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This year‘s competition features nine teams, including the Ciociaro team from Windsor, which will represent Canada at the tug of war World Championships in Sweden this September, said Totten. . â€" . "‘The Zorra team could surprise a lot of people. They‘re a good young team and they‘ve been pracâ€" ticing hard,"" he said. The South Easthope and Ellice teams, both from Perth County, should also do well. The tug of war championship is a single roundâ€"robin competition, which will take 35 pulls to finish, unless a pullâ€"off is needed as a tieâ€" breaker. The championship is regâ€" The 1994 memorial tug of war championship competition is likely to attract a large crowd, said Totâ€" ten. This year marks the 101st anâ€" niversary of the "mighty men of Zorra" and their 1893 World Championship. , Field events will include log sawâ€" ing, stone throw, high jump, a 10â€" kilometre road race and the caber toss, in which participants lift and throw a giant log, a feat which takes strength and coâ€"ordination. About 200 dancers will particiâ€" pate in this year‘s games. As well, eight pipe bands will compete, joining together twice during the day to perform as a massed band. _ Tug of war teams and pipers from Canada and the United States will, participate, as will dancers from as ~far away as Florida, Prince Edward Island and Scotâ€" land. * "It‘s an international event this year," said Ron Totten, past presiâ€" dent of The Zorra Caledonian Soâ€" ciety and tug of war committee chairperson. a They‘ll be tossing the caber, playing the bagpipes, dancing the highland fling and pulling on the tug of war rope Friday, whenâ€"the 57th annual Zorra Highland Games gring a wee bit of Scotland to Emâ€" ro. By HILARY IBBOTSON â€" of The Sentinelâ€"Review Touch of Scotland in Embro 57th annual Zorra Highland Games OUR OXFORD The Daily Sentinelâ€"Review, Thurs., June ulated by the Ontario Tug of War Association. i Corporate sponsors of the tug of _ war are Lafarge Canada Inc., Cold Springs Farms Ltd., McFarlan Martin Insurance Brokers Ltd., RWEF Industries and Kâ€"104 FM. ‘‘Without them we couldn‘t have the tug of war," said Totten. "It costs about $6,000 to hold the event." 4 RON TOTTEN, a member of The Zorra Caledonian Society and chairâ€" person, of the 1994 memorial tug of war committee, shows the tug of war.championship trophy. The tug of war competition is always a popâ€" ular spectator event at the Zorra Highland Games. This year‘s games begin at 8:30 a.m. Friday, with tug of war competition starting at 1:15 30, 1994 The Zorra Highland â€"Games will be held at the Embroâ€"Westâ€"Zorra Community Centre July 1, beginâ€" ning at 8:30 a.m. and finishing with a massed band performance about 4:30 p.m. â€" There will also be food. and drinks available at the games and tickets can be purchased for a fullâ€" course meal, which will be served in the auditorium at noon. McElroy graduated from the factulty of medicine at the Univerâ€" sity of Western Ontario in London, Ont., in 1966. He interned, worked and travelled for a few years beâ€" fore setting up his family practice in Woodstock. "It‘s always difficult to leave one place in life and go on to the next," said the doctor who lives at RR 2, Tavistock. "It‘s difficult to make changes." j _ Last Thursâ€" [@ .day was McEIlâ€" HW roy‘s last day at WWF his 379 Hunter St. office and it BH was an emoâ€" tional one for McE both staff and patients «_ Retiring Woodstock-docfor Ross ‘McElroy will now have more time to pursue his . P P IF M *+< ‘‘billions of é’;.; dreams". after [ â€" es _ 2 23 years of famâ€" [‘ jss . W e ily. practice in h . â€" uns the Friendly [ SW y City. _ ~â€" e aakcs f By MIKE CAMPBELL _ of The Sentinelâ€"Review Doctor retires after 2 decades of serving city Alison Downie, Editor 537â€"2341 McElroy The Daily Sentinelâ€"Review, Mon The doctor said he will continue to keep his hand in the medicine field by filling in for other doctors across the province when they go on vacation or take leaves.. _ Dr. John Tam, a physician from Newfoundland, will take over McElroy‘s practice beginning toâ€" day. Friends, family, the cottage, sailing and biking all beckon, said McElroy. ‘"It is an ideal hospital for a famâ€" ily practitioner with excellent back up and specialty staff, an excellent group of reliable nurses," he said. McElroy also had nice things to say about Woodstock General Hosâ€" pital. s ‘"It‘s a pleasant place to live and work," he said: But Woodstock will be fond in his memory. Among the things he did before arriving in this city was work as a casualty officer at St. Joseph‘s Hospital in Hamilton and he did a summer stint in the Canadian Arcâ€" tic. & , July 4, 1994â€"3