Randy Haack Yes, there’s too involved. You have to much money. Rey Rowsell Certainly not. much money Once a year we should have time to reflect on our fellow man. Mary Stew spend too too mueh. Tracy Wallace Yes, sure. Nobody's ever happy with anything . . Yes, very much so. It makes you feel like you have to buy, buy, buy Smith everybody's got In a way. Some people make it too commercial. Not all people though. Sam Paluck I don't think so. Parents protest cut By CasNews Staff The Ootischenia Parents’ Group has written ‘to the Castlegar school board prot esting the loss of a full-time teacher at Ootischenia Ele mentary Sehool — but a solution may be imminent. A Dec. 14 letter from the parents says the school “of. fers a basic educational pro- gram at present,” and “the loss of a full-time teacher Board to review policies By CasNews Staff The Castlegar school board will meet Jan. 7 to discuss and review its policies and procedures as a result of a motion made by new trustee Kay Johnson and passed Monday Johnson said in an inter. view that the board now has no set procedure or policy regarding such things as whether information can be made public or not, and how meetings are run. The motion was made with a view to giving the public “more access to the board,” and possibly establishing a written set of procedures of policy, such as those outlined in the B.C. School Trustees’ Association sample booklet. Johnson said she and rec ently elected trustees Rick Pongracz and Gordon Turner “don't know what the ground rules are — we could sitdown and figure them out.” “If we have clear written policy the administration can do their jobs without imter ference ”" she said. Kk SEEY YOU DOIT... OUTDOORS! aie would be detrimental to our children.” Last month school super intendet Terry Wayling had suggested that a Grades 3-4 split class at the school be divided — with Grade 3 students put in a Grades 1-2 split class, and Grade 4 students put in a Grades 56 split class — to cover the loss of the teacher. The proposal was put “on hold” pending a school board decision, said Wayling. Ootischenia lost one tea cher who was needed to replace another teacher tak ing sick leave from Twin Rivers Elementary School. A substitute is now teaching at Ootischenia. Wayling said the substi tute will continue at Ooti schenia until the end of January In the meantime, Wayling said in an interview that meetings have taken place to investigate the possibility of having a teacher from Stan ley Humphries Secondary School — whose position will be reduced to part-time next year — fill in the Twin Rivers vacancy. This means would get teacher back “That's what we're con. sidering; that's what exploring,” Wayling said Ootischenia their full-time we're PAD GR Gah OR, HaG SR PaG ¥ WED. THURS. DEC. 19 | DEC. 20 9:30 a.m.| 9:30 a.m. to to 6:00 p.m./ 9:00 p.m. DEC. 21 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. FRI. PE OS PEWS, pre MERRY CHRISTMAS PAG SR, Had SR, Piaf SR, Ring GM, < 0S OS 0) 0 oD oo to 9:00 p.m. DEC. 21 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. OP 9 Ow MERRY CHRISTMAS gifts to the many members. The winners of The Pyt- hian Sisters raffle were an- nounced. First prize of a hand quilted comforter made by Ora Lightle was won by Olive Vaile of Salmo. 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He's the Friendly | set the styles, | don't A man CosNewsPhoto by Doug Horvey 7-4 VICTORY Islanders defeat Jets UNIONDALE N.Y. (AP) — New York Islanders, com ing back from the ebb of a disappointing season, have begun to put things back together. With John Tonelli produ cing the third three-goal game of his career, the Islanders ran off to a 7-2 lead and held on for a 7-4 National Hockey League victory Tues day night Winnipeg Jets over ‘We haven't been playing Well," ts put. it, mildly.” said Islanders coach Al Arbour. “But two good games against two good teams is impor- tant.” Arbour was referring to victories Saturday night at Philadelphia against the Fly ers, in which Tonelli had two goals as the Isles broke a four-game losing streak, and the triumph over the Jets. “We're coming along, but Washington Caps move to the top By the Canadian Press Perseverance and consis tency have moved Washing ton Capitals to the top of the class. With a 4-1 vietory Tuesday night over the Nordiques in Quebec, the Capitals moved into first place in the Patrick Division of the National Hockey League. “This is the first time we've been in first place since I've been coach,” said Wagtr ington’s Bryan Murray, who was appointed to lead the Capitals in 1981. “The goal we got at the very start of the game was an important factor and it made the Nor. diques change their app roach “We knew they come out strong because they lost to New Jersey in their last start.” The victory put the Cap itals one point ahead of Phil adelphia Flyers in the div ision. Mike Gartner, who along with Bob Carpenter had a goal and an assist, also was pleased with Washington's lead ahead of Philadelphia, which was idle Tuesday “We are making up for our poor start early in the season,” Gartner said. “It's never too