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In a fitting climax· to a
wonderful curling season, the
Retirees' invitation to the
Trail club was a resounding
success. Everyone I talked to
thoroughly enjoyed the 10-end
rotation matches of which
four were played in the
morning and two in the afternoon. Trail curlers won
three of the games, while the
successful Rossland rinks
were those of George Kent
and Russ Broughton with Carl
Hansen and Angus Popplewell matched up and the
game ending in~ tie.
An enormous pot of the
tastiest clam chowder was
dispensed to all and sundry by
the man who was responsible

were skipped by Doug We started curling with · 12
Harr_ison, Leo Telfer and Phil rinks at 8 a.m., six-end games
Bateman.
were scheduled and each
team played three games, the
Points competition and games were spread through
some pickup four-enders were the day with the last ones
the order of the day _at the finishing around 5 p.m., an
Retirees' windup prior to a hour before we repaired to the
nice chick~n dinner and the l..egion basement clubrooms
annual meeting. The club for one of the LA's famous
retained AngW;i Popplewell bee( sww dinners, followed by
and George Dyson as the presentation ,of the prizes,
president and secretary- both the regular and fun
treasurer respectively, while varieties.
Cleve Cowland comes in as
Winners of the "A" event
first vice-president and Rick were the Jim Bateman rink,
Watkinson, , Russ Broughton with Jim getting top-notch
and Harry Pepper make up a support from two Gils, Besso
and Jensen, and Rossland's
three-man executive board.
During ' the winter I have most avid once-a-year curler,
named the winners of the Freddy Thompson. David
various competitions, so I Davidow's foursome took the
won't repeat them here, "B" competition. -David had
suffice to say the teams two of Fruitvale's stalwarts,
received their awards and Doug Haines and Kenny
. supporting trophies, the fun McCullough, helping him out,
prizes,, a brain-child of along with the guy who would
George Dyson, drew a lot of have won the best beard
chuckles from the attending contest if there had been one,
members. We are almost sure none other than Mike
to have an increase in our · Kraftchick.
membership when the next
The fun prizes drew a lot of
season rolls around, from the laughs as Sam Keith gave one
comments heard at the of his better performances as
windup.
the MC in charge of that
The Legion One-day 'spiel department. Sam does a real
Sunday, March 30 was well good job in this field and some
organized from ~tart to finish. of his explanatory barbs in

for

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creation,

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George

Dyson. Along with buns .and
cheese slices it went nicely
with the coffee or the other
liquid refreshments which
were available and was
responsible for numerous
second helpings. .
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Skips from Trail who had
their usual five-man rinks
were Tony DeBiasio, Ed
Perkins, John Melvin,
"Frenchy" D'Amour, Carl
Hansen and Otto Gill with
Melvin, D'Amour and Gill
being the successful Trail
rinks. Other · Rossland rinks

announcing

really

the

winners?

draw· the applause

from the guests. These prizes
are a One-Day 'Spiel traditioq

and "'.e would certainly ~
them if they were dropped so
let's hope that's never con-;
templated.
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We of the Legion have to ~
so proud of the girls who do
such a bang-up job of
assisting the men's every
effort. Donna, Hedy aod
Joyce stayed with it from
start to finish, · up in the
lounge, selling tickets;
making thqse delicious
sandwiches and then going
down to help the girls in the
kitchen with the meal Ladies
of the auxiliary, we thank you
for your effort and we are
indeed proud of.you all.
Turning from the con•
templation of days gone by to
those to come we can look
forward now to golf, fun:
softball and minor soccer, the
Labatts' season and, if
rumors are correct, we shall
be seeing men's fastball in ,
town again, the first for som~
years.
· Some of us have already
had ·a trip to Colville under
our belt and will be looking
forward . to our first try at
Birchbank, and of course;
when the snow disappears, a
crack at the upper course. •
In the field of minor soccer,
a three-person board has been
chosen to work with and for
. the kids who dig the· soccer
game. The board is co~posed ·
of Shirley Postnikoff, John
Habicht and myself. I certainly hope that some of the
people who 'have been instrumental in running this
sport in recent years will be
around to help with advice;
etc. I imagine we'll be able'to ·
use any we can get.
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There will be registration
forms in the local schools
shortly and registration dates
are Thursday, April 10 and
Saturday, April 12, 6:30 p.iri.
to 8 Thursday and 9:30 to noon
Saturday. If anyone wishes to
bring a completed form and
the .registration fee to the
Recreation office in the arena
prior to Thursday or on
F,riday. they will be accepted,
but ihe' dea,dline is SaturdaY.
So 'if·-YOl\ ,.wisti to play 1lds
summer, y-ou have the choice
o f ~ your form to the Rec

Saturday. If anyone wislm to

bring a completed fonn and
the .registration fee to the
Recreation office in the arena
prior to Thursday or on
Friday,. they will be accepted,
but the dea.dline is SaturJlaj.
So'""ff ~ -'wish to play 1111a
summer, you have the choice
of taking your form to the Rec
Office or attending the
registration da~ on Thl!rsday evening or Saturday
morning at the cio/ hall.
I was otherwise occupied
Saturday morning when the
Labatts had their get-together
but I expect to hear what
transpired from John. Hughes

Jr. in the near future. He was
to let me know when the
league meetings wer,e
scheduled in Nelson, but :I
guess our communlcatloll/3were not in order. I see they
have a scheduled game with
Trail, so I imagine the
schedule must be drawn up.
More on this in the near
future.
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I heard a rumor that John
Stanton was going to try to
raise a fastball team in town
but I didn't get any .details 2'21
yet. As I said earlier, tlUs
would be in the form of
something we hear about
from Trail but haven't seen in
Rossland for some time.
So, all in all, it looks as
though there may be a variety
of sports to watcli this coming
summer, and to particlpa~
in, if one feels so inclined. W~
haven't heard if anyone wm
try· to revive minor ball oi;:
anything on women's softball
yet, but it's quite a possibilit)'.
that there may be action sooq
on either or both.
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