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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1986-08-27, Page 21Feature Local pair complete educational and fun booklet for tourists and residents BY MIKE FERGUSON If you don't know where Samuel Platt Park is, chances are the "Goderich Game Book" is for you. Springing from an idea of John Sthallwood's, a GDCI English''teacher, the booklet was completed three weeks ago. Combining their creative talents in the ef- fort were Carolynn Hurd, 18, and Melody Falconer, 19, both of Goderich. Believing the two young women would work well together, Smallwood suggested the idea of this educational and fun booklet in February. "It was first supposed to be geared to' 11 year olds who maybe don't know much about their own town," says Falconer. However, after giving, a seminar on the project to their Grade 13 English class, they found out just how little their classmates knew about Goderich. The booklet includes historical tidbits on the town, architectural quizzes, word scrambles, and a unique feature of a town tour with clues given in rhyme. Falconer and Hurd were given part of the third term to work on the exercise. Beginn- ing their research on April 1, Falconer says there was "a lot of reading to do" of books on Goderich and Huron County. They toured the Huron Historic Gaol and Huron County Pioneer Museum talking to each of the curators as part of the preliminary work. The pair would get together and "toss ideas around" as to what they wanted to in- clude in the booklet. As the process developed, and as questions and games began to take shape, "we saw things we had never seen before," says Falconer. - By touring the town and taking a close-up look at the buildings and streets, "often things just began falling in place," remarks Falconer. For example, "Teeger's Tours" in the centre of the booklet, has for a rhyme: walk east along a holiday street...cross over Napoleon's final defeat. The tour -takers deduce where they're travelling by inter- preting the clues. Seven months in the making, Falconer and Hurd both agree "it was more work than we imagined, but it was fun." Creating. a word find "was really hard," reveals F'alconer, and Hurd notes her connect -the - dot drawing of a Champion • road grader "took a long time." Falconer says their intention was to com- plete the booklet "without dating it, and we wanted to make it so that people, especially kids,were learning something and didn't know it." The 21 page booklet was limited in that "we had so much to fit in," remarks Hurd, adding their are many noteworthy at- tractions and historical facts about Goderich. The "Goderich Game Book" is divided in- GODERICH SIGNAL -STAN WF:I)Nt•si i/\v Al1GUST 27' 1986—PAGE 3A hite Stag's Ti Bless a roach to Fall 9 Carolyn Hurd, 18, and Melody Falconer, 19, both of Goderich, combined their efforts to create the `Goderich Games Book', developing on an idea of GDCI English teacher John Smallwood. The book includes games, puzzles and historical questions to educate tourists and residents alike about the town.(photo by Mike Ferguson) to two sections, one for residents' and the other for visitors. The Tigerxharacter was mutually agreed upon by Falconer and Hurd, adding a lighthearted touch to the pages. The booklet's author is Falconer, who hopes in the future to make a career.of Jour- nalism. All the drawings were personally devised and produced by Hurd, who wishes to take Commercial Art next year. Five hun- dred copies were printed free of charge by Champion Road Machinery. Besides Smallwood, two people were in- strumental in enabling the "•Goderich Game Book" to be completed. John Marshall of Champion, and Harold Erb of the Gaol helped, say Falconer and Hurd, with Erb contributing $200 from a Gaol fund towards the project. Falconer notes most pamphlets about Goderich "are for adults—Now kids will see that our town isn't a boring place." In fact, she adds if teachers wanted to take their class on a field trip, then the tour included in the booklet would be "a fun and inexpensive one." The "Goderich Game Book" is available for $2.00 from various locations. in and around town. They include the Tourist Booth, Gaol, Museum, Bedford Arms Motel, Point Farms. Market, Black's Groceries, Shelter Valley, Suncoast Craft Corner, and the Bayfield Village Inn. To find out more about Goderich, and have fun while doing it, the "Goderich Game $ook" may be enlightening for local residents and tourists alike, say the Grade 13 gratduates. 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