| _-B4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 13, 2005 ‘TERRACE STANDARD 638-7283. MARGARET SPEIRS a. By. ; MARGARET SPEIRS : ” z THREE Terrace’ Peaks’ gymnasts came. home , ae : winners: from . the BC. BRITT ANDERSON won silver Championships in |! overall at the BC Championships ; gymnastics meet in Nanaimo -. earlier this month. She and her . teammates were competing in " their first: competitions of the season. Nanaimo April 1-3." Britt “Anderson won - the silver overall cham- pion in the Level 2 novice SKEENA ANGLER >» .ROB BROWN . ~ Reward qhe angling bag. and the fishing vest are . both English inventions. On this continent - the vest is the more popular way to carry * fishing tackle, so much so that it is almost ~ impossible to find a decent bag, which is too bad ; - since bags are superior to vests in most ways. «. The manufacturers of fishing vests have a love’ ‘affair with pockets. Since they could cut down on their costs by saving on the material for superfluous Pockets, it’s hard to understand why this is so. ‘If you build an extraneous pocket in a fishing vest; anglers will. fill it with more of an essential itetn than they really need, stuff they don’t need © ‘when out fishing and stuff they don’t need at all. The net result of this vest designers’ pocket pen- chant is the overstuffed vest that sits uncomfortably on the shoulders and demands the skills of a \ parts _man to find anything. - . ., The back pocket is another feature of most:fish- . _ ing’ vests, a place where the angler can stuff his - raincoat, which almost nobody does in this rain for- est since it s almost always raining ‘or threatening to do so. -The best use ofa back pocket i is to carry a lunch. Of course, the vest (and the raincoat or warm jacket over top of it) will have to be shed when lunchtime arrives. The makers of fishing vests (and most outdoor ; garments, for that t matter) are enamoured with zip- . UTD a : ; ers. re The zipper. is, one of those questionabie labour- saving technologies with a dark side. The ones on a fishing vest bite into strands of leader and the vest itself and don’t perform nearly as well as a well- sewn button would. ' Twenty years ago I opted. for the angler bag. My first was a hardy Hardy made of thick canvas and leather, a brass ring and one brass button with no zippers. It had a pair of pockets in front and one big rubberized pocket inside that was held in place by the kind of push-pop buttons rubberized raincoats used to have. ---It was dandy and I would probably be using it Sil had it not been for the rafting accident that left Ed Chapplow and I hanging from a log jam watch- _ing helplessly as my raft and precious bag drifted down stream..We recovered the raft, but the bag ~ and its: precious cargo were lost. . I tried various unsatisfactory replacements, fi- nally giving. up on them and putting my essential gear. in ‘my Patagonia raincoat. ‘Then, two years ago I came across a Chinese bag . “in Misty River Tackle that, if anything, was an im- . provement on my old Hardy. The interior had two waterproof compartments. » It had the rings, ‘two pockets in front, a hidden pocket with a zipper that I never used and it-was | fastened with solid plastic clips: It.had some net- ting in front and: was dark green. When I removed. the Black Arrow tag from the front it looked quite distinctive. . I] coughed up 30 bucks and proceeded to fill my . new bag with what have become essential elements | for angling for me. I slipped my leader dispenser in _ the front pocket. It’s a clear plastic box with four spools set in it in such a way as to dispense four dif- ferent diameters of tippet, a well designed tool that allows me to attach two, four, eight or ten pound. ’ tional in Abbotsford over .hext at an -meet at the Ed Fairless "ups, some thrive with a category, placing first in vault and silver on the un- even bars. _ This marked her first competition this season. Kayla Brinkac scored © _ fourth overall with silvers on vault and beam in her second meet. . _At the Twisters Invita- a. Easter weekend, she won bronze on the uneven bars, placed seventh on beam and seventh overall. -. Jenny Goddard gave a_solid performance in her first competition as a Level 2 novice. -. The gymnasts compete invitational Memorial Gym on April 23. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Playoffs loom for Terrace puck stopper : By. DUSTIN QUEZADA ‘THE’ VANCOUVER CANUCKS signed goalie Wade. Flaherty last July to push their top two netminders_ and to provide insurance if either of - them suffered injury. The Terrace native’s job descrip- tion changed somewhat when the NHL season was wiped out, but his performance has been steadying, if not spectacular, Playing for Vancouver’s Ameri- can Hockey League affiliate Mani- toba Moose, Flaherty has indeed pushed the big club’s prized goalie of the future, Alex Auld, in a sup- porting role. “At my age, it’s no secret who the prospect is,” the 37-year-old said by phone. “But, (Auld and Flaherty) has been a healthy combination.” While, most professional teams é shared workload for their puckstoppers. For the Moose, second in the: AHL Western Conference’s North - Division at press time, the goaltend- ing tandem has given the team sta- Young hockey stars to play ‘best ever’ TWO LOCAL hockey. players have’ been chosen as a pair of the Best Ever players i in BC. Tristan Murray made the Best Ever Under 17 team over the April 2 weekend. Last year, Alex Redpath was named to the Best Ever Under - 16 team. o The Best Ever Under 17 tourna- ment will see the six teams of 120 players evaluated’ by two people, who will make a cut down to 46 to try out for Team BC in Osoyoos. he said. “He's bility for the first time in the fran- chise’s short history. And Flaherty, is doing more than just push his younger teammate. He was named the AHL’s player ' r At my age, it’s no secret who the prospect is : of the week for the period ending Sunday, March 20. In Manitoba’s four games that week, Flaherty posted a 3-0-1 re- cord, a 0.98 goals against average, a .969 save percentage and his fourth: shutout. For the