ade ie ast ea aaah ile Aca A : ees ioe AR k: gig? wie SO pm tian alg A A19-Sunday News, June 8, 1980 Underwater problem for fans “It's a great way to keep in shape,” says Wallersteiner. “There's a lot of endurance and skill required in the sport.” Underwater hockey requires minimal equipment -- a one-foot long hockey stick, a two-pound lead puck, flippers, snorkel and hand protectors. Games last an hour with teams of six players each. “I'm a= goalie,” says Wallersteiner. “The main attribute for the position ts being able to hold your breath. You just sit on the North Shore residents are the happiest in the Lower Mainland about the place in which they live, according to a survey by the Ministry for Urban Affairs. A total of 594 people in the Greater Vancouver area were asked whether they thought their community was about the same or a better place to live than it was a few years ago. The North Shore was way ahead of all other muni- cipalities in terms of con- tentment. Of those North Shore residents interviewed, 50 per cent felt it was a better place than a few years ago, 24 per cent thought it was about the same and 21 per cent thought it was t vu, Oftergood ‘** through (> June 28 Happy North S$ bottom and try to intimidate everyone else. “You can tell the good players from the bad quite easily in underwater hockey. The bad players float near the top, the better players stay about six inches off the bottom. Because of the exertion, players usually have to go up for air every 30 seconds or 80. “The difficulty is that we wear snorkels, so that regardless of how dire your need is for air when you come up, you still have to blow out the water before worse. The remaining five per cent did not respond. The runners-up in terms of contentment were Burnaby and New Westminster where the corresponding better- same-worse figures were 43 per cent, 35 per cent and 16 per cent. In third place came the Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam- Port Moody area (41 per cent, 38 per cent, 19 per cent). Residents of the rapid- growth communities of Richmond, Delta, Surrey and White Rock had much more mixed feelings. Only 32 per cent thought those communities had become SECOND MORTGAGES FIRST MORTGAGE RATES* NO APPRAISAL FEES the Permanent “Second Mongage intensal @ caladated moninty First Mongage interest in caladated aam-annumny you can breath in.” A vice‘president of B.C.'s underwater hockey association, Wallersteiner admits the sport has one drawback - it’s not good for spectators. During the upcoming world cham- pionships she says they are going to try out a video System with overhead cameras in hopes of giving visitors some idea of the frantic, silent action pong on below. Wallersteiner lives at 535 Robin Hood Rd., West Vancouver. or e @ better places to live, 30 per cent felt they were worse and 33 per cent said “about the same.” Vancouver City didn’t fare much better in the judge- ment of its residents, whose better-same-worse votes were 35 per cent, 37 per cent and 25 per cent. putter Salmon meet planned A meeting to discuss the proposed 30 chinook salmon annual limit fishermen will be held Thursday, June 12, under the sponsorship of the North Shore Fish and Game Club. The proposal thas been made to preserve the chinook salmon from potential extinction. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion Hall, 123 West 15th Street in North Vancouver. MINIATURE GOLF for sports ON WELCH EAST OF CAPILANO ROAD NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. OPENING SOON weekend building a special dergarten to grade 7 pupils at School. (John Copage photo) LOW COST PARENTS AND STUDENTS were , LIL hard at work last playground for kin- West Van's Chartwell PERSONAL LOANS 19 Interest % Calculoted Monthly Minimum $3500 Maximum $50,000 ’ Amount $5,030.41 Gs the Permanent Monthly payment $140.00 * “Rates subject to change 2154W. 41st Park RoyalSouth 1604 Lonsdale Lansdowne Park 455 Granville 701 W. Georgta Kerrisdale West Van North Van Unit 626-5300 684-0406 Pacific Centre 268-7101 926-5461 986-1311 #3 Ad., Richmond 689-0611 273-0821 Cost of toan $1,689.59 Canada Permanent Trust Company Canada Permanent Mongage Corporation 2699 Granville at 11th 731-4554