Tha Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 2, 1993 - Page C1

HERE ARE still: enough -

salmon, steelhead, char
and trout around: to. pro-
vide first-rate fishing for
anglers in Skeena,

Terrace anglers are fortunate to be at
the centre of a variety of world class
fishing experiences.

If fishing still waters is your passion,
lakes and sloughs in the lower part of
the Skeena drainage provide excellent
cutthroat fishing most of the year while
hard-fighting rainbow trout are only a
few hours drive away.

It would be impossible to exhaust the
river fishing possibilities near Terrace,
but an angler looking for a change of
scene can be on the rivers of the Nass
in less than two hours.

‘Northwest anglers are blessed, but, as
Doug Webb, the chairman of the
Northwest Branch of the Steelhead
Society of B.C., points out in his an-
fual report, the fisheries are under
siege here and everywhere else,

Doug notes there are plenty of sport-
speople who care deeply about their
sport but when the time comes to stand
up and be counted in defense of the
resource, almost everybody seems to
have gone fishin’.

"Fishermen," says Webb, "must work
together to ensure quality fishing con-

- finues long into the future."

Given the choice between a shopping’
mall and a swamp, most people will

-| ©. opt for the former without realizing the
"latter is vital to a wide variety of wild- .

life which enriches our life by provid-

'|): ing a counterpoint to urban sterility.

Thirty lots are to be developed in the

~ matsh-next to the Eby Street hatchery. .
- Half.that same marsh was destroyed to
- Inaké soccer fields afew years ago.

-T recently walked the bottom end of

|) Deep ‘Creek. To my dismay 1 dis-
4 eavered the. land. adjacent.ta- the creck
oo oe had: been rsurveyed and staked for lots.
~ “hd big black bear I watched grazing
inthe field adjacent o "lot 5" will not

survive that subdivision, nor will the

|- wolves and moose that use it in winter.

’ Development in an area such as this
is the kind of thing Webb and the
Steelhead Society have opposed suc-
cessfully in the past. -

‘The development of private property

also restricts the access to the river to

sportsmen and hikers as well wildlife.
‘The establishment of easements along

‘the: Kalum has been a project of the
-society for a number of years now.

Under-Webb’s leadership the North-
west Branch of the Steelhead Society

has” contliued its © involvement in

forestry issues.

"The forest industry is very important
to the | economy of Terrace," he writes.
"Like the test of B.C, the rate of har-
vest.and the preservation of old growth

timber are the issues of great concem.

“For the past two years our branch
has’ participated on the ‘Thunderbird
Resources. Advisory Committee which

‘~ has developed a land use plan for the
_ Lakelse Lake and River area."
_--Thé » Thunderbird
' eformously successful at bringing to-

-initlative was

gether every segment of ‘the com-
munity and hammering out a plan
satisfactory to all participants.

- I know of no other group of this type

~ that has had the same degree of suc-

cess. Society members were in-
strumentail in the creation: of the pro-

 cess'and secing it through to a satisfac-
-. tory resolution.

Asimilar process is underway for the

-|. South Kalum. Thankfully the society is

. | fepresented there too. a

. The BIG threat to the health of

* Skeena salmonids continues to be the:
- market fishery.

The society has members on ‘the
Skeena Walershed Sportfisherman's

Coalition as well as the North Coast .

Co-management Committee.

- "The Northwest Branch-is also ine
volved in the

Wild = Steelhead
Campaign, an initiative that seeks to

save Skeena sportfish from overkill.

-Ié all this were not enough, the hand-
ful of active members here are also on
the Thirt Party Advisory Boards at-
tached to thé land claims issue. ~

‘Chairman Webb is correct when he
says the’ Steelhead Society of B.C. is

-° the most prominent’ environmental

in the Terrace area. '
It is also the most effective.
If you fish, you owe it to your sport
to support the Steelhead Society. -

Hf you care about your environment

you should join too, |.
” Give Doug Webb a call at 635-9237.

