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- SKEENA ANGLER

ROB BROWN

The Clore slide

lie colour of the Clore was always a problem

| for us. The accessible part of that river is the

sum total of the clear, lake-fed Burnie River,

the glacially driven upper Clore and an aggregation of

small, clean, creeks that are slowly cutting their way

through the rock hard landscape. The influence of the

glaciers was not enough to soil the Copper, but it kept

us Off the Clore until the rugged little valley was
streaked with brilliant reds and golden yellows.

It’ would be late October, or early November by
then. We d make our way through mending cut blocks
filled with frozen fireweed, past the places where
moose had bedded down, stopping to count goats that
had moved down to the gray rock walls of the distant
mountains ahead of the first snows of the year.

The water would be carrying enough glacial melt to
offer its steelhead a little security, and allow us a ghost-
ly glimpse of our boots as we crossed the tails of pools.

Small, scrappy fish with a penchant for flies on or
near the surface, Clore steelhead had more similarities
to their Morice cousins than to the other steelhead in
the Copper drainage. We scrambled to fish them dur-
ing the short window between the first bite of frost
and first heavy snow fall.

We learned a lot about steelhead on the Clore in
places like the School Teacher’s Pool where on one
sharp, colourful day, 1 watched Ken Pepovitch’s
Mickey Fin, swim by only inches under the surface.
One instant the fly would be there flickering under its
garish red and yellow wing, in thé next it would be
gone,and a steelhead would be leaping below me.

‘We iearned that Clore steelhead were a special breed.

- The Clore didn’t fare too well in the flood of 1978.
Subsequent floods made things worse, until a gaping
slide was opened up at Four Mile. The short window of
angling opportunity hecame shorter. Many of the won-
derful runs above the slide were lost, diminishing
angling opportunities there.

We shrugged our shoulders and declared the situation
a damn shame, but Jim Culp, who is particularly pas-
sionate about the Clore, and as stubborn as a Missouri
Mule, refused to let things go at that. Jim believes the
Clore slide can be mended and has doggedly pursued

‘available government funding sources in an attempt to

get the money to do il.

~ Jim is right when he says the problem is worsening.
At first the Clore slide soiled the lower Clore and a few
‘miles of the Copper below the confluence of those two
fivers sporadically. After a few years the sediment car-
tied by the Clore increased to where it was capable of

‘putting out the entire 30 odd miles of Copper below it.

Last season the Clore was soiling the same length of
river in medium flows. This winter it was doing same
thing in low winter flows — and the river was red.

This last fact is important. Scientists say suspended
solids washed from glaciolacustrine deposits like the
Clore slide don’t present a major threat to fish habitat
because such sediments float and are carried away.
Clay is bluish gray, mud is red. When it comes to fish
rearing and spawning, gray is OK, but red and brown
are bad.

Jim Schwab, a geomorphologist and respected
research scientist working for the forests ministry,
claims the Clore slide is not the dominant sediment
source or the largest source of sediment input into the
Copper. That may be, but the slide is doing damage.

The Clore slide is the leading cause when it comes te
the ruining the Copper River Sportfishery. ‘This is no
small thing, The Copper is a world class steelhead
Stream with a five-month season, Last year the most
accessible and productive section of the river was out
for half of the season. This means a loss of more than a
million dollars in tourist dollars and an inestimable loss
in recreative opportunity.

This and the increasing damage to habitat make for a
compelling argument to do something about the slide.
Jim correctly points out the river can be steered into its
original channel with the use of rip rap. The effect of a
small creek that flows through the clay could be
reduced with gravel and vegetation.

Met with suggestions the project would cost a mil-
lion bucks, Jim took the idea to an engincering firm that
estimated the task required less than half that amount.

Schwab and others worry about the downstream
effect Jim’s proposal would have. If the river is being
diverted into its original channel, where it didn't cause
a problem in the past, it’s hard to understand this con-
cern. Still, if the possibility of opening new slides is a
problem, surely it would be worthwhile to spend a lit-
tle time doing tests to decide if this is, indeed, the case.

It’s been over 20 yeats since Jim Culp began pushing
to have something done aboul the Clore slide. That's a
long time, especially when B.C. government renewal
corporations have been tossing money at some pretty:
questionable projects, recently.

THERN B.C. WINTER AME

Terrace'’s womens
and mens
basketball teams
had a blast and
brought home gold
and bronze medals
from the Fort St.
John games. The
girls gymnastic
team (below),
always a strong
contender at the
Northern B.C.
games also won
stacks of medals.

