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Taking A Swing At The Big Time B orn and raised in Cornwall, Nicolas Valiquette would appear to be your regular grade ten La Citadelle teenager. Things, however, are not always as they appear and often we need to take a closer look.
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Valiquette was invited to attend the Team Ottawa Regional Skills & Combine, run by the Golf Association of Ontario held at the Kevin Haimes Golf School in Kanata October 26 & 27, 2014.
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Valiquette’s mother Lynn explained how his selection came about. “The skills combine was a comparative analysis of the athletes long game, short game and physical testing where they would be selecting 12 athletes for Team Ottawa.
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The young Valiquette took his first swing at golf when he was just four years old. By the time he had reached the age of six, his mom had registered him for golf lessons at Archie’s Family Golf. Once a week, over two summers he faithfully “They also requested a golf resume attended lessons with Carol Ann Campbell. It was something he loved to do and was becoming more and more evident that this could very well be his calling. Within three years he had become a member of The Cornwall Golf and Country Club and was participating in the junior program there. He continued to learn, with lessons from pros such as Bobby Flaro, Mike Touchette and Moe Bellefeuille.
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he welcomed the opportunity to golf in the Golf Quebec Tournaments. When the opportunity arose to attend the Team Ottawa Regional Skills & Combine, he was elated. His dedication to the sport and hard work had paid off and he was, not surprisingly, one of the 12 selected for Team Ottawa. The program includes five months of supervised technical and physical training administered by Coach Adam Holden and Allen Hicks, the strength and conditioning coach. He will be traveling to Ottawa, two to three times each week to the Ottawa Athletic Club as part of the Team Ottawa commitment. The program consists of two major educational components – physical as well as technical. The regional teams train from November through until March and then compete against other regional teams in a competition in Myrtle Beach during March Break. Valiquette’s mom is very excited about her son’s future. “I feel this is a great opportunity for Nick. This could open so many doors and I’m so proud of him.” She continued, “The coach called him to tell him he made the team and the very next day the coach from the Ottawa University called him showing interest. All we could say was WOW!” He continues to work hard every day and hopes his hard work will earn him a scholarship and a chance to someday become a world-class golf pro and operate his own golf course.
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Well, a month has come and gone and there have been a few developments in the St. Lawrence division of the Eastern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, but not necessarily the ones that you would have expected. Perennial powerhouse Casselman continues to ride atop the division with 38 points in 21 games. Not quit within striking distance are the Winchester Hawks, with 30 points in 20 games. The biggest concern for the Hawks isn’t necessarily catching Casselman, but rather putting some distance between themselves and the Char-Lan Rebels, who sit three points back with 27 points in 19 games. It is with Char-Lan that we will start things off this month.
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Char-Lan Rebels
As of November 27, the Rebels had managed four wins, two losses and one shoot-out loss. The Rebels have shown they can fill the net on any given night, and have the luxury of six players who are at or better than a point a game. Their goaltending is overall pretty solid with Ryan Cooper establishing himself as the number one (nine wins, one loss, .930 save percentage) even though the team seems to be splitting playing time almost down the middle with Alex Boileau playing in eight games (four wins, four losses, .855 save percentage. If this team can tightenup on defense, they could find a spot in the top two.
Akwesasne Wolves
The Wolves have made it back to the .500 mark with ten wins, ten losses and one overtime loss. With the success they had last season, you had to expect that they would figure it out sooner rather than later and a good month of November combined with a dismal month by Alexandria allowed them to move into fourth place. Anything is possible, but most likely is that they will battle with Alexandria for the fourth-fifth spot for the remainder of the season. If the Rebels should falter, however, they might just find the Wolves ready to take a bite out of third spot. Allowing four goals a game has to be a concern, particularly on a team that could use another goal scorer or two, but the Wolves always seem to get the best out of what they have to work with.
Alexandria Glens
Things are not going well in the Glen. With nineteen points in 21 games, they aren’t in a bad spot, but being in a six game losing streak and undergoing a coaching change is never a good thing. In the month of November (as of Nov. 26) the Glens had managed only two wins along with six losses and an overtime loss. The team has a solid offensive core, but quite clearly have difficulty keeping the puck out of the net. You can’t allow over five goals per game against and maintain a team save percentage of .872 and expect to win more than you lose. Unfortunately, when a team is losing, it is often the coach who pays the price and that is what happened in Alexandria. Head coach Mathieu Pilon and assistant coach Marc Rosseau were relieved of their duties. Dominic Decoeur has assumed the interim coaching responsibilities.
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Morrisburg Lions
Well, the Morrisburg Lions doubled their win count over the last month, but the problem is they only had one to build on. With five points in twenty games, there can be no arguing that it appears to be a long road to travel before South Dundas’s favourite team can manage to get out of the basement. I hate to sound like a broken record, but once again, it is team defense that is causing the most noticeable problem for the Lions. Approaching the six goal against per game mark, particularly on an offensively challenged team just doesn’t work. You have to sympathize with the Lion’s fans, who live and die with their team. Things will change; they have to, but it is probably too late to make a difference this season. By Richard Waldroff
Well what a pair of subjects, do you think they are related? A few months back I talked about changing the seasons of the game to allow players who have interest in other activities, not necessarily other sports, or who may wish to enjoy a shorter season of our beloved hockey the ability to do both. As I converse with the hockey decision makers I discover more and more of them have no strong guidelines for how recruitment should be driven, and least of all who should be the driver. Well, if any of you have noticed lately how Tennis is using PSA’s (public service announcements) in a subtle way to bring their sport to your attention. Simply they say, “Not everyone likes hockey.” These are an excellent attention-getter and hockey folks should be paying attention and doing something similar. Instead they focus on their own selfish attitude that “this is what we offer, take or leave it.” The mother ship for Hockey in Canada is “Hockey Canada” with millions of dollars at its disposal for what should be their true goal, finding and promoting innovative ways to draw players to the game. Instead their only focus seems to be winning “Gold Medals”. Well, don’t let me be the first to tell you if you don’t promote and help attract players you will have no one to win the “GOLD” for you. I hear from Hockey Canada that we need to reach into the communities of new Canadians, and that this is what the goal should be. I agree making these people feel at home here is an excellent idea, but they are not the only communities in this country who need attention. If we all take a couple of minutes to think about it, we will discover that there are children within a few houses of our own who don’t take part. If every active employee and volunteer of Hockey Canada and it associates reached out to one child who is not playing our game, just imagine the hundreds we could sign up. Keep your stick below your waist Next month: retention.
