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director of player development for the Pittsburgh Penguins, achieved 739 victories as coach of the St. Louis Blues, Mon- treal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres between 1967 and 1987.

Armstrong, who didn't miss an assignment for 16 seasons, retired at the end of 1977-78 after working a record 1,744 games.

“The integrity and dedication he brought to NHL rinks for over 20 years was unmatched,” O'Neill said.

Bowman, a Montreal native, developed as a coach -in the Canadiens organizations in the 1950s and 1960s. He began his NHL career in 1967 with the expansion Blues, taking the new club to consecutive Stanley Cup finals in his first three seasons.

He moved to Montreal in 1971-72 and went on to win five, Stanley

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continued from page 81 water denied any knowledge of the Gretzky card.

“The sad thing is someone is going to be tricked into paying a lot of money for it,”* says Kelnhofer.

Some collectors might not care if the card is fake, Bryenton says, “Some people are fans enough of Wayne Gretzky they would purchase something like that just because of

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Indeed, at the weekly auction at Edmonton’s Top Notch Cards, two of the bogus cards have sold for $55 and $45.

Mark Johnson, 17, says he has no forgeries in his collection of 40,000 sports cards, but has seen a few. reprints aren’t worth j a piece of paper. But

them know the difference, but they don’t want to shell out $600 for the real thing. They just want something to show off."”

Johnson says he spends his entire paycheques from his job at a car wash on cards.

“‘My mom says I’m crazy but I tell her one of these days these cards will be worth a lot of money. And they will, Two years ago I bought a Gret- zky card for $40. I now sold it for $650.""

Along with the Gretzky card, good cards to counterfeit are rookie cards of current stars like Brett Hull, baseball's Jose Canseco, football's Joe Montana and basketball's

Michael Jordan, Kiefer says.

With older cards, it’s more dif- ficult to find the correct type face and paper stock. ‘Twenty-year-old paper feels different than new paper.

“A forgery will just look too good,’’ Bryenton says. And if 10,000 Maurice Richard rookie cards sud- denly came on the market, seasoned collectors would surely catch on, Kiefer says.

“*But when you are dealing a card with a larger, more uncertain univer- se like a Michael Jordan card or Gretzky or Hull cards it’s easier to infuse a large number of counterfeit cards into that market.’”

In the past, forgeries of color car- ds were easily spotted. On the original, the photograph’s color dots had a set pattern, put down by the printing... press... If . the’ card. was photographed, then counterfeited, the dots would be random and distorted, Kiefer says.

Now, that has changed. “‘With computer scanning and digital scan- ning where everythings converted into computer bits, that dot pattern doesn’t get random anymore,”’ Kiefer says.

“You have to have a genuine card next to the counterfeit to determine the counterfeit. That's the disturbing sort of counterfeit that bothers us.””

More disturbing however, are the counterfeits that haven't been found out.

“There may be a whole lot of counterfeits that we just can’t detect,”” Kiefer admits.

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At their last regular directors’ meeting Caniegst and District Heritage Society members Corinie Schnuerer, Carolee Fitz-Gerald, Doris Sweeney, Pete Oglow, Dr, Roy Ward, Sarah Chambers, Byng Giraud, Joe Killough, president Sherrel Koreen and city representative Ald. Bob Pakula sat down to discuss some of the problems involving Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park and the Castlegar Rail Station museum.

The problems included: essential grants for operational staff (the applications have already gone in); what to do with the old panelling from the Station walls (it was sold for $40, that is, another couple of gallons of paint for the new interior walls); what to do about Heritage Week in view of station restoration and frozen pipes on the island (hold it later in conjunction with the Castlegar Public Library at the end of April with a display of period costumes); rails and rolling stock for the station (since the project is involved in a snarl-up between CP Rail, the city and the Lions Club, postpone it until next year and concentrate on landscaping the Station surroundings); what to do about the offer from the West Kootenay Power museum at South Slocan of some antique electrical equipment (cooperate).

