The Huron Expositor, 1987-05-27, Page 3FIRST EVER - The Seaforth Seniors Games has -added a new event- carpet bowling. It
is similar to lawnbowling, except for the fact it is played on a smaller surface. John Pat-
terson and Rachael Riehl, winners of the local carpet bowling competition, practise
their technique in preparation for the tri -county games, to be held in Seaforth June
22-23. Blake photo.
Beginner's luck pays off
Although one of the pair has never the Seniors Games committee for
Seaforth.
• Mr. Patterson has lived in Seaforth since.
1949. Prior to that he lived in Peterborough
for 25 years and in Goderich, where he
worked .as an airport mechanical crew
chief. He also owned a grocery store for
three years and in 1949 was a bookkeeper.
Carpet bowling is a new event in the
Seniors Games and was added so Seaforth
could send representatives to the District
Games. Last year Seaforth had no
representative at the tri -county level in
this event.
carpet bowled before, John Patterson and
Rachel Riehl were able to win the Seniors
Games event Wednesday afternoon at the
Seaforth and District Community Centres.
your couples competed.
"It's a fun deal."
Mr. Patterson and Mrs. Riehl won their
first game 14 to 7 before capturing the final
game by a score of 16 to 10. Each couple
played only once before they were
eliminated.
Mrs. Riehl, who started bowling last
week, said she enjoys the game very much
and added it wasn't hard to play. She said
it was not much different from
lawnbowling.
A native of Walton, Mrs. Riehl has lived
in Seaforth since 1969. She joined the
Seniors Games this year,,and is also in-
volved in euchre, cribbage and crokinole.
She discover.ed the Gaines by reading
about them Or The Huron Expositor.
Mrs. 1Rlehl Is recently retired from the
shoe factory where she has worked for 18
and a half years and previously farmed
mixed crops in Walton.
John Patterson also enjoys carpet bowl-
ing and said "it is a fun deal". Involved for
three years in such Seniors Games events
as bridge and crokinole - sometimes golf,
Mr. Patterson also serves as chairman of
"...similar to
lawnbowling."
Similar to-lawnbowling, carpet bowling
does differ in that the playing surface is
smaller. Carpet bowling balls are
weighted on one side so when thrown, they
curve to the inside of the carpet. The ob-
ject of the game is to get the ball as close to
the cat or jack(a small white ball which Is
thrown to determine where to aim the ball)
and the ball closest to the white ball
counts. If a bowling ball hits the cat or
jack, the player gets one point. If the white
ball is knocked off the carpet the player
loses four points.
The carpet bowling set was donated last
fall to the District Games and will stay in
Seaforth until the District Games are
done.They are slated for June 22 and 23.
THE HURON EXPOSITOR, MAY 27, 1987 — A3
Tuckersmith council sets 1987 budget
Tuckersmith Township council set a 1987
budget last Tuesday night that calls for
spending of $1,771,616, a 9,1 per cent in-
crease over 1986 expenditures of $1,623,516,
This is without county or school board levy.
Estimated budgeted revenues have gone
from $1,263,429. Last year they were
budgeted at $1,133,127. This represents an 11
per cent increase.
Major expenditures include $458,700 on
roads; $150,000 on the Ontario Neighborhood
Improvement Program; $185,000 for tile
drainage; $186,000 for recreation and
$179,500 for day care.
The county levy amounts to $211,958,48;
Huron County Board of. Education
-elementary levy is $303,862 and the secon-
dary levy is $222,745; the Huron -Perth Coun-
ty Roman Catholic Separate School Board
levy is: elementary, $62,879 and secondary
$49,065,
The council appointed Jack McLachlan,
•the clerk treasurer,as tax collector for 1987.
Council has no objections to the Seaforth
and District Community Centres Board
establishing a reserve fund for the
reconstruction of the parking lot at the
arena amounting to $17,0110,
Council will recommend that Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Kruse proceed to have a
severance on Lot 2, Plan 252 splitting it and
joining it to Lots.1 and 3, Plan 252, in order to
create two lots on the property instead of the
requested three.
