ae Castlégar News december 6, 1987 BUSINESS » MOTEL OF THE YEAR . . . Bill Schmidt, of the Association of Canadian Travellers (right) presents Genevieve and Ernie Turta, owners of the Castlegar Fireside Motor Inn with Motel of the Year awa Fireside gets award Castlegar’s Fireside Motor Inn was selected Motel of the Year at the annual convention of the Association of Canadian Travellers in Vancouver in November. The association is a national fraternal organization which represents the manufacturing and service sector companies. Most of them spend a minimum of 60 per cent of their time on the road and the motels are their home away from home. As a fraternal organization, they raise money for charities and most recently purchased surgical equipment for the Kelowna General Hospital. The award was first presented in 1974 to the Glenwood Motel in Trail while the Ray Lyn Motel in Trail has won it numerous times. This year though, the Kelowna chapter, which represents more than 140 members, aeneegs the Fireside Motor Inn to the At the pi con- ference the ‘final decision was made and the Fireside was selected. Ernie ‘Turta, owner of the Fireside was thrilled. “In the last 18 months or so since we bought the motel, we have worked very hard to improve the image and to offer a motel with a full range of services for our travellers,” he said. “We are proud to have been selected for the Motel of the Year and we will work even harder to win it again next year.” The award is based on recommendations of the A.C.T. travellers who come into the Kootenays. The criteria includes cleanliness, front desk service, public relations and helpfulness and quality of the restaurant. Bill Schmidt, Kelowna chapter president, a rep from Can-Cel Industries and a traveller, was asked if Castle- gar’s central location, and the Fireside’s proximity to the highway affected the recommendations. He said that now when he comes to the Kootenays he stays in Castlegar and then can run into Trail or Nelson and back again. “When I have to head back to Kelowna, I can just zip right back on Highway 3.” Turta added: “This is the first time the award has gone to a motel in Castlegar. For the last two years it was in the Okanagan. Our rooms are up over last year and like most motels, commercial travellers are our bread and butter. I am pleased that the i The Canadian Press Py "Nakusp logging comp- any is one of four companies to bid on a new forest licence to cut cedar in the McBride area. The British Columbia For- ests Ministry has expanded the annua! allowable timber harvest in the McBride area so firms can chop down ancient cedars, some of them more than 250 years old. Columbia River Shake and Shingle Ltd. of Nakusp is one of the four companies to bid for a 10-year forest licence to cut 60,000 cubic metres of over-mature cedar and hem- lock annually on the lower slopes of mountains west of this village 200 kilometres east of Prince George. The trees were never con- sidered merchantable before. But after being approached by a shake and shingle op- Nakusp firm bids on cedar land would be cleared and then replanted, “We're certainly very in- terested in making these sites more productive,” Mer- kel said. “There's probably as much wood fibre rotting there now as there is grow- ing.” Other bids were submitted Products, of Vancouver; and Clearwater Timber Products Ltd. Weekly Stocks VANCOUVER (CP) — Prices were down in active trading on the Vancouver Stock Exchange Friday. Vol- ume to the close was 11,973,- 861. Of issues traded, 178 ad- vanced, 355 declined and 529 were unchanged. The VSE Index was down 21.51 from Thursday's close to 1135.74. Cosmos Resources was the most active equities trader, gaining .01 to .50 on 198,200 shares, Nuspar Resources was up .02 to .30 on 109,800, has us this way because it is a tribute to the work of all our “When we came here almost two years ago, we knew Castlegar had potential and would be an important in the K We had a study done to try and identify who our clients were and who they could be. The report was valuable in helping us assess how and what we could do. The results happened a lot faster than we anticipated and we are very, very happy.” Turta explained. Cobra was down .06 to .50 on 105,500, Goldbelt Mines. was unchanged at $1.70 and Norsat Interna- tional was unchanged at .22. Leading development equities was Skukum Ven- tures, unchanged at $1.10 on 1,011,500 shares, Valar Re- sources was up .05 to $2.50 on was unchanged at .50 on 201,500 and International Impala Resources was up .10 to $2.40 on 176,750. Goldbrae Development was down .06 to 61. Nelson Civic Center Y Opening Th Sai FINE CRAFTS -- A umia FELIX BELCZYK . first place VAL-D'ISERE, France (CP) — canadians Kellie uasey and Kerrin Lee joined a surge of lower-rated skiers to post top-10 placings on a slick course Saturday in a women's World Cup downhill ski race won by Switzer- land's Chantal Bournissen. Casey, of Collingwood, Ont., placed fifth and Lee, of Rossland, was eighth as the Canadian women turned in their second strong team performance on the second downhill of the season. y Bournissen, a 20-year-old economies student in her second World Cup season, won the race in one minute, 22.64 seconds followed by two West Germans — Marina Kiehi in 1:22.77 and Ulrike Stanggassinger in 1:22.94. Laurie Graham of Inglewood, Ont. failed to win at Val-d'lsere