it steamed out of New York harbor Sopwith used money from Ameri can flying prizes to set up the Sop. with Aviation Co. in. 1912, producing the Sopwith Pup, Snipe and Camel planes. . KILLS E) 4 The Sopwith Camel singfe-seat fighter —shot--down—1,294-—enemy planes in the First World War, the most kills for any aircraft in that wat Germany's legendary Red Baron Manfred _von_Richthofen, was_offi- cially reported to have been shot down by Canadian pilot Roy Brown in a Camel Several Australian and British pi lots also claimed responsibility for downing the Red Baron and one theory said he was shot down by ground fire After the war, Sopwith founded the Hawker Siddeley company, along with his Australian mechanic and test pilot Harry Hawker and friend Fred Sigrist. The company made him a millionaire by the 1930s. He built and sailed the racing yachts Endeavour and Endeavour Il in unsuccessful bids for the Amer- ica’s Cup in 1934 and 1937 When the Air Ministry couldn't make up its mind in 1936 about a new breed-of fighters, Sopwith- or- dered his factories to build 1,000 of | ¥ World wide FAX service | “ Business or Personal Use We've got the FAX! ¥ Low Rates & Convenient Hours Confidentiality Guaranteed — #205 - 1215 3rd St. Office 365-5626 Open Business Hours - Monday to Friday + 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. STRONG & ASSOCIATES * Above West's in Downtown Castlegar FAX 365-2124 That suggested the gherrilla group would try to confine itself in future to what it considers legitimate targets — British-soldiers,police-and-magis trates in Northern Ireland The IRA has had 25 of its gunmen killed in the past two years, 17 of its top guerrillas have been arrested in the past three months and several have been seized by the authorities. 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The Rebels were CasNiews photo by Nick Alloy The Rebels took the lead with 4:37 ro Bow! showcases sre cee an unassisted power-play marker from Carlson. Spokane’s Terry Picicci HONOLULU (AP) Coach Marv Levy gave his Ametican Conference all-stars two important guidelines for today’s Pro Bowt ‘Have fun. he said, ‘tand win Looking over his collection of the his sixth appearance in_ the AFC’s finest, the Buffalo Bills coach said, ‘This is great. I'm glad to have all these change The bad news for Levy, a one-time head coach with the CFL's Montreal Alouettes making his Pro Bowl debut boys in the National Football League Philadelphia's showcase, is that his talented squad will be going against a National the NFC, with Conference that's similarly loaded Chicago Bears. coach Mike Ditkia will guide the NFC p.m. game at Aloha Stadium The AFC will be led by Indian apolis running back Eric Dickerson — the NFL rushing leader again this year — and running back John Stephens of New England, one of five rookies in the game The AFC defensive unit includes Buffalo end Bruce Smith, last year’s all-star game players on my side for a The NFC team Bowl squads, Bowl Pro Bowl MVP; strong safety David Fulcher, who was standout for the Cincinnati Bengals and free safety Deron Cherry of the Kansas City Chiefs, who'll be making RUNNING GAME five of the last six offence will multi-talented running backs Roger Craig of the San Francisco 49ers and Herschel Walker of the Dallas Cow Randall ham is the starting quarterback for Minnesota's Wade Wilson the backup Defensively, the by.end Reggie White of Philadelphia. stars into the S_ the 1987 Pro Bowl MVP. backer Mike Singletary of Chicago. White and Singletary were the only unanimous selections for the Pro which are determined “1 by-a-vote of the league's players The game will be lacking some of the top names in last Sunday's Super said Wide receiver Jerry Rice, the MVP of San Francisco's 20-16 victory over Cincinnati terback Boomer Esiason were voted Pro Bowl starters. Both a Super Bowl NFL's Francisco quarterback . on the NFC years voted in this year Houston's feature Edmonton Eskimos starting job for the AFC Krieg of Seattle as the backup Krieg was a late replacement Buffalo's Jim Kelly taken Esiason’s spot on the Cunning NFC will be led roster. and line Bowl appearance the NFC few surprises in the game personally think the “If I'm going to err little to do, not too much all-star squ and Bengals quar. I both are _yerses. missing the game because of injur Joe flecting the fact the teams have just wasn't arren Moon, a CFL standout for several years