Saturday, December 14, 1991 a Santa’s going to be busy Apparently the word is out that the Castlegar News is accepting letters to Santa from the children of the city. There’s been a great response, and not only from the kids in town. Here’s a selection of letters that have crossed my desk from local and international sporting folks. From the referees in the Castlegar Recreational Hockey League and Gen- tlemen’s Hockey League. Dear Santa: Could you please send us bandages, splints, needles and sutures, a case load of A5-35 and io- dine? All of us have noticed that as the season progresses, the players sticks get higher and their tempers get shorter. We will likely need all the medical supplies on hand to treat the war wounded. But hey Santa, look on the bright side, at least our order is half that of the National Hockey League's. From Brian Bosworth. Duh, Dear Satan, er, Santa: Hey dude, I know I have never written you in my life, but I can explain — I just learned how to write this year. Now that I have this writing thing licked, could you please send me a lifetime bership to any legiti acting class in Hollow-wood? Like, ah, I could fool the fans and management in the National Football League, but these directors and movie fans are a differ- ent story. Oh, and could I get a Speak = Spell and Molly Wets Herself doll please? From the Castlegar Rebels. Dear Santa: Could you please send us a victory over the Grand Forks Border Bruins? I mean, if we beat them even half the times we played them this year, we'd be right up there in the KIJHL’s West Division. Oh, and while your at it Santa, could you send the City Of Castlegar some money so they can put in decent light- ing for the rink at at the Community Complex. Maybe we could get more fans out and stuff if our arena didn’t feel and look like a morgue. From Pat Lafontaine. Dear Santa: All I want for Christ- mas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth.... From Mike Tyson. Dear Santa: I know your black and the world is out to get you too, so could please send burning Molotov cocktails to every lawyer and judge in America? Oh, and while you're at it, could you drop off a hand grenade, sans pin, on Evander Holyfield? What it is bro. From Ben Johnson. Dear Santa: Could you please send me back my career? You know, the one you gave every other runner I race these days. From Carl Lewis. Dear Santa: Thanks for the Ben- thing buddy. From all the basketball teams in the Olympics except for the Ameri- can team, which will be stacked with NBA players. Dear Santa: Help. From Bobby Bonilla, Chuck Finley and Wally Joyner. Dear Santa: Could you please send us wheel barrows to carry home our money after we cash our pay cheques at the end of the week? Oh, and thanks for the early Christmas presents. From Eric Lindros. Dear Santa: Could you please send me life-size portraits of Pierre Page and Marcel Aubut, some darts, and a copy of Mommie Dearest? From the Seattle Seahawks man- agement and fans: Dear Santa: Could you please send us some players so that we can, one day, be better than an also-ran in - te the NFL? From local merchants: Dear Santa: Santa, you remember when we took your place for a while and gave out all those sponsorships to local teams? You know we gave them jerseys and equipment, and stuff like that. Well, could you get the local peo- ple who play on those teams to shop in our stores instead of going to Spokane? From Andre Agassi and the rest of the players on Amercia’s Davis Cup am. Dear Santa: Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. From the French Davis Cup Team. Dear Santa: Merci. From the Vancouver Canucks: Dear Santa: Could you please send us another bubble? Ours burst a while ago. From Liverpool soccer fans. Dear Santa: Now that our team is back playing soccer again, could you please send us billy clubs, knives, small firearms and EuroRail passes? From George Foreman. Dear Santa: Could I get a few more has-beens and punching bags to beat up before I risk permanent brain d by fighti who re- members how to box? And can I get six cheese burgers, a pound of french fries, nine milkshakes, extra thick, and a partridge in a pear tree for dessert? Computers bury WS Garry Sauer is chief undertaker with five oals and five assists, while Chief Mercer has seven-point night News Staff Kootenay Computers dug a hole in the first period, put Woodland Park Shell in it in the second period and buried them in the third in a Castle- gar Recreational Hockey League game at the Commu- nity Complex Tuesday night. Computers got three goals in the first and third periods, and five in the second in an 11- 6 win over Shell. Garry Sauer was Comput- ers chief undertaker, scoring five goals and assisting on five others. Second in command offen- sively for Computers was Chief Mercer who had a goal _ Dave Rugg scored Shell's first goal of the game with 3:21 left in the second. Dave Terhune had two goals and two assists for