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There is a gent in Ros.9land who will come up to
me evt:ry once in a while and hand me a clipping
from the Reagina Leader-Post. His name is Cleve
Cowland and from what I've heard he was quite a
hockey player in days gone by. He played a lot in
Saskatchewan before he came this way. I never saw
him play hockey so I have to take his and other
people's word for how good he was, but I do know,
for sure, that he is a better than average curler in
the Retirees Club. Of course our standarda probably
wouldn't be accepted by the likes of to~notch guys
like Eddie Lukowich or Russ Howard, but Cleve is a
pretty good curler by our standards. Hey, I pretty
near strayed from my pont there, didn't I?
Anyway, these missives he brings me are by
Bob Hughes, who is sports editor for the Regina
paper and every one of them is well worth reading.
In the latest one Cleve brought along, the topic was
sports heroes and drugs and the lead line was,
" Where have all the heroes gone?"
The situation today with so many guys into
drugs way over their heads, does pose a lot of
questions, "'"hen a guy makes a super play one
almost has to wonder what he uses for a stimulant.
It's not about to make kids look up to the guys that
used to be their heroes. One wonders how deeply
rooted this particular habit • is and the question
comes up, will it ever be the way it used to be,
before the drugs came on the scene.
· Enough of that, we have our own llWe heroes
around these parts and as far as I know the drug
habit hasn't infected any of these too much. Let's
hope it doesn't!
We of the Retirees Club in Ros.9land had the
Nelson group over for fun, eats, and curling last
Wednesday. When the smoke of the fray cleared,

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the score stood at Rossland six, Nelson two, after
eight games. Two rinks, mine and Carl Seefeldt's
won in the morning draw and all four of our teams
won in the afternoon. There are three possible
answers to this happening, either we are getting
better, Nelson is not as good as they were, or, they
couldn't figure out our ice. As far as our club. is
concerned, we will take the first of the three
alternatives while Nelson will probably take the
last.
Our rink played ·"Lefty" White and over the
past few years I have played a number of games
against "Lefty,'.' in Grand Forks, Nelson, Trail and
Rossland. He figaures this was the tenth game I've
played against him, I wasn't always the skip but
we've always had a baWe. "Lefty" figured he won
six or seven before I got a tie in Nelson on our trip
over there earlier this year. So you can see my win
this time is really a landmark decision.
As the hockey and curling seasons draw to a
close I must say th,it I have a whole lot of people to
thank for the enjoyment of the past few months.
When we finish the Retirees season after another
six games, we'll have had 36 games and I mean it
when I say I've enjoyed every one of them. For my
hockey enjoyment I have to thank the kids on the
Warriors first and then all the other teams who
formed the opposition. I can only say it has been a
lot of fun and I'm already looking forward to next
year. Let's hope it will be as entertaining as it has
been.
The next few months will be spent on the golf.
course trying to improve my game. Maybe I'll
make some headway and then again.
Maybe I'll just say.
'Til next time, then!

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