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Wednesday, August 23, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER C3 || 4". Photo by Julie Fairrie SUMMERFEST SPORTS: the Glen Abbey Residents Association (GARA) sponsored their 16th annual Summerfest celebrations this past weekend. LEFT PHOTO: don't attempt this at home! In this Oakville Gymnastics Club demonstration, Sean Mallion, 13, achieves great heights in this `dive roll' over a couple of teammates. INSET PHOTO: this is the start of the 5K run, which attracted another huge field of 100 runners. The first three runners across the tape were Paul Osland (Glen Abbey, M30-39) in 15:57; Kevin Smith (Glen Abbey, M15-19) in 16:15 and Richard Butlin (Oakville, M40-49) in 17:25. Top female was Sandra Rebek (Grimsby, F30-39) in 19:54. Bell Canadian Open runs S ep t 4-1 Oth at Glen Abbey G .C . (Continued from page C2) Photo by Julie Fairrie Stam ps favoured in championship The Burlington Stampeders are back in the Central Ontario Minor Football League (championship) for the first time since 1990, bolstered by a sizeable 15-member Oakville contingent on the 46-player team. The championship game is this Saturday, 7 p.m. at Nelson Stadium in Burlington against North York Grizzlies. The Stamps, sponsored by the Whistling Mountie, won both regular season showdowns, 36-0 and 31-0. Actually, the Stamps won all their regular season games, going 10-0. And they easily won last weekend's semifi nal 49-14 over the Pickering Dolphins. On paper, the Stamps should win easy, but no one has to tell coach Guarascia that the game isn't played on paper but on the turf. He looks no further than a rival youth foot ball league, the Ontario Varsity Football League, where a couple of 8-0 teams were unceremoniously dumped from the early rounds. Still, it's been a great season so far, espe cially for the 25 players returning from last year's team which absorbed a 3-6 regular sea son record. The Stamps won their semifinal game last Saturday 49-14 over Pickering. Oakville's Michael Kalata scored one of the touchdowns on a three-yard run. Coach Guarascia said Kalata, a key offen sive threat, "probably had over 1,000 yards for us." Here's the entire Oakville contingent, with their school included ... IROQUOIS RIDGE: Bobby Ahuluwalia. Tyler Lord, Daniel Sloan-Smith OAKVILLE TRAFALGAR: Jamie Aylward, Duncan Harvey LOYOLA: Luis Clavero, Patrick Gillespie. Ian Hawkins, Jeremy Kalapacz, Andrew Mounfield, Dan Ranger W HITE OAKS: Michael Kalata, Michael Kucan, Jeff MacFarlane, Jordan Veschler Cup game Friday The Oakville Impact are one win aw ay from securing the U-17 South R egion League Cup but for now they're focusing on the O ntario Cup. The Im pact w ill play rival B urlington Im pact in a quarterfinal gam e this Friday (Aug. 25), 9 p.m ., at Shell Park. The team that w ins w ill have lit tle tim e to savour their trium ph as the sem ifinal gam e is set for Sunday, noon, against St. C atharines at B irchm ount Stadium in Scarborough (see O ntario Cup sem ifinal sched ule in today's paper). M eanw hile, O akville w on their L eague C up gam e 7-2 over N iagara Falls. L eague leading scorer H eather M acD ougall scored a hat-trick in the first h alf to give O akville a 30 lead and then she added one in the second half along w ith single m arkers by Janet L iquori, Lyndsay Z eller and D iana M atheson. O akville will play the w inner of the L ondon/K itchener sem ifinal in the League Cup cham pionship. tied for 10th at the 1997 British Open. Although not officially confirmed, no one expects Mike Weir to give Glen Abbey a pass, although if it were any other tourney but the Bell Canadian Open, it would probably be a sure miss. Weir, who had his break-through year last year with a win at the Air Canada Championship in Surrey, British Columbia, has never even made a cut at the Canadian Open in nine attempts, eight of which had been played at Glen Abbey. The Tiger watch is on at Glen Abbey but the world's undisputed top golfer, who just added the PGA Major this past weekend, makes it a practice not to confirm his entry into most PGA-Tour stops until deadline day, which is the preceding Friday. Of the last 23 Canadian Opens, 21 of them have been held at Glen Abbey (the only exceptions being in 1997 and 1980) but that's all about to change after this year. The Bell Canadian Open is no longer Oakville's baby. Last year the Royal Canadian Golf Association (RCGA) which runs the tourney sold its signature course, designed by Jack Nicklaus, to Club Link, one of the reasons being to again start moving the Open around the country. Oakville's `baby' will now be back just to visit. The orig inal agreement in February of last year had it coming back at least six times over 20 years, including four times in the first 10 years and twice in the following 10 years. But after this year's Open, two of those visits, so to speak, will have been used up (the 1999 and 2000 Opens), leaving just two visits over the next eight years, and another two vis its over the next 10 years. The Bell Canadian Open is the third oldest national cham pionship in the world, behind the British Open and the US Open. On the PGA Tour, the Bell Canadian Open is the second oldest tournament behind the Advil Western Open. The world's best professional golfers will compete for $3.3 mil lion (US) in 2000. For ticket information, call 1-800-310-RCGA. W hy Oakville's Betty Rose carries the torch for this community Betty Rose is always thinking of others - like the 120 people who have a developmental handicap and rely on Community Living Oakville. This not-forprofit organization operates 10 group homes, four skill-development programs and runs several special sports and social activities. For the past four years, Betty has spent much of her spare time visiting with the many friends she has made there, accompanying them on outings and helping them however she can. Along with colleague Harold Wrong, Betty rallied support from others she works with to help fix up group homes and gardens, and raised funds on behalf of Community Living. And when the group's Special Olympics T-Ball team needed uniforms, Betty (I to r) Back: Harold, Blain and Betty. Front: Alfie and David went out and found them. No wonder this year she was asked to participate in their Special Olympics Torch Run. 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