rr r wi the: pe of f the : "(goalie has helped backstop : th ‘western’ ‘division. i a Pe ee a PY hin eee palation:t : that: rows ticle eat fr, roe to the people = ecu. m need power, caitd, that Doth ; “th j ‘Vast '<:export market; All that growth and” growing takes water: too. Is, it. any -.wonder - that. wild: trout - streams are. an. ‘endangered: : species in the Golden State?.-- "Under, th ‘olcano,. flowing: past the.town'of- Dunsmuir into. Lake: Shasta, — Tuns the Sacramento -River,..one of the . best :trout streams on, the wes coast.. Where you ‘find. fish freshwater and forest; you also find an array of life. So it-is with the Sacramento where ot-- ters-and beavers. paddle the cur-" rents and tunnel in the banks, where coyote, bear and deer amble down the game trails to ry - pereginalions and’ “eagles ‘tid e the thermals, - ees The: river: not, only: su UThe trains =a mile ‘long driven by diesel now — stl run -past Dunsmuir. They also ‘run “across the Sacramento.on a high -bridge at a spot called:-Cantara . . Loop, On July 14th.of this year, the: engines of four. coupled. "> popular in’ ite iglant fields of : Agribiz becaiise of its magical ~ ability to mix with moisture. in.’ the soil to-form the: .compound ‘locomotlv ‘straining to. pull'a ninety-seven . car, four-and-a- half. tone train, up the steep grade to Cantara Loop,: faltered - locomotive | from the rails i in the Process, ey Only. one car in the-entire train carried’ chemicals, — 20,000 “gallons'-of:. a:. toxic: pesticide called metam-sodium. PORTS NEWS “momentarily then regained thelr’. ‘grip, sending seven cars and one | :, animal life, fish and~ game, ‘it sustalta ‘Dinamuis much as the meee oS it was that car that plummeted from the bridge into the Sacramento,‘ burst. ‘and “began : leaking its lethal cargo into. the . . wo it. those: deadly. concoctions. 80 the fingers of poison, swimming in circles, rushing to the stream ‘bed, then to the surface, finally turning belly up and floating to methyl isothiocyanate, which is” lethal 10 a wild and wonderful. array of ‘insect, plant and; ‘The car’;was unmarked; the’ manifest said weed killer, so. while: the: : railroad ‘workers scrambled to contain and ‘mop green killer spread-downstrearti annihilating everything - before Trout tried desperately to flee the top. Onlookers watched the frantic dances of death, and in the. morning the biocide Was - complete: 45 iniles of river was “stone”. dead — fish, insects, algae, none survived, By the next day the trees along the river : began to die, Predictably, many desperate Cal nabs soccer . zone win TERRACE» _ Caledonia’ s Kermode boys soccer team are off tothe provincials. in two weeks after crushing the Prince Rupert Rainmakers in the best-of-three zone final Saturday. _ _ The boys in blue jumped ” Out to. a-1-D lead inthe first ‘gainé on a goal'by Bao Long Diep. But - Rupert - stayed 2 “defenders to ‘Bet a-aumber of . scoring ‘Opportunities, om ’ >The Kermode. offence ‘eventually clicked with Luis ‘Teixeira, Jason Dvorak and Curtis Bretherick scoring for a 4-2 victory. - ; ' pumped in’ four. goals: by _ halftime! — from Bao Long | Diep, Jason’ Dvorak, Curtis ’ Bretherick and Bao Van Diep — to make it 4-1, Bretherick half, and :additional - Cal goals by Bobby - Dhaliwal, ‘John Sheppard and Jeremy .Lafontaine gave the’: Ker- -modes an 8-1 triumph ‘and the zone championship. — It was expected the: team ' would cruise, through '— ‘the close, evening it in the secorid ~ Ralf. adid-outdekeing: ‘Cal’s” ~ In Game Two, Caledonia - made’ no) mistake,’ “They . added another in the second - suspension - of: the” ‘Kitimat i ‘Rowdies for: unsport- smanlike conduct earlier. this’. ‘season meant: Rupert would en i “Be their.only Opposition, |” me But the ‘team’ 's “Quest: to Coach: ‘Cam MacKay &: says a ao e team has to raise. about. op two weeks. ‘CALEDONIA's Curtis Bretherick scored three goals In two games Saturday against Prince Rupert. The Kermodes' nen 4:2 and 8- 1 to: clinch the zone championship and advance to the provincials oa Terrace’: Kansas ‘City Blades to an. 8-0: ridefeated tecord in the early “geason ‘action to lead the} IHL. "strung: togethei:. a’ perfe Ken Pound hopes ‘they'll mak ‘Timber “Wolves smashed. their way toa 15-4, 15-8:final.round’. victory over. Hazelton’ rs Junior. boys volleyball team in tourna. iment action: here two weekends at: the tourney and cofich te Third’ placé ‘at the nine-team ‘tourney here Oct. 19 was a tie etween “Skeena Jr. Secondary and Housion. Keena’s junior girls, mean- hile; soared to a 15-12,-3-15, ‘am tourney here at ‘aledonia the same weekend. $-10;victory over Thorphill’s | ‘team in the junior: girls. The third. place teams in 1 each poo! played off ina consolation final,which saw Skeena’s team defeat Smithers. - Hazelton was’ named