March 8, 1989 SWEEPING TO VICTORY .. "A" event and Anderson Insurance trophy winners from left to right are skip Susan Moran, Linda Acton, Fern Acton, and Beth Williams. Ladies busy on ice It was a busy time in the curling rnk last weekend as the Castlegar Ladies Curling club put on their annual Bar Bee bonspiel. Rinks from Trail, Rossland, Kaslo, Fruitvale and Castlegar played in four events, for over $2,000 in prizes, were awarded to the winners in each event and_ trophies The competition was keen and many games were very close ‘The event and the Anderson trophy went to the Linda Acton rink of Trail skipped by Susan Moran. They defeated the Florence Frew rink, also from Trail. Third in this event was the Marg van Yzerloo rink and in fourth place was Ruth Trickey and her crew, both from Castlegar In the “B’* event, the Super Valu trophy was captured by Eileen Gallamore of Trail over Belle Gray of Castlegar. Third and went to rinks skipped by Joan Com many of Castlegar and Ann Martin of Trail fourth places Marie Prokop’s rink of Castlegar came out omtop in the ““C*-event and won The Palm Dairies trophy, while in second place was the Marnie Devlin foursome from Fruitvale. Runners-up here were the Audrey Moore rink from Castlegar and the Rosemarie Payette rink from Trail The “D" event is also known as the “‘sweathog’’ event since the finalists spend most of Sunday on the ice playing down to the last two ‘rinks Winner here and’ recipient of the Castlegar Realty trophy was the Michelle Feeney rink of Castlegar, by defeating the Diony MeArthur rink, also from Castlegar. Third place went To the Sharron Waldie rink, also of Castlegar, and in fourth spot was the Elsie Shorthouse rink from Trail Ueberroth turns majors into money-maker NEW YORK (AP) baseball, a money-loser Ueberroth became made $209 million during his four-year term and is close to becoming a billion dollar industry The league’s 26 clubs posted their third consecutive profitable year in 1988, making a combined $100 million, according to a report prepared by the commissioner’ office The report, based on_ preliminary figures, will be presented to own Thursday and Friday in Fort Lauder dale, Fla. Details, tained last week by: The Press Major league when Peter commissioner, however, .were ob: Associated The clubs grossed a record $977 million druing 1988, according to the figures, an increase of 7.4 per cent from 1987. They had $877 million in operating expenses, an 8.7 A record $322 million was spent per cent in crease on player cording to a management study done last autumn salaries, a In 1984, took office, revenues of $625 million, consecutive year of losses, the year before Ueberroth teams lost $40 million on their 11th according to management figures. In 1985 they lost $6 million and in 1986 they made $12 million. In 1987 $103 profit off they made a record million revenues of Jabbar leads Lakers By The Canadian Press Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s finale wasa hit Tuesday night Abdul-Jabbar, taking his road show into each NBA city for a last appearan ce before retiring after 20 years, hit a trademark sky hook with 9:12 left in the fourth period to give Los Angeles the lead for good and the Lakers went on to a 106-97 victory over the Atlanta Hawks Atlanta Worthy and Johnson shared the Teammates, James Magic spotlight with the 41-year-old centre. Worthy scored 24 points and Johnson added 2t points, 15 assists and nine rebounds. Abdul-Jabbar, honored during halftime, finished with 16 pointsyin cluding the sky hook that gave the Lakers an 86-85 lead and keyed an 8-0 run In other NBA games ‘Tuesday, it Seattle SuperSonics 110, Indiana Pacers 92; New York Knicks 124, Phoenix Suns 119; Philadelphia 76ers 90, Chciago Bulls 88; Portland Trail San Antonio Spurs 103; Bucks 121, Cleveland Cavaliers 105, Kings 95; and Golden A. 