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Terrace Bay News, 12 Apr 1962, p. 1

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Vole5, Noel5 Serving the district in which we live "April 12,1962 'NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO YOUTH CONFERENCE This year's Northwestern Ontario Youth Conference, involving teenagers from communi- ties as far cast as Wawa and as far west as the Manitoba border, will be held from April 23rd to 26th in Dryden, Over 300 delegates will be in attendance to take part in lec- tures, discussions and programmes set around the theme "Planning for Tomorrow", . Guest speakers are HeE,Thomas of the Department of ' Education, Community Programmes Branch and Dre Michael Grapko, University of Manitoba, Along with the serious business of plan- ing for their futures, the young people will enjoy the social side of the Conference which includes two social evenings, Highlights of these evenings are the Variety Programme, the Dance Contest and the Teen Queen Contests Several changes have been made in the con- tests this year, notably the use of folk- type numbers in the dance contest and the stress on talent and public speaking in the Queen Contest. The bathing suit walk-on willbe deleted from the contest, both now and in the futures Over a period of eight years this Confer- ence has become an important part of the © lives of our youth, It is new recognized as the largest annual youth conierence of its kind in existence, The value that the young people receive in planning and running the event, the information they receive from experienced lecturers and the knowledge they gain through the discussions will stand them in good 'stead throughout their adult lifes This year Terrace Day's quota for the conference is twenty delegates. These young people will travel to Dryden' by bus, shared with the Marathon delegation, leaving Monday morning, April 23rd and returning Thursday evauing, April 26th, They will be accompan~ ied wy the Recreation Director and two Counsellorse Seren ttn HOLLY DERNDTSSON 1962: TEEN QUEEN At a special contest programme, held last Friday evening at the High School, Miss Holly Berndtsson was crowned Miss Teen Town 1962, Princesses were Miss Cathy Cavanaugh and Miss Donnie Longe. . The contest consisted of a talent number in appropriate costume, a walk-on in party dress and a two minute oral autobiography. Holly's talent number was an accordian num- ber, Cathy's a display of her art work and a demonstration of sketching and Donnie!s a baton-twirling number, All three girls showed remarkable poise and ability, both in the talent numbers and while giving their autobiographies, They are to be congratu- lated on their fine performances. Holly will now represent Terrace Day at the Northwestern Ontario Youth Conference contests re ee TERRACE BAY 'SPIEL BIGGEST ON NORTH SHORE The Fourteenth Annual Terrace Day Curling Bonspiel, utilizing eight sheets of ice - four on the Arena surface, became the biggest 4Sricl of the North Shore when, last weekend, thirty-four guest rinks and fourteen resident rinks registered.s Final outcome of the events found two Terrace Bay rinks and two guest rinks emerging victors. The Jim Beddard rink from Terrace Bay won the first event, the S,McInnes rink from Beardmcre the second event, a Schreiber rink skipped by Re Neimi won the third event and DreHeHughes quartet from Fort Willian starred in the.fourth event. Semi-finals for the first event, sponsored by Stuart Electrical eliminated D,Styffe of Port Arthur and J.French of Fort William to send Jim MacDonald and Jim Beddard with their Club rinks from Terrace Day into the - finals, Jim Deddard Skip, Art Reynolds 3rd, Ernic Woods 2nd and Angus Fraser lead, over= whelmed JeMacDonald, Jack Lang, L.Forbes and Dre BeMacDonald, allowing the opposition _ counters in the fourth and sixth ends only. The Beardmore rink of S.McInnes entered the semi-finals an outsider among three Ter- race Bay rinks, Ostling, Crockford and Hamil- ton, His win put him in the finals against Len Crockforde <A win over Crockford put him in the lead in the Club sponsored second events : Visiting rinks competed for the Kennac Tackle sponsored third event. Kibsey oz " Nakina and Dr,Stinson of Port Arthur were swept out of the semi-finals, leaving a Schreiber Rink skipped py RNeimi with Je Slobodian 3rd, EeNeimi 2nd and PeDoig lead to outscore P,eSwitzer of Manitouwadgee Dre HeHughes of Fort William, skipping J,Jones, DeClark and M,Stitt easily ended the Club Sponsored Fourth Event over GeCaccamo of Schreiber. Charlie Pauls of Hornepayne was awarded the prize for the biggest end - a slight twist as his rink was the recipient: of two seven enders meted cut by L,Duquette and J,Deddard of Terrace Daye Rune Ostling, Past President of the Ter- race Bay Curling Club presented the awards and gave special credit to the Committee for the success of the Donspiel, The 'Spiel Committee weret=- Art Reynolds - Draw, Lou © Duquette - Ice, John Gross - Entertainnent, Len Crockford and Alex Crawford - Registra~ tion, Roy Larson and Jack Lang - Prizes, Howard Solly and J,Deddard = rrogratis HOCKEY FANS PULLING FOR MERCURIES SERRE "6. RSD SRK JOSEP GRINS een eueeeneRRnN Ce CNRRnNR TORRE = 2 District hockey fans, keenly interested in the current series between Marathon Mercuries and Prince Albert, were happy with the Merc!s big win Monday night. KEEP IT UP FELLOWS JJ ate AO A TE Pe a Re en a Sem

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