Castlégar News October}, 1987

SPORTS

TYSONS CORNER, Va. (AP) — As the third week of
the NFL players’ strike comes to an end, the time seems
to be approaching for a mass exodus from the picket lines
that would force the players to capitulate to the club
owners,

‘The players already have lost an average of $45,000
each, the amount each lost in the eight-plus weeks of the
1982 strike. That's because their average salary has
inereased to $230,000 from $90,000 since that walkout.

The restlessness began to set in last weekend.

Monday’s player rep meeting-pep rally in Chicago
plus the decision of the owners to move the reporting
deadline to Wednesday from Friday held the defections
to 37 and the total to just over 130.

Such restraint isn't likely to continue.

“When it comes Monday morning and they're still
talking about haircuts, a lot of players are going to be in,”
one owner predicted.

The view is shared by others.

“Tl be back next week whether there's a settlement
or not,” said Pro Bow] defensive end Leonard Marshall of
the New York Giants when he walked in, then out of
Giants Stadium last Wednesday.

Or, listen to a pro-union agent.

STAYS OUT

“L represent more than 100 players,” he said. “All but
one are on strike and none of them wants to be. How
much longer can they stay out?”

The only thing that kept many of those players on
strike last week was the resumption of negotiations and
the optimistic public statements of player reps and other
union leaders.

Union spokesman Doug Allen talked as if a new

NFL players ready
to pack up strike

contract was no more than a few steps away,

Steps were taken, but they were tiny steps and
brought tiny results — like agreements not to discrimi-
nate against players by hairstyle or length and to
improve moving and travel expenses.

When it became clear late in'the week that nothing
significant was happening, the union said management
was deliberately dragging its feet.

Earlier, it was union leader Gene Upshaw who
pushed and pushed for more talks and management's
Jack Donlan who stalled until the union privately gave
him indications it would move on some issues.

The pressure is on the union, pressures being
exerted by teams like the Dallas Cowboys, who are
threatening to cancel annuities for players who stay out
of camp.

That would cost the players hundreds of thousands
of dollars if they choose not to challenge such action in
court or long legal battles if they do.

ADDS PRESSURE

“There's no question,” says Allen. “The teams are
putting all the pressure they can on the players to come
in without a settlement.”

Even the solid union teams like the Giants, Chicago
Bears, Washington Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles —
who have one player in camp among them — are staying
out largely for the sake of team unity.

As George Martin, the Giants’ player rep and a
member of the union's executive board, warned last
week: “If one whole team goes back en masse, we'll go
back.”

That, of course, is exactly what the owners want.

RED MOUNTAIN
RACERS SET
FOR SEASON

The executive of the Red Mountain Racers is
preparing for the new ski season. The Nancy Greene ski
league this year is under the directorship of Hans Welk
and assistant Molly Smith.

GETTING READY . . . Red Mountain Racers do some dryland training in preparation
for the upcoming ski season.

this season. This provides programs for the more
competitive skiers. The racers in this category have
always placed very well in the provincial finals held at the
end of the season. Don Wert is the director of the J2 and
J3's this season.

At the top of the racing program are the racers who
have taken out their national competitors cards. At the
cardholder level, coaching is under the direction of head
coach, Ernest Kovae from Yugoslavia, who is returning
for his second season with the racers.

Cardholders are a bat high calibre and fully
committed to ski racing. Both “dryland” and “on snow”
training is regular and strenuous.

Red

Coaching will be di d by Meg ith and

SOFTBALL

Castlegar Girls Softball

Annual General
Meeting
Wed., Oct. 14
7:30 p.m.

Community Complex

Tate rips up
‘Silk’ Olajide

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) —
Sond the wardrobe

department to Canadian first round.

“As you saw, he fought my
fight,” Tate said, and he did
dictate the pace from the

d Von Diebitsch.

Although the young skiers are taught ski racing for
fun, the program's emphasis is on team participation and
ski racing for fun, at the same time forming an interest in
racing and teaching proper racing skills.

The league provides endless opportunities for family
and community involvement and builds a sense of
camaraderie amongst the young skiers and their families.
This is where the Red Mountain Racers ski racing
tradition starts.