•A tile drainage loan application for $7,500
was approved
Council has no Objeetiont to the Seaforth
Mens Industrial Ball league applying for a
special occasions permit for Juhe 19-21 at
the Seaforth Lions Park for their ball
•
• tournament,
The following grants have been approved
by Council : Hensall-South Huron
Agriculture Society $225; Seaforth •
Agriculture Society $225; and Huron Central
Apiculture Society $225. Clinton Public
Hospital $1,500; Blyth Festival of Arts $25; '
Huron Country Playhouse $25; VanEgmond
Foundation $100; Federation of Agriculture
$700; Seaforth Lions Club $209; Huron Coun-
ty Plowman's Association $50; Town of Clin-
ton $500; Town and Country Homemakers
poo; Farm Safety Association $50; Viallage
of Hensall $3,000; Hensall Calf Club $4 per
member; Seaforth Community
Hospital$1,450;--Seaforth-and-District-Com
munity Centres $6,898; Huron County Junior
Extension Fund $4 per member and Lady
9 Diana Nursery, special day care $50 per
month oer student.
Hospital purchases physiotherapy aid
The Physiotherapy Department_ of the
Seaforth Community Hospital celebrated
National -Fitness Week by purchasing a
rehabilitation machine last week from
Stack Enterprises of Alberta.
The machine, named "Fitter" will be us-
ed to rehabilitate ankle and knee injuries by
developing better balance and coordination
in athletes. The machine, which cost $500,
will replace such treatment as ice and heat,
muscle strenthening and temporary
supports. .
According to Carol Bowker,, a
physiotherapist 'at the hospital, injury to
ankle ligaments is most often caused when a
person gets thrown off balance, The "Fit-
ter" will help keep the' person in balance.
"I feel it is a pod investment," said Mrs.
Bowker when she compared Fitter to other
equipment the hospital has bought.
The hospital•ismaking Fitter available to
local athletes including, those at Seaforth
District High School, Ron Vercruyssen, A
Grade 13 student, has already tried the
machine and said it will help get athletes
back on their feet. He added the -machine
does help strengthen body muscles.'
Last December Ron used the "wohble
board" to rehabilitate .an injured knee but
found it wasn't enough to Completely
strengthen the knee. -
Terry • Johnston, a phsyical education
teacherat SDHS, said having.a machine like
• this available to athletes is the best thng
that ever happened. Hp added the number
one injury to athletes is the ankle and this
machine would succeed in getting the ankle
back in good condition.
To use the ankle board the athletes must
have the permission of their family doctor.
• Fitter can also -be used for skiing practise,
push ups. or just toning upper body muscles.
Fitter is used like a rocking chair. The per-
son steps on the machine keeping the body
in the centre of the -machine. By transferr-
ing their weight from one side to the other
the person strenthens their muscles. • •
The machine has two cords In the bottom
for the beginner and three light blue cords
.called "easy" cords far the intermediate
user. There are three diirk blue cords for the
advance trainer and four cords for the
THINK I'VE GOT IT - The Physiotherapy department at -the Seaforth Community
Hospital recently pruchased a rehabilitation machine called Fitter. The department an-
nounced the purchase _to coincide with National Fitness Week, which ends May 31,
Ron Vercruyssen, a Grade 1.3 student at Seaforth District High School, trles out the
new machine. " •Blake photo.
professional. exercises' for the ankles, stomach, knees
Exercises such as the slalom and downhill and arras can be used to tone the body.
can be used for improving skiing agility,'or National Fitness Week will end May 31.
Catholic board
The Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic
Separate School Board authorized its
Superintendent of Business and Finance,
Jack Lane, to proceed with the board's re-
quest to the Ministry of Education for the
Couple goes unchafien
A couple who began playing In the Seniors
Games last year are so good no one dares to
compete against them. Already Charlie and
Peggy Perkins have won three out of the
four events they've entered - by default.
