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Predictions do not always
go the way you-expect. Two
of mine over the past couple
of weeks have gone awry. I
predicttld the Flyers would
trip. the Soviets to give the
NHL a tie in the series just
completed but they were
never in it with the smart
&oys from Eastern Europe.
Then, I forecast that the
West would probably continue their domination over
the East in the KIJHL allstar game played in Nelson
last weekend.
That prognostication also
fell short as the East team
pulled away in the second
period to take a 4-2 victory
o:ver their West counterparts. The standing in the
series now is 5-3 in favor of
the West.
Herb Castle, a past
executive officer of the
league, was at the game and
told me that it was an excellent contest throughout.
He also mentioned that the
rest of the celebration at the
event was carried out in a
very professional manner
with the Nelson Junior
Maple Leaf organization
coming in for plaudits for
their handling of the details,
like an excellent supper and
the presentation of the
awards but the crowd at the
game left something to be
desired.
There was one note in the
printing of the program that
caused a smile for a number

of people.
popular

The league's
president,
Rossland's Jim Markle, had
remarks of his in the opening
page of the program attributed to one Jim Demaris.
I guess is caused quite a
ripple of amusement at the
celebration too.
I wonder if the win by the
East all-stars foreshadows
what could happen in the
playoffs this spring. The
Eastern division is a closer
race than that in the West
where Trail are more or less
runaway leaders of that
division leading their closest
rivals Beaver Valley by 11
points and almost 35 points
ahead of the last-place
Bruins. Cranbrook at the top
in the East lead Columbia
Valley by nine and the
bottom two teams, Kimberley and Creston, are
another 21 back.
After their drubbing by the
Junior Smokies on Friday in
Trail the Warriors bounced
back with a M win Tuesday
in Castlegar. Tim McNulty
got his first two-goal game
since Joining the Warriors
shortly before the holidays.
They face a stem test tonight
as they play host to the highfiying Nite Hawks in their
first home game since before
Xmas.
Wednesday at the curling
club we of the retirees
curling will entertain rinks
from the Trail and Nelson
clubs. The Trail rinks play

the morning draw and
Nelson in the afternoon with
a lunch around the noon
break. Three fiv&man rinks
are coming in from each of
the visiting clubs and we
have drawn up six fiv&man
rinks to oppose them in
rotation play.
This makes for a busy
week for our club as our
regular days are Tuesday
and Thursday, however we
had no trouble recruiting the
necessary people to man the
six rinks. Phil Bateman,
Bob Stevenson and Arnold
Vanness will skip the three
morning rinks versus Trail
and Lou Crowe, Russ
Broughton and Bernie
Ferrey the three against
Nelson in the afternoon.
It .is good to be able to
report that Ernie McGauley
is back from his sojourn in
the hospital. He told his skip,
Amie Vanness, that he hopes
to get back curling again in
the very near future.
Meanwhile, Bud Hachey has
decided to lay off as he has
some knee trouble as does
Jim Scott.
The saying goes that the
activity of participation
helps keep us retired people
going and in most cases this
is true but there are times
when too much of that can
cause the aging Joints to get
a little sore. We hope the
boys who are ailing at
present will recover their
mobility and return before
the season ends.