Page'B4 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 24, 1990 : A luminous mountain goat Stares out at us through a trailer window as we pull into the . parking lot. Everything else is dark. “‘This must be the place," says Webb. I point to a building set between the edge of the: asphalt and the edge of the river, “‘That’s the Rod and Gun - Club over there,”' * The walls and the furniture in “the clitbhouse look as if they’ve © been coiled with nicotine. We gaze out through the smoke over.a sea of baseball caps to the elongated card table where two gentlemen wait for the hall to fill, One stands and coughs a phlegm-filled cough hacawrrk.— lights a cigarette, and calls the meeting to order. The din subsides. “The: reason for tonight's meeting — Mack... hack... ex- cuse. me — is because the Department of Fisheries and Oceans proposes a gill net "fishery in. Douglas Channel for chinook salmon, and there are a “lot of problems with that pro- posal.’ - : - You're the problem!’’ shouts out the native Indian man who is sitting directly in ‘front of us. ‘Before the In- dustries came there were many, many fish. The fisheries people talk about a surplus of 3,000 fish —‘that’s nothing,’’ he says as his native brothers nod affir- mation. Another.man rises to his feet, consults his notes and says, ‘*I got a $500,000 fishing boat, and we've been beggin’ DFO for an opening in area 6-1 for years,.’’ ' The argument swings back and forth, then begins to degenerate, ‘How much is your fishing rod worth compared to my gill net?"’ a corpulent com- mercial fisherman shouts at a ty an The Skeena Angler y Rob Brown sportsman. With the meeting teetering on the .abyss, a soft-spoken gentleman, obviously high up on the political totem of the Haisla Band, seizes the floor and launches into a speech on land claims, I recognize him and his speech: the last time ] heard . it was at an NDP. rally, It was tedious then, and it is even more so now. After a long, oh so long, five minutes, an irritated sportfisher manages ta push the meeting back on the rails by arguing irrelevance. | The chairman calls upon a fepresentative of the Kitimat a presentation, The Chamber, says the rep, is opposed toa’. commercial fishery in the chan- nel, His friend Pat has booked ~ lots. of ‘clients for his charter boat. operation, And, besides, the chamber: has- heavily. pro- moted Kitimat as-a place where. tourists can come and fish for BIG fish in a wilderness setting. . I look at Webb. He rolls his eyes and I suspect he’s recalling the time the pair of us descend- ed into the bowels of Kitimat hot on the trail of chinook salmon. It was a windless day when the air was filled with sulphurous . industrial excre- ment. The day we put his yellow canoe in near the sign urging us to visit the GIANT SPRUCE = ~ the last few members of a tribe that: once presided: over the. “edges of the lower river — and Pee = ., drifted: past 4° mountain of Chamber of Commerce to make : flouridated, ‘dying trees, over ithe. percolating sewage. outfall, fish hatchery, past the methanol Plant’-to the’ stump-filled estuary, One. man's industrial wasteland is another’ man's wilderness, ‘I guess. . “Let's get out of here,’ sug- gests Webb. We perform a post- mortem on. .the . meeting. I Observe that there were ‘lots of people representing their in- dividual interests but nobody representing the best interests of _the fish, Webb suggests hat- cheries spawn confrontation and unrealistic expectations as _ past the cement raceways.of the. - well as factory fish; And. we agree that where there is anet fleet to ‘harvest’? fish in the - crude and unintelligent way net ~ fisheries do, there is a troubled stock.of fish... - ho ‘Have we made. a ..wrong turn?’ asks Webb as the plumes of smoke from the smelter and the pulp mill reappear. ; the truck to try the same route. “Did we turn here?” “I’m not sure.” ‘Try that street. . that’s it.’’. And lo, we're facing: the smoke stacks once again, “In. “Strange,”’ I-say, as he turns. | yeah this town all roads lead to in-- dustry,’ says a» bewildered Webb, swinging the truck around once again. - .