6 - Trai l Times - Friday, January 29, 1982

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Canada's annual exlravaganza for kids, which
iad its birthplace in the
!'rail district, Minor Hockey
Week, was held all across
he country last weekend. In
~ land it was a big thing
r the kids of our town and
orded a lot of pleasure for
uite a number of adults as
ell.
Thanks to the good offices
Barb Armour of our minor
ey executive, I got a
tty complete report of the
ppenings at the rink. I was
ble to attend because of
,ur Legion installation
remonies, and Barb did
r usual thorough job of
tting me in the picture.
The opening ceremony
sat 2:45 with Gary Holm,
ident of the Rossland
· or Hockey Association,
cti ng as master of
Alderman
enks spoke to those
~mbled on behalf of the
·ty and Golden City Days
ue en Margit Pistak
opped the puck for the

opening faceoff.
The Novices, as they
always do, performed with
all the zest they could
muster and came up with a
very entertaining game.
This group of 25 boys is
coached by Rich Chobanuk
and Joe Zanussi.
The second game was
between the Atom "A" team
and the Atom "B" with the
" B" team coming out on top,
coaches of these boys are
Geoff Chambers and Lou
DeRosa.
In the third game of the
day the Pee Wee "A" battled
the "B" squad and the "A"
team were victorious. These
youngsters are coached by
Gary Holm and Brett Drake.
Next up were the Rossland
Bantams waho had a team
from Trail for opposition.
These youngsters, who we
saw in action a couple of
weeks back in action against
the Swedish touring team,
were the winners in this
game and are a very well
coached club thanks to the

efforts of Rich Chobanuk and
Rod Zavaduk.
In the final game of the
night the Junior Warriors
were in action against the
Creston Clippers. It was the
first meeting of the season
between the two teams in
regular league play and
Creston came out on top by
an 8-6 score. As a tribute to
Minor Hockey Night, a
young Atom player, fiveyear-old Bruce Armour, was
allowed to start at centre for
the Warriors with his
brother, Warrior regular
Scott, on right wing. After a
couple of tries Bruce
managed to put the puck in
the net. It was retrieved by
the ref and given to Bruce as
a memento of Minor Hockey
Night.
This is always a great
night for the kids and they
can always be depended
upon to give the folks a
greatly entertaining show.
While on the subject of
.hockey, the two games the
Warriors lost last weekend

could go a long way towards
sealing fifth-place fate. Had
they won them both, with
seven games left to play,
they could have breathed a
little easier, now they are
faced with a monumental
task, win all the remaining
games and hope the opposition loses, they don't
meet Beaver Valley or the
Rebels again in regular
league play.
Creston, a team who had
won only seven games prior
to coming here, are the
opposition on their own ice in
one of the remaining games.
While the doormats of the
West division, the Border
Bruins, have two games
against the Rossland team,
one is a make-up game
which will be played in
Grand Forks this coming
weekend, according to
Rossland manager, Doug
Hinton.

overcame a three-ender
start by Phil Bateman to win
his way into a spot in the
playdowns, now Phil and
George must tangle to see
who goes to the other spot,
each club in the association
is allowed a rink for every 25
members, so we are allowed
two.
In our second competition,
just completed, it was Dick
Cotton with 14 points from
nine games while Angus
Popplewell and 'Phil
Bateman followed with
thirteen. The dark horse I
mentioned last week, George
Dyson, closed fast and was
fourth with 12. There was a
bunch at seven apiece and
Norm Harry brought up the
rear with six.
The Legion's popular Pol
'o' Gold has been closed
down again as have the
weekend sweeps. George
Dyson of the entertainment
committee reported tha
during their brief run the two
games had provided ovem
$500 to be used for bursaries
and hospital donations. Let's
hope the green light will be
given for these worthwhile
charitable opportunities to
re-open in the near future.

The curling season for the
Retirees has entered the fun
stage now as we start the
final competition of the
season, this is rotation play
throughout and some of our
newer members are getting
a taste of what the skips' job
is all about. It will be fun to
watch which of them can
The
installation
handle the job which so far ceremonies at the club was a
they have only watched very well-conducted affa ·
somebody else do.
with a dance to the popula
We are into the final round Breezin'
orchestr
of our playoff to see which of following, Barney Boychu](
our rinks will play for our of the Trail branch and his
club in the over~O playdown popular wife, Jean, did the
at the rink in mid-February. honors in the absence ol
Wednesday the George " Bucko" Lapointe our ZonE
Dyson rink was able to come Chairman from Nelson, wh~
up with a win over Arnold was prevented from at•
Vanness ' rink and so tending because of the awful
eliminated Arnold from the weather over the las
playoff. Angus Popplewell weekend.