ACTO-COS IAMIMICIN- Ff ebruary 21, 1990 DANCE FOR HEART. . . Saturday's two-hour dance for heart aerobathon raised $3,039 for the B.C. and Yukon Heart Foundation, bringing the total amount raised by the Castlegar ti 9 and District R Dep "s various to. $5,751.04. Special events raise nearly $6,000 for heart The Castlegar and _ District Recreation Department ~raised $5,751.04 for the B.C. and Yukon Heart Foundation with a series of special events during the week of Feb 11 to17. Capping the week was Saturday's Copps campaign _ gets big two-hour dance-for-heart aerobathon which raised $3,039, the department reported in a news release Pam Seamark was the top pledge- earner with $927 followed by Sharon Wigen with $424, Eugene Deptuck with $257, Libby Weaver with $245 and Loree Frost with $155. Canada Safeway donated apple juice to keep thirst at bay for the par- ticipants and the recreation depar- tment’s fitness instructors donated their time and a huge supply of muf- fins, the department said Aqua fit for heart raised $1,851.28 and circuit weight training raised $529.76 Swim for heart, a challenge for lap swimmers to swim 64 laps during the week, brought in $331 for the Heart Fund. The recreation-department had a * number of pledges of more than $100 this year. Staff at the recreation department and the B.C. and Yukon Heart Foundation thanked all the people who donated their time and money to making the 1990 fundraiser for heart the most successful ever held in Castlegar. boost SAVE A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS WHEN QUEBEC (CP) — The Liberal leadership hopes of Sheila Copps got a major boost on Tuesday when the Political machine of Marc- Yvan Cote, provincial health minister) and organizer extraordinaire, fall in behind her at a rally in Quebec City. The support of Cote, | who organized the re-election campajgn of Premier Robert Bourassa’s Liberals last fall, had been rumored ’for the past two weeks and is the biggest boost for Copps as she makes inroads into Quebec. “We started with four people, soon got eight, then 12 and Mow there are thousands,” ‘Copps ‘told a disco packed with 400 supporters after Cotes formally gave her his support.,, | ** “Support is just snowballing when we didn’t expect to win more than five, six, or eight ridings.”’ ote is the acknowledged organizational kingpin of eastern Quebec, an area which comprises 22 of Quebec's 75 federal ridings. But his influence extends well into the rest of the province. = Copps said the support she is being given proves that her pro-Meech Lake accord vision of a united and in. tegrated Canada can work The accord, which among other things grants Quebec the status of a distinct society, has been ratified by Parliament and all the provinces ex- cept Manitoba and New Brunswick Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells has also threatened to withdraw his Province’s support “It’s funny that a girl from Hamilton would feel so much at home here in Quebec but it’s happened,’” Copps said Copps, speaking almost perfect French, gave the crowd a rousing speech in which she emphasized that she was one of the people “| want everyone tO kriow me not — as Ms. Copps but as Sheila and if I ever become a snob I want you to grab me by the scruff of the neck and tell me.”” It was these characteristics that Cote said made him join her camp although -he made clear that the choice between Copps and her main rival in Quebec, Paul Martin, was dif- ficult. “Paul Martin is a partner and a natural ally. 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VoB SLS SPS) workers’ COMPENSATION BOARD &itinex - EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO A SAFER WORKPLACE February 21,1990 Bi PORTS GET THE PERFECT FIT WITH A KOOTENAY SAVINGS RRSP Kootenay Requiem for Castlegar Rebels By ED MILLS Staff Writer final_fun—practic€, some Tandshakes and goodbyes, the Castlegar Rebels called it a season last night at the Community Complex. The Rebels were eliminated from the playoffs in the Kootenay Inter- national Junior Hockey League for the second straight year, finishing league play in fifth place in the West Division with a record of 14-25-1. It was the end of a turbulent season for the Rebels. A season that was at the point of breakdown at times. At other times, the Rebels showed the promise of putting it all together. as a season of adjustments. he players and managerhent had to adjust to the-eoaching styles of rookie backbenchers, but knowledge- able hockey men, Don Soroke and Ed Cooper. . It was Soroke and Cooper — who played hockey in the days when, as Soroke. said, ‘‘You wouldn’t say shit to a coach if you