* Sy > as Castlegar News November 9, 1988 as Castle $600-million Island highway announced By DAPHNE BRAMHAM Canadian Press VICTORIA — Roadbuilders in British Columbia are n business in a big way with the announcement y that $600 million will be spent on a freeway stretching three-quarters ‘of the length of Vancouver be 1991 before construction starts in his area, Island “Quite candidly, we're choking to death on traffic The Vancouver fsland inland freeway is the first up there,” said Ostler. “They have absolutely no idea major project the Social Credit government has when they put a tube across the road and count tires undertaken since the controversial Coquihalla Highway going over it what kind of traffic that is. It's to $1 billion from its original costs semi-trailers, logging trucks, mining trucks with pup THE POPPY IS A SYMBOL OF REMEMBRANCE completed until 1996, although work on two small sections in Nanaimo and Courtenay is scheduled to begin in December. That timetable is not acceptable to at least one island mayor. Bob Ostler of Campbell River it will that doubled in pr estimate Highways Minister Neil Vant expressed confidence Tuesday “that ‘this project will not have the cost overruns of the past.” We have no intention to do any fast-tracking on this highway ... We also haye a special project director and we have had the last two years to make considerable studies and plans (for the highway).” Highways Ministry officials estimate that travel time on the new highway from Victoria to Campbell River will be cut to three hours from the four it takes now on the winding, two-lane road that hugs the coastline The project involves construction of a new four-lane, limited access highway from Nanaimo to Campbell River and upgrading of the existing road from Victoria to Nanaimo. The new- highway will not. be trailers, boats, trailers and campers — it's everything in the world “It's nothing but a piece of blacktop connected together by municipal traffic lights, and it's not good enough and that time frame is not acceptable.” Vant said the timetable is negotiable and there will be continued discussions with local officials. Much of the existing roadway — the backbone of the transportation system for 520,000 island residents is only two lanes with a passing lane on steep inclines, Unlike the Coquihalla, Vant said there would be no toll charges on the island highway. The Coquihalla is the only. toll road in the province. A five-month inquiry into Coquihalla cost overruns determined that the main reason for the cost increase was the political decision to speed construction so it would be open in time for Expo 86. Socreds outspent NDP VICTORIA (CP) Social Credit party spent more than Barle The governing — The winner, New Democrat Bill Oliver, won only two polls — one in » spent about $48,500 and the Osoyoos and the other in Penticton, twice what the NDP Opposition party contributed nearly $19,000 for Liberal Judi Tyabji, who finished a spent in a June byelection the the campaign that broke the Socred distant third, spent just over $15,000 Socreds lost by more than 5,000 stronghold on the riding in south votes ¢entral British Columbia. Socred candidate Russ Fox spent on her campaign and received $422 from her party Green party candidate Rus Domer nearly $148,000, chief electoral offi Barlee, who has a popular local spent nearly $1,500. cer Harry Goldberg said Tuesday, weekly television show on the are The final totals gave Barlee 15,456 rt of Downtown Castlegar - . -@ reminder that no sacrifice we can make for peace could be comparable with those who gave their lives in the cause of freedom. 365-7813 I CLOSED FRIDAY, NOV. 11 AND SUNDAY, NOV. 13 None of that money came from the history, won all but two of the 23 votes. Fox took 10,376, Tyabji had provincial party polls. 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Ask about our Autoplan premium financing. « D Kootenay Savings Insurance Services Rebels drop 3rd straight decision By CasNews Staff After suffering two defeats on the road over the weekend the Castlegar Rebels were at home last night trying to get back into the win column with a victory over the Beaver Valley Nite Hawks. The Nite Hawks outlasted the Rebels 7-5 to hand the Castlegar club its third straight KIJHL loss following five wins. “T think it's a lack of team effort in a lot of respects,” Rebel coach Daryl Weir said of the team’s last three defeats. The Rebels were the victims in Elk Valley Saturday as the Raiders got their first win of the season with an 11-8 decision over the Rebels. The following day, the Rebels lost 8-1 to” league-leading Columbia Valley. “Our first loss in the East Kootenay, the boys went in very over confident and as a result our defence collapsed, everyone was a forward all of a sudden.” The collapse continued last night as the Rebels were pressured early in the game. Beaver Valley assistant captain Kevin Medland got the game's first goal from Karston Fene koldt. The Rebels replied