CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 30, 1978 By JIM KEARNEY (The author writes for the iVancouver Sun.) ‘The Canadian hockey play- ‘er may not yet be an en- dangered species, but in u ‘country and province (B.C.) whose populations stand at a ‘record high, his numbers are ‘dwindling. zu. Nationally, the attrition ” Fate in kids’ hockey is running {at three to four per cent a year. Jn 1976-77, 550,000 players cross Canada were registered th the Canadian Amateur lockey Association. This was Wown 80,000 from the season fore, When all the figures are in for the current season, a further drop of about the same fize ie expected, { In this province during the same period, the B,C, Amateur Hockey Association reports a rop of 2,226 registrations, * flown from 47,738 to 45,513, and flown more than 4,600 from the 60,179 boys and youths regis- fered in 1974-75, This is an attrition rate of about five per gent a year. {Is the old national winter pastime losing popularity with the kids? Not really, claim hockéy authorities, such as BCAHA president Bob Mullock 6f North Vancouver and the association's: secretary-manag- é, Don Freer of Victoria, Check the figures on declining gehool populations, they say. jey are running a roughly parallel course. = That's true. But now for the anomaly, Against this rec- ord of declining school popula- tlons, minor soccer registra- tions in B.C, are increasing annually and have zoomed to a record high. : In the 1970-71 season, there were 24,000 youngsters registered with the B.C. Youth Soccer Association. Despite the declining school populations, the number of kids playing the game has been increasing at the rate of about 2,000 a year. < There were 32,798 regis- tered for the 1976-77 season and, provincial secretary Les Wilson of Vancouver estimates, this number will increase by niore than 8,000 when figures for the current season are com- PB a “The biggest increase,” he adds, “is at the seven to 11 age group, where the youngsters are starting out. Provincially, we're running 20 per cent ahead of last season. The inerease has been most spec- tdeular on the North Shore. We're up 33'per cent there.” $50 You Con‘t Blame It on the Birth Control Pill Is Soccer Displacing Hockey for Our Kids? $174 Tora SKYROCKETING COST of hockey equip- ment relative to soccer Is Illustrated here. Hockey parents usually foot all costs except “we had to turn kids away—as many as 100 a year—and try to find other places for them to If the birth control pill were the sole reason for hockey's declining youth popu- lation, then the same would apply to soccer. So there must be other reasons why one is going down and the other up. There are. Three of them. -@ Costs. e Immigration patterns. Chinese and East Indian kids don’t come to Canada carrying skates. e The growing glamor of soccer because of the White- caps, the big names coming into the North American League and Canada’s renewéd involve- ment in World Cup competi- tion. Ata time when inflation is ippine federall t "< There's a i irony in:that last figure, for BCAHA président Mullock says this selson will be the first he can remember that the North Van Recreation Centre Association wan't fill its seven to eight- year. old quota of hockey play- ing tads. + “Always before,” he says, led wage increases, and a devalued Canadian dollar has lost 10 per cent of its former ment costs are for lads at the 10-year-old level. If anything, the hockey cost is on the low side, for that single $7 stick probably won't last the season, The boy likely will go through two or three of them. By the time he’s 14 and physically stronger, he may be breaking them at the rate of six a season, He'll want to be » wearing $100 skates and more expensive gloves and. pads. Parents very easily can have more than $250 tied up in a lad. If they have two.or three boys, , they're in the “market for a ~ credit ‘union ‘loan, As far as the boy or parents are personally concern- ed, subtract the $7 for the sweater and the $5 for the socks. They are usually pro- vided by the team. The same goes for the soccer boy's shirt, shorts and socks. His or his folks’ only equipment expense are the shoes. The $25 is top of the line. Wilson says $20 is a power, wag ing families are finding it more difficult to put their boys into hockey and maintain them there. The comparative equip- Attention Golfers! more rep price. Registration with his local assocation costs the soccer boy anywhere from $15 to $24 a season. Minor hockey’s regis- tration feés run the gamut from aC and persons All in Golf Club membership shoutd plan to attend . 