pS a EL - PROVINCIAL NEWS Nurses under attack, union says VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. nur- ses face violence and assault from government, employers and patients alike and their union will fight back against the attacks, the president of the B.C. Nurses’ Union said. “Any discussion of removal of the right to strike is abhorrent to us,"’ Debra McPherson told nearly 200 delegates to the union’s annual con- vention. ‘*Without it, we become vic- __-tim to every political cost-containing scheme that can be dreamed up.”’ With the nurses’ contract with government ‘expiring in March, Mc- Pherson said, the union must have the ability to withdraw its labor to equalize power between ‘those who work for a living and those who manage for a living."’ She said private-sector wages have increased more than public-sector wages from 1975 to 1989. Health care workers must not allow themselves to subsidize an already underfunded system with low wage settlements, ap said. Describing the government's idea of introducing public sector wage controls and it's suggestion of limiting strikes as ‘tone form of assauit,’* McPherson went on to detail the number of violent physical assaults faced by nurses on the job. Of 505 nurses recently interviewed, 72 per cent said they have been abused or threatened at least once while at work, and almost 50 per cent had had such an experience in the last five years. Premier rejects BCMA call for intervention VANCOUVER (CP) — Premier Bill Vander Zalm has rejected a call by the-B.C. Medical Association that he intervene in the impasse over doc- tors’ fees. Vander Zalm said Tuesday he had no plans to m meet with association officials to try to resolve the deadlock. Assotiation president Hedy Fry had urged the premier to meet with her group. Vander Zalm said he was disap- pointed that what he called an earlier agreement with the association was rejected by its membership. “I thought we had reached agreement, and we shook hands three times on one night, after many, many hours of difficult di i That to make a deal on behalf of the association,’’ Fry said. “He knew even when we took it to referendum that with a few extra con- cessions, it might very well have been a package that could have been agreed on by the membership and he refused to make those extra concessions." Vander Zalm said there is no ad- ditional money for the doctors beyond the previous offer of 3.75 per cent retroactive to April 1989, four per cent this year and 4.5 per cent next year. Under the 1988 fee schedule, B.C doctors grossed an average of $162,000 a year. Last week, Fry said she feared the government was preparing to impose a fee on doctors, agreement or what I thought was in the release of a Health Ministry was put to the detailing made to with a recommendation to reject. “And that’s unfortunate because it was a very good package — almost a half a lion dollars worth over three years in additional spending. So it's mega-dollars when we're talking about settling with the doctors.”” The last fee schedule agreement ex- pired in 1988. Fry said guarantees were never given to the premier that the gover- nment’s offer would be accepted by the membership. “‘L told him that I had no authority doctors through provincial medicare during the 1989-90 fiscal year. On Sunday, she called the release ‘ta little ploy to try to divide the membership.”” The government has offered yearly increases of 3.75 per cent retroactive to April 1989, four per cent this year and 4.5 per cent next year. Fry has said a starting point on fees would be five to six per cent a year to keep up with the cost of living. Doctors in British Columbia are the fifth highest paid in Canada. Under BCGEU leader touts cooperation VANCOUVER (CP) — Co- operation between labor and management is essential if business is to survive in a changing, global com- munity, a union leader said. ‘‘My sense is that we have a future only to the extent that we grasp :hat reality,’ John Shields, president of the B.C. Government Employees’ Union, told the Industrial Relations Management Association. “We're like supertankers — even when we decide to change-course, it will take a long time to accomplish that.” Shields said restraint in the early 1980s,. attacks on public-sector job security, changes to labor law, and a recent stated intention by the B.C. government to control public sector wages have made co-operation dif- ficult. “We've got a climate that is ab- solutely a polar opposite of what the cufrent needs are,’ he said, urging the managers to open their books, share responsibility and work with employees to ‘‘meet one another's needs.”’ Gary Moser, assistant deputy minister of finance and a government negotiator, said in an interview later that the union and government made great strides towards the co-operative model when they recently negotiated a Pay equity agreement. John Fryer, a past president of the government employees’ union, said because workers want a share of past profits while employers are fearful of reduced profits in 1991, ‘‘that to me is a scenario for conflict’’ in the short term. But, in the long term, he said, workers and employers will work together BUILD sirronteo WE'LL HELP YOU DO IT RIGHT! PAIN Book your expert help now for your winter renovation project Scharf Carpentry CALL 365-7718 Now Serving the West Kootenays! \ Boarding & Machine Taping V Airless V Textured Cellings pray Painting Phone 365-5438 Ric Read bet 9th yy al astiegar, B.C. VIN 297 V Commercial ¥ Residential PRO PAINTING & DRYWALL f ROS CASTLEGAR, B.C the 1988 fee schedule, doctors grossed an average of $162,000 a year. Fry said that after expenses, the averare pre-tax income was $70,000 for a 60- hour week. Some 26.7 per cent have been abused or threatened more than five times in the past five years, she said. 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Green is gold for Rebels Overtime goal gives juniors a rare win DAVID GREEN ... on hot streak By ED MILLS Staff Writer A rare thing happened last night during a rare Tuesday night game in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League at the Community Complex. The Castlegar Rebels, cellar dwellers of the KIJHL’s West Division, beat the Beaver Valley Nite Hawks 3-2. SS TYSON FRENCH .. + player of game What wasn’t rare was the player that won it for them. David Green, who leads the team in scoring this year with 10 goals and eight assists and has been on a hot streak lately, scored with just over seven minutes left in the 10-minute overtime period. The Nite Hawks forced the extra frame with a screen-shot goal with 3:55 remaining in the third. At that point, the 150 or so fans must have been thinking the game carried shades of the Rebels’ season opener when the Nite Hawks came back from four goals down in the third period to beat Castlegar. And it would have been that way too if not for some great saves by Rebels goalie Lorin Healy, including a couple from point-blank range, wheq, the Nite Hawks controlled the first two minutes of the overtime. overtime. Seeing his team running around in its own end in overtime, Rebels coach Ed Cooper called a timeout to settle serves, Green's wrap-around winner came on the Rebels’ first rush up the ice following the timeout. For Cooper, the win is already of playoff proportions. **We’re 11 games into the season already. It’s only a 40-game schedule, so you have to think playoffs. So yeah, it was a big win,”’ said Cooper. The victory moves the Rebels record to 2-7-2 and into a last-place tie with the Grand Forks Border Bruins who have three games in hand. The Trail Smoke Eaters lead the division with a 6-3 record. “There’s only a five point spread between first and fourth (in the West Division),’’ said Cooper. ‘It looks like it’s going to be a dogfight right to the end.”” The way Nite Hawks coach Hank Deadmarsh tells it, the Nite Hawks got their tails bitten in this particular dog fight. “Castlegar played good, but they didn’t play good enough to win that Westars come up short in WKSL championship By ED MILLS Staff Writer Like they've done all year long the Nelson Heritage Innkeepers did what they had to win the West Kootenay Soccer League championship Sunday at Lakeside Park in Nelson. And the underdog Castlegar Westars have the rest of the winter to sit back and contemplate what might have been. Like what if, with the game tied at one and just over five minutes remaining, Louie Costa had scored that penalty shot? What if a timely bounce in one of the two 10-minute overtime periods ha@put a Westars player in alone to end the game? And what if, in the five-shot penalty kick round to decide the game, the Westars had scored on all five of their shots instead of just three? Those are the questions Carlos Amaral and the Westars were asking themselves the day after. But despite the disappointment, the Westars player-coach will remember the game, and the season, fondly. “*It was our best game of the year,"” said Amaral, who played his role as coach full-time for the game because of a knee injury. “I was happy. I told the guys there’s nothing to be ashamed of, they played well through the season and I think we should have won it “*We had our chances and they had their chances, but with five minutes left we should have won it,’’ said Amaral, referring to the penalty shot awerded to