The next step from the Nancy Greene Ski League is
into the J3 or J2 programs which are a new format to B.C.

will be hosting a number of races this
season i the Vern And FIS at
Christmas, a men’s and women’s Noram at the end of
February and the highlight, a Women's World Cup in

March.
All racing oh eee Mountain is ered the direction of
chaired

again in 1988 ye Robin Valentine. pe racing executive
looks after all race management, fund raising and club
administration.

In 1986/87, the budget for the racing program at Red
Mountain was approximately $100,000, all of which was
raised by the racing families in the local communities.

COMMUNITY NEWS

VISITORS
COME TO
ISLAND

Castlegar is
with some in DO. Coedeteny tiketer hen compared
with many on the continent. Right? Right. It should
therefore attract relatively few visitors from other cities
and towns: Right? Wrong.

Sherrel Koreen, one of the Friends of the Island
group, was kind enough to type, in alphabetical order, the
visitors to the Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park chapel
house over the past two months. The job was not easy but
the results were very worthwhile and most revealing. In
fact, they reveal our future.

For example, in the period July 27-Sept. 30 there
were visitors from 107 centres in B.C. from Abbotsford to
toi oo many in fact to list at this time.

There were visitors from 24 towns in Alberta,
including: Blackinide Bragg Crock. Calgary, Cochrane,

eee

John Charters ...

Reflections

& recollections

These included:

Australia — Newcastle and Sydney; Brazil; China —
Hong Kong;

England — Birmingham, Cheshire, Devon, Durham,
Eastbourne, Euxton Lanes, Lancashire, Leeds, Penryn,
Cornwall; P Hants; South Kent;

We have heard some encouraging calls for
various

sense. In fact, it makes the only sense for it is our future,
Or os Benjamin Frasklia said during the signing of the
of either we all

Yorkshire.

Finland — Foesley; Haiti; Germany — Frankfurt,
Mechenheim; Ireland — Limerick; Italy — Milano; Japan
— Tokyo; Holland — Huizer. :

Mexico — Tijuana; Wales; Scotland — Airdrie; South

ane together or we all hang separately.”

Meanwhile, we would like to thank all our visitors,
local citizens and those from out of town. It has been a
warm and most interesting and often informative

Africa — Capetown; Sweden — ledeh
Yugoslavia — Slovenya.
For a two-month period, I for one find this to be an

Grand
Cache, Gra Level, Soa Prairie, High Prairie,
Hillerest, Hinton, Hussar, Marionville, Medicine Hat,
Milk River, Pine Valley, Red Deer, Rocky Mountain
House, Taber, Two Hills, Wainwright and Westlock.

There were visitors from the other seven provinces
and two territories as follows:

Manitoba: Alton, Portage La Prairie, St. Boniface,
Winnipeg.

New Brunswick: St. Boniface.

Nova Scotia: Dartmouth.

Ontario: A t, Ce Kit-
chener, Lachine, Oshawa, Sault Saint Marie, Nepean,
Ottawa, Petawawa, Staubville, Thunder Bay, Toronto,
Waterloo.

Prince Edward Island: Charlottetown, Montague.

Quebec: Montreal, Point Claire, Werwick.

Saskatchewan: Battleford, Delisle, Duck Lake,
Grand Prairie, Grandore, LaPointe, Lloydminster,

pressive record, particularly in view of our still
signery. it is only an indi
a banner at the top of the mast by which a good skipper
would judge the direction and strength of the wind and
set his sails accordingly in order to make the best and
most profitable voyage.

It has been stated repeatedly that for every dOllar
put out on heritage development in a community brings
back $2 into the community — and that does not include
the new jobs created, the educational values to the
schools and others or the increased recreational values to
all.

Heritage committees and societies here and
elsewhere are not in the business of making money, but
they do provide the opportunity to attract it.
Furthermore, like the check lines on an aireraft carrier,
which slow down and finally stop the incoming aircraft,
they slow down and stop passing visitors and give them
an opportunity for the professionals to show what

the has to offer.

Maidstone, Moose Jaw, North Regina,
Saskatoon, Swift Current, Watson, Wiseton.
Yukon: Derrpoo.

Finally, there were visitors from Mexico and 17
other countires beyond the bounds of North America.

