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The Haileyburian & Cobalt Weekly Post (1957-1961), 14 Apr 1960, p. 3

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| 31 I _Finalists in the Lavery event in the Intertown bonspiel; winners, Cliff Leroy lead; Jack Mc- Knight, second, Ken Montgomery, vice and Cliff Binkley, skip; runners up, Bill Grozelle, skip, Ben Bourget, vice; Boris Wlad second and Len Johnsion, lead. ry rink carried off top prize; the winners, George vice, Eddie McDonough, second and Grump Grignon, lead, substitut- | In the Temiskaming Speaker event a Haileybury Harrison, skip, Jack Murphy, ing for George Ninacs. Wm. Pollock and Sons of Englehart supplied first prizes for the third event in the Intertown spiel which were won by (front) Gordon Ross, skip,-Ed Collier, vice, Denny Paquette, second and Bob Meisner lead. The losers standing, Tremainé Welch, skip, Brett Medland, 'vice, Bud Newton second and Bob Wall, lead. I eee eee Viltn ' Winners of the fifth and Woods Hardware event in the Intertown were Lorne Umphrey, Bill Mallet, Walter Stevens and Dunc McLeod. . Thursday, April 14, 1960 The Haileyburian Page 3 Men's Intertown Spiel Winds up Curling Year Last 'Wednesday evening curl- ing came to an official.end:at the New Liskeard rink with the finals in the popular: Intertown_.'spiel staged by the 'local' club on both Liskeard and Haileybury ice. Close to 60 rinks were entered in the 'spiel,» with. quartettes from Temagami,. Englehart, Elk Lake, Liskeard and Haileybury pantici- pating. The first event, for Bulova watches, donated by Lavery Jew- elers, was won by Cliff Binkley's Liskeard rink in a close tussle with the Bill Grozelle rink from Haileybury, who received the Hill- Clark-Francis prizes. Prizes donat- ed by Reid's Men's Wear and the Windsor Hotel were won by Clay- ton Dunn and Ron Morissette, both of Haileybury. The Temiskaming Speaker event was won by the George Harrison rink from Haileybury and the de- feated finalists, skipped by Clare Neil took prizes donated by Tem- iskaming Hardware, Moore's Lug Store prizes. went to third spot winner, Bob Scott of Englehart, who edged Hubert Dor- an of Haileybury. Prizes for fourth place in this event were donaited by New Liskeard Hotel. Gordon Ross' rink were tops in the third event, taking the Wm. Pollock and Sons. prizes, second spot went to T. Welch of Hailey- bury and his team is now wearing hats donated by McKnight's Men's Wear. Don McKnight was in third place and collected the Northern Telephone prizes and Spencer and Sullivan's donation went to G. Em- erick of Englehart. Chiff Krick's rink were winners Six Tweenies - Now Enrolled An enrollment held by the Brownie Pack, United Church. The six Tweenies who were en- rolled were pleased to have their parents present.. The following were enrolled and are now Brow- nies; Patricia Harrison, Irene Ken- rick, Susan Harrison, Shirley Ann Cote, Sigrid Valtin, Betty Treen. Mrs. H. Doran, the Division Commissioner of the Girl Guide As- sociation, was present to enroll the girls. Inspection was held, with every girl in her uniform looking trim and neat. This took place in the form of a compass, the -Brownie Sixers facing North, South, East and West, with the Brownies lined up behind their leaders. The Commissioner gave a talk on the aims and objects of the Brownie work and followed this by presenting prizes to the Brownies who had sold the largest number of cookies in the recent Girl Guide Cookie Sale. First prize, Jean. Kranz with 62 boxes. sold;. second, Shirley Ann Cote, 43 boxes; third, Donelda Mc- Intyre, 31 boxes; fourth, Sandra Mattice, 26 boxes. The Pack sold 378 boxes altogether. The songs. for the Music Festival were practised and games were played under the leadership of Packie Miss Sally Whitby, Tea and cookies were served by the Brown- ies under the direction of Tawny Owl, Miss Lynn St. Louis, ceremony was First Haileybury in St. Andrew's "THE MIGHTY MIDGET" THE WANT AD 'Will De the Job tor You of the fourth event, sponsored by } Canadian Tire Corporation, with Corley Martin's Elk Lake in sec- ond place taking the Home Out- fitters' prizes. Charlie Reid col- ' lected the J. & J. Taylor prizes , for placing third and Floyd Hinds the Armstrong Motors set of gifts. Down in. the Woods Hardware event Lorne Umphrey beat out Basil Jackson for first place. Sec- ond spck prizes were donated by Hinds and Collier. Fred Abraham's rink won the third place prizes do- nated by the New Liskeard Bands and Jack Williams of Englehart copped - the Nixon, Begg and Hutchinson awards the final prize takers. This ends another season of the "roaring game" for the curlers of the Tri-Town. Now all curlers can rest their sweeping arms until next November when once again the curling jackets will be. taken out of mothballs, Successful Year At Curling Club The Cobalt - Haileybury Curling as Club had another successful sea- son under the chairmanship of Clayton Dunn and William V. . Fleming as vice-president. The , men's club held their membership around the 142 mark, whereas the ladies had an increase to a total of 101 members. On Saturday, April 9, the closing event took place and the prizes for the differ- ent events during the season were presented. Walter Hylands did a good job on the draws and kept all members happy and deserves a great deal of credit for his effi- cient handling of the draws. In the opening event the team skip- ped: by Connie Vachon won first prize and Ernest St. Louis' team took second, P. M. Fleming who donated the prizes for the P.M. Fleming event presented the following winners, Clarence Tyson (skip) Heber Bri- den, Jack Leishman and C, Wil- mont. Second prize was won by Gordon Stevens (skip) James Hicks, T. M, Crandell and Paul Haack. In the Don Russell Mem- orial event the following were the winners, William Grozelle (skip), Ted Kenrick, Glen Moody and Len Johnston. The second prize was won by Ron Morissette (skip), J. E. McDonough, Gordon Peckover and B. Jennings, In the B.P. Canada event N. J. McAulay was not present to pre- sent the prizes which were donated by his firm so R. J. Fleming did the honours and the winners were Ernest §t. Louis (skip) Ronald Manning, John Stanbury and James Hamilton. Second prize went to Clayton Dunn (skip) Roger Fleming, R. J. Burns and Bud Brooks. The vice-skips competition was won by Gordon Stibbarts (skip), Joe Allard, Sheldon Dobbs and Taylor Pipe. Second prize in this event went to Ronald Manning (skip), R. Maki, C, Lemaire and Clarence Tyson, The Bagshaw trophy prizes were donated by W. E. Bagshaw and the winners were as follows: Guy Marston (skip) William - Mallett, Wm. Taylor and Len Johnston. Second prize went to Gordon Ste- vens (skip), H. A. Doran, Wayne Pellette and George Stewart, Springtime The sidewalks are bare of their five-month burden of snow. The drifts are shrinking. daily. Tufts of weeds are pok- ing. through the white stuff in ditches. Rubber boots and wet seats are a constant for the younger fry. The gutters are running freely. And ... Gordon Pettifer re- ports a robin on his front lawn on Tuesday. , It looks as if spring has fin- ally arrived in the north. i > ae Se

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