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Tubies adding a teen dance

 

In one bold decision, the organizers of Tubie Weekend have added a new event, and extended one more day to the festivities.  

This year, on the Friday night of Tubie Weekend, August 3rd, a teen dance will be held under the big tent.  It is a substantial addition the event lineup, but one the organizing committee is committed to.

“We have thought about adding a teen dance in the past,” admitted Michael Domanko of the Morrisburg and District Lions Club.  “But last year it didn’t work out, as we were preoccupied with the building of the playground.  This year, we talked it over and came to the conclusion that now is the perfect time.”

This is the 6th year the Lions Club has organized the Tubie Festival, and the third year since it moved the Tubie Dance from the Morrisburg Arena to the outdoor venue at the softball diamond.  

“Many of our participants are between 16-18,” added Domanko, who pointed out that a 16-year-old, Katherine Lee, captained the winning Tubie craft a year ago.  “They are involved in the parade and the race, but they are not old enough to get into the dance.  Now, there is an event just for them.  They will have something to do on every day of Tubie Weekend, starting on Friday and continuing on Saturday and Sunday.”

Domanko says that when the group took over the organizing duties, they hoped to have events and activities for the entire family to enjoy. 

“We are closer to realizing our goal,” said Domanko.  “Between the Teen Dance, Little Ray’s Reptiles on Saturday morning, and the Inspired K9s show at the Dog Park, we feel confident that we’re going in the right direction.”

The doors for Friday’s Teen Dance will be open from 7-11 pm.  Food and non-alcoholic drinks will be available.  Admission to the event will be $8.

 

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Folks not ready to give up on ball, just yet

 

A number of parents here are hoping that someday, baseball/fastball will again be popular.

With less than a handful of minor ball teams playing in South Dundas, Paul Sheldrick, who is heading up a T-Ball program in Morrisburg, says he hopes to see that change down the road.

“We all used to play ball in this town, and we would like to see it return,” said Sheldrick who had a 30 player response to his T-Ball program run on Monday nights in Morrisburg.

We have enough kids that we have divided them into four teams, and I have four parents who came forward as coaches. 

“A few of the kids are coming down from Iroquois, and I unfortunately had to turn a few kids down.”

Every Monday, Sheldrick and his coaches who include Bob Paradis, Daryl Martin and Jason Cole work with the kids on  their basic batting and fielding skills.

The evening then wraps up with a little game between the Orange Tigers and the Purple Dragons.

The registration cost was kept to a minimum for the eight week program and from it each of the players received a  team T-shirt.

“I have been working with Ben (Macpherson, South Dundas recreation coordinator) and the guys from the municipality have been out and fixed up the diamond.”

Sheldrick says that he is hoping that this year will be one small step in the right direction. He is hoping one of the current coaches will take over the T-Ball next year and he can move up.

“My thoughts are just to rejuvenate some interest in ball. We bought them all little shirts, which they will keep, and Bill Morrow really helped us out. We have a closing party planned for the Legion and Blues Bakery is donating a cake for the kids.”

“We have stepped up as citizens. We played ball here and we want to try to get the kids involved in it again.

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U13 Kickers snap four game losing streak

 

The Seaway Kickers U13 Mixed team beat the visiting Nepean City team 4-1, July 12th, to snap a four-game losing skid. 

Early in the first half, Seaway got on the board with a goal by Kasper Furo.

Ten minutes later, despite the best efforts of Nepean City’s defense, Kicker Travis McInnis scored to make it 2-0.

Early in the second half, Kurt Cutler collected the Kickers third goal followed quickly by Devin Vandermeer’s counter which made it 4-0. 

In was in the dieing minutes of game, that Nepean City spoiled Seaway goalie Shawn Dowson’s attempt at his third shutout of the season. 

The U13 Mixed kickers face off against the Ottawa Internationals on July 19th.