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As president of the organizing committee for the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, he took a project expected to lose millions and generated a profit of $230 million. success in However,—the Baseball Players Association claims that much of the baseball generated in the last four years resulted from a conspiracy by teams to hold down player salaries Arbitrators found owners guilty of collusion following the 1985 and 1986 seasons and a case covering the 1987 agents is pending. Union economists said the conspiracy proven in the first two casés cost players as much as $90 million not yet been determined MajorLeague profits free Damages have Pee Wees win opener Castlegar Pee Wee Reps came from behind to post a 4-3 win over Nelson in the first game of the West Kootenay finals on Sunday at the Complex. Castlegar had advanced to the finals by beating Trail in two straight games Nelson had advanced to the finals by winning the best two out of three games against Beaver Vall Castlegar opened the scoring at 18:32 when Mike Hunter Nelson player at the centre line, througtrtwo other Nelson players upto their blue line, shot and put it in the net from outside the blue line. This play was assisted by Pat Biln and Mark Carlson. Nelson scored at 7:04 to end the first peridd ina tie Nelson scored two more goals in.the second period to takea 3-1 lead In the third period, Castlegar came on strong. At 18:59, Mike Hunter scored on a power play assisted by Fred Gienger and Rick Fauth. At 16:05, Mike Hunter tied it up assisted by Biln and Ken Skibinski. Vince-Antignani put in the winning goal at 10:04 on a pass from Mike Hunter Marcel Dusseault made several saves to keep Castlegar in the game until the offence started to click Castlegar _ meets second game in the series today at 6:30 in Neon deked a wove Nelson for the Complete Electronic sign and D advertising material annual reports catalogues portfolios manuals Saints finish in Kokanee The Selkirk College Saints men’s basketball team wrapped up their season over the past weekend: with a second-place finish in the Seventh An- nual. Kokanee Invitational Tour- three-day tourney ‘including local men’s all star squads from Nelson, Castlegar and Trail along with Bon- ner’s Ferry of Idaho and East Kootenay Community College from Cranbrook Bonner’s Ferry won four straight games without really being challenged to take top honors. Bonner's defeated Selkirk in the final 94-66, and the Sain- ts were the only team able to hold them under 100 points. To reach the final the Saints played some of their best basketball of the season defeating Nelson 73-72, East Kootenay College 63-60 and Castlegar 78-60 before losing to the Idaho entry Selkirk point guard and team cap- tain Steve Butchart was selected the most valuable player of the nament for his outstanding play at both ends of the court. Tim Jensen, also of Selkirk, was named best defen- sive player for his work on the offen- sive and defensive boards. The Saints also received strong individual per- formances from centre Greg Larson tour STEVE BUTCHART + most valuable who netted 23 points against East Kootenay College and sharp shooter Bill Logan of Rossland. Cam Lefargey played consistently tournament adding a strong work ethic, coach Barry DePaoli said, ad ding the success of the Saints can be at tributed to fine team effort. TIM JENSEN . best defence Clinton Johnson, Gordon Babaeff, Lach Klaus, and Reg Trapp all con. tributed to Selkirk’s solid performan ce, he said. The Saints finished the 1988-89 basketball with -a respectable record of 10 wins and six losses in ‘exhibition and tournament play. throughout the season COMMUNITY NEWS March 8, 1989 Castlégar News 83 CICCARELLI GOES TO CAPS By The Canadian Press Dino Ciccarelli and Mike Gartner, two of the NHL's more potent. right wingers,| traded places Tuesday On the final day of league trading this season, the Minnesota North Stars sent Ciccarelli, their all-time leading scorer who has expressed unhappiness with the club, and defenceman Bob Rouse to the Washington Capitals for Gartner and defenceman Larry Murphy “I’m going to a contender; I'm excited about it,” said the 29-year-old Ciccarelli. : Minnesota also acquired defenceman Reed Larson from the New York Islanders and announced the retirement of centre Dennis Maruk In other deals, the Hartford Whalers traded left winger Torrie Robertson to the Detroit Red Wings for defenceman Jim Pavese; the Buffalo Sabres sent defen ceman-left winter Linday Ruff to the New York Rangers for a fifth-round draft choice in 1990; the Chicago Blackhawks obtained left winger Greg Gilbert from the Islanders; the New Jersey Devils sent centre Tim Lenar- don to the Vancouver Canucks for-forward Claude Vilgrain; and the Canucks sent forward John LeBlane and a fifth-round 1989 