Wish lists

AH, WISH BOOKS, those wonder-
ful, oily-paged annuals with the stuff
of dreams wedged between washing
mnachines, towels and handsome,
wholesome men and woman who look
so kempt and unflawed as they affect
slightly unnatural poses!

As a kid I pored over the relevant
chapters of the thick and seductive
tomes from Mr. Eaton and Mr. Sears:
I'll bet you did too.

I still succumb to the lure of
catalogues, but they are no longer sea-
sonal and are narrower in scope.
Recenily the Patagonia calalogue for
Fall and Winter of this year came into
my hands.

Here, ihere are stunning photog:
raphs of people involved jn the self
propelled, muscle-powered activities
for which Patagonia makes clothes;
spectacular skiing shots and climbers
crawling up and down sheer faces like
gnals.

And, facing a page of cardigans, |

there is the tille page heralding a sec-
tion entitled ‘Economy and the En-
vironment’ with this twenty-year-old
quote from E.F.Schumacher: ‘‘We
must begin to sec the possibility of
evolving a new life-style, with new
methods of production and sew pat-
tems of consumption: a life-style
designed for permanence.”?

There then follows the intriguing
opinions on what an economy that
does not degrade the environment
would look like and how we would
gel there by nine people who have
devoted their lives to finding an ans-
wer to that pressing puzzle.

Helena Norberg-Hodge, a finguist

.tummed- anthropologist, has sperit the

last 17. years’ ‘studying, the , truly..
“ sustainable culture of the Himatayan

Ladakhis and watched with growing
alarm as it has been eroded by devel-
opment and so-called modernization.

She concludes such an economy
would be based on ‘‘strong com-
munity ties, small scale diversified ag-
riculture and the fullest possible use
of local resources, knowledge and
skills."

Mark Ritchie, a life-long advocate
of sustainable agriculture, flags the
destructive and pervasive effects of
agribusiness and argues we must lay
to rest the notion the earth’s resources
can be enslaved, used and abused end-
lessly.

"Not until we regard the natural
world as primary and sacred...will we
ever come to have a system of use and
distribution that ‘can be ecological,"
echoes ecological activist Kirkpatrick
Sale.

Similarly, ‘Winona LaDuke of the
Anishinabeg people underscores the
need to give the resources of the land
a slanding of their own.

All these short essays make thought-
provoking reading. ] urge you to drop
Patagonia a line (2100 First Avenue,
Seattle Washington, 98121) and ask
far a copy of their catalogue so you
may examine them in full.

A cynic who has seen giant corpora-
tions co-opt. the green movement --
Mohawk’s Mother Nature’s gasoline
being one of the more obnoxious ex-
amples -- might suggest Patagonia is
involved in the same scam.

As any reader of this column will
tell you, I’m a capital "C" cynic, and [
don’t think so. ;

Yvon Chouinard, head of Patagonia,
admils to the discouraging findings of

the environmental audit his company

has undertaken.

Polyester is made from oil, cotton
production is saturated wilh pesticides
in most of the warld, and sheep can be
devastating on the fragile ecosystems
in atid climates. As a resull, Patagonia
is now buying its wool from
(cinperate areas and using organic col-
lon.

Rejecting the growth is good ethic,
Patagonia is also dropping 30% of its
clothing line and hopes to halt its
growth allogether,

"When the ninetics and the reces-
sion. arrived,” writes Chouinard, "the
president began asking everyone to
spend. Our take is different. We don't
see this as a temporary recession. In-
stead it may: presage a worldwide
decline, possibly the end. of
economics based on consumerism."

Patagonia is no ordinary company
with an extraordinary wish book.

Clean sweep in.
season opener

Cal’s senior boys basketball
Kermodes jumped off to quick start over

their season-opening tournament.

Opening the four-team tourney Friday
night, Caledonia doubled Quesnel op-
ponents Corrilieu 26-13 in the first
quarter and never looked back,

Up 51-35 at the half, the Kermodes
matched Corrilieu point for point in the
(bird quarler then turned it on over the
final 10 minutes to score a 90-67 victory.

While noting the team had a lot of
refining to do yet -- this was-their first
tournament of the season -- coach Cam
MacKay said he was very pleased with
the performance.

“They really played well as a team,”’
he said of the game.

ing up 20 points with strong support
from 6’S" grade 10 newcomer Dean
Beeson (14), Mori Oguru (13) and
Fermando Milhomens (12).

Fraser McKay and Jassie Osei-tutu, an-
other rookic, cach chipped in 10 points.

The Kermodes were not quite as quick
to dominate in Saturday morning’s game
against rival neighbours Mount Elizabeth
Sr. Secondary, emerging from the first
quarter only six points up at 21-15.

However, they turned it on in the sec-
ond, completely dominating Kitimat and
keeping the visitors from adding even a
single point for nearly five minutes,

By the time the half ended, the
Kermodes had buill up a commanding
45-25 lead and they extended that to 65-
36 over the third quarter,

With MacKay deciding to rest his big
scorers;in the final stanza and give the
remaining players court time, Kitimat
began to relentlessly narrow the gap.

Tn fast, end-to-end play and helped by
strong defensive work, MESS closed to
within eight with just a minute left to
play. °

But, boosted by the return of Beeson,
Cal dug in and salted the game away
when Dale Cote and. Joey Watts sunk
their foul shots in the last 30 seconds to
make the final score 85-75,

Milhomens emerged as top Kermode
scorer with 23, Shepherd was on target
for a dozen more, Osei-tutu and Beeson
each potted 10 and McKay hit for nine,

Cal completed the sweep that night
against Hays out of Prince Rupert.

