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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLakeshore Advance, 2012-06-06, Page 19Manes* Ju ?5,'2011 ti Ltake hOt"eAiNerice 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, GARAGE SALE 6etzr's tggest garage sant DAYS 0111121 WED, TIIURS 104; 1111 104; SATISUN 106 AT COST � BELOW COST! IRING YOUR T1IUCK$, TIIAILERS, VAN$, ROPES,TAIIP$ HANDYMAN SPECIALS ITS CASH & CARRY TIME! PAY & TAKE IT AWAY! c0 9 FINE FURNITURE Located at: 467 Main St., Exeter ON T: 519.235.0173 WED., THURS. 10-6; FRI. 10-9; SAT, SUN. 10-6 ALL SALES FINAL NO REFUNDS / EXCHANGES ALL ITEMS SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE •••••••••Wi 1