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v Kendal Farmer Unhurt When Tractor Goes Swimming The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, January 23,1985 13 Alfie Shrubb Pioneered Training Methods W ' .1 , A local Kendal resident found that the ice was not as safe as it looked last week when his tractor fell through the ice on a private pond. Luckily a friend happened by with his John Deere and saved the day. Everyone escaped the scene unhurt and reasonably dry! Institutes Fulfill Community Needs Almost three-quarters of a million dollars was generated generated by 1152 Women's Institute Institute Branches across Ontario Ontario to carry out their diversified diversified projects and activities activities during the past year. This statistic comes from the Public Relations Report Report presented to the Federated Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario at their annual Board Meeting at the Bond Place Hotel, Toronto. Non-members see the Women's Institute as a social social organization. They are quite unaware of its educational educational role, the high level of community involvement it fosters and its traditional concern with improving the quality of life. Since the Women's Institute Institute is an educational organization, organization, the Branches initiated initiated and supported many projects in this field. They presented awards, scholarships scholarships and bursaries to students; students; bought recreation equipment for a nursery school; supported public speaking competitions, and music festivals, purchased a projector and microfilm reader; provided a scanner for théCNIB. Branches also promoted resource material material within their communities communities when volunteer leaders attended workshops workshops to learn techniques of quilting and rug braiding. Then these leaders returned returned to instruct groups in their communities. Most branches also provided vol- ünteer leaders and support for the 4-H Clubs. Many members attended Loyalist Costume Workshops, then created their own bicentennial bicentennial dresses-replicas of 200 years ago. Women's Institute Branches discover needs in the community and then ways of filling those needs. Over the past year, they made and painted street signs, maintained and equipped community halls, organized hobby and craft shows, supported fall fairs; purchased band uniforms, installed street lights, made finger puppets for a Children's Children's Hospital; compiled cook books; co-ordinated fashion shows and even a Township reunion; organized organized the complete women's program at the International International Ploughing Match; provided replacement replacement beds for a hospital; donated privacy curtains; installed a park bench at a hamlet post office, a rest stop for those walking to pick up mail. The Women's Institute groups were actively actively involved in numerous bicentennial activities. Women's Institutes are continuously attempting to improve the quality of life. The elderly, sick and shut- ins are visited and remembered remembered with gifts and cards. Meals on Wheels and parties parties add to the life of seniors living alone. Members volunteer volunteer help at blood donor clinics and hospitals and also provide hospital and medical transportation. Branches supported crises centres and Block Parent programs and canvassed for non-profit organizations. One branch adopted a resident resident of a nursing home who had no family and brightened that life considerably. considerably. ' All Women's Institute groups support the worldwide UNESCO co-action co-action project of "Clean Water for All". This is just a cross section of Women's Institutes activities activities across Ontario. The complete list would be endless. endless. Letters To The Editor Consultant's Office, Third Floor St. Peter's Elementary School 443 Reid Street Peterborough, Ontario January 19,1985 The Canadian Statesman 66 King Street West Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 1R4 Dear Sir.-- r . . The/ Ontario - English Catholic Teacher's Association, Peterborough - Victoria Northumberland and Newcastle Unit is sponsoring a special three night program on the dignity of human life. As everyone is welcome to participate, we need you to make the community aware of this project. Monday, February 4,1985,7 p.m. - Rights of the Unborn Child and Support for Pregnant Women. Speaker; Gwen Landolt, LLB. Sponsored Sponsored by Ontario English Catholic Teacher's Association, Association, Peterborough - Victoria - Northumberland and Newcastle Newcastle unit. At Peterborough Public Library, Main Branch. Everyone welcome. Monday, February 11, 1985, ■ 7 p.m. Assignment-Life: Film and speaker William Belch, M.D. Sponsored by Ontario English Catholic Teacher's Association, Peterborough - Victoria - Northumberland and Newcastle Unit. At Peterborough Peterborough Public Library, Main Branch. Everyone welcome. Monday, February 18, 1985, 7 p.m. Rights and Life for All: Bishop Doyle, speaker and workshop on examining project project selection for Third World Development, sponsored by Ontario English Catholic Teacher's Association, Peterborough Peterborough - Victoria - Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle Unit. At Peterborough Public Library, Main Branch. Everyone Everyone welcome. Appreciatively, Terry Marrow . ■School (705) 748-4861, "" Extension35 3 Home (705) 742-1886 SHIPLEY SUITS 100% ALL WOOL IN SHORTS-REG.