Costa. Amaral said he was already ‘‘jum- ping up and down”’ on the sidelines in anticipation of winning the game, which would have been an upset over the heavily favored Innkeepers, on Costa’s goal. But Costa, who tied the game for Castlegar with a goal earlier in second half, ‘‘shot it right at the goalie,"’ said Amaral. Nelson got its only regulation time goal of the game on a penalty kick by Terry Scott. In the penalty-shot round, Nelson won it scoring on four out of five chances. Westar’s goaltender Gary Dee got solid defensive support all game and couldn't be faulted on any goals, said Amaral. Dee, and Innkeepers goalie Bruce Fuhr, both stopped the first shots against them in the penalty kick round. Brian Gorman, Herb Amaral and Theo Frimi scored their penalty shots while Fuhr stopped Cal Stewart and Dale Fitchett. It hasn't been a fruitless year for the Westars in terms of champion- ships as they won the Portuguese Cup in Oliver in June. It was the first time in three years Castlegar has won the Cup. Nelson adds the playoff champion- ship to the league title won with a record of 17-2-1. Castlegar was second during the regular season at 11-6-3 game. I think they just stole one back,’’ said the rookie coach, referring to his team's theft in the Rebels’ season opener. “In the overtime we had four quality chances (and) I think we had the better of the quality chances in the second and the first -(periods),”’ said Deadmarsh. ‘‘The bottom line is that they won it, eh?"’ Player of the game Tyson French, who had two assists and a number of good scoring opportunities, said the Rebels had plenty of reasons to get motivated for this game. Not the least of which was a 9-0 pounding the Nite Hawks laid on Castlegar two weeks 0. “*It (the loss) was kind of hard on the ego. It was embarrassing,”’ said French outside the Rebels dressing room after the game. ‘We talked about it a little before the game and now at least they know we're not a team to be laughed at in the league. We wanted to show them that we're not that kind of a team, and I think we did that.”” After a scoreless first period, the Nite Hawks took a 1-0 lead on a powerplay goal banked in from behind the net off the back of Healey’s skate. The Rebels tied it while shorthan- ded when French, after being caught from behind on a partial breakaway, regained control of the puck, fed a pass cross-ice to defenceman Chris Postnikoff whose high slapshot went in off Chad Alderson’s leg. With three minutes gone in the third, French set up Cory Ross to give the Rebels a 2-1 lead. Stahius Dimopoulos got an assist on Green's goal. The Rebels host Elk Valley Raiders, whom they tied 8-8 last Friday, at the Complex this Friday and travel to Cranbrook on Saturday for their first meeting of the season with the Colts. NOTES: General manager Don Joice said he’s bringing in two players, both forwards, for a tryout with the team this week. Both players are from Clearwater, B.C. Mike Korzenowski, Keith Semenoff and Dave Healey were out of the Rebels’ lineup with injuries. MIKE TYSON «+. @walts the winner LAS VEGAS (AP) — If Evan- der Holyfield has his way, the heavyweight title fight tomorrow night with champion James (Buster) Douglas will bé as much a test of minds as bodies. And in his mind, Holyfield feels he has a clear advantage. “*When it comes down to the clutch, it comes down to deter- mination and smarts,’’ Holyfield said. ‘‘That’s where I feel I can control the fight."" Holyfield, undefeated in 24 fights, goes into his first heavyweight title fight giving away size, reach and weight to the un- disputed champion. But his determination and focus have never been questioned, unlike Douglas, who many thought quit when he was stopped in the 10th round of a 1987 title fight against Tony Tucker. Oddsmakers apparently agree, making Holyfield an 7-5 favorite to beat Douglas in the champion’s first defence of the title he won when he shocked the boxing world Holyfield to bust Douglas looks by stopping Mike Tyson in Tokyo last February. Holyfield, a former cruiser- weight champion, will be fighting as a heavyweight for only the seventh time against Douglas, 30, who stands 30-4-1 after a nine- year pro career. The challenger, 27, is at a decided physical disadvantage, giving away about 20 pounds and nearly six inches in reach to Douglas. But Holyfield’s con- ditioning is impeccable. The fight is expected to nearly fill the 16,350-seat outdoor arena at The Mirage hotel-casino. Douglas, who has battled weight problems since beating Tyson, cancelled his last scheduled workout Tuesday to concentrate on resting up for the scheduled 12-round fight. Douglas said he would come in- to the ring