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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1977-09-22, Page 6PAGE 6—CLINTON NEWS:.$FORD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1977 Ramblings from the races Jewitt wins driver's title By Lois Gibbings Dennis Jewitt bettered his driving triple of last Sunday to come through with four winners last Sunday Sep- tember 18 at Clinton Kinsmen Raceway to win the driving championship. He gave his own Champion Hit his third win of the year in the first race. Hit also has one second and three thirds from 11 'starts this year. He was first across the wire with t-lullet Rose, owned by Ed. Bezaire of Seaforth, in the third, She now has a standing of four wins, one second and three thirds from 10 lifetime starts. Dennis drove Dilly Dares to his ninth win win of the year in the $1,500 Preferred Pace for owner Wayne Horner of Brucefield. He has a record of 2:04,1 and earnings of $11,049 already in 1977. R.H. Arnie, owned by Ron and Helen Swartz of Lucan, and trained by Walter Oster in Clinton, as is Hullet Rose, was the fourth winner with Dennis on the bike. Frank Dam drove the six- year-old Scarlet Wave trotter Scarlet Walbob to a second place finish for owners Walter and Robert Daer of Goderich in the second. Janey's Ready, owned and trained by Cliff Walsh of Brussels was third with Frank MacDonald up in the fourth. John Muir finished fourth with Jeffrey Hi for , Dale Kennedy of Seaforth. , Muddy Knight was second with Ron Williamson driving in the fifth. He is owned by 'Jim -McLeod of Seaforth and Carroll Browning of Toronto. From 33 starts this year, he has six wins, four seconds and five thirds for $5,784 to date. Pebbles Girl, owned by George Feagan and Gerry Roebuck of Goderich was 'fifth. In the sixth race, John Muir was, a winner with Geo's Honey, owned by Robert S. 'Kerr of Dorchester, Jason Direct finished third for co- owner Randy McLean. Harlo_- Champ was fifth for Harold Gibbings and Ernest Brown. Melo Victory, 'a two-year- old colt by Tarport Arnie - Belmont Kelly, had his first lifetime win from four starts with Gerry Roebuck on the bike. He is owned by Fred, Harold and Norman Jewell of Goderich and is a brother to Melo Knight p, 2:05. John ' Muir was third with Waverly Don for owner Les Campbell , of Seaforth. John Jewitt of.! Londesboro finished fifth with his Skippy Del. Dianne Camp won' the eighth race with Ron Williamson up for Ted Lamont of Waterloo. Tony Bay,'owne4 by Ross McEwan and Lorne Brown was second for driWet'Frank MacDonald. Dennis Jewitt was fifth with Comrie, owned by Harry McNaughton • and Clint Hodgins. Irish,a Hanover, owned by Lorne 'Tyndall of Clinton, was third in the tenth race with Frank MacDonald on the bike. She now has four wins, four seconds and Blur thirds fronn 12 lifetime starts: A blanket . was donated by Archer's Farm Sales and Service Limited to R.H. Arnie, who was the winner of this race. This coming Sunday, September 25 will be the final day of racing at Clinton Kinsmen Raceway for 1977. This will be ladies' day with all, ladies admitted free. Also fetured will be 2 'special Pony Races; plus a free draw for a Bulova Watch donated by Anstett Jewellers, Clinton. There will not be any qualifying races this week. Post Time is 1.30 pm. At Flamboro on September 14, Bobby Tar was second in a 2:05.1 mile for owner Jim Riehl of Goderich, Friday night at Elmira, Verdun Vanstone drove Bay B. Hayfee to a fourth place finish for Holmesville Valley Farms. .Dennis Jowitt finished first with Adorable Luck, owned by Larry Baird of Hensall, for her second win .last week. Truanna Duke, owned by Wayne Horner of Brucefield, was also a winner with Dennis on the bike in the sixth. He finished second with Wayne's Dilly Dares