Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), May 5, 1990, p. 13

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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday Mays 1H0 Page 13 Duplicate Bridge In Open Duplicate Bridge competition Monday afternoon at Georgetown Branch Royal Canadian Legion located on Mill Street Rene March and Karl teamed up to claim the Number One Winners position The Number Two winners slot was locked up by the team of Jack Kaarsemaker and Harry The Number Three winners position was deadlocked by two teams with Mike and Elsie Whittam stalemating with the team of Earl Ryder and Jake Timpson The Monday Open Duplicate Bridge competition at Georgetown Legion Branch was the final session of the season Open Duplicate Bridge competition at Georgetown Legion Branch 120 located on Mill Street will resume this September For information on the Open Duplicate Bridge competition at Georgetown Legion contact Norma at 877 Canadian Hockey League Attendance soaring The Canadian Hockey League confirmed that the regular was the best in their history at the turnstiles as they broke the 3 S million mark in attendance for the first time The official atten dance total was 3 339 up from the previous record of last season Ed president of the CHL expressed his exuberance at the record and pointed to the many positive factors that has caused this growth in major junior hockey in North America We are all very pleased about the increase in attendance over the last few years pointed out We are certainly doing a better job marketing our product and hence people are realizing what a great package we have to offer Having a 14game national television package has helped to bring CHL action mtffmore homes than ever before As well as the in traduction of a full time director of information Jim Price to help the overall awareness level of the CHL Chynoweth continued The CHL in general is being better received by the public and we hope that this record is only a sign of things to come One of the teams experiencing an extremely large increase this year was the Kingston who were up 60 from a year ago Kingston s average attendance was over of capacity The Seattle Thunderbirds broke a Western Hockey League atten dance record this year when they crammed 12253 fans into the Seat tie Center Coliseum on February 9 setting a single game attendance mark The T Birds drew over 180 fans this season including 60 plus at the five games played in the Coliseum as well as being at or near capacity for their other games which were played in the seat Seattle Arena Attendance marks started fall ing a year ago at the Memorial Cup In Saskatoon A total of 77296 fans packed Saskatoon Place for the nine game tournament 20 more than in 1983 in Portland During the 1989 playoffs the On tario Hockey League set a new record for playoff attendance of 225 653 and in that same year the Western Hockey League became the first major junior league to top 1 5 million for the regular season pointed to an almost rebirth of junior hockey In the past few years and the tremendous strides the CHL is taking The quality of play has steadily proved and this can be directly cor related to the adjustment made in our arrangement with the National Hockey League Players such as NHL top draft picks Scott Thornton Belleville Wes Walz Kevin Haller Reglna Martin St Amour Rivieres Steven Rice Kit chener and Patrice Bnsebois Laval were all in the league this past season and for the most part were left in junior hockey to hone and fine tune their skills There is also a tremendous combination of player makeup in the CHL Chynoweth con tinued when one considers the bright young stars such as Mike Peterborough ed Seattle Keith Niagara Falls Karl Dykhuis Hull Scott Niedermayer Martm Lapointe Laval and Eric etc The league and the member teams have become so much more sophisticated and pro fessional in terms of how we pro mote and present our product We are receiving increasing support from the fans as well as the cor sector CHL REGULAR SEASON ATTENDANCE TOTALS Year Attendance 198990 198889 3 402 198M7 2805 990 198588 2 198485 142 198344 198283 3034 224 198182 2 198081 701347 197980 GEORGETOWN CUSTOM CAR SOUND THE CAR GEORGETOWN EVENING SPECIAL After 00pm Buy One Dozen For Only 299 Reg 25 Donuls Daily on SI 8731211 Whats Cooking at Steak Expr Saturday is Sample Day GEORGETOWN Mn 99o DueTOSttoRTeNeD SPRIM5 OLD CONTRACT lac- CRAMP neoiMwHiiwr Leisure Lines Cultural Centre alive with activity Spnng may be here and many will be spending their leisure time outdoors but there is still a lot of Indoor activity at the Cultural Cen Centennial Middle School presents their annual musical Wheels May 9 and at 7 30 at the John Elliott Theatre This will be followed by the Centen Alumni Spring Concert on May at Please phone for ticket information or both shows The Ontario Conservatory of Music has two performances on June 3rd Phone for tickets The summer dance recitals begin on June 2nd with KADE Dance followed by the Halton Adaptable Monkeys A troop of 350 macaque mon keys nativesofthesnowymoun tains of Japan has learned to cope with hot summers different food and new enemies on a ranch near Ddley Texas Hills School of Dance June 8 9 and the Dance Gallery June and 16 and finishing up with the Lynn Morrison School of Ballet on June 23 and The Theatre will continue to be a busy place during the summer as the Recreation and Parks Depart will be sponsoring two Drama Theatre Camps the first July 3 to with a public per on July 19 and the se cond session Musical Theatre from July 23 to August with a closing concert on August Please phone ext 267 for more information Many exciting exhibits will also be on display in the Gallery in May Michael June Brita Stolz Housez July Andreas August Linda Donais Ruth and the Georgetown Rug Hooking Guild in September Be sure to take part in our Mother Day Special on May a classical brunch at a m with entertainment from Ambience For information on any of the above activities please call the Cultural Centre at 877 7915 APPLE Autooass WINDSHIELD REPAIRS Handl Claims DISTRIBUTORS SPORTING GOODS CLOTHING SPECIALIZING IN CORPORATE WEAR 8730500 Man St Georgetown HEY KIDS Give Your MOM An Extra Special Mothers Day Gift ABSOLUTELY FREEH Just drop in to Work That Body and pick up a Free Mothers Day Card which gives your Mom FREE use of all our facilities for one week Facilities Include Supervised Babys Supervised Weight Room Over Classes Free Machines Per Week Life Computerized Cycles Life Computerized Stairstep Change Rooms with Showers Hair Dryers Lockers OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK WORK THAT BODY 232 GUELPH STREET GEORGETOWN 8770771

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