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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-08-22, Page 9GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, 'THURSDAY,..MJOUST 22; 197+1.41AME 9 The Baha'i Faith Teaches .An interesting guest ,brought many, this past year, is 18 years •4h.orne by Rusty Orrnatidy, as a old, a native of Linz, Austria, weekend visitor recently was He recently has moved to %. the, Austria'fi Men's •Figure Vienna, Austria where more ice - Skating` Champion, Ron Kap- time is available to him. • pelent. , )fie wants to plane hither in Rola and Rusty, along with World, Competition next • year skaters from many south- and`sq came to`Canada for his western " Ontario centres; and somowr trnininv to take rh,, ,the CUnited• States have been portunity to train with, Ron .--;---skating-six days -each week at ;,Shaver of Galt Cambridge, who. the SouthWestern. Ontario placed fifth • in World Corn- - Summer- Skating Academy in pet itii:on and second in-' -St• Thornes which is being Canadian competion. - operated. by Rus,ty's H has been receiving in - professional, ).)on • 1)u.mming, stru;cttnn from Ron Shaver's Most of the out of town skaters _Professional, Neil Carpenter of have been staying in residence Hamilton. He says he has leer- at Alma College. ned a lot just watching Ron Ron, who placed 16th in the Shaver practise. Although not World Figure., Skating Cham- trying to 'copy Ron Shaver; he pionships held at Munich, Ger- says, it „has helped him to be. . skating with a better skater. The• Ormandy "family gave Ron a complete -tour of the Goderich area which. he felt• was beautiful. -,The size of Lake Huron, as' a fresh, water' lake was impressive. A stop at .the 1601 Tourist Bureau netted many pamphlets giving ,.the visitor information. about. this- " area plus. a. sample of rock salt: jti.ort was surprised at the size of "many of the homes in Canada.• He. said -that most, of the homes are veru large in Austria (his own home has 21 rooms!) He likes- the smaller, more compact homes much bet- ter. -. - The Goderich Frisbee Chumps did not dazzle the audience at the CNE Frisbee competition= • but they did (earn :alot about the sport that they plan to use when they prepare a qot erich en- try for next Year's event. The team captain. Mike IDymon,ta, right, and the impbrt Chip. Martiry,_ left, are now working ion 'their' kinky throws in preparation for Frisbee '75. (straff photo) BY, JEFF SEDDON The Goderich • Frisbee Champs or Chump:: set off for the • Canadian ' National Exhibition early Sunday mor- ning only to discover that they Tacked just about ever thing necessary for Frisbee • cbm- petition. • 'The team., Mike Dyinond, a_ -.Chip Martin; had been "in ° ° training for two months -here -in complained Mike. "We were psyched out." The event. required players to throw the disc through a four • foot hoop from a distance of thirty yards away. • Our boys only, managed one good' throw in 'four and retired• to the sidelines to watch the playoffs. The distance throw was our team's strong point' prior to game lime. • "We.were throwing qltern 150 Goderich only to discover that \ eet with a little luck and a tail they had been completely.,•unin- ind," said: Mike. »But we formed, as, to the ability•of those Ix; . ed out when that guy threw they were to face in Toronto. his risbee 280 1/2 feet and set of the a ne Canadian record.". Mike 's •the backbonet team and its promoter. - he Despite tlie drubbing the. realized ' the need for • a Goderich Chumps received in Goderich team after Jim Iden- Toronto, t • ey don',t feel the day, ner _and Ken Westerfield, was a cOm to loss. Canada's only professional "We • learn d a lot," said throwers,- • were • in town ^ Mike. "We are starting now to displaying their. talents ,to the • get a -team toget er for Guts to playgrounds. Mike immediately enter in next yea 's -meet.'•' imported Chip.Martin who had Guts is a game fr''Frisbee come to. town .several -months -masochists. The • tea's ;have earlier, to report Huron County •five men each and { hey line up • news to the London Free Press. about .-15 yards apart a d at- The,two, lacking 'interested tempt to dismember. the op- tryofs, . formed .a team and position with, the plastic di. went into training: "These guys got fantastt "We have been praetici,ng speed with these short throws. I - religiously for an hour a . day would estimate the Frisbee was outside • Mike's ,Elgin Avenue doing 50 miles an.hour when it' Frisbee headquarters for the, reached the opposite past two months, bombarding team," said Chip... . passing motorists while • The Guts.competition started working out ou'r throwing . about noon.'and.