Since the society was formed with a view to coordinating heritage preservation and development in the Castlegar district, including such structures as the old Doukhobor suspension bridge across the Kootenay river, the board was happy to hear a report by Oglow to the effect that initial plans have been made by the Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Society to do restoration work on the historic bridge. His request for joint sponsorship of the project was, therefore, strongly endorsed.

On the other hand, there are a number of other irritating problems to be solved.

While the population of Castlegar has not increased in the past several years, the bureacratic network has, with the result that personal contact has decreased and getting things done has become more difficult, frustrating and irritating within the confines of the official labyrinth.

One meeting of a city official and heritage representatives, for example, was called recently to identify needs and problems. It ended in frustration, apparently because the official had failed to read a requested report from the society.

About a year and a half ago, thanks to a $2,500 grant from B.C. Hydro, the society was able to construct a channel to clear the stagnant, stinking water from the lagoon at Zuckerberg Island, build a children’s sand play place at the south end of the island and raise the causeway. The city donated culverts to lead in fresh water and create a flow.

Reflections and recollections By John Charters

Society requests to raise the causeway were ignored and high water badly damaged it. Last year, using free, delivered fill, the damage was repaired and the causeway raised another couple of feet. Then, in spite of requests to raise the lower end another two feet with a few more loads, the work was terminated and the very high water of early summer and mid-winter swept through so now that end of the causeway is completely impassible, the children’s play area is scoured rock, the culverts are plugged.

Consequently, the island and Chapel House are cut off from the fire engines and service vehicles, disabled people and those afraid of heights are denied access to the island, as are wedding parties (a source of revenue). Considerable money and effort has gone down the river.

There is still money in the 1990 budget for the restoration of the log cabin, but no contract, since there is, again, no access. For the same reason, the pipes froze, the toilet bow! in the Chapel House was cracked and the public toilets shut off. This in turn has made it very difficult to open the house to visitors for the beginning of the tourist season

We should have been alerted last June when the Queen’s representative, Lt.-Gov. David Lam and his wife paid an official visit to the.island, but not one member of council was there to welcome them. Benign indifference is endemic.

In the meantime, there is, among other objectives, the development of the park as an educational eco-museum for the purpose of viewing and identifying local plants and animals. To this end, several dozen varieties of plants have been posted with rustic, staked signs. This morning I pulled two stakes out of the pond, minus their signs. A number of other identifying and directional signs have also been vandalized recently, in part due, I suggest, to fewer watchful walkers.

1 am reminded of an old rhyme which goes as follows:

For the want of 2 nail the shoe was lost,

For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost,

wn causeway leading to Zuckerberg Island is one of the irritating problems whieh the Castlegar and District Heritage Society hopes will eventually turn into

“spearls. <, Join Charters

For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of one horse-shoe nail. 1 am talking about tesponsibility and

Koreen or the rail station or leave your name there. If you don’t like what you see, or think something should be done (that causeway, for

and ity pride, about remembering that the man who has no past, has no future. We have saved, not without difficulty, two essential parts of our past — the island and unique Chapel House and the station, the nucleus of the city. Now is the time to carry them into the future for the sake of our children and the community.

If you have not joined the heritage society, do so.

The rail station is not open to regular visitors but it is open every weekday for a look-about and to accept memberships. If you would like to help for a couple of hours a week or a month, phone Sherrel

phone, or better, write to city hall.

And don't forget to attend and make yourself heard at the annual general meeting, May 9 at the station.

If you think I sound bitchy, you’re wrong, I’m not — yet. Just justifiably indignant and tired of being understanding and patient. But give me — and others — time.

Besides, for the first time in eight years we have a member of city council sitting down and meeting with us. My personal thanks to Ald. Bob Pakula for his encouragement and support. Some of those

__ irritating problems may yet become Castlegar pearls.

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