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c12 su rekai johnson banisters solicitors 49 main street east 2nd floor stouffville ontario 6408100 or 6493555 leasing todays easy way to drive larry cotter leasing 6404541 ah makes and models a metroland community newspaper wednesday may 10 1989 don anderson buys into frontenacs i by bruce stapley local trucking company operator don anderson has bought a onethird interest in the kingston frontenacs of the on tario hockey leagues junior a division anderson and exnational hockey league executive and owner warren blair purchased equal shares of the frontenac club from club president bob at- tersley thursday attersley will stay on as the third partner the trio are involv ed in several other business enterprises including the pine stone inn and country club in haliburton anderson will act as vice president of the hockey team with attersley continuing as president and blair managing partner we talked about buying a junior a team in niagara falls but someone else bought it says anderson a stouffville area resident then the owner of the frontenacs wanted to move the team to owen sound so we acted to keep them in kingston anderson says the ontario hockey league has just come off one of its best seasons atten dance wise and that the league is strong vet he doesnt see the venture as a big money maker were hoping we make some money but you dont go into this sort of thing for the money while anderson wouldnt disclose the purchase price of the team he said it would cost ap proximately 450000 to run the club next year the three men are hoping to turn the team around from a mediocre 198889 season i think they were third last this year said anderson but they are a good team and with a promoter like blair we should be able to get them on track anderson told the tribune he had considered bringing a junior team to stouffville and that he hasnt ruled it out altogether for the future hopefully ill learn a little about hockey in kingston maybe some day ill look into a junior team for stouffville but it might be a little tough to get it doing here andersons only previous hockey experience was as a player in the unionville minor hockey association in the 1940s and 50s and as a member of the unionville junior b hockey team from 195356 he is currently president of don anderson haulage in stouff ville and has various other business interests wwikx m i ipiilf aw vv don anderson buys team cliff bass found his calling working behind home plate it was double trouble coming from this trio as the stouffville midgets trounced chinguacousy 62 in their home opener from left scott evans pholobruce stapley jamie showers and jamie miller all had doubles in the contest evans also pitched well in the game stouffville midgets start off 1989 season with 62 victory by bruce stapley it was double trouble for the visiting chinguacousy bramp ton softball team thursday at the main diamond at stouff- villes memorial park timely twobaggers by jamie showers scott evans and newcomer jamie miller provided the offence while the dynamic duo of evans and new recruit byron baroneski com bined for 14 strikeouts as the stouffville midgets bested the visitors 62 in an exhibition game showers drove in the games first run with a double in the first inning millers double triggered the threerun fifth with evans cashing in two runs with his twobagger evans scampered home on a wild pitch later in the inning rob parcells scored in the se cond frame on an error with evans driving in the other run with a single in the third evans pitched the first four innings racking up eight strikeouts while surrendering one run baroneski was good for six whiffs in his threeinning stint also giving up a solo run the midgets start their regular season may 24 in scar borough returning to stouff ville for their first home game the next evening versus markham by bruce stapley when cliff bass was asked to look after the officiating of intra mural sports at summitview public school in 1959 he didnt have any idea he was embarking on a lifelong career as a sports arbiter today the aitona resident spends most summer nights um piring for the yorkdurham mens slopitch league and the towns minor ball program he has worked his way up from umpiring local girls rep ball teams at the age of 13 he was picked up by the north york um piring association in newmarket a year later and started to work senior softball games at 16 he was umpire and chief for the north pickering softball league in 1978 he gave hockey refereeing a shot along the way but gave it up when he found it to be too much when combined with his summer sideline of umpiring baseball games the head of outdoor education at westview centennial secon dary school in north york bass finds officiating a good way to pass the time in the summer months most of the time its a lot of fun he claims you get to meet people i dont do it for the money although it does mean a few dollars on the side his memories are made up of both the good and the bad he vividly recalls a night game that ptiotobruce stapley cliff bass an umpire for more than 30 years is gearing up for the 1989 season back in 1959 the aitona resident took up officiating and has j been at it ever since he calls umpiring fun but has gone through some rough times behind the plate as well i orchard park makes clean sweep it was a clean sweep for orchard park public school at the area f north junior coed volleyball tournament last monday the host squad took all four of their games to end up with 12 points earning them the right to compete in the area f finals this week may 8 to 12 dickson hill public school was second with two wins and three losses good for nine points while summitview public school placed third with a win and four losses for seven points orchard park team members include aimee gaston michelle gilroy leah kiminerly sylvia jankulovski cathy evans anne marie roy cory goertzen doug frew mark rennie brian saunders dwayne lapp donald mcclean and shawn sargent the team was coached by staff members steve rensink and pain henry went 17 innings at a tournament in mt albert in 1979 the final score was 10 it was a long night he was also a part of the crew that umpired the allontario championships won by the stouff ville bantams in 1987 but he remembers with the same clarity a game in pickering when after ejecting a player from the game he was chased off the field by an angry fan with a baseball bat the fan was rather in ebriated john annis who plays for stouffvilles betz pools team now was pitching that night and he grabbed the fan and broke his jaw while bass used to umpire mostly fastball he now sticks mainly with slopitch games say ing he prefers the faster pace theres more action and less balls and strikes he likes the atmosphere of slo- pitch saying it is less fiercely competitive than fastball there is a sense of cameraderie among the players there is a friendliness in tournaments andc the umpire doesnt have as domilfi nant a role m occasionally the good timeris spirit runs a little high and s bass admits he once decided the i ball players were more in- j terested in drinking than playing ball it only happened once during j a weekend tournament i had to walk off the field both teams- were inebriated i bass maintains most ball players are usually willing to 1 give him the benefit of the doubt- j on a close call as much as the ump is only 50 per cent right mostj of the time the players really seem to appreciate the job you do for them if the worst comes to j the worst he knows he could be j spending the rest of the game out of the game bass who has two young sons one in tball feels hell be call- i ing them out and safe for many s years yet ill continue on its a good outlet for me in the summer time photobruce stapley no strain no gain stouffville district secondary school has the fittest students at least the results of the annual fitness challenge would lead to one to believe that is the case the stouffvllle team beat out eight other york region squads in the challenge which pits individuals and teams against ono another here rob pagllaro trains to get in one more situp before time runs out the stouffvllle team beat ka nearest competitor by a large margin watch the weekender for details of the ovent bowling winners stouffvllle bowling centres bowling banquet was held last weekend from left to right bowlers of the year were selected in three categories pee wee zachary raybould junior jeff flewell bantam cheryl jackson highest averages of the year were awarded to the following bowlers ing the stouffville outh bowling council divisions at rear from left are janet flewell steven talt christine jackson n front from left are jason sinclair chad korswlll and stephanie rand