Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), June 2, 1976, p. 14

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THb lit RAID June 1 19JG Mike Dixon aims for national team held Track and Field Championships represented Mike Dixon i swun song as high school middle distance Mike will be PLAY HALL was the cry heard at Georgetown Fairgrounds Park last as Donkey Baseball made Its local debut Well over 1 people took in the lights entertaining affair that ended up in the firemen favour the ambulance crew when Brian Parrel led a mass charge from centre field that would hac put to and crossed home plntc in front of tin pack we some of the ambulance crew waiting their turn it bat Below member of the firemen crew to Ret moneky his back In an exhibition Senion whipped Georgetown Georgettes I North Halton Sports hosting first hockey school The Gordon will the scene this sum mer through the weeks of August through to August erf the first locajly initiated sports camp The camp the of North Sports Camp is headed by Pete Pomeroy and includes Directors Paul Robinson Bob Toet and Ken The new ice facility is provided by the arena precipitated the sports camp idea and it is hoped that the program will help boy nthletn skills fitness and through fitness 1 thes The beginner it ihe I ilinttd bo with concern I assure tint lad or young female for arc eligible fur the camp will be grouped with Ihi participants in tin sessions closest to his or skill mil torched in si outlined in tht brochure This was developed by the director to provide low tost highly professional spoir instruction course based on sound philosophy of and In jet low key facility The sports imp will run through in four week sessions sessions incorporate instruction in both specialized skating Instruction and hockey skills instruction physical fitness conditioning soccer wrestling tennis and football This represents underlying but according to iuI Robinson a director the successful coach of the embryonic Jumcr the Georgetown programme should mi As he noted This is nccesfcirll i hockey programme although it is hockey oriented However it should he pointed out whit re offering is i con fitness programme One that might The instructor will Dan rum rum is a former i Hockey League scoring ind turn ml the Cleveland Crusaders has seen on with of the Mil instructed at Thundir Hockey School To 1st ceorgeto Dil iamce Chris Milne worked for seven weeks summer it the Tim in Sports Limpin Belleville on ind to offer ice a sibly 1 things j number Ihts out their to provide what be in excellent To this end the camp has recruited lion inn Nitiona Hock lciguc linesman and referci for the past seven who been with the inidnn Olympic Hockey is i recreation instructor for ity of Toronto Borough of Scar Hon will be super vising the power skating in McFadyen drafted Georgetown Gary was drafted the Toronto Maple Leafs at the recently held MIL Junior draft Gary went through the Georgetown system to Midget age when he was drafted by the OHA Major Junior A club Hamilton The idea of toiling in Hamilton particularly appeal to and he subsequently joined the Hull Festivals of the Quebec Junior Hockey Association Under Quebec rules Met ad en docs have another year left as an overage Junior so he does have open to him Gary is spending the summer in Georgetown and his talents arc on display weekly in the Georgetown Industrial Summer Hockey League Two District High School lcJitrs Itob n will Ik in of office fitness instruction Bob graduated from the of W with honors II A has en involved in letting football and high Iwilhi wrestling Is to provincial title Mike McMillan is i of V iterloo and has coached both foothill wrestling on he high school level to Pete in the camp has been expressed by residents from the on Hills Although the four weekly sessions ire rapidly filling up there is still room or applicants to enroll Further inform ition concerning the camp in lined by telephoning this spring and has built on a solid foundation of going on to and better things in he field of competitive running problems and their resultant ill effect on his training schedule did not allow Mike to go out in a blaze of He failed to qualify for the All Meet but In typical Dixon style the disappointment was allowed its sabbatical in the mind then brushed aside With Ins high school career behind him Mike has set his sights on two rather heights He would like to compete in Gimes to be slaged in Ed in the summer of 1978 he would like to represent hii the Olympics fa Moscow To this end he has carefully ind in I He has decided to an au states There no or junior athletes development in Canada He Is leery the recent parent interest in as do minj others hat it is just a push bee lust we happen to I hosting Ha 1J76 Olympics Willi Mike fell that inching in imda ripdly reaching the level of that of tin States his decision logo south was mainly based in the f tint in Mates ire better facilities and of eourse stiffer To Mikt his had ip 0 offers from St olliges he is narrow his down to seven possibilities in eluding Ohio Slule Texas I I Paso II seems that miny 1 ithHtes have id strange introductions to their chosen spurt and Georgetown Mike Dixon is no exception he bluntly puts it I didn even The wooing of the sport in fact it was sport wooed Mike rather than the normil reversal of roles begin in spring of 1J73 when Mike was jut finishing up grade II In physical education classes that spring Mike had been leading the pack in many runs and Lew Martin well remembered in Georgetown far his wrestling team successes suggested that Mike try out for the cross country learn fall Mike offhandedly implied that he would then quickly the matter On the first clay of the school year Martin tracked Mike down in the hall and repeated the request that Mike turn out for the team Again Mike was to put it bluntly unimpressed Martin finally cornered one day and rather than pul the popular teacher off any further Mike showed up lor cross country team Room for more Bantams registration has long been completed it is that the Georgetown liisebill Bon him House 1 1 ague is still open for who wish to play this summer The Bantams phij tvery Tuesri and Thursday evenings ire still looking for coaches and managers to lake over several teams information con eernmg the and lie in general can he ned ting Ward Sundays Sundae CANADIAN BEAUTY NOTICE I RDPI ItT OHM US i un ions UN WEED CONTROL ACT vends The costs w by June Nth nice me liens The Town of properly and destroy Goilsbeird Chicory Po j tie