Wednesday, April 22, 1992

Cancer society dispels myths

WW Local canvassers set to go door-to-door with annual daffodil campaign

The Canadian Cancer Soci- ety is the only national orga- nization in Canada supporting research, education and pa- tient services for those whose lives have been touched by cancer.

The symbol of hope for over 50 years has been the daffodil.

The Canadian Cancer Soci- ety, B.C. and Yukon division, is the single fund-raising body for the B.C. Cancer Agency and the B.C. Cancer Founda- tion’s Research Centre as well as the Society.

During April, our volun- teers are going door-to-door for our annual appeal.

They are frequently asked about other agencies raising money for cancer-related ac- tivities.. Sometimes people have the impression that by giving donations to these oth-

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er groups, they are helping to finance the services provided by the Cancer Society. This is not the case.

So, when the canvasser calls or an appeal comes through the mail, please look for the daffodil: if it is there, you will know that your mon- ey will be used in your own

Scouts plant ‘Trees for Canada’

‘Trees for Canada is a nation-wide initiative designed to give all members of Scouts Cana- da the opportunity to demonstrate, through action, their concern for their country.

In most provinces and the Northwest Ter- ritories, Scout members will be expressing their concern for the future of their country by planting trees.

Two million trees will be planted this year, 2,000 in Castlegar. Combined with over 38 million planted previously, these trees will reach maturity when the Scouts, Cubs or Beavers that planted them have children of their own.

Trees for Canada is also a fund raising pro- ject. The funds raised have been used to help further Scouting in our community as well as International Scouting in Third World coun- tries The funds are raised through donation. In Castlegar, only one contact will be made with a household.

Plant date for Castlegar is Saturday, May 9, so lookout for the Scouts in the coming week.

Trees for Canada is a program concerned with tomorrow — a tomorrow which will be better because communities supported Scouts in this program today.

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B-BALL

The under 15 boys and girls tryouts for the basketball teams that will represent the Kootenays at the B.C. Summer Games will be held locally this weekend. Stanley Humphries Secondary School will be the site for the under 15 female camp April 25 - 26, while Mt Sentinel Junior- © Senior Secondary in South Slocan will host the boys The camps, which offer about 10 hours of instruction and cost $40, are open to all players of appropriate age.

B.C. SUMMER GAMES

Over 4,000 athletes and coaches will converge on the Vancouver Island city of Port Alberni July 9-12 for the B.C. Summer Games.

Ssoccer’s Family Feud

Ed Mills SPORTS EDITOR

Move over Hatfields and McCoys, the Amarals and Chaves are getting set to play the family feud.

And the first shot in the two- year-old bicker-battle between the two families will be fired noon

Sunday at Kiwanis Field as the West Kootenay Men’s Soccer League begins another season.

On one side in that game are the Amarals, four brothers and their dad who make up the heart of the Castlegar Hi Arrow Devils.

On the other side are the Chaves, a father, his two sons and his brother who play on the Castlegar Dexters Dynamos.

On the line, as always when these two teams meet, is the soccer bragging rights for Castlegar. ~~ =

As feuds go, this one followe: the classic pattern of formation.

Once teammates, the two families severed their ties two years ago over some undisclosed dispute.

After the relationship soured the families went their own way and decided to form separate teams in the WKMSL. They also play against each other over the winter in a local indoor league.

“It wasn’t too friendly a

breakup,” said Ivo Amaralf who, the Amaral clan on the Devils. __ Ivo’s father Carlos Amaral, 50, is the coach and sometime player, while Carlos Jr, 27, Fernando, 24 and Herb, 20, also play.

Other than giving a little extra what with family pride on the line, this soccer feud is more fun than fighting, Ivo said. =

“It’s not really that we dislike each other, but there’s always that

little notion of going a little harder against each other,” he said.

And that’s at least one point on which the two families can agree.

“The rivalry is that I like to win, that’s all. It’s being the best, that’s what it’s all about,” said Ed Chaves. ;

Chaves, 43, is the elder statesmen of the Chaves syndicate, which includes his brother Mario, 40, and two sons Jason, 19, and Kevin, 16.

“Any sport is competition, as

i Once they were all teammates, now the Amaral and Chaves families battle all year long for the soccer bragging rights of Castlegar. The first shot in the West Kootenay Men’s Soccer League will be fired when the two teams run by the two families, meet at Kiwanis Field.

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News photo by Ed Mills

Castlegar Hi Arrow Devils coach Carlos Amaral Sr. talks it over with some of his players, including his sons

Herb (left) and Fernando (middle rig meeting with cross-town rivals.

long as there’s no fights or oven like that then its lots of

But given the opportunity, Chaves can’t resist taking a shot at the Amarals.

“They've never beaten us yet, and that’s their problem I think. It should be fun Sunday,” he said.

ht) at Kiwanis Field Monday in preparation for their Sunday afternoon

The Dynamos held the edge in the Nelson Savoy Inn also have

play last year with a win and a tie in its meeting with the Devils. But neither team got bragging rights to the WKMSL title last year as Nakusp, which beat out the Devils in the semifinals, beat Nelson Heritage Inn to win it. Fruitvale, Trail Rossland and

teams in the League.

After Sunday’s game, the two Castlegar team won’t meet again in regular season until Sept. 13.

In the indoor soccer league, the Dynamos will meet Selkirk College in the championship at a yet to be decided date.

It’s a different story

Two years ago, in this letter to a physician in Victoria, an NDP MLA named Elizabeth Cull expressed genuine concern about doctors’ rights to negotiate.

she has refused to negotiate a new fee agreement with B.C. doctors and wants to legis

physicians’ today. Now that she’s Health Minister,

late away all future negotiations.

We agree with Ms.Cull’s 1990 position on ‘honest negotiations’ and ‘adequate and fair remuneration for

We once again ask Ms.Cull to honour the position

that she so eloquently and emphatically took when she was an opposition MLA. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

The doctors of B.C.

Talk to us today.