had a mouthful of it’? — adjusting to players who, more often than not, did things their own way regardless of what the coaches said. ~ There was friction. Seven players THAT'S ALL FOLKS . . . Castlegar Rebels captain Keith Semenoff packed up his equipment and took what may be his final walk down the corridor underneath the seats at the Comm: Complex last aight. Semenoff may be leaving Castlegar to go to school this fa 7. — CosNews Photo by Ed Mills and—the—team’s~trainer left for a variety of reasons. Most of them just quit. The coaches met with management to talk it over; there were rumors about Soroke and Cooper being fired. Management fretted about money. There were never enough fans to pay the bills. There was Cooper, a Nelson native, who recruited seven players from Nelson and had people asking: Aren't there hockey players in Castlegar good enough to play? Looking—at the Rebels’ top 10 scoring, with Dale Bonderud leading and Dwayne) Dergousoff second — both Nelson products, — Cooper ap- pears vindicated. And the players backed him up. That was the one thing that remained consistent throughout the entire year. The players — the ones that stayed — always backed! up their coaches. And if that was just an act during the season, as some said, it was no dif- ferent after the season when players could have taken shots without fear of the consequences. Nobody did. In fact it was bouquets, not bricks, that were tossed at Soroke and Cooper from Rebel players. Jeff Fletcher, who has played his last game in junior hockey unless the KIJHL allows over-age players next year, said Soroke and Cooper were the best coaches he’s ever had and that any criticism of them came from people who didn’t know much about the game. “I think I learned more this year than in any other year in hockey,’ said Fletcher. ‘This is probably the best year I’ve had as a player. Sure it’s disappointing not to make the playof- fs but the season’s over and we can’t change anything. “There was a lot of stuff said about our coaching but I think the problem with the coaching came from people out of hockey. The people didn’t un- derstand coaching and the people who don’t understand hockey.”’ As for the coaches, Soroke, who never pulled a punch when he was a player and was the same as a coach — he was ejected from the game against Nelson for verbal abuse of the referees — remains unchanged after a season behind the bench. continued on page 82 Belczyk leads the pack lake louise, Alta. (CP) — Kerrin Lee-Gartner of Calgary and Felix Belczyk of Castlegar, plowed through deep snow and flat lighting to post the fastest times Tuesday in training for this weekend’s Canadian downhill ski championships. Belczyk mastered the course in one minute 43.19 seconds to beat Edmon- ton’s Ed Podivinsky and Rob Boyd of Whistler. “It’s really slow,’’ said Belczyk, the defending super-giant slalom cham- pion, ‘‘There must be three inches o! snow on top of the coutse. The light is really bad so you can’t even see where the track is. You end up just pushing powder. Lee-Gartner’s time of 1:48.91 was slightly better than national squad Naney—Gee—of—Niagara Falls, Ont., who navigated the 2,048- metre course with a 502-metre vertical ‘ » Messier a top candidate for league MVP honors drop in 1:49.79. “There’s a lot of loose snow everywhere,”” said Lee-Gartner, her blonde hair turning white under the steady snowfall which [limited visability. “If you go out off the track anywhere you slow down right away. It’s kind of too bad because it can be a really good downhill in the right conditions.’’ Most of the 35 women and 81 men who finished training were amazed at how slow the men’s Olympic downhill course was. “The top of the course is a bit flat so going on the pitch you're not carrying much speed at all,"” said Gee. ~ Coaches will take roles as favorites in tourney By ED MILLS Staff Writer It’s a tough decision for coaches to make heading into a i i Both Jack Closkey and Laurie Boskov knew their teams are the favorités heading into the West tourney. Would they rather their teams be the underdog, knowing the talent is there to win it all? Or would they rather be the favorite, with all its built-in pressures, but knowing that an opponent will have to really come up big to beat them? Luckily, for the coaches of the-- t which will be played at SHSS, with some games at Selkirk College, this weekend. Being the home team has little to do with the favorite designation. The fact that both teams have destroyed West Kootenay opposition all season is the main reason. On the senior’s side, there’s three teams to beat to gain a berth to the junior and senior girls’ teams