Vol. 4, Issue 30
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Thursday, July 27, 2017
Sarnia FC soccer player, 80, decides its time to hang ‘em up
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TROY SHANTZ THE JOURNAL
orm Perry Park has heard many sporting tributes over the years, but few like this one. When Barry Goodwin took to the pitch in a Sarnia FC over-35 league game on July 20 his family, friends and fans rose to give him a standing ovation. The veteran player and coach had achieved his goal —playing soccer into his 80th year. “It should have been done five years ago,” said Sharron Goodwin, noting a pending knee replacement is forcing her husband to hang up the cleats. “But he has always maintained he would play until he was 80.” Goodwin is well known in Ontario soccer circles. A director on the board of the Ontario Soccer Association and Lambton-Kent Soccer Association, he has also refereed Sarnia girls’ soccer until this year. “He can’t run a whole lot but when he does get a touch, you can always get that quality
touch back,” said Drew Taylor, who has been his fellow player-coach on the Paddy Flaherty’s team the past five years. Goodwin was 16 when he caught the eye of his hometown club in Scunthorpe, England, and signed a contract with the semi-pro team. But a promising pro career was cut short by a run-in with a goal post that broke both his legs. Goodwin emigrated to Canada in 1968 in search of a better life and found it in Sarnia as a millwright and maintenance supervisor. And he has always stayed close to the game he loves, said Sharron Goodwin, his wife of eight years. “We eat, sleep and drink soccer,” she said. “I didn’t know anything about soccer when I first met him. I knew what a soccer ball looked like and that was about the extent of it.” Goodwin, who has played soccer for 74 years, showed he’s still got it when the team was awarded a corner kick a few years ago, Taylor said. Continued on page 3
BARRY GOODWIN takes the field with his teammates at Norm Perry Park for the start of a Sarnia FC over-35 league game last week. GLENN OGILVIE, The Journal
Every Sarnia kitchen might soon have a compost bucket
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CATHY DOBSON THE JOURNAL
ig changes are coming in the way household waste is handled in Ontario, and Sarnia officials are concerned local taxpayers will be stuck with the bill. The new Waste-Free Ontario Act is expected to make it mandatory for residents to separate food and other organics from
the waste stream. “It is coming,” said Shawn Unsworth, purchasing manager with Sarnia’s finance department. “It’s a lot of change and I am very concerned about the economic impact. We are a small city and the costs of dealing with organics are significant.” Separating food waste could mean providing each home and food-related business with an indoor container for collection,
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a second lockable container to store food waste outdoors, and frequent curbside collection to keep animals and odours at bay. Another major cost is finding someplace to locate a massive compost centre. Sarnia currently composts leaves and other yard waste at its facility on St. Andrew Street. Though a logical place to compost food waste as well, that facility is nearing capacity and produces odours strong enough
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authorized a small pilot project to encourage organic waste separation in Sherwood Village, said Berkvens. “It fell off the rails because people didn’t accept it,” he said. But the Waste-Free Ontario Act says all municipalities must develop an organics action plan this year, with implementation in 2018. The first step is public consulContinued on page 2
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