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· Some of
readers who play golf around the
country will possibly have played the Chewelah
golf course. I did that on Saturday. The occasion
was a tourney put on with collaboration of a V.F.W.
Post of Spokane and the Legion post in Chewelah,
to improve the relationship between those people
and the West Kootenay Zone of the Royal Canadian
Legion.
The course, for those of you who may not have
played it, has narrow fairways, tree-lined from tee
to green, with a couple of water hazards which are
placed so that an errant long drive can find them
quite easily. I think the most prominent feature are
the cart paths around the course. The old advice
about "follow the yellow-brick road" from the
Wizard of Oz is very appropriate here, as they are
all strewn with yellow-brick dust which must be
quite a picture from the air.
The property along the fairways makes fine
land to build on and there are a number of fine
country homes lining most of the fairways. From
what we could observe most of the rest of the land
is for sale. A rather deep canyon runs through most
of the course and the crossing of these with carts is
made very simple with the yellow paths crossing it
at several intervals.
After the golf was over, we were welcomed by
a well-known Spokane VFW member, Jim King,
who was standing by on the course with all the
necessities of life. In a beautiful motor home and
the hungry players lost no time in helping themselves to the stacks of meats, cheese, crackers and
all the liquid refreshments that were on hand.
We then went to the Legion post in town and
. later on sat down to a steak supper and a short .
meeting which saw distribution of awards take
place and talk of the next year's event which will
take place in Canada, hopefully in the RosslandTrail-Castlegar area.
Bart Dudley and Carl Osing were my partners
on the trip and Bart and I played together with two
Americans while Carl was in the foursome ahead
of us. It was a fine day's outing, good company, a
good course to play on and new friends to meet. It
rained for a short time while we played the first
couple of holes, but with lots of trees to rest under
between shots it made keeping reasonably dry not
too tough.
Now to something else, last Friday I had a call
from Darryl LeMoel from the Trail Recreation
Department telling me about the Fitness Challenge
between people of Trail and surrounding districts
versus those living in a similar area in the vicinity
of Port Moody. People are being asked to participate in this event which takes place on May 28.
It seems to me that I read somewhere this happened last year and our area edged out the

cballenge put on by Port Moody by a narrow
percentage point margin. Darryl would like some
extra publicity for this event with hope that we
shall again win the contest. Maybe this time by a
bigger margin. So come on all you golfers, hikers,
runners, joggers, cyclists and what have you. Get
in there and do your thing for the old alma mater!
For more information try phoning 364-2444 for any
questions that may arise.
Now back to golf for a moment. As I mentioned
last week, the retirees got out on no. 9 last Friday
morning to spread the top soil layer. It was a good
turnout with better than fifteen of us oldsters on the
job. They were Joe Bielli, Chris Christianson,
Roger McKeown, Russ Broughton, Bart Dudley,
Rich Watkinson, Ferro Pellegrin, Jim Douglas,
Torchy Torresan, Sam Martin, Bill Vickers, Stan
Fisher, Percy Cutler, Sam Anselmo and yours
truly. If I missed someone don't feel badley, just
remind me and I'll repair that next time around.
However, I didn't stay to the end but Joe Bielli told
me he figured they were within an hour or so of
finishing when the rains came and drove them to
cover. It was planned to complete the job and roll it
this past Monday.
I hear some thought has been giving to
changing Retirees Day at the upper course. I hope
this does not come to pass as we are used to
Tuesday and this story about the ladies on Birchbank and us on the upper course, keeping people
off the two courses is so much hogwash. Our group
is off and running by 8:30 or earlier and we call a
halt as soon as we feel those coming have had time
to appear. Usually around 10 a.m. or a little later .
Last week we sent out 50 golfers in that space of
time and that is one of the larger groups we have
had out. How the ladies do at the other course, I
don't know. Maybe they would welcome a change
of days but I am speaking for our group and I don't
think they would care to change.
Joe Bielli and Rich Watkinson were in charge
this week which saw 60 golfers out there for an 8
a.m. start.
It was an almost perfect day for golf and we
presented 7 balls to the winners in five competitions.
Bill Vickers took low gross with a 42. Low net
was shared by three, Ken Davies, Al Turner and
Pat Martin, all at 33. Closest to the pin on no. 6
after three strokes was won by Ike Bosse, who sank
this third for a birdie.
The low bidden hole was no. 2 and Tim Jenkin
took it with a 4, while the high hidden hole was no. 8
and Gil LeMoel had that dubious honor with a 9.
Next week Roger McKeown Peter Browne will
hold court at the sign-up table. See you all there.
And with that I'll say 'til next time, then!