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CORNWALL, Ontario - Cornwall City Council has decided to not move forward with a proposed motion to rename the Civic Complex to the Bob Turner Memorial Complex.

Councillor Claude McIntosh who originally put forward the motion to rename the Complex withdrew it at the Council Meeting on Monday, Feb. 27.

“Renaming the complex is a complicated procedure and I would like to avoid further discussion on it,” he said.

McIntosh instead proposed renaming the Aquatic Centre after Bob Turner. The discussion then shifted to the possibility of renaming the three ice pads at the Benson Centre after Bob Turner, Newsy Lalonde and Si Miller respectively.

Councillor Andre Rivette backed this idea, saying that the Civic Complex was not a a facility that was entirely devoted to recreational activities anyway and a site that was would be more fitting of Bob Turner’s name.

Councillor McIntosh asked the administration for a report by the April 2 meeting of Council on

the possibility of renaming the ice pads at the Benson Centre after Bob Turner, Si Miller and Newsy Lalonde.

Bob Turner was the first Recreation Director for the City of Cornwall. In the 1950s and 60s he faced down severe discrimination in the city before dying at the young age of 35 in 1962.

For years Bob Turner was honoured with the sports complex that bore his name on Fourth St. East across from the armoury, but that honour was taken away when the Bob Turner Memorial Arena was demolished a few years ago.

CORNWALL, Ontario - Skate Cornwall/ Patinage Cornwall would like to congratulate the following skaters that participated in the March 4, 2017 Skate Canada Standardized Test Day that was held at the Benson Centre. You have all worked very hard, keep up the great work Skate Cornwall/Patinage Cornwall!

Sarah Marleau: Junior Bronze Skills, Preliminary Program Alexa Ravary: Preliminary FreeSkate Program ~ Baby Blues Dance Anthony Macdonald: Star 1 FreeSkate Fiona Laplante: Sr. Bronze Dance Ten Fox Preliminary FreeSkate Program Angelina Roundpoint: Sr. Bronze Dances 14 Step, Rocker Bianca Caron: Jr. Silver Dance Keats

Alisha Winter: Jr. Silver Dance Rocker Makenzie Mitschke: Sr. Silver Dances Pas Doble, Starlight Tiana Caron: Sr. Silver Dances Starlight Blues Jenna David: Gold Dance Viennese Nadine Kamm-Ramirez: Gold Dance Argentine Picutred are: Standing left-to-right: Bianca Caron, Makenzie Mitschke, Sarah Marleau, Fiona Laplante, Nadine KammRamirez, Angelina Roundpoint, Tiana Caron.

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March’s Athlete of the Month is Thomas Ouderkirk. Thomas is a senior at St. Joe’s Catholic Secondary School and was the top scorer for his team at this year’s Bishop’s Cup. He lead his team to their sixth consecutive victory and broke the all-time scoring record for that competition. Way to go Thomas.

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The team also hosted their Inaugural Skills Competition at the Benson Centre this Tuesday, March 21 in which National’s players competed in on-ice events against a team made up of first responders. Events included Accuracy, Fastest Skater, Hardest Shot, a Passing Challenge, and a Shootout.

The event was free for fans with a donation and proceeds were split between Crohn’s and Colitis Canada and Cystic Fibrosis Canada, two charities with local ties.

“We have family and friends who are affected by these diseases and we wanted to acknowledge that and give back to causes that hit close to home” said McCarthy.

The team has been busy giving back to the community in an effort to meet fans and help those in need. Their philanthropic efforts extend to over twenty charities and organization in just a ten week span.

Tickets for Friday’s First Responders Night are $13 for adults, $10 for students, and $5 for children. The puck drops at 7:30pm at the Cornwall Civic Complex.

Dennis Ferguson, Instructor Brent Stang and Emma Houle of SD&G Taw Kwon Do were having fun at their March Break camp last week where they learned skills that would help them survive a zombie outbreak. On the day this photo was taken, they were learning how to move quietly in their environment.

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CORNWALL, Ontario - It’s a big week for the Cornwall Nationals as they continue to strive for gold off the ice, despite not making the playoffs in their inaugural year.

This Friday, March 24th, the team is honouring all local first responders including police officers, fire fighters, paramedics, and even tow truck drivers in an effort to raise money for the Champlain East branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association and their PTSD efforts.

“It’s really important that we use these events to bring awareness to organizations and programs in the community that need help and support” explained Nationals Marketing Manager Shannon Ferguson.

“Many first responders deal with PTSD, often in silence, so it was an obvious choice to give back to the CMHA when we were deciding

where our proceeds will go”.

The game against the Berlin River Drivers, one of the Nationals biggest rivals, will give all local first responders a chance to purchase discounted tickets and will showcase exciting ingame and intermission challenges related to their professions.

