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Dear Editor:

In regards to the article in the January 13/93 issue of the Cast gar Sun entitled “Witnesses to nie attempted rescue say profession

Castlegar, B.C

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Myself and a friend were among the first eight or nine peo >) Regular Bingo 7:00 p.m. ‘ ALL PAPER

ple to arrive at the accident scene Everybody there in the first 5 or 10 minutes did everything they could to mobilize and stabilize the people in the Honda until the ambulance attendants arrived, | ran to a friends house and had her Phone the police and ambulance

@ Letters to the Editor Attempts to save a life were excellent

The Castlegar Sun

Wednesday, January 20, 1993

while her husband grabbed some blankets and I grabbed a pair of scissors-to free the occupants safety belts so they could breath easier

When the police and ambu lance arrived on the scene the attendants checked the occupants of both vehicles and decided in my opinion to.immobilized Mr Hickey and remove the fiance from the vehicle to make it more accessible to help Mr, Hickey.

When Mr. Hamilton exerted enough energy to get out of his vehicle and see if he could help

NDP policies reducing province

Dear Editor: The following ‘is an opeh letter to Premier Mike Harcourt

Dear Premier:

It is now apparent that your government's duplicitous deal ings with key B.C. business lead ers regarding Bill 84 have profoundly alienated the business community and undermined investor confidence in your administration. Your govern ment’s partisan pandering to union kingpins on matters such as the “fair” wage policy, public sec tor wage settlements and Bill 84 has poisoned our provincial

Tremendous thanks for

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nity to say thank you to both your staff and your readers for your tremendous support this Christmas

Your generosity enabled us to help a great number of families in Our Community this Christmas. You have also provided addition. al resources that will help the ongoing work of The Salvation Army inthis new year.

Thank you once again, and God bless you

VIN 1JN9

Richard Parr Community Services Co-ordinator

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Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacists are dedicated to being a vital part of your community health care team. We take pleasure in answering your questions whether they-are about specific medication or any health care product. We really are approachable, so take some time to get to know us. We're good people to talk to!

Our Pharmacy Staff has

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investmént climate. Indeed, the hostile business-government fela- tionship that now exists is all too reminiscent of the situation that prevailed under the Barrett gov- emment and it is getting worse by the day.

The reckless indifference your government has displayed to the legitimate concerns of B.C. bus ness leaders has made it imposs ble for them to support you at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It would be extremely difficult for these indi- viduals to stand beside you in Europe when they know that you won't even sit down with them in an honest fashion in British Columbia. It is ren ble that you should Pica oceie ai to travel at their own expense to Davos to help you sell British

there were many people whom had been trying to save Mr. Hick. ey's life for more than the 10 or 15 minutes in which Mr. Hamil ton spent in the terrible condi- tions. By the time Mr. Hamilton arrived there was already a doctor and a nurse on the scene attend- ing Mr. Hickey.

The only thing: Mr. Hamilton's brother did to help in this situa- tion was panic and get hysterical causing more anxiety to an already stressful situation; I believe it was more luck than heroism on Kelly Hamilton's

Columbia to international investors when you won't even meet with groups like the Van- couver Board of Trade

Prior to you going to Davos, British Columbians would be much better served if you were to make a genuine attempt to address the crisis of confidence that your government has created in the business community. Instead, your government is aggravating investor fears with veiled threats about forthcoming ‘changes to the minimum wage, employment standards, employment equity and legislated pay equity. Such changes are neither necessary nor desirable at this time. They will only further complicate business- government working relationships and unduly escalate costs.

In short, your government's

behalf bec ¢ he was totally out of control.

Note: If Mr, Hamilton was so experienced in autobody repairs why did it take him over an hour to decide maybe he should help. If he would have been there .a little earlier he would have seen the job the jaws of life did. Without them Mr. Hickey would have most cer-

tainly died. I saw all the people -

who did everything in their power

to save ‘another life and think they all did an excellent job.

S. Funk

Kelowna, B.C.

