The Goderich Signal-Star, 1985-05-01, Page 3IA
GODERICH Srr N A I ..cm A r '1:;nITSDAY. MAY 1, 1985—PAGE 3
Local Girl Guides are preparing for the celebration of the 75th anniversary of guiding this
year. Under the direction of Dorothy Hahn, local guides have been learning some authentic
Dutch dance steps. Here, Angie Rivett (left) and Jami Sowerby perform the routine in hill
costume. (photo by Patrick Raftis)
Local guides practice Dutch
dance steps for 75th party
Practise for the Girl Guide 75th Anniver-
sary Rally is now in full swing. On Monday
evening Dorothy Haan taught Guides from
Goderich and Clinton an authentic Dutch
Dance. Other girls have been busy learning
the songs that the 180 -voice choir will per-
form. Cars filled with eager marchers have
been going to Galt to practise for the preci-
sion drill and still others are heading to
Neustadt to work on a number being done on
roller skates!
Behind the scenes are many busy leaders
and parents driving cars, making phone
calls, sewing costumes and, in. general,
keeping everything moving along quite
smoothly. In their spare time all the girls
are selling cheese and cookies to raise the
money for the buses to take them to this
special event.
There is a tremendous amount of
organization going into this Rally. For ex-
ample: Every Division has been colour -
,coded. That means that our girls, from
J3eaver Division, will all have pale green
tickets indicating their particular seating
area in the arena. They will arrive in buses
labelled with the light green picture of
"Good Luck Bear" and they'll follow green
special markings in pale green.' 'll wearing
special markings is pale green.
The leaders will, see to it that each girl's
ticket has her name and address on it and
the ticket will be pinned in her pocket so that
one half inch of pale green will show at a
glance where she belongs if, by some
chance, she takes a wrong turn. There is
even a team of "Nice Ladies" ready to
scoop up any misplaced children and whisk
them back to their proper spot.
There are "Runners" whose job will be to
take the girls in each act from their seats to
the dressing rooms for their costumes, then
out to perform and back again to their seats.
When the Rally is all over everyone will
leave by Divisions upon instructions from
an announcer. Once again Beaver Division
girls will follow a leader carrying the sign of
Good Luck Bear back to their buses.
The emphasis of the two hour show' is
"Celebrate yesterday - Look to tomorrow".
The public is invited to attend and former
members will be especially welcome.
Tickets, at only $3.50 each, are available
from Mrs: Pat Bayes, P.O. Box 832, Port
Elgin, Ont., NOH 2C0. Please enclose a self-
addressed, stamped envelope. More infor-
mation is available from Sylvia Brady at
524-6624 or from any leaders in Goderich.
Be sure to bring your camera!
Service clubs are liable....
dances since the bartender doesn't get out
on the floor and doesn't realize who's
drinking what and how much," says Jane
Netzke, Goderich recreation director who
attended the seminar. .
Because the Goderich arena is booked
almost every weekend of the year with a
special event permit, Netzke says it's im-
portant people understand both their
group and the town can be sued if a drunk
driver leaving their event has an accident.
"Volunteers are trying to do the best job
they can but they forget, that because
they're having one dance a year, they
don't know all the laws that come into'
play."
She says an information sheet about
liability and recognizing the signs of intox-
ication may be added, to the contract
groups must sign when renting the arena
facilities.
"It used to be no one thought of suing.
Now, it's a different story. We'll try to do
as many preventative things as possible
because they clear you a lot quicker during
a trial or inquest if one happened," she
says.
Goderich Police Chief Pat King says
groups often don't realize they have the
same power bars do to cut people off when
they've had too much to drink.
"Most do their best to screen people go-
ing in but they don't realize they can refuse
to serve them. Then, they think they
should call the notice autnmatiraTiv when
someone gets out of hand. In many cases,
it could be proved they did nothing for half
an hour before calling the police," he says.
"They should try to prevent the problem
under the terms of their permit instead of
waiting until the situation gets out of
hand."
His suggestions to prevent trouble in-
clude clearing away beer bottles im-
mediately, wearing club shirts so servers
are readily identifiable and learning how
to deal with intoxicated people without a
confrontation.
Schoemaker agrees that servers should
be -trained to recognize and deal with intox-
ication. "If you just cut someone off, he's
going to be ugly. Right now, we're kind of
green at it but things will get better;" he
says.
Another way to cut down on the risk of
being sued is to discover alternate ways to
make money for a group than selling beer.
"The organizers may be heavy drinkers
themselves and think a night of drinking is
the norm," says Dave Hart of the Addic-
tion Research centre in Andon, .._
"Maybe the majority of people would
prefer to attend a fancy dinner or some
other event."
Peters says the attitude surrounding
special events has to change to prevent the
problem of drunk drivers. "Does getting
drunk necessarily mean we'll have a good
time?" he.asks.._....
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