62 Castlegar News _ September 24, 1989 SPORTS — WANTED — Castlégar News 197 Columbia Ave., Castlegar Robson River Otf@rs Licence No. 70354 Sat., Sept. 30 at Arena Complex 60% PAYOUT ON ALL GAMES Early Bird 6 p.m. Regular Bingo 7 p.m. CASTLEGAR ee HOCKE _ REGISTRATION Registration forms available at Castlegar Com. Complex CLOSING DATE: Sept. 30/'89 CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT RECREATION DEPARTMENT SEPT. 24 Minor Hockey 10-11:30 (0-7 months 10:30-12:00, plex. Scing helinete, skates, whist (12-17 Years) SHSS 620.6 ‘and fe: Training MON.. SEPT. 25 — New Fall Schedule WED. SEPT. 27 — Monday. Mini Minstrels 9:15-10:00 a.m. Mini-Basketball 4:00: 5:00 p.m THURS., SEPT. 28 — Tots Gymnastics Gymnastics 4:30 (Beg 104:45-11:30. Kreative Kids 10-11:00 Woodland Park. Party Dancing 7:00 4-5). Creative Dance (4-6 yrs) p.m. Complex. Cowboy Western 5-3 p.m Dancing 8 p.m. Fitness 5-6 p.m. Kin. FRI, SEPT. 29 naird Elementary. 7-8 Intense KJSS SAT., SEPT. 30 TUES., SEPT. 26 — New Baby & You 8:00 p.m Phone 365-3386 —2101-6th Ave., Castlegar Same as Monday Rebels vs. Spokane ned Vi a#« Does winterizing your pool give you = cold feet? WINTER KITS NOW IN STOCK! Remember just prior to-shutdown is the best time to rejuvenate your sand filter “Strip-Kwik & Kleen-It" ore the preferred “BioGuard” products : ae Bring your pool cai Gary AT VALKYR AQUATICS to BioGuard. 706 CENTRE AVE., BLUEBERRY 365-7389 CLEAN COTTON RAGS| McCammon rewarded by Canucks VANCOUYER (CP) Popular coach Bob (Cagey) McCammon agreed to a new multi-year contract Friday with the Vancouver Canucks, a reward for the improved play of the NHL team last season. In keeping with club policy, details of the deal were not released. “We wanted to keep our managerhent team intact and continue the progress our club has made,” said president-general manager Pat Quinn “We're pleased that Bob has decided tostay on with us,”” McCammon, 48, a native of Kenora, Ont.,-begins -histhird. year with the Canucks when league play begins Oct. 5 against the Edmonton Oilers. He became the 10th Canucks coach when he was hired in 1987 to replace Tom Watt, who was not retained when Quinn took over management of the team Last season the Canucks improved by 15 points to finish fourth in the Smythe Division standings with a 33 39-8 record with 74 points. Vancouver had the third best defensive record in the NHL In the first round of the playoffs, the stubborn Canucks extended the first place Calgary Flames to seven games before the series was decided in over time. Calgary went on to win its first Stanley Cup championship “I's an exciting time for us,”” Cammon said recently. ‘‘A lot of players gave a lot near the end of last year “With the addition of the Soviets, we have a lot more depth, a lot more talent up front, I’m a lot more con TENNIS TRIUMPHS . . . Tilly and Herman Kemperman brought back medals from the B.C. Senior Games held in Trail earlier in September. Tilly captured the silver in ladies singles competition (over 55) and Herman struck gold men’s doubles (over 55). Bushnell, Bausch and Lomb Binocular Blowout! LIFETIME WARRANTY 2OMLY 8x42 Rubber Armoured neg. 270.05 voMmLy 7x50 Sportview neg. v4.50 voMLY 9x35 B&L Discoverer neg. «10.05 7omy 7x35 wiinstaFocus neg 59.05 somey 8x40 wilnstaFocus feg: 29.95 Tomy 10x28 Compact Fogproot/waterproot. Reg. 389.95 tomy 8x24 Compact Fogorootwaterproot. Reg. 381 now 229.95 now 79.95 now 379.95 now 44.95 wow 59.95. wow 319.95 wow 319.95 7x28 Compact Fogproot waterproct. 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All the women an outdoor luncheon after following Castlegar women were winners “AY Flight Diony McArthur; Diony McArthur “BY Flight Clarice Alice Papp Low gross longest drive Low net McKinnon; fewest putts BOB McGAMMON . inks new pact fident and so 1s the team The Canucks will have former Soviet stars Igor Larionov and Viadimir Krutov in their lineup this season, along with promising Trevor Linden, who placed second in voting last season for top rookie honors The vocal McCammon is affec- tionately called Cagey by his players for his witticisms. He was runner-up to Pat Burns of the Montreal Canadiens in the voting for the Adams. Trdéphy That goes tothe coach of the year McCammon previously coached in the NHL with the Philadelphia Flyers. He also served as an assistant coach with the Oilers His two-year with the Canucks is 58-85-17. Vancouver was 14th overall in the final standings last season. His NHL coaching totals are 177 wins, 