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On Saturday evening the awards ceremony was
held in the Rossland Legion. It was quite a simple
ceremony but it was for people, who, over the years
had put just that little extra into helping the Legion
attain its high ranking among the service clubs in
our community. The chairman, in his introductions,
mentioned several projects that the hard work of
these people had helped. Among them, the
movement of the cenotaph, the work on the
swimming pool committee, the remodelling of
branch premises to bring it to its present comfortable state and many others. The Ladies'
Auxiliary, who contribute much besides financial
help to the branch and many who were singled out
for special efforts also received awards.
On the basis of ladies first here come these
deserving people's names: Irene Dunlop, Wihna
Broughton, Lil Karenko, Olga Grose, Edith McCuaig, Barb Secco, Ina Austin, Marg Rosse, Estelle
Dahlman, Fran Woods, Jean Richie, Mildred
Martin and Corrie Bateman. The men were Tom
Clark, Carl Osing, Paddy Floor, Russ Broughton,
Joe Gyte, Keith Woods, Bill Dahlman, Doug Cavill,
Phil Bateman, Ralph Berry, Joe Thalman, Bart
Dudley, Ed Caswell, Carl Seefeldt, Rich Watkinson
and Harry Pepper.
Don-'t ask me for any mention of what these
people did, suffice to say they did that little extra to
make for a successful operating branch. For this
they were singled out for special awards.
The evening conluded with lunch and dancing to
John Owens' delightful music.
Saturday was also Batchelor's Day at the
weekly meat draw as Desi Monaghan, Bob Layton,
Chuck Harkness, Carl Seefeldt and Jim Sheehan
took home all the goodies.
While on the subject of Legion activites, I forgot
to mention that they have not renamed the Nakusp
Anniversary the Denisoff weekend in honor of Neil
and Louise Denisoff of Glade. Between them they
won practically all the awards at the darts tourney
and as a team they won the doubles. Neil took the
men's singles and Louise the ladies' high.
And, as parting shot, no more cribbage until the
fall.
Retirees' golf at the upper course on Tuesday
drew 49 members, Bud Comba and Don Krug were
at the signing-up table and the first group were off
the tee well before 8 a.m. The winners of the six
balls given out were, in the low net category, Stan
Fisher with a 34, Lou Freeman 35, and Noland
Garrison and Ken Davies \;Vere tied at 36. In the long
putt on number six Jim McDicken had a dandy
about 40 feet and in the closest to the pin on number
five it was Bart Dudley who was inside five feet with
his tee shot. Obviously the weatherman can be
wrong at times, today his 60 per cent chance of rain
did not materialize and we all came off the court
dry in more ways than one. Next Tuesday "Chief''
Buna and Jack Buchanan will officiate and they
promise two surprises and·hidden partners in their
program. Hope we have good weather!
Stan Fisher has quite a line-up of jobs, which
some of us retirees can easily handle, that need
doing around the course. If you feel you can afford
some spare time to donate, contact Stan or let me
know and I'll pass it along.
The situation with regard to the Warriors
hockey club remains a little clouded. I talked to
several people over the last little while and from
what I can learn optimism is still the watchword.
Everything I've heard points to the fact that we
shall do everything possible to ice a team. Ap~~nUy ~e fact that we have to bring in a number

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Dahlman, Fran Woods, Jean Richie, Mildred
Martin and Corrie Bateman. The men were Tom
Clark, Carl Osing, Paddy Floor, Russ Broughton,
Joe Gyte, Keith Woods, Bill Dahlman, Doug Cavill,
Phil Bateman, Ralph Berry, Joe Thahnan, Bart
Dudley, Ed Caswell, Carl Seefeldt, Rich Watkinson
and Harry Pepper.
Don-'t ask me for any mention of what these
people did, suffice to say they did that little extra to
make for a successful operating branch. For this
they were singled out for special awards.
The evening conluded with lunch and dancing to
John Owens' delightful music.
Saturday was also Batchelor's Day at the
weekly meat draw as Desi Monaghan, Bob Layton,
Chuck Harkness, Carl Seefeldt and Jim Sheehan
took home all the goodies.
While on the subject of Legion activites, I forgot
to mention that they have not renamed the Nakusp
Anniversary the Denisoff weekend in honor of Neil
and Louise Denisoff of Glade. Between them they
won practically all the awards at the darts tourney
and as a team they won the doubles. Neil took the
men's singles and Louise the ladies' high.
And, as parting shot, no more cribbage until the
fall.
Retirees' golf at the upper course on Tuesday
drew 49 members, Bud Comba and Don Krug were
at the signing-up table and the first group were off
the tee well before 8 a.m. The winners of the six
balls given out were, in the low net category, Stan
Fisher with a 34, Lou Freeman 35, and Noland
Garrison and Ken Davies were tied at 36. In the long
putt on number six Jim ·McDicken had a dandy
about 40 feet and in the closest to the pin on number
five it was Bart Dudley who was inside five feet with
his tee shot. Obviously the weatherman can be
wrong at times, today his 60 per cent chance of rain
did not materialize and we all came off the court
dry in more ways than one. Next Tuesday "Chief''
Bona and Jack Buchanan will officiate and they
promise two surprises and hidden partners in their
program. Hope we have good weather!
Stan Fisher has quite a line-up of jobs, which
some of us retirees can easily handle, that need
doing around the course. li you feel you can afford
some spare time to donate, contact Stan or let me
know and I'll pass it along.
The situation with regard to the Warriors
hockey club remains a little clouded. I talked to
several people over the last little while and from
what I can learn optimism is still the watchword.
Everything I've heard PQints to the fact that we
shall do everything possible to ice a team. Apparently the fact that we have to bring in a number
of players to make this possible in a bit of a problem
and it is how to deal with this aspect that is occupying the attenjon of those people who want to
see hockey continue in our arena.
Fund-raising ideas are among the things
coming up for the attention of the people on the
executive at the present time and there are other
things which will come up for presentation in future
meetings of the Warriors.
Some of the suggestions that have been put
forward to me by some people interested are: the
possibility of an amalgamation with the Nitehawks,
with games played at alternate rinks. This could
probably be a viable answer if it were agreed to by
both towns. Any solution that will keep hockey in
Rossland is what I'd like to see. We know from past
experience that we cannot really afford too much
help that is going to cost us too much money. Maybe
if we can hang on until our crop comes in from the
minors we shall be alright. There is no doubt that we
have quite a lot of talent down there once it is ready
for our use.
Anyway, we'll await further development and
until then, I'll say,
'Til next time, then!