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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1989-03-08, Page 3.4111111111111111.11 THE HURON EXPOSITOR, MARCH 8, 1989 — 3A JEAN HASSON shows her class how to finish off a potential rapist (husband Chuck in this instance). Corbett photo. SELF DEFENCE - Carolyn Powell of Seaforth and Laverne Parker of Egmondville go over some of the Papel grab techniques learned in the self defence component of the aerobics and sell defence course offered Wednesdays at the Seaforth Martial Arts Fitness Centre. Corbett photo. JEAN HASSON of Seatorth explains the finer points of stopping a rapist to her aerobics and self defence class. The would-be "rapist" being held •in this.picture is Jean's husband Chuck, The class 'is offered each Wednesday at the Seaforth Martial Arts Fitness Centre ori Main Street. Corbett photo New aerobics, self defence classes held For people who want to get in shape or learn self defence, a new ladies aerobics class for women, and a self defence class for men and women, is being offered at the Seaforth Martial Arts Fitness Centre. r The new class is being instructed by Jean Hasson who is a qualified self defence in- structor and a member of the Seaforth Karate Club. But the class is a step away from the Karate classes which are held at the Seaforth martial arts centre; in that the aerobics is targeted particularly at women, and the self defence classes are a lot less formal than the karate classes. ' Mrs. Hasson says' the aerobics classes, held on Wednesday nights, are typically about a half hour of exercise to music (from 7 to 7:30 p.m.) The self defence portion of the class begins at 7:45 and runs until about 9 p.m„ and is open to men and children as well as women. "They'IG learnt self awareness, confidence in themselves, and how to protect themselves..." In the self defence class the participants learn basic techniques to deal with chokes, grabs, headlocks and various holds, rape techniques, and is generally what Mrs. Hasson rally "street survival". The art learned is jujitsu, and Mrs. Hasson is • qualified to teach it. "They'll learn self awareness, confidence in themselves and their physical and mental abilities, and how • to protect themselves from any type of abuse," says Mrs. Hasson. "It's just so they're not. afraid of walking down the street at night or going down a back alley." Jujitsu is a Japanese system of self defence which uses knowledge of the anatomy and leverage against an opponent. Mrs. Hasson also stresses the classes are • not violent, and no one gets hurt in the jujit- su classes. "No one in class has ever been hurt., What is done is done with little force to show what little strength is needed." she explains, Mrs. Hasson says only responsible people will be considered for the course. The classes are held every Wednesday night at the Martial Arts Fitness Centre on Main Street in Seaforth, and anyone in- terested can show up or contact Jean Hasson at Candlelight Studios in Seaforth. Junior Farmers need members to keep active club Junior Farmers is an �.oe...,....,., mn.., Winter ..___ ... _ _ Junior an organization which Games were held in December of has lost a lot of its popularity and appeal to 1988, and included curling, broomball, young people over recent years, and this is a basketball, volleyball, cross-country skiing, trend which has been seen not just in the bowling, and virtually all other seasonal Seaforth area, •but province -wide. sports, In February of 1989 the Provincial March is Junior Farmers' month, and in Winter Games were held, and curling and .this first week of the month The Expositor bowling teams from Huron competed. talked to some of the local long-time There are also Summer Games for Junior members of the organization to find out Farmers, which offer baseball, soccer, ten - what it will take to give Junior Farmers nis, track and field, etc. back its former appeal, as well as what the club has done for them in their lives. Generally, Junior Farmers will promote any sport its membership is interested in. Lynda Feagan is the president of the For those who aren't sports -minded there Seaforth Junior Fanners this year. She join- is Sing Swing in April and Culturama in ed the club three years ago when the it had a November. Sing Swing is a competition in membership of about 30, and has seen that singing, dancing etc, and Culturama is a membership slowly dwindle to about ap- provincial competition in areas like proximately 