152 losses and 48 ties BCJHL suspends players record VANCOUVER (CP) — The B.C Junior Hockey League has suspended five players and fined both teams following a penalty-filled game earlier this week between the Nanaimo Clip- persand the Richmond Sockeyes. BCJHL vice-president Bruce Ab botts said Friday thai both teams were fined an unspecified amount after 447 called when the minutes in penalties were Tuesday in Richmond Sockeyes won $-1 Suspended for two games were Brad Dickson and Dan Kesa of Richmond, plus Nanaimo’s Jim Lessard Set down for one game were Clayton Fahey of the Clippers and Richmond’s Kent Fearns Sports Briefs Expos drop out of sight TORONTO (CP) — How prolonged is the Montreal Expos’ second half snooze? Long enough to have the fourth-worst record in the National League since the all-star break going into this weekend The Expos have a 30-36 mark since the mid-season pause, while the woeful Atlanta Braves at 24-42 and the injury-riddled Cincinnati Reds, also beset by the departure of manager Pete Rose, at 26-40, were the least proficient, The Expos have actually won*one fewer game than the Philadelphia Phillies since the all-star break Also, against the Cubs, Mets and Cardinals, the NL East teams that araahead of them, they have a combined 4-15 record since July 28 Not surpringly, the surging Toronto Blue Jays have the best second half log in the American League. They’ ve gone 41-24 CFL attendance rising TORONTO (CP) — CFL attendance and television ratings have in creased from last season, says president Bill Baker “We are pleased and encouraged by the attendance and TV audience figures we have seen to date,”’ Baker said in a release issued by the league office. “The combination of improved marketing, exciting football and renewed confidence in the league has attracted fans from all ages in growing numbers The B.C. Lions lead the league in attenance, drawing 208,570 in six games, an average of 34,762 — up 2,657 from 1988 The Toronto Argonatits’ average crowd is up 10,893 from last year After five home games, the Argos have drawn 170,257 to the SkyDome for an average of 34,051 Flo-Jo may be investigated TORONTO (CP) — The governing body of track in the United States will likely investigate allegations of drug use by sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner and other American athletes, a spokesman said Friday “1 would be very surprised if there wasn’t an investigation,”’ Pete Cava, information director for the Athletics Congress, said in an inter view from Indianapolis, Ind ‘If it takes a top athlete in the U.S. going down like Ben Johnson did in Canada, then so be it.”” Cava was referring to allegations by Darrell Robinson, U.S. 400- metre champion in'1986, who told the West German magazine Stern that he sold banned growth hormones to Griffith Joyner. No stars in Soviet future TORONTO (CP) — The Soviets don’t have a marquee player like the NHL, which has Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Steve Yzerman And some critics say they may never have one as long as Victor Tikhonov remains coach of the national team: “Tikkonov thinks he is a king sitting on a throne,” coaches wrote in a letter published by Nedalya, a weekly sports sup- plement to Izvestia, the Moscow daily “He has lost his objectivity. He treats any disagreement as an attem pt to undermine his power. He thinks he has a monopoly on the truth.’ two Soviet Weather greets senior golfers By GERRY WICHERT Beautiful weather and excellent course conditions greeted 53 seniors on Sept. 16 as they head into the, final weeks of the golfing seasont’ * in The Castlegar links couldn’t keep nine different golfers from breaking par while two more scored even pars on the front-nine holes. Joe Cushner, Buzz McDonald and Mike Verzuh all carded the best scores as they finished in a three-way tie with three-wader par 33s. O. Anderson, T. Allis, D. Mc Donald, G. Wichert and T. Wilson shot two-under par 34s in a jam for the second-best rounds. for the day heck of a low net,”’ on the back nine. Gorkoff and J_Killough with respectively. T. Allis, K 36s on their scorecards at the finish. T. Steenvorden was the sole golfer at-one-under-par-as-he-went-to-the clubhouse with a 35. R. @ay and S. Striloff ended up with even pars of 36 Sixty golfers joined the battle for the Bill Evans Trophy, emblematic for ** Lawrence Paul shot a blistering net 30 to win the trophy. He was followed closely by O. Anderson with a 31, W Henderson, A, Popoff and M. Waite had