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Have you ever taken your son to a minor hockey practice? It is usually early in the morning and after you make your way through the snow covered parking lot your first challenge is to find the right dressing room, When you do find the dressing room and after you have put on his skates, or other menial duties that you are allowed to perform, you are sent off to find a warming cup of coffee, However, usually the canteen is not open at that hour and if it is you would certainly hesitate to have a second cup of it! So the next thing you do is to try and get interested in what's going on around you, Once you have turned over your son, nobody seems very interested in you any more and they certainly don't go out of their way at all to let you know what is going on. The coach and his helpers, who you don't know, don't usually inform you of anything, or for that matter even talk to you as you sit shivering in the cold (questionably) clean seats, Unless your son is more talkative than most, you are lucky if you ever get to know any more than a few of his favourite fellow players. I could go on but I am sure some of the above sounds familiar and it is not surprising that you are probably quite atone in the stands as you sit there wondering why ' you came. Deserving of support? Hardly! If you take in one of the games in a League of players older than minor hockey, you find much the same thing. Since games are usually at night, the parking lot has been plowed but unless you have looked it up somewhere you are lucky to find out when and where and with whom the game is being played, Once you get into the arena not very much is cleared up. Very rarely do they offer or issue programs letting you know the players and sweater numbers for one or both teams. Usually there is little or no announcing done but when it is it is usually garbled; so you probably go away still in doubt about the players, the calls, or who scored what. At intermission the canteen is now open because with a few more people in the arena they have a chance to make some money, however, there is still only 1 or 2 people waiting on the customers and it's the same coffee from the mor- ning! One of the nicest parts of the game is the intermission because all of the fans crowd into a usually small entrance or hallway or heated area to try and stop shivering. Again, I don't want to belabour the issue as there are a few good exceptions to the above, but deserving of support? Hardly! For the press, or course things are different? They have deadlines to meet and the fact that they put information in print means it has to be reliable and regular. In other words they can't very often comment editorially or make note in the paper of a game to be played and then have it never happen. That may be the extreme, but if a sports reporter wants to make the effort and follow the local hockey he has a formidable task ahead of him. First he must track. down the elusive ever changing people that may be responsible and try to elicite from them some in- lift it gives the participants when their parents are there sup- porting them, The enthusiasm in Exeter teams I have found reflected in my own school teams. They never seem to be beaten until that final whistle, and then if beaten, the game doesn't seem to end until the next victory. "Never say die," could be the motto of all Exeter teams. hope that the example set by the T-A staff will be taken up by others. It is a way to meet and communicate with our children. Those who are unable to play can help by officiating, coaching or supporting the teams physically and financially, Yours sincerely, Dave Zyluk (Phys. Ed. Co-ordinator, Precious Blood School) formation on the games played, game sheets, organization, trophies, etc. Most reporters have an unwritten rule that if you drop off a completed game sheet for a local team anytime before their deadline, they will be glad to de the write up and publish the results. This is even usually in the form of an article of a couple of paragraphs in length, However, ask any sports reporter you meet how many of these game sheets they get every week and they will probably be able to count them up on one hand or less, Another point going for the sports reporter is continuity, It is of little interest to his readers if he can only report once in a while on some League or team. He must have continuity of accurate and timely in- formation, Again, look in your local newspaper and it will be obvious how much of this in- formation he has supplied. Once again, deserving of support? Hardly! If we as amateur hockey organizers would like to be more deserving of support, consider the following. First of all let's see what we can do in the arena, like putting up attractive posters advertising who is playing who, where and when. Let's stan- dardize the admission to a regular competitive amount. On the way in, let's give our fans a program or a minimum of player's list with sweater numbers, names, and team management names. Now let's adjust the P.A. system and get ourselves a responsible clear speaking announcer to announce all goals and assists along with penalties (this might even help the referees and players keep the statistics straight!) . Let's start the game with the National an- them and insist on proper con- duct from the players and the referees. For just a little more interest, let's pick three stars at each game (just like the big boys do) so that both the fans and the players are interested and aware of performance. By the way, let's announce those selections right at the end' of the game so everybody will hear. Now let's see what we can do to improve things with the press, First of all, let's issue regular releases to every local paper on a regular weekly basis before their deadlines. Let's include in those releases up to the minute team standings and players standings, As well as this let's supply each sports reporter with some background information about our teams and Leagues and up date this information on a regular Consistent basis, Let's contact our local reporters and ask them what we can do to supply ad- ditional support. They will probably ask us for a League schedule but don't