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THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2005 _ THE NEW TANNER 2S, MEDAL WINNERS: Halton Hills Gymnastic Club racked up 17 medals in the Men's Artistic Provincial Championships on the weekend including back row, left to right, Derek Rauwerda, Adam Griese, coach Nistro Sandro, Alex Bowmer, Daniel Stepner. Front, 1 to r, Jesse Bydevaate, Corey Gilles, Mare de Lestard, Wesley Smith. -- Submitted photo Gymnasts rack up medals Halton Hills gymnasts came home from the Men's Artistic Provincial Championships with six Gold, seven Silver and four Bronze medals over the weekend. In the Level 1, under 0 cat- egory Jesse Bydevaate placed an overall 4th; Corey Gilles received a gold medal on vault, silver medal on floor with an overall 9th place; Gregory Listor received a tie for silver medal on floor with an overall 13th position; Zachary Brau- tigan placed overall 14th and Robert Stepner placed overall 15th. In the Level 1, 10 - 12 cat- egory, Wesley Smith placed overall 22nd. In the Level 2, 13 plus category, Adam Griese received a gold on P-Bars, a bronze on vault with an overall bronze medal; Alex Bowmer received a gold medal on High Bar, bronze medal on vault with an overall 7th place. In the Level 3, 13 plus cate- gory, Marc de Lestard received a silver medal on Pommel, silver medal on P-Bars with an overall 5th place; Daniel Stepner received a gold medal Aqua Ducks swim to many medals Jennifer Kroezen and TJ Waldie blew off some feathers at a Scarborough Swim Club Invitational. Both swimmers. missed the High Point awards for their respective age group by one point. Coach Gerry Ockenden com- mented that both Jennifer and TJ were so close, however it just was not going to happen that weekend. These types of lessons are not soon forgotten; next time they race they will remember this meet. All was not lost; they managed to fly past their competitors for a col- lection of five gold, four silver, and one bronze medal and as al-* ways, the most important thing was , according to Ockenden, they dropped their times. Continued on page 24 on vault with an overall 20th place. In the Level 4 category, Der- ek Rauwerda did it once again by achieving a gold medal on Pommel, silver medal on High Bar with an overall silver medal. Derek Rauwerda and Adam Griese will move on to the eastern championships in their categories. - Randi LeBlanc The Acton "3 Soccer Club Training will take place in early May. oa is recruiting referees for the summer program. Must be turning 13 y/o this Please call Pat Graham bye LR) Sroymrelrrv IMO (One eel Ti me) TuRUZeleNSICe) www.actonsoccer.org. Acton Minor fr Hockey Association " ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Will be held Monday, May 16, 2005 7:00p.m. Acton Arena and Community Centre PROPOSED EXECUTIVE SLATE President: Steve Marshal VP Hockey Operations: George Artem Secretary: Carolyn Campbell 'Treasurer: Ron Sheehan ue For any nominations, contact the Acton Minor Hockey Association at 853-1200, before May 9th, 2005. Voting Members include: parents of play- ers, coaching staff and all volunteers within the AMHA. AHS athletes excel at Kingston track, field meet Four members of the Acton High School track and field team attended the 31 Queen's University Alumni Meet in Kingston on Satur- day, April 30 where 53 high schools were represented by 1200 athletes. Acton's athletes all placed in the top eight in the seven events despite another day of brutal weather and Kaitlyn Andrews also earned the Outstanding Female Field Athlete award. In the Midget Competi- tion: Matt Bigg placed 6" in the 800 metres at 2 minutes 22.82 seconds and also tied for 6" in the 1500 metres at 4 minutes 48 seconds. In Junior Competition: Dan Kearns earned a 4" place finish in the Shot Put with a heave of 12.13 metres. Dan also earned an 8" place finish in the Discus with a throw of 34.30 metres. Jaimi Fellows placed 7" in the High Jump making 1.45 metres. In Senior Competition: Kaitlyn Andrews earned two gold medals -- one in SPECIALS the Discus (36.75 metres) and the other in the Shot Put (12.58 metres). These perfor- mances also earned Kaitlyn the Courtright Award as the Outstanding Female Field Athlete of the meet. The next meet for the Acton athletes is at the Cardinal Carter Invitational at Centen- nial Stadium, Etobicoke, on May 6 and May 7. 4 'eerie What's Your Beef? Deadline is Tuesday at noon. Put it in a letter to the Editor! OPE, RELAYS LIBLS ILE It's not too late for your child to play ball agteMcletententom: 7 $50 for t-ball and $80 for all other levels. Program details and registration form is available at www.actonminorball.com For info on programs for kids born in 1998-2001 please call David at 853-5715. For info on spots available for older kids, please call 853-4756.