Faculty to recruit By
Nellie Blake
Personalized contact by faculty is the theme of Conestoga College’s recruiting blitz to high school stu-
dents applying to full-time programs. David Gross, director of all campuses except Doon and director of central student services, said the program will be developed for Sep-
tember when high school students about attending col-
start to think
schools with course presentations, never jjersonal contact by faculty with the students. This year, because of the growing concern over low enrolment, particularly in technology programs. Gross said the college is trying a strategy that includes “beefed up advertising’’ on radio and in newspapers. The college is also conducting increased appearances at trade shows and more information nights
The
lege.
Gross said recruiting in the past has meant only going to high
high schools this
in
and
tours.
secret to increased enrolment
be the personalized touch that faculty have volunteered to give to will
says Gross
fall,
incoming students. Gross said. He added it will be the best promotional
was 973, compared
vehicle for the college.
Gross said he hopes increased recruitment activities will mean increased acceptance into full-time programs. The problem, he said,
is
per cent, or 337 this year. For 198889, the number of confirmations
shown
in
figures for applications to all five
campuses. For 1988-89, applications decreased by 260, or four per cent from 1987-88, a total of 6,245 this year compared to 6,505 in 1987-88. Conversely, the number of confirmations as of April 27 was up 52.98
to 637 in 1987 88 Areas for concern are in technology and business courses. There were only 202 confirmations in technology in 1988-89 compared to 143 in 1987-88 for a 41-per-cent increase. For business, the number of confirmations for 1988-89 was 360, compared to 263 last year, for a 36•
.
per-cent increase. In applied arts, the number of confirmations was 227 in 1988-89
See
Recruit,
David Gross
page 3
INSIDE
Provincial treasurer puts hold consulting company, arranged a
By William Waffle One
possible
way
for Conestoga
College to deal with its financial difficulties has been temporarily quashed by provincial treasurer Robert Nixon. College president John Tibbits had considered a financial strategy involving the sale and lease back of college assets, according to a report in the Kitchener- Waterloo Record, May 2. Nixon, however, has declared a moratorium on such arrangements, following the sale of $4-million worth of equipment by St.
Mary’s Hospital, Kitchener.
Record report, Medcan Capital Ltd., a Toronto According
to the
deal in which St. Mary’s and St. Joseph’s hospital in Guelph sold
radiology equipment to a financial institution.
lease the
The
hospitals can
Meanwhile, any
use.
On May
5 in the provincial legislature, Nixon declared a moratorium on such arrangements until a study is completed to determine whether lease-back deals are an “appropriate use” of finances. Terry Stephen, a policy advisor to the provincial treasurer, said in a telephone interview with Spoke that consideration will be given to views of the administrators of the institu-
institution ar-
ranging a lease-back deal could expect a reduction in its grant from the government, Stephen said.
tions involved.
Public institutions such as hospitals, universities and colleges have been able to gain from these leaseback deals by using revenue from
buy annuities from an insurance company. Annuity paysales to
ments are greater than payments lease back the sold equipment.
A
financial institution to
to
which
the assets are sold can claim depreciation on the items and get a tax write-off.
The
Doggy grads
page 4
•
Outdoor
•
Karate tourney
pages pages
activities
on lease-back strategy
now
equipment for continued
•
net effect
is
of such a plan with a management consultant
not have to pay.
The Record quoted Nixon May 5 as saying such arrangements are an “awkward way to deal with public
funds.”
Stephen said there is a “question of whether public institutions should be helping others use the tax system to their advantage.” Lease-back deals are an inefficient way of getting money to the institutions, Stephen added. “For every dollar lost, 10 cents goes to the institution and 90 cents to the investors.”
that
newly created money comes from taxes which the company does
the
The Record reported
that Tibbits
said he had discussed the possibility
Conestoga studies Japanese methods
Helena Webb, executive secretary
Spoke the president would not make any further comment on the subject of lease-back
to Tibbits, told
deals until budget discussions are completed; they continue over the
next two weeks.
Wilfrid Laurier University, the
University
By
Nellie
Blake
Japanese training methods, comnlete with detailed training manuals, are being studied by Con-
nounced a $ 15-million, five-year deal with Toyota to train the
their libraries
company
s
650 workers
Cambndge October 1986
in
m Japan
In a contract with the Ministry of
Development, the college’s role will be to administer the training fund and approve training plans used by Toyota so that they meet Training plans include descriptions of job positions: the roles of team members or workers responsible for quality; team leaders responsibile for training; and group
The and
who manage
several teams.
college will monitor Gaining
interview trainees
and
trainers.
A list of requirements for training, including facilities and equipment, will also
be made.
after the
program
starts
-
about November 1988 — for results of production and to see what employees have learned. Conestoga College will allocate money every quarter of the fiscal year beginning in April. Toyota college for salaries, translation from Japanese to English, training materials and teaching costs. The last claim, made at the
bills the
end of March, Johnstone
said,
was
for $1,100,000, for the term begin-
ning in January.
The
training materials used
by
Toyota will also be used in affiliated plants in California and Kentucky, Johnstone said.
prGsidGnt John Tibbits sign DGputy ministGr GiGnna Carr and ConGStoga ColiGgG yaar. thG Ontario-Toyota Training AgrGGmGnt last
The
Conestoga
says Tibbits By William Waffle is
facing a “serious financial
crisis”, president John Tibbits has told college employees in a memoran-
dum. Tibbits’
memorandum
said three factors
have con-
tributed to the crisis: • The federal government
withdrawing $1. 3-mil-
is
lion in support for institu-
Training will be evaluated three
weeks
crisis
Conestoga College
contract requirements.
leaders
and leasing back the
books.
Finance
Skills
training cycle begins
when
See Toyota, page 3
and
considered lease-back deals to help resolve financial difficulties. The universities have discussed selling
at estoga College for use in the Toyota plant located in Cambridge. Norman Johnstone, director of employer centred training, said Ontario premier David Peterson an-
Guelph
of
Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital are other area institutions which have
tional training. •
The
ofierating grant to
the college increased by only 2.58 per cent. This is less than the general 4.5-
per-cent increase to the college system, because Conestoga has not grown relative to other colleges. •
The province now
re-
quires the college to provide some additional operational reviews and services.
Helena Webb, executive secretary to the president,
said Tibbits
would not
the budget until budget discussions
comment on
are completed.
