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ROB BROWN

_ Dogs and fish

y mother, bless her thoughtful,
humane soul, said a city lot was too
confining for a dog. We studied as-
siduously before contacting a
breeder and getting a cat. It was Siamese, a
proud descendant of those fierce wartior cats
that, centuries ago, rode into battle on the
shoulders of Siamese infantry men. Legend has
it that these sinewy felines were trained to
launch themselves like missiles toward adver-
sarial cyes.
” The cat we chose had lost its ferocity. It was a
gentle guy with a chocolate brown mask and a
pair of trademark biue eyes, To my horror my
mom named him Nanki-Poo after a character
from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado, a name I
shortened and mumbled when asked about it by
my friends, You don’t take a cat fishing, at
least, I’ve never heard of anyone who has, so,
on the great fishing journeys of my childhood I
was dogless. In fact, I did not have the op-
portunity to take a dog fishing until some thirly
years later.
Unfortunately, Chimo was positively feline

when it came to the prospect of heading out for

the river, The first time I took her to the Kalum
she was somewhere in the general vicinity as I
walked to the river. When we returned to the
truck she steadfastly refused to come near. Even
the milk bones I’d cleverly slipped into my fish-
ing vest in anticipation of this scenario would
not persuade her to come wilhin reach. She
deigued to follow the truck, though. She did this
all the way across town and up’ Kalum Hill as 1
drove ata self-conscious five miles per bour.

] was delermined, I took her'to the Lakelse in
the Spring of the same year. She followed me
across ihe stream, staying near until twilight.
She then decided she would not cross the river
again. I waded back, got a hold of her collar,
and dragged her across, By the time we got to
shore it was dark, On the way up the trail she

_ found a porcupine and ate about $350 of quills.

Hoping to save a vet bill, Mike Graham, Karen
and I tried to pull the darts out of my blind-
folded, obdurale hound, She pulled us around
the kitchen as if we were an empty sled.

Another time I] caught Chimo unawares,
bundled ber into the Datsun and drove to a part
of the Zymoetz streaked silver with steelhead.
The fish went unmolested. After two casts
Chimo cmerged from the bush with her mouth
full of a rotting salmon she’d decided to roll in
before beginning to dine. I gently put down my
rod then pounced on the mult. With a solid grip
on her choke chain, I dragged her into the river
where ] washed the rotted flesh from both of us.
Even in the water her strength was considerable.
A thorough scrub was impossible, I gathered us
up and we reeked with eye watering intensity ail
the way home.

When it came to things she didn’t like, Chima
was a quick learner. When she encountered the
pair of bristling, red-eyed rodents shuffling
down the mountainside to deplete our crab ap-
‘ple tree, she barked as if possessed, getting as
close as caninely possible to those living pin-
cushions without picking up a quill. When I
emerged from the house bristling with fishing
poles, she became - unapproachable. The
Zymoetz fiasco was the last time she dined oul,

Dogs go with fishing like plaid shirts and
goofy hats; it's important to have onc. Webb
has been lucky with his. Ruby, his predominant-
ly Shepherd cross, attempted to devour her first
porky pine too. Unlike Chimo, she rolled over
to Doug’s command and whimpered quictly as
he extracted the arrows with his fishing pliers as
I watched on amazed. Ruby didn’t eat salmon
carcasses. Except when distracted by a hare or
‘grouse, she stayed close. Ruby would cross the
river when she had too, but preferred dry land.

With this in mind my daughter Cait and 1 be-
gan looking for a dog (actually Cait’s criteria
were slightly different than minc), We passed
up the hyper pups at the pet store, preferring to
save a life and spend $17.50 over spending
hundreds of dollars and keeping puppy mills
thriving, At the Thornhill Shelter we ooohed
and alihtied over the kittens. Then we looked
over the mutts, I liked a Chimo-like dog, but
Cait locked her heart on-a little patchy pup

whose mother, Mugsy was everydog, Since then -

our home has been filled with choruses of ‘no
bite’’. The cats are out of sorts, and we take turnt
doing wind sprints, pup in hand, for the back is-
sues of The Standard spread out over the
laundry room floor. .

Training a pup is bard work, but it's going to
be worth it, We call her Pawsome because she
has paws, because Calt thinks she’s. awesome,
and because she looks like a possum. I think
she'll make a good fishing dog, I can feel it in
my bones. Ce

$4

A SUPER BM and an Internationals player battle

EaRace

it out in

a game last Wednesday

that saw the Internationals hand Super BM their first loss of the season,

HER STYLE may be unor-

thodox, but her scoring
louch is magical.
Terrace’s Michelle

Hendry has always looked a
little unusual on the basket-
ball court —— twisting, tum-
ing and squirming the way
she does,

But somehow she always
ends up under the basket.

“I’ve been called a natural
scorer,” she says. “It’s
what I do best.”’

Hendry, 27, has recently
come off her best year ever
in the German First Profes-
sional League.

Playing in her third season
there, she led the team VFL
Marburg in both scoring and
rebounding, averaging some
21 points and 10 rebounds
per game. That placed the
6'1°’ Canadian third overall
in league standings.

And those impressive stats
helped lead Marburg to the
playoffs for the first time

Speedway union draws crowds

Duo teams

ever.
“That was wonderful,’”

Hendry says. ‘We had great
fan support and packed
gyms every night,”’

The playoffs gave Hendry
a boost too and she played
some of her best ball since
university.

“The experience really
helps,” she says. ‘You
have the same skills as
when you were younger, but
you learn how to use them
better.”’

Many of Hendry’s skills
were honed here in Terrace
where she was born and
raised, eventually becoming
a star player for the
Caledonia Kermoades.