draft choice to the Edmonton Oilers for left winger Greg Adams. and centre Doug Smith Also, Edmonton traded defenceman Jim Weimer and right winger Alan May to the Los Angeles Kings for centre Brian Wilks and defenceman John English. The Kings then acquired defencemap_Patrick Mayer-from- the Pittsburgh Pengins for centre Tim Tookey In his ninth NHL season=-att-ir Minnesota, Cic- carelli, a native of Sarnia, Ont., has 332 goals (32 this season) and 657 points (59). He was late reporting to training camp last September and asked to be traded before agreeing in October to a reported four-year, $1.4-million contract that made him the highest-paid player in North Stars’ history He pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent exposure for an incident outside his Eden Prairie home in 1987. In August, he was convicted of assault, sentenced to a day in jail and fined $1,000 for a stick-swinging incident in a game at Toronto. No other player had ever received a jail term for an on-ice infraction Gartner, 29, began his pro career in the defunct World Hockey Association. He has been with the Capitals since 1979-80 and leads them in every offensive category with 397 goals, 392 assists and 789 points. In 56 games this year, Gartner has 26 goals, 29 assists and 55 points. He missed 11 games with an injury tqhis right knee Gartner has appeared in three all-star games. He also leads the Capitals in all-time playoff scoring. Publishing a7 sendorreceve ov confident pooh service ‘Open Monday 5 Mid-Week Wrap-up HOCKEY CAMPBELL CONFERENCE Norris Division Pd wee East Division t 8 us de BASEBALL Exhibition Standings "AN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL 3 249 260 Son Francisco Giants agree to terms with pitcher pe quord Johnoy announce resignation of ive line ond specrals. team Public FAX Service CURLING SASKATOON (cP) tor cighth-round pley Twos world-wide fox business or penionat Ontorie *ricion Alberto cbove Wests Dupt Slore Q Nova Scone Strong & Associates Manitobo Suite 205 » 12150 St Newloundlond Box 3850 Costiegar, BC VIN 3W3. NO: FAX (CO) 3652124 7 the Chicoge Black Hawke for future cor » Oh Cs bana Kepner neta hein 4 Ruth frvehas s, Patricia Gordon, Deni Missing is Louise Yaseniuk Bjorgan, Laura De LaFor Aldina from Selkirk College's practical nursin, row, left) Bryan Morrow, Karen Darnell, Secies avmsare: Devise Fest athe and Wayne Popo; (front row, left) Dias, and Winona Wiebe. Selkirk nursing students graduate Graduation ceremonies for the 13 students who completed the Selkirk College “practical nursing were held February 10 at the Sandman Inn in Castlegar program The afternoon ceremony began'with a processional of graduates. Opening remarks to the graduates and their guests-were-detivered-by-Mat Stetck; principal of the college’s Castlegar Campus, acted_as—master of ceremonies. Greetings were extended by Elizabeth Fleet, chairman of the Selkirk College board, Perra, who Leo président of Selkirk College, and Margaret Nickle, head of the college’s allied health department The guest speaker for the occasion was Laura Oster who works as a nurse in the Castlegar and District Hospital She was a 1986. graduate of the college’s nursing program. Following Oster’s-rermarks, graduates received their program certificates from Fleet, and their nursing pins and caps from instructors Anna Jenkins and Mildred Umbarger. Bedside Nursing Awards were present to Pat Gordon and Rosina Saunders. The class valedic torian was Gordon. Those graduating from class No. 59 of the practical nursing program were: Denise Beauchamp of Hope, Denise Bjorgan of Fruitvale, Karen Darnell of Slocan Park, Laura De LaForest and Aldina Dias of Trail, Patricia Gordon ofWasa,B.C., Shawna Lee of Kim bertey,—Ruth—Meyers and Bryan Morrow’ of Cranbrook, Wayne Popoff of Castlegar, Rosina Saunders of Rossland, Winona Wiebe of Nakusp, and Louise Yaseniuk of Castlegar Swans sighted There are between 150 and 200 tun dra swans on the south end -of Kootenay Lake as of late February Creston is known as ‘'The Valley of the Swans"? and the next four to five weeks will provide the best oppor tunities for swan-watching. The road side pullouts near Kuskanook Duck Lake possibilities -for viewing. If you are boating, the swans are near the shore where the Kootenay River channels en ter the lake. The Wildlife Centre asks visitors not to ap: