6-Trail Times-Friday, April 16, 1982

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Recently we saw the
windup of all winter activities in Rossland except
for two. They are, in order of
popu]arity, skiing and snowshovelllng.

When we held our Retirees
curling windup there were
those who were · contemplating a visit to the golf
course on the following day,
however the weathennan
had other ideas and he has
seen fit to put a considerable
damper on our thoughts
along those lines.
I had a chat with Bob Ir-

vine recently and he told me
the fairways are in
reksonably good shape but
the greens are beautiful.
Sounds good. Hope we get
out there this week.
I asked Bob how soon he
thought the Upper Course
would be ready. As he left he
said over his shoulder, "In
about a month."
On March 31 I was invited
to the Minor Hockey windup
supper and presentation of
awards. President Gary
Holm told of an excellent
season. After a very nice

meal served by the minor MacArthur treasurer,
hockey ladies the presen- Gordon Turnbull is vicetation of awards was con- president and Jim Schuck is
referee-in-chief.
ducted.·
The coaching jobs are
In the Pee Wee division
there were two sets of being adequately handled by
awards. In one section, people like Joe Zanussi of the
Craig Holm won the most Novices, Geoff Chambers
sportsmanlike trophy and and Ron Paolini with the
Craig Sinclair was judged Atoms, the Pee Wees' Lou
the most improved. In the DeRosa and Brett Drake,
other, Mark McAuley was Rod 1.avaduk assisting Rich
the most sportsmanlike and Cbobanuk with the Bantams
Jim Drake the most im- and Gary Bartsch and Brett
Drake look after the fortunes
proved.
In the Bantam section, of the combined Midget and
Rich Chobanuk's fine young Juveniles section.
Turning once more to
group of kids, who went to
the provincials in Enderby thoughts of summer, John
this season, was awarded Habicht has passed along the
both trophies and medallions following. Rossland's Slowfor a great effort. This writer Pitch Ball League will hold
would like to add his ap- its annual general meeting
preciation to all the people on Monday in the Curling
who were instrumental in Lounge at 7:30 p.m. Any new
helping develop this fine players wishing to sign up
group of youngsters.
for the upcoming season are
The Krest Memorial asked to contact Jim Ling at
Trophy, emblematic of the 362-5003, the season is exmost sportsmanlike player ~ to get started in early
in the Midget divisionwas
won this year by KeMy Drake. David Fisher
received te most improved
award in this section.
The Juveniles give only
one trophy, to the player
adjudged the most sportsmanlike and this season it
was won by Mark Haynes.
The Minor Hockey ·
program in Rossland is very
much alive. The people who
support it are very dedicated
and have been into it for
some time. The program will
never be a big one since we
do not have a large
population and the other
programs are also attractive
to you youngsters.
Gary Holm heads up a
hard-working bunch of
people; Chris Ling is
secretary,
Maurice

May.
The first thing we know we
shall be into the baseball

season, soccer, swimming,
etc. Of course, we still have

hockey playoffs in the NHL
and some minor champs to
be declared. On the agenda
for at least another month,
people all over are starting
to make their fearless
predictions on the Stanley
Cup.
The Rossland Labatts are
going to go all out this season
to see if they can come up
with a wiMer. I see a
number of prospective
players working ot by
running and the team will
encourage a youth
movement. This method
seemed to do the job for the
Trail boys and no doubt the
Labatts are thinking along
those lines too, if you should
wish to give it a try why not
contact
Armindo
DeMedeiros at 364-1473 or
Joe Hughes at 362-5118.