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Times Advocate, 1993-04-07, Page 17NOMA..Makes the. __ saiaLO°` OVER • Establishing exactly what your lawn and garden care needs are is the key to buying the right equipment. Come in and meet. the pros who pride themselves in selling you the right product for the hob, nothing more, 40 UNITS IN STOOK nothing less. We've got the right Powerline for your yard. WE SERVICE WHAT WE SELL. •1I AV FOR DETAILS Recreation Ray and lune' Hodgson Ottitatifiketi are the garneAwipinizers. By Fred Groves EXETER - J.er the: games Agin. Although these games may of contain the high dramaas e traditional Olympic aures, the excitement and o doubt even a bit of intensi- will be there. Beginning :Monday, May 3, nior athletes and recreation- ists from Exeter will partic- pate in a local Senior Games which could see` the winners i 1. the 16 different events <ad- vancing to the Tri -County Games' in Goderich on June <21-22. "Anyone in Exeter can par - cite. The whole thing 'p<to Tri -County (I-lu- 1Mtlith5 Iviidt ex)," said .►is wife June#lyre ai�tt fir` k ' Wh1t °� r7r aetiiorS V 5 years -off. On May 3, carpet bowling nand cribbage will. be held at tills Youth Centt while five - in low: dile Zwick., Bowling J The:fo second, third or fourthiace winners can go in the winners place and participants can play just for the fun of it. Many events: Of the 16 different events, there is a possibility that some of them many not have any entries but ' the Exeter Community Seniors Games is 'still offer- ing them. Interest in the events seem to vary. "The otixerlday we had 39 people out tett •shuffleboard, snooker, I don't know how many will play," said Ray. Once the weather is nicer and the ground drys up, ten- nis, , golf and lawn bowling will take place on May 20. Tennis will be held in Exeter in a mixed doubles tourna- ment, golf will be : at Iron- wood and.lawn bowling will be at the Meter Lawn Bowl- ing Chth3itind it - will he a ixsix�nt 'n the past; Sceter~e- sentanves to tthe rrt .. ty Gamesave been done strict- ly on>lub level whether it be shoard, lawn bowl- viiikl*ParticaPanbi "7--1.177.7r47717. rt. haVC �t- �sswtmtri �h �� Cert Centre and`��.mhp�uhar A 1• 4�am x�o :`; co- • es. ay 5 will see shuffle= board, 3arts 4 d .contract *ridge alt tgth n:•and ;t £lvlay Great el dti t=taarithhuf- ard as =ell as horse- a11't on ora` . s�iw��t ti ort:,district :medal: winwukawrence Russell 4tritduring a carpet.boWlrtiivn. "We want toa nphasis sbat fa.d :Exeter participates,It laid June. She noted;,oOpners do not have to'.. #v ` to 'the .event in Goderich, only . if they wish : to. `; If <;winners choose not to advance, 'then Ffees. Anyoneterested inttl- petingiutfr- nity St i i uoses.can regis- ter at<+aentre weekdays 9 a.m. to noon and 1-5 p.m. before ay, April 23'%Parte ticipants loan alp lowister through thiir loc ill For more information con- tact the South Huron Recrea- tionCam at 235-2833 or Ray anti Done Hodgson at 235-2194. And. as June says, "get out nd participate." have additional FARM EQUIPMENT - EXETER, ONTARIO Sales, Service & Rentals since 1932 (519) Fax: (519) 235-2121 1-800-265-2121 235.2791 /\JOMA • 0 . . MINA Is.* doing Its job lain and simple, it bocomcs a war. Tie Alampionship series, no matter of what level or of what calibre, always has the hyped up emo- tion which makes it seem like a life and death situation. You have fans from the supporting communities screaming and chanting. You have nervous coaches who feel winning is the only thing. Few, if anyone, actually realize, just getting to major accomplishment. But nobody really likes best. Last week, I read where a peewee coach was slapped with a one-year suspension for pulling his players off the ice during a playoff game. I've coached hockey, and being a trainer, if several of my players were lying in the dressing room with injuries so bad they could not participate, I'd probably call off the game as well. The Ontario Minor Hockey Association is coming under a lot of watchful eyes for the lack of enforcement in overly ag- gressive series and they have an inability to look closer at some of their obviously insensitive rules. Scarborough Cedar Hills peewee coach Ron Lyons was los- ing a game by 10 goals, he had one kid urinating blood and another with back spasms and a sore neck. Enough is enough he said to the seven bodies 'he tad left and, with the -support of the players' parents, decided to all off the game and as a result, forfeit the series. The OMHA awarded the series to Peterbomugh whose vice-president of minor hockey there, said the peewees from (that city were not overly tough. Five injuries the tflist lime -of the series, a kid urinating Mood and another kvAtti an ttrjumd neck, that's not overly rncwgh? I shudder when I:think what style of hockey these young men are going to play when they grow up andjere in midget or juvenile hockey. It's becoming quite apparent, the brand of hockey they play in Eastern Ontario is much rougher than here in the South- western portion of the province. Example, Ennismore juveniles, Tamworth midgets and Pe- terborough peewees and don't forget our friends from Dunn- ville. Last spring in the OMHA semi-finals, I saw.aphysical and ,overly aggressive midget tram from Tamwoith,tthis year they didn't seem as rough but a lot of the players had graduated to ttheir juvenile team. When the next game of the Hensall-Fnnismore juvenile se- ries is played in Lucan on Friday, I hope the OMHA has sev- eral representatives there watching the game. But what are they going to do about it, they've already made a decision that makes Hensall look like the bad guy for lodg- ing a complaint. In Scarborough, Lyons and his son the assistant coach -rho was also suspended, are obviously devoted and dedicated. Ufa-ea'grameinspension•for tding-up•for Oheir cam and perhaps stopping any further injuries;they have been banned. from the sport for a year. You can't blame Lyons if he decides never to be a hockey coach again. I .certainly don't blame him! The OMHA, it appears, is not clamping down on violence in hockey. In fact they are punishing those who want to do something about it. Throughout the year, the OMHA constantly sends llitle re- minders to local associations that fair play is the only way to go and don't be so physical and teach your players how to play safe. Crap... Referees can only do so much, and their bands are tied when it comes to making decisions involving OMHA rules and regulations. If the OMHA wants hockey volunteers .to clean up the game, they better begin by cleaning up their awn act. This summer the OMHA would be wise so like a breather from fighting with other hockey groups in the province and draw up a new set of guidelines that don't punish those who are trying to make the game safe. by Pred Groves players and that level is a being second tapr114110.11 aster flit? 'UP/kir in ?loohn " 'fLwer4 in 01 .wve�� t .. • • . . • • 1' "t,uhnU l,Ale ` fresh va4e arrartgeitten+ v nth q e9f t4 IVO bunny 1 t*nAu, • M i Ate{ Gut f towut► #!Dl`'/ I and or 1owe rt n9 ane) v>p (OJMT2TffLOWt5 ZE