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Clinton News Record, 2016-05-04, Page 18NEW PRICE 31-343 Victoria St., Clinton $45,900 Call Rick or Fred MLS#730732 + HERITAGE B&B 71 Kirk St., Clinton $589,000 Call Fred or Rick MLS#258133 75780 Parr Line, Varna $187,000 Call Fred or Rick MLS#407254 DOWNTOWN BUILDING 452 Mill St., Blyth $179,000 Call Fred or Rick MLS#403708 GREAT STARTER i 227 Park St., Goderich $149,800 Call Sherry MLS#905848 408 Queen St., Blyth $374,900 Call Rick or Fred MLS#162264 COMMERCIAL SPACE 413 Queen St., Blyth $299,900 Call Rick or Fred MLS#869629 18 News Record • Wednesday, May 4, 2016 Varna News Joan Beierling Special to the News Record Card Players met last Thursday evening at the Oddfellows Hall in Brucefield. There were 8 tables in play. High lady was Ethel Walker, low lady was Mona Alderdice, high man was Ev Robinson, low man was Stu Wilson, most lone was Joan Van Sligtenhorst and draws were won by Alec Townsend, Barb Oesch and Nancy Turner. Next Card party will be May 12 at 7:30 p.m. and then the last one for the season will be May 26. There will be a supper at 5:30 that night. Tyler Chuter lit the Christ Candle on Sunday May 1. Rev Randy Banks led the Worship, Rose Dundass was the reader, Mary Moffatt was the organist, and greeters were Jack and Geraldine Eckel. Randy Banks's Reflection of the Word was "Imagine there is a Heaven". A Convenanting Service will be held May 4 at 7 p.m. at the Bruce - field Community United Church for Rev. Randy Banks. Lunch and reception will follow. Upcoming meetings are stewardship meet- ing May 10 at 7p.m., worship meeting May 16 at 7p.m., and a council meeting May 17 at 7 p.m. These meeting are all at the Brucefield Community Church Egmondville United Church is hosting a baking and plant sale Saturday, May 7 from 8-10:30 a.m. Everyone is welcome. Londesborough United Church Songfest is rescheduled for Sun- day May 15. Admission is 10 dol- lars. 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A few leagues and years divide the two; in the coming season one is the forefront pitcher of Toronto while the other will leave Huron County and heads to the Big Apple fora baseball scholarship. The cities boroughs also mimic one another with Toronto having North York, Scarborough, York and Etobicoke, East York and Old Toronto. New York on the other hand has one shortwith the likes of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. Separating the 19 -year-old Sea - forth native, Jordan Pepper and Stroman, 24, is roughly an inch and five pounds. Both are under six-foot tall, putting them in the lower per- centile of height compared to the average MLB pitcher. That stature can make the ambition of baseball more than difficult seeing as it goes hand and hand with the philoso- phy that taller pitchers are better than the shorter ones. In Canada, the average male is a little over five- foot -nine and according to ESPN, last year there were 14 MLB clubs without a pitcher under six feet tall in the bullpen. "For me, being small, I have to work on getting the velocityup and make sure I keep going up in accu- racy. If you don't throw hard, they don't look at you much," Pepper stated at his home in Seaforth, referring to baseball scouts. Regardless of the measure of inches and age, the five -foot -ten, 175 -pounder is winning champion- ships, locally and provincially, left and right Last year, he managed to play on two baseball teams at the same time. He pitched for Mitchell's midget squad and also their senior men's 22 and up club, the Mitchell Astros. He was the youngest player in the league. With an end result of going 4-0 plus a save for the Astros, when they captured the Ontario Baseball Association (OBA) Senior 'C' title on Labour Day in Thorold, Ontario. He technicallywasn't eligi- ble to be playing on the roster, but as he was a call-up for the midget team he was allowed to play. In any instances that the two schedules were conflicted, his appropriate - aged team had to come first; they Photo by Shaun Gregory Postmedia Network Jordan Pepper, 19, holds the ball he threw for a no-hitter game, which means the opposite team was not able to record a hit. He did this in his final high school game for Clinton Huron Secondary School. too won an Ontario championship. Starting baseball atthree-years-old, Pepper was practically bom with a bat and glove. However, those hands that are capable of throwing fastballs 84-85 mph, also gripped a hockey stick "That's been my dream, baseball or hockeywith the intentions ofrid- ing one out," Pepper said, also add- ing that he played junior hockey for the Goderich Flyers last year. That was 2015. Hockey season is over, and he's hung up the skate momentarily. Now, Pepper said he's going to focus everything on baseball. In doing so, he trains seven days aweekfrom 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Also to spruce up his skills, every Wednesday he travels to Kitchener to train for an extra two hours. This doesn't include all the games he competes in on the week- ends. eekends. It's a work ethic that some teens his age are not capable of accomplishing. Instead, they have other extracurricular activities, spe- cifically 19 -year-olds, because they can purchase alcohol. "I just want to separate myself from everyone else. Partying can just wait I've got the rest of my life to wont' about," said Pepper. The same discipline has landed him a 55 per cent paid baseball scholarship for the Globe Institute of Technology in Manhattan, New York While he's there, he will study a two-year sports management course, which is only a hop and a skip away from the Empire State Building and Times Square. Itwas a tough decision for Pepper because of the four other 'serious offers' from institutes as far as South Dakota, Maine, Minnesota and Illi- nois. In total 22 schools tried to sign the right-hand thrower before the start of the 2016 school year. Dave Pietschmann has known Pepper since the young age of one; he's technically his stepson, but to him that's his son. He went on to say that Pepper's life-long passion of playing AAA baseball has cost $10,000-$20,000 per program. And without Pepper's grandparents, financially this would not have been possible. "Theywere the ones driving him all over Ontario," he said. "His grandparents were defi- nitely his biggest influences when he was younger" Pepper and his father will fill up two cars and be New York bound on August 10. It's roughly a nine - hour drive across the border and a country away, so Pietschmann told the Expositor, Pepper will need to be focused mentally. "There is no real fun time once you get to college. Because if you have a real goal for going into baseball while your buddies are out partying, you need to be working out or working on the field for that one thing that was giving you problems," explained Pietschmann. "We'll drive down, let him set in and wish him good luck It's time for him to live his own life and fol- low his dream."