TOP HAIRDRESSERS . . . Winners in Selkirk College's Elite Hair Extravaganza show and competition at the Nelson campus are: (from left) Debra Mac-

Donald, second, with model Heather Roshinsky; Katrina Culp, first, with model Suzi Trevisan; and Deborah Lucht, third, with model Julie Ganzini.

Culp captures contest

A panel of three Nelson hairdressers served as judges for Selkirk Col- lege’s Elite Hair Extrava- ganza show and competi- tion last month at the Nel son campus,

Katrina Culp of Dunster, B.C. captured top spot in the competition, based on the theme “Gala and Be- yond.” Second place went to Debra MacDonald’ of Salmo, while Deborah Lucht of Fruitvale placed third.

In summary remarks af- ter the competition, judge Robert Verigin, of 1990 hair salon in Nelson, noted: “The work here today is of excellent quality. You scare.me if you are going to continue in compétition.”

Other judges for the total look competition, which involves hair cutting and styling, make-up and costume, were Nina Van Troyen of Parlor 33, and Kim Veale, who works at J.R. Hair Force in Nelsof. Veale is a graduate of Selkirk College's Hair- dressing ‘program.

Rotary supports stamp

By JOHN CHARTERS

The chapel house on Zuck- erberg Island Heritage Park as a design for a Canadian postage stamp? Axel Nielsen, local stamp enthusiast and long time collector, thinks it's worth a try and so does the Castlegar Rotary Club.

The club gave unanimous approval last Tuesday after hearing a draft of a letter to the Rotarians from John Charters on behalf of Niel- sen. The letter asked for club support and permission to present the idea to Castlegar

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council's parks and recrea- tion committee. Charters later took the letter to parks committee meeting where the idea was also approved. It will now go to the council. If approved there, Charters plans to seek community and higher endorsement.

At the same meeting, Jim Lamont announced that on behalf of Rotary District 508 Governor John Swift, he had approached hospital mana- gers in the area asking for used or out of date medical equipment, particularly op-

tometry equipment. He said the response was excellent, and the equipment will be collected and crated in the next two weeks.

‘The equipment will then be loaded into a used ambulance which Gov. Swift has already acquired, and sent to a small hospital in central Mexico.

Anyone who might have something to donate may call Lamogt, at, 365-5017 or Ro- tary president Ron Ross at 365-8455.

In the program part of the meeting, Lamont recalled the

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VANCOUVER (CP) — The road-weary Vancouver Canucks have returned to the Pacific Coliseum for a lengthy home stand which should determine whether they're capable of escaping from the depths of the Smythe Division cellar in the National Hockey League.

After eight of nine games on the road since Jan. 3, the Canucks are home for eight of their next 10, beginning tonight against the New York Rangers, who have beaten Vancouver twice this season.

The 14-28-5 Canucks are 13 points out of a playoff berth, but the toughest part of the schedule appears to be behind them in their desperate chase of the’ fourth-place Los Angeles Kings.

“We've been home only a couple of days this month,” right winger Tony Tanti, Vancouver's top sniper with 22 goals, said Tuesday. “We've got to put some wins together in this rink if we're to make a move up.”

The Canucks need to win against someone other than

the Kings — Vancouyer is 8-1-1 against Los Angeles — and also improve their home record. Vancouver is 7-18-2 at home and 7-15-3 on the road.

Coach Tom Watt views the Smythe Division as much improved this season, with Los Angeles scoring more goals and the second-place Winnipeg Jets, who beat Vancouver 54 Monday in Winnipeg, getting better goaltending.

“We are where we are because the other teams have jumped ahead dramatically,” Watt said. “It's disappointing, but we'd like to think there is enough time to challenge someone for a playoff position.”

Watt wants more offensive punch in the next 33 games, with only Tanti and left winger Petri Skriko having reached the 20-goal plateau.

“You can work hard at the defensive part of the game and it comes around,” he said, “but that little scoring touch and the confidence that comes with scoring goals is badly needed.”

Vancouver's problems this season have been scoring while the team is at even strength, plus killing penalties. The Canucks are ranked 20th in penalty-killing in a 21-team league.

“Our power play has been a highlight and we have a chance to set # record for power-play goals,” Watt said. “We've been as high as third in the league on the power play ‘and we're sixth now, so that's kind of nice for a team which has trouble scoring goals.”

The Canucks reduced their defensive roster when veteran Brad Maxwell w: claimed on waivers by the Rangers. Maxwell had ‘sparingly in recent weeks and was openly critical of the coaching of Watt.

POOR EXCUSE

Watt said the controversial Pat Quinn investigation by the league — Vancouver signed the Los Angeles coach to become president and general manager of the Canucks next season; Quinn was subsequently expelled by NHL president

Canucks hope for more wins

John Ziegler — is not an excuse for the Canuck record.

