J took the bronze in age 11-12 : ‘program, - ‘ hames of youngsters who recreational introduction to 7 ‘opening of Shames Moun- ‘Hodge, may not be complete ¢ -are boarded up now, seal- h plywood sheets painted: of;the: snowy curtain, in the halflight of the winter morning,’ it’s-as if the place has closed its - eyes: and § Bone to sleep. I guess it has, ae "2 The, ‘yellow No Trespassing sign: is ‘still-there, but the odd- ‘looking sedan of indeterminate. - make and vintage is no longer in the driveway. “He's probably moved on, I tell: myself. But I feel a strong sense of:.loss — like someone ‘close has passed on. The feeling is" intensified by the winter's - dt * . [thought of striding boldly up to ‘the @oor and introducing. grey. silences. My interest in him was arous- ed by that odd litte car, I saw it first'ten years ago, parked.at the end: ‘of the road leading -into Salmon Run Creek. There was a worn paperback -copy of Sitting on the: other side’ ~ Fautkner's The Sound and the Fury. on the dash, I noticed it when I walked by, and for some _ reason it struck me as odd. When: I reached the riverside - there was nobody for as far as I. ‘could see upstream or down, 1: _ kept a lookout for the owner of “the -car, all afternoon, and though I covered a mile of river, -- I didn’t see a boot track. From that day on I began to see. the yellow car often but never its driver, Some five years after the first. sighting, [ happened past the red-shingled house with the No Trespassing sign, and there in the driveway sat the yellow car. myself to its elusive owner, but ‘the lights were out so I thought better of it. Over-the years Lasked around and listened. Inevitably there The Skeena Angler : were rumours. The one that seemed most believable, “possibly because it, was so. detailed, had him coming here to work with troubled kids, really troubled children’ — the ‘kind stalked relentlessly by formless images that are the stuff of future nightmares, He had a wife, some-¢hildren of his own, and, rumour had it, the kind of drive for perfection that causes some men to become one with whatever it is they choose to do. He threw himself by Rob Brown & into his work but those tortured kids drained him.-The successes. were so small, the: disappoint- ments so great, that -his own family was, in the end, infected ’ with them. The seams of their relationship undone, his wife teft with. their children, and rumour Sannects he began to drink..: 7 Maybe, but I know for. sure he looked for comfort along'the’. river. The pursuit of perfection, - I suspect, was at once an escape y~ aiin. ; “. Once I. saw. ‘the car. at the : and 2 a Way of setting a tip: ‘He -"." became obsessed ‘with the river _ and its fish, and 1 with: meeting ‘Moose Crossing, ran-.out onto 7 the dike and there he was play-' ing -a fish. I. watched - him momentarily then. _clambered a the time 't reathed the- river he “was gone, ‘A. few minutes later looked upstream ‘and. there he was, ‘standing’ on: the shot rock where I'd started He. was play- ing another fine ‘fish. ‘When I got back to the pullout he was. gone." Months later I spotted him at Kelly Creek. Calmly- “and carefully, as if stalking adeer, 1 _ took the glasses from the glove ‘compartment and crept'through “the alder to watch. For an hour E sat enthralled as: the man caught fish after fish. It wasn’t the: number of ‘fish he: caught, but how he caught, thems. with motions so: sparing... ‘and economical, yet as ‘graceful as they were mesmerizing. ‘There were levels. of skill on aisplay here I didn't know existed. : I watctied into’ twilight: then waited by the: yellow: car long past dark, detérmined to’ meet the most skilled angler: I'd ever, seen, . After an’ hour: there was “tit no sign of “him. ‘1 began: to worry, I ran back to the: river, stumbling. in. ‘the darkness. I called, No answer:: I rushed back. The.car was gone, - Now, ‘as I fish: the runs he fished so much better, T'try to emulate the: form I saw ‘that day. I wonder if, in the process of acquiring it, he gained some tranquility and some answers to mysteries that. challenge 1 all: of us. [ hope 80, JEFF NAGEL 638-7283 SPORTS NEW: TERRACE STANDARD > —SPORTSCOPE-— Kermodes set for action | CALEDONIA‘S Kermode boys basketball team is back on the court and they're tak- ing on one of the province's best for their opener this ‘} week, They get started Thursday when they host a game at the Caledonia gym against the “awesome”? Centennial Cen- _taurs, of Coquitlam. _The Centaurs are ranked number two in the province in pre-season ‘AAA’ high school basketball action. ‘Gametime is 8 p.m, tomor- ‘yow night. Bluebacks compete LOCAL SWIMMERS tested the competitive waters again this season by taking on a tournament in Kitimat Nev, 9-11. About 28 swimmers from the Terrace Bluebacks Swim Club made the trip, and team coach Shelley Morgan said many novice swimmers im- ‘proved their own best com- petition Limes. “We. had about five novices who had never been ‘tq. a-meet before,’’ she said. “They had a great time.” . ‘Several veterans picked up ageregate medals in their age categories. Garth Coxford earned a gold in the age 10 and under boys division, while Lisa Gardiner took silver in 11- to 12-year-old girls competi- tion. -:Tori MacKenzie won the gold in age 13-14 girls divi- sion. And Dave Vanderlee boys, while sister Denise brought back the silver in age 15 and up girls. - - Next up on the swim calen- ‘dar is the big Terrace swim meet the Bluebacks will