¢ ‘Doomed to ride the circular streets of Kitimat forever,” 1 say. ‘Webb, we've died and gone to hell.’’ JEFF NAGEL 638-7283 SPORTS NEWS TERRACE STANDARD -SPORTSCOPE- Sharples not needed TERRACE -— The Edmon- ton Oilers have no immediate plans to move Terrace defenceman Jeff Sharples up from the minors. Qilers spokesman Trish Kerr said the former Detroit Red Wing is still getting back into the game after being sidelined for several weeks with a shoulder separation. After being traded to Ed- monton ina six-player deal last November, the Oilers sent Sharples to their farm team — the Cape Breton Oilers. “We're just trying to get Jeff healthy again,’? Kerr said last week. ‘They want ‘to let him get back into play- ing form again.” Kerr. said the club is relatively injury-free right now, and Sharples probably won't be needed as long as Edmonton’s other defencemen stay healthy. "At this time there are no plans to move him up,” she said. “If the injury bug does touch us then we may need him — right now we don’t." snowarama returns The Skeena Valley Snowmobile Association is gearing up for its snnual winter event — Snowarama 1990. * This year's event is a 100km sno wmabile marathon tentatively set for Feb. 18. Both the date and Place — which hasn’t been announced yet — may change due to weather, Pledges will be collected and proceeds of the marathon are to go to the B.C. Lions Society for Crip- pled Children. “This is not a race, but just snowmobilers out for a ride to benefit the disabled,’ local organizer Ron Niesuer said. Last year Snowarama rals- ed more than $11,000 from the Terrace aren — the second-highest {ally in the province. Ringette action Terrace ringette players are travelling to compete against more than 10 other teams at the Northern ‘B’ ‘| Ringette Tournament this weekend in Vanderhnof. Terrace’s junior girls team — age 15 and up — and a younget team will compete at the tournament, organizer [ Mernill Myers said. SKEENA'S girls basketball team got revenge on Prince Rupert’s Booth team witha win Saturday afternoon at a junior girls tournament in Terrace. The win came after Booth's 31-24 overtime vic- tory over Skeena earlier in the day. Both teams beat out Thornhill Jr. Secondary by wide margins. | TERRACE — Terrace's atom and bantam rep hockey teams triumphed over skaters from Burns Lake and Prince Rupert in recent regional minor hockey games. _ Atom rep action saw Bums Lake return to the area for a rematch against Terrace Jan. 12 and 13. Last time the Lakers emerged as the rep champions at December's Kitimat Atom Elks tournament. This time the Terrace reps were the winners in both contests with identical 8-5 Scores, 7 ee The Jan. 12 game was an offensive contest. Kelsey Hidber struck first to give Terrace a 1-0 lead early in the first period. Terrace forwards assisted their defence with tight checking of the Laker offensive lines until Burns Lake scored their first, five minutes into the second period. That spurred Terrace’s Scott Frezelt. and David Kozier into action. Kozier netted a hat trick and earned two assists on Frezell's own two goals. Burns Lake replied with two goals of . their own to finish the second period 6-4. in the third, Terrace constantly rushed the Lakers in their own end, where Hidber added two more goals to the Lakers’s one for an 8-5: victory. The next day, Burns Lake threatened to turn | it all around. They stormed. past the Terrace defence in the first period to record four goals ; by the first break. _ But ' Le Beau isted by Victor Basanti and Marcel Page, Terrace's. Jarrett, McCabe:broke Burns... Rep teams triumph Lake’s streak with the start of the second period. His hard shot to the goalie's short side must have stunned the hapless B.L. defencemen.. Within six minutes Kozier scored two and Frezell and Hidber netted one each to complete the Terrace comeback. An intense third period saw 17 minutes in penalties issued to each team. Bums tied the score again early in the period, but two more Frezell goals and another by Kozier gave Ter- race the 8-5 win. eo Bantam rep