Classic start!

One B,C, High Championship berth

and four Summer Games qualifiers,

Buteau

That was the Terrace school athletics
team’s haul at the zone finals, held in
Smithers May 21-22.

_ Leading the charge was Lori Butean

blitzes
to B.C.
berth

who swept all five of her events to wrap
up the senior. girls aggregate title and
book a place at the championships.

Buteau won the 100m, 200m and 400m
before moving to the pit to add the long
and triple jumps to her victory list.

The grade 11 Cal student will now take
on the province’s best this weekend at
Swangard Stadium in Vancouver.

With athietes only allowed to enter a
maximum of. three events, Buteau has
selected the 100m, 400m and triple:

jump.

Friday will see the triple jump decided

cracks Kotai’s

. SECOND, BUT FIRST. Guy Kiland crashes out a siz-
zling serve in mixed doubles semi-final action at the
Terrace Tennis Open. He and partner Nancy Condon

went on the win a gruelling three-setter for their first

ever victory ‘over
Mann. However,
took its toll in the

AND THEY'RE OFF. The Kermodei Classic 1km the day. Some parents took part as well, but they
drew a large entry of enthusiastic young runners were hard pressed to keep up with thelr offspring.
from five to 13 years, all setting a pace as hot as For full results, see next week's Standard.

and the heats for the track events, then it
will be on to the track finals Saturday.

If Buteau makes those televised finals,
you can be sure Renee Lucky will be
glued to her set, maybe even more
anxious than Lori at that moment.

Lucky is the team’s sprint and j jumping
coach and has therefore played a major
tole in Buteau’s march. to the provin-
cials,

However,. given Terrace only has. one
qualifier and the expense of the trip to
Vancouver, Lucky won’t be able to share
first-hand the championship experience.

Fortunately, said.team spokesman Joe
Murphy, the Prince Rupert team has of-
fered to take Buteav under its wing and
She will travel down with them.

Describing the championship as a
“high pressure”? event, Murphy said the

r the combo « of Fran ‘and ‘Swem
that marathon under a baking sun
final where they fell in straight sets

to Shannon Butler and Richard Krieg.

Caffeine secret weapon?

Maybe, maybe not.

And it’s a question that’s hardly likcly
to occupy too much of the Bowling Bags
and One Ball team’s minds.

Afier all, that sextet Is going to be kepi
too busy ‘polishing the ‘hardware . they.
eamed as the 92-93 bowling seasons
Champ of Champs.

The Tuesday Coffer. League gang of
Lorl Schulmeister, Florence Orango, —

Cheryl Orango, Charlene Wagner, Lorna

Dyck and Sam Riddler tumed it on at the -
' season ending in-house tourney to take
top spot.

’ It was a solid finish to a satisfying sea-
* son for the Orango duo: they’d helped
the Invalids to top spot in the Wednes- -

day Coffee League as well.

lo. complaints elther from the Half Ass ..
g of Cindy*Motschilnig, Don Croft,-
_ Victor "Whitaker, Kelly Francis and —

' Monica Peacock who took the Monday

Mixed for the second year in a row, pul-
ting together the high triple of 3, 210° on
the way.

Cobwebs were tough in the Wednes-
day Coffee League once again, sur-
readering the league championship to the

Invalids this time but getting revenge in

the roll-offs,

In other resulls, Confusion were ‘suffer.
ing from anything but when it came to
the Monday. Mixed. roll-offs, scattering
pins on their way to triumph...

‘The Bowling Centre took the league’
. title in Monday. Men's while ‘Terrace.
Bujlders sought compensation by. sewing 7
up the roll-offs.

