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DUNCAN (CP) — Bruce
Holloway is one of coach Bill
LaForge’s proteges, but

If Holloway gets to play is in
the National Hockey League
this season, it will be because
he rates as one of the team’s

Revelstoke has been the pick
of the young crop at training
camp this week. But now he
must prove he can handle
himself as well in the pre-
season games.

“It's been okay for me so
far,” said Holloway, 21, who's
attending his fourth Canucks’
camp. “I think I have a good
shot to meke it.”

LaForge, who has coached
Holloway and five other

"Adds chief scout Jack Mac-
Donald: “He's the most im-
proved player in camp.”

Helioway, who played Tier
Il juhior hockey in Revel-

Conceding three defensive
positions to veterans Jiri
Bubla; Rick Lanz and Doug
Halward, his chief compe-
tition includes Andy Schlie-
bener, Neil Belland, Garth
Butcher, Doug Lidster and
last June's top draft pick,
J.J. Daigneault.

Holloway, a sixth-round
draft in 1961 out of Regina,
has been impressive at both
ends of the ice this week. He
scored four goals in one
scrimmage.

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Viking Centre recently opened in the city of York in
England. And indeed it is difficult not to lavish
superlatives on this unique, painstakingly accurate
restoration of a Viking city as it was 1000 years ago.

It was in August 1979 that we first visited York and
this “dig” hard by Coppergate and a hundred metres from
the famous York Minster. It was just a large, deep,
reinforced hole in the ground with a number of people
digging away in the dark, damp soil with tiny tools and
sifting the results of their efforts with hand-shaken
screens.

The numbered squares, the piles of earth at different
levels and posts — some new and some badly rotted
stieking up here and there was not a particularly exciting
scene. Many of those young men and women in the'dig
were student archeologists, we were told, and they were
working against time.

I was not too impressed by the process, but
fascinated by the idea of what might yet come to be and
at the same time bought several of the many thousands of
smal! oyster shells, discards from some 1,000 year old
meal, to help finance the “dig.”

Now here we are again five years later, almost to the
day and we cannot recognize the place. There is a
handsome row of shops to rent down one side of the
street and a fine red-brick building with an early morning
queue of patrons in front of its wide glass doors, waiting
to get in. A sign says “one-half hour wait from this point.”
We take our places beside it.

Before we realize it, the half-hour has passed and we
are through the glass doors, have bought our tickets and
walked down to the pre-exhibition orientation area. Here,
while waiting to move into the past, we learn from the
pictures and signs something of the history of York

The city of York, located for 2,000 years on the banks
of the rivers Ouse and Foss, breathes and lives the very
spirit of history. As “Embaracum” it was the eastern
headquarters of the Roman army in this Roman province
of Britain, and Constantine the Great was proclaimed
Emperor here. It had a bishop in 314 A.D. and was one of
the most famous centres of learning in the 8th century

The Cathedral of St. Peter's (the world famous York
Minister), with its priceless medieval wall and throng the
“Shambles” where medieval rooftops almost touch
across the street and where the butchers once
slaughtered their cattle and sold the meat from the now
elegant shops while the dogs and pigs fought for the offal
in the middle of the street

In 866 A.D. Viking raiders from Norway and
Denmark’captured thm city, renamed it Jorvik and made
it the capital of the Viking Ki in Britain. Because
they were excellent traders and administrators as well as
raiders, they had by the first millenium transformed
York (Jorivk) into one of the wealthiest cities in Britain.

In 1067, the Normans having defeated Harold
Fairhair, King of the Saxons at Hastings the year before,
captured the eity and as was their custom built a strong
castle there to hold it. The inhabitants rebelled two years
later and a great fire destroyed much of the old Viking
city, though many of the old names such as Petersate and
Coppergate remained.

Almost a thousand years went by and then in 1977 a
commercial excavation on what had been the site of a
candy factory led to the discovery of the old Viking
settlement on the former banks of the river Foss.
Archeologists were called in (a requirement under British
law) and over the next seven years the “Viking Kingdom
of Jorvik” dig under the direction of the York
Archeological Trust and distinguished patrons from five
nations — including Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
became one of the most important archeological
developments and restorations ever undertaken in
Britain.

Now seven years from that initial discovery we are
standing on what had been five years ago the base of the
“dig.” A four-person electric car moves quietly into the
semi-darkness. Two young people take their places
assisted by the courteous attendants. A group of four
Danes just in front of us motion us to take the two
remaining seats, which we do.

