PAGE 22, WHITYFRME PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18. 1989 "etaes9gld0 HANDlY POTTR owner of the 'Sports sport items. The store is located at 124 Nutt,' puts a hockey stick on the rack Dundas St. W. at the store which offers a variety of Freo Press photo For the 'Sports Nutt' For the sports nut, a very appropriately named store has opened in downtown Whitby. 'The Sports Nutt'is owned and operated by Randy Potter, a three-year resident of Whitby. <¶[ didn't want to locate in a mail. I was iooking for a spot in downtown.,» said Potter, who is also em ployed at General Motors. The store is located at 124 Dundas St. W. The store offers a variety of sports articles including basebal and hockey cards, hockey sticks, old programs, magazines and calendars. "We are mostly hockey- and baseball-oriented b ut we do have other sport items.» A collector of sports articles for the past three years, Potter had always wanted to open his own store and says he "finally got the guts" to do it. The most popular items at the store are Toronto Blue day base- baIl cards, which Potter says outsell Toronto Maple Leaf hockey cards. "The Blue Jays, are far more eular than the Leafs, " said 'otter whose most unique item is a 1953 basebali card of Jackie Robinson. He aiso has autographs of sport celebrities such as boxer Muhammad Ali, hockey's Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Gar Lem an, and baseball's Gary Carter. He also bas a number of hockey sticks used by Mapie Leaf players, including one autogra- phed by King Ciancyý. 'Card-coliecting is booming. It's one of the fastest-growing hobbies," said Potter. Since his store opened a few weeks ago, customers have ranged in age from f-ive to 90. Rec facility use cost goes up The cost of using Town-owned facilties in 1989 will increase about five per cent over 1988 rates. On Monday night, parks and recreation director Larry Morrow presented council with the new fées, the five-per cent increase attributed to inflation. For use of the Anne Ottenbrite pool at Iroquois Pool, the Town has raised the rate for semi- private children's swimming les- -' sons more than five per cent, to $40 from $35. Private lessons have no more than three children at a time. Group lessons, which usually have six to 10 children, have increased in price te $36 from $34. Other new rates include: - adult public skating - $1.75 per person, from $1.50; - public swimming, a book of 10 tickets, $14, up from $12; - three-month famiiy public swimming pass, $45, up from $40; - one-year famiiy swimming pass, $85, up from $80; - public pool rental rates, $39.50 per hour, up from $37. The Whitby Iroquois Swim- ming Club will pay $26.75 per hour for afternoon use of the pool, up from $25.50 per hour; and $11.50 per hour for morning use, up from $11. Council has aiso approved a flive-per cent increase in the ren- tai rates for Town-owned build- ings such as the Centennial Building, Brooklin Community Centre and Heydenshore Pavi- lion. Swim gold for Morrice diii Morrioe of the Wrhitby Iro- quois Swim Club won two goid medals at the Markham invita- tional swim meet dan. 5-7. Morrioe, cornpeting in girls 13 and 14 division, won the 400- metre individual medley and .200m fly, took silver in the 200m fly, was fourth in the 100m backstroke and sixth in the 100m freesty le. Les lie Dowson won two silver Tournament starts Friday A ringette tournament spon- sored by the Optimist Club-of Whitby begins this Friday at Iroquois Park in Whitby. Competing in five age divisions wvil1 be teains from Kingston, sudbury, Smiths Falls, Lindsay, Mariposa, Pickering, Markham, Scarborough, Ajax and Guelph, and the host Whitby teams. There will be four teams in the belle (aged 16 to 18) division, four teams in junior (aged 14 an~d 15), four teams in tween (aged 12 and 13), eight teams in petite (aged 10 and 11) and six teams in novice (aged 8 and 9). Games start at 3 p.m. Friday and continue ail day Saturday at Iroquois Park. Finals will be heid on Sunday at the Vipond arena in Brooklin, starhing at 1 p.m. This year's tournament, the lOth annual, is coordinated by Gayle Guyrner. medals, ini the 200in freestyle and 200m backstroke, and three bronze medals, in the 100m fly, 100m freestyle and 100m breast- stroke. Dowson was competing in the girls 10 and under division, as was Molly Morrioe, a silver medal winner in the 100m back- stroke. Jason Ayotte, in