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The Huron Expositor, 1995-08-16, Page 11For Quality and Service SHOP THESE LBUSINESSESJ Head injury group meets By Blake Patterson SSP News Staff The Head Injury Association of London and District will hold an inaugural head injury support group meeting tomor- row night (Thursday) at 7 p.m. at the Hensall United Church, 76 King Street. The meeting will be the first of its kind in Huron County. Contacted at his London office, meeting co-ordinator Gary Davies said the meeting is an opportunity for the London association to "get our feet wet" in Huron County. Davies said the meeting will hopefully provide some answers to fundamental ques- tions such as the number of people who need head injury support in Huron and what type of support is wanted. "It is hard to estimate the number of head injury people who live in Huron County," said Davies, but according to some of his rough figures based on a Canadian average of between 150 to 439 head injury cases per 100,000 peo- ple, he said the Huron County total could be as high as 270. And from tomorrow's meet- ing, Davies said he hopes to determine how those people can be reached. He said despite not knowing who or where the need exists, be wants the fact-finding meeting to be the beginning of a community -building effort which could result in a Huron County chapter for the associ- ation being formed. "We want to meet the needs of rural people," said Davies. He said chapter groups are important because they serve as a source of support for peo- ple who have already suffered head injuries, and act as a cat- alyst for head injury preven- tion education and awareness. Information provided at the meeting will outline what ser- vices the association can pro- vide, and topics open for dis- cussion could include issues such as the impact of cycling helmet legislation, proposed provincial cuts to social ser- vices, and the prevention of work-related head injuries in the agricultural industry. And what Davies said he would like to see accom- plished at the meeting is the appointment of someone who will take responsibility for the continued meeting of the local group. after effects of a head injury." For more information, Davies said he can be contact- ed at his London office at (519) 642-4539. -' Communit WED. AUG. 16 1:30-4:00 p.m. - Senior Shuffleboard at the Arena 6:30-8:00 p.m. - Squirt Boys' Fastball at the Optimist Diamond 6:30-7:30 p.m. - T -Ball at the High School South Diamond 6:30-8:30 p.m. - Houseleague Soccer at the Optimist Park 7:00-8:30 p.m. - Fitness/Step Training at the Arena with Drusilla 9:00-10:30 p.m. - Swingers Slo-Pitch at the Optimist Park THURS., AUG. 17 8:00-9:30 p.m. - Sluggers Slo-Pitch at the Optimist Park FRI., AUG. 18 7:00-8:30 p.m. Mite Boys' Fastball_ at the Highschool South Diamond SUN., AUG. 20 8:00-11:00 p.m, Men's SIo-Pitch at the Lions and Optimist Parks MON, , AUG. 21 12:00-1:00 p.m. AquaFit at the Lions Pool 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. - Sign Language at the Arena Calendar �- 7:30 - 10:30 p.m. - Bingo at Arena - Hall opens at 6:30 p.m. 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. - Men's Slo-Pitch at the Lions and Optimists Parks TUES. , AUG. 22 9:00-10:00 a.m. - Fitness is Fun at the Arena with Drusilla 10:00-11:00 a.m. - Line Dancing with Drusilla at the Arena 6:30-7:30 p.m. - Senior Houseleague Ball at the Highschool South Diamond 7:00-8:30 p.m. - Ladies' Rec. League at the Lions Park 8:00-10:15 p.m. - Harmony Hi -Utes practice at the Public School - 8:00-11:00 p.m - Men's Slo-Pitch at the Lions and Optimist Parks WED., AUG. 23 1:30-4:00 p.m. - Senior Shuffleboard at the Arena 6:30-7:30 p.m. - T -Ball at the Highschool South Diamond 6:30-8:00 p.m. - Minor Soccer at Optimist Park (Jr. -6:30 - Sr.- 7:30) 7:00-8:30 p.m. - Fitness/Step Training at the Arena with Drusilla 9:00-10:30 p.m. - Swingers' Slo- Pitch at the Optimist Park if you're organizing a non-profit event of interest to other Seaforth area residents, phone the recreation office 527-0882 or the Expositor at 527-0240, or mail the information to Community Calendar, The Huron Expositor, Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1W0 well in advance of the scheduled date. Free listing includes date, time, name of event and location only. Space for the Community Calendar is donated by The Huron Expositor. THE HURON EXPOSITOR, August 10, 1995-11 Seaforth taught more than Harvard Speech by Homecoming Guest of Honour Clare Westcott About ten years ago a dinner was held at