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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-02-18, Page 20= *Entertainment *Features *Religion *Family @More {)DEBJC88lCNAL,STA8.YYEDNESDAY,FE88UA.8Y18.1987—PAGfClA , ( • :Saturday was Celebrity Day in the Big Brothers Association annual. Bovd.for Millions 'and Mayor Eileen Palmer andBeeve Harry Worsen Were shown how it's done by little • brothers Geoff Gautreau,10,. and Jeff Tunney, 11. At left; Robbie I'McPhee, 5, was the youngest howler John Cameron MacDonald shows good form. Abotit 30 bowlers helped raise over $1,700 for the North Huron Big Brothers Association. (photos by Dave Sykes) • � Bowl �� for..;::..,.�� " �� _ � q�� 0 ��|N� �0 �� 0� �U�� =��,�� &-�Nr�N��@��~�v Bowlers _raise over $ 1 700 for North Brothers Huron Big It been gig Brothers 8o lifo~ Millions Week across Canada but a couple of local Millions played a prominent role in, 'annual assoCiation fund raiser. Saturday was Celebri'W:D'aY at --. i— -'-_.__ _,-.~~ all ages. came outto help raise money for the.North Huron Big Brothers Asseciation. About 30 bolwers raised over $1,700 for e u^xwuuuon and Larry and Ryan ' IVfillion were instrumental in raising a raised in excess of 50$2for the association and Ryan was not only the top pledge get- . ter in the youth category'but he bowled the day's highest game besides. Deb McPhee had over $300 in pledges for her efforts Saturday and son Robbie at age was•the youngest participant in Celebri- - Harry Worsell, also raised 'a substantial amount for the association: Darfette Horton was another high pledge. .getter in the youth category while other pledge leaders were Big Brother Ed Case' and little brother, Rob Ayres. The money frorn the event will be used , for the association's Christmas get together, various outings and a weekend camping trip for the little brothers.. .Association president and organizer Catherine Boddy said five per cent of the, money is donated to the Canadian Associa- tion for prorriotion of the event while the remainder is used by the North Huron Association. Steve Ujtdpand Harry Worsell eheck score sheets while Catherine Boddy marks scores. There was a lot of interest in the tabulation of the scores during Celebrity Day. H Snowblitz Ball children's events highlight day's a's actiiy Hundrds of adults and children frolicked in the snow, watch- ed movies, went on hayrides. and played trivial pursuit and snowpitch bs part of the '0 ne-day Snowblitz Winter Weekend festivities here Saturday. The GoderiCh Pathfinders served up pancake breakfasts in the morning to get things rolling and 17 mixed teams par- ticipated in a day -long snowpitch tournament at Agriculture Park. In the ,afternoon, children were treated to free' sleigh Fides around the racetrack and movies were offered in the ,arena auditorium. A free hour of skating was also arranged by the recreation department. The local Kinette Club sponsored a Trivial Pursuit tourna- ment and seven teams entered the competition. The team of Ar-. nie and Brenda Parker, Bev Whetstone and Michelle Hansen won the competition the team of Jim MxrDode, Terry CroW{ey. Kathy Curran and Ruth 13dndldy \Athe final. .:44dkaltiloS : .0.•••• There was the KinotteClub's 'Trivial Pursuit Tournament Saturday ni the grandstand. Seven teams competed in the one -day event. The team of Doug Faleoner, Dan and Dave. MacKinnon and Laurie Falconer contemplate an answer during the event. (photo by Dave v / / ^// 4 The hibachi theory of marriage ^ , ��~��°^��'� �� divorce 'This is the week 1 c'elebrate Valentine's Day because last week l survived it. Valentine's Day for men who have loved and lost is like Remembrance Day for a WW D vet who survived but still has shrapnel in his'leg, even a wider margin than myself. Every Valentine's he goes out and buys an expensive gift for Uhe�i» he loves, the most in the whole wid world. A box of Havana cigars. 7 Every Valentine's Day, like some 'strange upcoming ritual he lays back, Havana in hand and with white smoke curling overhead he reflects on his mar- riaQa of yesteryear. He still maintains that everything ws going just -fine until she found out the Book -Of -The -Month Club did not hold meetings. Once upon utime there merefour �fuo who went to .univerod together, graduated and got marriedwithin ufew years of each other. Then as if by some mysterious mislaid plans of men (and women) got unmarried within a few years of each other. It was like an ab- brevlutodvecoiono['TheYoung&ndTho Beatlamu'tb`t ran into ratings problerns and. got killed off undethe title Of 'The` Married And The Mateless.' • Even today I keep looking for a silve clDudover tbeh l episode but the best I can do is remeniber that though the thewhole marriages d,i.dn't thrive, it saved the careers of the two lawyers in the group. Not lo into a photographic session at the second ' marriage of one in the group. The teeth did not smile as much It was the kind of thing of which Dial soap commercials are made. One guy became se overcome' with guilt he, in- stinctively turned sideways for tbe photographer thi"'s""'"o"""`=""` the works '~ If you think buying a gift for • marriage is tough, try attending one with four guys who hold identical 0 and I ^=o=and are supposed ~ook=• they're having a good time. . .1 wondered if the four of us were sonnehow jinxed. Immediately after graduation they changed the name of the school and I took that as. a bad omen. Changing the name from Waterloo Lutheran University la Wilfrid Laurier University, just to gain grants and save money on monogrammed stationary, was a low blov.• to those of us who were fond of the 01(1 name. It was a bit like Pierre Elliott Trudeau selling the rights to his initials to a dog food manufacturer. Then as the flash bulb burst on the last photograph at the second wedding of one of four first time losers it hit me - could it be the hibachi? Was the curse of the hibachi cast upon us all? Was this some kind of a sick adventure film like "Waterloo Warriors and The Wedding Gift of Doom" starring Harrison Ford with Danny Divito as the hibachi, 1 wondered? A mutual frren'd who shall go nameless but bears a striking resemblance to one Barry Thomas of ,Cambridge, Ootado, who works for the government if in fact that is not a contradiction in terms, gave each and, every One Of us a hibachi as a wedding gift. { think he helped fix a flat on a Kmart ty night on th' 401 and the gratefuldrive,puidhinmu8in hibachis. Maybe he won the Osaka Hibachis For Life" lottery. Or maybe his mind had been temporarily taken hostage by a cult leader like the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh who worship- ped smallbmrbocu*n instead of big Rolls ^`"y"°". I don't know where he got them. All l know is if you got married in the 70s and Barry was invited to the weddin0, you could buy the briquets ahead of time. Maybe some of you have actually driven by a church in Ontario and seen a groom posing for pictures with a couple of Sirloins hanging out of his back pockets. Well, chances are Barry was a guest at that wedding.. ltfo|\ovvuthen Aiventhe track record of the four of us hibachis may certainly heat up a small backyard party, but they're leaving cold relationships strewn all across the country. . Recent qewlywedswhowindupvvithl2 blenders -(seven electric kettles and four brass wine chillers ought to consider themselves fortunate - it only takes one hibachi to break the lease. l believe "hibachi Smashing" parties will _some- day be as popular with divorced( people as "mortgage burning" parties are with marrieds. Soon, instead ofinterrupting th ed' 'p ceremony at that point when the minister 'if' anyone here knows of any reasons why these two people should not. juSt smile. The hibachi is alreAdy gift �nxne�run^. wrapped NeedIss to say,Thomas Aeb$in- vited tou lot of cookouts. But he has not attended a wedding since the spring of ^78. . As / was expounding on my hibachi theory of marriage another friend, Lynn Clerriens of Fenwick, remnded me that 4 Turn to page -SA. "