as Castlegar News September 15, 1990 Premier hints at farm tax ARMSTRONG (CP) — Tax breaks for farmers were hinted at by Premier Bill Vander Zalm during a town hall meeting Wednesday night in this agricultural community Responding to a question from the audience of 300, he said that some di 1 would like to see the removal of ailtaxes from agricultural tand."* The man asked that the provincial Agricultural Land Reserve, established by the NDP ad- ministration in the early 1970s to preserve farmland, be reconsidered and possibly abolished. ‘ Agriculture Minister John Savage said only three per cent of British Columbia's land mass is arable and agreed that some agricultural land might be questionable inclusions in the reserve. When asked to take a tough stance on native land claims, Vander Zalm said the Sociat@tedit govérnment will take a moderate approach but will not submit to militant natives who want the province ‘‘lock, stock and barrel." “IL suppose we will work out a solution where they are entitled to enough land to make them self- sufficient,’’ he said. He said Quebec Premier Robert breaks BILL VANDER ZALM He also” said former attorney general Bud Smith would likely return to cabinet if the Socreds win the next election and Smith is re-elected in Kamloops. Smith has not announced his political. intentions after resigning from cabinet when he talked about thinks it is r “to ram French down p€ople’s throats. “The bilingual program is not sup- ported by people here or the people of Quebec.”” Earlier in his tour, Vander Zalm said he would not allow a third party to review the sale of Fantasy Gardens to ensure government conflict-of-in- terest guidelines were not violated The premier said a review would be unfair to his wife Lillian, the majority owner of the biblical theme park sold to a Taiwanese conglomerate for more than $15 million a lawyer during a surrep- titiously taped car phone conver- sation. The lawyer had been hired by the NDP to prosecute former cabinet minister Bill Reid for breach of public trust over his handling of lottery fund grants. The prosecution was later abandoned. 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He'd go down to the stock car races in Northport, “Gee, that doesn’t look Wash., sit in the stands and say, $0 tough. I bet I could do that.”” On the day he decided to stop saying he could, and actually did it, one very valuable lesson was learned. “It looks a lot easier from the top,”’ said the they’ ve taken care of him and his car. “Let's see, there’s Markin Brothers, McRae Creek Transport helped out with the cash and bought me a acw safety harness. D and S Enterprises have done all the motor work and welding. Mister Tire and Big O Tire have given me tires. Oh yeah, we go down to Ernics’s Towing for spare parts — jeez, | hope I didn’t miss anyone."” Castlegar resident, who will complete his first season as a cuit stock car driver tomorrow in the final race of the season at Northport. He does not have fond memories of his first race. ** After that race | was just shaking and sweating. The guys gave me some pop and I couldn't hit my mouth,"’ he said. **I couldn't lift my arms for two weeks, that’s how bad of a beating you take oat there.” Since then, Zaitsoff, 28, has never stopped learning about the sport. Today, he can be comfortable in the knowledge that he has learned weil, finishing his rookie season in sixth place in an 18-car field Among the many lessons Zaitsoff learned carly was that even though there is money to be won, his was not a sport one quits one’s job for and takes up full-time. On the contrary, he says. “This is what you have to keep your job for,"’ said Zaitsoff, a yardman at the Ceigar pulp mill. Costs have done nothing but go up from the time last year when he paid a guy in Northport $350 for the dusty old 1934 Chevy that has got him where he is. But Zaitsoff also learned another lesson every race car driver knows only too well. When it comes to costs, you have to get, and keep, sponsors. Zaitsoff's done that, as attested to by the stickers of local businesses that adorn his car. And it appears he knows how to take care of them, mentioning them no less than four times in a half-hour interview. And likewise, Currently,/Zaitsoff's running a 305 engine in his modified stock car, which takes him up to speeds of 95 to 115 km-h and puts him into the second echelon on the cir- Next year, with the help of his sponsors, he wants to put in a new, top-rank engine, move up a notch and really other tracks. challenge the best drivers and best cars at Northport and Initially, it was other drivers, all of whom are Americans except Zaitsoff and another driver from Fruit- vale, who encouraged Zaitsoff and heiped him out-with tips and advice. All that