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26 economist suntribune sports thursday june 20 2002 dunkeld is a good sport for all seasons athletics have played big part in stouffville councillors life by jim thomas correspondent hes a man for all seasons at the ball diamond and bowling green spring and summer the curling rink and hockey arena fall and winter for stoufmles cliff dunkeld these sites are second homes hes served the role of sports builder and sports player more man 50 years born at atha in northern pickering dunkeld obtained his secondary school education at stouffville and pickering he was employed first at scotiabank in markham then with pickering township and later ontario county and durham region he retired in 1996 but not from sports he continues involvements in soft- ball hockey lawn bowling and curling it was dunkeld who back in the 50s helped organize the claremont community softball league he played shortstop with altona a team that would later win two champi onships over a 10year period when manager merv bunker retired dunkeld stepped into his shoes as the league grew so did the need for umpires dunkeld turned to offici ating first on the bases and later at the plate here he gained the respect of coaches and players alike it was coumpire gord swifty todd who coined the phrase the clos er the play the louder the call cliff dunkeld at 70 years of age town councillor still enjoys going to the hockey rink or ball diamond to watch games it always worked dunkeld recalls it was a great league dunkeld remembers crowds in excess of 500 were not uncommon later dunkelds interests turned to softball both girls and boys in claremont and stouffville the involve ment of family four daughters and two sons only increased his enthusiasm when a stouffville peewee team was on the verge of folding for want of a coach dunkeld came to the front he also reorganized a midget girls rep club after obtaining the services of ace stouffville righthander kathy lewis it was dunkeld who brought the stouffville stingers to town a team that would later win an allontario inter mediate title but dunkeld didnt reserve his ener gies just for softball in hockey he was a driving force organizing the first local female league in 1974 with more than 120 players he was ably assisted in this endeavour by joanne steel together they were able to break an existing all- male barrier despite predictions it wouldnt last dunkeld and steel proved them wrong it was linda moffat stapleton who convinced dunkeld to volunteer his coaching skills at the college level he joined the seneca college coaching staff and remained there seven years this was a highlight dunkeld admits we played against other uni versities many in the united states and often beat them too over the years dunkelds held almost every conceivable executive position including president of the whitchurchstouffville minor softball association president of whats now the markhamstouffville girls hockey association and auditor within the ontario amateur softball association he remains a director with the towns minor ball association he was a first recipient of whitchurchstouffvilles sports personality of the year award an hon our sponsored by the stouffville sun his house is filled with citations even with so many sports interests dunkeld still finds time to serve as a town councillor and a director with the stouffville lions club it was all for the kids dunkeld insists ive always enjoyed watching children have fun this enjoyment has extended over half a century and through two gener ations and at 70 years young hes not through yet i still like stopping off at the arena and the ball park to see how things are going he concludes staff photoerin riley the ball stops here jonathan friesen a member of the whitchurchstouffville undereight boys milk and cookies house league soccer team appears to have a handle on stopping this ball during a practice held at the novopharm soccer field in stouffville on monday mother nature not kind to gibbons a great start but a disap pointing finish was what peter gibbons experienced when he took his canadian tire chevy to mosport international raceway last sunday for the cascar clarington 250 race the stouffville resident earned the top pole position through qualifying as he record ed the fastest time on the final lap at 12654 but when the race concluded gibbons finished 25th beginning the race under threatening skies gibbons ran at the front of the field before the rains came after a 20minute delay the cars attempted to dry off the track surface but were unsuc cessful cascar officials though decided to continue the race this move didnt help peter gibbons was disappointed with cascars decision to continue race under adverse track conditions gibbons as he was unable to see through a fogged up windshield and drove onto a painted part of the track before spinning off and hitting hard into the wall two laps prior to the halfway mark the race was declared official at the halfway mark and gibbons finished in the 25th position an angry gibbons was disap pointed in the decision to con tinue the race at the drivers meeting we are told we are not going to race in the rain then during the race cascar officials changed their minds this was a dangerous sit uation we were put in today and i know a lot of drivers who feel the same way we would have won the race if the track conditions were dry and our car would not be destroyed like it is now through four cascar events gibbons occupies 12th spot overall with 495 points dj kennington is the overall points leader with 601 fine childrens wear visit our location to view our new summer collection 4981 highway 7 e markham across from markville tn o o markville hwy7 m cedcziczic i 4 c i o o o 2