. Gog-sledding, ‘basketball, as an “Beta uthe Unit _ Finnish favorite Where are the fans? by Gary Rix “Take in an exhibition game sometime —- whether it’s pole climbing, snowshoeing or whatever- and what do you see’ ‘The opening day or event ia “wall attended. Jomeumes hundreds or even thousands tae pace. go to see the event hard wore develop i For the first while fan participation is fantastic, everybody comes and en- joys. Somebody el group of my turn,” and they organize a league and gather the fans. Eventually it snowballs and fans are going to everything. But fans got bored because there's too much to do, too many things to see and too many places to go. Fans get tired and decide to stay home. Preity soon, there's 25 fans attending the new sport, hen six, and then one. Men's recreational had one fan out Talay. . It's pa "veal well. se or a There's always a le think “It's | And it doesn ‘t- cost a penny. Hockey — _ is another hockey, pla Saturdays, Seadey aad all week, These es draw an average of 25 fans, mostly parents. Commerrial hockey started this season with 100 to 150 fans. Now they're lucky if 25 turn out, The Terrace Reds Hockey Club brought out 500 or 600 fans for their first couple of games. Why? They rough, tough brand of hockey. Whether good or bad epending on your tastes - a > ail hockey. Do fans always have to havo perfect winners? Or constant win- ners? play The Reds hockey because they enjoy it. They pay because to them it's the game in town. It’s about time they got some ace Fill the arena this Saturda ¢ lonely fan showed b with to be identified. night and just see how much : the Reds appreciate it. Above support the event or sport of your choice, whatever it may be. All participants. thrive on only fans Recreation chatter ‘entert the whole family along for an evening of fum and ment at the Terrace Parks and Recreation a single round-robin tour- January championships proposed for hockey ‘ TORONTO (CP) — posalthat the world be chamnploship be held eve Janusry break in North scheaules was delivered to of fitness and amateur sport. The format would involve ‘Department Film Series, showing Friday Feb.17 at the nament involving the top two Terrace Arena Banquet Room from 4:30 to 9:38 p.m. +» The upcoming film Is a classic animal adventure involving and the United States, with an orphan boy and a purebed Irlah Red Setter. Following a the first-and second-place clash with the kennel owner, the boy runs away with the dog. teams The adventures that follow result in valuable lessons on series Giving and gaining love. , a ahort feature, film from the North Film Board called “The Great Train Robbery” will be shown. Fresh popcorn and refreshments will be available, . A free fitness test for people age 15 and over will be con- ducted in the fliness room at the Terrace Swimming Pool, on Sanday, Feb.19 from 11:80 a.m.-2:00p.m. » We'll put you through a few simple teste is twenty Five malnutes, which Will give you an Mdea off what level of flineas you are at. : monitor yon individual somrean 7 one should cal ihe Pool, staff at 638-1177 tw GSU cea Sate ‘Commercial hockey stats Terrace Commercial Hoekey Stats to Feb. 15: Team ‘Totem Ford McEwan GM, - Gordon and Anderson Rino Michaud - Toten Steye Dillabough-McEwan . Tom Farpow- Totem Rick Lewis- McEwan Sean James- Totem . “Harold Cox- G&A Ken Ziegler-Skeena - “Cold weather for ski j jumpers LAHTI, Finland (Reuter). —Ski jumpers Jim Denney of States and Tauno Kayhko of Thunder Bay, Out. have. been impressive in practice for. the world” Nordic - ski’. championships mb. ‘The which start Saturday, . - On the low Mil, here the standard leap metres, Denney has jumped 80.6 and & metres. But they will have to turn. in brilliant performances to ’ place in the op against the in the world, with the _ East Germans leading the way. Glass of East. celebrated his 25th ‘birthday, Wednesday by , _ pimping $7.5 metres off the followed: by. conttyn Mathias Buse - with a mark of 87 metres. . Jumpers from Austria, Norway, Sweden and have also cleared the 60-metre mark but out of YVilanttiia was knocked Letneeng ankle fe during | Tuesday. . wa ast ature one sat tomt.4 ‘Celalaethreatens to disrupt. the championships > v anda specta jury has been * oa cali! one any Peeve, vtfictals of the “Kari | “Sitter RBRRRS Lledeat«_ SSHB . > SSSSSSRRRS SESGBGSRee European Broadcasting Union and organizers of the Nordic. competition were holding talks to avoid..a ‘television blackout ‘of. the ‘champlonships which “end ne EBU announced foneatt ‘te chaxpkonantns: e cham: because it considered there. was an excessive amount of advertising ‘aloug the ski tracks for the rone-country events. Ita decision will: rgeren viewers in western canal aoa Onshipa, ey lil be screened in Canada ort the U.S, ~ Organizers say the ads will the television rights. ’ “QUEEN HAS FLU ‘LONDON -: (AP). in for bis mother, sanding had been named for the honor by the Queen in her New Year's list. . NSBBRRSESS com ‘for the cham- ‘A * plo ea + 2:00 p.m.