In other action, The Seaway Kickers U13 Girls team visited Nepean City July 10th, where they were handed a 4-2 loss. Seaway’s goals were scored by Claire Rylands and Jayme Henry. 

The U13 girls will play Nepean City again in Ottawa on July 17th.

The U15  Seaway Kickers girls team hosted the Nepean Hotspurs, July 11th. The Hotspurs made it 1-0 early in the first half when they put one past Seaway goalie Elizabeth Bygott. 

Kicker Jessica Ferguson scored late in the first half to tie the game 1-1, and midway through the second half, she made it two in a row to give the Kickers a slim 2-1 advantage. 

The U15 girls then held on for their second straight victory after starting off a goal down. 

They host the Ottawa Internationals on July 18th.

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An upsetting night in roller hockey action

 

It was a very upsetting night in Men’s Roller Hockey League action last Thursday.

Upsetting indeed to both the first place New Blue and the second place White Lightning.

From the bottom of the league, the Morewood Monkeys reached way up to nab the Lightning for their very first win of the 2012 season, while the New Blue were easily handled by the Red Rockets.

The results of all the upsetting play, shows the Lightning still on the heels of the New Blue, and the Red Rockets gaining a little ground in third place with seven points. The Rockets now find themselves just three points back of the Lightning, while the Monkeys, although still in the basement, now have three points.

It was a big third period (five unanswered goals) that allowed the Morewood Monkeys to scrape out a close 10-9 victory over the White Lightning.

Lightning was in command of the first period, going up 4-1 and were still after looking good after two with the count 9-4 in their favour.

Lightning goaltender Kevin Helmer was kept extremely in the five-monkey-goal third period, while Kyle Shane was unbeatable in the Monkey net.

Chris Embury led the Monkeys to their first win of the season with four goals, and Tyler Jones backed him with three. Cody Carruthers connected for a pair and Justin Heuff added a single.

Steve Mattice and Rob Thurler produced four goals apiece for Lightning, while Dave Summers added a single.

The New Blue were handed only their second loss of the season by the Red Rockets by an 11-5 count. The Rockets led all the way and never looked back.

Chad McMillan was the big shooter with four goals, while Chris Rice connected against Blue goaltender Will McIntire for a pair. Singles were scored by Chris Phifer, David Patterson, Darrell Moore and Lucas Stewart.

Justin Elliott answered four times for the New Blue, while Randy Markell added a single.

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Morrisburg golf teams are bridesmaids again

 

The men’s and ladies’ teams, representing the Morrisburg Golf Club in the Ottawa Valley Golf Association’s Intersectional Match play have stalled in their respective divisions

For the third consecutive year, the men’s and ladies intersectional teams have finished in second spot, the ladies to remain in Division K and the Men to remain in Division O.

This past week, each of the teams hosted their leg of the Matches. Last Monday, July 9 the ladies finished in second spot behind Eagle Creek, the latter earning 41 points out of a possible 42 while the Morrisburg entry picked up 25.

Intersectional match play involves teams of seven players each with golfers from four clubs at each level. Each team member plays a match against the three opposing clubs and each has the potential of six points.

For Eagle Creek, it was almost a clean sweep. The only golfer who stood in their way was Lori Ann Davies of Morrisburg who collected a single point from her Eagle Creek player, Kendra Read.

Davies led the Morrisburg entry with five points, while Anita Cooper, Linda Barclay, Judy Laurin, Stephanie Cochrane and Monique Patenaude all added four points. Carolyn Weegar and Vicki Boivin contributed two points apiece.

The other two teams competing in the level K division were from Poplar Grove and the Iroquois Golf Club.

Nelly Leightizer led the Iroquois entry with four points, while Sally O’Brien and Betty Locke contributed two points apiece, and Majorie Lapier and Mary Jean Craig collected one point each.

The Morrisburg men’s club hosted their action on Sunday with just three clubs competing.

Finishing in first place for the right to move up a division in next year’s play was Falcon Ridge with 32 points.

