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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
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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.
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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
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