oe EY oe are ewnnn nm Fase at A tng Wi Shopping tours during nutrition month lead way to healthy eating If you're ‘still reaching for the hydrogenated peanut butter spread on that slice of white bread, it may be time for a supermarket tour. Central Kootenay Health Unit's community nutritionist, Donna Draper, ‘recently took West bai ie A and on an aisle-by-aisle tour to good eating to warm up for future grocery shopping tours they’ll conduct. To. mark Nutrition Month in Mar- ch, Castlegar dietitians and nutritionists will conduct shopping tours of Safeway’s food aisles to Point out which foods should be on the smart shopper's list. The idea behind Castlegar’s first shopping tours is that nutrition begins in the supermarket, the health unit says in @ news release. The purpose of the tours is to help people shop for better nutrition as well as increase nutrition value for their food dollar, During each 90- minute tour, a local dietitian or nutritionist will take people aisle by aisle through the Canada Food Guide food groups and answer Specific concerns on: such dietary matters as fiber, cholesterol and saturated fat. Draper says that in the breads and cereals category, a common mistake people ‘make is to assume that the croissant is an acceptable entry, even though it’s laden with saturated fats. She also nixes most granola bars, which are sugary and “beginning to look more and more like chocolate bars. Instead, she recommends whole- grain breads, low-fat crackers such as flat breads and rice cakes, and packaged cereal with minimal sugar. Casth di and ni ot Safeway In March. From left: Jacque DePoali, Laura Wil Jean Charman and Donna Draper. Most people eat far too much meat, Draper said, pointing to a typical T-bone steak that would likely serve one person even though it’s big enough for three. “We recommend 100 grams of meat at a serving, which is about three ounces cooked. Choose lean cuts of meat to minimize your fat in- take.’” will conduct shopping tours jams, Nutritionists say daily fat intake shouldn’t exceed 30 per cent of calories consumed. Breaking that limit is easy if people indulge in high- fat dairy products: the fat in cheddar cheese, for example, accounts for 75 per cent of its calories. One glass of whole milk is equivalent to a glass of skim milk with two pats of butter floating in it. There’s only. one pat floating in two Socreds lose strategist VICTORIA (CP) — The Social Credit party’s top political strategist says he will not work for the party in the next provincial election. Jerry Lampert, who quit as Premier Bill Vander Zalm's principal secretary last December, had remained as chairman of the party’s campaign-readiness committee. He had been expected to direct the campaign itself when an election is called. It must be held before the end of this year. But Lampert said he has cut most of his ties with the party. “I will be removing myself to the point where I won’t be involved,” Lampert said. Jess Ketchum, Social Credit Program today New PERSONAL CHOICE Program -F, the first time, Weeight Wyvatchers’ offers news food plans ina breakthrough program. m HALF PRICE! Join for onty $14.00 (including G.S.T.) s Now for the first ime. you can have a weight loss program that gives you three different food plans to choose from. It’s the new Personal Choice:Program from Weight Watchers. Each Personal Choice food plan can be as structured or as flexible as you wish, so staying on thejProgram ts easy. It puts you in control. 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Meanwhile, another well-known Socred has joined colleagues in demanding an explanation for Van- der Zalm’s refusal to step aside pen- ding an investigation into the Fan- HRN e Pa * tasy Gardens sale. But Marilyn Baker, a Socred can- didate for North Vancouver-Lon- sdale, did not indicate whether she will resign her candidacy if she doesn't get a satisfactory answer. INSURAN(C experience in differe: accurately. periods of less than a ICBC coverage hit the road in 1974. But just as cars have improved in 16 years, so has Autoplan. The 1991 model is custom-built for B.C. motorists and packed with innovative features. You wanted auto insurance that did not discriminate in terms of age, sex, or marital status. So ICBC introduced Canada's first Claim-Rated Scale, with premiums based on the motorist'’s claim record. We also applied territory rating to reflect claims You wanted the option of insurance coverage for good idea and introduced short-term insurance for as little as six months. 