Com- puters, while Dean MacKin- non and Jeff Townsend had a goal and an assist each. Ralph Humphrey had the other goal for Computers. Shell, which had a five-goal third period, but four of the goals came in the last six min- utes of the game. Shell got two-goal and one assist performances from Rugg and Bruno Tassone. Tassone also took all three of Shell’s penalties, one in each period. Brad Makortoff was nailed for two minor infrac- tions in the game, while Dar- win Anderson took a third-pe- riod boarding penalty. Benton Hadley had a goal and three assists to lead all Shell scorers, while Chris Brodman had a goal and one assist. Tim Swanson got the win in goal for Computers while Tim Horkoff took the loss. League-leading Castlegar Pressure Wash takes on Shell at the Complex Monday night at 9:30 p.m., while Banjo’s Pub meets Castlegar Sports Cen- tre at 9:45 Tuesday. Skiing isn’t all hills and spills, there’s also full swing now at the Nancy tion. The Castlegar Nord! of cross-country skiing. | SKIING’S OTHER SIDE yo EW ¥ Shell in CRHL ARN “ the relatively sane cross-country variety, which is in Greene ski area, about five-kilometres west of the Nancy Greene junc- ic Ski Club encourages beginners and veteran skiers to discover the joys O 14, 1991 Greyhounds Continued from page 21 “They're let out four times a day for five or 10 minutes, then put right back in. That’s how they live, they get out twice a week to race and then back in- to the cage. “I don't know that they're mistreat- ed, I just don’t think that’s the way a dog should live,” Hand said. In her second trip down, she met and fell in love with Cooler, who now resides with her friend in Calgary. Known as Papa Doc in his racing days, Cooler was one of the lucky ones, Hand said. He had already lived to be five and half years old when Hand adopted him. “I guess he was fast and he made them money so they kept him around.” Hand said when she got Cooler he bore the trademarks of a racing dog’s life in a cage. “My dog had no hair on his haunch- es. There’s spots on his elbows and his legs that are worn right through from rubbing up against the cage all day,” she said. Hand said the greyhounds have their own, unique personality, but make fabulous house pets. “My dog, when we first got him, the big thing for him was standing up and turning around. He could do it and soa believe it. It was like, hallelu- jah!” She said it’s amazing to watch as the dogs discover total freedom for the first time in their lives. “They have no concept of what stairs are, they have no concept of what a back yard is.,” she said. Owner Continued from page 21 *is rare. On the other hand, the dogs are fed, sheltered and exer: cised daily. And what is lack- ing in affection is made up in consistency of treatment, said Everett. While living in a small cage may sound bad, the dogs see the cage as any one of us * would see our home, Everett said. “I wish you could see us doa turnout, when we let all the dogs out to go potty and stuff. When you open the gates for these dogs to come back in, they know they're going back intheir crates and they all just rush in the door. They’re anx- ious to go out and they're anx- ious to go back in. These crates are their security.” One need look no further than the packed cages at the TheNUMBERS local SPCA to see that life could be much worse for a dog, said Everett. As far as mistreatment of the animals goes, Everett said there will always be bad ap- ples, but the business is li- censed and controlled by local and federal agencies in an ef- fort to discourage abuse of the animals. “If they ever do find any mistreatment of a dog, you're totally out of the greyhound dog business. You can never be licensed again,” she said. Still, for years there was a problem in greyhound racing circles as a backlog of dogs without homes to go to after retirement had to be de- stroyed on a regular basis. Everett, who kept more dogs than was fiscally respon- sible for her business during those times, said the kennel owners aren’t monsters, they felt as bad about the situation as anybody. “It used to be very difficult to find homes for dogs. but there’s hardly a person in the greyhound industry that D BAR D , Dining Lounge = * Open 4 p.m. Daily « Located 1 mile Celgar, Westar South of Weigh Scales, O 365-3294 doesn’t get a bond with each one of these dogs, they become like family. When an organization like the Greyhound Pets of Amer- ica came along, it was a God- send, she said. “When you do have to put a dog down, you really get tears in your eyes. That's why we're so thankful for these adoption programs. “It’s really like a happy end- ing to a story when you find that a greyhound gets a good home to finish out its life,” Ev- erett said. BEAT THE 1992 PRICE INCREASE! Buy your Bulk Swim Tickets Now Infant under 2 Children 6 and under Student 7-18 Adult Senlor 65+ Family (max. 4) (G.S.T. 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