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Huron Expositor, 2007-09-12, Page 19The Huron Expositor • September 12, 2007 Page 19 Sports Seaforth minor hockey launches website Aaron J a c k l i n The Seaforth ' Minor Hockey Association has launched a website. "We started in June and I've been working away all summer," says web -administrator Lisa Campbell. "It's very new." She says more and more boards are launching websites, giving the Western Ontario Athletic Association and Ontario Minor Hockey Association as examples. "A significant number of teams are starting to develop their web- sites," she says. "We've basically hit a day and age where very few peo- ple don't, have some sort of access to the Internet, even if it's just through the kids at school. It's a communication tool that's just invaluable to us." Campbell says that while some local associations have a site, others don't. "There's certainly some that don't, have websites as comprehensive as we are trying to develop ours to be," she says. "There's a significant number that are not at that point yet." Campbell says they're setting their site up so that each coach - or a representative from each team - will be able to make changes and that each team will have a page of their own. "We are expecting them to go in and update their score after their games and any highlig s of their games," she says, notin the site will have game schedules, coach biographies and information about the board. "We're posting our minutes from our board meetings on there so that - once they're approved, of coirse - everybody can know exactly what's going on at the board level, be aware of the decisions we're making and how we're getting to them," says Campbell. She says that now the board has started appointing coaches, she's going to start entering the names of the coaches they have. There are four coaching positions they're looking to fill: midget local, bantam local, peewee local and midget girls. "We are still accepting applica- tions - I have a couple in that have not been approved - for juvenile as coaches to train their players and parents to check their e-mail and the website before going to a game to check for cancellations. "That way we don't have someone driving to Mount Forest only to find out there's a game cancelled," she says, noting it's the coach's responsibility to call the ones who don't have e- mail or Internet. For more information, visit www.c4thstars.ca. SOUTH HURON MARTIAL ARTS maKARATE k ST. JAMES SCHOOL GYM, SEAFORTH CLASStS MIGHTY TYKES: 5 to 10 years old MONDAY 6:30 to 7:30pm ADULTS: WEDNESDAY 6:30 to 8pm $20 per month MARTIAL ARTS TEACHES: lik• SELF DISCIPLINE • SELF CONTROL • BUILDS SELF CONFIDENCE • SELF ESTEEM Shihan Brian Decker - 7th Degree Black Belt 519~2,63-24+0 Accredited Dojo with Juko Kai Int. Internet website http://wwwjukokai.com Lisa Campbell, web administrator for the hockey webpage, takes a look at the site o well," she says. Once they have all their coaches, Campbell will hold a training ses- sion to teach them how to update their team pages. "We're really going to strongly encourage all the coaches to do this because it's just a tool that saves everybody some time and keeps the community informed," she says, not- ing they hope people use it to find out when the games are and then come out to enjoy them. "There'll be information changing on there daily," says Campbell. "Scores are going to come in, any- thing -exciting that's going on, any news, any changes in the schedule. Snowed out, cancelled, postponed; all of that will be posted by either myself or someone else as soon as we have that information. So we expect that to be current to the sec- ond. That's our hope." She says schedules will be posted on a monthly basis and that the practice schedule is already online. Changes will go up as they're made. 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