The Warriors played two games on the weekend
and I didn't get to see either of them. On Friday I
bad spent the day in bed getting a little extra rest

because during the past few weeks I've been bitting
a pretty steady pace on one thing or another.
I called Greta Cox at the arena and she helped
me out by getting a scol'Hheet for me. The Border
Bruins have not bad to much luck in the early going
but will probably get back on track as the season
progresses. I guess the 12-1 score doesn't leave
much to be said about that one. That's 30 goals the
Warriors have scored on them now and cert£Jnly
boosts their goals-for average.
The other weekend game was a squeaker
against Trail. The way coach Danny Bradford of
Trail was quite eloquent in his description of the
game, calling it "beautiful", according to the radio
announcer I heard. I didn't know Danny used those
kinds of words to describe hockey but that's what he
said. Back in the days when he played for the
Warriors he was a pretty rugged performer and a
darned good one. He reminded me of a former
Rossland player when he carried the puck down the
right wing and went around the defence. His name
was Bud Andrews. He was the smoothest we ever
bad in these parts. Hearing that Danny called it
"beautiful" came as quite a surprise. You can look
forward to more of the same, Dan!
Warriors entertain Castlegar on Friday then
venture down the hill on Saturday for a game
against Trail. Two wins would help their record no
end.

Now to tell you about our opening days curling,
I found out one thing for sure. I must get in some
practice shooting because I realized I have lost Rt'
shooting power. Actually, what I have done is
become a little bit leery of falling and the only way
to get over that is practice. Get out and get my
shooting arm back in shape and get over the jitters.
I think I made two reasonable shots out there all
game and that sure didn't help us against Norman
Harry. We lostl0-5.
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All games went on as scheduled and I'll try to
get my delivery back in shape. I will say this
thought, the boys seemed to be enjoying themselves. It'll get better as the season progresses.
We have a full slate of games so every one plays
everybody else once, all with at least one afternoon
game. Each rink plays nine games to complete our
first competition. Ray Keane, Bill Dobbs, myself,
Joe Rosse and Bob Stevenson make up our rink.
When we all get familiar I don't think we'll do to
badly. Myself, along with Joe Rosse, Rich
Watkinson and Phil Bateman, are the draw committee. I think things will run fairly smooth once we
get underway and some of the kings get ironed out.
The Rossland Legion now bas a copy of a
specially prepared tape made to show at the local
schools the Legion's role in the war years. President
Stinson told me this is going to form part of our Nov.
11 Remembrance Day Service in the branch. Our
service will commence at 10 a.m. instead of 10:30
a.m. to allow it to be fully shown at this time. The
production will also be shown to the school children
in their individual classrooms to take the place d
the usual guest speaker from Branch #14. I hope you
have caught the message on Town and Country. I
was told to put it in on two or three occasions and
have passed this order along to the paper.
I hope that we shall have a good number out for
our march to the Cenotaph this year. It is usually
pretty good.
Now with that I think I'll close with the usual
'Til next time, then.