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Revelstoke Grizzlies owners apply to move team to 100 Mile House AARON ORLANDO
END OF AN ERA?
The 2010/11 Revelstoke Grizzlies reached the pinnacle of Junior B achievement, winning the Keystone Cup to become the western Canadian champions. A move to sell the team to 100 Mile House could mean the victory will remain the high point for the franchise forever. Revelstoke Times Review file photo
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A May 6 meeting of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League board of governors will determine if Revelstoke will have Junior B hockey next season. On Sunday, April 1, the current ownership team of the Revelstoke Grizzlies sent notification to the KIJHL’s 20 governors notifying them of their intent to sell the team to a group from 100 Mile House. The 100 Mile House Wranglers have their own website, logo and have announced a spring camp taking place April 13–15. Rumours that the two parties have been in discussion have been persistent over the past months. KIJHL president Bill Ohlhausen confirmed the news of the notification to move in an April 2 interview. “This is the first time that the governors have heard about this,” Ohlhausen said. “They will have to decide.” He said he wasn’t in a position to answer political questions about the application to move until after the governors had met on the issue. The teams in the league are pri-
vately held and give the owners broad leeway over what they can do with them. However, the application will also require permission from the league governors. “That’s the basic bottom line to it,” he said. Ohlhausen noted the Grizzlies ownership had missed a Mar. 1 deadline to apply to transfer a team and that approval from the board would require more than 50 per cent of the vote. Revelstoke Grizzlies co-owner Mike Roberts was not available by telephone before press time on Monday. Co-owner Lou Hendrickson was reached but he deferred questions to Roberts. Revelstoke Grizzlies Society president Tammy Kaler said the news was crushing. “I would be devastated if it’s moving,” she said. The Revelstoke Grizzlies first came to Revelstoke in 1991 and were sold to a private ownership group in 2006. The Grizzlies Society has operated in parallel to the ownership group, who are the de facto bosses of the organization. Kaler said the KIJHL, page 13
Multicultural society shares Italian experience Tony Scarcella shares his experience immigrating from a small Calabrian farming town to Revelstoke at multicultural film night at Okanagan College AARON ORLANDO editor@revelstoketimesreview.com
Tony Scarcella’s talk about his experience immigrating to Revelstoke was the highlight of the evening. Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Times Review
Revelstoke resident Tony Scarcella was a guest speaker at the Revelstoke Multicultural Society’s monthly film night series at Okanagan College last week. Scarcella followed his extended family to Revelstoke in 1952 when he was 16, leaving his farming community of Spezzano Piccolo in Calabria behind. He was part of the last wave of Italian immigrants to the commu-
nity and Canada. The first was in the late 1800s. John Colotto, the first recorded Italian immigrant, is noted in the Kootenay Star newspaper in 1894. By 1911, there were 491 Italians living here, many coming for work as labourers with the CPR. By the early 20th century the immigrants were integrated into all facets of community life -- shopkeepers, contractors, farmers, merchants and more. Mayor Anselmo served as Revelstoke’s first mayor of Italian descent from 1934–1936. Scarcella came with his father
Frank and the original plan was to stay for a few years to earn some money. “We heard that Canada was a great place for young people,” he said. Scarcella had to give up a potential professional soccer career to come to Revelstoke. “I played soccer in Italy, and I was good at it,” he said. He was on the local all-star team and had eyes on becoming pro. “I asked the coach. ‘Tell me the truth.’” His coach told him he could go pro, but would probably languish in a mid-level pro league. “If I can’t make the big league, I’m going to Canada,” he decided. He remembers a different Revelstoke. Friends helped each other see page 8
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