2
Conestoga College, Monday, May 16,1 988
SPOKE
\aPIMIOM
Diane Rabatich Associate Editor: William Waffle Production Manager: Nellie Blake Editor:
Advertising Manager: Barbara Schlosser
Entertainment Editor: David Hiller Sports Editor: Kathy Bonaldo
Letter to editor
Smoking terms
Susan Oxford
Staff:
Contributors:
Scott McNichol, Angelo Mirabelli
To the
Spoke is published and produced by the journalism-print students of Conestoga College. The views and opinions expressed in this newspaper do not necessarily reflect the views of the college. Spoke shall not be liable for damages arising out of errors in advertising
It is
editor:
only days until Conestoga’s
smoking ban comes into effect. For clarity’s sake, I wish that the board of governors had called a ban “a ban”, rather than the fudgemouthed “smoke-free environment
beyond the amount paid for the space. Address: do Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Drive Kitchener Ontario. N2G 4M4. Telephone (519) 653-5380
policy”. Besides, boards of governors look siUy when they sprout hippy words
Tax hike troubling By
Nellie
and environment.
like free
Don't
Hagarty, first-year Journalism-print Bill
You
Blake
toll
you,
u/m. pejoplb oohc try 7b
VlFEBRBhJTl
us: What do you think of the ban on in
be
provincial parks
on
Victoria
alcohol
Day weekend?
on cigarettes and chips weren’t enough, OnNixon announc^ another tax increase.
If raising taxes
tario treasurer Robert
The provincial
sales tax has risen to eight per cent, effective
May 2, from seven per cent. Now, Ontario residents are finding it harder to scrape money from their armual salary, for personal reasons having already had money skimmed off for income and property tax.
For some, the impact of the hike came unexpectedly. They’d buy furniture before the effective increase and found
It
tried to
that
upon delivery May
3,
they
had to pay the tax.
still
Some
people were a little upset. Even more voiced their opinions by sending a truck-load of letters to Queen’s Park, demonstrating against the unnecessary hike.
am
disgusted that Nixon is taking another one per cent of my savings to help pay for the government’s enormous deficit. I
used
to
be
you could have
that
alcohol on your site. I don’t see what’s wrong with that because if
you keep it on your site and you’re of age, you should be able to drink. I
think they’re going to lose a lot of
money over that. Doug Leusink 2nd-year nursing
You can’t blame the parks. They just want to keep the people who are having a good time, s^e and not (suffering from) reckless abandon from other people who are all stupid
and drunk.
Jerry Brata ist-year computer program-
ming
It might cut down on some vandalism but I don’t think they should
restrict it totally.
more
patrols to
They should have keep the rowdies
down.
John Skotniczny 2nd-year computerprogramming
One per cent may seem minor, but once you add up all the one-per-cents every time you buy clothes, food or a new car, you’U realize your tax doUar is being stretched to a breaking point.
In preparation for next year’s provincial budget, I ask an alternative method for raising money.
Nbcon
to consider
Get the ball rolling on innovative ideas to keep the entire manufacturing process in Canada. Say “no” to exporting raw materials and then importing the same materials as finished products.
That idea, 1 suggest, might help slow tax increases and raise confidence in Canadian goods.
I think It s wise because they (the winkers) do too much damage, They get wild and people who want family camping get disturbed.
^
I’m going to be drinking. I’ll be going to a provincial park and I’ll just ignore
Patty Porthwxk 2nd-year nursing
2nd-year nursing
By Diane Rabatich
of the electro-mechanical and electrohydraulic technician programs at Guelph, wishes more women would consider this
They should; slinging hamburgers.
non-traditional job.
more than
make your cars, clean your ” your back
“I, Robot, will
home, scrub
Farfetched? Robots, once dreams of mad of our lives whether we know it or not. scientists, are part
They’re not just toys, like Omnibots. New York city police have used robot carts to detect
bombs
George Lucas’s Star Wars fantasy robots R2D2 and C3PO wasn’t the start of the automaton revolution. Pygmalion, king of Cyprus, made a statue of a woman and fell in love with it. Aphrodite, goddess of love, brought the statue to life and Pygmalion married his creation.
Dekalb, a community technical college in the
automata. English
Fiat’s
Uno
And many
of our cars, from to Toyotas, are produced on
robotic assembly lines.
Conestoga College
is
Over the ages, man has been fascinated with 1 294)
friar Roger Bacon (1214and Albertus Magnus, who discovered
arsenic, built a talking
how training workCTS for
pays
Inspiration from
since 1982. Instructional unit Roberta gave the graduation address at
United States.
it
to
head to teach them surround England with a brass wall.
(It finally
collapsed, silent.)
to say
Robb Killam
Allison Noel
the expanding robotics industry, at Doon and Guelph campuses. Ron Speed, co-ordinator
what they have
It’s unfair because a lot of them aren’t family-orientated campgrounds, so there shouldn’t be a law like that.
Jacques de Vaucanson, in 1738, made a mechanical duck which quacked, bathed, drank water, ate grain, digested it and voided. The copper duck was last seen in Milan ’s opera house. La Scala, in 1 844. Both
and Goethe praised its abilities. Automata, soulless mechanical creatures,
Voltaire
captured the public imagination. In 1920 Karel Capek (1890-1938) wrote a play, R.U.R., in which Rossum [reason] produces
Universal Robots who rebel, wipe out humanity and rule the world. The play was so popular it coined a new word, robot [Czech for enslaved worker].
A factory with robotic woikcells, assembly and “gopher” robots (who carry parts and from lines) is called a “flexible
lines
to
manufacturing system,” or dustrial robots
were
FMS. Such
installed in a
in-
Toyota
plant in 1968; at Renault, in 1971.
Conestoga’s
CAD/CAM
(computer-aided
2nd-year early childhood education
design/computer-aided manufacturing) centre instructs students in the use of computers to help design parts or complete
products and to simulate performance tests without building a prototype. Manufacturing
equipment can use the data base to produce an actual product from the on-screen design. Joe Engelterger, consultant for Westinghouse and inventor of the Unimate robotic arm, predicts that in the not-too-distant future, home robots will cook our meals and control our pantries. And that robots will
pump
gas [no more self-serve stations
-
hooray].
Conestoga technology graduates are finding jobs with firms that send satellites into outer space.
Who knows, by the year 2000 A.D., Pygmalion’s “fair lady” may be a reality, and a Conestoga student, male or female, could have made it.
Conestoga College, Monday, May
Man uses chainsaw to By
year-old man holding a yellow chainsaw run from the 14-metre
Nellie Blake
wood from the bush. Ray West, operations
Edwards
Police say a man with a yellow chain saw may have cut down a 14metre tree and caused a power interruption which affected the college
The Kitchener-Waterloo Record (May 4) reported that the man es-
cape
restore
May
car. Police believe the
The
3.
hydro lines near the Mill Park Drive sewage tieatmentplant May 3, cutting off power for about half an hour to the surrounding area, including the college’s Doon campus. Wimesses reported seeing a 40tree fell onto
driving a grey Ford
Topaz
man hoped to
block power to the treatment plant by chopping down the tree. Staff Sgt. Brian Cunningham said in a telephone interview police can not determine whether the incident
said
sewage
is
carried to
the plant using gravity, not electrical pumps, so there were no backup or leakage problems while the hydro was off.
power to area homes and the
Power was
college.