be surprised if they wait a few weeks before printing anything, as past per- formance has taught them that it will probably change before they print it. If we keep supplying them with good reliable in- formation they might even get to trust us when the find out we are serious and are going to be around for a while. While the foregoing positive comments may still sound a little far fetched, there are hockey leagues and teams that are implementing some, or all of these ideas. In other words, they have realized who their customers are — the fans and the press. Once you recognize who your different, but the program was essentially the same as the one suggested by the Tories, The Prime Minister's request was noble enough. He called upon each and every one of us to make a few sacrifices for the benefit of our nation as a whole. He said that the program would require everyone's sacrifice, otherwise, it would not work. But now it seems as if some are making those sacrifices while others continue as they did before the controls were introduced. Will the sacrifices that some are making, benefit the country as a whole, or are Canadians merely participating in a futile exercise- which will end up in greater economic imbalance and in- Extra Savings! Cash dnd Carry BONUS COUPONS customers are, you can dust off some of the fine old cliches, "the customer always thinks he's right", "the customer is king", or "the customer pays the bills". The only suggestion that I can make to the would be hockey fan or reporter is if you see a glim- mer of hope from a team or League, find out when the game is going to be played and go down and try it. You may like it, especially if it is one of the teams justice than before the govern- ment decided to "fight inflation," I don't believe that a simple solution of putting a 10 percent maximum on wage and price increases is sufficiently flexible to deal with an economy as complex as our own. Finance Minister, Donald MacDonald is Continuously saying that the program has a two-fold purpose, preventing inflation and helping those who need it most during troubled economic times. Personally, I don't think the posties need more help than senior citizens on fixed incomes. donst. think that the catch-all 10 percent wage increase maximum helps the guy making $7,000 a trying to be deserving of your support. You may even want to get involved! Above all don't give up looking. John Ansley, President, South Huron Hockey League — Representing, The Arkona Provis, CCAT Saints, Exeter Mohawks, Huron Park Plugs, Parkhill Merchants, Shipka Colonials, and the Zurich Flyers. year nearly as much as the fellow earning $20,000. Personally, I don't see why Canadians should have to sit tight with no more than a 10 percent maximum increase while they continue to hear news that gasoline may go up yet another five cents on the gallon, automobile insurance may go up 50 percent, and similar sob stories concerning corporate giants whose internal ex- penditures have neccessitated exceptional price increases which must be passed on to the customer", Personally,. I thought, the pr ogr are, wae a littte,Saintek wisest it was stolen from the Tories, and since the postal settlement, I've been holding my nose. Dear Sir: Today we were counting our injuries after yesterday's basketball game, I hear from Mrs. Webb that. your team were doing the same. We feel that the score, Precious Blood 52 - T-A - 52, was good for both teams, It isn't too often that grade 7 and 8 students have a chance to plass_against adults and yet why •shouldn't they? However, this is something special that I have noticed in Exeter, working within the school or in the town, and that is an interest in our children. This leads me to an opportunity that I have long awaited. Parents, you are great for all the things that you have done for your children: driving, financing, encouraging and supporting in all sports. As a coach in several sports I can see the tremendous The readers write By LEIGH ROBINSON _ More than a few Canadians were skeptical when Mr, Trudeau introduced his wage and price control program back at Thanksgiving time. This was, made fairly evident after a recent C.B.C. survey which showed that some 52 percent of Canadians didn't believe that the program would work, although most planned to try and make it work. I wouldn't be surprised if people aro even more skeptical now in light of the federal government's recent decision to overrule its, own anti-inflation, board and give the inside postal workers a 17 percent wage hike, seven percent higher than the limits the government, itself, imposed. I'm not singling out the postal workers, At the moment, I am not even concerned about whether or not they deserved the increase. Its the controls that are bothering me. I'm beginning to think that they work to control some of us while others are allowed to go about the business of receiving wage increases or increased profits, as though controls were never implemented. Admittedly, a postal strike is a tough thing to endure, and as long as it continued, the federal government became more and more unpopular. The postal union had a pretty good bargaining lever, timing the strike for the Christmas mail rush and all. Perhaps it was the only thing the government could do. After all, most of the country was crying for postal service and the inside workers felt that if they didn't get the increase that they would no longer have wage parity with the mail-carriers, something that they have had for years. What I question is the entire philosophy behind theee controls, Its beginning to look as if the controls were designed for those who are willing to accept them without a big fuss or some other tactic which threatens the popularity of the government, or maybe financial backing in the next election. Would a non-union man who is making $3.00 an hour at his job, with a wife and children to support, receive the same con- sideration as the posties got if he asked his boss for a raise over 10 percent? What about a small storeowner who found that he must raise his prices more than 10 percent just keep up with his overhead, including increased fuel and energy costs. 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