“The players are under contract to do the best they can,” Watt said. “It's not a matter for them, just as it isn't for me as a coach.

“It has nothing to do with us because it’s a management move and an ownership decision. We go out and try our best. It didn’t seem to affect us last weekend when we beat Calgary back to back.”

‘The Canucks expect Michel Petit back in the lineup against the Rangers after the defenceman missed two games with a bruised foot.

The sudden departure of Maxwell leaves a permanent position for rookie defenceman Robin Bartel, who has played 24 games since being recalled from the Fredericton Express of the American Hockey League.

Vancouver has one player on the injury list, with veteran defenceman Glen Cochrane recovering from back surgery.

Sandman wins two games, Mallards one

By CasNews Staff

Sandman Inn managed to win two ganies Sunday ahd Monday to stren- gthen their lead atop the Castlegar Recreational Hockey League stand- ings.

In Monday's game Sandman doubled Woodland Park Shell 12-6. Shell opened up the scoring at the 59-second mark of the first period when Neil ‘Archambault scored off a pass from Doug Makortoff and Wes McPherson.

Sandman got on the board at the 5:23 mark when Dan Walker scored. Lyle Stoushnow and Kevin Kirby assisted on the goal.

Sandman took the lead at 6:35 when

* Jeff Townsend took a pass from Walker and Dan Markin.

Stoushnow picked up his first of three goals at 8:39 when he took a pass from John Obetkoff.

Shell scored their second of the night when Makortoff scored from MePher- son and Kelly Keraiff. F

Walker replied for at 12:35

‘of the first period after being set up by Vince Antignani and Kirby. Walker scored again at the 14:45 mark after he took a pass from and Kirby.

WE'RE WAITING . . . Castlegar Bantam players wait in the slot for the puck in a game against Beaver Valley ‘at the Pioneer Arena on Sunday. Bantams. did more

waitihg than scoring as they lost to Beaver Valiey 6-2. Next game for is day against Spok —CosNewsPhoto by Suri Ratton

Stoushnow notched hs second of the night at 15:25. Robin King and Bill Cheveldave assisted on the play.

Shell rounded out the first period scoring with a goal from Makortoff at the 17:10 mark. Assisting on the goal were Keraiff and Rob Gretchen.

Sandman opened the scoring in the second period when Townsend scored after being set up by Kirby and Stoushnow. Shell replied at the 2:54 mark when Archambault took a pass from Keraiff and Pete Moroso.

Walker scored a goal for Sandman after taking a pass from Antignai and Stoushnow. McPherson picked up a goal for Shell at 6:25. Keraiff and Makortoff assisted.

Stoushnow replied for Sandman at 8:24 of the second period after King and Cheveldave assisted on the play. King notched a goal at 19:15 after Pat Farkas and Stoushnow set up the play.

Obetkoff rounded out the second period scoring for Sandman after taking a pass from Kirby and Antig-

nani.

Obetkoff scored Sandman’s only goal of the third period at the 3:09 mark after Bobby Larsh and Antignani set up the play. Keraiff rounded out the scoring for Shell.

In action Sunday, Sandman defeated the Castlegar Knights 7-5. Scoring for Sandman in the first period were Walker and Kirby, while King, Town- send and Cheveldave picked up assists on the two goals.

The Knights lone goal in the first period came from Don Deschene, while Glen Grigg and Terry Sanders and Ron Josephson assisted on the play.

Townsend, Farkas and Walker were the goalscorers for Sandman in the second period, while Cheveldave pick ed up two assists and Kirby, King,

WHISTLER_ NATIVE

Boyd continues to do well

ZURICH (CP) — If there is one member of the rebuilding Canadian men’s downhill ski team who earned his pilot's licence at the same school as the famed Crazy Canucks it’s an unassuming, curly-haired blonde from Whistler.

Ever since his stunning upset victory at Val Gardena, Italy, in December, Rob Boyd, 20, has been a man to watch on the World Cup tour. He's also a godsend to a Canadian team desperate to show signs of life after the retirement of the last of the Crazy Canucks — Steve Podborski, in 1984.

One of the youngest skiers ever to win a World Cup downhill, Boyd has shown surprising consistency for an inexperienced skier in his first full year on the World Cup circuit.

In the three races since Val Gardena, where he came from late in the starting order to snatch away what appeared to be a certain victory from Italy's Michael Mair, Boyd's results have included a sixth-place finish at Garmisch-Partenkirchen and an 11th-place finish last weekend on the famed Lauberhorn in Wengen, Switzerland.

“Since the win at Val Gardena, I'm not just another unknown, Boyd said.

“The other racers in the first seed accept me as another top racer and I feel likeI belong here now,” said Boyd, who competed in just a few World Cup races last year before joining the skiing big leagues this season for the first time.

