as __ Castlegar News _rebwvor sas On The Street. . . QUESTION: Given the chance, would travel by trai tuigha of die soar cauiine — Pay teachers first This is the most say Leona Pereversoff Yes. There's accidents with air. doesn't scare me. Mike Wennechuk Yes. It gives you a chance to see the country. I have confidence (in Alex Josafatow cars. Fred Markin it anymore. the trains). The accidents just hap- pened. Sure. It's comfortable. You get to planes, there's car accidents. It see scenery in the observation doesn't make any difference. It \ No, not any more. I just don’t like Matt Rohn Yes. It wouldn't seare me a bit. I used to travel was younger. I like it Jot by train when | Yes I would. I'm looking forward to a train trip. It's a way to see Canada. Accidents happen every where. Shields in Nelson Thursday BCGEU President John Shields and the union's mas. ter bargaining committee will visit Nelson Thursday to consult with government em ployees before deciding whe ther te return to the bar. gaining table or to first ask members for a strike vote. The BCGEU has some 1,400 members in the Nelson region which includes Grand Forks, Rossland, Trail, Castlegar and Nakusp. Neogitations between the union and the government for a new contract for the BCGEU's 34,009 member publie service bargaining unit were suspended by the union Feb. 5, after Premier Bill Bennett during a tele vised address said Finance Minister Hugh Curtis would shortly be announcing changes to the Compensation Stabilization Program. The CSP, which was in troduced in 1982, controls public sector wage increases and sets guidelines for meas uring productivity gains. Shields has asked both Bennett and Curtis for meet ings to discuss the changes but to date, neither have been available for a meeting. “Union stewards who have been canvassing government worksites throughout the province during the past two weeks are telling us that our members with few excep tions are angry at the con cession demands government negotiators haye put on the bargaining table,” Shields said in a prepared release. The government is seeking ‘woncessions, including a two- year wage freeze with a two per cent increase in the final year of a three-year agree ment, a freeze on increments in the first year of the agree ment, an increase in hours of work of 62.5 hours per year with no increase in annual salary, a 50 per cent reduc. tion in sick pay, and reduc. tions in other benefits, says the release. “Our members have a right to be angry,” says Shields. “The government is trying to take back everything we have fought for in negotia tions going back to 1973.” Shields and members of the union's bargaining team will meet with government workers who are BCGEU members Thursday night at the Nelson Rod and Gun Club. Spouses of members are also invited to attend. Castleaird Plaza Open Monday-Saturday PLAZA CLEANERS DRAPES Cleaned, pressed & pleated = 20% or til Sot.. Feb. 22 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 145 Ba ROUTE CARRIERS . . . and in these days you need those ex- tra dollars for fun and school. 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Quietly — somewhat to his chagrin — he's been putting together an exceptional year, one he hopes has built a road to World Cup stardom “T've learned this year, more than any other year the progression, how important it is,” Read said Tuesday, following his easy victory in the national giant slalom championship at Red Mountain. “This is a much more precision skill than say your downhill. I don’t want to cut downhill down because it takes a lot of guts . . . but technical events take a lot of skiing ability, a lot of training, a lot of time.” Thrown onto the World Cup circuit five years ago as a wide-eyed youngster, Read's ego and confidence were briefly battered by finishes 10 and 12 seconds behind the winner. Without the proper coaching, equipment and training, Canadians were lost in the technical wilderness. PAYING OFF But the national program has been overhauled, with more emphasis on building confidence. For skiers like Read and slalom specialists Mike Tommy of Wakefield, Que., and Alain Villiard of Ste. Adele, Que., it’s starting to pay off. “It's very much a step-by-step design, leading over a number of years,” said national head coach Glen Wurtele. “There was a little too much too soon before. You don't go up against the best in the world.” guys who are five and six years older, until you're ready. It can be discouraging and affect your approach mentally.” Read and other national team members have been concentrating on the Nor-Am circuit, which Canada dominated, and Europa Cup and FIS (level B) races in Europe. Tommy won three of four Nor-Am slaloms — Villiard took the other -- and the two Quebec skiers recently scored some top-10 results in Europe. “Other coaches and other teams are constantly remarking about the strength Canadians are showing on GIANT SLALOM . . . Skier curves around gate on Red Mountain course Tuesday booty slalom championship. Calgary's Jim Reid topped more than 100 skiers to win title. Read wins GS title national giant CaatewsPhote by Chery! Colderbonk the Europa Cup,” said Wurtele. Read won all four Nor-Am giant slaloms this winter and three