4 Z aces ee : as Page 8A The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, November.27,.1994 ‘Trail mayor out to save city 's reputation series of articles in The Vancou- ver Sun on Trail's lead problem, The city has purchased full- page advertisements in today’s and Monday’s editions of The Times, as well as numcrous s TRAIL TIMES Mayor Sandy Santori is out to ,save the reputation of his com- -munity, which he believes has : 1 been unfairly maligned by a MARY.KAY spots on KBS Radio.’ The, ads). explain the mayor's view: of the, lead issuc and! encourage, people } to write to The Sun and:-com: plain about its coverage, In the ads, Santori quotes medical health officer Dr, Nel- son Ames as categorizing com: ments in the articles about the health risks of living in Trail as MOST SKIN CARE AND GLAMOUR PRODUCTS ARE MISSING ONE VITAL INGREDIENT. ADVICE. Mary Kay provides you with a personal skin care or Color Awareness consultation. And dur advice is free. 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"In the past we have been in the news; ‘now we aore'gaing to make the news,” said ‘Santori, who chairs the provincially- d° Trail Lead Task The mayor is also trying to arrange a meeting with the Sun’s Force, “Our mandate is not to attack the media. But the time ion of the integrity of the people in'the community and imply that the fact that’ we choose to live here means we don't care for our children, We are not going to sit back and be criticized like that.” Santori said he has received about 100 phone calls this week from concerned and angry citi- for distribution. For the kids— (I-r) Acting Fire Chief Gerry Rample: firefighter Cecil Mark and CKOR's Mark Gregory were on hand to accept the toys which local residents generously dropped off at the Castelgar North Fire Hall, Saturday. The Volunteer firefighter’s Toy Drive began Nov. 15 and will conclude Dec. 10. After this, all toys will be sent to Legion ‘SUN STAFF PHOTO / Sharlene Imhoft Buy a spa that won't soak you on electric bills. Portable Hot Spring Spas are insulated with heavy-duty foam from top to bottom. So no matter how cold the weather, you can soak in a hot, bubbling spa at any time. But, you won't be soaked with heavy-duty electric bills. Avaliable at: Rocky Mountain Fools &- Spas Ltd. 4615 Manhattan Road,S.E. Calgary, Alberta 1-403-243-6667 B.C. Rep. Phone No. 1-352-9564 on zens. In addition to unduly alarming people and insulting © people, the articles make efforts to encourage economic develop- - ment all the more difficult, said the mayor. “Not once in two years (since the most recent study on blood lead was completed) did this community deny there was a problem,” said Santori. “On the contrary, we got the task force together. These types of articles only undermine the efforts of the . for a'grant to begin ‘sodding Be community to‘ deal with’ i ati ds “pre: not, challenging the f-the Centers for Disease '\Co: trol. Welaccopt them arid’ Gre dealing with them.” Last month, the Atlanta-bilged CDC lowered its standard: for infant blood lead levels to’ 10 micrograms per decilitre of lead. A provincially-sponsored " ‘study done’ by a UBC researchi'team two years ago found that the average blood lead level among Trail children was 13.8, This‘is lower than blood levels recorded in past studies ‘but still high enough to cause bio-chemical changes in children that can affect brain activity. Blood lévels of 10-30. can‘have slight effects on the learning, ‘behavior and intelligence of some children. ; ‘The task force resampled chil- dren this fall’ and is ‘conducting an information campaign to *‘ reduce exposure to lead. Further research is pending on how lead finds its way into:the blood- . Streams of Trail children. Major efforts at eliminating sources of contamination are not being ¢ consideréd until Comin- co’s new, lead smelter.comes ‘on line: But ‘the Rotary Club today filed an application with the fed- eral Environment Partners Fund ding and seeding public areas’: with . exposed soil. ‘The Rotarians hope to raise $50,000 to replant 73 sites:iden- - tified by the task force. Please Recycle the Sun — Trail launches, assault of its own ‘ The City'of Trail’has launched a paper assault of i its own follow- ing a series p din The jula int “straight.” Santori says the city has now ived