A DAILY INTEREST A ACCOUNT THAT HAS IT ALL” : y "7 Kootenay Savings Credit Union|” cesin ‘Cathedral. “Wo havo ‘ 1016 - 4th Street, across from the Post Office. received such: | tremondous support, frota, our parish, fam- 0 fly and: other: friends “of: St. Last August at tho’ q quar: worn pate Hrd in’ 2. the heating system; and lin- ‘ing’ and repointing the chim. ‘Savior’s Pro-Cathedral, that: this additional ‘sim makes our total goal seem a lot more * :-terly Parish Family ‘meeting ca. hard look was. tak hi ‘Through donations, pled: * ‘wear’ snd. tear ‘to the two ’ ges, ‘loans and ‘three, major buildings’ located Wi attatnable than‘it did back in By Casiows Stall.” Stanley, ;Humphries., 'Sec- ondary ‘School senior Rock- - ettes , suffered a ; 49-42. loss, Friday. “night in’ their: first oy j Kootenay high school basket-: , -Check your i ball ague, game of the ‘sea plates 7 son, 2 (EYOUR dt was a close’ ‘game DECAL SHOWS. * throughout, but the Rock- i 's World FUL ottes mene to sar off be “ a : 5 Cup dowel on this same course in 1976, was second fastest the win. The Haw! 1 . See i to F i ‘dt the half and 31-80 at the a ee end of ‘the’ third’ quarter. With four minutes remaining in ‘the fourth ° quarter! th Rockettes took a 35-31: lead, Neue for World Cup “VAL DISERE, FRANCE (cP) — Canada’s Hopes for a “Tve changed a fow aspects of my skiing,” said fet Week a Cup downhill Yiedory in aleiogs Nn months soared © Podborski “A few. tenths of a second don't mean-a lot of :: , difference in technique, but they can make a big difference in your placing, “It's not so much changes as modifications to what I was doing before, J got in quite a few more kilometres during the break. I haven't made a quantum leap, but Iam faster,” Austrian star Frank Klammer, who heads the downhill . * results so far this season and is in fifth place in the overall World Cup standings, had his usual quiet practice sessions, : -registering 2:08.12 for 35th place on the’ first run. but three-time winner last season — in the , climbing’ to eighth place on the second run in 2:05.63, > > firat time trial.” ~ Two timed: practices were’ held Saturday because m .. \Podborski, who had trouble getting good training times ‘ officials were unable to get the shophisticated electronic ~ 88,well as good results this year, lagged in 15th place onthe timing gear on line in time Friday. second run. Under World Cup rules, the practice times have no 2 “The* (gourse bes in fa tastic shape, said Read. “It's bearing for the first 15 akiers in the downhill standings for - smooth, it's the season. They draw for.the order of departure, with the’) * budgeted for the repair of tho, has .been‘-raised Ca i re-pointing ioners and friends,’ 78 per ‘cent ‘of the’ pxterior : Poaboraki: on, of Toronto, came ‘down the Bellegarde : Mountain course in'two minutes, 2.71 seconds in the first of - f Calgary, was fastest on: nathe ‘necond run withia time of AT. WINTER WONDERLAND - » «New snow transforms aged apple tree into arilatic sreatlen: on. iris wae the fs Cain to wie . toby Ron Norman r Stale omest hias COHOE INSURANCE: “AGENCY LID: ¥ must reriew before Feb. 1, 1983 A Russian Christmas MOSCOW (AP) — Millions of Russian Orthodox faithful ignored the Soviet Union's atheist doctrine and crowded . into churches this week to mark the start of their tradi- tional Christmas celebrations with glittering masses. The Russian Orthodox Christmas falls 18 days after the. western holiday. The chureh still adheres to the” Julian calendar, which hon- ored the birth of Jesus Fri- day instead of Dec. 25 as on the Gregorian calendar. Thousands of believers stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the Yelokhovskaya Cathedral in north Moscow on Thurs- day night for Christmas Eve services conducted by Patri- arch Pimen, spiritual head of ' the church in Moscow: and Russia. Pimen, resplendent in his sprawling gray beard and purple-and-black vestmenis, blessed the and Orthodox faithful in the country of 270 million, where Russian Orthodoxy was the state religion before the 1917 revolution. There are an estimated 20,000 churches in the Soviet prayed for a peaceful 1988, Priests in gold robes wafted -sandalwood incense from cen- sers and chanted the liturgy. . Most worshippers in the cathedral were elderly wom: en wearing brightly colored flowered scarves on their heads. But many younger women and men also turned out, dressed in expensive fur coats and hats. CHURCH DECLINES | ... Western experts estimate there are 80 million Russian ‘Pulpit & Pew by Ministers in the ‘West Kootenay _By Pastor TOM MULDER elical Free Church Suicide. The last stop on the road to dispair. Almost everyone has considered it in’ one form or another. You may say that you would or ‘could never consider it ser- iously. But have you never caught yourself wishing you could just die? It’s a common human ex- perience to wish ‘we had never been born, especially in these desperate times when the world seems to be falling apart. It has always amazed me that every experience man has gone through, there is a character in the Bible who has been there already. In fact, the Bible seems to make a point of exposing its hero's weaknesses, Jeremiah was a man who Jeremiah to keep on thinking that way about his life. He gave Jeremiah a choice. He could repent (change his ways) and stop saying worth- less words. Or he could live with is false despair. There was always hope for Jere- miah, Jeremiah was sinning by thinking his life wasn’t val- uable, and that God didn't care. We have no right to believe God has given up on us or doesn't care. The Bible shows us over and over the depth of despair God was willing to go to that we might always have hope. He does care. If you would like someone to talk to about any. cares that seem hopeless, call me Monday-Friday 9 a.m. - 1 p-m., or try sometime in the evening. My number is 365- knew despair. He wrote the 228 book of Lamentations, a ser- ies of iaments about the col- lapse of his country. He is quoted twice as wishing he had never been born. Jeremiah went so far as to curse the man who brought § his father the news of his birth! He further says of that man, “may he hear wailing in the morning, a battle cry at noon, for he did not kill me in the womb” (Jeremiah 20:16 and 17)! Strong words for a sare man of God to say! Jeremiah’s problem was that he felt there was no val- ue to his life.’ Literally a whole country hated his guts. He had less friends than you can count on one hand. But God wouldn't allow == PRESENTS ou can acquire new skills, upgrade existing ones or simply have fun Union today, compared with ‘65,000 reported in existence before the revolution. Service were crowded be- yond capacity throughout the week in Moscow, and the church was believed to have taken in millions of rubles country-wide by selling vot- ive candles and tinned Christ- mas cakes, * Christmas is the most im- portant religious holiday in the Soviet Union after Eas- ter. But for non-believers, there was little evidence of a: celebration. MAJOR HOLIDAY The coming of the new year is the major winter holiday, celebrated with fir trees bearing shiny; glass balls and colored lights. Tradition has it that on New Year's Eve, Father Frost — resembling the American Santa Claus in a red suit trimmed with white fur —.visits children and leaves presents. 1 All thosé decorations were taken’ down by. Thursday night. But as workers outside | ‘ the Yel oni waited in the eaae wea- ther for No, 2 bus to take them home, acappella singing - drifted through the night- time quiet, A few extra plainclothes. policemen stood in the shad- - ows, guarding against any. possible trouble. Churehes are believed to be gaining members in the’ Soviet. Union, with the big- gest ‘gains said to be, among: the "non-registered funda- mental Baptist and Pente- costalist faiths, All Soviets religious ‘con- gregations must register with the state to be legal and are not allowed to seek con- verts. But there are thou- sands of unregistered Protes- tant congregations . whose adherents worship secretly, , often deep: in the’ w seeking to avoid official scru- tiny and the need to register activities with the state. They claim attending reg- istered congregations can stiple advancement at work and lead: to. official harras- sment. Burial held for , native of Russia Fred J. Makortoff of Cres- cent Valley died Jan. 4 at the age of 89. Mr. Makortoff was born in 1898 in Russia and- came to Canada with his par- ents, first settling in Sas-- katchewan, then moving to’ B.C. in 1922. The family returned to Saskatchewan for .a short time and Mr. Makortoff re- turned to Crescent Valley in 1948 where he since lived. He. was a member of the Christ- ian Community of Universal Brotherhood and the Union _ of Spiritual Communities of Christ, He ‘is survived by one son,’ Peter of Castlegar; a daugh- ter; Mrs. Lucille Lamareaux ’ of Eugene, Oregon; ‘three grandchildren and five great- grandchildren. 