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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-04-14, Page 1'1 Single Copy 3Se Lucknow ambo '83 Published In Locknow, Ontario, Wednesday, All 14, 1982 INEL 16 Paris Lucknow farm equipment dealers, Stuart Reavie Chuck Becker, Allan Hackett and.Gerry Priestap held a glsnt clearing auction of new and used farm equipment at Becker Farm Equipment on Thursday. Area farmers and equipment dealers attended this sale which was the first time the local dealers coordinated such an auction. (Salami Staff Photo] Area•studertts attending A. science fairs Approximately 530 students from across Bruce. County will be participating in the Bruce County Regional Science Fair to be held in Ripley„ April 14. Students from grades 5- 13 have entered some 386 projects to be judged and five winners will go on to •compete at the Canada -wide Science Fair to, be held at York University in Toronto May 15 - 23. . The students will compete in four divi- sions, grades 5 - 6; grades 7 - 8; grades 9 - 10; and grades 11 - 13. Categories include for the grade 7 - 13 divisions: biology, physics, earth space science, environmental science and chemistry. For grades 5 - 6 the categories include working model, display, investigation: demonstration and static model or collection. This is the first time' Ripley District School has hosted the event and displays will be set up at the Ripley District School, the Ripley Huron Community Centre and the Huron Township Hall. Awards will be presented at the Community Centre ,on April 14 at 8.30 p.m. The Science Fair is open to the public beginning at 4 p.m. through to 7.30 p.m. on •April 14. 4. Chairman for the fair 'is George Arm- strong, administrative assistant at Ripley District School. Turn to page 2* Propose B teams in.14C.141.cir. minor hockey system A committee of four was appointed at a • meeting of the Lucknow Minor Hockey Association to look into the possibility of scheduling games for Lucknow ,B teams in • next year's season. • The parents, coaches and managers who attended the meeting, agreed to changethe Lucknow Minor Hockey system to incorpor- ate A and. B teams, rather than a ;house league system. • Harry Burgsma, who assisted with the house league system this past season, commented there are not enough boys in house "league hockey to have boys of the • same age competing against other teams their age. Consequently the eight, year old boys are playing on teams with 16 year Olds. Burgsma said it is disappointing to a coach, when a boy's potential for develop- ment is not realized because the system is failing him. Burgsma said he believed the parents of house league hockey playeirs would agree, to a system where the boys played one game each week and held one practice. He said most parents would not permit their children to play house league hockey if two games and a practice were arranged. Most parents feel three times a week for hockey means the boys are out of the home too many nights week, especially if they are attending other activities as well as hockey. Burgsma said some children find it too tiring and their school work is affected. • The meeting agreed to organize A and B teams for all levels including flea to midget. A committee of. George Gibson, Harry Burgsma; Allan MacDougall and Evans Helm will look into the availability of teams involving the scheduling of one game a week of the B teams. Gibson observed there may be a problem scheduling games for the Former Lucknow giri is Editor's Note: The following is a story 'from the Las Vegas Sun featuring Zena Cook, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Garniss. of Lucknow. The story is reprinted here for the interest of our readers. By Rob Powers, Sun Feature Writer Zena Cook says she was "scared but exhilarated." The pilot loved every minute of it. Apparently, so did Zena. "Are you ready to fly? he asked with devastating. nonchalance. Zena picked the bottom of her jar from the cockpit floor ' within seconds, tentatively grasped the plane's controls while the pilot assumed a leisurely position and darned if she wasn't FLYING! No radical manoeuvers, understand. Just a nudge of the wheel now and then to let her Atoms and Peewees because some of the area teams are locked into the. Kincardine House League system. • The B teams would not act as a farm club •with boys moving up and down from the A to B teams if they did not play well. Parents will decide at registration if a child will be on the A team or the B team. A teams will enter the Western Ontario Hockey Association schedule and will com- pete in WOHA playoff series. B ,teams will hold exhibition games with other B teams in the area and will only attend one home game or .one away game each week. Should a B team player develop potential to play on the A team, a decision to move the player to the A team will be r•eached by the coach, manager and parents. Should an A team player show a problem, a decision to have him play with the B team for a game to regain his confidence, will alsobe reached through consultation among parents, coach 'and manager.. This system has been working well at the Flea level where there has been a junior and a senior team for several seasons. Players will not be moved back and forth between the A and B team as the farm system is used in the National Hockey League, however. • Lucknow's representative on the Lucknow Arena Board, Ab Murray, told the meeting he would take a recommendation to the Arena Board that ice be put in during a cold spell in October and then it could be held during a warm spell. Bill Hunter, recreation' chairman, said the weather pattern in, October usually sees a warm spell at the end of the month following a cold snap at the beginning. • By putting the ice in during the cold snap near the beginning of the month, perhaps it Tian to page 2* school's first woman pilot know she was really in control. The plane moved when she did. A great feeling indeed. Not too shabby for a girl who grew up in Lucknow, Ontario, Canada, "rarely even saw a plane while I was growing up," and, while wanting to learn "to fly since her parents took her up in a plane when she was 10, had always stored the idea on the "things to do but probably won't" shelf. But Zena, who works for a building • maintenance company in Las Vega, was luckier than most. Through the sister, of her husband, Gene, she met Don Eberline, flying instructor and pilot who does the "Skywatch" traffic report for KORK Radio. She expressed her love of flight to Eberline, who invited her to accompany him on his traffic report flights. "I figured he'd just tell me about the plane; .1 never thought I'd 'actually get a chance to fly," Zena says. "My legs were shaking when he asked me to take over the controls," So now she wanted to fly again. Maybe again" is the wrong word. She always wanted to learn to fly. Only now more than ever. "Dollars." Gene smiles when he says that. It was, he says, his first reaction a year ago when Zena told him she wanted to take flying lessons. But she paid for most of the lessons from Eberline herself. And her desire, Gene admits, impressed him. ° "She learned everything so fast," he says. "In six to eight months she knew everything about planes," Zena, 26, mother of a 5 -year-old girl, Charlie, now has her student pilot's licensee She did her firstrSolo jut two Weeks ago, performing some touch and go manoeuvers at North Las Vegas Airport. • "It was more exciting than scary," she -says the reversal of her first flying experience" . The little journey may not have seemed like a whole lot, but according to the people of Mountain West flight school, it was the first time a woman had ever Soloed in one of their planes. In keeping with tradition, they tore off a bit of her shirt tail - "I'm happy it was an old T-shirt," Zena says - and pinned it to the wall of their offices along with her name and the date of her solo. Was learning to fly easier -than .,he thought? "It's difficult," she says, "but there's a lot involved. There are alot of things you have to know, like the workings of an engine, how it's put together." More complications may come later, when she goes for her commercial, instrument and multi -engine ratings. • Zena, you see, kind of likes the idea of one day flying for a, living. • She's got at least one Supporter - Gene. "I think it would be neat," he says. "I'd retire."