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The Acton Fre Press Wednesday April Second Mill Rgltrkn Number Quoted from world of By Dads Gibbons Theres a young man in town they call The Voice of Acton To the younger generation he goes by the affectionate title of Ironsides He was dubbed The Voice of Acton by the many minor sports organizations he has worked for voluntarily announcing at hockey baseball lacrosse and other worth while events Hes used his gilt of a strong clear voice to help youngsters play minor sports even though he cant use his legs to full capacity as they can because of a handicap hes had since childhood In Ron graduated from the Rotary Clubs Variety Village for handicapped children in and returned to Acton determined to repay those who had in some way lent him support and encouragement during his childhood of curtailed activity and to become a useful and self- supporting citizen In the last three years hes given his time and talents to minor Sports in Acton to a degree surpassed by few Saturday right at the Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner honoring allien of the Year Ted Tyler Sr Ron was presented with a special award for his outstanding contribution to minor sports What exactly has Ron McKnight done for minor sports in Acton A look at a typical midwinter week of medium activity for Ron will tell you Tuesday nightHes fulfilling his duties as secretary of the Acton Rotary Club at the clubs weekly meeting Thursday night Hes doing his usual capable job as statistician and convener for the Thursday night peewee- TnCounty hockey douWeheader night Off to the community centre he goes again to look after the timekeeper statistician job for the Friday night Tanner hockey game Saturday morning a Legion Minor Hockey Chairman Kerwm McPhail is calling to take him to the community centre for the regular six hour program of Saturday morning house league hockey p in Scoresheets for the six house league games all filled out in a neat and tidy fashion Ron is sitting in the timekeepers box munching on a hot dog before the start of the Saturday afternoon TnCounty minor hockey tnnleheader 3d The final buzzer has sounded in the bantam game last of three contests Acton fortunes have not been good After nine hours of confinement m the timekeepers box Ron emerges looking forward to a quiet night at home beside the TV But wait Acton Minor Baseball Association is holding a fund raising dance tonight He promised over a month ago to sell tickets Without funds raised at the dance there might not be any minor baseball next summer Cant have that He grabs a snack and waits for a lift lo Legion Attendance at the dance is good tickets sell well There be minor baseball next summer Ron winds up his 19 hour da of contribution to minor sports Sundaj 12 noon Theres another knock at the side door of the home Its novice coach Barry His team has a league game at the community centre at Ron is off again to handle the duties for his 12th game this week JO The Minor Hockey Association is holding its monthly meeting in Milton The Acton rep is unable to attend There could be some important decisions made that affect Acton The Bruins are playing on TV but Ron knows TV bugs hav never had time to help with a thing like minor sports Off he goes to Milton up the steep staircase to the third floor of the Milton Legion to represent Acton President Bill raps the gavel for the last time in the afternoon Hes had to do it many times to silence outbursts Its been a long meeting Tempers have flared on occasion and all delegates are generally exhausted Ron is speaking to one of them on the way out Just two more games to do this week he says Hes referring to the Sunday night industrial hockey back m Acton The puck is dropped to start the first game And there Ron back in the timekeepers box pen in one hand the last portion of a hamburger he picked up on the way back from Milton in the other The second game is finished The score All scoring plays are listed on the but the column for individual scoring total is still blank Another minutes out of a lOii hour wont hurt he thinks Hae to have the totals down on paper for the Free Press whose reporter is panting and puffing after his short stints on the ice the first game And that folks is a week of medium activity Nothing compared to the weeks that include the Legion tournament the tournament the Acton Figure Skating Club carnival and M H A playoff games We haven t bothered to mention Monday and Wednesday nights when spur of the moment Chamber of Commerce County or Junior lacrosse meetings may be called or the ef ficient day in day out job Ron does in Actons Municipal Of fices Hes an executive member of the Chamber president of the local TnCounty hockey and secretary of the Ram lacrosse club Recently he was named secretary of the Acton junior club hopes to start pray next season Indeed a schedule staggering enough for an ablebodied person But desire can overcome all obstacles and Desire is Ron middle name Congratulations Ron keep up the good work and congratulations Chamber of Commerce on presentation of a wellreserved award TriCounty delegates speak up at recordsetting annual meet Referees for till midget and Juvenile league games will be appointed next season as result or proposal approved by a majority of delegates at the annual meeting of ihc Minor Hockey AssociaUon in the MUton lCKfon afternoon A second proposal submitted by the Acton Minor that mileage between nil County towns be figured out and that appointed referees be paid a set rate was defeated by narrow margin loiter in the meeting approved a Georgetown Minor Hockey proposal that list of mileages be drawn up and Issued to nil towns along with a list of referees so that there will be no disputes fees for referees travelling from other towns Record attendance meeting set records for both time and attendance Well over delegates and visitors from all towns took ovir four hours to discuss and vote on proposals and elect new executive for the 107172 season Hill of Milton was acclaimed president for a second term Don of Burlington was acclaimed first vice president for second term while Herb Hob In son of Georgetown Vcrn Cowing of Preston were returned unopposed to their positions of treasurer secretary and respectively In the only two elections necessary llcspelern Nelson unset the sitting second vicepresident of a member and Denis Gibbons of Acton lost out in bid Tor a second term as third vice- president bowing to Bramptons Ken In a three way nice Al Smith of also stood for the office Controversy arises One of the most controversial amendments one requiring all teams to meet all group schedule commitments during Die period from the conclusion of the qualifying round until they are required by the secretary manager for provincial carried but an Minor Hockey proposal asking that qualifying round winners be the championship trophies and eliminated teams enter a tournament and play for appropriate trophies was defeated Delegates from triple A towns approved an Minor Hockey proposal that triple A towns be allowed to use flrnt year players only on their or minor teams rep Phil explained the