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Ball is in Realty's court

Final 2 determined in men’s basketball

By ED MILLS Staff Writer

Get out the bandages, ice packs and liniment, Castlegar Realty is playing Kingfisher Bobcat Services in the Trail Men’s Basketball League championship.

If the game, set for Cominco Gym on Wednesday at 7:15 p.m., is anything like the last time these two teams met it’s going to be a bruiser.

But Castlegar’s Brian Turlock, who got roughed up in a playoff game between the two teams, said Realty can aboid any unnecessary contact if its outside shooting is on.

“If we can’t get our outside game going then we'll have to go back in-

side, and it could get a little rough again," said Turlock.

Castlegar beat Kingfisher in their only playoff meeting and also beat Kingfisher all four times during the regular season,

Castlegar completed the round- robin playoffs with a 3-0 record last Wednesday by beating Smelter Pub 65-52 at the Cominco Gym,

Turlock scored 17 points, Wayne McCarthy had 16 and Toby Reichert “had 10 for Castlegar in the win.

Smelter Pub’s Mark MacConnell led all scorers with 31 while Henry Vanderveld had 13,

Castlegar, which won the regular season crown in the league with a 10-

2 record, was expected to be in the final. Kingfisher, which won only * two games all year, was not,

But in the other game Wednesday night, Ernie Rella scored 22 points and Duane Donald had 19 as Kingfisher surprised Victoria’ Place 63-56. ~

Kingfisher finished the round- robin at 2-1 while both Smelter Pub and Victoria Place were 1-2.

As usual, Chad Coupland led Vic- toria Place, which led 32-31 at half- time, with 31 points.

‘of what Turlock says, Rella, a six-foot-five forward, is ex- pecting the championship game to come down to who wins the battles under the basket and who controls the inside game. ¢

“It's going to be won inside. Every time we play them there’s going to be lots of banging and grabbing,” said Rella, who is also

league president. Rough stuff or not, Turlock said the pressure is definitely on

“They've got nothing to lose and we've got everything to lose. A team that went 10-2 during the regular season against a team that was 2-10, Anything less than a win would be unacceptable,’’ he said.

As for Realty’s edge in talent, Rella said Kingfisher won't be doing anything special on defence to cover the likes of Turlock, McCarthy, Reichert and Lou Cicchetti,

“They've got four guys who can put the ball in the Koop, so if you shut one down the other gets hot. We're just going to’ play them man to man.

“On paper they have the better team, but on the floor, like I said last week, anything can happen,” said Rella.

Broadway comes to Castlegar

By CasNews Staff

Forget New York. Broadway is coming to Castlegar.

With the theme of On Broad- way, the Castlegar Figure Skating Club will hold its semi-annual carnival March 23 at the Com- munity Complex. i

Club members will perform solos and group skates to the music of such Broadway hits as Cats, Cabaret, A Chorus Line and Peter Pan.

Award-winning skater Jeanette Settle of Trail will be the guest skater for the event.

Settle will perform the artistic skate which won her ‘a silver medal at the B.C. Winter Games last month. She'll also be doing a free skate.

Castlegar club pro Bev Vatkin, who organized and choreographed 14 of the 15 num- bers the skaters will perform.

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continued from B1 the third when a minor skirmish erupted into a full-fledged slugfest with all the players from both teams on the ice and more than one main event taking place at a time.

Tt was all too much for head referee Bill Savinkoff and linesman Tom Campbell who left the ice after Seeing there was no controlling the Situation. That left only one lipgsman to deal with about 20 angry players.

After things calmed down about five minutes later, players pleaded for the officials to resume play but Campbell and Savinkoff would not return to the ice.

It was a good game up to that

point, Savinkoff said in the referees room after the game.

“I don’t know what to say really. I'm really upset. It’s the first time in 10 years that I had to call a game. As far as I’m concerned it was very poor sportsmanship shown.””

When the players asked just Cam- Pbell to return, he refused. again, saying he didn’t want to get killed.

“These guys hdve to remember that everybody’s got to go to work the next day,”’ said Campbell.

Evidence that the scorekeepers had had enough as well was the fact that the last penalties weren’t listed on the game sheet.

Martini agreed that the brawl took away from what had been a good

game.

“It would have been nice to get the guys on the ice who wanted to Play and finish it (the game). It’s un- fortunate,”’ he said.

George Roberts and Tony Rego scored the other goals for Hi Arrow.

Wayne Salekin had two goals and Cory Day scored once and assisted on two others for Sandman, which trailed 3-2 after one period but led 4- 3 after two. Lyle Stoushnow also had two assists for Sandman.

Tim Swanson, the CRHL’s most valuable player in the playoffs, Played another strong game in net for Sandman.

Barry Grunerud got the win in net for Hi Arrow.

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Community salutes Cap on his last voyage

Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie Glad did | live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will This be the verse you gave for me: Here lies where he longed to be Home is the sailor home from the sea And the hunter home from the hill, — Requiem: Robert Louis Stevenson

Castlegar lost one of its best known and most senior pioneers this month. Capt. Gordon Osborne (Cap) Sutherland “being old and full of days” died at age 100.

The little Memorial Church at Robson was filled to capacity on Monday, March 11, as family and friends gathered to wish him well on his last earthly voyage. Dorothy Barker conducted the Anglican memorial service for the dead, the Castlegar Royal Canadian Legion provided the honor guard, and an invited piper from Creston, whose identity, regret- tably, could not be found, played the Scottish Lament, The Flowers of the Forest, Robson friend and neighbor, Byng Giraud, gave the eulogy for Cap Sutherland, printed, herein, with permission. He said:

Today we have come together to honor and remember Osborne (Cap) Sutherland. He was a loving husband, a caring father, a proud grandfather and great-grandfather.

