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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-03-14, Page 4• Page 4,14acknow Sentinel Wednesday March 14, 1979 • - • Cadet snow de What would you do. if you got up one morning „in the middle of February and looked out the window to see the thermom- eter at -28 degrees celsius? Would you shiver and prepare to spend the day loitering around the house? Not the boys and counsellors of the Maitland Valley Council. Early on February 17 the counsellors and the boys were eager to be on their way to the .farm of Len Bakelaar on the second of Culross, where the Lucknow Cadet Club would be host to the annual Snow Derby. The derby is a day in which the various clubs compete in toboggan races, a water boiling contest and an obstacle course. The Maitland Valley Council is a division of the Young Calvinist Cadet corps, an organization for boys between 11 and 16 managed by the Christian Reformed Church in North America. Maitland Valley Council includes members clubs in Blyth, Clinton, Drayton, Exeter, Goderich, Kincardine, Kitchener, Listowel, Lucknow and Stratford. . The first cadets arrived at the Bakelaar farm about 9.00 a.m. and went directly to the hill for some tobogganing practice to prepare for the big race. One look down the hill and they realized it would be a real challenge to reach the bottoin and still be on the toboggan. In no time at all the first attempts to master the hill were made. Somehow each boy reached the bottom beside or under his toboggan or withoutone at all. . At 10.00 a.m. as whistle halted all activity at the top of the hill.. All clubs gathered •• together and lined up for opening exercises, A hundred and twenty voices joined in the Cadet hymn, motto, verse and pledge. • .. •Ns TOBOGGAN RACE • Time for the toboggan race had arrived. Each club presented one team of two or more boys on one toboggan wlio were now ready to put all their strategy of balance, steering trclbraking together to outdo all others: Many teams wiped out 'but some made' outstanding runs. The Kitchener: team • I cert •The Knights of Jazz from Kincardine. DistrictSecondery School will be competing at the..International Youth Music Festival in Harrogate, England,. April 10 - 24. To raise money • to finance the trip, the band is holding a concert 'at the • Ripley Huron Community Centre on Sunday,parch 25, 1979. Admission is adults $2.00, students S1.00 and children, under.6, free. Tickets will be available at the door. The Huron', Township Council is sponsor- ing the band by donatingthe upstairs of the community centre for the concert free of charge, ... The Knights of Jazz was one of three bands representing , Canada chosen to competeat the festival. They were selected on the basis of a tape they sent to.the Council forInternational Contact in Harrogate, The Council selected three groups from each of the countries that applied. Two othec Canadian bands, from Winni- peg -and Misfire Scotia, will also compete. "•'. 'The trip will be a combined cultural and working tour. The students will spend a week in Harrogate playing .,Concerts and, sightseeing, They will then .go to London where they will spend another week playing . and sightseeing. •4 • hire are 21 children in the band which iistlaise S18,000 to pay for the trip. So far, ,slightk more than 312,000 has been raised. The students need your support at the • upcoming Ripley concert. • • • "••- -a :,-. ' ---°• s . . , • Y;. at Culross farm a • outdistanced everyone with the Blyth team • coming second. WATER -BOILING The second competition was the water boiling contest. A team from each club received three matches, a candle and a gallon pail. From a pile of old fence posts they could chop firewood. With much hard •work and cOncebtration.firek,began to blaze • • at last. Snow was Melted down and the Blyth team became the. champion water -boilers • with •Clinton runners.stp. • Some volunteer ladies heated the -soup brought by each cadet. The hot soup sure hit the spot.. on a crispy day and must have thawed the frozen lunches for the souii-line in the driving shed never seemed to come to an end. •. •• • OBSTACLE COURSE • After lunch t Was time for the obstacle :course competition. Again a team from each club Started down. the hill, taking with them a toboggan loaded,. with supplieS. After • folloOng a winding trail 'through the bush, they came to a clearing where each team set up a tent secure enough to sleep in, then' took it down and repacked it. Counsellors judged .the proceedings of the hardy campers. FolloWing the trail, they then came to a First Aid Post. 'Here one member of the team • was to .siinulate a broken leg, while the rest applied the proper 'First Aid., Then:placing • the patient on the toboggan, they carefully took Mm down the trail, across a bridge', 'to a large sign printed in Morse Code. This had to be deciphered, wriften down and given to the counsellors on the spot. Following the trail further they arrived back at the starting • point Where some of the more stubbon cadets were still tryifig to beat the hill on toboggans. After all the teams were finished it Was back to the Shed for more hot soup and hot chocolate while the counsellors evaluated the results of the obstacle course competi- tion: President of the Maitland Valley Council, Harry Langendoen, then handed out the trophies: Kitcheier for the toboggan race; Blyth for wateiboiling contest and • the host -club, Lucknovifor the obstacle course. • A prayer of thanksgiving for a wonderful ° day and the safety of the partidipants concluded the day. 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