-TALLS Ÿ3 OFF REGULAR PRICE of $299.00 SALE PRICE $199.00 SAVE $100.00 MEN'S WEAR 35 TEMPERANCE ST. N. MASTERCARD BOWMANVILLE VISA JANUARY SALE STILL CONTINUES Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship in Canada South Central Ontario Rally 16 January; 1985 Editor, Statesman Canadian The Full Gospel Businessmen's Businessmen's Fellowship in Canada will hold its South Central Ontario Rally Friday, February 8th, and Saturday, February 9th, at the Holiday Inn in Oshawa. Sponsored by the Cobourg, Lindsay, Peffer- law, Peterborough, and Oshawa - Durham chapters, an exciting program has been arranged including Dr. Chuck Camplejohn, a renowned physicist and engineer from Everett Washington, who will by Rhonda Malomet He has been described variously as "phenomenal", "irrepressible" and "one of the all time greats of running." running." He established IT world records, some of which stood for nearly 25 years and he broke countless countless others. Indeed, it is awesome to contemplate what Alfie Shrubb might have accomplished this summer in Los Angeles had he had the benefit of modern modern training methods and equipment. But this Englishman, who spent much of his life in Bowmanville was to carve his niche in the running world in the early part of the century. A glance at this picture makes you wonder how he did it. Unlike the brawny, muscled figures that graced our TV screens this summer, the dark haired athlete had a thin wiry physique, standing just over 5'6" and weighed 118 pounds. Yet, he was gifted in his sport and would travel the world doing what he did best -- breaking records. Shrubbs running career began quite by accident one day in 1898 in Horsham, England. England. He was 20 years old, fatigued and on his way home from a day of climbmg Newcastle Girl Racquetball Pro Congratulations to Elaine Sheridan of Newcastle for placing second in the Markham Markham Open Racquetball Tournament. This tournament tournament was open to all racquetball racquetball players in Ontario. Elaine, a provincially ranked player, made the championship found the hard way when she fell behind behind in everyone of her preliminary preliminary matches, only to fight back gamely and win. Although she put up a good struggle, she came up a little short in the, final match against a tough opponent. opponent. This was Elaine's first tournament of the year as she prepares for the Canadian Canadian National Championships Championships to be held in Vancouver Vancouver in May and the International International Masters games in August. The pretty brunette from Newcastle is rated as one of tiie top ladies' senior players in Ontario. She has competed! (successfully in Ontario, Qliebec ,and the U.S.A. Good luck id the Nationals. Nationals. speak on how science supports the Bible. Alex Canavan, a successful businessman from Boston will share his experiences experiences in dealing with cults. Also speaking will be local businessman Mr. Jim McEwen, a well known marketing executive from Hampton, Ontario. Singer Janet Mogren will also be appearing. She has performed throughout the U.S. and Canada, and is a frequent guest on 100 Huntley Street. Registration and meal reservations are available through the Oshawa Chapter, P.O. Box 1172, Station "B", Oshawa, LU 5A1, up and down ladders at his job as an apprentice builder. builder. In the distance, he heard the clanging of a fire engine (in those days drawn by horse). The fire which turned out to be a pile of burning straw, was three miles away. A neighbour, F.J. Spencer who spent his spare time running with the Horsham Blue Star Harriers Harriers suggested that he and Shrubb race the wagon to the fire. Clad in work clothes and heavy boots Shrubb joined Spencer in a chase and both beat the wagon. Spencer, impressed immediately entreated the "irrespressible" to join the Harriers and so began the long and distinguished running running career of Alfie Shrubb. Shrubb's forte was long distance running. He broke almost every record from 2,000 yards to 11 miles 1,137 yards in the last few years of his amateur career. His daughter, Mrs. Lome (Nora) Allin of Bowmanville, says of her father that he had extraordinarily extraordinarily large lungs. This enormous capacity for the intake of oxygen sustained sustained him over long distances distances and provided for his well known bursts of speed towards the