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Lori Appleby has papered a wall in her house with ribbons she has won in a high school career as a star of
the F.E. Madill Secondary School track and field team. This weekend she’ll be vying, at a regional meet,
for a spot in the all Ontario championships in shot put and discus.
Appleby 'puts'records in books
Sports
Stephens, Appleby
win at WOSSA
When Lori Appleby heads to
Windsor on Friday to take part in
the western regional tournament
of the Ontario Federation of
Secondary Schools Association
track and field championships
she’ll be aiming at one goal: to win
her way to the Ontario champion
ships and a chance to reverse the
one disappointment in her success
ful high school track and field
career.
The next two weeks will see the
end of the high school career of the
Grade 12 student at F.E. Madill
Secondary School, a career that has
seen her set records in her two big
events, shot put and discus. Next
year she’ll be off to college. In the
meantime, she’s in the middle of
herbestever season and she wants
to continue it all the way to the
Ontario championships where last
year, in her first-ever appearance,
she turned in one of the worst
performances of her life. This
weekend she’ll be bidding for a
chance to turn that around at the
Ontario championships in Hamil
ton the final weekend in May.
She first started the throwing
events as a student in grade seven
and eight at Blyth Public School.
Then, when she went on to high
school in Wingham, the RR 2,
Blyth resident was noticed one day
by a teacher who asked if she would
liketotry out for the track team.
Blyth recreation program
goes ahead despite grant cut
Minutes after approving their
1987 budget May 12, Blyth village
councillors went over budget on
one item when they decided the
village’s summer recreation pro-
gramwas toovaluableto lose, even
if they weren’t getting a federal
employment grant to help with the
costs.
Council learned that if applica
tion for one recreation director and
three assistants under the Chal
lenge ‘87 program had been turned
down although, the accompanying
letter said the project had merit but
no funds were available.
The summer playground pro
gram for younger children had
been operating for several years.
Last year after a grant was
approved for only two students to
run the program and after parents
had complained in late 1985 that
there were not enough supervisors
for the high number of students
involved, council had voted at that
time to go above the budget and
She went to a practice and just kept
going. Her talent came out quickly
and has been progressing ever
since. She set school records as a
junior in both the shot put and
discus (the discus record has
recently been broken).
Madill has become a stronghold
of throwing event for girls with
Anna Sakasov winning the junior
girls discus (with a record) and shot
put and Caroline Versteeg winning
the midget shot put at the Western
Ontario Secondary Schools Asso
ciation. Lori credits the dedicated
coaching of Maureen Lisle and
Betty Shaw for the showing of the
Madill athletes.
Lori actually got a late start on
training for the season. Normally
training starts in October or
November but Lori was captain of
the Madill senior girls basketball
team so she waited until after the
basketball season before beginn
ing the conditioning program for
her field activities. Thegirlslift
weights, run up and down stairs
and work with a medicine ball to get
in shape. They have special indoor
shotputs, discusandjavelinsto
practice inside over the winter
months but as soon as the weather
allows they move outdoors. Once
the season begins in early April,
training concentrates on improv
ing the technique of the throwers.
Lori’s technique has steadily
improved and with it her results. In
hire an extra student.
This year the council had a
choice of either coming up with the
money to run the entire program
itself or to canceling the program.
‘ * I think the project should go on, ”
said Councillor Bill Howson as he
made a motion to have council fund
a seven-week (down from eight
weeks) project.
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grade 10 she made it to the
Western Regionals and in grade 11
it was the provincial champion
ship. This year she started the
season by setting meet and school
records in both shot put and discus
in the Madill Invitational track and
field meet on April 13.
Ten days later she was at the
Medway Relays in London where
she again set meet records to win
both the girls open shot put and
discus. April 25 she was second in
the shot put at the Forest City track
and field meet in London.
On May 2 she was at the Bluevale
Relays in Kitchener where she won
the gold medal in the shot put and
not only won the gold in discus, but
broke her own school record in the
event.
At the Huron-Perth champion
ships at Goderich May 5 and 6, she
won both the shot put and discus
and came second in the Javelin, an
event she has taken up only this
year.
There was a surprise waiting for
her at the Western Ontario Secon
dary Schools Association meet in
London last week. She and long
time rival Sue Barzo came up
against each other in the shot and
discus. Lori was hoping to beat her
in the shot and worried about the
discus. She won the discus but lost
the shot. Both failed to qualify in
the javelin. This weekend in
Windsor the two will renew their
rivalry with Lori hoping to come out
on top.
The future of her track and field
career is uncertain. This fall she’ll
attend Fanshawe College in Lon
don and while there are track clubs
in the city she could join, she wants
to concentrate on her studies for
the first year at least.
In the meantime she has dis
covered a new joy: coaching. She
coaches students in the throwing
events at Wingham Public School
and says it is “neat” watching
them compete.
Local high school track and field
stars Vivienne Stephens of Blyth
and,Lori Appleby of RR 2, Blyth
starred for their schools at the
Western Ontario Secondary
Schools Association track and field
meet in London last week.
Vivienne Stephens, a student at
Central Huron Secondary School in
Clinton continued to burn up the
trackinthesprints. Shewonthe
200 metre midget girls sprint in a
time of 26.5 on day 1. On day two,
Thursday, she came back to win the
100 m., setting a new personal best
of 12.8 seconds. She also anchored
the CHSS junior girls 4 x 100 relay
School boards get extra
capita! grants from province
Nearly $2.4 million has been
allocated to the Huron County
Board of Education and the
Huron-Perth Separate School
Board as part of a new provincial
government capital funding pro
ject, Jack Riddell, MPPfor Huron-
Middlesex announced recently on
behalf of Minister of Education
Sean Conway, Huron-Bruce MPP
Murray Elston and Perth MPP
Hugh Edighoffer.
The Huron County board will
receive $805,540 for four projects,
while the Huron-Perth Separate
Board will receive $1,553,700 for
five projects under the new $226.4
million program announced on
Wednesday as part of the Ontario
government’s throne speech pro
mises.
“It shows the government re
cognizes the education needs of
Huron County and is willing to
provide the funding to ensure we
continue to provide the best
facilities in Ontario,” Mr. Riddell
said.
The Huron Board projects in
clude: Central Huron Secondary
School in Clinton, $204,000 for a
new roof; F.E. Madill Secondary
School in Wingham, $330,000 for a
new roof; Huron Centennial Public
School in Brucefield, $237,000for a
new roof; and Zurich Public
School, $33,000 for a new boiler.
The Huron-Perth’s Separate
Board’s five projects include a
major addition to St. Ambrose
School in Stratford, $1,141,750; St.
Michael’s School, Stratford,
$124,000, new furniture and equip
ment; St. Mary’s School, Goderich
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team to a second place finish.
Lori Appleby, a grade 12 student
at F.E. Madill Secondary School in
Wingham, was edged out by
arch-rival Sue Barzo by 11 cm. in
the shot put on day one. She put the
shot 11.01 while Ms. Barzo had
11.12 m.
It was the other way around on
day two though, when Lori placed
first in the discus with a heave of
33.52 m. ahead of Ms. Barzo’s
32.52.
Both local competitors qualified
to advance to the western region of
the Ontario Federation Secondary
Schools meet in Windsor on Friday
and Saturday.
$136,000, portapacks; St. Mary’s
School, Hesson $107,000 renova
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Mount Carmel in Dashwood,
$44,000 for a new roof.
The grants have been allocated
for the 1988-89 fiscal year.
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