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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1984-10-31, Page 8Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, October 31, 1984-4 -Page .b "The Sepoy Town" : Established 1873 The Lucknow Sentinel, P.O. Box 400 Lucknow NOG 2110 Telephone: 528-2822 Pat Livingston - General Manager Thomas Thompson - Advertising Manager Sharon Dietz - Editor • Joan Helm, Compositor Merle Elliott - Typesetter Subscription rates in. advance Outside $4500 s16." " Canada .. Senior Citizens 13 so Outside , na'3 Second Class mailindag reg. no. 0847 Advertising is accepted on the; condition that in the event of aatypographical error, the portion of the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid at the applicable rates. BLUE RIBBON AWARD 1984 overnmerit should act on hockey violence,' An NDP task force report on hockey violence makes several recommendations: which should be acted .upon by the Ontario government immediately. Attorney gener- al Roy McMurtry's comments Friday, that government is unwilling to become involv- ed in the day to day operation of .amateur sport in the province is an attempt to pass the buck. If this kind of 'violence were going g unchecked , on thestreets of the villages and towns of the province, he would not stand back and say government is unwilling to become .involved. Why is it different because the violence is taking place on an arena ice surface? The statistics prove children are being hurt, crippled and killed, and it is time to stop the intimidation which. is the new •dimension added to the game, making action to stop the violence imperative. Hockey officials who "don't see violence in hockey" and want Martel to define violence shouldbe relieved of their responsibility:. Thettask force report recom- mendation that the government establish one central body headed by a commission- er of amateur hockey to oversee the operation of the game should be implem- ented at once. Surely such a commission would not be interested in the ' `politics" among the various bodies in; hockey ' in. Ontario and would proceed td make changes. Maintain- ing petty differences and protecting power bases should not be more important than the kids who play the game. The focus . of hockey must become the development ,of skills, healthy, yet compe -titive attitudes and safety. We, cannot change the professional game. That is up to the owners and players in the professional league. But we do not have tostand by and, wring our . hands because we cannot change the professional , style. In aniateur hockey we are primarily concerned with, the young who respond well to positive changes which improve the quality of the game and ' the pleasure they derive from competition. Blind cheap shots and goon tactics have no place in amateur sport of any kind. It's time the government take action, to make hockey a safe sport for kids of all ages. "Let's give the game, back .to the kids,". as Martel says. Stop parking at firehall Lucknow 'Fire Chief Bud Hamilton has issued a. warning that cars parked in front • of the : Lucknow firehall in the no parking zone will be towed away at the owner's expense. _The warning has been made necessary . ' because some people are parking their cars in the .no parking zone in front of the firehall, while attending events at the Lucknow Legion hall. This past weekend it would have been: impossible to get the fire trucks out.0of the firehall if there had been a fire call, because cars parked in front of the fireball blocked the entrances, This, warning should not be necessary. No parking signs are adequately displayed in the area ' and it is evident that the building is a firehall. Common sense should dictate parking is not allowed in the area. As the fire chief points, out, stop and think before you park in the a no parking zone in front of the firehall. The house or barn that is . on fire could ,;be yours. Every second counts and the. life ordeath of • someone trapped by a fire could depend on whether the firemen .can get their trucks out of the firehall to respond to the fire. The life you save could be your own. "True love . never runs smooth", it is . said, and a life without some . kind of trouble, is as unnatural as the' stories in which the hero and heroine live happy ever after in a palace of perpetual love and happiness. Though Redtrees was'a more contented communitythan most, it was not totally devoid of those individuals who lived •with fantasies which are out of this world. Their foolish longings were, of course, usually kept to themselves, and only when • they attempted to make their impossible dreams , come true, did the ' problems for ,the Community 'begin. 'One such person with secret feelings of discontent was . the doctor's wife, Jane Cameron. In the eyes of other women, Jane had "settled down quite nicely agai f" after the time when she had run away from her husband prior to the birth of their first child. She was supposed to be more mature now, and with a highly respected husband, two children, and lacking none, of •the material things of life, she ,hpuldhave been the happiest woman in the commun- ity. But she most certainly was riot) Jane Cameron had been brought up amongst the high society of Toronto, and having married' the handsome young REDTREES by Don Campbell time to regret a . lifetime decision • based only upon a young girl's naive sentimental-, ity., Throughout a long winter, confined to a house ' surrounded by deep snow, her nerves stretched almost to the breaking point, Regardless of the consequences, she was determined at the firstopportunity, to leave the "ignorant and uncouth" people to their pioneer life and return to a more. "civilized environment" in Toronto. In the spring, when the mud had dried sufficient for the roads .to accommodate traffic., she ,was visited by a second cousin who was thwarted when Jane married the doctor. He listened sympathetically to her tales of woe and hardship, and the loneli- ness caused by being married to a man who spent time' in other people's houses than his own'. •• Having no knowledge of rural life, and being entirely selfish, he advised Jane to take her children .and leave Redtrees forever. There was a problem. They'' Turn to page 11 6 . • Recommend ruie changes... •from page 5 penalty must be assessed in all instances: High. Sticking Elimination of referee discretion in the assessment of high sticking penalties. A major penalty mustbe assessed in all instances when a player makes deliberate. contact with a./high 'stick on the helmet, face mask or neck of an opponent. This recommendation is made for the same reason as for rule 53 - cross checking. Referees and Coaches Twp very experienced referees Vern Buffey and Robert Nadin, referee -in -chief for the Canadian Amateur Hockey Associa- tion, gave , the. committee tremendous insight into .the difficult task of refereeing. They described the problems judgement calls create for referees. Some infractions are ignored or are considered marginal. As ' a result no penalty is called.,Because many coaches, players and,fans are "not as. neutral or unbiased as rferees, judgement calls often lead to serious altercations, verbal abuse and retaliation by players. Buffey argued the wording of certain rules, must be' changed to reduce the need for judgement, to make the referee's job somewhat easier. A referee -in -chief of the league, who chose to remain anonymous, 'told the committee infractions should be called. Coaches and players will soon learn that penalties cost them games. As Father SPECIAL REPORT Gerry , Lalonde of , St.' Charles College . stated, "They haven't made a stick long enough to score from the 'penalty box. The' CAHA rule book is excellent but few. referees use it because it slows down the game. Once the message reaches home that all rules will be . enforced, teams . will • change_their style of play. The rules are in the book and should be . applied. To complain that this would spoil the game or slow it down is so much sour grapes, says Martel in the report. The referee -in -chief also pointed out that referees are criticized if coaches make too many phone calls to the committee of senior referees, because a referee called a few to many penalties or "rubbed" a coach the wrong way. If referees do not get league backing, they will quit. Younger, inexperienced referees, in particular, require the support and encouragement of their league. Studies in other provinces shed some light on why referees quit. For example in 1982 the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association found that 20 per cent of referees quit because of criticism directed Turn to page, 8'''