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Georgetown Acton Wednesday July 11 Taught care of horses Pony Club involvement a rich experience In September 30 youngsters gather at Community Centre In Stewart town for twice monthly meetings kids members of Esquestng Pony Club learn about horses grooming horses health of hones foot care for horses and ponies feeding them transporting them and showing them This year is the 10th anniversary of Pony Club founded in 1973 by Rick and Wilcox of Hornby At its peak about SO youngsters attended those twice meetings and tbe spring and summer coaching on area farms Some have gone from back yard pony owners to the competitive A riding circuit Many more have made horses a part of their lives for keeps Current District Commissioner of the club Elizabeth Shepherd and her family up when the club was in Its heyday Many children start at pony club before tbey actually have a horse Mrs Shep herd explained Then they team to care for a horse Its good training in preparing them to own their own pony when theyre a bit older Membership explained starts age nine but many youngsters donl get a horse until they are years old Come May those who do have a horse get involved in coaching sessions in Jump ing crosscountry trails and flat work that the discipline part Then there are events three day event ing including show ring Jumping dressage and crosscountry trails games rallies for various levels of riders for beginners C4evela for tbe members over 11 and B for more advanced The more Involved riders go to a lot of other shows besides our own games and rallies Mrs Shepherd explained The Tetrathekm a fourevent compel ilion designed originally to keep boys Interested in pony club activities consists of swimming running target shooting with handguns and riding a crosscountry The club ninth annual Prince Phillip Games an event for riders at all pony dub levels comes up July this weekend at Caledon Hunt Club Sixteen dubs in the western Ontario region compete at the games Winners will go on to the Ontario com petition at the Canadian National and those champions compete at the Royal Winter Fair in November A lot of people dont realize what is going on in competitive riding at this level Mrs Shepherd commented Most people Just follow the stars the Canadian National team and the world competitions But there are exciting things happening at this level as well Last weekend for instance 150 riders from IB pony dubs In southw Ontario competed In a regional Three Day Event held at Mohawk Raceway and hosted by the Esquesing dub Like any childrens activities pony club activities take time and money Tbe kids who want to be active have to have their own pony It would be costly and probably quite Inconvenient to attempt to rent a horse or pony to snow Many members are out at shows every weekend transporting horses and riders to shows all over southwestern Ontario is also costly But arrangements can be made The riders themselves from nine to their mid teens learn that unless they ore boarding their horse away from home pony club activities are a sevenday week chore They have to took after horses every day If they keep them at borne But I think that what makes the pony dub activities such good training for tbe youngsters looking after an animal By the time the pony dub members are ready to go to college theyve bad a solid background sometimes ten years with horses Their training In horsemanship stays with them always and Mrs Shepherd believes that once theyre theyre likely to stay Involved The dub also has fundraising events and membership drives Every April the dub holds Its annual auction at Kingtea Farms Hornby Riding tack and clothing go on the block for sale This year Mrs Shepherd said a special membership drive will be at Acton Fail Fair and another In conjunction Hills Recreation Department Anyone wanting Information about the Pony Club can call Incoming commit Carol Mould Villa A Committee to decide outcome of contest ilia Sam leaps high to head bill In Wednesday taction Black belts Gold Block belted Gold 1 In ball hockey tion lost Tuesday evening Evans fired a pair of markers for the winners with Kent and Floyd Hill grabbing singles Brian Demon con three assists In the effort Ttm and Jim Trowbridge had the other aids For Gold it was Kevin netting the lone goal on a Van Stump pass Green defeated Orange 1 in further ball hockey the Community Centre lost week Stu and John Miller pocketed twool the Green goals The other scorer was not provided Assists went to Greg Malt by Denis Dave Anderson and Mac Don Broulllard knocked in the only Orange goal of the contest Jim Rowsdl picked up the assist Acton pair is fast The North Road have wound up a successful season of running with another string of productive meets On July at the Jim Buchanan Memorial Meet at University placed second overall In the Ladies Metre etent Her lime was 10 16 George Gldmon ran in the Mens Metre running a I His placing was not available Two days later at the Western Track Meet in Kitchener George won the BOO Metre run with a docking That same day In Doreen placed fourth in the Metre at another invitational event She ran a Doreen went on to place eighth in the Metre race at the Variety Village Invtta tional Meet in Toronto last Tuesday She clocked a 8 in this one Both runners travelled to Montreal this past weekend to compete in the Canadian Junior Track and Field Championships The meet was a climax to the previous seasons relentless training and competitions Doreen placed first in her BOO Metre heat in a personal best time of The runner proceeded to finish fourth In the race final recording a time of 21133 She also placed fourth