QUEEN FOR A DAY .. . Pythian si: jer Edith Wilson at Pass Creek picnic with duly 5, 1987 BT FINANCIAL PLANNING THAT MAKES YOUR MONEY WORK AS HARD AS YOU DO Double knockout today By SURJ RATTAN Staff Writer The 1987 B.C. Bantam Intermediate Provincial Championship softball tour- nament, which has attracted 15 teams from across the province, wraps up today at Kinnaird Park. This year marks the first time in years that Castlegar has hosted the tournament, which involves 250 girls between the ages of 15 and 16. Kootenay Softball was appointed the host of the tournament by Softball B.C. A four-t double | t-of-t is set for today. Kootenay Softball president Gordon Bos said Saturday he is pleased at the way the tournament is going. “The tournament is just going excellent,” Bos told the Castlegar News. “There have been very few problems and the fields are in great shape. The city has done a righteous job.” He added that the first day of the tournament Friday was a “look-see” for [oe players to become familiar with the area and the other players and teams. He is also impressed with the calibre of play. “There have been a couple of upsets this morning. The double knockout will be very interesting. At the opening ceremonies I commended the players on their excellent sportsmanship. I didn’t hear any bickering from them,” said Bos. Shortly after his squad trdpneed Terrace 15-2 Saturday, Castlegar coach George Southwell said he feels optim- istic about making today's double knockout round. “I think our chances are good. We're a fairly strong team and we play a strong defensive game,” said South- well. The excitement of watching. the games reached a fever pitch as the players sang songs of encouragement from the dugouts. “Come on batter and hit that ball, don’t be shy. Come on batter hit that ball and make it fly,” was only one of a chorus of tunes that could be heard at Kinnaird Park yesterday. Krista Hastings, a 15-year-old Port Alberni player, says she plays softball for both the enjoyment of it and the competitiveness. “It's a fun game. It’s a challenge and it’s exciting,” Hastings told the Castle- gar News as she and a few of her team- mates took a breather between games. She added that Port Alberni is a “soft- ball town.” Her teammate, 15-year-old Crystal Hiltumen agreed that it's fun to play softball. Bos said he expected between 700 and 1,000 people to turn out for the tournament. Teams that made the trek to Castle- gar included Colwers.. Port Alberni, mon Arm, Grand Forks Merrit, Prince George, Terrace, Maple Ridge, Tsaw- wassen, Campbell River and Surrey. granddaughter and daughter-in-law. See story below. sire the Aeems-londer Pvidag baal: ps a Pe “Ey Pythians visit Vernon Kootenay Temple No. 37 Pythian Sisters had a busy May and June. Eight sisters and two brothers attended the 72nd Grand Lodge convention in Vernon May 13, 14 and 15 with GC Louise Schweb of Pitt Meadows in charge. Honored guests were Su- preme Chief Elnora Gorman of King City, Missouri, and Supreme Secretary Jack Klai of Las Vegas, Nevada. A memorial service took part in the evening followed by the cerebral palsy report. Cerebral palsy has been the permanent B.C. Pythian project for the past 35 years and many sisters and broth ers have worked hard to help raise funds through such Campers things as telethons and walk. athons. A total of $5,280 was re- alized at the convention for cerebral palsy. The Knights of Pythias conducted a ceremony when the Order of the Golden Spur was conferred on Ernie Wood of New Westminister, who has done much to promote the cerebral palsy project. Gladys Wirsch of Trail Temple No. 3 was installed as GC. Louise Schweb of Pitt Meadows was installed as PGC, Margaret Irons of Ver. non, as GM, Doris Dimock of Salmo as GJ, Darlene Milton of Kamloops as GS, Lorna Hunt of Vancouver GS, Bren- da Mannering of New West minister GT, Marlene Powell offereda look at the stars Astronomers from the Gordon Southam Observa tory are offering provincial campground campers a chance to take a trip to the stars. From now until the begin ning of September, astrono- mers are travelling through the provincial park system to present illustrated talks and let campers see the summer sky through telescopes. The astronomers will be at Syringa Creek park Aug. 24, at Champion Lakes park Aug. 25 and Sept. 1 and at Kokanee Creek park in Job openings Details of these and other job opportunities are available at. Troll Caneda Employment Centre 835 Spokane Street Phone: 368-5566 The Canada Employment Cen tre for students is located on the 3rd floor of the federal building Businesses and householders ore encouraged to hire students for an hour, a