I may as well take these happenings in order;
chronological that is. So I shall start off with the
Birchbank retirees windup. You could say that this
was two celebrations in one as we were also paying
our respects and birthday compliments to a very
good friend, good golfer and all-round fine gen-

tleman.

Noland Garrison has been coming to both
retirees days on the two courses now for approximately six years and misses only when he's
away on holiday or business takes him away.
Noland lives in the old Deep Lake road area and I
· once beard him crack that he's spent so much time
· in Canada that be wonders which country he's
considered an alien in.
Noland was 85 years young on Thursday and he
said his ambition was to score his age in his round
that day, adding, "but I didn't want to do it on the
first nine." About a week ago be set out to walk the
Rossland course and completed six of the toughest
before packing it. in. Noland usually rides the ·
Rossland course with Alex Turner but that day
Alex had gone on holiday.
Now, the Birchbank group had 73 out for golf
and all 73 sat down to eat. Eleven golfers had low
net as Chief Buna had a 33 and the ten others were
all at 34. They were Red Ius, Brick Bisaro, Harold
Dixon, Gord McLaren, Bill Emery, Al Bublitz,
Mike O'Donaugby, Al Rella, Romeo DiBiasio and
Gerry Wanless.
In the low gross category Ferro Pelligrin and
George Pearson both checJ(ed in with 39's while
Ray Gariepy and Bob Glover each had 42's, Georg~
Harkness was named best golfer with his 64.
Fri!laY evenin& saw.approximately 350 hockey
'Jana sit ·down at the Rossland Arena for the Trailllossland game, and those fans really got their
money's worth of hockey entertainment. The two
teams, who have never felt any particular friendly
feelings toward one another, lost no time in letting
everyone know that nothing has changed in •~.
They went at it head to bead. Trail had a bad first
period as they took a lot of penalties, and Rossland
profitted to the extent of a 4-goal lead. In the
' second Rossland caught referee Bill Savinkoff's
. eye and the period ended 5-4 Rossland. Trail tied it
in the third and then Rolsland went up 64. Then it
was tied again, after which Rossland got three
more. Trail was unable to score again as Mike
McNelly played a sterling game in the Warrior net.
Prior to the contest, the Warrior executive
handed out some awards for services to the club
over the years. Very deserved ones went to
Marilyn Davis and Barb Armour while the other
recipients were Jean Drake and myself. I want to
. thank the club on behalf of us all for this thoughtful

:: gesture.
As I mentioned '1ast week it was "Old Boys"
day at the Legion on Saturday morning at 10 a.m.
. as Sammy Manson put on his retirees pool tourney.
Everyone I talked to since thought this was a great
effort. Between Sam, Mickey Morrow, and Frank
Harris who kept things straight. Everything went
smoothly. Between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. we had
completed three competitions and winners were
declared in each. In the A event Harvey McKay
and Carl Osing beat out Bill Dahlman and Chuck
Harkness. In the B it was Norm Harry and Bob
Leighton triumphant over Mel Hill and Phil
Bateman. In the C it was Cleve Cowland and Bill
Anderson coming out on top of first Rich Watkinson
· and Jack Hook and followed up with a nail-biting
match over Don Froat and Bart Dudley. Bert
Morrow, Cyril Dekuysscber and this writer got
apeclal prizes, for what, is not quite clear.
And with that I'll say, 'Til next time, then!