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Goalie breaks neck now dedicated to hockey cleanup Card Murray A severe injury in a hockey collision has merely hardened the resolve of a teenager to go into coaching and stress clean play and fun to youngsters Pat 17 broke his neck recently while playing goal In a noncontact summer industrial hockey league in Guelph He fortunate he can walk and will recover Even before he was hurt so badly he was planning to get into minor hockey coaching as well as take sports administration at Durham College In the hopes of doing what he can to cleanup a game he Now despite the fact it is possible he would be physically able to resume playing in Ihe future he is retiring His desire to play the sport he loves has been ng as cheap shots have become more and more common and his injury has killed all desire to play An eight year veteran of guarding the mesh Ban- had never been seriously hurt though there had been lots of bone bruises from slashes bumps around the crease and high sticks In the game in which he was hurt in Ihe dying seconds of the opening period a loose puck was coming down the ice He ska led out and then slid to it on his belly near the to knock it away He had Just cleared the puck when he saw an opposing player Appearing to be off balance after going around the defence coming close The player crashed Into him It was only a fleeting glance so he s nol positive if the other player was sliding or teenager Pat broke his neck In a lnev col I it Ion In a noncontact summer hockey league collision and have talked to Fat or his parents this summer and will now dedicate himself to work about it since then can t agree on how the accident InRtocleanuplhesport he loves In any event head connected with some part of the other player The goal spun ISO degrees on the Ice and was out for a few seconds He came to and found his arms tingling and shoulders numb He Mas also shaking rolled onto his back and eventually got up and was able go over to the bench Next he went lo the dressing room struggled out of his bulky hockey equipment and then waited for his friend Scot Petty of verton to finish playing Pelty insisted Pat go to the hospital He was in pain though he was able to move and very comfortable First they went to St Josephs Hospital but were referred to General Hospital He underwent extensive examination and rays there before it was determined doctors that he had broken his neck Later he was trans to Hamilton General Hospital for more ex tensive treatment His C5 vertebra was slammed down and cracked and broken in several places in the collision and the disc below was alio damaged His doctors are quite amazed by a couple of things about his injur Usually this type of injury results in the vertebra shattering with the spinal cord being damaged and paralysis the result Obviously Pat was very lucky However the physicians are equally amazed the injury took place innocently in a hockey game The force of impact needed to break a person s neck is more consistent with a car accident than a collision in hockey Now he will be wearing a silver halo neck brace for six to 12 weeks and then soft neck collar for another four months lucky he can walk and prognosis lor full recovery good though doctors certain he II be 100 per cent His physicians are also quite surprised be was able to get off the Ice after being hurt and then managed to get out of his goalie equipment What upsets Pat and his parents Mac and Jenny Mrs Barr is a former Free Press writer is that such a thing could happen game There a penalty after the collision though there Is supposed to be penal its Tor body checks in the league Pat allows hockey Is a rough game albeit he feels rougher than it needs to be these days There is bound to be the odd collision since players arc moving around so fast While he accepts there Is going to be some roughness Pat feels all leagues not Just the one he was playing in are accepting too much stick work cheapshotsand rough play The injury he sustained simply shouldn be as a normal part of the game Pal feels There are too many accidental collisions If all aspects of hockey were tightened up if there were penalties called for the smallest infraction he thinks there d not only be less cheap shots but also a lot fewer collisions and accidents And he sees it not just at the teen and adult level of the game but also in minor hockey With young sters skating faster and mastering the skills belle these days other players are using sticks and everything else Imaginable I slow them down The games become too damn violent declares With his passion to play the game virtually extin now he has been approached about coaching something he d already been eyeing 1 want to show younger players the fun and clean side of hockey Goalies as into the rough stuff as other He can see the game better than guys on the bench and can see the clean aspects of the game By takings porta administration he hopes to become invoked in minor hockey at the national and provincial level and work for clean hockey Hockey Is a great sport if it is played the way it used to be look at himself as a martyr or some one deserving svmpathv He came forward to tell his story the dire hope thai his message w ill twig players of all ages and more particularly coaches at every level People can clean up the tame but the ones who changes have lo come of woodwork Some coaches jusl good for hockev There arc some that are too His parents art almost inLredutous about the incident His mother simply tan believe such a severe accident is accepted as jusl part of the game leagues etc Why l there qua medical personnel at games Mac asks He sajs someone with it John lance or another qualfled person have allow Pat to get up off the ice alter he was hurt I m lucky lo be alive or not more badly hurt This kind of injury Is becoming more common in hockey I hope it never happens lo someone else but I sun it will 1 hope I can help clean up Ihe game a Pal A sidelight of this w hole story is an upcoming visil Pat will receive from former New York and Montreal Canadicn great Lou on Una to whose own career ended when he suffered broken neck in a contest forms in the area and will be dropping by with words of en courage men A Community Newspaper One Hundred and Seventh Year Issue 52 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JULY 7 10 Pages Thirty Cents Report clears Dr Cole Cher Home charges Allegations of Improper conduct levelled against Ha Hon medical officer of health arc completely unfounded according to a confidential report sub mitted committee last week The jportUM prepared following Milton Councillor Bill Johnson that Peter Cole had acted Improperly when conducting an invest Cher Rest Home in Ac Ion last year Recommendations