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rekai johnson banisters solicitors 49 main street east 2nd floor stouffville ontario 6408100 or 6493555 all areas of general practice second section sports classified leasing today s easy way to drive larry cotter leasing 6404541 ah makes and models a metroland community newspaper wednesday july 22 1987 teamwork stouffvilles peter ward 6 top photo seems more than a little surprised that he missed this ground ball not to worry though as chris heide- tna 7 is backing up the play perfectly thats what you call teamwork the boys were playing a little bit of pickup ball sunday afternoon in stouffville memorial park bottom photo greg drummond 8 seems to have found a new method for hitting home runs during the game and all these years theyve been doing it the wrong way does george bell know about this alan shackleton zillman brettell make best times at games for physically disabled two area athletes did extreme ly well at last weeks ontario games for the physically dis abled in north york mark zillman 19 of uxbridge and ballantraes keith brettell both had a brush with royalty and set some record times in their events at the games zillman who is blind won three gold medals in track running races he took first place and ran a personal best time of four minutes 50 seconds 450 in the 1500- metres for senior men aged 1330 years old zillman also won the800m in a time of 2 26 and the 3000m in a time of 1048 his outstanding performances qualify him to compete in the up coming canadian games for the physically disabled to be held the week of aug 2330 in bradford ontario brettell 16 competed in five events three track and two swim ming and excelled in four of them in the pool he swam a provin cial record time of 11088 in the 50metre butterfly he completed the 100m freestyle in a very re spectable 224 brettell also clocked personal bests in the three wheelchair track events with times of 4440 seconds in the 200m 12290 in the 400m and 25870 in the 800m his times in the track events and the butterfly also qualified him for the canadian games royal look brettell was thrilled with his performance at the ontario games and his close up look at royalty the duke and duchess of york visited the games last friday afternoon at the north york civic stadium brettell was in a line of athletes the duke and duchess walked past i didnt really get a chance to speak to them though they did stop and talk to a few people he remembered i had a good look at them though i liked what prince andrew was wearing he had on a silver tie gray suit and pink shirt torch bearer another upcoming honor for brettell will be on december 22 when he carries the torch for the winter olympics through the pickering area it will be day 36 of the torch relay as it makes its way across canada for the 1988 calgary win ter olympics brettell applied for a shot at carrying the torch months ago and was lucky enoughto be chosen stouffville stingers play host to provincial fastball qualifier by alan shackleton sports editor the stouffville stingers ladies fastball team hope home field advantage pays off for them this weekend as they host the in termediate open regional a qual ifier for the provincial cham pionships eleven teams will invade town friday night to start the double knockout tourney in which four squads will advance to the provin cial championships two weeks from now in london stinger manager ted lowery would be thrilled if his team could repeat the success of the past two seasons when they won a gold and a bronze in the provincials but hes not making any predictions for this year this is our first season in the intermediate open division and im not as familiar with the teams see stinger b2 ball teams sought the york county juniorfarmers association is hosting a three- pitch softball tournament on the weekend of august sin ballantrae and there are still spots available in the event for interested teams entering teams should be mixed squads with at least three females playing and participants must be at least 16 years old the fun goes all day saturday aug 8 at the ballantrae commun ity centre and there will be a dance after the ball tournament a 10 entry fee per team also includes admission to the dance for persons wishing to attend only the dance tickets are 7 for more information on this event please call kim little at 2941611 after 6 pm hachey helps ontario field hockey team to national finals keith acton golf tourney attracts hockey stars and other celebrities the first annual williamson motorskeith acton golf tournament goes this friday at firefighters mill run course in siloam with an allstar cast of golfers ready to hit the links the tournament is a fundraiser for the pickering based childrens wish foundation of canada this worthy organization helps grant dying children fin al wishes such as trips to disneyland or meetings with favorite athletes among the celebrities slated to invade the ux bridge area course on july 24 is stouffvilles hero tom rivers the big man from radio station cftr will be there with a large number of nhl stars and personalities j along with stouffvilles own nhler keith acton newest town resident bill root of the toronto maple leafs will also play root brings along leaf teammates dan daoust chris kotsopoulos todd gill and markhams steve thomas super agent alan eagleson and hockey broadcas ter brian mcfarlane will also be present other celebrities include acton cohorts from the minnesota north stars dirk graham and willi plett and from the st louis blues puckstoppers rick walmsley and greg millen the firefighters mill run course is located on durham road 8 just northeast of the town of stouffville in siloam spectators are more than welcome at the tournament stouffvilles brenda hachey was a member of the ontario 16- andunder girls field hockey team that made it to the finals of the canadian championships last weekend in vancouver hachey 16 plays right half on the ontario squad