™. 1. ar, we eee Robert Dennis Dimitri Filtziakis A ‘random sampling of youngsters attending the revised | Terrace Summer Hockey school - brought out a unanimous ‘three cheers’ for Jeff Sharples and his Junior ‘A’ instructors. One 11-year-old who recently moved to Prince Rupert and has attended half-a-dozen schools in the lower mainland, felt it was the best ever. ‘‘It’s better than all the others I’ve gone to,”’ Jeff Leoppky told us. Ten-year-old Robert Dennis said he liked the school very much, but he wanted more ice time (each lad got 244 hours every day in their week- long stint). Kitimat’s Tom Stamatakis, 10, felt the school was a little better than Kitimat’s school last” year. Tom said he'd like to come back next year. | Keith Patrick Nole, a 10-year- old from Iskut, said it was the best he’d been to, but he’d like to be on the ice all day. - Jason Billingsley, another 10-year-old from Kitimat described the school as really good, adding he was more tired at the end of each day than he was at Kitimat. It meant he Worked. hard. Dimitri Filtziakis of Terrace said it was the best he’s been to. The {41-year-old definitely would come back. ‘Travis. Lamming. is. an cight- year-old in his. third year of. hockey. He's one of sé veral who . 10 Terrace Review — Wednesday, September 7, 1988 Kids give hockey school top marks © Tom Stamatakis Jeff Leoppky took part in both weeks. He en- joyed it but- felt they should try. to do something different for the kids going to. school in their se- cond week. Nine-year-old Marcel Page of Terrace felt the school was pret- ty. good. He was happy becuase he learned mostly to shoot and handle the puck. . ‘More ice time’ seemed to be the biggest ‘complaint’, if such word fits the situation. A few suggested more ice time could be used by someone hired to teach proper skating skills, including power-skating. One said he was sure the kids would be glad to start at 6 a.m. if this could be installed as part of the curriculum. One little ‘guy from Kitimat. said he wanted to get all his ice - time early so he could go shop- ping downtown with mom and dad. Co-ordinator Jake De Jong said he had mostly positive . response from parents. De Jong, Cliff Sharples and the instruc- tors met the day after the school closed and discussed ptos and cons for their first year. ‘We'll have some changes in 1989,” De Jong said. ‘‘Cliff and I will be working on it over the winter after we talk to more peo- ple who were. involved directly and indirectly.’’ ‘Generally, we're most - satisfied with our initial effort."” | Kelth Patrick Nole Travis Lamming Jason Billingsley Marcel Page Six-day squash tournament coming to Kitimat next month Jt’s being billed as the largest squash tournament ever held in the Pacific Northwest. It’s ‘the. first annual Aluminum City Invitational at Kitimat from Oct. 5 to 10. Organizers expect : 120. players shooting for close to $6, 000 in prizes. It’s set up by the Kitimat Rac- quets Club, and they’re taking entries until Sept. 29 at 6 p.m. The fee is $35 a player. Posters and entry forms are located at all major racquet centers in B,C, All entrants receive an entry package containing a high- quality T-shirt, beverage tickets, tour package information and other goodies. One gift includes a poker hand card. Every designated function attended after that will see you dealt another card until your five-card poker hand is - complete. The best hand receives tickets for two for a trip to San Francisco via Canadian Airlines International. Some of the top B.C. players attending are ranked in the best 20. of Canada. Top entertain- ment will be available for festivities Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights (when awards a are handed out). This Tamitik event is Oct. 5 to _10. For more information con- ‘tact Gary Snider at 632- 3176 0 or 632-4661.” Coming events in regional sports: The Kitimat Racquets Club is hosting the largest squash tour- nament ever held in the North- west at Tamitik, Oct. 5 to 10. They expect about 120 players for an entry fee of $35 each. Prizes totalling close to $6,000 will be available. Entry forms available at. all squash clubs in the area. Sept. 29-is the closing date. Phone Gary Snider for more information. The Terrace Rod and Gun Club’s 8th annual International . Pacific Trapshoot is coming up Saturday and Sunday. It offers mote ‘than. $16,000 in prize money. Shooting starts at 8 a.m. both days. Plans include a ban- quet at the Bavarian Inn Satur- day night. For information phone Vic, Dean, Bill Watson or Steve Kuhar. A re-organizational. meeting for the Tetrace mixed volleyball league is coming up tonight at 7:30 at the Terrace - Public Library. All interested please at- tend. _ The Terrace Tennis Club’s season wrapup is this weekend at the Kalum courts. For informa- tion phone’ Richard Kriegl at 635-2347." Pledge forms for the Sept. 18 Terry Fox run for cancer are now available throughout the area. Plans call for the Terrace runs to take place in 2 sessions — 10 a.m. and I'p.m. The run course is five kilometers, and you can run it once, or twice for the more experienced runner. Take your pick at. a. running time. Check in: at the sign-up desk before going out. It’s all © located by the Library. , Registration for. Terrace Minor Hockey takes place Fri- day the 16th from 6 to 9 p.m., and all day Saturday the 7th at . the Skeena Mall. :