To our surprise the car begins to move backward
in space and time — into a dimly lighted cellar full of junk
of our own era

The car continues its journey back through the “time
tunnel” and we hear 50-year-old radio broadcasts,
soldiers in First World War uniform, battle cries and
sounds of artillery. Other figures in Vietorian costume
appear, then a cavalier with drawn sword and lighted

These are some of the adjectives applied’ to the Jorvick
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HISTORY FROZEN ..
Lothin’s wood stall, one
of the exhibits in York's

Jorvik Viking Centre,

a recreation of Viking

life trom the year 866,

when York was known
as Jorvik

lanthorn peers out of the darkness, Elizabethan players
caper about, then a stooped barefooted medieval monk.
Finally, the gloom is lighted by brilliant flames, crackling
of burning wood, cries and shadowy figures in the
background. Suddenly the car stops, reverses itself then
moves forward into the Jorvik of 1000 A.D. and busy
Coppergate (“Copper Workers Street”). Here, history is
frozen in a moment of time, while the car moves slowly
down the narrow street with its close-packed, thatch
roofed wooden shops, warehouses and dwellings running
down the River Foss. On this side “Snarri” the jeweler
bargains with a patron over the purchase of a braided
gold brooch; there Svein, the shoemaker listens to the
agonized tale of a customer's sore feet

The built-in sound system brings in each of the voices
in Old Norse as we pass them, together with the sounds
of industry, children’s voices, the cries of different
animals and the lilt of a wooden flute. A woman with a
wooden bucket pushes her way determinedly through a
flock of hostile geese, a dog raises his leg gn a door post,
man sits meditatively on the one-holer, waist-high,
outdoor loo (toilet) while in the background men unload a
cargo ship at dock and a sail-maker mends its square sail

We move all unseen through a cluttered one-room
house where all the day-to-day living activities go on in
total intimacy. All the while a cacaphony of smells
good, bad and worse — assails our nostrils. Suddenly,
around another corner and in an instant we are back in
the archeological clutter of five years ago in the bottom of
the “dig.”

A moment later the car stops and we are assisted out
by polite young attendants who directed us to the
archeological laboratory. Here, model scientists are at
work with their microscopes and we are invited to
examine some of their plastic-imbedded findings fleas,
seeds, fish-bones and fruit stones — ancient and modern,
side-by-side for comparison, while their real-life confreres
work quietly in the background. With such trifles do
archeological detectives work

On then to the display room with its cases of tools,
weapons, locks and keys, jewelery and money, even
leather goods and woven fabrics which have been
preserved so remarkably in the damp mud of the river
bank

Once again I am struck with the humbling reminder
that in spite of our greatly increased technology the basic
designs of many of those things in common use
weapons, clothing, and household utensils have changed
relatively little over the centuries. That jack-knife for
example, with the fancy blade that you are so proud of

tools,

Students
finding jobs

Jim Cromwell, Castlegar
campus director at Selkirk
College told a recent col
lege board meeting that con.
tact with students during the
summer has shown that all
the 1983 graduates of the
Aviation program are em
ployed in the aviation in
dustry

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© We ask that the Parliament of Canada act to
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would not even get a raised eyebrow from a Viking. He'd
had one like it for years — bone-handle too.

As we mount the stairs to the bookshop and the
streets of York the sense of immediacy, of “nowness”,
remains with us. It is teaching at its best in which teacher
and pupils become totally involved in learning of a
culture, in a moment of history, in the lives of a vigorous
lively, ingenious and artistic people; ancestors or at least
agents in the lives of so many of ys living today

Finally for the “cherry on the sundae”, there is a pub
half a block away around the corner on Coppergate. It is
called The Three Tubs, is several hundred years old, and
its genial host Richard Ireland serves as fine a
ploughman’s lunch as you will find anywhere

For travellers desiring more details, or teachers
desiring resource packs, illustrated talks and such, write
to Gilian Pearson, Information Officer, Jorvick Viking
Centre, Coppergate, York YO1 1NT

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We ask that Canada be declared a Nuclear-

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We further ask that wasteful spending on the

arms race be diverted to fund human needs so

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Castlegar & District Curling Club Lounge

Wed., September 26 — 7:00 p.m.

all curlers, please attend, old and new

Men's Meeting & Registration — Tues., October 2
CONTACT: Peter Johnstone — 365-3438

- 7:00 p.m

Ladies Meeting — Tuesday, October 9, 7:00 p.m
Ladies Registration — Thursday, September 20. Registration only
CONTACT: Michelle Roberts — 365-7854

Mixed Meeting & Registration — Friday, Sept. 28, 7:00 p.m
CONTACT: Mel Scott at 365-6365

“NEW” JUNIOR PROGRAM FOR AGES 12 - 18
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CURL CANADA — October 27 and 28, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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November 10 and 11.
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