COACH IMPRESSED

Boyd speaks matter-of-factly about the. World Cup victory and his recent top-15 finishes. But for someone who has raced in so few World Cup downhills, the results have been impressive, says Canadian head coach Glenn Wurtele, of Vernon.

“We were expecting flashes of brilliance this year, but

what is really astonishing is the consistency he's showing,” said Wurtele, adding that the same can be said of Boyd's 20-year-old teammate Brian Stemmle, of Aurora, Ont. Stemmle, also in his first full year on the World Cup, scored two top 15 finishes before being injured two weeks ago at Garmisch downhill.

With Boyd and Stemmle, Wurtele has two young skiers to complement the veterans Todd Brooker and Felix Belezyk as the Canadian team tries to re-establish itself as a World Cup threat.

“I compare Stemmle with a little of what I used to see in Steve Podborski,” said Wurtele, in his second yéar as coach of the Canadian team. “He’s a very strong technical skier with a tremendous feel, but Boyd is a little wilder.

“He'll take more chances, ski a little more all over the place and be more exciting to watch. Rob is the guy who'll really let the skis go and take every chance to win.”

Like the veteran Brooker, Boyd is an exceptional glider and possesses great endurance. Wurtele says that with more experience on World Cup courses, greater strength and power and more work on technique, Boyd can only get better.

For the Canadian team, Boyd couldn't have begun to blossom at a better time. With the retirements just after Christmas of veterans Chris Kent and Gary Athans, the only experienced racers still on the team were Brooker, of Paris, Ont. and Belezyk of Castlegar.

But Brooker, attempting another comeback from a serious knee injury, is still far fromthe form that made him among the World Cup's best in 1982 and 1968. And Belezyk, in his fourth year on the team, has cracked the top 10 just once in his career.

Rockers loose to Trail in final

By BARRY DePAOLI

Markin and Townsend managed sin- gles.

Second period goalscorers for the Knights were Gerry Antignani, San- ders and Chief Mercer. Assists on the three goals went to Dick Braun with two, while Mercer, Grigg Josephson and Deschene added singles.

In the third period, Cheveldave and Larsh added goals off of assists from Kirby, Markin, Townsend and Farkas.

Josephson added a goal for the Knights after he took a pass from Wayne Zino and Grigg.

In another Sunday match-up, Mal lards got past Woodland Park Shell 5-4.

Pete Stoochnoff did the damage for Mallards in the first period, popping in a pair of goals.

The J.L. Crowe Hawks of Trail defeated Stanley Humphries 69-56 in the championship game of the Rocker Invitational Tournament this past weekend.

The Rocker defence had trouble de- fending against 6'8” centre Dale Der gusoff who scored 43 points and pulled down 29 rebounds. Dergousoff was selected most valuable player for his efforts throughout the tournament.

‘Trail took an early lead in the final game as the Rockers had difficulty scoring, falling to a 36-17 deficit at the half. In the second half the Rockers were sparked by some fine outside shooting from point guard Eric Dillon and managed to outscore Trail 39-33.

Dillon scored 19 of his 22 points in the second half htiting six shots from three-point range, shooting 65 per cent from the floor. Scott Bole contributed 13 points while Lefurgey had eight, Fitchett six, Dave Kravski five and Norm Higgins added a couple.

Stanley Humphries advanced to the final by defeating Armstrong in the opener on Friday night 59-50. Scott Bole, Dale Fitchett and Erie Dillon were in double figures offensively and Lefurgey netted seven, Kravski three, Bohnet two while Ommundsen had a single. *

Defensively Dave Kravski played extremely well forcing turnovers when the Bockers applied pressure as did Glen Lefurgey.

The Rockers defeated Spring Valley of Kelowna in the next round 72-53. Bole and Fitchett led the offense with 19 points apiece followed by Dillon with 10. Eric Ommundsen and David Krow ski added six apiece, Lefurgey and Russell had four each while Bohnet hit for three and Jaret Clay had one. Dale Fitchett played his best game of the season for the Rockers.

Scott Bole, Glen Lefurgey and Eric Dillon were named to the tournament all-star team.

The Rockers host L.V. Rodgers at Kinnaird Junior secondary school this evenint at 6:45 and travel to Trail this weekend for the Cage Bowl tourna ment.

ondary school.

REBELS ROCK ~~ ROCKIES

By CasNews Staff

‘The Castlegar Rebels returned from a weekend trip to Columbia Valley with four points after winning two games against the Rockies.

‘The Rebels defeated the Rockies 8-5 Sunday and 7-5 Saturday. In Satur- day's game Walter Sheloff opened the scoring for the Rebels at 4:21 of the first period. Mark Plotnikoff assisted on the play.

