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Wingham Advance-Times, 1981-06-10, Page 16'he. i0glaltal t Advance -Times, June 10, 1981 'of action is promised at BP fastbaH tournament Fastball fans in this area are counting the days to the annual Wingham Fastball Tournament, scheduled for next weekend. This year's tournament is the biggest yet and promises all the action one could want. Sixteen teams have been booked for the tournament, including the defending champion Waterloo Juniors and the Ayr Vies, winners the two previous years. Also coming is a mystery team from the Virgin Islands. This will be its first appearance in 7Wingham, though it pre iously has played at the wen Sound tournament. Othe teams in addition to the host ingham BPs include Port Elgin, Wroxeter, Owen Sound Juniors, Fullarton, Inger- soll, Owen Sound GTO, Springford, South Zorra, Courtland, Otterville, Jor- dan and Jarvis. The action will be spread among three diamonds, the Josephine Street and Riverside parks in Wingham and the Wroxeter ball park. Action will start Friday night, June 19, with the BPs taking on the Virgin Islands in Wingham at 7 p.m., followed by Port Elgin versus Ayr at 8:30. Wroxeter Royals will take on the Owen Sound Juniors at the Wroxeter park, also at 7 p.m., followed by FWlartnn versus Ingersoll. Action will resume Saturday at 9 a.m , with the semi-final and final rounds going on Sunday. The tournament will be a double knockout event Happy Lang holds last spring meeting Last Friday• afternoon the Wingham Happy Gang senior citizens held their final meeting until Sep- tember. Following the usual excellent pot luck luncheon, the regular meeting started with a sing -song. • The secretary reported the group now has 67 paid members, which is very gratifying to the new executive. Seniors' Week this year is June 21-27 and Rita Rice,4 director of the centre for the homebound, suggested the groups should'cooperate for a special day June 24 and invite the Lucknow seniors' club to participate. . It was noted that George Gregg; a faithful worker, was in hospital and Mrs. Olive Lewis, a former president and one of the pioneers of the seniors' club, was having a birthday party June 7. The president wished all a good summer. Following some other minor discussion, Elwell Webster showed some excellent slides. - CUB OF THE YEAR—Stephen Tiffin holds the plaque chosen the outstanding member of the Wingham Cub Leader Murray Underwood. he was awarded for Pack. With him @s e®,Seeeeeeeneeesiearae*8aiteeee0•.• brownie c ®®®®® it) eee3®see. l.0►arsre *sea ®®• Olt. Bl Karen Clugston On June 1 we had a Mother and Daughter Banquet. Some Brownies brought in doll houses that they had made for a badge and other toys and collections and other badge work. Rev. Swan said the grace. After supper Brown Owl introduced all the leaders and Mrs. H. Greer, our district commissioner. Some Brownies received badges: Jodi Mundell earned her Pet Keeper, Gardener, Canada, Explorer, Nee- dleworker and Cyclist badges; Sarah Middleton, Writer and Housekeeper; Lori Belanger, Musician; Cheri Wraith, Gymnast and Cook; Karen Clugston, Writer; Valerie Elliot, Cook and Writer; Jennifer Layton and Bonnie Loughran, Cook; Amy Bateman and Melissa Schefter, Singer, The following Brownies received their Beadworker's Badge. Heather Bishop, Lisa Chapman, Healy Hallahan, Angela Kerr, Michele Mac- Donald, Becky Sang- ster, Melissa Schefter, Heather Beecroft, Crystal Finley, Donna, George, Kendra Machan, Carla Mowbray, Shannon Simpson, Beth Ward, Jennifer Dennis, Lori Belanger, Karen Clugston, Valerie Elliot and Bonnie Loughran. The last four Brownies also earned their Golden Bars. Jodi -Mundell and Michelle Cummings received a prize for earning the most badges in two years. Karen Clugston SIO -pitch tou rney a success The Wroxeter Royals held their second annual Slo- Pitch ;tournament this past weekend. A total of 16 teams took part. Winning the "A" cham- pionship trophy were then, Walkerton Gophers who beat the B&T Bookies of Wingham. Winning the "B" cham- pionship trophy were the Wingham Businessmen who beat Harriston. The Royals would like to thank all the players and anyone else who made the tournament a success. • East Wawanosh track, field results By Dianne Campbell Track and field day at East Wawanosh ' Public School was on May 22. This was a big event for the students from grade's 3 on up. The seniors went out at about 9:15 to get the events set up for the other groups. All forenoon children challenged for first place and in the afternoon,seniors challenged. . The sun shone 'all'day so it was very hot during and after the races. The students and .teachers were Very pleased with the results. Many ribbons were given out to the , top . winners, The awards will be given on an awards day. They are a type of medallion with the school symbol on it. The winners were: senior girls, Defuse Nethery ; senior boys, ' John Smuck; inter mediate. girls, Elizabeth Romanik; intermediate boys, Randy Nixon; junior girls, Marla Hussey; junior boys, Corey, McKee; midget girls, Severn Thompson;, midget boys, Thorsten Muschied. ' Bob; Sharon KeIIyaIottery:.; - win tri . Bob and Sharon Kelly of Montreal; '250th ticket — Don RR 1, Hanover Were .the MacGregor of RR2, Breslau, 'grand, rize,,,wimiers in the a.trip to Orlando, Fla. 00th Howie Optiin T 'annual Get k -Way lottery. The Kellys' ticket was the 500th drawn in the lottery and as a result the couple will enjoy a Caribbean cruise. Presiding at the lottery draw were club president ticket — Glen