‘ My as Castlegar News —_ Morchs. 1995 | On The Street: QUESTION: Latest indi by 1 the Canada is declining? Why do you think that i: Wally Peacock I guess they're shirking the fesponsibility of a marriage con- tract. and not enough enough money, bet ried. Chambers Robert Marozoff They can’t afford it. get divorced. William Chernoff Because there's not enough work married .. . If you figure there's not Because more are getting div- orced. Since the divorce rate is so high, they don't feel like getting married because they know they'll people getting married in is? Kathy Loverenow I guess a lot of people just live together to save money. I think that's the in thing nowadays. money to get ter not get mar- 4 Aaron Gunther Probably because it costs much money to have kids. too STATS CANADA SAYS Fewer divorces, marriages OTTAWA (CP) — Yukoners went to the altar at a faster rate than all other Canadians in 1983, but they also led the way to the divorce courts, Statistics Canada says. The government agency didn't say whether the long winter nights had anything to do with the findings, although a spokesman did say the statistics could be misleading because of the small population in the territory. For the country as a whole, there were fewer marriages and fewer divorces in 1983 than the year before. A total of 184,675 couples tied the knot, down from the 1982 total of 188,360. And 68,567 couples divorced, down from the record of 70,436 in 1982. In a report the agency said Yukon's marriage rate in 1983 was 10.9 per 1,000 people, compared with a national average of 7.4 per 1,000 people. Quebec had the lowest rate with 5.5 marriages per 1,000 people. The Yukon divorce rate was 394.6 per 100,000 people, triple that in Newfoundland where it was 123.0, the lowest in Canada. The national average was 275.5 divorces per 100,000 people. The figures also show it is a popular misconception that June is the month for brides. In fact, July was more popular, with 29,482 marriages performed. August was next with 23,405, followed by June with 21,588. DECEMBER UNUSUAL And although fewer marriages take place in the winter, December was an exception. There were 17,409 ceremonies that month, four times the number for January and almost double the number for November. Marriages ending in divorce had an average duration of 12 years across Canada, higher than the Alberta average of 10.3 years, but lower than the Prince Edward Island average of 13.3 years. Adultery was most frequently cited as the grounds for divorce. Museum for kids MILTON, Mass. (AP) — another dimension to their Inventor Leonard * Ravich lives.” says he wants toestablish an Ravich, a physicist who art museum for children and has given $35,000 worth of art to the town's public schools, including works by Pieasso, Dali, Cezanne, and invented a missile guidance system, said last week he envisages a children’s mu. seum with laboratories that would allow children to prac. Renoir. tise painting while they “Children don't grow up study exhibits. living with art the way other His gift of 31 works is generations have,” Ravich, 64, said. “The idea is not to make them artists but to add scheduled for display at the town’s high school this spring. i Berilax™ Discount Centre FAST CASH REFUNDS ALSO OPEN SATURDAY 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Quolity Tax Preparations NELSON — No. 1-609 Baker St. 354-4515 TRAIL — 1300 Cedar Ave. 368-3333 It was the reason given by 27,592 petitioners as the major cause of their breakup. Separation of three years was the second most common ground, cited by 26,553 petitioners, followed by mental cruelty, which was cited by 20,348. A petitioner can give more than one reason for a divorce. Custody figures show women are more likely than men to get custody of children. Of the 36,354 divorces in which children were involved, women were granted custody of 48,104 children, whereas men won custody of 10,112. In a comparison of divorce rates with 25 other countries, Canada ranked fifth. Denmark was first with a rate of 592.7 divorces per 1,000 marriages, Sweden was second with 573.0. The United States was third with 472.9, followed by the United Kingdom with 390.7. Canada’s divorce rate per 1,000 marriages was 371.3, well above Italy, the lowest-ranking countgy, with 35.4 divorces per 1,000 marriages. * - Robinson's Time makes your kids into adults and takes them away to lives of their own You can’t stop time. But you can freeze memories, with beautiful photographic portraits. Many mothers have them made every year so they can remember