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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-08-11, Page 17Jir,4744 T.. • 14 ir dy ,4,44-56014!9(...;:-.„ RFANNIEm9r/kVI'ERS... 6 ' there_were-aver60i).auditions,- Ellen anditioned Ellen Mnphdanghter,Ot: Herb aid-• the:. ytliyersity Of WeiernOttttioin London urphY of Lighthouse StreetInlOoderch,': .atidllYtt§:F44t7PhYsays,;,”1„felf sorry for her.. eight yet10:-Old a laMilytriend spotted • She *ery. outclassed • •We just couldn't oda l talent to a dancer,EITen has nVet: • ::'!?plieve'1i•when She was chosen"i aCk. At the/ tneve. age0t eleven she ha But:t0 SOttiOnal Ballet people Saw potential in a buddinC!,yoUng. ballerina and wttk, '.gl!eiv:pvgn th9qghshe,:hadn'Abad.the advantages chosen- aS'!-Oe of .75 -yettogl)allerinap. OA/m.101s ?rem -larger pities *10 more dancing ress Canedit4Oattena-:the"14etOnal•Ballet.--,::4eeela„.0:000401:00.*, .Eite4,-theY said bad a Torohto commencingSepteMber .'rti100,innil'n044ndyrant.arches: • • - year, the:;p1401001,./Ittilet0, inches • eirVilir"S:PCT* • „,„ xattutet .little girl with long• hrown.hai g brow h eyes and a t • :tanned complex*‘ On September she will etubalt- on one of theibiggest adventures in her lifeT,lt • , '; 1 • For the • past • tottOtettrs she has been taking ,ballet lassons on ea a4y,eek in Clinton with Mrs-. Zablocki. Reforn4ese lessonsshe had ex- pressed her intere1tkafamily friend, a former • physical education.iitamnatics teacher from Brantford who had 4 -cottage near the Murphy family's cottage., ) Ellen used to worienut with this friend every morning for about an .hour. She was only in Grade 3 at the time btither potential as a dancer Shone through and the friend told the Murphys that they simply had 0 jet her take ballet lessons. This -suggestiojy to date has had some excellent results, Last year ballet teahr Zablocki suggested to the Murphys that Ellen atdition for the National Ballet but she was entered too late and missed out. This year however,her name was entered early. After her auclitiog, in London in April she was asked to spend the Month of July in London for more dancing. "Ellen was so far behind the others that it took her the first two weeks just toget caught up but the third week she started to shine through," says Mrs. Murphy. CP LIVE IN RESIDENCE • After her month was up in London, Ellen was invited to attend the National Ballet school in Tdronto located at Maitland and Jarvis Streets. The ballerinas' live in a residence and have private tutors for academic work. they spend part of their day dancing and part of the day in school. They have study periods and also, spend • Saturday mornings in school. They •have no home economics or physical education but spend three days a week swm- ming at Jarvis Collegiate. The ballerinas wear uniforms and are chaperoned or travel in groups. Most girls start at the school in Grade 5 when they are 9 years old. It is an eight year program but Ellen will be taking six years in eight if she decides to stay because she started later than the others. EIIen=wi11-be-on-pobaon-at the.schoohmtil the end" of April. At that time she will be evaluated and it will be decided if she can return Tarn to page 7A „14 4$„ EllenMurphy -practise*some-ballet ni5Veinents--in preparation fel' hryeaTat the National Ballet School in Toronto commencing September 7. Ellen is the 11 year old daughter of Herb and Linda Murphy of Lighthouse Street in Goderich. She was chosen by the National Ballet as one of 75 young ballerinas out of more than 600 who auditioned for the school across the country. (staff photo) the o eric onstant re -cord of the Wind speed and direction is recorded on this MSC U2A recorder. re Tony Chir'meteorological technician at the Federal Government weather station in derich checits the recorder to send in the information to the weather centre in Toronto. aft photo) • IGNAL STAR 130 YEAR THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1977 SECOND SECTION Weather Station in Goderich is not used enough gays Chir Di • VOL 4159a10‘*'',' 4`.R0:40' . Ve 'tlon-in .eertals to 404'a true Meal** ef'titir reiiiiiirattire both lermhdthet :400144110*.01.40t^r try, Goderich has a Federal Government weather station that isn't used enough. According to meteorogical technician Tony Chir who works at the station, the biggest.problem is that "people aren't aware of the fact that we exist." He says, "We're here to provide a public service and I think the station should be used. - The weather station, a little white house located at Sky Harbor Airport, Ims been in operation since the early 1970s. It is opeh seven days a week from. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. By simply phoning 524-9331 people can obtain current hourly weather reports from all stations in Ontario, part of Quebec and from selected American stations. The station also has air terminal forecasts available to aviation people for all of Ontario and selected American points. "We're not as busy here as we'd like to be," says Chir. "We'd like to have more people ihquiring about the weather," Most of the station's business now comes from aviation people, pilots who want weather data about points of destination. Chir says people who fly small, private airplanes should be more ay/are of the weather. He says weather can be very dangerous and that is something most people take for granted. The weather happening ih one place is. not necessarily the same a few miles away. Chir says the Goderich weather station can provide the public with almost any weather data they need. If they don't have the information, the station can usually get it, he says. The Goderich weather station is hooked up to a computer by a teletype link in order to get weather information from a. Toronto weather centre. Every four hours the station receives a weath'er synopsis for Northern and, Southern Ohtario. Once a day, Maximum and minimum temperature bulletins are received from the US. Data is available not only for the weather con- ditions of the day but also extended outlooks into what's going to happen eon be determined. Chir says forecasts are fairly accurate and neW ways to triake them even more accurate are being dsoverd. Most of thejorecesting is done by eornputers. • Climate records front, he past are also kept. At the Gocleriell station the Aare records from 1971 up hupater reCords et also e obtained. Old . 44 records can be useful in many instances. He tells of one such use by citing a Goderich example. A ship left to winter in Goderich harbor in 1973 was damaged and the owners took out law suits. The department of justice stepped in. Climate records from 1973 were checked for wind speeds, • water levels and ice conditions to determine the cause of damage and to decide who was at fault. Climate, says Chir, is often tied in with such legal matter. The weather station's main function is to observe surface weather. This isdone togA onepaate6ast iur. Meteorological technician Tony Chir of the Federal Government weather ,station in Goderich types hourly weather reports into Toronto on a teletype machine. Included In the rep�rts are cloud amount, type of clouds and height of clouds, visitility atthe station, mean sea level pressure, minimum and maximum temperatures. wind speed and •„% *rotten and altimeter Setting. (staff °howl -444—,1k: at,4asr. rev