somewhere around 231 pounds, the same he weighed when he knocked out Tyson in the 10th round. Holyfield is expected to weigh around 210 pounds at this afternoon's formal weigh-in. AT THE NET Canucks bombed, Gretz one point from 2,000 Hockey fans in Winnipeg stand a good chance of witnessing hockey history Friday night. Wayne Gretzky picked up two assists as the Los Angeles Kings beat the visiting Calgary Flames 6-4 Tuesday night, moving Gretzky within one point of the 2,000-point career plateau. The Kings begin a six-game road trip in Winnipeg on Friday. “*It would have been nice for him to get it at home,” Kings defenceman Rob Blake said of the milestone point **But I don’t doubt he'll get it the next game — early.”” “I’m really disappointed I didn’t get it here,”’ said Gretzky. ‘*My family was here and my wife was here. The home fans, who have been really good to me, were disap- pointed. Los Angeles, 7-1-1, is first in overall standings in the 21-team NHL and Gretzky leads the scoring race with 20 points. Bub Kudelski scored two goals and Todd Elik, John Tonelli, Tony Granato and Tomas Sandstrom had one each for the Kings, who increased their lead atop the Smythe Division over Calgary to three points. Gary Suter scored twice and Al MacInnis and Roger Johannson once each for the Flames. CANADIENS 5 PENGUINS 4 In Pittsburgh, Eric Desjardins tied it 4-4 with three minutes left and Mathieu Schneider scored the winning goal 38 seconds later, beating goaltender Tom Barrasso with a 40-foot slap shot on the glove side. The Penguins had a power-play chance with 1:06 left and pulled Barrasso but couldn't score. Goaltender Patr- tick Roy stopped a Mark Recchi shot and had a Joe Mullen shot go off one of his posts. Denis Savard, Stephane Richer and Brent Gilchrist also scored for the Canadiens. Zarley Zalapski, Rob Brown, John Cullen and Bob Errey scored for the Penguins, who are 1-5-1 since win- ning their first two games. WINGS 6 CANUCKS 0 Rookie centre Sergei Fedorov scored his third ard fourth goals of the season and goaltender Tim Cheveldae stopped 28 shots. “V’ll always remember my first NHL shutout, Cheveldae, a third-year pro from Melville, Sask going to frame the puck and put it in my trophy rack."” Dave Barr, Lee Norwood and Jimmy Carson also scored for the Rtd Wings, who remain per- fect (5-0) on home ice. They’re winless on the road. DEVILS 8 ISLANDERS 1 In Uniondale, Crowder scored his first two NHL goals and Dave Maley, Pete Stastny, Claude Lemieux, John Morris, Zdeno Ciger Shawn Burr, said “Em N.Y., rookie right winger Troy and Patrik Sundstrom added one each as New Jersey, which outshot New York 52-15, greatest margin of victory It was only the third win in 47 appearances in Nassau Coliseum in the franchise's 16-year history Randy Wood scored for the Islanders, who tied a tied a team record for club mark for most lopsided home defeat CAPITALS 6 FLYERS 2 Kevin Hatcher had two goals and*Kelly Miller, Bob Rouse, Pete Zezel and John Druce added one each as Washington won its first road game of the season. Rick Tocchet’s sixth and seventh goals were all for starts. the Flyers, who had a six-game winning streak snapped Goaltender Ken Wregget lost for the first time in his seven “I'm getting closer to feeling on top of my game,”* said Hatcher, who has three goals and six assists in six games after missing training camp in a contract dispute. Re-run time for racers By CasNews Staff You don’t have to know much about Sally Willis, Gerald Klassen, P*‘Nina Shames and Sheila Ryan to know that they eat reight, don’t drink too much and don’t smoke. In fact, it would probably be a pret- ty safe bet to say all the 81 com- second annual race which offers 13.1 and 4.7 kilometre events. Mother nature provided a crisp, ¢ool day for the races, which began at the D-Bar-D Ranch and wound through trails in an area of what used to be called the Village of Blahadot- nia. Klassen brought in the best overall time finishing in $1 minutes, 29 seconds to win the men’s open event for the second straight year. Willis was the fastest female on the 13.1-km course posting a time of 60:28, while Shames, in the master ‘women’s categcy, brought it home in 67:44 Ryan, who won in junior girls last year, moved up to the senior girls this year with the same results, coming in at 23:39 in the 4.7-km event. Other winners in the 13.1-km cour- se included Todd Downie in masters men, Keith Martin in senior boys and Graham Mc Vicker in junior boys. In the 4.7-km event it was Dale Boucher winning in masters women, Scott Leyland in masters men, Pam Braun in women’s open, Don Jones in senior boys, Melanie Gibson in junior girls and Gavin Makse in junior boys.