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Concentration McDonald four wins Barber and Haskill 'spiel The winning rink in the Barber and Haskill Mixed Curling Bonspiel held Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Midland Curling Club was headed by Paul McDonald of Midland. He was joined by Edyth Clarke, Leon Brett and Marc Goodman and together, they defeated the rink of Bill Howard, Lynn Morton, Peter Mackay and Don Hough 8-2 in eight ends for the championship. The winning rink in the second event was headed by Hank Coleman and his rink won by a score of 6-3 in eight ends of play over Bob Bell's rink while the third event was won by the rink of Del Thorpe in a comeback victory 9-8 over Kent Carstairs. Thorpe's rink was behind by three points but returned with a strong last end to win the event. Rod Reynold's rink walked away with a large win over Dr. Jim Shaw's rink and because of the one-sided match, organizers of the bonspiel chose not to release the score to this newspaper. Prizes ranged from vacuum cleaners to electric fans and were donated by Barber and Haskill Electrical Appliances store in Midland. Midland midgets win close one Midland Orchard Fresh Major Midgets travelled to Base Borden Sunday and came out with a close 6-5 victory. Midland scored the first goal with John Walter coming up with the marker on a pass from Malcolm Spears. Borden tied the score up then but Midland's Ken Sandy put them ahead again with Rick Rever and _ Steve Bressette getting the assists. Borden tied the score once more and Midland went ahead again on a goal from Brian Cadieux on a pass from Gary Leduc. Borden continued to play catch up hockey as they made the score 3-3. Rick Rever scored for Midland to put them ahead 4-3, 50 seconds before the end of the second period with Gary Beausoleil getting the assist on the play. Mike Leo scored for Midland then to put them ahead two goals, Midland atoms provide action filled hockey In Midland Minor Hockey's Atom house league division, Midland IGA outscored McQuirter Real Estate 4-1 Saturday while A.E. LePage went one better to take their game against Georgian Bay Real Estate 5-1. Jory's IDA defeated OK Johnson Travel 2-1. There will be one game this weekend, that game Friday at 6:10 p.m. in Midland Cen- tennial Arena when Midland IGA will take on McQuirter Real Estate. There will be a practice for OK Johnson Travel and Jory IDA at 6:30 p.m. and another » practice for Georgian Bay Real Estate and A.E. LePage at 5:15 p.m. There will be no house league hockey Satur- day. In the tyke division, Bertrams' Fuels defeated Ron's Gas Bar 7-2 Friday. The two teams will play again this Friday at 4:30 p.m. John Walter receiving the assist on the goal. Borden then came on strong with two goals which tied the game up at five goals apiece. With only two-and-a- half minutes left to play in the game, Midland's Steve Bressette scored from Allan Whidden and John Walter to put them ahead to stav. Barber Haskill champs The concern of Vivian Shaw for the effect of | vice skip of the Hank Coleman rink in the -- her shot is plain to see inher face. She was the | weekend's annual Barber-Haskill bonspiel in Les Barber (left) congratulates the top rink in the weekend's Barber-Haskill Curling Bonspiel in Midland. The winners are, to Barber's right: Paul McDonald (skip), Leon Brett (second), Mark Midland. Goodman (lead) and sitting, Edythe Clark (vice). Each member had their choice of their prize, including the combination tape deck and radio shown. Peewee 'B' update: five wins, no losses Updating the Elmvale Peewee B's, the team has been doing well since before Christmas. Dec. 21 saw the team down Coldwater in their opposition's Arena by a score of 4-3. The Elmvale squad then went on to Oro to take part in a house league ~ tournament. Here they came away with a 3-1 win over the host club and the con- solation trophy. Jan. 3 was the evening Elmvale downed Brabant gets high single Dennis' Brabant bowled a 386 single for the high single of the week trophy donated by Summer's' Trophies Sunday in Midland Industrial Bowling League action. In that league, Brabant's Construction increased their lead in the eastern division of play to 83 points with 36 wins and 12 losses to their credit. 3 Garner's Sports have 66 points in second place while Huronia Auto Glass is third with 61 points. Legion Gold, Ladouceur Construction and Bay Mills Rookies fill out the rest of that division with 50, 39 and 30 points respectively. In the western division, Quality Carpet Care also has a good lead with 73 points while Norsim's Canadianas have 62 points in second place. Commodore Hotel is close behind with 61 points in third position. Bayshore' Lanes, Legion Red and Bay Mills Bombers are in fourth, fifth and sixth place respectively with 54, 38 and 36 points. Brabant also has the high average at 249 while Louis Maurice has 233 for the next highest total which he shares with Maurice Lapensee. Lapensee has a high score of 291 while Ray Marchand has 289, followed closely by Paul Buttineau with 288. Midland by ascore of 6-2 and- last Friday, the Peewees against Knights of Columbus in Elmvale and was once more managing a 2-1 win. Saturday saw the Elmvale squad _ in Coldwater, and good position playing and a winning team effort paid off in a 7-2 defeat of their host club. Tim Swan picked up a faced off the Barrie victorious, effort on the part of the injured player. . for the local team were Jerry Brown, with two Other __ point-getters win. hattrick, even though goals and Brad Hubbard playing with a broken and Bruce Johnston arm. a tremendous with singles. Allen Gilbert played well in Elmvale net and a complete team effort resulted in the eventual by Brian Berriault Just adding to the warning about ice conditions -- they are far from good. Lake Simcoe over a two week period only added about six to 10 cm. (three to four in- ches) of ice. It may not take long to drill fishing holes but 18 to 20 cm. (seven to eight inches) is not what I would call save to drive vehicles onto the lake. Yet there are still a few who would rather risk going through than walk a mile or so to get at their quarry. Lake Simcoe is not producing too many herring as yet. They have not moved in to their old familiar holding grounds. An ice fisherman would do well to pick up a halve dozen in an outing but as most fisher- men know the chances of being skunked are even greater. What fish are being caught are taken on the old silver lure with a trailing pearl. This seems to be the only bait winter fishermen use for herring. Herring are never, or should I say seldom taken on the lure but in most cases attack the trailing pearl. Any lure that shines can be used as an attractor. No one lure seems to shine in this area. Check first If you get the chance to get down to Lake Simcoe check out ice thickness before ven- turing out in your vehicle. One mistake and it could be costly. If ice keeps forming it won't be too long before it is safe for ice travel. Check thickness of ice FIRST By vehicles I do not mean snowmobiles although caution should be taken when in strange country. Anglers are starting to worry in Penetanguishene. Seems the bottom of the bay is starting to clutter up with everything but fish. Boats - front-end loaders. Ice conditions in Georgian Bay aren't the very best as we have been hearing lately. Snowmobilers would be wise to avoid river mouths or narrows while out on a run. River currents and water motion in narrow openings keep ice from forming. Snow con- ditions act as an insulator keeping cold weather from making ice. It's hard to believe after the cold weather lately that there wouldn't be at least three feet of ice and if it wasn't for the snow covering there would be. One other problem we will have this year will be winter kills. Deep snows will affect both deer herds as well as fish. With such a heavy covering of snow water will not be able to keep up with fish when it comes to oxygen. As Spring. draws near fish will begin to die- off because of lack of oxygen. Small lakes are usually first to go because of their size but lakes even the size of Georgian Bay will be affected. Deer will have a hard winter this year. Deep snows will cover food and make travel almost impossible. Dogs running at large and coyote's will take their toll as well as the usual poachers. Numbers will be down again next year for northern deer herds. Wednesday, January 14, 1981, Page 27