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TEAM FUN - The Seaforth area snowmobile team, Team Fun, driver Bill Anderson of Seatorth. By placing second in the Ontario
have just finished another winning racing season. From left, the Club Competition this year John won a snowmobile for his club,
team consists of driver John Munn of Hensall, mechanics Harold the Pineridge snowmobile club of Hensall. And Bill found new
Chesney of Seaforth and Craig Millar of Londesborough, and competition this year as he moved up to professional class racing
Seaforth snowmobile racer turns pro
The Seaforth-based snowmobile: racing
team, Team Fun, had another successful
season in 1988-89. One driver on the team,
Bill Anderson of Seaforth, turned profes-
sional this year, and his partner John Munn
of Hensall won a snotvmobile.
The two men have been racing stock
snowmobiles in amateur classes for the past
several seasons, but this year Mr. Anderson
decided to move on to professional classes.
"My goal is to get a full factory sponsor-
ship, and you're not going to get it in
amateur," explains Mr. Anderson.
A full factory sponsorship would supply
• Mr. Anderson with a machine and expense
money. He and Mr, Munn are currently
sponsored by Country Corners. of Mount
Carmel, and Eastern Marketing
-distributors of Arctic Cat snowmobiles:
They don't yet get their machines supplied,
but they do .get help with entry fees;
snowmobile parts, etc.
Now that he has turned professional Mr.
Anderson cannot go back to club competi-
tion unless he stops racing for at least three
years.
-Mr. Munn is one of the best amateur
racer's in Ontario, butis still eligible to race
amateur next year. This -year he placed se-'
cond in the overall Club Competition in the -
province, - and won a snowmobile for the
Pineridge snowmobile club of Hensall, the
club he races for.
But John is not yet sure what machine he
will have won.. Each year Arctic Cat,
Skidoo, Polaris and Yamaha put a machine
up for a draw. The key to each machine is
put in a hat and is drawn for by the top club
competitors in the province. John gets the
third draw. •
The season started for Team Fun at the
End of September when they were in Eagle
River, Wisconsin, racing on wood chips. Bill
got a second place finish and John a fifth.
A lack of snow in this area may have held
the team back somewhat this season, as
they weren't able to test -.drive their
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"My goal is to get a full factory sponsorship
and you're not going to get it in amateur."
machines after making little changes and
adjustments to t ngs 'like clutches and
suspensions. Those little changes can add up
to a significant difference on the track. Mr.
Anderson estimates. they can give their
machines 20 per cent more acceleration and
10 per cent more'speed at full throttle, than
a machine right off the showroom floor.
. But after tinkering with their sleds, Bill
and John, two of the southernmost racers in
Ontario, didn't have enough snow to test
their performance, so they were race -
testing.
.Snowmobile races are held for both "B"
-and "A" classes, with the "A" class
machines being the more powerful. Bill and
John .have "B" class machines, but they
enter them in both classes and try their skill
against the faster sleds:
And there .are two types of tracks, oval
., and LeMans, the latter having both left and
right hand turns and obstacles. Bill sticks to
oval racing, after an encounter with a trac-
tor tire in a LeMans race in an earlier
season, but John enters both oval and
LeMans competitions.
Peterborough was the first stop on their
schedule in January. John placed first in the
club competition, and Bill, racing in profes-
sional classes', got a second, two thirds, and
a DNF (did not finish) when his clutch came
apart during a race. Bill also got to see
himself on television, as he was picked up by
the television cameras from the Wide World
of Sports during his races.
Eagle River, and the World, Champion=
ships was the next stop on the circuit, on the
weekend of January 14 and 15. John couldn't
race at Eagle River because there were only
professional classes. Bill made it to the
semifinals twice but found stiff competition
from racers from across the United States
and Canada. He finished 39th in his class.
In Owen Sound, the next stop, John placed
second in the club competition and fourth in
the LeMans. Bill also .had a good weekend.
On Saturday he won "B" class and placed
third in the "A", then on Sunday he won both
classes. The "A" class machines have 50
per cent more displacement and 50 more
horsepower than a B" class machines, but
Mr. Anderson says driving, suspension ad-
justments and other trade secrets can make
the difference in the corners, and allowed
him to win the "A" class with a "B"
. machine.