Larry Edwards, superintendent of the plant, was quoted in The Record as saying there have been no threats against waste disposal operations,
no employees were fired recently was accidental or sabotage, and that and plant personnel are on good several residents do collect fire terms with area residents.
shut off to
Doon cam-
pus and area homes from 4:10 p.m. to about 4:40 p.m. Electricity to the treatment plant wasn ’t restored until 8:24 p.m.
Police are
still
looking for the
man.
Photo by Kathy Bonaldo/Spoke
Nursing computer education topic of lecture nursing in the basic and diploma
Science.
By David
Hiller
The conference
Conestoga College will soon be spreading its influence to Europe.
Eleanor
Conlin, manager, programs, health and human services, continuing education, will be
lecturing at the Third International
Symposium on Nursing Use of Computers and Information
is
in Dublin,
from June 20-23. Conlin will speak on June 21. Although people from the college attended the last conference two years ago in Calgary, Conlin will be the first to give a lecture. The purpose of the conference is to look at ways to use computers for Ireland,
levels.
During the conference there will be a tour of a computer facility as well as entertainment highlighting the Irish culture.
This is the first time Conlin has been to Ireland. “It’s certainly one of my travel goals and I’ll be looking foward to
Gerry Lang is
sun and color.’’ During her stay, she plans to spend seven days travelling in the south of Ireland before moving on to Wales. Conlin said “This is a great opportunity for the college to go intemation^.’’
Her
u-ip will last
from
May
18 to
July 6.
Mother’s day
cakes sold By Kathy Bonaldo Thirteen Mother’s Day cakes were baked and sold in the cafeteria Friday, May 6, at Conestoga College,
Numbers Eleanor
Conlin,
programs, health and
high
manager, human ser-
vices, continuing education, said a
Spoke story (Poor enrolment cancels health courses.
May
2,
1988
page 4) presented inaccurate facts about the health programs offered on six campuses of Conestoga College. In the spring semester (April to
first
in
Conestoga health courses
week of July),
‘
in post- certifi-
cate and post-diploma programs, there are 237 registrants, said Con-
In the health courses, categorized for registered nurses, registered nursing assistants and
such as prenatal classes. ‘There are 10 going now, and they’re always filled,’’ she said.
475
Doon campus.
Gerry Langis, chef, said six strawberry shortcakes,
heart saver and CPR. Conlin said, “It is too early to expect people to
four
mocha cakes and
three white cakes were sold for $5.40 each.
enrol in July classes at this time.’’ ‘
lin.
health professionals, there are
3
1988
cut power
engineer at Kitchener-Wilmot Hydro, said workers re-routed electricity to other feeder tines (130,800 volts) to
tree.
16,
‘It’s
At Doon campus alone, there are 16 classes with 230 registrants, and program students number 70, she
registrants.
said, bringing the total to 300.
Conlin added that these figures do not include the parenting courses.
only health courses offered will be
During the summer semester, the
Although the Spoke article was meant to refer only to general health courses at Doon, Conlin said the Spoke story gave an inaccurate picture of what is happening in the health classes.
a matter of trial and people like the
error. If
cakes, we’ll make them again next year.’’
The only other time the cafeteria staff made a cake, Langis said, was on Valentine’s Day. One big cake was made and pieces were sold individually.
Group
to attend festival
“We’re open tions. If
to suggespeople want us to
make the cakes, we will.’’
By Angelo Mirabelli Kim Walters, technologist
Between 70,000 and 100,000 people come from all over North (spe-
cialized)-production assistant at Doon campus of Conestoga College, is part of the Walters Family country music group, who will perform at Canada’s largest outdoor country music festival in July.
The Walters Family ticipate at the
will par-
Big Valley Jamboree,
in Craven, Sask., 24 miles north of Regina. The festival is sponsored by Labatt’s Blue.
The three-day event presents Photo by Angelo Mirabelli/Spoke
Country music singer Kim Walters
Toyota
continued from page
They also visited the Nissan International Training Centre where
trained from
now
until
November,
Johnstone said. group leaders travel to Japan for one month to learn management sembly line. To learn training methods, trainers philosophy and receive training on go to Japan for one month. They every aspect of the company from then enter a maintenance training the quality of production to skills program in Ontario for two months needed to work on the assembly ^ at the Guelph campus. Then, at the line. The leaders will then come back to Toyota plant in Cambridge, they
more at the training centre Canada to train workers. When hiring workers for the being set up and then practise their knowledge by training others on the Cambridge plant, the college will, with the help of the campus direcjob site. The trainers must take courses for tor, employ faculty for three months learn
monitor operations. There will be two or three faculty members from the technology department participating either October to Decemwill start in November. There will ber or January to March. Johnstone said in his 19 years of be about 650 people hired and to
all
over
and
to celebrate the spirit
culture of country music.
Last year’s festival, which was staged July 16-19, had 35 performers. Big name acts included Canadians CarroU Baker and Sylvia
Tyson, and Americans Randy Travis, Loretta Lynn and Eddie Rabbit
The Walters ber band has
on
CKCO
family’s five-mem-
its
own
variety
show
television. Kitchener;
it
taped live from their home. They have also performed at Expo ‘86. is
Correction A story on page 6 of the May 9 issue of Spoke, entitled College
Placement Centre Handles 900 Applications, quoted placement co- ordinator Sharon Keogh as saying some full-time wages averaged S 17 or $18 per hour. The sentence should have read that full-time
wages vary with the type of job, averaging $17,000-$ 18, 000 per year. Spoke regrets the error and any inconvenience caused.
1
they visited a paint shop and an as-
17 months in order to learn every job in the plant, Johnstone said. Currently, equipment is being installed in the plant and production
country musicians from North America.
America
Recruit
continued from page
compared to 1 15 last year for a 97per-cent higher confirmation rate.
by Joyce Huberig,
For nursing, the numbers were 184 this year and 115 in 1987-88 for a 60-per-cent increase.
tive
he has never seen such an ambitious training program as the one the Japanese have. Johnstone deemed the project
training people
“the
most
comprehensive,
thorough, long-range training plan that rests on the shoulders of a leader.’’
He became involved
in the train-
ing aspect of the contract in
May
1986.
Other parts of the contract include municipal services, the purchase of land and the hiring of Canadians. To research the project, Johnstone and Kevin Mullan, director of finance, went to Japan May 27 to June 7, 1987 and again April 9 to 20, 1988. While there, they reviewed a course teaching 80 to 100 hours of English to trainers.
