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LocalSPORTS

Dynasty in
the making

The winner:

straight year.

taxidermist Lino Grifone took on the best in Canada
at a competition in Toronto this month and came away § ‘a winner for the third

News Staff
Lino Grifone is fast fashion-
ing himselfa one-man dynasty

minated the competition at the
Canadian Taxidermists Asso-
ciation’s annual competition
Sept. 7 in Toronto.

Competing in the masters
category — the highest calibre
of competition in North Amer-
ica — Grifone won the best
whitetail/mule deer head
mount award.

Grifone, who owns a shop
and also runs the Western
Canada School of Taxidermy
in Castlegar, said he wasn't as
confident going into the com-
petition as he was last year.

“I was very tight for time
this year, ” said Grifone, who
works June through Septem-
ber as a back-country ranger
in Kokanee Glacier Park. “So I
entered acustomer’s deer that
had not been picked up yet.”

But regardless of the time,
Grifone said quality is some-

thing he never compromises
on.

“I feel that it is significant
that all taxidermists strive to
improve the quality of each
and every mount produced.
Each mount must represent
the very best that the taxider-
mist is capable of,” he said.

Grifone got further recogni-
tion when a pair of his former
students also came away with
top awards at the event.

Ron Bellavance of Powell
River won best game head
and Ken Zolinski of Nanaimo
won first place in the best of
class category.

Grifone also travelled to the
United States earlier this year
and won first place in the mule
deer category at an event in
Montana. :

“In a state with so many
good taxidermists, the Mon-
tana state competition has
gained the reputation as being
one of the toughest in the U.S.,
80 I was very pleased to have
done so well,” he said.

Team from hapless to happening

News Staff

The Castlegar entry in the
Trail Flag Football League is
just three years old, but al-
ready the team is walking and
talking like potential champi-
ons.

The transformation from
hapless expansion team to a
team that believes in itself
happened sometime nearing
the end of last season.

It continued into the play-
offs when Castlegar pulled a
first-round upset and only
missed winning the whole
thing by a last-minute touch-
down.

Evidence that the transfor-
mation is complete came two
weeks ago in the team’s season
opening 45-0 win over the
Trail Bandits.

And even though Castlegar
lost 16-13 to the defending
league champion Trail Bull-
dogs at Kiwanis field last
weekend, the team has defi-

nitely arrived as a contender,
according to its players.

They’re players who should
know each other well by now
as basically the same bunch of
guys who have been with the
team since it started.

Experience, knowledge of
the game and just getting com-
fortable with each other, have
been the key, said linebacker
Randy Renz, who has been
with the team since its incep-
tion.

“It takes a couple of years to
gel as a team. You're only play-
ing 10 games a year and most
of it’s just practice so it does
take a while,” said Renz.

“This year, I think we've got
just as good a chance as any-
body else.”

Castlegar will play the
Hawks on Saturday in Trail
then be involved in one of
three games in the league's Su-
per Sunday which starts at
Haley Park at 11 a.m.

Talking like champs: After three years in the Trail Flag Football League,
the players on the Castlegar team have come together and are playing like