day, o week. Jobs come into the office every doy and by registering, students become eligible for a referral to ajo) Hoirdres: are required in the Trail Gree (134 ond 250) Certified pre-school program co-ordinator required in Trail (128) and all Nelson Aug. 26 and 27. The 1987 Community As. tronomy Program is spon sored by a grant from the Public Awareness Program for Science and Technology and a special grant from Chevron Canada. of Port Moody, GP, Wendy Beatty of Cobble Hill GG and Emily Rabbit of New West- minister GPC. In the latter part of May Kootenay Temple No. 37, catered for 145 people at the annual Air Cadet banquet. Several sisters attended Twin Temple No. 33 (Salmo) June 3. On Kootenay Temple's first meeting in June, Lil Neumann (delegate to Grand Lodge) gave a detailed report of the proceedings. The final meeting for the summer was held on June 25 with 20 sisters and one brother in attendance along with Marie Allan of Nanaimo. Sisters having birthdays June, July and August were wished Happy Birthday. A birthday cake made and decorated by Joy Saunders was served following the meeting. Kootenay Temple No. 37 and Twin Rivers Lodge No. 70 finalized their activities for the summer with a picnic June 28 at Pass Creek Re. gional Park. Guests attended from Kimberley, Creston, Sardis, Fruitvale and Ross- land. Edith Wilson was pleasant ly surprised when her son, daughter-in-law, and grand- daughter from Kimberley arrived. Sister Edith was given the honor of being “Queen for the day” in honor of her 90th birthday, which she will cele- brate July 14. Sister Edith has been a de- voted member of the Pythian Order for over 60 years, many of those years serving as musician and never miss- ing a meeting. She has also been the musician for Maple 3.9% FINANCING 1S STILL AVAILABLE On Selected Models See Us Today. CASH BACK EBATES FROM GENERAL MOTORS On Selected Models See Us Today. 1987 GMX $-15 OUR LIQUIDATION SALE PRICE sss, 39, 9Q5 | 2 8-5316-0 The Sale Eve’ Contre. 987 GMC FULL SIZE 4x4 OUR LIQUIDATION SALE PRICE sia0® 1 3,867°° Leaf Temple No. 4, and Twin Temple No. 33, Salmo. Sister Edith is a healthy lady and keeps herself busy playing bridge. On behalf of Kootenay Temple No. 37 MEC Rose Soberlak pre sented a birthdray cake to Sister Edith. The event ended with Grand Outer Guard Walter Markin saying that the picnic was an indication of people getting together and working together, and this is what Pythianism is all about Sister Edith thanked everybody for making the day such a memorable one for her. 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Hardtop 1979 GMC JIMMY rutsice xa so1d 1974 CORVETTE 454, New Paint SOLD OUR BANKER SAYS LIQUIDATE OUR INVENTORY NOW! 100% On the Spot Financing GRAND THEFT .. . Castlegar's Sara Byers easily beats throw to steal second base during B.C. Bantam Girls Championship game Saturday afternoon against Guildford. Championship tournament concludes today at Kinnaird Park. CasNewsPhoto by Ron Norman WIMBLEDON Lendl wants victory LONDON (AP) — Ivan Lendl is on the brink of completing his mission. No. 1 everywhere in the world except the grass courts of Wimbledon, Lendl seeks to make the ranking uni. versal when he plays Australian Pat Cash for the men’s championship today Lendl grew upasa clay court player, and he has mastered grass under the coaching of Australian Tony Roche. If he finally conquers Wimbledon, he will deprive Australia of its first title in 15 years. Cash is his country's first finalist here since 39-year-old Ken Rosewall was defeated by Jimmy Connors in 1974, the first of two Wimbledon crowns for Connors. Cash ended any hope of a third this year with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-1 defeat of the American in the semi finals, following LendI's more difficult 3-6, 6-4, 7-6, 6-4 victory over Stefan Edberg. Lendl has reached the finals in five of the last seven Grand Slam_ tour. naments, winning four of them, two French and two U.S. Opens. He also Checkers Pub still sitting high By CasNews Staff Checkers Pub pushed its record to 15 wins, two losses and a tie this week with two more victories in Castlegar Men's Fastball League play. Checkers leads the league with 31 points, followed by Labatts with 18 points on nine wins and seven losses. Eli Soukeroff of Checkers is the top pitcher with 13 wins, two losses and a tie. Labatts’ Pete Evdokimoff has five wins in eight decisions. For complete statistics, Weekend Wrap-up, page B2. see the In action this week, Hi Arrow for. feited one game to Checkers when the won the French Open in 1984. The others are nice, but the one Lendl wants most is Wimbledon. “It would be more of an accom- plishment