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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-02-18, Page 20Page 8A Times -Advocate, February 18, 1987 Planning for next year Village comes alive as 3,000- attend carnival activities The Village of Grand Bend really very peaceful during the winter months, the resort drew over 3000 came alive on the Weekend. Usually people on Valentine's weekend, Dave Shepherd, co-ordinator Grand Bend's first winter carnival, of was very pleased with the turnout. Ile must be commended for all the work and planning that went into the suc- cessful event. He said that already there are bigger and better plans be- ing processed for next year! BEST TEAM -- - Standing in front of their surfing penguin entry, ore the $1000 winners of Grand Bend's snow sculpture contest. Left to right Julie Cole, Eric Johnson, both from Bloomfield Hill, Michigan, Benguin, and winter carnival -co-ordinator Dave Sheppard: Missing was Erick's mother Janet Johnson who was the third team member. n and district news Lynne Desjardine - 238-8768 Roberta Walker - 238-2471 DEPICT NORTH POLE -- This northern ice -fishing scene won first prize in the open sno-sculpture con- test in Grand Bend. Members of the Pinedale Motel entry are Sgt. Gerry Hillman, judge, Vicky Clark, . Jackie Schotroff, Sharon Thiel, councillor Marsha Lemon, judge, and Dan Orban with Jess the real dog. The team won a trophy and a $50.00 gift certificate. • • Valentine setting for UCW meeting The Sunday school rooms at the Grand Bend United Church were nicely decorated with valentines and cupids, when the United Church Women met Thursday for their February meeting. Elizabeth Norris • gave the opening worship service, on the theme of love. She opened with a prayer on faith, hope, and love, then read scripture from l Corinthians 13:4-13. The devotional reading was "Love Never Fails Us", then Elizabeth closed with poems of -- •-flowernand.y tines and a prayer of love. ` - President Loreen.Gill chaired the business. The roll call, of a Bible verse containing the word "love" was answered by 23 in attendance. Plans were made to send a monetary dona- tion to a Missionary family in the country of Nepal. A thank -you was read, for the used stamps sent to the missions. The World Day of Prayer will be held on March 6 at the United Church in Dashwood. Beulah Holt gave a short talk on stewardship. Loreen Gill, Clara Hamilton and Bertie Keyes attended the, South Huron Presbyterial held at the Mit- chell United Church in January. They. - gave the ladies a panel discussion of their shared experiences Of the day, where over 2000 ladies gathered for - the annual meeting. President Loreen Gill closed with a poem. Lunch hostesses were Pearl Hendrick, Jeanne Kading and Elva Turvey. - SNO-PITCH TOURNEY Susan Dunn, slo-pitch chairman, poses beside a snow sculpture with trophy to be engraved for winners. 1 SWEETHEART DANCE — CKSL celebrity Norm Borge announced the open sculpture winners at the dance in the Grand Bend Legion on Saturday night. Councillor Marsha Lemon presents the trophy and cheque to Pinedale team member Dan Orban. Gib Roane cooked over 150 steaks for the Legion barbecue before the dance. • Two area fires ,ire broke out in two area residents' chimneys on Friday, the 13th. The GB and area brigade was summoned to a chimney fire at the home of Ruth and Louis DeBrum, 'River Rd. on Friday morning. It was kept under control. it was different story later on the 13th at Roger Farrington's residence, Pinedale Subdivision. Roger's son Jeff went upstairs and noticed smoke and a crackling sound in the wall. He immediately called his dad who call- ed the fire department onto the scene. Flames had spread down the chimney into the wall behind the pipes. Considerable fire damage was done inside when panelling and in- sulation were removed to extinguish the flames there. estimate of the damage has not been determined. Although the snow was extremely hard to work with, the children of the GBP school started the carnival off with their sculpturesFriday morning. The winning exhibit located at the seniors apartments, Sauble Court, was a snail and dragon. Captain Cullen Kobe and his team, John Beemer, Travis Shepherd, Bobi-Jo Whiting, Bryce Cadlecik