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Local Endurance Riders Headed South for Team Canada By Jentry van Baal
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he snowbirds won’t be the only ones headed south this winter. Dessia Miller of Berwick, will be hitting the road this month for Morriston, Florida, where she will be representing Team Canada East in the North American Endurance Team Challenge (NAETC) on December 13th. The 160km FEI (Federation Equestre Internationale) 3* endurance race event will host riders from all over the United States, Canada, and Mexico, including some of the top in the sport, and is often used as preparation and qualification for higher events such as the World Equestrian Games. Although 15 Canadians will be competing overall (12 representing Team Canada East, three representing Team Canada West), they will be divided into four teams of three to four riders, with the best three times combined for the final placings. Horse and rider combinations will have 18 hours to complete the cross-country trek, where they may encounter various natural obstacles and technical footings, such as hills, forest trails, fields, and roads. Included in rider’s times are mandatory holding checkpoints, which range anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes, and include veterinary exams and designated rest breaks, ensuring the horses are physically fit for the remainder of the event. Having bred, trained and competed
her own horses, Miller will be bringing along her 10 year-old Arabian stallion Cognac Amberfyre, along with her nine year-old Arabian mare Amber Kiera, who will be ridden by fellow Team Canada member, 17 year old Stephanie McLeod of Oka, Quebec. Also joining Miller and McLeod as part of Team Canada East are locals Monica Grundmann of Bainsville, Chesterville’s Lee Hutton and Kim Woolley of Finch, along with Bob Gielen, Emma Webb, Nancy Zukewich, Michelle Watling, Wendy Benns, Wendy MacCoubrey and Yvette Vinton, as well as nearly 45 crew members, whom Miller described as “unsung heroes” to the sport. Despite often being forgotten among other sports, Endurance Riding is the largest growing equine sport worldwide, being only second to Show Jumping, and is quickly gaining popularity locally as well. Aside from competing and running Amberlea Equestrian Services, Miller is also president of the Seaway Valley Arabian Horse Association (SVAHA) which hosts two events each year in the Finch/Berwick region, from novice entry level, up to the FEI 3*level. “We started with 20-30 competitors coming for a one day event, now it’s around 60-70 over the two days,” Miller explained. As she also noted, one of the biggest challenges to the competitive endurance riding sport is the “endurance driving” and finding events to qualify at. “When there is
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an event in the area, you have riders come from all over,” she added. With events few and far between, the SVAHA rides not only attract locals, but international competitors as well to qualify their horses for the larger events. “It’s the only sport where novice beginner riders, on the same day, at the same event and facility, compete next to some of the best in the world,” Miller added. “Even though they’re all competing at different levels, everyone is treated equally, there’s no judgment, and we’re all very approachable and willing to share.” With no particular dress codes either, riders are able to ride in whichever attire and tack they prefer, with comfort and fit for both horse and
rider being of highest importance. “It’s a great sport to get into,” Miller stated. “Everyone is welcome and we’re always looking for riders.”
Berwick’s Dessia Miller and her Arabian stallion will be representing Canada at the North American Endurance Team Challenge in Florida, December 13th, pictured here at the Stormont CEI2* on Sept 1st.
Sports Energy presents Sports Panel In this issue we asked our panelists about their Olympic interests, since the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia are fast approaching. As Canadians, it goes almost without saying that one of the greatest attractions will be the men’s and women’s ice hockey. Beyond those events, what will you be most interested in? Is there a sport or two that you have a genuine interest in, or is it more a case that since the Winter Olympics only come around every four years, you will find some time to keep track of just about anything? Terry Tinkess
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I will certainly be following both the men and women as they battle for supremacy in ice hockey but beyond that I think my interest will primarily focused on the individual athletes and coaches rather than on specific sports. There are so many stories that go far beyond the results and I think it is these personal struggles and the decision to do what is right, that make the games captivating. I’ll never forget the 2008 Winter Olympics in Turin when Norwegian ski coach Bjornar Haakensmoen handed Canadian Sara Renner a replacement for her broken ski pole. This unselfish gesture helped Renner, along with teammate Beckie Scott to win Olympic silver in the team sprint while it ultimately cost his country a medal as Norway slipped to fourth place. In the true spirit of sport, everyone is a winner, and I’m forever a fan.
The Winter Olympics, with only about one third as many sports as the summer games will be easier to follow. I will definitely be watching hockey, and beyond that I will probably take my chances on whatever event is being televised during the time that I have available. These Olympics will be very well marketed and will have many different ways to hold our interest. It will be a learning experience, with plenty of information on everything pertaining to the games. I can see myself getting interested in and following a few sports at Sochi, that I had very little previous knowledge of.
The sports that always interest me during the Olympics are bobsleigh, luge, downhill skiing, speed skating and biatholon. For the last few years, I have also developed an interest in the aerial and mogul skiing. I don’t follow these sports as closely in non-Olympic years, however, I do keep track of the results and watch them if they happen to be on. I think for some of these sports the Olympics is their true showcase, even if they have annual world championships, and what is compelling to me is that for four years these athletes prepare and train for this one event and the human reaction to that success or failure on that day is emotional and unscripted.
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becomes so strong is an absolutely incredible feeling,” Gravelle noted. “Having best friends when you ride makes it that much better! Horses and best friends, what more can you ask for?”
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o one knows the result of hard work and dedication better than 14-year-old Cameron Gravelle of Martintown. After a stellar season competing in the Children’s Hunter Division on the Quebec “A” Circuit, Gravelle and her partner, Camera Shy (Kodak), finished second overall, securing one of two qualifying positions for her division at the prestigious Royal Agricultural Winter Fair held November 1st through 10th in Toronto.
Having only shown for four years, the young rider already has notable accomplishments for her resume, including a gold medal win at last year’s provincial championships, Les Jeux Equestre du Quebec after another successful season aboard large pony, Malibu. The future certainly looks bright!