to win here than a U.S. Open — absolutely,” Lendl said. “If I win this tournament it would mean so much to me I wouldn't even try to describe it.” Lendl, a Czechoslovakian who lives in Greenwich, Conn., already has done better than his coach. Roche got to Wimbledon's finals ofige, losing to Rod Laver in 1968 This is Lendl’s second final. He lost to~Boris Becker a year ago. = bad INTENSE PLAYER Lendl plays intense tennis, rarely changing his expression on the court. “I try to restrain my emotions, be cause if I let them run, I'm going to run myself down,” he said. “I try to control myself and I'm pretty good at it.” That control has given him an icy image, something he has tried to break down as much as he has worked on the mystery of playing on grass. Cash, in contrast, is more outspoken. He angered many women players re- cently by describing their game as boring. games, 2 Fe at Eee help Castlegar demolish WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS ‘Beast of the East’ makes CFL clubs sweat By JIM MORRIS The Canadian Press With one team already dead and buried and two others on death's doorstep, the CFL could have been a little more merciful when realigning its divisions following the demise of the Montreal Alouettes. Geographically, the league was correct in moving the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to the Eastern Division from the Western. Realistically, it was like putting a wolf in a chicken house. One Winnipeg newspaper has already dubbed the Bombers the Beast of the East. Instead of transplanting the perpetually powerful Bombers into the Eastern Division to knock heads with Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa, it might have made more sense to shift the struggling Saskatchewan Roughriders, a move supported by general manager Bill Baker. “We volunteered to move there,” Saskatchewan, which has won just one CFL champion ship in seven decades and haven't made a playoff appearance in 10 years, finished 1986 last in the West with a 6-11-1 record. The team’s 13 points would have given it third place in the East, six behind Hamilton. Saskatchewan managed to hold their own against said Baker, fully aware his team’s 77th season could be its last unless the Roughriders show their long-suffering fans some improve- ment. “It would have been a lot better for us.” It’s fatuous and bordering on pure bravado to suggest Winnipeg has secured itself a Grey Cup berth, especially since the current CFL champions reside in Hamilton. Still, Winnipeg's 11-win, seven-loss record last year would have given them first place in the East with 22 points, two ahead of Toronto. The Bombers won seven of eight outscoring them by a games against eastern teams, whopping 266 to 148. suggestion. West,” Eastern Division teams with a 4-3-1 record. In contrast to some of their lopsided losses to western fores, the Rough. riders played competitively against eastern clubs. Four of the games were decided by seven or less points. While Baker doesn't want charity, legitimate chance at the playoffs in an equally matched division would light some of the dormant fires of fan support. Instead of being written out of post-season play by Labor Day, the Roughriders could remain in the hunt for the Grey Cup into October, helping the cash-short franchise with revenue from ticket sales. he realizes a NO FREE RIDES Bomber general manager Cal Murphy snorts at such a “Are you looking for a free ride to the playoffs?” he asks, seeming to contradict his own statements about the new parity in the East. Murphy denies the CFL did the Bombers any favors through the move. “We still have to play the same number of games in the he said. “I think people are going to be surprised. The eastern teams are as competitive as the western ones.” GAME SHOULD BE FUN It seems some people can’t laugh and have fun anymore; they always have to be competitive. That's more than evident in the world of recreational sports and the game of slo pitch more than proves the point. Over the past few years slo pitch has been on a dramatic increase in Castlegar. To date, there are more than 700 people involved in slo pitch in the Castlegar area, playing in several different leagues. In slo pitch there are two kinds of leagues: a competitive one and a recreational one. But lately it seems as if more and more players in the recreational league are playing every game as if their lives depend. ed on it. This is. why there is a competitive league. I've had several players in slo pitch recreational leagues complain to me about how some teams have should be in the leagues. When you start stacking teams and protesting games, then you start