FIS races, events that included some strong Europeans. Late last month, just before a series of Europa Cup and World Cup races in Europe, he injured his back and had to return home. He returned to skiing last weekend, finishing second in the U.S. national giant slalom to Tiger Shaw, a consistent top-20 World Cup finisher. _ Read blistered the field in Tuesday's giant slaiom, finishing with a combined time of 2:02.06, more than two seconds ahead of Villiard, who finished in 12. Greg Grossmann of Ancaster, Ont., was third in 2:04.30. “I thought it would be a little bit closer, but I just got a lot more up for the second run,” said Read, who was second in the U.S. national giant slalom last weekend after being sidelined for two weeks with a back injury “I was a little bit radical and all over the place, so I wasn't sure but obviously it was all right,” added Read. “T thi 'm skiing a little different than I have been all year because just subconsciously I'm protecting my back. My upper body's rotating and I'm getting into a bit more trouble than usual.” Villiard said he was surprised to be so far behind Read. “Normally I'm closer than that, but I didn’t ski that great on the last pitch,” said Villiard. “I lost quite a bit there because I was losing my outside ski.” Grossmann, who was second to Read last year, said he too had problems on the pitch and didn't carry enough speed into the flats. “I didn't expect the bottom of the pitch to be so tight. I guess Jim didn't make the mistakes Alain and I did.” Both Villiard and Grossmann complained of being tired, having been on the road for more than six weeks. “Jim had those two weeks off while we were still in Europe,” said Villiard. “He had time to rest and prepare. We're pretty tired.” Rob Crossan of Barrie, Ont., who was second after the first run, wound up fourth overall in 2:04.97. Robert Trottier of Brossard, Que., was fifth in 2:05.18 and Derek Trussler of Rossland, winner of Monday's super giant slalom, was sixth in 2:05.60. Ralph Socher of Fernie had the second fastest time in the second run — 1:05.09 — but wound up eighth in 2:05.90. Rebels drop playoff game to Bruins Rebels. Assisting him was Kelly Hurd and Rod Horkoff. This was the only goal of the period for the Rebels as the ‘coming out and playing hockey in the second period the way they should have in the first period. tl tacit freak second period to have his nose relocated after he received a stick to the face. ‘ league play ended in a coaches’ nightmare. The Rebels, with a two-goal deficit, headed to the sin bin instead of lighting up the . ‘The Rebels received 18 minutes in penalties plus a game misconduct. The Bruins were assessed six minutes in penalties — four of these being Iti took advantage of the powerplay with a goal from captain Holtz. For the second overtime game of the semi-finals the Rebels had to enter the sudden death overtime period With the Bruins on the powerplay for 15 minutes, they managed to top one more goal by Chris Bowen. This goal was scored at the 9:56 mark and was the only goal of the period. This ended the game with a 6-3 win for the Border Brui — The sixth game of the series goes to Grand Forks on Thursday night. If a seventh game is required, it will be held at the Community Complex on Friday night at 8:30 p-m. The winner of this series takes on the Trail Jr. Smoke Eaters Saturday night at the Cominco Arena. This series features seven games in 10 days. Meanwhile in the Rebels’ fourth game Sunday night the Rebels defeated the Border Bruins 4-3 in overtime at the Community Complex. A penalty infested game had referee Mas Fujibayashi issue 45 minutes in penalties plus a game misconduct to the Rebels while the Border Bruinss received 18 minutes in penalties. The Bruins playing 25 minutes on the powerplay with 4:01 in the major penalty. Terhune, showing his returned wearing a face mask. The foursome of Terhune, Obetkoff, Martini and Taylor played a major roll of killing the penalty expired, Vince Burroughs of the Border Bruins received a two-minute minor for holding. Coach Joe Hanik at this time sent out his powerplay unit. The Rebels feeling relieved at their chance to show their powerplay skills, peppered goaltender Mike MeNelly. Just as Burroughs stepped on the ice, Ken Hoodikoff of the Rebels set the arena in an uproar scoring the winning goal. The goal was scored at the 3:53 mark of the overtime period. Assisting him on this goal was Taylor and Martini. The sounds of drums, horns and sirens blasted as the teams left the ice. Curling teams victorious Selkirk College's two inter. collegiate curling teams cap tured provincial honors after the second of two Totem Conference tournaments in Kamloops on the weekend. The college's men's team won the Totem Conference championships for the third year in a row and the mixed team also won the champion ships, giving the college two berths in the Canadian’cham- pionships. The national finals will be hosted by Cariboo College at the Kamloops Curling Club March 19-22. Colleges from across Canada will compete in this tournament. The men's rink consists of third Roger May and lead Mike Miller of Nelson who are in the national bonspiel for the second straight year after placing fourth in 