PAGE Aé, THE HERALD, Wednesday, July 23, 1978

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Once again, the Red’s
were idle last weekend.
Their scheduled match in
Houston was postponed as
one of the Houston pilchers’
travelled to Quesnel, with
the Smithers téam, to
participate in a tournament.
The Red's with eight wins
and two losses, travel to
Houston this weekend where
the Bees will host them for
the final doubleheaders of

- regular season action,

oach Jacques Richard
reports that everything is
going well and was pleased
to hear that three game
winner Brian Dubasov will

Red's

be back for the remainder of
the season, Along with Gary
Paulson, Lorrie Arnold-
Smith and Gino lamele,
Dubisov completes and
strengthens the Red's pit-
ching _ staff,

The Red's next action will
be this Thursday as they and
Colin Chasteauneuf’s Pony
All Stars, who are preparing
for the provincials, clash in
an evening game,

August first weekend
brings about the Senior
Men's Provincial Finals.
Three Red’s have been
asked to play for the Bulkley
Valley League All Star team

{ “Around the mound"

which will represent the
northwest in this provincial
tournament. The three are
pitehers Gary Paulson and
Lorrie Arnold-Smith and

centrefielder Dave
Hamilton.
The Bulkley Valley

League playoffs are slated
for the weekend of August 6
and 7. There will be four
teams involved in a one-day
single knockout playdown.

So with manager Red
L’Estrange on holidays, the
Red’s gointo Houston with a
“Win one for the Gipper”
altitude, hoping to wrap up
first place.

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-batters in the secon

The zone finals for the
Bronco All Star team were
held in Kitimat Saturday,
July 17 with Terrace and
Kitimat competing. In the
first game, Tray Farkvam
hit a home run for Terrace
to make the score 1-0 at the
end of the first inning. At the
top of the second it was
Larry Swanson hilting a
grand slam with Troy Fark-
vam, Ron McCoil and Mike
Cain on base, Mike Schuss
scored a run for Kitimat on
a Terrace error to make it 6-
lat the bottom of the inning.

In the first half of the
third, Alan Findlay scored
one run for Terrace on a
sacrifice by Mike Cain.
Pitcher Darcy Budiselich
struck out ail three opposing
half of
the inning. The fourth inning
saw one run in by Larry
Swanson and a fly slammed
into centerfield by Darrel
Paulson. The Kitimat
batters were then put out
one afler the other in the

For a person writing
about fishing, I am not

+ finding very much time to

get out and practice the art.

-. Infact, the only opportunity

that T have had to fish over
the Jast two months was one
afternoon a week ago, with

* my son and daughter, on the
: small little puddle of Her-

man Lake.
The outing was intended

mt to give my two youngslers

The ravens sat high in"

their dead snag, quonking
and quarreling about who
would next feed their wee

: bairns and with what. They

saw the swan on her nest
below, the morning sun
making her shine like a
fresh, white pearl. They
knew she was sitting on eggs
but to their eyes she was a
monster, a powerful bird
and they believed that they
were very wise in not
trifling with her.

The swan kept one eye on
the ravens in their snag for
everything must be
regarded as a danger to her
precious eggs on this last
day of incubation. The sun
was high and the ravens
were gone before the cygnet
was free of the shell. The
birth of the cygnet was
recorded by the ravens
when they returned to their
snag for their evening of
quarreling.

This birth was recorded
by more than the ravens for
this birth is raised above the
every spring hatching oc-
curance y Mr. Ron
MacKay, Canadian Wildlife
Service, Vancouver, with
his documentation that it is
the first officially recorded
wild trumpeter swan to be
born in B.C. The place of
birth is the upper Gitnadoix
River, 25 miles west of
Terrace, then 16 miles south
and the time was late June
1976.

’ But the history of this
recording goes back to June
of 1965 and with different
characters, my father and
myself, and on a different
river. :
In June of that year my

father and I stood on a

logging road overlooking the

swamps of the lower Beaver

(Kitsumkalum) River

Valley. There is a large

circulat pond there and on
that pond were six swans —
twoaduits and four cygnets.