Moose, the unbeaten streak came on the heels.of a stretch where they had won only one of 10 © games. The product of the ‘Terrace Minor Hockey Association, in his 16th pro- _ fessional season, has a record of 17- 8-3-4 in 32 appearances this year. If history repeats itself, Flaherty Successful players qualify for the’ Canada Winter Games. - Midget coach Herb Goriak believes Murray _ . ‘will show off his talent. “T think he'll do fine because he’s quite an intense player on the ice.” he has that drive to win.” Murray came back from a serious injury at the beginning 3 of this season to dazzle his coach. “He was.a first year player play- ‘ing like a third year player by the S quite coachable and WADE Flaherty in action with the Maitoba Moose, AHL farm team of the Vancouver Canucks. is getting hot at: the tight ti time. Canucks general manager Dave Nonis made it a priority last summer to bolster his: farm team’s roster. In: Flaherty, Nonis landed last season’s AHL playoff’ MVP, who set a new N league standard by win- end,” Goriak said. “He showed alot of character.” centre and is an assett on a power play. “He has great puck control along the boards and is a great.penalty kill- er. He brings alot to a team,” Goriak said. In the Under 16 tourney, evalu- ators will watch Redpath: play and write down his name for the Under 17 if they like what they see. Murray plays wing but can play _ning 16 games en route to the Calder j Cup title with the Milwaukee Admi-. | rals. “Last year, the. coach decided to go with me, because (playoffs) were a big step for Brian (Finley),” Fla- herty said of his younger teammate in Milwaukee. “Auld played some huge games, last year with Vancouyer in the playoffs, so it’s not the same situa- tion here.” As of April 9, the Moose has six games remaining before playoffs and Flaherty said head coach Randy Carlyle will likely run with Auld. . But, anything can happen in sports, where injuries and momen- tum often determine who starts in the playoffs. Auld, after all, got his taste of NHL playoffs last spring when Ca- nucks starter Dan Cloutier injured his knee and ‘then- -backup Johan Hedberg faltered. ~*(Carlyle) isn’t afraid to "change goalies,” Flaherty said. For’ Carlyle, having a_ playoff MVP as insurance is quite a luxury. “Amos believes Redpath will be chosen for the Under 17 tourney. He praises both players for their dedication. . “This is the kind of reward you get when you work hard, ” Amos said. Murray plays in’the Under 17 tourney in Salmon Arm from April © 28 to May 2. Redpath competes in the under 16 tournament in Salmon Arm from tomorrow through Sunday, — tere’ re nee ore a ae ee ey . - at ad . Vea a ed reese anne Se etal ee reer Re fee ee test to the end of my leaders to match my quarry. ; Next to that, 1 wedged in my. leader wallet, a Cc | h m p “a simple bit of folded fabric with enough pockets ur ers crown C a S New reZ ta kes over . to hold half a dozen hand tied leaders in various | TERRACE CURLING handed out the hardware to wrap “em lengths and tapers. . up its fifth season of play at its championships March 19. < B MARGARET me ‘ , Boxes containing wet and dry Hlies fit nicely in Curling club president David D. Hull called the season THERE" "SA new boss (SPEIRS a _ the other front pocket leaving the waterproofed in- | «a tremendous success” with the addition of several new The Terrace Curling Club elected a ~_ terior of the bag free for my handy little Pentax wa- 1 ns : f . cita > * : a x terproof camera, a couple pouches containing heads teams. Plans are underway to recruit and retain curlers for new president and board to finish the = for two muiti-tipped lines, an eight weight for steel- next season by encouraging former curlers to return to the curling season April 3. | < head and’a six weight for trout, and my. lunch. sport and asking thirds to.create their own teams. Lynn Gascon takes over as curling ig Last Wednesday I drove to the lower Lakélse Hull would like to see a 10 per cent increase in curl-_ club president, Sylvia Griffith moves ks : on the Whitebottom Road. I parked beside the river ers each season. The club crowned its league and playoff up to vice president, Nancy Fugere is % : some four or five hundred yards past the logging champions. . the secretary and John Strangway han- 2 bridge. After slipping in my waders, I grabbed my ‘League Champions dles the purse strings as treasurer. oF. steelhead rod and my bag and struck out across the Mixed * Dale Walker New directors include Derek Stein- c river then through the woods to the Skeena. Men’s Open - John Evans nausers yan punter, Chad Sallenback i I returned relaxed and tired in a pleasant way, a |: and Dale er ‘ took off my gear, had lunch, then drove off. y Ladies A Side Joan Kucharyshen Retuming directors are "Margaret ; s The next day I couldn’t find my bag. Ladies B Side © Cheryl Wyatt Copeland, Mark Brekke, Lisa Bulleid, After reconstructing the events of the day before Men's A Side Duane Melanson Maunice Bulleid, 2 Si Fams and the e as best I could, I’ve concluded that I must have set Men’s B Side Doug Willer Gascon sai i she has several ideas in S a erhaSs then dtiven eff nthe right side of the hood | Mixed A Side Warren Copeland | jnind for the club such as general build- . When I returned the next day, it wasn’t there. Mixed B Side _ Cheryl Wyatt ing improvments, a desire to increase : . Besides my camera, hundreds of flies, and the nthe umber of curling league members : : gear | mentioned above, it had a mint condition St. Playoff Champions and making the club available for func- - " 7 George Fly reel, a model The House of Hardy no Mixed Dale Walker Hons marine, the six months of off-ice Lynn Gascon i. | ee eit didn’t contain was my name and phone Men’s Open John Evans Exiting president ‘David D. Hull, Gascon. ; at it G1 / . > . ’ ‘ number, 635-9351. , P Ladies Burga Anderson who’s held the reins for three years “I know I leave the club in very __ If you came across it, please give me a call and Men’s Mitch Griffith expressed “tremendous confidence” in good hands,” he said. . claim your reward. Thanks. Mixed Warren Copeland :