came to a grinding halt when he started beating them to the checkered flag. In his last series of races Sept. 2 on the dirt track at Northport, he had a pair of third-place finishes and a fif- But the competition will be some of his toughest of the season tomorrow as track champions from four other tracks will compete. Should you be sitting in the stands at Northport something. ds for you. tomorrow, thinking to yourself, “‘Hey, this doesn’t look too tough,” Gordon Zaitsoff wants you to know “You watch from the stands, it looks simple, but when you’ re doing 60 miles per hour when there's a car six inches away from you, it’s frightening.” If you’ re determined to do it, Zaitsoff has other. wor- “I've always wanted to do it, so | went out and got a car, and did it. It’s a dream come true for me.”" The gates open at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at Northport Time trials begin at 12:30 p.m., racing begins at 2 p.m. Y his the track. The Castlegar resident wraps up the season with a race tomorrow in Northport, Wash. comens prov Lack of Canadian content bugs Barr OAKVILLE, Ont. (CP) — Dave Barr, whose 6-under 66 Thursday put him one stroke back of co-leading Americans John Cook and Brad Faxon at the Canadian Open, says at least 10 Canadians should be on the PGA Tour. And Barr said the Canadian Open should be the opportunity to prove they belong with the best. “There’s five of us out there not (on the PGA Tour). I think there can be at least five more,”’ said Barr, con- sistently the top Canadian on the Tour. “If they can get through the school, if they can get over their ner- ves and a psychological block, I think there’s a few guys out there with potential.”” Richard Zokol of Whistler, Ray Stewart of Vancouver and Rick Todd and Jerry Anderson, both of Toron- to, are the other Tour regulars. Zokol was the next best Canadian at Glen Abbey with a 4-under 68. Todd was at I-under 71. Stewart finished the day at even-par. Ander- son had a disappointing 8-over 80. Jim Netford (1-over 73) of Burnaby and Dan Halldorson (2-over 74) of Brandon, Man., have been regular Tour members, but don’t have their cards for 1990. Jim Rutledge of Vic- toria, not at the Open, plays in Europe. Jack Jay Jr. of Markham, Ont., and Danny Mijovic of Toronto, play the Canadian tour. “*Given the chance to play, they may be able to hang on and con- “tinbe,”” said Barr Emerging from Barr’s shaddw, and getting an opportunity to play in front of home crowds, Canadians fared well during the first day Kay fired a 69, four shots back Kay was on the PGA Tour in 1989, but failed to qualify for the 1990 season “*The U.S. tour is really where you want to be,” said Kay. “I was just pleased to be there. It was a learning experience. Iguess IH have to chalk it up to thai-and hopefully get back there."* Barr and Stewart qualified for the 1990 Tour because they were in the top 125 money earners of 1989. Todd, Anderson and Zokol cach made the Tour through a qualifying tour- nament A Canadian hasn't won the national championship since Pat Flet- cher led the field at the 1954 Open. Griffey silences skeptics with bat SEATTLE (AP) — Ken Griffey Sr.*s, bat has silenced the skeptics who said the Seattle Mariners ho, ed for headlines rather than home runs when they signed the 40-year-old veteran to play alongside his all-star son. Griffey Sr. was named the American League player of the week Monday, the first such honor in his career ‘ After hitting a three-run homer off 23-game winner Bob Welch of Oakland in a 5-2 victory on Monday night, Griffey Sr. was hitting .483 with two home runs and 10 RBIs in his first 29 at-bats in eight games for the Mariners. . With both Ken Sr. and Ken Jr. in the lineup, the Mariners won six of “*It's to the point where | wonder what else is going to happen next,"" Griffey Sr. said. “‘To me, it’s like a second wind. I'm just taking it a day at a time. But this is special.”” Griffey Sr. was hitting .206 with one home run and cight RBIs for the Cincinnati Reds this season. He had just 63 at-bats in 46 games in his 18th major league season when the Reds released him on Aug. 29. Griffey Sr. was a vital cog in Cin- cinnati’s “Big Red Machine” in the 1970s. He helped the Reds win two World Series and played in three all- ‘Star games. But he says the experience of playing alongside his son has been the pinnacle of his career The Mariners insisted Griffey Sr could still play when they signed him as a free agent. They said they didn’t just want the elder Griffey to make major-league history by playing on the same team with his son. Griffey Sr. says the confidence Mariners manager Jim Lefebvre has shown in him has been the key to his success. Lefebvre insisted when the Mariners signed Griffey Sr. that it was “not