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wfve thursday august 24 1w8 the second section sports news district news n freak twister hits claremont the sky darkened ominously last saturday afternoon as anxious chefs tended the roast beef and corn at the ballantrae lions bar becue shortly before the dinner was to be served sheets of rain torrented down from the northwest and as the wall of water hit both cooks and would- bediners they made a scramble for the security of the community centre food temporarily forgotten a few hardy souls ran out to close car windows but the majority stayed put enjoying a few cold beers as the crowd inside the hall swelled ballantrae ex perienced heavy rain and gusting winds gormley area residents reported cherry sized hail stones while stouffville huddled in the midst of a power blackout after uprooted trees fell across main feeder lines service in a strip of whitchurch just north of town was not restored until near dawn sunday morning however the hardest hit area was a section of 5th cone uxbridge residents there got the full force of a twister barns were wrecked whole sections of roofs were torn off and whirled away and scores of tall trees were uprooted roy lewis was particularly hard hit he is now missing half a barn and will have to retrieve the roof from a neigh bouring field several hundred yards away his corn elevator was reduced to a mass of twisted metal and several mature trees were uprooted he plans to install a fireplace to utilize all the wood so suddenly dropped in his lap the friedrick family half a mile down the road also suffered great losses they had laboured all summer to build a barn only to have it torn down by the storm just as they were ready to put on the finishing touches mrs friedrick is grateful that the damage went no further however she said her daughter was out in the yard when the storm struck and two galvanized sheets went flying by her they m issed her by inchesshe was just so lucky- she said mr friedrick also got the shock of his life he was just attempting to help some chickens into the barn when the structure suddenly came apart and he had no place to put them the storm also in terrupted a wedding reception at the sleepy hollow golf and country club when the power failure there turned the reception into a candle light affair j hailstones the size of cherries fell in gormley during last saturdays storm children collected them by the handful and put them in the freezer below work crews clean up a soaking wet joe van binxteren of west hill carries his equally sodden daughter into the ballantrae community centre just after saturdays storm broke luckily the hall was big enough to accommodate all the patrons of the ballantrae lions steer roast roy lewis barn on 5th con rr i storm and his corn elevator top left reduced claremont was totally demolished by the wreckage