Saving the best for last, Gravelle competed in four classes on the final Sunday of the ten-day event. Despite being in her debut year at the Royal, Gravelle held her own, bringing home a third and sixth place finish, competing in a field of 19 of the nation’s top riders. “I was, and still am extremely proud and happy with my results,” Gravelle, a Grade 9 student at CharLan District High School explained. “For my first year on a horse (having previously competed with ponies), and my first year to the Royal, it was an incredible experience and challenge, the ribbons were just a bonus!” With the summer just past being the most intense yet, Gravelle took the pressure like a seasoned pro. “We did 10 shows (to qualify). It was so nail-biting and the competition was so stiff,” said Gravelle in explaining how she accumulated qualifying points at each competition, ranging from St. Lazare to Bromont and area. “We needed to do every one, it was all or nothing! I had to be on my game every time.” With pressure often comes nerves, but it’s just another thing the young
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Blainville, Quebec was one of many stops for Cameron Gravelle and Camera Shy on their way to qualifying for the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in the Children’s Hunter Division. Photo Credit, Jennifer Hunt.
rider takes in stride. “I try my best to channel my nerves into my focus and my ride,” she explained. As for the Royal, “I was much, much less nervous than I thought I’d be! Everyone was so calm and it definitely helped me!” Although a first for Gravelle, Kodak, the experienced 16-year old gelding whom she leased for the year, has previously competed at the Royal in the Adult Amateur Owner 35 + division with owner Marike Dussault. As a loyal student of Williamstown’s Holly Hill Farms, Gravelle has been riding with coaches Robbie and Kate MacInytre since the age of five. Fueled by a love for horses, the challenge,
and best friends, she describes it as a second home. “I love horses and being able to be one with them, and sharing a bond with them that
As exciting as the ribbons and success may be, Gravelle stays modest, thankful for her horses, and the support from her coaches and family. It’s one thing to make your coaches proud, but “making my mom so proud was another great thing,” she notes. “It means the world to make her proud.” It has yet to be determined what Gravelle will be up to next season, however there is no doubt that the young rider has a bright future ahead of her.
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have been almost as valuable: he earned a great deal of respect.
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t has been a busy few months for Jorge Luis, and he has added a memory or two to the long list of successes he has shared in while helping to develop young boxers.
“Brian was 4-1 and 1, and the guy he fought was undefeated at 10 and 0. We watched tape of the guy and I thought there were things about Brian’s style that could give him trouble,” says Luis. “They didn’t know anything about Brian and they couldn’t find any film on him on the Internet, and that is exactly what happened.”
Top of the list right now was a chance to work with one of the boxers he trains during a fight at Madison Square Garden in New York City. “I was working with a fighter by the name of Brian Clookey,” says Luis. “He’s from Northern New York, (Chase Mills) and he’s a pro fighter and an ex marine. He was getting ready to fight on the same date as my son (Tony Luis) in Whitehall, New York. Then he was offered this fight at Madison Square Garden in New York City against this undefeated Russian (Isa Akberbayev, of Kazakhstan).”
Luis says that Clookey’s opponent ended up with more a fight than he expected, something that his own trainer acknowledged. “Brian was missing just a little bit of experience and a little bit of confidence,” says Luis. “He made a really good fight of it and made this guy work for every inch of it and he banged him up a little bit too.
Luis took a good look at the fight, and decided it looked like a good fight for Clookey. “He had a chance, on November 2 instead,” says Luis. and the payday was more than he had According to Luis, being a part of ever made before, not even close, so an event at Madison Square Garden we decided to go to New York City
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“After the fight, his trainer, Abel Sanchez, who at one time worked is a once in a lifetime opportunity. with Oscar De La Hoya, shook my “You go there and you know that hand and said “Thanks for the fight, so many great fights between so we really didn’t expect that.” many great fighters have taken place That for us was the highlight of there,” says Luis. “The first thing that New York. A small town trainer, struck me when we checked into the with a small town fighter from a little hotel, The Affinia Hotel, was that so club in eastern Ontario, and he told many great fighters had stayed there me they expected a couple rounds, before their fights, and it is right next but that we really made him work. door to the Pennsylvania, which is Jorge Luis isn’t the only member of where Muhammad Ali stayed for his the Luis family to have been feeling fights. the golden light of success lately “We were right across the street either. Tony, his son got his boxing from Madison Square Garden, and career back on the winning track by you look across and that little stretch virtue of a unanimous decision over of Madison Square Garden is called Raphael Luna on November 9 at the Joe Louis Plaza. You know, you walk Whitehall Athletic Club in upstate in, and you think Ali and Joe Frazier New York. shook this place, Joe Louis shook “I would have liked to have seen this place, Sugar Ray Robinson, all him stop this guy, be the first guy to the great fighters, they fought there. stop this guy Luna, but he proved to Even just to have fought at Madison be a tough guy, a really tough guy. Square Garden was a feat unto itself. “There are a few things we need You could really feel it. You could to continue to work on, but he’s feel the history there. certainly on the right track.” “I guess for a hockey player, Meanwhile things are progressing it would be like playing for the Montreal Canadiens in the forum. at Champs East Side gym and Jorge All those ghosts that are there, all Luis is happy with the group of boxers those great players that skated up he is currently working with. It has the ice and now you’re there. It is an been somewhat a rebuilding year with some club members moving incredible feeling.” out of the area and others moving Clookey, unfortunately didn’t get on. Still, he’s optimistic about the the decision, but the fight went four year to come and just maybe, the rounds and what he gained might best is yet to come.
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n a cold, November day, more than 25 members and friends of the Friends of the Summerstown Trails (FOTST) attended the annual clean-up day organized to help make the wellused facility as safe as possible. This was the best turnout yet for the annual event, and given the amount of work that needed to be done, every pair of hands was welcomed. Because of the high winds experienced in our region in the past few weeks, there was an unusual amount of fallen branches and trees on all of the 20 plus kilometres of cross-country ski and snowshoe trails. In addition to clearing branches and trees, the volunteers also did regular maintenance work on the trails, in the form of cutting back the small branches and vegetation that grows back every year. Special attention is taken in trimming back the “eye catchers” in order to make the trails safe to enjoy.
