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Juniors' strong shut-out In their final ringette league game for 1991, the Pont Perry IGA Juniors hooked up with Markham and skated to a strong shut-out victory. The game was just ten seconds old when Kyla McCrae 100k pass- es from Vicki Stainton and Lisa Todd to stake Port 10 a 1-0 lead Just a few seconds later, McCrae passed 10 Heather Lally who fed 10 Swinton and she made the goal lgok casy The team was short-handed when Lally fired the nng through the goalic's pads off a pass from Stainton, and that set the team on a roll. Lally scored the fourth goal on a set-up from Jenna Norton and Lisa. Swinton netted the next goal on an assist from Lisa Markham tried 1© stage a rally in the second half of the match, but Sarah Coyne "held her ground" and made several key stops. In fact, she was her usual "awesome self" in the nets. With just four minutes 10 play in the game, Amy Sinclar wok a pass from Stanton and scored her first goal ever in ringette. And for that effort, the home town fans gave her quite an ovation Full marks 0 Sarsh Coyne for caring her second shut-out of the 3 S Mac HOW DID YOUR TEAM DO LAST NIGHT? J=% 7) § | mum ptr) || season. The team wants to take this chance 10 wish a happy new year © all and especially sponsor Jim Ggieve and the staff at Port Sales dropped The number of residential sales in Durham Region dropped slightly in November from the previous month, r#orts the Oshawa and Drstrict Real Estate Board In actual terms, there were 331 residential sales in November, com- pared with 348 in October. Despite the shight dip, 1991 sales continue © show an improvement of about 50 per cent over the number in 1990. To the end of November, there had been 5379 homes sold, compared with 3598 over the same 11 months in 1990. And the aver age price went up in November © $152,000, from $145,000 the previ ous month Anne Briscoe, the out-going president of the Real Estate Board noted that realions are "socing more activity in the mid-range priced homes. People waiting 10 trade up of purchase a larger family home have decided 10 ke advantage of the lower interest rates, reduced prices and the wide assonument of homes on the market," she sad GAME! Scugog Citizen -- -- Tuesday, December 31, 1991 -- 7 The 'R' word - and it's NOT recession! Have you ever seen one of those 'Life's Greatest Fears' charts? What always seems (0 be nght up there in one of the op positions, beating out even death and sometimes tying with public speaking is the fear of change. At this ume of year, there is an 'r' word that strikes fear into the hearts of we mere NOT referring to diapering) The older we get, the slower we grow. Al age 21, when the body stops, we must sull progress in order to cope with life. Do the rest of you feel like a snail when it comes to personal growth? The experts say tha mortals almost as much as the 'recession' word marlene russell that has been bandied about in our recent history writer's blocks What is the other 'r" word? Say the word 'resolution' and sce if your knees knock When it comes ume to hang that beautiful calendar we yeam 10 keep the new year free from the black marks we imagine appear when we continue pat tems of behaviour that we would like 10 change Why do we keep dong this © ourselves? I've thought about this and have come © some con clusions. One is that we can't avoid change. As much as we may fear it, change is a given in life. Growth means change Watching a baby develop allows us 10 see change daily (1 am we can only change our selves, no one can chang into linle steps. (1 really wanted 10 say bite-sized pieces, but I'm trying to change my obsession with food). Here are the steps [I've noticed stumbling through on the rocky road to self-improvement. 1. The real- ization that a certain behaviour is unacceptable (Our reasons for reaching ts conclu- sion will be jas diverse as we are.) us nor can we change another. It doesn't stop us from trying, does i? | think we focus on someone else's faults when we get frus trated with our own pitiful selves. Besides, it's a lot casier and a heck of a lot less painful 10 cast a critical eye in another direction. Spouses make great targets. Could this account for the high rate of divorce? | won der When in a mature state (it does happen, every now and then) and I'm only working on my own faults, | find it casier 10 progress if | break the journcy 2. The behaviour has become one of my bad habits 3.1 want 10 change 4. | recognize when | have jist done it, again : S. I start realizing as | am doing it 6. Realize I'm about to do it, but DON'T stop the action 7. 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