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Spaling brothers to launch hockey school in Drayton this summer by Patrick Raftis DRAYTON - Homegrown hockey stars Nick and Nathan Spaling will be offering a hockey school at the local arena this summer. Nick, a veteran National Hockey League winger, coming off his first season with the Pittsburgh Penguins, said the school will be held at the PMD arena from Aug. 24 to 28. The experience will be open to Novice to Pee Wee age players and focus on skills training. “Just a lot of fundamentals,” Nick told the Community News in a telephone interview. “Individual skills, at that age, are what we’re going to focus on.” While the focus will be onice, the school will also include an off-ice educational component. “A few talks, a few seminars after each skate, introducing different aspects of playing hockey and things you’ve got to focus on such as nutrition, training, maybe some sessions
Star instructors - Brothers Nick and Nathan Spaling will be launching a not-for-profit hockey school in Drayton in August. ABOVE: Nick is coming off his first season with the Pittsburgh Penguins after beginning his NHL career with the Nashville Predators. RIGHT: Nathan, right, captained the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks for several years while attending the school. submitted photos for parents … about having a plan, or the best route for going as far as you can in hockey.” While Nick has forged a seven-year career as a professional and has been a fulltime NHLer for the past five
years, including four with the Nashville Predators before last summer’s trade to Pittsburgh, Nathan has also played plenty of high level hockey. Both played minor hockey locally before moving on
to play at the AAA level in Waterloo and with the HuronPerth Lakers. Nathan played a year with the OHL’s Guelph Storm, getting into 19 games in the 2003-04 season, before joining Nick on the Cherrey
Cup-winning Listowel Cyclones Junior B squad the following season. “That was a pretty fun year, to be able to play with him and then to win it was pretty exciting,” Nick recalls. The brothers travelled separate hockey paths from that point, as Nick moved on to the OHL’s Kitchener Rangers and was drafted by the Predators in the second round of the 2007 draft. Nathan continued to play Junior B in Thorold for two more years before enrolling in a criminology course at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. At UOIT he captained the school’s hockey team for several years and was named male athlete of the year in 2009-10, when he recorded eight goals and 20 assists in a 28-game season. More recently, while Nick was plying his trade at the NHL level, Nathan skated in intramural games at the University of Windsor, where
he graduated with a law degree this spring. Nick is back at his offseason home in Waterloo after the Penguins’ frustrating firstround playoff elimination at the hands of the New York Rangers. “The year was a little disappointing with how it finished. We had a lot of injuries. We had a lot of different things that didn’t seem to stack up in our favour. When it came down to it, we just didn’t get it done,” said Nick, who had a goal and an assist in the five-game series after recording nine goals and 18 assists in 82 regular season games. While they didn’t hoist the cup this year, Nick is still relishing the move to a hockey hotbed with the chance to play alongside some of the league’s biggest stars, including Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. “The big change is going into one of the bigger hockey markets in the league and playContinued on page 5
Ontario PC leader stresses opportunity for business during local feed mill visit
Family fundraiser - The Clemmer family of Drayton wheeled from Gibson Park in Elmira to ABC Park in Drayton on June 20 to raise funds for their charity, Bringing Heaven To Earth. The charity assists children with special needs to purchase equipment needed for daily living. From left: Dean, Scott, Troy, Heather pulling Emma, and Bella Clemmer ride through Floradale on their 30-kilometre trek. Dean and Scott took turns using the wheelchair and both commented it was a very difficult way to ride. photo by Caroline Sealey
by Patrick Raftis WALLENSTEIN - Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown talked about the need for business-friendly policies after touring a local feed mill on June 18. “We want to see businesses like this grow. The 200 employees that work here, these are good paying jobs and we want the conditions in which a business like this can succeed,” said Brown after touring Wallenstein Feed and
Supply with Perth-Wellington MPP Randy Pettapiece. Brown, a 36-year-old MP from Barrie who won a leadership race over Whitby-Oshawa MPP Christine Elliott in May, said high energy prices are among the drags on business in Ontario. With hydro rates that are “double that of Manitoba, sometimes triple that of Quebec, it puts Ontario businesses at a competitive disadvantage … and it’s one of
the reasons that we’ve got to get our energy policy right,” Brown said. “The fact that Ontario’s going to see a 42 per cent increase over the next five years under the Liberal government should be alarming to all of us.” With the next election four years away, Brown, who does not yet have a seat in the Ontario legislature, said he will have a number of areas of Continued on page 5
Tournament to assist Mapleton family by Caroline Sealey CAMBRIDGE - A nearby community is offering residents of the Mapleton area an opportunity to continue helping a local family whose son is battling leukemia. On July 25 the 4th Annual Kylie’s Care Golf Tournament will be held on the links at Brookfield Golf Club in Cambridge. The initial purpose of the tournament was to raise funds to help with Kylie Hass’s care after she was diagnosed at age two with leukemia. In 2014, after two years of chemotherapy treatments, Ky-
lie received her final treatment and has been cancer-free for one year. The tournament continues and this year the committee has welcomed Evan and the Conway family of Drayton into their extended family. Three-year-old Evan was diagnosed in 2014 with the same leukemia as Kylie and he continues treatment on a weekly basis at McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton. “My granddaughter Kylie beat this cancer and we understand the struggle Evan’s family is facing as they fight this battle together. This year we are hon-
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oured to support the Conway family with monies raised from the tournament,” said committee member Pat Singleton. Over 40 golfers participate in the tournament with new teams joining each year. The committee is looking for golfers, hole sponsors and donations of prizes. Tax receipts will be issued with donations going to Ronald McDonald House, where the Hass and Conway families stayed during their time at McMaster Hospital. “We wish another family did not have to endure the pain Continued on page 5
Feed mill tour - Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown toured the feed mill operation in Wallenstein on June 18. From left: Wallenstein Feed and Supply employees Elyse Clement and David Trott, Ontario Agri Business Association (OABA) CEO Dave Butterham, Wallenstein Feed and Supply general manager Rick Martin, Brown, Perth-Wellington MPP Randy Pettapiece, feed mill employee Candace MacKenzie and OABA operations and member services manager Ron Campbell. photo by Patrick Raftis
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