Trail Times

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Fri day October 29, 1982 - 7

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RECREATION]
wi1h
lla'ry
Pe,per

The "thank-you" party at
the Legion in Rossland last
Friday evening for a hardworking person, George
-Dyson, could be called a
-reasonably successful one.
Around 75 of George's
' friends joined together to
wish him well and tell him to
: come back again when his
travels are over. George is
going to spend the winter
·acting as caretaker at his
·aaughter's home in Edmonton while she and her
· husband are on a round-theworld cruise.
Mim Castle represented
the Fall Fair organization,
.Cleve Cowland the Rossland
' Retirees' Curling club and
' Jack Cox, who worked for a
·number of years with
George on the RCAA, all
,. brought the good wishes of
those bodies. Arlene Dyson
· gave George a nice gift in
remembrance of the occasion and it was presented
to him by his long-time
,:friend and fishing partner, 90•
·,_ plus - year - old Steve
;Bowen.
: George replied to the
'.gathering with a number of
:memories recalled over the

years. Legion ladies put on a
wonderful turkey supper and
it was enjoyed by all.
The evening was also the
scene of another presentation. Norm Garrison, who
lives on the old Deep Lake
road south of the border
from the Waneta customs
and plays most of his golf on
the Rossland and Birchbank
courses was presented with
a miniature of the Jack
Molyneux memorial trophy
as the oldest golfer among
the retirees clubs of the two
Rossland-Trail courses.
Norm is 81 and plays a lot
of golf. The trophy will
remain in a case at the
Rossland Legion and closeup pictures of it will go along
with a replica to successive
winners as they did to Norm.
Rich Watkinson made the
presentation on behalf of the
Legion.
After the supper and
speeches were over the
evening was spent dancing
in the Legion hall upstairs to
Don Zanussi's orchestra.
Tuesday morning saw a
large gathering of Rossland
retirees curlers on hand at

the curling rink to take
advantage of some free ice
time. Last year nine teams
participated in the club and
from the look of it that
number will increase this
season.
On Thursday of last week
we held an organizational
meeting in the main lounge
and elected new officers.
Among the most important
were a new president, Angus
Popplewell, replacing Cleve
Cowland, and Dick Cotton
taking over from George
Dyson as secretarytreasurer. A new slate for
classification will see Joe
Rosse, Jack Mitchell and
Bernie Ferrey join yours
truly this season and I will
carry on as drawmaster
again this time around.
Thursday was again free
ice time and a meeting was
held to draw up rinks for the
first competition. Personnel
of · these will appear later.
Lou Crowe joined us on
Tuesday and may possibly
end up playing in our club.
Lou started curling as a
youngster in the old
Rossland curling· rink
around 1928-29 and has
played off and on ever since.
By the way, that was the
year a 16-year-old kid named

Pepper first set foot on
Canadian soil. I didn't start
curling until 1951-52 and it
was in the same building as
Lou started as a kid along
with another old-timer in
Rossland curling, Russel
Jones.
We would kind of like to
see Lou come back to his old
stamping ground and he will
be welcome if he decides to
doso.
Tuesday was a busy one at
the curling club as both the
ladies' and men's club also
took advantage of the free
ice to hold open house. The
mixed club and the business
ladies also are having their
free time, the first-named
went on- Wednesday evening
and the latter will go on
Monday.
Wouldn't you know it, after
watching the Warriors take
it on the chin for three
games, I had to miss
Saturday night's convincing
win over the Rebels from
Castlegar. Reports from
people who were there tell
me that the Warriors were
well worth the 11-4 victory.
After Friday night's Legion
do, I was done like a dinner. I
guess two nights in a row are
a little too much for this

reporter. I just couldn't drag
myself off the chesterfield.
Tonight Nelson visits,
Sunday they go to Spokane
and next Tuesday Castlegar
comes back, a pretty busy
schedule for our kids this
next few days.
On the provincial scene the
Canucks are beginning to get
it together after a disastrous
road trip. Their 8-1 drubbing
of Hartford and the 3-2
squeaker over the Bruins
have given some badly
needed points as they start
off on another eastern road
trip hoping to improve on
their last one.
Meanwhile, the B.C. Lions
who started the season on a
really high note, have seen
that image tarnished as the
season progressed. Sunday's
dismal showing against
Hamilton was just another
page in the Lions' spotty
record book this season
which has seen the team
unable to put two wins
together. In order to survive
for the playoffs they are
faced with a situation that
sees them facing the Stamps
and Concordes and both
games inust be won, or else
they can wait for another
season.