To raise money, the team will also be holding a silent auction throughout the evening, as well as raffles and a 50/50 draw. A jersey auction will cap off the evening, as fans in attendance will be able to bid on all players’ game-worn promotional jerseys designed to reflect first responders.

Nationals Marketing Director Kris McCarthy explained “The promotional jerseys will really bring the whole night together and show our first responders how much we really do appreciate the work they do”.

“It’s important that our fans know that our entire organization really cares about this community and especially those who keep us safe”

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Tryouts for our 2017 Celtics Rep Teams Tyke, Novice, PeeWee, Bantam and Midget will be taking place at the Benson Centre on the following dates:

Wednesday, April 12th Thursday, April 13th Wednesday, April 19th

Cornwall Senior Men’s Curling held the Gordon Jewellers from Jan. 30 to Feb. 24 2017. Twentyfour teams participated with the Desrosiers rink winning the playoffs.

Pictured are: second Jim Whaley lead Bob Humble, Senior Men’s president Gerry Paquette, skip Rene Desrosiers and third Tom Cleary.

• Team times and pad assignment to be announced soon.

Please note all players must be registered with CMLA in order to attend tryouts.

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overall (out of the playoffs). “The players have worked hard all season,” said MacInnis. “It should be noted that we have more local players than any other team in the CCHL.” Other CCHL award winners: • Grant Hebert – Cumberland Grads - MVP • Owen Grant – Carleton Place Canadians - Defenceman of the Year • Henry Johnson – Brockville Braves – Goaltender of the Year • Charles Levesque – Hawkesbury Hawks – Sportsmanship & Ability • Merrick Rippon – Ottawa Jr Senators – Rookie of the Year • Cameron Crotty – Brockville Braves – Top Prospect • Jason Clarke – Carleton Place Canadians – GM of the Year

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CORNWALL, Ontario - The Colts can boast about two CCHL season ending award winners.

Head Coach Ian MacInnis and forward Grant Cooper were honoured today.

MacInnis has been named CCHL Coach of the Year while Cooper was named Top Graduating Player. Cooper finished this season with career highs in goals, assists and points (26-41-67 in 55 games). Cooper will play for Clarkson University beginning this fall after a five year career with the Colts that included participating in the Fred Page Cup (2015) and being named Captain for Team Canada East at the World Jr A Challenge (2016).

For MacInnis, it’s the first time he’s been named CCHL Coach of the Year. The Colts finished this past season 2nd overall with a record of 41-14-4-3 (89 points) compared to 2015-16 when they finished 30-27-4-1 (65 points) and 9th

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The 11th annual Bishop’s Cup took place earlier this month on March 8. For the past five years, the St. Joe’s Panthers have held tightly onto the cup and the streak continued with the Panthers downing the Holy Trinity Falcons 8-3.

Most of the scoring came in the busy second period where Holy Trinity scored its three goals and the Panthers scored half of theirs. Seven goals in one period is a Bishop’s Cup record.

The top scorer was Thomas Ouderkirk who found the back of the net four times during the game, an all-time high for the Bishop’s Cup. Ouderkirk also became the all-time lead scorer in Bishop’s Cup history with five goals across his career playing in the annual game.

Throughout the history of the Bishop’s Cup, the Panthers have won the cup, and the bragging rights that go along with it, nine times to Holy Trinity’s two.

Bishop’s Cup organizer Thom Racine said that even though the history of the cup has been a little one-sided, the great thing about hockey is that anything can happen.

“When I started this game 11 years ago, I knew it may come to pass that one school has a few low years, when that happens, you hope against all odds that the game is viewed for what it is and that fans understand that in hockey, like life, anything can happen,” he said.

The game is more about hockey and bragging rights. The game is also a major fundraiser for the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

Through the years that the Bishop’s Cup has supported St. Vincent’s they have raised over $25, 000.

“The hockey game serves as the entertainment, but every student athlete and student body patron, alumni and hockey fan that attends, knows the significance of giving back to their community,” Racine said.

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annually from concessions and parking (the Petes got nothing from either). The city had been taking in around $1 million a year from both.

In Cornwall, there is no way the city could charge for parking at the civic complex on game night. And like it or not, the LumDome with its narrow seats and steep pitch, is not a comfortable hockey arena. And charging $25 for a playoff game? Forget it. The Royals once came under fire by a narrow-minded city’s parks and recreation committee for increasing playoff ticket prices by 50 cents. Two members of the committee suggested the team was gouging fans and “demanded” ticket prices be reduced.

HERE AND THERE Despite winning nine OHL titles, the Petes have but a single Memorial Cup victory - 1979. They lost to the Royals in 1980. A young Scotty Bowman was the Petes’ first coach.

In all, 248 former Petes have played in the NHL. ...