end of a race. It was such a spurt of energy that enabled him to win the race at Ibrox Park in Glasgow 1904. Shrubb has referred to this as "the greatest race I ever ran". There, he broke the hour record record running 11 miles 1,137 yards. It was a grey Glasgow morning on November 5, the day of the run. The cinder cinder track was sodden from a rainfall and the west wind was blowing hard. Certainly not the most conducive conditions conditions in which to break world records. But Shrubb was determined and confident. confident. Later on he wrote, "I had my heart set on making history in the Ibrox Park race and nothing was going to prevent it." The race was structured so that Shrubb was to run 10 miles and if his time was less than one hour he would have to keep running. There were 20 other competitors in the race that day. All but Shrubb received handicaps, handicaps, starting anywhere from one to nine minutes ahead of him. But it was he that the anxious crowd at Ibrox had come to see, and he didn't disappoint them either. He overtook all the men, staged a quarter mile burst to catch the final man and break the tape at 10 miles in a record 50 minutes 40.6 seconds. Still, 10 minutes minutes remained and Shrubb though exhausted showed great stamina and continued continued to set the record for one hour of running. Not only was Shrubb a record record breaker but he was also a pioneer in athletic training methods. Sports historian Bill Humber of Bowmanville describes Shrubb as one of the first athletes to employ a completely completely scientific mode of training. To Shrubb, this meant a disciplined regimen regimen of regular workouts combined with regular meals and sleep. When he WE DO WINDOWS Wow, do we do windows! SALE 20%off Verticals, Venetians and Roller Blinds THIS OFFER VALID UNTIL FEB. 15/85 £7-Yl ltd 67 King St. E. 623-4655 Bowmanville trained, he put seven pounds of lead weights in each shoe, a throw back perhaps to his very first race when he ran in his heavy work boots. Come race time, he would don his spikes and his feet would effortlessly effortlessly skim over the cinders. cinders. Shrubb's methods were so admired that even as late as 1977, Mrs. Allin received received a letter from an Englishman Englishman who said he had emulated Shrubb in his own training by using weights in his shoes. Shrubb, it appears, also had a bit of the showman in him. When he was short of competition, he would race horses and whole relay teams. Once he beat 2 horses, each going five miles. Another time he defeated defeated a five man relay team in a ten mile event. Once, during a 15 mile race against 1906 gold medalist Billy Sherring of Hamilton he relished his victory a bit more than usual. Having finished a good six laps ahead of Sherring, Shrubb rushed to the dressing room and returned with a camera to take a picture of his opponent opponent as he crossed the finished line. Shrubb was also noted for the professional battle he had going with famed American American Indian runner Tom Longboat. These runs were for distances of 10, 15 and 20 miles. Longboat certainly certainly gave Shrubb good competition and beat him several times. Their last race was run at Exhibition Stadium in 1931. Shrubb, then 51 defeated 48 year old Longboat. After this race, Shrubb formally retired from running. He settled in Bowmanville Bowmanville permanently in 1928 with his wife Ada who required required a drier climate because because of her ill health. Here, Shrubb went into partnership with James Lake Morden in the Cream of Barley operation as well as the Cream of Barley Camp. (Both located at Simpson Road and Highway 2). It is impossible to do justice justice to the career of Alfie Shrubb in so short a sketch of him. This task is being accomplished accomplished by sports historian historian Bill Humber who along with Mrs. Allin is writing a biography of the great runner. runner. Mrs. Allin especially hopes to have this as a record record for her grandson Scott who is also interested in athletics. Recently the Newcastle area was once again connected connected to an outstanding runner. Silvia Ruegger of Newtonville, placed eighth in the first women's marathon at the Los Angeles summer Olympics, bringing distinction not' only to the Town, but to Canada Canada as well. January Savings at Vanstone Mill All Wicker Dog and Cat Baskets including pillows L ,0% off All Collapsible Dog and Cat Cages 2 0% off All Kennel Cab Cages 1 5% off All Banner Bits Dog and Cat Food 20% Vanstone Flour and Feed Mill DIVISION OF PYPKEA ENTERPRISES LIMITED 116 King Street West 623-5777 Bowmanville SAVINGS ON Everything in the Store! Thurs., Fri., Sat. - January 24, 25, 26 Save From to OFF Toys * Games * Hobby Kits * Craft Supplies All In-Stock Yarn - 20% OFF Offer expires January 31,1985 All Items Subject to Prior Sale Creative Pastimes 5 King St. E. . 623-1546 Bowmanville Personal Cheques Welcome IjjgjjggU