Saturday, February 1, 1992 @

Exchange student learns
everything about haggis

@ Burns Night a hit at
Castlegar Royal Legion
John Charters

Once again, the pipes were
skirling Saturday night at the
Royal Canadian Legion’s an-
nual Burns Night celebra-
tions.

Once again the traditional
rituals were observed, and
once again the international
appeal of Scotland’s bard was
underlined, this time by the
tartan-clad presence of Cana-
da’s first Polish Rotary Ex-
change student — Anna
Zabinska.

Anna, whose father is a
deputy in the new Polish gov-
ernment, came to the Castle-
gar Rotary Club in August.
She is one of four students at-

photo by John Charters

tending Stanley Humphries The annual Burns Night celebration hit the Castlegar Legion re-

Secondary on a year’s study

cently. Among the familiar faces was one new one, Polish ex-

tary .. Change student Anna Zabinska. Potograph during the festivities
pea ae see = tag re are (from the left) piper Shannon Lloyd, dnacer Erin Welk,

change program for world

Zabinska, dancer Nadine Johnson and pipe major Bram Eccles.

@ Saturday, February 1, 1992

projects

More than $800,000 has
been awarded to 55 commu-
nities throughout British
Columbia to help launch or
sustain a broad range of in-
novative health-related pro-

ects. 3
Health Minister Elizabeth
Cull announced that the
Healthy Community Initia-
tive Fund will provide grants
ranging from 4,000 to
$30,000 to help local commu-
nities undertake projects
ranging from reducing injury

Provincial health

get aid

and death from traffic acci-
dents to improving the
health of young people in
scattered rural communities
in the north.

“The fund is designed to
encourage communities — in
co-operz:tion with residents,
health units, industry, busi-
ness and community-based
organizations — to create or
improve local conditions
which promote better health
within the community as a
whole,” she said.

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Anna is kept very busy with
a wide spectrum of extra-cur-
ricular activities, the Burns
Night celebrations being one
of her latest.

While doing full justice to
the traditional roast beef din-
ner with champit tatties and
bashed neeps prepared by the
Legion Women’s Auxiliary, she
also bravely tackled double
helpings of haggis and oat
cakes and cheese.

Anna “loved the pipers and
highland dancers” and joined

in the group singing of the fa-
miliar Scottish songs.

Legion president Bob
McBain was the master of cer-
emonies for the fully-booked
evening, while Sam Brown
gave the address to the haggis
and Marjorie McBain re-
sponded to the toast to the
women. Ann McFadzian was
accorded particularly warm
applause for her stirring toast
to The Land of Our Adoption.

Bunny Charters received
the prize for the best-dressed

women while Pipe Major
Bram Eccles won the prize for
the best-dressed gentleman.

“It was great fun,” said An-
na, “but my heart is still with
my family and Poland, my
country.”

It is a sentiment which
Burns would have understood
perfectly.

Anna is presently living
with Mr. and Mrs. A. Port of
Castlegar. Next month she
joins Mr. and Mrs. Bill Furey,
also of Castlegar.

Open Learning

Agency offers

tourism courses in Castlegar

@ OLA has seven programs in the
works to help tourist industry

Tourism industry employees in Castlegar
now can study leadership skills through the
Open Learning Agency.

The courses are part of a provincial initia-
tive titled Programs for the Tourism Profes-
sional. They are aimed at individuals working
in, or preparing for, supervisory positions. In-
dustry representatives worked closely with the
Agency to develop the program.

“The demand for well-trained hospitality
workers is growing,” says Fran Sainas, OLA
tourism program supervisor. “Although most
jobs will open up in traditional areas, the in-
dustry is also creating more salaried profes-
sional careers with room for growth: Predic-
tions are that 7,000 new managerial tourism

jobs will appear in B.C. within ten years.”

seven supervisory courses relate direct-
ly to the tourism industry, focus on the work-
place, and are designed for self-paced study.
Four are now accepting registrations: Tourism:
An Industry Persea te: ‘Computer Applica-
tions, Marketing and Customer Service and
Operational Controls. Three others are in de-

velopment; and will be available in Spring
1992: Leadership Skills, Human Resource De-
velopment and Human Relations:

These college-level courses combine printed
training materials, audio and video tapes, com-
puter conferencing and telephone tutor sup-
port. Individuals learn by reading course ma-

terials, examining case studies, participating *

in workshops and completing work-based as-
signments and tests.

_ Specialty programs in accommodations ini
food and beverage management are also in de-
velopment. All courses are recognized by the
Pacific Rim Institute of Tourism as having
credit value toward membership in the new As-
sociation of Tourism Professionals.

For more information or to register, please
contact OLA’s Access Services at 660-2200 or
toll-free 1-800-663-9711.

The Open Learning Agency, established by
the B.C. legislature in 1988, is committed to
life-long learning. As part of B.C.’s public edu-
cation system, OLA works closely with busi-
ness, education and government organizations
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FastLANE

REBELS

The Nelson
Maple Leafs
burst the Rebels’
bubble in a big
way with a 6-1
win in Nelson
last weekend.
But now it’s pay
back time in the
KWHL as the
Leafs make a
stop at the
Community
Complex tonight
at 8 p.m.

