B8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 1%, 2002

SARAH A.

) SKEENA ANGLER
ROB BROWN

Trout Travels 14

he eyes of the giant redheaded hippy
| were headlights. Kenny was a deer’

on the road after dark, There was a

familiar hypnotic magnetism to those

pale blue orbs; those Charlie Manson
eyes. Kenny knew he was facing the most dan-
gerous animal known to man,

He knew with an uncanny certainty that, in
moments, The Beast was about to break through
the temporal wall and smash all semblance of
order, sending shards of sense spinning off into
oblivion.

He couldn’t move. He struggled ta form
words. He could form none. A knock, there was
knock: knuckles on glass. The red giant blinked,
looked away, and resumed human form. The cri-
sis passed like a cold gust of winter wind and
everything settled into steady-state.

Kenny swiveled his head to the left where an
RCMPoliceman, was alternately drawing invis-
ible clockwise circles and knocking against
Kenny’s window with his right hand.

On to his right where the red giant and his di-
minutive pal were sitting so calmly and looking
so benign it made him think that what had just
happened — or was just about to happen -—

»hadn’t. He fumbled for the handle and rolled
, down the window.
The constable looked cross. He had a dar-
“moustache and was so tall that leaning over was
obviously a considerable inconvenience.

“Driver’s license and registration, please,”

"he ordered, ; ;

or eKenny..dug his.:wallet; fromchis pocket, #
opened it, and pulled his license from its plastic
envelope. He handed it to the officer and smiled
‘lamely, then he reached across his two unwel-
come passengers, opened the glove compart-
ment, and pulled out his registration.

The officer looked at the documents then
made his way back to the patrol car. Kenny
watched him in the side view mirror while the
tribe members squirmed as if they’d been sud-
denly afflicted with an itch they couldn’t
scratch.

The officer climbed out of his car. He grew

larger in the mirror. He leaned in the window
once more.

He handed Kenny the license and registra- .
tion, “You can’t park here,” he said.

Kenny realized that any explanation of what
had brought about this circumstance would
sound strange. The tribe was uneasy. They nee-
ded a reason to split.

Brilliance is often birthed in stress.

“Il was just dropping these guys off,” Kenny
said.

“Uh, thanks for the. ride man,” said the
crazed red gianl, seizing on the opportunity to
exit, whereupon he and the white dwarf, spilled
out of the truck gathered up their women, and
quickly strode off waving and calling back
thanks.”

Relief swept over Kenny.

“It’s not illegal to pick up hitchhikers," said
the officer. “But it’s bad idea. You'd better
move off the shoulder and be on your way.”

Kenny nodded. He pulled out onto the pave-
ment, trying desperately to drive normally. He
pushed the lighter into the dash. A minute later
it popped out.

Kenny plucked it out and held the small
‘glowing clement to his cigarette. His hands

‘were shaking. He entered the canyon tunnels
. with trepidation and was happy to see the day-
light at the end of each one.

He thought about the postcard mountie in his
red uniform, and of how red his dad’s face be-

t came during a dinner time discussion years ago
when his rebellious adolescent son had used the
word pigs in reference to the police.

“They’re pigs when they catch you speeding,
but when you need them, they’re saints,” he
said, barely able to contain his anger. Then he
ordered Kenny never to use the term in that
context again.

He was hungry. Ordinarily he would have
. Stopped to climb in the camper and make a

sandwich, but he couldn't bring himself to pull
_ over. He knew it was absurd, but he wanted to
* put as much distance between himself between

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NORM HEBERT gets a little air time on his Yamaha YZF 426
June 14. The local motocross rider took advantage of sunny

skies to hit some jumps. Several local riders are gearing up for
competitions Jater this summer. SARAH A.

ZIMMERMAN PHOTO.

Saddle club sees fast times

By MARTY COX
THE TOTEM saddle club season is in full swing with
gymkhanas, clear raund days and horse shows taking
place throughout the summer.

May 26 was the Totem Saddle Club Spring Mini
Horse show with all the proceeds going to the Skeena
Valley Exhibition Arena fund., eo ee map
* Horses and riders partf@tpated ‘in Both’ West¥en’ and
English events. In reining Zaida DeTeeves and Jolene
McCormick both did well with Zaida winning first in two
patterns and Jolene getting a first and two second place
finishes. Samantha Koopmans, one of the junior riders,
also won a second in one of the patterns.

English events included Dressage and Jumping. The
highlight of the jumping events was the 5 Bar Challenge
where the riders jump five jumps placed in a line with
the height starting at 2’6”. The bars or rails are then
raised until a rider knocks one down thereby being
disqualified. The four riders brave enough to enter in
their order of finish were:

In fourth Raelee Sussbaver on Czar at 2°9”, coming
third was Danielle O'Neil on Dusty at 3’6”, second
place went to Adrienne Goodwin on Kheena at four feet
and first place went to Callie Cowen on Shivin.

June 2 saw another nice day bring great times in the
Gymkhana and all clear rounds for Clear Round Days.
Some of the Gymkhana riders took advantage of the
early start time for Clear Rounds to try they skill at
jumping with Neoma Patterson, Amy Hayduk, Kelly
Brown and Marty Eisner all jumping clear rounds,

Maureen Rowlett on Czar jumped the highest clear-
ing 2’6” with a clear round.

Times at the Gymkhana were pretly tight with only
thousandths of a second separating Dieter Arnold and
Marty Cox for second in the Masters group.

Two of the top Barrel Racers, Danita Petch on Shady

By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN
SOCCER players here are getting
excited about the prospect of kicking
the ball around on two new soccer
fields as early as next spring.

The regulation size fields will be
located on property adjacent to
Mountainview School, said director
of parks and recreation Steve Scott,

The field development is timely
given the loss of playing space at
Skeena Junior Secondary, With the
building of the new schoo! one of the
site’s three soccer fields is being eli-
minated, Scott said.

