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I'? Season ender - The Castleton Sports Club squirts played a good game, but still met 2-1 to the Warkworth Service Club last Wednesday in Warkworth. The team is. front, I-r: Laura Atchison. Raymond, Nakonechny, Jennifer Scott, Ashley Jakobi; back, l-r: , (2hrierClarey, Tyler Clarey, Justin Tucker, Kenny Duthie, Nathan Brockweii and Julie Scott (coach). Not in photo is assistant coach Al Brockweli, Photo by Mark Houit Great _ soccer ---hut cigar A ““le my“... The tNe-year-old twins, a girl, Courtney, and a boy, Christopher. are "paranoid" about dogs, says their mother. Especially big dogs. running free, since Christopher was attacked and mauled, nearly to death, by two Rottweilers a year and a half age: Many small children are afraid of large dogs, but for the Bryans children of Castleton. their terror of dogs is the understandable consequence of a horrifying experience. “2121-19 whole Bryans family, in fact, has had a hard time dealing with dogsrsr'mce that tlmtr, . By Eileen Argyris Dog attack leaves mental, physical scars Castleton family asks for understanding, cooperation The children attend Castleton Public School, the twins in kindergarten and their older sis: ter, Tiffany, in Grade 2. School principal David King says there have been some problems with large dogs from Castleton run- ning free on the school property, frightening many of the children. The children's par- ents, Marl and Ed - Bryans, purchased KB trailer park, just outside Castleton, this past summer. Mari Bryans tells the story of Christopher's near-fatal attack by logs. q But, when he realized the degree to which the Bryans chil, dren are traumatized by the sight of loose dogs, and the reason why. he enlisted the help of the newspaper in telling - the children's story , to a community People C that, he hopes, will the dama respond by keepin dogs on a leash 0% dogs can inside fenced enclo- expect Sp sures as, Indeed, ment,jus Cramahe Townshlp sense tre bylaws demand. v, -ee' The incident happened in January of 1992. Tiffany was at school. Mrs. Bryans was at her home. near Lindsay, with the three-and-a-hair-year-old twins and a two-year-old nephew she was caring for that day. the damage loose dogs can do. I don't expect special' treat- ment, just common sense treatment.' 'eople don't realize ion't realize "They had Just ge loose goned out and I , hear Christa her do.. I_dont scream. I 'tsh1"12irt ecial treat- he must have fall- l common en down the atment.' steps," she .. Mari Bryan: recalled. _ There were two concrete ---- steps outside the door. She looked out to see Christopher face down in the snow, with two huge dogs on top of him. She had just put the twins out’ in the front yard of their house to play in the snow. She was inside. adjusting a warm scarf on the neck of her nephew, preparing - for him to join his .7 cousins outside. Heedless of the fact that one of her feet was bare, recovering from an lnjury. she ran out into the snow to rescue her son. At itrst. the dogs did not respond to her frantic efforts to command or drag them off the little boy. Remembering her kitchen broom, she ran back into the house and came back out to begin beating the dogs off the child, screaming at them to drop him and go away. By this time. they had dragged the child 30 feet. _ "It was a 15-minute battle between the dogs and myself-- a tug-of-war." The dogs, she remembers. were snarling with bared teeth and both were foaming at the mouth. All the while, Christopher's twin sister stood watching the attack, paralyzed with fear on the steps of the house. Mrs. Bryans succeeded in sepa- rating Christopher from the dogs by "smacking one over the head, and as the other lunged," she grabbed the child and started to hop backward, still barefoot. Low'ard the door. See Dog Attack, page 5