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Brian O Before coming home with the gold, Worlds' Figure Skating champion Brian Orser will complete an exhibition tour of North America. Then it's home to a hero's welcome. "I guess the town will be putting something on for him a little later on," says Penetanguishene Reeve Art Stewart. "I was quite happy to see him finally get "When he did the triple flip we knew it was all his," she says. "The triple flip was the jump he broke his leg on many years ago." Orser has been runner up in the last three Worlds' championships and won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics. Going into the final competition of the Worlds', Orser's biggest rival was the United State's Brian Boitano. When Boitano failed to land what would have been the first ever quadruple jump in skating competition, Orser was assured of his victory. Alexander Fadeev of the Soviet Union was in first place heading into the free skate portion of the competition. He won rser brings home Gold the compulsories and placed third in the short program behind Boitano and Orser. Fadeev fell on a triple axle in his long program. Orser, who skated first, received two 5.9s for technical merit and seven 5.9s for artistic impression from the judges. _ cont'd on pg. 10 it, but if you watched the performance, I don't think there was any doubt." Orser won the title Thursday evening in Cincinnati. Besides completing a flawless program, Orser became the first man in skating history to land two triple axles in Worlds' competition. Elmvale's Luella Simpson, a family friend of the Orsers, watched the competi- tion with the champ's family and then greeted him at ice level when he was declared winner. "He was very calm," says Simpson of Orser's reaction to winning. 'Brian handI- ed his world title with class, and to really top it off, Brian is still Brian. He still stops and signs autographs." Simpson says attending the competition was a very emotional experience. FLEC elects new chairman The French Language Educaction Council (FLEC) of the Simcoe County Board of Educ- tation (SCBE) held a special meeting last Tuesday evening to elect a new chairman. More than 10 delegations were slated to ap- pear at the scheduled Wednesday meeting. The special meeting was called to allow FLEC to attend to its regular business. Basile Dorion was acclaimed chairman by FLEC members Alvin Gravelle and Genevieve Roy. Dorion was elected acting chairman of the three member council after Gravelle stepped down following FLEC's controversial decision to phase out French instruction at Ecole Secondaire Pene- tanguishene Secondary School (ESPSS). FLEC came into exisitence last October following the implementation of Bill 75 pro- claimed to give francophones jurisdiction over French education. Dorion was quoted as saying he would not support the withdrawal of French instruction at ESPSS, a bilingual high school, unless numbers warranted it. FLEC made its decision to axe French at ESPSS last month. Gravelle indicated that FLEC's move was premature by saying it should not have made such a major decision before it knew more about its grants and relationship to the full board. Moment of victory Ontario curlers Kent Carstairs, Tim Belcourt and Glenn Howard could not hold back their emotions Sunday afternoon as they watched the final stone of the championship match in Tuesday, March 17, 1987 Vol. 15 No. 11, Folio 22 Championship form Brian Orser became the third Canadian to win the Men's World Figure Skating Championship when he skated away with the gold last Thursday in Cincinnati. the Labatt Brier in Edmonton, Alberta. The Penetanguishene rink as they counted five last rock of the match, by Ontario Skip Russ points to defeat the British Columbia rink of clinched the game for the Bernie Sparkes 11-7. Howard, 'Howard rink off to worlds by David Gravelle -- _ Ontario's Russ Howard from - Penetanguishene Curling Club came back from being a bridesmaid at last year's : Brier in Kitchener to the altar in Edmon-- ton on Sunday. And, by the look of the | ring on his finger, you can tell the team : didn't get cold oe in it's ape . ae