5 General Meeting Tuesday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m. In the Clubhouse on the course. Featured at the meeting will be: The dues © a presentation of the 1977 audited financial statement ea of the 1978 All persons wishing to join the club are welcome and are Invited.to take advantage of the Early-Bird discounts. Clasaltication Family 1 Family 2 Famlly 3 Famlly 4 Man Lady Student Juntor Apr 18s 1078 Regular 355 320 Early Bird 155 120 110 100 215 Is as follows: Time Payment Plan April 15 Senior Family Senior Man Senior Lady Assoclate Family Associate Man Assoclate Lady 120 NOTE: Family 1 — Man, wife and any number of Juniors. Family 2 — Man and wife. Family 3 — One parent and any number of Juniors. Family 4 — One parent and one junior. May16 = June15 1 100 aegessssasas The first ‘Men's Night’ will be held Wednesday, April § at 7:30 p.m. In the Clubhouse. The programme should prove to be a fun evening. $39r7orAL sweater and socks, while soccer parents need only pay ion boots. E $5 to $90, the varying costs of ice rental the main reason for the variance, Most. registra- tions seem to run between $25 and $45, - The vast majority of rinks are community-owned and sub- sidize the two hours a week (one hour for practice, one hour for a game) the average kids’ team uses, Obviously some communi- ties are willing to subsidize more than others, although the general trend now, says Mul- lock, is for the arenas to pass on more of the costs, Rising ice costs irk hockey people just a lille, inasmuch as the parks boards that operate the arenas ‘also have costs in maintaining the pitches on which the kids play soccer. But soccer grounds remain rent- free. Some associations . have moved to cut costs by organi- zing annual swap and shop - seasions, where parents can bring in equipment their kids have’ outgrown and trade it in on similar second hand stuff that's a size or two larger. It's much along the lines of what the skiers do each year, Freer says it is not yet widespread and admits that the BCAHA has been remiss in not promoting the idea and making it much bigger. Cost-besieged parents can increasingly look in this direction for relief. Swap and shop will grow. That's about their only hope in a retail sporting goods world where hockey equipment costs generally have risen 25 per cent in the last five years; where the cost of sticks has doubled. Federal sources say immi- gration to Canada has slowed down‘immensely. This may be so, but the Vancouver School Board, for one, hasn't really noticed it.. Elementary school enrolment in the city at Sept. 80 this year was 84,211. Of this number, more than 14,000— 39.6 per cent of the school population—are kids for whom English is a second language. A further breakdown shows 6,665 Chinese and 1,875 East Indian students, That's more than 53 per cent of the total and hockey (except for field hockey in the case of the East Indians) is getting none of them. Soccer, says Wilson, is attracting many of them, Also most of the next largest group, the 1,765 kids—another 12 per cent of the immigrant group— who speak Italian in their homes, , At the secondary school level, the over-all figure is 27.8 per cent, again with Chinese, ° East Indian and Italian youths dominating. And playing soc- cer, rather than hockey. While thé percentages of the total school populations are more modest, the same’ situation Slides Close Highways In West Kootenay Area A combination of warm weather and rain is said to be the cause of a number of mud slides on highways throughout West Kootenay over the week- end. And although highways previously closed are open again, the weather man warns more slides will likely follow. Highway 3A between Nel- son and Castlegar was closed for about 12 hours last Thurs- day evening after mud and rocks broke