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THE NEW TANNERTHURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010 9 GRAPEVINE with Mike OLeary The Way I See It Bountiful gardens Tuitmans Garden Centre will help feed the hungry by offering a discount to customers who donate a non-perishable item of food to FoodShare. Beginning Saturday, and on the third Saturday of each month dur- ing the growing season, a 10 per cent discount will apply to the purchase of annuals, perennials, seeds, and bulbs. When I read that there was a food drive for FoodShare I thought I wanted to help and this would be one way to do it, Tuitmans owner James Wegenast said. Murr tourney There is still time to sign up for the 26th annual Paul Murr Memor- ial Golf Tournament on May 11 at Actons Blue Springs Golf Club. The popular event has been a ma- jor fundraiser for the Acton Branch of the Canadian Cancer Society - raising more than $75,000 over the past 25 years. This year, some of the proceeds will be donated to CAShh (Cancer Assistance Servi- ces of Halton Hills. Players can choose from three different golfing options. For details, call John McNabb at 519- 853-5615. BackPack help A new program to ensure that local schoolchildren have all that they need in the way of school supplies kicks off April 27 at Ac- ton High School. The program will supply back- packs and school supplies to elementary school children from low-income families. Run by high school student volunteers, the program will teach high school students how to successfully run a new program with the help of mentors, learning how to market, fundraise and budget. Links2Care is accepting dona- tions of new backpacks and new school supplies at Links2Care lo- cations. Cash donations and gift cards for local stores would also be appreciated. Items needed in- clude backpacks, scissors, pencils, erasers, rulers, pencil cases, pencil crayons, highlighters, blue pens, red pens, calculators, protractors, lined paper and indoor shoes. Application forms for the back- pack program are available at the Acton and Georgetown Link- s2Care locations, elementary schools, as well as the local food banks. Completed applications can be returned to any Links2Care lo- cation. For more information call Cathy Gerrow at 519-853-3310, ext. 223. Spring bazaar A penny table, Grannys attic, plants, lunch, baking and books will be for sale, at great prices, at the annual Spring Bazaar at the Acton Seniors Centre on May 8. The sale runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Student excellence Congrats to Actons Joshua Beaune, a Grade 8 student at St. Joseph Catholic School, and Lime- houses Rose Schmidt of Christ the King School, both who have been selected to receive Student Awards of Excellence from the Halton Catholic School Board. Each year the Board selects one student from each of its schools to receive a Sharing The Spir- it Student Award of Excellence for demonstrating outstanding qualities in the following areas: Catholic leadership, family com- mitment, involvement in school affairs, involvement in community activities and dedication to a dif- ficult situation or task. The ceremony takes place at Christ the King on April 26. CD release The launch of a CD to bene- fit Actons FoodShare food bank takes place on Saturday at Roxy Music on Mill Street. The CD, a compilation of songs from local artists, is titled Songs for Sup- per. The selection of artists will perform their songs at the concert - admission is $5 and a non-perish- able food item. Proceeds from the sale of the CD will benefit FoodShare, which is looking for local businesses and stores to stock and sell the CD on behalf of FoodShare. For details call Tim at 905-702-7470 or leave an e-mail at www.actonfoodshare. com Back to Basics The focus will be on the en- vironment at a Back to Basics workshop on Saturday at the Lime- house Memorial Hall. Presented by the Silver-Wood Womens In- stitute, the morning features Wally Seccombe, a professor and found- ing member of Everdale Organic Farm and Environmental Learn- ing Centre who will talk about how shopping locally is a wiser choice. In the afternoon, speaker Joan Joyner, a RN and public health nurse, will present Childrens Health and the Environment focusing on risk, toxicity and ex- posure to everyday products in the home and suggestions for alterna- tives. For details call Shirley at 519- 853-2604. Service Canada Service Canada officials (who recently closed their Acton office) will be at the Acton arena/com- munity centre on April 21 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to help people with issues relating to the Canada Pen- sion Plan, Old Age Security and Social Insurance Numbers. Officials will review