with a pair taking the lead for the only time in the contest. Brian Wilson scored from Keith Semenoff and Dan Lav. allee just before Roger Carlson scored on a play from assistant captain Jarret Watts. But the Nite Hawks scored a quick trio of goals with less than three minutes remaining in the opening frame. Assistant captain Cory Neil tied the game up at two with captain Jason Startup and Jesse Anast pro- viding the help. Dwayne Bouliane gave the Nite Hawks the lead after Neil and Startup put him in the clear. Anast got the final goal of the period from Bouliane and Neil.. Beaver Valley led 4-2 after the first period. The Rebels narrowed it to a one-goal game early in the second period when Lavallee scored from assistant captain Jason Hughes and captain Lorne Kanigan at the 1:10 mark. But Beaver Valley stormed back with three goals. Startup scored from Neil and Bouliane, Fenekoldt scored from Medland and the goalie Tom Taylor and Aaron Haines scored from Mark Paddison and Greg Seib. Seven different Nite Hawks contributed seven goals in the effort. “Tonight it just didn't seem to be there,” said Weir. “At times we had it, but not consistently.” The Nite Hawks had a 7-3 lead going into the final period and held the Rebels to just two goals in the last 20 minutes. Semenoff scored from Lavallee and Len Rubner scored after Andre Savard and Duane Weir set him up. Beaver Valley hung on to win 7-5 and the Rebels travel to Nelson this Friday to take on the West division-leading Maple Leafs. “We're looking for a fast-paced game,” Weir said of the Friday matchup in Nelson. “We have to stay out of the penalty box because the Nelson club is a very, smart club.” Kordic happy to be with Leafs TORONTO (CP) — Tired of watching his players being pushed around, Toronto Maple Leafs’ head coach John Brophy said things will change with John Kordic in the lineup. “We've got to be more aggressive and more abrasive,” Brophy said Tuesday. “We have to change things around as a team and Kordic is going to do his bit.” Kordic’s time in National Hockey League penalty boxes exemplifies what his bit is. When the Leafs sent centre Russ Courtnall to the Mon treal Canadiens on Monday for Kor. dic and a sixth-round draft pick, they got a fiesty forward who has ac cumulated 335 minutes in penalties in 115 career appearances. He has scored all of seven goals. “He's not here to go out and fight every time he's on the ice,” Brophy insisted. “What we have to do is be- come a cockier hockey club and take advantage of what he gives us.” “Im glad ‘to be out of Montreal,” Kordic said after his first practice in Maple Leaf Gardens. “This is a new start for me. I wasn't expecting Toronto but I'm happy to be here.” Kordic described the Canadiens as a cliquish collection of individuals with huge egos, placing personal as. pirations ahead of team goals. “Until that gets resolved there, there's going to be a lot of problems in Montreal,” he said. SETS NEW LINE Kordic has played in only six games this season and spent two days in hospital last week with bronchial problems, but Brophy said he'll use Kordic on a line with Al Secord and Dan Daoust when the Leafs play Thursday in Pittsburgh Brophy said opposition players have been intimidating the Leafs. “I don't like guys standing having conversations in front of our bench in front of 15,000 people about when they're going to kill the next guy that steps on the ice,” he said. “I don’t like guys on our team being pushed around. “Borje Salming is one of our leaders but guys come in here and, it's a known fact, say, ‘I'm going to put 15 hits on Borje Salming before the night's over.’ I mean, why the (expletive deleted) should we put up with that stuff?” Kordic understands his role. “(Brophy) told me, ‘Well, you know your job, you know your role. You're going to play as long as you show you want to play and do what your job is,’ " he said. But Kordic insisted he's more than a fighter. In his first two years with Montreal, “Every time I went on the ice I just looked for the other team's tough guy,” he said “I didn’t worry about the game. All I thought about was going out there and making some trouble. “T learned pretty fast that you're not going to get through a career doing that . You have to know when to pick your spots and do it when it's asked for and play the game aiso. That's the only way to stick around.” Kordic said the Canadiens reached the point where “they didn't care about me.” Coach Pat Burns called him to his office Mnday. “He opened the door and there was (general manager) Serge (Savard) sitting at the desk. He told me, ‘You're out ‘of here.’ ” Berthiaume suspended by Jets WINNIPEG (CP) — The Winnipeg Jets have suspended goaltender Daniel Berthiaume, four days after he disappeared from the NHL club's farm team in Moncton, N.B., the team announced Tuesday. “He's not fulfilling his contract obligations,” said Jets acting general manager Mike Smith. “He's not going to play in Moncton and he wants to be traded. The Jets aren't going to go for that.” The team had talked to both Berthiaume and his agent before the 22-yer-old player failed to show up for practice last Friday with the American League Moncton Hawks. When those meetings, along with subsequent ones, failed to lure Ber. thiaume back, the team decided to suspend the goaltender without pay, Smith said. The suspension will be lifted only if Berthiaume decides to return. Smith said the player is at his home in Montreal “The door's open and we'll take him back with open arms,” Smith said. GOALMOUTH SCRAMBLE . . . Jarret Watts clear: Rebel goalie Rick Rogerson in last night's game against Beaver tune in fight TORONTO (CP) — Canadian box. ing promoter Irv Ungerman says the American company that held the TV rights to the Donny Lalonde-Sugar Ray Leonard fight used a cheap de. coder that allowed unlicensed es tablishments across Canada to pirate closed-circuit transmissions of Mon- day night's championship bout. Ungerman originally predicted about 500,000 Canadians would watch the World Boxing Council light heavyweight fight, but he said in an interview Tuesday that far more viewers would have been watching because it was easy to pirate the signal from Las Vegas. Ungerman's All-Canada Sports and a consortium known as BCL, formed by Toronto businessmen Bill Ballard, Michael Coh! and Labatt's Brewery, co-purchased the Canadian TV rights to the championship fight from Titan Sports, the TV wing of the company that operates the World Wrestling Federation. Ungerman said many bars across the country were able to circumvent the Titan Sports decoders with a $700 piece of equipment and provide live coverage to clients, either free or at a reduced cost Cost of closed-circuit TV rights to licensed establishments in Canada was based on a cost of $20 a ticket. Arenas, auditoriums and taverns showed the fight in Canada, while in the United States it was available on cable TV on a pay-per-view basis. LACKS ENFORCEMENT “We got an injunction on Monday that some people (bars) were illegally pirating the closed-circuit TV of the fight (and) people who bought the rights from us got upset,” said Ungerman. He said, however, the injunctions were issued too late to be of any help. “If we'd had the injunctions ear lier, we could have gone into every pirate bar and grabbed their equip ment,” said Ungerman. Instead, he said, he spent most of Monday trying to pacify the estab. lishments that bought closed-circuit TV rights. Ungerman blamed the pirating on Titan Sports, whose previous closed cireuit programming involved pro- fessional wrestling events. “Titan Sport went for an improp- erly protected coding system be cause it’s their first time into the boxing game,” said Ungerman He said the decoders to most re- cent closed-circuit TV fights had been provided by Top Rank Pro ductions. “When Top Rank says the signals can't be had, they can't be had. “They don't care in wrestling, since they're into it on a weekly basis. But when you're into closed. circuit TV only once every six months or so, it means a lot. “If signals can be broken, then what's the sense of buying the (TV) rights.” s the puck away from Valley. The Rebels went down 7-5 to the Nite Hawks at the Complex. CosNewsPhoto by Nick Allen CHAT By The Canadian Press After one mishap had left a huge gap in the Pittsburgh Penguins offence, another accident put a significant hole in their defence. The result was Jari Kurri scoring two of his three goals and Esa Tikkanen adding two more in a five-goal second period as the visiting Edmonton Oilers gained a 7-3 National Hockey League victory Tuesday night. With Mario Lemierux missing his second conse- cutive game with a sprained right wrist which he hurt in a run-in with the boards last Thursday night, the Penguins then lost defenceman Zarley Zalapski who drew amajor high-sticking penalty and a game misconduct after his stick cut Kevin Lowe at 7:17 of the second period. “In fairness, it was not as easy as the score indicated,” Edmonton coach Glen Sather said. “When you have two players like Lemieux and Zalapski out, they're not the same hockey club. “Those are two big holes.” Oilers ice Penguins “I didn’t have my stick up the whole shift,” Zalapski said. “I rarely do. “I was in a state of shock when he made the call. I couldn't believe it.” In other NHL games Tuesday night, it was: Winnipeg Jets 8, Quebec Nordiques 4; and New York Islanders 4, New York Rangers 3. The Oilers’ success on the power play came even though they were without their leading scorer, Mark Messier, who sat out the first of his six-game suspension for a high-sticking incident at Vancouver on Oct. 23. “If you stand around and watch them pass the puck, they're going to put it behind your goalie,” said Pittsburgh defenceman Paul Coffey. “We gave them too much respect instead of going after them. You're not going to win hockey games like that.” Normand Lacombe and Lowe also scored for the Oilers, 8-5-2, who moved into a second-place tie with