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SPORTS

Local gymnasts spring to western finals:

TEN LOCAL gymnasts will bein.

Winnipeg. April ‘23 to 25 for the
Western Championships after their

fine showing at the’ recent B.C.:-

Championships.

Gymnasts from the Flicka. Gym
Club in North Vancouver took five
top spots in the national open divi-
sion at the competition, held at
BCIT in Burnaby.

Four boys from West Vancouver

_ Whip-Its won all-around medals at
the event.

The:

. the 1988 Best Ever program, for
~ her totals of 35.350 and victory in
‘the uneven bar event with 9.30.
Aparna’ Ray, 13,' was second
with 35.050 and won both balance
beani and floor exercise... with

“scores. f 8.85 and 9. 00, respective: .

Bronze: ricdalist Kelstina “Lon. -
quiet. 15, had a total of 34.250 and.

won the vault event with 9.15.°-:
“Dawn: Geil,”

AA One, 14 were fourth and fifth

open’ girls title went to:
Krista: Onno, 13, who trains with .

14, “and “Stacey.

with scores of 34.150 and 33. 150, ;

respectively.

The five girls plus injured Helen”
Carmichae! of Flicka will make up’
the national open team at the Ca- .
nadian Championships in May in.

Hamilton, Cnt.

Bronze medals went to Canada's
16th-ranked Ursula Trpin, 16, in
the High Performance group, the

most senior group in Canada, for |

her totals of 69.916 and a second

place on vault 17.78 and on Moor —
“17.60 ; / : ;

Catherine Geekic,

novice division with a -total of
34.950.

Kristin. Wingfield, 17,.won the

beam event with 17.78.

The West Vancouver boys won
‘two titles with Mike Lockitch, 19,
now at UBC,...the: only : junior

‘national competitor with a total of”

48. 00.
', Ross Cooper, ‘47, ‘of. West Van-

. souver: Rec Centre won the: open.
title with 35.800."

= Ketth Lockitch, 1" ‘was. one of

tach treatment fs designed épocially for you

“only the finest: ‘and the
Las

12, was ,
bronze medalist in’ the national!

two competitors in the novice divi-
‘sion and was second with 86.800.

In the younger boys’ groups
there was an impressive turnout
and Ralph Grosslieng came out with

the silver medal at 51.00 in the ;

youngest cadet age group and also
won the rings with 8.15 and the

parallel bars with 8.80.

In the youngest Midget group,
Daphne O'Young, 10, was the
bronze medalist with a total.of
30.733. “

Nine local girls and Mike
Lockitch have been named to the
B.C. team to the Western Cham-

_ All along the B.C. coast, -
the Department of Fisheries
oS, and Oceans is recording signifi-.
cant i increases in salmon stocks. The ,
: Department's salmon enhancement and

> excellent record of success!” "82> =
od “Throtigh responsible: anagement
*-_and effective conservation techniques,
~ these pried fis fish will continue to be a

= the kind of life Briish th Columbiatisen enjo
ah isa park of the province's identity

“lower Georgia
able to over-fishi

~. chinook remain in the Strait; rather °
., than migrating to the relative safety of the
open Pacific. This means the Gulf chinook
can be caught year-round ~ vhroughou

- its life gycle.”

Enhancement and conservation pr
~ grams that have: worked so effectively: to.
_/ build up other species have proven insu
a ficient. to protect these chinook.

~ Over the last ten years, the number ;

_ of chinook caught in the Strait has declin-
*ed by 75%, to approximately 160,000 fish

‘last year, with only.an estimated'4300.

- lower Georgia: Strait chinook escaping lo

“spawn in 1987, 4 -

._. Without ininediat, elective action, me _

pioaships April 23 to 25: in Win:
nipeg.. They are Trpin, Geil,
Oydlvie, Ray and Lonquist in the
open category, Paula G’¥Froerer in .
the novice division; Kim Gilbert as
a Tyro and Briony Lecky and Jen-
ny Campbell in the youngest: Argo -
age: group. :

to catch. And the Gulf chinook’s home i is:

—_ surrounded by major ‘urban centres.
“So naturally, sport fisherm:

me impact on the species. fo