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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Times Advocate, 2004-02-18, Page 25Wednesday, February 18, 2004 Exeter Times–Advocate 25 Pancake supper Feb. 24 By Carmel Sweeney ZURICH CORRESPONDENT ZURICH - A good time was had by all who went to the Dashwood Men's Club Valentine Dance last Friday. It was dec- orated for the occasion. The music and lunch were excellent. There were sev- eral door prizes. Meagan Sweeney is off for reading week and home from university to study for exams. Mahlon and Pearl Ann Martin recently enjoyed spending a week in Collingwood with their family going skiing. This past week Mahlon and a group of friends went skiing at Whistler Mountain in British Columbia. Jackson Robert McLlwain, son of Mark and Kathy of Exeter, was baptized on Feb. 8 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Zurich. Get -well wishes go out to Frances Gibson of Exeter who is recuperating at home from a recent bad fall. The annual pancake supper will be held at St. Peter's Lutheran Church Zurich on Shrove Tues., Feb. 24, from 5- 7 p.m. Free-will offering. Everyone is welcome to attend. Carmel, Jerome and his mother Marie Gelinas were Sunday visitors and dinner guests with his sister, Melissa Francis and son Aaron who moved to Lucan last week from near Ottawa. Her husband Neil will be joining them by the end of the month. Sue Riley of Hensall and friend, Neil McAllister, recently spent a week in the Dominican Republic at Puerto Plata. Sandra Shaw of Zurich and a friend, Rick Funston, enjoyed a week's vacation in Margarita Venezuela recently. Congratulations to three couples who were recently engaged. Anita Bedard and Wayne McKinnon engaged at Christmas, Rob Regier and Tammy Restemayer on Valentine's Day, and especially to our daughter, Rene Sweeney who got engaged to Alex Letchford on Valentine's Day. Rene and Alex celebrated with a group of their friends from London by going in a Limo to Toronto on Saturday night. They also went to the Maple Leafs hockey game. Happy birthday wishes to Savannah Vanderhoek who was three -years -old on Feb. 6. To Kaitlyn McCarther, six - years -old on Feb. 13 and Kyle Ryckman who was nine on Valentine's Day. A 90th birthday party was held at the Blue Water Rest Home on Sunday afternoon for Margaret Chapman. On Wed., Feb. 25, which is also Ash Wednesday, the Barbershop Quartet, `Audibly Awesome' will be singing for the residents at the Rest Home at 6:30 p.m. On Thurs., Feb. 26, at 6:30 p.m. the `Young and Rest of Us' group will entertain in the auditorium. URIC H NEWS Hawks gear up for Stars By Pat Bolen TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF EXETER — The Exeter Hawks will open their playoff run Friday night versus Parkhill at 8:30 p.m. after finishing first in the division despite losing a 5-3 loss to Lucan Sunday night. The Hawks had already sewn up first place with three wins during the week, finishing 28-7-3-2 for 61 points, three ahead of Lucan. Facing a stretch of four games in five nights, the Hawks were in Belmont Wednesday night. Exeter opened a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals by Jason Stuckless and Jeff Finkbeiner before the Bombers cut the lead in half with 30 seconds remaining in the period. But it was as close as they would get as the Hawks fired two more in the second period from Shawn Sherwood and Matt Vlemmix. The Bombers cut the margin to two -goals mid- way through the period, but Justin Knee restored the lead with three min- utes left as the Hawks came away with a 5-2 win. Sherwood had a pair of assists along with his goal, with single helpers coming from Stuckless, Justin Knee and Darcy McCutcheon. After a scoreless first period against Mt. Brydges Friday night, the Hawks fired four goals in the sec- ond period with a lone Bulldogs reply for a 4-1 lead. Stuckless got the Hawks started just over 30 sec- onds in, and Justin LaPorte made it 2-0 mid- way through the period. Stuckless's second of the night on a power play gave the Hawks a 3-0 lead before the Bulldogs got on the board. Stuckless completed his hat trick with just a minute left in the period to restore the three -goal lead. Mt. Brydges scored early in the third to again cut the lead, but Finkbeiner's marker made it a 5-2 lead as the teams continued to trade goals for the rest of the period. The Hawks needed three more goals from Pat Clark, Mike Carnegie and Scott Davies to finally sub- due the Bombers 8-5. Finkbeiner had a pair of assists for three points on the night, along with two from Knee, and singles from Chad Deman, Travis Elder, Daryl Bourne, Davies, Matt Vlemmix The Hawks outshot the Bulldogs 38-30 going four for four on the power play and giving up one goal on three Mt. Brydges power plays. Saturday night back in Belmont Exeter jumped out to a 3-0 lead before the game was 15 minutes old and cruised to 6-2 win, already having clinhed the division with Lucan losing Friday night. Goals by Larry Northover, a shorthanded unassisted effort by Deman and Brandon Wedlock built the lead the Hawks wouldn't surren- der. A pair of power play goals by Stuckless and Elder in the second made it a 5-0 lead. The Bombers struck back with a pair of goals before the period was over but it was all they would get. Knee capped the scoring in the third for a 6-2 win. Exeter coach Dave Revington said the Hawks won the games they had to and despite a slow start against the Bulldogs came around when they needed to. Revington predicted a tough series against the Stars. Game two of the series is scheduled for Feb. 21 in N. Middlesex at 8:30 p.m. with games three and four the follow- ing weekend. Exeter Hawk Chad Deman tries to avoid a hit from JMt. Brydges player Jonathan Lobodzinski Friday night in Exeter. Exeter won an 8-5 shootout and will face N. Middlesex in the first round of the playoffs. (photo/ScottNixon) Artstarts shows off work The Lucan library is hosting a showing of artwork by students from St. Patrick's until March 8. Feb. 12 the library held an artwork reception to recognize the tal- ent of the budding artists. Standing in front of some of their work are Front L -R: Russell Bazinet, Stephen Hogervorst and Raj Misra. Back: Eric Blay, Jo Percival (art - starts program teacher) and Greg Anderson. (photo/PatBolen) LUCAN — The Lucan library is hosting a show- ing of 30 pieces of colour- ful artwork from the "art - starts program" of St. Patrick's Separate School on The Friends of the Lucan Library Art Wall. The program is taught by local artist Jo Percival and features the artwork of Grade 7 and 8 stu- dents. An artwork reception was held Feb. 12 in cele- bration of the students' talents and achievements. The show will be dis- played until March 8 and according to Percival, "there are pieces you could probably put in a gallery and sell." Percival, who teaches an arts enrichment pro- gram at the school, said she has probably been teaching many of the artists since they were in junior kindergarten. Frames for the artwork were provided by the Friends of the Lucan Library. Thurs, February 26 7:30 p.m. South Huron Rec. Centre $10.00 Advance $12.00 Door Tickets Sold at; 235-0442 235-2811 Thomas H. Fine Menswear presented by Exeter Lions Club Stedmans TIMES -ADVOCATE 424 MAIN ST., EXETER 235-1331 [PHOTO REPRINTS from the paper or supplied by you. SIZE OF REPRINT: 4X6 5X7 8X10 GLOSSY $5.00 $6.00 $10.00 photo paper MATTE $2.00 $3.00 $5.00 regular paper ADDITIONAL COPIES: $2.00 GLOSSY, $1.00 MATTE ,