The Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-02-28, Page 41WERE PROUD TO HAVE
BEEN PART OF THIS EXPANDING
COMMUNITY FOR THE LAST
10 YEARS, AND LOOKING
FORWARD TO THE NEXT 1O..
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GDCI teams. produced many winners -in dechde
When looking over. the
sporting ne-.
complsihment of the
pastdecade it is difficult
to overlook, the cham-
pionships won by the
students of Goderich and
District Collegiate
Institute.
Over the entire 10 years
the school was able lo
field competitive and In
many cases., cham-
pionship teams, in almost
every sport:
The football teams of
GDCI are perhaps .best
known for their success.
The team •as enjoye
aphenemenal career
under the _guidnace of
Ray Donnelly.
-The--ien"ier- Vikings -wen
the Huron -Perth title in
1970 with a 40-0 win in the
championship to climax
an undefeated season.
They then defeated . the
Sarnia• conference
champions 12-6.
In 1971 they won the
title again, their third
straight and sixth in the
last eight years. This
time they beat Stratford
Central 26-8.
They continµed to pile
up the conference
championship and in 1974
made it six in a row after
another undefeated
season. But they went two
overtime periods before
being declared champs.
The junior Vikings made
it a sweep with a victory
in the final.
The Vikes didn't repeat
in 75 and 70 but in. 1.977
they piled up a perfect
season record culminated
with an .18-0 win over
Exeter in the final. They
'gave up only seven points
all season..
That record was bet-
tered by. the 78 team as
both the. juniors and
seniors won the cham-
pionship. The seniors won
the 7final 62-0 ' over
Stratford in an ustan-
ding season.
They did not al ow a
point all season while
averaging 59 points per
game on offence. Their
closest game was 53-0.
The juniors were also
undefeated and won the
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Vikings ciMim of number one is undisputed in Huron -Perth
Students created track
BY DAVE SYKES the school for easy ac-
cess. One of the proposed
The students of GDCI sites, a 10 acre parcel of
have never enjoyed the land adjacent to .the
benefits of any track and school and owned by the
field facilities. Huron County Board of
So it was with great Education, suited their
enthusiasm that they purposes just fine. •
offered support , to a But the complex never
proposed recreation really got off the ground
complex during the 70s. and plans were shelved
A complex committee - when •it reached the paint
was .established to ex- that a decision had to be
plore the feasibility of. made to proceed or
such a project, locate abandon the project.
sites ' and prepare Plans were laid to rest
drawings. in early 1976 and with the
The GDCI,student'body subsequentclosure'of the
was willing to pledge- Goderich Arena in the
monetary support to the spring.
complex propesal. The With those plans
complex would contain abandoned the students
some facilities suitable had to tackle the propsect
for track . and field of providing for their own
training. needs. To that end they
The students main .. organized a walk -a -thou,
concern was that the, for studentswith
t onipler`Ye ln'ealecl neat. proceeds Lo be plat, d in a,
Complex...,
e Irnmpage 22 ,.. -- and a few. other in -
some direction toproceed
.with the matter.
The committee ' had
worked on the project for
two years and were
looking for concise
direction from council.
Council hedged on the
issue and decided that a
Special meeting • was
needed with citizens,
service clubs and
potential users.. to ' iron
some of the details of the
complex and discuss its
potential and feasibility.
terested groups.
Council could not act on
th'e matter considering it
received little direction
or input from the public
at the • meeting and the
survey results were
rather, paltry in that just
ti over 600 out of over 3,000
eligible voters responded.
The matter was more
or less left in limbo and
the complex committee's
job was completed.
Ironically, later in 1976,
the Goderich Arena was
condemned ' and council
The public meeting on. was faced with either
the complex was held in repairing the roof or
January of 1976, at the building a new one. The
Assessment office. complex was completely
The' meeting was a dead at that points the
monumental dissap- town labored with the
pointment and attracted prospect of repairing the
only 36 interested persons arena without the aid of
from the Goderich area., tax dollars.
And most of those at- So Goderich didn't get a
tending were either from sports complex in the 70s
council, the complex and it maybe a long time
committee, service clubs, before such a venture is
the trotting association ever again considered.
fund for the development.
of track facilities.
The Board of Education
was willing to donate the
use of the 10 acre parcel
of land. What the students
needed was the money to
develop it..
The first walk-a-thon
was held in June 19769,nd
close. to $4,000 was raised.
The students who
raised the money did so
unselfishly knowing they
would not likely be in
school for thecompletion
of the track. But it was a
beginning;
The school held sub-
s.ek}uent walk-a-thons
each year with the money
held in an account for the
track fund..
These fund raising
ventures were successful
and including 1978 the'
students had raised
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