Village Squire, 1978-09, Page 30PEOPLE
The weather may never be the same.
Judy Savoy CFPL television's vivacious
weather girl has headed west. Starting
Sept. 4 she started giving oomph to the
weather in Calgary over the local CBC
outlet there.
A former actress who decided that giving
the weather was better than being
constantly unemployed, she had been
lighting up the screen in London for two
and a half years and became the Closet
thing to a celebrity the city had. Her
popularity was proven this summer when
she took a tired old, rather unknown
bedroom comedy called Parlour, Bedroom
and Bath at the Huron Country Playhouse
• and is generally credited by observers and
Playhouse staff as well with turning it into
a sell-out engagement. She's been
replaced in London by Anne -Marie
Mulligan. a reporter and newscaster with
CFPL.
Speaking of Londoners going west. Peter
Pocklington the former Londoner who
made a fortune selling used cars picked up
a slightly used big league hockey team in
the person of the Edmonton Oilers. It turns
out that Clinton can also have a claim to
fame for the gentleman. Actually he was
born in Clinton, says one local expert, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Pocklington of
Rattenbury St. East in the Hub of Huron.
"Go west young man" certainly seems to
have worked out well for this small town
boy.
There was a big mystery in Bruce county
recently and we do mean big. Big Bruce.
the 17 -foot -tall Hereford steer went
A.W.O.L. during'the Beef Fest celebration
in Paisley. Big Bruce is a fibre -glass
mascot of the Bruce beef producers to
celebrate the fact Bruce is a leading beef
producing county.
But unlikely as it seems, the giant
disappeared during the Beef Fest and it
took two hours of phone calls and searching
to turn him up in a farm machinery
dealership parking lot east of town. it
seems Bruce was the victim of a practical
joke.
The bull nappers wouldn't want to tangle
with a St. Paul's woman. Connie "Killer"
Bell is the Canadian national champion in
wrist -wrestling and on Sept. 16 , she'll
travel south to take on the best in the world
at the world wrist -wrestling championships
in Kansas City.
Connie's getting a little tired of being
kidded about her strength though. "At
parties. gatherings...anywhere. men are
always challenging me to an arm wrestling
match. And frankly, I get a little tired
sometimes of people kidding me all the
time about my strength." Until June she'd
never wrist -wrestled in her life then at a
party she was able to beat some ,of the
men. Her husband John and her
father-in-law then talked her into entering
the competition at the Shakespeare Field
Day which she won. It was then on to the
American Championships at Dearborn
Michigan where she placed second and
finally to the Canadian championships and
now an all expense paid trip to Kansas
City. Frankly, it's hard to understand why
anyone would want to risk kidding her
about anything.
Champions in their own right are the
pretty lassies of the Central Huron
Secondary School cheerleading corps from
Clinton. The eight girls in the group
attended a special cheerleading course in
Ottawa in August and in the competition
against 47 other squads won the
championship. The group also won the
prize for being the most enthusiatic group
there.
Leading the way was Lori Wise who also
won the prize in the individual competition
against 17 other girls. Other members of
the squad are Brenda Priestap, Becky
McAbe, Karen Bolger, Lorie Alexander,
Joanne Middleton, Carolyn Wood and
Judy Torrance.
On the subject of champions, Canadians
were proud during August to see the
success of the Canadian team at the
Commonwealth Games in Edmonton.
Among those taking part was Margaret
Stride a public school teacher from
Walkerton who competed in the 400 metre
track event for the Canadian team, making
it to the semi-finals of the event.
Probably few cities have so many of their
residents who live there because they fell
in love with the city as does Stratford. One
of the latest lovers who moved in to stay is
Richard Capener, an Asbestos, Quebec
native who moved into the city in August.
He'd taken a trip through southwestern
Ontario and fell in love with Stratford and
decided to move there. His career until
now has involved making animated films
for the National Film Board in Ottawa and
in New York. In Stratford he'll be doing
editorial page cartoons for the Beacon
Herald and offering his design services to
local businesses.
When you're a millionaire, writing out
$2.00 parking tickets must seem a little bit
of a waste of time. For that or whatever
reason, Stratford's millionaire police
sergeant has resigned from the force. Sgt.
Beverley [Bud] Graper won a million
dollars in a lottery draw on Dec. 31 1976
and has remained on the force until earlier
this summer when he decided to resign
to form his own investment company
handling mortgages. It ended a 17-yeat•
career on the Stratford force.
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