with
lla'ry

Pepper
lot to think about; but we have
been fortunate over the
several times that conditions
have been bad in the district
and it has been quite a long
while since we've had a bad
fire anywhere in the vicinity of
I think we were out on the Rossland. That's one of the
course when this area got its reasons I was so glad to see
last rain too. That must have the rain come along when it
been something like six weeks did.
or so back, in fact, I believe it
Coming back to _Tuesday's
was the weekend of July 1 and golf, there were 31 in atwe didn't know then that we tendance who qualified as
over.
Sure enough, we did, were in for a long, hot, dry retirees. The competition was
the honey pot and no fewer
coming down · six and from spell.
When you live close to the than seven golfers were tied
then on through seven, eight
and right up until we had bush like we do, the . dry with 21 points. They were Jack
putted out on nine the conditions can give you quite a Barnes, Walt Turner, Walt
Gerrand, Lou Crowe, Percy
Hamilton, Phil Bateman and
Joe Biagioni. That total of 31
golfers is among the larger
groups that has participated
in the upper course Retirees
Day - maybe it will get eveµ
better as the summer rolls on.
I bet there were quite a lot of
sighs of relief after Tuesday's
welcome rain in our area.
I know that we teed off
durinj the preliminary light
shower around 9 a.m. for our
regular Retirees Day round at
the Upper Course and it
seemed to me that the general
feeling was one of gratitude
for the rain; nobody even
thought how we might get a bit
damp before the round was

downpour seemed to increase
in volume. The rain jackets
were on and the umbrellas up,
but a little thing like rain
never seems to bother an
ardent golf bug.

Talking to Recreation
Director Lloyd Mcl.ellan this
morning I was inquiring how
the Arena renovation program
is progressing. The cement
floor ~ the curling rink is now
complete and the report oil' the
dressing room construction is
that it is slightly behind
schedule. It is anticipated that
laying of the new roof will
commence next week and if
things go well the job will be
near completion by the time
Golden City Days and the Fall
Fair are scheduled.
I also touched on a subject
that has caused some
discussion around town, that
of the glass in the lounge
windows, Lloyd explained that
thereason foritis two-fold, one
is insulation against the cold
ftom the ice surface, the
other is the fact that the unbreakable glass is next to
impossible to clean without
scratching. This would cause
the glass to blur and distort
the view of the ice surface,
hence the real glass on the
inside.
Lloyd feels that it will be a
matter of educating the people
who use the lounge to watch
hockey games, to refrain from
banging on the glass. Warning
signs will be there for
everyone to see and ·soyODe
ignoring them will be subject
to prosecution for damage.
The new walls will be installed in October and outside
entrances will be improved to

add to the security of the
building. When finished the
whole thing should be quite
impressive, the color scheme
over-all, roof and walls, is to
be white.
Rossland's women softballers, with no team of their
own this year have placed
three of their number OD the
Terra Nova team of Trail
which . will travel to Langley
on -Aug. 24 to contest the
Senior Women's Recreational
Softball provincial championships on befalf of the East
and West Kottenays.
The three are Lorie Gi~,
Joy Sivyer and Flo MacArthur.
I remember travelling to
Kamloops with the Rosaland
team the year they won the
B.C. Championship. Flo was a
member of that team and is a
real veteran of the game in
this area.
Another member of the
Terra Nova team who, if he is
not too well-known to
Rosslariders
now
will
ll'Obably be a familiar figure
to our hockey fans come
spring, is Dave Limacher,
team manager. Dave was
recently
appointed the
Warriors' coach for the
coming season.
Three or four questions
come to mind as we wind up
this week. How long will the
Mootreal Expos be able to
stay in the pennant race as it
heats up during the final six
weeks of the regular season?
Will Qie Yankees be able to
pull off one of their sustained
drives in the closing weeks of
the season or will Baltimore or
Boston be able to hold them
off? How long can the B.C.
Lions continue to lead the
West division of the CFL? Can
the Whitecaps go all the way
in the NASL playoffs this
season?
Two Rossland ball fans who
have one of the longeststanding wagers OD record are
Carl Osing and Charlie
Cholak. Carl is American
League, Charlie is National.
They bet on the AU-star game
and the World Series; says
Carl, "I'm ahead on the World
Series but behind OD the AllStar game."
After thirty years of betting
against ODe another iit looks
like it just might be Charlie's
yea.r!