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Presents Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk
with Area Senior : Mike Collins
Serving You Since 1937
1969. “By the time I got to grade
nine, General Vanier was a brand-
new school. I played football there
and graduated grade 12 with no
intention of pursuing education as
I was not a great student. Then Mr.
By Jim Riddell Forrester, (Rick), who had coached
football at CCVS, crossed town to
he Collins family lived on GV. He brought his sons with him,
TFifteenth St, which was the along with a couple of other good
north part of Cornwall at the time. players. I went back to GV, taking
Roy and Anne Collins had four
children, Peter, Curtis, Sue, and just enough classes to be eligible to
Quarterback the team and we won
Mike. “I played hockey, football,
the city championship that year.”
and lacrosse growing up,” Mike Mike was playing Jr B hockey for
said, also mentioning that his Kastners Mens and Boys Wear,
grandfather, George “Sox” Collins,
had played pro lacrosse in the in what he described as a really
good city league. Former Cornwall
1930’s, had refereed at a high level
Royals Ron Ward, who was
for many years and was inducted
Mike and Shannon Collins with sons Braxton and Hutson
into the Cornwall Sports HOF in Continued on page 28 Photo Submitted
