CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, January 29, 1976 jews From the Director's Desk By Pat Metge The Castlegar and District 2) Arts Council will be holding the H'first of two concerts for the season on Jan, 31. This first concert is a musical time, the only class that is officially cancelled is the chil- dren's drama, This week sees the start of cake decorating, social baie children’s 3 of historical periods with slide $S presentations, Artists include the Koote- nay Chamber Orchestra with solo performances by Zdenk Kriz on viola and Wendy Panattoni on piano. This pre- sentation will be Jan. 91 at Selkirk College, starting at 7.30 ‘pin. Tickets are available at e two libraries, Carl's Drugs, from any arts council member at the door, Watch for a further arts “Washington State Brass Sex- ‘tet. Persons wishing to secure and softball pitching. aes classes still have vacancies, as do some of the courses which are presently underway, You may still register in these courses; however, this will be the last week that you may do fo. . The 1916 Regional Recrea- tional Commission No. 1 execu- tive met Jan, 14 with the following persons as your latest representatives on the commis- sion: Terry Cormier—Blue- berry, Gordon Portaz—Robson, Jock Stewart, Doug MacKin- non, Len Dunsford and Dave Ferguson as City of Castlegar { summer with the } Canadian Red Cross Society, {should contact the Recreation { Office. These positions are open : in all areas of the province for : persons with senior aquatic } qualifications, Applications will i be accepted until Feb. 13. $ Watch for the Wham Walk +in your area. Scheduled dates : include Robson on Sunday, Feb. 18 and Blueberry on Sunday, ‘eb, 15. Come on out and :“Walk A Measured Mile.” ; Sr a) The week of Jan. 25 - Feb. is Minor Hockey Week across anada. In order lo raise funds cover ice costs and some tequipment, each year the "Castlegar Minor Hockey Asso- ciation holds a week of hockey ‘and fun with teams from out-of- | town challenging our Castlegar jboys, and the local boys chal- lenging other local boys. ("It is highlighted with a sbake sale on Saturday, hamper ffles and a major raffle, with izes to be drawn on Jan. $1 at a dance held in the arena hall. Everyone is welcome to attend sand support Castlegar Minor Hockey. : Minor Hockey Week gets “underway this week with offi- jal opening ceremonies start- g at 11.45a.m. on Saturday. If tyou come to the rink, you will tbe charged for a hot-shot ‘button and program for $1.25 ‘and this is your admittance to ‘all the games. Saturday evening the fea- ‘ture game is set for 8 p.m. between the Trail and Castle- ‘gar Midgets. ‘ Sunday morning is a giant pan-cake breakfast in the arena hall for anyone in the commu: nity to attend, followed by more hockey action. Plan to join in the fun, you won't be sorry you did. se 8 Response has been good to our adult education and recrea- tion programs. At the present and Bill Gat- trel representing the school hoard, Jock Stewart was elected chairman of the com- mission for the coming year. No. Hockey Results Available This Week By John Dalziel By the time you are reading this, the second round robin will have been completed and, hopefully, the first two days of play in the third nearing completion. Only two games remain to be played on the morning of Jan. 27 and the draw for the next go-round will be made immediately following. Several of the boys plan to be away during the next six weeks or so and there is a chance that the draw will be cut to 11 rinks instead of the 12 in the first and second competi- tons. Among thosc absent will be Ernie Carkner, Jim Lipsett, Wally Walper and Ross Whit- taker. jiiaee, These boys will be missed, but I am sure the rest of us wish them all the best in Arizona, Mexico, California or wherever. Actually, the second round robin winner has already been settled, since the Dalziel rink‘ cinched it with a couple of wins last week. Jack Kelly, Harold Merrifield and brother-in-law Ernie Newman really laid it on in the last two games, although Bob Wadey did give them a bit of a scare at the onset of Wednesday's game. Bob got away to a good start with some real fine curling and jumped to an early 4-0 lead, but by keeping in Castlegar Rink Wins Zone Curling Playoff The Norm Reid rink of Castlegar has become the win- ner of the West Kootenay Zone curling playoff and will be going to Trail next week to decide the Interior B.C. Champions. Competition took an un- usual twist when it was another local rink, that of Bob Wright, that had to be beaten out for the honors. Those making up the Norm Reid rink are third Bill Van Olympigram Yzerloo, second Bill Ellis and lead Bill Brady. The Bob Wright Rink consisted of third Tom Leckie, second Lloyd Ish and lead John Phillips. If the Norm Reid rink is victorious in the Interior B.C. Champions they will play out the B.C. Championships with the coast winners, then go on to the Canadian