- Meraitg ; Shop). - 10:80 a.m:<'5 va-7 12 European teams, Canada a bestofthree r the world title. Campagnolo also recom- mended that no decisionnbe made to send a team to this year’s championship in Prague unless there is an agree on the princi es the world ute. covering the pected. trom 1980 to 1088, She further proposed that Canada not agree to go the 1979 world champlonship in Moscow unless the total Under te pi, the present wor ampionshi would become a Duropeay tournament and the top two teams from that tournament would be represented in the world championship the following year, _PG rink goes _ to: nat’l meet... BR, (CP) =_ The Doris Bueckert rink of Prince George Wednesday clinched the British Columbia senlor women's curling cham- plonattipe with one game left to play toda; iy. Bueckert’s rink, declared the winner after winning six consecutive games in the eight-rink event, will Tepresent B.C. in the Vancouver was: in ‘ "spat after ‘Wednesday's play” With -four wins and two losses, Three other rinks are tied. in third position. with 33 records, They are Marg Rosse of. Resstand,. Kay Wright of. North - Vancouver and Betty Stott - of Waite “Shirley. MacDonald. of Dawson Creek and Elin Petch of Victoria have both won two of six games-while Madeline Copeland of _ Quesnel won in only one. of six starts. i Basketball. tournament Terrace. Senior Men’s Invitational Baaketball ent ‘got underway will continue today and Saturday and Sunday with teams from the entire Pacific Northwest nship. Prince George All Stara, ' Prince Rupert’ Crest All Stars, Houston and Kitimat will be on hand to compete for first place prize money ‘and the Terrace Trophy, embellamatic of. senior men’s basketball acy ‘in the northwest. ndary t 30 p.m... and Saturday at 9 a.m., with _the -finals on Sunday af-. ternoon.at Caledonia. Saturday night disco at the Terrace. Hotel is’ open to Patlowing ipa schedule of the tourtiament: TERRACE vorrieainmir rh eb. 16, it 16,18. Pool Kitimat Village - Terrace Reds «. . Prince George | - Prince pet Crest bring in more, money than - Pool B- Terrace Blues Kitimat. Games. oe , 7:30 p.m.- 3 va. 4, woe 9:00 pme 7 ve: Sa eae 9:00 am. 4 va.a.: noon 1.y52) 1:90 p.m-B8ye8 3:00 p.m.= 1 ya-4 40 pm-Sv8 | Lt Pr, riper ( cats Machine | 6:00 p.m.- 7 v6 6 TH pm 2ve3 | Sunday 9:00 a.m.- Runner up A vs Champion 3. 10:30 ~Runner Up 3B vs Cham Winners of PROFITS SHARED The IIHF would receive $50,-000 to $100,000 from world tournament revenues, The NHL and WHA players’ associations would get 70 per cent of the profits for their pension funds and Hockey Canada, which would operate the tournament, would receive the remaining $0 per cent of the profits, The profits would go toward Olymple f eam operations, international operations and domestic development programs. - “T think it is also essential that we make provision in the schedule for those countries not Included in the world open to be part of a competition against our national Olympic team,'’ she _ sald. “In this way, all of our hockey colleagues can con- . to be pecommodated. president of the National - Hockey League, and his Campbell. - The invitation for them to attend was in’ line with Campagnolo's . suggestion: that Hockey Canada will. break up unless all the pertnere. ‘of hockey, in- cluding the NHL, World Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, universities, players’ associations and governments, are included in its operations. DIAGNOSE FLU TYPE - BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) — The virus that put three- quarters. of the U.S. Naval Academy's 4,800 mid- shipmen: on | sick call last week has been confirmed as the Russian flu, Dr. Neil Solomon, Maryland's health Norylaad ‘th said Tuesday. rr ‘stat oe ov @ rt a con- firmed outbreak ef the type of flu that was first spotted in the Soviet Union’ last year. hy. John Ziegler, THE HERALD, Friday, February 17, 1978, PAGE 3 yA oe Reds prepare for PNWHL playoffs The hometown Reds went for al it workout last n Red L'Estrange Fi them coated up at the blue line for 20 minutes or so of shooting, The Reds have not been too proficient in this de all season. Shots from the point have been numerous at times, but hitting everyt'*.g other than the net. Everything is go for Satruday’s game here against the Winterhawks at 8:00. The Reds will go into ee Nayoffs with two net- tui ers, Roy Garb and Andre Jean The line of Frenette, Legouife and Matheson has been flying as of late, with Rick