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When one talks about
bocce, one thinks right way
of Trail, particuJarly the
Gulch and the people who
live there. That, or Sheep
Creek on derby days.

looking for something to do
with themselves to keep
them out of miscbef when
good wife says to them,
"Now, will you get out of
here and let me get my work

We are about to change all
that in Rossland with a
league of our own and where
is a more likely place to
begin than the centrallylocated lots adjacent to the
Branch No. 14 clubrooms,
already a gathering place
for quite a number of people
interested in this and other
forms of sport. '1be Legion
members have come up with
an idea to use those lots to
promote the game in

done."

One of Rossland's senior
citizens will embark on quite
a journey on May 29. Jack
Hook, a former teacher at
Rossland High and probably
among the fittest 7~yearolds living in the country
today, will join Trail's Gino
Pagnan and a host of other
retired people in the 1983
Cross-Canada Cycle Tour for
Senior Citizens, a truly
ambitious project just underway on the west coast. In
Rossland.
a telephone conversation
The league will cater to with Jack a couple of days
both sexes and the first back be filled me in on some
practice games will be held aspects of the project which
on Monday and Thursday may make interesting
nights at 7. If you should be reading. He tells -me that a
interested in participating, gent by the name of Bert
contact Phil Bateman, who Robertson of Vancouver,
can be found any day in bis beads up a 13-member
business premises, the committee in charge of the
laundromat on Washington conduct of the project and
St., or phone 362-6693, or from what be says these
NonnaDominicat362-6130.
people have done their
Summer leagues in bomeworkprettywelL
fastball, baseball, slo-pitcb, · The riders will be
soccer and others yet to be equipped with new 15-speed
named are underway in the bikes and will move out from
area despite the fact that Mlle "0" at Esquimalt on
hockey playoffs are still May 23. The)' must be over
holding the national 80 and carry a medical
spotllgbt. That international report as to their fitness to
yearly farce, strictly an take on something like the
Eastern European monopoly taskabead'ofthem. They are
for years now, the world cup required to be in possession
of hockey, bas finally of sufficient money for food
dragged itself to a close, but and expenses to take care of
there are at three or four the necessities of the
competitions of a North proposed four-month trip.
American flavor yet to be 'Ibey will travel back by bus.
decided. The Centennial
Money to finance the
Cup, the Memorial Cup and groundwork of this venture
the last but not le.,ISt the has been made available
Stanley Cup, they are the fnm the New Horizons
last gasp of an eight-month project, which does a lot of
season in our country.
good work helping senior
The upper course at citizens help themselves,
Rossland has been quite and from the B.C. Lotteries.
busy since its opening a Jack mentioned tba t
couple of weeks blfck and Williams Moving and
men's night is already un- Storage will supply tranderway. The next move is up sport for the gear to be taken
to the retirees to come up along by the participants
with a day of the week other than their back packs.
strictly for the branch of our Taymor lndusb'ies will look
society which finds itself after the cooking supplies

and the preparation will be
undertaken by 50 volunteers
divided into five groups.
There have been three
workshops conducted at the
coast to show the participants how to take care of
their gear and Gino has
attended-them. The ride has
been dubbed, the Spinning
Wheel.
Professional
photographers will accompany the trek and
seniors clubs all across the
country will be contacted
with an eye to the publicity
for the project. It is hoped to
make this an annual world- ·
wide project. Jack has been
told that a possible ride
around China is proposed
and could take place as early
as next year.
So, as these intrepid
ol$ters climb on their bikes
on May 23 we will just sit
back and hope to watch the
coverage it will get on TV
and wish them all the luck in
the world. Jack bas
promised to drop me a card
from time to time so that I
may get a few personal
glimpses of bow the tour is
going. I'll pass them along to
you all.