Cap will be mostly remenibered for his many years on the river as skipper.of the Elco II. His life was long and full and the many stories of the lake will remind us of him often for he has played a great Part in the growth of our valley.

Cap was born in Cape John, in Pictou county, near River John, N.S., on the day of Christmas Eve in 1890. He attended school in River John and grew up in the area first working as a fisherman and around the wharves of River John.

He left Nova Scotia Aug. 26, 1908, and came to B.C. on the Harvest Excursion train taking advantage of the discount rates.

After spending a day in Salmo, he arrived in Nelson and found employment with the White Pine Lumber Co., in the Paulson-McRae Creek area working in the woods until November of that year. For the remainder of the winter of 1908 and '09 and the next two-and-one-half years, he worked for logging contractors in the area. His next, employer was C.S. Leary of Nakusp and after working on and off for two winters with his firm, he worked in the Slocan, first in Sandon and then in New Denver, at the Lucky Thought Mine.

He returned to the Arrow Lakes, once again, in 1915 to work for Leary once more, this time at Fosthall and then a year later, started work on the steam tug Irene, b. ing a long and disti i career on the Arrow Lakes.

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Reflections and recollections

By John Charters

Much time was spent with his wood pile, forever being berated by his loving wife of trying to heat all of Robson. In later years his home became a gathering place for his ever-increasing family, and his many friends he had come to know.

In July of 1971, Cap was honored by the People who loved and respected him. The huge new lake tug the G.O. Sutherland was named after him.

Early in the morning of March 7, the skipper, with a good downstream wind, set out on his last tow. He will be sadly missed and fondly remembered by all that knew him.

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Afterward there was a reception at the Robson Hall.

But these are just the outlines, the essential and formal threads of a busy life, spanning a century of time, for the most part in a small community. The teal Cap is to be seen only in the 10,000 Points of light, some sombre, many bright, which are the memories, incidents and anecdotes of those who knew him.

About eight years ago, in preparing for several colunns on the Sutherlands and Stevensons, I spent several very happy and hospitable afternoons with Cap and Marion — and there was much good talk and tea and poring over old Photographs. It also didn’t take long to realize that Cap liked his daily tot (Captain Morgan, I think) and Mrs. Sutherland disapproved of drinking — at least in her presence. It was no surprise to learn, therefore, that Cap’s ex- tensive woodpile held more than sticks of wood.

When Marion died suddenly, he was devastated by the loss, but rallied and with true Scots stubbor- ness,-determined to live to be 100 — and he did:

I regretted being unable to attend the reception. It must have been a gold mine of stories. How many, I wonder, ‘like Karl Koreen’s Scouts, had the oppor- tunity to learn local history the best way, by listening to Cap talk of his experiences? How few, like Ruth Waldie, can remember going for a wonderful ride on his tug and being treated like a queen? Or, like Paul Oglow, as an inexperienced and exhausted kid faced with a piled-up log jam, to have the Cap come over and with a push here and a poke there clear the jam

family for this year he married Marion Sanderson in Revelstoke. Together they raised five children, Nettie, Bud, Kay, Gordon and Anne. In 1919, he also earned his captain’s papers.

After his marriage he worked on the tug Vantoria in the summers and for Dr. Burnam in the winters. In 1925, he captained the tug Yale and remained there six years.

He began working for William Waldie and Sons in February 1931 and remained with Waldies until his retirement at age 70. He moved to Robson in 1939 and brought his family there a year later.

After his retirement, he worked as a security guard on the lake tugs and worked with the construction tugs on the High Arrow dam.

He enjoyed hunting and was always helping someone with some project or another, and when he was unable to help one was assured he at least would offer sound advice,

in He learned, he said, in one simple lesson, the difference between brute force and skilled experience.

He was often impatient and difficult toward the end but doubtless he was getting anxious to weigh anchor and to join Marion,

I like to remember him at the Castlegar Rail Station when he came last June as a special guest for the model ship exhibition by Bert Learmonth of Nelson and to discuss the many vessels‘on the lake he knew so well. His face shone with happiness and I’m sure the wee dram of Captain Morgan in his coffee cup also gladdened his heart.

Stevenson died after a lifetime of illness before he was SO and was buried on a high hill in Samoa. Cap doubled his age, after a lifetime of vigorous good health, but both have left a great legacy to children and to adults, of memories and of living life fully and courageously.

Bon voyage, Cap, we all salute you!

Cadets celebrate birthday

In April, the Royal Canadian Air Cadets will be 50 years old and to celebrate the achievements of this youth organization, a variety of events are being held across the country to celebrate. One such event was a public speaking contest held at Selkirk College on Feb. 26.

Three candidates from Castlegar’s Air Cadet Squadron competed for the chance to represent the squadron at the Kootenay Wing competition held Marrch 9 in Trail. The cadets had to present a five-to-six-minute Prepared speech as well as a two-to- three-minute impromptu speech.

Cpl. Candice Larche, who won the event in Castlegar, spoke about women who have contributed to the advancement of aviation in Canada,

Also participating were Cpl. Lorne Shalanski who spoke about his favorite aircraft, and. Sgt. Dave Power, who discussed the British Commonwealth Training Plan.

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