Now that the holiday season is over, turkey and
all the other amenities of the season are gone for
another year, we can look and see if we have
anything worth getting excited about in the near
future. First, let us look at the Warrior schedule to
see what we have in store there.
The team has 10 games to go in the regular
season, six of them are at home and four away. The
four road games show them at Trail for one Jan. 20,
the next two are in the Beaver Valley arena and the
final away one is against Castlegar. The final home
stretch sees the team play Spokane twice, Kimberley and Cranbrook with the others both in
February against Beaver Valley and Trail comes
here on Feb. 7. Would you say that while Rick's boys
can't really expect to catch the front-runners, the
Rebels, can they get themselves up for that final in
this division and go further?
After hockey it will be soccer and baseball. It
would sure be nice to have a good ball team in our
town once again. At one time we were West
Kootenay champions with a great bunch of guys.
The team consisted of Don Holmes, Joe Zanussi,
Bobby Profili, two McFarlands Steve and John, Art
Field, who came from Salmo, Lloyd McLellan and
Rich Miller, plus Terry Minnis who went to Notre
Dame with my son Rick. Another young fellow was
Sandy Mcinnis' son and worked with me on the old
Miner. One play he made that saved a playoff game
was a fantastic catch right up against the front of
the high school which faces the park. Another wee
guy on that team was Lenny Cederholm who was a
pretty spry little ca~er. Yes sir! It would be nice ·
to see another baseball team in town, slowpitch is
OK but oh boy, that baseball!
This area has an excellent soccer record all the
way from the wee ones up to the retreads as they
like to call themselves. The game has really caught
on since John Hughes introduced it to the wee ones.
Now there must be six or seven teams in Rossland
alone, not counting the high school youngsters.
Guys like Dave Williams have also done a whole lot
for soccer in our town and its quite likely that with
Dave's love of the game he will continue to turn a
helping hand whenever needed.

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Now to curling for a moment. Curling is game
which can be played by almost everyone from
school age kids to the old people. Leagues sprout up
wherever there are ice sheets. In Trail they have
quite a lot of ice and also a lot of players to use it. We
in Rossland have just the four sheets for curling and
it has to be an awfully busy time before we run out
of ice for all. Up coming are forthcomingfisits from
Grand Forks and Nelson retirees. We usually visit
them every season too. It would appear that people
who rule curling are really trying to turn the game
into something which they would like to be nothing
but a money maker. For myself and many others I
know we liked it when it was strictly anyone's
game. But that's life for you. Seems like these days
we retirees pay our dues and every week or so we
get demands from here, there and everywhere for
more money for some other frill they want added.
From what I gather from the grape vine it
would seem they are enjoying things a little better
up at the mountain these days. Although I am not a
skier, I take notice of a lot of things I hear from up
that way that seem to indicate a more healthy
situation seems to be the order of the day. I certainly hope they do have an excellent season for the
downhill people, the cross-country people seem to
be having a ball.
Well, I hope along with a lot of others, that all
snorts in our area be they winter or swnmer have a

Now that the holiday season is over, turkey and
all the other amenities of the season are gone for
another year, we can look and see if we have
anything worth getting excited about in the near
future. First, let us look at the Warrior schedule to
see what we have in store there.
The team has 10 games to go in the regular
season, six of them are at home and four away. The
four road games show them at Trail for one Jan. 20,
the next two are in the Beaver Valley arena and the
final away one is against Castlegar. The final home
stretch sees the team play Spokane twice, Kimberley and Cranbrook with the others both in
February against Beaver Valley and Trail comes
here on Feb. 7. Would you say that while Rick's boys
can't really expect to catch the front-runners, the
Rebels, can they get themselves up for that final in
this division and go further?
After hockey it will be soccer and baseball. It
would sure be nice to have a good ball team in our
town once again. At one time we were West
Kootenay champions with a great bunch of guys.
The team consisted of Don Holmes, Joe Zanussi,
Bobby Profili, two McFarlands Steve and John, Art
Field, who came from Salmo, Lloyd McLellan and
Rich Miller, ·plus Terry Minnis who went to Notre
Dame with my son Rick. Another young fellow was
Sandy Mcinnis' son and worked with me on the old
Miner. One play he made that saved a playoff game
was a fantastic catch right up against the front of
the high school which faces the park. Another wee
guy on that team was Lenny Cederholm who was a
pretty spry little ca~er. Yes sir! It would be nice ·
to see another baseball team in town, slowpitcb is
OK but oh boy, that baseball!

This area has an excellent soccer record all the
way from the wee ones up to the retreads as they
like to call themselves. The game has really caught
on since John Hughes introduced it to the wee ones.
Now there must be six or seven teams in Rowand
alone, not counting the high school youngsters.
Guys like Dave Williams have also done a whole lot
for soccer in our town and its quite likely that with
Dave's love of the game he will continue to turn a
helping hand whenever needed.

a

Now to curling for a moment. Curling is game
which can be played by almost everyone from
school age kids to the old people. Leagues sprout up
wherever there are ice sheets. In Trail they have
quite a lot of ice and also a lot of players to use it. We
in Rossland have just the four sheets for curling and
it has to be an awfully busy time before we run out
of ice for all. Up coming are forthcomingt1isits from
Grand Forks and Nelson retirees. We usually visit
them every season too. It would appear that people
who rule curling are really trying to turn the game
into something which they would like to be nothing
but a money maker. For myself and many others I
know we liked it when it was strictly anyone's
game. But that's life for you. Seems like these days
we retirees pay our dues and every week or so we
get demands from here, there and everywhere for
more money for some other frill they want added.
From what I gather from the grape vine it
would seem they are enjoying things a little better
up at the mountain these days. Although I am not a
skier, I take notice of a lot of things I hear from up
that way that seem to indicate a more healthy
situation seems to be the order of the day. I certainly hope they do have an excellent season for the
downhill people, the cross-country people seem to
be having a ball.
Well, I hope along with a lot of others, that all
sports in our area be they winter or summer have a
fine year, and now I think I've said all I intend for
this week.
So, until next time
I'll say, 'bye for now!