Charlie Perkads won the men's singles
tennis May 19 by default and on that same
day he and his wife won the mixed doubles
tennis event, the same way. Last year Mr.
Perkins received a silver medal in the
singles event at the tri-cowity level and then
paired up with his wife to take the gold
medal hi the mixed doubles event.
Although they started playing tennis 30 to
40 years ago the ample took up the sport
again just last year. They have been coach.
ed by Dosilla Leitch, who they met at the
Seaforth tennis courts.
Aside from tends the couple has been sue-
cestfill in other Seniors Games events as
Well.
Mr. Perkins won the dart event May 5 by
beating fiVe'people. A native of England, a
country known for its darts, Mr. Perkins us-
ed a strategy called "finishing off on the
denble", which means to get enough points
to Win the player Must hit the highest
number on the board and double it. Last
year he and Barbara Scat Wort the gold
medal, and went on to the provincial dart
finals is Kitchener.
like the tenais Mr. Perkins began playing
darts some time ago - when he was a child.
He picked the sport up again four years ago
when he and his wife moved to Seaforth
froth Wales. Mr. Perkins Pined the Seaforth
Legion bait team and eventually began*
inVolVed hi the Seniors Games. le Wales to
yaart ago, he Was also on a dart team.
PerkinsMrS Won the tingles ladies table
tennis event May 13, again by &feel She
tee received a gold medal last year for this
area.
Mrs. Petkint has been nlaying table ten-
nis seriously for five or Six years, four years
to Wales on a Womett'S thstitute team and
one year in Seaforth.
The Couple Is also invovled in bowling,
thilffieboard and Crets-eontrity *Wight the
winter.
MEGA WINNERS the Seniors Garnet tennis, table tennis and darts winners were
Charlie Arid Peggy Perkins, who only started in the Games lett year. They won three
out of fete events by 'default. Last year the Perkins brought home gold and Silver
Medals from the District Garnet for tennis and table tennis' • Blake photo.
Before retirinent Mrs. Perkins helped her for 10 years. She was a State registered
husband run a small hobby arm mnyfaleetursofor 12 Years before that
Tom Cochrane and Red Rider to appear at Community Centres
One of earudies top tool( and tot With
Will be ap patting at the Seaforth arid
District Cofaiiiiirity Centres June 7, that is
if the stage is large enough.
TOM Cochrane and Red Rider, With Terry
dreigag as their opening ad, are expected
t,ti attract close to IMO people to the first
concert of the si:airier.
Tom Ceehranes road Manager told
Sheafettli arena staff the existing stage will
kit be Wee enough tO hold their etinipment
and additional sound wings bit either side.
They need a stage what will eventually be 74
feet wide and three feet high. The band has
enough equipthent to fill fear, 22 -foot tract&
trailers.
So the arena is tenting a stage from
Guelph.
• Veterans of the Music industry, Tom
Cochrane and Red Rider have five albums
andto "'hp 40" hits. Their antic attracts
people from ages 15 t035 and includes such
hith as, Don't Fight It, 'White Hot, C,,ati't
tag Beek and most recently, Boy Inside
the Man and The Untouchable Ones.
Tickets are available at the Seaforth And
District Conimintity Centres, Bob and
Betty's Sound Shad and kern any high
School student cOuricil in Huron and Petth
county. Tickets are $10 in advEnice and $12 at
the door.
to proceed with addition
new additons to St. Ambrose School in
Stratford..
The architectural firm of C.A. Ventin of •
Simcoe was appointed as the board's ar-
chitect for St. Ambrose School. The con-
struction includes seven classrooms, a gym-
nasium and change rooms, a library, staff
rooms and offices in the administrative
areas.
The estimated cost of the construction
work for the enlarged school is $1.2 million.
Mr: Lane said he hoped for ministry ap-
proval by the next meeting, June 8, and said
the sketch plans would he ready for the
board's last meeting this term, on June 22.