and Melissa Milam won a plaque where all their names will be engraved. The plaque will be displayed for one year at the school. An ice -fishing scene sculpture done by the Pinedale Motel/Jackies Muf- - fins team won first place in the open snow -sculpture contest. Judges Sgt. Gerry Hillman and Councillor Mar- sha Lemon had a tough time deciding. Local businesses that were open tor the carnival weekend boasted that business was great. Visitors also were able to sample their favorite french fries from Our Andrews booth downtown. Many people enjoyed the Legion steak barbeque on Saturday night before the dance. Gib Roane and helpers Marilyn and Wendy Clark served up over 150 dinners. CKSL an- nouncer Norm-Borge was do hand -to- take in the weekend activities. - A Michigan team-. who. frequently - visit the Bend. won first place in the team snow sculpture contest. They take home $1000.00 and the trophy for One year. Eric Johnson, Janet .Johnson and Julie Cole were very -pleased-to-win-as this was their first big competition. Second place prize of 530000 went- to fourth year geology students from UWO, London, led by Jennifer Wadsworth The team on site ho. 1 was from an advertising and printing -business in London, Chuck Culp as team leader. They crew a towering-mountatoLol _ waves. with a lighthouse behind. Mop the waves rides a tiny submarine with a mermaid and a sea gull perched on board. It looked like something out of a fairy tale - my- personal favorite. Site no. 2 featured a large, brooding snow devil, a very impressive piece of work from Ted Hayes' award win- ning team in London. That old devil was quite a crowd pleaser too! A local -team from For Goodness Sake showed their talents on site nb. 4 with children sliding down a hillside. There were several special touches too. like a tiny evergreen tree on top the hill, and a polar bear grinning out of a cave on the side. Best Cooling, of Grand Bend: gave a noble effort on site. no. 6 with a mighty polar bear. If you haven't seen these works of art as yet, come down soon, before the sun melts them away. There were tots of other snow sculptures in the open competition too, with Pinedale taking first prize for an Eskimo boy ice fishing in front of his igloo, surrounded by some love- ly sculpted sled dogs. The Thirsty Fox featured, what else, a red fox in a top hat. The ICA showed off with a great Max Head Room inscribed "C -C= Catch the Wave, Coke!" The Country Sampler made a large duck, with baby block in colored letters to say "1 love country". . For.Goodness Sake's shop created a huge loveable bunny rabbit. mun- ching on orange carrot with several more carrots in. the ground. Evergreen, branches gave the carrots a realistic touch. This was the favorite -of all the kids! • A lovely white sailboat was beach- ed in front of Young Classic's Hair Salon and a wily wee green leprechaun perched in front of Fin- negans. The Family Heirloom's im- aginative contribution showed a fisherman placidly comtemplating his. catch, about to be swallowed by -an enormous, brightly colored shark! A funny spectacled snowman is silting in the lot of the Brewer's Retail. Benguin the Penguin, twice as large - as life, sits by the Colonial, waving his "Winter's a Beach" flag. They did a great job on his colors. The best use of colors showed up on a sleeping dragon by two enterprising young ladies, Tamara and Pani Woods. This dozing dragon, hook in paw', leans against a tree near tile United Church.: his sides brilliantly polka, dotted and face of rainbow hues. -Slo-pits rdinator, Susan Dunn-. Finnigan, reporte a v y-succcsslttl turnout at'hoth Sno-pitch diamonds. Twenty teams competed for the trophy with the London players, Hamisco, beating out the local "Hob- bies Rockets" made up of Dashwood and area players. Kadlecik's team won their first game against the Ex- eter Legion, then were edged out in the second round. Paul Maguire found it really difficult gelling around those lumpy bases on his home run. The sun was very welcome in the freezing temperatures.- - - • Another traffic conjested area was ,the street running from Lake lid. to River ltd.. The ole' river bed skating rink never had so many skaters on it before. 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