Raking in medals in Fort St. John

FROM BADMINTON to
wrestling, local athletes did
Terrace proud at the
Northern B.C. Winter Games
in Fort St. James .

Among the many campeti-
tors who endured long bus
rides to participate in Feb. 3-
6 games, Terrace brought
home more than 40 medais
in basketball, badminton,
hockey, gymnastics, curling
and wrestling,

Peewees bronzed against home town team

By TYLER NOBLE

Gold medals went to the
women’s basketball team,
who travelled all the way to
northeastern city to battle
Prince Rupert in the 71-52
final, The ladies won every
game they played,

The Terrace men’s hasket-
ball team won bronze and
say they had fun just attend-
ing the games. Special men-
lions go to points scorers
Roland Barton, Mike

ing 5-4 to Chelwynd.

Johnson and Pat Kofoed.

In badminton, Terrace’s
Kolten Taekema and Justin
Yoogd won the beginners
boys doubles event, while
Trish Gair won the junior
mixed doubles event. Lexine
Aull and Desarai
Vandevelde won bronze in
the beginners girls doubles.
The girls also won mixed
doubles and singles medals.

In curling, Sylvie Carriere,

tied it up at four.

Carmen Durand, Ashley and
Victoria Johnson won bronze
in the girls youth event,

Local wrestlers also shone
on the mats. Chad Gerow,
Kory Yamashita, Jeffrey
Frank and Christa Lambright
won gold medals in their
weight classes.

Desmond
Adrianna

Hawkins,
Sankey, Brie

_ Birdsell and Tyler Branch

won bronze, while Jonathan
Pelticr,
Marlene
Krug,
Robert

Bolton won silver.

In gymnastics, Courtenay
Fenton won the all round
midget categery, after two
individual Hoor (gold) and
vault (silver) performances,

Marla Schulmeister, won
gold overall alter winning
the vault, floor and bars. She
won silver on the beam.

Taryn Schulmeister won
silver overall in her events.
She taok home bronze on the
beam and silver on the vaull.

Siobhan Sloan-McMullen
won silver overall. She won
the beam and floor and won

THE PEEWEE Winter Games term
proudly arrived at home from the
Northern B.C. Winter Games wear-
ing bronze medals,

The Peewee B team played four
games in the toumament, starting ,

‘Terrace opened the scoring early
in the first period, with a-goal from ~
Braden Bloomquist. This was a sign
of things to come, as Terrace kept on
coming. James Inkster and Landen
Archibald contributed one goal
each, while Jordan Wall added two
goals. By the end of the second peri-
ad, it was 5-0 Terrace. Fort Nelson
got on the board three minutes into
the third period. But Terrace casily
held on for a 5-2 win.

Terrace played again Friday, los-

Bantam B’s bring back silver

By KEVIN FLETCHER
THE BANTAM B's are back and
with the silver medal to bool.

The boys went through the
round robin part of the tournament
with a perfect 3-0 record, and out-
scored their opponents 16-1,

With only one goal scored
against them, you would think
defense was key, not so. Using
their speed and size, the team
defense acted as a forechecking
olfense, with almost every goal

On Saturday, Terrace squared off
against Smithers, who opened the
scoring in the first with Chris
Turmer’s goal. Randy Brook added
another to make the score 2-0.
“Terrace began to come back in the
with a match against Fort,Nelson. ." end of the first, with a goal from Jeff
‘Clark. Brook added another for
Smithers'a minute later. At the end
of the first period, it was 3-1
Smithers.

In the second period,
Bloomquist narrowed the gap 3-2.
Travis Rider tied it up at three,

The third period featured strong
defence at both ends. Smithers made
it hard for Terrace, as Clark Grieves
made the score 4-3 with 7:55 left,
Terrace refused to give up, With
only 1:37 on the clock, Jordan Wall

created off of the forecheck.

With lots of bang and crash and
plenty of good body checks we
had every team we played against
hearing footsteps and just a little
leery of touching the puck. Then
we ran into the host team in the
gold medal game.

Fort St. John was no doubt the
better team as they had size, speed
and a more time on the ice togeth-
er than we did.

We ended up losing the game by

Braden
more,

assists.

team at all but you
aren't going to win
many games with
62 penalty min-
utes and the home
team charts only
three penalty min-
utes.

Blueback swimmers
pull off home town win

IF THE performance of Terrace’s younger
swimmers al the Bluebucks’ meet here last
month, Terrace will have a lot to brag in the
future,

The Bluebacks charted more best times
than Prince Rupert, Kitimat or Smithers and

* won the meet by 98 poinis.

That’s good news for the club’s second
and third-year swimmers.