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Selkirk College. in’ rently. ‘coaches: at lhinity Western College in Langley. “The clinic is designed to introduce coaches and inter ested players ‘to the bas’ axle and team play of vl rate enthusiasm © and ability to. work with people is. truly exceptional, He's’ just what the doctor. ordered for clossly-matched atfair.: YJ Va Rebels. team - By CasNews Staff Rebels hing Kootenay, Saints coach Tim | Frick, Graham. is: working; on a. special’B.C. Volleyball Asso-_ ciation, grant ‘which enables + him to conduct, clinics and * workshops . throughout . the province. The emphasis is his work is on -people learning the ‘correct skills and_con- _.cepts while having fun. Dead- line for registration is Jan. 10. For information on the clinic, contact Frick. or the’ . Selkirk. College Continuing Education offi ice at Castlegar, 985-7292... - Graham will’ also be ‘a special guest clinician’ at the Royal Bank Junior. ‘Olympics. - volleyball clinic to be held-o1 the ‘Castlegar campus at th college from 9 a.m. to: 4:30 p.m. on Jan. ‘14. : Assisting... Graham and Frick” at .the. clinic will, be’ members of the.Saints men's and women's teams. Garvey the qxe? / NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ed 'Garvey -will almost cer-— tainly be ousted as executive director | at the National Foot- ball League ‘Players Asso- ciation’s first team represen- tatives’\ meeting in March, predicts Russell, .Erxleben, player rep for. New Orleans Saints. Erxleben said Friday that recent resolutiéns by, some NFL teams ‘urging Garvey’s. resignation are a solid .indi- ‘cation the chief union nego- tiator has lost the players’ - support. staff have their. eye on five TJunior-B age hockey players to fill two s The Koote: al. Junior: Hockey ; League team has until Feb. 10 to fill the two vacant positions. The © Rebels -at ‘present have 15 skating: members “and two. goaltenders: eee ‘A} Isakson is number one , on. the list, said ‘Rebels co-- coach Ron Rebelato. Isakson, who played most of the. sea- son with the Rebels, is suffer-" ing from/a knee injury. Reb- elato said the club is waiting : to. see the outcome’ of ‘the. specialist’s diagnosis before any decision is. made. ~ “If his knee is 100 per:cent he is able to do 100 per cent, he is our choice," said Rebe- < lato. “We can’t sign him and have him out of action.” The coach added that the ‘Rebels alZo.don't Want to have hin: maimed for life. -.-, Another ‘choice’ for .the Rebels is ‘Dean. MacKinnon, who Robelato says was sent - down tothe, local’ Juvenile , team to pick up more ice time end for.the B.C. Winter “Games playdowns. Rebelato ‘also. said MacKinnon ‘must get himself-back in shape. - :.. Mike’ Corbett. is: another choice for the Rebels. ‘Cor- bett who. played defense with Shpswap Totems of the B.C." ° Junior: Hockey‘ League,- has decided to, return’ home be- cause of school conflicts. Cor- bett is in his final semester at Stanley Humphries Second- “School.:*. Rebelato. says Corbett too must. work’ hirhself’. into shape, after which the coach- es will see how, well he can. perform. Jason Leitch, is’ another possibility for ‘the Rebels, MIKE CORBETT .-'. back home “ although Rebelato said he thinks Leitch should put in another year of Juvenile hoc- key. Leitch wos recently. eut® | from the team. He’. was ‘also cut from the roster’ son.” ? wm ‘Another ~ choice fo “the “Rebels is- Terry. Argotow. But Rebelato said Argotow's. hockey’ seems to. be’ inter: fering with his studies. Argo-. . tow is'a student at Selkirk College, who has’ been able to make it to only one Practice per week. “It's not fair to him « or the team,” Rebelato said. “He noted ” that ° several other. juvenile * players _ ‘are | ‘also being: considered, ~The Rebels have until Feb. 10 after which no additional players can. be signed. The Rebels could use’a juvenile player as an affiliate, but only for three games. Goalies’ are - the only. exception to the rul- ing. A gealie can be placed after the Feb, 10 deadline, ° The team line-up thus far consists of: goaltenders. Ro- land Couter and Steve’ Voy- kin; and Jack Kanigan, Andy JASON LEITCH -.. Juveniles. “Ron Lauriente,. Lyle Stou- shnow, Perry, Horning, Scott irby,. Dave” ‘Perehudoff, Terry: “Nazeroft, Sean Arm- strong, Randy Marris, Ken x Keraiff and Barry Streliev. In the Rebels’ first game rot Border Bruins. 