Many hands make for light work and that was the case as the Friends of the Summerstown Trails (FOTST) Submitted photo. held their annual clean-up day recently.
with a stated mandate to maintain and develop green, recreational trails for healthy outdoor activities in the Summerstown Forest. In recent years, an impressive The Friends of the Summerstown amount of progress has been Trails (FOTST) is incorporated as a made as trails have been improved non-profit group run by volunteers and expanded, new grooming All participants were in an upbeat mood, especially when a few snowflakes started falling during the morning activity.
MURPHY’S SPORTS LAW By David Murphy
The Cornwall Sports Hall of Fame is looking for your input ( n o m i nations) for potential inductees for the Class of 2014. Nominations will be accepted until Friday, February 28thwith the inductees announced in early April.
The Class of 2012 included Ray Armstrong, Gerry Bruyere, Frank Chartrand, Marc Dupuis, Wayne Froats, Merton “Bud” Hanson, Donald Roy “Twig” McElhone, Harold Murphy, John Parisien, Maureen Pinkos, Steve McGillis, and Claude Regnier. In all, eight different sports were recognized.
The dinner is scheduled for Saturday, August 16th at the Civic Complex. Tickets will be available once the Class of 2014 The Cornwall Sports Hall is announced. of Fame has over 300 local athletes, builders, promoters and Nominations can be forwarded to coaches enshrined and has been Selection Committee Chairman doing so since 1968. As a proud Thom Racine (thom_racine@ member of the CSHOF Board hotmail.com) and yours truly of Directors, it never ceases to (dmurphy10@cogeco.ca). amaze me the talent level in all I’m really looking forward to yet sports that are home grown. another great list of inductees!
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Ice-Making Is Family Tradition For Bruyere Family By Morley Seaver
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s a youngster, David Bruyere recalls going to the Bob Turner Centre to watch his father drive the zamboni. Often he would be invited to come aboard for a ride. “I felt like I was the coolest kid in the rink,” he says. When he was old enough, he got enlisted to help remove the snow from the machine at the end of a flood. “Back then, it was an old-style zamboni,” he says. “The newer types, after you get off the ice, the bucket dumps. The ones that that he drove a long ago, they didn’t dump. You had to climb in the bucket and melt the snow out with a hose into a drain. So when I went to visit him, that was my job. I’d hose it down until there was nothing left and then away we’d go for the next flood.” Mike Bruyere started working as an icemaker in 1974 at all the city arenas but his main area of operation was at the Bob Turner. He says that there’s a lot more to the job than just driving the machine around the rink. “There’s a big difference between being a driver and an ice-maker,” he says. “I can teach someone to drive the zamboni within one or two shifts and they’ll be a very good driver. But being an icemaker is a whole different ball game. I’d say to new people, ‘don’t be too hard on yourself. It could take you months, even a couple of years before you can actually call yourself an ice-maker.’ If you can drive a car, you can drive a zamboni. “But to be an ice-maker means being able to read the conditions of the ice and the people that are using it. There’s a big difference between doing a flood where the people that were just on the ice were 8 and 10 year-olds compared to adults. So you have to provide the same kind of ice to both groups. Then you have the temperature considerations and outdoor conditions. That’s all factored in.”
Anyone can learn to drive a zamboni, but it takes a special person to become an ice maker. The Bruyere Submitted photo. family can claim two of them.
For someone who takes such pride in his skills, it was rewarding for Mike who’s now retired, when David decided to follow in his footsteps and become an icemaker. “It was a proud moment,” he says. “Actually I trained him to do the ice at the Bob Turner. He got some training over at the Civic Complex because that’s where he was kind of stationed at the beginning. He would come in when he wasn’t working and I would teach him to be an ice-maker.” David is actually the fourth generation of the family to work for the city. His great-grandfather Amos Wilsher was a supervisor in the water department and his grandfather was Earl Landry, former police chief. David who works mostly out of the Benson Centre agrees with his father that there’s much more to the job
than meets the eye. He learned how to deal with a lot of the challenges by working at the Si Miller arena. “There were always lots of challenges there,” he remembers. “Mostly with the weather. We’d be trying to keep ice at certain temperatures because if it got too cold in there it would affect the ice. It would be too choppy and we’d have to turn the heaters on to soften it a little bit. And vice versa, if it were too hot outside, even during the winter, if the sun was out all day heating on the roof, it would affect the ice at night. And it could get too hot and water wouldn’t freeze on the ice. If it reached a certain temperature it would be too soft and you’d have a poor quality of ice. “We used to call it an outdoor rink with a roof on it. If it was raining outside, it was raining inside. There
were so many cracks and holes in that building. So there were lots of tricks to keep everything going. And the floor underneath was not the most level so we had to be careful like shaving more in certain spots and less in other spots. So going from there to the Benson Centre is a nice treat. It’s a beautiful place to work and the ice is really good. Going from one of the oldest arenas in Canada to one of the nicest in Ontario at least, is pretty nice.” When asked if David can see his kids carrying on the family tradition, he says he doesn’t know but they have been exposed to it. “I’ve taken them for rides. They’ve helped dump the snow. Mind you, their job is a lot easier than my job was back then,” he laughs. “Now you just push a lever.”
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n today’s calorie-counting culture, we find ourselves focusing entirely on protein, fat, and carbohydrate intake because these macronutrients affect our external appearance the most, however, we completely undervalue the importance of harmony and balance within the body’s subsystems. Today, we’ll be speaking about the importance of maintaining adequate acid-base balance within the body and the detrimental outcomes that may occur if we neglect to address it.
Let’s talk acids
Any foods we consume fall into one of three distinct categories: acid forming, base forming, or neutral. Acidic and basic substances possess opposing characteristics. When they combine their respective properties cancel each other out. If hot and cold are blended, their respective properties cancel each other out, and the result is a temperature that is neither hot nor cold but warm. Without addressing the specific chemistry of acid-base balance, which is outside the scope of this article, we know that a standard North American diet would be primarily composed of acidifying elements (i.e. sugars, animal fats, whole & refined
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How do we deal with the acid overload?