“That looks great for the club in the .

future,” said coach Mike Carlyle,

The club has won the title twice this sea-
son, proving the win was nu fluke, Carlyle
says that means the swimmers are strength-
ening their form and technique in the water.

“We're growing in leaps and bounds,” he
said.

Adam Simons is a great example of that.
Simons wan his first-gold medal ever last
month, swimming the 50-mctre freestyle in
48.56 seconds. ‘The nine-year-old swimmer
also won a second and third place medal and
three third place finishes.

Jenine Barton broke a nine-year-old paol

- record in the 200-metre butterfly, swimming -

the race 2:33.56 minutes.
The 14-year-old shaved four seconds off
the old record and is now on track with

Jocelyn Coxford, who was a finalist at youth
nationals when she was Barton’s age and
went on to swim competitively at university,

“Thal’s a great push for Jenine,” said
Carlyle.

Barton also placed first in the 100-metre
backstroke and won bronze in her 100-metre
freestyle.

She also proved her ability in short and
long course swims, charting silver medals in
the 50-metre und 800-metre freestyle races
as well as the 200-metre medley.

Kyle Narzt, 16, broke two poul records in
his 50-metre freestyle and 200-metre back-
stroke and won every race he entered.

He shaved just four one-hundredths of a
second off the 50-metre freeslyle time,
clocking in al 25.74 seconds. Narat’s 200-
metre backstroke came in a 2:15.33 minutes,
almost three seconds faster than the carlier
record,

In all, 24 of Terrace’s 44 swimmers took
home medals. Seventy-six per cent of the
club’s total races were improved times.

Terrace won the meet with more than 655
points. Prince Rupert was second with 557
points while Kitimat and Smithers finlshed
second and third overall.

With the 4-4 tie, Terrace finished Wickie and
second in their pool, allowing them: Da rere |
to play for the bronze medal Sunday
morning, the final day of the games.

‘Terrace got up carly to mect Fort
St. John in the bronze medal game.

Bladen Bloomquist opened the
scoring: in the first, while Brad
Holubowski and James Inkster con-
tinued the scoring in the second. In
the third period, with the score
already 3-0, Terrace added two

Tanner Noble scored at 14:04,
while Jeff Clark scored in the final
three minutes. Nathan Park played
solid in goal for Terrace, leading the
team to a 5-0 shutout. Craig Schultz
once again led the team with three

a score of 8-1. They were definite- |
ly the better team and probably |
would have won the game even f
without the referce's help. ;

I wouldn't say we were a dirty §

silver for her vault and bars
performances.

Bantams win zones

THE TERRACE Inland Kenworth Bantams will repre-
sent the northwest zone at the AA Bantam
Championships in Salmon Arm this year.

The team qualified for the provincial tournament at
the zones in Kitimat Jan. 28-30.

Terrace started the tournament by defeating
Smithers 5-2,

Terrace then disposed of Prince Rupert in a 13-2
knockout that saw Ryan Beaulieu score two goals and
five assists. Jordin Kostelnik, Kelly Steel, Rob Stach
and Stephen Cullis chipped in two goals each.

The win against Prince Rupert earned ‘Terrace a
Buaranteed spot in the final game against Kitimat, who
also sported a 2-0 record so far.

But ‘Terrace still had a round robin game to play
against Kitimat. Unfortunately, Terrace came out flat
and Kitimat beat them 10-2, Terrace then had 90 min-
ules to prepare for the final against a pumped Kitimat
team,

“We told the bays to put the moming game out of
their minds, the garne didn’t matter, we had already
secured a spot in the final,” said assistant coach Steve
Cullis.

Terrace opened the scoring at-17:31 of the first peri-
od when J.J, Duben blasied a shot from the blue line.
Kitimat responded a minute later with Paui Plante’s
goal. Terrace’s Ryan Beaulicu and Jack Haworth fol-
lowed up wilh a goal each. Kitimat’s Rod Pelley scored
with just 12 seconds remaining to make it a 3-2 game.

The game flipped back and forth with Sean
Mahoney opening the second period scoring ag

Kitimat’s Chris Campbell responding, Beaulicu s@a@a"y |

his second goal to end the period 5-3 ‘Terrace,
Pelley scored his second for Kitimat at 18:03 of the

third period. Kitimat poured it on for the next 14 min-

utes but failed to score the equalizer. Kevin Harrison
made great saves. Jack Haworth scored his second al
the 4:10 mark to give Terrace breathing room, Less than
a minute later, Sean Mahoney scored his second to put
the lock the game at 7-4 Terrace,