20 members now, most of debating, public speaking, poetry recital, whom have been with the club for several and spelling. years. She says she joined the club after At Junior Farmer meetings, held eve hearing members talk about the fun and ex- periences they'd had in the organization. second Tuesday of mthe nity Centres,h at the Lyn h and District Community Lynda "The average person joins to get to know says the members plan activities, go over people, to get to do things..., basically just to correspondence, and toss around ideas • have fun," says Lynda. about how to improve the club. Lynda says Junior Farmers can offer a lot Nancy Denham is a long-time Junior of activities for its members, including Farmer who has a lot of memories from her sports, contests, trips, exchanges, leader- association with the organization. She join - ship workshops, etc. ed about seven years ago when a friend who For example, the Junior Farmers Zone was already a member, talked her and about six friends of hers, into joining. "Then the meetings -were • held in a classroom at the High School, and if you didn't get there early enough it was hard to find a place to sit," she says. "There were easily 100 people involved and 50 were ac- tive members." Mrs. Denham says the problems the club is currently having in getting membership is part of a trend which will eventually pass. It seems to go in cycles. Every club in the province has the same problem," she says. "If we could go to the high school and convince two or three kids it was the "in" thing to do, we'd have the whole school there (at the meetings)." She says part of the problem may be in the club's name, which may make some people think of it as a farm organization. Changing the club's name to Rural Youth, has been discussed, but the idea was shelved. Mrs. Denham was a club president in 1984, and says members of Junior Farmers, besides having good times, have the oppor- tunity to learn a lot of leadership and social skills. And she points out many former members of the club, like Ken Campbell, who are community leaders today, Mrs. Denham says she's gotten a lot out of Junior Farmers including the chance to sing for the Queen in a regional choir, and her Change made in street letter box collection husband, whom she met through Junior Farmers. "There's been a lot of marriages come out of Junior Farmers. That may scare a lot of people off, but it is a good way to meet people." Jim McNichol has. been a member of Junior Fanners for 13 years - since he was 16 -years -old, and is one year away from the mandatory retirement age of 30. He joined because his friends and brother all did, serv- ed on various committees to organize dances, sports etc, went through the ex- ecutive ranks and was president five years ago. He has seen the club go full cycle in terms of its membership. Just before he joined the membership was way down and the club was on the verge of collapse. He saw the club peak in popularity to where its membership was over the hundred mark, and now it is coming back down. "It's a shame the way it's deteriorated. The club has done everything to boost membership, but the attitude to volunteer work today is 'well, what do I get'," he says. Now more of the club's members are in their later 20s and Mr. McNichol says that too is a shame, because the club is oriented to young people. Effective March 18, 1989, the weekend col- lection of mail from the street letter boxes in ...Seaforth will be moved from Sunday to Saturday. The contractor will remove the mail by 4 p.m. on Saturdays and there will he no collection on Sundays. Currently, the collection day of mail .posted on the weekends varies across the country. Canada Post Corporation is mov- •Ing to eliminate this inconsistency by stan- :dardizing the collections from all offices to :Saturday afternoon. The Monday to Friday collections will re- main the same. WIN - INTERLUDE F NDS DONATED - $8,530 raised at the Winter Interlude was recently donated to the hospital building fund by the organizers of the event. Seen here Marlen Vincent, Chairman of the fundraising committee for the expansion project, ac- cepts a cheque from the hospital lab staff who organized the Interlude: Joyce Hugo, Linda Cannon, Leona Sharpe, Doug Halfpenny and (missing) Bonnie Beimers. The winners of the Las Vegas trip offered at the interlude were Don and Sheila Morton of Seaforth. Corbett photo. Police seek The Seaforth Police and the local chapter of Crime Stoppers are seeking