Trail Times-Fr,, F9bruary 25, 1983 _
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The Play-for-Fun tour- were not full for the games
nament over the weekend but the upstairs lounge was a
' saw 12 games played over very · busy spot both days
the two-day event All games from opening time on.
There were three games
got started on time and the
officiating was of a high decided by the shoot-out
route with Castlegar taking
calibre.
In the "A" final it was the part in two of them. Two
. unbeaten Silver City 89ers games bad a one-goal
winning over Castlegar in margin separating the
the only shutout of the teams. All in all it was a
tourney. After two periods of successful venture by the
the ''B'' final the Rossland bard-working boys that run
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Skidders were in front with a the Rossland Fun League.
· goal in each period. In the One sad note that marred the
pleasant
final period the Blazers from otherwise
Beaver Valley bad to open proceedings; Arnie Sherup to try to tie things up, wood was stricken while
' however, they fell victims to refereeing one of the games
a four-goal outburst by and the ambulance bad to
Rossland and only managed remove him to the hospital. I
certainly hope be comes out
two of their own.
The 6-2 win was earned by . of it O.K. and I wish him a
the Skidders but was fiercely fast and complete recovery.
I was put in charge of the
contested by the Blazers'
diminutive goalie Dan timekeeping crew and want
Posnikow, who, if such an to thank the following people
award was given in this for the time they put in:
tourney, would have been a Herb Castle, Dan Feeney,
· prime favorite for a most Ken Stanton and Jack Cox
valuable player award. from the Lions Club and
Some of the saves be made in those who also came along to
this tourney were really help out Isobel Burbridge,
Tommy and Mike Feeney
something to see.
The Skidders and Beaver and Bob Syverson, Jim
Valley were the busiest Schuck and Sam Keith also
teams on the weekend, each filled in a spot or so.
playing four games while
One of the referees was
Castlegar, Rossland Labatts Clyde Moore who works. bis
and Genelle as well as the butt off in the promotion of
winning 69ers bad three each local hockey particularly in
while Grand Forks lost both the minor field. Clyde was
of their starts as did the telling me that they have an
Trail Glaciers. The stands Atom House League tourney

coming up on March the 4-'
weekend in Rossland arena
~th 14 teams in attendance
from Beaver Valley, Nelson,
Castlegar, Grand Forks,
Trail and Rossland. Each
player in the tourney will get
a medal with a gold and
silver going to the winners
and runners-up of each of the
three sections the tourney
will be divided into.

All house league teams in
the area are expected to be
there and there will be three
games in each section
starting at 4:30 p.m. on
Friday and continuing until 9
p.m.. Saturday play will
commence at 7:30 a.m. and
at 11:45 there will be a break
for opening ceremonies with
local dignitaries in attendance. Clyde also stated
that he hopes lots of people
will find time to take in the
games. Tournament passes
and day tickets will be
available and the final game
will be played on Sunday
afternoon.
Dan Mailey of the Trail
69ers approached me over
the weekend to tell me about
a tournament that the 69ers
will be holding in the
Rossland arena on March~
27. He would like to use the
same group of timekeepers
and scorekeeprs who were in
action this past weekend and
will give me more details on
this proposed 20-plus team

tourney as final figures are
known.
In the Rossland curling
club on March 6 the Mixed
Curling Club of Rossland will
put on a one-day affair with
six-end games and a sitdown supper plus refreshments. Teams will be picked
out of the hal They have a
fairly good list up now and if
memory serves me right the
closing date is Feb. ~On March 27 it will be the
Legion taking over for a day
as they host their annual
one-day spiel. This is an allmale affair with the Legion
women putting on the aftercurling supper in the Legion
after the games. Curlers are
needed to fill the roster for
this one and local Legion
branches will be invited to
attend in bunches. The rinks
for this one are also drawn
from the bat and the fee is
always quite moderate.
I can't close this one
without extending my
contratulations to the two
rinks which went to the
Seniors playoffs in
Castlegar. Phil Bateman
won one game out of the four
he played while Angus
Popplewell's rink took four
out of five. A · former
Rossland skip now living on
Nelson's North Shore was
the eventual winner. He is
George Beaudry and will go
on to contest in the
provincial playdowns.