. eek more inferniation of on

“Lincoln. ‘County ‘is. in
Washington. State. Lake
Roosevelt is in Lincoln County,
There ‘are ‘fish ‘in Lake
Roosevelt: rainbow trout prowl
its: shoals, : Stalking smaller fish
and’ fat dragon. flies; ° white
sturgeon .— “great -whiskered
giants “— glide. ‘through . the —
darker waters; spiny olive-
banded‘ walleye liver ‘there'too
as do whitefish, both the lake .
and Rocky Mountain varieties.

There - are. ‘signs on Lake.”
Roosevelt.: :

: Notice to Fishermen, “they
say.- ‘The toxic chemicals dioxin
and furan have been found in
the “fish taken: from “Lake.

‘ Rooseveli.. The: Department of .

Heatth’ recommends that, you
eat. no more than:20 meals per
month of sport fish taken from
Lake. Raosevelt.- Dioxins and

' furans accumulate in the fat of .

fish. To: reduce exposure you
can: ..:

® Remove e skin and fat before
cooking,

SPORTSCOPE

__ Another
_ honour

MICHELLE HENDRY
earned another basketball
honour for her stellar year
with the Simon Fraser
University Clan last year,

The Terrace player was
honoured as the outstanding
senior female basketball
player of the year at-Basket-
ball B.C.'s 1991 awards ban-
quet in-Vancouver Saturday.

Also named at the
ceremony were outstanding
.)senior male basketball player
Aad Se ee BO cee:

aT saree
basket ‘ball player David
Chiuvarria, ‘of: Burliaby Cen-
tral, and outstanding junior
femate basketball player
Jackie Valois, of Centennial
Senior Secondary.

i, Hendry last season was
vated MVP by NAIA
coaches, was named to an
All-American team for the
second straight year, and sur-
passed. the SFU record for
career: ‘points by a Clan
; player...

_,The. Clan’ starts exhibition
play Oct. a2

- Give it
 atry”

GURL FOR free.
| “That's the Terrace Curling
Club's: ‘pitch to get more
hewcomers into ihe sport.
if Assistant’ Manager . Kevin
Jeffrey — Whi i is to take over
operation: of. the ‘rink from
Bruce’ Carruthers in January
= says there will be no-
charge public curling from 1
to 9 p.m. Oct. 7-L1.
3.-They'lt also have their first
Curl’ Canada instructional
session this weekend from 9
a.m, to4p.am 9°

, League: action kicks off
hext week withthe Friday
mixed league.Oct. 11, On the
18th it’s the club's: social —
open to members in call:

Feagues. 7
for: ¢ompetition;
they ve got plans laid for that J
Has well. Jeffrey, says: the
glub’s Open , Cash. Spiel is
slated For Nov;.8-10,:°.:
“Then there's the | Totem
Qipen Mixed ‘follows it Nov.
; 16-17. And:on Nov, 23-24
weekend, it’s the. club’s an-
ual ‘Appreciation - Bonspiel
jifor all:the companies that
; Support and sponsor curling
la Terrace. '
PAs. for league openings,
Jeffrey.says everyone’ has
gone forthe mixed spots this
Year, leaving room for addi- |
4iilonal teams in the men 'sand
Women’s leagues..."

any club activitles, call Kevin
settrey at 695-5583.

ACTION

e 5 Cobk f fish so 0 the fat drips -

off.
-_) Eat ‘smaller fish 7

* Eat fish. “from Lake
‘Roosevelt less often.