going to be a dog and pony show."” Lefebvre gave Griffey Sr. the spot in left field alongside his son in cen tre. “*When you have people who have confidence in you, people who feel you can still do certain things, you go out and enjoy the game and play the game as hard as you can,” the elder Griffey said. Publicly, Griffey refuses to say anything bad about the Reds, who are leading the National League West. HEADS UP! Red Mountain is no sleeping giant When it’s 30 C outside not many people are thinking about skiing . unless they happen to be the people working on Red Moun in Rossland While most lounged by the pool over the summer months, the people at Red Mountain have been thinking about, and preparing for, the start of the 1990-91 ski season. The following is just a few of the things Red Mountain marketing director Debbie Nelson says has been happening: © Excavation work is bringing the reality of fewer rocks closer with each passing summer - The top of Southern Belle on Granite Mountain has been the pleose see MOUNTAIN page 82 James Bond, meet Canucks’ Bob Kron VICTORIA (CP) — Robert Kron’s first experience with the Vancouver * Canucks was like something out of a years ago, the Czechoslovakian speedster wz in Hamihon for the worid junior hockey championship when he met secretly with two Canuck representatives Kron, selected by Vancouver in the fifth round of the 1985 NHL draft, can’t remember the names of the of- ficials but his description provides a good insigin into their identities “I don’t know who they were for sure,” he said this week at training camp. “There was a little man with light hair and glasses and another man with a bald head, a little fat man."’ Sounds like Arthur Griffiths, then. Canuck assistant to the chairman, and Jack Gordon, the team’s general manager “They offered me a contract and asked me if | wanted to defect," Kron recalled. *‘! was only married a few months, and we had just had a child so | was worried about what mighi happen to my family ““We were still under the com- munist system, and | didn’t know if they would send my family to be with met He turned the invitation down and Vancouver tried again a couple of years later. But Kron was then serving his compulsory two-year stint in the military and the prospect of defecting seemed even more perilous. “Maybe I might have considered it if I had been single,"’ Kron said. ‘‘I wasn’t sure about it. I thought it would be better to go the legal way."” Then, last year, the world changed. Dramatic poliltical changes swept through Eastern Europe, opening doors where once Kron had seen only barbed wire. When his contract with his club team, Zetor Brno, ended last season, Kron was free to go. The Canucks signed the 23-year-old forward last May after his second appearance for Czechoslovakia in the world cham- pionships. Kron’s talent makes him a serious contender for a job with the Canucks Sabres Hawerchuk feeling just ducky WHEATFIELD, N.Y. (CP) — Alexander Mogilny sped t aind the net, backhanded a pass out front and, bang, Dale Hawerchuk slapped the puck past the heipiess goaltender It was only a training camp scrim- mage, but the scene might be repeated often this NHL season The Buffalo Sabres are going for goals and Hawerchuk, less uptight and smiling more often since he got his wish to leave the Winnipeg Jets, will be an integral part of the Sabres’ offence-minded push for the Stanley Cup. “This is great for me," he says **It's a new lease on my career."" Hawerchuk and Pierre Turgeon are two of the most talented centres in hockey, and the Sabres have them both. : Hawerchuk, 27, has surpassed the 100-point mark in six of his nine seasons, and Turgeon, only 21, led the Sabres in scoring last season with 40 goals and 66 assists. The pair of pivots give Buffalo the chance to put together two high-power lines If Hawerchuk and Mogilny, the sophomore right winger from the Soviet Union, can click, they'll be the core of a dynamite line And Hawerchik’s presence takes a lot of pressure off Turgeon “Dale gives us more options than we've had in the past."” says head coach Rick Dudley. “We're going to ALEXANDER MOLIGNEY . -- Hewerchuk's linemate have two high-quality offensive lines. Hawerchuk says it’s great to be back within driving distance of his hometown of Oshawa, Ont “This is the closest I've played on a team to home since | was 15. I like playing in the East. | was born and raised not far from here. My roots, fy famity and a lot of my friends are in southern Ontario. “My wife's from Winnipewg so the move probably is a little more dif- ficult for her but she realizes things weren't going the way we wanted anu that it was time for a change.”’ Hawerchuk has two years plus an option remaining on a contract he signed with the Jets