Herb Robinson named 92 Heritage award winner By STEVEN LeBLANC The Herald When looking back on the history of minor hockey in Georgetown one must certainly take notice of Herb Robinson and his accomplishments During the 1950s 60s and 70s Mr Robinson donated his time energy and innovation to local hockey Next month his achievements will be officially honored with the presentation of the 1992 Georgetown Hockey Heritage Council Award He first became involved in local hockey in the early 1950s when Branch Georgetown Royal Canadian Legion of which he is a member was sponsoring and organizing Saturday Morning Hockey From this beginning Mr Robin son became a founding executive of the Georgetown Junior B Beavers the Georgetown Minor Hockey Sup port Group the County Hockey League and the Milton Midget Hockey Tournament I am very happy to be chosen for this award but honestly it t a huge surprise because I was eligible for it four or five years ago said Mr Robinson Mr Robinson was nominated by many people in Georgetown in eluding Council Chairman Dave Kentner I grew with Herb s boys and many Saturday afternoons he would give up the pleasure of ching his own sons play hockey to work on stats or scheduling that how dedicated he was to minor hockey in this community ex plained Mr Mr Kentner remarks are by no means an overstatement Mr Robinson took on every involved in hockey from HERB ROBINSON scheduling and organizing statistics to arena maintenance and time keeping His average Saturday would begin at five in the morning and often run into lite evening He was also Pee Wee convenor for four years and was on the Georgetown Arena Board in the late 60s At times I considered moving his bed to the arena because he spent so much time there jokes his wife He explained that his dedication to local hockey was due largely to his three sons Kent Paul and Glen He says one of his best memories of hockey was in the mid 60s when the local midget team cap tured the Ontario championship because both Paul and Glen were on the team Glen won the scoring title that year Mr Robinson has also been named Georgetown Sports Builder of the Year and an honor award winner of the County Hockey League In his 25 years of local hockey he made several out standing contributions said award selection committee chair man Del Beaumont He was mild mannered a pleasure to work with and there is no one more deserving of the award than him Mr Beaumont s selection contemplation he came upon a long time local hockey fan who summed up Herb Robinson s involvement and dedication to Georgetown Minor Hockey There a Saturday night where he wasn at the arena for three hours wearing his pink cap and ringing that big cowbell Congratulations to you Mr Robinson you deserve it Page Wednesday February 5 ALL POSTAL SERVICES AVAILABLE 9am9pm EXCEPT PRIORITY POST y Downtown Georgetown 877 STEVEN Sports Editor Ladies BBall 17 Curling News- 17 18 19 19 SPORTS SHORTS Big Brothers appeal spiel Big Brothers of is preparing for its 1th annual Ap peal Spiel event scheduled for March 21 1992 The event is being held at the Oakville Curling Club Last year s Appeal Spiel raised over for Big Brothers This year we are loping to raise for Big Brothers of The Appeal Spiel is designed to accommodate teams from occupational groups throughout Each team consists of four players and is ex pected to raise a minimum of in pledges Curlers collect their money by finding pledges to sponsor them Participants do not necessarily have to be expert curlers The curling runs for one full day from to p Lunch is included as well as wonderful prizes Summer Rec jobs The Halton Hills Recreation and Parks Department is still applications from those interested in quality summer employment Develop your leadership skills working with children our various summer programs Deadline to apply is Friday February 7 Application forms are available at your Stu dent Guidance Office or at the Recreation and Parks Depart ment Call ext 268 for more information Valentines swim Bring a Valentine for your favorite lifeguard and if you are wearing red we let you in free Saturday Feb 21 at both the Acton and Georgetown Indoor Pools Skiing lessons Downhill Skiing Lessons with bus transportation offered dur tag the March break Mar Ski all week 8 am to p Call the Hills Recreation and Parks Depart ment for more information ext Making waves Hills Blue Fins swim club recently hosted a meet at Georgetown Indoor Pool The team was represented by swimmers who came away with 22 first place finishes personal bests and four club records Herald Photo by Steven LeBlanc Sabres double Fergus The Acton Sabres finished the regular season with a strong 63 vie tory over Fergus to claim fifth place in the Mid Ontario Junior League Fergus hit the scoreboard first at of the opening Acton responded with five unanswered goals in the first and second before Fergus notched two more goals to end their scoring Acton netted once more and held their opponents scoreless in the third to gain the win Jim English and Travis Riggin each had three point evenings for Acton English scoring twice and assisted on a third while Riggin had two assists and one goal Brian Rasmussen and Jason Lucas had a goal and an assist each while Rob Lang scored the other Sabre goal he Sabres started a best of seven playoff series with Bradford Tuesday evening results were not available at press time continues tonight Wednesday at Acton Arena and continues Friday p m in Acton and Sunday in Fergus It will be a good series Many of the games we played against them this season could have gone either way said Sabre head coach Ken Steen It will be a tough series with our team winning in the end Capital victory drops Raiders to fourth Georgetown Chrysler Raiders split a twogame home series over the weekend and dropped intofour th place in the Central Ontario Junior West Division pton had dug for them in the second Both netmmders Georgetown Carmelo and Brampton Ralph played strong games each stopping 35 shots Raider wingers Kevin Rutledge and Trevor led the scoring for Georgetown Rutledge scored one goal and assisted on three others while notched two tallies and one assist The team pounded Royal York Rangers at Gordon Memorial Arena evening but dropped an decision to Brampton which now owns third spot Saturday night Brampton held strong leads of 20 and 62 in the first and second periods before scoring their final goal at 11 of the third and skating away with the win Georgetown fought back with two goals in the final period but just couldn climb out of the hole Raiders gearing up for upcoming playoffs he Georgetown Chrysler Raiders are geanng up for the playoffs and look to have a much stronger chance of taking the tral Ontario Junior B West Division title than last year when they lost to Streetsville in the first round This year one of two situations exists for the Raiders who currently occupy fourth place irst round playoff match ups are five affairs If the Raiders take over third place they will face the team that ends up in sixth place at present Streetsville four points behind Burlington If the Raiders remain in fourth place they will do battle with the fifth place squad Burlington currently in possession of this spot Regardless of the situation if the Raiders win the first round of the playoffs they will then be the highest surviving team and will meet the second place Oakville Blades Both the Blades and the fir place Milton Merchants will have byes in the first round Good luck Raiders Other goal scorers for the Raiders Saturday were Scott Rob Doucette Danny Colacito and Trevor Brandt Lewis assisted on three Raider goals Royal York having recorded only two wins this season provided little competition for Raider Ben FYiday evening stopped shots and allowed only three goals Royal York goalie Jimmy bert had a strong performance despite giving up eight goals he stopped shots on net scored twice and Lewis had a hat trick Friday evening while Ian Ellis Brandt and Mike Wilson rounded out the scoring with singles The Raiders will have one more chance to avenge their loss to Brampton tomorrow evening Thursday in Brampton at 7 30 The team wraps up the regular season Saturday with a home game against Burlington at at Gordon Memorial Arena