HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1994-05-18, Page 15Kincardine writer wins
north American award
Kincardine writer Corinne
Robertson -Brown has won a North -
American -wide article -writing com-
petition. Her article. "Farming in the
Fast Lane" first appeared in the
April issue of The Rural Voice
.magazine, published in Blyth.
It is an in-depth look at the "info-
rmation highway" and the effects it
will have on local farmers. The
article was chosen as the winner of
the 'Blueprint Article" competition
held by Writer's Digest magazine in
Cincinnati. Her winning article will
be published in a special edition of
the magazine, called The Basics of
Magazine . Writing. It will be on
newsstands May 17.
Robertson -Brown has also had a
poem published in the May/June
issue of Beautiful Gardens
magazine, published in San Francis-
co and currently available on
newsstands. As well, her fiction
will be published in an anthology of
ghost stories with other writers
including L. M. Montgomery,
Robertson Davies, Timothy Findley
and Janette Turner Hospital.
Previously, her work , was
published in Business Trends and
The Rural Voice magazines, 8 well
as the book Sands of Huron, an
anthology of Southern Ontario
writers, available through Broad
Horizons Books in Port Elgin.
4-H Fun Fest
set for June
Two hundred 10 - 12 year-old 4-
H members will enjoy a full day of
fun activities on June 4. 4-H volun-
teers from Grey, Bruce and Huron
Counties have planned a day that
these young 4-H members will
never forget. The purpose of this
program is to provide the young
members with an introduction to the
big world of 4-H by meeting mem-•
bers from other parts of their coun-
ty and neighboring counties.
Grey; Bruce and Huron 4-H mem-
bers can check their most recent
newsletter, ask their 4-H leader, or
contact the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
for more information.
On a chilly afternoon in May,
Carlos Delgado was shagging fly
balls in an effort to acquaint
himself with left field in an
'unusual ballpark he'd never
played before. There were' no
other players on the field and the
fans were three or four hours
from arriving. The only sound
was the thud of fungos hitting an
imposing wall, until a raspy
voice squelched like a fire alarm
in the direction of Delgado and
his coach, "Get the ---- off the
field!"
This was unmistakably Fenway
Park in Boston and crusty
groundskeeper Joe Mooney, who
doesn't care if it's Delgado,
Carter or Mantle. If they're
bending a blade of grass in his
back yard, they had better have
a good. reason and practicing
.baseball isn't one of them.
Delgado was working overtime
in the shadow of Fenway's
famed Green Monster, a 37 -foot
wall built to keep pop -ups from
landing on the street and out=
fielders from making the Hall of
Fame. The wall is the park's
signature piece but by no means
its only distinguishing quality.
Fenway is tiny by today's
standard, with less than 34,000
seats. There was a time when.
they'd jam 45,0000 fans in for a
Red Sox game. But the fire
marshall apparently stopped
accepting tickets behind home
plate and revenues dropped
considerably.
;Like Chicago's Wrigley Field,
In A Park Somewhere
By Jim Hughson, Sportscaster
The Sports Network
Fenway is packed into a neigh-
borhood barely big enough to
hold it. Instead of parking lots,
it's surrounded by twisting city
streets congested by vendors
(Boston's best hot dogs should
bepurchased outside the park),
hucksters, tourists and stalled
traffic. You don't need a
scorecard but catching the show
outside the park is very much a
part of the game.
Inside, as first pitch ap-
proaches, fans can hang over
rails within earshot of
preparation for batting practice
and might hear Mooney the
groundskeeper grouse at some of
his crew. "What are ya standin'
around for, you wanna be con-
versationists'! Get to work."
Nearby, Johnny Pesky, wno
has been a player or coach with
the Red Sox for more than 50
years, takes his usual position
behind the batting cage with a
baseball in hand. It should be a
Sherwood, though, because he
always seems to be talking hock-
ey.
By game time, the park is
filled as usual with diehard but
doubting fans. They dove their
Red Sox, but don't trust them
because they've been disap-
pointed so many times. The Sox
have come close but haven't
won a championship since 1918
and 76 years of frustration has
left people so cynical, they
firmly believe Humpty Dumpty
was pushed.
. Blue Jay fans. who don't
understand this despair should
think, about how their children
will feel if the year .2069 arrives
and Toronto hasn't won its third
championship yet.
The Monster, nonsensical,
dimensions, -a gruinpy
groundskeeper, cold dark foyers
and thick doubting New England
accents combine to make Fen -
way a unique and special stop.
The experience will change, of
course, if the Red Sox find a
way. to stop their, annual self-
destruction and win a champion-
ship. But don't worry. That's not
likely to happen. The people in
this park seem perfectly happy
to be miserable forever.
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