and ac- cept CPP and OAS applications, photocopy and certify original documents, answer questions and process new SIN number applica- tions. The Masters Golf Tourna- ment last weekend was watched by many people who normally would rather have a root canal than watch golf on T.V. The big draw, or course, was the much anticipated return to competi- tion by Tiger Woods since his infidelities were exposed last fall. If you were on Mars and missed all the fireworks, Tigers wife became upset when she learned of his dalliances and took a nine iron to his head when he tried to escape her wrath and crashed his car in the process. There are three lessons to be learned here. Lesson one; Dont hire a golfer as a getaway driver, if planning a bank heist. Les- son two; Golfers shouldnt fool around if married to a Swede. Irish women, for instance, would be satisfied with taking all the money. Lesson three; Tiger should be thankful she didnt use a wedge, and take a huge divot, on a different part of his anatomy. But I digress. Tiger showed up in Georgia last week and held yet another presser. He appeared upbeat about his game and suitably chagrined regarding his past tom-catting. All in all it was much ado about nothing. The reporters, most of them sports writers, many of them ac- quaintances who rely on Woods for stories, danced around the cheating issue with the grace of a hippo on ice skates. One has to remember that this is Augusta and had any repor- ter been impertinent enough to press the golfer on sexual issues their credentials would have been yanked faster than you can say Billy-Bob. If the Masters is hallowed ground for golfers, Tiger Woods is the high priest. He brings the sacraments in the form of T.V. ratings which translates directly into cash for all the good old boys. I am a golf fanatic. I took up the game when I was a caddie at Islington Golf Course more than 50 years ago. As an aside, I mourn the lack of caddies avail- able today. As a kid, caddying not only gave me my first job but also exposed me to a game I have loved, but never mastered, all those years ago. Once I became an A caddie I carried the bag for regular mem- bers and would often travel with them to amateur tournaments around Toronto. The pay was $3 for a regular round, $5.00 if you found all the lost balls. Tourna- ments often paid $10.00. The added bonus was that my regu- lar golfers would let me use their clubs on caddies day when we got to play the course. I still love that course. Meanwhile, back at the Mas- ters, T. Woods et al were playing for big bucks. The leader changed daily with 50-year-old Fred Couples and geriatric darling Tom Watson holding up the side for the geezer brigade. Actually Watson played great and Fred Couples was in the hunt to the end. Me, and every other golfer on the downside of the age bell curve, were cheering Couples on. We all were praying that Couples would pull off a miracle just as most of us pray we will again break 90 on a championship calibre course. In the end, we all have to be satisfied with mem- ories of putts that lipped out and birdies than never return from winter migration. Tiger showed many signs of past brilliance. Some of the shots he made were truly spec- tacular. Others were worthy of a Saturday duffer, especially some of his putts. His famous temper was kept under control most of the time. There were a few cases where he lost it and the old Tiger roared. Its comforting to real- ize that he yells Tiger with the same tone of frustration as I yell Michael when I hit a boneheaded shot. I tend to yell more of course. In the end Tiger finished fourth, not his worst finish at the Masters, not chopped liver either. Methinks his expectations were a tad high. That he could come back after a 5 month ab- sence, with the distractions hes had, the business crises hes had to work through, and still expect to win is, to my mind, unreal- istic. But then you may have noticed that your faithful scrib- bler is not a famous billionaire golfer. Perhaps attitude has been my problem all along. Lefty Phil Mickelson was the eventual winner. Mickelson is a crowd favourite with his regular smiles and the time he spends signing autographs for fans. There was an especially ten- der moment when, after he had won, he embraced his wife who is recovering from breast can- cer. That was real emotion and realization that cancer is serious and golf is but a game. Tiger too is learning that lesson. Hes got a ways to go yet. No tiger in his tank HOME AGAIN: A Bell upright grand piano built in 1892 was returned to its first home in the Town Hall centre last week. On hand to welcome the beautifully carved piano were Town Hall centre members George Elliott and Bill Sanford. Submitted photo