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Char-Lan Skating Club

programs will start mid-September. The next level, CanSkate, is a six or Facebook, and people can make
By Christine Ouellet
stage nationally tested curriculum for electronic payments”.
Located in Williamstown, the Char- skaters to develop stronger agility,
enewed energy and enthusiasm Lan Skating Club offers a variety of Skating | Char-Lan Skating Club
balance, and control skills. Lead
Rat Char-Lan Skating Club has programs. In the very popular Pre- | Williamstown South Glengarry
by nationally certified professional
swept away the sluggish COVID-19 CanSkate program, kids from age 3-5 Cornwall (charlanskatingclub.com)
coaches, Char-Lan has been awarded
atmosphere of confinement and learn the basics of skating. The skills
the Achieved Standard distinction in https://www.facebook.com/
restrictions. The club opened its they learn are essential not only for
the CanSkate Program. CharLanSkatingClub
activities on July 16th, and starting figure skating but for speed skating,
July 24th, the summer program ringette, and for hockey as well. For skaters who achieved Level 6
runs through August 31st. The main of CanSkate, the StarSkate program
allows them to continue and develop
“Livin’ The Dream” in the area of dance, free skate,
synchronized, and artistic skating.
The skaters also have the chance to
Senior Tips... show off their skills at initial level
competitions.
recipes with freshly minted titles
like Mabel Larson’s Lovely Green Char-Lan also offers modified
Bean Casserole. It was an unspoken programs fully accessible and
ritual. inclusive for para-athletes. ParaSport
Ontario donated two hockey sleds for
“Surely not,” you say. “That’s a
cliché. It was never like that. Not anyone who wishes to learn how to
really.” I am here to verify that skate, from young kids to adults, and
it was precisely like that. When they are available free of charge to
folks hanker for the good old days participants.
when things were “great”, it is this Stephanie Slinger says: “We are
world they are thinking of, where the only club to offer hockey sleds
everyone was content, and everyone and we hope to get more. The next
By Janeen Wagemans
knew the role they were designated season promises to be a lot of fun. By
to play. And children were “seen mid-September, the registration will
he ultimate compliment: May I but not heard”. be open on-line through our website
Thave your recipe? Photo Submitted
That former world was, of course,
There was a time when recipes small, rigid, and stifling. We see
were hand-written on cards and that now.
kept in recipe boxes, categorized It took the upheaval of the sixties
by course - Appetizer, Soup, Main, and the invention of the internet
Dessert.
to knock that idyllic world on its
There were rules, though, back ear. Oh, it wasn’t sudden like an
in the day, that you had to know. earthquake, but bit-by-bit, day-by-
Asking for a recipe suggested day, recipe card by recipe card. The FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST, SAVE $2 NIGHTLY FROM 5-6PM
a close relationship. Not give a comforting world that had seemed
kidney kind of close necessarily, so stable, was transformed. Sets HAPPY HOUR
but chummy. To ask for a recipe of dishes, once so essential for
of a new acquaintance would be each course, now gather dust in
deemed presumptuous, nay even second-hand stores hoping to catch
“brassy”. If desperate, you could the eye of a young person with BASKET & A BEER
move within earshot of your host or, a fondness for all things “retro”,
in those days, more usually hostess, though all the constraints of those
and say, “Oh my! Those beans were golden days would send said young Enjoy a large basket & a cold beer!
divine! It would be presumptuous, person hastening out the door! We
of course, to ask her for the recipe!” feel nostalgia for the lost sweet ONLY
This tactic invariably resulted in an moments of friendship, but we
offer, since you have established wouldn’t have them back if we $20
that you are worthy and that you needed to take back the whole rigid
haven’t been brought up by wolves. social construct with them.

Those were the days. The days May I have your recipe? These
when after dinner, the men would days we still ask. But the answer
discuss matters of import while is invariably, “Did you see that one
smoking contentedly, secure in on Facebook? It’s everywhere!”, or
the knowledge that the women “Google it!” with a few key words
were talking about things of no or a website thrown in. “There’s a
import while tidying the kitchen. video!”. It’s less formal certainly
Once done, they’d sit down at but is also efficient. And, still
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