at Stanley Humphries secon- dary school, the choice has been made for them. in Surrey next_month — Grand Forks, L.V. Rogers from Nelson and Trail’s J.L. Crowe. The Junior girls will see the same three schools as the seniors, and four more — Mount Sentinel, idway, Trafalgar, and either LVR or Lucerne which hasn’t been decided yet. Junior coach Laurie Boskov says she’s happy to be going into the tour- nament as the favorite. “It ves us confidence and anything that can give us confidence can work in our favor,"’ she said. On the down side, she said being number one going in means other teams are gunning for you and there's. always the risk of over-confidence. “*People rise up to meet us and I’m always worried about that,’’ Boskov said. ‘‘We just have to keep our heads in the game and not think too far ByGRANTKERR . VANCOUVER (CP) — Mark Messier is pro hockey’s Ultimate Warrior. The muscular, 210-pound captain of the Edmonton's Oilers combines size, speed and strength to skate as the NHL's most complete player. Messier used all his attributes Tuesday night in leading the Oilers to_a solid 4-2" victory over the Van- couver Canucks. The win vaulted Edmonton into first place in the Smythe Division. The 11-year veteran assisted on goals by Peter Klima and Glenn Anderson 58 seconds apart late in the second period to break open a tight game and give him 100 points for the fifth time in his career. “‘Mark’s the guy who gets our team going, the guy who takes control,’’ said Oiler coach John Muckler “‘When he’s going like that, nobody can handle him. “*He’s so big, so strong, so fast. He’s my candidate for most valuable player."” Messier, 29, chose to praise Craig MacTavish and Craig Simpson, who both scored after making spectacular individual efforts. MEET FLAMES The Oilers, 30-20-12, are one point ahead of Calgary and meet the slumping Flames on Sunday in Calgary. 36-31-5, “‘He’s grown into the leadership role since the Gret- zky trade. He's a power forward who made two great plays when it counted.” BRUINS 5 FLAMES 3 In Calgary, Dave Poulin, with two goals, Bobby Carpenter and Bob Sweeney also scored as the Bruins beat the Flames 5-3 to improve to the league’s best record at Joe Mullen, Joe Nieuwendyk and Theoren Fleury scored for the Flames, who had a 37-22 shots edge. Boston goalie Rejean Lemelin, a former Flame, was out- standing. The Bruins had seven preiel and scored four times to take a 4-0 lead. In the second period SABRES 4 JETS 3 In Winnipeg, Mike Hartman’s goal 2:06 into over- time won it for the Sabres, who also got goals from Dave Snuggerud, Rick Vaive and Scott Arniel. Doug Evans, Greg Paslawski and Paul MacDermid scored for the Jets, who had a 37-17 shots edge but ran into a hot goaltender in Clint Malarchuk HAWKS 8 BLUES 3 Jocelyn Lemieux seored three goals and Steve Lar- mer, Steve Thomas, Adam Creighton, Dirk Graham and Dave Manson had one each as Chicago doubled to four Points its lead over St. Louis atop the Norris Division. Vancouver got goals from Jim Sandlak and Trevor Paul MacLean, Gino Cavallini and Rod Linden but couldn’t finish scoring opportunities against Oiler netminder Pokey Reddick. The Canucks outshot Edmonton 31-22. The Canucks, winless in five games, are almost out of playoff contention. Vancouver, 18-36-10, is 12 points behind fourth-place Los Angeles and play the Kings on Saturday in Los Angeles. “That was a real killer because we knew we had to win tonight,’’ said Canuck coach Bob McCammon. ‘‘The difference was Messier. Brind’ Amour scored for the Blues. PENGUINS 6 FLYERS 4 In Pittsburgh, John Cullen scored three goals and Tony Tanti, Phil Bourque and Kevin Stevens had one tS! each for the Penguins, on a 5-I-1 streak and 1-1-1 since Mario Lemieux was sidelined with a bad back. Pau! Cof- fey had four assists. SURROUNDED . . . SHSS player Carilyn Briscoe is covered on all sides and gets the ball stripped from her as she went up to take a shot ina senior girl's basketball game against Grand Forks at SHSS last night. Ilkka Sinisalo, Mike Bullard, Ron Sutter and Pelle The Rockettes won 84-52. comnew Eklund replied for the Flyers ahead or we could be surprised."” Senior girls’ coach Jack Closkey says his team is used to being the favorite because the girls have been for years now 2 But he does have a lot of Grade 11s on the team and that has him worried abit. - “I’m not sure if they can play hard if they know they're going to win They’re young and they don’t have that maturity yet. Hopefully (Denise) Pottle and (Sunny) Baker (both seniors) won't let them do that,’’ said Closkey. The senior girls warmed up for the West Kootenays with an 84-52 win over Grand