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Students participate In Optimist
Club
Career
Day
Lynda Hillman-Rapley Optimist Club many years ago is still
Lakeshore Advance popular today as Optimist members
help students find their path in future
It was career day for Grand Bend careers. Many local (businesses jump 00
school grade 8 students last week. A the band wagon to help this happen,
program initiated by the Grand Mend Sadie ilamilton and Max Thompson
Storm Causes Havoc to 3Oth Classic
Sadie Hamilton
Grade 8
It was an interesting change of events
for the 30th anniversary of the Scatcherd
Invitational Classic. Wet and slippery
are two ways of describing the golf.
course that more than two -hundred
golfers where expected to play on. Now,
with large trees scattered across the
spongy ground and flooded courses
many people are expected not to play in
the yearly chetity golfing tournament.
Water is rising as It 1s pumped from
the farmers fields across the road,
already under water is the tenth green
and a few bridges barely visible
undeemeat it �e quickly running rivers,
��L Atha eooteranttned in previous years,
leaving the L,abeshomAdvance
we ran into Cam Ivey, He said his day
didn't start out like a regular Tuesday.
He had woken up very early to hear a
loud cracking sound, a pie had fallen
and he worried about the ',dm li,, as
he cut the branches away, he called
hydro one to learn that they had
hundreds of calls regarding the stone.
As we neared the golf course the firm
golfers we ran into where Ron Aiken and
Chris Culotte. Culose told us that the
back nine was closed and there where
no carts out that day.
Traveling a little further, surrounded
by Water on both sides, we where
approached by Oakwood staffer Tbny
Preston. He told us the tenth green was
underwater and it was rising due to the
fact that extra rain water was being
pumped from the farmers field. He
informed us that a large tree had also
fallen on the 12th green.
"Harley" a long time tournament
participant had informed us that early
in the morning he had heard a large
cracking noise and hoped his trucks
where okay. When he woke up in the
morning and he found a tree had fallen
on his snowmobile trailer,
Dave Battlam, tournament chair said
it was a ctaiienge. He was appreciative
the golfers OH took to the course despite
the course conditions. He anticipated
that the few holes days 'golfing would have
dot' Hesd. concluded thatathe
��that *everyone was matting the
came to the Lakeshore Advance where they found shot some great photos and Sadie did a write-up
themselves in an after storm situation where Max 00 the storm vitt golfers at the Scatcherd Classic,
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