1985. Skip John Harper and second Steve Greenwood of Trail complete the team. The mixed rink is skipped by Nelson's Rick Housworth. Third is Chris Lockhard of Grand Forks, second is Dar. ryl Hurley of Nelson and Tracy Postnikoff of Thrums is lead. Both rinks took part in the second Totem Conference bonspiel in Kamloops. The first bonspiel was held in Castlegar last month. In Kamloops, the men's team, 6-0 after the first round robin competition, went un beaten in five games in the second round en route to the title. Royal Roads Military College of Victoria dropped out of the final bonspiel, re sulting in one fewer game played The mixed rink, also 6-0 going in, lost its first two games of the season but managed three victories to wind up 9-2 overall. L.A. KINGS Streak ends By NEIL STEVENS The Canadian Press Los Angeles Kings just missed Quebec's winter car. nival but they got into a fes- tive mood anyway. The Kings brought a six game losing streak from Cal ifornia as the annual carnival came to an end Sunday but won 3-2 in overtime Monday over Montreal Canadiens and 5-4 Tuesday night over Que. bee Nordiques. “These games in la belle province have shot us right back into the playoff pic- ture,” said right winger Phil Sykes who scored two goals, ineluding the winner, while his team was short-handed to help the Kings vault into third place in the Smythe Division. Jay Wells, Joe Paterson and Dave Taylor also scored for Los Angeles. Dale Hun ter, with two goals, John Anderson and Steve Patrick scored for the Nordiques, who blew a chance to widen their one-point lead over Montreal atop the Adams Division. Elsewhere, it was Calgary Flames 7 Boston Bruins 4, Hartford Whalers 5 Van couver Canucks 4, Washing ton Capitals 5 New York Is landers 4, and St. Louis Blues 5 Detroit Red Wings 0. FLAMES 7 BRUINS 4 Dan Quinn's two power. play goals gave Calgary the edge. Colin Patterson, Gary Suter, Steve Konroyd, Hak- an Loob and Joe Mullen had Calgary's other goals. Mike Milbury, Randy Burridge, Keith Crowder and Ken Linseman replied for visiting Boston. CAPITALS 5 ISLANDERS 4 Craig Laughlin opened the scoring for Washington but New York took a 3-1 lead on goals by Mikko Makela, Paul Boutilier and Duane Sutter. The Capitals rallied on goals by Bobby Carpenter, Al Haworth and Dave Christian before the second period ended and went ahead 5-3 on Bengt Gustafsson’s goal at 11:53 of the third. Bryan Trottier’s 30th goal at 17:48 made for a hectic finish. BLUES 5 WINGS 0 In St. Louis, goaltender Rick Wamsley made 26 saves for his sixth career shutout. Oliver rink advances VANCOUVER (CP) Jodi Sutton of Oliver won the British Columbia junior wom. en's curling championship Sunday to advance to the Canadian championship March 15-21 in Noranda, Que. Sutton finished the nine game round-robin with a 7.2 record ahead of Colleen Han nah of Haney, Tami Mulock of Prince George and Mel issa Soligo of Trail — all with 6-3 records. Trussler a winner on home course ROSSLAND (CP) — Derek Trussler made it two-for-two for hometown boys Monday as he won the Canadian men's super giant slalom championship on a demand ing course. Trussler, 22, swept down the Granite Mountain course im one minute, 22.85 seconds to beat national team rookie Robbie Bosinger of Banff, Alta., by seven 10ths of a second. Bosinger was timed in 1:23.54. Chris Kent of Cal gary was third in 1:23.76 and Don Stévens of Rossland, who won the national down. hill tithe Friday, was fourth in 1:24.11. The curly-haired Trussler, who tied for fifth in last year's championship, said the win was the biggest of his career, but not totally unex “I had hoped to do pretty well,” he said. “I was psyched up. I was pretty sure I was going to have a good day to day.” His day was nearly spoiled, however, by Jim Read of Calgary, Canada's best giant slalom skier. Read matched interval times with Trussler but missed a gate about 10 gates from. the finish line “It was really fast off the pitch... and I wasn't ready for it,” said Read, who only arrived in Rossland about 90 minutes before the race after competing on the weekend at the United States national championships. “I couldn't make the next gate after it. “I was really psyched out because I hadn't made any free runs.” Read wasn't the only casu- alty. More than 40 in the 112-man field either didn't finish or were disqualified. Several national team downhillers said they liked the course, but national giant slalom coach Piotr Jelen said the course was too difficult and needed more turns. Trussier, who considers himself a strong technical skier, said he felt there was a little more turny, was a little better for me.” Kent, who has through a disappointing World Cup downhill season, said he didn’t have the course figured out before he left the start gate. “I just wasn't letting my skis run as much as I should have,” said Kent, who was the first skier down the course. “I made some pretty bad mistakes.” Trussier said he isn't sur- prised that he and Stevens have done well here. “I think it has a lot to do with the fact we're home and we're relaxed,” he said. “We know the hill and we can just go out and do it.” Nelson's Darren Shields and Lawrence Facchina placed in the 40s while Mike Sumanik did not finish.