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World Champion Auctioneer Frank Stapleton accepts letters of congratulations congratulations from then Premier William Davis and MPP Sam Cureatz. The letter from Mr. Davis states: "Your accomplishment has brought pride to all your fellow Ontarians." Mr. Cureatz (seen here on the left) delivered the letters personally on February 8th. The small fellow on the right is another proud Ontarian, Mr. Stapleton's son Steven. Ü mm BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13,1985 World Champion Auctioneer Frank Stapleton was the honored guest, along with His wife Betty and their family at a reception Sunday afternoon attended by a large crowd at Newtonville Sunday Schoolroom. A large banner was strung across the room congratulating Mr. Stapleton, and a couple of presentations were made by Mayor Garnet Rickard and Charles Gray from Newcastle and District Chamber of Commerce. Earlier, Sam Cureatz, M.P.P., had presented a plaque on behalf of the province. Area Schools Compete in Kinsmen Volleyball Tourney About two dozen junior volleyball teams from the municipality gathered at Bowmanville High School during the weekend for the annual Bowman- ville s Kinsmen Volleyball tournament. The top boys' team came from Newcastle Newcastle Public School this year. They defeated Kirby Centennial in the championship championship "A" Division game. Front row, from left, includes: Todd Jones, Draydon Cureatz, Jason Rogers, Rick Burns, Nathan Virtue, Danny Winter, and Adam Rylance. In the back row, from left, are: Trevor Rogers, Jim Noble (coach), Jeremy Piels, Mike Pearce, Brandon Coyle, Chris Potter, Stan Naylor, Ruth Gray (coach), and John Rogerson. Kirby Centennial Public School was the runner-up in the boy's division of the Bowmanville Kinsmen Volleyball Tournament held Friday night at the Bowmanville High School. Front row, from left, includes Billy Todd, Andy Taylor, Dustin Reid, Jamie Ball, and Glenn Wagg. In the back row, from left, are: Jim Dupuis, Jean-Paul Toursignant, Daryl Reid, Shayn Bal- lagh, Sean McKenzie, Evan Davies, and Jeff Hartwig. In the C Division championship, it was the Hampton Junior Public School which captured the medals. The team is shown here following its victory at the Bowmanville Kinsmen Club junior school volleyball championships during the weekend. This team from Orono Public School captured the B Division championships championships in a game against Enniskillen. Orono defeated Enniskillen 12-15 in the final game of the 3-game championship round. The game took place at the annual Bowmanville Kinsmen volleyball tournament. Bowmanville's Waverley Public School came away from the annual Kinsmen Club Volleyball Tournament with the D Division championship. Shown here, from left, (front row) are: Kenny Willman, Brett Rosnak, Greg White, Stephen Thompson, and Jason Wraight. The back row (from left) consists of coach David Gray, Dwayne Brooking, Stephen Reid, Brian Elliott Mike Tratarchuk, and Doug Edwards. Spotlight on Darlene Cook, Health Educator by Catherine Denny Persuading hundreds of children each day to brush their teeth regularly and eat the proper snacks is a challenge that only someone someone like Dental Health Educator Darlene Cook could meet. Although kids are generally generally more nutrition conscious conscious these days, Darlene admits that candy-coated snacks arc still the most popular treat on the playground, playground, and that's a hard habit to break. "Everyone likes to have a bit of candy now and again, but I try to teach the students students to eat it only when they arc able to brush their teeth directly afterwards," explained Mrs. Cook. "I also try to get them to think in terms of sugar content when choosing their snacks," she added. The Enniskillen resident visits each elementary school class in the Durham Region at least once, sometimes sometimes twice a year. This includes includes educating youngsters youngsters from the Kindergarten level right through to Grade 8. Teaching oral hygiene to these otherwise unsuspecting unsuspecting youths is a rewarding full-time job for Darlene who, with two children of her own, knows the importance importance of starting good habits at a young age. "It's nice to hear from the teachers that the students really listened to my message message and arc practising more restraint at school and at home," said Mrs. Cook. Of course lectures on dental dental care and cavity prevention, prevention, just like anything else tend to slip a child's mem ory quickly. It is for this reason that the Durham Regional Regional Health Unit organized organized a fluoride program in conjunction with Darlene's Darlene's visits, which is run by interested parent volunteers. volunteers. This program is initiated once every two weeks in each classroom when participating participating students rinse their mouths with a fluoride liquid to help keep their teeth healthy, white, and cavity-free. "There is a 95 per cent participation rate for this program in the Durham Region," Region," said the Health Educator. "That's great, especially since we don't have any fluoride in our water to help strengthen our teeth," she added. When Darlene isn't relaying relaying Murphy the Molar's message to local youths, she can usually be found teach- Newcastle 'Home of Champs' "Newcastle is the home of champions," champions," said Mayor Garnet Rickard, referring to the new world champion champion auctioneer Frank Stapleton, of Newtonville and runner Silvia Rucgger. The general purpose and administration administration committee moved to officially officially recognize and congratulate Mr, Stapleton for his achievement. Mayor Rickard and Councillor Diane Ham re were singing Newcastle's Newcastle's praises last week at the committee committee meeting. Councillor Ham re offered congratulations congratulations and wishes for success to a new business in Orono, "The Village Bin". "Orono is thriving,..its people are enthusiastic", she said, adding that many other small communities communities in southern Ontario were not so fortunate. Mayor Rickard was also happy to ing denture identification in regional nursing homes. This program, also set up by the Durham Regional Health Unit, helps to keep senior citizens informed about the new types of dentures dentures available, and keeps them aware of the importance importance of regular denture cleaning. Now in her fourth year as Health Educator, Mrs. Cook notices a greater awareness in the community about dental hygiene, in both chil dren and parents. "Most of the kids I tea< take the information abo clean teeth home to the re of their family," said Da lene. "This way, I educa four or five people for eac student in every class." ' announce the opening of a new business, business, "Rust Check" in Bowmanville. Bowmanville. Bowmanville Man Wins Super Loto Car Draw Bowmanville resident, John Tatay, was the winner of a 1985 Dodge Caravan in the January 27 Super Loto bonus draw. Mr. Tatay, of Little Avc., says he expects to receive his car within the next few weeks. The cars are part of a special promotion featuring Canadian-produced Canadian-produced automobiles as bonus prizes in both the January 27 and February February 24 draws, These draws also featured regular regular prizes of$l million and $100,000 as well as thousands ol'other prizes, Youths ol today are becoming more and more conscious of and the dangers ofeating too many sweets thanks to the dedicat like Denial Health Educator, Darlene Cook. oral hygiene ion of people