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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-05-29, Page 12Page 12—Lateknow Sentinel, Wednesday, May 29, 1985 Summer Subscription Special 13 weeks 17 weeks ••411••••••••• OFFER EXPIRES JUNE 12, 1985 175 5.00 Lucknow Sentinel Just drop into our office or call Pat at 528-2822 • Band travels. to Simcoe By Helen Maelntyre A11-91 .members of the Lucknow Band boarded the buses at the Lucknow School to begin their annual band tour. This year, we travelled back to the Simcoe area. Tuesday was the busiest day for concerts as we performed three. It was a great start for our tour: as we were welcomed by en- thusiastic 'audiences at Park Manor. Senior Public School. . The second concert was performed at St. Jacob's Public School. Here, our Greatest American Hero, Gord Bailey, realized why suspenders were invented, as he had trouble • holding up his costtune. Later in the week, Chris Clark, Bruce Elliott and Jonathon Stein ran into the same problem. • The final performance of the day was at Cedarbrae Public School in Waterloo. After this last, concert, the band members were starting to feel like celebrities because of the standing ovations received at all three schools. We arrived at the Minden Manor Motel in Simcoe that night and had supper at McDonalds. The The evenings at the motel were spent building muscles, jogging, steaming, swim- ming, sweating, rallying and breaking teeth. On Wednesday, two concerts were played. The first one was in Simcoe at North Public School. Our record for standing ovations continued when we performed at Delhi Public School. Part of Wednesday was spent shopping for the necessities of any trip like junk food, water guns and cowboy hats. Unfortunately, the band members who • purchased water guns didn't realize that,one of Mr. Cayley.'s hobbies is collecting these weapons. Wednesday was not the day for "girls who just want to have fun," as four of our girls took sick and one was injured. Thursday, we toured to the home of Wayne Gretzky in Brantford. Concerts were played at Woodman Drive • School and Cedarland Public School. While in Brantford, the band invaded one of the shopping malls. After this shopping spree there were a lot more peoplewhe have heard of Lucknow. Once our money was spent and our cowbOys ( Chris Irwin, Lynn Murray and Mike Murray) were able to pur- chase their Lone Ranger look a like outfits, ' we returned to our home. base. That night the band 'had a special birthday supper at McDonalds, complete with a floor show. All the May birthdays were celebrated. • However, Melissa received a special gift from Mr. Cayley in the form of a cake. Un- fortunatly, because of a slip of the hand ( ? ! ) it didn't land on the table. This was the floor show for the evening. After a messy performance, the band members became custodians. Fortunately, we were welcOmed back the next morning for our last breakfast of the tour. • After breakfast, we left Simcoe 'and 'head- ed for Woodstock. There, we played at Oliver Stevens Senior- Public School. After our last concert at Hillcrest Public School we started our homeward journey. The buses pulled into Lucknow after 5 p.in. to end the 1985 Band trip. The drivers of the bus, Jack Stickland and Bob Stewart did an excellent jOb of chauffering us around. A big thank you goes out to them and to Ms. Janice Reid our chaperone and "nurse". Also a big thank you to Mr. Cayley from the Lucknow Concert Band. Pee Wee's opert on winning note. The Lucknow Pee Wee fastball team started their 1985 season off with a 20 - 2 victory over Bervie in five innings. Lucltnow pitchers, Kent Campbell and Matt Rhody, allowed just two hits and struck out nine. Leading run scorers for the home side with three each were Scott Gibson, Kent Campbell and Brad Murray. The first home game is on Tuesday, May 28 at 7 p.m. Come out and support the local boys.