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Presents Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk
with Area Senior : Ron Thompson
Serving You Since 1937
ball family, but it wasn’t long before
felt that we were perfect. He instilled
in us that if you want to do something Richard and Allan started playing
lacrosse, and their father Sonny got
well, you really need to practice and
practice and practice. I didn’t realize involved on the administration side.
Sonny, along with Dan Begg and
it until much later, but that really paid
off for me in lacrosse. Albert Hein, Norm McCrimmon and
By Jim Riddell Bob Wilkes was also a sports nut others formed the Cornwall Minor
Lacrosse Association. Soon other
and he got us playing basketball. We
“It was at East Front Elementary would play after school and once a families in the neighborhood got
School where I really began playing involved and before we knew it, we
week we would all get into his old
sports. We had a teacher by the name station wagon, and we would go had quite a group in our area. There
of Bob Wilkes, who was what I were pockets of lacrosse in the city,
to Memorial Park to play. We had
would call a modern-day renaissance been playing scrub ball, but this was we were central, there was a pocket
man, he was a very good educator our initiation into a semi-organized Photo Submitted in the east end and between Eight
and also a musician. He brought his a few games at Alexander Park, but and Ninth around Alexander Park,
team sport. One of my classmates,
love for and knowledge of music into Richard Monk’s father Gord, along lacrosse was still loosely organized at where the main box was situated,
our classroom. He coached us for the time. Our family moved up to the there was a huge hotbed of lacrosse.
with a few others, started the lacrosse
the Kinsman Festival. He coached program in the east end. It was just First and Augustus area and Chuck The Disotell’s, the Lalondes, Terry
the solo and duet students, but his getting started and there was a fairly Li lived on Augustus. Chuck and my Burgess, Lionel Quenneville, Ron
specialty was the choir and that’s brothers were the only ones in the Abraham, Colin Villeneuve, Brian
large age gap as they were teaching
where I was. He had us do those songs us the basics. We would go and play neighborhood that played lacrosse Hein, and many others, some of
over and over and over again until he at the time. The Herrington’s were a Continued on page 27
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