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Saturday, January 11, 1992

B.C. Rail
back on
track

W@ Provincial carrier
records gains in
passengers in 1991

B.C. Rail passenger
trains carried more than
102,000 passengers in
1991, topping the 100,000-
mark for the first time in 34
years.

The passenger count has
been rising steadily since
1981, when the company
began rejuvenating and ex-
panding its fleet of self-pro-
pelled Budd cars and at the
‘| same time, upgrading on-
board comfort and-service—

The passenger count fell
just short of 100,000 in
1989, with a total of 99,763
and in 1990, the numbers
slumped to 88,684 as a re-
sult of blockaded lines and a
25-day strike. Between
1981 and 1991, however,
figures rose overall from
74,600 to last year’s

102,000-plus, representing
growth of nearly 27 per
cent. :

The increase is attribut-

ed to renewed interest in
rail travel continent wide,
more aggressive marketing
and a growing awareness of
the spectacular scenery
B.C. Rail‘s passenger trains
have to offer.

As well as_ scheduled
Daykuber services between
North Vancouver and
Prince George, the railway
also operates scheduled and
chartered Royal Hudson
steam train excursions and
Summit Service.

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locaS PORTS

FastLANE

KIJHL

West Division
Standings
Pts
Grand Forks
Nelson 36
Beaver Valley 32
Castlegar 16

East Division
Standings
Pts
Spokane 39
Columbia Val. 23
Elk Valley 15
Golden 14

Friday Games
Beaver Valley at
Grand Forks

Golden at
Columbia Valley

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Castlegar at
Golden

Columbia Valley at
Elk Valley

_ Spokane at
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Sunday Games
Castlegar at
Columbia Valley

Grand Forks at
Spokane

MEN’S
B-BALL

It was an :
overtime thriller
as the top-two
teams in the
Kootenay West
Men’s Basketball
League clashed
at Selkirk
College Tuesday
night. See story,
page 17.

FREE —

AGENT

The Robson- —
Castlegar ferry is
one for good.
he recession

isn’t over like
they told us it
was, and the
President of the
United States
upehucks-ata
state dinner in
Japan. How can
anybody be
negative about
the Castlegar
Rebels in times
like these? Page
6.

WHO INVENTED THIS, ANYWAY?

It was sort of an up and down Wednesday morning for 10-year-old Cherylee Dixon, as she and her classmates at Twin Rivers Ejementary School

gave cross-country skiing a try.

News photo by Ed Mills

Rebels receive help from Vernon

Wi Junior A Vernon Lakers lone
“impact player” to Rebels for the
balance of KIJHL season

News Staff  =—s—~

The Castlegar Rebels got some help from
their parents this week. :

The Rebels acquired offensive defenceman
Jason Switzer on loan from the Vernon Lakers,
Castlegar’s Junior A parent club in the B.C.
Junior Hockey League.

Switzer, 19, a defenceman in Vernon, will
play both forward and defence when he joins
the Rebels for games next weekend, said team
president Russ Rilcof.

“I believe he will be an impact player (in the
Kootenay International Junior Hockey
League), ” said Rilcof, who will pick up Switzer
today in Vernon.

An Alberta native, the six-foot-one, 210

pound Switzer played last year for a Junior B
team in Barhead, Alta. te =

“He's a big boy, an offensive defenceman and
just a great hitter and skater,” Rilcof said.

Switzer will be do double duty with the
Lakers and Rebels until the end of the KIJHL
season, Rilcof said.

“He’s only going to be with us about a
month, he’s going to be going back to Vernon
near the end of our season.”

A deal for another player Rilcof was hoping
to get from Vernon before Jan. 10 — the date

the KIJHL requires teams to have set rosters .

— fell through, Rilcof said.
Despite the Jan. 10 deadline, the Rebels are
under the 21-player limit , so the team.can still

add one player to the roster within the next

month. But Rilcof said he has no prospects in
mind right now.

The Rebels, who are in last place in the
KIJHLs West Division, developed a manpower

shortage last week when they cut defenceman
Ken Hagen for disciplinary reasons and lost
defenceman Jeff Beck to a job in Calgary. -

“We just wish we had had more players of
this (Switzer’s) calibre to draw from during the
course of the season,” Rilcof said.

"But they (the Lakers) have operated on a
skeleton crew all season. They were in no
position to help themselves, let alone us.”

The Rebels and Lakers signed an affiliation
agreement prior to the start of this season.

Meanwhile, Rilcof confirmed that Gord
Walker was the person the Rebels approached
for the job of coach when Kevin Cheveldave
quit just after Christmas. ;

“I'd like to leave it in the context that
discussions were held with Gordie Walker,
everybody. knows that,” he said. ee

Walker, who retired from professional
hockey last year, is currently an assistant
coach with the Castlegar Bantam Rep team.

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