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PURINA
CHOWS
12 — THE HURON EXPOSITOR, JUNE 29, 1978
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DDAA began in 1969
night on our two diamonds. It is the wish of
the association to carry on with the
playground leaders for the coming year.
The 1977.78 exeuctive of the D.D.A.A.
are Herb Brown, President; Joe Cronin,
Vice-President; Mary Littwiler, Secretary
and Ernie Fleming, Treasurer.
The members of the D.D.A.A. exeuctive
are Herb Brown, Jack Horan, Jerry
Murray, Dave Fuhr and Bill Butters and
Ed Rowland.
n Sunday. March 23, 1965, a meeting Railway, east of the river, and west, of the
was held in St. Patrick's Parish. Hall by a village lots in Dub!' in. An offer to purchase
group of citizens of Dublin and area for the ;was signed by Frank Bruxer, George
purpose of organizing a committee, to Ducharme and Herb Brown with a deposit
carry on sports and recreation for the of $400.,
youth of the area.The organization was to To pay for the lapd it was decided to hold
be called the Dublin and District Athletic' awalk-a-thon and the sum of $4,000.00 was
raised. The walk was around the five mile
sock being south, from Dublin to Staffa,
east to 23 Highway, north to Mitchell and
west • to Dublin. There were many sore
muscles and feet on that 8th day of October
,Ducharme; Treasurer - Herb Brown. in 19h9.Two portable toilets were rented
The following were elected to _the and after the walk they were left south of
executive committee Clarence ,Looby,. the bridge on Main Street. That night a fire
Matt McCreight, Herman Van Bakel, Louis was started in one of them• by persons
a-fink) Kramers, James _P.., Krauskopf _unknown. It, was burnt to - fishes;- The
The first Lund raising event was a Association was taken to court and sued for
• Cabaret Dance and draw, held in the the sum of $100.00. The Judge dismissed
Community_c_enter at Bro,dhagen...litt, _the case - - — —
25, 1569. It was the biggest crowd the hall The property was put in the name of
had seen to that date and a real success to Ffibbert Township in order to receive
grants trom the provincial government.
In the spring of 1970 two bulldozers were
hired to level off the land, work parties
were organized to pick stones in prepara-'
tion for seeding and a ball diamond was
establiShed at the south end of the park.
In 1971 a building was erected 9to serve
the public with washrooms, a booth and
change rooms. Another ball diamond was
erected in the middle of the park, lights
were ordered in the fall but not installed
until the spring of 1972.
On October 15, 1974 there was a change
of office when Francis Hicknell took the
chair of President. Also in 1974 Ron
O'Connor was elected Secretary. Ernie
Fleming was elected Treasurer in January,
1975 when Hcrb Brown resigned as a result
of being elected to the council of the
township. Francis Hicknell was President
far 1974 and 1975, Ron O'Connor was
Secretary to February, 1977 and Mary
Piece of property. After looking at severa Littwiler was•appointed Secretary with no
pieces around the Village it was decided to soting. upon Ron's resignation. Herb
purchase, from James Cronin, a piece of Brown was. elected President in October,
land lying south of the canadian National 1975.
Association,
The following were nominated and
elected to office -
President - Frank Bruxer; Vice President
- Jack Horan; Secretary - George
the Athletic Association.
Several girls were sent to Stratford in our
first year to train as playground leaders.
This proved to be very popular with both
children and parents.• •
For the remainder of the winter. ice time
was rented in the Scaforth Arena for free
farnily skating, This was accomplished by
donations from the citizens of the area
In the first few months of existence we
were assisted by Mr. Morris, Mr. Barr,
and Mr. Bell of the Stratford Recreation
Committee. •
A backstop w,as erected on the hall
diamond behind the continuation school,
teeter totters and swings and sand boxes
were put in for small children. I-louse
league ball teams were organized and a
very successful tournament was held in the
fall. •
During the summer of 1969, the
executive had been looking around for a
In January, 1975 a member of the Dublin
& DiStrict Lions Club was present at the
meeting to receive permission. to build a
rough use building on athletic ground ,...a
dosed in building S4 feet by 80 feet was
proposed. The building when completed ,
would be turned over to the association. It
was voted unanimously in favour of
granting permission.
Family skating has been and will be a
project of the association each winter in the
Mitchell Arena, ball games most every
See you at Centennial!
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