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Heintz, Somatic Therapist, Counselor, Biosynthesis Coach SPORTS & LEISURE Hall of Fame welcomes fi ve new members The Halton Hills Sports Museum Hall of Fame will welcome six new in- ductees at its seventh-annual ceremo- ny on Thursday, June 13 at the newly renovated John Elliott Theatre. The 2013 inductees are: Poul Popiel (athlete), Wayne Pries (builder), Glo- ria Sinclair (athlete/builder), Hugh Graham (athlete) and Del Beaumont (athlete/builder). Tickets are $40 each and are avail- able by contacting Glenda Nixdorf at 905-873-1360. A reception will be held at 6 p.m. with the awards ceremony at 7 p.m. Visit the website hhsm.ca for more in- formation. Below are profi les of each inductee: Del Beaumont The Glen Williams native was said to have taught a generation of George- town residents about the game of hockey. A distin- guished skat- er, scorer and physical force who got his start in orga- nized hockey during the in- augural sea- son of Gordon Alcott's Little NHL in 1937, Beaumont went on to fi nish high school at North Toronto while playing with the Aurora Jr. B club. The multi-sport star advanced to the Jr. A ranks with the Toronto Mar- lboros and St. Michael's, earning him- self a spot on the protected list of the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs, but his ca- reer was interrupted by World War II. He served in the Canadian navy from 1943-45 and was involved in the Allied D-Day invasion at Normandy. Upon his return home, Beaumont led Georgetown intermediate teams to three Ontario Hockey Association titles before retiring in 1959. He then joined the Georgetown Mi- nor Hockey Association as a coach and guided the midget squad to an OMHA championship in 1962, later helping start up the International Bantam Tournament and sitting on the execu- tive for 15 years, including a six-year stint as president. The 1987 Georgetown Hockey Heri- tage Award recipient passed away in 2001 at the age of 77. Hugh Graham Gravity played a large role in direct- ing horseman Hugh Graham into a successful career as a world-class show jumper, having been twice selected to represent Canada's equestrian team at the Summer Olympics. The 64-year-old from Limehouse was a junior steer rodeo performer and calf-roper during his teen years, but a number of spills and a broken leg later, Graham discovered his tal- ent in breaking horses for his mentor, Milo Heatherington, and met Canadi- an Olympian equestrian Jimmy Day at Samson Farm. Four years later, Graham and his ride Spot Check made the na- tional team and claimed the Open Jumper Grand Prix at the Royal Winter Fair in 1973. Graham's list of accom- plishments in show jump- ing is impressive: 23 Nations Cups appearances, four World Cup fi nals, the only clear round that clinched the gold medal for Canada at the 1987 Pan American Games, a fourth-place fi nish at the 1984 Summer Olympics in L.A. and a trip to the 1990 World Equestri- an Games among the highlights. Now a breeder and trainer of horses and rider coach at King Ridge Farms in King City, where he's the vice presi- dent of operations, Graham remains active as a Grand Prix rider, while wife Cindy has excelled in the hunter ring and daughter Laurel is making inroads in her competitive career. Poul Popiel A product of the Georgetown Minor Hockey Association, Popiel went on to enjoy a 17-year professional ca- reer including NHL stops in Boston, Los An- geles, Detroit, Vancouver and Edmonton and a World Hock- ey Association championship with the Hous- ton Aeros in 1973. A well- rounded de- fenceman who had 45 points in 50 games in his fi nal year of Jr. A in St. Catharines, Popiel spent a couple of seasons in the American league before joining the Boston Bruins in 1966 for a brief stay. He would go on to play alongside Gordie Howe in Detroit and Wayne Gretzky with the Oilers, but Popiel's best seasons came with Houston of the fl edgling WHA from 1972-78, when he was named to the league all-star team on three occasions and was voted run- ner-up to Quebec's J.C. Tremblay for the top blue-liner award for 1974-75. Popiel, who turned 70 on Feb. 28, was the fi rst Danish-born player in the NHL and came to Canada with his family as a youngster. Following his playing career, Popiel coached a pro team in Austria and later served as bench boss for youth teams in the St. Louis, Missouri area, where he now resides. Wayne Pries Not always the most popular guy in minor hockey meetings since he usu- ally had to make the fi nal decision, Wayne Pries can nonetheless be con- tent in knowing that he always kept the best interests of the players as the top priority. For the past four decades, the 73-year- old Pries has been involved in the sport as a volunteer in some capacity and was the catalyst be- hind two ma- jor changes that shaped minor hockey in this area. The native of Neustadt, Ont. joined the All-Star Support Group rep organization in Georgetown when son Mark was play- ing in the 1970s. Sensing resentment between the All-Star and minor hockey bodies that co-existed in Georgetown at the time, Pries helped merge the two groups in 1981 and would serve as president of the GMHA from 1985-90. As well, he was the founding chair- man of the Halton Hurricanes' orga- nization in 1990 that allowed local residents to play at the elite AAA level without having to lie about their home address or move to another municipal- ity. The Georgetown Hockey Heritage Award winner in 2001, Pries, whose dad Ed managed Memorial Arena for fi ve years and mom Madeline ran the canteen there for more than 20 years, has also been involved with the execu- tive of the Ontario Minor Hockey As- sociation and the Ontario Hockey Fed- eration, serving as OMHA chairman from 2010-11. DEL BEAUMONT HUGH GRAHAM POUL POPIEL WAYNE PRIES See SINCLAIR, pg. 26