with the moves into the and Dave for who himself had all-star Kelly had to drop out this week when he developed tendinitis. Both Ditka, making his second Pro as head coach of and Levy said they expect biggest thing’is not to try to give them (his AFC players) too much to do," Levy it's going to be on-the side of giving them too goal don't think there'll be any trickery; oh, maybe a couple of re Ditka said Pro Bowl games in the past Nave tended to turn sloppy at times, re. minute later Holden assisted da week to practise together I think the timing is the hardest part,”’ Levy said. “It's just difficult ) get that down in a week Members of the winning Pro Bowl team receive $10,000 each, with the losing players’ getting $5,000 apiece THIRD:PERIOD GOAL TORONTO (CP) — Ed Olczyk scored his team-lead ing 26th goal early in the third period to lift Toronto into a-T-1 tie with the New York Rangers. stopping the Maple Leafs slide at four NHL losses Saturday night Bob Froese appeared headed for his second’ shutout in his last three starts until Olezyk slipped a wrist shot behind the Rangers goalie at 5:29, making amends for missing-an open net a few seconds earlier Tomas Sandstrom scored his 17th goal early in the They're off and running again those nagging trade rumors out of Edmonton and Los Angeles that is That's right. The cross-current of speculation not seen since the last mega-deal out of Edmonton that sent Mr. G south and a boxcar-load of money and draft picks north. Is it possible that Grant Fuhr and Mark Messier are going to the City of Angels in exchange for $5 million and a handful of players or is it all just a crock of hoo hah? trade winds are blowing a Trade winds blow cash for Gretzky than the entire Quebec Nordiques hockey club sold for That kind of talk indicates that Pocklington is again eyeing the old bank account with dollar signs in his eyes. Meanwhile Edmonton superboss Glen *’Slats’” Sather is most likely sweating bullets right now. It appears that when mega-bucks for hockey players is involved Pocklington goes right by him. And Kings owner Bruce McNall isn't helping Slats sleep any better when the Kings ower says if Pocklington shwashers We purchased 170 units and we're offering them to you.at_ not only. © Competitive Prices bur Money Down © No Monthly Payment AM ¢ No Interest Charges "TUL MAY 19) Furniture Warehouse [ae] Genelle “athe dvecrey” Phone 365-5210 sderim “Floor Covering Centre Phone 693-2227 is an Outstanding Offer!! It's a convenient method of purchasing aving to you on hold items and Located halfway between Trail & Casilegor Open 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday Sporting Views By Brendan Nagle I remember all too well the last time this kind of thing was going on between the two hockey clubs. And the sinking feeling I get is that this particular round of rumor and speculation is perilously similar to all the talk that was going on before the Gretzky deal I'll never forget talking to the public relations men for both teams who vehemently denied Gretzky was being traded. Several days later he was in a new, improved Los Angeles uniform. You will recall that Gretzky didn't know he was being offered to the Kings until he received a call from Kings owner Bruce McNall while honeymooning with wife Janet And the denials are now again coming fast and furious from the Edmonton camp. Pocklington has gone on record as saying he'll never sell another hockey player again. He went on to stay something about there being more to life than money and that contrary to popular belief, tradition and history are important for the team. But in the same breath he says he has a probledy understanding why fans “can‘t-see the Gretzky deal from a business point of view. He backs“that view up by comparing the sale of Wayne Gretzky with the sale of the Quebec Nordiques. Pocklington got-more wants to sell Messier he's all ears And Gretzky, he says he'd tell McNall to do it He obviously knows a good thing when he sees it and could do major damage to other teams if re-united with former linemate Messier. It would proably be overkill if you look at the damage the once hapless Kings are already doing to other teams Sather, while seemingly powerless when it comes to-Pocklington's quest for capital, continues to deny any trade rumors... deja vu or what The unpredictability of the rumors and specula tion leave me sitting on the fence. I don’t care