It was proposed the board should study
the report prepared by the Board's Ac-
comodation Review Committee in
September 1984, and the recommendations
proposed by the Community Accornodation
Review Conunitttee he based on that report,
which studied the needs of students in the Ci-
ty of Stratford,
The board hired Mrs. Normande
Hilderley of Stratford to teach half days at
St. Patrick's School at Kinkora, French as a
second language, effective September 1.
The board accepted the resignation of
Lorraine Kingsley who is French Immer-
sion teacher at St. Mary's School in
Goderieh, effective September 1. She will be
replaced by Francine LeBlanc of Ottawa
who is presently attending the University of
Ottawa.
The Board recently set the rates for the
secretarial staff in the Huron and Perth
County elementary schools: Minimum $8.65
per hour; Year 2, $9, Year 3, $9.35, Year 4
$9.70 and Year 5 (Maximum) $10,05 per
hour.
The Board contributed $153 to the Strat-
ford Police Force to assist in thecost of the
Police taking 16 Catholic School patrollers
and 50 Perth Coady Board of Education
patrollers on an outing to Pioneer Spcnt-
sworld in Kitchener on June 18. The per
capita cost is $9.60.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
if you're organizing a non-profit event of interest to other Seaforth area residents, phone the
recreation office at 527-0882 or the Expositor at 827-0240, or mail the Information to Communi-
ty Calendar, The Huron Expositor, Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK MO well in advance of the
sdheduled date. Spade fOr the Community Calendar is donated by The Huron Expositor.
Wed., May 27
10:10 a.m. Golf - Sr. Games at Golf Course
NO SHUFFLEBOARD
8 p.M. Fitness is Fun at Arena
8 p.m. Ladies' Ball Hockey at Arena
8 p.m. Blyth vs. Warrettes (at Winthrop)
Thurs., May 28
8:30 a.m. Fitness Is Fun
7 - 10 p.m. Dance for Heart at Arena
7:IO p.m. Cenis vs. Beachwood
830 p.m. Brewers vs. Topnotch
930 p.m. Bollersmith Vs. Kcimokosy
(Men's Ball Hockey at Arena)
6:30 p.m. Pee Wee Gide Pratt. (at Winthrop)
8:00 p.m. Pee Wee Boy§ v. Wingham
(at Winthrop)
9:30 Bandits vs. Warriors. (at Winthrop)
Fri., May 29
1:30 p.m. LaWn Bowling - Sr. Games
8:00 p.m Siabtown vs. Roadrunners
(at WtnthrOd
Sat., May 30
Optimist Club'Mardf Gras
Sun., ,May 31
3 p.m. Seaforth TO Bank vs. FOrreSt TD Batik
at Lion's Park
1:30 pan.Strathroy Srs. vs. Seaforth
Merchants (Double -Header) ,
7 p.m. Creamery vs. Bears (at Lions
8:30 p.m. turf Club vs. Queens Park)
9:00 p.m. Bandits vs. Titans (at Winthrop)
Mon., June 1
7 p.m. Topnotch vs. Mainstreet
8:30 p.m. Bears vs. Firemen
6:30 p.m. Sq. Girls vs. Atwood (at Winthrop)
9:30 p.m. River Rats at Oilers (at Winthrop)
Community Living, Central Huron, Annual
General Meeting, Royal Canadian Legion,
Goderich. Banquet 6:30 p.m. meeting 8 p.m.
Guest Speaker - Linda Girard, Program
Supervisor MC.SS, R.S.V.P. May 22;524.7362
Tues, June 2
8:30 a.m. Fitness is Fun
7 p.m. Ladies' Rec Sall Uons Park
8 p.m. Wildcats vs. Masherettes (at Winthrop)
9:30 p.m. Midget Boys vs. tebringyille
(at Winthrop)
Wed., June 3
1:30 p.m. Senior Shuffleboard
8 p.rn. Fitnetis IS Pun
8 p.m. LadiesBall Hockey
6:30 p.m. Mite Boys vs. Walton (at Winthrop)
8 p.m. Midget Girls vs. Gowanstown
(at Winthrop)
9:30 p.m. Offers vs. Molesters (at Winthrop)
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