away from the mountainside at Brilliant. Dept. of Highway crews worked through the night to clean up the mess, Highway 6 between New Denver and Slocan was closed Sunday night at 7:15 and did - not re-open again until 6 a.m. Monday. It was reported Mon- day afternoon traffic on High- way 6 was down to one lane. There were also two small- er slides; one north of Nakusp on the Revelstoke Hwy. and another in the Rossland-Red Mountain area. Both roads however are open again. An official at the Dept. of Highways said at this time of year when the slides to occur in the spring and that they will likely continue for about a month. applies in surrounding com: munities, In Burnaby, for instance, 20 to 22 per cent of the schoo} population come from homes where English is not the primary language. And where soccer comes more naturally to the youngsters than hockey. Finally, don't underesti- mate the impact of professional soccer, which has created new heroes—Pele, Beckenbauer and company—for the kids to emu- late. So, suggests Wilson, a” Canadian who played first division soccer in the UK, came back home to play for the Whitecaps and now is up to his | ears in youth soccer, He has a point. Pro soccer is fast becoming the ‘in’ sport in North America, improving its image every year by signing up more and more foreign stars. Ten years ago, 300,000 Ameri- can kids played the game, This. year the figure ‘is up to 16 million. At once it is both the aldest Private Family Service For T. (Mike) Hamilton Private family service was held Tuesday for Thomas Mar- shall (Mike) Hamilton, 68, of Castlegar who died very sud- denly Good Friday. Born’ Nov, 28, 1914, in Bellevue; Alta., he attended school in Blairmore and became a miner by trade, He worked in mines at Drumheller and was with the Lard’ Strathcoma Horse at Calgary, Listowil in Ontario, Thompson in Mani- toba, the Kennicot Copper Mines in southern United States and five years at Grand Deer in Stewart,’ B.C. In the latter few years he worked with the Mica Dam. project and the Kootenay Ca- nal, He has. resided in. the: Kootenay since 1976. Mr. Hamilton is survived, by his wife, Dorothy of Castle- gar; one daughter, Gaylo; one son Patrick; his mother, Mrs, Olive Hamilton and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Russell, both’ of: Drumheller. Rev. H, N. Harvey of Castlegar Presbyterian Church officiated at the service. Crema- tion followed. Registrations for ” Castlegar Minor. Soccer Saturday, April 1 -will be held ——=9 10 a.m. to2p.m. and the newest game in town; the newest in that it has a glamor it never before enjoyed. To the kids it's all fresh and new... and attractive. In 1970, when Vancouver 10 a.m. to2 p.m. at the | Community Recreation Complex sabe EO ee paneer Reclamation Research Award aa - Cominco’s Specialists Tops in 1978 Cominco's five-man Recla- mation-Research staff has won the 1978 Reclamation Award," sponsored jointly by the British Columbia Ministry of Mines and, Petroleum Resources and the Mining Association of BG. assistant reclamation agrono- mist Eric Stathers and recla- mation technicians Dave Rus- al Gordon Wright and Bob The presentation took i place at the Mine Reclamation were cited re their Potstanding contribution to mine reclamation research in British Columbia.” “Cominco has been promi- nent in information exchange, dod has’ made its research to in Vernon garller. this month, Twelve companies, groups and individuals mpl, soe for the 1978 award, Kaiser Resources Ltd, and Elko Min- ing Ltd. received citations and Canex Placer Ltd. received the | B.C, mining peer the cita- tion continued. ‘| Nigel Doyle, manager of environmental ‘control for Co- minco, said the award “is an honor for Cominco and well- deserved recognition for the outstanding people in our recla- mation group.” if . Mines Minister James Cha- bot ‘presented the award and Bob Gardiner, the company’s chief reclamation agronomist, accepted it on behalf of himself, mention, The award was firat presented last year by the ministry and the MABC, Gardiner and his staff re- search, ‘co-ordinate and ‘carry out revegetation and rehabili- tation programs for Cominco mining operations throughout Canada. He said they