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"A Family Tradition for 127 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, October 26,1993 - 33 Begin thinking about safe snowmobiling now By Kelly Lown Port Perry Star Concern over the number of snowmobiling deaths in Onta- rio led to the creation of the On- tario Snowmobile Safety Com- mittee in 1990. The committee stresses the need for increased awareness about the combination of safety and snowmobiling. "Saving lives and preventing injuries. That is what the Ride 'Safe, Ride Sober campaign is all about." "The increased level of aware- ness about snowmobile safety has been phenomenal in the first two years of the campaign," said Shirley' Coppen, Minister Without Portfolio. Since 1986 the number of snowmobilers in the province has tripled, but the yearly death rate has remained constant at an average of 39 fatalities every year since 1988-89. The Ride Safe, campaign is the slogan of the committee, which is undertak- ing a series of initiatives through a public education cam- paign. More than 350,000 Ontario residents take part in the sport of snowmobiling each year. The committee has compiled data from the 1988-89 snowmo- bile season to the 1991-92 sea- son, the last year in which infor- mation is available. One hundred and fifty-five people lost their lives in snow- mobile accidents between those years, and close to 2,000 more were injured. The victims ranged in age from two to 69 years, and 80 per cent of those killed or injured were young males. Almost 93 per cent of the fatalities were Techstar Ride Sober males, with three of five victims being between /the ages of 15 and 34. Although females suffered fewer injuries; of the ones who were killed or injured, 64 per cent were also in the same age range. : From 1988-1991, deaths were reported in 32 different districts in Ontario. Sudbury continues to have the most fatalities with 26 in the aforementioned time period. Haliburton, 13, Simcoe, 11, Algoma and Kenora, 10 each reported the most number of deaths. Fifty-four per cent of the deaths occurred on lakes and rivers. Forty-one per cent of non-fatal injuries occurred on highways or streets. Very few accidents occurred on trails. Only three deaths oc- curred on trails between Janu- ary 1, 1988 and May 31, 1992, and all were the result of opera- torerror. Drowning was the leading cause of death in these acci- dents. Fifty-three people drowned "with the remaining deaths due to severe injuries. Twenty-one were as a result of a collision with a motor vehicle, four with a train and 19 with an- other snowmobile. Alcohol and speed were the prominent contributing factors in 79 and 51 per cent, respec- tively, of these accidents. Other factors were unlicenced drivers and loss of control. Seventy-six per cent of all mishaps took place during hours of darkness. January was the worst month for accidents and 80 per cent of all accidents occurred between mid- December tolate February. - The Ontario Snowmobile Bantams lose to Lindsay Lindsay opened the scoring early in the game at 13:52 of the first period. With 10:45 on the clock Techstars Matt Blowe poked one in with assists going to Gavin Baxter and Ryan Puckrin. Both goalies were be- ing tested early in the game, as Lindsay scored their second. It wasn} long before Port came back to tie it up with Shane Norton scoring as Brad Shanley and Todd Parry set this one up nicely from the cor- ner. The second period saw Lind- say leading the way scoring two goals. Techstars fought back with their backchecking, fore- checking and bodychecking as they buzzed around the Lind- say net only to be denied by the Lindsay goaltender. With a flood between the sec- ond and third Dave Jamieson had a chance to rally his troops. Brad Shanley scored on a pass from Matt Philips in behind the Lindsay net, leaving Port trail- ing by one. However, Lindsay potted another one just over the glove of Port's goalie. Port did not stop or give up as Ryan will Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. Puckrin scored with only nine seconds left on the clock. Assists went to Matt Blowe and Matt Philips. The game was closely matched with good defence shown by Port ending 6- 4 for Lindsay. On Oct. 22 Techstars trav- elled to Uxbridge for their sec- ond game of regular season hockey. Techstars found a reju- venated Uxbridge team meet- ing them head on. Techstars tried everything in their power to putone in the net. The goalie for Uxbridge was hot stopping everything in sight. The first period ended with Uxbridge ahead 3-0. Shortly into the second period one of Port's players had to be taken to the hospital after hit- ting the boards head on. It was only minutes later when a player for Uxbridge had to be taken to the hospital. The game was called at this point. We hope the boys injuries were not serious and will return soon. Port Perry Techstar Bantams take on Peterborough E |TV ~ VCR ~ AUDIO | RB 2 WN | authorized dealer for | HITACH} Safety Committee is undertak- Ing several initiatives to once again lower the number of acci- dents. The spokesman for the cam- paign is Toronto Maple Leafs captain Wendel Clark, who is enthusiastic about this year's campaign. "If you snowmobile and want to stay healthy, you also have to learn the rules of the trail and 'live by them. I'm proud to fap. P port a campaign that will he revent human tragedy. The Ride Safe, Ride Sober campaign will help reduce the number of accidents and make snowmobil- ing safer. I encourage you to supportit," he said. - Initiatives to be put into place by the committee include pro- duction of a new safety video, in- troduction of the Mobile SLED SMART Safety Education Team, new visual mobile bill: boards Promoting the campaign 8 on two Fluke Transport truc which travel Highway 400, north of Toronto and hi 401, the addition of Zurich Can- ada as a sponsor, the appoint- ment of Mr. Clark as official spokesperson and the introduc- tion of anew campaign poster. Overhead Door