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Of course the big news this week is that the Rossland
Retirees have got their 1986-37 curling season underway.
After a very well attended Open House on Tuesday, the
classification committee met and the rinks were set for
·the first competition. Everyone was ready for a Thursday
morning start.
Ten rinks are in the books and they will be skipped by
Dan Burnett, Fred Munro, Angus Popplewell, Jake
Lilburn, Bob Stevenson, Russ Broughton, Carl Seefeldt,
Phil Bateman, Bert Morrow and this writer. Time will tell
how everyone will fare, but I must say these rinks look as
even as they could have been picked, even if they bad been
drawn by lot numbers.
· - bur classification committee composed of Rieb
Watkinson, Dick Cotton, Joe Rosse and Phil Bateman, as
always, has done a good job of turning out some pretty
evenly balanced teams for our first competition. We are
still going with the five-man rink fonnat and the guys all
seem to like it.
During the month of October I attended two meetings
of the Rossland Curling Association and here, courtesy of
the association secretary, Karen Tyler, are the highlights
of them. One of the highlights was a motion that the
association return a percentage of the bar patronage
monies to the clubs at the end of each year based on usage
of that facility. This was moved, seconded and carried.
Another highlight was the motion by Angus Popplewell
that 24 extra chairs be purchased for the lounge to save
having to pack chairs from the Warrior lounge for every
large function held At the later meeting, Angus, on behalf
of the Retirees spoke of a donation of $1,31G the club will
make to the association to buy the chairs. At the same
time the Mixed Club will donate $500 to the association to
buy anything that is needed All in all it looks as though
the association is set to do things this season, under the
presidency of Tony Topolinski and his board.
Now to some thoughts on Warrior hockey, 1986-37
version. For one thing we are seeing a few more people
attending games this season than we have in the past few
years. There is no doubt the team has a lot to do with this.
We have a very good ho_ckey club this winter and I guess
we can thank the Grand Forks people for some of this. Ingoal Mike McNally has been outstanding and the heavy
hitting of our defensive corps has been another point
which the fans like to watch. Not to take anything away
from the forwards, a lot of shooting and some nifty stickhandling make a picture that every fan loves to see. So
come on you Warriors, keep giving us that sort of entertainment and we'll keep coming back again and again.
Thanks must go to Bob Whitlock and Rieb Cbobanuk for
the good job they are making of the running of our young
people on the Warriors.
Well, we are rapidly approaching the Remembrance
Day celebration and as is usual a member of Branch No.
14 willaut the high school to talk to the youngsters on the
subject of the futility of war with all its degredation,
horror and all the other terrible side-effects. This is a
subject that I sincerely believe is probably foremost in the
minds of those of us who have been through it, its not only
us but what a terrible effect it has on the kids. I'll never
forget, in Italy we bad a mess tent in a large gravel pit.
The little ones ringed that place every meal-time with
their pitiful little cans, ready to swoop down as soon as we
started to empty our scraps. A whole lot of the guys never
finished a meal in that place would beckon the kids to
sorne down and share what they bad instead
'Til next time, then!