HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-04-05, Page 2PAGE 2 .—GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL 5 , 1979
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BY JOANNE
BUCHANAN
The Goderich
Industrial Softball
League has done it again!
e league is $1,000
ri her after its second
Goderich and District
•Community Grandstand
lottery win this week with
ticket number 1334. There
are only four draws left.
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The date for the
Goderich Bike Ride for
Cancer has been set.
Mark Sunday, April 22 on
your calendar (rain date
is May 5).
This year's ride will be
20 kilometers, five
kilometers longer than
last year's ride.
Registration takes place
at the Suncoast mall from
noon until 1:30 p.m. with
the ride commencing
from the mall at 2 p.m.
Bikers will ride from the
mall to the O.P.P. station
on highway 21, back past
the mall again and
around the outskirts of
town. There will be ten
different check points at
the extreme points on the
route and two rest areas,
one at Judith Gooderham
Park and the other at the
Kinsmen Centre. Pop and
cookies will be offered at
the rest areas. Lucky
draw prizes will also be
given out.
Sponsor sheets can be
obtained from any bank
in town including Victoria
and Grey Trust Company
and the Goderich Com-
munity Credit Union,
Kirkey's .Texaco Station.,
Beckers (South Street),
Mac's Milk, the A&P and
Zehrs.
The ride is being
organized by the
Goderich Kinsmen and
Kinette Clubs as a service
project. All proceeds
from the ride will go to
the Canadian Cancer
Society.
Last year's ride at-
tracted about 50 cyclists.
Organizers are hoping
that number will at least
double this year. Letters
are being sent to the
Resident dies
Jennie McGratten, tt
en 98,
formerly of 33 Essex
Street in Goderich, died
at Huronview Tuesday,
April 3,1979. •
Funeral service will be
at 2 pm today (Thursday)
from Stiles Funeral
Home. nterment will be
in Dun nnon Cemetery.
Mrs. McGratten is
surv1 by three sons
and three daughters. She
was predeceased byher
husband, David
McGratten, in 1948.
A full obituary will be
published next week.
various clubs in town and
the Goderich Town
Council in an effort to
generate some spirit for
this worthwhile project.
Why not challenge your
co-workers, family,
friends or another club to
take part in the ride? Do
your part. Cancer can be
beaten!
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April has been named
"High Blood Pressure
Month" in this province
by the Ontario Heart
Foundation so you can
expect to see some ar-
ticles on' high blood
pressure in this
newspaper during the
next several weeks. Read
them carefully.
Nearly two million
Canadians have high
blood pressure, half of
them don't know it and
many of them will risk
premature death and
disability unless their
blood pressure is
reduced. Of those, who
know they have high
blood pressure, only half
have it treated and, of the
latter, only a small
percentage co-operate
with their doctors in the
long-term control of their
condition. -
The Heart Foun-
dation's educational
objectives for the month
are to alert the public to.
the fact that there are no
symptom's which ac-
company high blood
pressure --have your
blood pressure checked to..
be sure; and if you have
high blood pressure, treat
it...and live.
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David Foster of
Goderich wrote this poem
while eating breakfast
last week and dropped it
off at the Signal -Star
office for all to enjoy. It is
appropriately called,
"Breakfast of the Con-
demned". It goes- like
this:
Said one small lump of
butter
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