18 in Grand Forks. “They got: off easy,” com- mented. Rebelato. “fd say we had the major- » ity of the play but couldn't seem to put the puck in the net.” Rebelato noted that when’ the opportunities were there the Rebels either didn't try hard enough, didn't shoot hard enough or they were too close to the Grand Forks net- - minder. Barry Streliev scored the winning goal. Scoring ace Lyle Stoush- now missed two breakaways, which Rebelato said. is “strange for him.” The Rebels, who are on a three-game winning streak, play the Rossland Warriors Tuesday night at the arena phany, Fred P. lex. Game time is 8 p.m. ‘in snow hasbeen a strugii. for the Canadian downhillérs all season. as’ Europe basks in the warmest winter: in more than a:century. : H IGED VENUE This id's .race was’ o __ Saturday and Sunday’ ‘at Morzine, France. Instead, the race ~ ind Monday. The second'men’s © unusually’ warm " “Eve got the *downbiill ceof ‘thes season was slated for Val @Isere, but 3 uurse down,” said Read, enthused by his , - training times. “The mistakes ign.’ made were different on each "We didn’t get. to race here in Decembe “Chris Kent d ‘and Todd Brooker had been the fastest in fralnlng runs then year. when we dette tobe ‘solid. We have a double here and fa the two for | rest of the 105 competitors following according to practice : times: Tim Lenardon’ -part of VICTORIA (CP) — Six players from Cranbrook headline the 19 players sel- ected to represent B.C. in ‘ice hockey at the 1983 Cansd= Winter Games in Lac St. Jean, Que. Coach Colin Patterson of. ~~ Wenger | itzbuehel (Austria) -—- then one we must really concentrate “on, the pre-Olympic downhill at Sarajevo (Yugoslavia). “That's followed by St. Anton (Austria). This is the time vof year we want tobe: 100 per ‘cent and it looks like that’ "3 the way it is.” "SLOW START FOR POD: * Podborski, who.won last year’s World Cup downhill crown with 115 points, had only four points in December, his in several : 4 Ho, dpent . several weeks:in. the, Rockies 4 ma Canada during the Christangs, break trying to sort ‘worst performai out his problems, “ BRUINS 2 CANADIENS 1 MONTREAL (CP) — Keith Crowder and Barry Pederson, : scored .second- period goals and goaltender Pete Peeters withstood a ‘late’ charge’ by... Montreal ‘Canadiens as Boston earned & 2-1-victory Saturday night. ‘The. triumph . -extended ‘Boston's Jead over. ‘the’ sec- “ond: -placé ‘Canadiens to five points .. fn the. Adams Diy: “| ision. ° Crowder's 19th goal and the 27th by. Pederson; ‘five minutes. apart, were. .the high points of ‘ani otherwise: uninspiring two periods. But the Canadiens, show- ing their only. spark in‘the game, tested Peeters. sev- erely in the final 15. minutes after Mats Naslund had closed the margin to 2-1 with his: 16th goal at 5:08. Naslund stripped" ‘Boston defenceman Randy Hillier of the. puck as.he came from behind the Bruins’ goal and lashed a & quick shot payor onto. Maple Leafs scored three goals to start each of the first and second periods, forcing Los Angeles to play catch-up hockey, to earn a 7-5 victory over the slump- ing Kings and extend their undefeated streak ‘to seven games, : Frank Nigro,” with two goals;: Jim Benning, Walt Poddubny,. Gaston Gingras, John Anderson ‘and’ Borje Salming scored for the Leafs who won five and tied two of their last seven games. Mike’ Murphy,’ Rick Chartraw, Dean Hopkins, terry Ruskowski and Charlie Simmer: replied for | the Kings, who have won only one of their last 14 games and have. lost their last seven on the road. ~~ FLYERS 7 WHALERS 4 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Darryl Sittler recorded his 20th career three-goal game, while Ilkka Sinisalo and Bill Barber each had two goals ‘and three assists as the Flyers skated to a 7-4 victory over the Whalers.. Darryl Sittler also had an assist for ‘the Flyers, who won their seventh straight game. The setback extended Hartford's winless streak to 10 games, one short of a club record. : Sinisalo. struck first for Ps “the Flyers, scoring his sixth goal of the year on a Barber assist at 1:06. Ron Francis tied it unassisted at 1-1 but Barber scored for Philadel: phia before Pierre Larouche tied it 2-2. at 16:28. Philadelphia broke the tie with three’ goals in the second period. Sittlor seored twice, the first at 6:11 on a power play when he tipped in Miroslav Dvorak's - slap shot from the point. ‘ Baber and Sittler added ‘two more goals and Philadel-- \phia held a 5-2 lead after 40 minutes. ° : In the third period, Hart- ford pulled to