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The Brussels Post, 1979-02-28, Page 5JOHN JARVIS NELSON R. 1890 -- 1965 HELEN .1. 1893 — 1962 IN MEMORY OF THOSE YOU HOLD DEAR . Fitness. It gives much more than it takes. P01.710P0171017 71w Canseisn movement for personal iltriesi. • nieroNAL, frA- 7-. THE BRUSSELS POST, FEBRUARY 28, 1979 — 5 Hockey for 40 Atom teams BY DEBBIE RANNEY Every year for the past five years the Brussels. Optimists have been paying special tribute to their motto, "A friend of youth" I by hosting a special Atom hockey tourna- ment. In the largest tournament yet, this year Brussels will play host to 40 teams in five divisions. Teams will be coming from as far away as the Niagara Peninsula, London, Sarnia area, Tilsonburg area and the larger metropolitan centres like Kitchener and Toronto. The tournament will take place during the first three weekends of March. The process of getting the teams here starts with the OMHA registration which is applied for during the previous year's tournament. Registration has to be in before the end of April. In June a committee is set aside for the tournament. The committee then gets together in August to decide on any rule changes, whether the tournament will be elimination or round robin and whether it will be just an Ontario or an International tournament. Invitations were sent out to the OMHA teams the last week of August and to the Western Ontario teams in the middle of October. In all, 214 applications went .out, tournament chairman John Jarvis said. From then on, the deadline for regis- tration for the teams is December 15. After that, the committee's work consists of ordering medallions for the winning teams, getting the programs ready, organizing the women for the food committee, organizing the game schedule itself and also the schedules for the referees. , Last year the Leo Club helped out by manning the door, handing out programs, and working in the time keeper's box, and the Optimists are hoping for that support again this year. With the size of the tournament the Optimists wouldn't have been able to marline without their support last year, John said. The Optimists were also grateful for the support of the arena manager and the Parks and Recreation Committee. Without their co-operation it would be impossible to organize the ice time and what's involved, John said. About 75-80 hours of ice time are consumed during one of these tournaments. Referees Local referees are used for the games as well as referees from the Wingham area, Listowel, Seaforth, Belgrave and Atwood. Between 20 and 25 referees are used during the three weekends. To go along with the tournament the Optimists this year have set up an experi- mental program whereby merchants who advertised in the Optimists program will be having sale days on the three Saturdays of the weekends. John said the reason for this is that the Optimists felt that they have always had the support of the local merchants and that if they helped the merchant out the merchants would get some business out of the tournament which also helps the community. It also helps the Optimists at the operational level by not' having the arena congested with hockey teams all the time. The basic reason for having the tourna- ment gives the hockey players whose average age is 10 a chance to play against teams from other parts of the province. Any money realized from the tournament goes toward Optimist Youth projects. In each of the divisions which includes the Double A, A, B, C, and D divisions teams will be competing for a Championship Trophy, a Runner-up Trophy and a Consol- ation Trophy. Each player on the champion- ship team receives a gold medallion, , runners-up receive a silver medallion, and consolation winners receive bronze medal- lions. All other participants receive crests. Also, a most valuable player from each team is picked from every game and they receive a little plaque. = A boy can only win this award once as the ; Optimists feel this gives all the players on the team a chance to win one. Then there's a most valuable player ,picked from each division and they receive a trophy. "From all reports there should be good close hockey in all the divisions." John said. (Last year the Brussels team were the "D" champions and John said Brussels has had a good record throughout the history of the tournaments. A limit was placed on the number of teams that could =enter and there are' now eight teams per division. The first eight teams who register in each division are the teams who are picked to play in the tournament. Teams that have been regulars over the five !years include. Arthur, Hanover, Ripley; Seaforth, Mitchell, Hespeler and Orange- ville. The Optimists get lots of support in their efforts with Brussels and area residents who provide billeting for players who come from I great distances and from the people who attend the games. - "Last year was our best for attendance. I think we averaged 650-700 people a day," John said. Without their support, it wouldn't be the financial success it is and therefore impos- sible to run it," he added. He also gave credit to the merchants who supported them. He said when the programs are brought to the printers, the cost of printing has been paid for. "Most of our profit last year was realized from the sale of the programs. In the end, it's a total community effort," he said. This is John's second year as tournament chairman and once the initial groundwork has been laid his job is to more or less supervise the operation of the tournament. making sure certain projects such as the program, referee schedules and time sched- ules for the teams are completed in time.. 'Also, if any differences arise between two teams he has to make the decisi8n according to OMHA ruling. He said there had been no problem this way last year and in other years there have only been minor disagreements. Ontario Experience marks anniversary Terry Jones, M.P.P., parliamentary assistant to the Provincial Secretary for Social Development, Hon. Margaret Birch, is pleased to announce the province's special summer employment initiative, Ontario Ex- perience '79. The $19-million program, Experience '79 will provide jobs for more than 13,500 young people. The jobs are in addition to the 10,000 pos- itions available through reg- ular summer replacement with various provincial min- istries. Coordinated by the Ont. Youth Secretariat, this unique program is marking its seventh anniversary. This year there are 111 program components compared with. 78 last year. The increased components offer Ontario young people an even wider range of job and experience opportunities. Experience '79 is admin- istered by 25 participating ministries. Many are oper- ated in cooperation with established community agencies, such as local mun- icipalities, school boards, conservation authorities, tourist associations, libraries and art galleries. The format ensures that Experience '79 initiatives respond to load concerns and priorities. Initiated in 1973, the prog- ram has grown to give an increasing number of young people a better background on which to base important career deCisions. Spanning a wide range of occupational interests, Experience '79 will 'place young people in a work environment intended to complement their academic interests and individual tal- ents. This summer, observers might see Experience '79 participants developing recreational and cultural programs for residents of Ontario Housing sites, homes for senior citizens and the mentally retarded, re- searching improved mea- sures for better farm drain- age systems throughout the During the weekFebruary 19 - 25, OPP. Officers at Wingham detachment con- ducted twenty-four in- vestigations. Twenty-one charges were laid under the highway traffic act and sixteen warnings were issued, Eight charges were laid under the liquor control act. Three charges were laid underthe criminal code. During the' week, there were seven motor vehicle collisions -Which caused an province, working in com- munity legal aid clinics, lib- raries, museums and art galleries or conducting re- search into energy conser- vation. 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