in the ninth. Margies Girl finished second in a 2:02.2 mile at Mohawk on September 16 for owners Ken Parke of Zurich and John Lester of Forest. At Hanover on Saturday night, Claybrook Romeo was a winner in 2:11,4 with Randy Henry driving for owner Charles Brindley. of Goderich. JanetEExpress had her second win ih a row ' when she was first in a 2:09 mile for ,Beryl and Bob Faulds of Clinton, At Dresden the same'night, Johnny Diller won the first race in 2:09, while Alfalfa Bill took the tenth in 2:07. Crash Landing was second in a 2:02.1 mile mile at Mohawk for owners Ron and George Feagan. Quick Almahurst finished fourth in the seventh for owner Bill Fleming of Clinton. Bill's Shalako N. was a winner on Sunday night for driver - trainer Tom Strauss. Monday- night at Elmira, Bill Rapson finished fourth with Chief Noble and fifth with Senate Leader. Both horses are owned by Gord Rapson of Holmesville. Jay Dee Dusty was the winner of the tenth race, while Jay Dee Lonesome finished third in the eighth. They are owned by James D. Taylor of Hensall. The' Clinton Housewives are the new champions of the Huron Central Ladies Recreational Softball League. Front row left to right are Jan Rutledge, Marion Stevens, Joyce Atcheson, Karen Scruton, Sandra Graham, Ann LeBeau, Gail Daer, and Cleo Colquhoun. Back row are coach Bill Craig, Lia Hoggarth, Mary Morley, JudyWilliams, Elaine Boyes, Louise Brown, Pat Norman, Marilyn Taylor, and coach Greg Burns. (News -Record photo) Pee wee soccer club wins Huron championship The Clinton Fleming Stalhons (Pee Wees) rounded out their best soccer season ever with a fine 6-3 win over rivals St. Columban in the play off finals last Saturday. The Clinton boys, without four of their regular players, event on the attack right from the start. Charlie Wise broke free from the St. Columban Clinton Housewives win Huron Softball title The Clinton Housewives are the champions of the Huron Central Ladies Softball league for this year, as they put out the Clinton Sluggers in an all -Clinton final series last week. 11', TheJz ousewives took 'home the title by dumping the Sluggers 11-3 and 12-3 to take the best of three series two games straight. To get to the finals, the Housewives, sponsored. by Clere Vu Auto Wreckers, knocked off the Goderich Superstars, who were last year's champs, in two games straight. Because they finished on top' of the league in regular season's play with a 14 -win, two -less record, the Housewives received a bye in the first round of the playoffs. 'There were nine teams in the league this: year, which featured some excellent softball. Besides the Housewives and the Sluggers, there were five teams from Goderich, a team from Lucknow, and a team from Seaforth. Jottings from St. Joe 's.. Separate School We would like to welcome everyoneback for another school year at St. Joseph's. NEW STAFF We welcome two new members to our staff. Our. new kindergarten teacher is Mrs. Agnes Gaffney, Mrs. Gaffney lives near Monkton and has had seven years of. teaching experience. Our other new staff member is Mrs. Helen VanBakel. Mrs. VanBakel is principal's relief and will be teaching grades 7-8. She is in her first year of teaching after having graduated from the Faculty of Education,' University of Western Ontario. We have a new French teacher for grades 6-7-8 in the person of Mr. Leslie Wood. Mr. Wood comes to us from Dorion, near Montreal. Mrs. Margaret Ferguson will be doing most of the remedial teaching this year and Mrs. Lillian Simpson will again 'teach the music. The rest of the staff remains the same as - last year: Mrs. Mary Smith, grades 1-2; Mrs. Gerda Man found guilty Richard``'. Lehnen of RR5 Clinton was found guilty of , evading payment of income tax recently and fined $1,300 or three