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t rm ----T Rw a AN HE yi F £8 T5000 iP Bd a AN Foy CRRA 'Winter fever high at Snow Show Although attendance was down a little at the Port Perry Snowmobile Club's 5th Snow Show, due to the beautiful fall weather over the weekend, club officials and the eight dealers involved were very satisfied with the show. The three day show made an impact with those attending, and reports indicate the Port Perry Snowmobile show was as good if not better than the show held in Toronto last weekend. Much of this is attributed to the personal touch dealers gave to o® Tw Serving Port Perry and Scugog Township Fung pr p---- - Ss A Bot A tu 2 TV NR a y a ] £4 v ' PE iad es -% . # ERE J » . or ye Pretty little Cindy Batty, 4 years, was just one of hundreds who attended Snow Show '79 at the Port Perry arena last weekend, and took advantage of the opportunity to try out snowmobiles. The youngster » te 4 if we - nh je 5 IR £0 RR > FRA 3 . Wt . - oo o by a " br found out this machine was just to her liking, being able to stretch completely out on the machines soft, padded seat. Rumour has it she's working on Mom to buy the powerful snow buggy. : Hockey eye injuries down Eye injuries to amateur hockey players have been reduced by 50 percent last season, due to the increased use of eye protectors accord- ing to Dr. Tom Pashby, a Toronto Opthalmologist and Chairman of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Committee on Face Protectors for Ice Hockey and Box Lacrosse Players. During the 77-78 season there were 53 eye injuries compared to 98 the previous year. Eight players were medically blinded, while 12 were blinded the year before. "None of these players were wearing face protec- tors', explains Dr. Pashby. "I have only received one reported eye injury to a player wearing a mask and that eye recovered almost normal vision. The change in this year's statistics is the age group. For instance, the youngest player to be blind- ed was 19 years old and most were in their mid-20's. This is because the younger players are having to wear masks but the older ones still are not wearing them. These figures certaihly support the need for face protectors." Out of 53 injuries, only one player was under 11 years of age. The vast majority occurred to people over 20 years. Although the stick still remains the major cause of injuries, this figure has dropped sharply due to the Canadian Amateur Eg Wan 1 vg: FAY i FAIR hk PRIS Hockey Association's (CAHA) high sticking rule. The puck is now becoming the major cause of eye injuries. Dr. Pashby's CSA Com- mittee has now revised a preliminary standard on face protectors making the standard more stringent and therefore suitable for goal tenders. Before this action, there were no standards for goalie masks. Dr. Pashby is urging the federal government to make the standard law, so that only certified protectors can be sold. At the present time, the program is voluntary and manufacturers are under no obligation to have their products certified. The federal government has THON {uf 0008 po made it law that all hockey helmets must meet CSA standards. Dr. Pashby warns that face protectors must fit pro- perly to be effective and cracked or damaged masks should be discarded. The mask should also be remov- able without taking the hockey helmet off which provides access to the face in case of injury. Also, plastic masks should not come in contact with vinyls because lines may appear on the shield. Face Protectors can be carried in a cotton or nylon bag. The masks should be cleaned with only soap and water or a mild liquid detergent rather than with an abrasive, which may tend to scratch the shield. by 0h, M2 browsers. \ ago That big smile indicates that Melanie Rypstra is an avid snowmobiler and can hardly wait for Mother Nature to drop her first load of snow on the area so she can take to the country. Melanie was attending the Port Perry Snow Show last weekend. 2 A spokesman for the Dur- ham Health Unit said last Thursday that there is ab- solutely no truth to a rumour that Cartwright Public School in Blackstock would be closed because of a prob- lem with head lice in stu- dents. Betty Schaefer, health unit director of nursing said the department would never recommend to the education authorities that a school be closed because of an out- break of head lice. She did add that the health department has found about 30 cases of children with lice at the Cartwright School and the number of confirmed cases across Durham Region has risen to 80 by last Thurs- day. Ms. Schaefer said how- ever, that while the health department feels the out- break is under control, child- ren are being examined on a continuous basis. Children found to have lice or the eggs which are called nits, are sent home and their parents advised on the treat- ment to get rid of them. This involves shampooing with Wa Xd SARC ol ER School closing rumour untrue special solutions available at drug stores, and constant combing of the hair. No child found to have lice is allowed back into a school until a public health nurse has made an examination and found that the youngster is free from the lice or nits. The children would usually only lose a couple of days school. Although the health unit considers the number of con- firmed cases '"'unusual' for this time of year, the situa- tion is nowhere near as serious an an outbreak in the Ajax-Pickering area several years ago when there were approximately 1000 children found to have the pests in their hair. Commenting on the out- break this fall, Ms. Schaefer said the notion that only "dirty people' can get lice is nothing but an old-fashioned myth. "They (the lice) can be just as happy in a clean head of hair." 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