who trades for what and when. And I will not be surprised in the least if the deal ever does happen because the trade that was never supposed to happen already has From the ice arena to the sheets of ice at the curling rink we find Paul Devlin's foursome — skip Devlin, lead Dean Horning, second Bill Van Yzerloo and third Dale Hockley — on their way to the provincial playdowns in Kamloops next month. The eight-team provincial playoffs — four teams from the coast region and four from the Interior — will go Feb, 8-11 The Devlin rink won 12 of 15 games at the Interior playdowns in Prince George over the last week including the ‘‘B"’ side title in a S-1 win over the Mel MacMillan rink of Prince George. Devlin is no stranger to competitive curling and has seen numerous provincial playoff competitions in Alberta and B.C. as well as going to the Brier “We'll be ready we hope,” Devlin says of his chances at the provincial playdowns in Kamloops. ‘We're going. to be preparing and practising hard."* The Castlegar foursome wilt have-to-be ready to beat the seven best teams in the province but with a littlMluck and a good draw, they've got a legitimate @rot at _going to the Brier team's second period for the Rangers, who take a 4-1-] record home from -a-six-game roadtrip. New-York 1s unbeaten in six of its last seven games and is 6-1-3 in its last nine road games The tie may prove costly as thé Rangers lost rookie sensation Tony Granato early in the third Granato took defenceman Luke Richardson's left shoulder square on his chin. A Rangers spokesman said the forward was taken to hospital with a possible Granato would period concussion and remain in Toronto overnight FLAMES 5 HAWKS 4 CALGARY (CP) — Dana Murzyn scored at 3:21 of overtime for the Calgary Flames in a 5-4 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks in a National Hockey League game Saturday night By CasNews Staff After riding a modest two-game Beaver Valley last week and a 9-1 win over Grand Forks on Tuesday the Castlegar Rebels were back down to earth suffering a nar row 7-6 defeat to the Spokane Braves on Friday at the plex. The loss Jeaves the Rebels four points behind the: Rossland Warriors for the fourth and final KIJHL division play-off spot 40 seconds left in the Spokane opened the scoring at the 6:34 mark of the opening period ona goal from the stick John Edmunds and Sam Picicci as sisted. Thg Rebels got that go: al back 1S seconds later when Brent Makiev converted a pass from Dave Vecchio Roger Carlson also assisted on the knotted the score at two just over a Lance Runje and Tim ny Taylor Harding picked up assisted goal with clock as the Rebels took a 3-2 lead into the dressing room at the end of the opening period Castlegar jumped out in front in the second period on the strength of The-Rebels play Nelson on Tues: Harding's second goal of the contest Keith Semenoff and Jeff Fletcher as January 29, 1989 BI Kootenay Savings Inst Braves edge Rebels sisted on the power-play marker. The Rebels stretched the lead to three goals_when Kevin Kazakoffscored from Dan Layallee and assistant cap tain Jarret Watts an_8-S_ win over But the Braves came back to score a trio of goals before the period ex pired. Runje goal on a play from Terry Picicci and Holden. Then Terry Picicci picked up his second goal of the night on a play West from Holden and Sam Picicci. With period the Braves tied it up on Ryan Bendick son’s~goal. Ty Loosemore and Ed It was S75 after 40 brought scored a power-play Community Com munds assisted of Cary Condron minu The Rebels got the go-ahead goal at the 4:43 mark of the final period Glen Ormsby scored from Watts and Oli Rubner But the Braves came back to tie it on Terry Picicct's third goal of the game. Runje and Holden provided the help. The game-winner went to Runje — his second goat of the game with 9:19 remaining in the period. Holden assisted and the Braves hung ‘0 take the win. Rick Rogerson” ptayed- the first 40 minutes of the contest in goal for the Rebels and stopped 23 shots. Stan Makortoff played the final period and stopped eight Spokane shots The Rebels sprayed Spokane net- minder Mark Piper with S1 shots over three periods: Piper stopped 4S an un 1:20 left on the day at the Community their next KLJHL contest Complex in Leafs tie Rangers and Penguins defenceman Randy Hillier each had four assists 2 Steve Chiasson, Gerry Gallant, Shawn Burr, Peter Klima and Steve Yzerman, with