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The upper course looked a loet better after Swiday's

J1lin. Tuesday 34 golfers were out to play name your own
i.mcucap and four fo them hit the magic nwnber which
was 38, Bill Woodburn, Lew Freeman, Russ Broughton
and Marcel Proulx.
'Ibis week's competition was rwi by Bill Chartres and
Archie McCannell and next week it will be handled by
ijuss Broughton and Tim Jenkin, who will name their
pme next Tuesday.
I got lucky again yesterday. I was drawn in the same
foursome as Al Turner, who has a cart, so being as I was
the only one without wheels I was elected to ride with Al.
Oarl Osing and Dave Nicol were our partners. Al had a 39,
Dave 35, while Carl and I both had 37s.
This past weekend saw the passing of a very good
friend of mine. Jim Flanders died suddenly on Swiday
afternoon. Jim and I go back a long way to 1951 when I
~oved to Rossland. He and Bob McCuaig used to help
Dick Udick with his roofing business and I was recruited
to help on occasions. We became very close friends in
ttie>se years and when Dick passed on he left the tar pot to
Jim and Bob. A few years later Bob passed away and Jim
and I kind of dropped out of the business. I helped Jim
Swanson with his business wttil 1974 when I putchased a
pot of my own and Jim and the boys helped me wttil I
retired from Cominco when I sold the pot and quit the
business.
Jim was a Legion buddy and also a charter member of
the Golden City Lions club, a willing gardener and an
expert horseshoe player. One of his favorite pastimes was
to get out and dig up horseradish which he could turn into
a very
sauce. We shall miss Jim coming into the
branch ,riping the imaginary sweat from his brow and
when uked bow his day had been, he'd say, "tough,
tough, tough."
'lbere bas still been nothing official annowiced with
~ to the Warrior hockey situation. The last I heard of
it was when I attended a meeting a month ago, they were
searching for a manager at that time and the talk was
going around that if they didn't get one the team would
have to fold.
Such a happening would be quite a calamity as far as
Rouland is concerned since we have no other indoor
winter sport, except curling. As there is a very good minor

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hockey association bringing some very good youngsters
into the hockey stream, the folding of our junior club
would be quite a blow to the future of these coming stars.
We are now into August and the young Warriors usually
get into training shortly after Golden City Days are over,
arowid the middle of September, preparatory to the
league's • r t early in October. I for one, will sure miss
the games and I can name quite a bwtcb of others. Let's
hope something can be done to prevent this happening.
Maybe we shall hear something in the next few weeks.
Talking to Joe Riley on the course yesterday he tells
me be is going to take in the World Cup of soccer in Mexico
next year. Joe was a very good soccer player in his day,
playing for the Colombos and then later for the Eagles in
the Trail league.
Work on our main street is progressing quite well. The
excavating is now almost completed and the fill is all in
except for one block, with the just blacktop to go it would
appear that all should be in readiness for Golden City
Days, Sept. M-7-8.
. Another item of note scheduled for Rossland is the
reunion of the classes of the '30's and '40's of the high
school The high school in those years was at the Cook
Avenue School and I'm told by one of the organizers that
we can expect nwnbers approaching 500 to be in town for
that weekend of August 16, 17, 18.
As I write this we don't know yet if a baseball strike
can be averted or not. Hit happens and continues for any
length of time it will sure give the sport a very bad Image
in the U.S. for a long time to come.
And with that we'll say, Til' next time, then!