ptiblic.help in finding ,persons responsible for towing -and ,damaging a police cruiser. On January.28,1989 between 10:50 p.m. And 11:45 ,p.m. ,persons unknown, driving what ,apyuai a w uuvc ,uceu a nate nau-wn 4X4, ',hooked a chain onto the new police eraiiser:'Tliecruiser was parked behind the police ;station :at the time, and :when the drivers ;of. .the 4X4 .began to tow it, the heli , in finding towers police vehicle swung in an arc and collided with a support leg of the town water tower. Damage to the cruiser's left front door, fender and rocker panel was over $3,200. The Seaforthpolice had been using only the one remaining cruiser until repairs on the damaged cruiser were recently completed. Seaforth Chief of Police Hal Claus,said be does not believe the intention of those who towed the cruiser was to damage it, only to move it. Anyone with information about this, or any other serious crime, should call Crime Stoppers of Huron County, toll free at 1.800-2851777. Callers .will never have to identify themselves, nor go to court: They will however, receive a cash reward ;of up to $1,0001 an arrest is made. r, Grine doesn't Iiay, but .Crime , topers:does• AUSTRALIAN TRW In 1983 Mr. McNichol ryas one of 47 Junior Fanners from this zone who went on an ex- change to Australia and New Zealand for 26 days. He had to pay for the trip, but he did get a cheap rate. He says he is still writing people from that side of the world, and he is glad he went when he did -"I'll never get the chance to go again:" He says Junior Farmers is still offering exchanges, and a Wales trip was being organized this year, but the county had to turn the trip down because there are not enough interested hosts to allow the return of the Junior Farmers from Whales. What do you get out of Junior Farmers? "Whatever you want to put into it," is Mr, McNichol's reply. "It's the same with any organization. It's not a matter of what you expect from a club, it's what you put into it." As for the situation the club now faces with declining interest: It'll pick up. I have confidence. We have to have new blood and new leadership. My ideas are a lot different that the ideas of a 16 -year-old," he says. "There's so many things Junior Farmers can do if we get the membership up," says president Lynda Feagan. MUNITY CALENDAR �f.;rolf're�f►zlofi~e;rjpn. the P1t�p)ft►Cft1 IgtY�ptJlgf)raiortha:►tA1111ente, phA rituhationauftlmovv tr a ....01Qr<at• x l ,..u.ttielntaralptiprrllolCom- AnuntirVatavelar:'11teduronw�fpI10romx010oefortkOlarlo;NOK^ttvoanainJlgyouige .t idthothilettiJalet prr)fgalt/l! 0800 010,310001 Y enlffor 4pr- 1• Kincardine vs. Seahawks Wed., Mar. 8 1:30 p.m. — Senior Shuffleboard 1-3 p.m. — Moms -Dads & Tots Skating 4:30-5:30 p.m. — Tween Ringette 5:30-6:30 p.m. -Bantam practice 6:15 p.m. — Seaforth Horticultural Society St. Patrick's potluck, Seaforth Public School, Joyce Doig will speak on China at 7:45 p.m. Everyone Welcome. Wear green. 6:30-8 p.m. — Minor Broomball 8-9:30 p.m. — Ladles' Broomball Thurs . , Mar. 9 4:30-6:30 p.m. — Minor Hockey - (Teams unknown) 6:30-7:30 p.m. — Minor Broomball 7:30-12 midnight — Men's Broomball Fri., Mar. 10 4-5 p.m. — Junior Ringette 5-6 p.m. — Junior_Houaaleague Hockey 6-7 p.m. — $onior Houseleague Hockey 7-8 p.m. — Petite. Ringette Sat., Mar. 11 9-10 a.m. — Oilers vs. Canadians 10-11 a.m. —.North Stars vs. Kings 11-12 noon — Flame- vs. Whalers 12-1 p.m.—.P.enguins vs. Leafs 1-2 p.m. —Mites 1:30.2:30 p.m. — Story -flour .at the Library —.Ringritte 3.4,30 p.m. — •Public$kating 4;30.8:30 p.m. —.;Minor. Hockey 8:30 p.m. — intermediate "A" Hockey Sun., Mar. 12 12-1 p.m. — Novice Ringette 4-5 p.m. — Novice Hockey 5-6 p.m. — Tween Ringette 6-7 p.m. — Junior Ringette 7-8 p.m. — Belle Ringette 8-9:30 p.m. — Hawks vs. Bruins 9:30-11 p.m. — Rangers vs. Penguins Mon., Mar. 13 9 a.m. — March Break Program at Arena 1-3 p.m. — Public Skating 7-8:30 p.m. — Queens Oldtimers 8:30-10 p.m. — Beaver Oldtimers Tues., Mar. 14 9 a.m. — March Break Program - Bowling 2 p.m. — Seaforth Women's Institute will meet at the home of Mrs. Olive Papple. Mrs. Thelma Dale Is In charge. 2 p.m. — Arts & Crafts Workshop at Arena 5:30-10 p.m. — Minor Hockey 8 p.m. — Hospital Auxiliary meeting in Board lloom. (Please bring St. Patrick's Card) Wed., Mar. 15 9.a.m. — March Break Program, at Arena 1-3 p,m. —Public Skating 1:30.4p.m. — Senior Shuffleboard 4:30.5:30 p.m. — T.ween Ringette 5:39.0:30 p.m. —;Bantam 6:30.8 p.m. —,Minor Broombeii 8-9:30 p.m. — Ladles' Broomball A Y 1