ne i ie, eee a ” OUG WEBB is a dedicated, en- thusiasiic angler. In the middle of winter you might find him skiing down a trail to the Kalum River with a tube containing his rod tethered to his belt and sliding on the snow behind him. In spring Doug will be on the river with the smail rod, enticing cutthroat trout with dry flies. In summer. and fall, he will be out with the salmon rod after larger quarry. Red-headed people, it is said, have hot tempers. If that’s the rule, then Doug is the excep- tion, After spending hundreds of hours on stream with him, the only disagreements we've had have arisen when each of us has been adamant that the other should be the first to fish through new water. Doug’s passion for the out- doors is not confined to angl- hame and d ing. He likes to shoulder the ri- fle and stalk through the crisp autumn air after moose, Given his fondness for the outdoors, it was nor surprise when Doug became enthrailed. with mushrooming. Hunting for mushrooms is - done in either old-growth forest or long healed-over burns — beautiful places, And, thanks to. the demand from the Orient, the quest for fungi is not only good for the soul and the car- diovascular system, but also for the wallet, ; Doug phoned a while ago, We talked of meetings and future fishing adventures. He sounded distracted, ; “What's the problem? [ asked. . “I’m in a state of shock,” he answered. “I went to my favourite mushrooming grounds, They’ve been logged. The Skeena | Angler by Rob Brown Everything is ‘gone, The place where the bears had worn a trail in the moss by stepping in each other’s tracks year-after-year..,, all the old hemlock... all gone,” ‘He hesitated. a moment. “And for what? A few old hemlock ~~ not even good saw logs —- and some small sticks?” I knew his sense of loss. I'd felt it when Mike and I returned to the snowbound trail we'd taken so many times to the Heart Attack Hole and the Ex. ‘haustion Run and found some of its strikingly beautiful trees gone and the others lying twisted and broken on. the ground. I'd felt it when J came across the ruins of the cherished stand of timber near Herman Creek, and this spring when: I saw the first divot in Skeena West. , It’s a bitter irony that the term multiple use is so often us- ed in the forest industry — all 1 see evidence of is multiple o abuse, me .”* Thanks to the machinations ‘of our former Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 26, 1990 — Page BS ininister of forests and his cabinet cohorts, we have turned what is rightful- iy ours over to giant corpora- tions. Our crown forests are now plantations where fewer men are logging more trees at a faster rate with scant regard for the truly sustainable resources: fish,, wildlife mushrooms. The Kalum forest district is heavily overcommitted. The so- called ‘Fall Down’ is coming to this community and it will make the recession of the early eighties look like good times when it-does. Until that time: the forest giants will promote their myth of sustainable forestry and en- courage logger and environmen- talist. to fight each other over s forests — — and ~ Recent articles in‘ Natiortal Geographic and The New Yorker have served notice that the rest of the world now knows of the reprehensible way we have treated our forests. Following those pieces there was much moaning and gnashing of teeth by govern-. ment ministers, ‘These people just don’t understand,’*; they . wailed; 2 see ors Like hell they'don’h. 20 The authors and. editorial staff involved in those articles” have a global view; they see pro-: fligate greed and strip-mining' with a saw and tower for what it. is. To our shame and disgrace, “they are showing it to the rest of - ‘the-world. ms Welcome to Tree. Farm Licence No. 1, says the sign on the Copper River. road. - Welcome to Brazil. North, . is what it should say, ee JEFF NAGEL 638-7283 -.what belongs to them -both. _SPORTS NE! TERRACE STANDARD -SPORTSCOPE- Rec hockey league grows HOCKEY FANS will be delighted to learn Terrace’s recreational hockey league is back, and it’s bigger and bet- ter than ever. The first league game of the season will be Saturday at 7 p.m. The league has ex- panded to eight teams this year, and has been divided into two divisions — the rec division andthe oldtimer division, A 42-game schedule and eight ice times a week means local hockey at the arena for spectators every night except Monday and Friday. The over-35 oldtimer divi- sion features the Terrace Timbermen, Convoy Supply, the Northern Motor Inn Okies, and the Riverside Auto Wranglers. On the rec side, All Seasons is the new team, joining Skeena Hotel, Norm's Auto Refinishing and Inn of the West. More wins for Mann TENNIS PLAYER Fran Mann swept the women’s events at an open tennis tour- nament in Telkwa earlier this month to pull off another tri- ple win. She took the singles title at the Sept. 1-3 tourney by com- ing from behind in the final to defeat Telkwa's Janice Jaarsmna 4-6, 6-4, 7-6. The Terrace player follow- ed up the singles by teaming up with Nancy Condon to win the all-Terrace women’s doubles final, beating out fellow Terrace club members Diane Cey and Ada Sarsiat 7-6 (tiebreaker: 11-9), 6-3, . Next Maan and husband Swarn cruised to a 6-1, 6-2 win in the mixed doubles final over Doug and Dee Je- nion, also of Terrace. : Telkwa was the second tournament this summer at which Mann has taken all three events. She also won the singles and women’s doubles at the