Hello All,

Yes, it’s that time of year again!!!!  Barnbowl 9 will be Sat March 31
back at the Lambton Saddle Club.    Will the Chiefs become the first
repeat champs since Groover’s Grazers won Barnbowl’s 1, 2 & 3?  Will
the Grazers even have a team? Will Brownie re-grow a pair in time to
be a real Ginger again?

Please confirm your entries ASAP and pay up before March 22.  There
will be a $5 fee for late registration.  Divisions will be dependant
on # of entries.  Post-tourney details to follow.

Attached is the registration form.  As usual, I’m always looking for
volunteers to help run the day as well.  Please reply if you’re
interested in helping out.  Please forward as well…

Cheers,

B. Mitch McAuley
BB Commish

BB9-REGISTRATION

Hey everyone! Long time member Spencer Houlihan is leaving to Australia for the next couple years to obtain his law degree. Lets give him a proper Saints send off! Meet us at Union Station Bar and Grill, at 730pm, on Sat Feb, 4th. Hope to see you there….

ers and MS lambton-sarnia branch. In return, you will be credited in the media and will be pd $100 for your efforts. I’m looking for something funky that will inspire both the young and old…cheers

The Details

Goal

• have fun and make this jersey dance

Deadline

• Feb 9^th, 2012 6pm sharp

Winning design will be announced

• Feb 13^th through facebook and your sarniasaints.com website

*Send your magic to georgiou32@gmail.com

Good Luck,

2012 Multiple Sclerosis committee

Shawn Georgiou

Bryan Weaver

Chris Groombridge

Dave Koebel

Dylan Cullis

Nick Powell

Paul is one of the original founders of SnakeBite. Paul  was influenced at a very young age by Johnny Cash and Stompin Tom Conners and has had a love for music since. As a teen Paul was also influenced by Pink Floyd and Rush, but has always returned to his country roots. Paul grew up in Wingham Ontario  and has spent his adult life calling Bothwell Ontario his home. Paul had his first taste of entertaining when asked to get up on stage with a local Bothwell band “Small Town Boys” and sing a song, this started the fire burning and he has not looked back since as he knew this was something he wanted and had to do. Paul started a two man band shortly thereafter and from that Snakebite  evolved into what it is today, a rockin country band with a kick!!!

Sean has been the lead guitar  player in SnakeBite  since 2005. Sean grew up on Rock n’ Roll but his parents listened to country. Sean hails from Sarnia now but grew up in Kingsville.

James was born into a musical family in London Ontario.   As a youth he was classically trained on piano, cello and voice.  In the early 80s he discovered Rush and the bass playing of Geddy Lee, and jumped head first into the realm of  the bass guitar.   James has been a bass player and singer for a variety of rock bands in the London area since the mid 80s.   A short stint living in Alberta and a few years of attending the Calgary Stampede led him to start appreciating country music, though cowboy hats and giant belt buckles didn’t follow him back to Kilworth Ontario where he currently resides.    In late 2007, the opportunity to join Snakebite arose, and James decided it was time to start laying down the low end playing music that keeps the ladies on the dance floor!

Marty is one of the founding members in SnakeBite and since 2004 he has enjoyed every minute playing the kind of Country music that makes your foot tap. Marty grew up in Bothwell and was influenced by the  Stones, Kiss, AC/DC and the hair bands of the 80′s. Marty loves playing live and loves to see the crowd enjoying themselves at SnakeBite shows

Bobby is the Thunder God who supplies the incredible beat inSnakeBite.  Bobby is a Strathroy, On boy who played in the critically acclaimed pop rock group Sherry.

“We are still feeling a natural high after playing on the big stage at the Boothill Jamboree. We opened up for country superstar JoDee Messina and it was an awesome feeling as the crowd loved us.”

Current Set List

Snake Bite

DAVE PAUL

The Observer

Making the Canadian womens rugby team has meant some major changes in Julia Greenshields’ life.

The 19-year-old St. Clair graduate, who was in the midst of her first year at Western Univ., will leave for Victoria, B.C. this weekend.

That’s where the womens national program is based and it’s where Greenshields will now call home, after being selected as a member of the squad, late last year.

It capped off an eventful year for Greenshields, who first came to the attention of the national team coaches when she was playing for the Ontario Under-20 team at a Canadian championship tournament, in B.C., last summer.

“One of the Canadian coaches asked me if I wanted to be a reserve, for the national womens 15s team,” said Greenshields, adding she accepted the offer and ended up training with the team, but didn’t accompany them when they travelled to a tournament later in the year.

Then, a few months ago, she got an email saying she had been pre-selected as a member of the Canadian Maple Leafs team — the country’s senior womens sevens development squad — for a tournament in Barbados.

There, she was named “Player of the Tournament”, with three tries in the final match, as the Canadian team won the grand final at the North American and Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) Championships, defeating Jamaica in the final, 38-0.

She also played at a four-nation tournament in Dubai, helping Canada to a second-place finish there.

“At the end of that tournament, I was asked if I wanted to be part of the (national) womens team … and move to Victoria,” says Greenshields.

The demands of the competitions and training forced her to withdraw from Western Univ., where she had been studying kinesiology. But she plans to pick up where she left off, in the same field, at the University of Victoria.

Greenshields says the “sevens” game is “a lot different and a lot faster,” than the traditional 15-a-side game of rugby she grew up playing.

“Playing at this level, it’s a lot harder too,” she says, though she adds she has quickly grown to love that version of the sport.

Womens rugby sevens will be included in the 2016 Summer Olympics. Greenshields, at 19, is the youngest player on the Canadian team and she is excited about potentially being a part of something as big as the Olympics.

“Right now, Canada is on top (in womens rugby) and we have to stay there,” says Greenshields, who plays centre and scrum half. “We have to keep improving, so nobody catches us.”

Greenshields says she expects to play for the Canadian team at a tournament in Rome this year, and possibly events in Vancouver and Las Vegas.

Her plans, right now, are to stay in Victoria for approximately five months, with the national team. Then she hopes to return to Sarnia for the summer to play with the Sarnia Saints womens squad.

Sarnia Rugby Guest Coach-Player Committee offering 2012

Please contact Ryan Mortensen-Club President for further details

sryanmortensen@hotmail.com

Article submitted by Brian McAuley, Publicity Manager 1997