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Wednesday, February 10, 2021
South Shore Scuba Club: Over 30 years and still growing By C. Scott Holland With a 30 year history, the South Shore Scuba Club is certainly well established and operates year-round. Yet few people are aware of this group. After years of talk from scuba diving enthusiasts about forming a local club, the move was finally accomplished in 1989. Its premise was to promote safe sport diving and have an interaction with more experienced divers. It was not created as a training club, but rather as one that is condusive to ongoing training. The level of certification by its members is well over 50 per cent and includes basic water, first aid, CPR, AED, and DAN oxygen Administrator. Some of its members are trained for Search and Rescue, while others are
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with the Auxiliary Coast Guard. One of their biggest events each year is doing a clean-up at the bottom of the local marinas. They have also visited various shipwrecks lying on Lake Erie’s bottom as well as shipwrecks in places like Tobermory. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the South Shore Scuba Club was meeting every second Thursday of the month at the Kingsville branch of the Royal Canadian Legion 7:30 pm. A yearly single membership costs $40 and $10 for each additional family member. The membership includes newsletters and other special events and each one lasts for the period of May 1 to Apr. 30. You can get more informoation at their website: southshorescuba.org.
South Shore Scuba Club member, Jennifer Elcomb, takes the plunge off the Leamington Dock to join fellow diver Greg Chisholm, in the 1995 April Fools Marina Clean-Up. The club spent the morning and afternoon scouring the bottom and collecting things like a pair of glasses, a rake, pieces of hose, water-logged wood and the most unusual and surprising item of all — a skateboard. Photo from the Scott Holland Collection
GOJHL Commissioner resigns By C. Scott Holland Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League commissioner Mark Tuck of Chatham has resigned. The Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League is comprised of the West, Mid-West and Golden Horseshoe Jr. B conferences. As well, GOJHL board chairperson Joe Daniels (St. Thomas) has tendered
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his resignation. A new chairperson is expected to be elected by the GOJHL this week. There is no particular reason for his departure. “It was just time,” he said. “I’ve been with the league since 2009. It is time to do other endeavours.” The 2020-21 GOJHL season has been delayed indefinitely because of the COVID-19 pandemic. No official games have been
played since last March, although some teams did play scrimmages late in 2020. With the Covid pandemic still ongoing, this gives the GOJHL plenty of time and opportunity to adjust and prepare for any possibility of a 2021-22 season. Hockey Canada has cancelled their ‘big four’ national spring championships - the Allen Cup
(Senior), the Esso Cup (Women’s under-18), the Centennial Cup (Jr. A) and the Telus Cup (men’s under 18) championships.
Tuck was named interim commissioner in October 2017, and was elevated to commissioner in the summer of 2019.
Mark Tuck (right) giving Flyers’ goalie Tyler Wall (left) the goalie of month award for December, 2015. Photo courtesy of Shelley J. Quick
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