The
college’s goal. Gross said,
to recruit
enough students
100 per cent enrolment program.
The
to
in
is
have every
by three committees. Gross said. There project will be reviewed
are six to seven people
who
are
brainstorming in the project headed
1
a team of managers making sure the project is being done properly and an execu-
comm ittee representing the col-
lege.
Faculty members will also have a chance to criticize operations because of their participation in personalized contact.
Gross said the college is also making inroads to an agreement with the University of Waterloo to who have applied there but were not accepted.
recruit students
4
Conestoga College, Monda y, May
16,
1988
{anatrAiHMEMT College graduation event goes to the dogs By David
received certain rights and
Hiller
A
different kind of graduation took place at the Kenneth E. Hunter recreation centre Tuesday,
May
3.
The graduates were 100 dogs that had successfully completed an obedience course. The 10- week course is taught through the K-W Kennel Club and is offered twice a year. Canine classifications are: puppy, beginning adult, open and utility.
The
teaches scent discrimination. Dogs are trained to identify objects that carry the
privileges regarding the facilities.
Organizers don’t like naming winners and losers, Kuntze said, be-
This included having Tuesday nights for dog training. Member Doug Windsor said that
cause that’s not the point. Each breed is different to train, and each has its own capabilities, and the
the club
back
utility, and includes various jumping exercises.
voluntary. classes
Any
is
put
into the club for non-profit
events such as the annual dog show. “The course is trying to train
people
to train their
dogs so
they’ll
make good pets,’’ Windsor said.
One problem, he
utility class
owner’s scent. They are also trained to respond to hand signals without the aid of voice commands. The open class is less difficult than
is strictly
money made from
that the 10-year
mentioned, is agreement with the
centre ends in 1990. “At that point we’ll
amount people put into the course is what they get out of it. Graduation, she continued,
on
have
to
renegotiate or leave,’’ he said.
is
next.
“The course
is
just a start;
can’t expect to have your dog in
Elsie
and
train in
May Kuntze and Lyn Green work that way;
have been organizing obedience two years. The novice class is even more Kuntze said that the only advertissimpUfied, involving heeling and ing they have is word-of-mouth coming when called. from veterinarians and people who have had their dogs trained. The obedience course began its asThe course always fills to its sociation with Conestoga College capacity of 100 dogs per session. when the recreation centre was Although ribbons are awarded, built. The K-W Kennel Club ^aduation night is not a competidonated a sum of money and it tion. classes for the past
held
mainly to let dogs go through their paces so instructors can make comments on how dogs have performed and what owners should be working
you
come
10 weeks. It doesn’t it’s a constant com-
mitment to your dog,’ Kuntze said. ’
“If we can get people (and their dogs) in earlier,’’ Kuntze said, “we’ll have fewer problems, because the last thing we want is more laws regulating our dogs.’’ “We wouldn’t need dog regulations if people would practise responsible ownership,” she con-
Elsie
cluded.
Area high school students attend annual intramural day By David
Hiller
Photo by David Hiller/Spoke
May Kuntze and Bagera
,
The annual event has been going been fantastic for giving prizes a us f on for eight years, with a different theme every year. Each school can bring 10 to 15 youngsters. Those chosen aren’t The students learn team drill necessarily the best athletes but are programs which they can use when ’ ’
At Conestoga College on May 4, the operating phrase was “the heat on.” That was the theme of this year’s Waterloo County board of educais
tion intramural day.
Students from 15 high schools from within the county and around the province gathered at the Kenneth E. Hunter recreation centre for a full day of activities.
The events included team meetan activity circuit, boardwalk, organized free play judging of team cheers and an auction. ings,
they return to their schools.
The co-chairpersons of the event were Judy Johnson and Sally Diamond.
At
the end of the day, Johnson each of the winners gets a ditty bag, and door prizes are given out throughout the day. All the youngsters get T-shirts, pop, chips, said,
the ones
who
participate in school
activities.
Johnson said during the activities event was going smoothly.
that the
“The planning committee has been at work since October and everyone has their own function. It looks like they’ve done a pretty good job so far.
coupons and buttons.
,
“The community,” shesaid, “has
Everyone really enjoys intramural day,” Johnson said.
Judy Johnson and Sally Diamond
Photo by David Hiller/Spoke
s
Spring
trails
beckon Ontario hikers
end chevron.” Within a year they covered the entire trail from Elora Gorge to Brampton, although they did not hike the whole distance at one time. Since last year, the association has extended the main trail along the Grand River. Hikers can now follow the entire length of the Grand River from its mouth at Rock Point Provincial Park near Dunville on Photo by William Waffle/Spoke
Groundhog by Guelph
trail.
By William Waffle Hikers, don’t miss the spring rush.
Hiking
trails
along the Grand
Lake
Erie, through Brampton, Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo, to Alton, near Orangeville, where the Grand Valley Trail meets with the Bruce Trail. President Betty Schneider said the end-to-end
criteria for receiving the
chevron
River Valley are growing rapidly in
since the
length and popularity. Over the past year the
may be
may have to be changed trail is now longer. Hikers
given longer than a year to
Grand Val- complete the requirements. ley Trails Association has grown by The difficult part of extending the 63 per cent. You may find the $10 membership fee worthwhile, too, if trail is contacting landowners and you are a hiking enthusiast who has getting them to agree to let the trail never hiked the trail along the run across their properties, said Orland Harrison of the board of direcGrand River.
“You are starting
to see a
ground
going to continue,” Welsh of the association’s board of directors at an annual general meeting May 5. “I’m sure hiking is going to take swell that
is
Mary
said
off.”
Lois
Magee of the board of direc-
announced that the association had 619 members, up from 381 in tors
1987. If you are
ambitious, you might try match the achievement of Thelma and Edgar May of Elora, who were recently awarded the ‘end-to-
tors.
ment
Magee
dictates that detailed
maps of
members.
That is why hikers wanting to explore should pay the $10 membership fee (soon to be $ 12). As a member you can acquire a small but essential guide book describine the trail’s access points, and how to navigate the more obscure parts.
to
‘
Members of the association voted to raise the fee to $ 12 in order to
Conquer trail; use You’re off Everest
.
.
.
to
well,
conquer Mount maybe you’re off
for a long hike. Nevertheless,
backpack and
its
contents
your
become
very important.