Peewees win On Sunday, Oct. 23, the Scu- gog Overhead Doors Peewee "B" 'Hockey Club travelled down the road to Peterborough to take on the Nationals in their own back- yard. It didn't take this game long to warm up as Peterbo- rough came out fast and put one of the board first at 1:17 of the first period. Port Perry was matching Peterborough stride for stride and winning many of the battles in the neutral zone, 'but' the puck was bouncing the right way for Peterborough. Pe- terborough scored their second goal of the period while on the power play at 4:01 to take a commanding two goal lead. There wasn't any more scoring in the opening period with the scoreboard reading Peterbo- rough 2 - Port Perry 0. The second period got under- way with a 'bang' as the Peter- borough centre tried to put a good move on Scottie Harper (Harpie) and found himself sit- ting on his 'britches' on the blue line. From that point, the mo- mentum changed in Port Perry's favor. At 11:40, only a spectacular save by the Peter- borough * goalie stopped Ryan McQuade from scoring on a clear cut breakaway. Port came out of their own end in a hurry at 5:26 when Travis Pickard hit Brad Johnston with a nice pass at the Peterborough blue line as he split the defence and feath- ered a soft pass over to Scott Sanderson in the slot and "Hel- lo Dolly", it's 2-1 and here comes Port Perry. With Peterborough ahead 2- 1, Port threw another log on the fire and turned up the heat an- other notch. Scott Sanderson in- tercepted a Peterborough clear- ing pass and put a nice pass over to Nick Pelyk who wasted no time hitting Justin (Cat) Sheehey in the slot and "she's all tied up, folks" Yes!!! Peterbo- rough kept hammering away but try as they might, they just couldn't score on this well- coached Port Perry team. This Red Machine was well oiled and rolling along pretty well. The second period ended with the score 2-2 and Peterborough on the power play. Period three got underway with Port killing off the penal- ty. Both teams traded rushes but the goaltenders had come to play and neither one was about to give anything away 'free'. Port struck again at 7:50 when Ryan Moynes lugged the puck out of his own end to centre ice, up to Ryan McQuade who found Travis Pickard cruising in the slot as he tipped it past a sprawling Peterborough goal- tender to give Port the lead 3-2. [Less than two minutes later, Ryan McQuade stopped a Pe- terborough rush at centre and hit the "Cat" Sheehey at the Pe- terborough blue line, in the slot to Scott Sanderson as he buried it deep in the Peterborough net to give Port a 4-2 lead. Peterborough tried their best in the last two minutes to get their goalie out of the net for an extra attacker but Port kept them tied up for most of it and when they did get the "extra at- tacker", Port's defence shut them right down! As the horn sounded to end the game, Port - defeated the Nationals by a score of 4-2. Playing in goal for Port Perry was Corey Branton. Shots on goal were 37-32 for Port Perry. Novice house league action Haugens 4 - Port Perry Printing 3 These two evenly matched teams were tied until the 1:59 mark of the third period when Haugens went ahead with a goal. For Haugens, Froats scored twice and assist- ed on one, Shane Jeffrey and Al- exander Nicolaou each had one goal. Kevin Gloster, Russell Lee, Reid Harris and Jesse Mischtian had the assists. For Port Perry Printing: goals were scored by Gary Garratt with two and Mark Lott with one. Greg Hunter, Luke Pilkey, Ryan May and Clay Trainor also worked hard to keep the game a close one. Excellent goal tending by Alex McKay for Port Perry Printing and Greg Jeffrey Swamp Auto lose close 2-1 match On Oct. 23 the Swamp Auto Body Bantam House Leagn ague team travelled to Uxbridge where they came out on the los- ing end of a very exciting game by a close score of 2-1. This game had a bit of everything in it, even an Elvis sighting on the Swamp bench. Who by the way was given a bench minor for singing out of key we think which was served by son Big Nick Skerratt. The Swamp started the scor- ing off as Jay Fletcher fed a pass to Jeremy Gibson breaking into the clear and he made no mis- takes as he fired it home giving - his team a 1-0 lead, at the half-- way mark of the first period. Uxbridge fought back and tied things up at one a piece with "only a minute remaining in the first period. Swamp's goalie Jordan. ing a strong game coming up 'past him at the midway point of lots of good plays being made b "men Noah Dorland, Greg Bons- er and Kevin Edwards, excel- Port Perry. The next home game for the Peewee "B" team is Saturday, Oct.30at 7:40 p.m. . ~~ Honorable mention hustle goes to Blayne Kinnu- nen. Honorable mention for de- fensive effort goes to 'Aaron Chambers and Chris Jones. Brad Johnston gets a nod for re- - lentless job in -forechecking. Nice Game, Boys, 3 and 0, Yes! for Haugens kept the spectators on the edge of their seats for all three periods. SARE Re/Max 10-Van Camp4 Devon Ferguson led the Re/ Max team with four goals, while Wesley Langmaid, Stuart Co- chrane each had a pair. Clayton Gilmore scored one and Stormy Wootton scored one and had 'an assist. Jeff Glanville assisted on two, Wesley Langmaid, Tyler Lee, Stuart Cochrane also had assists. The goaltender for Re/ Max this week was Troy John- ston. VamCamp's Chris McKit- terick had a goal and figured 'in on all other goals. Joseph Koz- linsky came up with a pair and Robert Schamp one. Kevin Lu- cas also assisted on three goals. ody Doug Short was orice again hav- with some big saves but Ux- bridge managed to squeak one the second period to take a 2-1 lead, which turned out to be the final score. This low scoring affair: had the Swampers such as Big Nic Skerratt's: end to end rushes, good defensive work by defence- lent two-way play of Core Wytrazyk, Lisa Bonser and Ja- mie Sauter and some great passing plays being set up by ay Fletcher, Kris Wootton and Brennen Arsenault. 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