and Pat McClement of Listowel, trip to. Ottawa; 350th ticket — Ken Waite of London, trip to Eastern Canada; 400th ticket — •Al'isa Jenson of Fordwich, trip to Agawa Canyon; 450th ticket — Ron and Mary Paul Statia and finance Kieffer of Wroxeter, trip to chairmen Ron McClement r Western Canada; 499th and James Douglas. ticket — Eric and Karen Other draw ,winners were • Walden of RR 1, Gowan - as follows: first ticket — Dave and Fern McCannell of being Gorrie, a trip to Ottawa; Cub 150th ticket — Tom San- derson of Listowel, a trip to stown, trip to Quebec City. Besides the draw, the Get- a -Way lottery draw featured music by the Revised Edition. and prize f0: t badges r4. These ,% il'jllsllt perfect t[titdee Ata>Es Beecroft, ; /feather r Karen Clugston Cummings, Cry Kendra Hogg, Sarah Middietta8 Mowbray art S1' Melennat, .wl>e' alb years off Perfect atten$anCe. After the Brorwttl received their -badges rive a play on the theft. of ;tete Wizard of Oz. The brownies flew or walked up to G>, The Brownies who went tip were Shannon Be cant, 1VIichelle Comm r s, Ba$b Middleton, Jody Lynn Maar dell, Hailey Robert- son. Cheri Wim, Ad* Davidson, Jeer: Liityte., Lori Belanger, Karen - ston, Valerie Elliot red Sea- nie Loughran. Lianne Shaw was presented with her AK - Round -Cord by Airs. R. Greer. The Brownies want to thank themothers for bringingthe food. Library contest This year marks tiie lath anniversary of the Dorothy Shoemaker Literary AWa>rds Contest, originally a Cen- tennialproject of the Kit- ,chener Public Library and named in honor of its farmer chief librarian. The ' contest is aeon ored by participating public libraries in the Midwestern Regional Library System and is open to all residents of the Region of Water$oo, and Perth, Huron and Wellington counties. Eminent Canadian author John Colombd'' Will be judging entries in both the prose and poetry categories. Mr. Colombo, author of such popular works as Colom•b,o's ' Canadian. Quotations, and Colombo's Hollywood, has also published several volumes of. poetry. The Kitchener native was the original judge of the contest. Entry forms for the con- test are available at par- ticipating public libraries in Wellington, Perth and Huron counties, and the Region of Waterloo: ' The deadline for entries is October 1, 1981, and the awards ceremony, at which it is expected the judge will be present, will be held Friday, Nov. 27, at the Kitchener Public Library. Read Canadian: Want to see your country? Want to see other worlds? Plead Canadian books. They'll take you there, no matter where you are. Becks travel every- where. 9i WINGHAM CUB PACK—Members of the Wingham Cub. Pack and their leaders gathered for an awards night last week, at which Stephen Tiffin was named Cub of the Year. Surrounding Stephen are: (back) Murray Underwood, Peter Strong, John MacDonald, Michael Cullen, Dheeran Bodasing, Steven Baxter, Kevin Bee- croft, Darryl Daw and Wilson Daw; (third row) Shawn Thompson, Murray Lapp, Paul Rich, Joey Walker, Trevor Agombar, Scot Bateman, Jason Creamer, An- drew Pritchard and Wilson Perrin; (second row( Ron Beecroft, 1'iIM MCKey, t�hh Ward, Bradley Crawford, Jason Bateson, Brian Patterson, Andrew l Itelbdr'i Chadwick, Michael Lewis and Carl Pritchard; (front) ©avid Cw°rie, Eire wog*pie, Tim Thomson, Jere chatter, Stephen Tiffin, Trevor Heillrrgsr, Citad'ill�! Trapp and Mark Bolen er. 4 THE JUNIOR BPs—While the Wingham BPs played the Port Elgin Maple Squares Sunday afternoon on the big diamond, these boys had a game of their own underway at the smaller diamond. Eric Deyell is ready to take off from second base, with his brothers Ryan and Greg In the background, Also playing were Todd and Robby Harrison, John MacDonald and Terry Darr Tarin award plications available now The Bruce County Women's Institute Tartan Awards are up for com- petition again. These awards are sponsored by the tartan committee in the County of Bruce. It is hoped that each organization will submit names of people between the aged of 16 and 30 who have earned some recognition in their area for achievements through the year inthe areas of agriculture and coni-, munity betterment: Application forms can be obtained from any tartan representative or from Mrs. Ken McKinnon of RR 3, Port Elgin; 832-5359. Names must be submitted by Sept.. 15 to a district tar- tan member: TUMBLE FOR EXTRA CASH Tut money in your pocket by segeng en• wonted gems on the Wont Ad Column MONSTER BINGOS.. Sponsored by Clinton Service Clubs at CLINTON COMMUNITY CENTRE EVERY MONDAY NIGHT JUNE 15 -AUGUST 31, 1981 15 Regular Games:'50. prize_, 3 Share -the -Wealth Games GRAND PRIZE - EACH NIGHT • si ,000. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 P.M. BINGO STARTS AT Ii:00 P.M. ADMISSION: 16 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER PROCEEDS TO COMMUNITY WORK Wingham Golf Club Clinics conducted by our Golf Pro Dana Collins Junior Clinic, series of 6,1 hr. lessons Ladies Clinic, series of 6,1 hr. lessons Individual Lessons Membership Fees Family Membership Out of Town Families (Over 8 miles from Winghem) Individual rates available for Men's, Ladies', 14 yr. to University, Junior Green Fees Weekdays Weekends Twilight *6.00 '2'0.00 '10.00 '275.00 '225.00 '6.00 '8.00 '4.00 Club Storage and cleaning after each use -'26.00 per season. Club Repairs and Fitting. Tournaments and Leagues Arranged. Our clubhouso is evaIMbie for daily luncheon spools's, boriquets and dinners. Delightful surroundings. Ucensed under LLB. 0. 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