most sportsmanlike team. -On Friday, Skeena and Thor- ‘teams'‘hiéad for. Prince George, where they'll compete in the an- nual t0-team John McGuinness Dhill’s top boys and gitls junior | people. of Dunsmuir — folks. :a “ whose livelihoods are greatly in- fluenced .by the fishery — and .. the . railroad company began talkirig ‘of restoration’ via: the quick fix of hatchery plantings. Years ago this might: well have happened, . but fortunately - many people have come to. the » realization that hatchery ‘fish . ‘ cam never replace the wild up the diesel from the overturn . --€d locomotive, the luminous creatures: who exist in wild streams as a result of. natural selection. : Biologists were quick to point ‘out that: the: ‘fry who =: were’: spawned in’ spring and © Lake’ stood up at. the recent were still in small, oh-so-critical tributaries upstream would be , devoured by hatchery implants searching for ‘food ecosystem shorn of life. The Sacramento 1 may recover and it miay not. If it does, the process will be long and painful and my never be a complete suc- cess. The Earth is a giant, infinitely complex living organism, Rivers are the veins and arteries of its circulatory. system. Just as ‘in an Terrdoe Stand, Weta, October 30, 1991 it have | deleterious effect on the ; planet, as;a: whole? the’ damage to major arteries tike the Rhine . at the hands of Sandosz and ~ -Other'industries; or the abuse of the Fraser by pulp mills, sewage and estuarial development; the ‘blockage and arterial hardening brought on by dams — all serve to cripple the’ planet.. So ‘does the loss of capillaries like the. Sacramento. ; When Mary Salem’ of Lakelse public meeting-on the: Orenda pulp mill-proposition and’ pas- ‘sionately expressed her concerns . about an increase in the amount of chemicals that pass ‘by us by road and rail every day because of a new industry in the valley, I don’t think many people i in the audience; ‘myself included, ap- preciated how serious an issue a chemical spill. can be. The Sacramento experience should give-us a feel for it. Paul Clark rides again TERRACE — Wheelchair racer Paul Clark is making: a com- eback in competitive racing, The Terrace wheeler leaves Friday for Holland, where he'll spend the next six months train- ing and competing at major Taces there. 7 “P’ve been training again for the Jast month and a half,” he said last week, ‘‘Now I’m really excited about racing again.’” Clark got olit of serious com- _ petition two years ago when his - son was born. Before that he competed in- ternationally for 10 years and in 1988 set a world record 10-kilometre time in Oita, Japan, Since then, however, . wheelchair racing has grown much more competitive as. a sport, with the top t times steadi- ly falling. “I think I have the potential to be very good again,’ Clark says, “‘I have this idea that this - could may be the start of a year of competition for me again.’* ' His wife and son-are moving with him to “Utrecht; Netherlands, . until next April: He’ll be wheeling along the bike paths and country roads there this winter. Clark also plans to teach. optometry part-time and learn Dutch. . -. And he’ll have plenty of time to train and catch up on the many. technological im- provements in the sport. “I've-got that old itchiness again —-that excitement about competing,” he added. ‘I’m really excited about it.'” On his racing calendar so far is the Utrecht marathon in March, and the Rotterdam marathon Apr, 20, Spikers confident TERRACE — Caledonia’s boys volleyball players already have their plane tickets booked to the Nov. 27 provincial chatmpion- ships in Comox. Coach Shawn Krienke says he believes the team willbe vic- torious at the Noy. 15 zone finals in Prince Rupert. “We're not overconfident,” he said. “But I’m convinced that our: team:is more skilled - than the Rupert team.”” They're back from a. playday~ in Smithers two weekends ago wheré they beat both Smithers - and. Burns. Lake in - straight games. They dropped one game . * to Bulkley ‘Valley’ Christian School a: asar ult of some play- ing with the lineup, Krienke said, . " Terrace players did well ata . number of drills that day as well, he said. Mark de Jong won ‘the serve speed competition, and the spikers also tested their mettle against the RCMP's radar gun. Terrace’s Chris Wilkinson topped the spikers competition, blasting one shot that was clocked at 97 kilometres per ’ hour. Most of the other spikers from the four other schools there were in the high 70s and » 80s,- On Saturday Cal hosts teams from around the zone in their last home stand of the season. ° ‘it’ to: the Nov. 8: provincial he Skeena ‘A’ team. made Pumpkin ' Pound-Around tour- With 180 minutes played as’, championships in Vernon, é final by knocking off the ‘of last week, Flaherty is rank: tf" We