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The Northport Labor Day
celebration has always been
an enjoyable event. One
meets a lot of people you
may not have seen in years
at that kind of a get-together.
However, this year I did not
feel it was a screaming
success story because of the
tight-fisted attitude of the
people who were on the
serving end of the meal,
which in past years has been
a bang-up affair. This year,
it appeared the organizers
were trying desperately to
do some economizing on the
food.
For my $5 contribution I
got a -couple of slices of
onion, one slice of tomato, a
spooo{ul of beans, some
pickles, a cob of corn, and a
couple of piece of beef 2" by
1½" by ¼" thick on a bun
that was slightly stale.
In years past there was
always more meat than one
could readily eat and it was
always handed out freely. I

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got the notion the people
serving had orders to
economize. You don't do that
when you are catering to
people who are giving freely
to a cause such as the Lions'
Club. The lions have a name
for giving something for
what they get. I'm proud to
say I am a Lion member, but
I thought the performance at
Northport fell a little short of
living up to what the Lions
stand for.
The Legion in Rossland
entered their float which
they have ready for Golden
City Days in the parade. It
won first prize in one
category while their marching unit also took first in
another section. The float
was driven by Harvey
McKay and had Legion LA
president, Ina Austin and
Legion president, Bernie
Fourt. The decorations were
put in place by a volunteer
group of members of the
club and will make a repeat

performance at the Golden
City Days parade.
The marching unit looked
and performed very
smartly. It was composed of
Jack MacDonald, Toby
Edworthy, Ev Ellis, Eileen
MacDonald, Tina Drake and
her mother Fran, plus yours
truly. We marched behind
the Northport Legion. Those
lucky guys always get to
ride. Anyway, we must have

looked pretty sharp as we
got lots of applause and the

top prize.
One area of the celebration
where there was not any
economizing was the beer
garden. At 50 cents a drink it
was dispensed quite freely
and they had lots of
customers; no argument
there.
The coming weekend in
Rossland is going to be
pretty hectic. There will be
action galore on every front:
foot races, bike races, slowpitch ball, fireworks, dan-

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cing and the inevitable beer the upper course was held on
gardens everywhere you an almost perfect day for
turn. Then there is the more golf, sunshine and no bugs to
sophisticated area where we bother one. I guess maybe
have the art show, music by they have all gone south.
our student orchestra and Next week we shall be out at
the various presentations of Birchbank playing at the
the local merchants and Ladies' Club invitational. So,
various service club. There retirees day will be canwill also be games of chance celled for the week. Then, on
run by the Retirees Curling Thursday we have our trip to
CluL. One could pretty well Christina Lake, so we shall
say that anyone who attends, have a busy week ahead.
This week, 31 members
and there will be lots of
played
our regular nine
them, will find a pretty busy
holes and the competition
schedule to handle.
Then there are the was low gross, low net,
museum trips and the un- match par and least putts.
Jim Scott had a sparkling
derground excursions which
seem to be the things which round of 38 to take low gross,
attract our out-of-town while Walt Gerrand took low
visitors. I guess one of the net with a 35. John Piva and
premier attractic-rui is the Bernie Ferrey both matched
appearance of friends and par 36 while Rich Watkinson
relatives who always seem and Jack Buchanan had the
to take this opportunity to last putts, a total of 14 each.
visit our town and visit with That's just a little over 1½
putts per hole. By the way,
friends and loved ones.
all of this was ably
This week's retirees day at masterminded by our good
friend Peter Browne. We
thank you, Peter!
Till next week, then.