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Castlega: Safeway on the wall beside the public at.....././si/sounnenme senses phone February 23, 1991 SPORTS ~ GET THE PERFECT Fir Wit A KOOTENAY SAVINGS RRSP KIJHL ponders Jr A franchises By ED MILLS Staff Writer At least four teams in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League are contemplating leaving the KIJHL to form a new Junior A league; the Castlegar News has learned, “I wouldn't want to speak on behalf of the other teams, bat there's been talk about creating a new league, that’s all,”’ said Eddie Mountain, general manager of the KIJHL's Columbia Valley Rockies, who is said to be the driving force behind the idea. Mountain wouldn't say which teams besides the Rockies are considering the move, but the Castlegar News has learned that the Nelson Maple Leafs, Trail Smoke Eaters, Cranbrook Colts and possibly the Spokane Braves are considering the idea. The Maple Leafs and Smokies are the top two teams in the KIJHL’s West Division, while the Braves and Colts, along with the Rockies, are the top three in the East Division. Mountain said there is Junior A talent on all those clubs and that’s part of the reasoning behind the idea. “We have Junior A hockey players around our town that would like to stay home and play hockey. And we'd like to keep those players in town,”’ he said. Should those five teams leave the KIJHL, the league would be left with teams in Castlegar, Grand Forks and Beaver Valley in the West, and just Elk Valley in the East. Two cities that folded their franchises last year, the Rossland. Warriors and the Kimberley Knights, are reported to be considering rejoining the league for next Season. KIJHL president Bronco Horvath said the idea was tossed around at the league’s last meeting but nothing will be done until the end of this season. The KIJHL is currently in its league playoffs. “*We felt we might like to go that route, but I’m not sure what's going to happen. To get into something like that you need to do a lot of research,"’ Horvath said from his home in Cranbrook. ‘‘We have Eddie Moun- tain looking into a couple of things for us."’ Castleaag Rebels general manager Don Joice said the Rebels would not be involved in any move to change the league. “We (the Rebels management) would not be in- terested at all," said Joice. ‘We're working on a Junior B team, not a Junior A team,” Joice said he doesn’t even think it's feasible to start a Junior A league in the Kootenays. “You're talking some mega-dollars heré, It costs about $250,000 a year to run a Junior A club. This club (the Rebels) managed to get by on $50,000 and couldn’t get a playoff spot because of it. You have to take that into consideration. Who’s going to come up with that kind of money? 4 “I don’t think it’ll happen, personally.” Details on the structure of the proposed league are sketchy at this point. Mountain said. he couldn’t say if the new league would operate in conjunction with the KIJHL or as a separate entity, or if it would have any affiliation with other Junior A leagues with franchises in B.C. cities. : He said KIJHL team representatives will be discussing the issue March 15 at the league’s regular meeting in Creston. Further details won’t be released un- til after that meeting, said Mountain. “There's nothing for me to say right now. Maybe in two weeks. I would probably know what I’m going to do in two weeks anyway.” Currently, there are two Junior A hockey leagues with franchises in B.C. cities. The B.C. Junior Hockey League and the Western Hockey League both have teams in the Okanagan and Lower Mainland, but none in the Kootenays. Tough times for Green By ED MILLS Staff Writer Travis Green has done .a lot of things in a short hockey career that has taken him to outskirts of the NHL, but lately he’s been doing something he’s not used to — riding the bench. “Yeah, it’s been kinda tough lately,’’ the Castlegar native said Thursday from his apartment in Troy, N.Y. ‘The last month has been really hard because I haven’t played that much.”’ Green, 20, is in his rookie season as a pro with the Capital City Islan- TRAVIS GREEN riding pine ders of the American Hockey League, the farm team of the NHL’s New York Islanders. After what he thought was a good Start with the team that saw him score 50 points in as many games, Green’s fortunes declined. “They’ve cut me down to about four shifts a game. But I’m hoping things are going to get better.”” Rookie or not, four shifts a game is a far, far cry from last year when Green starred in junior hockey with the Medicine Hat Tigers and the Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey League. And a far cry from his early, glory days with the Castlegar Rebels of the Kootenay In- ternational Junior Hockey League. Green says he’s just a victim of the numbers game. For starters, Capital City