myself in administering the
affairs of the Association.

AS I SEE IT
WITH

HARR Y PEPPER
All in all , it has been a busy
week for yours truly . We've
had a Soccer meeting, Fish
Derby Annual Meeting, Skateathon and the Legion One-Day
Bonspiel.
Taking them in that order ,
the Soccer meeting was well
attended , and we were able to
get the groundwork laid for
another season.
The format to be followed
during the coming season will
differ somewhat from that of
past years. This year we will
establish house teams in much
the same manner as that which
the Minor Hockey Association
followed during the past season.
Our reason for doing this is
necessitated by the fact that
there is no way in which we
can afford more than one team
in each division of the league
in which our teams play .
Therefore, we will register
all the boys who wish to play
soccer this summer and form
as many house teams as we
can. From this nucleus will
come the Rep teams in each
division. There will be no set
Rep team and each boy will be
judged by his efforts as to
whether he is picked by the
division management and coaching staff to play in individual
league games .
Registrations will be taken
at the City Hall on Saturday,
April 8th from 10 a.m. to 12
noon and on Tuesday evening,
April nth from 4 to 6 p.m.
Holdovers from last year's
coaching staff who have signified a willingness to assist
again this season are Jack
Fisher, in a limited capacity,
Gerry Bowen and John Hughes .
Add to these Ernie Jacobson,
who helped in a coaching capa city last season, and Juvenile
stars Dave Martin, Joe Hughes ,
Lorne Lambert and Tommy
Stanton . The last two boys have
agreed to handle the " Mosquito' ' division , which was handled last year by presidentelect , Cy Lambert.
Another newcomer to our
board will be Bill Parkinson,
who will join Mrs. Cox and

chairman Johnny Mowatt to the
tiniest youngster who skated,
regardless of whether they
made the required number of
laps or not.
There were some outstanding
performances which went to
build the event into the huge
success it was . I heard all
kinds of stories in regard to
personal efforts by some people
and groups of youngsters .
Lyall LaFace collected some
$!80 in pledges and the kids of
the McLean School topped the
$2000 mark and veteran RCAA
members George Dyson and
Jack cox made good showings
on the blades . They tell me
that George added a special
flair as he rope-skipped twice
around the ice surface to add
yet another donation to the
growing pile of pledges . These
are only a small sample of the
concentration of effort that went
into putting this event over.
Chairman Johnny Mowatt told
me in a phone conversation
Tuesday evening that he expects, when all pledges are
honoured , that the total take
will run over the $500 mark, a
real stunning success story'
I consider.
When I relayed this info to
RCAA prexy Jack Cox, he said
it was a fine effort, but we
cannot lose sight of the fact
that almost twice this much is
needed for the machinery required, and a company which
will supply this article on terms
has riot yet been found.
So come on, put all your
things together and see if we
can come up with something to
put the needed bread on the
RCAA table. It would be a
shame to let the magnificent
effort of the weekend go for
naught.

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On Friday evening the annual meeting of the Irvin Hotel
Fish Derby was held upstairs
in the hotel and was well attended , with some thirty participants . President Gerry Flanagan called upon secy-treas .
Bill Lukkar for the reading of
the minutes of the previous
annual meeting, which were
accepted as read , after which a
report on the recent social
evening which was held in the
Masonic Hall a couple of weeks
back was read into the treasurer 's report and was accepted .
Next business of the meeting
was the election of officers and
president Flanagan was returned for another term , in a fourway battle with Bert Molnar,
Bill Lukkar and " Doc" Halladay . Hotel owner Ray Wesemann was sent to the post of
vice-president
to replace
" Buck" Jones and 19-year-old
Gordon Cardwell was named
secy - treas .
This year 's exec . will consist
of eight board members in
comparison to last year's seven. Vic Mattiazzi, Bill Lukkar,
" Doc" Halladay, Doug Harrison, Bob Glover , Clay Cure,
Bert Molnar and Bert Morrow
were elected and Steve Bowen,
Cam Jensen and Eger Jensen
stepped down .
Ddcisions taken at the meeting included lowering the age
for membership to 19 years and
to continue to bar women from
becoming members of the oneday Derby held annually at
Sheep Creek.
President Gerry has asked
me to express his regret for
not having thanked his last
year' s exec . for the excellent
job they did for him during
the past year and express the
hope that all newcom ers and
holdo\·ers this year will do as
well.

The other event which occupied part of the Arena on the
past weekend was a real fun
thing . It was the annual Legion
One-day spiel held Sunday.
I had signed up as a spare,
mainly because of the fact I
have done a very limited amount
of curling this winterand didn't
really expect to have to do any
curling. However when I arrived at the rink , " Red" Heywood , who is publicity man for
the local branch of the Legion,
was without a rink . As I told
him later that day , the acquisition of myself, plus burly exYorkton Terrier defenceman
Lloyd Reynolds and Harry
Cardwell , didn't prove that he
had one anyway . But we did
win one game and had lots of
fun talking and imbibing some
of that liquid that Fernie is
famous for , to say nothing of
the snacks provided and the
grand supper which finished
off an almost perfect day . The
supper was a credit to the
Ladies Auxiliary of the Legion
and was really enjoyed by all.
Legion President Gil Jensen
thanked all who took part and
invited everyone back next
year. He had a special word for
the man who does such a magnificent job every Legion Spiel
Day , Desi Monaghan, and this
certainly met with everyone 's
approval.

The Skate-athon which was
held at the Arena the past
weekend was a well - handled
event and everyone who was
connected with it is lo be con gratulated for their efforts .
That includes everyone who
took part, from committee

Winner of the " A" event of
the three-game total -point
competition was the Ted Wiltshire rink composed of Bert
Morrow at third , Willy Dorey,
second and Carl Osing, lead.
Runner-up was the Bill Vickers foursome. Bill had Richie
Watkinson at third , Frank Moran of Castlegar, second and
" Little Joe " Thalman, lead.
The " B" event was taken by
the Phil Bateman rink. Phil
had Keith Woods at third , Charlie Miller, second and retired
one-time Trail Blazer hockey
coach Bill Duchak, lead .
Winding up in second place
in " B" was the Tommy Clark
rink composed of Fruitvale's
" Red " Thomas at third , Lefty
John Sawyer , second and Legion barkeep " Rusty " McMillan leading.

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