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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1997-02-12, Page 15646•10118461111.011 rairanSieem r ..a. rsry is, sisal The latest scoop on senial shuffleboard Senor Shuffleboard catutn ues ovary -Wednesday atter - noon at the Seaton!) and District Community Centres from 1:3U to 4:00 put. All Seniors arc welts:mit to core out and participate. Last weeks winners weir: Ladies: M. McMillan 472 B.Prycc 382 K. TDQelt 330 Men K. £ oaruwr 386 E. McNaughton 372 A. Lunil 457 Don't miss the Seaforth Senior Games Euchre Fundraiser on Thursday. February 13. 1997 at the Scafonh Legion beginning at 1:30 pn1. Adnnsuon is $1.00 ecreation Preview b . ;� iedltd `aattdd you are playing for crash 'Pis. All proceeds will go Iowatds the Games expenses in:Apriland May. :The 'Seaforth Ringette Association :will be hosting their Annual Ringatte Tournament on February 44, 1511i 16, 1997. at the Seaforth and District- Community Centres. Come out and watch this exiting game. The Seatonh Co=operative Childress Centre is inviting all young adults ages 11 to 13 years of age to join them for aYSITi'1NO •tl , , itis program will be .held on Match 18. 1997 from 9:00 to 3:30 pm in room -4 of the •Seatotth Public' fie,•hool. The course is developed by the Lethbridge Community Coliegc. Upon completion of this course each participant =will be awarded a ocrtificate. !Workbooks and Lunch (Pizza and Pop) -will be provided. Please register in advance by calling the Centre at 527- 0682. .Registration Fee is 827.00 per person. The-Seaforth ,Recreation Department .preaonis frIOLI- DAY HAPPENINGS - March Break Program. Children -ages 5 to 12 can mime out and enjoy 5 oitwt- iag days tit activities daring the fmt week of the March Break. Activities include Swimming. Bowling, Skating. ,Arts .and Crafts, Games, Sports and more. The program operates from March 10 to March 14, 1997, 9:00 am W 4:00 pm each day. The meeting place will be the Seaforth and District Community Centres unless otherwise told. You can reg- ister for, the fUll week 845.00, or by the day - $10.00 or -oven 1/2 days - 85.00. Family discounts of 3 or more is 10% off. To register or for more information please call the Recreation Office at 527-0882. Seaforth minor homey doesn't Like drift of '0HF report BY GREGOR CAMPBELL Expusfter Staft The Seaforth and District Minor Hockey Association opposes Justice David Watt's recent recommendations to the Ontario Hocken Federation (OHF) that. if accepted later this year. would fundamentally alter the basic structure of minor Mickey in this province next season. The OHF is an umbrella group that governs minor hockey in Ontario. it is trying to put an end to the ongoing • . power struggles and writ wars of its member groups that -continue to plague the sport. President Graham Nesbitt -says the S&DMHA "dues not agree". anti voted "no" to Justice Watt's proposal that sIx huge regruns be created in the province.--with-players free to register with any team m the region in which they reside. . Seaforth's official "nO" has been ` forwarded to the Western Ontario Athletic Association, in which it now competes, to be in turn for- warded to the Ontario Minor Hockey Association. There are 235 registered ..players in the Seaforth minor system this season. • "It is going to hurt soinc small towns big time." Nesbitt says, and will be a -struggle"'tor Minor hockey in •communities where orga- nizations often face the ongo- ing difficulty of finding vol- unteers. ' - The . Northwest region - where Seaforth would com- pete -(sec more detailed story of the OHF report in -the Jan. 29 edition of The Huron Expcisiror) would be made up 'of the counties of Huron. Perth. " Bruce.. Grey. Wellington, Simon, Dufferin and thc.regional municipali- ties of .Waterloo, Halton, Peel and York (except the cities of Brampton and. Mississauga and the towns•of Richmond Hill. Vaughn and Markham). Other aspects of Justice Watt's relatively revolution- ary recommendations worry Scaforth's minor hockey organization. COMMUNITY-BASED Nesbitt says Seaforth has accommodated a few players from.BaytieId and Clinton in the past who wanted to play in the Saturday morning house league here,•but if 25 kids all of a sudden want to come from those two com- munities it means about three more hours of ice time will be required, .when the S&DMHA already rents about three hours of ice at Hensall to take cart of cur- rent demands. An option might be, ironi- cally, to rent the extra ice time needed at Clinton. "Why should we be orga- nizing Clinton minor hockey for them?" the Seaforth .minor president asks. Nesbitt says Seaforth wants Seniors helpful By 4be Seaforth Senior Committee: Cit=rs are helpfulin many ways ,with help at the Legion, churches, hospital and nurs- ing homes. Churches would fiadit hard to manage with- out their help. On Tuesday, . Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. ,at the arena there will be a meeting with members from three countifs (Perth, .Huron , and Middlesex) regarding ;the 1047 Senior deouts.,A,bhht,40 will attend. to continue its community- based program: He says if say. five kids from Seaforth decided they wanted to play in Mitchell, for whatever rea- son, it would lead to Seaforth kids playing Seaforth kids. "1t doesn't make tease." he says. The S&DMHA president says the organizatiures record for player development remains unmatched. and triple A hockey, which is wrapping up its inaugural season for "sti-called elite players" in Huron -Perth doesn't provide mite and tyke programs. "It t:annot be gainsaid that, for the foreseeable future, 'residence' will continue to occupy its present place in the. forefront of the determi- nation' of player eligibility in minor hockey." Justice Watt's 73 -page report states. DEATH KNELL? . •"To those who will say that. such freedom of choice will sound the death knell to cummuntty-based" hockey . is to underestimate the sense of 'community' amongst .the hockey playing population. especially our youth, as well 'as the natural tendency of'most.to avail themselves of recreational facilities' for which they pay. - die OHt• report continues. "'fire overwhelming majori- ty will stay. not because they are required to do so, but because, given the opportuni- ty to make up their own minds they- choose to do so. These who do not are marc likely influenced by the qual- ity of the hockey program. actual or perceived. "An incidental effect may well be -to assist. or encourage the development or improve- ment of hockey programs. "Freedoni of choice is a. fundamental principle in a democratic -society. iety. It is how- ever, not without limits. Nor • should it be. There is every reason to expect that most parents will -act responsibly. - in their choices, once given the right to chose. "That some will not chose wisely or well, or base their choice on quite unrealistic expectations does not prove the case against giving the .right to chose within reason- able limits." Justice Watt says. RESIDENCY RULES Elsewhere in his report, he notes his recommendations would be consistent with cur- rent - Canadian Hockey Association rules, and "that n is worth observing that a rule which determines player eli- gibility primarily upon the basis •ot residence is neither unusual. unreasonable or irra- tional. The rule is not idtu- synerauc. Neither IS 11 indige- nous to amateur sport. Residence. for example. is also a determinant of where a pupil attends school... "For the most part. minor hockey is played in. facilities -constructed with and main- tained by funds contributed by the taxpayers of the com- munity where the arena is located. It is scarcely equi- uible- to expect one communi- ty to provide and underwrite the cost of another's recre- ation. "Spurts achievements. by Individuals or teams. within a community are oaten a great source or pride to the coin- munity. Elsewhere in his massive report, Justice Watt com- ments that "the parent of a player. who feels obtaining a waiver constitutes some inad- missible_ interference with freedom or movement, lacks even the most rudirtrentary understanding of freedom and trivializes the meaning of such a fundamental principal in our stxaety." 4 USBORNE & HlBBERT MUTUAL. 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