doesn’t have’ enough numbers in the stan- dings of the AHL’s Northern Division, where they currently sit dead last. To help with that situation, Capital City coach Butch Goring (an NHL legend with the Islanders and Los Angeles Kings) asked the big club for help in a bid to make the playoffs, and he got it. Green, and the rest of the young players on the farm, started picking up splinters soon after. “‘We must have 13 guys that have played in the NHL down here, so pretty well all the younger guys are on the bench. We're -kind of in a tough situation,’’ said Green. Among the players sent to the farm were two who could take Green's spot at centre ice — Hubie McDonough and Tom Fitzgerald. Wingers Alan Kerr and Brad Dalgar- no have also been shipped to Troy. Even with established NHL players on the farm, Green says watching on the sidelines is a little tough to han- dle. Especially for a guy who’s never been benched in his life. “‘I-think it-would have-been easier to take at the beginning of the . Season, when I didn’t know what to expect. It’s tougher ‘how because all through the year I’ve played, and played a lot, and all of a sudden it’s cut off. There’s nothing you can really do about it.’’ Ice time isn’t the only thing on Green’s mind these days either. Looking at the moves the Islanders have made this year has him won- dering about his future in the organization. “They've tradgd for a couple of centremen this year, Ray Ferraro and John Tucker, and they have (Pat) Lafontaine and (Brent) Sutter up there now, so there's not a lot of room.”” Still, Green remains optimistic, which stems partially from the fact that Goring has reassured him that his shot at the big show is coming. **Yeah I talked to him yesterday (Wednesday). I think it’s just a mat- ter of me having a solid year down here and scoring some goals. If the Islanders need anything, they need someone to score goals,"’ Green said. As for a time frame for his move to the NHL, Green said it’s hard to put @ date on it, but he’d like a chance to leave the bus circuit behind next season. “It's pro hockey, you can’t com- plain. It's a good life, but I don’t think you can ever be happy until you get to the NHL.” Once in the NHL, then he'll start contemplating other goals, he said. “I guess everyone hopes to have a long career in the NHL. Right now, I’m just hoping to get one game in.”” Saints seek triple By CasNews Staff - . ——— And this was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Selkirk College Saints men’s volleyball team. Yeah, right. Well, apparently the construc- tion is complete. Thanks to some timely con- struction material in the form of six-foot-seven-inch Shane White and middle blocker Theo Friml, who ‘both joined the team last month, and the emergence of Ted Lake as a legitimate Canadian all-star, rookie coach Gerry Fraser's job of reconstructing has been easier than he thought. Now Fraser and the Saints are looking for some hardware to complete the package. The team took a major step in that direction last weekend when they won three straight matches in a 10-team B.C. Colleges Athletic Association tournament at Prince George. The wins clinched a provincial playoff spot for the Saints, but perhaps just as important as that; according to Fraser, was the message sent to the other three teams the Saints will see in the playoffs. “We're feeling very con- fident. People are all looking over their shoulders at us now,” said the Nelson high school teacher. The Saints go into the provin- cial championships, set for Mar- ch 9 at Trinity Western Univer- sity in Langley, as the two-time defending champs. At the beginning of this season, Fraser said just making it this far was his goal. Now, he’s talking about a trip to Quebec City for a third straight national tournament appearance for a Selkirk volleyball team. “Yeah, we have to get there first, but that’s our goal now and we go in there (to the provincials) very confident and very loose. Nobody expected us to be there,”” said Fraser. “We've got 10 players, we feel all 10 are starters. That gives us a nice competitive atmosphere here, and I think we're the team to beat now."” The Saints have their last regular season commitment of the year at Douglas College this weekend. se Steady Saints veteran Al Tenta is one of the players rookie coach Fraser is counting on to lead the way as the college li team seeks its third straight trip to the national championship. — comes proto by Ed Mills Dan Walker decisively won the scoring race in the Castlegar Recreational Hockey League with an eight-point performance in the final league game of the season. Walker’s closest rival, Chief Mer- cer of Banjo’s Pub, had five points as