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As everyone who bas bad anything to do with
beading up a committee to nm a clauification and

draw committee for a curling club knows quite well,
you will never make everyone happy. Once in a
while you do something right and while you dan't
expect a commendation for those occasions, the
times that you make a mistake is the time you have
to accept the things that go with the Job and Just try
not to repeat the mistake you Just made the next
time you happen to be in that position.
We of the Retirees Curling Clab in Rolaland
have Just finished one competition and in making
the draw for number two we bad a couple of guys
come in who bad not been able to curl in the first
competition. 1ben the fun started, tbiB party was
put in as lead but felt be was taking an unfair
demotion, it boiled do\lfll to making changes, which
we did to the satisfaction of everyone concerned.
It always seems a pity to me that someone bu
to take the attitude that its demeaning to play in the .
lead position, from the time I started to curl I have
been told that the lead is the one guy on the rink who
can make an end by his delivery of the rocu to a
spot where the skip wants.
Anyway, I guess it goes with the Job, when you
take on tbiB Job you have to be prepared for these
sort of things. I can never understand anyone unwilling to accept any spot on a curling rink. I'm only
too happy to play any place, the skip of a rink bas a
tough Job if his rink does not give him the rocks be
needs, so I would be inclined to think 'its a Job the
holder of which is not to be envied. You get the rocks
where they are needed and provided you get the help
you need, a skip's Job can be a real treat, but it all
depends on the co-operation of all members to make
things click.
Now, to something else. We Journeyed out to
Birchbank for the meeting of the golf club and we

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didn't win too much, the vote to cancel the house
fee of $60 passed on the vote. Other than that we
spent a lot of time listening to people talldng and
sitting with the waning sun causing us to shade our
eyes for a good part of the afternoon. Four new
members were elected to the board of directors and
two of them, Bob Kirby and Bill Vickers, are retired
and so we in that group will now have some extra
reps on the board.
To the Warriors, the management bas asked me
to try and write a history of the club's success or
otherwise since they became one of the original
members of the KIJHL back in 196M9. I remember
well the first meeting I attended when the league's
Western division consisted of Trail, Rossland,
Grand Forks, Nelson and the Castlegar Apollos. I
have been getting lots of help in tbiB effort from
guys like John McFarland Jr. and Ron Cox, for
which I am very grateful.
Saturday night's game again,t the Kimberley
Knights resulted in a win for the Warriors by a good
margin and the penalties were not as frequent as we
have seen in some games. The Kimberley club bas a
number of good boys OD their team but they really
didn't click on the night. The Warriors skated well
and got a few breaks, while the officials seemed to
be willing to keep the penalties to a minimum.
Darryl IJndgren, in his second game in two nights
was once again a real standout.
After the first draw of the Retirees, Jake
IJlbum came out with an unblemished record 9-0,
Carl Seefeldt came next with 11 points while Fred
Munro followed with 10, Bob Stevenson, Phil
Bateman and Dan Burnett tied with nine each,
Pepper and Popplewell tied at seven, Arnold
Vanness six and Russ Broughton 'with four followed
to wind things up.
And with that we'll say,
'Til next time, then!

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