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May 2017 Issue #54
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Cornwall Lunker Club Upcoming Events By Todd Anderson
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he Cornwall Lunker Club has several exciting events coming soon. On May 27 the club hosts its annual Cornwall Lunker Club Walleye Classic which is based at the RCAF Wing Launch and runs 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Registration for the event takes place at Fence Depot until the morning of the event when eager fishermen can sign up at the RCAF ramp. The event registration is $25 per person with an option of $20 per boat for the big fish prize. There are plenty of prizes for mystery weight. For more information check out the Cornwall Lunker Club page on Facebook or contact Luc Richer at 613-551-0521. The Lunker Club is also excited to coordinate another river clean-up day
in coordination with the St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Services. The first clean up will be at Cornwall Harbour on May 13 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Interested volunteers can call 613-936-6620 or email kcooper@ riverinstitute.ca Also, the Lunker Club plans to spend another day with the local Cornwall Bird Watchers this summer. Each year local fishermen invite bird watchers onto their boats and take them out to observe the birds that inhabit our local river and islands. The fun day is followed by a pot luck lunch at one of the Lunker Club members’ cottages on the river. “They get to observe the birds and we learn new potentially good fishing spots,” says Lunker Club member Joe Arthur.
Pommier Jewellers presents
MOM of the month
Pam Hutt
As an early childhood educator teaching kindergarten with the Catholic District School Board, Pam Hutt enjoys a life of impressing positive values on young children. As a sports mom, she shares some of these same philosophies with her daughter Taryn, 15, and son Rylan, 9, as they travel from sports event to sports event. “As children grow up and go on to high school, college, university, and the work force, they need tools to survive in society, to socialize, to function with other individuals, and to respect other people of authority,” says Hutt. Sports and extra-curricular activities play a big role in supporting kids this way. I’ve always told my kids to try their best and have fun. Once they have joined something, they have made a commitment to their team.” Pam and her husband Rick, who live in Monkland, have been busy trucking Taryn to her Seaway Valley Blazers soccer games and Cornwall Typhoons hockey games, as well as Rylan to his Air Gliders Trampoline events. They wouldn’t have it any other way. “It’s important that kids keep active,” says Hutt. “It’s important for them to learn passion, commitment, and what it is like to work hard for something. Most of all they need to learn how to have fun doing all of the above. Their reward is the valuable friendships and connections they make along the way and the confidence they find in themselves.” Hutt says her children have really shown support towards each other. That means a lot to her, as evidenced by her response when asked what her favourite sports memory is of her children. “Packing up the car and leaving the house at 4 a.m. for a long winter drive to a hockey tournament and looking in the backseat at my son half asleep and snuggled up in his blanket all to support his sister.” Hutt grew up with three younger brothers who were all sports fanatics. She says she had no choice but to play sports, too. She played most sports growing up and continues to enjoy soccer and baseball mostly. Now she’s able to enjoy sports from the sidelines as she cheers on Taryn and Rylan. “I’ve always loved dance and watching my daughter express herself on the stage always gives me goose bumps. Then watching my son jump on the trampoline all the way up to the sky with a smile from ear-to-ear makes me so happy for him. I try not to miss too much of their activities. I’ve had help from my brothers, the grandparents, and other parents from the teams. When your child is part of a sport for a long time, the other parents become like family to you and that helps a lot. As busy as life gets, I appreciate all of the memories we’ve made and are still making. I keep telling myself, “they’re only this age once and we won’t always be this busy.”
Cornwall Lunker Club member Joe Arthur, back, is joined by Cornwall Birding Club members Paolo De Marchi and Madeline Van Der Zweep during a joint excursion between the groups two summers ago. The groups are looking to plan another outing shortly where the fisherman treat the bird watchers to a day observing birds which inhabit our rivers and islands. Photo Joe Arthur