Bill made a lot of changes on his sled
before the next weekend in Eganville, and
again had no time to test them. The result
was a second and thirds for him. John again
placed second in the oval club competition,
and placed third in LeMans.
Espanola was the last race weekend of the
season. Bill once again raced to one second
place finish and three thirds, and John again
placed second in the club competition.
Both racers were satisfied with their
'88-89 racing season. '
"Considering the competition I've been up
against I had a good year," says Bill.
John too is considering turning profes-
sional next season, "there's a 10 per cent
chance I'll go pro," he says "but. I have a
chance of winning the club competition next
year..."
For their neatkracing season the team will
be working ononsorship, Bill will be get-
ting a bigger machine; and they'll be
building a test track. •
Broadbent will be missed - McQuail
Ed Broadbent's decision to step down as
NDP leader is not really surprising, says
Tony McQuail.
"As a party, we work our leaders very
hard," McQuail said, adding that "they've
all been giving and generous people.
"He (Broadbent) has given many, many
years as leader and he's worked very
hard. Unless he could keep giving 110 per
cent, it was very sensible of him to step
down."
Broadbent, who has led the party for 14
years, announced his retirement on Satur-
day, saying that "now is the time for
renewal; now is the time to pick a new
man or a woman to lead this party."
"My first reaction is a real feeling of
loss," said McQuail, who was the Huron -
Bruce federal NDP candidate in the last
election.
"He (Broadbent) is a very intelligent
and dedicated person - very down-to-
earth, "
own -to -
earth."
McQuail said the party's federal conven-
tion had originally been planned for the
summer, but Broadbent's resignation has
caused the convention to be re -scheduled
for late fall or early December "to give
(candidates) time to meet the people" and
campaign.
"I don't want to speculate on anyone
now," said McQuail, when asked if there
was a particular candidate that he per-
sonally favored. "I want to see more in-
formation on all of them. "And a lot could
happen before then - the'rural caucus may
decide to put somebody forward, for ex-
ample. "Give us two months and I may
have more to say then."
So far seven candidates have piro%laim-
ed their intentions to run for the leader-
ship. Included are Windsor MP and trade
critic Steven Langdon, long-time Saskat-
chewan MP Lorne Nystrom, who entered
Parliament with Broadbent in 1968, house
leader Nelson Riis, caucus chairman
Audrey McLaughlin, justice critic Svend
Robinson, Vancouver -area MP Ian Wad-
dell and Bob White, chief of the Canadian
Auto Workers union.
However, those around him say Ontario
NOP leader Bob Rae, also a former
federal MP, has no desire to get back into
federal politics.
McQuail said an NDP Federal Riding
Association meeting is planned for Mar.
29 at the Lucknow Town Hall. Included in
the agenda is a "review of our mandate,"
he said.
"We've got to review our economic ac-
tivity as it relates to our environment," he
said. "We've got to be able to sustain the
environment. "And we've got to re-
distribute our economic goods in a fairer
way - that includes things like our tax
policy, our interest rates and so on."
Seaforth approves draft subdivision
In a special council meeting Thursday
night, Seaforth Town Council made a
recommendation to approve in principle, a
draft agreement between the Town of
Seaforth and Royal Orchard Subdivision,
with the exception of that segment dealing
with who is going to bear the legal and/or
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In other business council passed resolu-
tions to: formally declare the Month of
March as Junior Farmers' Month; par-
ticipate in the Board of Education's paper
recycling program in the Town Clerk's Of-
fice; and approve two Ministry of
Transportation subsidy requests for 1989.
Seaforth's proposed expenditures for
highway, improvements in 1989 is $275,750
($176,550 for construction and $99,200 for
maintenance). A MTO grant would pay 50
per cent of that cost. A supplementary sub-
sidy of $18,500 would go toward new
construction.
Township, town
to receive grants
Minister of the Environment Jim Bradley
has advised the Township of Tuckersmith
has received an allocation of $20,760 to assist
in the funding of a Needs'Study Grant for the
sewage collection, system in the township.
The -Town of Gpderieh will receive;$3,756
from. to Unistry af Tourism and Reerea-
ti0n. •AAeeording to Minister Hugh O'Neil, the
FPitness (haiienge i the town.annual fun &