Morrisburg was second with 21 and Rideau Glen in third with seven. (The men’s teams consist of  10 players each).

Larry Cooper, Ron Lapier and Robert Mann collected four points apiece for Morrisburg, while Jordie MacDonald, Gary Breyer, Kirk Barkley and Brian McNairn added two points each. Eric Wemerman collected a single point and Charlie Moore and Lee Beaupre were blanked.

The Intersectionals are ladder type events with the winner moving up a rung, second place having to host the next year’s event and last place dropping down a rung. The object is to climb to the top rung.

Because their second place finishes were the third in a row for the two Morrisburg teams, neither will have to host next year.

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Tubie weekend, just around the buoy

 

Organizers for the Morrisburg Tubie Festival are hard at work planning activities for the 42nd annual event, which falls on the August long weekend.  

The year’s theme is “Dock of Ages: Tubie Weekend Rocks”.  

The Tubie parade and dance will take place on Saturday, August 4th, while the 42nd running of the Tubie Race will be on Sunday, August 5th.

As usual, Tubie Saturday is a busy day.  

It will begin for the kids at the Cruickshank Amphitheatre at 10:30 am, where Little Ray’s Reptiles returns for their yearly demonstration.  Admission to Little Ray’s is free.

Then the always-popular Tubie Parade will take centre stage starting at the Waterfront Park at 11:30 am.  

In addition to the Tubie floats, parade organizers are looking for additional floats and entries to participate in this year’s parade.  Interested parties are asked to contact Michael Domanko at mdomanko@gmail.com for more information.

Following Saturday’s parade, dog lovers are invited to experience a little Tubie fever of their own with Jane Madigan.

A Canine Behaviour and Performance Constultant and the owner of Inspired K9s, Madigan will be at the Waterfront Dog Park, to show dog owners how they can improve their dogs’ social skills, understand their dogs’ body language and answer questions.  Admission to this event is free.

Saturday’s Tubie evens will conclude in he evening with the Tubie Dance, which again will feature the always popular Ambush, who return for their third performance.  

Ambush has built a loyal fan base throughout Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec, and has thrilled the 800 plus fans in attendance at the Tubie Dance each of the past two years.  

This event will be held on the Morrisburg softball diamond, starting at 8 p.m.

Tubie Sunday will kick off with the Duck Race, sponsored by the Morrisburg & District Lions Club.  The ducks are scheduled to hit the water at the Morrisburg beach at 10 a.m.

Then two hours later it is the event everyone has been waiting for the  42nd annual Tubie Race.  

Heats will begin at noon, with the final scheduled for 1 p.m.  

Last year’s champion, Katherine Lee, is expected to return with her team to defend their wi,n and 2008 winner Gary Magee will be back in an effort to regain his team’s title.

A Beer Garden will be open on each of the two days of the Tubie Festival, along the river’s edge, south of the Docksyde, from 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

All in all, the 42nd annual Tubie Weekend is lining up to be another wonderful summer celebration in South Dundas.

 

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Beach season underway

 

The summer beach season moved into full gear on Monday, July 2, with some 60 kids signed up for lessons in Iroquois and 25 taking lessons at the Morrisburg beach.

Heading up this year’s program in Morrisburg is Bev Fowler who is returning for her second year. At Iroquois, Kristina Swank, in her third season at the beach, is in charge of the program.

Both instructors are reporting a good crop of youngsters and both are seeing the biggest numbers in the lower (generally younger) swim categories.

Fowler, who completed her high school this year at Seaway is heading to Ottawa University in the fall to study Biochemistry. She did all of her early swim training in the South Dundas swim program at Iroquois and earned her certifications at Brockville and Cornwall.

Swank has just completed her first year of university where she is working on her Bachelor of Science in Nursing. This is her third season at the Iroquois Beach and the first to be in charge of the program.

