A8 Castlegar News August 31, 1991 * We could show you samples of the News redesign... N CASTLEGAR August 31, 1991 Canada’s largest invita- tional baseball tournament, the Grand Forks Credit Union International Labor Day tourney, kicked off Wednesday at James Don- aldson Park. Twelve teams, including semi-pro entries from Japan, Tai United St. » will play a 25-game ‘slate for over $25,000 in prize money. Games will be played from 8 ‘a.m. to 8 p.m. today and tomorrow with the money round beginning at 3 p.m. Sunday and concluding with the $12,000 championship game at 4 p.m. Monday. The teams will compete in three divisions: DIVISION 1 Grand Forks Gold Idaho Warriors Chicago Hornets Team Japan San Diego Stars Seattle Studs DIVISION 3 Lewiston Truckers New York Slammers Portland Bay ad Electric LA. Valley gers ce LOCAL The largest sailing event held in the West Kootenay, the West Kootenay Sailing Club’s Gray Creek Regatta, is set for the east shore of Kootenay Lake this week- end. More than 50 vessels are expected at the regatta which is open to all classes of sailboats, including sail- boards, dinghies, catama- rans and cruisers, and to sailors of all abilities. The fleet is divided into classes so that beginners will not be overwhelmed by the size of the fleet. For more informa- tion contact Kim Deane in Rossland or Gray Creek. The Vancouver Canadi- ans baseball team just can’t seem to win on Thursdays. The Pacific Coast League's worst team has not won on a Thursday since May 30. A St. Catherines player scored 59 seconds into over- time Thursday giving the team a 9-8 win over the Vic- toria Eagles and its second Straight Minto Cup, emblematic of supremacy in Canadian Junior A lacrosse. GRAPEVINE A former Romanian Olympic swimmer said he has been banned from Edmonton’s YWCA pool for splashing too much. After getting a written warning to reduce the ripples outiaeal | by his energetic butterfly and freestyle strokes, and sever- al reprimands from life- siky was giv- guards, Alex C: en the boot from the pool. wi eras reco tory. DEE-JECTION! Hi Arrow Devils goaltender Ga: ry Dee lunges for a bali just out of reach during warm up Thursday for an exhibition game against the Nel- son Heritage innkeepers at Selkirk College. It didn't get much better for Dee when the game began as the Innkeepers beat the Devils 5-2. The West Kootenay Soccer League’s regular season resumes in two weeks. CasNews photos by Ed Mills Castlegar junior golfer Marty Carew had a plan and it worked like a charm. Too bad he developed it a lit- tle too late or he probably would have won the 36-hole B.C. Junior Men’s golf championship this week at the 108 Mile House course. As it was, the 14-year-old fin- ished fourth overall in the 82- Player field and his two-day total of 160 was good for second overall in the 14-and-under age group. He did it despite shooting an 11-over-par 83 in his opening round on Tuesday. That was before he developed his plan. “I guess my temper and atti- tude was better,” he said. “I had a-couple of bad shots (in the first round) and that messed up my whole game.The next day I went for it. I had a game plan and stuck to it and just played great.” Part of the plan was just to make himself feel better. “I came in pretty disappoint- ed I didn’t play so good, so I knew I had to do something good.” Carew, who’s used to the hilly terrain of the Castlegar Golf Course, didn’t get any help from the conditions on the course in 108 Mile House, which is about 350 kilometres north- east of Castlegar. “It’s really flat. It’s really windy there and the conditions were really bad. On the second day I guess I got pretty much used to it. I didn’t'make the mistakes I made the first day,” said the Grade 8 student at Kin- naird Junior secondary school. Carew said it was the biggest tournament of his young career and he was thinking all along that he had a chance to win it. “I thought if i could play good I could get pretty close to win- ning it. But there were a lot of good players there.” Castlegar sends 22 to B.C. Seniors Games By CasNews Staff With events like bagpiping, cribbage and one-act plays, the B.C. Seniors Games are by no means the Olympics, but for the silver set they hold at least the same prestige. And evidently that prestige is growing in this area and across the province as registration for the fourth annual games has risen 25 per cent this year. Twenty-two Castlegar ath- letes will join a West Kootenay contingent of 118 seniors