Page. 84 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 17, 1990

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“°Qne summer night, over a
dinner ‘on the patio, Larry an-
-Mounced the doctor’s diagnosis
was - high blood pressure. All
they did-is work, eat and sleep,
they. didn’t relax and recreate
enough, he added. So, on the
basis. of some pictures and the
recommendation of one of his
- employees, he’d purchased a
plece of lakeshore property with
- a small cabin. .
“ Leslie was shocked, She'd
never ‘known her husband to act
so rashly before, but being in-
tellingent and practical, she at-
tributed his actions to strain and
suggested they go see the pro-
_perty as soon as possible. .
~The property was fine and the
lake finer. The Simmons’ learn-
ed to relax and enjoy the thrill
_of the redwing blackbirds and
the timid deer that came down
at twilight to drink. Larry even
‘dusted off the old cane rod his

father had bequeathed him and
caught some trout in the quiet
solitude of what he came to feel
was his lake,

But for every trout hooked
there were many squawfish.
Thinking there must be a way to
tip the scales in favour of-the
rainbows, Larry made a phone
call to Ministry of the Environ-
ment.

‘The biologist from the
ministry studied the lake.. No
problem, he said, they could
simply poison the lake’ ‘then
restock it with rainbows, or
eastern brook trout, if Larry
preferred. Larry preferred rain. .
bows.

The biologist pointed out that
the ministry can’t do things that
might be construed as projects
for private individuals, thus the
path would have to be widened
to road size for public access.
Larry, who had never Seen

The Skeena

anyone save for two small

children fishing for frogs on the

lake, readily agreed.
The rainbows did well,

Leslie were not alone. A pod of

campers showed up on the far |
. side one morning and stayed for

a week. Where had they heard
about. the lake, Larry asked.

Oh, Fish and Wildlife publishes -

a list-of newly stocked lakes,
they informed him. It was the
ticket to hot fishing, everybody
knew about it. ;

Next season it got worse,
much worse, _ Armadas ° of

but -
for the first time Larry and
‘ covered in tin motor boats.

LEME

aluminum-sided land yachts
cruised down the road along
with camperized vans, camper
trucks and tent trailers. At times
the entire lake seemed to be

Dogs, pausing only to do

what doggies do, gamboled over -

the meadows; barking in-
cessantly, as kids dropped can-
dy bar wrappers and played tag
between dung piles and beer
bottles...

The tranquil nights, broken
only by the rush of wind
through cattails and frogsong
were gone,. replaced by the

clinking of bottles, shouting,

- and the whine of ghetto’ blasters

across the water,

The final straw for Larry was
a piece of kindling. It was mid
September. As they pulled up to
the cabin, Larry noticed all his

-firewood was gone. ‘At -the far.
end of the lake a convoy of .

recreational vehicles was circled
as if its owners expected an in-
dian attack; The glow from a

mighty bonfire, its fiery tongues

leaping up intermittently to lick
the sky, shone from within the
encampment. _ :

Larry struck out across the
field. As he approached to
mobile homes he noticed a
bumper sticker on one that said
“Honk if you. love. Jesus’ in
prismatic lettering,

‘*Where did you get the wood
for that. fire??? Larry demand-
ed, not caring particularly if he
‘Startled anyone.

Aman wearing & a baseball hat”

festooned: with flies and.lures,

bermuda. shorts and a-t-shirt’ ©
that said “Old Fart’ confessed. ne
he’d taken the waod from. the
cabin, but he thought it .was
deserted. .
The anger that had been well-:
ing up inside him since the inva-

-sion of thé lake erupted. Larry : :
blasted the campers ~ for...

everything from leaving their
dogs unattended to littering. A.
fat litile boy who: had been

. toasting marshmallows witha _
twisted branch that could only ~~.

have come from one of the little
apple trees’ Leslie had planted
and lovingly nurtured, burst. in-
to tears.

This was too much for Old
Fart's wife. *‘Just who in the
hell do you -think you: are,
buster?’? she yelled in a voice so
shrill it could have cut through
tin. “It’s a free world!”

PORTS NEWS __

JEFF NAGEL 638-7283

TERRACE STANDARD

Head to head

BOXERS Darren Beil and Joey Losier are to compete this
weekend at the Silver Glove provincial boxing tournament.
Both boxers are looking forward to picking up experience at
the competition and both have also secured berths on the

northwest zone boxing team that’s going to next month's B.C,
Winter Games. “Win, lose or draw — it's going to be good ex- -
perience for them,” says coach Jeff Dilley.

Ice legends to play

TERRACE Maurice
“Rocket’’ Richard, Frank “Big
-M’? Mahovlich, Eddie ‘Enter-
tainer”’ Shack, Norm Ullman
and Paul Henderson ... names
to conjure with from Canada's
recent hockey history.

All of these great hockey stars
will be in Terrace March 2,
suiting up as the Montreal Old
Pros to play the Terrace
Timbermen Old-timers at the
Terrace Arena. The Montreal
and Toronto Maple Leaf stars
will be in Terrace as part of a
tour through northwestern B.C.
at.the end of February and the
beginning of March.

Others confirmed for the Old
Pros lineup include former
Maple Leaf stars Billy Harris
and Ron Ellis and Montreal
Canadiens defenceman Jean-

Guy Talbot, as well as former |

Maple Leaf and Quebec Nordi-
ques’ star Wilf Paiement and
former Nordiques’ tough guy
Jimmy Mann, At least four ad-
ditional players will be named
for the trip later in the week, ac-
cordng to. Montreal promoter
Mare Verrault.