months in jail. Lehnen appeared in provincial court and pleaded guilty to charges of failing to report $9,000 of salary income in the 1974 taxation year. By failing to report the income he was taken to court by the Kitchener office 'of the department of national revenue for evading payment of federal income tax taxes ar ounting to $1,388.59. .fudge W. F. Woodliffe of Guelph. instructed Lehnen to tuiy bank the taxes and an .l dditiona1, $1,300 penalty or spend.ttlree months MOIL ` • Vanden Hoven, grades 3-4; Mrs. Nancy Holmes, grades 5-6; Adrian Pontsioen, grades 7-8. A warm welcome is ex- tended to the -students and their families who are new to the school this year. The enrolment in St. Joseph's School is 121 students, an increase of 12 over last year. Father Hardy will again be visiting the school every Wednesday as well as on special occasions. On Wed- nesday, September 7, the whole school attended Mass at - the church. For the remainder of the year Father Hardy will say Mass in each classroom} , once a month. Mass will always be at 9 a.m. and all parents are invited to attend. After Mass, Father, Hardy will visit the other classrooms. On Thursday, September 15, the staff met with Father Hardy at ' the rectory to discuss the religion program in the school. STUDENTS' COUNCIL Last week the students elected their 1977-78 Students' Council. All students voted in the election. The results were: Margaret Dupee, president; Paul Gautreau, vice-president; Rodney Merner, treasurer; 'Cheryl Armstrong, secretary. Each class also elected a representative for their grade. "Established 1876" McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY HEAD OFFICE: 10 MAIN ST.; SEAFORTH, ONT Mrs. Margaret Sharp, Sec. Treas., Ph. 527-0400. FULL COVERAGE Farm and Urban Properties Fire, Windstorm, Liability, Theft Various Floater Coverages Homeowner's, Tenant's Package, Composite Dwelling birectors and Adjusters Robt.Archibald,R.R.4, Seaforth Ken Carnochan, R.R.4, Seaforth Lavern Godktn,'R,R.N1, Walton Ross Leonhardt, 5.0.1, Bornholm John McEwing, R.R.1, Blyth Stanley Mcllwalh, R.R, , Goderich Donald McKereher, R.R.1, Dublin Wm. Pepper, Brumfield 3;N.Trewartha,Box 661, Clinton AGENTS James Keys, R.R.1, Seaforth 'YVtn. Leiper, 0.5.1, Londesboro Steve J. Murray, R.R.S, Seaforth 527-1817 527.1545 527-1877 345-2234 523-9390 S24=7051 527.1837 482-7534 482-7593 527-0467 523.4257 345-2172 CALL AN AGENT Old THE OFFICE defence to open the scoring on a pas's from John Elliott. St. Columban came right back to tie the game from the boot of Kevin Coyne. The Stallions continued to press and finally Brian Tompkins put the ball into the net from a goal mouth scramble. After this goal, the. Stallions just got stronger. Paul_ Stephenson, playing an un- familar role in the forward line, put a pass through to Charlie Wise who made it 3-1. Wise got his third goal of the game on a cross from Scott Bell. Brent Daw, playing his first' game in , goal since early season, had to leave the field late in the first half with a thigh injury and Paul Stephenson, who took over in net was soon put to the test when he failed to hold onto a hard drive from Kevin Coyne who closed the game to 4-2 before the half. Brent Daw went back into net at the start of the second half and Charlie Wise got his fourth goal of the game on a fine pass from Dave Lobb,. Scott Bell made it 16-2 from John Elliott and Charlie -Wise. Kevin Coyne got his third goal for St. Columban, but by this time the game was out of reach for his' team, Roy, Swart, president of I-1.M.S.A. and also coach of St. Columban; presented the play off trophy to ' captain Tony Gibbings. The Stallions had also ended in second place in regular season league play. It was all, St. Columban Clinton in the play-off