Salespeople from Canadian Tire,
Woolco and Sears suggest
a frame pack and sleeping bag should weigh under 20 pounds. Supplies for a week’s journey should roughly be under 30 pounds. (You add 1 1/2 to two pounds per person for food. You should also add two pounds per quart of water per day that
per person.) In the inside flap pocket, iden-
tification, fishing
and hunting
pay
light
licence, medical supplies
By Barbara Schlosser
Dave Moore, Gerry DeLeon and
and extra
matches should be carried. Soap, toiletries, plastic bowls and food can be carried in the back pocket. Upper left and right pockets should carry a canteen, rain gear, stove fuel (if needed) and seasonal extras, such as warm socks, and extra fuel, depending on the time of year the hike is taking place. The upper compartment has room for a cook kit, food, tent supplies, air mattress, condiment kit
Wardlaw of Guelph explore the Bruce
and
tent.
new
quired in response to a complaint
and signs to help protect property
from one Belwood landowner who said people were hunting and starting fires on his property.
for increased maintenance, a full-color publicity brochure
owners. The date of the increase will be set by the new board of directors elected May 5. President Schneider said the fee increase will
probably be effective Dec. If
you decide
1,
1988.
to hike the trail,
remember you
are on private property and treat the land accordingly. Jeff Mansfield of the board of directors said signs are being ac-
knapsack
sun lotion,
first
aid kit, tent
repair kit, and a notions kit (needles.
A stuff bag containing a sleeping bag and a pillow is attached to the bottom of the backpack. A foam pad can be carried on the top of the bag, if desired.
Sales staff suggest you look for a backpack with a urethane- coated nylon cover (protection from getting wet), double stitching along the seams (extra strength and durability), and a light-weight aluminum tube frame. The frame
With these items, you’re on your trails to
signs will indicate that the on private property and will
prohibit fires, firearms, litter, animals without leads and motorized vehicles.
Camping the
trail,
tifies
is not permitted along but the guide book iden-
campgrounds which
the trail
passes.
you!
will find
camping
to
was sometimes difficult to locate hostels. Most of the hostels he and cyclists
be inexpensive
found were loYork, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado and along Ae west his biking partner
cated in
but at times uncomfortable, so try staying at hostels advises Scott Jordon, a 29-year-old long-distance
coast.
cyclist.
$8
“Many
know combine the two,” Jordon said. “They camp cyclists I
a few nights, then stay in a hostel or a cheap motel once a week.”
While touring across the United States on Bikecentennial Trails, Jourdon said, he found hostels to be an inexpensive and friendly place to stay.
He
said
when he was
touring
it
New
If
a cyclist decides to use indoor
accommodations, it could cost from $30 to $50, depending on the motel.
“The best way to save money when going on a long-distance tour with a friend or a group of people.”
By travelling with another person, bed, not on the ground. You also get use of the kitchen and the shower.” Jordon said, the cost of accomJordon said his 90-day bikecen- modations is reduced 50 per-cent. “Plus the companionship is tennial tour that consisted of camping, hostels and a few motel accom- great,” he added. modations, cost about $ 1 ,200.
He
said if a cyclist carries
camp-
ing and cooking gear, as he did, it will cost about $ 1 5 per day - $5 for campsites and $10 for food.
If cychsts
want to tour Canada, he the Na-
recommends they phone tional
Park Service before going,
locate different campsites.
The Guelph Trail Club also mainwhich runs from
tains a trail
Limehouse, on the Bruce Trail, to Guelph; and Speed River Trail, which continues from Guelph to Riverside Park in Preston. Membership costs $7. For more information contact Jack Wilkinson (823-3423).
aspirin, insect repellent, anti-
Loading the proper gear on a bicycle is an essential part of a long-distance tour, said
bacterial first-aid cream),
to
items recreational (binoculars, camera, film,
Scott Jordon, a long-distance who toured the United
radio, cards, Frisbee) miscel-
cyclist
laneous items (bandana,
States on Bikecentennial’ TransAmerica Trail one year
bicycle light, compass, credit
ago.
water bottles).
Jordon, 29, said he and another cyclist rode the 90day trail from New Y ork City through to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the Allegheny Mountains, the Great Plains, Colorado, the Rocky Moun-
Oregon, and
finally
San Francis-
co.
is to travel
“Youcanstayina hostel for about to $10 and you get to sleep on a
in Brantford.
first-aid items (bandages,
By Kathy Bonaldo
the continent in
hostels, advises biking tourist
By Kathy Bonaldo When bicycle touring,
4240)
for long-distance tour
riding to the western edge of
in
For more information contact Jane Ayres (885-1101) in Kitchener, Peter Hunton (623-7359) in Cambridge or Paul Vandervet (759-
Pack proper bike gear
thread, buttons).
way. Happy
The trail is
tains,
Stay
Trail at
Rattlesnake Point conservation area near Milton.
The lower compartment provides provides correct posture support by room for clothes. The lower right and left pockets distributing the weight of the pack are home to flashlights, bug repel- over the hiker’s back. lent,
Keith
said part of the agree-
the trail will be given only to as-
sociation
Photo by William Waffle/Spoke
“We rode about 45 to 50 miles a day and rested one day every 11 days,” he said. Jordon, originally from Toronto, said he loaded his 12-speed, electric blue Cannondale touring bike with cycling attire (cycling shorts, jersey, gloves, helmet, shoes, tights and nylon foot warmers), tools and spare parts (spare chain, tire
pump,
wrenches, spare toe clip and strap, tire patch kit), camping equipment (tent, sleeping bag, aluminum dish and frying pan), hygiene and
cards, maps,
When
sewing kit, three
touring
its
important
have a good bike, he said. “The frame of the bike, for example, should be ideal for carrying heavy loads long to
distances.”
Jordon advised cyclists to to pack nutritious easy-to- make meals, if camping. “Fruit is a good source of fiber. Bananas and oranges, for example, replace potassium lost in sweating.” “Plain water is also good
remember
for replenishing
body
fluid.
I
usually drink at least one water bottle per hour when riding,” he said.
Snack
bars, bagels, peanut
butter sandwiches, macaroni
and cereal, Jordon said, are excellent sources of carboydrate, protein and vitamins. They’re light, easy-
to-pack
and
refrigeration.
need
no
.
Conestoga College, Monday, May
6
.
.
16,
1988
Summer activities
(continued^
Proper tent care necessary for comfortable camping By Barbara Schlosser .... You finally purchase the .
tent
you’ve been looking at for two months, and you’re so excited you can’t wait to test
it
Without unpacking it from the store wrapper, you drive to the farthest camp site you know. In the early morning hours, a slight drizzle falling on your back, you bend over
and attempt to set up your temternporary Dorarv home. Something Somethinff is dreadfully wrong. Two and a half hours later, the tent stni won’t stand up straight. The drizzle has turned to a pounding rain. In frustration,
you
turn to the
Canadian Tire and Consumers Distributinerecommendthatthetentbe tributing recommend that the tent be set up at home - first. A1 Habermehl, Sears sporting goods manager. Kitchener, said at home a customer can “become familiar with the set-up procedure,
double check that the poles are straight and no pieces are missing, and can apply seam sealer.’’ To avoid unnecessary frustration, Tent owners can have other sporting goods staff from Sears, problems by not caring properly for
manual, and discover that one of the major poles is missing.
their tents.
