I- Trail Times- Friday, March 19. 1982

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of the oldest senior hockey
were quite a bunch of kids and they have league in Canada. Tradition
of happenings over a lot of people rooting for means a lot to the Kimberley
past, for instance, them.
club and we shall be watAlso, the senior Smoki~s ching with much interest to
Bantams will
a!lellt the WestKootenay fell by the wayside and will see if they can come up with
er II playoffs at have to rest up for a renewed a winning perfonnance.
IIINnv. 'Ibey earned that attack on the records of the
For a long time there bas
th a win over WIHL next season. Kim- been no mixed curling in
alley and will go on berley Dynamiters got some Rossland. It bas been tried
bow they ~ r e super net-minding from but has always had
kids from tlie rest of Randy Amatto and came up problems. This year a group
with a big 5-1 win. Dan of interested people got their
kids have a winning McFarland, in the Smokie heads together and decided
and they could pull net, also stood up pretty well to do something constructive
win over in Enderby under a barrage that saw 51 about the situation.
Some of them had been
ring back some shots fired at him. The
• Let's wish them Dynamiters will now tackle bowlers, but with that sport
ay and let them do Cranbrook Royals to see who no longer available in our
. They are a great will be the ultimate winner town they decided to take up
curling. The organization
they formed was unique, in
that the games played did
not result in any "winners,"
instead, everyone was a
winner. They played for the
pure fun of participation.
Some of the pe<1>le involved waere instrumental
in the formation, a couple of
years back, of their summer
equivalent of fun curling - a
slow-pitch ball league, in
which some of the most zany
happenings ever perpetrated
on a diamond were seen.
Anyway, this winter, a lot
of these same people got a
mixed curling league going
that culminated in a one-day
spiel that was something to
brag about. Mind, you, the
calibre of the curling could
not quite equal that which we
watched on the tube between
games, but somehow, I don't
really think anyone at our
'spiel had any notions of
emulating either of the
teams in the Brier final.
I really don't know all of
the people responsible for
the organizing that went into
this effort but I will saw one
thing for them, they did a
hell of a job, Donna Price,
Jon Holm, Gail McGonigal,
Jack and Eileen MacDonald,
Jim and Cindy Bateman,
Ray and Norma Dominici,
Jim Markle and Amie
Sherwood along with Angus
Popplewell had a hand in it.
All this just goes to prove
that there are things that one
can do with oneself that don't
cost an arm and a leg. We
had fun on Sunday and it was
doing something we enjoyed
along with people whose
company we enjoy at any
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hold a fun night Monday and
their wind-up banquet will be
held at the Red Mountain
Motel Restaurant at 7 p.m .
March29.
A subject on which I have
very little in the way of
When they ·came up to the expertise is next on the list.
presentation of prizes, It ~oncerns people . who,
mostly there is only one despite a~ul handicaps,
winner in each division, but . perform miracles on the
in this one they gave prizes slopes all over the world.
to the winners and the losers. The handicapped Winter
Amie Sherwood won the "A" Olympics took place in
on a draw to the button with Switzerland this week.
Bob Marshall. Dick Cotton Rossland's Butch Boutry is a
emerged victorious in a coach for these people and in
similar draw with Jim conversation with him I
Schuck for the "B". The learned he has a lot of deep
fellows on the bottom end of admiration for these original
the totem pole were your true-blue athletes.
truly and Frank Harris, we
One must have to be close
drew to the button too, but to these people to understand
my rock lodged in the hack how they manage to perform
and Frank's was a little the way they do. Butch has
closer to the rings. I won been at it for a while and I
because we were seeing who believe him when be says,
could be farthest away from even he bas trouble believing
the button.
what be sees what these
And we got the same athletes do.
prizes as the guys who really
I really feel very humble
tookthejobseriously.
when I offer my conStill with curling, a call tratulations to these people,
from carol Albo tells the especially those from our
following: The Monday own town and district, who
Night Ladies' Curling Club perform so magnificenUy in
completed their last com- their chosen sport.
petition with the following
P.S.: I would never live it
results, winning rink was Vi
Krest's, Vi bad carol Albo, down if I neglected to name
third, Marg Davidson second the members of my rink on
and Esther L'Ecluse in the Sunday, Mary Bruce did a
hell of a job as my third,
lead spot.
Donna Price, who always Steve Kurocz was my second
bas difficulty winning, was and it sure wasn't .his fault
again a bridesmaid, Donna we lost three games. Cerhad Dolly Riley at third, Flo tainly not least, was Cindy. I
Valentine second and Ursula think she really tried to play
Stephens lead. The girls will for two.