There is also a pulp mill on
Lake Roosevelt. 2.
“+ The -knowledge. that savoury
fish, though robust in: Ap-
pearance, are now unsavoury,
‘-dulls the appetites of fishermen,
-The realization that a suffusion
‘of deadly and invisible chemical
~ Higuors ts moving ' silently
“through. “a once’: vibrant
“ecosystem toward larger targets
should alarm us. The fact that
- this scenario is playing out ona
. global scale. should: ‘sound a'red
alert... -
’ Seventy per’ cent of all pulp
and paper mills in this: country
release. an acutely lethal ef-
fluent, says Environment
Canada, Canadian pulp mills
dump 107 tonnes of chlorinated
organic compounds ‘into our
waters each day. These toxins
accumulate in the environment,

“The Skeena
Angier —
by Rob Brown

In our province, 67,000 hectares
— that’s 165,557 acres — of

productive | fish producing

coastline was ‘closed due to
dioxin poisoning.
The. . pulp mill on™ Lake

Roosevelt, like so many of those

sitting within our borders, may
have been built in an age when
we over-estimated the ability of
the receiving environment to ab-
sorb industrial poisons,
Perhaps it was'on stream
befare the lethal effect of diox-
ins and furans was widely
known. For these mills the need

for cleanup is urgent, and ‘there |

should be -no periods of grace

PORTS NE

for planet- -annhilating in-_

dustries,

But.now, as the planet spins
toward the year 2000, we can
learn from Past errors and take
comfort that governments will
subject large scale developments
to intense Scrutiny on our
behalf, Or can we?

In: ‘bounteous B.C, the
government asked the om-
budsmani to come up with sug-
gestions for a process to decide’
whether or not large projects
should go ahead, the ignored
many important Parts: of his
recommendations.

. félations opportunity.

’ scientists to review the data the
_ company presents in its pro-
spectus.

_ cess, the proponent ‘of a major

thot: Pulp mills: requi.
thus the area. where,

“The result js something called
the Major Project ‘Review Pro-
cess or MPRP. Under this pro-

industrial ' project. can escape
public” scrutiny, ° And even if
they are ‘Subject’. to public
scrutiny the circus we witnessed’
recently in Tértace shows the.
Public meeting component . of.
the process is structured in such
a.way as to give the front men -
for the project another public

it fants oS
: And if all this were ot bad
enough, ‘we have the’ minister of.
the. environment. running’ ,
around ‘telling the press’: that’
‘people sitting” on. the: “yarious:
“MPRP committees- can “be SUp-,
Porters of: the’ ‘project, Bee 8
’ Meanwhile the premier, head:
of. cabinet which gives final ap-:
proval -on «major . projects,
betrays the well-known bias her. ° -
government “has towards’ in-.
‘dustry,. remarking: to -the
Kitimat Chamber of Commerce |
that.‘‘if it’s jobs or the‘environ- -
ment, I'll come down-on the,
side of jobs every time"
Nothing we've seen “of the:
MPRP process so far‘ should:
give. us any confidence that:
there will be no more Lake!
Roosevelts. o

a

And who provides the data?
The company does..And how is
the public supposed. ‘to in-
vestigate the data as gathered
and put together by rent-a-
scientists for the company? Ap-:
parently with its own funds. -

““Any- fair process, as the om-
budsman correctly pointed out,
must provide funds so that ‘the
public may hire independent —

No industry exists in isola-

JEFF NAGEL 638-7283

TERRACE STANDARD

IN

“IT WAS ONLY exhibition action

down at Caledonia field on |.

Saturday. But .what there was.
looked promising. Caledonia’s *
boys soccer team pounded:
Prince Rupert 11-1 at the.
Tegionai play day. Good attacks
by Cal and a somewhat porous’:
Rupert defence resulted. in a
seemingly endless ‘pummeling.
for the inexperienced Rupert .
netminder. Getting in on the

scoring smorgasbord were Mor-
_ ton Fedderson, Bao’ Long Diep,

‘ Bao. Van. Diep, . Curtis

Bretherick, Ben. Nickerson,

Jason Dvorak, Luis Teixeira,

» and Shawn. .Palagian. The team:
owl be. up ‘against. ‘Rupert,

- Kitimat ‘and: Nisga'a: this: fall if
~ the battle to: fepresent the. zone

. atthe provincials, They're in. ace

“thon again “this _Weekend

~ Pringe:- Rupert, “along. with :

“,Caladonia's ° “boys “and. girls.