action the same weekend saw Terrace face off against Prince Rupert. The Terrace bantams blitzed Rupert 10-5 in the first game. Neil Irwin led scoring with three goals and two assists and Paul Ebeling marked one goal and five assists, Shane Bourgoin, Pat i and Chad Wilson added two points each. ‘ . ; The second game, Jan. 13, saw Terrace bomb Prince Rupert 8&1, Jason.Waldron and Dawson Kellm led scoring with two goals and an assist This weekend Kitimat and Terrace take on ~ the Prince George bantam reps in a three-team tournament. Coming up Feb. 28, Terrace's _bantams will take on a Monireal-Quebec ban: tam team. The local reps also hope to travel t the B.C. Provincial “AA” Bantam Champion- ships in Abbotisford Mar. 18-25, -~ we Hendry now leads league TERRACE — Terrace’s Michelle Hendry was again named - district player-of-the- ‘week after leading the Simon Fraser University Clan women's basketball team to important victories in college basketball . action, it was Hendry’s second con- - secutive player-of-the-week honour and it coincided with ’ becoming scoring leader in “district one of the National Association . of - Intercollegiate . Athletics (NAIA). -°; She now leads the league in scoring, averaging 20.84 points per game, and in her 18 games this season has stacked up more than 350 points — nearly 100 points ahead of her nearest _ rival. But SFU athletics department spokesman Doug Griffing said Hendry’s performance in league games Jan. 12 and 13 made even _the season stats pale by com- parison, _» She earned the weekly scoring honour by scoring 31 points in three consecutive games for 93 points as the Clan crushed Lewis Clark State and Seattle Pacific University, Lewis Clark fell 76-50, but Hendry's 31-point effort in SFU’s shaming of Seattle Pacific was the more spec- tacular, ; SFU athletics spokesman Doug Griffing said the Terrace hoopster was held to two points in the first half, and the two teams remained close until mid- way throught the second half. “Then Michelle went on somewhat of a tear,’’ he said. “In three minutes and 25 seconds she scored 14 points, while Seattle Pacific scored only. two, It was incredible.”’ Hendry exploded in that se- cond half for 29 points and 12 rebounds to rocket the Clan toa ‘100-67 victory. oe Michelle Hendry The wins gave SFU a 7-1 record in NAIA district action, close on the heels of both the newly defeated second-place Seattle Pacific team (8-1) and the still undefeated Western Washington (9-0). : The previous week, she scored 79 points in three SFU. victories over American colleges at a three-game tournament in the Bahamas. The wins gave the Clan the tournament champion- - ship at the Goombay Shootout in Nassau, the Bahamas. . Hendry is also second in the — league in field goal percentage and is seventh in blocked shots, The 19-year-old 6-foot-2 centre won numerous scoring awards last year, , SFU coach Allison McNeill said the university will lobby strongly for Hendry to be nam- ed to an Ail-American team this year. She said in an interview last month many American coaches refused to vote for Hendry last year because she was from a Canadian school. Two other district players won the coveted award last year and Hendry, the district player-of- the-year, wasn't among them. with 17. Cal teams on the road © TERRACE — Caledonia’s Kermode boys and girls basketball teams were on ihe road last weekend playing at tournaments . in Prince George and Vancouver, = ; ‘The sealor boys played McGee Thureday night at the Brit- . temuin tournament ia Vaacouver. The Kermodes iook a hearst-brenking 51-50 loss to the team and fell to the console: tom side. Caledonia’s high points scorer was Paul Manhas— The girls travelled to the Kelly Rd. tournament in Prince George. a On the way they stopped in Smithers long enough to count a 68-24 win over Smithers Senior Seco mae led Caledozia scoring with 18, foBowed by Kristin Mackenzle | with 15 and Amanda Campbell with 10, ; UE - A week earlier they played a senior girls tournament in. | Kitienad to emerge with a two wins aad alos... eee mdary, Kristen Iverson | .