- fitness gauntlet

gratulated Terrace, “Your com-.

“Wes. time to shed long .johns
and: winter fat; Time to dig out.
your. favorite sneakers, hit the:
streets, and trim those over-
rested ‘muscles. Time to meet
(and beat) yet another challenge

‘from Kitimat who refuse to be-

lieve last ‘year’s defeat was any-
thing, other than:just bad luck.
Yes, Kitimat: has challenged

. Tertace and Prince Rupert to yet

another Fitness Challenge and |

. its the duty of all- Joyal Ter- -

racites to rally to the cause. And
there’s less than two months to
prepare. .

“Last year was a ‘solid victory
for Terrace: nearly half the pop-
ulation got out on the specified

day and did 15 minutes of con-

tinuous exercise. Some climbed
mountains while those less fit
walked downhill — but we rose
in unison to meet the challenge
and we wor. But we can’t rest
‘on our laurels and believe Kiti-
mat will allow themselves to be
publicly embarrased again.
‘Last year’s stats look like this:
Participation in the fitness chal-
lenge was Terrace’s event with
49.9 percent while Prince Rupert
finished second with 42,6 per-

_ cent. Kitimat on the other hand,
-only found 27.5 percent of their.
_total population willing to de--

fend their honor.

- But there was room for im-
provement on our part. Prince
Rupert won the pool staff Swim

Challenge with a total of 6,744.

lengths. Terrace placed second
with 4,751,

busy to swim’? according to
Tony Toriglia, and Kitimat re-
corded only 2,817 lengths and
didn’t even have the energy to
file an excuse as the Terrace

_staff did.

The corporate challenge isn’t
a part of the tri-city event but

. there is still room for improve-

ment — their participation
counts towards the Fitness Chal-
lenge too. Last year, the swiim-
ming pool won with 75 percent

_ Staff participation while Cop--

perside Foods placed second
with 70 percent.
From here though, communi-

ty spirit went to the dogs.

CFTK, Skeena Health: Unit,
Nothern Drugs and the RCMP
finished in that order but all had
less than 10 percent participa-

tion. At the same time, the.

Provincial Ambulance Service,
Terrace Fire Department, Mills
Memorial. Hospital, Shoppers
Drugs and Terrace Drugs tied —
but not with any great honor.
They failed to record a single
entry. Of course the effort they
made in at least registering was
more than those not listed here

at all and should count for.

something.
- In making the challenge, Kiti-
mat mayor Rick Wozney con-

“‘Because we were:
working .our buns off and too

munity did an outstanding job,”
he said, But he added, “There

was a bit of luck in winning,” . .
and suggested, $1989 is a new .

year’, According to Wozney,
“Kitimat is prepared to meet the

~ challenge and our organizers are -

currently underway making
plans to recapture the coveted
trophy for Fit. City.”’

This reference to “Fit City’’ is.

presumably designed to fire up
Kitimat «residents who

through kindness and the good _

sportsmanship of Terrace and

Prince Rupert were not given the

title ‘Fat City” last year. :

In accepting the 1989 chal-
lenge, alderman Darryl Laurent
made a suggestion that would

allow us to sip a hot drink bya §&
roaring fire and watch a live |

telecast of the event — “Maybe

‘a direct. challenge to mayor

Wozney by our mayor...’
but he failed to finish. Danny
Sheridan was quick to point out

‘that we shouldn’t pehaps put ail

our eggs in one basket.

“I don’t know,” said Sheri-
dan indecisively. “‘I see mayor
Wozney in town quite often and
lately he’s been wearing running
shoes: Presumably he’s been

jogging back and forth from

Kitimat.to Terrace — mainly to
shop _ I think.” And all this
jogging, he felt, might Bive Kiti-
mat the edge. ~

Instead, Dave Hull made .a

-motion that mayor Jack Talstra
accept the challenge on behalf of .

the city, effectively firing the

“First salvo” in the battle for the

Fitness Award. After this mo-
tion passed, however, Sheridan
brought city aldermen back to

. **¥ou are all aware,”’ he said, .

“that when this thing happens,

it’s not just the mayor. who has —

to take part in the aerobics and
whatnot.”’ It seems this remark
was directed at Mo Takhar.
According to Sheridan, Takhar

was “out of town” during the-

last Fitness Challenge and sent
his. wife into the front lines

instead. But that’s okay, we won

didn’ t we?

Canon dies

to finals

_ One more basketball playoff
is coming up this weekend, —

The Terrace Wilkinson —

Canons ladies’ senior ‘B’ team is
off to Fort St. John for an eight-
team B.C. championship. this
Friday and Saturday.

Only six of the teams count in
standings. Two Alberta teams
are playing exhibition games to
fill out the roster. The Terrace
entry is coached by Flip Cervo.

- ‘Terrace Review _— Wednesday, April 12,1989 ‘9. | :

This s happy group Is Terrace’s Skeena Cellulose peewee hockey team, after they won the
‘championship at a 16-team tournament in North Delta April 2. The local boys took it in four
straight

SCI peewees win big

Terrace Skeena Cellulose pee-
wees didn’t know what to expect
when they headed for North
Delta March 29 to April 2 for a
16-team minor hockey tourna- |
ment.

The boys had had an in-and- -
out season. with nothing much to
shout about, North Delta chang-
ed. all that as.they won four

‘straight games and the cham-

pionship.
They had a rather easy open-

_ing game on the 29th, beating

North Delta Wings 17-1. After a
day off on the 30th,: they were

back into action on the 3ist,.
. when they took a 6-1 decision
| over another North Delta team.

‘Next day, in the semi-finals,
they coasted to a 14-1 victory
over Kelowna,

-That put them into the Sun-

day final where they counted a
7-1 win against Surrey Bruins to
take the title. It was a fitting end
to the youngsters’ season.

‘Squash and wallyball

tournaments soon

The annual Terrace open
squash and wallyball tourna-
ment is coming up at Northwest
College courts April 28 to 30.

The squash section has. four
divisions for men — open, ‘C’,
*B’, and novice. For women’s
play (plus juniors) there’s open,
*B’, and novice.

Waillyball has two divisions —
mixed spiking and mixed non-
spiking. |
_ Plans also call for a
1950’s-style dinner and dance on
the Saturday night. For signup
and information, phone the
courts at 635-4009. -

: Doors OPEN AT 4:30 P.M.

-\ MONDAY: Terrace Minor Hockey
~ TUESDAY: Kermode Friendship Society

THURSDAY: 747 Air Cadets

Ladies of the Royal Purple

ae FRIDAY: Canadian Paraplegic Association
SATURDAY: B.C. Paraplegic Foundation:

a Late Night —

Regular
- Games

Kinsmen Club

(Age 14 years and up)

Thank you! Have a Nice day!

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