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Leander men
row their boat
quickly down
the Charles
Masters crew wins gold in Boston,
battling high winds and 33 teams
BY JACQUIE DE ALMEIDA Motley Rowing Club.
“It’s something we’ve been
Hamilton’s Leander Boat Club working towards all summer
captured the gold medal in and fall,” third-seat rower
Boston over the weekend in the George Gage said yesterday in a
masters men’s eight of the cellphone interview while on
prestigious Head of the Charles the road back from Boston.
Regatta. “It’s nice to be able to come
The crew, made up of Ernie back and win it,” said Gage, 53,
Pieneman, Phil Monckton, an Ontario court judge. SPECIAL TO THE SPECTATOR
Robert Cherwinski, Christo- The Leander crew placed Hamilton’s Leander Boat Club won a gold medal in the masters men’s eight race in Boston on the weekend. From left to right: Ernie
pher Carroll, Tom Cook, George third in the race last year but
Pieneman, Phil Monckton, Robert Cherwinski, Christopher Carroll, Tom Cook, George Gage, Brian Love, Michael Neary, and Ogan Gurel, front.
Gage, Brian Love, Michael took home the gold in 1998,
Neary and American Ogan 2000, and 2001.
Gurel, was the only About 7,000 rowers in 1,500 The 1996 running of the race they’d won until about half an 49, said the camaraderie the The wins are about hard work,
Canadian entry in the masters boats competed in the 40th was cancelled because of wind hour after crossing the finish team has built over the years has Cherwinski said. The crew is
eight race held in the running of the two-day regatta, and rain. line when they got a call from gone a long way both in friend- out in Hamilton harbour most
Massachusetts city. billed as the world’s largest But the wind didn’t stop the one of their wives, who had ship and on the water. The mornings for about an hour and
It beat out 33 other boats in rowing event. crew from giving their all. been watching the race online. teamwork has translated into a a half, five or six times a week.
the 4.8-kilometre race on the The win was especially sweet “We were pretty drained at “We knew we were in the hunt. medal every year the team has Fifth seat Christopher Car-
Charles River with a time of because of the conditions. High the end of it. Everybody We put everything on the line participated at the Charles. roll, 45, said it was “good to be
5:16, narrowly edging out winds — a rower’s worst enemy emptied the tank,” Gage said of and winning is a nice “You get a group of guys to- going home with a gold medal”.
defending champions Grosse Ile — in the Charles River basin the race that is run in timed in- reward,” said Gage, who has been gether who are getting on in age
Rowing Club by about one forced race officials to shorten tervals, like a cycling time trial. rowing for the past 36 years. and it’s really sweet when you jdealmeida@thespec.com
second. Third place went to the race, Gage said. Gage said they had no idea Sixth seat Robert Cherwinski, win,” Cherwinski said. 905-526-3214

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Four schools getting visual fire alarms to help deaf students

Public board is also making changes this year to help visually impaired kids and parents and hosting an accessibility awareness day
BY CHRISTINE COX
Hamilton’s public school board
will carry out several initiatives
this year to help students and
staff with visual and hearing
disabilities.
Visual fire alarms will be in-
stalled in four schools —
Queensdale, George L. Arm-
strong, Sherwood and Saltfleet
— where there are a number of
students who are deaf or hard of
hearing.
Visual markers will be placed
on stairs and ramps in schools
where there are students or staff
with low vision. The board will
develop a plan to make its web-
site more accessible to people
who are visually impaired or use
screen-reading software.
The initiatives are part of the
board’s annual accessibility
plan, which was approved by
trustees Oct. 18 at a committee
of the whole meeting.
To help staff better under-
stand how to accommodate
students and colleagues with
disabilities, the board will host
an Accessibility Awareness Day
in December in conjunction some schools are very heavy and to an ongoing strategic plan for funded from an $8-million cap-
with Access Awareness Week. may be difficult to open for a new construction and renova- ital budget that must cover a va-
An accessibility handbook for wheelchair user or someone tion projects that included bar- riety of items including health
staff members will be produced with limited strength. Recep- rier-free accommodations. and safety and security needs.
and distributed to all schools. tion counters at some schools Since then, the board has spent Tyagi assured trustees three
The report by the board’s Ac- are not at eye level for wheel- between $200,000 and elementary schools under con-
cessibility Working Group in- chair users. $400,000 a year for accessibil- struction will exceed Ontario
cluded a list of schools that al- Many schools are not barrier- ity improvements under a plan Building Code requirements for
ready have features such as free or do not have designated called Pathways. A special accessibility. Legislation re-
ramps, automatic door openers, parking for people with disabil- $686,000 grant the board re- quires all school boards to pre-
elevators and barrier-free ities. Many forms and records ceived in 2001 allowed it to ac- pare an annual accessibility
washrooms. are available only in print. Sig- celerate the plan. plan, consult with people with
But there are still many barri- nage inside and outside build- Dev Tyagi, controller of plant disabilities, and make it public.
ers that the group wants to fo- ings is not accessible to people services, said the board has no
cus on over the next few years. with poor vision. specific budget for accessibility ccox@thespec.com
For example, the front doors of In 1999, the board committed this year. Improvements will be 905-526-3323

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