Brier. Local Residents Can Wish Canada's Team Good Luck Want to be part of an Olympigram, a good luck tele- gram to Canada's national ski team? Olympigram is a new fund- raising scheme organized by the Canadian Ski Association to help put Canada’s national ski team on stronger financial footings. Executive director of the Canadian Ski Association say: Pa 29 Downhill Skiing Equipment Only SKHS - BINDINGS! BOOTS (Mounting Extra) Hurry to Waneehes and SAVE Monashee Sporting Eqt. Ltd. (op of Sherbiko's Hill) Phone 365-3181 Dave’ S Me OFF re its that during the month of January the association will be canvassing people across the country to spend $1 to put their name on a good luck telegram. “Weill get 85 cents of each dollar and if we can clear $100,000 we'll keep our heads above the water,” he says. Canvass co-ordinator for Castlegar, Trail, Salmo and Nelson is Mrs. Herb Woods. She says for the past week and a half, cards, accompanied by buttons, that donors place their name on have been available at Carl’s Drugs, Monashee Sport- "ing Equipment and P & G Builders Supply. Time is drawing near: however, with the deadline in the local stores at 3.30 p.m. Saturday, though names will still be taken Sunday at Red Mountain Ski Hill. The Olympigram will be given to the Leam just before its departure early in February for the winter Olympics in Inns- bruck, Austria, says Mr. Nes- bitt. “We've laid off staff to be able to keep up our Olympic training programs, but if our financial situation doesn't im- prove then we'll have to cut our post-Olympic program and that will hurt our future chances,” he said, of will , Friday, J y 30th PHONE 365-5304 — OPEN DAILY — Monday fo Thursday 12 noon - 10 p.m, Friday and Saturday 12 noon - 12 midnight Sunday 12 noon - 9 p.m, PHONE 365-5304 Pensioners’ Curling Club Notes Third Round Robin Draw is Made CASTLEGAR. NEWS there and chipping away at the lead, the Dalziel rink drew even in the eighth, scored a three on the ninth and salted it away on the tenth. Last week's: results were as follows: Tucsday, Jan, 20 it was Bradford over Carkner, Murphy over Woytella, Wadey rVerzuh (a real humdinger ofa 2 game) and Dalziel over LeRoy. Wednesday, Jan, 21 saw Dalziel over Wadey, Lyons over Wilson, Carkner over Jacobson and Verzuh over Brown. Thursday, Jan. 22 had Brown over Jacobson, Wilson over LeRoy, Bradford over Woytella and Murphy tied with Lyons. I just happened to learn yesterday that our old curling friend George McAndrew had met with a bit ofa mishap while on his travels, The details are rather hazy but the story I have is that George slipped and fell injuring either his arm or joulder, Anyway, it seems ho will be out for the balance of the season, The boys will miss you, George, and I am sure will join me in wishing you a speedy recovery and no serious afters. Next week I should have the personnel of the rinks for the third round robin for ‘you along with the first two days’ results and the following week's games. If I can squeeze in under the wire I may even have next week's draws in this issue. No matter, we are enjoying a real jim dandy season and looking forward to a real stirring finish in March. ‘Two of the rinks hoping to take part in the zone playdowns had a practice game Sunday morning. Unfortunately it was- n't much to write about, as the - Brown rink simply over. whelmed the Dalziel bunch a gavé.thein'a good lesson in how’ the game should be played. Hopefully the next encounter will be a different story and at least a much closer game. See you on the ice. Next week's draws are as follows: Tucsday, Feb. 3—Wilson vs. Murphy, Jacobson vs, Ly- ons, Dalzicl vs. Woytella, and Brown vs. LeRoy. Wednesday, Feb. 4— Jacobson vs. Verzuh, Wilson vs. Wadey, Murphy vs, Brad- ford, and Dalziel va, Brown, Thursday, Feb. 5—Wadey vs. Bradford, Woytella vs, LeRoy, and Verzuh vs, Lyons. The draw for, the third round robin play was made following Tuesday’s games. Rinks and personnel will be in next week's paper. ‘Angler Lands Record CaiciZon Koofenayiake A rainbow trout weighing 35% pounds was caught and landed on Kootenay Lake Sun- day, the largest sport fish ever recorded for the lake. The fisherman was George Hill of Gray Creek, who was out on the lake with his wife, near Wilson Creek. It took him 20 minutes to land the monster, using a 15-pound test line. ‘The trout is only one-and-a- half pounds short of the world record, a 37-pounder caught in Pend Oroille Lake in Idaho in 1947. Fisheries blologist Har- vey Andrusak believes both fish were from Gerrard Creek spawning grounds, Mr. Andrusak says it is quite possible the record will be broken at any time. He says he has seen fish at Gerrard that “may have been 40 pounds,” and notes the Gerrard runs have been excellent for the past four years. Cross-Country Trails Being Developed af Red Mountain Over the past two or three years, cross-country skiing has been gaining momentum in the Kootenays as an alternative to