I was fairly sure that the
swans were trumpelers and
as the young were not more
than two weeks old and

could not fly they must have
been born there. I did not

altach any significance to
trumpeter swans nesting on

the Beaver but at that time I

was keeping records of the

swans that wintered on the

Kalum system and was

sharing those records with

Steve Cannings. Steve is a

top naturalist and author

who knows the way araund
and he advised me that
there were no recorded
nestings of Lrumpeter swans
in B.C. At that time all
swans were believed to nest
in Alaska with the major

nesting areas on the Copper .

River. I then advised Mr.
MacKay of my reports and
Mr. MacKay subsequently
wrote to me. Heindicated in
his correspondence that he
was interested in the swans
but wanted additional proof.

Jt was too late to get ad-
ditional proof from that
band of swans for they were
all killed by overzealous and
underinformed hunters, At
least that is the report I got
from Vic Bryant and I have:
na reason to doubt that

word.

My brother, Gordon, and I
had started going up the
Gitnadoix River in 1961 and
had noted swans in there
several times in he summer
and fall and had noted
adults with young. After the
correspondence from Mr.
MacKay we started to
seriously look for nests and
they were not hard to find.
We never saw more than one
pair of swans in the valley
and very seldom any young.
it was about this lime that
Herman Buschman joined
the Gitnadoix fan club — he
did some hunting in there
but his primary interest was
just to be there, We met on
the river from time to time
and swapped stories of
moose, bear, goat — and
swans.

All this time the
correspondence continued
with my contacts and with
Herman having different
friends in wildlife circles the
stories of the swans became
Wildly circulated.

All things happen in June
but since that is nesting time
I suppose it is appropriate
Hon MacKay and I met on a
day last June —a day in the
middle of the working week
andin the middle of the day.
Ron and Dave Crack, the
local Conservation Officer,
were planning a trip into the
Gitnadoix to try and confirm
the nesting of the swans and
invited me along, I made the
decision not to go; I knew I
would kick myself later
(and J] am) but it is nat
always easy to play hookey
from your job. They found
some evidence of nesting on
that trip but not enough to

_by.LeS Watmough

satisfy Ron MacKay. There
is a man who knows birds —
all kinds of birds, not just
waterfowl, although
waterfowl perhaps best for
he has been on the swan
study for twenty years. He is
not a man that is interested
in assumptions: He wants to
see it, hear it and identify it
for himself.

He was back on the river
in June of this year, found a
nest with five eggs, two of
which he felt confident
would hatch. He then
documented that trum-
peters do, indeed, nest in
B.C.

He eame back last week,
July 6, to check the nest
again, The nest was empty
save for the eggshells; the
swans were gone, But the
adults were soon sighted
and with tiem was a lone
cygnet, the first one ever
officially recorded as being
born in B.C.

I hope that everyone will
be happy and proud that
such a rare and beautiful
bird as the trumpeter had
long ago chosen our area as
a nesting area. I hope that
proper recognition will be
made of this fact instead of
fighting over the body of the
deceased as was the case
with the white bear. Must
we wait until an animal or a
species is destroyed before
we recognize its value.

To my naturalist mind
this find raises more
questions. Where will the
cygnet and his parents
spend the winter? At the
Esker Slough, near where
the Gitnadoix enters the
Skeena or at Kalum or
Lakelse Lake, an hours
flight from the next area?
Or are these well known
local wintering areas
reserved for use only by the
swans from Alaska and
perhaps our swans migrate
south to their tourist resort
at Lonesome Lake or even
the Yellowstone,

And inclosing, although it
is not directly related to the
swans, did you ever think it
would be nice to see the
Gitnadoix put into some
kind of reserve? I un-
derstand that the final
stitches are being put into a
package that will make the
Gitnadoix into a park and I
will have to leave you
suspended in suspense on
that, because that is all I
know. .

4

an opportunity to catch a
small trout to two. But it
wasn't meant to be, as it
turned out to be one of those
days when nothing seems to
go right.

It starled off by getting
away two hours later than
we intended. When we
finally made it to the lake,
the kids had their usual fight
— next I ended up un-
tangling two unbelievably
messed up pieces of fishing
tackle. Finally we had
everything togkther and
moved the boat, tackle and
kids to the water. On the
way, both youngsters got
their feet muddy and wet,
along with a number of bug

hites.