Shell beat Banjo’s 16-8 Thursday night at the Community Complex. The three-goal, five-assist night gave Walker 127 points, including 60 goals, on the year, while Mercer finished with 115 points. Hi Arrow’s Kelly Keraiff was third with 114 points. The game didn’t mean anything in the standings of the four-team ‘CRHL, though second-place Shell did get a moral victory with the lop- sided win. Banjo’s won the league champion- ship with a 17-12-5 record with Shell just a point behind at 16-12-6. Hi Arrow finished third with 35 points and Sandman Inn fourth with 24. League playoffs began last night at the Community Complex with Ban- jo’s meeting Sandman. Results weren’t available at press time. The post-season continues Monday with Shell playing Hi Arrow, and Tuesday when Banjo’s meets Hi Arrow. The round-robin playoffs, in which each team plays the other twice, continues through March 12 with the championship game set for March 14 at the Complex. Shell’s John Obetkoff was the only player to outshoot Walker with a nine-point night in the win over Banjo’s. Obetkoff’s one goal and eight assists was also good enough to move him one point past Hi Arrow’s Clay Martini. into fourth spot in league scoring with 108 points. Dean MacKinnon scored four times, including a natural hat trick in the game’s first five minutes, and had one assist for Sheil. Joe Bell also collected the hat trick for Shell while Neil Archambault scored twice and Ross Berkey, Bob Larsh and Dave Rugg each scored once. James Verigin and Vince An- tignani Jr. each had a pair of goals for Banjo’s. Tony DaCosta and Vin- ce Antignani Sr. had the other goals for Banjo’s. Back injury ends CFL rule will change game promising career EDMONTON (CP) — Slotback Tom Richards, the first Canadian to surpass 1,000 yards in receiving in a season for the Edmonton Eskimos, will never play again in the CFL. Richards is recovering from a second spinal ‘fusion operation within the past eight months and must retire after an abbreviated four-year career that showed great promise. “The first (operation) didn’t work, they don’t know why,"’ Richards told the Edmonton Journal. “It’s frustrating. 1’! make some kind of statement in a week or so.”" A fifth-round pick by the Eskimos out of the University of Alberta, Richards caught 60 passes for 1,239 yards and seven touchdowns in 1989, his best CFL season. But @ previous back injury had caused the ver- tebrae in his back to slip out of alignment, resulting By GRANT KERR The Canadian Press The field goal is in danger of becoming a far less Practical form of scoring in the CFL should the league adopt an experimental relocation of the goal posts. executives seem determined to reduce the number of field goals by moving the target farther from the action — “the most dramatic change since they in nerves and he lost ten ed i | Traditionally, coaches have seldom hesitated to send out the field-goal team on third-and-three within the 40-yard line. The 47-yard field goal — the ball is Pinned seven yards back — has been commonplace for years. Come June, when pre-season play begins, the goal Posts. won’t be on the goal line — provided league ) as ed, ratify the when they convene this week in Hamilton. Lions kicker Lui Passaglia, the CFL's all-time scoring leader, likes the game the way it’s been during his 15 years in the league. But he’s aware that touch- downs, not field goals, sell tickets. ‘I'm more of a traditionalist, but I guess they're trying to market the game a bit more,’’ Passaglia said Monday. ‘It's going to make it more interesting as far “as coaching decisions are concerned. “*E think coaches will gamble more in short-yardage situations, especially if you're going against the wind.”” Third-and-three at the 25 will be decision time for CFL coaches.’ Should they try a 52-yard field goal, or gamble on gaining three yards for a first down? O'Billovich points out another ramification of relocating the goal posts. He foresees more passes ‘over the middle from inside the 20, without the obstruction of the goal posts. “I think you'll see a big difference in strategy,”’ said O'Billovich. ‘‘Teams may not want to try for a short field goal because, if they miss, the ball comes out to the 35 on a single. “They may go for it in short yardage. Even if they don’t make the first down, the other team has its back . If fewer field goals are attempted, presumably fewer will be missed — cutting down on the exciting returns of players like Giz- mo Williams and Mike Clemons. “I’m glad the league is experimenting with this before making it a hard-and-fast rule,”’ O’Billovich ad- ded. ““It will give us a chance to see if it will add or take away from our present game.”’ *