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Trail Times .:.... Friday, March 11, 1983Wil

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Once again it was the
Rossland arena that was the
busiest spot in town over the
weekend as several events
connected with the town's
winter carnival were held
there.
First, it was the take-off
base for the novel "Bring it
to the Mountain" relay race.
Next there was the AtomSportsmanship hockey
tourney and last, but then
definitely not least, there
was the Mixed Club's oneday curling 'spiel.
And in case that wasn't
enough there was the
Warriors wind-up banquet
on Friday evening held in the
Parish Hall.
The Atom Sportsmanship
hockey was a huge success.
The organization headed by
. Clyde and Donna Moore was
well prepared and almost
flawlessly carried out. The
speed-skating on Sunday
afternoon caused the windup games to be late as the
crew had to scrape and Oood
about three times to get the
ice back in shape for hockey.
If you've every been into
this sort of thing you would
know that it takes many long
hours to draw up your
schedule, get peeople to
officiate at all levels,
timekeepers, scorekeepers,
referees, linesmen, etc. This
means close ceroperation

from the arena crew which
consists of Desi, Nancy, Ray
and Tommy. This weekend
that co-op feeling was
running at its best.
Donna Moore was
responsible for the
scorekeeping crew which
was always adequate and
she got some help from
Rossland's best-known pair
on this job, Jack Cox and
Ken Stanton. Greta Cox was
at her regular spot at the
ticket window and the fellow
who sold the ~ draw
tickets for every game was
Bruce Johnson aided at this
job by his brother Grant.
One of the referees was a
gentleman from Trail by the
name of Art Crawford. The
reason he stood out among
the officials was the fact that
he is 75. I was truly amazed
when I learned this. One
would certainly never know
it to see him operate out on
the ice.
The fact that Rossland
won two of the sections of the
tourney was added spice to
the Rossland fans, but all
games were top-notch in
calibre. Every kid playing in
every one of the 21 games did
himself proud and each has a
medal to prove it.
Next, we come to the 'spiel
in the curling rink, in its
third year. It is essentially a
fun day. The rinks are made

up as far as possible with two
men and two women on each
and the spiel is divided in
two sections which play
alternately.
The Harvey McKay rink
was top dog in the "B"
section. Their 21 point total
was best over-all also. Jim
Albo's foursome took "A"
honors with 19, with Phil
Bateman's crew coming
second with 15. Ivan Bell was
second in the "B" with a 16
while at the other end of the
spectrum was the Donna
Price rink which, despite
import help could garner
only a four-point total. By
the way, her helper from
Manitoba was Ed Caswell's
sister, Joan. Ed also played
on Donna's rink. •
To Jack and Eileen McDonald, Jim Bateman and
Donna, plus the women who
managed the coffee and hotdog concession and, ticket
sales, go our thanks for a job
well done.
Next was the Warrior
annual wind-up. A pretty
well packed Parish Hall
saw the invited guests join
the players and their
mentors in an evening of fun.
A fine meal kicked off the
evening, prepared by the
team mothers. It was absolutely tops, the beef was
done to a turn, fish, salads
and all manner of goodies.

This was followed by the
presentation of individual
player pictures and a
Warrior cap to each player
on the team along with the
special awards earned by
the players during the
season. Coach Lloyd
McLellan and manager
Doug Buhr each took part in
the presentation and Lloyd
had a word of a complimentary nature for each
boy as he was called up toget his gift.
I had a chance to talk to
some of the boys and from
what I heard there will be a
very dedicated bunch of
young men attending the
next year's Warrior camp
i.I&ptember.
Of the seven boys who
joined the club from out of
town. only Bart Cammarata
and Bert Brooker will not be
returning. Rod Deibert told
me he'll be back as will all
the Trail boys - Gary
Cahoon, Darren Pastro, Rob
Porcellato and Danny
Demchuk - will be welcome
in Rossland whenever they
come to town.
Our Rossland boys, Kenny
Davis, Danny Ferguson,
Gordie Stanton, Murray
Walters, Peter McLellan,
Scott Armour, Kevin Mc-Master, Terry Karenko,
Dean Mayer, John Howes,
Tim McNulty and Darryl

Lindgren will possibly be
joined by a couple of our upcoming stars for the next
campaign.
Assistant coach Ken
Koshey and trainer Dan
Davies along with assistant
trainer Lorne Edwards,
were all complimented for
their work with the boys and
all promised to be back
again.
Compliments must be
extended to the kids of the
"Green Machine," Bantam
champs, for their success in
the tourney in Beaver Valley
on the weekend and our best
wishes go with them as they
go to Fernie for the
provincial playdowns.
An old friend, now retired
from the hill, Doug Johnson,
visted me on Monday. He's
experiencing some trouble
with his knees. He had a
bone chip removed and has
arthritis. Someone asked
Doug what he figured caused
it and got this typical
Johnson answer, "You
know, all the years I spent
down there, a lot of the time
was spent on my knees,
begging for a bosses' job,
that can raise hell with the
old kneecaps.'
Anyway, Doug's keen to
get out on the golf course as
soon as his knees come
around.