within 5-3 on Blaine Stoughton's 22nd goal of, the ‘season. But - the Whalers got no closer as Sinisalo scored his second of the night and the Flyers led it 63. . Larouche scored. his second goal at 13:20 of the third period, but Sittler got enough for his third goal on assists from Barber and Sinisalo at 14:01. ISLANDERS 6 NORDIQUES 1 UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — John Tonelli’s 100th NHL *goal highlighted a four-goal, first-period outburst as New York Islanders cruised past Quebec Nordiques 6-1. The Islanders unleashed a 21-shot attack on beleag- -Mountains of named the 19 players after | six recent exhi- bition games in K line-up MeNeil and Bill Vance of Trail; Kevin Mann, Dan Clark and Jay Longpre of Oak Bay; Brian Goodwin. of Saanich; Mike Cox of Ladner; Jim Wilson of North Shore Winter Club; Al Perich of Nelson; Dan Morgan of Elk Valley;, Len Steenson of Kimberley; and Kent Neu- man of I B.C. won the gold medal in hockey at the.1979 Canada “Winter Games in Brandon, Man. Named to the B.C. team. were: Peter Thrasher, Kelley B Mike | Hall, Darryl Spooner, - -Don; Cloarec and . Hictorja ni Aaron Armstrong of Cran- brook; Tim Lenardon, Ken uered goalie John Garrett in the first period. Tonelli, Tomas Jonsson; Mike Mc- Ewen and Greg.Gilbert did the damage. ‘ Tonelii opened the scoring at 1:51 when he knocked home a rebound of his own shot for his 14th goal of the season. New York made it 2-0 when. Jonsson ‘blasted home a slap shot on a power play at 6:31. McEwen converted a per- fect pass from Mike Bossy with the Islanders holding a 4-on-8 skating advantage at 10:29. Gilbert, a rookie left winger, took a pass from behind ‘the. net by Butch Goring and pushed in his . third goal of the season. - Quebec finally scored with +, 1:27 remaining in the second period when Anton Stastny wheeled. in the Islanders zone and fired a shot past a surprised New York goalie Roland Melanson. The Islanders added a pair of third-period goals. Bossy took a pass from Tonelli and swept in a drive at 6:49 and defenceman Dave Langevin connected one minute and three seconds later with a shot from the blue line which handcuffed Garrett. FLAMES 5 RED WINGS 2 CALGARY (CP) — Cal- gary Flames defeated De- troit, Red Wings 5-2 and regained second place in the Smythe Division. Ed: Beers, Lanny Mc- Donald, ‘Doug Risebrough, Dave Hindmarch and Kevin LaVallee scored for Calgary, which skated to period leads of 3-1 and 4-2. NORTH STARS 4 BLACK HAWKS 1 BLOOMINGTON, Minn.. (AP) — Minnesota forward Tom McCarthy had three points to back up Gilles Meloche's outstanding goal- tending and the North Stars whipped Chicago 4-1. - minutes apart to give the Patterson will re-assemble the B.C, team Feb. 18 for. exhibition games against -all- star teams from the West Coast Junior Hockey League and South Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League, plus ia Cougars of the major. Western. Hockey Meloche stopped 36 Black Hawks shots as the’ North Stars improved their record to 21-11-9 and cut Chicago's Norris Division lead to seven points. Chicago's’ record dropped to 26-10-6. The North Stars came out like they were going to blow the Black Hawks off the ice, taking a quick 8-0 lead and outshooting the Black Hawks 12-2. But for the rest of the game the Black Hawks outshot the North Stars 35-13, but Meloche was almost unbeatable. In the first pericd, Neal Broten threw in a wrist shot only 2:17 into the game off a, pass from McCarthy. Then with a two-man advantage on a power play, Willi Plett tipped in a McCarthy shot at 6:04. Only. a minute later, still with a man advantage, the North Stars came back with a slapshot goal by Tim Young. Chicago got one back near the end of the period when Tom Lysiak scored his 16th goal of the year on a power play with 30 seconds left in the period. CAPITALS 3 BLUES 3 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Craig Laughlin scored on 3 power play with 12:47 left:-to play and set up Chris Valentine's goal three minutes later Saturday night to give the Washington Capitals 3-3 with the St. Louis Blues. Blair Chapman and Pet- tersson scored less than two Blues a 2-0 advantage in the first-and second periods, -Glen Currie later coun- tered for Washington, also in the middle period, but Pettersson's second goal of the night established a 3-1 St. Louis edge with 18:25 remaining. Laughlin then ignited the Capitals with three seconds left on a penalty to Blues defenceman Tim Bothwell.