‘Thus, the stranger passing through is encouraged to
spend an hour, or two or three. For some it can trigger
the deéision to stay as a business person or an
opportunity for a retirement home. In any case, both the
community and the visitor benefit.

The many in the
visitors’ book with respect to the chapel house and the
island have made all the effort so worthwhile and they
are greatly appreciated.

However, numbers of visitors have dropped greatly
during the week as the holiday season comes to a close,
80 we will close the chapel, house as a regular service on
weekdays starting next week, after Thanksgiving. We
will keep it open for October and November on Sunday
afternoons to see how things go.

Any school class, club or citizen who wish a private
tour of the house is asked to contact city hall, the
Castlegar Chamber of Commerce, the Castlegar and
District Development Board, George Apel or my home.
Arrangements will be made to accommodate the request.

Special thanks to the members of the Friends of the
Island for helping make the world welcome at our door. A
happy and warm Thanksgiving celebration to all. We
have much to be thankful for.

* 8 «

Apologies to Peter Minchuk, who I described in the
Al Laing column as an air mechanic in the Battle of
Britain. He was an air traffic controller and unofficial
claimant to the wartime control tower high dive
championship, which is a story in itself. Possibly it will
appear in the book that Peter is writing on his wartime
adventures — and misadventures.

HOMEGOODS

FURNITURE
WAREHOUSE

Tues.-Sat., 9:30-5:30
China Creek

“Drive a Little to Save a Lot”

Westar Sets New
Record in Shipping!

On October 7, 1987 these 10 men loaded 10
roilcars and 11 trucks for a new daily volume
record of 1,415,108 FBM.

Auxiliaries hold meet

CASTLEGAR & AREA
RECREATION DEPARTMENT

OCT. 11 — Public Skating 2:15-4:00 p.m. Admission Adults
$1.25; Students $1.00; Children 75¢

OCT. 12 — Happy Thanksgiving. Complex closed.

OCT. 13 — Castlegar Lodies Golf Club Finale — 9 holes of
golf 10 a.m., lund and social. Preschool Activity
Time 9:30-1:30 Dueberry Creek School. Self Defense
For Women $20. (6 classes) Learn to skate class can-
celled

OCT. 14 — Parent & Tot Skate 10-11, Lunch Hour Hockey 12-1
Public Skating 2-3:30. Castlegar & District Girls Softbbali
Assn. Annual General Meeting 7:30 at the Complex

OCT. 15 — Public Skating 2:30-4:30 p.m. Learn to Skate
3-4 p.m. Pioneer Arena cancelled.

OCT. 16 — Recreation Volleyball League $30/team. Castile:
gar Rebels vs. Rossland. Game time 8 p.m

OCT. 19 — Padded Picture Albums $25. 7-9 p.m

OCT. 30 & 31 — Kootenay Recreation Conference.

A fitness instructor is currently needed for Pass Creek. If you
ore interested call the Recreation Office

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Michael (The Silk) Olajide
but once the fight began,
Tate ripped the Silk to
threads.

Scoring knockdowns in the
11th and 12th rounds, Tate
won the previously vacant
International Boxing
Federation middleweight
title at Cesars Palace on
Saturday with a one-sided,
15-round unanimous decision.

Olajide, a flashy fighter
who was born in England and
raised in Vancouver, bears a
strong facial resemblance to
singer Michael Jackson.

‘There was no way I was
going to let a Michael Jack-
son lookalike come in here
and take a title,” Tate said at
the _post-fight —_ press
conference.

Jackson
nets pair

By Canadian Press

Former Castlegar Rebel
forward Dane Jackson scored
two goals Friday night in
Penticton to help lead the
Vernon Lakers to a 5-1 B.C.
Junior Hockey League vie-
tory over the Penticton
Knights.

Mark Greyeyes also man-
aged two goals for Vernon
while Shawn Hendry added a
single.

Brad Heschuk scored Pen-
ticton’s lone goal at 17:11 of
the third period, spoiling the
shutout bid of Vernon goalie
Jason Palmer.

Vernon outshot Penticton

“He fought a beautiful

fight,” said the p:
unbeaten Olajide, who
entered the ring in a designer
robe with a multi-colored
dragon on the back.

“This is an extremely
disappointing day for me.”