“The Reno Rowdies got. fst that inthe
‘Tuesday Coffee: roll-ofts, laying. down ©
more than 5,000 pins on the way. to vic-.

forye
Mixed Bag, Who’ 0 ba 2 (they “ob

viously did!) and Foul Play took the

league, roll-off and consolation honours

respectively in ‘Tuesday “Mixed play;
Kodiak, Moolighters and Skeena Gravel
shared the Thursday Mixed ‘titles: it was
Ball Bashers, Lucky. 13 and Repap Spe-
~ cial doing the same'in the Friday Mixed

_ and ‘the Roadrunners (league) and Lazy 5.

(roll-off) ‘split the Wednesday Ladies
awards. ~
‘Greg Saunders tolled the’ ‘best’ average

male . league’ players . while . Randy

» Durand’s. huge 448. easily. ‘took high
single honours. a eae

‘picked up top average (257) and high tri-

“to Sherry Lopushinsky 95).
indown,- sce. “the

‘SCOREBOARD on pages Cals,

team’s coaches had decided she was
ready for a shot atit,

Her times were competilive enough
despite the lack of the first class running
surfaces and competition up here and,
with another year’s cligibility still left,
“‘we decided it was in her best interests
to go now and get the experlence,”” Mur-
phy added.

Noting Buteau would be facing 31
other athletes in each of her track events,
nearly all of whom will ‘be zone
champions as well, he pointed out, ‘It

will be really tou.

However, the Cal star had a good men-
ial attitude and a solid chance of making
the finals.

For more on the zone meet,
turn to page C2.

Crown

‘The king is dead, long live King
Richard!

There’s a new number one on the
northwestern men’s tennis circuit.

Richard Kriegl dethroned Alex Kotai
of Kitimat by sweeping: the singles title
6-3, 6-3 at the June 22-24 Terrace Open.

Krlegl then underlined the point in the
men’s doubles where he and pariner
Swam Mann fought off a strong coms-
back by Kotai and Gurdev Parmar to
take that final 6-2, 7-6.

The icing on the cake came in the
mixed doubles where the ‘‘speciacular’’
play of partner Shannon Butler helped
Krieg] complete the sweep, the duo
dropping Nancy Condon and Guy Kiland
6-2, 6-1.

Condon and Kiland still had good rea- |
son to be pleased with their performance,
however.

They had advanced to the final by out-
lasting Fran and Swarn Mann in a thiee-
set semi played under a baking sun, the
first time they’d beaten that powerful
combination.

Fran Mann and Condon had earlier
been on the same side of the net to take
the ladies doubles in a wild affair,
defeating Butler and Hester Flewin 6-1,
1-6, 6-1.

Menn also maintained her firm orlp on
ladies singles, sweeping Erna Motschil-
nig 6-3, 6-2 for top spot.

Phillipa Van Lerde took the ladies 'B’
with an 8-5 win over Butler while Em-
manuel Roberts of Kitimat was hard
pressed to beat Terrace’s Neil Fieis-
chmann in the men’s ‘B’ 7-6, 6-4.

In ‘B’ side doubles action, Jeremy
Lafontaine and Brad Holmberg took the
men’s, Jill Redpath and Karen Appleton
the ladies’ while the mixed went to Dee
and Doug Jenion.

The next tournament to be hosted by
the local club will be the Doubles Open,
set for Saturday, June 19 and featuring
ladies’ and men’s events only.

(263) and: high: triple (1080) among atl

On ‘the Ladies’ side; Diane Francls | *Htry at least could be an insurance

_ple (931) while the:high’ single belonged

On the ball
.. for bucks

They’ be chasing the bucks at
the Terrace Lanes this weekend as
bowlers converge for the third an-
nual Summer Singles tournament,

And, assuming 64 entries, the win-
ners In both the handicap and
scratch divisions will take home a
$500 reward,

That Kind of prize money might
just’ petsuhde some ‘to take ad-
vantage of a rule which allows
howlers to eiiter more than once. —

“They'll be investing a $60 entry
fee everytime they do, but a double

policy against the possibility of that
one bod game.

Bowling will start at 7 p.m. both
Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m.
Sunday,