which lost the championship to a very tough british columbia team 30 in the final sunday afternoon the twoday tourney pitted the provincial field hockey teams of ontario bc manitoba and alberta against each other in competition at the university of british columbia ubc campus it was no sightseeing trip for members of the ontario team as they left for vancouver friday had a weekend full of field hockey and then returned home midnight sunday they arrived back in toronto at 7 am monday we sure werent there for long a tired hachey said in an interview from her home monday afternoon we played at ubc and we stayed at ubc we didnt see much of the town the ontario team got the cham pionships of to a bad start early saturday morning when they lost 70 to bc it was really sad hachey said of the game they were a strong team and we just couldnt get anything going however they rebounded saturday afternoon and knocked off manitoba 40 on sunday morning they took on alberta in what was the most entertaining match of the weekend the game went back and forth before ontario scored in the last 10 minutes to win 10 that was a good game really emotional and exciting hachey said the win also put ontario into the finals where they had another crack at bc and a chance to avenge the loss the day before we were really up for bc in the finals we wanted to show them that we werent as bad a team as we looked on saturday hachey said the bc squad managed only one goal in the first half in what was a close contest despite the whirlwind nature of it all haichey enjoyed the trip and said she had a lot of fun members of the team had been working for months towards the canadian championships and now there isnt much left for them to do this season a lot of the players on the team will be too old for under16 next year so that was the last time a lot of them will play together hachey explained sports breeds social misfits so al whats on your tiny troubled mind this week you ask well maybe you dont ask but im going to tell tell you anyway theres a bunch of stuff on my mind for instance the irancontra hearings are stressing me out something fierce as is the building industry the baseball allstar game and the perception among some that sports is not the most important aspect of life in the latter half of the twentieth century i have to live with these things folks and its not always easy golly ollie oliver north has been making lots of buddies among average americans for his good work funding the contras in nicaragua dont they care about their laws and the constitution do two wrongs really make a right is this why it took the us 12 years to get out of viet nam speaking of 12 years is the allstar game over yet wake me up when something happens that game had to be one of the most painful pieces of television ive ever watched vin scully and joe garagiola going on and on about the ball not being as lively because it had the signature of baseball commisioner peter ueberroth on it once was amusing guys twice was too much and three times called for the death penalty a punishment id like to inflict on the ctv clowns who brutalized the coverage they kept coming back from commercials too late and missing pitches or even outs they showed 11 million promos for night heat and the ctv national news and if i had a rocket launcher do i seem to be in a bad mood this week must be because im not controversial enough for stouffville sidelines by alan shackleton sports editor well that might just change as don adams would say check this out social misfits just as high school basketball teaches you how to be a poor loser the manly attitude towards sports seems to be little more than a recipe for creating bad marriages social misfits moral degener ates sadists latent rapists and just plain louts i regard high school sports as a drug far worse than marijuana and it is the reason that the average tennis champion say is a pathetic oaf paul thcroux holy jumpin wilbur thems fightin words paul thcroux is a fairly well known and respected writer with many books and essays to his credit including the mosquito coast the above quote came from an essay called being a man which he wrote in 1983 obviously sports werent high on his list of fun things to do however i think his criticisms are excessive the benefits of playing sports especially team sports in terms of health socialization and enjoyment far outweigh any disadvan tages thcroux is an american and he must have gone to one tough high school sports teach people about working together for a common goal cooperation and the fact that sometimes no matter how hard you try you dont always win thats what growing up is all about i think the problem comes when people start putting sports ahead of everything else in their lives unfortunately that does sometimes happen and the results are indeed pathetic one often hears of the husband who cant get away from his family fast enough to spend his time on the golf course or watching football sad as it is thats the individuals problem not sports in general if this guy wasnt out golfing hed spend the time away from his family in a bar with other women or someplace else to simply blame sports is far too easy just because a tavern is built in a town it doesnt mean the population will turn into alcoho lics try explaining that one to few folks in this burg though and youll get an argument apologies to end this little session of rant and rave id like to apologize for what appeared on page bloof last weeks tribune i have no idea of how or why it got there it was an insult to intelligent life forms and had no place in this newspaper im sure it must have really steamed those of you living in new subdivisions who arc still waiting for your sod and numerous re pairs that have to be made to your brand new house because of sloppy building id like to add that when i look upon a piece of land full of rocks and boulders and trees and scrub sic i like it and i wish it would bloody well stay that way