The two new fields bring the
number of city owned fields up from

and Lyn Lavaie on Gizmo, once again had the fastest
limes with Lyn winning by four tenths of a second with
a time of 17.326.

It will be interesting to see how. these two do the rest
of the year,

Other fastest times included: Dan Muller on Skip ed-

. ging out Amy Hayduk on Terro by “seven tenths of a sec-.

Amy Hayduk win with a.9.545 even though Lyn Lavoie
had a faster time of 8.740 but knocked down the barrel
holding the flag causing a five second penalty.

The judge was supposed to right the barre! before Lyn
got back to put it in but Lyn showed she can do it any-
way by placing the flag in the barrel while still on its
side.

The fastest time in Figure 8 was another clase one
with Lyn Lavoie just beating Amy Hayduk by 27 hun-
dredths of a second with a 20,245,

In Pole Bending the fastest time went to a Junior B
tider Jessie Weitman on Tabu with a time of
25.680. Second went ta Senior Rider Kim Rempel on
Doubles with a time of 25.898. Lots of really close times
made for great competition.

The fun event - the water race — was a great way to
cool off from the hot wealher. Each rider races down to
dip their cup inta a bucket of water atop a barrel then
race back to the start to pour the water into a pop bottle.

Between running with a cup of water and trying to get
it into a narrow opening it’s a fun event to
waich. Winners included Jason Rempel - Senior. Junior
A - Kelly Brown, Junior B Neoma Patterson and Junior
C - Michalla Heighington.

The next Gymkhana and Clear Rounds go June 23rd
at the Thornhill Fair Grounds. Admission js free.

The 38th Timberland Horse show is set for July 27-
28th.

Te wecpi Baar

five to seven and that's good news
for soccer organizations in Terrace,
“We're under such huge pressure

THESE young

soccer players can look forward to more field time
thanks to the development of two new soccer fields in Terrace.

WESCAR

rocks oval

STOCK car fans didn’t go
away disappointed June 8 as
the WESCAR pro stocks
put the pedal to the metal in
_ Some fantastic action. . wel.

ond with a 9.647 in'Ring Spearing:’ The Flag Racée*saw' The 100 lap main event ep

saw Lee Thomas of Fart St.
John cruise his way to first
place putting him on top of
the WESCAR point stand-
ings with 116 points.

Terrace’s Dave Rein-
hardi put on a good show in
that event finishing fourth
aver all - that’s up twa
from his 6th place finish at
the same event last year.

The C Dash saw Corey
Price of Quesnel nab top
Stop in car number 94, He
was followed up in second
place by Terrace’s own Jan
Black and Dave Reinhardt
behind him.

The B Dash top honours
went to Prince George’s Joe
Sabatino driving car num-

‘ber 55, Peter Ernst and
Mike Ernst came two and
three.

The A Dash event’s top
Spot went to Gary MacCar-
thy from Terrace.

Next race day is June 22.

Soccer field development %:i
generates big excitement

heats up

By LISSA ARCHIBALD

THE Terrace Drag Race
Association held its first
race event of the season
June 1-2. Saturday’s Test
and Tune was attended by
many regular drivers,

The highlight for the 100
plus fans was the chance ta
see NHRA licensed driver
Gerry Lozinski and his ex-
tremely modified Chevy
Nova. Gerry and crew esti-
mate this car travels about
0-100mph in a measly four
seconds and produces ap-
proximately 2 Gs of force,

Winners in Sunday's
races include the Accelera-
tor car with Harold Dau- -
mont behind the wheel ed-
ging Larry Smaha for King .
of the YXT honours,

the hippies and their mad messianic leader as
quickly as possible.

The wind was howling through the canyon
now. Kenny pushed against it, slowing to a
crawl on the steepest hills. He passed Lytton by
late afternoon feeling groggy from driving, and
realized he must stop soon,

The oblique afternoon sun glanced off some-
thing lying in the opposite lane on the road
ahead. The flash caught Kenny’s eye. He
slowed to get a better look as he passed by.

To be continued...

for field times as it is, this is a way
of alleviating that pressure,” said
Les Sinnott, chairman of the Terrace
Youth Soccer Association.

That organization has 1,047 youth
registered this year making it the
largest participant sport based on re-
gistration in Terrace.

The Terrace Youth Soccer Asso-
ciation contributed $46,520 to the
project, the Terrace Women's Soc-
cer Association kicked in $6,520 and
the City of Terrace is in for $50,000.

Scott said without the financial

support from the three bodies the
project would not have become a
reality for several years to come,
“It's a question of a partnership
with the city in order lo produce ad-
ditional good quality facilities for
young people and other members in
the community,” Sinnott said of the
money contributed to the project.
The fields will enable soccer or-
ganizations to: host more tourna-
ments in the future and provide more
field time for field users in Tertace.
“The space for the fields was se-

cured when the City of Terrace re- Larty didn’t go home .
ceived a free Crown grant from the ©™Pty handed, he won the
provincial government which saw it Dave Kester Memorial Tro-
acquire two parcels of land each Ply for a perfect .500 reac-
roughly 3.7 acres large. tion time. In the Bike/Sleds

Ground clearing al the new loca- | 8foup Prince Rupert's John
tion began in the fall of 2001. Geismar took first place,

Last week workers began hauling , _ Gamblers winners were
in fill for one of the flelds where the « flarley Bell of Burns Lake
grade necded to be levelled, Scott for the cars and James
said. :_ Kruspe of Smithers in the

“The next stage Is installing irri-- bike/sled competition.
gation, seeding and then we watch it: _ Next races-are June 29-
grow,” he added. ~ July 1,