their children just as they were at a given point in their lives. And the price of those portraits is so reasonable, almost every mother can afford to have them done _— 95¢ $14.95 ‘otal Package’ Deposit 2 (8x10’s) 3 (5x7's) 15 wallets PHOTOGRAPHY DAYS Thur., Maer. 7 —Set., Mer. 9 PHOTOGRAPHY HOURS We select the A 95¢ deposit required for each photo plus $1.00 sitting fee for each aiditional subject Additional portraits can be purchased. Adults, family groups welcome VANCOUVER (CP) — The trees that give British Col- umbia its provincial flower — the white-petalled Dogwood — are losing a fight in the southwestern region of the province with a fungus called leaf blotch. The B.C. Agriculture Min- istry said in 1982 that the fungus was not a threat, even though it was flourishing in Washington state. The ministry was wrong. “It's now widespread throughout Vancouver and north of the city and it’s been identified as far away as Chilliwack,” said Roy Forster of VanDusen Botanical Gar- dens. “It's in gardens, parks and the wild. It’s so serious that we're not recommending peo- ple plant our native dogwood any more until some sort of easy control is available.” Help is available from a species called Eddie's White Wonder — a hybrid between the eastern dogwood and B.C.'s Pacifie species. “So far it seems much less susceptible to the disease than our native species and it has the best qualities of both trees,” Forster said. Those who do not want to swallow provincial pride and plant an Easterner can take comfort in knowing the hy- brid was developed by pion- eer Vancouver nurseryman Henry Eddie, Forster said. ATTACKS LEAVES The leaf blotch attacks the leaves of the dogwood, which develop brown spots and eventually fall off. 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Olympic champions Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev of the Soviet Union won the event after they moved up from their second place finish in the short program with an elegant, innovative ballet on ice. No one else could match their side-by-side triples, daring throws and inventive stroking sequences. Soviets Larisa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov, the leaders after Tuesday's short program, finished second in Wednes day's long freeskate to claim the silver medal. Melinda Kunhegyi of Burlington, Ont., and Lyndon Johnston of Hamiota, Man., moved to fifth from seventh while Cynthia Coull of Greenfield Park, Que., and Mark Rowsom of Comber, Ont., had a disastrous long program and tumbled to seventh from fourth. NEW PARTNER Eisler, 22, who skated with Lori Baier for 11 years before she retired, joined with the 20-year-old Matousek three years ago. “We aren't happy with the way we performed tonight but we sure have to be happy with the medal,” said Eisler. “It’s a pretty good finish for having been out of competition for four months. “We know we didn't do well tonight but the marks held us up there. In competition up to now, we've been getting a 4-3 or 5-4 split in judges against us so it's nice to have it go our way for a change. “It's just great to win a medal.” All three Canadian pairs are coached by Kerry Leitch at the Preston Figure Skating Club. Williams Moving leads series 3-0 ins bronze “All three of our teams are still relatively inexper. ienced,” said Leitch. “And I think that two of them were feeling the pressure of the meda “The pressure of the world championships is so great. Kathy and Lloyd and Cynthid and Mark were in contention for the medats but the’ Soviets have been around fer.# while. The pair which finished second here competed against us with his old partner way back in 1978.” Eisler and Matousek, National champions in 1984, missed the Canadian championships this year with Coull and Rowsom taking the title. Matousek had an ankle injury, which forced the pair to skip the nationals. In today’s freeskate, Matousek missed a double Salchow and two-footed a landing on the throw double Axel. OFF PERFORMANCE “] just couldn't get into my knees tonight and because of that I did a lot of silly mistakes,” said Matousek. “I just couldn't get the feel of it. “I was nervous tonight and that affected the program. Because of injuries we haven't been able to train the programwith all the throws in it. So because of that I was a little leery. If we had had a couple of more weeks to train we would have done better.” Coull and Rowsom had a bad night Coull fell on their opening jump, a triple Salchow, and two-footed a landing on a throw triple Salchow. Rowsom had a bad landing on his triple toe loop and on the throw triple loop, Coull came down on the wrong edge. Leitch, who picked up his first world medal as a coach said the fact Coull, who is doubling up in competition here, had a full day of ladies figures to contend with before the pairs practice had little to do with their performance. 