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On Monday morning I got
a call from Willi Krause.
Willi was looking for information with regard to
the names of some of the
people who took part in the
runningoftheindooruack
and field meets that were
held in the Cominco Arena
some years back.
Willi was telling me that
since Trail now has its
field-house he would like to
get some data on the way.
they operated those meets
back then. He says he
knows the Canadian Legion
had a large part in their
sponsorship. · But he has a
letter from the people who
were in charge at the
Legion at that time telling
him the Legion was going
to discontinue their
sponsorship because they
felt Willi did not need it.

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Willi says this was a very
mistaken idea. If and when
he gets his wish to get the
meets started in the fieldhouse, the Legi!)n woul~ be
one
of
the
first
organizftions he would
approach because of the
excellence of the work they
did in the past meets.
The conception that Willi
has of these proposed
meets is that they will offer
the chance for youngsters
from the elementary and
higher grades from
throughout the district to
participate. Perhaps they
could start out with the
immediate district first
and go on from there to
develop the idea of an
Interior championship
class meet.
I have talked to
Rossland's famous son, Joe
Haley. It was he who first

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broached'the subject to me
and Joe said ~ would help
Willi in any way he could.
I shall go on to talk to
people in all the Zone
Legions to pbt Qie idea of a
sponsorship in their minds.
Willi tells me that with all
the groundwork for indoor
meets now laid out in the
field-house, the Legion's
job would not be nearly as
onerous as it was in the
previous case.
Now that I have laid it
out for people to consider,
would anyone with some
knowledge of the problems
that were faced before
please get in touch with
Willi. He's retired now and
his number is in the book,
but like any old work horse
he's still willing to take the
bit in his teeth and charge
into anything.

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· So come on! Anyone who
has so~tbing to help Willi
get things started, give him
acall.
The Canadian Legion
does sponsor a Canadawide youth traiqing
program that helps our
kids get a good start in
their athletic endeavors.
But, as Willi points out, it is
concenuated in the East,
not that the program is
dead in the West, but all the
big meets are in the East.
Witness "Pepp-Talk" of
September 7 telling about
two young athletes from
Trail, Eileen Volpatti and
car1a DiBiasio who took
part in the above program
and collected three bronze
medals at a country-wide
meet at Halifa, Nova
Scotia.
Willi's idea to bring back
Legion sponsorship locally

would be a big boost
towards getting the Legion
brain-uust to possibly give
this part of the country one
of those atuactive big
meets. The Legion is in the
busines of helping both the
young and old and I feel
they will give anyone who
approaches them a fair
hearing.
So Winnipeg is Grey
Cup champion for '84. They
thoroughly deserved their
victory. After a slow start
that saw Hamilton build up
a 14-3 edge, they started a
comeback that saw them
outscore the Ti-Cats 44-3
after the first quarter. The
easy victory gave our Toby
Edwortby a win in our
Grey Cup party sweep.
Lucky old Tobe!
And with that I'll say
"Till next time!"