No. 46, scored for Detroit NORDS 3 WHALES 2 HARTFORD, Conn, (AP) — Marc Fortier, scram- bling in front of the net, scored-on a backhander 32 seconds into overtime Saturday night to lift the Quebec Nordiques to a 3-2 NHL victory over the Hartford Whalers Peter Stastny had scored at 6:48 of the third period and rookie goalie Ron Tugnutt made two big saves on shots by Ray Ferraro’ in the final minutes of regulation time to preserve the tie before Fortier won it with his 13th goal of the season The victory moved the Nordiques within six points of the fourth-place Whalers in the Adams Divison The Whalers had been unbeaten in six previous games Quebec's Jeff Brown started the scoring at 3:52 putting a slap shot between goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz’s pads on a power play FLYERS 7 ISLES 4 PHILADELPHIA (AP) == Brian Propp scared ~ On the winner, Hakan Loob brought the puck over the Chicago line and passed to Gary Roberts who charged the net Blackhawks goalie Alain _Chevrier came out to Roberts, who passed to Murzyn and the defenceman slipped the puck under a diving Chevrier challenge for his second goal of the season Doug Gilmour scored twice for the Flames while Brad McCrimmon and_Joe Nieuwendyk each added singles Steve Larmer, Keith Brown, Bob Bassen scored for Chicago, all in the first period Mike Vernon and Rick Wamsley teamed in the Calgary net, stopping 32 shots Wayne Presley and Chevrier faced 43 shots for the Blackhawks HABS 2 SABRES t MONTREAL (CP) — Defenceman Chris Chelios scored his 10th goal of the season — a power-play effort at 12:39 of the second period — enabling the Montreal Canadiens to earn a 2-1 NHL victory, which snapped the Buffalo Sabres’ nine-game unbeaten string Saturday night The go-ahead goal came just over two minutes after Buffalo defenceman Uwe Krupp hid tied the score beating Canadiens goaltender Patrick Roy with a soft goal. But the Sabres, other than a Christian Ruuttu shot that forced Roy into a sparkling glove grab in the last minute, had few additional chances to beat the Montreal netminder, who extended his recorded at the Forum to 15-0-2 in ending a Sabres surge which had scen the team win seven and tie two of its last nin PENS 10 WINGS 5 PITTSBURGH (AP) Rob- Brown scored-three goals and Paul Coffey and Dan Quinn each scored twice to help the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Detroit Red Wings 10-5 Saturday night, their biggest offensive output of the NAIL season. Mario Lemieux scored his S4th goal and added sists to increase his league-best points total to 137. Lemieux has points in 10 consecutive games. Troy Loney and Bob Errey also scored for Pittsbutgh. Quinn games goals and assisted on two other goals as the Phil adelphia Flyers five-game NHL unbeaten streak« with a 7-4 victory Saturday afternoon Ron Sutter, Derrick Smith, Mark Howe, Rick Tocchet and Terry Carkner also tallied for the Flyers Pat Flatley, Mikko Makela, Brent Sutter and Greg Gilbert replied for the Islanders snapped the New York Islanders Propp's-22 he pushed a loose puck into the crease nd-goal gave the Flyers a 4-1 lead when at 16:20 af the first period JETS 4 BRUINS 3 BOSTON (AP) — Pat Elyniuk scored two goals and assisted on another Saturday as the Winnipeg Jets edged the Boston Bruins 4-3 for just their second NHL victory in Boston Garden in nine seasons Elyniuk spoiled a Boston comeback with his 19th and 20th goals in the second period after Cam Neely had pulled the “Bruins into a 2-2 tie with his 20th and 21st goals on power plays Winnipeg outshot Boston 10-8 while taking a 2-0 goals 47 seconds apart by Thomas Steen and Paul Fenton BLUES 4 CAPS 4 ST. LOUIS (AP) - and Gino Cavallini, scored third-period goals to lift the St. Louis Blues ta a 4-4 NHL tie Saturday night with the Washington Capitals Pastawski arfd Cavallini each contributed a pair of lead midway through the first period on Greg Paslawski goals and an assist for the Blues, who trailed 4-2 going into the final period STARS 4 DEVILS 4 BLOOMINGTON,-Minn:-(AP}—Jack-O'Callahan's power-play goal with 1:58 left’ in regulation time Saturday night, his first goal sinee Nov. 1. lifted the New Jersey Dévils into a 4-4 NHL tie with the Minnesota North Stars With Bob Brooke in the penalty box, New Jersey won a faceoff deep in Minnesota ice and got the puck to O'Callahan at the right point. His rising slap Shot beat goalie Jon Casey high to the glove side