Seam
Pack _
carefully for hiking _
.
.
backpack
.
By Barbara Schlosser
An
easy
trip.
way
of packing a using the zone
backpack is method. The zone method uses the principle of gravity. The body’s centre of gravity is locat^ directly over the ankles. When a backpack is placed on the back, the centre
of gravity
person
the
Campers should apply tent sealer seams at the start of the camp-
to the
ing season, once or twice in the middle of the season and near the end of
Every new season, seam sealer must be re-applied. (Winter storage evaporates sealer and it thus the season.
becomes
the lightest items are carried farthest
away from
the
body
usually
zone C. Following this method of packing will make a difference between a pleasant trip and an unhappy back.
shifted and the forced to lean forward to bring the is
Nature evident at ip-to-date.
For example, the house North
guides were published.
National Geographic indicates house finch ’s range is rapid-
that the
expanding in Ontario. If you spend much time in your own back yard, you probably will see this ly
sparrow-sized, red-faced bird with a lively song. You don’t have to go out of your trillium
way
to see nature’s diversity.
interesting
is
proval on fire retardency in 1989), they are not fireproof. Depending on material and chemicals used to
manufacture it, a tent can become completely engulfed in flames in less than five minutes.
Camp goods managers
recombe set up 20 feet, and more, away from campfires. They said wind direction should be checked to ensure that the wind is not blowing from the fire towards
mend
tion areas within a short drive
Waterloo Region.
the tent.
Following basic common sense and proper tent care will ensure a material and mildew will set in. longer tent life, and a happier Flat surfaces are the best for tent camper.
Some
from
of them
are:
• Belwood Lake, four kilometres north-east of Fergus off Fergus-
Orangeville Road. • Brant, 1.6 kilometres north on Jennings Road off Highway 53 west of Brantford. • Byng Island, 1.6 kilometres west from Dunn ville on County Road 1 1 It is 0.8 kilometres west of Byng off Rainham Road. • Conestogo Lake, north from Elmira on Highway 86 to County
Road
College.
1 1,
east for 3.2 kilometres.
6.
on Woolwich
woods. Birds, migrating through
kilometres south of Brantford. • Laurel Creek, in Waterloo, west on Northfield Drive from Cones-
Ontario, are most visible before
Woodland
flowers grow and bloom quickly in spring before trees hide the sun. All you will need are field guides
Dogtooth violet
Photo by Barbara Schlosser/Spoke
Elora Gorge: hikers can view the historic village
toga Parkway.
• Luther Marsh,
from Grand Valon Highway 25, west on concession 6 for 8 kilometres. • Pinehurst Lake, located on Highway 24A, 6.4 kilometres north of Paris and 12.9 kilometres south of Cambridge.* Rockwood, on ley north
Highway
was a dark and stormy night ...” There’s something about a campfire on a summer’s night that
1
987).
Its illustrations
are
detailed and accurate.
Maps showing
birds’ ranges are
us a story.”
begs a story.
own
night,
So Tony began:
story. Especially a
It
ghost
And Canada has stories of her
that will raise the shackles of
your back. Jean Nagtzaam, circulation services, Kitchener Public Library, reminds vacationers and campers to take advantage of their six- week holiday loan. You may take out
tell
keep you boned up on stories to around a campfire are listed
below.
Ghosts, Pirates and Treasure Trove, by Stuart Trueman (McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1975) tells about phantoms that haunt New Brunswick coves and forests. There’s a headless nun, a white-robed woman who glides along the Rexton road, a phantom burning clipper ship in
Bay Chaleur, and the Dungarvon Whooper that “yells the warmest blood to chill” and makes lumberjacks quiver and fishermen quail in northern woods.
ghosts guard Captain Kidd’s treasure that may be buried on Oak Island in
Mahone Bay.
A man in an
ancient red coat told a treasure hunter that he was “not digging in the right place”; then he disappeared in the very hole where he’d
been digging.
A
door won’t stay
closed in a MacDonald home at Moser’s River. The Teazer sails past Tancook Island just before a storm.
For more
chills
and
thrills,
try
River
Conservation "
Authority at (519) 621-2761.
yellow celandine throughout the summer, wherever sun reaches the ground along the edge of the path. These are just a few of the wildflowers to be seen. Test yourself on others around the campus. Bird watchers should note a second edition of the new National Geographic Society Field Guide to the Birds of North America (avail-
tell
will
to the fire
was a dark and stormy
Bluenose Ghosts, by Helen Creighton (Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1957) presents a feast of ghost stories in the fog and salt air of Nova Scotia. Enos Haitian tells of a ghost house, overlooking Halifax harbor, and its persistent knockings. Pirate
areas have a
For further information contact
Grand
and a band of robbers sat around the campfire. One of them said, “Tony,
books for summer reading for six The campfire flickers, shadows w eeks, rather than the usual three. Three books on ghost tales that lurk with unseen terrors, and
kilometres east of
Most conservation
finished blooing, but three- petalled white trillium and pink springbeauty are still visible. Watch for
By Diane Rabatich
7, 1 1.3
gate fee.
Library provides ghost stories for campfire
“It
ruins.
Guelph.
and binoculars. Start with A Field Guide to Wildflowers, by Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny. In Doon campus woods, look around at the ground as you walk to your car. White, eight-petalled bloodroot is
everyone huddles
and
Street,
off Bridge Street in Kitchener. • La Fortune, off Highway 24, 3.2 kilometres north of Caledonia or 24
the best time of year for
identifying birds and wildflowers in
able since
tents
tion Authority provides conserva-
• Kiwanis,
full foliage.
Though tents are fire retardent (all must pass government ap-
tents
grows warmer, heading for fun in the
Elora Gorge, south of Elora, 19.3 kilometres north of Guelph off Elora Road. • Guelph Lake, off Highway 6, northeast on Guelph Township
You can begin by building your knowledge of flora and fauna in the woods at Doon campus, Conestoga
have
“A tent does not protect from weather like cottages and log cabins do,” Habermehl said. He advised campers to set up tents in an area sheltered by a natural wind break, to gain added protection from sudden rain or heavy winds. People should never lean against or touch a wet tent, he said, for water will seep through the touched spot because the material was disturbed. Campers should allow a tent to dry naturally without wiping off rain drops. When completely dried, it can then be rolled up. If it is only semi-dry, moisture will become trapped inside folds of the tent
•
identify.
trees
prevent moisture and water from coming through the material.
the weather
Road
aspects of hiking or walking anywhere is the variety of wildlife and plants you can observe and
the
tents
If you want to explore new woods and waters. Grand River Conserva-
America in the 1940s, was unknown in Ontario when older field
is
Most
sun.
