Pree tetys a 5 ae Kootenay backyard visitor Castlegar/Warfield/Rossland/Trail/Montrose/Fruitvale/Salmo/Castlegar This ig the first of a series of eight cirele tours that can be taken around the West Kootenay region. Uf you are new to the area or if you are looking for activities to keep Aunt Mary and Uncle Ed and their kids busy, consider taking (or send- ing them on) one of the tours to enjoy the beautiful West Kootenay region! 2, AG geet destsipsions mart in This circle tour is a very popular one for visitors and residents, or so before you reach China Creek, Genelile and then the Birch- bank Golf Course, part of the Rossland-Trail Country Club. For those who are avid golfers, this course is a must on your schedule. Continuing to travel south for another five or so minutes you able, however it’s best to book ahead by calling the Trail Cham- ber of Commerce at 368-3144. Just past the lights at the tum off to Cominco is a road to the right marked Rossland/Paterson border crossing. Turn right and Posen Kr 4 start winding your way up the switchback, past Cominco's Warfield Plant and along past The Rossland Visitor Guide states that Rossland is nestled in the crater of an ancient volcano at an elevation of 1,023 metres (3,410 feet) and is one of Canada’s highest cities. “Rich arteries of minerals that bubbled near the surface cons ago were discovered in 1890... and in a few short years, Rossland’s fame all radiating from the centre of town. If biking isn’t your style, Rossland offers great golf, nearby lakes and a score of other pleasant f Tues. - Thurs. 10-30 - 9; Fri & Set ree - 16 Sam 10-30-89 Mon. 10:30 - 9 Ce 367-9156 az Use the coupon to the left for a free cappuccino at Gold Rush Books and Expresso a unique bookstore and cafe. The Leroi Gold Museum is open mid-May to mid-September and offers you the opportunity to explore and tour, with your tour guide, an old gold mine from the 1890s. You'll wear a hard hat with a light and go re-liv- ing the carly miners experiences 1320 Cedar Ave., Trail, B.C. - Friday 9am. -5 p.m. past the gym, _ There are a host of other activi: Trail bridge and winds it way ties and tours in Rossland and the thro the residential areas of The Village of Montrose is a small residential community, that Archambault clubs the -competition in Courtney TT a eH a> Fi % E The Castlegar Sun WEDNESDAY July 13, 1994 Todd Archambault and his sweet swing. PHOTO fy Guy Bertrand JEFF GABERT 2 museum, will be Valley R pleased to assist this 4 lane 25- metre pool is popu- This tour now winds its way : lar all year long. down the Rossland hill, past Further along the highway is the Sun Sports Todd Archambault is quickly becoming something of a legend in these parts, as the 18-year-old continues to excel at the game of golf. y of ‘The Gulch began as the heart of at the Fruitvale Diner for great Trail’s Italian community. A nar- Chinese Food is a must as is a walk of Fruitvale towards Salmo. The the 100 acres of land were trans- major attraction, apart from the ferred to the city and then sold to rolling hills and beautiful scenery its settled residents. The area has is Champion Lakes Provincial 4 Continuing along Turn left at the fire hall and then cast, you'll notice i along the back of junction of Highway 3 and 3B. following Salmo is “The Hub of the K . To enter the village, Cominco, Trail is most widely tum left onto Highway 6, just past known for its terrific Italian food. Trapper John’s Restaurant, drive Your Hests: Bob & Shari Ballard CASTLEGAR RY PARK G IRSLOPS Located 2 miles west of town on Highway 3 For Reservations Cail gar (turn left into the parking area). In the early evening the lights of the City of Castlegar wel- come you home. A fast tour, with very little time to get out and tour and shop or browse, will take about four hours. But when you're on holidays, all the fun is in stopping, shopping, Bice Farts Teer Reena ~~ $700 ham BOO SuiewSeies: 0 onae-8 ne Ome "= 843 Rossland Averwe, Trail, B.C. VIR 458 Phone: 368-3144 368-6427 armani, ho oe et ch on te ta (4 Re Amma Ta Poor ‘172 LOCATED AT THE SOT OF WHY 22 =D =D seven days a week. Phone 365-6313. The Half Year r iponllgy The Hail Yea Etalitvect 1922 Membership Sale! Hall year memberships will be available from July 1 at hailf.of the yearly rate. The dues structure is as follows: Couple..