weeds considered noxious destroyed wherever found dlnrj will no Main Street South had remarkable success That year he placed sixth in won he Peel as Mike describes it Shock of shocks nobody believe it least of me In MI Ontario competition 1J74 placed lure of the sport is still absent in As he noted I it At that point in he t understand the purpose in busting your gut for something that when you came down to it meant nothing This altitude was soon to change however and man responsible for the change was Brian Barnes was coaching at High School and Mike had beaten several of his highly touted charges so the young had made a definite Impression As Barnes was also involved with a Toronto based track ant field he took he opportunity to the Martin incident ke let simmer or but for some reason he turned up one day to train with Barnes Under this mans guidance he is still Mikes tutor of form look pla obvious as spring and the track and field rolled around He hid a good though not spring but that summer won the Ontario Junior outdoor metre The victory libation had been sipped and Mike was hooked That fall he won Peel and cross country titles and chomped at bit waiting for 1075 competitions to begin He had an amazing year in a year every young athlete dreams of He won he indoor two mile championship won the On Juvenile indoor mure championship look the indoor Juvenile mile championship wis champion in the Peel and 3 metres Although bothered by a knee injury he still wrapped up the and Peel Hilton Senior cross country championship but placed seventh at the challenge This kind kind would have heady wine for any but was not through yet He Journeyed to Junior hlps and i the the first finish line but settled for placing in a field of runners He won the two mile indoor hut this was to prove the last laurel of his high school career dental work Mike training irgiman and in tin he placed second in 3 metres and fourth in jOO and metre races 1 Pit Mike was si up to par physically and pi ed third in the J met tin thtrtby failing o competition lit blow to i young mm ha had an illiLStnous career hut as mentioned that Mr Dixon can It is his attribute or Mike to be able to handle the good with the bad and with equal aplomb that puts him just cut ibovc many equally as talented young athletes Eke u c ability Mike has to the United Kingdom icehas competed toured Ontario and other parts of Canada He has been main man in terms of run for the past several scars yet he always has time for for young run Last fall Mike an assistant coach with the cross country team and head coach Donna Metcalfe d ly hat his help f I m value Mike I g Ih respect and dm both hi n School and i rm r leadership 1 I 1 II be sorely put terms he is th k d y man many Id Ik I late Mike newest challenge will be underway shortly but naturally the question must be asked Why has no pat answer or this merely to sine that now it irt of him Some run for glory something that now that It a begun is bard to put In terms of advice young runners Mike can only offer this To be truly competitive you to make sacrifices you have to have self discipline Nothing comes cosy you really have work to accomplish things and wont to accomplish things There are many pluses that Mike cites that keep him in running but at Ihc top of the list If the friendships that develops between competing athletes Although from this fall on Mike Dixon s triumphs and setback will take place far from the confines of Georgetown he has many supporters thai wish hire godspeed and continued luck on the road ahead United and wned the firs wantcdlorunandhc Mike inltdlo The change in Mlkt the Canadian Juvtnilc Country Champion spring of out on same bright basis as had the light because of health problems In March Mike journeyed to Wales lo compete in World North Halton Tee Talk On Tuesday m of the North ladies travelled to Huntington Golf Club to participate in their inter club It w is i cloudy day threatening rain but all girls managed to Ice off Some the winners Joyce Marga and 1 on May at our course Ihe winners for he day s event of Low ults were Mav Mahle Sanderson Gage and Irene I- This year Noble Trophy is annually the golfer accumulates the most number of points on Buses are available from Of interest to voiced in lot am lie Ihc of Following a last weeks event Front low J lorn Don Cum Bob Marshall Jim Hicks George Duncan Don Anderson Skmner Henderson John Me tricken I Cunningham Ray Tomhnson AB Iendlcy Dick Buck Low Net J t Boss Bill Al Barry Bill I rorn Ron Hay D Choose it TILDEN ANDREW MURRAY MOTORS tc that athletes into The Peel Hilton High St hoc Track hi Id Cham held i lasl tile I r he did st ho Is to 12 trio rim represcnls of five Burlington lord Nelson High School won he meet for tile sixth consecutive year Brampton Centennial finished 11 in tilt Midget Kirk no metre Midget IxlIX mitre relay of Dons Tuuchcl Meredith arcn Tin ibbs ind hrci ilbr nth who ran i fanljstic r in ving their tin Sports News It w is report that Motors which is supplying ill the requirements of the irr Summer Olympics in will nuke about Mil ill school bus type passenger vans lo sports organisations through their provincial governing bodies once hi ire As Ihey will be sports governing bodies on first tome first served any club or organisation in ted in obtaining one of at I ilt Bra ndary hitched on lo third spot Twenty six records fell by the wayside it the Peel ILiltons again the Georgetown Ian Clark played a prominent In quilifymg for he Ontario I broke the mark he had set at die II by ten seconds Ian time in Midget boys metres was an out standing Othtr qualifiers included Mendith Mclaren who led the field by Thompson who finislutl second in In Midget cjrls I Oil marts Clark who finished second bill the Pttl Hilton record in he Junior girls metres tin Open girls relay leim mule up of Dons Tuchel and Clark who all put out a treat effort and recorded a of t IT Other Georgetown com in the leel inc Joe who placed fifth and sixth respectively in the Midget boys shatpul and Javelin who placed fourth in the Midget girls l rnttrcs Brute vvho was fifth In the Junior boys metres Fergus Barnes who placed fourth in Midget boys metres Mike Dixon who came in llnrd in the Senior boys metres should contact their provincial issociaiion gauge r Brackets Set of C cop no Hardware Kit Mill Her Her Sand Inlet F Main Drain el Valve Kit Mx Kit In fallal on Instruct Owners Kil Example J 1 SI INGROUND RECTANGULAR POOL Completely installed with 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