even-par Weekend Wrap-up COMMUNITY NEWS September 24, 1989 Castlegar News i NEW BOOK ADDS TO HERITAGE He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children at ptay, and ofd men from the chininey corner. — Sir Philip Sidney There is a new teller-of-tales in our midst, the latest addition to that honored and most ancient tradition of mankind. His name is Yuri Kupchenko and the name of his book is The Horseman of Shandro Crossing, | got it on Sunday afternoon and only finished reading it by Tuesday noon because I had other things to do. In brief, it is not only a darn good read but an essential Lateral rootlet to our ethnic Canadian heritage Set in the early part of the century when the Canadian government and CP Rail were encouraging thousands of European settlers to come to Canada and take up land on the newly opened Prairies, it is the story of a young Ukrainian Cossack commanding officer who comes to Canada to find a new home for himself and his bride-to-be, and in the process becomes “The Horse: man,” the natural leader for the growing Ukrainian colony on the North Saskatchewan River The narrative takes. the form of $7 episodic chap- ters starting with the arrival of the beautiful, dark-eyed Maria and 1,100 other emigrees at the end of steel at Strathcona. Here Yehan (John) Konopale, the hero of the story picks her up. Then,-in a brief Ukrainian Greek Or John Charters Reflections and recollections thodox ceremony (at which the priest is visibly angry at the absence of the traditional trappings, including din. ner and dancing), he marries her and takes her off to his first rude home and quarter section of newly acquired land Oveg the next several years, John learns to adapt his skills as a leader of men in war in-his homeland to keep ace among his friends and his once-enemies in the land. He also learns a great deal more about women. At the same time he establishes his reputation as askilled rider and judge of horses in a culture where hor ses are supreme, and becomes ** The Horseman”’, a title of honor The writing style is spare without waste words Descriptive passages are lean but impressive, oc casionally even lyrical, reflecting the feelings of 4 man with a deep love of the land. The dialogue, while sometimes stilted, is still effective, a part of the whole. It witHflow more smoothty with practice and Time The book's main strength, however, comes from the strong identification of the writer with his cultural heritage, his love of this country and its traditions and his own close association! with both. He grew up in a large family, well-educated but poor. His background was shaped by his father’s thousand-volume, hand: picked, library, by privations of the Depression, by wide experience among members of the Ukrainian community and in the life outdoors A sharp eye, arerentive memory and atorof careful homework has focused all of this into a very special ex particularly the Canadian reader, so long raised on the idea that the Canadian ex classical perience for the reader, perienceis dullsville. When I first started reading this book, 1 was pleased to note the absence of the current literary moral relativism where self-indulgence, violence for its own NEW BOOK . .., The Horseman of Shandro Crossing is the first book for author Yuri Kupchenko, better known locally as Jim Chapman. sake and promiscuity are the norm, and the anti-hero the model for youth. It then became obvious that this was not just the story of an Ukrainian immigrant, even ne of larger-than-life mould, struggling to establish a home for himself and his family in the new Canada That classical library had a profound effect on the writer and this story was an overlay on a much more ancient tradition — the Medieval Romance, the stuff of Ar (hurian knightly chivalry and ideals. “Thus, we have the Christian Konopale), superbly valiant in battle, generous in victory, loyal and honorable and compassionate in all his dealings, and always in keeping with the g warrior (John armed and mounted, . Courteous to women. Moreover, he res cues a maiden in distress (lostand being eaten alive by mosquitoes in a swamp), fights her father in single com bat ‘*like a man preparing to sit down to supper and en joying the huge blows given and received." A little later he goes out to take on another former cavalry officer in a sabre duel. He competes for the joy of it and makes peace where he can. He fights and kills a dragon, or at least a giant, maurading, white, plains grizzly