New this year South Dundas is offering four two-week sessions as opposed to the previous two, three-week sessions of the path. Both instructors feel this should work well.

Fowler says she has heard positive feedback from parents about the two week sessions. She explained that pool lessons are generally once a week for 10 weeks, “so basically, we are applying it to the beaches here. Over the two weeks, that gives the students their 10 hours.”

Both she and Swank are getting the impressions from parents that the two weeks sessions also work better for them as they give them more leeway in taking summer vacations.

Fowler points out the only difference may be that “some of the little kids might take longer than one session to complete a level. But the parents understand that.”

At Morrisburg, most of the swimmers are in the Red Cross lower swim levels, with a good number in the 8-9-10 levels.

Joining Fowler this year at the Morrisburg beach are Kelsey Ellis of Winchester and Kennedi Gervais of Morrisburg.

Ellis is going into grade 12 at North Dundas this fall, and hopes down the road to take college/university courses in Graphic Design which she feels will be beneficial in the operation of her already established art business. Ellis took her early swim lessons in the pool at Winchester and says she is looking forward to a summer on the beach, which will be a bit different from the pool scene. This is her first year of employment in a swim program.

Kennedi Gervais is going into Grade 12 at Seaway this fall and is looking at Science studies after high school. She completed her early swim training in local pools and then finished it off in city pools in Ottawa, Cornwall and Brockville. Gervais, too, says she is looking forward to a summer on the beach. “I love it. It’s tons of fun. I love working with the kids, especially the variety of age groups. I have some kids who are pre-school age and some who are nine and 10 year olds.”

At Iroquois, Swank report most of the swim students are “younger kids”.

“We have five or six registered for Bronze Star which starts on July 16 and we have just six other kids in the higher levels. But the classes up to level six are full.”

Because the maximum is six kids per class there are a couple of levels with two classes.

Swank is joined by Jessica Earl and Elizabeth Horne. Both girls are from Iroquois and both are in their first year at the Iroquois beach. Horne has three years guarding/teaching experience in Brockville.

Earl has just graduated grade 12 at Seaway and will study Pre-Health for Paramedics at Algonguin college in the fall.

Horne is heading to Nova Scotia where she will study nursing at St. Francis Xavier.

Those wishing to sign up for the remaining three swim sessions are asked to do so as soon as possible, either at the beaches or by seeing Ben Macpherson at the visitor centre in the Pinkus Plaza in Morrisburg.

The cost is $35 per swimmer, $65 for two or more swimmers and $100 for families of three or more swimmer. There are also discounts when signing for more than one session. The cost is more at the Bronze swimming levels.

The current session ends this Friday, July 13. Session two runs from July 16-27, followed by sessions from July 30-August 10 and August 13-24.

 

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Patenaudes collect a Giant Tiger mixed two-ball win

 

Andy and Monique Patenaude led a field of 94 golfers at the Morrisburg Golf Course, Saturday, to win the annual Giant Tiger Mixed Two-Ball.

The Patenaudes shot a 79 to claim this year’s win in the always popular two-ball competition sponsored by Giant Tiger’s Ken Rundle.

After a 41 front, the Patenaudes turned it up a notch on the back for a three over par 38 for their 79 total.

“We didn’t three putt, and we didn’t get into any trouble all day,” said Monique following the win.

Finishing in second spot, just one stroke back of the Patenaudes, were Bryan Cochrane and Lori Anne Davies who were consistent throughout the round with 40s on both nines.

Next up in the A flight field were Larry and Diane Gallinger and Mick and Yvonne Mabo who tied with 83s.

The Mabo’s 83 gave them the low net at 64.6 in A flight.

Leading the way in B flight were Mike and Wendy Hoogeveen who claimed top spot with an 83. Stephen and Patty Boucher were four strokes back with an 88 for second place.

The low net in B flight went to Kent and Betty McDermid who finished in third spot with a 90 which gave them a 68.4 net.