Smeley back in the fold, along with Wakefield and Farkvam, The. Reds have double trouble for opposing terme high fiying B Heit The arry has really been turing it on ‘lately. Defenseman Dale Blazers one behind first Bellingham Blazer spotted Nanaimo Clippers a ‘&L lead Wednesday, then roared back with six straight goals to score a 7-5 win in one of two British Columbia Junior -Hockey League win Bellingham to within one point of the firsiplace rilppers in the Coastal In the other game, Glen Merkosky scored his third goal of the night with 66 seconds left in overtime to gve Kamloops Chiefs a 65 over Kelowna Buckaroos In Nanaimo, Neal Girard, who ‘moved into the Bellingham nets - after starter Vern Mott was hit in the eye with a shot early in the first period, made 40 saves, holdingnthe Blazers in the game after the Clip- pers had gone ahead 4-1 with four powerplay goals. n Nanaimo scored again at 2:27 of the second period, but moved ‘that's all they got as Bellingham came back with three goals in the second and three inthe third. Al Anderson led ‘the. Blazers with three goals while Ken Berry added two. Glen Anderson -and.-Steve MeDonald - had. singles.. Nanaimo at singles: fom reg 3, Barry Pe- dersen, Arron Ruck, Bob Smith and Brent Denat. BLAZERS HAVE EDGE Steve Hanna made . 29 ‘paves for Nanaimo while Mott made two heforehe was injured. It was the seventh Bellingham win in 10 meetings between the teams this season. - Ih Kamloops, the Chiefs trailed 2-1 after one period, 4- Safter two, and 5-4 late In the game when goalie Blair McKie was pulled in favor of ’ a sixth attacker. The strategy worked | ag. Norm Meyer scored with 10 seconds to go to send the game into overtime. Merkosky beat Buckaroo goalie Mike Desjardins with a45-foot chot at 8:54 of the 10- minute sudden-death perlod. The Chiefs remain in Fourth place in the Interior: Diviston, 15 points behind ihe Buckaroos. ; Murray Mathesor and Ralph in scored the other Kamloops goals. Rab Wright scored twice for Kelowna and Red Danchuk, Brad Palmer and Guy Johnson added one each. McKie stopped 20 shots while Kelowna’s Mike Desjardin blocked 47. oue {2am was assessed 4 minors, four majors and one misconduct. Two games gre scheduled - tonight Merritt Centennials ‘visit Revelstoke Bruins and Abbotsford Flyers entertain Nanaimo. Kushner is finally feeling at home in the PNWHL. area a and chee eeping other forwards from walking in on the Rads’ netminders, The team roster has been cut to 14 players. L'Eeirange would like to have two more in theline-up, bit was unable to come up with anyone that - could help or wanted to play with this club. Cease Sundays game ln unday’s C] which the Reds dominated the Burns Lake Braves. Talks are place with Smoley, and L'Estrange believes he will be raady for better hei ike hi ol self with en os. Akng with Restord on defense, they make a tough pair to get Fans are reminded to their tickets early fot Saturday's game and come “out to see the hometown Reds. Visit their booth in the ‘lobby during intermission and take home & cap or T- oeake Saturday your night to go to the arena. | “Record gets broken ihe record geta broken ‘150 mile cross country snowmobile race held at-Prince George on Feb.12, the time was 17 faster than lest year. In the 400 oppen cham- Blonshlps class, John Bergen Burns Lake drove his Katasadi to viclory in 2:27:16. Lyle Gold of Kit- wanga was second on Yamaha at 2:27:20, just four Beconds behind Bergen. There were 50 entries. in the championship class and. 48 in the pleasure class. Five women racers with Kathy Ewert of Prince George road a Ski-doo to win the powder puff for the second straight year with a time of 3:3: Sen Olen of smithera was second at ’ $:6:04 on her Sdi-doo, and Hazel Hamilton of Terrace came in at three hours and 15 minutes on an Artic Cat. ~ Gordon Hamiltontook the 400 open pleasure on his Kawasaki with a time of two hours and 40 minutes, but had the misfortune to freeze his face riding his’ liquid. cooled machine. Second was Gary Kral of Prince George at (wo huur, 44 minutes and fuur seconds. -. Fifteen year old Nolan Mercier of Prince George ~was the youngest driver with a time of 2:57:58, "TERRACE AND DISTRICT _ HOSPITAL SOCIETY Annual Meeting DATE: TIME: 8:00 p.m. ' PLACE; Lecture Theatre Wednesday, June 7, 1978 , Caledonia Senlor Secondary School. The business will consist of the election of members of - the Society, the election of the members-to serve on the Hospital Board of Trustees, and Presentation of reports covering the year 1977. , In order to be @ oligibia to vote, membership must be purchased before Sunday, May 7, 1978, Membership may be purchased at the following locations: Mills Memorial Hespital Royal Bank of Canada Toronto Dominion Bank a