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Continued from page 27 have lots of good memories from matter. Those charges put him in have completed the challenge
overseeing football in the Western those years.” Paul mentioned that prison, and I ended up not having of having climbed all forty-
Townships, which is mostly he also got to do a little travelling to go to court.” The Comets drew six peaks are referred to as the
the Point Claire Vaudreuil area. with the Colts, “We won the Fred some decent crowds during the 46ers. Since he began hiking the
Each year I ref eighty-six games, Page Cup in Pembroke and went two seasons that they were in Adirondacks, Paul has completed
with some days being three on to the Royal Bank up in Fort the league, with Paul saying the challenge four times. With
games, Mosquitos, Pee Wee’s, MacMurray Alta. We went to that when the Comets won the travel restrictions having been
and Bantam. I do Saturdays and Halifax another year and we were Championship at home in 2006 the relaxed, Paul is looking forward
Sundays with the Ottawa League also in Quebec City once.” game was a sellout. Paul enjoyed to resuming hiking in that
and High School Football during When Cornwall was awarded a his time as trainer for the Comets area. Up next is the Fire Tower
the week. For the past eight years team in the Quebec Sr. AA League and also started a “Kids Club” Challenge, where Paul and a
Paul has been working CFL games (LHSPAA), Paul became the with $5 dollar T-shirts, shoot-outs group of friends will climb each
in Montreal as a member of the Comets trainer. The league had between periods, and draws for of the eighteen Adirondack
field crew, stick crew, and on the many skilled players, but each team prizes. Kelsey’s and Vieux Duluth peaks that have a vintage water
twenty-second clock. had several enforcers, with most sponsored it and at each home tower at their summit, plus
In the early 90’s Paul enrolled in games having several fights. “It game four kids’ names would be the six peaks in the Catskills
the Sports Trainers course through was a rough league and as a trainer picked to go to the restaurant and with water towers. Completion
NCCP. This involved several I was busy most nights. I even got be accompanied by two Comet of climbing these mountains
modules of study that had to be to work on myself once. We were players. The Quebec Sr. AA will take approximately three
League folded following the 2006 to four months with the group
completed at home, plus hands-on playing at the Laval Coliseum,
and theory spread out over eight which had a sign reading “House season. When Cornwall got a team submitting details for each of the
in the LNAH Paul became trainer ascents. Each team member will
weekends in Toronto. Once Paul of Pain” on the outside of the
gained certification, he joined building. One of our players was of the River Kings, who were here then receive a commemorative
the Canadian Hockey Trainers cross-checked on the back of the for four seasons. Paul summed up patch for this achievement.
his time as a trainer by saying, “ It
Association. Paul became the head into the Laval bench. The The first twenty-seven years of
Assistant Trainer of the Cornwall Laval trainer started working on almost seemed like I was living at Paul’s working career were spent
the arena during those years, it was
Aces, the AHL affiliate of the him and waved me in to help. I at Domtar. Following the mills
NHL Quebec Nordiques, saying was jumped by a Laval player fun, I enjoyed it and had a good closure in 2005, Paul worked in the
that, “I was only able to work the who was wearing brass knuckles. career as a trainer. All totaled up, I maintenance department at Olymel
have five championship rings from
Aces home games due to my job I was banged up pretty good and for a six-year period, followed
at Domtar. I was with the Aces was knocked unconscious during those teams that I worked with.” by another six years as a Service
during their time in Cornwall. I the assault. The Laval Police An avid hiker since his early Advisor at Canadian Tire. Now
was approached at work by Mark and the Quebec Police blocked teens, Paul has spent a lot of time retired, Paul continues to serve the
Evans, another Domtar employee all exits until the player was in the Lake Placid area in the community; from 1997 to 2004
who was also the Head Coach of cuffed and taken away. The brass Adirondack Mountains. The High he was a member of the Cornwall
the Cornwall Colts. They were knuckles were bagged as evidence Peaks of the Adirondacks feature Police Auxiliary, and since 2010 he
looking for a trainer at the time and the player was charged. He forty-six peaks, with forty-two has been with the Canadian Coast
and I joined the Colts in 1994 and was known to the police and was of them being over 4000 ft high. Guard Auxiliary and is presently a
I was with the team until 2001. I facing criminal charges on another The select group of hikers who Unit Commander.