Our body primarily excretes acids via the kidneys, liver, lungs, and skin. Our #1 excretory organ, the kidneys, can only remove a fixed amount of acidic contents per day, henceforth, we are limited in our ability to buffer acidic compounds. Knowing this, the simplest way to the make our bodies more basic, thereby less acidic, is to consume more foods that are basic producing, engage in regular
physical activity, and chiropractic care. Table 1 demonstrates a list of common basic and acidic producing foods commonly consumed in the North American diet. A healthy balanced diet consists of 60% basic-forming foods and no more than 40% acid-forming foods. Base-forming foods are usually… fruits, green vegetables, peas, beans, lentils, spices, herbs, seeds, and nuts. Acid-forming foods are usually… meats, fish, poultry, eggs, grains, and legumes.
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Presents...Cornwall Royals Edition Then and Now...Gary Herrington
returned home to Cornwall and worked for Domtar for several years before returning to school where he got his diploma in business. He then went to work for Coca-Cola. Today he works “in the retirement home business.”
By Morley Seaver
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ary Herrington modestly says he doesn’t remember his stats from his playing days with the Royals but the left winger had a solid two years in 1968-69 and 69-70. In fact, in 52 games in his second year, Herrington scored 24 goals and added 16 assists for 40 points.
His love of hockey was passed onto his two sons, Patrick and Jamie. Pat played minor right up to midget and Jamie went to play for the Colts. From there he ended up with a hockey scholarship and played eight years of minor-pro. Today he works for the Nashville Predators running a junior hockey program.
“I don’t think any of those were deserved,” he deadpans when reminded he also drew 111 minutes in penalties. “They weren’t fighting penalties. They were probably all for boarding or high sticking or something like that.” Herrington played with Cornwall in their last year in the Metro League in Quebec and also with their first in the Quebec League. He is in the record books as scoring the very first Royals goal in the QMJHL in a game against Drummondville. He remembers both leagues as being rough places to play. “Yeah, both the Metro and the Quebec league were tough to play in,” he says. “A lot of the skaters in Quebec were very quick but it was a tough league too. St Jerome was a tough rink to play in. Three Rivers, Sorel of course, and Verdun. Quebec City in those days had Guy Lafleur playing for them so they had a powerhouse.” Herrington says that playing for the Royals was a bit easier because he had grown up in Cornwall and come through the minor hockey system. Playing with good competition and familiar faces meant the jump to Junior “A” was smooth. “I played right up to Junior “B” so it was not much of a transition to Junior “A”,” he remembers. “We had a very strong Junior “B” league in Cornwall so it was just a natural progression.” Playing with his friends helped, guys like George Rodney, Bill
Markell, Bill McNally and Mike Ruest. “I played minor hockey with most of them,” he says. “I’m still good friends with them today. We went on to play a lot of old-timers hockey and I played for the Cornwall Hubs for years.” Following his last year with the Royals, Herrington got a try-out in the NHL. “I got drafted by Los Angeles, same as Billy Smith,” he says. “He went to the pro camp out in LA and I went to the rookie camp in Kamloops but I didn’t make the team. I got sent
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Like a lot of ex-players, the part he remembers most about his days with the Royals is the interaction with other players. “I enjoyed the camaraderie with the local guys that I grew up with and played hockey with,” he says. “There were a lot of really good guys that came out of Cornwall that could have played pro and didn’t. We had guys like Bob Currier who was the first over-all pick by the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round, over Bobby Clarke. Also the first year in the Quebec league, we had Billy Smith as our goalie. He was pretty emotional. If anybody knocked him around the net, he would drop his gloves and go at it. I think that year he was the second most penalized player on the team.” Most of all, a lot of memories come from playing at the Water Street Arena. “It was great,” he says. “The old Water Street Arena was a terrific atmosphere to play in. The fans were right on top of you. I had two younger brothers who followed me quite close when I played junior.” He laughs before continuing, “And my mother followed the Royals back in those days and she was probably my worst critic. But it was a great time.”
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Parents, Players Enjoy Pace of CGHA Tyke Program By Marc Benoit
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ow a few months into the season, the Cornwall Girls Hockey Association (CGHA) has seen incredible improvement from its Tyke players, who range in age from three to six. Angela Perkins-Bellefeuille, the team’s convener, is amazed to see how well the players aged three to five, are skating. “We have two groups this year. The first group is three to five year olds, and in September they weren’t able to stand up on the ice. Now they’re all standing up on their own.” Perkins-Bellefeuille further emphasized the improvement seen in the next age group. “They’re all pretty strong skaters, so they’ve already reached a bunch of milestones that we’ve never seen before,” says
Perkins-Bellefeuille. The Tyke girls have proven rather capable in terms of on-ice ability, “Usually it’s after Christmas that we put pucks on the ice, and start doing games and stuff, but we’ve already begun that.” Stephanie Gibson and her daughter, Ally, began with the CGHA this year. “When Ally started skating last year she seemed to really take a shine to it, so I asked her about playing hockey and she was really interested,” says Gibson. So far, the Gibson family is pleased with the organization. “We’re loving it, I couldn’t be happier with the program.” The new hockey parent also went on to praise the CGHA’s coaching abilities. “Rod and Pat McLeod have so much experience, but they also have so much patience with these little girls. It’s actually neat
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to see, there’s about 25 girls out on the ice and as soon as Rod starts to speak, all the girls start to listen.” The highlight for the 2013-2014
Tyke division of the CGHA seems to have been the All-Star game. PerkinsBellefeuille explained how All-Star games work for Tyke girl’s hockey. “They basically go on the ice and we let them see what they can do with a puck. Their names get called over music, and they get trophies. It’s always a lot of fun, everyone comes out. It’s kind of like the NHL!” Gibson also expressed how much of a great time the event was for her daughter. “Their names were skated out on to the ice and there was a big sort of fan-fare.” There is a great eagerness for what’s in store for Ally’s future in hockey with the CGHA. “I’m excited to have a child who’s interested in hockey and I’m excited for her to develop the skills and become a good skater and I hope she develops a love for the game.”