Tate, a 21 underdog,
became the fourth member of
the 1984 U.S. Olympic boxing
team to yin, a Bro.
ship. Tate beat another
Canadian, Shawn O'Sullivan
of Toronth, for the Olympic
title in 1984.

With about a minute left in
the 11th round, Tate landed a
jab and followed with a
crashing right to the side of
the jaw that dropped Olajide
face down.

POUNDS GLOVE

Olajide pounded his glove
in frustration, then struggled
up at the count of five. It
looked as if he might fall
again as referee Richard
Steele continued the
mandatory eight-count. He
stayed upright, however, and
weathered a furious two-
fisted storm in the final
minute of the round.

In the opening moments of
the 12th round, Olajide
missed with a left hook and
Tate came over it with a
right hand that landed above
and to the right of Olajide's
left eye. Olajide went down
and took a nine-count on his
knee}.

But Tate was just too
armateary to follow up and
swas ephtent to box in the last
three-rounds.

Selkirk

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Leafs support Canucks

VANCOUVER (CP) — The only
National Hockey League team to
support the appeal of the Vancouver
Canucks in the Pat Quinn case was the
Toronto Maple Leafs, NHL general
counsel Gil Stein said.

Stein testified in B.C. Supreme
Court that NHL governors voted 18-1
to uphold the ruling by NHL president
John Ziegler, with only the Toronto
delegate, alternate governor Arthur
Gans, op

Ziegler fined the Canucks $310,000
for signing Quinn to a future contract
as president and general manager of
the team last December while he was
under contract to coach the Los
Angeles Kings. Ziegler suspended
Quinn, who had accepted a $100,000 US
signing bonus from the Canucks, from
coaching in the NHL until the 1990-91

ernors on the appeal occurred June 14
in Detroit during the league's annual
meeting, Stein said, with Vancouver
and Los Angeles governors not allowed
to vote, £

Stein told NHL counsel Rees
Brock that he did not consider himself
in conflict-of-interest despite handling
the Quinn investigation for Ziegler and
sitting in on the governors’ meeting as
their adviser.

Stein said he was asked by Gans to
leave the Vancouver appeal meeting,
but was ordered to remain by Bill
Wirtz of Chicago, chairman of the
board of governors.

Stein admitted under questioning
by Canuck lawyer Peter Butler that he
thought the fine assessed by Ziegler
was excessive.

“I had never seen a fine that large

position at the insistence of Ziegler,
who applied another section regarding
the integrity of the game and dis-
honorable conduct.

thstified thé conduét of tiie
Canueks and Quinn “put this whole
league at risk” and the penalties he
imposed “accomplishes the objectives
the bylaw calls for.”

The re-hearing condition of his
ruling was instituted at Stein's insis-
tence, Ziegler said, because “people
react with anger, frustration, emo-
tions . . . and forget we are trying to
run this like a business.”

Ziegler confirmed that general
manager Jim Devellano of the Detroit
Red Wings holds shares in a firm

By POLLY CHERNOFF

The West Kootenay area
conference of hospital aux-
iliaries was held Sept. 24 in
the Legion Hall in Nakusp.

Sharon Waldie, Ann Naz-
aroff, Muriel Wilson, Sherry

Greep, Mable McGillivray
and Polly Chernoff attended
from the Castlegar Hospital
Auxiliary. Eighty ladies were
in attendance, representing
11 hospital auxiliaries
throughout the area.

Guests were welcomed by

Mason moves out,
Allison takes over

The September Castlegar
Home Support Guild meeting
opened with an announce-
ment that

Support agencies throughout
the province endeavor to
heighten awareness of their

Amy Mason is moving to On-
tario. Mason was presented
with two Castlegar mugs by
Guild members, as a token of
appreciation of her years of
service to the Guild.

Marie Allison will now fill
the representative position

role in the

The Guild is planning a tea
for Oct. 17 to introduce Home
Support Week in Castlegar.
This will be held in the
Legion Hall from 1 - 3 p.m.
and will also feature a bake
and book 5

Home Support workers,

will be

Janice Hewat, p
the Arrow Lakes oneliel
Auxiliary. The conference
theme for this year was
“Take charge of your health.”

