82 Castlegar News August 25, 1990 SPORTS Percy ready to move on to life after sk CALGARY (CP) — Karen Percy y clenched her jaw and showed the same determination in announcing her retirement Thursday as she always had in hurtling down mountains in World Cup ski races. She plunged ahead, and though her voice faltered she held back tears. “lt will ays be hard to retire from something | love so dearly and | haven't stopped loving,” said Percy, 23, a five-year veteran of the national ski team. “1 felt I’ve put all I can into it and I ajways knew it wasn’t going to be KAREN PERCY there forever for me. It was a great chokes bock aby E i) 1 desyW A TE R - me y T ho Pr OWA? Farwake Season Passes on sale at the Chahko-Mika Mall Pt August 23, 24, 25, 30 & 31. Also available at Mallard’s, and Slocan Rec. Commission. UBLE DISCOUNT - BEAT THE GST Whitewater WHTQUATER SH RESOAT UD Gon CO Maton AC VIL'SPT CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT RECREATION DEPARTMENT life and a great career but there are other things in life I want to do.” Percy then toasted her decision by sharing champagne with her parents and husband Kevin Lowe, a defen- ceman with the NHL's Edmonton Oilers. Dogged determination was a trademark of Percy's career. Refusing to specialize, she skied downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super-giant slalom and combined. She won bronze medals in the downhill and super-G at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, a downhill silver at the 1989 world championships at , Colo., and had seven top-10 finishes in World Cup races. Percy also won seven Canadian champion- ships. But victory on the World Cup cir- cuit always eluded her. “‘Never getting a medal in the Olympics would have bothered me more,” Percy said. ‘‘That was my childhood dream. The feeling of those few days, to be able to win medals in Canada, is something that can never be compared to anything else.”” Born in Edmonton, Percy was raised in the mountain town of Banff, Alta., and was skiing by age four. Her sparkling eyes and bubbling per- sonality covered a tenacious com- petitive spirit. Her take-no-prisoners style resulted in crashes and injuries. She competed at the 1988 Olympics with a broken thumb, which she refused to have protected by a cast. That injury caused her to drop a pole during the i event and cost her a third AQUATIC CENTRE PUBLIC SWIM 6:30-8: 1:30-4:30 Friday Saturday & Sunday . ROBSON POOL Monday Ftaay 4 nda So ROBGON POOL EASON Aquatic Centre Closed Sept. 3-7 for Maintenance (Sorry For the Incovenience) :00 p.m. -4:30 p.m. bronze medal. After a hopeful start — third in a ill at P B.C. in CosNews photo by Ed Mills BALANCING ACT " lei ly skate for the kids at the Ernie Gare Hockey School which concluded its week-long run at the Community Complex on Eetdoy. Kile were put through the paces which included a lot of powerskating and not a lot of s! fi ting the puck around. World Basketball League is making it in Canada SATURDAY FEATURE December — last season ended in frustration. She pulled knee ligaments training in Italy in January. BRIAN’S REPAIR SERVICE SMALL ENGINES * AUTOMOTIVE GENERAL MECHANICAL 613-13th St., © 365-7233 REDA\ weovuenrtrats Skiers!!! Purchase Your Red Mountain Season Pass Before September 1st and Take Advantage of Great Savings Including No G.S.T.!! upto 97 Yo Off Your Ski Pass! The last day to save is August 31st. Call Red Mountain for details! 1. 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The Prairies, where hockey and football and baseball rule is no place for professional basket- ball. But Don Skhopich has had to beat the bushes for customers before, as a life insurance salesman and then as owner of five health clubs. Drumming up sports fans, he says, is no dif- ferent. The general manager of the Saskat- chewan Storm had 70 days to get a team on the floor and fans in the stands after his group of Saskatoon businessmen won a World Basketball League franchise. A sellout crowd of more than 8,000 showed up at SaskPlace for the first game last May and the club has led the seven-team league in average at- tendance ever since, drawing 4,200 a game. “*We had skeptics coming out of our ears,”” Shkopich says. ‘‘People were saying that in summertime everyone's at the lake, everyone’s on vacation, no.one’s going to watch the game. Why would anyone go watch basketball? We've heard them all. ““We didn’t have much time to Prepare, but we set up about 50 speaking engagements with service groups or anyone who would have us, I guess, and we went and told our story.”” It has worked. The three-year-old league, which has struggled with failed franchises (one in Vancouver) and a label as a product inferior to the NBA, is thrilled that its 1990 success story is off the beaten path. “The Saskatchewan Storm has done a tremendous job in developing a folk 1g up there,”’ issi Steven Ehrhart said by phone from the WBL head office in Memphis, Tenn. “We're Prospects.”’ So excited that there are to be two more Canadian franchises for the 1991 season beginning next May, and Ehrhart hopes to eventually have as many as eight Canadian teams. Jon Havelock, president of the Calgary '88s and the league’s head of Canadian operations, was in Halifax this week with investors who want to bring a team to the East Coast. very excited. about the Deadline is Saturday, Sept. 15 MINOR HOCKEY Requires an ATOM ALL-STAR COACH Applications af Rec Office See our New SPAS ; Now in Stock! “SERVICE IS OUR FIRST CONCERN™ ORRON OF CALE ELECTIEC LTD. =e-4] WANTED TRAINER & EQUIPMENT MANAGER For 1990-91 Hockey Season PLEASE CONTACT: | Team Manager Don Joice At Home 365-7747 Work 365-7111 Talks have also been held with businessmen who want to bring a WBL franchise to Hamilton or Kit- chener, Ont. Interest has also been expressed in Edmonton. “Based a lot on what they’ve achieved in Saskatchewan this year, we're willing to become partners with Canadian cities and investors in those cities," Ehrhart said. ‘‘We'’re very bullish about that.”” The Storm is the only professional sports franchise in a city that has long sought an NHL team without success, due to a population base of fewer than 200,000. The Regina-based Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL attract much support from Saskatoon, but Roughriders of the CFL attract much support from Saskatoon, but Regina is almost four hours away. Like the Roughriders, the Storm wants to tap altof Saskatchewan “I’ve learned to go out and get the customer as opposed to putting up a sign and waiting for the customer,” Shkopich says. ‘‘If you put.up a sign and wait for the customer, it’s not going to happen.”” Saskatchewan suffered injuries this season and finished sixth, while Calgary was third heading into this, the final week of the season. Both teams open playoff at home next week. Streaker CALGARY (CP) — A naked baseball fan who scored a daring run during a Calgary Cannons game was benched by a judge Thursday. Judge A.W. Aunger sentenced Ricky Fabin Cherewko to one day in jail for streaking at a Pacific Coast League game last month against the Tucson Toros. “Td just like to apologize to anyone I offended,”’ Cherewko, 22, told provincial court after pleading guilty to one count of indecent ex- posure. : Cherewko, who appeared in court on crutches, sprained his ankle when he landed on the diamond after strip- ping and jumping from the packed stands. He said he had drank eight glasses of beer wat ig the July 22 game when, at his friends’ urging, he took off his clothes and leaped from his seat near third base. He started running ‘‘and turned to give the crowd a full view" before security guards picked him off at third base, said Crown prosecutor Les Grieve. “~ a. August 25, 1990 Castlegar News 83 LOCAL NEWS & bad plan that can’t Sand Publitius Syrus. m mere: . Some time ago I wrote, as a concerned and infor- med citizen, to the engineering and public works department of our fair city. My concern centred on the main access and fate of the causeway to Zuckerberg Island. 1 stated that, in Spite of the fact that it had been raised four feet by the Castlegar and Disirict Heritage Society and was both in fair condition and high enough for ordinary high river levels, it was, in consequence of heavy spring rains, in imminent-danger in the near future. I received a courteous reply a few days later to the affect that there were no plans to do any improvement work on the causeway in 1990 and that there was no mention of it in the city’s five-year plan for capital Priorities. The letter concludes with the observation that I might not find this to be a Satisfactory answer to my request. I didn’t About a week later, some of the worst flooding in years occurred and left the causeway little more than a creek bed, almost inaccessible to any vehicle. On July 27, 1 wrote a letter to the mayor and aldermen pointing out the waste, the damage and the potential dangers of the new situation. Over three weeks have passed and I have received no acknowledgement of the letter. I feel there is no alter- native, therefore, but to release the main part of the letter to those most concerned. It reads as follows: I have had a long acquaintenship with the causeway. It began when I helped Mr. Zuckerberg build it in the early 'SOs. It was the only vehicle access to the island, and then only at normal water levels, un- til 1982 when the suspension bridge was built by the 44th Field Engineer Squadron after two women almost lost their lives attempting to cross to the i i State of island access prompts letter to city access to the island sirice there is