35 take part in Troll Loppet The first annual Troll Lop. pet took place under sunny in a marathon and for many of the entrants this was their curling championship. Scoti: Territories. standings at 1-5. MONCTON, N.B. (CP) — Gene Hritzuk got his ‘atchewan foursome back on course and Thomas Hakansson, the Swedish-born skip representing Nova Scotia, escaped the cellar as both rinks posted crushing morning-round -victories today at the Canadian men’s Saskatchewan, lucky to beat Manitoba in a late match Tuesday night when a last shot draw by Winnipeg's John Bubbs was short of the house, handed hometown favorite Bryan Wight his third straight loss, 12-2, and Nova Scotia, with its second win in a row, bounced Newfoundland 10-3. The Saskatchewan victory improved its record at the Labatt Brier to 4-2 and moved it into a second-place tie with 1982 world champion Al Hackner of Northern Ontario and Don Aitken of Quebec. Alberta's Pat Ryan, a bye Tuesday night as well as in today’s early round, leads after nine draws with a 6-0 mark. Following the leaders at 3-3 are New Brunswick, Wayne Matheson of Prince Edward Island and Paul Devlin of British Columbia. Earle Morris of Ontario and Al Delmage of the At 2-4 are Manitoba, Nova Newfoundland slipped to the bottom of the 12-rink LUCK INVOLVED Ryan wasn't considered one of the favorites when the Brier began Sunday at the Moncton Coliseum. And he Alberta rink 6-0 : in Labatt Brier has, by his own admission, been lucky in running up the unbeaten record he took into key games later in the day against Northern Ontario and Quebec. “I wouldn't say we're the best team here, but we're squeaking by,” said Ryan, a 15-year curling veteran who was second on the 1979 Alberta champions skipped by Devlin. “We've been down the last four games (before the victory over Ontario) and managed to come back . . . “We're not killing anybody, but that last game, we ind of put it out of reach early.” ’ He was referring to a three-count in the sixth end Tuesday afternoon to establish a 6-2 lead and a two-point steal in the seventh en route to an 8-2 win over Ontario. Earlier in the day he had beaten B.C. 5-4. Hackner is confident he has found the winning formula after scoring three in the 10th for a 10-6 win over the Territories in Tuesday night's eighth draw while Quebec registered a 9-6 win over Newfoundland. In other eighth-round action, Nova Scotia defeated New Brunswick 6-4, Saskatchewan stole two in the 11th end in an 11-9 win over Manitoba when Bubbs pulled up short with his last rock, and The other seventh-round Ontario 7 Saskatchewan 2, P.LE. 9 New Brunswick 8, Quebec 7 Nova Scotia 4, and Newfoundland 7 Manitoba 6. In the abbreviated morning sixth draw in which only four teams play, P.E.I. defeated Territories 7-5 in addition to the Alberta-B.C. game. B.C. downed Ontario 8-5. seores were: Northern By CasNews Staff Williams Moving defeated Valley Contractors 7-5 Sun day afternoon to take a 3-0 lead in its Castlegar Rec reational Hockey League semi-final game against the contracting team. Dean MacKinnon scored a hat trick to lead Williams Moving to the win Williams opened the scor ing with two goals — one each by Terry Sander and Dean MacKinnon. Valley Contractors replied with two goals to tie the game 2-2 With 40 seconds left in the period, Don Savinkoff scored a goal to give his team a 3-2 lead Scoring the first period goals for Valley Contractors were Brian Sagriff and James Verigin. Vie Imaeff, Yuri Jmaeff and Kelly Ker aiff assisted Assists for Williams Mov ing came from Savinkoff, Mike McCormack, Dave Mac Kinnon and Peter Moroso. In the second period, Sag riff scored a goal for the Con tractors at 6:53. Keraiff scor. ed Valley Contractors’ fourth goal one minute and 13 sec. onds later to go ahead 4-3. A goal at 15:53 by Ken Ross of Williams Moving tied the game back up. Ross add ed another goal at 18:07 to make the score 5-4 for the moving team. Assists in the period went to Keraiff, Nick Voykin, goaltender Rick Hlookoff and Vie Jmaeff of Valley Con tractors. Savinkoff had two s iiams Moving, while Mitch Quaedvlieg had one In the final frame, Voykin, assisted by Yuri Jmaeff and Sagriff, scored for Valley Contractors at 15:23 to tie the game once again. Dean MacKinnon scored the winning goal for