6-TrailTimes-Friday, May 1, 1981

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After a week or so of inlledlion it finally looks like
tber man bu made
to bring OD the
a nmnber of
eta have been using
course. We were
ytbougbthe
WU not officially
time but it ls in
for this time of the
wet spots, but
it's in great shape.

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o. 9 green last year,

elloas condlUon.
and Dorothy Fines
Ung the upper
year and Dorothy
that they are
forward to a big
day.Wbmeverthat
lllcomes offlclal I will let
ow through this

r sign of spring ls
ball team
-DPUII at the bit in their

to get going. They
their way out to

Fralltvale for a Commerclal
ame Tuelday night

will

PEPP-1ALK ,....
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despite the fact that it was
pouring rain in Rossland and
bad been most of the day.
John Habicht passed along
the following info regarding
Minor League Soccer. This
season we shall have eight
boys' teams and one strictly
for girls.
In the boys' division there
will be two Mosquito teams,
three Pee Wee One, two Pee
Wee Two and one Bantam.
The girls' team will play in a
league comprised of teams
from Trail and Warfield, it ls
not known at this time if
there will be teams from
Fruitvale or Genelle.
Wblle the operaUng of a
strictly girls' league may be
a departure from the normal
procedure, I see no reason
why it should not work out
quite well. I never did see the
mixing of the boys and girls
u quite the thing to do,
although all the participants
seemed to enjoy themselves.
Just last week there was a
letter in The Times from a
girl in Nelson asking for the
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not be, the two teams from
the Big Apple are at it
already in the semis with the
Islanders holding a 1-0 edge.
In the other series Minnesota looked good in the
first game. They, of coune,
have bad a good rest while
Calgary bad Just finished
that long trip back from
Philly where they didn't
have an easy time in that 4-1
upset win over the Flyers. I
lean toward the Flames to go
George Dyson ls back on but something tells me
from a trip to the Prairies. that they will have to pull
Actually, be was in Edmon- some kind of a miracle to do
ton for the last couple of it.
weeks watching the IslanLast Friday evening I
ders-Oilers matcbup and be attended the windup
tells . me that be bad a celebration of the Trail
perfectly good seat in the Juniors at the ltaloNortblands Coliseum for Canadese Hall. It was a very
sixteen bucks though nice evening with the young
scalpers were ripping off to Smokies being honored for
the tune of $145 for top seats. their fine season Just past.
Anyway be went into detail
Gord DeRosa was MC for
about the way the Isles the event which was a
bandied Gretzky in the final tribute to the players, plus
game, one man took the body the people who work behind
and the other the puck. the scenes to make the team
George said his (Gretzky's) go. Gord was high in bis
body must have been one big praise for both groups,
bruise afterwards.
awards were presented and
By the way, should you be' a wonderful supper was
talking to George, get bun to thoroughly enjoyed by all
show you bis repertoire of and then there was music
the magic tricks be ~rougbt
home with him.
I bad a nice card from
Chow Sdao after be left after
his Easter visit He always
sends me clippings from the
local paper and this one
concerns the return of Steve
Metzger to his home . in
PenUctoli after a season with
the Swiss league. Metzger
played on the '79-'80 Knight
team which won the B.C.
Junior League championship.
The team be played for in
Switzerland was Arosa
where be played on both the
"A" team and the Junior
team. After winning the
Swiss championship the
Junior team won the World
junior title in the "B" group.
All games were played in
France but next year they
will move into "A" group
and all games will be played
at Lake Placid, N.Y. Metzger bad two goals and eight
assists in five games.
Well, I see where I made
another faux-pas, the New
York final I predicted will

opportunity to play some
girls' soccer teams, so
maybe this ls the way to go
to make everyone happy.
Minor soccer will open May
2.
I haven't beard much
about the progress of the
.proposed fun lacrosse
league, however it's early
yet and it would be a way to
keep the interest in the game
alive in this area.

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and dancing until the earl
hours.
I don't suppose Lero~
Huestis will ever make the
top echelon as an after
dinner speaker but at ~
gathering like this I though
he did a super Job.
It was like listening to
stream that gathers
momentum as it goes along,
lie got bis points across and
everyone loved it. It's e&S)1
to see why the guy is one of
the most popular of th
Senior Smokies.
Last week I ran into a
couple of young men who
belong to the Beaver Valley
Lions Club, Tom Jankovic
and Hans Peter Barth. I
spent a couple of hours
rapping with them and bad a
helluva good time.
Out of our conversation
came the following which I
think you might enjoy; it
belongs to Hans Peter and is
as follows: A man is not old
when bis hair turns gray, a
man ls not old when his teeth
decay. But old age starts
over him to creep when his
mind makes appointments
his body can't keep.
I thought you'd like that!