limited wheelchair ac- cess via the bridge. Persons with severe injuries or heart attack cases will have to be carried off the island. Moreover, a fire-line trench dug by hand by the (Castlegar and District) Development Board crew remains open because the contract to complete it has been held up, first by flood and now by the condition of the causeway. If an injury or death should occur which rises out of inadequate access to the park, the legal consequen- ces could be interesting. If a dam is built at Murphy Creek and there is no permanent and adequate causeway in place, the legal and PULPIT & PEW By Pastor SLAWOMIN MALANEK Seventh-day Adventist Church We are living in a changing world but some things never change: God and His truth (as revealed in the Bible) are eternal. As Christians we know that and we claim to believe it but our actions often show differen- tly. The world is full of fads, schemes and heresies incompatible with Christian faith, yet you always find so-called Christians who follow them: 1 often think how it must hurt God to see His followers jumping on the bi of some popular idea that Reflections and recollections By John Charters resultant costs could be equally disastrous. Further- more, I leave it to your own imagination what the reaction would be locally and where if the house or island were destroyed due to inadequate fire protec- tion. The situation on the causeway would in fact be just a sad ion of the lack of ici popular park during high water. During and since that time, heavy traffic and water action have severely damaged the causeway limiting access even as need in- creased. By 1986, when Premier Bill Vander Zalm visited the island it was almost impossible to travel and so, for his safety, the city put an earth surface on it. By 1988, heavy traffic and flood waters had again destroyed the surface so that it was worse than ever. In 1989, the heritage society received a grant of $2,000 from B.C. Hydro to upgrade the island lagoon. The contractor cut a 200-foot outfall channel at the south end of the island to the river for $1,400. Then, the city Provided two 40-foot culverts to give flow momentum to the outlets. The contractor then raised the causeway four feet and doubled its width, which cost $800, of which $200 came from the heritage society fund. I urged the city engineers at the time to raise it another two to three feet and dump rip-rap along its upper edge to protect it and the work below. Nothing was done. The flood waters of April 1990 broke through and caused severe damage, making it im- Possible for all but four-wheel drive vehicles to traver- se. Just prior to the arrival of the lieutenant- governor, some work was done on the causeway making it temporarily accessible to regular traffic, but again nothing more was done and my letter from the engineering department indicated that there were no plans to-do so in the foreseeable future. In consequen- ce, the very high waters of late June and early July left the causeway a totally impassible mass of rocks, did serious damage to the peripheral paths and along the island to Rocky Poi desi ed the children’s place at the point and buried heaven, In brief, wit! joney spent and wasted on temporary jobs on the causeway to no purpose, a per- manent causeway could have been built. We have, therefore, a-situation in which-the only vehicular access route to a major local tourist tion and public park, which is the sole i of the of tourism and good public relations, if it were not so potentially dangerous. Since I am no longer a member of the Castlegar and District Heritage Society exeeutive, I am writing to you as an informed and concerned citizen, one of a number who have invested considerable time, thought and effort into the Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park Project; a project envisioned by the council of 10 years ago but carried to fruition mainly by others; a project marked initially by active municipal support, but more recently by a kind of benign indifference, a patronizing expediency. Madam Mayor, if the letter from the city engineering department represents the priorities of council, and I have no cause to doubt it, I would strongly suggest that the city administration re- examine its priorities, its options and take steps accor- dingly. Municipal elections are little more than three months away and I would suggest that this problem is one which must be addressed by all candidates. It is not primarily a limited heritage society matter although the society is affected. It is a Problem which concerns the entire community, now and in the future, and it is time that it be faced squarely and without delay. If the council’s solution to civic betterment and Progress is to increase bureaucracy and ignore its long- Tange assets such as the park, then its sense of values is seriously awry and Parkinson's Law has the-bit-in-its teeth. Your Worship will doubtless recall the little ditty to procrastination which began, ‘‘For want of a nail the shoe was lost. . . ."’ It applies to people as well as events. Several years ago you and I took part in a Ministry of Tourism project called Project Pride —a general survey of the joint benefits of heritage and tourism in which I represented the heritage society. Fhat has-evolved to-a new project-called Community Pride which involves community leadership training the city, is inaccessible to service vehicles, to i i and for official ighting . visits or occasions. During flood times it is most dangerous because People will insist on attempting to wade across, and children will play at the edge of the moving water, the same area and condition which has already taken a number of lives-over the years. People who are afraid of heights or with severe physical handicaps, and the very elderly, are denied and raising. I recommend it strongly to council and enclose a copy for your consideration. . There has been too much money wasted on stop- gap measures on this vital piece of city property and too much procrastination and playing of Russian roulette by successive city councils. With the money already wasted on patch-work efforts, the job could have-been done. By the time someone dies in- those tricky waters it will have been too late. Governments change — death is permanent — is totally unbiblical and at the same time with their Bibles under their ar- ms attending Christian churches. Are we with God, fully embracing His truth or are we spiritual yoyos, as the Bible puts it ‘*blown here- and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.”’ (Eph. 4:14), It is time to come down from the fence, to fully commit ourselves to follow God’s word wholeheartedly. It was Christ Himself who said: ‘‘He that is not with Me is against Me.” The words of the prophet Elijah are still challenging us today: ‘‘How long will you waver between two opinions; If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.”’ (1 Kings 18:21). Bible study will help us to know the difference between ‘‘the truth’? and “‘a lie’? and it will strengthen our faith, for the Good Book says, “Faith + « » by the Word of God.”’ Did you know that the Bible was written for all men, professional theologians and laymen alike and PARENTS! Returning to Work or School? ‘¢-W hobbit hill Chit OREN'S CENTER 749-1 1th Avenue Castlegar 7280 TING REGISTRATIONS # Out-ol Schoo! Care, ages 5:11 United Way WARM AND FRIENDLY CARE Member Agency endorice vhilly fo i, indeope mnvolver ied stall Sale. attractive » Michael’s Nuggets With the impending major projects slated for this oreo, tone are still a few inexpensive properties that hold « good potential for capital Oppreciation HERE ARE A FEW: 1. 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Jesus promised in John 7:17, ‘‘If any man will do his (God’s) will, he shall know of the doctrine.”” So the next time you hear a ‘new truth,’’ or are fascinated by some charismatic leader, or your church makes some controversial decision, you don’t have to stand helplessly not knowing what to believe. Turn to the Bible, ‘‘Test everything,”’ (1 Thess. 5:21) take it ‘to the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak ac- cording to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”’ (Isaiah 8:20). To know answers to some personal i er to simply know what the future holds, you don’t need to go to a psychic or attend a spiritualistic seance, the Bible has all the answers. By the way, did you know that God doesn’t want us to consult mediums? Read for yourself in Ex. 22:18; Deut. 18:10-12; Lev. 20:6, 27. As you follow the Middle East crisis in the light of the Bible Prophecies, you can have confidence that God is in control, that man is not going to destroy himself and the earth in a nuclear blast. The One who created this earth holds to Himself the right to “*de-create it, and He will not allow man to usurp this divine prerogative. Read it for yourself in 2 Peter 3:10-13. Happy Bible study! Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212 Shouldn't your children grow up knowing just how preci VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCH 713-4th $1. Castlegar Aug. 27-31 9:30 a.m. - Noon Pre-School up through Grade 8 POWER SKATING Casi Figure Skating Club toll school Aug. 20-Sept. 21. Power skating and Cont 27-Sept WEST KOOTENAY TEACHERS EDUCATION PROGRAM PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING People planning on entering either the 12-month or 2-year Teacher Education programs in the Fall of 1991 should ensure they have completed the entry prerequisites. 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