$728.00 Associate Members: Non-Resident... $221.00 . I Now Open for B fast from 9 am Weekdays; 8 am Week Please sce Brian or Janet in the Administration Office —_—— oe ee eee ee ee ee R —_ RECREATION COMMISSION MING BEAVER VALLEY Swi POOL EFFECTIVE: JULY 2 - AUGUST 14, 1994 EA yY Bin Bist 7-200. * Monday, Wednesday, Friday WATER WALKERS 720 - 8:00am. R NE w ome FY Foo" 30pm BN Sossay Thursday “Seniors and Ladies ewim participants may stay and extend their ewim into noon lap swim. with Marty Carew, just recently retumed from the B.C. Junior Championship which was held in Courtenay, B.C.. Over 160 junior golfers from all over the province took part with Archambault finishing third overall. The 17-year-old Carew finished a disappointing 31st but still has another year of eligibility. Archambault was +2 at the end of the four round tournament that saw him shoot scores of 72-69-73-76. Consistency is one of his trade- marks and he had his sights set on winning the tournament if it wasn't for a nasty triple bogey on the 16th hole in the last round. “I'm happy, but I wanted to win, being as close as I was to the lead- er,” said Archambault. Carew was in first place after the first round, but his scores quickly plummeted thanks to some inconsistent putting. He shot scores of 71- 80-76-85 for the tournament and finished 31st. “It was a bad tournament,” said Carew. “I didn’t play well and I should have played a lot better. My short game failed and it cost me.” The top eight golfers at the tournament become eligible for a trip to Hamilton to play in the Canadian Junior Chamionships being held August 9-12. Archambault is officially part of the B.C. squad and looks forward to making the trip. Archambault has been golfing since grade 6 when his mother made him take up golf as a summer sport when he lost interest in soccer. He has continued to improve rapidly and has just finished his first year of pniversity in Louisiana on a full golf ip. He says the universi ty experience has helped his game tremendously, especially iiientally. The next action for both players is the B.C. Amateur being held at the Kelowna Golf and Country Club. Carew and Archambault are part of the three person team being sent from this zone to compete in the tournament. You can bet if they both have their heads in the game, they will be tough to beat. Colville Meet hot fun for local swimmers JEFF GABERT Sun ms Hot fun in the summertime took on a whole new meaning for the Castlegar Aquanauts and Robson River Otters who took part in the Colville Valley Swimmect last weekend, July 9-10. The temperature rose to over 100 F (32 degrees Celcius) and the fun rose to lofty heights as well. The Aquanauts finished the meet in third place with many excellent swims from the 60 swimmers who made the trip. The Colville meet is also widely known as a camping meet where whole families make the trip to watch their swimmers compete. Five Aquanauts came away from the meet with medals. Steve Hall tied for bronze in Division One Boys, while Andy Angrignon contin- ued to impress with a gold in Division Three Boys. The Division Five tandem of Chris Cook and Trevor Haviland received gold and silver respectively and Neil Jones rounded out the medal winners with a sil- ver. . “We've been training a lot harder,” said Aquanaut coach Wendy Pilla. “The results are surprising because we've been training so hard and yet they swam so fast.” Pilla also pointed out some good performances by Shelley Stans- bury, Alyssa Pion, Chris and all the Mi and Tiny- nauts. She was impressed with all the swimmers who managed to survive the A ing to Assi coach Neil Jones, “I’m thinkin’ to myself, ‘self, the team is lookin’ sweet.’” swam extremely well at the Colville meet. The next meet for both clubs happens this weekend at the Castlegar Recreation Complex. The Aquanauts will be hosting the meet and i imming action for all sp Daniel Ellis, 3rd in 50m fly; Div.3 Girls- Bridget Gustafson 50m breast; Div.3 Boys- Andy Angrignon, Ist in 100m IM, 2nd on 3rd in 100m fly; Rachel Freidrich, 2nd in 100m breast; Adam Rodgers, 3rd in 200m IM, 3rd