the Harbour Castle Hotel to mark my retirement after 35 years in and around Queen's Park. Almost 2000 people attended, which gives you some idea of the number of people who were thankful I was leaving. Because it was Lent and Holy Week Rabbi Jordon Pearlson was the only clergyman they could get to say grace. He began by saying that it was not only a pleasure to attend a dinner in my honour...it was a hell of an inconvenience. Indeed that is not the case for me tonight. For I am not only among friends, I am home. And so very proud to be back in the place where my life began many, many years ago. With some help from Dr. Burrows I arrived in the front bedroom of a small frame house on the edge of town, near the high school at a time my grandchildren now refer to as "The Olden Days". Seaforth was then only 48 years old. To have spent the first few years of my life trudging 75 feet to an outdoor toilet through rain and snow merely served to heighten my appreciation of the luxuries that are today's absolute necessities. It was the age before running water, electric lights or the telephone or radio. We did have a pump and a cistern and a coal bin - words that now puzzle my grandchildren. A hand operated Beatty washer and stove pipes running through the house from the kitchen to keep us warm, yet many a winter morning the glass of water on the inside of my bedroom window was frozen solid. One other item of importance hung in the kitchen and 1 have to believe that it had some value and influenced the way 1 conducted myself in the early years for although it was used sparingly and my mother and dad were kind and loving par- ents, that strap was used when it was necessary to show me the error of my ways. Haven't we come a long way? If they did that today I could probably sue them. Many times since, as I raised my own large family, I won- dered what my parents had that made them so great. I have come to believe that although they did not have much of an education or were overly clever or smart they had something far more import- ant...they were wise. And wisdom toms ordinary people into giants. In my case I didn't appreciate what growing up in a small town did for me until years after I left. The simple skills of communicating that I had learned and being able to com- fortably relate to people and situations gave me a working edge that allowed a drop-out from Seaforth's Collegiate to survive and succeed...in this province and in a dozen coun- tries around the world. I worked closely with many cabinet ministers and two pre- miers over three decades. I was a Deputy Minister for 11 of those years. For almost 4 years I headed the largest urban police force in Canada. I served for two years on the National Parole Board and left to become assistant to Michael Wilson, Minister of Interna- tional Trade. In 1993 I was appointed a Citizenship Court Judge and, God willing, I'm there until July 1998. I had a successful career over Cents to The Seaforth Centenaires will test themselves against the best during their six-week training camp which opens next Tues- day. The local junior hockey team will host the Stratford Cul- litons, defending Ontario Hock- ey Association Junior B Cham- pions, to a pre -season ex- hibition game on Monday, Sept. 11 at 8:30 p.m. They will also square off against the perennially powerful Hanover Barons of the OHA Western Junior C League that Friday, Sept. 15 at Goderich. The Centenaires played their first exhibition against the Cullitons last pre -season, and actually led 2-1 against a full Stratford lineup midway before getting blown off the ice in the third period. The Hanover exhibition had to be rescheduled to Goderich yester- day because Seaforth ice is unavailable until 10 p.m. that particular evening. The Cents also have a previously announced home - and -home exhibition face off doubleheader against the Thamesford Trojans, defending champions of the OHA's Junior "D"evelopment League on their pre -season agenda, as well as their annual opening "Rookie Game" against the junior C Brussels Bulls in Seaforth to start their ex- hibition season off Sept. 1. Other exhibitions remain to be scheduled as the Centenaires begin on -ice. preparations for their 22nd season under new head coaches Dave Murray and Jim Campbell, and assistant Dave Akey, with three tryouts next week - Tuesday and Thursday from 8 to 11 -p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Seaforth and District Community Centres. The new head coaching tan- dem hopes to better utilize the early ice in their home rink