for the first time in three years, but finished 14th to give Canada three top-15 placings. In the first downhill Friday on the same course, Canada had four in the top 15, with Graham fourth, Karen Percy of Banff, Alta. ninth, Casey 12th and Lee 14th. “I was ecstatic with the 12th and I'm even happier with the fifth,” said Casey, 22, who leads the Canadian team and is fifth overall in downhill standings with 15 points, tied with Stanggassinger and Switzerland's Zoe Haas. ERRATIC COURSE “It hit me when I came through the finish line and all I saw was hands in the air. I thought I must have done something,” Casey said. The course was made erratic by recent warm daytime temperatures and cold nights. The 15 top-rated skiers, who"ysually get the best track conditions, had waxing problémg while the course speeded up for later starters. Casey had start position No, 25, Lee No. 35, Bourni- ssen No, 36 and Stanggassiner No. 50. Lee would let,no complaints about the course or strong winds at th top of the run detract from her perf jormance. “I know it was windy and I know it let up a little for the later people,” said Lee. “I guess that's just the name of the game. That's the sport. “Yesterday, it was much windier for me that it was for the first seed. I'll take it when I can get it.” Graham, 27, had difficulty in the soft snow and eed for a tie for 14th with Switzerland's Heidi Zur- “Tm not op good in the daft. goow,” said Graham. i | think the conditions altered the results.’ BELCZYK HOT Among other Canadians, Karen Stemmle of Aurora, Ont., was 22nd in 1:24.33, Percy was Sist in 1:24.92 and Lucie Laroche of Lac Beauport, Que., was 46th in 1:25.89. Canada’s men’s team, who race a downhill today at Val-d'Isere, were also rejoicing as Felix Belezyk of Castlegar, B.C. posted the fastest time on the fifth and final training run. 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Quinn scored his second goal at 4:15 of the third period when he ed a Paul Coffey rebound past goaltender Kirk McLean for his ninth goal of the season. Callander tucked a backhand shot past McLean at 15:10 to seal the victory for the Penguins, who are 3-1-2 in their last six games. Lemieux put the puck into the empty net with 48 seconds left for his 23rd goal. Quinn broke a 14 tie at 7:09 of the second period, beating McLean from 10 feet. Lemiuex scored at 10:12 to give the Penguins a 3-1 lead. Coxe scored his fourth of the season at 16:15 for Vancouver, rifling a 15-foot wrist shot past goalie Gilles Meloche. Tambellini tied the score 1:03 later, blasting a 55-foot shot off the right-post for his sixth goal. QUEBEC 3 NEW JERSEY 2 Quebec (CP) — Anton Stastny and Jeff Brown each had a goal and an assist to lead the Quebec Nordiques to a 3-2 triumph over New Jersey Devils. The victory ended a four-game losing streak for the Nordiques, who have now won only twice in 10 starts, and gave Ron Lapointe his first triumph as an NHL head coach. Lapointe took over from the fired Andre Savard on Friday. Brown set up Stastny for a second-period goal that gave Quebec a lead it never relinquished and then scored what proved to be the winner early in the third period. Alain Cote also scored for Quebec, while Craig Wolanin, with a shorthanded effort, and Kirk Muller, late in the third period, replied for the Devils. BOSTON 7 CHICAGO 5 BOSTON (AP) — Keith Crowder scored three goals for his second NHL career hat trick, leading the Boston Bruins to a 7-8 victory over Chicago, handing the Blackhawks their sixth straight loss. While winning their third consecutive game and the lith in 14 starts, the Bruins handed Chicago its 11th consecutive road loss. The Blackhawks finished their road trip 0-6 and are 0-13-1 in their last 14 road games. Crowder took a pass from John Carter and scored his seventh goal of the season from close-in with the game 26 seconds old. With Boston ahead 4-3, he scored again on a rebound of a shot by Ray Bourque 16 seconds into the third period. Crowder finished his three-goal effort by scoring into an empty net with four seconds let. HARTFORD 2 BUFFALO 1 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Defenceman Ulf Samuel- sson and forward Dave (Tiger) Williams scored goals to lead the Hartford Whalers to a 2-1 victory over the Buffalo Sabres. With the win, the Whalers ended a two-game losing streak and continued their dominance of Buffalo this season with a 4-0-1 record against the Sabres. Hartford also moved within two points of third-place Buffalo, which is 1-5 since Nov. 22. Whaler goaltender Mike Liut stopped 20 shots but had little time to react on the lone Buffalo goal. Sabres rookie Ray Sheppard scored at 14:58 of the second period following a bad Hartford LEAD DIVISION Rebels stop Smokies By LAURIE GRANT The Castlegar Rebels tripped the Trail Junior Smoke Eaters 8-5 Friday night in a Kootenay International Junior Hockey League game at the Community Complex. The win gives the Rebels 26 points, best in the West Division. Trail remains in third place with 20 points. Rebels’ Captain Dave Terhune was the top scorer, chalking up a hattrick and three assists. Teammates Jeff Adams and David Zarikoff netted two goals each. The first period showed three goals for the Rebels and one for the Smokies. Terhune opened the scoring at 7:35 assisted by Walter Sheloff. Smokies’ Rob McLean tied the scoring 1-}-at 8:63 teking a pass from