's attractiveness for investment

policies are reducing British Columbia's attractiveness as a place to invest. That has been the message that B.C. business lead- ers quietly and consistently deliv- ered over the past year. Rather than shooting the messenger as you have done so far, I urge you to put aside your ideological agenda and honestly work towards fostering a more favor- able investment climate that will create jobs and protect pay- cheques. Failing that, your sales Pitches abroad for investment in British Columbia will be nothing more than costly junkets of ques- tionable merit

Jack Weisgerber, MLA Leader B.C. Social Credit Party

Community urged to promote Non-Smoking Week

Dear Editor:

January 18 - 25 is National Non-Smoking Weék in Canada. This year, concerned health orga- hizations are focussing on the harm that tobacco does to chil- dren.

This has special significance to us_in British Columbia with the passage, last year, of the Tobacco Sales Act which will place new

restrictions on the marketing of tobacco products to children and young people

We hope you will help pro- mote Non-Smoking Week in your community by means of the enclosed feature stories and small-space advertisements. The advertisements are suitable for use throughout the year.

If you wish more information,

Your business is our business. We'd like to hear about your business news.

Call Sharlene at 365-5266

any of our committee members will be pleased to help you. The B.C. Committee for National Non-Smoking: Week is: B.C. Lung Association Shirley. Thompson 731-4961 B.C. Ministry of Health Linda Brigden 356-0989 Canadian Caneer Society, B-C and Yukon Division Hales Jones 872-4400. Heart and Stroke Foundation of B.C. and Yukon, Tami Crawley 737-3415 Registered Nurses Association of B.C., John Cox 736-7331 Shirley Thompson Chair, B.C. Committee for National Non-Smoking Week

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West triumphs in All-Star battle

Sports

The best of the East, and the ! of the West met on the weekend. The Kootenay International lockey League All-Star game held in Castlegar on Satur- lay night The almost-full house crowd re not disappointed with the une. The West lead through- wil the game and skated away ith a 10-5 win. 'n other KIJHL news, the istlegar Rebels saw action on day in Nelson Castlegar “queezed out a tight 4-3 win Mike Hunter scored two for Rebels, and Mark Graff had issists in the game ‘ext action for the Rebels ill be this weekend. On Satur- 'y night the Rebels will make P 4 game against Rossland at )p.m.. The game had ‘been celled earlier in the season

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sunday Castlegar will meet P against Columbia Valley at P.m.,at the Community Com- in Castlegar.

Peter Mattson, in net for the East Division blocks this shot during the Kootenay Inter- national Junior Hockey League All-Star game played in Castlegar on Saturday night Mattson usually plays for Spokane.

UN SPORTS PHOTO / John Van Putten

Canadian-American rivalry to be tested on ice |

JOHN VAN PUTTEN Sun Sports

Minor Hockey week in Castle- w comtinues this weekend with he Spokane Friendship Tourna.

outside their immediate areas

“It gives them a change of pace: It will be strictly us (Castlegar) verses Spokane,” Redikop said

Players will be ranging in age from five-13 years in four differ ent divisions

Games start Friday, January 22 at 5:30 p.m. and-continue until Sunday with the Jast game start- ing at 4:15 p.m.. There are over 50 games scheduled to be played Most games will be in Castlegar at the Complex Arena and the Pioneer Arena. Due to the num ber of games, ice surfaces in Trail, Nelson and Beaver Valley will also be used

A complete game schedule is available in the Castlegar Sun Minor Hockey Weck Supple ment, available at the Castlegar hockey rinks

For Castlegar’s teams this tournament is a preview to the Young American Days tourna ment in Spokane Jan. 29-31

Kicking off Minor Hockey Week in Castlegar last weekend

CASTLEGAR REBELS’ HOCKEY

ightcen house. teams from kane will be

coming to ir to play against 15 of ul house teams tournament is setup so inadian teams play the rican teams in an all out national competition ‘lly, each team-will be three games throughout urnament, all of which against teams from

immament organizer, Peter Kop. 1s looking forward to a kend of good clean hockey hope it will be a weekend of nanship and a weekend of lean, fun hockey.” teams ftom tlegar don’t usually have much \ chance to play teams from

hese house

the Pee Wee Jamboree saw 197 boys switched and mix-matched into totally different teams.