the Los Angeles Kings in the Smythe Division. Dave Hannan, Rob Brown and Dan Quinn answered for the league's least efficient power It was accidental.” in his right eyélid Edmonton, which came into the game with the play, trailed 2-0 entering the period, but scored three times in 2:16 during Zalapski’s five-minute major. “I don’t think (referee Ron Hoggarth) saw it,” Lowe said. “I think one of the linesmen did.” “Zalapski was trying to bat the puck and hit me. The Penguins also disputed Hoggarth's call against Zalapski, even though Lowe had four stitches Penguins, 8-7-0. JETS 8 NORDIQUES 4 Dale Hawerchuk fired three goals and added two assists and Andrew McBain had a five-point outing, including two goals, as Winnipeg sent Quebec to the sixth loss in its last eight games. ISLANDERS 4 RANGERS3 Greg Gilbert's 55-footer from just inside the blue line zipped past goaltender Bob Froese with 2:26 left as the Islanders won its second straight after a five-game losing streak. Canseco player of year NEW YORK (AP) — Jose Canseco, the first major leaguer to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in one season, has been elected Associated Press baseball player of the year in a landslide. The Oakland right fielder received 141% votes from a panel of sports. writers and broadcasters. Los Angeles right-hander Orel Hershiser was runner-up with 13. He was followed by, Minnesota outfielder Kirby Puckett with five and Boston outfielder Mike Green well with 41. “It means a lot because it shows the improvement I've made between 1986 and 1988,” Canseco, who was married this month, said Tuesday Not that 1986 and 1987 were all that bad. Canseco hit .240 in 1986 with 33 homers and 117 runs batted in en route to the American League rookie-of-the-year award. In 1987, he had 31 homers and 113 RBI This season, Canseco led the majors with 42 homers and 124 RBIs while hitting .307. The AL charts 17 offensive cate gories and Canseco ranked in the top 10 in 12 of them as the Athletics won their first pennant since 1974. Canseco has homered more times in his first three full seasons (106) than anyone but Eddie Matthews (112) and Joe DiMaggio (107). His 111 career homers, including five after a late-geason callup in 1985, are the 10th-highest total for a player at the end of the year in which he turned 24, The other nine are in the Hall of Fame. “He's got as much ability as any player I've ever seen except for Willie Mays,” said Reggie Jackson, who played the last two seasons of his career with the Athletics. Canseco, born in Havana, Cuba, in 1964, was the Athletics’ 15th-round selection in the 1982 free-agent draft SLOW START In his first two minor-league sea sons he hit only 25 homers but started a rigorous weight-training program. Of Canseco’s 42 homers, 27 either tied the game or put the Athletics in the lead. He hit 16 homers with two strikes on him. The homers kept coming for Can- seco in the playoffs as he hit three against Boston while the Athletics swept the Red Sox in four games. Canseco was hit bya pitch in the first inning and hit a grand slam in the second. But after that, went 0-for-19 as Los Angeles won in five games. “I wasn’t angry, I'm not de pressed,” Canseco said. “I'm real happy with the things we've done this year.” Pee Wee Reps tie The Castlegar Pee Wee Reps were in Spokane over the weekend losing Saturday's game 62 and tying Sunday's 3-3 in league action. Sat urday's game remained scoreless — even though Castlegar for a while was two men short — until Spokane scored with just 30 seconds re. maining in the first period. Just 30 seconds into the second period, Spokane scored their second goal. Castlegar, again playing two men short, managed to hold Spokane off until the 10 minute mark of the second period when Spokane scored its third goal on a power play. Castlegar finally got on the score. board at 7:53 of the second period with Mark Perrier slipping one past the Spokane goalie, assisted by Ken Skibinski and Leslie Stoochnoff. In the third period, Spokane not ched two unanswered goals before Castlegar's Mike Hunter scored, un assisted, at 14:08. Spokane rounded out the scoring with another goal on a power play at 8:52 in the third period. In Sunday's game, Castlegar open ed the scoring with Derek Read popping one in at 17:34 in the first period. Good defensive play by Castlegar’s Rick Fauth, Mark Carl- son, Mark Perrier and Ken Skibinski held Spokane off the scoreboard until 6:24 in the first period. In the second period, Spokane scored again on a power play at 15:39. At 9:24, in the third period, Leslie Stoochnoff scored for Castle- gar assisted by Vince Antignani and Derek Read. Castlegar's forwards including Mike Hunter, Pat Biln, Ben Koorbatoff, Fred Geinger and Shawn Mosby kept up the pressure on Spokane. Castlegar's goalie, Marcel Dus. seault, stopped numerous shots to keep the score tied. Finally, Spokane managed to pull ahead at 4:22 in the it up again with just 1:41 remaining to give Castlegar the 3-3 draw.