early to take the lead in our division. “We're on a roll.” TOPS CANADIENS Elsewhere, it was: Boston Bruins 6, Montreal Canadiens 4; New York Islanders 7 Winnipeg Jets 4; and Los Angeles Kings 6, Calgary Flames 3. Quebee coach Michel Ber would geron said he knew it would be almost impossible to come back from a 4-0 deficit in the third period “You can't let a team like hington take a big and expect to be in game,” Bergeron said. made a few mistakes suddenly they had a 30 lead.” Washington, undefeated in its last six starts, has lost only once in the last 13 games. Gaetan Duchesne and Crag Lauglin also scored for the Capitals, while Anton Stastny got Quebec's goal at 12:11 of the third period. Pat Riggin played a solid game in goal for the Capitals, blocking 28 of 29 shots. Dan Bouchard faced 30 shots for ‘Bruins 6 Camadiens 4 In Montreal, Keith Crow der scored two goals and Charlie Simmer had one in a three-goal second period that helped Boston take a 4-2 lead into the final period. Mats Thelin, Steve Kasper and Barry Pederson also scored for the Bruins. Mark Hunter, Ryan Walter, Ron Flockhart and Chris Nilan scored for Montreal. Kings 6 Flames 3 In Calgary, Marcel Dionne and Dave Taylor scored two goals each and Carl Mokesak and Anders Hakansson one each for the Kings, who moved into a tie with Caigary for third place in the Smythe Division. Colin Patterson, Steve Tambellini and Lanny MeDonaid replied for the Flames. Darren Elliot stop- ped 41 shots for the Kings. we have some more impro- ving t& G0," WE have. ta improve on defence,” he said. Tonelli, whose third goal of the night and 2th of the season broke a 2-2 tie at 9:10 of the second period and put the Islanders ahead to stay, said: “My linemates are playing well and we're click ing. They fed me some great passes and I just had to put the puck in the net.” One of those linemates, Bob Bourne, added a goal, and his assist on Tonelli's first goal was his 500th NHL career point. “The Islanders played a pretty good hockey game tonight,” said Winnipeg coach Barty Long. “They've Wetely.. but we didn't convert when we had two-man advantages and (goalie Billy) Smith played a great game.” The Jets had their first two-man advantage early in the second period when the score was tied at 2-2 and again at the beginning of the third when they ttailed 5-2 Another thing that hurt the visitors was the loss of defenceman Randy Carlyle for an extended period after a run-in with New York's Duane Sutter. The score was 2-2 when Carlyle and Sutter went off at 7:31 of the second period Williams beats Sandman By CasNews Staff Mike Schmitt scored two second-period goals as Wil liams Moving downed San dman Inn 7 - 5 Sunday night in Castlegar Recreational Hockey League action In a game earlier in the day, Brian Sagriff scored the winning goal at 15:09 of the third period to give Valley Contractors a 4-3 edge over Carling O'Keefe. In Williams Moving’s vie tory, Sandman Inn led 32 after the first period on goals by Jim Frost, Mike Nevak shonoff and Kevin Kirby Nevakshonoff, Dan Walker, Perry Klit and John Obetkoff set up the goals. Scoring the goals for Wil liams Moving were Terry Sander and Peter Moroso. Assists went to Alan Ak selson, Mike Schmitt and Bob Keraift. In the second period, Wil liams Moving went ahead 6-4 with two goals by Schmitt and one each by Dean MacKinnon and Bob Kersiff. Assists came from Keraiff and Akseison with two each, and Mitch Quaedvlieg and Dave MacKinnon with one apiece. Kirby seored Sandman Inn's lone with help from Bill S ag tinier and Dan Martin. At the eight-minute mark in the final frame Williams Moving scored its and final goal. Sandman Inn could not make a comeback and scored only once before the end of the game, making the score 7.5 for Williams Moving. Scoring Williams Moving’s goal was Frank Costa, as sisted by Terry Sander and Dean MacKinnon. Obetkoff seored Sandman Inn's goal helped out by Van Yzerloo In Sunday afternoon's game Valley Contractors led 31 over Carling O'Keefe after the first period O'Keefe scored the lone goal in the second period, making it 3-2 for Valley Contractors In the third period both teams scored a goal Sagriff scored three goals for Valley Contractors, Kelly Keraiff scored once. Yuri Imaeff picked up two assists, Nick Voykin and Kelly Ker aiff got one each. Al Tompkins, John Horcoff and Mal Stelck scored for Carling O'Keefe. Horcoff, Je- rry Antignani and Dick Braun collected assists. In the last Recreational League game before the Christmas break, Williams Moving plays Castlegar Play boys at 10 p.m. Thursday hight at the Castlegar Com- fnunity Complex. seventh George Pringle Secondary School of Kelowna dominated the boys’ side of the Blue and Gold basketball tournamest held at Stanley Humphries Secondary School on the whekend. The Panthers had little difficulty winning their three games, and took home the championship trophy: Other participating boys teams were Summerland Rockets, Prince Charles (Creston) Comets and Stanley Humphries Rockers. The Comets placed: second, followed by the Rockers and the Rockets. elected as tournament all-stars were Dan