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on the Bircbbank course. one an idea that, in VanFrom all reports it's been couver, the Canucks are
pretty good out there. since pretty big business.
some time in January.
There's news from · the
The Legion's one day 'spiel NHL, closeups of players,
goes this coming Sunday management, staff and
with 12 rinks, curlers from directors of the Canucks,
all around the area will bead player rosters of both home
for the Rossland rink Sunday and visiting teams, plus lots
morning for a day of curling of hockey talk, hockey notes,
and other related festivites.
discussions between players
When be returned from and even some cartoon. It's
Vancouver, Herbie Castle quite a publication and well
brought me a Canuck worth the asking price of a
magazine. It's a glorified couple of bucks.
edition of what we know as a
Well, any time now :1
hockey program, some 72 suppose we'll be bearing the
pages of this and that, giving bounce of the soccer ball and

the crack of the bat on ball as
it would appear that spring
is just around the comer,
getting closer every day the
way the weather is these
days.
During the recent play-forfun tourney I ran into Armando Demidaros and the
popular Labatts soccer
player gave me a piece of his
mind regarding Labatt
coverage in the Times.
Seems like I've been
neglecting the boys so we'll
have to see what can be done
about that when the 1981
.!_e8SOll rolls around.

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·,· These kids have been at it
tor some yean now, through
Atoms, Pee Wee Tier Two
and now they are setting
their sights on the Frovincial
:ner One Pee Wee title. I'm
talking, of course, about
Rossland's own "Green
?t;lacbine" as someone saw
fit to pin that name on them
~wo or three yean back.
:. Now, the final game is
over in the dist·rict
playdowns and who are
~ on top of the heap?
~ d Tier One Pee
Wees!
: After several
of
battling it out with teams
from Trail, Nelson and
Castlegar, the kids emerged
from it all with ~ convincing
12-7 victory over Castlegar
in the complex last Saturday
night to earn the right to
represent the WestKootenay
ii1 the provincial playoffs to
be held at Fort St. John this
coming week.
In the final district playoff
tbe first game was won by
~ d in Castlegar by a
n.arrow 5-4 margin;
Castlegar came back in the
W!ODd.-aama. in RORUPod, to
earn a r.-6 tie to set the stage
for a final game in
Castlegar.
•In this one the boys piled
up a 7-1 margin and then
coasted to the comparatively
easy 12-7 win and the West
Kootenay Minor Hockey

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championship.

_Coach John Stanton, Jim
D.rake and manager
Maurice MacArthur have
really done a fine job with
these lads. The "Green
Machine" will now go up
against the best in the
province and we wish them
all the luck in the world, they
have earned it
It's ahnost too soon to be
thinking about the future for
tliese youngsters, but we do
~ve visions of them being
kept together and maybe one
day becoming the sco(Jrge of
~KIJHL.
·:tn the Junior playoff, Trail
now bas a 2-1 lead in games
after last night's overtime 54- win over the Cranbrook
Colts. With the extra -~
game the Junior Sqgrles
could very well. upset the
do
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nbw bu a 2-1 lead in games
after Jast night's overtime $• · win over the Cranbrook
Colts. With the extra ,_me
game the Junior SJwies
could very well. upset tbe
dope bucket and emerge
from what looks to be a
tough series with a bardeamed win• .
Quite a nmnber of local
enthusiasts took the trip to
the Coast Cll me of Neil
Murdoch's buses last
~end to watch a pair of
C&nuck.games. As it turned
out Uley couldn't have
picked a better time as the
Canucka posted victories
over both Chicago and
Buffalo.
· Among those making the
trip were KIJHL western VP
Qerb Castle, Dr. Hugh
qampbell, Amie Sherwood,
Jjm Markle, Ray Dominici
&Jld Don Adamo. A fine trip
apd some excellent hockey
was reported by all.

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-: Turning to curling, the big
news this week is a welldeserved win for a Roasland
r1nk In a bonspiel In Grand
Porks over the weekend. 1be
gjrls• rink, composed of
Irene Dlmlop, skip, Corrie

Bateman, third, Donna
Price, second and Lil
Watkinson at lead, took first
pri7.e in the "B" competition
~ the Boundary Electric
ttppby by beating out the
J\me James rink from
Oliver. Good going, ladies!
The Business girls' season
in-drawing to a close as they
are for most clubs. In the

next to last draw Beryl
Davis won over DoMa

P.rice, Vi Krest beat Arlene

Dyson, J( was Enza..Boutry

c,\'er Jane Feeney and Irene
Dunlop beat Phyllis
W,oodward. The last games
wj]l be played March 23 and
tl'le girls will go to sorting out
tl)eir golf clubs, tennis
recquets or what have you.
some may even play some
softball.
;In the final competitiCll in
tlie Retirees club, it bu
boiled down to about three
more dates to go before we
close it down. The Bob
~eDSCll, Norm Harry and
Len Scott rinka are left In the
•~A" event the Phil
Bateman, Jack Mitchell and
Rieb Watkinson rinks will
vie for the "B" while Arnie
Vanness, George DySCll,
Angus Popplewell and Doug
Harrison will have to be
content to go for . the Con~latiCll.
:·This year, the swi'tcb from
curling to golf is not going to
be so sudden as quite a
bilncb of our curlers have
already put in a month or so