Williams Moving at 16:46. With 24 seconds left in the game, MacKinnon added an insur ance goal. Dave MacKinnon assisted on both goals, Mike Schmitt and Mike McCor mach had one assist each skies on Saturday at Nancy Greene Lake. The Troll Loppet, spon. sored by the Nordic Ski Touring Club, is a citizen's marathon based on distance rather than time and the em phasis is on how far one can ski, not how fast. The distances skied by the 35 competitors varied from four km to 40 km. For those skiing the longer distances the Loppet provided a real challenge, requiring several hours of non-stop skiing to complete their objective. Others took avantage of the opportunity to ski a shorter distance and enjoyed a pleasant ski in the sun shine. An excellent performance was put in by the oldest skier in the race, 71-year-old Is tvan Soos, who was also the first skier to complete the 40 km. The youngest skier, five year-old Gareth Orr, skied very well to complete the 11 km. “Super Troll” loop. The Troll Loppet was de signed to give. the “touring” skier a chance to participate first race. Completing their chosen distance was a real achievement. Every skier received a troll certificate as follows: Forty km: Lorraine Bar. tlett, Alex Herezegh, Istvan Soos. Thirty km: Jerry Filippo, Rachel Mokonen, Margaret Pondelicek Twenty km: Aimie Cher. noff, John Dascher, Marie Dascher, Gord Gibson, Jenni fer Gibson, Olaf Gundersen, Kari Hartman, Frank Ing ham, Hazel Kirkwood, David Kravski, Victor Kravski, Larry Kristian, Martha Me Kay, Norm McKay, Dean Osachoff, Suzy Ratke, Ivar Reinsbakken, George Robin son, Darren Tamelin. Fifteen km: Gordon Rut ley Eleven km: Conray Brat tebo, Laura Darnbrough, Len Darnbrough, Colleen Gibson, Melanie Gibson, Alex Hart man, Rolf Hartman, Gareth Orr Four km: Florence Krav. ski Area skier wins medal By The Canadian Press Rossland resident Rhonda Delong won a silver medal during the second day of competition Tuesday at the Canadian cross-country ski championships in Morin Heights, Que. Delong claimed the silver in the junior women’s cate- gory, finishing the five km race in 20 minute’, 31.1 sec- onds. The Rossland skier ac- tually placed fifth, but got the silver because Europeans who placed ahead of her, weren't eligible for Canadian medals. Meanwhile, Quebec contin ued its medal haul during the competition. The host province added seven medals to its total of six earned in the opening events Sunday in Morin Heights, 60 kilometres north of Montreal. A record field of 157 skiers battled on soft powder tracks Tuesday as a result of the heavy, snowstorm that blanketed much of Eastern Canada the past two days. Dominie Gagnon, 15, of Jonquiere, Que., won Que bee's first gold medal of the day, upsetting Hugh Wilson of Brockville, Ont., in the juvenile boys’ 10-kilometre event. Gagnon posted a time of 33 minutes, 58.2 seconds — 3.2 seconds ahead of Wilson. Ian Daffern, 15, of Calgary was third in the 29-man field in 34:16. Marie-Josee Pepin, 14, of La Tuque, Que., earned her second gold of the week with a 20:38.9 time in the juvenile girls’ five-km event. Roxanne Ayotte of Abitibi, Que., took silver in 21:25.0, while Ailsa Metcalfe of Deep River, Ont., finished third in 21:44.4. Joe Svehla, 18, of Kam loops, upset Benoit Letour neau of Mont Rolland, Que., to take the junior boys’ 10-km title in 32:07.9. Letourneau, one of the biggest skiers competing, had trouble with the soft snow conditions and placed second in 32:26.7. Danny Bouchard of La Tuque was third in 33:01. WINS RACE Lisa Patterson, Orangeville, Ont., won 17, of the junior girls’ five-km race in 19:36.2, followed by Mar- garet Holden of Deep River in 19:43.4. Kjerstin Baldwin of Winnipeg took the bronze in 19:56.1. . Jeremias Wigger of Switz- erland won the international junior men's 10 kilometres in 29:46.2, the day's fastest time. Teammate Jacques Nikuil- le was second in 31:00.9, while Sweden's Peter Thor ran third in 31:03.5. Derochie of Onaping Falls, Ont., who ran fourth in 31:22.6, claimed the gold. Sixtii-place Dennis Law rence of Regina took the silver in 31:30.3, while Marco Lebel of Lac-St-Charles, Que., got the bronze after polacing ninth in 31:47.3. Martina Schoenbaechler of Switzerland won the inter. national junior women's five kilometres in 19:03.6, fol lowed by teammate Marianne Irniger in 19:16.2. Jane Vincent, 18, of Mis. sissauga, Ont., finished third overall and took the gold in 19:47.3. After two days of compe. tition, Quebec leads with 13 medals. National Capital and Southern Ontario are tied for second with six each. British