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SLC Sharks Are Taking A Bite Out Of The Competition t’s just the beginning of the season and the Sharks are already sinking their teeth in, hungry for another shot at the Challenge Cup. Jacquie Cartwright, the athletics and student life officer at the college says both the men’s and women’s teams are setting their sights high this year. “We have high expectations for both teams and we are notorious within the Ontario College Athletic Association (OCAA) for being a very strong hockey school for both men’s and women’s.” In 2011 the men’s Sharks team took home the Challenge Cup, beating out schools from all over Ontario. It wasn’t until 2012 that the Ontario College Committee on Campus Recreation (OCCCR) added a women’s Challenge Cup. “Sean (Boulerice) and Mike (Pettinella) are very passionate about our men’s and women’s hockey teams,” said Cartwright, “so it was kind of our school that stepped up to the plate at the OCAA meetings last year and said their needs to be a women’s if there is going to be a men’s.” Fittingly,
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.......................................................................... $7,995 2005 Dodge Ram 1500 Lamari Stk. 130304, Grey, buckets, air, PW, PSeat, PDL, cruise, tilt, tint, air bag, PS, PB, ABS, rims, tow, PM, leather, iWipe, AM/FM/CD, 175,988 kms .................................. $12,900 2005 Dodge SX2.0 Sport Stk. 130803, Burnt Orange, buckets, air, PW, PDL, cruise, tilt, Pt, tint, air bag, PS, PB, rims, PM, iWipe, AM/FM/CD, 53,710 kms .............................................................. $5,995 2005 Ford Five Hundred SE Stk. 130409A, Green, air, PW, PSeat, PDL, cruise, tilt, PT, tint, air bag, PS, PB, ABS, Rims, PM, iWipe, AM/FM/CD, 225,466 kms .............................................................. $3,900 2005 GMC Sierra 1500 SLE Stk. 130703, Black, Air, PW, PDL, cruise, tilt, tint, air bag, PS, PB, ABS, Rims, PM, iWipe, AM/FM/CD, 152,567 kms .............................................................................. $11,990 2005 GMC Sierra 2500HD SL Stk. 130902, Blue, air, PDL, cruise, tilt, tint, air bag, PS, PB, iWipe, AM/FM/CD, 187,455 kms .................................................................................................................. $10,980 2005 Volkswagen Jetta GLS Stk. 130808, Taupe, buckets, air, PW, PDL, cruise, tilt, PT, tint, air bag, PS, PB, PM, iWipe, AM/FM/CD, 148,994 kms................................................................................. $6,995 2004 Chevrolet Avalanche 1500 Stk. 130609, Taupe, 4WD gas, 170,863 kms.............................................................................................................. $10,900 2004 Chrysler Sebring Convertible LX Stk. 130704, Silver, 4WD gas, 115,751 kms .................................................................................................. $8,995 2004 Dodge Ram 1500 ST Stk. 130811A, Red, 207,127 kms 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As I Remember...
The use of the lure to catch fish goes back hundreds of years. The North American natives used fishing lures as decoys. In winter, they would drop the lure through a hole in the ice, and when a large fish came by, they speared it. A fishing lure decoy is a very rare find today.
By Tom Fagan
There were thousands of lure companies in North America, and in time most of them were bought up by the larger companies.
Some of the better known companies were the Paw Paw Company, The Creek Chub Company, The Heddon Company, The South Bend Company, The Remington Arms Company, The Phlayes and Shakespeare Company.
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he subject of antique lures is certainly something worth talking about. There have been many fishing stories printed throughout the years, but today, I have decided to write a short history of the fishing tackle companies and some of their lures. Although collectors of antique fishing equipment collect anything antique, lures are the most sought after. The reason is that rods and reels have stood the test of time much better than the fishing lures of old. Lures get lost, caught on the river bottom, come off lines etc. They are much rarer.
made of wood with glass eyes with intricate painting patterns on the bodies. Each company had its own way of connecting the hooks to the wooden body of the lure, these were called hook hangers or harnesses. They were patented and guarded from those The classic fishing lure was who tried to copy them.
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Some lures I have in my collection today include a Bars Oreno, the pickies minnow, the wooden minnow, the spook, the Johnson silver minnow and the twitter bug, paw paw and murical minnow. I have lures from about fifteen different companies in my collection, all bring back a fond memory of time spent on the beautiful St. Lawrence River. I hope you enjoyed my short history of lures.
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The Men and Women in the Stands: Ushers a Part of the Team Too By Marc Benoit
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However that event paled in comparison to Emond’s most memorable experience. “When the Royals won the Memorial cup, I was amazed to see that, and I was a part of it,” he says proudly.
t takes more than a team of players to make a hockey club a success. That is why Rene Emond has been an usher with various Cornwall hockey teams for over forty years. In that time, he’s been a part of a game that has brought communities together, and which sometimes brings the Memorial Cup home too. His motivation goes beyond just love for hockey.
And, with a new generation of young hockey fans, Emond offers some advice for people trying to find their role in the community. “If you wanted to be in law enforcement, this is the best way to start. We had a few students from St. Lawrence College coming here as part of their program, and it did help. They made up their mind if that’s what they want to get into.”
“I see kids growing up, they leave here and go on to university, and later on they come back and they’re like family,” says Emond. Always happy to reminisce about the old days, he mentions Doug Gilmour as one of many friends he still bumps into. “They all come back and I see them, we have a good time.” Emond became more involved with the sport over time, before he found himself volunteering in more sports than just hockey. “I started from watching one game, I think it was the Montreal Maroons here playing. That was in…the early 50s?” This was when Emond was asked if he could help out around the arena, to make sure fans behaved themselves, at least to some degree. “Everything was okay, nothing on the ice, that kind of thing,” says Emond. “That’s how I got started, then I got more involved and more involved.” The long-time usher also had a few things to say about the future of the
same thing!”
sport. Emond expressed his concern seen lots of excitement from the with the ferocity that some games are crowds. Emond recounted some of played with, today. his favourite experiences dealing “Hockey is always going to be here, with rowdy sports fans.
It’s not just about making sure people behave themselves though. The ushers who volunteer countless hours are in many ways the face of the team. Whether it is by helping someone find their seat, or even just by chatting with the regulars who never miss a game, the usher helps determine what impression the fan leaves the rink with. Teams win and teams lose, but going home feeling like you’re part of something is worth the price of admission.
Hockey would be much less than providing it doesn’t get any rougher “One time I saw Guy Leclerc it is without the fans, which is why than it is now,” he says. “There were playing in Cornwall and he was not Emond wishes that more people fights in those days, but it’s not like playing as good as he should have. should attend Cornwall’s home it is now… It’s getting rougher and The fans that were here were pretty games. “When you’re coming to there is no need for it.” rowdy, and that kind of bothered him watch a game you’re also helping a Over the years, the ushers have a lot. If you asked him, he’d say the player make it to a higher level.”
