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Serving the communities of Blyth and Brussels and northern Huron County Thursday, May 3, 2018
Surrey, B.C. team claims Dinning tournament crown
Quick decisions
Last week, F.E. Madill Secondary School hosted the 12th
annual Matthew Dinning Memorial Cup rugby tournament
at the school, bringing a number of the schools from the
area together, including a team from Earl Marriott
Secondary School from Surrey, British Columbia. The team,
according to Madill coach Lee Ann McDonald, was
unlike anything the locals had ever seen in terms of their skill and
talent. Accordingly, the team would go on to win the tournament,
besting Madill by two tries in the final game. Above, Alec Kemp,
centre, offloaded the ball to lan Smith just ahead of being tackled
by Madill's Gavin McQuabbie. The team made its way to Ontario
through the YMCA Youth Exchange Program. (Denny Scott photo)
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
The F.E. Madill Secondary School
Junior Rugby Team welcomed
visitors from British Columbia last
week, just a short while after
visiting the western province
themselves.
Through the YMCA Youth
Exchange Program, the students
from Madill visited students from
Earl Marriott Secondary School
(EMS) in March, staying with rugby
players from Earl Marriott's junior
team. In total, 26 students, alongside
coaches and chaperones made the
trip to British Columbia with the
same number of players visiting
Huron County last week into this
week.
Madill teacher and coach Lee Ann
McDonald said it was a very
valuable experience for the students.
She pointed to some unique
experiences that were offered to the
students through not only the
official program with the school but
also through the billeting families
when Madill students visited B.C.
"The billet families were so
generous, warm and welcoming to
the students," she said. "Everyone
had a great time."
The trip made a specific mark on
a handful of students who had never
flown anywhere, McDonald said.
The trip was fun, McDonald said
but it was also an eye-opening
experience for Madill players.
While rugby is a popular high
school sport in Huron County, in
British Columbia, its more akin to
hockey in its prevalence, leading the
EMS team that Madill was staying
with to have a lot more history and
experience than Madill's players.
"They were in awe of the skill
level the students had," McDonald
said. "The students there had started
playing so much earlier than our
players do."
McDonald said that all the reports
from the EMS team were positive as
well, saying that all the local billet
families had lined up amazing
ut,o4tu.t,ties for the students.
The only apology she had to make
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Garratt, Bishop, Four Winds claim Cultural Awards
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
The Huron Arts and Heritage
Network handed out its annual
Cultural Awards on Friday night at
Memorial Hall and a number of
local projects and people were
honoured.
Jacquie Bishop of Bluevale, who
served as chair of last September's
International Plowing Match (IPM)
in Walton, was honoured with the
Warden's Award.
The award, which is presented on
behalf of Huron County Warden Jim
Ginn, recognizes a significant
contribution to the arts, culture and
heritage of the county. It is presented
to the most worthy nominee across
all five of the awards' categories.
Bishop was the first-ever female
IPM chair and, the nomination read,
she had spent over five years
working on the event, and continues
to even months after its completion.
"During the match, Jacquie did not
do her job from an office. She could
be seen hustling from event to event,
walkie-talkie in her hand," the
nomination read. "In a yua. y..,.1 an
event so culturally important to the
fabric of Huron County was held
and its effects will be felt for years,
we have to look to the head of the
organization as the reason for its
success."
Bishop thanked her team and said
that she could never have done her
job alone. She said she felt as though
the "whole county was standing
behind" her to ensure the event
would be a success.
Ginn, who presented the award,
said that while he wasn't allowed to
vote for the winner, he was proud to
present the award to Bishop, his
long-time friend.
Bishop was nominated in the
Community Contribution category,
which was won by the Brussels Four
Winds Barn and Bryan Morton.
The barn, which will open to the
public later this year, was lauded for
its contribution to Brussels in its
nomination.
Morton said he was humbled by
winning the award "for a simple
barn", adding that he felt Bishop
should have won the award.
"I have a great fondness for
timber -frame barns and they are
rapidly diaat,t,cali..g, being torn
down or falling down," Morton was
quoted as saying in his nomination.
"When I was farming, I was too
busy to participate in the
community, but it is now time to
give back. Providing Brussels with
one of my favourite pieces of
function and form just seemed to be
in order."
In addition to Bishop, the
Alzheimer Society of Huron County
and Miss Marcie Media were
nominated in the same category for
their Memorable Men of Huron
calendar project.
Huron -Bruce MPP Lisa
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