over 500 letters which Vancouver Sun which left many community leaders seething. A campaign is underway to flood the big city newspaper with thousands of letters from irate residents. “My phone was ringing off the hook all week,” said Mayor Sandy Santori. “Peo- ple living here and across B.C. wanted to know what they could do to help set the record will be forwarded to The “ane couver Sun. Santori is also seeking a ineci- ing with The Vancouver Sun’s editorial board. Thus far the paper has been mittal. However, CKNW’s Gary Bannerman has opened a spot for Santori on Raif Mair's province- wide broadcast in the first week of December. West Trail appreach affecting Rossland tourism says owner TRAIL TIMES The new West Trail approach seems to be negatively affecting the summer tourist trade in Ross- land. In a letter to Rossland city council, Uplander Hotel owner and other Laser Products” Your \ Kootenay Computers Inc. Y/ Chiistnas Specials! “Come in and check out our Laser PC-4 Handy Computer Computer Professionals Point of Sale Solutions Total Support Total Solution Betty said that, after studying her occupancy figures between this year and past years, “we noticed a significant lack of tourists arriving from the east.” President of the Rossland His- torical Association Jack McDon- ald also noted last week that attendance was down at the museum about 1,000 people last summer, and also cited lack of informational signage in Trail as a possible reason. : Jenkins said the Ray Lyn Motel had also had a poor sea- son, while “it is my understand- ing that the occupancy rate in Castlegar this past:season was one of their best ever, even though it was a year that tourism was down everywhere. “All this confirms my ‘feeling that tourists are automatically heading off to Castlegar and the junction to Rossland in the Gulch.” ‘The city. will join with the sig- nage committee of the Rossland Chamber of Commerce to see if the situation cannot be rectified Rebels sil at with both pistols firii (21M ZEEBEN “ts (The Castlegar Rebels took full vantage of,a.two game home stand: this kend, beating Elk Valley lost all three games and were outshot considerably in each one, Against Castlegar, the Raiders’ net was peppered with 76 shots c _ Beaver Valley Nite Hawks 7-5 on o Pay, and Elk Valley Raiders 7-1 ‘on Sunday, H »s It:was "Castiegay’s first look at , the Eastern, Division's, Raiders ' :who were on a. three game swing through the West. 23 faced by Rebels netminder Vaughn Welychko. "It feels good to. get the win and get back in action," said Welychko, who had been taking a back seat to Joel Casey, ‘Welychko's record, is now two wins and six;losses.: However SUN STAFF PHOTO dim Zeeben ‘Shut the heck up teferee Aaron Postnikoff seems to be saying as players Started to get out of hand. The ladies’, curling club is in| jw coy full.swing after a month of play. The club is divided into three leagues, with the Tuesday and ’|=.| Thursday evening league play- ing with 9 rinks while the ;| Wednesday aftemoon league is =| made up of six teams. =1' “All divisions are still close. “|The Comivis, John and McArthur rinks ‘are leading the e pack on Tuesdays with six = | points each. On Wednesday afternoon ‘there's a logjam in the stand- Ve Ings as the Grey, Waldie and =84 Perehudoff rinks have the same FJ amount of wins, while the lead- f4 or on Thursday nights Is the “| Perehudoff rink with seven points, closely follovred by the Trickey, All and Prokop rinks— =| all with six points. ; The bonspiel executive is busy planning for the Barbee 3] Open Bonsplel, which will be help the first weekend in March. =| This.is. always a popular and 4 successful event. December 1 is-the date for the interclub s¢4 participating can enter at the be] tink or by phoning Ruth Trickey J at 965-2780. Rinks for this bon- »/sple! will be made up to pro- is{ mote friendship. This is always a very enjoyable social event = {and enjoyed by all those who | take part A small entry fee will be charged and will include ; play-offs are com- |’ ing up fast for those ladles Interested in the competitive “the game. The West)" Kootenay zone play-offs for December 13, 14, and 15, while senior. ladies will travel to Kaslo for the district playdowns. on January'17, 18 and 19. More =| Stanley Humphries volleyball 8] :.:The-seniorboys