The Huron Expositor, 1998-01-07, Page 7Cents get act together, earn big points
Scaforth's Centenaires
"came thorough in the
crunch" on the weekend on
home ice, winning both starts
and thereby putting a,com-
fortable distance between
themselves and the basement
of the Morenz Division of the
OHA's Junior."D"cvclop-
ment League.
But not too comfortable!
They controlled both games
and earned the results, but the
rest of the season will tell the
talc says Dave Murray, one
of the coaches behind the
bench for both weekend
wins.
The local junior hockey
team heat Lucan 7-5
Saturday night, after besting
Lambeth 4-3 in overtime the
night before.
The crucial four points
leaves the fourth -place Cents
eight points up on the North
Middlesex Stars in the cellar,
currently out of the running
for post -season play.
The Stars have games -in -
hand, but they have to win
Most residents
Most elderly residents at
Huronview near Clinton who
took part in a recent satisfac-
tion survey indicated they
"arc satisfied with current
activation programs," accord-
ing to the Dec. 10 report of
the Huron County health and
seniors committee.
"Very few wanted any
evening programs (seven per
`cent] and most (63 per cent)
did not want any change to
weekend programming."
Forty-six per cent of resi-
dents completed the survey,
according to the report, and
88 per cent were satisfied.
Nix can't say
Treasurer Ken Nix says
Huron County is still trying
to figure out how thc nuts
and bolts of the host recent
downloading formulae
released by thc Ontario gov-
ernment in the middle
December translates into
actual dollars and cents.
This isn't good news for
county politicians and
employees cagcr to get at the
new year's budget, or
ratepayers wondering exactly
what their taxes will be in
1998.
"What thc province showed
us on the 12th needs some
work," he said on the last
morning of 1997, diplomati-
cally adding that "it doesn't
look as promising as the gov-
ernment has indicated."
them to move up and the
Parkhill -based squad hasn't
given much indication of
turning it up a notch. They
have the worst record in the
JDL's West Conference.
Lucan leads the Morcnz,
still with the fewest number
of losses in the division.
MCINALLY NETS TRIO
But they got one more
Saturday, as the Ccntenaires
jumped to a 3-0 lead after the
first period, increasing it to 7-
3 at one point of the third
before the Irish got two late
ones.
Steve McInally capped, a
hat trick with his overtime
goal to sink the Lancers the
night before.
Scott Henderson had four
assists.
Scaforth also got strung
performances in both games
from defensive stalwart Greg
Matthison and newcomer
Scan Walsh. He's a 17 -year-
old centre from Stratford who
had been playing junior in
New Hamburg.
seem satis• fied
At Huronlca, a similar facil-
ity in Brussels, 40 per cent of
residents completed the sur-
vey, with 73 per cent satis-
fied.
Requests and suggestions
from the surveys arc to he
raised with the respective res-
ident's councils. They active-
ly participate in the the plan-
ning of the monthly calender
of events.
The report notes the per-
centage at each home who
completed thc survey was
below half, due to the large
number of residents who arc
unable to complete a survey
and some who were not inter-
ested.
At Huronview, "52 per cent
enjoy any outing while an
additional 25 per ccnt tnjoy
only certain types of outings.
"There is a a request for
more shopping or opportuni-
ties to cat out."
Eighty-one per cent of resi-
dents there rated food service
as good. Most also indicated
their food's temperature,
appearance, quality, variety
and portions were also good.
"They identified a need for
increased courtesy of 'wait
staff' and somewhat of a
need to improve the variety
and attractiveness of food,"
according to the county's
health and seniors committee.
Huronlea percentages were
roughly parallel to the
Huronview findings. j
The Cents took very few
penalties in both wins.
They host North Middlesex
this Friday night at 8:30 p.m.,
and travel to Exeter for a
Tuesday night game in their
next start.
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Seaforth's atom I hockey
team at practice last week
after winning the regional
qualifying tournament at
Alvinston to eam a berth in
the annual International
Silver Stick tournament
later this month. Seaforth's
bantams also won their
regional at Watford to
advance.
THE HURON EXPOSITOR. January. 7, i•ss-r
Top-notch swimmers help
The Huron Hurricanes
swim team was tutored by
some of the best swimmers in
Canada during the recent hol-
idays at training camp in
Vanastra.
Kendra Papple of
Egmondville is head coach of
the area swim team. Because
of contacts she and the other
coaches of the team have
built up in the sport over the
years, the Hurricanes wel-
comed three Olympic medal-
ists to help with training. -
Stephen Clarke (two-time
Olympic bronze medalist and
Canadian IOOm freestyle
record -holder), Nancy
Sweetnam (two-time
Olympic finalist in individual
medley) and Sandy Goss (he
swam the freestyle legs .of
Canada's silver -medal win-
ning medley relay teams at
two Olympics).
On the last day of camp
Cliff Barry was there. He
coached Canada's Victor
Davis. Barry was also head
coach of the Etobicoke
Aquatic Club when it was the
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Meanwhile, the Hurricanes
hauled in a bucket of medals
at a meet in Cambridge.
"Our little kids did really
well," a Hurricanes' press
release notes, "especially
when you consider that most
of them have just started
swimming in the last year or
two. Some have just started
this year."
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