Page 26 - Sports Energy News, Cornwall, Issue No 134

Presents Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk

with Area Senior : Don Miseferi

Serving You Since 1937

Bishop MacDonell, followed by right away, but I got on at Domtar
high school at CCVS. Don started and I worked there until it closed
helping his dad with wood projects in 2005. I worked some on the side
and got interested in carpentry and with a few construction companies
construction. “There weren’t many as well,” Don recalled.
sports when I was growing up as I
By Jim Riddell After Domtar closed, Don
always seemed to be working. When worked in the kitchens of a few
“I’ve lived in Cornwall my whole I was thirteen, I started helping my local restaurants and then managed
life,” said Don. “The first few years mother who worked at the Knights the restaurant at a Zellers store in
we were living in a rental house on of Columbus on Amelia St. My first Ottawa. “That was short lived. The
Ridley Street, near Seventh. The job there was carrying dishes up money wasn’t that good, and it didn’t
owner said that he would never sell three flights of stairs. Then I helped make sense to be driving back and
it, so we moved to Fifth Street and my mom in the kitchen and that’s forth from Cornwall. I talked with
that’s where my parents stayed. I where I started to learn to cook. My my dad, and he suggested that I buy
lived there until I got married and mom worked at the restaurant until my own restaurant.”
my wife and I moved to York St. she was seventy-five.”
I’ve been there ever since, thirty- At CCVS, Don took woodworking Don bought the restaurant just
eight years now.” and construction classes, hoping to Photo Submitted behind Fullerton’s Drug Store
on the corner of Pitt and Second.
Don’s elementary schooling get an apprenticeship as a carpenter. While at Domtar, Don had worked
was St. Columban’s West and then “I couldn’t get an apprenticeship
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