AS I SEE IT:
WITH

HARRY PEPPER
After seeing Sunday evening's
hockey contest in Trail I am
more convinced than ever of the
value of positive thinking.
This is one subject that the
Junior Warriors are going to
have to bone up on if they ever
hope to beat the Junior Smokies
on Trail ice.
. I really think that the easy
Saturday night game was a bad
thing for our kids. It could be
compared to someone feasting
themselves at a free smorgasbord and then having to go out
and fight to get their next meal.
I would suggest that had they
bad to battle a team like Cranbrook in the Saturday fixture
instead of a bunch of patsies
like the Spokane crew they would
have know better what to expect.
This year's Trail entry is
not as strong as last year's
team and I think the Rossland
crew is stronger. But when
playing against a hard-driving
crew, which is something all
Roy Casler-coached teams are,
you have to have all you can
muster going for you and the
Warriors didn't look like they
bad too much of anything going
for them. The missed chances
were terrible and when a young
goalie makes 46 saves plus two
from bis own players you just
know that things are not going
right.
This is not intended as criticism of any one player, coach
or executive member, rather
I would like to speak my mind
as a hockey fan who hates to
see two evenly matched teams
play a game in which one has a
psychological advantave over
the other, and I'm sure this was
the case on Sunday. Trail had
that game won before they stepped on the ice, so you see what
I mean by the value of positive
thinking. A team will never do a
job with negative thoughts.

CASTLEGAR LIONS HONOR
LADIES SOFTBALL CHAMPS

ville, Kathy Rafter, Chris Evin,
Florence MacArthur, Ann Nazaroff, who was named the most
valuable player, and Ann Stasila
of Castlegar, Verna Chernoff,
who was scorekeeper and reporter on the Vancouver trip
was also honored as was her
husband , Harry, who was an
Assistant Coach to Maurice and
Tony Borsato at the Championship. Maurice was present to
receive his memento , but Tony
was absent.
Absent from the trophy presentation were Marjean Bidder,
from Marysville, Donna Moyes
of Trail and Carol Clark and
Alta Eberts from Salmo.
After the girls had been '
roundly applauded, Mr. stasila
went on to honor the regular
league team, the Castlegar Lionettes. Receiving trophies were
members of the team , Nancy
Cheveldave, Debbie McGauley,
Lisa Kursoff, Leona Baresinkoff ·verna Chernoff, Anne Peter;on, Kathy Rafter, Chris Evin Ann Nazaroff, Florence
M~cArthur, Hazel Demoskoff,
Ann Stasila and Marlene Kirby
who acted as team scorekeeper.
Harry Chernoff and Maurice
MacArthur were again honored
as team coaches .
There were several individual awards of which I neglected
to check names of sponsor and
recipient so for fear of making
an error I won 't name them.
I wish to wind up by saying
how much I enjoyed being a part
of the ceremonies and meeting
so many nice people. Thank you
Maurice and Flo and also
"Skip" and Joanie who provided
the transportation and company .

On Monday evening I was
honored to be invited to a supper that the Castlegar Lions
Club put on to honor the Ladies
Softball team, which under the
banner of the Lions and the
name of the Valley All-stars
went to Vancouver this Fall
and brought back to the Kootenays our second Ladies Senior
" C" Softball Championship.
After some refreshment and
a delicious cafeteria-style supper, such as you don 't eat
every time you go to a banquet,
every man there was asked to
stand and introduce himself and
bis guests . Then president Jim
Chapman introduced the head
table, among whom was the
editor of the Castlegar News,
Mr . Bruce Ramsay, a very
interesting gentleman who spent
interesting gentleman who
spent many years on the Vancouver papers. He is also quite
well-know for his books, of
which he has written several.
He was to be the guest speaker
of the evening.
Frank Stasila, who headed the
Softball Team Committee then
took over and asked Coach Maurice MacArthur to introduce
the All-star players present.
After Maurice finished, Mr.
Satasila had the girls go to the
front of the clubroom where
"Torchy" Torresan, who is
commisioner for the Kootenay
area in the B.C.A.S.A ., presented each girl with a personal
trophy .
Girls who were present to
receive their trophies were Jay
Johnson and Brenda Lewis from
South Slocan, Joan Ferguson
Dee Keriaff and Renice Coombs
of Trail, Terry! Milne from the
East Kootenay town of Marys-

The Rossland Minor Soccer
Association will be holding its
wind-up do for the soccer playing kids eary in November,
time and place to be decided
at a meeting to be held shortly,
so watch this paper for further
information. The draw for the
stereo, etc. will be madeatthat
time and winners announced · in
this column.