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Sports director Garry Fisher enjoys a game of croquet with some lively young beauties from the Park. The Park will be
opened in the tall after schooland on, weekends.
Photo story by-lyndQ MacGillivary
Playground staff member Kim Smith hails the tots from the wading. pool at the end of another day.
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The able young people who,
have been , taking care of the
children of many Goderich
parents this summer will soon
be leaving to go baek_to school.,
Summer program director John
Park is nearly finished his job
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here, and along with him most
of .the staff at Judith
Gooderham Park will also be
through. Staff Peggy Stoddart
and Taf Graham are already
gone.
There were 12 students on 'the
pool and playground staff this
summer at the park, and of
them ,a. few get to remain
working part-time thanks to the
town, says staff member Mary
Ellen McGill. The, -park will
remain open this fall after
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4 Lifeguard- Susan. Freeman discusses water safety with parttime staff lifeguard Mark Riley.
Pool director John Park gets thrown in the refreshing water by a bevy of female lifeguards at
Judith Gooderham Park as the summer activities there near a close.
A playground staff member, Lynda :.Reinhart gets stuck on glue while supervising some
children duriing- crafts:.
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school and on weekends.
Director John Park, although
only 20, has been ,into this sort
of thing for many years now. He
is a hast program director of
Atwood Lions Pool in Atwood,
Ontario. When_._ he's __ not
directing a pool, John attends•
the University of Waterloo.
On Goderich, John says: "I
haven't really developed an
understanding and knowledge
of Goderich. 'due to
responsibilities at the Park, but
- if my landlady represents the
fo1I in Goderich, its people
match the title of Goderich: `the
prettiest and friendliest town in
Canada."'
Garry Fisher is the sports
director at the. Park. He is going
into . Grade • 13 this' fall at
G.D.C.I., where he has been
since Grade 9. He plans to go to
university and then travel in
later years. Garry .says he
wanted the 'recreation job for
experience for university.
Pool staff member Clara
Bedard was. born in Goderich.
She attended 'grade school at St:
Mary's and went to G.D.C.I.
Lifeguard and instructor at the
pool, Clara will be attending
Fanshawe College for two years
in the Respiratory Technology
course. '
Clara says she enjoyed
working at the pool very much
and hopes to return again next
year.
Playground staff member
Claudia Elliott is entering her
third year at the University of
Guelph in Fine Arts. The 20 -
year -old says she ' enjoyed
working outside, especially with
the kids. After working at the
Park this summer, Claudia says:
"I'm almost convinced that
teaching art is for me."
Seventeen -year-old " Sue
• Freeman is another Goderich
native: Planning to attend.
university when she finishes
highschool, she is presently
entering Grade 12 'at
Hired as an instructor and
lifeguard, Sue says she always
worked with kids --taught
Sunday School, Guides, and,
Brownies.
Sue'- says, _ "I likes kids and
enjoy working with .them. They
come out with the wildest
things --`Compared to now the
water's cold!"
Sue has been taking
swimming since -she was five,
but apart from working at the
Park again next year, she still
isn't decided on her future
course.
Mary .Ellen McGill, also a
,pool lifeguard and instructor, is
a 17 -year-old student entering •
Grade 12 at G.D.C.I. She also
hopes to return to the pool staff
again next year. She will be
helping at the pool this fall
when it is open after .school
hours. .
Lynda Reinhart was lifeguard
at the wading pool this summer.
She has lived in Goderich most
of her life, attending St. Mary's .
School and G.D.C.I. She will be
attending Ryerson in the fashion
course.
Crafts director Dee Fisher
says of her experience at the
Park this summer, "After
working at the playground -all
summer, ` I have leatned ' to
appreciate what the lifeguards
went through when I was a
kid."
Deehas attended_ Victoria
School, Victor Lauriston School
and G.D.C.I. The last two years
she . has been taking the Early
Childhood course at Ryerson
and plans to return in the fall to
complete it.
Kim Smith plans to be a
physiotherapist. "So- my
involvement this summer ,with
people (especially children) will
be a benefit to my career she .
says.
Ready to enter Grade 13 at
G.D.C.I. this fall, Kim also
attended Victoria School,
Robertson School and Victor
Lauriston School.
Brenda Brissette, a part-time
lifeguard at the Pool says",
"Ever since I was a young child
starting out in swimming I have
wanted to become a lifeguard,"
During this summer she
renewed her Leader Patrol and
Bronze and next she is trying for
her Award of -Merit exam. Her
thoughts on having to return to
school after this summer:
"Going ' back to school will be
some chore after having sucha
free and wonderful summer."
The staff -won't be the only
-ones to THIS,S' Judith Guudel'haut
Park, There 'are going to be, a lot"
of children looking forward to
next summer before this one is
through.
•Crafts director at the Park, Doe Fisher spends a lazy afternoon In the sun teaching children
that a stitch in time saves nine.
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Clare Bedard starts, her *hilt in charge of keeping an eye on the, tykes at the shallow end of •
the pool at the Park.
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Clara Mott helps one of the poqiloetr'a problems,
Brenda Btissettti, pert,:tiorie lifeguard Si the ,po*
Oaten* to One 01 the marry gtiistiotit► inquisitive children
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