May 25, 1991 coterie 5 Talk to us today. as CastlegarNews May 25, 1991 CLOSE-.UP LOOK PHONE 365-5210 Directory will eS Siem eo tev ere PHONE 365-5210 PLUMBING & HE N ‘Where You Belong CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Avenue Castlegar © 365-2151 Certified General Accountant Office 368-6471 F CASTLEGAR PLUMBING & HEATING ‘or all your plumbing needs and supplies © FIXTURI * PARTS * SERVICE CALL 365-3388 TRAIL CUSTOMERS ONLY CALL 364-0343 “Where do you want the decimal point?” CONCRETE EXCAVATING PLUMBING Residence 365-2339 - 1250 Bay Ave., Trail mm AIR CONDITIONIN ARROW LAKES AIR CONDITIONING jementary 24-HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE ag 365-2485 10% OFF REPAIR PARTS FOR SENIORS UCTIONS BUY or SELL Tyler Dumont, a Primary 3 student at Valley Vista I, gha pe at some les of san cnr att jects his class found on a recent field trip down to the Columbia River. Ng © RETAINING WALLS CONCRETE LTD. CONTRACTORS CONCRETE CONTRACTING 365-5063 AZELWOOD OLDINGS WEST K PIPELINE PITT ROAD CALL PLANT 693-2430 CASTLEGAR 365-2430 by AUCTIO * Bankruptcies USSELL ‘con UCTION ay HOME HARDWARE BUILDING IN MEMORY Wilf Richards Wilfred (Wilf) Richards of Castlegar died, Wednesday, May 22, 1991 at age 77. Mr. Richards was born Feb. 8, 1914 at Regina, Sask., and spend his earlier years at Regina and Lac la Hache, B.C. He moved to Rossland in the early 1940s and began working for Cominco. He served in the army overseas for six years and then returned to Cominco and to Rossland. He and his wife Palmeir celebrated 43 years of marriage this year In 1978, he retired from Cominco and moved to Castlegar. He was a past member of the Eagles Lodge and the Legion. He enjoyed gardening and reading. ; Mr. Richards is survived by his wife, Palmeir of Castlegar; son and daughter-in-law, Wayne and Betty Ann of Prince Rupert; son Gregory of Rossland; three daughters, Donna Haw of Terrace, Janice FOR ALL YOUR BUILDING REQUIREMENTS © FREE Take Offs DONE RIGHT FOR LESS * Renovations * Commercial * Residential DAVE: SOUTHERN INTERIOR SERVICES LTD. * LAND DEVELOPH % SUBDIVISION SERVICING CENTRE Contrdct Prices FREE ESTIMATES! "Solluters (604) 4921062 365-8073 urly Rates & Available! LARRY HANSON, Pres. R.R. 1, Site 31, Comp. 4 VIN 3H7 Castlegar, 604) 365-2398 BACKHOE SERVICE Landscaping and Excavation GERRY'S Pu AND HEATING DOCTOR * GAS CONTRACTING © REPAIRS & RENOVATIONS * COMMERCIAL, RESIDENTIAL, UMBING 24 Hour Emergency Service Ph. 399-4762 365-7137 FOOT CAR CASTLEGAR al FUNERAL CHAPEL Dedicated to kindly thoughtful service COMPLETE FUNERAL SERVICE Cremation, Traditional Burial and Pre-Arrangement Plan Available MODERN: REFLEXOLOGY AND FOOT CARE + J. 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Iding centre TRAFFIC CONTROL CHANGES To make Columbia Avenue safer and easier to drive, the City of Castlegar is adopting a ber of 9 Fe System i i i in both Gets more deep down soil than * Acentre third lane will allow drivers to make left turns in b Sere more deep down directions between 6th and 18th Streets. 3 © Main intersections will have a designated left-turn lane for f x U — SATISFACTION GUARANTEED — each direction of travel. 7 Why Not Call Us Today! © There will be no parking between 6th and 20th Streets, excep vine pts dog hey dr Bin se-nee between Down- “STEEL A Better Way to Bulld your Authorized Garco Builder Midwest Construction 365-84 Box 1633. 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OPTOMETRIST 1012 - 4th St., Castlegar PHONE 365-3361 Tuesday to Friday 9 a.m, to 4:30 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. to 12 Noon VERTICALS * PLEATED SHADES HORIZONTALS SHSS sends five to By ED MILLS Staff Writer For the second straight year, Wendy Closkey and Amy Rogers will be packing their bags and heading to V for the Provincial High RYAN VATIKIN A Grade 9 student at Stanley Humphries secondary school, Vatkin was selected at trials in Cranbrook earlier this month as one of two Kootenay players to attend Basketball B.C.’s Supercamp next month at the University of Victoria. FASTBALL The $1,000 championship final in the 12-team Paul (P.K.) Kinakin Memorial fast- ball tournament is set for 4:45 p.m. at Kinnaird Park Sunday. Besides a team from Missoula, Mont., the tourney also features eight local teams and has total prize money of FOOTBALL The B.C. Lions placed quar- terback Major Harris on waivers Tuesday but by Thur- sday no other CFL team had picked him up, so he remains the property of the Lions, Harris, who was a backup to Doug Flutie in his rookie season last year, played in four games for the Lions. TRANSACTIONS im jan, 40, became the youngest manager in the majors Wednesday when he was hired by the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs fired Don Zimmer on Tuesday after star- ting the season with 18 wins and 20 losses. The move came the same day the Kansas City Royals fired manager John Wathan and: a day before the Baltimore Orioles fired Frank Robinson. NHL “The National Hockey League, which recently filed a libel and slander suit against former NHL great Bobby Orr, has added Gordie Howe’s name to the suit. The league, distressed by criticism of its Pension plan, also named the Toronto