Smithers Open in early August. . On .the men’s side, Kitimat’s Alex Cote won the singles. final with a 6-2, 7-6 score over Terrace’s Richard Kriegl.:- _ Kricgl and Terrace 'team- mate Swarn Mann were also on the losing end of a 5-7, 7-2, 6-1 tally in the men's doubles final, beaten . by Smithers’ Dean Bouchard and Dan Olmstead. The tournament's ‘B’ side saw Diane Cey defeat Nancy Condon 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 In the women's singles final. A ka rate magician TERRACE — An aura of power and confidence seems to surround Ryuichi Nakamura. And when the Japanese karate champion visited Terrace last week he seemed to leave a bit of it with the young students of the local Chito Ryu-style karate club, The local kids thrilled to the high kicks of the 24-year-old sparring. champion; who was. here to visit local karate instruc- tors and work with Terrace- Kitimat club members. Local club spokesman Joe Zucchiatti said some Terrace competitors went to Japan to train earlier this year, and met Nakamura there, who accepted their invita- tion to visit Terrace. Nakamura became Japanese champion last year, at an unusually young age. Before that, he was champion of the ci- ty of Kumamoto. And although the Japanese are usually best in the world, Nakamura was edged out of the medals in kumite — the fighting event — at the Soke Cup world championships in Vancouver last year. “‘He’s not invincible sometimes he does get beaten,” says Zucchiatti, “In fact a cou- ple of our boys — Calen McNeil and Steve Carelius — have. scored points on him. So he's not invincible. He just happens to be the best.’’ Nakamura fights with a quick and direct’ kendo-style attack, which stems from his childhood training with his kendo-teaching father and the bamboo kendo swords, ‘'] trained with him in kendo since I. was six years old,” he said. “Every morning we would get up at six o'clock to train,” He’s particularly known and feared for his lightning-fast leaping punch — a powerful move etched in Zucchiatti’s . Memory, ever: since Nakamura used it to flatten him earlier this spring in Japan. ‘‘It was the on- ly. time in karate I’ve ever been knocked to the ground by a Single punch,’? Zucchiatti recalled. ‘I was wearing full bedy armour, of course, so I wasn’t hurt. And I’m sure his hand wasn’t hurt.” **His technique is so pure that one minute you’re standing,. and the next you're sitting.” Nakamura made the jump from kendo to karate at age 17, and became a student of Chitoshe the leader and master of the Chito-Ryu style of karate. Although he holds a second-degree. black belt in karate — lower than many more experienced competitors — he is atop his sport, at-least in Japan. “It’s just such a tremendous honour to havé the best in Japan come here to train with us,” Zucchiatti added. | While in B.C., Nakamura also took in some fishing in the northwest, and went bungee- jumping in Nanaimo. JAPANESE KARATE champion Ryuichi Nakamura leaps over the crossed arms of loca! karate instruc- tors Norm Goodiad and Roland Lagace {ast Thursday night. Nakamura's high-flying kicks awed members of the local karate club, who turned out to watch the moves of a master. SOFTBALL PITCHER Wendy Sofiak arrive af for Team Canada in the world championships this summer in Illinois. * d in town a month ago, after throwing Coe a ‘ TERRACE — One of the country’s top female softball players is bringing a taste of international experience’ to Terrace, Wendy Sofiak is now in town to. teach at Clarence Michiel Elementary school. But outside the classroom she's usually on the mound,-and this sum- mer she was pitching for the Canadian women’s softball team, | The 28-year-old player capped an impressive amateur softball career this summer by playing for Team Canada at the world championships in Normal, lliinois. . Sofiak’s sharp pitching and first- base play got heron the team after years of playing for club teams, in- cluding the West Vancouver Angels. It was last year when she made her move to the national level, making the 40-player national team roster for the first time. Then, at another round of try-outs in May, she made the final cut to qualify for the 17-player national team, _ The culmination of Sofiak’s years of practice came in July at the wortd championships, where she earned two starts in the eight games Team Canada Susndinidositete. in ; Talent on the mound played. The B.C. pitcher didn't dissap- point her coaches, winning both” games. She didn’t allow a run, blank-. ing both Bermuda and the Netherlands by 3-0 and 8-0 scores, She plays down the success, noting the Canadian women’s opponents in those games were weak teams. “But I was dissappointed we only finished | sixth,” she said. “I wanted us to be in the medals.” - _ She. started playing softball at age eight and her level of play has escalated éver since, reaching the international- tournament level in recent years. “I've been playing serious ball for about the last 15 years,’ she says, “but the Worlds was definitely the biggest for me.”” But the last hurrah for this player could still be ahead. “I'd like to continue,’’ Sofiak adds. ‘My plans had been ‘to retire this year, but I’m not sure. It'll be this year or next year.’' She says she’s tempted to take a crack at the Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba next summer, But she's unsure she can mesh softball with her new job, and fit in the hours of prac- tice and travelling to try-outs.