6 Terrace Review — Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1986 Brise brothers win curling zone-7 playoff Rob Brise of Smithers came through the back door to win the men’s zone-7 curling playoff at the Terrace Curling Club on the Jan. 11 weekend. Brise downed Bruce Kerr of Prince Rupert 4-3 in the final of the double-knockout series. For Brise it was his se- cond win in Terrace this season, His team won top money at the annual Terrace Cash 'Spiel early in November. The victory earned the Brise rink a trip to B.C. interior curling associa- tion playdowns in Kel- owna, Jan. 28 to Feb. I. He was also the zone-7 champ two years ago when the playoff was held in his hometown. Twenty rinks from Terrace, Kitimat, Prince Rupert, Kitwanga, Houston and Smithers took part in the four-day event. Kerr made it to the final by winning ‘‘A’’ side in five straight games, including a vic- tory over Brise in his se- cond game. In the ‘‘A”’ final, Kerr downed Bob Baase of Houston 8-3. Gary Wray of Smi- thers, whom Kerr defeated in his first game, reciprocated by beating Kerr in Kerr’s in- itial game on the “‘B” side. That was his first loss of the series. After Brise dropped to ““B” side, he started off by eliminating last year’s zone champion skipped by Gary Habinger of Kitimat. Brise won five in a row to take the ‘*B’’ side title. Baase, the victim of Kerr in the ‘‘A”’ final, was also Brise’s victim in the ‘“‘B” final. Brise won that game 7-6. Members of Kerr’s team are, third Ian Cullen, second Ouchy Atchison and lead Dave Mio. For Brise it was a family affair with Rob Brise at skip, Don play- ing third, Mike tossing second stones and Rick at the lead-off spot. Curling winners The Brise brothers curling team from Smithers was the winner of the zone-7 men’s playdown earlier this month. Kermodes and Rebels on equal footing In their first three- team mini-tournament in Terrace before Christ- mas, the Prince Rupert Rainmakers looked like the best senior high school boys’ basketball team in the northwest zone, But, after the recent mini-series in Kitimat, it appears Kitimat Rebels and Terrace Caledonia Kermodes are on equal footing. In the opening game, the Rainmakers came up with a 65-63 win over the Rebels. Then in game two the Rainmakers finally suf- fered their first zone loss — 74-72 to the Ker- modes. Dave Kirkaldy paced the Kermodes with 13 points. The final game of the series put the Kermodes against the Rebels, and it was Kitimat’s turn to win as they posted a 62-56 victory. Kirkaldy had 15 points in this game. Each game was close, adding to the theory that the zone finals in Terrace on Feb. 21 and 22 will be a barn-burner. They have one more mini-tournament to play and that’s at Prince Rupert this coming weekend. Baby is fine TERRACE — The first baby of 1986 born in Terrace is reported to be doing fine. Ryan Samuel Wentzell was born to Deborah and David Wentzell Jan. 5. Ryan has a_ sister Emilia and two brothers, Nathan and Jonathon. Kerr and Ho represent zone-7 region Teams skipped by Todd Kerr of Prince Rupert Senior High School, and Christine Ho of Rupert’s Booth Junior High School, emerged as winners at the B.B. School Curling playdowns held — the weekend in Jan. 11 Prince Rupert. ’Kerr went the five-team through boys’ double-knockout series without a loss, winning four in a row. Ho finished with a three- win, one-loss record in the three-team _ girls’ playoff. ' The Warren Cope- land rink of Terrace was eliminated in two straight games. Cope- land lost 13-4 to Wilf Wilson of Kitwanga in his opener, then drop- ped a 12-1 decision to Kerr in his final game. The other boys’ teams were skipped by Doug Nelson of Houston and Shawn Fudger of Ru- pert Junior High. Ho was challenged by Michelle Karey of Kit- wanga and Niki Krist- Manson of Rupert Senior High. Ho and Kerr will represent the region in the B.C, finals at the North Shore Winter ~ Club, Feb. 22 to 23. CA In 1979 | was living on the farm for the summer after spending a couple years in college. | was to be helping Dad with fencing, tending the cattle, working the fields for planting, etc., through the summer. in May, Dad discovered where something had a dead cow out on the range. Very little investigation was needed to determine we were dealing with a grizzly bear. Judging by the tracks, Dad estimated the bear to be athree-year-old. At daybreak the next day, Dad took his .270 to see if he could have a talk with the grizzly. He drove part way to the range, but abandoned the . pickup to make a quiet approach on the last half mile to where the car- cass was located. The trees, small hills and a bit of juck allowed Dad to within about 80 yards of where he hoped to find the bear. His silence and planning had paid off. With a broadside angle, he put a shot into the bear’s neck just behind the ear — as clean a kill as you could hope for. He walked up and put an assurance shot just behind the skull. Later that morning | set out to take the hide off the grizzly since Dad's trapper’s permit allows him to make use of his kill. (Without a per- mit, farmers cannot legally benefit from a kill made in defense of the herd or crops.) ee ee ge ee | had a couple knives, and a sharpening stone and the skidder to bury the carcasses of both the bear and the cow. | arrived at the dead cow and dis- covered the bear was gone. With a ‘heart rate of perhaps 437 beats a minute | checked all around very quickly. | found a blood trail going downhill away from where the griz- zly had been shot and marks in- dicating the animal wasn’t walking very well. | suddenly felt rather vulnerable standing there with only a knife — Davey Crockett | am not. | now fe- gretted leaving the skidder 100 yards away on the road. | had a feel- ing the bear probably wouldn’t stand for me to take his skin off right now — in fact, | really didn't feel like belng there anymore. 1 walked away as calmly as a per- son can with a heart rate like that. 'm surprised | didn’t get whip-lash in my neck with my efforts to keep visual contact in all directions at once. When we went back to find the grizzly, we discovered he had only gone about 100 yards and died un- der a big willow tree. What an in- credible relief. Dad sold that .270 on the grounds that it doesn't have enough hitting power. 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