Rocket Richard, one of the.
most gifted goal scorers in the-

history, of hockey will be

refereeing. ‘the- game, Richard

finished his career as a centre
with Montreal with a total of
$44 goals, He was the first

player ever to score 50 goals in ..

50..NHL games, a record subse-
quently.;.broken, along, with
many others by Wayne Cretzky.

Veteran observers say
Richard: was the best from: the

blueline and he was always
noted for his fiery tempera-
ment,

The Hall of Famer will don
the ref’s jersey to deal with his
former teammates and the op-
, position. Among them will be
his younger brother Henri, who
played 18 seasons with Mon-
treal in the Golden Age of the

Paul Henderson, the
hero of the 1972
Canada-Russia_ series
who scored the series-
winning goal in the
seventh game, will be
among the Montreal Old

Pros playing Terrace
March 2.

Canadiens,
scorer, Henri holds the record
for the most Stanley Cup games
(180) and the most Cup win-
ners, (11). He is also a member
of the Hall of Fame.

-Lining up beside the Richards

will be such stars as Norm’

Uilman, Eddie Shack, Paul
~Henderson and Frank
Mahovlich. Uliman, wha
played in the NHE for 20 years
with the Detroit Red Wings and
the Toronto Maple Leafs notch-
ed 490 goals and 739 assists in

” that time and is still in the top”

20 all-time scorers today. ‘The
-Entertainer,’’ Eddie Shack
tallied 239 goals and 226 assists

A. 1,000-point -

in his 17-year career to go along
with his 1,473 minutes in the
penalty box.

Paul Henderson, the hero of
the 1972 Canada-Russia series,
scored the famous winning goal
in Moscow with 39 seconds left
in the seventh and final game to
Bive Canada victory in the first-
ever series.

Frank Mahovlich, the big
swooping winger with the
Maple Leafs and Montreal and
Bill Harris were both Detroit
players and on the Toronto

‘Stanley Cup winning teams of
the 1960s.

Jean-Guy Talbot, a 16-year
NHL veteran was part of seven

Montreal Stanley Cup winning °
teams and was best known for -

his stirring play for the Cana-

diens team that won. five
straight Stanley Cups inthe late -
Fifties. He wound up his career

in the 197] season. -
Wilf Paiement, a first-round

draft choice in the 1974-season -

brings . younger legs - cand — his

booming slapshot ‘to’. the: Old”
Pros, He was the first. t8-year- .

old professional hockey. player

when he started hispro‘career
with the Toronto Maple: Leafs..
He scored a.total of. 354 goals .

and 835 points In’ more. than é

1,000 NHL games... os
Jimmy Mann played 10 years

in the NHL, starting with the

Winnipeg Jets and subsequently

-with the Quebec Nordiques and _
Pittsburgh, He retired 95 am ac. |.
tive NHL player just last year: .
The Old Pros will also. lay .
Kitimat, Mar. 1 yO EEE

Rasmussen
competes

TERRACE — Terrace
bowler and B.C. five-pin
champion John Rasmussen
took on the country's best in
Saturday's nationally televised
Labatt’s Lite bowling cham-
pionships.

Rasmussen — who bowled a
272-average to win the B.C.
provincial title in November —
was eliminated in his first
game in the sudden death
championships,

Slueback

named to

.C. team

TERRACE — After rising to the top in his age group, Ter-
race Blueback swimmer Cory Holland has been selected to the
B.C. provincial swimming team,

The provincial team — con-
sisting of the top nine swimmers
in each age group — will take
on a select team of swimmers
from California this weekend in
a B.C./California Dual Meet. -

Holland earned his spot on
the 36-swimmer team by rank-
ing first in B.C. in several events
in the 11- and 12-year-old age
group.

Following competition at a
Jan. 5-7 meet in New
Westminster, he has been con-
firmed first overall in the
50-metre freestyle, 100-metre
freestyle and 100-metre
backstroke. Coach Shelley
Morgan said several more top
times could also be Holland’s,
but require confirmation.

“7 don’t think anyone else in
Terrace has made it this far,”’
she said of his accomplishment.
“He's got a lot of talent and
seems to be getting more
motivated as each day goes by.”'

Holland joined Terrace team-
mates Aimee Peacock, Jocelyn
Coxford, Christina Holland
and Garth Coxford for the
Hyack invitational tournament

held earlier this month. The five -

recorded a number of best times
and brought back several
medals,

Christina Holland placed se-
cond in the 50-metre
breaststroke and third in the

Cory Holland

200-metre individual medley.
Jocelyn Coxford swam first and
second jn two butterfly events,

Garth Coxford placed third —
in the §0-metre butterfly, while
Aimee Peacock placed fourth in
the two more events.

Cory Holland placed first in.
the 100-metre backstroke and
second in the 200-metre
freestyle,

‘The next northwest meet
takes place i in Prince Rupert Jan
26-28.

’ TERRACE — Maintaining
. the accuracy that has kept
him at the top of the Mixed
' Barts League standings all
season, Bill Robinson cruised
to victory in the league’s
men’s singles playoffs, held
. last Wednesday night.

_. formance which included the
' evening's only “£80 score,
- Robinson lost only two of his
20 games to finish four wins
clear’ of: Tunner-up Malcolm
Baxter.

. Bob: ‘Bennett, long-time
oF partner of Robinson in tour-
nameént men’s. doubles play,
‘took third spot with 12 wins
while Jim Ryan and Derek
Hales shared ‘fourth spot
-with 11 victories apiece.

The women will square off
‘for ‘their playoffs next
~ Wednesday night. .

In an almost flawless per- -

Robinson earns dart title

DARTS VICTOR Bill Robinson was the competitor who hefted
the trophy at the end of last week's men’s singles dart
Playoffs. —

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