Page 84 — Terrace Standard, Wwecnasday, August 11 990 ©

“ORT CRASHES INTO
RIVER,” blared the headline. I
glanced out the window. The
tarmac looked like a Siberian
Steppe. Between icy blasts, the

ground crew struggled to de-ice

the wings.

“That was a terrible thing.”’

‘I turned to the gentleman sit-
ting in the middle seat. “What
was?” I asked.

“That plane that crashed into:
the Potomac River in
Washington.’’ He pointed: to
my newspaper. ‘A terrible
thing. Ice on the wings.”

I closed the paper and tried to
change the subject ‘as ‘a - tall,
fierce-looking Sikh took the ai-
sle seat and slid his brief case
under the seat in front of him.

“You from Terrace?’!. £ ask-
ed my neighbour.

“No, Kitimat,’ he replied,
and the conversation turned
geographical as the flight atten-
dants went through their slight-

. assured me,
_ from channel to channel, even

ly morbid Y choreagraphy with
gas masks.

As it turned out, my fellow .

traveller ‘had been in Kitimat

-since the genesis of the

‘Aluminum’: Miracle.’ He
managed a pot line and was
close to retirement. ;

As the pilot picked his. ‘way
through the stone cold. moun-

tain peaks arid rattled the plane
.over airborne speed bumps, we
‘talked of industrial- expansion

and our differing perceptions of

its effects on the Kitimat Valley.
‘“The -Kitimat River,’ he

“always jumped

before the valley was logaed: ”

And, as for the salmon, over-
fishing on:the high seas — not
logging: damage — was the sole
culprit for their diminished
numbers...

“But there i is one thing [ can’t
figure out,” he’ said with fur-

rowed brow.. “What at happened :

The Skeena
Angier .
by Rob Brown

to .all the trout? There were

thousands of them. Me and my
friends used to go every night
after work. and bring. them -
home by the sackfull — fifteen,
twenty at a time.”

A great mystery indeed.

The trout which
gentleman and his cohorts slew
in such large numbers was on-
corhynchus clarki —- the cut-
throat trout. The fish get their
Latin name from- William

-Clark, who, together with

Meriwether Lewis, first observ-
ed the on the. last leg of the
momentous and. arduous
journey that took them from

_ this’

. Louisiana to the Columbia

River,

Though Lewis and Clark pro-:

bably didn’t see them, - the
largest of the ‘cutthroats swam

‘in the alkaline waters ‘of. Lake

Tahoe and Pyramid Lake.
Reaching weights of more than

’ 40 pounds and averaging 20, the
Lahonaton Cutthroat was once.
“numerous | enought to be the.

target of a commercial fishery.
Cutthroat flesh from the giant
Lahonatans fetched the. princely
sum of 50 cents a pound in San
Francisco.at the century’s turn.
In 1935 they were extinct, - '

roat

sun, the trout with the red
slashes under: its jaws can be
found ‘in waters from Prince

- William Sound to northern
; California in much smaller ver-
' sions and a wide range of. col-
_ Ours: from the. cadmium-
| sided - piute who lives in

matginal, trickles running

through sage, cactus and small__

but ancient trees to the silver-

.- Sided: searun that hunts among
sand launce along the musseled .

beaches of our coast,
And it is the searun that lives

‘for: two to three years in the

Kitimat ‘before following its in-
stincts to the Douglas Channel.
The.cutthroat remain in and
around the brackish estuarial
waters until the urge to spawn

" overtakes them at four years of

age. ;
Interesting, and helpful infor-
mation, but not-essential to the

_casual fisherman, certainly. But
: what every cutthroat “shennan

should be required to know. ig
the smaller the stream. “ite”
greater its importance “ta. ihe
health of cutthroat populatio a
These tributaries to tributaries - ;
need to be covered with. brish .
and. free. from. excessive silta-
tion.

“The. ‘fi sherman should ‘ also
know cutthroats are "biters ‘and
are ‘particularly. ‘vulnerable . to
bait. It is this habit ice tre -

uently creates the illusion o
atthroat abundance. Like dolly
varden, cutts have an ‘inabillty,
to’. withstand intense fishing
pressure.

The forests jn fhe. lower
Kitimat valley are beginning to
regrow, Small streams there.
have brush crowding their,
banks once again.

The cutthroat seem to. be
making a comeback. This” is
good news for anglers, but let’s
stalk these shy and beautiful

fish with care.

SPORTS NEWS

JEFF NAGEL 638-7283

TERRACE STANDARD

Native
soccer
team

on top

TERRACE — An all-native
soccer team from Terrage cap-
tured the team gold medal at
last month’s North American
Indigenous Games in Edmon-
ton.

The Terrace Kickers took on
teams from as far away as the
Yukon, Manitoba and New
Mexico at the Games.

Coach Al Clayton said the
event was a dramatic cultural
experience for the players, as _
well as a sporting event,

Competing in the senior
men’s open division, they
played two teams in the round

robin tournament, With a 7-4. -

win over a Chilliwack team
and a 3-2 loss to Squamish,
they managed to put together
the goals for-and-against tally
that made them first overall.

Clayton says the team’s next
trip is to a tournament in
Hazelton this month, and later
on, if they can find 2 sponsor, -
they may go to a major all-
native tournament in
Squamish.

IN THE STICKS-
aoa ;

runs for-and-against.