finals. The Clinton squirts coached by Brian Lavis ended third in league play and lost 3-0 to the. St. Columban squirts in ' the finals. After finishing second in regular season, play behind St. Columban, the Clinton Atoms coached by Lowell Stanley Twp. rec. news The first annual Old Homestead invitational slowpitch ball tournament will be held at the Stanley Twp. ball park this Saturday, September 24. The first game is scheduled to start at 9 a.m., with games every 1/2 hours. The first game pits Paul Bunyon against Old Homestead, while in the second game, Stanley '1 wp. takes on Southern Comfort' London; , and ' in the third game Finchers Flyers (Goderichl battles.Jellystone Park. There will be continuous ball throughout the day, so come out and support your 'favourite team. This is your invitation to come to our. iy this weekend! Sept. 23, 24 & 25 FREE PANCAKES on Sunday from 9 a.m. - 2 p:m. KITTY CAT RIDES on both Saturday and Sunday Also with e'1ery new snowmobile purchased between now and October 23 you will receive an all expense paid... - . Snowmobile excursion, weekend for 2, on the Bruce Trail! Be the FIRST to see -the LATEST in snowmobile fashions at ... U LL, y(� SPORTS & RECREATION LIMITED Varna Ontario 51.9-2bh-5809 Barnes and Mery Dill, turned the table on previously un- defeated St. Columban' Atoms, 'taking . the play-off final 2-0. Tony Van Dongens' Fleming Flyers, (Mosquito). after winning the league, came unstuck and dropped a 2-1 decision to St. Columban mosquitos. Authority plans Bannockburn hike . "Come close to nature" is the theme while hiking through the Bannockburn Wildlife Area. The Ausable- Bayfield Conservation Authority will be conducting a guided hike on Sunday, October 2nd, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the scenic Bannockburn Wildlife Area 11/ miles east of Varna. Varna is on Huron County Road 3 between High- ways 4 and 21. Naturalists will enjoy viewing the wide variety of trees, plants, wildlife and the beautiful scenery. October is an ideal month to take part in such an outing since the crisp autumn air and fall colours add to the hiker's enjoyment. The, general public is in- vited to spend theafternoon close to nature, Yanasfra gun club Paul Stanley,,,Clinton; John Anderson, Kippen; Jamie Caldwell, Kippen; Frank Flyn, .Clinton were the top shooters at the Vanastra trap shoot last Saturday with perfect scores of 25. Following them were Bill Thompson, Clinton and Ernie Marshall, Mitchell with scores of 24. Bradley Mann, Hensall; Dave Temple, Mitchell both shot 23, while Glen Mogk, $ornholm hit 22, Merv' Batkin, Clinton; , Harrison Schock, Zurich; Barry English; all hit 21. Ashley Gilbert, Goderich bit 20 traps as did Gorge Giles of London. In the doubles shooting wi a 'possible 24 points, P Stanley came the closest wi 21 points. He was followed by Bill Thompson with 20, Ashley Gilbert with 18, Bradley Mann and John Hessel, who each had 16, and GlenMogk with 13. Huron County Day Care Centre OPEN HOUSE and TEA PARTY Where? Welcome Centre, Huronview, Clinton. What? - Day Care Centre for the homebound. Why? When? Whom? Have Tea and Cookies while viewing the facilities and learning more about the program. September 30th 2 p.m. All interested persons e.g. shut-ins, friends, relatives, volunteers, Ministers, Doctors. Y.B.C. MAJOR BOWLING • LEAGUE Starts Wednesday, Sept. 28,- 7:OOp.m. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION x TRIANGLE DI SC D U NL ,� 2 HURON ST., CLINTON 2 MAIN ST., SEAFORTH .formerlyPRICEGARD BAYER ASPIRIN 200 TABLETS ONLY 1.69 VICK'S COUGH SYRUP 5 oz. ONLY 19 TO SAVE WITP THESE tki" • RELIEF FAST Sett:nap:7,T,, ®I ‘kli v ct'+ 11111 n ii 44;,„ %mug couc• GLADE SOLID • AIR FRESHENER Oz. 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