Doon
finch, iiitroduced to eastern
May
common
flaps.
By William Waffle As
By William Waffle One of the most
Tents are
three
and
grounds. Any slope to the will cause uneven strain sti on the poles which could, in time, bend them slightly. Also, a clear grassy or sandy area is better than one with a stone or gravel base. The rocks may cause cuts to the tent material.
ground
Outdoor fun short drive away everyone
White
ineffective.)
made from
flooring, roof
are also treated with polyurethane to
camp
in
is
slightly
wim
The zone method breaks the backpack into three zones. Zone A, closest to the back, should carry the heaviest equipment needed for the trip. Meduim weight items are placed in zone B while
and properly ensures
the hiker an enjoyable
in line
ankles.
Packing a backpack carefully
sealer can help prevent water leakage in the tent. Though tents are marked water resistant, they may not be waterproof.
materials. Polyester is generally in the roof; roof: nylon, nvlon. in the roof mnf and walls; polyurethane, in the
found
thriiis
reading the collection of Ghost Stories of M.R. James (Penguin Books, 1984). James was a medievalist who edited and translated the Apocryphal New Testament, and collected tales of haunted castles and beleagured bishops. There’s a scholar whose heart was knifed by two children who suffered a similar fate in another era, and a deputy-sheriff. Sir Matthew Fell, who was murdered by a
woman
he saw hanged
at
Bury
St.
Edmonds. Other hairy arms and nameless you as you read the pages of these ghost stories from days of yore. But you’ll be the star of the campfire as you regale listeners with tales of creatures that terrors will haunt
thump
in the night.
Conestoga College, Monday, May
Nellie
is used as a trailer, a fire control rim and a minimum of cars.
Blake
Camping at provincial and privately-owned parks will be much the same as last summer, with regulations for everything from putting your pets on a leash to a ban on alcohol being enforced. At the Pinery-lpperwash provincial park located near Grand Bend, campers wanting to drink alcohol will be forcibly stopped by six to seven park wardens who have the same power as Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), and by fines of $53.75.
The manager of the park, Ter^ Crabe, said regulations found in provinical parks are almost the same as everyday laws. Among the acts enforced by provincial parks are the Liquor Control Board of Ontario Act, the Narcotics Control Act and the Traffic
Act. alcohol ban will be enforced
An
May
3 to 23 , he said, at every provincial park. Privately-owned parks will not enforce the ban but
from
1
enforce stringent laws on keeping alcohol on the camp site. Other regulations include a limit of six people per lot, with the exception of families that are larger than six.
Three pieces of equipment are allowed on each 50-square-foot lot: tents or trailers, induing a van that
A special control at the Pinery has been issued to control noise. Offenders can be fined $53.75 and thrown out of the park for the remainder of the weekend. That law, he said, is enforced 24 hours a
Even dead branches from
Wickens
(left)
of
trees are
safe in the Pinery, Crabe said, because campers aren’t allowed to pick up firewood. Campers are instead urged to buy wood from the firewood shed. Dead wood, he said, is used as fertilizer for the remain-
ing trees.
Pets are not allowed on the beach because of health regulations and must be kept on a leash. No motor-
bikes are allowed.
To keep
the paric safe and acces-
sible to everyone, Crabe said, campers should use common sense to help protect the natural beauty of the park.
To give an idea of the strictness of the park regulations, Crabe said, last
year there were 1,100 charges laid for excessive noise, dogs without leashes and alcohol consumption, among other minor charges. Regulations are a little different at privately-owned parks, according to Edith Townes, manager of the
said
as
and where to locate fires. She campers can have a fire as long remains inside the designated surrounded by a grill or ce-
it
pit and is
ment
wall,
With
sites
work together
which campers are
re-
quired to supply. said Hillside has
no dry
season, as in Algonquin Park, that prevents campers from setting fires
during that period. Campers arc asked to drink only on the lots and to keep noise down. A noise curfew of 11 p.m. is enforced so campers can enjoy the quiet Regulations against motorbikes are also enforced at the park, Townes said, and pets must be held
on a leash. There is a spring-fed lake in which campers can swim and ropes are strung across the lake signalling deep water. Swimmers can also use a diving board at their own risk, she
John Bingeman, manager of Bin-
geman Park
in Kitchener, said the
regulations at his park are very straight-forward.
Among
the
forced, fires
many
must be kept small,
mainly open for
Nellie
keep their dogs quiet. There are no chainsaws allowed and no dead or live trees are to be removed, Bingeman said. told to
regulations en-
Pets must be on a leash and owners of dogs disturbing neighbors will be
located
Photo by Nellie blake/Spoke
Madeline Gamble, a five-year seasonal camper at Bingeman' park, prepares for summer by planting flowers beside her trailer.
said.
near
Hillside park Cambridge.
at cleaning
Waterloo regional police, he said.' Usually, no charges have to be laid. is no alcohol ban weekend at Bingeman Park, Bingeman said, alcohol (if used) must be kept on the campsite
Although there
for Victoria
Enforcement of these regulations carried out by park officials and offenders are asked to leave the park. Campers not complying with is
requests to leave the premises could
be charged with trespassing by
at all times.
Bingeman park has 600 lots (each about 40 feet wide by 40 feet long) on 210 acres, he said.
Photo by
Blake/Spoke
Niagara College and Carolyn Turner
of Wilfrid Laurier University
site
radios must be shut off at 11 p.m. and visitors must leave by 11 p.m. One car is allowed per site.
Photo by
Kelly
seasonal campers, the only regulations enforced are for drinking on-
Townes
day.
7
1988
camp managers
Rules ensure quiet, say By
16,
Waterslide at Bingeman park looks ominous and neglected. The situation summer campers beat the heat on the slide,
Nellie
will
Blake/Spoke
change as
winter’s dirt from poolside lawn chairs.
I
Time needed
By Susan Oxford
for
changes, says Reimer Reimer
cludes moves Canada has made to strengthen relations with the United
returned to Conestoga College as a teacher. Reimer was re-elected in 1984 with the Brian Mulroney
and increased participation with (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
Joe Clark’s government, but when that
MP
and John Reimer, Kitchener former dean and teacher at Conestoga College, said the Progressive Conservative party needs another term in office to complete changes to government it has started. The Kitchener federal Progressive Conservative riding association will be holding its nomination meeting May 18 and Reimer expects to be acclaimed. “No other potential candidate has come forward as of yet,’’ said Reimer, from his constituency of-
government
failed,
NATO
Reimer introduced
government.
“There are four main areas we’d like to continue working on during the next term in office,
States
if
we get re-
elected,” said Reimer.
