One of the appealing changes to this year’s half-marathon (starting line events. The annual late-season run, held Oct. 15, attracted 78 entries, _ A new course and per-' fect. fall weather added up to the best Terrace Half- Marathon race ever held. The big event on Oct, 15 at- tracted 78 runners of all ages. - What likely attracted many — ‘including 38 from out-of-town i. was the addition Of, five- . :kilometer and 10-kilometer Taces. The race was co-sponsored by ‘the Skeena Valley Runners Club _and All Seasons Sports store. Outside entries included ‘ " §mithers/Telkwa (9), Prince _. Rupert (14), Kitwanga (2), ‘Kitimat (10), Westbank (1), Black Creek (1), Manchester, .. England (1), plus 40 local com- petitors. Instead of the usual start and finish line at the library, organizers moved it to North- west Community College. -Routes for all three venues _were set up by wheelchair racing expert Dr. Paul. Clark. Clark had 5-K runners start on Mc- Connell in front of the main building, then go north on -Kalum Lake Drive, east on Halliwell, south on Thomas, | -then west on McConnell and around the corner south on -Kalum Lake Drive to a finish. line by the soccer pitch. Ten-K runners followed the same route, except they made _ the circuit twice. ’ The half- marathon route took runners north on Kalum Lake Drive to Dover Road, where _ they turned around and went ‘back to Halliwell. Then it was across Halliwell to Sparks and down Kalum Street» to Lazelle. They ran west on Lazelle to Kenney, then along - shown above) was the addition of 5-K and 10-K races to the slate of Highway 16 to Kalum Lake Drive and up to the finish line. Top three placings for each event are as follows, Five-kllometer _ Men’s open — Doug Warren (Black Creek), Gary Pettipas (Terrace), Bruce Bingham (Ter- race). Ges Women’s open — Debbie Sabourin, Carmel Smith, Dawn Cameron (all of Terrace). Men’s under-19 — Gary Peden, Jon Shepherd, Jim Reid. (all of Terrace). _ Women’s under-19 — Claire Challen (Smithers), Sarah Weston (Terrace), Marian Brlecic (Kitimat). . Men’s masters —- Merv Craw- ford (Terrace), Ian Closs (Kitimat),. Angus McLeod (Kitimat). Women’s. masters — Lillian Nelson (Prince Rupert). 10-kilometer Men’s open — Richard Byers (England), Steven Kiiskila (Ter- race), Tim Sampson (Kitwanga). Women’s open — Sue Simp- son, Nancy Mutray, Irene Ennis (all of Terrace), _ Men’s under-19 — Ted Con- lon (Smithers); David Shepherd (Terrace), Brian Schlamp (Ter- race). ’ Women’s under-19 — Julia - Nelson, Nathalee Paolinelli (both of Prince Rupert). Men’s masters — Neil Fleisch- mann, Geoff Phillips, Jack | Worobey (all of Terrace). Women’s masters — Marilyn Earl (Terrace), Ruth Keefe (Kitimat). Wheelchair — Dr. Paul Clark (Terrace). Half-Marathon Opening spiel held Teams skipped by Neil Seimans, Henry Rauter and Danny Fisher emerged as event winners Saturday at the 19-team Terrace opening mixed bonspiel at the Terrace Curling Club. Selmanis won ‘A’ event on a 3-2 victory over Reg Beckley, Saut downed Chaunce Kruisselbrink 6-0 to win ‘B’ event, while Fisher scored a 4-1 win over Dale McFadden in the ‘C’ event final, nearly half of whom came from out of town. Men’s open — Richard Har- (Prince Rupert), Lori Paolinelli John Nelson (both of Prince rison (Smithers), Colin Parr (Prince Rupert). Rupert). (Terrace), Gordon Buxton (Ter- Men’s under-19 — Joe Nelson. race). (Prince Rupert). A complete list of competitors Women’s open — Diana — Men’s masters — Ed Ansems with their times can be found in Wood (Terrace), Janis German (Terrace), Ray Leonard and this week’s sports scoreboard... AT ) _=., TERRACE TOTEM FORD Buy any *89 or 90 TEMPO or TOPAZ until OCTOBER 28, 1989 and receive “Q DOWN PAYMENT — 0 MONTHLY PAYMENT 0 INTEREST CHARGE UNTIL FEBRUARY 1990" $500 CASH BACK -°89 PROBE, TRACER, FESTIVA LEASE AT 24 mo — 7 % 25-36 mo — 8% 37-48 mo — 9 % BUY AT 24 mo — 6.9% 26:36 mo — 7.9 % 37-48 mo —'8.9 % TERRACE DL #5548 OTEM FORD 4831 KEITH AVENUE, TERRACE, B.C. 635-4084 CALL FOLL FREE - 1-800-772-1128 FORD MERCURY LINCOLN wee tee - ard