GETTING WOOD on the ball. Yeah, that's it. And who better to do it but the people who get the
wood for a living. This year, the Ministry of Forests Salmon Fry, the Tay-M Logging Grizzlies and
- Orenda fielded teams to see who was best at getting on the other kind of sticks. Each team split
their two games, and in the end the forests mihistry Salmon Fry were declared the victors, on,

Shy samurai inspires

Akutugawa is club’s catalyst

‘By COLETTE ST. AMOUR
TERRACE — The reason for
the success of Terrace’s interna- .
tionally rated Chito-Ryu karate
club is not a secret weapon or an
ancient Chinese secret say its
students. -— ‘

Its success lies in its sensei,
David Akutugawa, the club's
leader and .chief instructor. A
sixth ::.dan — black ~ belt,
Akutugawa led the club to win
or nearly win all the events at

this year’s provincial karate-

championships.
Considered Canada’s best

technical person in karate, he

now teaches mostly in. clinics

**to try to,keep the style pure,'”

says student Joe Zucchiatti,
But: his’ quiet leadership,

respect for his students, and in--
tellectual approach to teaching |

karate is continued by the club's

current instructors who follow .

his style, Zucchiatti says.
“He teaches what is almost

considered a brutal sport, and:
he teaches it-as a science — aid!

in a very gentle and humble

way,’? says Zucchiatti who hasa -:

black belt...”
And he- doesn’t push his

students — he leads them.

“He’s not the yelling and
screaming type of teacher, he
looks for what we are doing

right, not wrong, and tells us in karate. I’m still going-back to.

Japan. each year to keep study-

how to do it better.

Descended from a samurai
warrior,
“karate in his genes,'’ accor-,
ding to Zucchiatti,

Akutugawa has:

isa hobby, but one that needs a
life commitment.

“There is no end to learning

sing. |}
-He believes a big part of

‘5 karate is in the mind and en-.”

“We are training at different levels to restrain,
maim and kill, but we are training It as an. artform,
Akutugawa is the reason we're all here, and why we

are as successful as we are.”

...

But Akutugawa — who has —
taught 5,000” people including |
around 100 black belts in his 25.

/ years of teaching — credits the

club’s success to the students, .

“Coaching is very important, 7
but the athlete is most impor- ,
’ tant,’” says the club’s publicity

~ shy leader, “Tm, tao shy.. It's
not my way.'?

-study very quietly,” ~~ ;
Akutugawa feels martial

“students: 40. fight, Akutagaw:

_ “Part of the code of martial
Te

"aris is to avoid showing off,

courages his young students rat

go to college or university.

and dedication.”' .

Instead of” teaching: ‘hi

concentrates. on teaching kat
yhich-is a series of linked kara
5" fet. ‘Tikened 1 to Da ad ce

He will take a three-day
workshop to work on one kata,
which takes only a few minutes
to perform, looking at all the
possible takedowns, kicks or

‘hand strikes that could be done
. after.

‘each move in the
choreographed series,

 Likening this teaching
‘method to: chess, Zucchiatti
feels it has brought the club its

success.

ot We are t training at different.
~ levels to restrain; maim and kill,

‘but .we are training it as an art-
form: ae

~ But there is more to it than
.. ‘that because “karate gives peo-
“Talent is not enough. You
also need ‘intelligence, patience.
, Gan -.beat someone up. or
“And it is this intellectual ap-
proach t to karate that brings and
_ keeps: his: students, says Zuc-: :
ohdattis .

ple a confidence in themselves,
‘and it’s not just because they

“something,” says Zucchiatti,
“There's. also a really good

and above all a sense of loyalty

tors,!* he says,

uecesifl 88 we are,”

sense'of cameraderie in the club.
to each other and to our instruc

Akutugawa is the reason:
all’here, and why we are

Braves eye
local pitcher

TERRACE —A Kitwanga
native youth is being eyed by
_ Atlanta Braves scouts as poten-
tial professional baseball
material.

Wilf Wilson’s 85-mile-an-

. hour fastball caught the atten-

tion of scouts at an Atlanta
Braves scouting camp in Prince
George last month.

Wilson, 20, who played in -

Terrace Minor Baseball, .was

. one of six area youths at the

camp, Terrace’s -Bryan: Fick,

’ Brent and Mark Neeve,.. and

Gary and Jeff Peden also went.
The camp — held in northern
B.C. for the first time — ‘was
one of 36 the National League
team’s scouts held across
western Canada, according to
Terrace Minor Baseball
spokesman Jim Fick.

He said Bill Clark, the

Braves’ chief scout for western
Canada, indicated the organiza-
tion may want to take a closer.
look at Wilson.

“They showed a lot of in-
terest in Wilf Wilson,’’ Fick ex-
plained. ‘‘And they're in-
terested in getting him into an
American college."

Clark was . also impressed
with the Terrace talent in
general, he said.

Local youngsters were

- somewhat ‘surprised by the in-

tensity of the-camp, Fick added.
“T don’t think: it was as
showy as what they thought it
would be,”’ he said. ‘This was
work — not fun — and they're.
used to having fun when they
play ball, At these camps you
have to be able to run 180 feet in
under seven seconds — that's
what they’re looking for,’?’ -

Hendry to Goodwill

TERRACE — Michelle Hendry
didn’t get much court time, but
says the women's baskethall
world championships in
Malaysia were a good ex-
perience.

, “It was a good tournament to
go to,’’ she said Saturday. “T
think I learned alot.”’ -°

‘ She’s now at the Goodwill

Games in Seattle, her final in-
ternational tournament of the

"summer.

-Hendry made Team Canada’ §

travelling roster, and conse-
quently went to the champion- |
‘ships.

The Canadian team finished
seventh overall. They defeated,
‘Brazil and Japan in the opening -
round before losing their third
game to the Soviets and advanc-
ing to the top-eight round,
There they lost three con--
secutive games on their way ta
elimination, at the hands of the
U\S., Bulgaria and Cuba.

DISCIPLES of Chito- Ryu karate Instructor David Akutugawa: are
practicing a takedown move. Joe Zucchiatti and Roland Lagace,
botti black béits, studied under Akutugawa aad now teach his |