Squeak Leopold made the ice for the Stampede Corral in those days there were no Hitmen only the Centennials and Squeak kept the ice before that was fashionable he had been a junior hockey player before that Edmonton Oil Kings Calgary Stampeders Drumheller Miners Trail Smoke Eaters there were a lot of junior hockey leagues and teams at that time Canadian-American Western Central Professional Alberta Senior and I'm sure that was a factor in the job he got it might have helped that he had tried out for the Chicago Blackhawks 3 times when you're played with Stan Mikita getting cut is not a disgrace and in some circles was even quite respectable To be continued.

Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!