She says she likes her new
home in Germany, but
misses Canada’s wide open
spaces and mountains.

“‘Marburg’s nowhere near
the Alps,” she says. ‘‘All
there is arc littk: hills.”

The city’s pretty crowded

up to

smash track record ~

A LONGSTANDING
record was broken ai the
Terrace Speedway two
weekends ago.

But it wasn’t for the
fastest lap time or the
preatest number of consecu-
tive victories.

Instead, two racers actual-
ly exchanged wedding vows
on the start/finish line at the
track.

Avid racing cnthusiasts
Jobn Algor and Koreen
Holmberg decided to get
married at the speedway.

“Tt ‘made sense. That's
what we love doing togeth-
er,” says Holmberg, ‘I
guess you could say il was
my husband’s dream wed-
ding.”

So, with fellow racers
standing alongside the track
under the cover of. uni-
brellas, and“ hundreds’ of
race fans looking of, . the

two exchanged — wedding :

VOWS,

And following the

ceremony, John and Koreen -

did a lap in the car they both

race, , holding checkered
flags.
Terrace , Speedway

spokesperson Dawn Patter-
son says this is the first time
in the speedway’s 30 sea-
sons that a marriage has
ever been performed at the
track, *

In fact, there had been a
longstanding joke among
racers that they couldn’t get
married on a race weekend
since it would interfere with
the racing.

Bul it seems that Jobn and
Koreen found a way to
solve that problem.

You'd think the couple
would have been too ner-
vous to concentrate on their
races leading up to the big
day, but these two must
have nerves of steel, |

ry tops team |

too. Hendry describes it as
having a smaller physical
size than Terrace, but with a
population of more than
70,000.

“There’s lots of people
aud not enough space,’’ she
says.

To help fit in, Hendry has
learned to speak German,
which she says she picked
up by watching a lot of Ger-
man lelevision.

“T’s (he best way to
learn,’ she says.

Hendry has also picked up
a Dutch passport, so she’s
now an official resident of
the European Union.

Strangely, that’s actually
good for her career since
right now she’s classed as a
foreigner (only two are al-
lowed per team), Foreigners
are expected to be the best
players, while residents can
afford to just be average.

With her passport, if

Forestry FC now hot
on their heels

THE ACTION is really heating up in the Terrace Men’s

Soccer League.

Super BM, who have enjoyed league dominance all sea-

son, suffered their first defeat of the year at the hands of

the fourth place Internationals last week.
Super BM dominated play in the first half, but it was the
Internationals who struck first, scoring midway through

the opener to take a 1-0 lead.

And they managed to hang on for the 1-0 win — which
must have been especially sweet given Super BM’s power-

house status.

‘The win was only the fourth of the year for the Interna-
tionals, who are now tied for fourth place with United Na-

tions.

“It was a good win for us too,” says Jacques Corstanje,
who plays for second-place Forestry. “There are some
pretty good rivalries shaping up this year.””

As of Jast Saturday, Super BM was still on top of the
standings with 28 points, Forestry was second with 26 and

Home Hardware third with 16.

Roger Ewald of Home Hardware leads the league in
scoring with 11 goals. Forestry’s Jim Casey and Park
V&M’s Nick Kolias are second with 7 goals each,

Fans are reminded that games previously scheduled at
Caledonia will be played at Thornhill Regional.

Reps return

TWO TERRACE Youth soccer rep teams are back
from the Provincial Finals in Prince George after play-
ing well but not making the final cut.

The Under 12s lost their first match 5-0, then fol-
lowed up with a tight defensive game thal they lost 1-0
against Coquitlam. The boys rebounded in their last
game, however, to win 3-1 over West Kootenay.

The Under 13s also had some difficulty with the
high-calibre soccer at the event, They lost a tight first
match 2-1, then were shut-out 6-0 in their second
game. They also lost their final match 5-1.

Hendry’s play slips a little
when she gels older she can
simply be classed as a resi-
dent and continue to play
basketbali in Germany.

“T’ve chosen 30 as my re-
evaluation year,’’ she says.
Thats when I'll see how
much longer I want to keep
it up, But basically I'll play
until i’s not fun anymore.’’

A new basketball season
starts in September and
Hendry’s been keeping fit
through the summer by
practicing three or four
hours every day.

She had hoped lo pass on
some of her knowledge to
local youth by coaching a
basketball camp here last
week, but oddly it was can-
celed duc to a lack of Inter-
est.

‘That: was pretty  dis-
appointing,’’ she says. “‘But
I'll try again next year.”

Hendry is another exam-

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HAPPY BRIDE Koreen Holmberg and

her new husband John Algor prepare for a
victory jap in car #288 atter their wedding at the speedway two weekends ago.

n Germany

“Michelle Hendry

ple of how it has become
possible for talented athletes
from small towns like Ter-
race to make il big,

“Coming from a small
town docsn't  miatter,’’
Hendry says. ‘‘People tend
to use that as an excuse. But
if you ty bard enough you
will succeed.”

GE

The day before the wed-
ding, Holmberg slipped be-
hind the wheel of car #288,
the race car she shares with
her new husband, and
blasted to victory in both the
C Street Dasti and Heat.

That's the kind.. of
deterniinatlon “that -helped
her win- Rookie of the. Year

this season in her class.

‘As soon as you get into
ihe car your mind’s on
racing,’’ Holmberg says.
“There's no time to worry
about the wedding.”

Algor must have had the
same philosophy, as be tore
up the track only minutes
before exchanging vows and

won the B Strcet Heal.

As for a honeymoon, what
better way to spend it than
getting the car ready for an-
other weekend at the track?
C'mon, there's raccs to be-
won!

For more race results, see
page B12. oo