On Saturday afternoon
around 3 o'clock, Arnie
Sherwood, Larry Lavigne,
his son Rob and myself teed
off at the upper course for
nine holes. It was the start of
an occasion marking Larry's
departure for his new home
in Swnmerland and was in
the nature of a surprise
partyforhimandhisfamily
as they prepare to leave
ltossland for the Okanagan.
. Also, along on the golf date
was Rob Lavigne who acted
as caddie and scorekeeper.
Upon completion of our
round we joined the ladies in
the clubhouse for a round of
drinks and supper and later
Larry and his wife were
presented with gifts from
their family.
Larry's gift was a weird
and wonderful combination
golf club for playing long and
short shots and also to play
shots when darkness closes
in before your round is
finished. It had two handles
and a Oashlight built right
into where the shafts met. It
Jas really something. I don't
linow who dreamed it up but
t would suspect Rob and Ron
nad something to do with it.
~rry•s wife got a pair of
high cut rubber boots for
orking the large garden
ey expect to have over in
ummerland.
• J oioing us for the supper
and our subsequent trip to
Che Rossland Legion were
Joe and Dorothy Gyte, Rollie
and Ev Ellis and Anny and
&azel Hartley, plus all the
ahildren of the Lavigne
lamily and their families. It
iurned out to be quite a geti>gether. Oh, and by the
way, Bill Hooch-Antink and
~ wife were also present
4long with Arnie's wife,
Phyllis and my wife, Jean.
! I got talking to Pat
J,.avigne at the party. He
\ells me he has been invited
t,ack to Nelson by the senior
f,1aple Leafs this winter. He
played some games for them
last year and I guess he did
pretty well. Anyway, he'll be
going back.
• Well, we will miss Larry.

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He was always pretty good
company and he has left a
standing invitation for any of
his friends who might be
visiting the Okanagan to be
sure to drop around for a
visit with him.
I had the chance to chat
with Richie Chobanuk at the
golf course last week and he
introduced me to Tom
Rennie. Tom will be
assisting Rick with the
Warriors this coming
season. He comes from
Cranbrook and played his
early hockey there before
moving on to the Okanagan
to play in the B.C. League.
From there he went on to
play college hockey in the
States. He tells me he is
looking forward to working
with our Rossland team and
hopes he can help them give
some opposition to his
friend, Terry Minnis, who
coaches Cranbrook Colts.
One of these days, ·soon, I
hope to sit down and have a
liWe session with Rick and
get an idea of what we can
expect from the Warriors
this coming season. The rest
of the teams in the league
don't figure to be much
weaker than last year, so it
looks like it's going to be
quite a challenge for Rick in
his first season.
I understand a couple of
Rossland's Bantam players
are going to the camp of the
Prince Albert Raiders. for
tryouts shortly. The two are
Tom Feeney and Pat
Corrado and I will have
more data on their trip when
I get a chance to have a chat
with them and Roy Grant,
who gave me this information. Either of these
youngsters could easily
catch on with the northern
Saskatchewan team, a
member of the Western
Hockey League.
Speakinj of people going
places reminds me I heard
Peter Corrado is serious
about making a return trip to
Australia. He did pretty well
down there·last time.
I would like to extend my
sympathy to the family of J.

B. Caron, who passed away
last week. John was a Legion
member and the branch put
on a good representation at
his funeral His son, John
was a Warrior player as was
another son, Joe, sometime
back. John has a knee injury

from soccer and was on
crutches at the funeral Joe
is now working on the Island
and looking pretty good.
I watched the old-timers'
baseball game on TV for a
while Monday nighl Some of
those old boys can still hit
the ball pretty well but their
trips around the bases have
slowed down somewhat It
was good to see them
cavorting out there. Bob
Feller, pitchjng to guys like
Monte Irvine, Ralph Kiner,
Henry Aaron and the others.
I hear the oldies are bringing
their act to Vancouver in the
near future. That should
draw a capacity crowd to the
B.C. Place stadium.
Before winding this down I
would like to say the four
guys who ran the bar for the
Rossland Slow-Pitch tourney
were very happy with the
offering we got from Cam on
behalf of the club for our
efforts.
This week, Retirees' day
at the upper course had
around 30 members out on a
rather foggy morning.
Later, the sun smiled on us
and the guys who teed off
late had a nice round. The
competition, run by "Red"
Ius and Herb Martin was
hidden hole, low and high,
long putt on No. 9 and low net
and low gross.
Percy Hamilton won the
long putt on No. 9 with ~ 2J)..
footer, hidden hole low was
won by Bill Limacher and
Jack Barnes. Hidden hole
high was taken by Carl Osing
and Harry Simpkinson. Jim
Scott took low gross and low
net was taken by Bill
Chartres and Lou Crowe.
Rich Watkinson and I will
run next week's show and
the following week it will be
Carl Osing and Joe· Bielli.
See you there, for a lot of
fun!