: - volleyball - teams..and: ‘the.

school's S: cross-country team.

TERRACE —
‘players were In

Whitehorse two weeks

spmers
snag
second —

TERRACE — They came, They
saw. And they nearly brought
back the hardware.

Caledonia's senior boy's —
volleyball team came within
whiskers of pulling off a Spec-
tacular final round victory ata .
regional tournament in Prince -
George two weekends ago. :

It was the fifth annual Polar
Classic at Prince George Secon-
dary School, andthe. Ter

fsquad ,dheze eahowed
‘strengths! *n eet BF §

Cal cruised to first place in
their pool, racking up a 5-b
record.

From there,. they battled the
Clearwater Raiders, nabbing a
best-of-three victory to advance
to the final against
Vanderhaof’s Nechako Valley. :

They hammered the "Hoof
15-9 in Game One, but then the
ball started bouncing the other,

way,

Caledonia — after ‘trailing
“ both the final games by 12-3
scores, — mounted incredible
comebacks to get close before
falling 15-13, 15-13,

‘Team coach Sean Krienke
called the second-place finish a
tribute io the cohesiveness of
the team,

“*‘They'’ve_ really come
together,”’ he said, noting his 13
players had only practised
together five times before the
It-team tourney. ‘I was going
to be happy with top two in our
pool. To win our own pool and
make it to the final is just
great, ih

Cal setter Bryan Fick was
named first team all-star, while
middle blocker Mark De Jong
was picked as a second team all-
Star.

Krienke also pointed ta Mat-
thew Soules — a first year mid-
dle blocker for the team, ‘‘He
had a great tournament — he
gave us lots af good blacking,”’

Next action for Cal’s spikers
comes. Saturday. in Prince
Rupert.

The team should have a good
- shot at going to the provincials
this year. So far their only other
competitor in. the’ zone : is
Kitimat, and Krienke: said that
team finished Mth. in, -Prince
George. >

2 Yulong Tbe

Local oldtimer hockey. return to Terrace, and the team was sud- -
denly left with no one in the net. ‘

A goalie for Game Four, and played Dun-
cat, losing by a respectable 6-3 margin.

Jong said. ‘But they made the best ofit,
and it was a good week,*”

ago for what's become an annual tradi:
tion — the Canadian: Oldtimer. “Hockey
__ Association’, World Cup.

vd

The Terrace Timberinen finished out
~ of the Medals with a one-win,. ‘thiee-loss
~ yeobrd, but team spokesman Jake, De
Jong says they. still had fun, 0's

The team started their

Yukon tourney.

on a winning note with @ 3-1 victory over

_the Whitehorse 45°s In Game Ona es

But boattender Gary: Schatz had to

-+Marko was injured that game.

De Jong says they responded by flying |

_ backup goalie Rick Marko up from. Teri
face. a 4

But the goaltending change slowed the

steam’ 's momentum. In Game Two, they

went down fo a 5-1 defeat at the s sticks of ~ teams supposed to-play dropped out.

the Whitehorse Gold. Puckers.

In Game Three Whitehorse’ gs.
'-Goldrush Inn hammered them 9-1, and |

The team recruited the Comat shea

‘Rick Letawski, Larry Krause, Gerry
,Martin,-Rina Michaud, Frank O’Brien
“and Harold Cox were scorers for the
‘Timbermen.
- The big problem at the tourney, said
Jong, was that two thirds of the
Thirty-six teams were supposed to
play, ‘but’ by the time the Terrace
' oldtimera arrived, the list was down to
That: was a Alstyne." De

The Timbermen ended: up-in a large
division of about eight : teams, many
younger-and of varying skill levels. Ree

“It was a super tournament as far'as
the organization. went," he. said: “We
had a great time. They. put on SOC €x-

cellent entertalnrhent, Ther really’ a a

tee