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Stittsville News - NOVEMBER 03 2011
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Rick Hansen Medal arrives at GRC in Stittsville
ROBERT L. SNOWDON C H A R T E R E D A C C O U N TA N T
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day-ending ceremony at 5 p.m. The route in Stittsville passed by Holy Spirit Catholic School where youngsters from the Holy Spirit Child Care Centre Stittsville resident Pat Stoqua, as a forlined the sidewalk, holding a banner mer Ottawa Rough Rider football player High Quality Services for proclaiming the Anniversary Relay Tour from 1979 to 1984, no doubt experienced Independent Business & Professionals and cheering on the medal bearer on that some boisterous times from fans and at section of the Relay who happened to be games. But we doubt that he had ever exUnit #3 - 155 Terence Matthews Crescent John Curry photo perienced what awaited for him at the end Emma Campbell, a grade five student of Sarah Swafford of Stittsville shows off of his 250 metre participation as a medal Holy Spirit Catholic School. Kanata, Ontario K2M 2A8 613- 599-5540 the replica of the Rick Hansen Medal bearer in the Rick Hansen 25th AnniverAs the Anniversary Tour van, complete which she received for being a medal sary Relay Tour in Stittsville last Friday, with a front digital readout display proEmail: snowdon@comnet.ca • Web: www.comnet.ca/~snowdon bearer in the Relay. claiming the Rick Hansen 25th AnniverOct. 27. sary Relay, moved along the street, it was He was the final of 82 medal particiaccompanied by traffic controlling mopants in the Relay Tour that day, carrying Complete Family Eye Care the medal from Abbott Street and Shea torcycle policeman. At the day-ending ceremony at the along Shea Road and then into the Quality Eyewear and Lenses Road Goulbourn Recreation Complex, medal Goulbourn Recreation Complex where a Contact Lens Fittings day-ending ceremony was being held. bearer Pat Stoqua turned over the medal to Jim Richards, the Relay’s director, who As the doors of the Goulbourn RecreDigital Retinal Photography placed it in its display case where it would ation Complex swung open, Pat was faced Laser Surgery Co-management remain until its journey was begun again with a runway lined with a multitude of Ophthalmology Consults Onsite Halloween characters which cheered him the next day, Saturday, Oct. 29, when it Orthokeratology Fittings on as he made his way between them and would once again be taken by medal bearDr. Corrine Motluk Dr. Alan Franzmann ers through Stittsville, including a stop at on to the podium area set up in front of the McDonald’s Restaurant, one of the major ward office of city of Ottawa Stittsville corporate sponsors of the Relay, before it ward councillor Shad Qadri. These Halwould eventually leave Stittsville just beloween costumed characters who lined fore 1 p.m. on its way to Carleton Place. the route for Pat’s final steps as a Rick At the GRC ceremony, city of Ottawa Hansen medal bearer were Goulbourn 613-836-2030 Recreation Complex manager Chantal Stittsville ward councillor Shad Qadri 1464 Stittsville Main St. noted that he and the final medal bearer Laporte and members of her staff. Stittsville, ON Pat Stoqua had met Rick Hansen in perTheir Halloween costumes were servson that morning at a reception at Ottawa ing a double function – they not only made city hall where that day’s Relay had befor a unique setting for the Oct. 28 ending gun, with 82 participants being involved for the Rick Hansen 25th Anniversary Rein the day-long process of carrying the lay Tour but also they were then all set to medal to Stittsville. staff in costume a children’s Halloween He told the 75 people in attendance at activity program that would go on for two the ceremony that Pat Stoqua is represenhours in the Goulbourn Recreation Comtative of what the Stittsville community plex lobby area, just three days before is all about and that is involvement and Halloween itself. activity. The Rick Hansen Medal, specially crePat Stoqua, in his remarks at the cerated by the Royal Canadian Mint for this emony, recalled what an honour it was 25th Anniversary Relay, began its journey to participate in the Rick Hansen 25th in Stittsville on Friday, Oct. 28 at 4:22 p.m. Anniversary Relay and to have met and at the corner of Stittsville Main Street chatted with Rick Hansen personally that and Hazeldean Road. Medal bearers, each morning. going 250 metres, carried the medal along He agreed with Rick Hansen’s message Stittsville Main Street and then Abbott that it is not only people’s choice but also Street and Shea Road to the Goulbourn people’s duty to try to make the world a Recreation Complex, arriving there for a better place. Jim Richards, the director of the Relay, in his remarks at the ceremony, praised Stittsville for its “remarkable sense of community” and praised all of the medal bearers taking part in the Relay, saying that every one of them has a unique story to tell about making Comprehensive Family Dentistry • Orthodontics • Zoom Whitening a difference. Endodontics • Periodontics • Dental Implants • Cosmetic Dentistry He said that Rick Invisalign • Lumineers Hansen’s goal is to have a country that is free of barriers where everyone, not matter what their disabilities, can reach their full poAZELDEAN ALL ANATA John Curry photo tential. Jim Richards, right, director of the Rick Hansen 25th Anniversary Relay The ceremony ended Tour, places the Rick Hansen medal in its display case after the Relay with the singing of O arrived at the Goulbourn Recreation Complex in Stittsville on Friday, Canada, led by Hannah Oct. 28 at 5 p.m., as city of Ottawa Stittsville ward councillor Shad Brunsdon of StittsQadri, left, and Kanata North ward councillor Marianne Wilkinson, ville. centre, look on.
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