With both children in life
jackets, we finally launched
the boat — tackle all sorted
out, our faithful dog curled
up in the bottom of the boat,

_ we moved away from shore

without an incident.

The lake was glass calm
and the sun was trying ta
peak out from under the
clouds and there was even a
few small fish surfacing. By
gosh, I said lo myself, it was
worth it all. 1 tied a worm
and spinner. setup for my
small daughter, Jenny and
for my son, Chris, a small
spinner, [ tied a No. 8 Doc
Sprally on my fly pole and
with the exception of
hooking a number of lily
pads and tangling lines in
the oars, everything went
reasonably well.

One half hour later,
Jennifer decided she had
enough and wanted te go
ashore. [ suggested a
change of lures and try one
more pass around the lake. I
tied ona small flatfish to her
line and I was going to
change it to a hook and
worm. As I swung the line

ound, it went past our

og’s nose and he snapped
at it in annoyance an Tow
and behind, if one of those
little treble hooks didn't
hook him in the left nostril.
Now I won't bore you with
the problems I had trying to
get that hook out but while I
was trying to control the dog
and remove the hook, the
kids hooked three small
culthroat on the two lines
which were still in the
water. They lost all three
and unfortunately by this
time the old man was
finished for the day.

I don't know if 1 learned a
lesson or not. I certainly
hope to take the kids and the
dog fishing again, but when
I do, I don’t think they will
be together and for sure no
flatfish will be used. In fact,
I think it will be flies only,
particularly if we are
fishing out of a boat!

With the incredibly poor
weather we are haying, the
river conditions and salmon
fishing are equally bad. If

second half to leave the
score a comfortable 4-1 for
Terrace.

Alan Findlay scored the
single run in the top of the
fifth on a nice hit into cen-
terfield by Ron McColl.
Kitimat scored another run
in the bottom of the fifth by
Alan Degerness. Alan
Findlay slid in again in the
sixth for another run on a
bunt by Kevin Goddard,
while Ron McColl and Kevin
Goddard came in on a hard
line drive by Glen
Palahicky. Another run was
scored for Terrace when
Darrell Paulson hit a long
fly inte centerfield ‘only to
have third runner put out on
base. Joey Courtorielle and
Jari ¥rrki scored a final two
runs for Kitimat to finish the
game with a score of 13-4.
Darcy Budiselich was the
winning pitcher for Terrace.

Troy Farkvam started off
the second game for

Terrace with a two-base hit.

the grim weather continues,
chinook salmon fishing for
1976 wilt be a writeoff. Not
only is it extremely
disappointing to the loca!
fishermen and the tourists
who travel many hundreds
or thousands of miles to try
their luck but those people
whe rely upon the tourist
trade sre suffering as well,

The only winners are the
salmon; with the drastic
reduction in the sport catch

Lovell
~ Olympic
cyclist

Canada has been caught up in
the international bicycling
buom but for the most part it
has not been translated into
interest in bike racing. And for
many Canadians the cycling
competition at the Olympic
Games in Montreal will be the
first exposure to the European-
dominated sport.

“There are probably a lot of -

people riding bike's who aren't
even aware that bike racing ex~-
ists even if they wanted to com-
pete,” says Don Sutherland of
Manotick, Onl., a former Eng-
lish road-racing champion who
is Canada's national cycling
coach. “The only place it has
gained any popularity is in
Quebec,”

Canada has one world-class
cyclist in Jocelyn Lovell of To-
Tonto, who won the'gold medal
in the oe-kilometre time trial at
the Pan-American Games in
Mexico last October, But
even Lovell has only an
outside chance at a medal in
Montreal.

For the remainder of the Ca-
nadian team, the goal will be to
improve aver performances at
Munich in 1972 and to maintain
‘momentum looking to the 1980
Olympics in Moscow.

HOPES FOR TOP SIX

Lovell, who was {5th in the
kilometre race in Munich,
should finish in the top six “‘if all
goes well,"’ says Sutherland.

“At the right time on the right
day, with everything clicking,
he just. might get into the
medals. When he won the gald
medal in Mexico, he had the
second-fastest world time.”

For the future, Sutherland
sees hope for the four-man team
in the 4,000-metre pursult—
Adrian Prosser of Hamilton,
Andre Simard of Montreal, Jeff
Reid of Winnipeg and Hugh
Walton of Toronte—which
established a Canadian record
of 4:42.2, in beating a Mexican
team in Vancouver early in
June.