More than half the field competed in the non-handicapped division which was scored using the Callaway system.

The low gross win went to Terry and Judy Laurin with an 84. Next up were Blake and Cassandra Barry with an 85.

Garry and Carolyn Beckstead carded an 87 to finish third overall while two strokes back were Stafford Harriman and Karen Weegar with an 89.

The net win in the division went to Robert Cooke and Donna Dillabough who shot a 98 which gave them a 72 net in the Callaway scoring system.

For the men, the closest to the pin winners were Larry Cooper, Paul Trudeau, Blake Barry, Travis Dillabough, Mark Lamothe and Rick MacKenzie.

Dropping the closest shots for the women were Carol Armstrong, Shelly Broad, Linda Barclay (two), Rosemary Van Allen and Cassandra Barry.

The closest to the snake line was won by Helen Youmelle.

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Luke Whitteker, successful test run on the black top

 

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IROQUOIS–Being named RACE 101 Premier driver award for 2012 at the end of the year long program meant that Luke Whitteker would get some time in a pavement Late Model.  His first experience came on Wednesday, June 27 when he traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina, to get comfortable in the car before heading to Southern National Speedway in Kenly, North Carolina on Thursday and Friday for his first test session on the black top.

With temperatures over 100 degrees all week, Whitteker knew that the track was going to be very slick, which played in his favor with his dirt racing experience.  

It took only three sessions on the first day for Whitteker to get up to speed, and run comparable lap times to Speedway regulars. 

“We had a great test today,” said Whitteker after his first outing.  “The car was fast for the slick conditions. This was a real good start to our asphalt adventures.  I am looking forward to coming back here tomorrow and getting a better feel for the track”.

The warm temperatures continued for the second day of testing with temperatures remaining in excess of 100°F.  The track temperature was approaching 130° F and almost 150° inside the race car.  

Whitteker had another great test session though, posting some very competitive laps. 

Saturday, the young Iroquois driver returned to Southern National Speedway for race day, but this time he worked on the pit crew for Karl Weber, another young and upcoming driver, who had been working alongside Luke during the testing the two previous days.

Whitteker spent the first part of Sunday returning home.  He landed in Syracuse, New York early Sunday afternoon, and made the long drive to Cornwall Motor Speedway where his Whitteker Motorsports team had his car all ready to go for the night’s 100 lap Big Block Modified Super DIRTcar Series race.  

Luke started 15th, and was running well on the bottom of the track, to make it all the way up to fourth before the handling started to go away on the car, and he slid back to 14th.

This past weekend, Whitteker was back at Mohawk International Raceway on Friday night where he planned to debut the brand new experimental Bicknell chassis.  His weekend was to also include stops at Brockville Speedway Saturday night and the Cornwall Motor Speedway on Sunday. 

 

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Kickers blank Nepean

 

IROQUOIS–The Seaway Kickers hosted the Nepean City soccer team on a rainy Monday night and came out on top with a 3 – 0 win.  
The first goal of the game was setup by Lesley Anne Tupper. After some nifty moves, Tupper passed the ball to Kaitlyn Geurkink for the finish.  
The second goal was all Tupper who dangled and then went far side on the Nepean City keeper. while the third goal came off a strong left foot kick by Kaitlyn Geurkink.  
The shutout was earned by Kailyn Douglas and the score would have been much higher except for the play of the Nepean City keeper who was very strong in net. 
Nepean City had some very quick forwards but the Kickers’ defence, led by Abby Fawcett, Tracey Blokland, Emily VanVeen, Jennifer Smith and Megan Himes were up to the challenge and pretty much shut them down.  
The mid-fielders, led by Leah Wells, Kaitlyn Merkley, Jessica Hartle, Kelsey Douglas and Michaela Morrow made sure the forwards had the chances to move the ball and get some quality shots on net.  
The Kickers played last Monday, July 2 but details were not available at press time.

 

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