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Of course. I should nave had a hint after the first Wodd Series win when an American friend said to me. "Shoot! Your Dominicans are better than our Dominicans.“ Anyway, I have become a terrible cynic about big-time sports. I'm not sure when this happened. or maybe it has iust grown over time. It mostly came to a head with the baseball stn‘ke a few years ago. Up until then I was a fan who believed the lays were really Toronto‘s team and the players actually cared about the city. What a sap, eh? I haven't had a good mm for a long time. but I feel one coming up. Ah. yes. here it is. Or perhaps it's just that salami and pickle sandwich fighting back. This Space Sponsored by Community monoom Church o! Stounvmo Though dmennt In faith. m we form deep bonds of friendship and the» work, affect and Ilvo minor, we discover that the usuli tub of "h, c; As believers, we need to reach out and experience the lay of befriending one another Moreover, as the Bible indicates, we were created by the same God Has i7:,26) Though our mhip might-be different and sometimes our emphasis on points differs, we all believe in cm: coo. secondly. iasus is the ltey concept of our faith and thirdly LOVE, to God and one another. is the way of serving the one true God. It is always important to NM on and strengthen what we have in common as human bdnpmdaedtmm and that match bllowlhip anon In. - "WHITCHURCH-STOUFFVILLE THIS MONT H" - See Parish aid Community Mennonite Church of Stouliville owned by RM and Carolyn Ree-or. l hind this trip to be a wonderful opportunity to live. discuss. pray. and share love and concerns between Caddies from Uganda and Mennonites in Canada. M pm oi this exchange. I delivered the sermon at two Mennonite congregations. I also attended a Mennonite retreat weekend. i was invited into many homes. enloying the variety of foods offered and the fellowship that comes from eating a meal towher. This privilege to share God's love and learn from each other sent me back with anewheart-beat lamsureitleitthe same behind, since already PmAlton. from Countinity Mennonite Church is making plans to visit St hide Bukoto Catholic Parish in Maeaka. Uganda, in No Fun In Games mewmsmflawmmfibmlvfltbsmflvme. Bukom Cathoflc A New Heart-Beat I play that each and all of us always remain as winners to the end. not for ourselves but for Chflst. Feedback? We'd love to heat your comments Please contaa us at. faith. 11mg. ourooinmon faith causes us to react to situations and work together. An ennpie of this was the 'Have a Heart for Uganda' music iundraising concert that was held in Stonfiville on February Nth. At this concert. Bryan Suderman sang ' My Voice Alone". This song some that when we loin our voice with others. we can make a real dillerence in the world. When we come together a neighbours in this global vlllap. our faith in God makes a greater influence on the world. The world today needs this strong heartâ€"beat â€" religious harmonious coexistence that makes us all winners in the end. Box 95028. 5592 Main Street smelle. ON MA 253 ralslng duldlen, love In the famlly, protecting our envlronment. llvlng faithfully according to our deepest convlcum.ensurln¢peaceandhmioe and Hunting the needs ol those who sane: Illness. mess. poverty and dlsater, confmnt us not lust as Individuals buttogetheras a people of Father Peter Paul Ssemakula At the international level. certainly. and even between towns or cities. sport is warfare. lust ask Thomas Junta in Whenever] read the spin-doctor pub- licity that sport creates goodwill between nations, 1 think of it as a cooked up com- mercial, about as true as "Things go bet- ter with Coke" or with Kentucky Fried Chicken or Tide, or other advertising myths. Somehow it seems that business, pol- itics and nationalism have taken over sports. Maybe that was always true. but now they make no attempt to hide it. The NHL playoffs run until the summer, like a separate season. with more teams in the playoffs than Bill Gates has dimes. So why watch the irrelevant regular season at all? us on ‘www.stouflvilleonline.com' Even the competition to stage the Olympics has become overtly conupt. This is, after all. a highly successful cor- poration, one which has tried. reasonably The 2004 extravaganza, which has been a venerable community tradition since I960, will include music from the movies, as well as other well-loved The lamie Sale-David Pelletier pairs skating decision is only one example. Sensing exposure, the judges suddenly ran for cover. The Chinese judge devel‘ oped a bad cold and left town. The French judge took the fall for vote trading even though anyone who watches figure skating competitions suspects this has been normal procedure for years. And the other disputes with the North Koreans and Russians threatening to not take part in the final ceremony. were only the ante to the pot. Fm the Cutting Room Floor is the title of this year's Music Mania. which mns April 22 to 24 at Stouffville District Secqndary School. The Olympics have always been an arena for national pride and a setting for addressing old grievances. But the won- derfully entertaining Olympia also add to the enormous fund of ill will in the world. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. Tonya Harding might confirm that. As President Mobuto Sese Seko said, when he dispatched the Zaire soc- cer team to the World Cup competition, "Win or die!" Reading, Mass.. who was found guilty in the beating death of his lo'year-old son's hockey coach. This is not only true of the players but of the behaviour and attitude of the spectators. and behind the specta- tors, of the nations who believe the_ per- formances by their athletes, whether skating. running or throwing something. are tests of national virtue. Behind it all is the attitude of "mine is bigger than yours." Music Mania tackles the silver screen 67 Edward SI. (lun- M's Mum) by Ralph Pohlman A! the Pulse You 600:7 0N0 O'I'homostodhncodshnohhean Gimmicks oquipmont In achieve yoqr fitness goal 6,000 so. FT: 9M!“ Ming: in the business melodies. along with witty skits, fine choreography and beautiful costumes. "We‘ve loosened it up this year, it‘s been a very tight format before and we want- ed to make it more of a variety show." said spokeswoman Marg Cunningham. Tickets for Music Mafiia'g’é’éfi’éfié‘ at the beginning of April. One wondets what it would be like if they had a life, or Ieamed to read. There, that feels better. And when WrestleMania. which has long demonstrated that its place on the crude meter is right down there with the flush knob, came to town it was a sellout. But then, those same folk stood in line 2,000 years ago at the Roman Coliseum, and paid their drachmas to scream as the lions ate the Christians. The Central American countries of Honduras and El Salvador share a border of about l80 miles and a passion for the sport. In I969, a soccer game actually precipitated a war between the two countries with machine guns, air bomb- ings, tank deployment and the invasion of Honduras by the El Salvadorean Army. By the time it was over, there were 6,000 dead. more than l2.000 wounded, some 50,000 deprived of their homes and fields and _many villages destroyed. Of course, soccer, the world‘s most popular sport. is the pfime example of nationalism gone nuts, particularly in Europe and South America. A British diplomat once noted. "There are two things every diplomat. no matter his nationality, dreads. One is for his country to dispatch a goodwill naval visit and give 3,000 sailors shore leave. The other is to try to build international relations through football'f successfully. to protectdts well-mani- cured public image. while at the same time accepting backroom .bnbes from competing cities Let us notbe naive, the Olympics' 15 politics through sport “2-01 05 (0053“ APRIL 2004