Sutherland says the team was
constructed from seratch and
has been working together since
April. “The rebellious old guard
has gone, We've got a hard-
working crowd. We're optimis-

Uc because they're young. One -

can look ahead to Moscow in
1980," '
Reld, however, was not
named to. the team that will
compete in Montreal. His place
will probably be taken by Ron

Hayman of Vancouver, a mem-

ber of the 1972 team,

The friendly neighhour-
hood exercise.

3

Tonner
AWitl tt hele. Temas

Larry Swanson stole home
and Leland Macdonald and
Mel Reimer each scored
runs for Terrace.

In the second inning
Danny Dos, Reis scored
Kitimat's first run but had
his team put out with a quick
double play by Terrace.
Terrace then went on in the
second half of the inning to
have runs brought in by
Mike Cain, Troy Farkvam
(two}, Larry Swanson,
Leiand Maedonald, Mel
Reimer, Alan Findlay and
Jimmy McCall and Glen
Palahicky. Larry Swanson
ended the inning, being put
out as he tried to steal home.

Kitimat had two runs
scored by Joey Courtorielle
and Alan Degerness in the
third. Terrace went through
with no runs in.

- Kitimat had no runs in the
first half of the fourth inning
bul Terrace came alive
again in the second half.
Kevin Goddard slammed a

twa-base fly out into left
field and Lee Macdonald hit
4 three-base grounder over
to right field to send in
Kevin Goddard, Glen
Palahicky and Troy Fark-
‘vam, The score at the end of
the game was 16-3 for
Terrace. Troy Farkvam
was the winning pitcher.

The Terrace Bronco All
Stars leave Terrace August
3. ta compete in the
Provincial Finals in
Kamloops. The team would
jike ta extend thanks to all
those who have supported
them by buying tickets,.
baking and also those who
helped with cash donations.
Anyone wishing to make a
donation to help these boys
travel to Kamloops is
reminded that these
donations are deductible
from your income tax.
Reccipts will be given. For
further information please
contact Joyce Findlay at
635-2697 or Lil Farkvam at
635-7435,

An

an

elegans

and the Indian food fishery,
the escapement of chinooks
to the spawning grounds
should be higher than usual.

The weather seems to be
getting progressively colder
and wetter in the nor-
thwestern part of our
province. Is this a natural
phenomenon which will
continously change over the
years or are we ex-

periencing a gradual change
in our weather to colder and

®

STU CROUSE - HE

SALES

erva

as .many
scientists are predicting?

Or could it be that the
extreme air pollution in
many parts of the world is
seriously effecting our
weather conditions.
Whatever the reasons, let us
hope that we see a change
back to the warmer and
dryer summers and springs
which we have been ac-
customed to.

RB GRINDLER
: SALES

LARRY SHERMAN

Terrace Broncos take zone finals

Terrace will be hosting its
third annual sports camp
this year August 29-27,
Young people the ages of 12-
19 from many different
areas will be participating
in this event. Youth are
invited to take part in this
sports camp from anywhere
west of Burns Lake to the
Queen Charlottes and as far
north as the Yukon.

Coaches belonging to the
Provincial Sport Coaches
Federation will be attending
the camp to conduct the
events. The following sports
will be included in this
year’s camps: wrestling,
swimming,
volleyball, soccer, bad-
minton, archery, galf,
bowling, track and freld.
There will also be a Sports
Day held in Terrace at
Skeena Junior Scondary
School ‘August 19,

All towns within a 100 mile
radius of Terrace will be
welcome to participate in
track and fleld, soccer
events, etc. Those coming to
Terrace from out of town
will be billetted al the
Northwest Community
College at a cost of $8.50 per
day. This cost includes three
meals a day and laundr
service, Transportation will
be pravided to and from the
sports camps.

Registration fees are $20

r person, Registrations en
be mailed to the Terrace
Recreation Commission
Office in the arena.
Registration forms will be
available in every town in
northwestern B.C. - within
the next several days. For
further information phone
the Regional District of
Kitimat-Stikine Offices at
635-7251 and ask for Roh or
Jerry.

. LEO de JONG
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