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No Skates Required: Effort to Revive Broomball in Cornwall H Submitted article
Local broomball player and organizer Eric MacDonald, left, and Leisure Arts Coordinator Lorne Taillon are trying to gauge interest in the return of broomball Submitted photo. to Cornwall.
ockey isn’t the only sport that can be played at local arenas in the winter months and if a meeting held on Monday, November 25th at the Benson Centre is a success, then the return of broomball to Cornwall will be one step closer to reality
“The interest in the sport is there, it’s just a case of pulling it all together,” said MacDonald, who currently plays with the Maxville Predators.
Local organizers are trying to begin laying the groundwork for the development of an adult broomball league next season. The meeting was arranged to attract all interested players, coaches and organizers (male and female) in an effort to gauge interest.
The idea is to form an adult league featuring several different divisions, with games being played out of the Benson Centre. To support the revival of the sport in Cornwall, the City’s Recreation Department is planning to roll out a six-week ‘Introduction to Broomball’ program for children in late winter or early spring.
Broomball player and chief organizer Eric MacDonald said he is looking to connect with potential organizers who would be willing to assist with forming teams and building a league schedule.
“Broomball is an exciting and affordable sport to get involved in, and we’re looking forward to adding it to the list of sports that are played at the Benson Centre,” said Lorne Taillon, Leisure Arts Coordinator. The sport of broomball received some attention in Cornwall earlier this year when the Benson Centre played host to the Eastern Ontario Regional Broomball Championships in February as well as the 2013 Canadian Juvenile Broomball Championships in April.
Broomball has a long history in Cornwall. In the 1980s, for example, the Cornwall Regional Broomball Association operated an adult league with numerous teams competing in the Elite, Intermediate and Junior divisions. In addition to that, a separate industrial league was in existence while a third league was in operation in nearby Long Sault. The sport continues to enjoy a strong foothold in many parts of Eastern Ontario, including a number of communities in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. At present, there is a group of broomball players who gather informally on Friday nights at the Benson Centre to play. Through the meeting, MacDonald is hoping to take that to the next level. “We’re asking everyone who is interested to come out and help us get the ball rolling,” he added. Those who are interested but unable to attend the meeting can contact Eric MacDonald at 613 936 2299 for additional information.
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Continued from page 15 Pettinella has been coaching both Sharks hockey teams for nine seasons now, while Boulerice has been coaching the men’s for nine seasons and the women’s for four seasons. “During practice most of the focus is on trying to gel with the lines that we are going to be playing with,” says Kevin Veilleux of the men’s team. “For most of the players on the team this is our first
time playing together. I think the team is really well structured and we have really strong lines.” The men’s team plays next at the St. Lawrence College Brockville Hockey Invitational January 9 and 19, 2014, while the women are set to face off again January 24th at Fleming College Hockey Invitational.
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River Kings Reach the .500 Mark Sports Energy Staff
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he Cornwall River Kings had a rough start to the season that almost wasn’t, but back-to-back wins have allowed them to claw themselves back to the .500 mark with a record of five wins, five losses and two overtime losses. On Friday, November 22, the Kings made the short trip to Valleyfield and came away with a 5-4 shoot-out win. Pierre-Luc Faubert, Sasha Pokulok with two goals and Nicolas Corbeil with two as well, including the shootout winner handled the scoring for the River Kings. On Saturday, November 23, the team, still riding the victory from the previous evening, faced-off against the Isothermic de Thetford Mines and
came away with a convincing 6-1win. Ryan Jardine and Alex Bourret led the way with two goals each while Doug Andress and Corbeil added singles. Loic Lacasse stopped all but one of the 39 shots he faced in picking up the win. Now that the team is back on even footing their goal, obviously is to see just how high they can climb. After twelve games they are in sixth spot, but only six points out of first place and with two games in hand. The best hockey of the season, it seems, has yet to be played. Being back in their regular Saturday at 7:30 p.m. time slot for home games can’t hurt either. For more information on the Cornwall River Kings and their Francis Lessard of the River Kings lands a punch on Curtis Tidball of upcoming games, visit their web site the Thetford-Mines Isothermic. Photo by Allison Papineau. at cornwall-riverkings.com.
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he Golf Association of Ontario (GAO) has announced four new inductees into the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame. Headlining the list was Canadian Junior Golf Association (CJGA) founder & executive director, Earl Fritz. Founded in 1993 under the tutelage of Fritz, the CJGA has been a driving force in the development of the game of golf across Canada. Fritz’s passion for sport development was born out of his career as a competitive hockey player, where he gained an in-depth understanding of the intricacies of amateur sport in Canada. As he reached the twilight of his hockey career, his passion shifted to golf, where he was able to identify gaps in the junior golf development process and saw the need for a competitive tour for aspiring young players. Working from his basement, Fritz was determined to create a development program that focused on all aspects of the sport including camps, clinics, and competitive events for all ages that would allow young golfers to build
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The four new members will be inducted into the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame in a ceremony taking place on May 7, 2014 at Wooden Sticks Golf Club.
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Through its six-stage competitive development program that focuses on tournaments, clinics, international competitions, and mentoring programs with PGA Tour professionals, the CJGA introduces the game to juniors as young as five and offers competitive multi-day events for the more advanced golfer. The CJGA acts as a feeder system to provincial and national competitions, collegiate and university golf, as well as professional and recreational golf. For more information please visit www.cjga.com.
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ornwall, ON - For the second consecutive year, the St. Lawrence College-Kingston women’s and men’s soccer teams captured the Championship title at the SLC Tri-Campus Indoor Soccer Tournament. This year’s tournament was held at the beautiful indoor field at the Benson Centre in Cornwall on Sunday November 24th. In both Championship games, the Vikings played the SLC-Cornwall Sharks, also appearing in the Championship game for the second consecutive year. “We look forward to our TriCampus Tournaments every year, as the students love the inner College competition,” said tournament coordinator and, athletics & student
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In the women’s final game, the Vikings controlled the game for the majority of play, winning the game 4-1. After the game, Sydney Midwood (Kingston campus), and Sydney Gilligan (Cornwall campus) were both awarded the Golden Boot award for tying as point leaders for the tournament with three goals each. In the men’s final, the Vikings took full advantage of their extended Ontario Colleges Athletics Association (OCAA) regular season, as their fitness and speed were too much for the Sharks, as the Kingston campus went on to win the game 6-1. Viking, Anthony Assad led the men’s division with 6 goals, winning the Golden Boot award.