Iris McKenzie, regional
representative for the West
Kootenay, presented her an-
nual report, followed by
reports from each auxiliary
regarding their activities
through the year.

Displays’'of tray favors,
knitted baby garments, raffle
items, gift packages and
photo albums of auxiliary
activities, drew a lot of at-
tention as well as brisk sales
of various items.

Pauline Lamb, first vice-
president of the British Co-
lumbia Hospital Auxiliaires,
brought greetings from the

jon and re-

held in Penticton May 29 -
June 1, 1988.

A delicious smorgasborg,
prepared by the hospital
dietician and staff was en-
joyed by all the ladies.

The afternoon guest
speakers were Dr. Diana
Kelland and registered nurse
Dale James, who spoke and
showed slides of their visit to
India last year.

Phyllis Pigett was elected
regional representative for
1988-89. The 1988 West Koot-
enay area conference will be
held in Christina Lake. All
delegates agreed that the
conference was an inspiration
and the ideas shared were of
great benefit to the Castlegar
Hospital Auxiliary.

viewed the provincial aux-
iliary budget. A per capita
inerease was approved in
order to reduce the deficit.

Castlegar aux-
iliary members are busy pre-
paring for the annual fall
rummage sale on Oct, 16 and

season.—

The Canucks are trying to have
the Jan. 30 ruling overturned and the
suspension lifted. Quinn's contract was
not registered with the league.

The secret ballot of NHL gov-

almost 10 years.

Messier wants to.
be Oiler forever

EDMONTON (CP) — Mark Messier, the pugnacious
Edmonton Oilers centre, has settled his contract problems,
saying he wants to be an Oiler for the rest of his career.

‘The 26-year-old forward was a holdout through training
camp, but announced Friday he has signed a new six-year
agreement. No other terms were disclosed.

“I'm probably going to be an Oiler from start to finish of
my career, and that’s more or less what I wanted,” said
Messier, who has spent nine seasons with the club. “The
contract talks started a little over a year ago, and we had
mentioned from the start of the contract talks that I wanted
to stay in Edmonton and finish my career here.”

Messier, a muscular, hard-hitting player, went to
Hawaii right after finishing the Canada Cup series. Later, he
flew to West Germany, where his brother Mitch plays
hockey.

Meanwhit. Glen Sather, Oilers coach and general
manager,

Sather ha has been bitter in recent weeks, making remarks
about greed as he wrestled with holdouts including Messier,
defenceman Paul Coffey, and goalie Andy Moog. Coffey is
still unsigned, while Moog joined the Olympic team.

The rancor was gone when Messier and Sather
appeared at a morning new conference.

“In every contract, if you're not happy you have the
right to go and see the management and tell them why
you're unhappy,” Sather said. “And if the

in.the NHL applied before,” said Stein,
who has been NHL general counsel for

He said he thought the Canucks
violated NHL bylaws
tampering section, but changed his

(Maple Leaf Gardens) owned by a rival
Norris Division team, the Toronto
Maple Leafs. Ziegler said he investi-
gated Devellano's holdings and found
there was “minimal conflict.” Devel-
lano was not ordered to sell his shares.

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Sather said Messier will still have to pay the $250-a-day
fine for not showing at training camp. Messier was sus-
pended Oct. 1, retroactive to Sept. 25.

Sather suggested Messier’s signing will help lay to rest
the suggestion the Stanley Cup champions are rife with
division and ripe for the plucking.

“Now we know that we have two of the best hockey
players in the world on this hockey club for a long time,” he
said.

$1 MILLION A YEAR

Wayne Gretzky renogotiated his contract this summer.
‘The new contract runs until 1992, with an option for Gretzky
to retire in 1990, and make him the highest paid player in the
league. Financial adviser Ian Barrigan said the contract pays
Gretzky $1 million annually.

until next March.

To start off the fall in-
service training sessions,
Lawrence Chernoff of the
Provincial Ambulance Ser-
vice presented a CPR re- home support workers serv-
fresher course to the home ing more than 200 clients in
support workers. There will the Castlegar area.

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board members will be on
hand to explain our service to

sociation of B.C. has declared
Oct. 18 - 24 as Provincial
Home Support Week. This is
a week in which Home

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October 15, 1987

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