In the ISM Metre run with a personal best time of George placed fourth in his HO Metre heat running l u He then placed third in Ibe final clockings George ran fourth in the B division of the Metre with a SO time The meet concluded 17 month of con tinuous training according to coach Bruce Andrews theyre both due for a rest he commented The two now take three weeks off to rest before they resume their workooU lor next years campaign Thats teamwork Aclon Villas Tom Manse and Barry team op to move the ball past a Botcher Engineering player In last action at McKenile Smith Tbe game ended hi a 14 victory for Butcher Photos By Paul Nolan Stories by Dave League leading Butcher Engineering visited Desmond Acton Villa A last Wednesday night and came off the field with a victory The game was with a few minutes remaining by referee Brian Stewart because of uous abuse by the Butcher players on the field as well as on the sidelines The out come of the game will be decided by the league committee Butcher dominated the first half of play and were leading the half Acton out played Butcher in the second half and were unlucky not to score the tying goal Villa forward line played well in this game and were passing the ball amongst each other superbly Reggie McKnlghl was outstanding at inside forward sending nice through balls to the wingers Rod Leech Richard and Sam Kenji also played well up front Defensively standout were Carl Bobby Hudson and Jamie Milton who were tackling very hard and slopped numerous Butcher attacks Its unfortunate the game ended the did as it was a hard fought well played game The standings are as follows Team A PU Butcher 8 12 Meteor Blue IB 10 Meteor White 10 20 19 10 Mariners 1 9 14 17 7 Brackens 10 game not included This week Acton travels to Georgetown take on Meteor Blue with an kick off Saturday Villa held their annual golf tournament at Hornby Towers Every body who attended really enjoyed the day The winner was Tony Fidler with a Other top scores were B5 Bill Chalmers and Leech with an Closest to the pin honors went to on the seventh and Chalmers on the Longest drive was recorded by Carl Fisker Strong second half earns Villa B a draw Acton Villa B travelled to Milton Thursday night to take on Milton Metal Fab with only 10 players The result was a hard fought 2 draw Milton led at the half and the score could have been much higher if not for some outstanding by Garry White In the Acton nets Villa s 10 men came to life In the secondhalf and two goals by Greg Maltby earned Acton the draw Gregs first goal was a great individual effort in which he challenged the goalkeeper and headed the ball Into the net This second goal came as the result of some fine teamwork Actons best player of the night was John Gibson who was outstanding In mid Villa are at home this Wednesday tonight with a 7 kickoff as they entertain Varum at Smith The league standings are as follows Second Division Team P A Pis Guelph 20 12 Milton Metal 2 2 13 Milton Rgrs 1 IS 4 1 10 13 v Eagles 8 3 3 Ajax 8 Acton g 1 7 10 Victory sandwiched between two losses First half enough for Leathertown squad The Acton Junior dropped two out of their three games this week sandwiching a 73 victory over New Dundee between losses to Ltnwood and Waterloo In last Wednesday evening the squad was beaten Dave Roy Spear Mark Duval and Don Cassdman were the only locals to cross plate Dave Wlison took the loss on the mound Sunday the team was at home to New Dundee and won 73 Gord McArthur and Glenn Scott each had a pair of runs in this one while Tim Baker Wilson and Mark Duval grabbed single scores Roy Spear went the distance on the mound for the win Scott scored the lone Acton run in a 31 loss to Waterloo Monday night at Prospect Park Actons next home matchup will be against New Hamburg Monday at the park In OASA qualifiers the As ore awaiting the outcome of New Hamburg s series with Sheffldd to see who their opponents will be The winner of that encounter goes on to the in Jordan Tanners continued their unbeaten record with a victory over SNAPS The local team played a strong first half and built up a four goal lead at halftime Mtdfield genera Dave Banks bad another superb game and capped his fine with a welltaken header for the opening goal Leathertown continued to press and were rewarded with a pair of fine goals from Tony Wright and also pressured the S PS defence into giving up an own goal In the second half SNAPS came out with much more determination and kept the play In the end and were awarded a penalty mid way through the second half They failed to convert this chance Into a goal and Mike Masson In goal for with a lot of support from his defence recorded the shutout The Tanners next game Is August at South Peel versus Atlas Soccer Club kick off 1330 pjn Boys soccer CanAm blasts Rockwood MAJORSQUIRTS CanAm blasted by a score Ryan Brain scored four and Steven Pont and Matthew Brain one each Goalie Scott Foster did a good Job holding of Rock- woods attack Glasvan met BUxzard and it resulted a be Trevor Splinter scored both Glasvaa goats Mike Meyers played super in net Bobs Angeb defeated Birds Steve scored the two goals Doug played a strong defensive game to help with the win ATOM In Atom action last week the Wolves pounded Tigers ft0 Since only had seven players on field the Wolves matched them to keep game fair Wolves still dominated Scorers were Jimmy Sale Jason Piper Steven Slayney and Philip Williamson with one apiece and Michael five Cougars beat Cubs Bill found Ibe net five times Mark Sears kicked two and Kevin one Squirts Ryan Brain and Steven played well to the Cougars downed Acton I by a score of Winston Pun scored for the local side Tie Bears Chris to