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By FRANK DERBY

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Goaltender Moore smothers the rebound a action at the Complex Saturday. _ :

Midget Reps

- By FRANK DERBY Sun staff writer

The Castlegar Midget Reps are on their way to the B.C. winter games. The team got off toa - shakey start Friday, January 4th as they dropped the first game in the best 2 out of 3 series against Golden. Coach Paul Phipps attributed it to bus lag as the team Sppeared tired from the travelling.

Fhings looked good as they took a 20 lead into the first intermission and lead 4-3 at the end of the sec- ood period. In the third period they ran out of gas and Golden sored 4 unanswered goals to wrap it up 7-4.

z, With their backs against the __ vwyall, Castlegar came out flying'on'’ - Qaturday and played their best’ garié“Of the season, stompiiig Golden 15-5. Golden switched goaltenders midway through the

‘second period to try to stop the onslaught but to no avail as Castlegar peppered them with a

total of 81 shots compared with 28.

for Golden, No one player domi- nated as the scoring was spread throughout the line up,

On Sunday it was down to win- ner takes all and Golden appeared

s everyone takes thelr man In Bantam Rep

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stween! the pipes ‘The defense did

In West Kootenay Minor Hock- ey Association play, Castlegar’s PeeWee Reps got back into league action after the holidays with an easy 11-4 win over Spokane at the Pioneer Arena on Saturday, Jan-

uary Sth. : :

Darren Pottle led the way with four goals, including the first and last of the game, while Shawn Horcoff got the hattrick and a cou- ple of assists to match Pottle’s five point output. An indication of the team’s strong forechecking style was the fact that both Pottle and Horcoff scored twice unassisted after steals or intercepted passes. Also scoring for Castlegar were Bill Phillips and Craig Swanson with a pair each.

Although Castlegar never relin- quished the lead, the game was close enough to be in doubt as the score was 3-1 after the first and 6- 3 after two. The team actually seemed to take the second period off - while they did score 3 goals, they only had 4 shots on net. --

That kind of production was indicative of Spokane’s major |

win Zone Playoffs

en pulled its goalie but failed to get the equalizer. Rumor has it

P - weak While Mike Kooznetsoff had a

in Golden

that the Castlegar Midgets are still celebrating.

Bantam Reps lose to Spokane

Castlegar’s Bantam Reps got off to a good start scoring the only goal of the first period against Spokane in their return to league

still das Castlegar took a 2-0 lead in the

action at the Complex. By the end of the second they had

first period on goals from and Kazakoff. Playing a much tighter game, Golden cut the deficit to one goal early in the sec- ond but A i ished

that lead as‘ Sp went up 4-3. While the home team held the edge in play in the third period, they couldn’t put anything behind i Nick

Castlegar’s two goal cushion mid way through the period. In the third period Nino Dacosta added another goal for Castlegar but then Golden came storming back with goals from Jura Dhami and Faisal Chaadhary to narrow the margin to one goal. :

In the last minute of play Gold-

Crammer and Spokane tallied twice more to make the final score

clear that he was disappointed

with the outcome, not with the play of his charges,

“We've had a tough year with only 2 wins and 15 losses, but then we have the smallest and youngest team in the league. We only have four second year guys but they all play hard and they never give up.” -

The téam’s goal now is to beat Beaver Valley so that when the playoffs come Beaver Valley will imow that they have some compe- tition.

Next weekend the team is on

«the road. for a tournament in Kim-

berly..and if they can play disci- -

. plined in their own end, coach

Fauth feels they can come out of it playing at least .500 hockey.

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strong game be i Castlegar, Chuck Sherwood strug- ‘gled for Spokane:

litue to assist him as Castlegar for- “wards ‘were ‘allowed’ to stand. around in front of the net all ‘day, taking passes’ or’ banging ‘in Tebounds at will." eal

Spokane did have one strong line ‘centered’ by Ben Holt with Mike Brunette ‘and Jim Morton on ‘the wings. Along with defenseman Tom Brasch, they ‘figured in all the scoring for the visitors’ from the South. ’ ‘ ene

After a between periods look at what happened in the second, Castlegar timed it up'a notch’and put 5 more goals past a beleagured Sherwood ‘to more ‘acurately reflect their dominance of the game. They controlled the neutral ‘zone from start to finish and capi- talized on’ any Spokane miscues quicker than you could tum on a. red light. ¥

uise over Spokane

Wees much had their way in an exhibition match against visiting Fernie,’The Castlegar club proved inhospitable hosts as they ‘didn’t allow Fernie a goal while scoring nine of their own. Wayne ‘Stolz recorded the shut out as Castlegar totally dominated play, outshooting their opponents 47-18. Craig Swanson held the hot hand for Castlegar as he pot- ted four more goals to bring his weekend total to six,

“This game gave us an oppor- tunity to. do a little experiment- ing,” said coach John Horcoff. “A couple of our guys will be ing five games while they holiday in: Hawaii, so we moved some people ‘around and it worked’ out fine; The kids are back on track and playing well. I was concerned for'a while that they were trying to be too’ pretty with their passing and not shooting cnough, but that seems'to have straightened itself

