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The Rossland Retirees' they are playing this season, I
Curling Club swung into suppose some of it has a basis
action Friday morning. The in fact, but a lot of it is
boys had had a couple of critical hogwash by quite a
warmup games previously number of people who take a
but now it's down to the nitty- great deal of pleasure out of
gritty. There are some faces it.
missing from our midst, some
I don't have to name
will be playing occasionally, names, the guys that are
some will play a half-season doing it make sure I hear
and leave for warmer climes them up at the arena on
and we have some new faces.
hockey nights and any time it
To date we have named 10 , comes up for discussion. As I
rinks with spares enough to said before that some of it is
man a couple more, but as it factual, but it''s the
always is when we are elaboration of simple stats
dealing with the older people that I can easily get along
there are ~ e who won't feel without.
like playing sometimes and
Sure one or two players are
then the spares will be penalty-prone and are cernee(ied.
tainly not helping the team
The draw will necessitate when serving penalty time.
two rinks to stand by each Perhaps the statistics of the
time we curl as we have only game in Kimberley will help
the four sheets up there and it
might be problematical to get
the extra sheet when we need

it.
Among the missing
, regulars from a year ago are
Leo Telfer, Russ Broughton
and Arnie Vanness, who were
all skips and Dave Tweed and
Father Maglio. Those thrust
into the skip spots are Len
Scott, Dick Cotton, Rich
Watkinson and Jack Mitchell,
the holdover skips are George
:Kent, Phil Bateman, Doug
Harrison, Norm Harry, Angus
Popplewell and George
Dyson.
Among the new faces who
will probably be on deck are
Ernie McGauley, Ab Nichols,
Gordie Brennan, Herb Castle,
Chun

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put the problem in perspective for players who have
been putting in a lot of
penalty-time.
While serving only 14
minutes of penalty time in the
game they skated to an impressive win over one of the
better teams in, the league on
foreign ice. A youngster who
wishes to continue this sort of
performance is bound to be
receptive to a coach's admonitions to stay.as far away
from penalty-time as
possible. We hope this little
thought on the subject will be
taken for what it is worth.
There is no doubt that the
Warriors have a lot of latent
talent on hand this year, -their
skating and passing is as good
as any in the league, the goal
tending is excellent, the

defence thus far has been
questionable in that everyone
is only too willing to miz it up
when trying to protect the
goalie.
You can go so far along this .
line but you have to know
when to stop and that's before
it goes too far and wld8tles
start to blow.
The Warriors don't pick up
too many penalties on attack.
Most of these come when they
try to get out in front of the
opposition net, trying to set up
for a pass, the sticb come up
far too easily and boom, the
next thing you know the sticks
drop and the clutching and
grabbing starts.
Maybe the win in Kimberley will give the boys a

real boost in morale. We can
only say, "Wehopeso."

Among the new faces who
will probably be on deck are

Ernie McGauley, Ab Nichols,
Gordie Brennan, Herb Castle,
Chuck Harkness, Joe Rosse,
Toby Ed worthy, Harry
Lefevre and Ted Holloway
and there may be more
looking to grab a spol
Each team will play nine
games, one against each of
the other teams in the competition and sit out twice
during each trophy run,
making a total of 11 games in
each competition. With a tw~
week lapse for the holidays
we can run three competitions
by the latter pan of March
when they will start thinking
of taking the ice out of the

arena.
Still on curling, this time
the Ladies' Afternoon Club,
word from Dorothy Fines tells
us they have seven rinks this
season. In their first two
outings Dorothy beat Helen
Ling, Marg Rosse won over
Gert Sandulescu and Edie
Harasin beat Fanny Albe;
Marg Harrison bad' the bye.
The next time it was Fines
and Rosse in a tie game, Ling
over Harrison and Sandulescu
over Harasin; Albo bad the
bye.
Next week I will try to
catch up with the Men's Club
and the Business Girls' Club
and anyone else who has
something going.

The landscape in various

parts of Rossland bas really
undergone quite a change in
1980 and we shall soon be able
to assess what these changes
will mean to our city. The
Uplander Hotel is scheduled
to open around the beginning
of December and the two
apartment complexes will
begin to fill up around the

sametime.

.

The one above niy bumble
• abode is really something to
gaze up al They call it the
LeRoi Apartments and I
understand from conversation
with the owner that another

pe In various
parts of RossJand has really
undergone quite a change in
1980 and we shall soon be able

to assess what these changes
will mean to our city. The
Uplander Hotel is scheduled
to open around the beginning
of December and the two
apartment complexes will
begin to fill up around the
sametime. .
The one above niy bumble
abode is really something to
gaze up al They call it the
LeRoi Apartments and I
understand from conversation
with the owner that another
will be started in the spring.
When both are finished there
will be a real hive of activity
on a piece of land which
previo~y was a part of the
wild mountains
which
surround our town.
Speculation is rife around
town as to what is under way
in RossJand, as to what is
going on with all the construction. I guess it is natural
for people to wonder, all this
came on so quickly and the
reasons for it are bound to
cause a lot of thinking people
to ask questions. We would ·
like to know, too.
I have been asked on a
couple of occasions to attend
a midget hockey game when
the Rossland team is playing
and twice I have bad to miss
them.
I'm really sorry that
something else has come up
each time, just give me a call
before your next game and
I'll try to come out and watch
you perform. It's good to see
the kids who will be trying out
for the Warriors in another
year or so. I've been told you
play a pretty good brand of
hockey and I'm looking
forward to seeing you at it.

We bear much criticism of
the Warriors and. the way