Sun newspaper and former Toronto Maple Leaf and New York Islander player Billy Harris in the suit filed May 15. BASEBALL Fernando Valenzuela began his comeback Wednesday night with the California Angels’ farm team at Palm Springs, giving up four hits, three walks and one unearned run in four innings. Valenzuela, 30, won both the Cy Young and the rookie of the year awards when he broke in with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1981. QUOTE NOTE on erry'’s full o: holes’” — David Meggs, inven- tor of the Megg-Net system of* mooring the nets now used in the National Hockey League and in arenas across the coun- try. Meggs said critics of the system, like Cherry, ignore its itive ts. GOLF an Course professional Denny McArthur sank a hole-in-one ‘on the 17th hole at the course May School Track and Field champion- ships at Swangard Stadium next weekend. And this time they’ll have a little more company. Closkey, Rogers and three other Stanley Humphries secondary school athletes qualified for the Provincials at the regional championships in Cranbrook last Wednesday. Last year, it was those two and Aimie Chernoff who were the school’s only qualifiers, This time, high jumper Rory Perrier, Rhonda Dawes in discuss and shot put and Alex Fasthuber in shot will also make the trip as a result of their placings at regionals. Closkey, who won a bronze medal in racewalking at the Provincials last year, qualified with a second place in the 1,500-metre racewalk at regionals, Her time of eight minutes, 55 seconds at the regionals — where the top two athletes qualify for provin- cials — was well below her best of 8:23. The winning time at regionals was 8:38, Rogers was second in 400-metre hurdles while Dawes and Fasthuber were also second in their events. Perrier posted SHSS’s only first at regionals in high jump, and she did it despite suffering an early injury at the meet. “She pulled her quad (thigh muscle) in the first try in the triple jump, but she really sucked it up and did well in the high jump,’’ said SHSS co-coach John Ritchie. With ' five of his nine athletes qualifying for provincials, Ritchie said he had nothing to complain about. “I'm happy with their Per- formance overall. We're still a very young team. Only one Grade 12 qualified (for the regionals), that’s Alex,”” said Ritchie, who shares coaching duties on the team with Colette Pilloud. Pilloud didn’t attend the meet because the school couldn't afford to send both coaches. As for provincials, Ritchie doesn’t have his heart set on medals, but he is looking for individual im- provincials Provement from each of his athletes. “It'd be nice to get, of those five, two or three of them in the top eight in the province. Hopefully, with a week's worth of practice before we go down, we can perfect some things, bring times down and distan- ces up,”” he said. One person who does have her heart set on winning medals is Closkey, but she doesn’t want a bronze this time: “I'd like to do better. I’m just not sure I can though. I guess we'll see,” she said. é ‘ AIR KOOZNETSOFF school student Dan Kooznets that the court was in t! ‘off proves you don't have to be ir as he and his friends played @ pick-up game during lunch @ elementary rch td Ip street from SHSS and the baskets were only eight feet off the ground. ool across the CosNews photo by Ed Mills Sharks hope they won't be eaten in 1st NHL year Jack Ferreira didn’t sign the cheque, and he isn’t paying the bills. But he says $22 million should get you into any club, and the city of San Jose has just joined a very ex- clusive one. Ferreira is a short, stubby hockey man from the United States East Coast who now is thé brains behind the National Hockey League’s 22nd franchise, based on the West Coast He sports a San Jose Sharks pin on his lapel to prove it. Earlier this week, the Sharks were Officially welcomed into the NHL ly when the team owner, George Gund, signed a $22-million cheque, the final instalment. of- a. $50-million membership fee. They'll begin play this fall. Last year at this time, Ferreira was general manager of the Minnesota North Stars, a sad-sack operation owned for years by Gund and his brother, Gordon. The family threatened to fold the team, but ‘Agreed to sell in exchange for a fran- chise in San Jose. F When the Gunds left, Ferreira went with them. Now, of course, Ferreira’s old team is in the Stanley Cup final. SATURDAY FEATURE Grudge match was no match By CasNews Staff The expected grudge match Wed- nesday between the top two teams in the Castlegar Men’s Fastball League didn’t materialize. The Nelson Athletics, who were looking to topple Banjo’s Pub from the ranks of the undefeated, didn’t even come close at Playmor Park in South Slocan. Banjo’s scored four runs in the fir- St inning then built a 9-2 lead before hanging on for a 9-7 win to remain undefeated and on top of the league with a 7-0 record. Nelson made it close with.a six- run, seventh-inning rally but the score flattered the team’s flat per- formance. Banjo’s Player-coach Terry Taranoff got his first win on the mound while Nelson's Tony Kabatoff fell to 2-2. Banjo’s ace Eli Soukeroff came in to retire the last two batters in the seventh to get the save