Well, the big hoorah is
over and we hope it will be
at least another four or five
years before we have to go
through that again. Even in
Kootenay West, Bob Brisco
managed to rally the
~pport around him to get
the job done. Let's hope
Brian Mulroney's ideas
will now be put into place.
It would be a great thing to
see our country's fortunes
~hange for the better.
I don't know if it was the
aura of the election but we
bad 40 out on the Rossland
course on Tuesday morl)ing and they moved
around the course with
alacrity. We were led by
our perennial · earlystarting foursome of Jim
and Willie Scott, Ernie
Primeau and Harvey
McKay. These boys are on
number one tee every week
by 7:30 and yesterday the
whole group moved along
quite well and all were in
the clubhouse well before

lla.m.

The delicious breakfast
put up by Debbie and
Munro at an absolutely
ininimal cost, is really well
teceived. Tuesday being
election day, there were no
refreshments to be bad,
one thing a lot of us look
forward to after a
sometimes exasperating
round of golf.
Anyway, Al Turner took
on the job of masterminding this week's event
and did a real good job. Al's
usual golf partner, Noland
Garrison, was off on a visit
to Calgary this week, so Al
didn't bother going out to
play. It was low net, low
gross, long putt on number
nine and a couple of hidden
holes. In the low net
~ompetition I must have
done something right for a
~hange as I came up with a

33 to take top honors for
that class. George Pearson
had a 43 to take low gross,
Bob Glover, a relative
newcomer to our retiree
ranks, sank a 16-footer to
take the long putt on
number nine. In the hidden
hole low it was Roger
McKeown with a five on
number six in a draw with
13 others and Bernie
Ferrey took the hidden hole
high with an eight on
number seven.
As to next week, we will
be out there on the course
but our numbers could
suffer because that Is the
day the ladies invite us to
play Birchbank with them.
Still on golf, the annual
invitational from Christina
Lake is on Thursday and
it's a real pleasure to join
all our group on that trip. I
understand the end of this
month will see the official
closing of the Rossland
course. A skeleton crew
will remain, I'm told, and
the retirees will be offered
the chance to run things
down there until the snow
flies.
I have to tell you about
two Trail athletes, Eileen
Volpatti and · Carla
DiBiasio, who were
sponsored by the Legion to
take part in a national
track meet held at St
Mary's University in
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Eileen and Carla come
from athletic families in
Trail and came back from
the meet with three bronze
medals.
One of the Golden City
Days events this year is a
soccer tournament, teams
competing will come from
Coeur d'Alene, Castlegar,
Fruitvale and Grand Forks
as well as the Rossland
Retreads. First games in
the tourney will be played

in Rossland's Jubilee Park
and Haley Park in Warfield
at6p.m.
And so, with that, we'll
say, till next time!