PREDICTING THE STANDARDBRED HARNESS HORSES - THERE AT THE POST - AND THEIR OFF AS BILLY KELL AT HANOVER USED TO SAY. I LOVED BILLY KELLS ANNOUNCING IN THE 80S

 

The race track needed an announcer, after Billy Kell who had done it for many years had retired and they were looking for someone and there wasn't really anybody around and Uncle Randy said "Rick you're always here, why don't you go try it." I tried it and really enjoyed it and that was the start of this journey." Rier explained.

DRIVERS I LIKED AND LIKE NOW ARE WILLIAM BUD FRITZ MY FAVORITE ALLTIME. THE WALKERS I LIKE PAUL, ROBERT WHEN HE DROVE. ROSS BATTIN, NOW NATASHA  DAY, BOB MCCLURE. RICK ZERON I LIKE BECAUSE HE COULD BRING LONGSHOTS IN. ALOT OF THE TIME. THIS IS JUST A FEW OF THE MANY DRIVERS I LIKE AROUND THE HARNESS TRACKS IN CANADA. I NEVER KNEW ANY OF THESE DRIVERS PERSONALLY. BUT I WAS ALWAYS AT HANOVER RACEWAY DURING THE 80S,90S, AND 2000S AT DIFFERENT YEARS. DOING THE DRIVER STANDINGS ON MY OWN-NO COMPANY INVOLEMENT-FOR THE NOW CLOSED (ALL I DONE WAS DROPPED THEM OFF.) AT THE SAUGEEN CITY NEWS WHO WOULD PUT MY DRIVER STANDINGS IN THE PAPER FOR ME EVERY WEEK. I THINK THE HANOVER POST PUT THEM IN THERE AT SOME POINTS TO THREW THE YEARS. MARY GOLEM WAS THE SAUGEEN CITY NEWS LADY I GAVE THE DRIVER STANDINGS TO. SHE WAS A NICE LADY.

Mary was predeceased by her parents, Arthur and Islay Matthews, her oldest brother Keith and brother-in-law Bob Nicholson. Mary was a long-time newspaper reporter, starting her career at The Mount Forest Confederate in 1980. After her marriage in 1981, she began working as a reporter and later became the editor of The Chesley Enterprise weekly newspaper for 23 years prior to the paper’s closure in 2005. After that, she worked as a freelance writer, mainly for The Post (Hanover) and The Sun Times (Owen Sound), endearing herself to readers through her words of wit, wisdom and opinions in her weekly “Mary’s Corner” column. Mary was also a long-time director on the board of Germania Mutual Insurance.