viewpoint are two €reston Valley proach too close as the swans are easily distrubed and are resting and feeding ‘ds they prepare to continue their long migration to the northern tundra which gives them their new name, They used 10 be Known as whistling swans, the centre’s program coordinator Bob Purdy notes in a news release This is also a good time to be wat ig for birds of prey, Purdy says. Bald eagles, hawks, falcons, red-tailed hawks and the un rough-legged common Swainson’s hawk can be seen as they migrate through the Creston Valley section of the Purcell Trench, he says. March is also the peak of the spring This time of year interested observers can find’ nearly waterfowl migration every species of waterfowl known to this part of B.C Duck-bake; around the Leach- Lake pground Spring is coming fast and soon the multi-voiced amphibians will begin their evening serenades in “Many of Good places include the Corr Creek” MaPSHes wildlife and the beyond the centre, area cam chorus of the marshes, Purdy says Recreation news lian species will be leaving having their young. or moving to their spring and summer ranges,*-he says. Two additional spring spectacles to dens, The Easter Bunny will be hopping his way into the Complex in just two weeks — Wednesday, March 22. Come out and share break fast with the Easter Bunny and all his friends. There will be songs, crafts and a special Easter Egg Hunt. The cost of breakfast is $3 for Adults and $2 for Children and runs from 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. So stop by the Recreation Office and sign up. It bea great morning for everyone SPRING BREAK Plan to spend Spring Break with us! We have a dynamite activity camp planned for students age 6-12 will be sessions on cartooning, crafts, There cooking along with videos, roller skating and special outings. You may register for a full day, half day or for the full week. Enjoy four days of energetic activities planned by en- thusiastic instructors HOCKEY TOURNAMENT Other activities that are happening this week are a Scarf Tying seminar on Thursday, a West Kootenay Pee Wee House Hockey Tournament—Friday; Saturday and Sunday, Robson River Otters Bingo Saturday night Public Skating 2 p.m.-3:45 p.m day and Sun. W.E. Graham hosts thinking Olympics Slocan’s W.E. Graham high school will host the Olympics of the Mind regional competition on Saturday March 11 The teams competing are from Edgewood, Burton, Fauquier, W.E Graham and St. Joseph's in Nelson Olympics of the Mind is an inter national creative problem-solving competition that involves students from Grades 3-12, working in teams of five to seven to find solutions to some longterm problems. The problems being solved this year are * To construct a balsa wood struc ture that will hold the most possible weight per gram * To use a character from Greek mythology to ‘sell. a product onaradio or TV commercial * To create the that is the reason for the existence of a certain moral The teams also-take part in a spon taneous problem-solving competition The team winning each category will travel to Vancouver on April 8 to the Provincial Championships. The modern-day story provincial qualify for the World Championship in Denver, Colo., in June. IBM is the corporate sponsor of Olympics of the Mind. The company believes people who can work in teams to creatively solve problems will be the new leaders of business, industry and champs education Regional director Marion. Hunter said she is excited that the regional group has grown from two to 10 teams in one year and hopes more will join in the future The Graham, Village of Slocan, on March 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m A lunch and will be available at the competition is at W.E concession school. HAVE YOU GOT THE WINTER-TIME BLUES? a LAURA WILLIAMS B.Sc. Nutritionist Avenves Hairdesign, 1480 Col. Ave. Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3V3* 365-7616 SEGA BASE SYSTEMS ‘We have a large selection of games priced from Pinkey City Mall Castlegar News b 29%, 499° TOYS ’N MORE 2nd & Oak, Colvith 1-509-684-6507 QE Office or Retail Space Street-level air-conditioned office or small retail space in (Former Col available to tenant swering Includes general office, private office, storage area Landlord will do same redecorating. 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