contained in the report stated Region should apologize to Cole for the charges made against him and urged the adoption of a practice for handling such complaints in the fut Johnson had charged that Cole broke the lock on a medicine cabinet at the home and had exam ined a resident without Ihe proper concern for her privacy Although the recommendations of the confidential report were released by committee members Ihe balance of the document Is being kept under wraps urtil its release Is approved by regional council Although Johnson accusations were levelled in public Ha It on chief administrative officer Dennis had first urged that consideration of his rep should be done in a closed session Just because the mistake was made in public I mean it should be repeated here he said I ihink we should follow our policy Normal policy at most levels of government is to inside hat eight On tar 10 Scholars Turn to page There was a I llle noise from the Jugo slav Centre on Sun but nothing like last year ncghbors say Details page Cabinet Momberi always wanted oovem in the worst way ana they do hold closed discussions on questions concerning personnel legal matters and property purchases think it s a very bad move discuss personnel matters In public he said argued that councillor have libel pro tection that t available to regional staff and that the only way to ensure a frank and honest discussion of the questions involved was to hold an in cam era session Not all councillors agreed with lhat need how ever If we don clear this thing up In pubic then it will never be totally cleared up commented Councillor Carol Gooding This is an extreme example of an asinine way of dealing with something said Councillor Dave Burlington No matter how we deal with it now the matter has already been blown way out of proportion The allegations made by Johnson concerned a 1981 inspection of Cher Rest Home conducted by Cole During Ihe inspection according statements made at the first meeting a lock on a medicine cab inet was broken Although Dr Cole has denied fore ing opening the cabinet others present at the time said he did Acton realtor Gordon Dawe whose company holds a mortgage on Cher s rest home was called to IhesceneaflerDr Cole party arrived He staled several times at thccommlttee meeting lhat he saw Dr Cole remove the lock from Ihe cab inet bulkier admitted that his view of the cabinet was screened by several people at the critical moment Later still he said the lock had not been torn off the cabinet He Cote just fiddled with the side of the hasp and off it came he said Originally a lawyer representing the owners of the home had been slated to appear before the com mittee as a delegation He did not appear and neither did the owner Tryphena Cherwoniak until summoned at a later point to state he Dr Cole was who took the lock apart Continued on page Windsurfing lessons all bit week brought a lot of color to Fairy Lake If no announcement on import quotas today will raise in House tomorrow If the Liberal government announce its decision on the repeated calls for re instolement of shoe import quotas by today Wednesday Ihen Hal ton MP Otto Jcl nek intends to remind them again in the House Thursday Like many Involved in the industry Jelinek has heard there will be an announcement on shoe im port quotas issue today but he isn I holding his breath He had been told personally by cabinet minister Herb Groy lhat it would be included In the recent federal budget but the issue wasn men Also numerous other times he had been assured by government officials that an announce ment would be made soon and then nothing hap pened He heard from industry and trade officials an announcement would be made today and when leather and shoe workers marched on Parliament Hill last month with Jelinek and other Tory MPs joining in another cabinet minister Ed said there would be word on the government decision the bat week of June or the first week of July Jelinek recalled Jelinek and his colleagues have been keeping the pressure on Ihe government on a dally basis wilh questions in House and in personal appeals While Ihc industry is pressing for a re instate of import quotas a negative answer would be belter than further delay noted the industries can t even make contingency plans in Jelinek added he hears constant delays on a government decision Is the result of a cabinet split on Ihc issue Firefighters Canada Day fire- Trudeau remark annoys thousands of Ukrainians Comments attributed to Prime Minister Pierre louse of Commons during his recent European tour v brought to the attention of thousands of Canadian and American Ukrainians and annoyed many at a rally at Ihe Ukrainian Camp just outside Acton on Sunday Yuri Tory for High Park Swansea said in an interview that he told the audience that when he was in Belgrade Yugo slavia a few weeks ago said it is a matter of national policy to discourage public meetings In Canada which are unfriendly to other countries complained that Trudeau statement means that meetings such as the Annual Rally of Americans and Canadians of Ukrainian Descent at the tamp on the Fourth Line north of Highway 7 are discouraged by the federal government Trudeau statements fly in the face of the Charter of Rights be fought so hard to enact said noting Ibe Charter guarantees freedom of association and freedom of ex The member of the provincial Conservative caucus plans to bring his concerns to Ihe at of Premier William Davis and added former federal conservative cabinet minister who also spoke at the Ukrainian rally said he would raise the issue of comments in the Besides the thousands of Ukrainians in the area Sunday there were also thousands of Yugoslavians in the area Saturday and Sunday as Canadian Yugoslav Days were celebrated at that recreation centre south of Acton on Highway Other dignitaries the Ukrainian included Mirchuk the United Slates of the Society of Veterans of Ukrainian Army Most Rev Bishop Isidore Borecky and Tony Ruprecht Liberal At the Yugoslav picnic Sunday afternoon the audience heard from Mayor Peter Yugoslav Ambassador to Canada Kris to Bubjic Deputy Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs at Queens Park Donald Stevenson and David Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Leaders of the Canadian Yugoslav community also spoke praised the hard work of Nick and other Yugoslavian leaders at the recreation centre to solve the noise problem which has upset neighbors and resulted intwocourt coses The Mayor noted if noise is kept down then the Yugoslavs will be welcome Hilton Htlb paid tribute to Ihe greatness of Canada a nation where people from other lands are encouraged to retain the customs and trad- it ions of their homeland Ukrainian and Yugoslav dancers entertained camps Acton die weekend