By mixing up the players they have a chance to play with some of the players they normally play against

“It is amazing how quickly the boys start to play as a team,” Pee Wee Jamboree Organizer, Dayna Bell, said

The players in this tournament varied greatly in size. The Pee Wee's are the level when some of the boys start to hit the big growth spurt

“At the Pee Wee level some kids have spurts. 1

already hit their growth re is a wide range of size differences.” Bell said With the big size differences the pace of the games improves. “The pace of the games was reaHty fast. It made for a lot better ” Bell said The Green #3 team came out as the tournaments eventual win ner followed by Orange #1 in

second place—Fhe Blue #3 team won the honor as the most Sportsmanlike team-with-only10 penalty minutes through the three games

It was th ynd-year that Castlegar hosted the Jamboree. The tact that have two ice ible to host

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SHSS Girls win

another

JOHN VAN PUTTEN Sun Sports

Returning to their winning ways the Stanley Humphries Senior Girls Basketball team added to their trophy case by earning another tourney title

Hitting the road to Kamloops this*past weekend for the North Kamloops Secondary School “Tournament, the Rockettes took

title -

Earning a spot in the tourna- ment final, the locals were matched up against Correlieu Sec¢ondary School

The closest and toughest game of the tournament was waiting for the Rockettes in the final.

The local girls needed over- time to take the game 63-60.

“It was a good hard fought game,” Closkey said.

On top of the scoring

the tithe with four Straight wins.

“We went down on purpose to give our subs some floor time Generally every- one played well, there was some solid improve- ment and skills development this weekend,” said Jack Closkey,

‘Generally everyone played well, there Was some solid the improvement and skill development this weekend’

— JACK CLOSKEY SHSS Girls Basketball Coach

game for SHSS, Dawes netted 21 and Closkey sunk 16, to help team win their closest game of the sea- son.

Dawes was named tournament all- Star and Closkey was the tournament MVP.

SHSS.. Senior Girls Coach

The win puts an end to the Rockettes two game losing streak. The SHSS Girls had their season-long winning streak come to an end in Kelowna Jan. 8-9.

Rebounding from that loss, the girls started the tournament with a 67-21 win over North Kamloops Secon:

Wendy Closkey and Tamara Rezansoff lead the Rockettes to their first win with 14 points each

With the taste of triumph back on their lips, the Rockettes cruised though the game against Brockle- hurst 59-26. Closkey and Rezan- soff lead the way again scoring 13 and 14 points respectively.

Now back to their winning ways, the girls continued on their roll by effectively dealing with their next opponents, Summer- land Secondaty-School

Rhonda Dawes netted 25 points and Rezansoff scored another 14 to take the Rockettes to an 81-27 win

Selkirk runners off to

How would a February Long Beach, California sound?

The only catch is, you have had to do months of training beforehand and while there, run a marathon.

The Marathon is 4 km, its not that far. It would be like run. ning trom Castlegar to Nelson Are you still interested in going to

trip to

California?

With a lag in the middle of the season the Selkirk College Cross-country running team is not scheduled to compete until late February, so Coach Derek Peregrym was looking for ways to keep his team training throughout the winter. Through fundraising they were able to arrange the trip to the Long Beach Marathon.

Giving the subs more time on the floor during this tournament gave Closkey a good chance to mea- sure the development of his play- ers.

“Both Jennifer Fayant and Rhonda Dawes showed good improvement over the weekend.”

Although SHSS players are consistently being: named as All- Stars and MVP’s, some players on the team consistently play a solid game but don’t receive the recognition the others do.

“Tamara Rezansoff is not a flashy player but always plays well. She deserves to be Tecog- nized,” Closkey said.

The girls will be meeting up with L.V. Rogers tonight at Selkirk College, 7 p.m.. This weekend, they will need a total team effort when they will be in Trail for the J.L Crowe tourna- ment

SHSS has not had a game against their Silver City rivals yet this year. The tournament takes place on Friday night and Saturday.

California

“It was something extra to fill the gap in our season,” Peregrym said.

Of the eight runners, only two have competed in a marathon.

“We have been doing lots of endurance training: Of the eight runners only two have ever com- peted in a race of this length,” Peregrym said

Peregrym and Karl Scheider, will be looking at beating their personal best times in this race.

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