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Well, first things first, so we'll go right into those
On Friday of last week we travelled to Deer Park,
Retirees golf scores for both weeks at the upper course,
Waab., for their regular Tri-Counties Settler's Day
not so much on the scores but the results are the thing we
celebration. It has always been one of my favorite trips.
shall deal with here. On July 23, Bill Leaman and Eric
Tho members of our sister branch in the V.F. W. branch in
Kohhnan were in charge and they had a varied program
Deer Park always supply our Legion members with v~ry
and those lucky guys who collected balls for their efforts
adequate billeting, either in private homes or by parking
were Don Krug with a 44, just one less than Jim Scott ~ho
their mobile homes conveniently for our use close by the
had 45 in the low gross category, in the least putts section
V.F. W. branch in downtown Deer Park.
it-was Pie LaFace edging Al Turner in the draw, both had
This year we stayed with Jim and Annie Nesdahl at
13s Carl Seefeldt was closest to the pin on nwnber five as
their lovely home about four or five miles outside town.
he put his tee shot just 10 feet from the pin. There were 46
Jim supplied the motor home we stayed in last y~. When
present.
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this year's invitation came it was too good to turn down,
This week Bart and I were responsible and we had low
we had a ball.
net, won by Sam Martin with a 32 and low gross, which
The parade on Saturday morning is one of the
Don Krug won with a really sparklin~ 39. It took ~ee
highlights
of the celebration, about 2½ to three miles of
draws to determine the winners m the remauung
marching on pavement in a hot sun can tame the roughest
categories least putts was won by Ken Davies in a tie with
of them. It was sure good to break off near the City Park
Roger McKeown, both had 13, in the low hidden hold, both
and return to the cool confines of the local Post clubrooms
Jim Scott and Bill Chartres had fours on nwnber seven.
for some very welcome refreshment.
Bill won in a draw from the hat. In the high hidden hole
We would like to say to the Nesdahls and the other
Bart Dudley and John Piva both had eights on nwnber
people
who proved such great hosts. A great big thank
three and Bart had the luck of the draw. A total of~ was
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in attendance.
week Bill Chartres and Archie Mc- ~ you!
On Saturday night I had the pleasure of meeting a
Cannell will conduct festivities with low net and pick your 1.
I- lovely llW.old lady who told me she was the mother-inown handicap the order of the day.
la of "Slinky" Boyce, a former Spokane hockey player.
n I came home I contacted several people from those
Still on golf, you will have noted that a nwnber of R-T n days in hockey in Trail and Rossland. George Ferguson ?f
members visited the Nelson course last week. Bart
Rossland still keeps in touch with Blinky as does HoWie
Dudley, Carl Osing and I were among ~ose ~ttending and
Palmer and several others. Blinky still lives in Spokane
had a good day. Bill Vickers, our retired city manager,
and still retains his Canadian citizenship.
was the only other Rosslander present. Bill is s former
George was telling me several stories about Blinky,
Maple Leaf hockey stalwart and is now enjoying his
one was that owing to his short stocky build he earned the
retirement. That's a nice little course, especially when
JUCkname of the "Fireplug." During the Warrior tenure in
you win a ball. Our foursome, composed of Ken Davies of
the seniors, besides George, we had guys like Don FletR-T myself and Bert Sutherland and Roy Waddell of
cher, Vic Lofvendahl, Yogi Kraiger, Frank Turik, Hal
Ne~n compiled a very respectable 132 to take third spot
Jones, Pinoke McIntyre, Bud Andrews and names ~e
in the over-all team totals for low net.
that while along with Blinky on Spokane were guys like
On the way home we visited friends in the Nelson
Roy McBride, Lome Nadeau, Carl Cirullo and John
Legion and the Castlegar branch and wound up a very
Sofiak.
successful day at Branch No. 14 in Rossland,
While having lunch on Sunday prior to leaving for
I had a call from Larry Lavigne, former resident o
.__ I ran into another Spokane stalwart of another era.
Rossland, now living in Summerland, to join him for a few
rJ,rrj Palanio came along a little later and generally
rounds on the Summerland course. He tells me his game
made life miserable for a lot of guys who played in the
has really picked up since he went to the Okanagan.
WIHL. He was a very robust player, some had another
WHile on golf, I haven't seen too many names on the
word for it but we won't mention that here.
list for the annual Legion East-West Kootenay golf
Larry looks as though he could still go a full gam~.
tourney which is held each year at the Creston course.
Maybe we'll see him in action in the fun tourney we hold m
This year the date is August 10, just a little over a week
Rossland one of these days, a Spokane team always comes
away. If you haven't seen a list, send your names along to
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me and I'll pass 'em on, phone 362-5205 or write Box 983,
u · I think we are going to be visited by quite a bunch of
Rossland. Maybe 1we can just bring back that East-West
Deer Park people during Golden City Days. We were
title. The $25 entry fee pays your green fees plus a pretty
asked a lot of questions and I'm sending down some copies
fine banquet. The course is a very tricky one in case this
of OID' program. J think you'll like them!
may be your first trip over there.
TW ~xt time then!
One Rosslander resented me calling the winner of the
British Open a Britisher. He said, "Why not call him a
Scot that's what he is." It's the first time I've ever heard
of a guy with a name like Sandy Lyle being mistaken for
anything but a Scot.