currently have active projects at nine locations in B.C, and the North- west Territories, —~ Doyle said the company plans to put the 45-pound jade trophy on public display later this month. RECLAMATION AWARD | te bent by Co- jatural itat,’’ Cominco’s reclamation specialists er around the 45-pound Jade trophy t winter | Nm Reclamation Agronomist Bob Gardiner, The - room they're in Is the growth chamber, atthe Trall operatlons. entre al Here ‘uiferent plant awarded Jointly by the & B.C. Ministry of Mines and the Mining As on of B.C, Left to'right, they are Recia: jon Techni- clan Gordon Wright, Assistant Reclamation Agronomist Eric Stathers, Reclamation Dave Rusnel! and Bob Frew and species are evaluated under varying climatic and soll conditions to see how they might’ fare as possible ground cover at Cominco mine sites across Canada. The bank of fluorescent lights suspended above them provides artificial suntight. CanCel Shares Drop $.73 From Previous Year Canadian Cellulose Ltd, reports net earnings of $17.3 million or $1.41 a share for the year ended Dec. 31, down from $26.1 million or $2.14 a share for 1976, Net sales dropped to $161 million from $179 in the same period, The net earnings for 1977 included extraordinary items totalling 38 cents a share from the proceeds of a fire insurance claim and other revenues. Newest Edition Of ‘Vista’ Now Available The newest edition of “Vista”, the Ministry of Educa- tion's annual listing of all post- secondary education and train- ing programs available in Brit- ish Columbia, has been pub- lished and is now being dis- tributed to secondary schools, public libraries, manpower counsellors and other interest- ed individuals and ofganiza- tions. fe “Vista '78" lists. some 450 programs available at colleges, universities, provincial insti- tutes and the British Columbia CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 80, 1978 BACKHOE SERVICE = For Siocan. Valley Residents "354-4033 or 397358 7358 after 5 p.m. Woodcrest Holdings = Ths folks at Sy ed VS LAS) the IW AS BS L FERS) are greeting those sleepy yawns with a smile ne and their home-made treats. New Summer Hours are: fonday through Saturday Open 8 a.m. Sundays Open 4 p.m. got into the NHL, the same could be said of hockey. While the game had been played here for 60 years, acceptance by the NHL gave itanew glamor, new heroes for kids to emulate. Registrations zoomed. As quickly as they opened, new rinks were filled with kids, playing and practising hockey. Original Canucks of NHL vin- tage, now long forgotten, were worshipped as perhaps much better players on today's team never will be. It was the new fad. Seven years later it has cooled off a little and soccer has heated up. But even taking this into account, plus the impact of an immigration wave whose chil- dren don't identify with the game, plus the pill and the declining birth rate, the ever- rising cost of equipping and maintaining -kids in hockey figures to be the biggest reason for those declining figures. No doubt thousands of oldtimers, who stuffed maga- zines inside their socks for pads, : used frozen horse’ for ‘pucks’ ‘and swept the’ sii off‘the nearest frozen pond to fashion a cost-free rink, will boggle at the thought. But that’s how the puck is bouncing as we move into this new era of what our prime minister is pleased to call “lowered ex- pectations.” It seems torun more to $20 soccer shoes than $100 skates. Ages 6 to 12 Years Registrations between April 3 and April 7 will be accepted at the Community Recrea- tlon Complex office. © Coaches and Asst. Coaches Are Required motivated and desire siderable responsibility. _ This position is union fidentlality. Please direc by April 7 to the: whe SELKIRK (\V/j, COLLEGE CASTLEGAR CAMPUS Invites applications for the position of SEERETARY TO THE BURSAR This Is a. senlor secretarial position Involving responsibility for the functions of the Bursar’s office. The applicant should possess excellent secreterial skills and some knowledge of ac- -counting procedures with ‘several year's: ex- perience in a senior secretarial position, be self temuneration and fringe benefit program. All applications will be treated with strict. con- a position . with