the long lineups and crowds of peopte who wish toalpine ski on weekends, At the Red Mountain Ski Club general meeting last spring, a show of hands indi- - cated that most of the people there would make use of cross- country trails in the area of the ski hill if these were available. Three cross-country trails have been laid out in the Red Mountain ski area. A short loop leads east from the lower parking lot near Red terminal, across a field, through the trees and returns near the highway. It passes near the new Rams- head Inn, The Red Shutter Inn, and Granite terminal, ending at = the lodge. ‘Another trail starts at the east end of the short loop, links 5th Annual B.C. Winter Festival Now Underway Winter is here, and the Sth Annual British Columbia Win- ter Festival is underway and will conclude Feb. 16, 1976. You can participate—or just ob- serve—various fun-filled pro- grams and events. The British Columbia win- ter festival is a province-wide celebration designed to focus the attention of all British Columbians on developing pro- gress in the areas of recreation, culture and sports, and to encourage interest and partici- pation in these activities by people of all ages, is year the opening ceremonies are being held tonight in Kelowna immediate- ly following the Kelowna Snow- fest ‘76 parade. Premier Bill Bennett will officially open the winter festival in outdoor cere- monies in front of the Royal Anne Hotel in Kelowna. Every- one is invited to attend and lend support to this 26-day, action- packed, winter festival pro- gram. Two winter carnivals will be taking place in the Kootenay Region this year . . . the Kimberley Winterfest "76 and The Columbia Valley Winter Festival which includes Beaver Valley, Rossland, Trail’ and Warfield. The Columbia Valley win- ter festival, which begins Jan. 81 and continues through to Feb. 8, will feature several sports events — including aelimackey.s a ston country up with No. § road where it meets the old Red Mountain road. It then follows No, § road back to the main ski hill below No. 6, From there it goes across the T-bar hill up to Granite lift on Indian Flats, and north on logging roads past Topping Creek, ending on a knob below Grey and Kirkup mountains. From the top of this knob, you get a beautiful view of the ski area on one side, and the Columbia Valley on the other. The third trail starts on the field below the lodge, and crosses the highway just east of the Red Mountain turn-off. From there it goes north on the old road to Hanna Creek, through terrain that is very i> level. easy going:\Each of the t= dead-end trails arg about three miles long and end up about the same distance along the high- way. FEC ; A track setter has been built, and will be used to pack the trails regularly so that there will be reasonable cross- country skiing during the pow- der season. Touring in deep powder is not something cross- country skiers look forward to! c skiing, the Red Mountain relay race, bowling, curling, a broom- ball tournament and ski joring —a great variety for all sports fans. For amusement and merri- ment, there are programs which will entertain the young and old—a snow festival dance, the bonspiel cabaret and dance, acasino night, bavarian nights, the Boy Scout ice carnival, and for the more adventure- some, a sno-drift '76 car rally. ‘Those with artistic inclina- tions will want to take part in the Trail Art Club Display, where works from local artists, as well as a travelling art show will be on hand for viewing. Also, a snow sculpture contest will test artistic skills providing fun for the whole family! Bowling enthusiasts will be pleased. to know that both Creston and Fruitvale are scheduling bowling tourna- ments, and Trail will be holding its 4th Annual Crowe Cage Bowl basketball tournament— all part of this year's British Columbia -Winter Festival. For those seeking cultural entertainment, The Mermaid Theatre will be putting on publie concerts in Creston, Selkirk, and Trail. These are ‘y skiers are encouraged to use these trails and perhaps a good cross- country area can be developed equal to that in the alpine. Place Your CASTLEGAR NEWS Classified Ad Now! TELEPHONE 365-7266 NOTICE Public skating sessions at the Castlega: : PETTITT, PHOTOS “PETTITT PHOTOS COLOR PRINTS from Negatives PETTITT PHOTOS -. t SO1OHd Li1113d SOLOHd LLwiad be held as follows: Location: . Legion Hall, Castlegar, B.C, Date: DATED AT TRAIL, B.C. JANUARY 23rd, 1976 D. A, TURNER AREA ASSESSOR BRITISH COLUMBIA ASSESSMENT AUTHORITY 1976 Courts of Revision Take notice that. the first sittings of the Courts of Revision to hear appeals concerning the 1976 Assessment Rolls for all Municipalities and-Rural Areas within School District No. 9 will SCHOOL DISTRICT No, 9, CASTLEGAR City of Castlegar and Rural Areas 248 Columbia Avenue, Friday, February 6th, 1976 at 10:00 A.M. Le | CHARGEX and =| : Quantities limited to floor stock All Sales Cash & Final Welcome