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Lions Club Sports Awards: Honour to Coaches, Athletes, and Volunteers Alike By Derrick Lorusso
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sports as a guest commentator on the TEAM 690 in Montreal. Tickets will be pre-sold and are available at Gordon Jewellers, 13 Second Street West, for $70 each.”
For those not familiar with the banquet or what is involved, Murphy explains. “The Lions Club Sports’ Awards Banquet is an annual event designed to recognize athletes (young and old), volunteers, and coaches in the local sports community. More than 50 awards are handed out representing all types of sports.” He adds, “The highlights of the evening include the naming of the RBC $1,000 Scholarship winner, the $500 Brody Family Bursary, the $250 Bill Bray Bursary, the Joe St. Denis award, as well as the Benson Friends of the Round Table (Lifetime Achievement), the Joe Assaly (top Junior), and Jacques Richard Trophy for top sports personality.”
avid Murphy, chairman of the Lions Club Sports’ Awards Banquet, is proud to announce the 52nd sports’ awards dinner, coming Wednesday, May 11th at The banquet originally began in the Best Western Parkway Inn & honour of Jacques Richard, local Conference Centre. Doors will athlete who tragically lost his open at six pm and dinner will be life due to a boating accident in served at seven pm. 1959. He was only 18 years old. “Our guest speaker will be “Richard was an amazing baseball comedian Joey Elias,” Murphy and softball player,” Murphy says. says. “Elias has a connection to “The first winner of the Jacques
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When a winner is announced Richard Award was Richard’s close friend Doug Carpenter who would at the banquet, he or she receives later go on to coach in the NHL.” a plaque to take home, while the Murphy has been with the Lions winner’s name is engraved on club for 13 years now, holding the main historical trophy. “The positions as MC and Chairman. He winner also has the honour of tells us what kind of organization claiming to be among the sporting goes on to create the banquet. “We elite in the annals of Cornwall’s have a banquet committee made rich sports history,” Murphy says. up of Lions Club members who “There are many Jacques Richard contact the various groups and winners who have ended up in the organizations who will send their Cornwall Sports Hall of Fame.” winners, from their respective sports, to us,” he says. “We also serve as the selection committee for the RBC High School Awards (18 awards given to local high school students from various sports) as well as selecting the bursary winners, the Benson Friends of the Round Table, the Joe Assaly, and Jacques Richards winners.” He also tells us how the nomination process works. “[We] ask anyone nominating an athlete to send us their ‘sports resume’ and our committee goes over the merits of the nominees for each award we choose.” And when it comes to picking a winner? “Achievement is a primary indicator of success in a nominee,” Murphy says. “We also consider the winner’s competition in their particular sport.”
When asked if there was any particular winner that stood out for him, in either hospitality, achievement in raising funds for charity, or even accomplishment in the field of sports, Murphy gives us an impressive list of people. “Past Jacques Richard winners include our Olympians Lori Dupuis and Melanie Banville, as well as National Champions Jenna Flannigan and Tony Luis, and Chad Kilger, who won after he helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Special Olympics.” Murphy would like to give a very personal thanks to the Lions Club and its members for their help in making this event special. “It has been my pleasure to work with the Lions Club members to highlight the talent that Cornwall has.”
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