The hero of the Royals’ 1980 Memorial Cup overtime victory was defenceman Robert Savard. He scored the winner at 1:28. He picked up a third Memorial Cup ring the next season after being traded to Kitchener Rangers. Savard is retired from Ontario Hydro and lives in the Timmins area.

TICK OF THE SPORTS CLOCK On March 22, 1967, Cornwall Royals took a 2-0 stranglehold in the Central Junior Hockey League best-of-seven

Saints win EOSSA Basketball Championship The Upper Canada District School Board is proud to announce that the St. Lawrence Secondary School Saints won the EOSSAA Boys’ Senior A Basketball Championship.

“The Saints took the title for the second straight year by defeating the Carleton Place High School Bears 51-47 on Friday,” said an exuberant Coach Jamie Carr. The victory, before a home gym crowd, earned the senior Saints

their third straight trip to OFSAA next month.

Carr stressed the victory was a true team effort with six of the Saints each posting six or more points. Qasim Ali was named Player of the Game after draining 15 points to help the Saints to victory.

The OFSAA Boys’ A Basketball Championship will take place March 5-8 in Windsor.

The Saints celebrate their victory.

final with a come-from-behind 4-3 road win over Smiths Falls Bears. Jovan Marich’s goal at 14:33 of the second period was the game winner. Wayne Horne, who assisted on the game winner, scored a pair and Billy Markell notched one.

Defenceman Jack Smith drew assists on all four goals. Goaltender Harold Murphy, who faced 42 shots, stopped two breakaways in the third period to preserve the victory. Team director Larry “Red” Lascelle was banished from behind the Royals’ bench in the second period after trying to climb the boards in an attempt to “challenge” referee Norm Warner on a penalty against the Royals.

Also on March 22, 1967, Seaway Pilots outgunned Dalbec Sports 10-5 in a Cornwall Junior Hockey League playoff game. Bernie Carriere had three for the winners. Allan MacDonald, J.P. Carriere and Garry Tyrell added two apiece, while Garnet Pitts scored one. Jim Healey had three for the Dalbec. Bob Kennedy added two. ...

Cornwall Lions Club Sports Award Dinner head table lineup included swimmer Dick Pound, former CFL commissioner Keith Davey, Ottawa Rough Riders’ running back Ronnie Stewart and Marvin Bass, coach/general manager of Montreal Beavers of the Continental Football League.

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A story out of Toronto suggests that Mississauga Steelheads of the Ontario Hockey League are looking for a new home.

If true, you can bet Cornwall will be back on the OHL radar screen.

That raises the question: Could Cornwall support an OHL team?

Short answer: Not if the owner didn’t want to lose a lot of money.

An OHL club cannot survive on crowds that average less than 3,000 a game. And it needs major corporate sponsors. Ticket prices in today’s OHL run around $20 for regular season tilts. And many times there are two home games in a seven-day period.

Sometimes even with decent crowds, a team can’t make a go of it. Belleville is one example. It had regular crowds in the 2,800 range. And that was with Wednesday and Saturday night games.

A new owner decided that wasn’t enough for his multi-million dollar investment, and moved the club to Hamilton.

The OHL has become big business with million dollar-plus budgets. The days of running a major junior hockey team on a $350,000

shoe-string budget and hiring a Jocelyn Guevremont as coach for $15,000 a season are long gone. Even with the financial wizardly of Paul Emard, the Royals were never a money maker. When the team was sold by Emard to a local group, it had a debt of about $113,000.

One of the many expenses in today’s OHL that didn’t exist back in the Royals’ days is the education fund contribution each team is required to pay into. The obligation this season is $150,000. It was $30,000 in 2003.

Look no further than the Peterborough Petes, one of the oldest, and most successful, OHL franchises. A few months ago the not-for-profit hockey team, which has played out of the Memorial Gardens since moving from Kitchener in 1956, announced that it was in financial trouble; if it didn’t get some “relief” from the city, the team would be put on the auction block. The club has lost $650,000 over the last five seasons. It’s reserve fund is practically depleted.

And the Petes aren’t alone. Several other OHL teams are money-losing operations facing the prospect of having to pay players at least a minimum wage.

The Petes have been spared, for now. The Memorial Centre lease agreement has been rewritten to give the Petes an additional $350,000

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New! What’s My Line Improv These fun-first classes will help you think on your feet, create skits and scenes, build confidence and let your creativity blossom! Youth classes are held on Monday evenings, adult classes on Thursday evenings. For more info, contact the Benson Centre at (613) 938-9898.

Youth Indoor Tennis Lessons Join instructor Drew Poirier as he teaches players court etiquette and stroke techniques including forehand, backhand, serve, and volley. For ages 5 – 17, starts Saturday, March 25th.

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