Trail Times-Friday, February 18, 1983- -- - - - - - - - - - -- - - -- -

On Sunday morning we
took a ride out to Nancy
Greene Lake and helped out
as the Rossland Golden City
Lions Club and its sister
club from Castlegar got
together to do their annual
stint for the Crippled
Children of B.C.
This event is called the
Snowarama and takes place
every year in the late winter
starting from a base set up
at the junction of the two
highways from Castlegar
and Rossland on the way to
the Coast.
The local Sno-Goers club
get together on that day to
honor the pledges their
backers have donated by
riding their snowmobiles
over about 100 miles of
pretty rough terrain in the
mountains to the north of the
highway. They own a cabin
out there in the mountains
and the drive there and back
constitutes one half of the
necessary mileage.
These adventurous souls
make one round trip starting
at about 8 a.m. and get back,
have lunch and set out again
to complete their journey.
This year a Castlegar rider
completed his ride and was
back in camp before 1: 30
p.m.
This year there were 12
riders and they collected
around $5,000 in pledges
towards the cause of the
needy children. it was a very
nice day for the event this
year, not too cold and the sun
even came out for a while.
Gordie Phillips, Wayne
Ashley, Del Ferrel, Arnie
Lindgren, Bruce Edmison,
Jim Schuck, George Tomick,
Ken Profili, Gary Drake and
myself represented the
Rossland Lions and there
were also a number of
members of the Castlegar
Lions acting in various
capacities on hand to help
out. This is a very worthy

cause. Although the number
of riders was down this time
around, the pledges donated
proves the work was worth
it.
One day last week I ran
into Ron Fabbro in the
Legion in Rossland. Ronnie,
whom I used to coach a while
back, was telling me that he
and a bunch of his former
teammates got together a
while back to play a game of
basketball against a Trail
team. Ronnie's teammates
in the hoop game were
Tommy Thompson, Albert
Holm and Ernie Severs and
they were aided by their old
high school coach George
Bloor. Incidentally, Ronnie's
team won the game.
Turning to curling for a
moment, two teams from the
Retirees' club have won the
right to go into the seniors'
playdowns being held in
Castlegar. Going on this
jaunt will be teams skipped
by Angus Popplewell and
Phil Bateman. Angus has
Russ Broughton playing
third, Gil Besso second and
Cleve Cowland lead while
Phil has Rich Watkinson,
Joe Rosse and Carl Seefeldt
in that order.
The Rossland Legion darts
team chartered a bus last
weekend to go out to
Castlegar for a dart tourney.
In the ensuing play the
Rossland team took second
place to the Trail Legion
with the host branch•winding
up third.
Dennis Irons, who made
arrangements for the trip
took 15 other players with
him and the other two
branches had a like number.
In 36 games played Trail
won 14 edging Rossland by
one. Castlegar won nine.
Dennis tells me Nelson and
Beaver Valley were su1r
posed to show up too but
failed to put in an a1r
pearance.

This coming weekend the
Rossland
play-for-fun
hockey group hosts its annual tournament with eight
teams from around the
district battling it out for the
championship
trophy.
Starting at 8 a.m. Saturday
morning the two Rossland
entries, Labatts and Skidders, will be in competition
with teams from Trail,
Genelle, Castlegar, Grand
Forks and Beaver Valley.
If you have nothing else
planned for the weekend
drop around for a look-see.
The cost is minimal and
you'll see some pretty exciting games played and
there are always lots of eats
and drinks available. When
they call this a fun tournament, they really mean
what they say.
Well, the Warriors have
had it for this season. For a
while there it looked as
though they had the
momentum going for them.
The Nelson kids seemed to
falter but it was the Nelson
juniors who got it together in
the stretch while the
Warriors
floundered
especially after losing Rod
Diebert with an ankle injury.
The Moose Jaw youngster
was a key man on the
Rossland blueline and was
badly missed in the last few
games. I guess the game
that hurt the Warriors most
was the loss at home to the
Nelson team in the final
game between the two. The
loss seemed to take a lot of
the starch out of the team
and the loss in Grand Forks
wrote the obit for this year.
The playoffs could hold a
number of surprises. Both
the Valley teams in the East
could cause some trouble
and don't dismiss Spokane
either. Traill will probably
win the West but we could
have a surprise here too.
That's it for this week.

ana Hossiana on me way to
the Coast.
The local Sno-Goers club
get together on that day to
honor the pledges their
backers have donated by
riding their snowmobiles
over about 100 miles of
pretty rough terrain in the
mountains to the north of the
highway. They own a cabin
out there in the mountains
and the drive there and back
constitutes one half of the
necessary mileage.
These adventurous souls
make one round trip starting
at about 8 a.m. and get back,
have lunch and set out again
to complete their journey.
This year a Castlegar rider
completed his ride and was
back in camp before 1:30
p.m.
This year there were 12
riders and they collected
around $5,000 in pledges
towards the cause of the
needy children. it was a very
nice day for the event this
year, not too cold and the sun
even came out for a while.
Gordie Phillips, Wayne
Ashley, Del Ferrel, Arnie
Llndgren, Bruce Edmison,
Jim Schuck, George Tomick,
Ken Profili, Gary Drake and
myself represented the
Rossland Lions and there
were also a nwnber of
members of the Castlegar
Lions acting in various
capacities on hand to help
out. This is a very worthy

m 1.ne nuop game were
Tommy Thompson, Albert
Holm and Ernie Severs and
they were aided by their old
high school coach George
Bloor. Incidentally, Ronnie's
team won the game.
Turning to curling for a
moment, two teams from the
Retirees' club have won the
right to go into the seniors'
playdowns being held in
Castlegar. Going on this
jaunt will be teams skipped
by Angus Popplewell and
Phil Bateman. Angus has
Russ Broughton playing
third, Gil Besso second and
Cleve Cowland lead while
Phil has Rich Watkinson,
Joe Rosse and Carl Seefeldt
in that order.
The Rossland Legion darts
team chartered a bus last
weekend to go out to
Castlegar for a dart tourney.
In the ensuing play the
Rossland team took second
place to the Trail Legion
with the host branch•winding
up third.
Dennis Irons, who made
arrangements for the trip
took 15 other players with
him and the other two
branches had a like nwnber.
In 36 games played Trail
won 14 edging Rossland by
one. Castlegar won nine.
Dennis tells me Nelson and
Beaver Valley were supposed to show up too but
failed to put in an appearance.

p1annea tor tne weeKena
drop around for a look-see.
The cost is minimal and
you'll see some pretty exciting games played and
there are always lots of eats
and drinks available. When
they call this a fun tournament, they really mean
what they say.
Well, the Warriors have
had it for this season. For a
while there it looked as
though they had the
momentwn going for them.
The Nelson kids seemed to
falter but it was the Nelson
juniors who got it together in
the stretch while the
Warriors floundered
especially after losing Rod
Diebert with an ankle injury.
The Moose Jaw youngster
was a key man on the
Rossland blueline and was
badly missed in the last few
games. I guess the game
that hurt the Warriors most
was the loss at home to the
Nelson team in the final
game between the two. Tbe
loss seemed to take a lot of
the starch out of the team
and the loss in Grand Forks
wrote the obit for this year.
The playoffs could hold a
number of surprises. Both
the Valley teams in the East
could cause some trouble
and don't dismiss Spokane
either. Traill will probably
win the West but we could
have a surprise here too.
That's it for this week.

SNOWARAMA was responsible for raising more than $5,000 to help crippled children
last Sunday at Nancy Greene Junction. The riders included Reiny Bermel who collected
in excess of $1 ,500 in pledges. It was sponsored by the Lions Clubs