during the pre -season, available since the coming of Dave McLlwain's Hockey School several summers ago, by separating prospective players into two manageable groups then scrimmaging right off the many years because I was born a brilliant and clever person with a high level of knowledge with wide-ranging intellectual skills...and if you swallow that you believe in the tooth fairy. For decades I worked at the outer limits of my understand- ing and experience. If I am due any praise it comes because I worked hard and long. I had an abundance of luck - a modest amount of talent and was a creature of the times swept along by a series of understanding bosses. If I was blessed with any- thing it was an indefinable quality often called small town native intelligence and I got it here. The Harvard School of Busi- ness and the London School of Economics combined could not have given me what I learned in my early years in Seaforth. The close community and family ties and friendly com- petitive ompetitive spirit honed to a fine edge, my ability to combine common sense and wisdom and develop competence to the limit, the intimate working with neighbours and friends in church, lodge, service clubs, and even playing in the town band as I did in the 1930's, or belonging to the volunteer fire department, are experiences not common in big city life. In the city neighbours remain strangers. In town you get to know most of the people and they get to know you. We were networking in Seaforth 50 years before we knew what it meant. What I took from Seaforth when I left in 1950 was a gift. Whatever I am came from that. You can call it small town native intelligence but it is simply a more earthy and prac- tical awareness of what life is • all about. A few weeks ago the Toronto Star asked me to write a piece about Seaforth and its people. I did and it appeared in yesterday's paper. I told of the many who left to meet great challenges and achieve lofty goals. But I realized this after- noon when I visited the 'park that I left out those who did more for their town and coun- try than all the others. Their 60 names are inscribed on the cenotaph and in honouring our town on its 120th birthday this weeked we ,ewe it to them to be remembered. - Thank you, ladies and gentle- men. I am very honoured to be here and so very proud to be able to say "I come from Seaforth." My greatest wish is that somewhere up there Arnold and Alva Westcott are looking down and smiling. •Delivered at the opening ceremonies of the Seaforth Homecoming, Friday, August 4. Motorcycles stolen in Brussels On July 16 at Concession 9, Grey Township, RR3 Brussels, two motorcycles were stolen sometime during the night. The motorcycles were a 1988 white Suzuki, 200cc model S20 and a 1984 Honda 80cc, orange in colour. Also taken was a black CTS helmet. If you have any information about these or any other crimes call 1-800-265-1777 and you could receive a reward of up to $1000. with Cullitons bat to help separate the wheat from the chaff. Open camps the past two pre - seasons have resulted in an overwhelming mass of bodies on the ice, making it difficult for the coaching staff too take a good look at individual players and do anything but skate the large group to work off summer flab. Murray and Campbell plan to do it the other way around - select a team and then work it into shape. More than 100 invitations have been sent to prospective junior hockey players in the region. The Centenaires finished with their best regular season record in a decade last winter but were swept in four -straight by the Lucan Irish in the first round of the playoffs. Last year's squad officially loses only Ted Sills because he is now too old for junior, al- though there should be about a half-dozen veterans competing for the two "overage" openings on this year's roster. All the team's veterans, plus some graduates, have been invited to participate in an exhibition game with the instructors from Dave McLlwain's Hockey School at the arena next Wednesday night. The hockey was entertaining and the crowd excellent at last season's similar exhibition. Some players that may play in next Wednesday's renewal (details are still being fir;alizcd) include McLlwain (Ser !tors), Steve Smith (Black ha ! <` Dave Ellett (Leafs), Scoti colt (NHL official), Pat Murray (Kalamazoo), "Rem" Murray, Mike Watt, Steve Guolla, Shane Tomlinson (all MSU Spartans), Dwayne Harmer (Detroit junior Wings), Danny Wildfong, Boyd and Mike Devereaux and Elliot Faust. 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