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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-03-01, Page 8Page 8 —u Lucknow Sentinel, Wedneaday, Mar, 1, 1978 Lti.cknow speakers win Legion competition ,.... CONTINUED FROM PAGE • 1 ergy" and Rose Marie O'Keefe, Kingsbridge, who spoke on the "C.B•. Radio". Brenda Davies, Lucknow Cent- ral's junior champion, won the junior division title speaking on "Three Accidents in My Child- hood". Second place winner was Jan Gibson, Brookside Public, with the topic, "Public Speak- ing". Other speakers in the junior division included Lynn Murray, Luekpow Central, who spoke on "Babysitting the Neighbour's Cat"; Wilma Vandervelde, Brookside Public, who chose as her topic, "Smoking"; John Lalonde of Kingsbridge, who The winners of the Lucknow Central School Public Speaking Competition will represent their area at the Zone finals in Goderich after placing first in the junior and senior divisions at the area finals on Friday. Brenda " Davies, Lucknow Central's junior champion receives the Junior Trophy from Legion president, Bud Thompson, at the eleventh consecutive Elementary .School Public Speaking Competition sponsored by .the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 309, in Lucknow. Dale Gilchrist, Lucknow Central's senior champion, left, holds the Senior trophy. Looking on are the second place winners in each division, Jan Gibson, Brookside, junior, and Heather (Ann Stapleton,' St. Joseph's, Kingsbridge, senior. Want .YourGrass .Cut This Summer? Book Now . Reasonable Prices For regular cutting g., call Lucknow Cycle and Garden Shop 529-7727 Fast efficient repair sevice to chainsaws, motor cycles, garden equipment, and all othersmall engines Healers for: AM. Ar amer Air Ir 1 Homelite Chainsaws Snapper Mowers and Tillers Maico The World's finest Moto Cross Bike LUCKNOW CYCLE AND GARDEN SHOP (PROP. PETE GRAZIER) R.R. 2 L.UrKNO W Phone 529 7727 spoke on "Ants"; and Kenny VanOsch of Kingsbridge chose the topic, "Football" and Dawn Nicolson, Kinloss Central, who spoke about "Sisters". Chairman for the event was Charles Davies, principal of Lucknow Central. Judges were. Barbara Liddle, V. Stecca, supply teacher, and Warren Robinson, Drama teaeher at Goderich Dist- rict Collegiate Institute. Dale and Brenda will compete in the . Royal Canadian Legion, Zone finals, to be held in Godeti.chon March 4. ttery... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Art MacMichael, Mrs. Cecil Blake, Cora Sherwood,' Austin Loree, Lucknow Snowmobile Club, Gerald A. Mowbray, John Vanderveen, Edna McDonald, H. O. Jerry Ltd. ' ` orrection to ire story In a story in last week's Sentinel it was incorrectly stated that older children of the Harold Menary family were at school when the fire destroyed their home. In fact, Mrs. Menary took five-year-old .Bobbi out of the house to safety before she returned for two-year-old Terri and then was forced to jump with the baby from a ' second storey window. The Sentinel also incor- rectly identified the baby as Kerri. We apologize for these errors and any inconvenience they may have caused. Lucknow archers.:.,.... CONTINUED' FROM PAGE 2 average 540 points of a possible 600 in indoor competition and 475 of ' a possible 600 points in outdoor. Ken calls himself an "also shot" because he has placed, second -to:. Peter's firsts ` in the .major championships`. ' He com- peted in the North American championship in Harrisburg last year and placed tenth in the North American Indoor Championship. "That was another 'also shot' he quips. The four archers are not going to compete at any shoots except the championships in Canada this year because "Canadian archers are too staid". The archers and the spectators at- nadian shoot must be quiet. There can be no laughing, talking or joking. "The Canadian shoots aren't very much fun," says Carol, "We enjoy the American shoots much more because they are more relaxed and everyone has fun." The Canadian International competitons are too political and there are too many rules say the Lucknow archers,, and the Canad- ians never send their top archers to these competitions. Freestyle archeryis the Olym- pic archery so it is the accepted form but the four believe barebow is more challenging. Freestyle uses a sight, allows more stabilizers than the one permitted with barebow and, the archer is free to use anything except a mechanical release or scope. Some freestyle archers have mirrors; magnifying glasses and levels on their bows. Bare- bow archer does not believe the freestyle archer is using',his own skills and the four Lucknow arch,rs agree that the freestyle archers don't get the fun out of the sport that the barebows do. A ` precision barebow costs a minimum of $300. The four Lucknow enthusiasts have be- tween $3,000 and - $4,000. each invested in equipment. A dozen arrows cost $50 which is why.most archers have them straightened when bent instead of breaking them as Peter does. "An archer comes to a certain point where he cannot better his score unless he has a certain type of precision bow," observes Ken. The sport is very frustrating at first," . says Peter, "but the improvement as you progress is a real satisfaction." A Fita, (Federation of Interna- tional Target Archers), competi- tion includes fita rounds, animal rounds, hunter rounds, and field rounds as well as several other rounds, with points and scoring varying in each round. ' A fita round is, five ends of six arrows. The 'four archers are now members of the Port Huron Red Arrow Archers because . the Americans, "know how to enjoy the sport". . They will be competing as members of the Canadian Arch- ery team in international competi- tions in the United States but since they are competing as barebow archers instead of free- style archers they will pay their own way at these competitions while tfie other members of the Canadian team will have their way paid. Freestyle is the Olympic arch- ery and is recognized in interna- tional competition even though otir barebow experts do not find it as challenging. There are only four archers in Canada who can shoot over 500 points in outdoor barebow ,and Peter and Ken are two of them.