in 100m free; Div. Roberts, 2nd in 100m back, 3rd in 100m breast, 2nd in 1 River Otter Top 3 Results: Div.3 Girls- Emily Watson, free Div. 3 Boys- Justin Sutherland, 3rd in 50m free, 3rd in Div. 5 Girls- Alyssa Watson, 3rd in 50m free. EMOIIS O Doukhobor Head Cook at Weddings is a role Vi | much of her energy as she prepares for the tra- ditional Doukhobor celebration of her in-1 nays. book is the culmination of years of work and a decision to write 1950s. It was a world that was some- times painful, sometimes joyful, and ft . tiff and prejudi were solid realities. Plotnikoff, who grew up in Grand teacher. I used to act a lot so, that was my talent. ..that was what it was.” Plotnikoff’s father and grandfather teaching Russian school and he wrote plays and the kids were performing them. And he wrote He also worked on the editorial board of Iskra (a magazine published by the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ) for year. My grandfather wrote songs. My Dad was an actor, my aunt was too, and working for Iskra on the editorial board publicity for every committee and every organization I was ever in. I did skits, was a process of growth and excite- ment. “I was excited. I was so into it I took the classes for three years. I wish it could have come earlier in my life then later because I'd be further ahead now, you know, I'd have progressed. It takes Vi Plotnikoff's experiences as a young Doukhobor girl growing up in a time of great change had tremendous impact on her adult life. Now, these experiences, combined with Plotnikoff's talent for storytelling, hdve enabled her to weave a collection of 14 short stories that will satisfy the palate of any hungry lover of fiction. With wisdom and simplicity, and an unerring eye for detail, "Head Cook at Weddings and Funerals’ portrays a life that is, at the best of times, torn between two worlds. involved in various writing related activities. One significant stepping stone was the workshop, “Writing from your Roots,” that she gave for the B.C. Federation of Writers. “They had work- shops of different cultures and they were doing P y- “You didn't notice it so much at school were so many Doukhobor kids in the schools. But once in awhile, the teacher, speak Russian in the school yard, you'll get a strap.’ It really was taboo to speak Russian in the school yard.” bly the writing that did it.” Plotnikoff feels that if her book has a voice it’s a “voice for understanding among because there's a lot of ing between us.” While dealing with cultural issues Plotnikoff’s stories are exactly that— ies. She remembers writin by the Castlegar Library years ago, “He wrote, ‘You're a born story teller because you concentrate on story, not on style,” this is what I was told. I don’t worry about technique. It’s the human approach that people said she loved the story (Lekarka) because it touched something in her, 1990, Plotnikoff saw the grant as a gigantic boost. “That was really, really, the big boost I needed and I started cut- ting back on everything and really focusing on my writing. Everything shifted, my life to my writing. Then one, year ago I signed a contract.” Plot- nikoff’s contract with Polestar Press was unique in that it was the only com- pany she approached with her manuscript. “Julian Ross, the publisher, was doing some of my work with me and I gave it to him. We talked about it, and then a year later, they contacted me and said they were interested.” Plotnikoff’s book launch took place June 13 in Vancouver. “That was one of the most exciting nights of my life. It was wonderful and fun and it made me feel accepted to a point. I’m still unsure of my life and it made me feel a bit more secure because people were read- ing the book and they're saying, ‘I real- ly enjoyed that’, so those comments really mean a lot to me.” What's next for Plotnikoff is some- thing she isn't quite certain of, yet. “There's still a lot of memories out there...who knows.” Whatever her next fictional destination might be, ‘Head Cook at Weddings and Funerals,” will be a lasting memory of Ana/Vi and the way things were, and the essential that helps to create the world. Vi Plotnikoff —Alexa Pongracz story — Sharlene Imhoff photograph