bear, the last of its species, with regret and saves his best friend from certain death He dances, feasts and drinks with best of them at the completion of his castle (new house) but does not forget the Ukrainian proverb **Men rule the world and women rule the men’’ when his wife raises the roof over aspark onthe new oak floor In the last chapter he accepts, with thanks, the birth of his first child, a daughter instead of the expected son Iris the end and a new beginning Tt matiers not therefore, whether the story takes place 80 or 800 years ago, It is simply a great satisfaction to find an author who can take pride in the creation of an ethnic Canadian folk hero, one wh still believes that there is a place for personal and social responsibility in our land and that the old chivalric ideals still survive The romantic spirit is alive and well It is both an entertaining and an informative book, well written and well bound. I am pleased to be among the first of many to offer my congratulations on his first book; a go0d-book=Fhere-withbe others, stilt better, if his first writing is any indication For those who don’t know him by his Ukrainian name, Yuri Kupchenko is probably better known in the Castlegar Writers Guild, the Lions Club and other places in town as Jim Chapman, late of B.C. Tel In the new two weeks we The Dream.” get back to the story of BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE w ving ioe Arson) — § and all should be well! Yes, by 9. a.m. Sundays, you should be enjoying your Sunday Castlegar Hf you're not, we want to correct the matter if you fail cons! Sunday Cestiegar Ne then phone us Monday ond Complain Call 365-7266 and ask for circulation. tly to get your y 9a. Castlegar News 197 Columbia Ave. 365-7266 Open Monday "9:00 am STRONG & Associates New Dimension! 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Chicago, 33 NATIONAL LEAGUE jest Division w CWL makes plans Joseph's Catholic Women's League M an installation ceremony for the new members, Re The September meeting of St Joseph's Council as held with 24 members in attendan- Audrey The meeting began with Kay Gauley and Margaret Nagel leading needy mother Cedelia Freitas, Wendy owsell and Dorothy Salisbury Plans were made for a delegation of work ona banner submission from St Archambault, Family Life convenor, reported that a baby’s layette had been presented to a newmother inthe community, Work is being done on another The remainder of the meeting was taken up finatizmg plans for the coming fall bazaar which will be held in Art club to display work By CasNews Staff Christian jayette for a displaying its talents for the viewing public in an art show scheduled for Oct. 6 at the Homestead Soup and Sandwich Shoppe. I The Kootenay Art Club will be Seniors' bus trip scheduled Seniors will demonstrate two ex citing ways to be “Out and About"? on Thursday, Sept. 28, using Castle gar’s newly integrated (wo-bus transit system “Out—and— About!’ is—the-theme chosen by Castlegar city council's Abilities Awareness Advisory Com mittee for events planned to introduce new riders to the integrated bus ser vices, a committee news release says Rota Villa and Rosewood Manor residents have been invited to ex perience first-hand how Castle regular bus and HandyDART custom transit bus provide practical, cori venient transportation: for mid-day banking, shopping or lunch outings, the committee says About’ sponsored by B.C. Transit, Castleaird Plaza merchants and the Abilities Awareness Advisory Committee. Per “Out and sonal assistance on request will be provided by the Castlegar Rotary An ns. Castlegar’s version of * sit "* on Sept with the daily bus schedule. Han dyDART and the regular bus will board riders at 10:08 a.m. at the Rota Villa with a prior stop around 10:03 a.m. at Rosewood Manor Any other interested seniors are welcome to join the group on the mags tran 28 is timed to coincide regular route which starts from down townat 10a.m, Return trips on the reg ular bus are scheduled for 11:42 a.m and 1:52 p.m. HandyDART return trips can be arranged with the bilingual (Russian/English) bus driver arrival at the Plaza. HandyDART (short for Disabled Accessible Rapid Transit) is lift equip ped and will accommodate up to three Wheelchairs as well as having room for 12 other riders, the committee says The service is open to people with all types of disabling conditions upon A con cee away to college? Order the sy. 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