con- exempt ‘with excellent t all written applications PACIFIC WESTERN AIRLINES 1 Normal reservation service will apply. Phone: TRAIL NELSON This Pp y Alrlines’ Jets at Ci will be Penticton and Schedule change, effective April 3, 1978, Ix due to the closure of Castlegar Alrport for runway resurfacing. This schedule will remain In oleet for approximately two-and-one-half months. CASTLEGAR - 365-7044 364-1224 352-2913 If you didn’t get a T4U from us, go to your local post office. Pi upa postal . reply card,to aj 0 apply for duplicates. F: It in and mail it. You'll get your duplicate T4U in time:to~ "file your tax retuiii, If the slip arrived... 2! anttte has eff Ke did get a T4U but rane Sea te te for any reply card. Mark Mark “replace- ment” on the card in the upper right hand corner. as If the slip mation... If you did has arrived u need more infor- geta T4U and still need’ an itemized state- ment, fill in the same card. You must write the total Ul benefits you got in 1977 somewhere on the card. This is important. It will CanCel Ignores ‘Agreement Institute of Technol and schools of nursing. It also contains information on finan- cial assistance, student hous- ing, admission standards and various other matters of con- Editor, News: At the recent closed meet- ing between CanCel and city council it was decided that the 1960 agreement between the two parties stating CanCel's responsibility to provide Castlegar with an adequate water supply would be ignored. At the time of the agree- ment CanCel, then . Celgar, provided the city with a total of $55,000 to sink three wells’ replacing the previous water source of the Columbia River which was rendered unusable because of the upstream loca- tion of their pulp operations. The company also signed an agreement that “in the event it is not financially feasible for the village to obtain its normal water requirements from wells "the ; shall pesiieg with the village g for a the village with a water source comparable to satisfactory’ wells within the village: and Celgar further agrees that it will pay any additional costs to provide a satisfactory alterna- tive water source agreed upon as aforesaid.” CanCel's present e Are the people of Castle- cern to students. Colleges and institutes at which the programs are given, . FOR PRIVATE USE OR BUSINESS AUTOVEST — LEASE ie one Before you buy, th ry plan, ' All mantes pald apply to purcha power. First and last month's ent then are away. Based on 36-Month Lease tle 4B your ‘cash or borrowing gar to forget the terms of the _ 1980 agreement because it will ~ cause trouble, result in an unco- operative relationship between the two parties? The people of Castlegar have a right to the answers to is that since the above-men- tioned was conclud- these and many more. City council, our elected have a res- ed between them and the “village”, not the “City” of Castlegar, it is no longer valid. Instead, CanCel now sug- gests that they and the city jointly seek funding for a new water supply from available government outlets. It is apparent by the terms of the 1960 agreement that the ‘responsibility for any joint _ funding lies solely between CanGel,.and, the government, is) "is ponsibility to state their posi- tion clearly and make them- selves open to the people on this issue. The most effective means of facilitating this exchange of opinions and information would be a public forum on this issue between city council and the people of Castlegar. We strongly urge council to take this step in opening up a” much needed channel of com- ly what is Pp not the issue. There are,many pertinent stions that arise from this arrangement which will provice Paperwork Costing Billions Small busi are situation; questions that not “only should but must. be an- swered: @ Why isn’t the city coun- cil “sticking to its guns” on its previous position regarding CanCel's responsibility? elf the agreement is taken to the courts for inter- being harassed by a flood of needless “government paper- work that is costing billions of dollars each year, says John Bulloch, president of the Cana- dian Federation of Independent Businesses, i “They're harassing us to death with unnecessary regu- lations and’ paperwork,” he