Page B4 — ferrace Standard, Wednesday, JUNE 26, 1991 - Clifford was almost tuteen when [ first met him. He was small for his age, so he didn’t appear out of place physically. He did appear out of place emo- tionally. : : One day I looked up from helping one of the other children apply some - finishing - touches to her puppet to see. Cliff leaning across the aisle toward a pal. “Hey Walter,’’”. he haired puppet i in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other. “Mr. Brown.” Then he plunged the blades into the skull of the . “most compelling: [ was: still effigy. Cliff was a haunted house. Floor hockey was the only thing Cliff seemed to enjoy, and only when his side-was winning. If he lost, he took it hard, really hard: his face would darken and he would fix the opposition with murderous stares. School work was not high on said,” holding up his bearded, grey- Clifford's agenda. | was paid to see-that he did it, It wasn't that Cliff couldn't do the work, on, the, contrary, he was excep- tionally, bright; he just didn’t want to put out the effort, and he wasn’t about to be pushed around. He quickly figured out there was little to fear in my puny arsenal of disciplinary techni- ‘ques. Cliff and.1 went to war. He was winning one battle after another. He was’ failing and I was too, There were a lot of problems in that particular class, but for some reason I found Cliff's the naive and inexperienced enough to think that things done in school could somehow, distract a tortured -boy from a dysfunc- tional family from the long term spiritual kicking he’d been dealt from his first: conscious moments (and maybe. -before that). i -. The Skeena Angler by Rob Brown 1 tried everything 1. could think of to. motivate Cliff. Nothing worked. He . didn’t | smile once. He’ came every day to occupy space, “glower- and brood, It was getting tome. After cating a typically dread- ful meal of my own creation in my closet-sized teacherage at the end of a tiring day, I took the can of worms Joey. Flynn had dug for me and my rod, loaded thern in the pickup and drove off to the West Lake. On the way through town 1 saw Clifford standing alone, as ishing with a haunte usual. I stopped the truck and rolled down the window. - © . “Do you like to. fish??? I don’t know what possessed’ me, I'd just spent a frustrating: day trying to manage Cliff and his classmates, and now here I was inviting him into my leisure time. . Cliff gave me one of those searing looks, hesitated, and then said: ‘‘I never done it.” “Get in,” I ordered. It was a challenge, Cliff hesitated again, then took the dare. talk with Clifford; We-drove to“ West's place; ‘parked thé truck . it was’ cuseless making small next to the decaying barn; walk- ed through the chickens and dogs and. across’ ihe ‘spongy. marsh to the'lake... °° The leaky boat was where Id left it at the end.of my last outing, We got aboard and pad- dled out into the lake; There " was a gentle breeze. A distant rumble said’ some rocks were rofling- down ‘the ramparts of ””. ‘some distant mountains. (Like this,” [ said, threading a worm on the hook and flick- ing it out into the pond. [ reeled in and handed him the rod. » He cast and seemed startled at how well the line went out. We watched the red-and-white float: It- sank. Cliff struck before I could say ‘‘now’” and soon we had a dark little cut- throat on board. I rapped his head against the gunwale. Cliff watched attentively, then baited PORTS NEWS _ JEFF NAGEL 638-7283 TERRACE STANDARD vincial organization. ~ Showing they care TORCH-CARRIER Ann Pegg, a guard at the Terrace RCMP detachment, joined local police of- ficers and sheriffs last Tuesday to pound the pavement in the local leg of the province-wide Law © Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics. At least eight local Special Olympics athletes and 26 law enforcement officer participated in the 16-kilometre run from New Remo to Copper River. The run also helped raise more than $1,000 for local Special Olympics activities and for the e Pro- olfer wins Rupert PR. RUPERT — Terrace’s Dan Rosengren shot hot golf to narrowly win Prince Rupert’s Jubilee tournament two weekends ago. His scores from three rounds of 69, 71 and 74 gave him a tournament-winning low gross total of 214, edging out Prince Rupert’s second-place Larry Gordon by a single stroke. Rosengren had a six-stroke lead after 45 holes, but some of that advantage evaporated when he got into trouble and triple-bogeyed on the tenth hole in the back nine of the final round, ® Profile, Page BS. 3 ‘It’s a funny game. You can’t lose it like that,’” he said. “You put a bad swing on, you pay for it.” “] relaxed a bit in the back nine and that was @ mistake. I should have been hungrier for it." The triple-bogey made things a bit more tense for thé. Tettace golfer coming down to the final - holes. His lead was whittled down to just two. strokes on the 13th. But the key to pulling out victory came on the. 16th hole. His well-executed five-foot putt on a difficult downhill slider shot put it away. “It was a tough putt, but I stuck with it and . managed to get it into the hole,” he said. “I... ‘ waddonal team's pitching staff, knew right there if I made that putt, I'd win the tournament.’* That allowed him to carry a threé-stroke lead into the final hole, an hole conservatively, = “] was playing it pretty safe coming down to that last hole,"’ be said. He dropped a couple of strokes that hole, but came out with 214,:just-ahead of Gordon’s: 218, Third Eddie Boudreau, who had a2? on. res of 69, 73, a ~ May't6 to June 2, scores of 69, 73, and 75. — Rob Bell, another Terrace golfer; ‘had a 253. finish on scores of 86, 81 and 86, to take low gross in second flight. Rosengren says he’s now gearing ‘up for Ter- race's big golf event of the season —— the Skeena * Valley Open tournament this weekend, -*" vine and Rosengren played the’ TERRACE — Caledonia Senior Secondary honoured its outstanding athletes at the school’s year-end award ceremonies yesterday. Megan Reid was named outstanding female athlete of the year for her commitment to track and field and cross- country running: ‘*She’s always practising and does a lot of legwork for the whole team,’’ said Caledonia athletics director Cam MacKay, adding Reid represented the school at the