team has tod already left'on Its: ‘Seyend ‘ H ir =| ladles will be held.in Trall on| . Information Is available at the]...: Sun staff a most of those losses came early in the season when; the club was struggling for a win. "The team wasn't together at the beginning of the season but we're starting to pull it together." In the first period, the Rebels came out firing—literally—as Elk Valley goalic Sean Valikoski kicked away 28 shots, while -Jet- ting three past him. ‘ Ken Hagen was the. first ‘of seven Castlegar players to score. * ’ Dave. Dyball and Dustin Rilkof had a goal each to round ‘out the opening : lod, Chris Sunutti and Shane Cutler :- scored in the second-as Castlegar ‘lined 25 pucks. at the Elk Valley net. penalty minutes, In total, almost »three hours of penalty minutes © - were handed out by referee Aaron stnikoff. é Po: ‘ Most came in a series of brawls i that opened the third period. With ‘two, Castlegar players’ in the penalty’ Horne scored at 5:27 into the See REBELS 10A JIM ZEEBEN Sun staff Stanley Humphries volleyball teams almost made it a clean sweep.at the West Kootenay vol- Ieyball championships. At the junior high school tour- nament this weekend the girls did it's here already Cross Country on snow The. Castlegar Ski cy will be cutting their first tracks of the season ‘weekend: ¢ pee t ae “We have a and two uy out the new trails at Nancy Green all weekend. . ‘able to setting the tracks this “There’s more than * said club sp 1 Tony d two feet of snow waiting for anyone that heads up there.” Molyneux said the club currently has 60 paid members but expects that number to reach around 200 once the season is underway. Downhill Red Mountain had its earliest opening in years as the hill opened some of its runs to the public last weekend. Both Granite and Long Squaw were open and will be again this weekend, “We have three feet of snow this week,” said Hank Cuttell, ski hill manager. “We're shooting to have part of Paradise open for the Ameri- can Thanksgiving.” The mountain was originally scheduled to open December 13. “Tt was a really early opening for us,” Cuttell said. “But with the snow | conditions and the public interest...if you can open, why don't you?" CRHL snipers wearing out goalie pads | There's a month left before the Castlegar Recreational Hockey takes its i reak, But it won't be soon enough for CRHL netminders who might hope new goalie pads wait under the tree. Offences continue: to dominate in the high-scoring league and last weekend was no exception. ~ Castlegar Pressure Wash con- tinues to lead the league in both the standings and in style as they proved last Tuesday by outscor- ing Banjo’s 14-8. Gord Walker . Scored five times while Tom Tru- betskoff and Wayne Kinakin added a pair of goals each. Tru- betskoff added four assists to his . game totals. Pressure Wash’s offence couldn't click on Saturday how- "I played a lot better than I did last weekend," Sunutti said. "But L “should have had about six goals." / With the score 5-0, things got chippy resulting in a flood of ‘ ‘box, Elk Valley's Tim 1 :Bhamra clears, @ puck in front of Castlogat's Nino Da Costa. their Part as they’ ‘won the ‘district final in.two straight over J.L. * Crowe of Trail. It was the boys who came up short as they fin- » ished fifth. * Two weekends. ago, both the ‘boys and the girls senior teams came out on top in the West Kootenay Senior Champ The junior tournament went November 23 with the girls teams playing at the Castlegar high school while the boys side com- peted in the Selkirk College gym- _hasium.' “Tt, was an extremely. ‘disapoint- vting fifth:place:finish.said junior ‘boys;coach Roi Betake: “We shad a‘ great year; unfortunately when it came down to where it meant something we didn’t come through.” : The SHSS boys were unable to make it out of their pool, losing their first match to eventual champions Mt. Sentinel. They dropped their second match to W.E. Graham—a team they beat to win the consolation round. Salmo finished second fol- lowed by L.V.Rogers and Kaslo. “The loss to W.E Graham is what killed-us,” Behuke said, who was disapointed his team finished behind Kaslo. “We dom- inated them all year Iong but they conde it out of their pool and we ,ever, as they managed only four ‘goals in a 7-4 loss to Sports Cen- tre. Three