host Dec. 8. More than 250 swim- mers are expected to come here from across northern B.C, to compete in that event. ; _ Shames Mtn. Ski Club The former Kitsumkalum Ski Club is now Shames Moun- tain Ski Club. -: The _ membership ‘unanimously. approved the name ‘switch last week to Keep up with the changing times. and . changing moun- tains. ‘The. club is readying it Nancy Greene Ski League and is . taking want’ to get involved, “The Nancy Greene pro- gram is’ designed to. give seven- to. 12-year-olds a team racing. ~The club is counting on the ‘tain on schedule, , Shames ‘mahagers are sticking to their ‘planned opening date of Dec, '15 but say renovations to the bythen, a she leads. SFU scoring with 216 howdown REACHING FOR the return, Garth Patrick slams one to the wall on his way to defeating Prince Rupert’s Spider Jones 9-0, 9-4, 3-9, 9-7 in local squash action. They were playing at the Terrace open squash tournament at Northwest Community College's squash courts last weekend. The event attracted numerous players from across the northwest. Terrace’s-Robin Grant was the ear- ly favourite to win, and he came through in his first games Friday night, defeating Rick Mc- Chesney. Complete tournament results next week. TERRACE — The Michelle Hendry magic seems to be rol- ing right through into the ’90s with no sign of a letup. That the ex-Caledonia player would last year lead her Simon Fraser University Clan women's basketball. team to its greatest season ever — all the way to the semifinals in the U.S. nationals —. was extraordinary. But to show signs this year of | again repealing her first two |. , Stellar seasons would place Hen- = dry on a new plane of the in- -, sfeible ” ERelieve it~ it's happening... In her first eight Clan games, Michelle rules SF game. Her nearest rival on the Clan has netted less than half that total, and Hendry’s points amount to more than a third of the éntire team’s, McNeil as comparing Hendry’ s hoop sharpshooting to Wayne Gretzky's hockey prowess. And in its brochures, SFU: SFU Clan -— Tou, ‘Games Points Free: points played per game throw%s | 216 | 27.0 80.0. It's reached the level where SFU...observers and. sport- - swriters? are’ rudining out: of superlatives to. describe her, Vancouver: papers last week (tirst eight Can games) ‘have played for the Clan,’ a anf6d lan head bach Alison < Michelle Hendry Total Rebounds Field Total “rebounds be fun goal % fou ; 68 ee 6. 2 now wy describes the sicfoostwo" . forward ‘from: Terrace as “tone. OF the’ finest. athletes. ever -But-Hendry seems to be bare-. eof the attentions us urlers hit eight-ender TERRACE — Dan Fisher's Terrace rink notched a rare eight-ender Nov. 13 in regular Tuesday night men’s curling league action, An eight-ender —. the ultimate curling score -- occurs when one rink places all eight rocks in the scoring rings while the opposing team misses every shot. —~ Fisher says the remarkable end was a fluke and isn’t likely . to be repeated. He’s never scored one before, and only one rink scored one in Terrace: last year. Fisher, skipped ead Geoige’’ Gough, second Brent Rogers and third Ross Smith to win the end and the game-over the local Bob Cammidge rink. He credited the eight-ender to numerous errors by both sides. “'They raised one of ours in,” Fisher said, “and we stole eight.” kkekikk In bonspiel action, the Ter- race Curling Club had a suc- cessful mixed -bonspiel Nov. 10-11 despite the low turnout of 18 teams. The Keith Melanson rink cap- tured the ‘A’ event title. ‘B’ event went to the Mal Grant rink, while the Fred Martens Tink took ‘C’ event, A few days after the mixed bonspiel, Terrace curlers got a visit from Linda Moore,’ a Canadian Olympic medalist and world champion. , Moore — now coordinator of the Curling Council of B.C. — made the visit to help the local club plan its marketing, finances, and objectives. “She also met and instructed two ‘glasses: of elementary students , ‘during, her Nov.-15. visit. ‘Moore'won t the women’s pro- vincial ¢uyling championship in 1985, and went on to take.the world championship that: year. At the.1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, she won a gold medal. Club spokesman Bruce Car- ruthers said an elementary school curling program is prov- ing very popular, and said the club. is offering instructor- training clinics under the Curl Canada program Dec. 1-2. The club last weekend hosted its annual sponsors’ apprecia- tion fun-spiel. Competing with best TERRACE — Rassammee, Tanya and Lisa Ling, of Kitimat, brought. their Chito- Ryu style of karate tothe Nav. 3-10 karate. world ‘tournament in Mexico City. ; The Ling sisters took time out from university to’ compete there with Team Canada against teams-from more. than 60. other," countries., ' : They placed seventh - in the . women’s team kata event. Kata. is a. series. of ‘individually- performed | ‘pre-arranged -exer- ‘cise made up of traditional at: ; tack” ‘and defence sequenices - « against, imaginary opponents, Their. father; Dr. Chee Ling. of Kitimat, sald they wanted to. give greater exposure at a.world | level to: the: Chito- Ryu style of”: karate. * ly shrugging off questions about _ herself, focusing, instead on the: -“° team, - : “> In the pre-seasonshe has con... tinued the steady ‘scoiing, hit- : ting 39. points in one game, and *. 37 in another. Only.once so far this season has'she scored fewer one "than 22 points, - : -© The Clan was in Plainview, «: “Texas over the. weekend for a. ~