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Trail Times- Friday, February l l,

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During the past weekend
two events took place in
Rossland that were interesting.
One was the Tier 2 Bantam
tournament in the arena
involving a total of seven
teams from the Kootenays
and Okanagan. The other
was the Ladies' Curling Club
Winter Wonderland 'spiel
involving 20 rinks from
Rossland, Trail, Castlegar
and Beaver Valley.
The hockey tournament
started Friday with two
games. One featuring the
host team versus Castlegar
and the other between teams
who had travelled from the
farthest distance away Kimberley against Penticton.
By the time this was over
four teams contested for the
championship. Beaver
Valley went down to
Rossland in the first game
while Grand Forks scored
their goals in bunches to beat
Oliver 124.
The final game saw
Rossland completely
dominate the final to beat
Grand Forks 7-2 as Ken
MacArthur had a field day
scoring four of Rossland's
goals.
After each game of the
semis and finals, the teams
were lined up and each
player received a medal
while coaches and managers
were given testimonials. It
was a very well-run tournament throughout and a lot

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of the credit must go to the
arena staff of Desi and
Nancy for their prompt care
of ice during and between
games.
Starting with Clyde Moore
as tournament chairman
down through a multitude of
willing helpers, referees and
linesmen, scorekeepers and
announcers, goal judges,
Greta and her ticket help to
association
president
Gordon Turnbull, the handling of the various jobs was
a credit to everyone concerned.
Rossland's entry in the
tournament, coached by
Rich Chobanuk and
managed by Dan Castle,
were definitely the class of
the tournament. This team
put together a number of
years ago by Maurice
MacArthur and a bunch of
interested people when the
kids were of the Atom group
age, have been the scourge
of every division they have
participated in since that
time.
Known affectionately in
Rossland as the "Green
Machine" in their early
days, these kids show the
advantage of playing
together over the years and
particularly of late, the
advantages of excellent
coaching. It is very seldom
that one sees these kids
caught off balance or out of
position.
Before I go into the details
of t~1e Ladies' 'spiel, I would

like to correct a statement
made in this column one
week ago to the effect that
ladies would be allowed into
the Legion one-day spiel
March 27. This, I have been
informed is not so.
The rules of this annual
affair have not been changed
and will continue to be open
to male members of the
organization only. The
suggestion it is open to
women was made because it
was thought there might not
be enough men to make the
effort worthwhile. The idea
has since changed. We feel
we have all the men needed
to make the popular annual
affair a success.
Now, to the Ladies' 'spiel.
The entry of 20 rinks was
quite good and the 'spiel was
divided into four competitions and there were four
prizes in each. I just watched
the Sunday play which was
pretty good.
Three raffles were held
and food and refreshments
were available at all times.
The lounge, dressing rooms
and curling rink were all
decorated in the ladies'
inimitable fasion and the
hospitality was of the highest
calibre.
The host club placed seven
winners out of the 16. Seven
more were Trail rinks and
one each came from Beaver
Valley and Castlegar. One of
the Trail rinks had a skip
from Kaslo and one

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Rossland rink had a couple
of Trail players on it.
The Joyce Mackie rink had
the Kaslo skip and along
with Elsie Shorthouse,
Sharon Young and Karen
LeMoel won the "A" event
by defeating Vi Krest of
Rossland. Vi had Lil Molnar,
Donna Price and Grace
Reese. The Fletcher rink of
Trail had Laureen Lloyd,
Leanne Paul and Dorothy
Merkley and came third
while Fanny . Albo of
Rossland had Ruth Dougan,
Fran Zanussi and Laura
Thompson took fourth.
In the "B" it was Linda
Acton, Gail Schmidt, Fern
Acton and Marjory Culley of
Trail of Trail in first place,
Doreen Burnham of the Trail
Club with Lena Arcuri,
Darlene Soligo and Jan
Baldassi, second, Michelle
Roberts of Castlegar, Ann
Stasila, Pat Verzuh and
Verna Dawson in third spot
while Enza Boutry of
Rossland landed in fourth.
She had Dianna Jones,
Karen Tyler and Jan Ball.
The "C" event was a
victory for Barb Wilcox of
the Beaver Valley club who
haq Ann McLean, Mary
Sorenson and Sarah Wilcox
as backup. Then came three
Rossland rinks in this order
of second, third and fourth.
Ollie Schulz, Gert Sandulescu, Dorothy Lilburn
and Jan Westbury followed
by Dorothy Fines, Eileen

Macdonald, Carol Jackson
and Helen Blackie, then
came Irene Dunlop, Lucille
Lepine, Arlene DiPasquale
and Ev Ellis.
In "D" it was Grace
Merlo's Trail foursome of
Eileen Holm, Colleen Sanders and Laurie McLeod,
first. Dorothy Muir of Trail
second. She had Lydia
Vellutini, Claire McAulay
and Val Farnsworth with
her. Dorothy Albo of
Rossland took third along
with Beryl Davis, Bev
Vanderzalm and Tina
Drake. In fourth spot was
another Trail rink, Joyce
Schroeder. With her were
Ann Stefani, Terry Sokolic
and Sharon Parisotto.
Vi Krest's rink was four
down coming home in their
semi-final game in the "A"
event. Undaunted, Vi went
on to take four points for a tie'
and then outdrew her opponent in the tie-breaker to
go on to the final where she
made another comeback
before being edged by the
Mackie rink.
On behalf of the Orwell
Derby Club executive, I
would like to remind anyone
·wis~g to take in the
banquet and dance that
Sunday is the deadline for
tickets. By the talk around
town, it should be well attended. Bob Glover advised
me that there are some
tickets still available and
can be purchased by phoning
him.

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