to take all the fun out of playing the game. But some people are just so thick-skulled that they can't seem to get this through their heads. Everything has to be a com petition for these people, and that's really a shame. As far as I'm concerned if you want to get competitive about slo pitch, fine, then get into a compe- titive league and just leave the recreational leagues to the people who have a sense of humor, can laugh and want to have fun. oe 6 competitive Vancouver middleweight boxer boxing fans North Ameri: Olajide was to square off in the ring on September 11 in Las Vegas against American Iran Barkley. Up for grabs is the International Boxing Federation's 160-pound crown. It would have been Olajide’s first shot at a world title. In addition, that bout was sup: posed to be the undercard of the World Boxing Council middleweight title serap between Hearns and Juan Roldan of Argentina. Hearns is reportedly earning about $1 million from the fight. Ola jide was to be paid $150,000 ‘for appearing on the undercard. Olajide Sr. balked at the offer and said his kid should be paid more. The fight's throughout After beating the 34-year-old Con- nors in the semifinals, Cash said he didn’t want to still be playing tennis at that age. “I hope I'm not playing at 34,” Cash said. “I'd rather be lying on the beach, getting a good suntan, vegitating, get- ting overweight and having a good time.” Cash will be playing in a Grand Slam final for the second time. He lost ot Edberg in the Australian Open earlier this year, after defeating Lendl 7-6, 5-7, 7-6, 6-4 in the semifinals of that grass tournament. Hi Arrow Arms is third with six wins, seven losses and a tie for a total of 13 points, while K and A Tire is in last place with one win in 14 games Hi Arrow dominates the hitting race with five of the top six batters. Terry Liwean euctRonecs hotel club could only field four players. No results were available for the K and A versus Labatts, and Hi Arrow against Labatts game. Checkers’ second win this week came at the expense of K and A Tire. The Pub team clubbed K and A 12-4. Terry Taranoff picked up the win, with Soukeroff coming on in relief. They combined for a six-hitter. Lyle Stoushnow led the Checkers’ attack with three hits. Elmer Williams added two-more as Checkers banged out a total of seven hits. 1982 DODGE PICKUP r.ices night 1981 HONDA ACCORD :....s,.04 so? 1981 AMC EAGLE v.., 10 mies WAMETA PLAZA Halisheff leads the league with a .412 1981 CORVETTE cuny rooded. air gor? 368:0288 MIGD Reh leben ee 368-5202 average. Halisheff has 14 hits in 34 at TRAVEL AGENCY bats. s40-s505 REMEMBER Maloney Pontiac Buick GMC Korat aresecand and. third, ee Phone 365-5210 bees 1700 Columbia Ave., 5058 Call Collect 365-2155 pectively. Bartsoff has 13 hits in 35 In Trade Deal With Confidence In A Name You Can Trust onsiggd OM, been stacking their teams and playing on a very competitive level That's not what a recreational league is supposed to be all about Most people join recreational slo pitch leagues to go out to the ball park with a burch of their friends and have fun. That's what the leagues are supposed to be all about: having fun. If you have to start stacking your teams and playing like you've bet the mortgage on the game, then you Michael Olajide is good, but he has a ways to go before — and if — he ever manages to make it into the same league as a Thomas (Hit Man) Hearns. But Olajide’s manager and father, Olajide Sr. — thinks his son is a lot better at this stage in his career than some big names in boxing circles give him credit for. And as a result, Olajide has been dumped from the card of a September bout that will capture the attention of promoter Bob Arum told the two Olajides to hit the road and took Olajide off the card Barkley has also been dropped from the undercard A source close to the negotiations said Olajide Sr. did not want his son to earn less than Hearns. If in fact that is true, then it's no wonder Arum told the Olajides to get lost There's no way that Olajide is worth $1 million. Hearns perhaps. But not Olajide. 354-4491 Available, As Well As Sickness, Accident & Layoff I e. 352-3624 Honnah Briggemen, 2737 Broodweter Yes. by 9am. Sundays you should be enjoying your Sun doy Castlegar News TRAIL SHOPPING CENTRES it you're not, we want to correct the motier RESTAURANTS If you fail co ntly to get be Sundoy C jor News m., then phone us HENNE TRAVEL Coll 1410 Boy Ave Jey ond complain 365-7266 ond ask for cir culation astlegar News 197 Columbia Ave. 365-7266 t Your Busines: Castlegar ODI. This Directory plate appearances for a .371 average, while Keraiff sports a .364 average with 16 hits in 44 at bats.