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a-THIE HURON IXPO$$TOR, Octotoor 25, 1995
Local
PAT HAxns PHOTO
SLEDGE HOCKEY - Special Olympian Jeff Penner, right, demonstrated sledge hockey and ice picking skills to a group of
area youngsters at the Hensall arena recently including Tyler Markham of Zurich, left.
'Sledge' hockey adds new spin to sport
BY PAT RAFI'IS
SSP News Staff
A group of youngsters from
Huron and Middlesex Counties
left their wheelchairs behind
and spent an hour enjoying the
Canadian tradition of chasing
a puck around the ice,
Saturday.
The Hensall arena was the
scene of the first local venture
into sledge hockey and ice
picking, Saturday, Oct. 14.
From the reaction of the
youths involved, it looks like it
could be here to stay.
"It's great," said Tyler
Markham, of Zurich, who was
on the ice for the session along
with about a dozen other
youths for. his first ever try at
the sport.
"It's harder than it looks
though," he conceded.
Sledge hockey is an adapta-
tion of regular ice hockey.
Players sit on a sledge, a sled -
like apparatus which has two
blades (similar to skate blades)
on the base. A small hockey
stick is held in each hand and
players use the sticks to "pick"
the ice and move around using
their upper body strength. The
end of each stick contains
metal points which help dig in
to improve the pushing action.
Saturday's session was the
first of planned weekly events
organized by a parent's group
in co-operation with the
Thames Valley Children's
Centre, Huron County
Homecare and London Parks
and Recreation. London Parks
and Recreation has loaned sev-
eral sledges for the program
and Fatima Kosaris of the
Thames Valley Children's
Centre acted as instructor for
the on -ice session.
Saturday's inaugural session
also included an appearance by
Jeff Penner, a Special
Olympian, who gave a mini -
clinic in sledge hockey tech-
niques.
Parent organizer Linda
Markham, of Zurich said the
group plans to approach area
services clubs for donations
toward ice time costs, in order
to keep registration fees down.
Post office owner changes roof colour
Continued from page 1 time to exist, Bradley says. original grey and plans on
There is no telling what doing some improvements to
man to do at a savings what might have happened if the brick work next Spring.
many various government someone else had purchased He says he is learning as he
• departments and agencies with the property. goes along and likes the
their mounds of paperwork had Bradley recently changed the conservation aspect of it all,
to do before; and therefore colour of the roof of the buil- . while making some money to
allowed the building to con- ding, from brown hack to its boot.
Klopp fourth highest spender of MPP's
Former Huron MPP Paul and accommodation expenses
Klopp filed $261,699 worth of filed by 11 other MPPs in the
expenses in 1994-95 according London area, which range from
to legislature finance branch a high of $36,491 from the
figures released last Tuesday, defeated NDP representative
Oct. 17. from Lambton, Ellen MacKin-
The total is the sum of non, to a low of $14,741 from
$213,305 in office expenses the also defeated NDP
and $28,394 for travel and representative from Oxford,
. accommodation. Kimble Sutherland.
The latter figure for the New On the whole the government
Democratic Party member who report shows 130 MPPs in
was defeated is the fourth Ontario's last legislature billed
highest in relation to the travel taxpayers about $28 -million to
run their ridings and Queen's
Park offices in 1994-95.
MPPs also spent nearly $2.5 -
million for subsidized Toronto
apartments and travel in their
ridings and provincial capital, a
figure that includes family
trips.
Big -spender MacKinnon was
the only arca MPP not to
contest the last election. Her
expenses were roughly $50,000
higher than two years ago.
Town and country homemakers celebrate
Town and Country 225 shut-in people;
Homemakers is celebrating Homemaking - 1,000 persons
'October' as Community received over 160,000 hours
Suwon Month. With 500 of hom6making, palliative,
dedicated volunteers and 200 respite care and home
committed staff, Town and maintenance; Transportation -
Country Homemakers has 265 persons depended on our
assisted 2,500 seniors, volunteer drivers to take them
disabled and others with to doctor appointments,
special needs to - remain grocery shopping and other
independent at home in their vital outings of this kind;
communities.
This year, Town and Friendly Visiting &
Country Homemakers has Telephone Reassurance - 26
delivered the following persons who arc homebound
services: Meals - Meals on due to frailty or disability,
Wheels volunteers delivered received 2,000 calls/visits;
11,000 nutritious meals to Diner's Programs - 14,000
14
individuals enjoyed 11,350
hot, nutritious meals and time
of socialization.
In celebration of
Community Support Month
and in honour of our staff and
volunteers, Town and Country
Homemakers will be having
an evening of celebration at
the Seaforth Recreation
• Centre (Duke Street), tonight,
from 7 pm - 9 pm. The
events will include:
entertainment by St. Marys'
Stonetown Entertainers,
refreshments and door prizes.
The Zurich and District
Optimists gave a donation to
cover ice time for the inaugur-
al session.
The loan of sledges and picks
was invaluable to getting the
program off the ground, as
sledges cancost from $500 to
$1,500. Other equipment need-
ed include hockey helmets and
face masks, hockey or broom -
ball gloves and elbow and shin
pads.
The program is open to all
special needs children from
pre-schoolers to late teenagers.
For more information on the
program contact Linda
Markham at 236-7723.
HALLOWEEN TUESDAY -
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Office building on Main
Street in Seaforth, Grant
Bradley, is very civic
minded. He recently put up
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the north side of the buil-
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renovating.
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•
The Ministry of the Solicitor General together
with the Seaforth Town Council and Police
Services Board are pleased to announce that
the Ontario Provincial Police will be
providing police services to the Town of
Seaforth commencing at 7:00 p.m., October
30th, 1995.
After that time, all calls for police service
should be directed to the OPP
Telecommunications Centre in Mount Forest
at the following number:
1-800-265-2525
Persons who wish to contact the office
regarding an administrative matter, or those
wishing to speak to a specific officer, are
asked to call the Seaforth OPP office at 527-
9094.
The Seaforth OPP office is located at 68 Main
Street, .Seaforth. Residents are encouraged to
visit the office and meet the officers on duty.
They will be pleased to explain the OPP
philosophy of Community Policing.
B. E. BALDWIN,
Staff Sergeant,
Detachment Commander