Godlien (SHSS), Dave Betcher (Creston), Roger Van Nieuwkerk (Summerland); Mark Heatherington and Dean Van Pringle. The Rockers’ Andy Lefurgey received an honorable mention The Rockers took on George Pringle in their first tournament match-up. After trailing by one quarter time Stanley Humphries had a disastrous second quater, falling behind 50-27 A determined second half effort narrowed the margin slightly but the Panthers earned an 81-64 victory Rockers’ co-captain Dan Godlien led the team scoring with 21 points and Andy Lefurgey had 16. Lefurgey enjoyed an outstanding game, stealing the ball eight times and pulling five rebounds. Gord Babaeff added eight points and grabbed four rebounds On Saturday afternoon the Rockers met the Prince Charles Comets. Solid defensive play and a disciplined attack led toa 41-28 halftime lead for Stanley Humphries Unfortunately the Rockers could not maintain their excellent play in the second half. After holding a 56-49 three-quarter lead Stanley Humphries’ offensive output seized up solid Able to score only two points in the final ten minues of play, the Rockers lost 64.58. Guards Steve Merry and Kerry Uchida each ehipped in six points. Jeff Allen notched 11 points in his best offensive game of the season. Lefurgey with 12 and Godlien with 19 rounded out the scoring picture The final boys’ game of the tournament was easily the most exciting contest of the Summerland and Stanley minutes or regulation time and two five-minute overtime periods to establish who would place third and fourth in the tourney Godlien led the Rockers to a 79-76 win with a game high 27 points. Five of those had the crowd screaming in disbelief. With seconds remaining in regulation time Godlien hit a 19-foot shot to send the game into overtime. Godlien repeated the feat with two seconds remaining in the first overtime period, eanning a three point shot to tie the teams at 73 points each Godlien’s 27-point performance capped a fine weekend for the Grade 12 forward. Clinton Johnson, Uchida and Merry played fine two-way games. Johnson, a first-year senior, has improved with each game Stanley Humphries coach Kevin Morris said that overall the weekend;was a successful one for the team “The first half of the Creston game was the best basketball we've played this year and gives us an Brunt, both of George point at two-day event Humphries took 40 points ~ indication of what we are capable of, the Creston game also reinforced “Unfortunately, the fact that you have to basketball to win games.” Morris added that he considerable determination in bouncing back Kelowna wins title he said play 40 minutes of good showed from a felt. the players tough loss and defeating Summerland The Rockers’ next home game is Saturday when the annual grad game Humphries. The Rockettes host the grads at 6:30 p.m Rockers against the grads at 8 p.m by the J.L. Crowe wins girls’ tournament The girl's section of the Blue and Gold tournament turned out to be a battle between the traditional West Kootenay Stanley Humphries Roc kettes and J. L. Hawkettes On Friday rivals Crowe night the Hawkettes defeated Ross land 61-31 and the Rock ettes turned the trick Invermere 44-40 exciting battle day the situation was rev ersed with the Hawkettes dumping Invermere 46-40 and the Rockettes knock ing off Rossland 42.31 This situation set up the championship game be tween Stanley Humphries and J. L. Crowe on Sat urday night. This saw an incredible mance by the Hawkettes centre Joanne Nutini who scored 31 points to lead the Trail squad to the cham pionship 59-40. Earlier in the day Invermere had defeated Rossland 51.45 to take third place Three girls from the J L. Crowe team made the all-star team: Joanne Nu tini, Eileen Volpatti and Tammy Van Brunt. Inver mere was represented by Carmier Brooks and Laura Simonen from SHSS roun On Satur game perfor Dec. 22 takes place at Stanley followed KAREN outstanding player ded out the all-star team. Patty Plotnikoff was re. cognized for her solid play by being named an hon. orable mention all-star. The tournament's out standing player award went to the Rockettes’ Karen Wilson who played spectacularly in all three games. Rockettes very well as a throughout the whole tour. nament “Their great intensity and tougbness in all as pects of the game should be a factor in making this a very successful season,” said coach Jack Closkey Taking advantage of vet eran Karen Popoff's 13 poin ts, the Stanley Humphries Becondary School Junior Rockettes basketball team gpened their 1964-85 season with a close 31-26 vietory over J.L. Crowe Hawkettes im an exhibition game played last week. The pace was fast and aggressive and the score was close throughout Hampered by early foul trouble, the Rockettes led 11-7 at halftime but trailed 21-18 after three quarters. A combination of defensive pressure by rookies Kim Lees and Kerry Harshenin and hoops by Leigh Hall sheff, rookie Lori Kinakin, Lees and Popoff highlighted 4 final quarter comebagk which saw the Castlegar girls outpoint their opponents 13- 5. The team’s next game is at 5:30 p.m. tonight against Rossland in the SHSS gym.