The Kermodes played without Kurt
Muller, Chris Tomas and Brett Kluss, all
of whom were carrying the Cal colours
at the senior boys provincial volleyball
championships.

Hoop Kermo

the weekend with a three game sweep in -

Jon Shepherd led the Cal attack pick-

ON ITS WAY. All eyes are on the ball but for Kitimat
players (white) the sight is not a pretty one: another
third quarter Kermode basket is on its way as Cal ex-

It will be Kitimat who takes to the
indoor soccer floor to represent the
northwest zone at next February’s
B.C. Northern Winter Games in Ques-
nel.

Held at Thornhill Jr. Secondary gym
on Saturday, the playdowns proved
frustrating for the Terrace team.

Facing Kitwanga first in the three-
team showdown, the home squad
scored four times, However, that’s was
one. too few as Kitwanga took the
match 5-4.

The loss meant Terrace had to then
take on a strong Kitimat entry in a do-
or-die bid for the trip to Quesnel.

In a tight game: in which: strong

SANE BI BREAKER. Kitimat's Mario Lagana unleashes a blast to § score the
first of.two quick goals which put the team on the road to Quesnel and the
B.C. Northern Winter Games. Kitimat beat Kitwanga 7-4 in the decider,

No trip to Games

defence on both sides kept scoring op-
portunities down, Terrace again found
themselves on the wrong end of a one-
goal decision, losing 2-1.

That set up the decider between the
two unbeaten teams. Although the
goals came more freely in this one, the
game remained a close one until Mario
Lagana broke it open with two quick
goals,

Kitwanga fought back, scoring on a
beautiful set-piece play on a free kick
and hitting the cross bar twice. —

Kitlmat, however, were equal to the

‘task, notching one more marker be-
fore the whistle to win 7- “4 and book. a

berth in the Games,’ soe

tends its {ead to 29 points. The Kermodes kicked off
their season by sweeping all three games during the
weekend tournament despite missing several players.

SWIMMING

Bluebacks rewrite
personal best book

The Terrace Blucback swim club is
heading for another impressive scason.

That’s was coach Mike Carlyle’s as-
sessment following a strong showing at
the Elks Invitational swim meet in
Kilimat, Nov. 20-22.

The Blucbacks finished third in the
five club meet with seven members com-
ing home wilh high point medals.

Aimee Peacock, Tori MacKenzie and
Maric Eve Foisy swept the gold-silver-
bronze in the girls 15 years and up divi-
sion while Garth Coxford added another
gold in the boys 11-12 years.

Audrey Erb (girls 9-10) and David
Vanderlee (boys 13-14) both picked up

silver and Kevin Andolfatto chipped in a

bronze in boys 11-12.

Even more encouraging, however, was
the fact 80 per cent of the Bluebacks
swims resulted in personal best times.

“If this keeps up, we will have a
strong contingent at the AA and AAA
provincials,’” said Carlyle.

The club has set itself a goal of match-

ing that best time performance in 10
days time. when it plays host- al the
McDonalds Invitational mect, le added.

In posting her personal bests, Audrey
Erb cracked. the AAA qualifying mark

for the first time in the 50m and 100m,

freestyle, 200m individual medley and
100m backstroke.

Aimee Peacock sped to a AAA lime in
her 100m butterfly. event and Maric Eve

Foisy did the same in the 100m back-

stroke.

Kevin Andolfatto broke thraigh to AA
in the 50m and 100m freestyle, 100m

backstroke and 100m breaststroke while

Tristan Brown swam to AA tries in the
50m free and 50m ‘butterfly: in the © boys
910 years division, ae

Top point getters for the club were.
Coxford and Peacock who went un
defealed to post six and. cight win
records respectively,

David Vanderlee came out-on-top of
his weekend long duel with Prince
Rupert's J. Stamhuis, winning five of the
cight events in which they clashed.

Vanderlce failed to make is six by only
4/100ths of a second . itt the 50m
freestyle.

Andolfatto capped his weekend by
giving Coxford a scare in the 100m
breast stroke, touching just 9/400ths of a
second behind his clubmate. Andolfatto
ended the meet with six top- -four plac:

“ings.

Other noteworthy performances® came
from Deiise’ Vanderlee: wilh: four tap-
four finishes in the girls 15 years and up.
division and Chris Kerman with a third
and two fourths in boys 11-12, °

Also sharp it the boys 9-10 were Jason
Kumpolt (a third and three fourths) and
Tristan Brown (three fourths).

Tn. relay cvents, the boys tallied four
victorics while the girts added two more. :
It was almost three bul the host Marling .
squeaked oul the Blueback 15 years and
up girls in. the 100m freestyle relay by. a
bare 3/t00ths of a second.

While happy, with the resulls of the

Kitimat meet, Carlyle sald it was un:

fortuiiate the events chosen: by the host

_club did not give. the Blueback. novices,

7-8 year-olds, 1 more opportunities to
FACE, > mo
However, he added, the: Terrace meet
would be Structured to ensure: \
their chance, caren
> And although the swim: season Is tow

“in full steoke, Carlyle said the club is still

accepting and ‘welcomes Hew. meniberss,