said. “Governments can-do a- fair amount but in most cases, if you talk to the average small businessman, they would just like to get them out of their * hair.” "Bulloch estimated that the . average small businessman spends about $5,000 annually to with Twin Otter aircraft, connecting to Pacific Western _ help us get your statement to you in time, You'll: Bnd the process government paper- ” work. “Big firms don't know it's there because they've got hun- * dreds of people down below total benefits figure PACIFIC WESTERN AIRLINES Effective April 3, 1978 484 450 Flight Number warms up, the top layer of ground soil softens. If it rains, he said it causes it to slide, mostly in the form of mud and rocks. Weather officials at Castle- gar said it is not unusual for Nunchaku Sticks Taken From Youth Castlegar RCMP have re- leased a 16-year-old Kimberley boy who had been picked up while carrying dangerous and illegal weapons. The youth was carrying a hatchet and nunchaku sticks when police picked him up on the evening of March 20. Nunchaku sticks are two pieces of wood connected by a length of chain and used in martial arts. Police say a report will be made through juvenile. court -authorities to determine if charges will be laid. + | Diy. Ex. Diy. Ex. |. Frequency: Sa. Su. 1345, 0835. 1490 0920 . | Ar. Cranbrook Ly. Read Down Read Up To374 | Toa74y ‘T6370 Connections Fm 973 | Fm373 Box “B” of your eT4U J alip: Canada’s Unemployment : i+ Employment and BF + Bud Cullen, Minister Bud Cullen, Ministre who are looking after it; but in a small firm, it all collapses on one individual,” he said. “It could be costing the Canadian economy up to $2 billion: a year in unnecessary paperwork and non-productive spending.” ', However, Bulloch conced- ed that the federal government. has’ begun to cut -back on paperwork directed at small business even though provin- cial governments continue the flow d. _ Announcing the arrival of our new PACIFIC WESTERN AIRLINES Effective April 3, 1978 200° Filght Number 201 Oly. Ex. Su. | Frequency Oly. Ex, &u. Ly. Netson Ar. Penticton Lv, Ar. Kelowna Lv. Ar. Cranbrook Ly, Are} 1025 0040 Read Down Read Up “T0374 To370 . Connectlons Fm 314 | Fm 300 Fm37a Effective immediately. we wil have, extended hours, fo serve you better. MONDAY — SATURDAY, 8 A.M. TO 5 P.M. fe enamine TIRE STORES aaa RE will that run out the remaining two years left.in the term of the agreement?. e Nowhere in the closed meeting as reported by the Castlegar News, was the ques- tion of CanCel’'s moral respon- sibility to the people of Castle- gar raised by either the com- -| pany or city council. Are we to take this silence on the moral issue to be in fact their answer? e We quote Mr. Murphy, CanCel spokesman: “We shouldn’t really let that agree- ment hold up progress. The object was not to get mad at. one another but to clarify points of view.”, Mayor Moore's statement ‘on the agreement was that “(it) would be left’ on- one ‘side temporarily.” In other words, are the terms of the 1960 agreement, ignored in 1978 by CanCel, being equally ignored by City Council Z Cameron/Cairns Take Bridge. Pairs Trophy Ten-and-a-half tables took Part in Monday night's play at ‘the Joy ‘Keillor Bridge Club with the following results: lorth-South First, Bill Ahrens and Judy. Sheppard with 187; second, Bev MacDonald and Inez Walker with 185; third, Joy Keillor and John Sokolowski . with 182%; fourth, Bert Tyson and Tan Glover” with 182, :' East-West First,. Lois“ Cairns and Etuka Cameron with'152; sec- ond, Alex Pereverzoff and Ted Vockeroth with 140%; -third, John Davis and Dan Horan with.193'; fourth, Grace Don- aldson and Jean Fischer with 180, Spring Pairs Trophy was won by Lois Cairns and Etuka Cameron. Rob Melnick, time required: for completion and prerequisites are listed as well. “Vista” is used widely by career counsellors in and out of the school system, and is used by. the ministry to answer — from all EXAMPLES "76 F-250 PICKUP $148 per mo, Lense-end price ‘or simply return "78 C-100 CHEV PU $129 per mo. Lease-end price 1875 ‘orslmply raturn - "78 ECONO VAN $136 per mo. Lease-end price or simply return over the world. 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