The four areas are economic renewal, national reconciliation, social justice and constructive internationalism.
Economic renewal includes reduction of the deficit and a fice Friday, May 6. “ If 1 get elected, decrease in government spending, he said, while matters like the adopit will be my second consecutive tion of the Meech Lake Accord into term.” Reimer worked at Conestoga col- the constitution are considered lege as a teacher of political under national reconciliation. Social justice includes issues such ideologies and Canadian history before joining college administra- as the Canada pension plan being tion as chairman of humanities, made more flexible and more business and applied arts. He was government funding for a child care dean of Doon campus in 1978-79. program. In 1979 Reimer was elected into Constructive internationalism in-
member’s
a private a property rights to the Charter of
bill for
amendment Rights.
“In 1982 the Conservatives wanted property
rights written into
the constitution, but the Liberals
and
NDPs wanted
these rights left
out,” Reimer said. “Property rights will give ultimate ownership of property, be it a home, farm, business or an object, to the owner.”
The property rights bill is to be passed on to the first ministers conference on constitutional reform before it will be officially adopted.
Reimer said the Conservative government
will
need
six to
years to complete changes started
need
at
it
10 has
and “that means we will least two terms in office.”
Photo Susan Oxford/Spoke
John Reimer
at his constituency office in Kitchener.
Conestoga College, Monday, May
8
1
6,
1
988
,000 excited fans scream for kickboxing
1
By Kathy Bonaldo
His son has always been an ag-
About 1,000 fans screamed and cheered when Kitchener’s Martin Friolet, North American middleweight champion, knocked out Indiana’s Sweet C. Robinson, Michigan and Indiana state champion, during the second round of an eight-round fight of the professional world class kickboxing championships held at the Kenneth E. Hunter recreation centre of Conestoga College,
Doon campus May
Pro kickboxing began
7.
at 8:30
p.m. with Pete Podkrajac, from
Toronto,
weighing
159.8
pounds, versus Dave Smith of Ottawa, weighing 154.2 pounds. Podkrajac won the match after
ways wanted to participate in the
During the next
fight, Ian
Jack-
the Canadian light
heavyweight class, defeated Bret Zwierynski, of Indiana. Jacklin’s parents had front
row
seats to the event. His mother Carol hid behind her program book so she could not see her 166.5- pound son get hurt and his father Gord enthusiastically screamed, “Flatten him, Ian.’’
His father said he was glad to see Ian win. “Sometimes after a bad fight, he’s hard to live with.”
a gold medal at the end of thenmatches.
for the last
During half-time, a traditional dance and hung kuen kung fu were demonstrated. Performers were from the Moh
been
Dong Kung Fu Club, Toronto.
hardest and toughest activities. ‘
‘Since Ian has been kickboxing
two years, he hasn’t iMthough during the last fight he was in, he broke injured.
the other fighter’s arm,” his father said.
Nora Daigle, North American
women’s
champ, from Brampton, weighing 124.5 pounds, knocked her opponent, 125.5-pound Pauletta Muhl, 10place world women’s bantamweight champion of the world, to the ground before their five rounds were up. In the pro exhibition match,
131.8-pound Joey Weber, of
four rounds.
lin, fifth in
gressive person, he said; he al-
Kitchener,
who ranks
fifth in the
Canadian featherweight class, put up a hard fight and won over Montreal’s Mike Lavalle, North American featherweight champ - number one in the world and in Canada. mele, of Kitchener, third in the Canadian welterclass,
lion
Karate mania began at 1 1 a.m. and featured the adult black belt weapons division, and over 30 black belt kata. Black belt hard style and black belt soft style, followed by children’s weapons, were performed. During the karate tournament all contestants wore complete karate or kung-fu uniforms. Contact to the face mask area
was not
allowed. Contact resulted in automatic disqualification in all divisions under black belt.
Photo by Kathy Bonaldo/Spoke
Joey Weber and Mike Lavalle fight
The Academy of Self Defence was established in 1976 by Day, chief instructor. He was the first
in
round three.
I
in the region to create self defence courses in high school physical education
Day has also produced regional,
Roemwho ranks
In the next fight, Paul
weight
champs
knocked out Tery round three
provincial and national cham-
pions such as Friolet, North American champion.
Day said self defence and street
Sherril, of Indiana, in
awareness
of a six-round match.
today’s society.
is
neccessary in
All winners were presented with
Ron Day
Photo by Kathy bSonaldo/ijpoke
About
1
,000 fans
showed for the kickboxing event Saturday
Ian Jacklin, gets last minute instructions.
night.
Conestoga students go whitewater By Kathy Bonaldo roar of the rapids will be on minds of a group of students from Conestoga College, Doon campus, as they catch the waves whitewater rafting this summer.
The
the
Tom
Brodersen, a second-year mechanical engineering student, is one in the group who will spend a weekend in June whitewater rafting at Owl Rafting in Ottawa. “I can’t wait to go. The group has been looking forward to it for awhile now,” he said. Brodersen said the group is plan-
ning to drive to Ottawa and camp on the Owl campsite. Visitors have free use of camping
on Owl’s premises, he said. A brochure put out by Owl Rafting states that the minimum age for whitewater rafting there is 14 and prior experience
is
not necessary.
Counselors at Owl recommend anyone with a medical history of epilepsy, diabetes or heart disease to consult their physician before at-
Every guide
they insist on a safety briefing before whitewater rafting. They also provide helmets, life jackets, waterproof camera bags and for a small fee, wet-suits in cooler
Owl
has years of whitewater rafting experience, so at
rafting this
June
A brochure put out by Ottawa Whitewater Rafting Ltd., states that when making a reservation, visitors should book early to get the date of their choice.
A 25-percent deposit is
weekends cost $74. For two-day on weekdays, costs are $145 and weekends $159.
rafting
RiverRun also offers visitors windsurfing, kayaking and canoeing plus a variety of beach sports.
required within 30 days of booking for groups of 13 and over; the Every Owl trip, Brodersen said, balance is due 45 days prior to the includes a one-hour lake cruise
own tent and choose a site on one of
aboard a pontoon boat restaurant. A visitor can also try wind- surfing or kayaking, and participate in evening programs.
two campgrounds. Or the visitors can rent camping gear or a cabin. RiverRun offers indoor facilities such as saunas and showers.
weather.
RiverRun, located
tending Owl.
Photo by Kathy Bonaldo/Spoke
Ottawa, is another place that offers whitewater rafting.
in
visit.
For groups of 12 and percent deposit
is
less,
a 50-
required within
30 days of booking and the remainder is due 45 days prior to the
RiverRun
visitors
can bring their
visit.
Meals are included with For one-day rafting on weekdays, will cost each visitor $59; RiverRun package offers.
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all
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