• the chamlions, 'techniques," said. Chip. • • weren't declared until eight ;in 'The two Goderich •hurlers .". the evening., The Goderich were dismayed when .they step- tem had long' since been ped onto. the -Frisbee field in eliminated and'did not since, to 'Toronto but were 'still game, to . see which team caught the most ,compete. Poorly attired • (they did 'not have the sweaters,• • spikes, gioves, socks and hats that tother teams -were •spor- • ting) "he they began warming up years meet. The. Chumps are for the individual -events.: -ignoring the frills of the sport "We have stood :thirty yards that. the experienced players apart in training camp and have'" picked up. They aren't thrown .the =Frisbee .directly going to purchase any Frisbees to one another: but,do. you,thihk we' could, put one through the hoof).- in the ,accuracy event?" blasts with One hand to became champions. - • • Recruiting and practices have already begun for next which they work. .. ' "We were surpised • to find out that there is a difference in Frisbees," said Mike. "The, Canadians. complained about .American models and vice versa and the pros claim that there is' a big difference, in Frisbees." • . According to the Chumps the team is going to concentrate"on throws and catches • and ex- periment with' Guts. • "Throws and catches are what Frisbee:.is all about," said Mike. •.Jfm Kenner is perfecting a foot throw' that should be in- teresting when he works the • bugs 'tut." ' ' "The , furl stuff is ;not "developed and all individual competition took a. backseat to .Guts," he said. The team is .,considering a cubstription to Flying' Disc World, a monthly publication 'sold to Frisbee nuts that ex-' plains the art and describes throw's.. ; The show stoppers at last Sunday's .Frisbee meet , were man's best friend., Some of the dogs. entered by• their masters were leaping as high'as five:feet t. retrieve a Frisbee in . flight. Phe winner in the canine com- petit' tn• was Gunner, a ",black . lab fr. Unionville. The -dog delight•e the audience, con- sistently • ',nd -'at• One point looked ''as• t sough he, had had enough and Was taking his Frisbee home, but was• only going to the men's pole before continuing his antes. • Over the winter the Chumps intend to study •the spo to see where they can improv'e, with tassels or` see-through . models but AO -are going'to concentrate On the model, with, .taken the game,"' said. Chip. "We' thought we weren't bad by • Goderich standards but we • have a 16r -to -learn' by inter. national standards." . Mrs. Rae Ney of Windsor, nee -Audrey Allison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Allison; 192 Eldon ' St., Goderich, • recently graduated from the University of Windsor* with her B, A. (General) degree. Audrey went; to public school and G.ID.C.I. in tin Goderich-and after graduating attended the Teachers' College Stratford. She has Since taught in Acton, Le•arnin•gton, and two public schools in Windsor. (St. Louis • studio) Ron's English has improved great deal in the seven weeks he has been in Canada. They • learn English in school, the same as Canadian students , learn French in school. He is 'able to communicate very well now. Ron flys back to Austria next Monday but will bereturning to Canada in October as he has been chosen to represent Austria in the Annddal Skate Canada competition which •is being :held in Kitchener this Oc- tober. Here, 'many of the top skaters in the world will be competing. Ron and Rusty have already' made plans to get together during this c•om- petition, for a visit. Work is worship Everyone should strive to earn the miens 01 livelihood, to acpupy themselves with that which wilt profit themselves and ni'Pers. Work, practiceeconomy, trust God and you will be able .o redeem your .debts. "It is incumbent On • every one -of yo4e• tO, engege in sons one occupatlonr,suoh as arts, trades, and the,like..We have made"ttte your occupation - Identical -with the •worship of God." Baha'u'IIah,' Incidentally, Rusty and his partner Karen Osborne have been working very hard at their skating all. summer in Chatham: They' recently com- peted in the 'Sta'q ford Inter -- national Dance competition at Niagara Falls, against 19 otther• - dance pairs, from the United 'States abed Canade'..Despite the fact .that they had .only been • working on their six com- pulsory dances for four weeks • • •as opposed to someof the pairs; who had been skating together for three years or more, Karen and Rusty placed a very cjnn- mendable- sixth,/ well ahead of all the other' competitors from "''their se tion, South Western Ontar o". The • winners were Canadian Competitors from British Columbia. " Their nextcompetition will be the 'Sectional Championships, the first weekend in December., These will' be .held in London this year, and w,j11. he an, ex- cellent opportunity for in -Q terested 'Tice' > figure skating- , fans to see some top skating. 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