as Castlegar News duly 11, 1990 LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS Premier vague on powers of new act VICTORIA (CP) — British Columbians may have a direct voice in issbes such as constitutional reform if the Social Credit government goes ahead with its referendum law. But then again they may not. Premier Bill Vander Zalm didn’t clear the murky waters when he said: “*The one thing that we were clear on is that some referendums perhaps should be binding whereas others should not be and it should (then) be a matter of seeking opinion.” He suggested that ‘constitutional matters and matters that are of a provincial nature or that tend to im- pact things provincially’’ might be best decided by referendum. - He was equally vague about specifics and about when referendums would be binding. No matter, the government's proposed Referendum Act has drawn widespread criticism, largely because it would allow government to pose questions, set dates and decide where in the province referendums would be held and who would qualify to vote. The most contentious aspects of the act — known as-Bill 55.— would allow government to dictate whether referendums are binding and the per- centage of voters required for them to pass. The Opposition NDP and political commentators have criticized the proposed act. New Democrats argue the UP A POLE West Kootenay Power workers were busy Saturday mornin: ng near Slocan after a power outage kept residents in some parts village without power for about 1'/ hours, —cosnews;phoro *l’'m making since I lost 921 Ibs. with Nutri/System.” “never thought | coukd weer tight jeans, attitude. 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The quarterback tandem, competing for the starting assignment in the 1990 season opener Friday against the Calgary S are who improvise best after being flushed from the passing pocket. Foggie and Flutie have similar 8} in that Flutie that includes lucrative off-season business oppor- tunities. Foggie, 23, is in his third season with the Lions, but the former University of Minnesota pivot has never had the opportunity to be No. 1. He played behind top-rated passer Matt Du: in for two years and had little game time. Dunigan was traded to they are striving for recognition despite being professionals for several years. Flutie is the eldest at 27 as he begins his first season in Canada. The former Boston College star is making the transition from the NFL, where his height (five feet, nine inches) was considered a detriment. He had an impressive debut in an exhibition game against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers a week ago, throwing for 102 yards and rushing for 61 more in less than 30 minutes of playing time. “The biggest adjustment was the 20-second clock and having the ability to catch your breath after running the ball,’’ Flutie said. ‘‘I’ll get used to that."” Flutie signed a CFL contract late last month nd iat with Lions’ owner Murray Pezim, capped by a personal services contract for This week's picks, page B2 the Toronto Argos during the off-season, however, following a contract dispute. Foggie probably saved his job in the Winnipeg game when the six-fe , 185-pound 20 second- quarter points. : “I had to show the coaches I could move the team and put some points on the board,"’ Foggie said. ‘When they signed Doug (Flutie), there was a possibility one of us had to go.” Foggie’s showing pushed two other quarterbacks — rookie Major Harris, 22, from West Virgi and CFL veteran Joe Paopao, 35, a Lion coach last season — off the active roster for the opening game at B.C. Place Stadium. Harris_was placed on the injured list (slight ankle sprain) for 30 days, while Paopao was dropped: to the Practice roster after leading the team to victory over the Edmonton Eskimos in the other exhibition game. “I didn’ t think I'd be the starting quarterback,” said Harris, ii in two brief going from high school to college. “t's a new experience — a new offence and new terminology. It’s just like college.” Harris‘ was red-shirted his freshman year at Wst Vii sitting out the season while learning a mroe complicated offensive system. Flutie was disappointed he didn’t produce more of- fence in his B.C. debut. The Lions scored 13 points when Flutie was in the game, but he fumbled away an oppor- tunity near the Bombers goal line. “*You always anticipate great things when you go in there,’’ he added. ‘‘I’m disappointed we didn’t put a couple more TDs on the board.”’ Head coach Lary Kuharich of the Lions likely won’t name his starter until the day before the opener against his former team. Kuharich coached the Stampeders to second “It’s just like Flutie appears a perfect fit By GRANT KERR The Canadian Press The search for acceptance continues for Doug Flutie, in his third professional football league in six summers. The stubby five- foot- nine quarterback, blessed with qui and ible timing, is seeking to overcome the rejection of his physical stature by NFL teams. He finally seems to have found a home, welcomed into the CFL by the B.C. Lions. The Canadian game, with its wider field and accent on passing, appears a perfect fit. “*I want a place where I’m comfortable and enjoy being out on the field,’’ Flutie said in a television interview. ‘*All indications are it appears to be that way in Vancouver.’’ The 27-year-old Heisman Trophy quarterback from Boston College made an impressive debut in an exhibition game against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Playing less than a half — after only two full practices — Flutie passed for.102 yards and rushed for place in the West Division last season. 61. please see FLUTIE page 82 legislation amounts to an ted power grab that takes decision- making from members of the legislature. “It’s diminished democracy,”’ said leader Mike Harcourt. 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V6B SLS EDUCATION IS TI THE KEY TO A SAFER WORKPLACE Eugene Voykin of the Robson River Otters By CasNews Staff Robson clubs put in strong showings (foreground, lane 2) pushes off in the 50-metre backstroke during last jeekend's Trail-Wartield swim meet. Voykin was competing in the Division 4 boys category. The River Otters and the Swimmers from the Castlegar and Castlegar Aquanauts brought home several medals from the competition. Swimmers awash in medals Aquanauts, River Otters at last weekend's Trail-Warfield swim meet which attracted more than 400 competitors from the Kootenays and the Okanagan. The Castlegar Aquanauts finished third with 913.5 points behind first- place Nelson with 1,104 and the host Trail team with 1,011. Colville, Wash., finished fourth with 652.5, followed by Grand Forks with 179, Kimberley with 176, Beaver Valley with 168, Penticton with 157, Robson with 102, Creston with eight and Agassiz with seven. Although the team finished well back, the River Otters picked up two aggregate bronze medals at the meet. Kim Verigin took a bronze in the Division 4 boys while Kristy Verigin bring home Kim Verigin shared his bronze with Mike Byers, a Beaver Valley swimmer. who previously spent three years with> the River Otters. Kristy Verigin picked up 28 points for the River Otters while Kim Verigin earned 26. Other individual point- getters were Emily Watson with 18 in Novice, Lisa Woykin with seven in Division 3, and Paul Shingler and Heather Sutherland with one each in novice and Division 5 respectively. Meanwhile, the Aquanauts set seven new records at the Wright pool led by coach Wendy Pilla in Division hardware Other individual records were set by Brian Preston in Division 1 100- free and Aimie Chernoff in Di ion 6 100-metre fly. The Division 4 boys broke two records in the free and medley relay while the Division 6 boys broke the medley relay record Castlegar picked up 11 aggregate medals and two honorable mentions at the two-day meet. In Division 1, Brian Preston won the gold while Keith Kristian picked up the bronze. Craig Hawkins collected the bronze followed by Trevor Haviland with an honorable mention in Division 3. Division 6 saw the Aquanauts pick led the way with the gold followed by Wendy Gouk with the bronze on the girls side Mario Fehrenberg and Justin Phillips led the way on the boys side tying for the silver followed by Mike Hunter with the bronze. In Division 7 girls, Pilla collected the silver while in Division 7 boys, Colin Carew and Alex Hartman tied for the silver followed by Neil Jones with an honorable mention. Most of Aquanauts will travel south of the border this weekend to attend the Colville Valley swim meet while a small group of 14 and 15 year olds will be attending the B.C. Sum- mer Games in Prince George. Coming up the weekend after these events is the Aquanauts meet to be held at the new Aquatic Centre. For complete results of the Trail meet, see Drought of hits in soaking wet all-star game CHICAGO (AP) — Pick a pitcher. Any pitcher. American League manager Tony La Russia’s toughest job at baseball's nnual all-star game Tuesday was get- ting up from his dugout seat to signal the bullpen. La Russa started Bob Welch then called for Dave Stieb, Bret Saberhagen, Bobby Thigpen, Chuck Finley and Dennis Eckersley. The six pitchers combined on a two-hitter to beat the National League 2-0. “There wasn’t much to swing at up there,”’ La Russa said. ‘‘They all pit- ched great.’’ The only hits the NL managed were singles to centre field by Will Clark in the first inning and Lenny Dykstra in the ninth. In between, there were two walks, 16 consecutive outs and lots of rain. The AL managed seven hits. “There wasn’t much strategy,”’ La Russa said. ‘‘Everyone I sent out there is a good pitcher. I didn’t have to do much work tonight.’” Julio Franco isn’t a pitcher, but he helped the AL, too. Franco was selected the all-star most valuable player for breaking a scoreless tie with a two-run double in the seventh off Rob Dibble. “I looked at him as he was war- ming up,’’ Franco said. ‘‘I didn’t know much about him.”’ Franco had plenty of time to study Dibble, though Rain delayed the game at the start 15 minutes and again in the seventh for 68 minutes after Sandy Alomar Jr. and Lance Parrish opened the inning with singles off Jeff Brantley to put runners on first and third. The weather at Wrigley Field didn’t co-operate. The wind was blowing in at a 25-kilometre-an-hour clip and the air was damp. “Someone would have had to hit the ball 800 feet tonight to hit it out of here,"’ said AL third baseman Wade Boggs, who had two singles. “I thought it was going to take a squeeze play to get home a run.”" The AL, long a doormat in the all- Star game, now has won three straight and this was its first shutout since beating the NL 12-0 in 1946 at Fen- way park. pitched two hitless innings and was in the game at the right time for the vic- tory. “Tony must have seen something, bringing in a pitcher with a losing record to the all-star game," Saberhagen said. ‘‘My first Wrigley Field experience was a very special Big money missing CHICAGO (AP) — The big money took a break at all-star time this year. Eight of baseball’s 10 biggest con- tracts belong to’ players who didn’t make the 1990 all-star teams. The only two Big 10 players who made it to Chicago were Jose Canseco of Oakland, baseball’s biggest earner at $4.7 million a year, and Will Clark of San Francisco, who pulls down $3.75 million. “I'm not on the team, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not deser- ving,"’ said Dave Stewart, who has won 20 games in each of the last three seasons for Oakland Stewart negotiated a two-year con- tract last year that will begin paying him $3.5 million a year in 1991. At 11- 7, he probably did deserve to be on the all-star team. But Tony La Russa, the AL manager and Stewart’s manager at Oakland, left him off so he could make his regular start Sunday Nolan Ryan of Texas, at age 43, also arguably should be an all-star. But others — like Don Mattingly, Mark Langston, Mark Davis and Robin Yount — didn’t deserve it. The only numbers theyve put up are at the bank Ryan, making $3.3 million next year, is 8-4 with a 3.79 ERA and 116 strikeouts. But La Russa assumed Ryan would like to rest his ailing back Langston, whose five-year contract won a bronze in the Division 2 girls. 7 50-metre free and 100-metre free. up more hardware as Aimie Chernoff The Numbers, page B2 Saberhagen, 5-7 for Kansas City, averages $3.2 million, has an ERA of 3.71, but only a 4-9 record. ‘Bad rep' makes Henderson un By TOM MALONEY The Canadian Press PROFILE Look at almost any of baseball's major categories and Rickey Henderson's name will be in the top 10 — slugging percentage, home runs, batting average, on-base percentage, stolen bases, runs scored. In his first full season since being released from the Bronx Zoo — Henderson was traded to the Athletics by the New York Yankees on June 20, 1989 — the cocky Oakland outfielder is having an MVP year But make that suggestion to him and he scoffs. To win that award, he needs votes from reporters. “*In this generation, I think I'm the best player in the game,.but . . . mostly it’s negative stuff from reporters and I never get away from it,"’ Henderson said after a weekend series in Toronto against the Blue Jays. For all his accomplishments over 10 seasons — he’s challenging or has eclipsed marks set by Ty Cobb, Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle and Lou Brock — Henderson's name doesn’t leap into print when time comes to review MVP candidates. **Maybe before it’s all over I'll write a book. I" if go ’way back and people will think, ‘Wow, Rickey did that great?’ It’s because I always get the numbers."* But not the credit, Henderson implies. For broadcasters, he’s a dubious interview. His clipped speech listener P he had broken into the majors in 1979. “There's always 20-some guys and everybody's trying to get a different story,’’ Henderson says in explanation of his New York image problems “Everybody has different opinions, then you get upset with everybody and you don’t want to deal with that.” In California, however, ‘‘the players, the press, they're laid-back."’ In his 10 full seasons Henderson has averaged 290 with 14 homers, 84 stolen bases and nearly 100 | walks a year. Seven times he has scored 100 runs or more. Js 1980, his first full season, he broke Cobb's AL running as rapidly as his legs take him over the basepaths. He built the ‘‘bad rep’’ in New York, where he spent 4% seasons before returning to Oakland, where record of 96 steals, swiping 100. He raised the mark to 130 two years later In 1985, his 146 runs scored were the most in the majors since Ted Williams touched home 150 times in 1949. In 1986, he led the league in steals for a record likely MVP seventh consecutive time Henderson was hitting .247 with 25 steals last year when New York unloaded him for pitchers Greg Cadaret and Eric Plunk and outfielder Luis Polonia, now with the Angels. For Oakland he hit .294 and stole 52 bases. In the playoffs and World Series, he hit .441, and eight of his 15 hits went for extra bases But after Henderson signed on for four more years at $3 million a year, there was speculation his inspiration would flag ‘*L don’t know how people look at me and say that,’” he said **When did I not have motivation; I play 150 games, I steal 80-90 bases a year, I score 120-130 runs. What is motivation? Do I have to steal 200 bases, score about 250 and hit .400? Would that be motivated enough?”’