Jeremy Latour, a grade eleven
student at Holy Trinity
Catholic Secondary School,
has been making waves in local
athletics, arts, and academics.
Recently, Latour won the top
football award at his school, an
arts award, and has been showing
excellent results academically
as well. Latour, by all counts, is
an impressive and well-rounded
student.
Latour has taken part in a wide
variety of extra-curriculars,
including playing numerous
sports, and has been on a
number of competitive sports
teams. Currently, though, his
main interest is football. Latour
is playing on the Cornwall OFC
Varsity 2018 team and hopes to
do so for the next few seasons.
For Latour, it felt great to be
recognized as the Senior Male
Athlete of the Year.
When Sebastian Warner’s father
suggested they compete in
a 10 km race together, neither of
them could have imagined that
twelve years later Warner would be
competing in 100 mile trail races.
“For a lot of people who run
marathons, they aim for the Boston
Marathon. But for me, what got
me hooked on the long distance
running was reading about this
race in France called the Ultra Trail
Mont-Blanc,” Warner shared.
In order to qualify for the Ultra
Trail Mont-Blanc, Warner has two
years to run in three races that
meet the distance and elevation
requirements. The first qualifying
race Warner completed was last
October, where he ran 100 miles
in Bromont, Quebec. The next
two he has lined up are the 100 km
Quebec Mega Trail in late June and
the 125 km Ultra-Trail Harricana in
Charlevoix, Quebec in September.
Last year, eight-year-old Addisyn
Ladouceur began swimming
with the Cornwall Sea Lions Swim
Club as a seapup. Diagnosed with
asthma at an early age, Addisyn
was on medication and needed two
By Victoria Klassen pumps to keep her asthma under
control. Now, Addisyn is off of her
medications and is down to only one
pump.
“When she first started [swimming]
you could tell she struggled,”
explained Lysanne Ladouceur,
Addisyn’s mother. “She would tire
easy and sometimes cough but never
complain because she loved the
swimming. She has proven to us that
she may be tiny but she is mighty.”
As Addisyn became more involved
in swimming, her asthma did not seem
to affect her as much. During a swim
competition in June, the Brockville
Splash and Grill, Addisyn came
in first place in the 50m freestyle.
Ladouceur said her daughter was full
of smiles and did not need her pump
before or after the meet.
Nine years ago, Blair Bell from
Hybrid Marine started the
Paddle Poker run to raise money
for the Alzheimer’s Society. It was
a cause close to his heart because
his mother had Alzheimer’s. Since
then it has grown into an anticipated
annual event.
The ninth annual Paddle Poker Run
will take place on Saturday July 21, at
the Hybrid Marine in Summerstown.
Participants can pedal, paddle, or
sail, using any water craft without a
motor. The run to Squaw Island and
back takes around two-three hours
but there is no obligation to complete
the entire course. Neck and shoulder
massages, lunch, poker hands, and
door prizes will be available for
participants once they return to shore.
Last year this event raised over
$8,800, more than doubling what
it raised in 2016. Josée Roy-
Pilon, campaign co-ordinator of
the Alzheimer Society of Cornwall
and District, said they are hoping to
meet or beat that total this year.
In spite of some typically Canadian
weather, summer has finally arrived,
and life along the St. Lawrence River
in Cornwall is picking up. August is
fast approaching, and with August
comes the Cornwall Waterfest
Dragon Boat Races, which will take
place on the 11th at the canal in the
city’s west end.
An exciting new development this
year is the inclusion of two youth
teams in the competition. Mikel
Billard is a grade 12 student at La
Citadel whose uncle, Waterfest
enthusiast and committee member
Kevin O’Rourke, convinced him to
try paddling. Billard loved it.
“It’s great to be out on the water,”
says Billard. In fact, he enjoyed the
experience so much that he recruited
about eight friends from school to
crew one of the dragon boats that will
race this summer. “It’s very physical,
but it’s relaxing at the same time,”
he explains. Billard is enrolled in
Ottawa U’s accounting program and
will start classes this September.
Ellery Maloney, recently spoke
with Sports Energy News to
remember his friend Pete Piquette.
Piquette was a local hockey
goaltender in the 1940’s and 50’s
who saw great success in his
hockey career, landing him a spot in
the Cornwall Sports Hall of Fame.
Maloney says he’s known Pete and
his wife Betty for most of his life.
“We both played hockey, we were
both goaltenders on separate teams.
We’ve been such close friends since
our early teens,” says Maloney.
“We were in each other’s wedding
parties as well.”
Pete Piquette was an exceptional
good goaltender and he started his
junior hockey with the Cornwall
Community Sports Club. Piquette
was soon called to play with the
Oshawa Generals Jr. A team in the
OHA, (Currently OHL). Maloney
recalls one of the highlights of
Piquette’s time with the Generals
was his encounter with George
Armstrong, an All-Star player with
the Toronto Maple Leafs.
