8-Trail Times-Fridav, December 5, 1980

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During the past weekend
the curling rink in Rossland
was the scene of the mo$
activity of the season thus
far. The men's club was host
for the Old Glory Bonspiel,
starting Friday evening and
lasting through Sunday with
29 rinks participating.
When the smoke of battle
had died down and they were
able to tally up, three
Rossland rinks were in the
prize list that also included
four Trail rinks and single
winners from Salmo, Kaslo,
Nelson, Castlegar and Grand
Forks.
Taking them by events,
Bob Mcivor of Grand Forks
was the winner in '' A'' with
Bill Van Yzerloo of
Castlegar second, Jim Albo
of Rossland third and Roy
Stone of Trail fourth.
In " B" event, Bill Sweet of
Nelson came out on top as he
edged Ken Fines of the Trail
club, Jack Malchow of
Rouland and Bill Brown of
Salmo· were third and fourth
respectively.
In "C" it was Gary
Beaudry of Kaslo over Bob
Stevenson of Rossland and in
"D" it was two Trail rinks,
namely John Merkley and Al
McAulay, who were 1-2 in
thatevenl
Lucky winner of the
Saskatchewan mickey was
' Wayne Ashley. I'm told that
Wayne makes a habit of this
sort of thing. The luck of
some people's kids!
Women's curling clubs are
both in actiqn OD a regular
basis, the Tuesday and
Thursday afternoon club
with seven rinks and the
Monday nighters have nine.
On the last three outings of
the Ladies' Afternoon club
for which I have reports it
was Edie Harasin over Helen
Ling Tuesday, Nov. 18, with
Marg Harrison beating

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Dorothy Fines and Fanny
Albo over Marg Rosse. Gert
Sandulescu had the bye.
Thursday, Nov. 2J> it was
Ling over Sandulescu, Fines
over Harasin and Harrison
and Albo playing to a tie.
Rosse sat this one out.
Tuesday, Nov. 25 saw Ling
beat Rosse, Albo, take
Sandulescu and Harasin top
Harrison while Fines watched from the sidelines.
Three games were played
in the Monday club Nov. 24.
Donna Price won over Enza
Boutry, Irene Dunlop topped
Bev Bell, Beryl Davis beat
Dolly Riley and Phyllis
Woodward and Carol Albo
had to cancel because of ice
conditions, Arlene Dyson
had the bye. '
While on the subject of
women's curling we have
word that one of the grand
old girls of the Rossland club
has suffered a severe stroke.
Everyone who knows her
hopes · Matg Harrison will
have a speedy and complete
recovery.
Retirees curling goes
steadily along with Iota of
enthusiasm and some damn
good games. So far there
have been quite a number of
ties, pointing up the kind of
competition we get in the
club. We are all looking
forward to Dec. 18 when we
hook up with the women's
club for our annual
Christmas party.
Last weekend also saw the
Lions clubs of B.C. hold their
annual Timmy's Telethon
which raised close to $2
million on behalf of the
Crippled Children of the
province. In this area, the
Golden City Lions club and a
now-forming Trail club were
active on behalf of Jim
Roller's Trail Esso which
held a car wash and pumped

gas on behalf of the Telethon
efforl Imperial Oil matched
whatever Jim took in for the
car wash and one cent a
gallon, or is that litre, or gas
sales Saturday and Sunday.
Lions from both clubs
were actively engaged
washing and polishing cars
inside and out both days.
Dave Shaw, George Tomich
and yours truly represented
RossJand Uons while Norm
Hinton was probably the
busiest Uon in the province
as he hustled cars in and out
of the bays 011 behalf of bis
club which ii in ~ proce11
of rebuilding.
You may remember my
remarks re face masks in an
earlier issue. I said I thought

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that time they have fallen
before Castlegar twice, Trail
twice, Grand Forks and
Spokane.
Looking to the future does
not hold much promise of a
better shake as the other
clubs .ln the league are
getting stronger. And though
the Warriors are giving it a
real try they seem to be
falling short, the teams at
whose expense they hoped to
win, Nelson and· Grand
Forks, are their next opponents in Rossland. We .
shall have to see how they
fare against them this time
'round; to make playoff
country they have to start
winning pretty soon.
Tonight's game marks the
start of the second half, 2J>
down and2J> to go. It's a must
for Rossland to start putting
some points on the board if
they are to have a
reasonably good season.

that masks should be either
allowed by all clubs in the
league or not allowed at all,
talking to KIJHL vicepresident Herb Castle, he
explained the reason for the
use of the masks by the
How about that snow! I'll
Spokane club.
bet old Fred up at the ski hill
It seems the U.S. team is rubbing his hands in glee,
cannot purchase insurance meanwhile, we average .
for their players from the citizens have to dig ourone which handles insurance selves out every morning. As
for the Canadian clubs in the I look out my window, the
league and it is a condition of neighbor's po~ shows a
their coverage that they good 18 inches and still
wear the masks on a full. falling. After pretty close to
time basis.
three days steady and the
President Bert LaFreniere forecast of more OD the way,
of the KIJHL cited the one begins to wonder, are we
earlier use of the masks by in for a record year like the
the Nelson, Rossland and ones we read about in past
Castlegar clubs and the fact years.
that those clubs ceased to
Oh well! Keep your chin up
use them after a short time. and keep shovelling folks,
He also feels that some of the maybe it will quit tomorrow .
Spokane players would like or the day after.
to play without them were it
The Uplander is open, they
not for the insurance made the deadline of Dec. 1.
stipulation.
It's a nice pJace, the thing
Meanwhile, the Warriors that seems to impress most
are still looking for their first people, from what I've heard
win since their surprising are the prices. What else is
victory in Kimberley. Since new?