boys 13 and 14,' won a bronze in the 100m breaststroke. The other medai winner for the Whitby club was Renee Ayotte, silver medallist in the 200m breaststroke and bronze winner in the 100m breaststroke for girls' il and 12. dessica Nesbitt, in girls il and 12, was fifth in 200m fly, sixth in 200m freestyle and seventh in 100m fly and 400m medley. Aaron Lo, in boys 10 and under, had a fifth-place finish in 200m breaststroke, sixth in 50m fly and 100mn breaststroke, and seventh in 100m fly. Neil Balan had seventh- and eighth-piace finishes in boys il and 12, while Patricia Luke was eighth in two events for girls 13 and 14. Whitby Ice Elusions won the gold medal in the masters'(aged 21 and over) division of an inter- national precision skating com- petition in Lake Placid Jan. 6. "We neyer expected it," said coach Cathy Dalton of the f»irst- place finish for the Whitby Mas- ter Precision Club among 15 teams from Canada and the U.S. The Whitby team was seventh in the competition iast year. Two other Whitby teanis ear- ned bronze medals. Ice Fyre, last year's Canadian champion senior (ail ages) pre- cision skating teamr, was third. Taking first was a Lavai, Que. team which Dalton said im- pressed the U.S. judges with a 0gizy hw. Dalton,too, was impressed but explain.ed that "The way they (l..judige is a little bit dif- ferent than the way Canadians judge." She said "technical achievement" rather than "glitz," is given mnore emphasis in Canada. Whitby rep hockey Mlinoe Atom « B - sponsored by Somerset Window Dressing Jaziuaiy 3 whitby 1 Cobourg 3 January 6 Whltby 1 Baltimore 2 Mike Keogan Januazy 10 Whztby 2 Baltimore 1 Jon Shetier 2 Major A±om a n - sponsored by Pringle creek Pharrnacy January 6 Whitby 2 Pickering 2 B. Lodje EL Biais Jaziuary 6 Wkutby 3 Earnestown 4 J. Schott B. Lodge D. Whitlock January 7 Whîtby 4 Cumberland 1 J. Schott S. Biais B. Scot D. Whtlock January 8 Whltby 2 Kingston 2 Steve Biais 2 M1ar eNovice 9W -sponsored by Nash Aluxnlnum Januaxy 6 Whitky 1 Witly 4 (Nash Aum.> Einch Travel) Paul Gray Janiuazy 8 Whitby i Peterborough 3 Danny Reica Mi- o vioeA - apoesord by M & M Meats Junuaiy 6 Whitby 4 Newmarket 1 Matt Fran 2 Eancardweil Wesley Suddoeia Ja.nuaiy 8 Whitby 2 Pickering 2 Evun Ktamun Justin Terr Jantuy 10 whilby 2 Ajax 1 S.mmie Scheepers Bobby Schlitt - sponiored by Eastway Plymouth Chrysle January 6 Whitby 2 Ajax 3 Mark vanderlip Andre Marc"s Januaiy 8 Whitby 8 RichmXod Hill 4 A a-m Psrkz 2 Wayne Primecu 2 Mike Hogan Jeif Montaigue Sean Gbb Andre Mar" She said her own teamn did not performi the show they wiil use at the Canadian finals in April. "We've got a few things plan- ned for the Canadians," said Daiton, adding that the third- place finish at- Lake Piacid "will realy rnake us di g our heels in." About one--third1 of this year's senior team are new members. 'Eleven rnembers of last year's team did not return, most now attending university. Whitby's pre-novice team, Ice Pix, was also third at Lake Pla- cid. The teamn is coached by Jody Jones, a former senior teami member. The novice team from Whitby, Ice Angels, coached by Diane Cornellison, placed fifth at Lake Piacid. Whitby teams will again com- ete this Saturdy in North ork A precision team from Sweden will skate at Iroquois Park on Feb. 4, and the Whitby senior team wiii go to Sweden in December. M1 wPeewso WE December 12 Whltby Jim Lawlor 2 R. Farquliarson Jimzmy Brown Mike Wye Decoumber 16 Whitby Darry Wright 3 Stevoei Cooper S' Jimmy Brown I. Farquabrmos 2 Deomber 27 Daewars IL Farquharmon 1 Miku Wy. January 7 Whitby Daile dwards 2 Jimmy Brown 2 Mike Wyo 2 temen Cooper Mat Muir R. Farquharson December 28 4 Whitby SWevn Cooper 2 Darren Paquin 2 December 29 Whltby 1 Jim Lawlor mMioWyo Dazyl Wright Januaiy 4 Whitby Darren Paqin 2 Daie Edwards January 6 Whltby Darryl Wright Malt Muir 6 Pickering 0 6 stouffVillls 3 3 Agincourt 2 8 Morkham 2 4 Scarboro 1 3 Wexford 5 2 Port P.rxy 6 2 8tOUr<111. 1 Miduet B - sponsrd by Whitby Ieioex 3 Whitby Deeember 17 Mike Garba 2 Brent Knowles 2 1 Phil Kaieta Bab Mcldiland Shutout- Scott S&igley 2 Deceinher 18 Whitby Brian Duif 2 Jaxnle Brouammu MSte Gatn 1 Todd Wilson Todâ Wilson Mi-me Carton Andrew Vandenlinde mage Futn Kefth Tanguay Deceoeber 28 Whit.by Todd Wilson Keitb Tangiaay January 8 Whilby Mâte Garto Peter De6na Bob UcLelland MS. Futn 1 Petertrogh3 7 Newmarket O a Newmarket 1 6 Pickering 2 Bra.dford 4 Aýjax 2 - 1