6- Trail Times -- Friday, April 2, 1982

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As l wrote this Wednesday, winter was having
its last fling of the season.
Between two and three inches of new snow fell during
the night making the skiers
happy.
However, up in the arena
yesterday they were busy
clearing the ice out of both
the curling and skating
rinks. By the time we had
finished our Retirees' club
wind-up bean feed the attendants had given all the
floors a washing and the
area is now at rest.
Speaking of that Retirees'
windup, between 50 and 60
members and guests sat
down to a really great feed of
beans, weiners, pickles,
cheese and the traditional
sourdough bread. All this
was put together by club
member Freddy Thompson,
bi:i wife Viv and some
assistance from club
president Cleve Cowland.
And it was good, I mean

good.
Guests included Father
Maglio, who was honored
with a presentation during
the proceedings, some of
Rossland's super-old-timers,
steve Bowen, Dave Tweed,
Alfie Albo, Ralph Berry and
Wally Hocking and last, but

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not least, one not-so-old
retiree, Charles Cholak. I
hope I haven't missed any,
but if I have I'll probably
hear about it. I certainly
don't want anyone to feel left
out.
Master of ceremonies
George "Gimmick" Dyson
was up to his usual tricks.
There were a lot of the type
of prizes that George
specializes in and they all
went to deserving club
members and everyone had
a good belly-laugh, including
the recipients.
I was saved until the end
and got a monstrous green
frog with a hanging lower
lip, George told the
gathering that it was what I
looked like when I come out
to curl on his rink in the Zone
'spiel on Sunday morning.
Among other good laughs
was one when Toby Edworthy got a package of
garbage bags to help keep
the front of the house clean.
Toby said afterwards,
"Anyway, it's something I
can use.''
Then the real prizes were
presented, and there were a
few repeaters. The trophy
given the club by Jack
Molyneux and Bill Scott and
named the Oldtimers trophy

was won by Angus Popplewell's rink of Jock Irvin,
Gordie Brennan and Gil
Besso. The Canadian Legion
trophy went to Dick Cotton's
rink of Jock Irvin, Ab
Nichols and Toby Edworthy.
The Rotation trophy was
won by Phil Bateman with
help from Jim Thompson, Al
Besso and Clyde Nyman.
Phil became a double
winner with the final trophy,
the five-man mini-bonspiel
prize, in this one he had
assistance from Jock Irvin,
Ab Nichols, Jack Mitchell
and Ted Holloway.
Some mention here should
be made of the part played
by Chuck Harkness in Phil's
five-man win. The competition saw Phil short a
man on his rink when he
played my rink. Chuck was
my lead and I gave him to
Phil for two games and he
contrived to pull a Judas act
and help the opposition beat
us.
Anyway, all in all it was a
really fine season and we
look forward to many more
like it.
The Legion Zone 'spiel,
held last weekend in our
town was, by any yardstick
one wants to use, a pretty
successful effort. There was
help from the Legion ladies
and some non-playing
members who saw to it that
we didn't want for food and
drink. The organizational
part, handled by Phil
Bateman and Angus Popplewell was well done and
the competition was really

keen. When all was tallied up
the spread of prizes was
pretty well shared by the
various club with entries in
the 'spiel.
In the "A" event, George
Beaudry, who is a Rossland
club member, skipped his
rink composed of three
Nelson members, George
Barefoot, Len Bicknell and
John Bowles, to victory over
Phil Bateman's Rossland
foursome with the Bob
Freeman rink from Kaslo
earning third place.
In "B" it was Harry Bale's
rink from CasUegar winning
out over George Dyson's
Rosslanders, Mel Buerge's
rink from Nelson took third
in this competition.
In the "C" event Fred
Munro of Rossland kept the
top prize in the home town
with the Graham Roberts
rink from CasUegar earning
second place and Alex
McKinnon's foursome, also
from Castlegar, placing
third.
This 'spiel was the first in
this area to see ladies
playing in a Legion competition, the Dorothy Fines
rink with lady Legion club
members gave a very good
account of themselves and
two other rinks which had
girls on them were in the
money, namely, the Roberts
foursome and the Freeman
group from Kaslo.
And now, some notes on
the Ladies' Club windup, 26
members and a guest,
Marjorie Buruett, sat down
to a delicious supper served

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by the Legion Ladies. After
supper a short business
meeting preceded the
presentation of prizes for the
season's play by prize
committee chairman Dottie
Albo.
Winning the Cominco
trophy were Marg Rosse's
girls, Corrie Bateman, Mary
Vickers and Laura Thompson, next were Dorothy
Fines and her rink composed
of Dottie Albo, Ruth Dougan
and Jessie Skinner.
The Orwell trophy was
won by Gert Sandulescu and
her three-girl rink, Beryl
Davis and Ruth Dougan,
Helen Ling was second
helped by Irene Dunlop,
Mary Vickers and Carol
Jackson.
The Smart trophy was won
by Dorothy Fines with
assistance from Beryl
Davis, Mary Vickers and
Jane Westbury, Edie
Harasin took second in this
one with help from Irene
Dunlop, Dorothy Lilburn and
Viv Thompson.
This year the Ladies' Club
wound up their season with
some fun curling, low score
winners were Edie Harasin,
Dorothy Fines, Jane
Westbury and Viv Thompson, in closing her report,
Fanny Albo said the ladies
would like to wish everyone
a happy and healthy summer.
Winners of the door prizes
at the windup were Nonna
Dominici and Mary Vickers.