repre- senting Zone 6 at the Games Sept. 5-7 in Coquitlam. In all, some 2,000 athletes, all age 55 and over, from 12 zones will compete in 20 events at the Games. And at least half that number will be in the city for a four-day party as guests of the athletes. “It’s really a wonderful thing for seniors,” said Zone 6 coordi- nator Lola Turick, who got heav- ily involved in the Games two years ago when they were held in her hometown of Trail. From a way to‘keep physical- ly and mentally fit to more eso- teric concerns, Turick said the attraction of the game for seniors is many fold. “You're looking at some seniors with health pi \ lot of them with health prob- lems, but they do go out and they are determined to do what they set out to do. It’s really qi them.” ite for And of course there’s the com- Petition, which, though not fierce, is at least spirited in the quest for medals. Castlegar Athletes Who Will Participate in the B.C.Seniors Games. Margaret Munns John Raymond GOLF Katherine Hominiuk Louise Ferworn Otto Walker Carl Henne Earl Rourke Jim Feeney Verna Keraiff Bill Keraift Dorothy Raymond John Moran Bill Van Yzerloo Marg Van Yzerl Wiiiewnat The Kootenay Zone’s best chances at medals come in the pool, where Castlegar athletes make up most of the swim team, and on the track in cycling, she said. “Swimmers won't bring home as many medals as the coast teams because they concentrate on that, but I think our swim- mers will do very well.” Cycling, on the other hand, should be a medal gold mine for Zone 6, she said. “Definitely in cycling, with Matilde Klassen from Nelson, Roland Anderson, Jack Tees from Slocan and Helen Bourchi- er from Rossland. I expect they will all do well.” And, as always, there will be lessons to be learned for those who care to listen to their elders. “I think the young people could learn a lot from watching the seniors — good sportsman- ship for one thing,” Turick said. “I know watching the swim- mers, the person who comes in last will often get the biggest i] simply because they managed to finish.” While the Games have a lot of athletes in their 80s, age is real- ly a relative thing, said Turick. “The oldest person at last year’s Games was 100 years old, and he'll be back this year, so a it of us are youngsters,” she Locals join in cross | provincial effort to save their Games By CasNews Staff Doing what they do best, seniors from across the Province kept the B.C. Seniors Games alive this year. With bake sales, raffles and a gigantic garage sale, local seniors did their part in a cross-province push to revive the financially troubled event. And now the 2,000 or so athletes can save the rest of their best for the field of com- petition Sept. 5-7 in Coquit- lam. Fraught with financial troubles over its four-year existence, the Senior Games were on the verge of folding this year, but as Kootenay Zone 6 coordinator Lola Turick said, “the seniors just don’t want to give up their Games.” And so they put together a plan to save them. “Each zone had different events to raise money, ” she said. “We had a large garage sale, we had bake sales, we raffled off two AirBC tickets and just had a draw yester- day (Wednesday) for Safeway vouchers,” said Turick. The seniors also got some help in the form of donations from the City of C ear, But it was a gold medal play by a grocery store that pushed the Games over the edge of success this year. “Canada Safeway came in a8 a premier corporate spon- sor and thanks to them the Games were able to continue. We were looking at the Games folding without them coming through.” Turick said B.C. seniors have good thing going with the Games and aren’t about to let them go without a fight. “Oh, this is a heck of a good thing for seniors, it is a won- derful thing for the seniors. It gives them something to look forward to and it’s not just a matter of winning medals, it’s a matter of participation, which we stress,” she said. Life would be a lot less stressful and more enjoyable if the government realized the value of the Games to seniors and did more financially to keep them going. “The B.C Seniors Games Society as a whole gets some money from the provincial government, but not nearly enough to run the Games. We're having problems get- ting through to them that we need mare money.’ What's certain js that the ior athi and several local service and seniors clubs and the provin- cial government. senior will be back next year trying again to get their message across.