JR. GIRLS
B-BALL

It was an over
matched SHSS
junior girls
basketball team
as they lost to
the senior Salmo
Falcons 52-26 at
home Tuesday
night. Lisa
Datchkoff scored
six points for the
junior Rockettes
and Jan Holden
had five.

FREE
AGENT

It began with a
strange
conversation
with a guy in
Seattle who says
he’s going to
bring the
Canadian
Football League
to the Pacific
Northwest. And it
ends with The
News’ sports
editor Ed Mills
vowing to eat his
socks if Spokane
gets a CFL
franchise in the
next couple of
years.

“I didn’t get down
after the Canada
Cup thing, but re-
gardless of what
happens, there is
going to be times in
a person’s life when
things don’t go
well.””

-Steve Yzerman

By Scott Pattison
METRO VALLEY NEWS SERVICE

Stevie Yzerman is to Detroit
hockey fans what Stevie Wonder
has become to Motown listeners
over the years — music to their

ears.
Drafted fourth overall by the
Wings in the 1982 entry draft, it’s
hard to believe Stevie Wonder, as
he is fondly referred to in the Mo-

‘ tor City, is approaching his 10th

season in the pros.

But he is, and fans couldn’t be
happier, as Yzerman and compa-
ny have become the talk of the
NHL this season, after finishing
third in their division during a dis-
appointing 1990-91 season.

At their current torrid pace,
the first-place Norris Division Red
Wings are on a crash course to
meet up with the high-flying,
Smythe Division leaders, the Van-
couver Canucks in the Campbell
Conference finals come playoff
time.

In past years, the talk has often
been of the franchise player, Ste-
vie Y.

This year, there’s a different
story being told around the league
and it doesn’t involve one player —
it’s about a team, the Detroit Red

ings.

“On a good team I don’t think
there is a franchise player,” said
Yzerman, who after nine years of
NHL wear and tear, is still able to
crack a boyish smile using his own
teeth. :

“There is only a few players in
the league — the Gretzkys, the Cof-
feys, Lemieuxs — that can turn
around a team. A lot of the guys
have all been together here for
four, five, six veo everyone is
quite comfo: ith each other

now.”

For their Norris Division rivals
the feeling is anything but com-
fortable, as Detroit has lost only
once in its last 31 contests.

With a record of 28-13-6, the
Wings have, among _ other
plateaus, reached a consistency

YZERMAN, STEVE
Center. Shoots right. 5'11", 185 lbs. Born Cranbrook, B.C., May 9, 1965.
(Detroit's 1st choice, 4th over-all, in 1983 Entry Draft).

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1982-83 PeterborougOHL 56 42 49 91 33
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1984-85 Detroit NHL80 30 59 89 58
1985-86 Detroit NHL51 14 28 42 16
1986-87 Detroit NHL80. 31 59 90 43
1987-88 Detroit NHL64 50 52 102 44
1988-89bDetroit NHL80 65 90 155 61
1990-91 Detroit NHL80 51 57 108 34
1991-92 Detroit NHL 48 24 37 58 34

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a-NHL All-Rookie Team (1984)
b Won Lester B. Pearson Award (1989)
Played in NHL All-Star Game (1984-88, 1988-89)

In each season Yzerman has
reached the 100-point plateau,
scoring a season-high total of 155
points (65 goals, 90 assists), in the
1988-89 season. A

This year, however, Stevie Won-
der wasn’t performing any on-ice
miracles early for his original-six

this year paralleled only in the
past by the offensive records set
and/or smashed by Yzerman.

Things have changed for the
Cranbrook, B.C. native, who over
the past four seasons has single-
handedly carried the Red Wings
offense.

NHL club, and suddenly the dar-
ling of Detroit hockey fans was be-
ing mentioned in trade talks —
specifically trade bait for Quebec
Nordiques draftee Eric Lindros.

For Yzerman, a player thought
to be one the Wings’ untouchables,
the trade talk was the second
piece of salt in an otherwise un-
scarred career for the 26-year-old
player.

Over the summer, Yzerman
made headlines after Canada Cup
team coach Mike Keenan released
the Detroit centre to the disillu-

. sionment of the normally shy Yz-

erman and the hockey world.
Team Canada went on to claim the
international competition cham-
pionship.

“It certainly did open my eyes,”
Yzerman said. “It makes a player
realize that everything could be
taken away from you just like
that. I didn’t get down after the
Canada Cup thing, but regardless
of what happens, there is going to
be times in a person’s life when
things don’t go well.

* “T talked to a lot of my friends
when they mentioned me in trade
talks and many of them have gone
through similar situations ,being
cut or sent to the minors. The
whole key is the team has to be
successful, because if you keep los-
ing, eventually everyone will. be

gone.
Under first-year Wings’ coach
Please see YZERMAN page 19

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