THE TERRACE Bluebacks Swim Club made
big splash at their first meet of the season two
weekends ago.

The swimmers were in Kitimat for the
Methanex Invitational, where they met with
competitors from all over the northwest, includ-
ing Prince George. In total, five clubs attended
the meet,

The Bluebacks just got back in the water three
weeks ago, so coach Mike Carlyle wasn't ex-
petting much, but he says he was pleasantly
surprised.

“For being in the water such a short time we
had a surprising number of personal bests,’’ be
says. ‘‘We had 65 per cent best times. That’s
really good.’”

Carlyle says that for most of the youths, the
goal was to work on technique, so the best times
were just a bonus.

“The senior youth swimmers have been work-
ing on their tums this season — timing them to
help improve speed. Meanwhile, the younger
swimmers have been focussing on stroke tech-
nique.

‘Some of the young swimmers have only had
maybe nine practices, so il’s great to see how
they handle competition,” says Carlyle, ‘'It was
quite exciting.”

The older group had fun too. Since this was
just the first meet, they raced in some of their
“off? events — events that they normally don’t
compete in,

“For some of them, their off-events are quite
weak,”’ says Carlyle. ‘‘Seeing the kids do breast
strokes or the butterfly when they don’t normal-
ly do them is quite funny. It helps keep things in
perspective,'”

The Bluebacks have 15 new swimmers this
year. Six of them competed as Bluebacks for the
first time in Kitimat, including: Allison Knoed-
ler, Henrietta Relling, Caitlin Scales, Chelsea
Sears, Nicola Stokes and Arend Stambuis.

“Even with all these new kids we only had six
DQ's,”' says Carlyle, ‘‘That’s quite low.”

The older Blueback swimmers are strong in
some categories and weak in others.

Julie Vanderlee, for example, continues to
make waves in the female 15-and-over. She

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Bluebacks make waves in Kitimat

placed second at the event overall, but she’s
also the only Blueback in that category.

Meanwhile, the 11-12 Girls are looking good,
speatheaded by Jenine Barton, who took first
place,

The Boys 11-12 is also looking very strong
and will likely continue that way since a num-
ber of the swimmers are just 11-ycars-old.

The 13-14 Boys division looks strong too, es-
pecially with the addition of former Prince
Rupert racer Arend Stamhuis.

“He’s made a big impact,’ says Carlyle.
“He's a very hard trainer and he’s medalled al-
ready.”

Just two racers round out the older Boys
group — Bryan Palahicky and Greg Narzt, but
Carlyle says he expects big things from them.

Registration in the club has picked up after a
slow start, earlier in the fall.

“'T think kids are hearing about how much fun
our novice group is,’’ Carlyle says.

The Bluebacks’ next meet will be for their
novices and development groups, That’s com-
ing up here Nov. 2.

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DO THEY FIT? Three-year-old Nolan Chapman gets a little help with his first pair
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Agnes let out a scream.

Eugene bounded down the stairs of
their farm house. “What's with you, this
time, wife?” Agnes was beside herself.

“The mortgage people called. They
want to see you to discuss why you're
always late with the payments. Eugene,
why are you sc sloppy. One. day. we're
foing to lose our farm.” ,

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CASES

“It's happened. Now all the neigh-

IT’S EASY to tell when ski
season is just around the
comer,

Look for bloodshot eyes
scamning the hills for fresh
snow, empty slots on video
store shelves where ski and
snowboarding movies are
kept and that forlom, puppy
dag expression in the eyes
of powder-hounds.

Another tell-tale sign is
the ski swap, which took
place at the arena last
weekend. Dozens of people
hit the swap in hopes of
finding a bargain board or
ski package to set them up
for the season.

And this could well be a
great one, provided Ei Nino
doesn’t get too firm of a
grip on the northwest.

The crosscountry ski trails
at Onion Lake are ready for
snow and Shames Mountain
is hopefully half-buried by
naw.

Shames has a new man-
ager this yeat too. Rene Far-

wig takes over the posilion
formerly held by Tim Mel-
lon. Farwig is a former
Olympic skier and experi-
enced mountain manager so
he’s well-qualified for the
job.

Farwig has already made
some changes, and the hill
hasn't even opened yet,
There’s a new toboggan
park, more elbow room in
the day lodge and an im-
proved snowboard park.

Farwig’s even checking
into getting a cat-skiing ser-
vice at the hill. That way
skiers anxious to check out
Shames’ famous back-
country don’t have to spend
half of the day hiking.

And one person who real-
ly knows that back country
is now in charge of the ski
school. Wendy Shymanski
takes over this year as
school director.

Farwig says Shames could
open as early as late No-
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“Can't help it, Agnes, it’s in the
genes. My Daddy and his Daddy before
him were late with their - mortgage
payments."

‘The next morning, Eugene sat glumly
in the potato brokerage firm.: “Mr.

~ Lastville, 10 years ago your mortgage was
118,000. Now It's $296,000. My superi-
ors are very concerned. Have you brought
your financial information?” Eugene said
nothing.

“Please get back to me with your
plan on how your going to pay the money,
or else we will have to sell your farm.”
Eugene left abruptly. Three months later,
Agnes opened the mail. She let out a
blood curling shriek.

“Eugene, it’s a letter from the broker:
age firm, Unless they have a proposal
they're putting the farm up for sale.”
Eugene sent a letter. “I will, pay. you
$70,000 in July and then | will pay your
regularly.”

_ The letter was rejected at the board
meeting of the potato brokerage firm. “He
hasn't kept his work for 10 years. We've
been patient for 10 years. No more."

"A week later, Agnes was looking
biter the paper and came across the

“Nice farm belonging to Agness and
eugene now. for sale. Open for bids.”
Agnes shrieked as she threw the paper at
Eugene.

bours know.” Eugene rushed to fill out a
cheque for $70,000 and brought it per-
sonally to the firm.

An ad was published canceling the
sale, but only after two other ads
announcing the sale were published.

Eugene was ina fury. “All the neigh-
bours have seen the three ads. Agnes,
we're suing that potato brokerage firm
for ruining our reputation.

Eugene was simming, “Your Honour,
we've had some problems making pay-
ments on our morigage. But, we overpaid
when we could. We proposed to pay
$70,000 on it, The Potato Brokerage
said no without telling us. We didn't
know our farm was for sale until it
appeared in the paper. They've ruined
our reputation.” ;

The .Potato Brokerage explained,
“Your Honour; Eugene owes us a large
amount of money. He's often been late
with his payments. We couldn't be sure
he would pay us. We sent a letter telling
him the farm would be sold. It's not our
fault that it didn't get to them before the
ad appeared In the’ paper. We cid what
we had to do.”

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“You ate both at fault for what happened. The Potato Brokerage should've told Eugene the farm was being sold.

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