Columbia and Nor- thern Ontario have three medals each, Saskatchewan and Manitoba both have a pair and Alberta has one. The championships resume Thursday with the long- distance events. Barber named coach PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Barber, who is recover. ing from knee surgery, will take over as head coach of Hershey Bears of the Amer. jean Hockey League, says Philadelphia Flyers general manager Bob Clarke. Barber, 33, with 420 goals, was the Flyers’ all-time leading goal scorer when he underwent surgery to reconstruct his knee last March. He was not played for the Flyers since his operation. Islanders lose 5-4 to Flyers By The Canadian Press Mike Bossy has been the silver lining in New York Is. landers’ cloud all season, but the forecast in Uniondale, N.Y., remains dismal. The right winger scored twice Tuesday night to be come the first player in Na tional Hockey League history to score at least 50 goals in eight consecutive seasons. However, the Islanders lost 5-4 to Philadelphia Flyers in overtime. The loss was the Islanders 28th this season against 33 wins and four ties. Bossy forced the overtime with his second goal of the night and 51st of the season with 57 seconds left in regu lation time. Then Dave Pou lin spoiled Bossy’s night by seoring on the lone shot of the overtime period. Brian Propp led the Flyers with three goals while Lind say Carson added a single. The Islanders, third in the Patrick Division and 13 points behind the Flyers, also got goals from Denis Potvin and John Tonelli. In other action, it was Quebee Nordiques 6 Boston Bruins 4, Buffalo Sabres 6 Hartford Whalers 3, Wash ington Capitals 4 New Jersey Devils 1, St. Louis Blues 7 Toronto Maple Leafs 1, Ed monton Oilers 5 Calgary Flames 3, and Los Angeles Kings 6 Pittsburgh Penguins 0. KINGS 6 PENGUINS 0 Los Angeles centre Marcel Dionne set a NHL record by surpassing the 100-point mark for the eighth time with a goal and two assists. Rookie netminder Bob Janecyk kick ed out 21 shots to record his 20th win of the season and his sevtond career shutout Dionne’s goal, his 620th in 14 years in the NHL, gave the Kings a 30 lead. Gary Galley, Bernie Nicholls, Brian MacLellan, Jim Fox and Mark Hardy scored singles for the Kings. OILERS 5 FLAMES 3 Five different Edmonton players scored as the Oilers ended a four-game winless streak, their longest of the season. The victory bolstered Edmonton's lead to 22 points over Calgary and Winnipeg Jets in the Smythe Division. Mark Napier, Glenn Ander son, Pat Hughes, Jari Kurri and Willi Lindstrom scored for the Oilers. Paul Reinhart, Ed Beers and Tim Hunter replied for the Flames. BLUES 7 LEAFS 2 Brian Sutter scored twice and Doug Wickenheiser and Joe Mullen each contributed a goal and assist to lead St. Louis to a NHL playoff berth with a victory over Toronto. The Blues have 73 points and a 32-point bulge over last place Toronto in the Norri= Division. Toronto tied a club record for most losses in a season — 41 — set by the 1972-73 Leafs. Jorgen Pet terssen, Perry Anderson and Mark Johnson also scored for St. Louis. Greg Terrion and Dan Daoust scored for Tor onto. NORDIQUES 6 BRUINS 4 Brent Ashton scored three goals and assisted on three more as Quebec downed Bos. ton and grabbed a share of first place in the Adams Div ision. The Nordiques, Mon treal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres all have 74 points. Alain Lemieux, Alain Cote and Mario Marois scored the other Quebec goals. Dave Donnelly, Charlie Simmer, Butch Goring and Keith Crowder scored for Boston CAPITALS 4 DEV 1 Washington netminder Al Jensen, making his first start since Jan. 9, turned aside 20 shots to lead the Capitals past New Jersey. Lou Fran ceschetti, Dave Christian, Rod Langway and Bob Gould scored for the Capitals. Aar on Broten got the New Jer sey goal. SABRES 6 WHALERS 3 Buffalo scored three third period goals to win. Mal Davis scored twice for Buf falo while Mike Foligno, Paul Cyr, Larry Playfair and John Tucker added singles. Roy Neufeld scored twice for Hartford and Kevin Dinnen added a single. Walker gets four goals for Blazers KAMLOOPS (CP) — West ern Division-leading Kam loops Blazers got a four goal performance from Gor die Walker en route to a 93 win over Seattle Breakers in Western Hockey League play Tuesday night. Greg Hawgood added two goals while Rob DeMiao, Ry an Stewart and Jeff Frank scored singles to keep Seattle goalie Larry Dyck busy Kamloops outshot Seattle 37.15. Kamloops goalie Rob Mc Kinley gave up goals to Don Henderson, Mario Desjardins and Ray Savard °