Forks last night at SHSS. The juniors took two of three games against Kelowna teams — which may be provincial competition — on the weekend Meanwhile, Doug Hi¢key’s junior boys will look to next year as they bowed out of the West Kootenay championships last weekend The junior side gets things un- derway with a game at Selkirk College at f p.m. Frida¥. SHSS plays its first ‘ game at 4 p.m. at SHSS against i Mount Sentinel. The senior girls’ games will follow On Saturday, basketball starts at 9 a.m. at SHSS and concludes with the junior girls’ championship at 7 p.m with the seniors’ final to follow Baseball's woes as simple as your ABCs By TERRY SCOTT No baseball? s Hey, this is almost the last week of February and we should be scanning a newspaper to find a photograph of Tim Raines clowning through his first spring-training exercise. What’s the problem here, anyway? Well, it can be explained as easily as reciting the alphabet. So, let’s go through the ABCs of the major leagues’ latest labor woes: A — stands for aribtration. It’s what makes people like Bo Jackson a millionaire in his third full big-league season, despite teading the majors in strikeouts. B — stands for beaches. If you're an autograph hound, that’s where you should find the players this spring. C — stands for collusion, the ill-fated attempt by owners to regulate player movement, which has served instead to create more mistrust by players toward ownership D — stands for discipline, the lack of which by certain owners has helped to send player salaries skyrocketing. E — stands for expansion, a minor issue ini the current talks and one of the easiest to resolve, since it means revenue for the owners and jobs for players. F — stands for Donald Fehr (pronounced fear), the executive director of the baseball players’ a#S6ciation. Perhaps al that owners have to fear is Fehr himself. G — stands for greed; by both owners and players H — stands for holdout, as in owners holding out for whatever concession they can get from the players’ association. 1 — stands for the personal pronoun, often heard around major league clubhouses. J — stands for Jaguar, the car you're most likely to see in players’ parking lots K — stands for Bowie Kuhn, the former commissioner. who ordered the start to spring training March 18, 1976, following a shutdown. Kuhn’s advice won't be sould this time, however, since no one has seen him since his taw firm got into financial difficulty g L — stands for lockout, a word the owners do not like to use because of its negative connotation M — stands for March 10, just about the last date to begin training camp without jeopardizing the start of the regular season N — stands for nonsensical, the best way to describe many of the owner- ship proposals O — stands for Charles O'Connor, the chief negotiator for the club owners. As a former bricklayer, he at least knows something about the union movement P — stands for pay-for-performance, an ownership proposal that would turn the game into a Rotisserie League, But you can forget about it, because the owners already have Q — stands for quiet, the eerie sound that currently exists at 26 spring. training stadiums in Arizona and Florida R — stands for revenue sharing, a scheme in which owners propose to share the profit pie with the players. Not even the owners". economic experts could clearly explain how it works and it, too, has been scrapped S — stands for status quo, which is what most players have suggested, since the game seems to be in relatively strong health T stands for tryout. If you've ever wanted one, the time might be now, when scouts and general managers survey nothing but empty ballparks L stands for Peter Ueberroth, the previous commissioner who helped the owners get their financial houses in order but also helped to create the strained player-management relationship that currently exists. V — stands for Fay Vincent, the current commissioner and a key figure in the negotiations. His suggestion to the owners to scrap pay-for-performance and revenue sharing and his drafting of a nine-point plan for settlement may hasten the resolution of the conflict 'W — stands for Larry Walker, one of the few players who's reported to the Montreal Expos’ training camp. He can do so, not because he’s a Canadian, but because he's not on the team’s 40-man roster X — stands for Xerox, a company that stands to benefit from the discussions, with all those photocopied documents Y — stands for yesterday, which is when most anxious baseball fans wish the current dispute had been settled Z — stands for ZZZs, which is about all there will be to do if there’s a summer without baseball