purpose of the proposal was to ensure mora first year players have lhe chance to play hockey and iitso that Triple A population towns do not the league Defeat proposal Georgetown Minor Hockey proposals that leading scorer trophies be abolished and that regulations be changed so that nil midget and Juvenile playoff games arc of ficiated by referee and two linesmen instead of two referees were both defeated County convener Jim and life member Bill both officers of the conducted the of officers OMHA executive member Elmer McKaddcn of Woodbrldgc a guest at the meeting counted the ballots Acton at the meeting were rep president Hon McKnight novice manager Don Van Heel pee wee coach Don legale pee wee manager Charley Harrison bantam coach Harold midget couch Jun James Juvenile manager Carl Timbers MILTONS BILL was acclaimed president of the TnCounty Minor Hockey Association for a second term the lions annual meeting in the Milton Legion Sunday afternoon Pictured following the election of officers are front row 1 to r a newlyelected 2nd vicepresident Nelson of Hespeler President Bill Rowney 1st vicepresident Don Hargreaves of Burling ton and treasurer Vern of Preston Back row 1 to r are convener Jim Kingley of life member Fred Hammond of immediate past president Don larvie of Georgetown life member Bill Burrell of newlyelected 3rd vice- president Ken Russell of Brampton and secretary Herb Robinson of Georgetown Attendance at the annual meeting set an all time record The meeting lasted over Staff Photo New OHA amendment concerns Acton Tanners OUR READERS WRITE Dear Sir Just read our sports section I feel compelled to write to you as a Mother The Legion Minor Hockej league had their annual banquet last Saturday It is wonderful that have this to bring the boys of all ages together have fun food and then hand out the trophies Last j ear as I understand it there was a ruling put into effect to tr to bring the House League and TriCounty Hockey into a more workable arrangement as far as the boys are concerned This being that all at the beginning of the season must tryout for the team The coaches and managers of the work with these boys for three or four weeks maybe longer to separate the players from the All stars They have until December 31 1 think to make their decision as to who is going to be on their team and who will be playing House league It was my understanding that if a boy makes but decides he would rather play house league if he were bantam say in his last year in order to play house league he must move up to midget so as not to be a star on the house league team chink this is a good ruling A lot of thought time talk and an Interest in the boys goes into making up rules and rcgulaUons to go by There are a lot of men couches managers fathers bachelors referees executive members etc who have their get together to hash out the problems of running hockey in our town They are doing a good job I think to bring hockey into the right perspective but what does it take to crack the executive and make them stand by the rules they make There were boys this year who made the TnCounty team but decided I guess on their own that they preferred to play town league But did they move up as they should have done No they did not They staved in their own age group and played on their regular team They were not told you have to move up if you want to play house league The result being they some of these boys were the stars on their team Now don get wrong There arc stars on every team There is also a first line second line and third line each with their own to play on the team A boy on the third line is just as important to his team as one of the first line is as far as I concerned I m only an interested mother with a who plays hockey I enjoy hockey 1 t miss a game hes playing I m one of his fans In conclusion Mr Sports Editor may I say you are doing a fine Job on your paper Sports is well presented The pictures are good vou have some fine photographers working on your paper Keep up the work and just sign me An Interested Mother Two amendments passed at Saturdays QUA annual meeting in Toronto could be regarded Indirect aids to the Intermediate Acton First amendment stipulates that teams in the Intermediate series shall lose the right to register one Import or waiver for each the populnUon of the town Is above Acton at will maintain Hie right to register the maximum number of imports or waivers which Is four The second permits any Intermediate C or Junior team to register any player who has previously been registered in the O A or OMHA on a team representing that teams municipality in any of the past four seasons who has left home to work In or live in another municipality providing conditions set down in the A manual arc met Passing of an amendment stating Failure to present certificates at the game docs not constitute grounds for a protest notably drew no comments from delegates of team Gary represented Tanners at the meeting Softball practices Only eight players braved chilly weather Monday night to attend the first workout of the Petes Barber Shop TriCounty softball league team Playing coach Fred Buchanan has scheduled the next two practices for Prospect Park Tuesday May and Thursday May both at It imperative all players attend the workouts since uniform sizes will be recorded All positions on the team are still open and anyone wishing to try out is welcome Hlllsburgh champs Intermediates have been awarded the Ontario Rural Hockey Association Intermediate D championship The O It A disqualified team beaten the burgers In finals for using Illegal players The teams split first two games of the best of five scries In the third game In Blenheim iced almost a completely new team which aroused suspicions on the part of officials won game and the fourth but protested third game week the protest was upheld Durham down Durham Huskies dropped tho first two gomes of the OH A Intermediate B finals to on the weekend 7 and- Both games were played In Nap a nee Third and fourth games are slated for Durham Saturday night and Sunday afternoon Both teams polished off their semi final opponents In straight games Durham ousted and Napance sidelined Preston Seaforth champions Beavers eliminated Cheltenham Harvesters four games to one to capture the Intermediate championship Beavers have won titles four times in the it seven years Box Office at URSULA STANLEY WARNER PERFECT FRIUAir TriCounty girls Schedule mi offal Bel wood Parks notes At their regular month meeting Tuesday April Acton Parks and Recreation Committee Received a letter from the recently formed Acton Junior C hockey team execute informing them they will be interested in renting ice time next winter The letter Thursday night as a night the team might prefer for home games Authorized the purchase of an airconditioner for the arena booth at a price not to exceed banquet sot for Sat May Closing banquet and trophy presentation for the Acton Minor Hockey Association will be held in the community centre Saturday May a fit 30 The Associations annual meeting and election of officers is slated for Sunday May 30 TOWING RICHS SERVICE CENTRE No 7 HWY EAST OF ACTON 8532940