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Tuesday and Thursday
mornings of this past week
saw the retirees in Rossland
have an open house for quite
a number of new would-be
members of their curling
club.
Some dozen or so newlyretired Cominco workers
were on hand. Some have
played the game before
while others are in the
process of taking it up, but
they all dug in e nthusiastically.
On Saturday morning last
I took a trip to Castlegar
where three of the branches
were having an impromptu
dart tournament. Darts is
getting to be quite a thing
among the area Legion
members now and a tourney
will be held in Castlegar in
the new year to decide which
branch will go on to the
provincial playoffs in
Squamish. Anyway, I'm told
the Rossland team won the
tourney Saturday, beating
out the host branch and a
team from the Trail branch.
On another tack, I got a

letter from an old friend the
other day. It was from
Charlie Cholak who moved
away to Edmonton earlier
this year and we hadn't had
word of him until this week
when he wrote both me and
Carl Osing. Charlie, who was
a red-hot sports fan when he
was around here, has a few
problems. He has sickness in
his family and hospital visits
take up a lot of his time. He
sent along his good wishes to
a number of his friends
around Rossland and said he
hopes to visit us in the
summer of '84. Charlie did
quite a lot for youth sports
back in the '50's and '60's. He
could always be relied on to
dig down and put money on
the line to help out a needy
kids' ball, soccer or hockey

team.
The KIJHL is beginning to
show some kind of a picture
of how things are going in the
league now. Spokane and
Beaver Valley are off to an
excellent start with eight
wins apiece while the best in

the East are Columbia
Valley and Cranbrook. The
boys from Invermere had a
bad weekend losing to the
Junior Leafs on Friday in
overtime, dropping a 5-3
decision to the Border
Bruins before eking out a 42 win over the Warriors in a
game that was tied until late
in the third period.
Elk Valley is starting to
come on in the East as they
took two wins on the
weekend over the Colts and
Knights. In the West, Trail
and Nelson find themselves
in an unfamiliar spot in the
standings. Both of these are
young teams and, like the
Warriors, they may take
some time to find themselves but I think it is safe to
say the league could be the
scene of a lot of exciting
hockey before the season is
much older.
Looking at the lower age
groups, Rossland's former
bantam team have moved
down the hill to Trail this
season and from what I hear,
most of the boys have found

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a place on Trail's midget rep well out in front all season. It
team. In another year or so looks like Winnipeg and
these boys will be Edmonton, or possibly
graduating to the Warriors Calgary, will battle it out for
and the team will get the the right to meet the Lions
benefit of some more home- while Ottawa and Hamilton
grown talent.
will do the same to earn the
Still on hockey, I read an right to play the Argos.
article turned over to me by Montreal still has a chance
John Campbell the other but they must play Ottawa
day, on Tony Tanti, the on Saturday and the way
Canuck's high-scoring Ottawa squeaked out that 20forward. At 11, this young 19 win over the Argos on
fellow played in the same Sunday means they have
league as Wayne Gretzky. their eyes set on bigger
He also broke Wayne's things.
So, now we can look forrookie record for goals
scored, 81 while playing for ward to some of the white
Oshawa in 1980-31. It seems stuff coming along to make
the Canucks have made the skiers happy and some
quite a find in Tony. Besides motorists unhappy while the
scoring goals he was on a average Joe will just
penalty-killing unit in grumble at the amount he
Oshawa and the unit never has to shovel. I, personally,
gave up a goal in 71 straight don't mind the snow and I
power-play situations.
shovel what lands in the
Over to football, the first pathway when it gets too
place in both East and West deep to walk through. It
have now been decided. The usually doesn't take long and
Lions clinched theirs in the what the heck, I've got lots of
Hamilton game on the time and you can't tell me
weekend while Toronto has it's not good exercise!
Till next week, then!
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