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———— : G.S.T. - There, I got the three most hated letters in Canadian history ~ I'm sitting [or more likely lying] on the couch unwinding in front of a late night movie on the boob tube and a commercial comes on plugging Don Cherry's Rock-em, Sock-em Hockey Action. I gotta have it ‘cause at that time of night my LQ. has dropped to approximately my hat size. I reach over to the pad and pen I keep handy for late night inspirations and jot down the details of where to send my hard-earned money. There at the bottom it says please add GST [the voice-over of course makes no mention of this}. Now this means I have to go find my calculator [I suspect most people who order these things don’t know how to opperate a calculator], probably miss some of the movie ‘cause I bave to send this out first thing in the mom- ing, and figure out exactly what I have to pay for this golden opportuni- ty to own this outstanding record of NHL goonery. Suddenly it hits me, the big question - Do I Have To Pay GST On Shipping And Handling? My omniscient wife is already asleep and I value my marringe too much to wake her and ask her. What to do, what to do, what to do? For- tunately the movie is boring enough to put me to sleep before I make any decision..I. wake'up to the National Anthem as CBC signs off and trot off.to:bed. -I-wake:up again in the moming and have'second thoughts about even admitting to Bev what I had been contemplating

And now for something a little more serious - the record cold snaps and snow dumps we've been getting in B.C., especially in the north of the province has caused concem for wildlife. Mule deer and white- tailed deer in particular are threatened because they lack mobility in deep snow conditions. So the good old boys of the Dawson Creek Sportsmen's Club has asked the government to fund a feeding program for these unfortunate creatures over the winter...In other words, “Give us money now so we can save the deer so we can have something to shoot when hunting season rolls around”. There’s a great word in Yid-

Hootspa]. To give you a better idea of the meaning of the word, imag- ine a young man who kills both his parents and when he goes to trial he pleads. guilty andbegs for leaniency.from the judge because he's an Losphan - that's Chutzpah.

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ie: er. th ron of ing people, freely usin; his night stick. Sgt. David Rivero, a spokesman for the Miamt.Police, tells me that in those days police used ‘thelr night’ sticks far ‘more often than they do. ,.One of the teenagers chased away by Milledge, 17-year-old Leroy Strachan, allegedly went to a house ‘across the street, where he knew there was a .22 calibre rifle. He had bor- rowed the rifle the day before and had practised shooting at bottles and tin cans, - 5 Supposedly, Leroy returned to an alle:

beside the park, spotted Officer Mil. ledge, aimed the rifle and fired one shot. (The bullet struck tie: policeman in the jupper chest. Officer Milledge fell to ‘the {ground, dead. Leroy Strachan faded into {the rough, tough neighborhood around {the park,

» Because Leroy was black, the killing brought no outcries of racism from the public. Next day, Leroy left Miami, never to return, Neighbors, relatives and young people were questioned but, from all reports, no one had witnessed the crime. A $500 reward was posted, but it was never claimed. Soon, other murder cases took precedence over the Milledge Killing.

Years passed. The old Milledge file grew dusty and yellow with age. And then a most unusual thing happened. In July, 1989, about 43 years after the mur- der had taken place, Miami police received a phone call, Mary White claimed that on the day of the murder,

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thalmic defect commonly called a wan- dering eye. His name was’ Leroy Stra- an.

Why did Mary White wait 43 years to tell her story? She stated that her hus- band had been a friend of the suspect and had forbidden her to tell what she had seen. Her husband had died

recently. Now, to relieve her conscience, °

she was telling all she knew.

Some years ago, when the murder rate w to uncontrollable proportions in Miaml, ‘detectives: found that they could only investigate a murder for 72 hours. Then, of necessity, they had to move on to a current case. This gave rise to a disproportionate number of old unsolved cases. To remedy this situa- tion, a team of detectives was formed to delve Into older unsolved murders. Sgt. Rivero says, “I know we were the first in Florida to develop a cold case team. Possibly, we were the first in the United States. Now many high’ murder rate cities have them.”

Mary White's story was passcd along to Miami's three-man cold case team. The evidence collected 43 years earlier was located.

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Because they had no jurisdiction in New York State, it was necessary for the police officers to return to Miami to further develop evidence and have a

Leroy was’ refused bail and. incar- cerated in a New York jail. Initially, he fought extradition to, Florida, as that state has the death penalty, while New York State does not. ‘As

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At least a dozen rabbits live in the bushes near the ground-level Patio attached to the VGH cafeteria,

They are friendly, well-fed bun- nies who are willing to be stroked and petted in return for their favorite food.

“They love chocolate chip cook- ies,” says housekeeper Elizabeth MacPherson, one of dozens of VGH staffers who leave food out for the rabbits. ‘They also like bread, left- over carrot bits and cabbage.”

“They sit up on their hind baunches and look at you. with those big eyes — and you've just got to give them something,” she says.

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“It is therapeutic,” she says, “playing with the rabbits helps kids take their minds off where they are — it's nice.”

‘The bunnies bring financial ben- efits, too — the hospital gift shop has taken to selling stuffed rabbits to visitors as part of it’s charitable fund-raising activities.

Bverybody finds the rabbits relaxing —- except, perhaps, hospi- tal gardener Adrian Williams.

The bunnies don't bug him, he says — but their eating habits have made his job more complicated.

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