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On Monday evening I listened to the Vancouver
weather forecast and it promised some sunshine but a lot
of rain. It didn't, in other words, bode very well for our
Retirees golf in the morning and I was told by a gent who
has a metal roof on his house that they didn't get much
sleep from around 3 a.m. on.
When dawn broke, actually, I don't think it did,' at
least it didn't get much lighter than it had been all night, it
was still coming down and I called Dave at the course at
about 9:30 a.m., and he said the boys cancelled out about a
half hour before my call. It was not only wet, it was cold
and we have some pretty ardent golfers on our crew but I
guess that even they thought the better of it. However, I
guess all we can hope for is some more suitable weather
for our next time around.
Last Thursday Bart Dudley and I spent a very nice .
day at Castlegar. At 8 a.m. we left home and were out on
the course at 8:45. We were in different foursomes and I
got lucky. Both of our Castlegar hosts had carts, a gent
from Nelson accompanied on one while I was on the other.
Bart didn't get as lucky so he had to walk around.
When you are on a strange course its nice to have a
native member with a cart. They know where they are
going all the time. When we finished we went to the club
room and had time for a couple of cold ones before being
. served a really fine meal by the ladies. When you get nine
holes of golf and a meal like that one for a $10 bill, consider
yourself lucky, we did!
Gerry Wanless was there and he buttonholed me with
a project he has.in mind. He would like to see a full day of
golf at the Castlegar course especially for retirees, with a
meal like we had last Thursday to wind it up. It would
probably include a break after nine for refreshments
before continuing the last nine. Gerry considers Castlegar
the best course in the area. I suppose everyone has the
· right of preference.
To get away from golf for a minute, I saw a piece in
The Times the other day that the Rossland city council is
hoping to find a way to make more use of Jubilee Park at
the high school. A very laudable project I would be in. clined to say, I played soccer,a little when I first got here
in 1951 and it was a case of a dry-weather game. If it

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rained for several boun previous to game time you didn't
play, that's how bad it was and according to my information, it still is. The Rol8land . teams have had
problems along that line this summer.
One factor that I didn't know about was that the small
soccer pitch which was started below Thompson Avenue
was ued because money was unavailable to finish. I
always figured someone made the right move when that
was started strictly for the kids. I don't know what the
thing is with regard to volunteer labor, I would think that
quite a gang of us guys with time on our hands could pitch
in and do something about that.
I always remember the arena project. A whole lot of
guys gave a lot of time to see that it was made to go. Have
we lost our desire to help get the kids a suitable place to
play? If we have maybe we should give something like
this some thought.
But the old swamp would probably take more than
just work to do what it needs and from what I hear, I don't
think anyone wants any more raises in their tu bill,
whatever it's for!
While taking about volunteer labor, I well remember
when Cook Avenue Park was just a bog too and a lot of us
were still working for Cominco then. It was made into a
fine park for the kids and today is used by all and sundry.
Mind you a lot of city labor went into that too.
Centennial Park, of which we are so proud was a like
project. The city and considerable volunteer labor made
that possible. Rock-blasting and many Jobs were handled
by guys with the expertise from their everyday work. I
ha~e to get a word in fdr that marvel of volunteer labor
next door to Centennial, the Uons campground. That
project not only is satisfactory to the eye it brings many
bucks into this town. It was a Lions project that really
paid off. Of course we have to be grateful for the city's
help on that one too.
As we come to the rest period between hockey seasons
and the early-eeason Jockeying for position in the big
baseball leagues we may have time to turn our thoughts to
some of these projects that still have not been completed.
And, with that I think I'll say,
'Til next time, then!

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