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Page THE HERALD Wednesday November 1 Worlds Greatest Waiter Scrod- Whats that Whats scrod I asked as we sat down at the dimly lit table This was a very nice restaurant indeed this place called Amelias in Arlington Virginia next door to Washington D The only thing was that I couldnt figure out some parts of the menu being one of them Well John began with that typical booming baritone of the technical expert a scrod is ac tually a baby cod as fish you see But it can also be interpreted as the past pluperfect tense of the word screw as in I screwed up you screwed up they up John Gimme a break I said with a chuckle Meanwhile Mike peered quietly at the menu something about having a craving for something fishy and our conversation drew the smiling attention of a few surrounding tables The three of us John Minns from POWER Dr Michael Dickman from Environmental Studies at Brock University and yours truly had just finished giv ing a presentation on pollution specifically Acid Rain to a recep tive audience at Lois Gibbs Grassroots Convention on the En vironment It had been exciting Now it was time to unwind The waiter appeared Man ah hope you realize just how lucky you are Tonight is lucky night Jerry Jones thats me at yo ser vice Ah m the Worlds Greatest Waiter he said with a wide smile Well Jerry I said about this scrod No no Jerry quickly and quietly advised No I t get tonight man a little dry Might I suggest a couple of other things and we all agreed that scallops in a fine wine and spicy orange sauce sounded just great Meanwhile ah m to show you how the Worlds Greatest Waiter thats me Jerry Jones in case you forgot how I prepare Amelias Worlds Greatest Caesar Salad step by step right at yo table man and Jerry proceeded to do just that Meanwhile John joined in and broadcast the steps and ingre dients perfectly accurately ding up at times to illustrate a point to the other tables now all watching ours My man John Jerry said ob viously impressed you are amazin man You teach class or somethin back home to which John humbly reminded everyone that preparing food was simply one of his many talents and by now our entire restaurant sec tion was our audience John proceeded to his magic act making quarters vanish and creating musical tones by rubbing the of halffilled wine glasses with a moistened finger How you do that a pretty lady sitting alone at the next table said with a laugh and before long she was making music too Man oh man Jerry Jones said with a happy face man I know ah m the Worlds Greatest Waiter but you know John and Mike and vou are the Worlds Greatest Table Heck man together we could make billions and everyone gave a loud laugh Now ahm to see what s keepin them scallops and we settled into our appetizers After several long minutes Ladies league By Herald Special The Georgetown Ladies Volleyball Association has begun its season and it promises to be a good outlet for our collec tive energies The gymnasium is not a quiet place at Georgetown District High School Monday rights from 7 30 p m as women make up the 10 teams taking turns on the hardwood courts Players use service spike and set techniques to their respective team s advantage The Reds took an eariy league lead the first night of action undefeated but were upset by Burgundy in secondweek play I T Black Nvy KHlv Green Red Yellow Powder Blue Royal Blue Orange GEORGETOWN HOCKEY HERITAGE AWARD NOMINATIONS WANTED This award is presented annually to a person or persons who have made an outstanding con tribution to Georgetowns Hockey Heritage Please forward nominations for the 1 990 award to Don Olson 102 Ray lawn Cres Georgetown Ont L7G NAME ADDRESS Please include a brief description of the con tributions Submissions received prior to November 15 will be considered I I Jerry Jones reappeared a more serious look on his face now You know man you know how sometimes sometimes a waiter even a great one makes a sugges tion that doesnt quite work out and everyone looked at Jerry and nodded Sometimes the cooks not with it or ran out or somethin More nodding And Mike piped up quietly Looks an awful lot like we re going to get scrod after all and everyone laughed again No no Mike and John and No you wont get scrod tonight No man our cook was just about ready to close it up see but I explained how I had the Worlds Greatest Table out there and all and well man look at these have you ever seen or tasted better scallops than these babies and I must admit that I hadnt The meal was simply delicious We ate and ate and ate some more before finally finishing up saying goodbyes to all of our new fnends and of course generously tipping Jerry Jones in American funds too On the way out the hostess of the restaurant Amelia asked how the dinner had been We explained our experience expressed our gratitude and said wed try to be back You must have had Jerry Jones she said smiling You know when filled in his lion for work here under Ex perience and References he simp- put in big letters Im the Worlds Greatest Waiter To be sure it aint when its the truth ON THE HORIZON Another battle with the heavyweight champ of fish See you in two weeks Redmen juniors capture silver Acton High Schools junior boys volleyball team captured the silver medal in weekend competition in Milton this past weekend at the E C Drury Invitational Tourna ment The Acton squad capturea place in their pool by virtue of vie tones in the opening rounds The first match of the day saw the split games with Burl ingtons Nelson High School Ac ton winning the first game 1513 and Nelson the second 157 After overcoming opening day jitters the red and white Acton boys stormed out to defeat Water- down High School by scores of and The next faced Lester Pearson High School the division leaders in Halton West Acton took the first game while Pearson grabbed the second 1510 In the final games of pool play Acton defeated Cathedral High School of Hamilton by scores of and It was then on to the semifinals where the once again as in their victory two weeks ago in Kitchener faced the AncasterHigh School Royals Again the dominated play defeating by scores of and 159 Acton then erftered the championship game at 7 against E who had gone undefeated in their pool Drury won the first and Ac ton took the second What then followed was a thrilling cliff hanger final game with the lead seesawing back and forth several times and eventually going to over time Our middle blocking is beginning to shine said Ellis who singled out Chris White Jason Schonnop and Kevin Argudin for their work up front Medal winners for Acton were Bill Andrews Jim Sale Chris White Brad Thorpe Jason Piper Jason Schonnop Jake Jovanov and Kevin The junior face Oakville Trafalgar and Milton High Schools in regular league play this week Saturday they travel to Bishop Reding for a tournament where they will once again face Drury Said coach Ellis With gold medals for each of us in two tournaments this season the rub ber match will be on Saturday We are looking forward to the challenge runners disappointed On Oct the Acton cross country team ended their season when they failed to qualify anyone for the champion ships David Osborne came the closest to qualifying the midget boys metre run when he placed fifth in a field of runners He was denied entry to since only the first three individual places in his race qualified Completing the midget race for Acton were Bob Andrews in Matt Wigston 65th and Julian Sark in In the junior boys metre race Jason Dunn was the first run ner across for Acton finishing in place He was followed by Lam Nguyen in and Kevin Pettipher in 61st Tamra Reynolds had the best showing of the girls when she plac ed 26th the senior girls 5000 metres Karen our only other female runner placed in the midget girls 3000 metres Clears Out The Garage Like a springtime breeze your ad in the Garage Sale columns of The Herald will clear your garage and put some easy cash in your hands instead FOR YOUR BEST 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