teammates Kelly. Sidoni and Brett McLaren. At 9:25 Jeff Adams broke the tie when he took a pass from Sandy Renwick. Sheloff scored the Rebels’ third goal at 12:10 assisted by Terhune and Renwick. In the second period the Rebels added three more goals, while holding the Smokies to just two. Terhune and Sheloff passed to Zarikoff who scored his first goal with a wrist shot, beating the goalie high on the left side. Trail scored the next goal when Sidoni scored an unassisted goal while the Rebels were shorthanded with two men in the box. Rebels’ Sheloff and Renwick pass- ed to Terhune who knocked the puck Trail came back at 16:53 when McLean made his second beating the OH NO, clearing pass which struck a Goalie Tom Barrasso stopped 80 shots for Buffalo. EDMONTON 5 TORONTO 2 EDMONTON (CP) 8 Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier scored in the first six minutes of the third period to enable the struggling Oilers t the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2. The teams were a combined 0-5 in their previous five games and for a while it appeared neither wanted to win Saturday. But the Oilers, down 2-1 after two periods, scored four unanswered goals in the third to snap their two-game losing streak. Gretzky had two goals in the game, giving him 20 for the season. Linemates Messier and Glenn Anderson each had a goal and two assists. Jari Kurri, who along with Anderson was criticized by coach Glen Sather for recent efforts, scored the other Edmonton goal. MONTREAL 6 LOS ANGELES 4 MONTREAL (Cp) — Bobby Smith and Mats Naslund each set up three goals as the Montreal Canadiens, who prevailed despite blowing an earlier two-goal lead, defeated the Los Angeles Kings 6-4. The meeting brought together the team with the most points in the overall standings and the club with the fewest. The Canadiens, who held a 20-point bulge over the Kings, dominated early, as Mike McPhee and Stephane Richer — with his team-leading 18th goal — scored in the first 7:10. But after Bernie Nicholls — with the first of his two goals — and Montreal's Claude Lemieux traded scores late in the first period, the of the BALLARD AGAIN! I was doing some work at my desk Wednesday morning when Cas- News editor Ron Norman began to laugh. He had been reading a story that had come over our Canadian Press wire. | asked him what was so funny and he just said two words: “Harold Ballard.” Right then — before even reading the story — I knew Ballard had shot off at the mouth again and offered an opinion ofily an extra-terrestrial could agree with. If you haven't heard by now, Ballard, the owner of National Hockey League’s Toronto Maple the Canadian Football Tiger Cats and Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens, is ready to blow Soviet hockey players out of the sky. On Tuesday Ballard was asked what he thought of a plan by NHL Kings the Canadiens to tie it 3-8 on two goals by Jim Fox before the mid-way mark of the middle period. NEW YORK 3ST. LOUIS 2 ST. LOUIS (AP) — John Ogrodnick's goal with 9:48 left lifted the New York Rangers to a 3-2 NHL victory Saturday night over the St. Louis Blues. James Patrick and Brian Mullen produced New York's other goals, while Brian Benning and Ron Flockhart scored for the Blues. Ogrodnick’s goal, his eighth of the year, came after he took a pass from linemate Mullen behind St. Louis net. Ogrodnick cruised into the slot and beat Blues goalie Greg Millen to Millen’s stick side with a backhander. The Blues scored first on Benning’s 35-foot slap shot from the side boards at 6:59 of the first period. His low shot eluded Rangers goalie Bob Froese. Pp John Ziegler and Lager Players A get them,” continued the mouth that roared. So what if they come for money? Do you actually think Canads and the NHL lost money during last fall's Canada Cup serious? No way. Why does Ballard think Ziegler and Eagleson have been in Moscow trying to arrange such a deal? These two guys are a couple of sharp, shrewd businessmen and Ballard, who has been out in left field for years now, is naive or just plain stupid if he thinks the NHL would not profit from the idea Ziegler and Eagleson have proposed. “You can’t actually blame the Russian people, it’s the SOBs who run the place. They just want to send over a bunch of damn spies. Name me one who has done any good for the world,” continued Ballard. Ballard is a fool. He's been one for a very long time. He's can embar- rector Alan Eagleson to have Devs teams play in North America during the winter of the 1989-90 season, with points to count in the NHL standings. “Td have a torpedo ready for them or a fighter plane.” was Ballard’s response. This is one guy the United Nations can do without. “We don't need them here. They're not coming over to play hockey, they're coming over for money, dollars they need badly, and we're fools enough to see that they he's an embarrassment to the human race. ee A couple of observations of the Kootenay International Junior Hoc- key League. I started writing this column in February of this year and I recall writing some critical columns on the Beaver Valley Nite Hawks. T also recall receiving some very nasty letters and phone calls saying how I should leave the poor kids i eit i? s ze if 44 | | ti count for the fact that the first three players who lead the KLJHL's West division in penalty minutes are all Grand Forks players. wes