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Karate Komments: Self Defense, Part One By Jim Riddell, Seaway Karate While we believe that it is important for students to have the ability to defend themselves, common sense preventative actions are the first things By Jim Riddell, that we take a look at. Self-defense is all about Seaway Karate Club knowledge, awareness, avoidance, evasion, and survival. There is an old Chinese proverb that says “All battles should be won before they are fought.” In other words, that awareness, here is often a great deal of confusion about knowledge and planning will go a long way what self-defense actually is. The saying “an towards your personal safety. ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is There is no need to go through your day being very true when discussing this subject. At Seaway afraid –just be aware. Most of us read the local Karate we teach the different levels of self- papers, watch the news and/or listen to the radio defence from escaping holds, defending against every day. Make use of the local media to stay kicks and punches, to the use of pressure points informed on any break-ins, robberies, auto thefts, and dual-purpose implements such as kubatons, etc., happening in our community and educate flashlights, and walking canes. yourself on how to avoid becoming a victim. The
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The time and effort that Jennifer Suggars has put into running has really paid off, to the point, she says, that running is now easy.
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left and you just want to hang on. But (in this race) it was fun, and it was easy and I was happy. It didn’t feel like work. Everything seemed to be coming together for me. It was a really good race.”
teacher “encouraged” Suggars to also coach cross- country. “I was with a bunch of runners. I felt I had to get in shape. I couldn’t keep up with Brenda and she would say, ‘Just pretend you’re tethered to me and I’m pulling you up Cumberland Street back to school. That’s the way it started. Some days I didn’t feel like going and Brenda would say, “No, this is what we’re doing”. It was all peer pressure,” laughs Suggars.
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s a high school teacher, Jennifer Suggars has likely seen the negative side of peer pressure. As an athlete, she’s likely seen all the positives peer pressure can bring. “When I first started teaching at General Vanier, I realized that five or six of the staff had run marathons. It was crazy. They used to run the Mother’s Day 10k marathon in Ottawa, so I got roped into that.” Then Brenda Beaudette, a fellow
Suggars credits her son Mathew for her involvement in the Cornwall Multisport Club. When she accompanied him to a swimming session sponsored by the Lions Club’s summer multisport camp that she met with the people who would be the future founding members of the city club. They would turn out be yet another source of “positive” peer pressure. “On those cold, wet, dreary days when it’s absolutely miserable, you know that your friends are going to be out there so you just bundle up and get out there. So misery loves company,” admits Suggars. “It’s the dedication not only to the sport and the training; it’s also the dedication to your training partners. You don’t want to let them down.” Most runners have their favourites or highlights and Suggars is no
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different. Among her running highlights are what she calls The Big Races:
The New York City marathon also rates as “pretty cool.” Although she was still recuperating from a serious injury, the NYC event holds some particularly warm memories for Suggars. “I was there with my sister, my husband and Michelle, a friend from Cornwall. Because the race has three different start lines, they were all in different start places, and I was all by myself under the bridge. After about 7 kms all of the runners merge together. Then at about the 10 k point, I spotted Michelle. I ran up next to her and said, “Hey there, how’s it going?” Should have seen the look on her face! Out of 40,000 runners, and a million spectators, I was able to spot someone from Cornwall. That was pretty amazing.”
“Running the Boston (Marathon) was where I had my personal best time. It was pretty amazing. So was the run in Mississauga, to qualify for the Boston. It was the first time I had ever run where I felt that running was easy. I don’t know why. At the end While Jennifer Suggars is an avid of a marathon you always feel really runner, she also enjoys cycling. bad. It’s hard and you’ve got 5kms Submitted photo.
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“Back in the day,” as people who weren’t born at the time like to say, there was more than one game being played in area arenas and on the outdoor rinks. Hockey, of course was king, but broomball, there was a game that anyone could play and enjoy, and many did. One of them was Joe Deneault.
As he talks, you can sense the memories flooding back, but is it possible that there is one memory better than all the rest? There were, he says, two championships while with Paquette Glass, but there is one memory that tops even that.
Joe Deneault is one of many who look back fondly of chasing that frozen orange ball across the ice. “ I started playing broomball for the cotton mill when I worked there in 1958,” says Deneault. “ There were about six teams there when we first started. Mr. Seguin started it, and I fell into it from there. I played there for approximately three years.”
“I had a breakaway once,” says Deneault. “I forget what team I was playing, but you know the football player, Racine (Moe Racine)? He and Bernie (Racine) were defensemen on the other team, and I went through between them and they picked me up and held me up in the air and everyone started laughing. My feet were going, and I’m not a big man and they were big, so my feet were off the ground.
After leaving the cotton mill team, Deneault began playing in the Central Broomball League. It was a city league, and while Deneault can’t remember the other teams in the league, he’s sure of which one he played for: “I played for the Racine team and I played defense.” After the Central League, Deneault moved on to coach in the JOC Broomball league, and one season won the coach of the year award. He wasn’t done playing though; he found time to play on an old-timer’s team and from there a travelling team as well.
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how much the game meant to him. “I can’t remember all the years,” says Deneault, “but I loved every minute of it, believe me!”
Sometimes games were indoors, The years kind of run together sometimes outside on one of the sometimes, as they will for all many outdoor rinks that always of us, but there is no doubt in seemed to be well used. “When Deneault’s mind when he says I started there was the old arena on Water St.,” says Deneault, “and
It might have been exercise, and it certainly had a sense of competition to it, but it was more than that. “It was fun playing,” says Deneault. “We had good players and we made out pretty from there we played outside near good.” the back of Mr. Racine’s store. That’s where our rink was. When Deneault has heard the rumours I was at the cotton mill though, we that some local people are trying played outside at the college. to bring back broomball and he says he really hopes they are “From there we played at Bernie’s successful. “I’ll be going to see place (Bernie Racine). We played that for sure,” he says. “It will go pickup teams, and old-timers and good. It was good before and it travelling teams to Buckingham can be good again.” and all over. The best teams we
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