and get Taranoff, who had pitched a solid game to that point, off the hook. Clay Liber of Banjo’s went 3-for-4 including a lead-off homer in the fir- St inning, a double and a single Steve Kanigan of Banjo’s reached base all four times at the plate with two singles, a double and a walk. Kabatoff hit the seventh-inning, three-run homer that chased Taranoff from the mound. The game had all the makings of a playoff-type encounter as Nelson beat Banjo’s at a tournament last weekend. But neither team was especially sharp in the field or at the plate which was reflected in an unusually high-scoring game. The Athletics remain in second place in the league with a 4-2 record, In other games last week, the ex- pansion Castlegar Merchants moved into third place Thursday night with CASTLEGAR MEN'S FASTBALL LEAGUE we Banjo’s Pub Nelson A's Castlegar Merchants Labetts Salmo Hotel TOP PITCHERS Eli Soukeroff, Banjos Bergeron, Bonjo's T. Kabotot, Nelson INDIVIDUAL LEADERS (Minimum 11 at bats) L. Stoushnow, Banjo’s J. Nazorotf, Banjo’s 8. Marsh, Nelson G. Bergeron, Cast. Mer J. Obetkoff, Salmo Hotel E. Soukeroff, Bonjo's A. Streloetf, Cast. Mer .D. Horning, Cast. Mer a S-1 win over the hapless Salmo Hotel. The Merchants scored four runs in the second inning and another in the third as they pounded out 12 hits. Salmo could manage only three hits against winning pitcher Greg Bergeron John Obetkoff. took the loss for Salmo, which has yet to get a win in seven starts this season and sits at the bottom of the league. Salmo, a team decimated by players leaving and a lack of starting Pitching, is rumored to be con- sidering folding The Merchants’ win dropped idle Labatt’s into fourth place in the league with a 2-3 record Blacks passed Willie Stargell and Bill Robinson have a dream. So do Reggie Jackson and Don Baylor. They all would like to be major-league managers. Al Campanis’s infamous remarks in April 1987 about the qualifications of blacks to manage made minorities in baseball a hot issue. Hank Aaron wonders why it’s not so hot, anymore. Since the start of the season, four gers have been fired. So far, The parting of the Gunds and North Stars, under new owner Norm Green, wasn’t an amicable one. Green didn’t like a part of the deal he inherited that will see the Sharks pluck a number of players from the Minnesota roster next Thursday Prior to the actual expansion draft at which Ferreira will have access to Players from the league’s remaining franchises. Some concessions have apparently been made, but both sides are remaining mum on the matter Ferreira will also have the No. 2 Pick in the NHL entry draft of junior-age players later this summer. San Jose will become the sixth team in the Smythe Division, joining the Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames and Winnipeg Jets. The Sharks will actually begin play just outside San Francisco, in the an- cient Cow Palace, until a new facility is completed in San Jose, about 75 kilometres away. Television and radio contracts are almost complete, but Ferreira still must sell the team to the community and increase the season ticket base. There’s an ironic twist to the current squabble between the Sharks and North Stars, in that the Golden Seals began play in 1967-68 in the Cow Palace before moving to nearby Oakland. The team remained there until 1976-77 when it was transferred to Cleveland and was renamed the Barons. Two seasons later, the Barons and the struggling North Stars merged The success of the Los ‘Angeles Kings, ‘sparked by the addition of Wayne Gretzky in 1988, has made hockey a front-and-centre sport in California, Ferreira says. He hopes to open next season with & roster that relies on; good goalten- ding, strong defence and team speed. Starting from scratch, Ferreira’s Job sounds imposing. But he says it hasn't been too much to handle — yet. “But then | haven’t experienced a four- or five-game losing streak yet none has been replaced by a minority. The latest opening was created by the firing Thursday of Baltimore Orioles manager Frank Robinson, who became the first black to manage in the majors in 1975 with Cleveland. Baltimore first-base coach Johnny Oates was named as Robin- son's replacement Whenever the subject of black managers is brought up, Bill Robin- son is near the top of the candidates list. So is Stargell, Jackson, Baylor and McRae. And for Robinson, that’s the most important thing. “Everytime a manager is fired, | don't expect a minority to get the job — that would be unrealistic,’’ said Bill Robinson, former coach for the New York Mets and. ‘currently a broadcaster for ESPN. “No one talks about it anymore,” Aaron said last week after a meeting with commissioner Fay Vincent. ““But it’s still the same situation, “Two black managers (Cito Gaston in Toronto and Frank Robinson), no black general over again managers, hardly any doctors or lawyers afffiliated with baseball on the major- and minor-league levels, and very few attempts to use black- owned companies for various ‘ser- vices.” Bill Robinson is a little more op- timistic. “What I hope is happening is that @ great pool of minority candidates will be developed and be con- ."* he said I'd like to be one of CITO GASTON