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Up in Rossland on
Sunday the Legion Branch
14 held its annual one-day
fun 'spiel and 1t was a
dandy with twelve rinks
entered and players from
five branches taking part.
The friendly competition in
every game was its outstanding feature. The
entries were all drawn
from the hat and the lineups were as well mixed as
one could wish for.
Winning the A event was
the Jim Bateman rink with
Gary Seefeldt playing lead,
Frank Webster of
Castlegar second and Jim
Markle third. The runnerup in A was a rink skipped
by Ivan Bell, who had all
Rossland retirees in his
line-up. There was Roly
Ellis as lead, Bernie Fourt
at second and John Bruce
third.
Jim finished with 16
points out of a possible 24
while Ivan edged out three
other rinks, those of Ted
Leslie of Trail, Angus
Popplewell and Jim
Schuck. Ivan had 13 points.
The others all had 12.

In the B event, the Gil
Besso rink with Fred
Gi_rand of Castlegar at
third, Beaver Valleys
' lone
entry Ken Walts second
and Herb Castle of
Rossland, lead, won out by
one point, 15 to 14, over the
Deke Davies' rink. The
Nakusp skip, whom most
people of my age group
remember as a betterthan-average
lacrosse
player, ahd Dick Vermiere
at third, Walter Fields of
Castlegar second and
Chuck Harkness as lead.
They were followed by the
rinks skipped by Amie
Sherwood ( 13), Phil
Bateman (12) and Earl
Moffat of Nakusp (10).
The Dick Cotton rink in A
and the Norm Harry rink in
B were off the pace with
seven or eight points
respectively.
The day wound up with a
bang-up stew supper at the
Legion and presentation
of trophies. It had been
quite a day with ahnost six
inches of snow accumulating while the
curling was in progress.

Over on the other side of
the rink, the little guys
were having their big
weekend tourney, courtesy
of the Rossland Minor
Hockey
Association.
Teams from the West
Kootenay and Spokane
played some real sparkling
hockey before some good
numbers of spectators
before the three-day affair
wound down with the
Grand Forks entry beating
Trail to take the gold
medal. Nelson took bronze
by edging Rossland 5-3.
The youngsters joined
their other chums on a
wind-up party of supper
and awards presentations
on Wednesay evening at
the high school after a busy
season topped by the excellent weekend tourney.
The Retirees curling club
wound up its schedule on
Tuesday with a full slate of
games with the Bob
Stevenson rink edging Phil
Bateman's rink in the
running for the final
competition first spot. The
club will hold its wind-up
supper and awards

presentation on Thursday
evening at the Legion with
all membel'8 in agreement
that '83-'84 has been a good
curling season for the older
set.
.
I drove past the Birchbank course on Monday
morning and that beautiful
green looks really inviting.
Some of our boys have been
out already and all report a
fine day on the course.
Tony Farnsworth said,
when I asked him how he
was hitting the ball,
"Great, if I get any better,
I'm going to hit the gold
trail!" Pretty good for so
early in the season.
Well, in Rossland the
snow is depressing.
Progress is not as fast as it
is in some of our neighboring communities where
the ground is starting to
show through. Guys, like
Norm Harry, get a funny
feeling around this time of
the year. They get the itchy
feeling to get out there and
get something in the
ground. When you do the
kind of job Norm does,
you've got to admit that it's

all worth it. He starts to
reap dividends pretty early
an~ they keep on coming
until fall.