Sports Centre play- ‘ers—Niki Hyson, Dwayne Weir, and Tony Rego—each had two -goals in the game which moved them into a second place tie with ‘Kootenay Computers. Sb K.C. earned ‘their spot by ‘Anocking off last-place Banjo's 8- '6 on Friday. Dave Terhune scored y'S.game that saw Elk’ Valley control'the puck. Roy SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halper Oaiy a handful ‘of this year’s ‘players will be back with the. junior team ‘next year, About six «are expected to make the jump to =the senior team, including Mike Stewart and Jeff Moffat. While the boys were strug: gling, the girls were repéating their first place finish at a tourna- ment they hosted earlier in the “season. is “Weire the best in the West Kootenays so far,” said Marillee Papau, the teacher sponsor for the A total of 14 teams from all team, vover Ahe "Kootenays took Part. ain ++ SHSS, ‘defeated Rosslandy: waeShG tOUDEYS; oy ® Trafalgar,:and Trail to finish first - While one Castlegar team, the in their pool.They beat Salmo in Bruins, were knocked out before the semi-final and then downed __ the play-offs, Castlegar 3 ended JL Crowe 15-13, 15-4, to win the —_-up in the finals against Trail. tournament, However an overhauled Trail “Everything rests on- your team proved to be too powerful - coaching at this level,” Papau _as they beat Castlegar 9-6. } said, refering to co-coaches “This was a house toumament Tamara Gamborski and Carole _so we sent our house team,” said Verigin. “They both compliment Al Wenger, manager of Castlegar themselves in their coaching 3. “Trail took their house teams styles.” and made one strong team from Verigin is.a veterari of local them.” «.,.-: _volleyball programs who also Trail also had a six-man worked at the high school as a advantage of. available players teacher's aid. ‘over the ten Castle; kids on the “Thad high expectations to win | bench.: the tournament,” she said, adding “Our guys were intimidated by she hopes to be back as coach. the. size. of. Trail!s.. bench,” next year,“ Wenger, said.““But we couldn't buy:a goal at first—their goalie / robbed-us.”* ‘After’a tight-checking first period Castlegar was down by only one goal. However, Trail + twoa piece. u exploded in the second to'go Monday night say another _ ahead by six goals. Castlegar’s d- Kevin Pacheco eventually. was Park Shell moved into atie with one of three shooters to put the Pressure Wash. Shell outpaced — puck in the net. Pacheco led the Sports Centre 11-9 on the ~ way with a hat trick while Brian strength of Benton Hadley’s five- _ ‘Wenger scored two and Jorden goal, four assist performance. ° Barlow had one. See CRHL 210A “See_ATOMS finish i second JIM ZEEBEN ‘Sun staff. Bia ca “Two teams from minor hock- ey's atom house league represent- ed Castlegar at a tournament in Nelson last weekend. four goals for the winners while Bob Larsh and Gary Saver added 10A Local stars overlooked by Castlegar card collectors ‘ thing of value,” Olson said. "Like ° It's ‘been booming fo for about a year nad a half across the continent ‘and Castlegar is no exception::: ‘The very serious hobby of col lecting sports cards has firmly ° taken root in the West Kootenay.': "Td rather collect cards 'cause, .. you don't make any, money play- ing video: games," said 12-year old Raymond McConkey. “ The sixth-grader said he has‘ accumulated more than 1,300 » cards valuéd at $800. "I counted them half. month me and the current favorite is iship this i Cantick Pavel Bure.. eekend, f The sonick girisdidn' have 4) quite so far.as they travelled to $1 Courtenay for their Provingla a “son Mark for his © "You! might contri availability: of autographs," said Russ Olson, who accompanied “Tn that regard, Kootenay hock- ey players don't measure up with brighter stars in the NHL. Castlegar's home town hero Steve Bozek is popular with locals _ E but not as an investment. “With Bozek and common *} players you can charge whatever - - you want," said Tammy Bennett, : ‘operator of Kootenay Sports Cards. , : “The last Bozek rookie I had + went for $5." McConkney said he has about :100 Steve Bozeks in his collection but added, “He's not really popular’ Bure's card is currently selling ‘or, upwards of $25. the most "I had: it for a couple of onths,"'said George kin, o-owner of Castlegar Sport sold for $350." i