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A near-packed house at Element in Castlegar saw some great mixed martial arts fights at Caged Rage 6 on Saturday night. In all there were nine fights including three professional bouts. “The fights were great. Every fight was good,” said Glen Kalesniko, owner/ trainer at Pride Gym in Trail and card match-maker. “We had some tough fights. We had a lot of cancellations coming up to the fight. The last week leading up to the fight I was down to four fights.” With the help of the MMA clubs in Lethbridge and Kelowna,
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Kalesniko was able to piece together some good matches and keep the event going. “I was pretty worried, but we managed to pull it off,” said Kalesniko. Despite having some weight mismatches and some inexperienced fighters on the card, Kalesniko said it went well. In the headliner, Jordan Knippleberg of Pride Gym in Trail disposed of Calgary’s Danny Davis at the one minute mark of the first round with an arm triangle submission. In the other pro bouts, Calgary’s Clay Davidson beat Tony King from Portland, Oregon, via guillotine at 1:32 of the first round. Pride’s C.J. Bagg lost to Tim
Jensen of Kelowna by armbar submission at 3:07 of the first round. Kalesniko says that Caged Rage is doing well and he expects it will continue at the Element. “There’s problems there because the B.C. Commission is coming,” he said. “The whole province is going to have a commission. So that will bring huge costs. So that could set us back. We just don’t know what they’re going to come up with. “If we have to fly the commissioners up from Vancouver and put them up in hotels that will just add on to the promoter costs. Hopefully, that doesn’t come into play. We’re certainly planning to have another one.”
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Ray Jensen from Pride Gym in Trail celebrates his win over Tyler Spence at Caged Rage 6, staged Oct. 20 at Castlegar’s Element Club. Craig Lindsay photo
Service reduction by Greyhound CRAIG LINDSAY Castlegar News Reporter
Greyhound Bus Lines is applying to the B.C. Passenger Transportation Board to eliminate Route D which goes from the Alberta border to Vancouver and includes a
stop in Castlegar. At Castlegar’s City Council meeting on October 15, council agreed to send a letter to Greyhound disagreeing with the possible reduction in services. “What they’re trying to do - it’s an economic issue for them,”
said Castlegar mayor Lawrence Chernoff. “You have to realize that for some people the Greyhound is their vital link for transportation. “I think it’s council’s responsibility to do as much as they can to say, ‘hey, is there a differ-
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ent way to do this?’. But, ultimately, it’s a business decision by Greyhound. It’s the bottom line. Why run the route if it’s not profitable. They say, ‘why would we run a service with three people?’ Fuel costs are up, wages are
up, everything is up. “We still want to intercede as much as we can because, as I said, for some people it’s the way they have (to get around).” The buses potentially eliminated run on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 7:15 p.m.
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going West, and at 4:40 a.m. traveling eastbound on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, said a local Greyhound employee. Castlegar will still be serviced by Greyhound with a daily 10 a.m. bus going West and a 6:10 p.m. bus heading east.
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