Driftwood Classic winter golf tourney 2016

 

2016 driftwood classic open Ray Laquerre, Max Fulton,Adam Clement, Max Clement, Greg Fulton

Driftwood open winter classic.

Max Clement’s driftwood winter classic was held on April 3 rd 2016,
This golf tournament has been held for 20 plus years, and is played on the ice in front of Max’s cabin
on Driftwood bay on the floodwaters (Marmion lake Reservoir),north of the Atikokan Hydro Generating Station site.

Some years the ice conditions were very poor and the tournament was not held.

This years classic started with a stop at the White Otter Inn where everyone had a full breakfast
to get them warmed up and mentally prepared to face the minus 12 degree temps and a 15 km wind
that was waiting for them on the Lake.

the snow was falling and there had been about 4 cm on the ice.
Driftwood bay, got its name for all the driftwood and stumps that are present in the bay, this area was flooded in 1926
as a storage area for the hydro dam at the moose lake hydro station

Max, with his three Grandsons, Adam Clement, Max and his twin brother Gregg Fulton, with Ray Laquerre and Richard Lampi rounded out the golfers who braved the weather to participate in this classic.

The game was played one day after Max’s 90th birthday.

Gerry Busch tames # 4 at cottonwood

Thanks to Sid and Joyce for the update.

 

On March 15 th , Gerry Busch made a hole in one on hole number 4 using a 5 wood. It was witnessed by her golf partner Bill Stewart. It was the second one this year, the fourth overall by our group and the second on hole #4 ( Gary, #9; Joyce, #4; Sid, #1). These people have/will have the names engraved on the plaques on the wall.

Gerry Busch hole in one on #4 cottonwood march 15 2016

Gerry has also been cooking up some good scores. Over the past 2 or 3 weeks she has had a total score, for the 9 holes, of 28 on two occasions. Other than Fred’s 29, I can’t think of any other scores in the twenties this year.

Sid Bina’s Ace and the rest of his round

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Sid started his epic round from the first tee, his shot hit the fairway in front of the green and the ball slowly rolled onto the green and right into the cup. Don Reisberg, Joyce Foy and George Coulson watched this from the tee.
with this excitement George and Don each shot a four and Joyce scored a 5 on the first hole.

On the second hole Sid was all pumped up and hit a couple of wayward shots and took a 5 on the hole, Joyce parred the hole and George and Don shot 4s.

Sid recovered with a par on # 3, along with George and Don Joyce took a 5.

On # 4 Sid hit the green and birdied the hole, Don parred the hole and Joyce and George each shot 4.
hole # 5 plays long, you have to hit across a canal onto a small green, George likes this hole and parred it. Don and Sid had 4s and Joyce took a 5.

#6 is 170 yards long, Don, Sid and Joyce took 4 and George recorded a 5 on this hole.

Don Led the way on the seventh hole with a birdie, George and Joyce shot a pair of three’s and Sid took a four count.

on the 200 yard eight hole George shot a par Don a 4, Joyce a 5 and Sid took a six.

# 9 is a 125 yarder which Joyce shot a 5, Sid and George took 4s and Don parred the hole to finish his round with a 33 which tied him with George and Sid.
Joyce took 5 strokes on this hole to finished her round with a 38.

It was a great day for the golfers to see a hole in one.

Congratulations Sid

Atikokan Oldtimers Hockey Story

The Oldtimers Hockey Story

The Winter of 1969-70 saw the first use of the arena for hockey. the first winter the ice plant had not been installed yet, so all it had been natural ice.

The Atikokan arena was built with lot of volunteers donating their time and skills to get the job done.
The Township of Atikokan donated the use of men and equipment they had to assist in the construction.
Most of the business community donated money, building materials and any other thing that was needed to get the arena built.
There were many groups who held bake sales, raffles and such to raise money to help fund the ice plant.

A group of older ex-hockey players Invited the Thunder Bay oldTimers and Fort Frances oldtimers, to come an play exhibition games to raise money to help pay for the ice plant.

In order to get in shape for these exhibition games, two teams were organized, most of the players had not played in many years.
Some of the players who played in the exhibition games did not play again in later years.

Two teams were formed to get in shape for the upcoming games with Thunder Bay and Fort Frances.
( some had played and won the Allen cup in the fifties with the Fort Frances Canadians)

Lou Graham coached and managed the team called Graham’s Wafers and Dale Lind managed and coached Lind’s Lunker’s.
The only game recorded by the Atikokan Progress, was played in february of 1970,
Graham’s Wafer’s Defeated Lind’s Lunker’s by a score of 6 to 5.
Scoring for the wafer’s were Jim Koroscil with 2 goals and Doug Tribe, Pat Pierce, Leo Lamarche, Keith Norman with one each. Jack Lewis, Jack Pierce, Jerry Zayac and Francis Milley were also on this team.

Goal scorers for Lind’s Lunker’s were Ralph Finch, Bob Prime, Finn Warren, George Roy and Omer Sampson. Al Triege, Dale Lind and Richard Kolton also played on this team.
Don Bruce refereed that first game and handed out one penalty, to Bill Hrychuk. This resulted in a penalty shot By Omer Sampson, he did not waste the opportunity and scored.
This was the first penalty shot scored in the new arena.
these two teams played a second game but I could not find any record of it.

Ed’s Cat liniment league hockey team 77-78

The players who played for Ed’s Cat during the 1977-78 season
Ed’s Cat

high speed hockey
high speed hockey

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20 Ed Gouliquer
15 Sandy Morrice
14 Benty Aho
12 Andy Olson
11 Dennis Kitzul
10 Ed Wright
9 Charlie Viddal
8 Allan Reere
7 Lynn Allen
6 Ron Bazinet
5 Leo Lamarche
4 Jerry Duhamel
3 Irving Herr
2 Gabby Gamache
1 Gary Reid

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