Page 27 - Sports Energy News, Cornwall, Issue No 120

Presents Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk

with Area Senior : Paul Stefik

Serving You Since 1937
two years, I was with the Montreal there for five years and always
Manic Jrs, which was the farm managed to finish in the middle of
team of the Montreal Manic Sr the pack”
team, which played in the North “I had a blast with Optimist
American Soccer League. I was Football,” Paul recalls. “I played
By Jim Riddell only there for a couple of years Photo Submitted up until Bantam level, then I
when the league folded. I coached
“I’ve lived on St. Felix St for a girls soccer team called the coached, and I refereed. I was
fifty-nine years, I grew up there, Strikers, which ranged from with the Optimist Football league
then I bought the house next door eighteen to twenty-seven years for about seventeen years in
to my parents and I’m still there. old. We played in the Cornwall total.” Continuing to officiate
Paul attended John XXIII school league for about five years and then football, Paul is a member of the
and began playing Kinsman minor formed a travelling team playing EORA, (Eastern Ontario Referees
soccer and Optimist’s football in the Ottawa - Carleton Premier Association) which covers
at seven years of age. “I played, Soccer League. I picked girls from Brockville, Red River, Ottawa,
refereed, and coached soccer, various teams in the Cornwall Hawkesbury, and Cornwall. He
eventually becoming President of district, trying to field a team that is also a member of the Quebec
the Cornwall and District Soccer would be competitive. Our team Football Referees Association,
League for a few years. I played was named the Schooners and the governing body for officials
in the Cornwall league, then for it was a tough league, we played
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Serving You Since 1937