Columbia Valley tied things up at 6:18 and took the lead at the 7:38 mark. The Rockies made it 3-1 when they managed to score a short-handed goal at 16:49.

In the second period the Rockies

{ took # 4-1 lead at the 1:18 mark.

‘The Rebels replied at 2:20 when Sandy Renwick managed to score a short-handed goal which was set up by Dean Sjodin and Rod Horcoff.

Sheloff made the score 48 in the Rockies favor when he scored at 14:18. Darcy Martini and Horcoff assisted on the play.

Dave Terhune tied the game at four when he scored an unassisted goal 3:57 into the third period.

Horecoff gave the Rebels the lead for good when he took a pass Terhune and Sjodin to score at 6:15. ‘Andrew Zibin scored 28 seconds later after Being set up by Horcoff and Martini.

Columbia Valley scored their fifth and final goal of the game at the 17:17 mark of the third period.

Martini scored an unassisted goal at the 19:10 mark and Sjodin rounded out the scoring with just seven seconds remaining in the game when he took a pass from Martini and Sjodin to give the Rebels a final 8-5 victory.

In Saturday's contest, Columbia Val- ley opened the scoring with a short- handed goal at 7:07 of the first period. It was the only goal of the period.

Terhune tied the game up 35 seconds into the second period when he took a

from Horcoff and Sjodin.

Sheloff gave the Rebels the lead with a goal at the 11:45 mark. Terhune picked up the assist on the play. ~

Rockettes big winners

By CasNews Staff

Stanley Humphries secondary school Junior Rockettes won the J.L. Crowe Hooperama over the weekend in Trail.

In the first game the Rockettes de- feated L.V. Rogers Bomberettes 59-21. Stanley Humphries led 22-0 in the first quarter before the Bomberettes man- aged to get on the board.

In the second game the Rockettes got past the Rossland Royalettes 45-23. The Rockettes trailed 8-6 at the end of the first quarter before shutting down the Rossland offence in the second frame, which saw Stanley Humphries ahead 20-8 at the half.

In the final game, the Rockettes defeated the host team J.L. Crowe 56-27 for the championship. The Rock ettes led 16-5 at the end of the first quarter and 36-9 at the half.

Rockettes’ Judi Closkey and Brandy Howard were named tournament all stars.

On Friday the Rockettes play host to Grand Forks at Kinnaird Junior sec-

Columbia Valley came back and tied the game at two when’ they scored at 17:08.

Sheloff gave the Rebels the lead 2:56 into the third period after he took a pass from Plotnikoff. Horcoff added to the ‘scoring at 8:45 after Terhune and Zibin set up the play.

Columbia Valley got back on the board with a goal at 10:04 of the final period.

Sjodin picked up a short-handed goal for the Rebels at the 11:28 mark after taking a pass from Horcoff and Ter- hune. Plotnikoff added an

Rebels top point getter with 41 goals and 46 assists for a total of 87 points. Close behind is team captain Rick Viens with 41 goals and 48 assists for 84 points.

Castlegar’s next game is on Friday when they face off against Spokane.

In other hockey news, Trail native Tim Lenardon, who is playing for Maine in the American Hockey League, is the 10th in AHC scoring.

Lenardon has racked up 18 goals and 23 assists for 41 points.

Felix makes top 10 club

Castlegar native placed in the top 10 in two World Cup downhill training runs today in Kitz- buehel, Austria. s

Belezyk, who placed fourth in a training run in Austria last week, managed a 10th place showing in his first run today with a time of 2:01.5. He improved to seventh place in his second run with a time of 2:00.47.

Austrian skier Helmut Hoeflehner and Swiss racer Karl Alpigez each won the two training runs today as prepar- ations began for the Hahnenkamm downhill Saturday.

Hoeflehner was the fastest in the first run, with a time of one minute 59.51 seconds on the 3,500-metre long Streif course with a vertical drop of 860 metres and 24 gates. Swiss Pirmin Zurbriggen was second in 1:59.75, while Austrian Anton Steiner was third in 1:59.86., ©

Todd Brooker, of Paris, Ont., a winner of the Hahnenkamm in 1983, was 18th in 2:01.59, while Rob Boyd, of Whistler, finished 27th in 2:02.55.

In the second run, Alpiger, who was the first racer down the course, had the best time of 1:59.29. Swiss Conradin Cathomen, starting 83rd, was second in 1:59.83, and Danilo Sbardellotto of Italy was third in 1:59.86.

Boyd moved to 18th with a time of 2:01.78, while Brooker was 19th in 2:01.79.

This course has been a good one for Canadians in the past. Canadian racers won the Hahnenkamm four years in a row from 1980-1963.

“It's one of the classic courses,” said Belczyk. “It's great to be here, so naturally you get more excited for it and that could probably bring a lot better results.”