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In last week's column I noted that the Retirees
of the upper course group bad done some clean-up
work. A couple of days ago, Joe Bielll, who was
more or less in charge of this busy group, gave me
a list on their activities.
First, the group who participated were Joe,
Rich Watkinson, Percy Cutler, Sammy Anselmo,
Ferro Pelllgrin, Bill Vickers, and Roger McKeown.
The work accomplished was cleaning up on 115 hill
alongside the tow, ·some work on the tow wheels
while on #6 and #7 fairways dead trees and branches were removed.
This is not the first time this group has been
active in adding a little extra muscle to the work of.
the grounds crew. They have the time and they
don't mind doing it and it helps for better relations
all round. Last year a lot of this same group did a
lot of work on the rebuilding of #9 green.
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That was a major project and Stan Fisher was
one of the people who added some extra help to get
it done. Stan is another of our good retiree members who does a lot for the club.
Now, we come to some good weather we hope,
Tuesday was a real nice morning and 74 of the
faithful were on deck for low gross, low net, longest
putt on #9, closest to the pin on #5, and least putts.
Competition was under the close scrutiny of Chief
Buna, Marcel Proulx and Joe Riley. When all was
tallied up, Jim Scott's card showed a 38 for low
gross, Morris Sawyer took low net with a 34, Emil
Kwasney bad about a plus 20 footer for the long
putt on #9, while Ken Davies bad a good drive to
end up about 4 feet from the pin on #5 while Bill
Batiuk bad the least putts, just ten for the nine
holes. The lunch was a toasted ham and cheese
sandwich with a side dish of baked beans and
generous slices of ham and pork in them. An excellent lunch for a very reasonable price and don't
forget it happens every Tuesday as the Retirees
meet at the upper course. Given some warm
weather we may even add to our present great
totals in attendance.
Well, the Stanley Cup is resting on the Oilers

trophy case today despite the more than superb
work of a young fellow by the name of Hextall. You
could almost say the Philadelphia netminder was
nothing less than spectacular in his efforts to
defend his citadel against a team that can get goals
from practically every member of the club and
from practically every angle. I heard a much
ballyhooed member of the Oilers when he was
asked if he though that the Flyers' goalie desened
the Most Valuable Player award, he said, ''Who
else would you give it to?" I think he answered the
question pretty adequately. Don't you?
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I am told that I made an error in my
description of the status of our local Bocce league
when I described it as Legion~ I guess I
errored all right but with the club having a goodly
number of Legion members playing and the Legioo
pits being used, you'd have a real hard time of
convincing a lot of people that the Legion doesn't
have some clout in the club. However, be that as it
may we won't get too involved in an argument over
this, it's a good game and enjoyed by all who take
part, I think!
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I'm looking forward to getting some nice warm
weather so that I can get out and enjoy some of the,
I'm told, exciting ball games being played in our
various leagues. Oh well, I don't think it can stay
this cold that much longer, I hope. How about you?
I heard several funny stories about the onlMlay
strike and the way it was run. I enjoyed 'em all. I
bad reports from two sources on Monday at the
golf course. One told of being prevented from going
into the course at the highway entrance about two
hours later another source who made it told me
that Local 480 members were having a ball down
the ·course. Any way I was too busy to go down on
Monday so it didn't bother me too much. We bad
pickets at the Legion when I went down to open up
but they didn't stay when the members started to
come in, Im told they were gone around 4 p.m.
So, I'll say, bye-bye for now
'Til next time, then!