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Presents Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk
with Area Senior : Jim “Catfish” Hunter
Serving You Since 1937
The tournament was held in the old asked if I would be able to help out.
Ottawa Auditorium, located on the The team was called the Gloucester
corner of O’Connor and Argyle, Belle’s, and they were all farm girls
where the YMCA currently sits. and country kids, there were about
During the summer months Jim sixteen of them, just a great group.”
played Little League baseball, and In 1977 Jim accepted a media
By Jim Riddell while attending Ridgemont High production position with Parks
School he took up downhill skiing.
“I grew up in Alta Vista in Ottawa, Post secondary was at Carleton Canada in Cornwall and the Hunter
but my family was actually from University where Jim earned a BA in family moved to Ingleside. “On
Maxville. My father had seven English, which he then followed up Photo Submitted the day we moved to Ingleside I
brothers and sisters and when the with a post graduate diploma from went to Ingleside Lumber to get
Second World War came along, they Ryerson in Television Production. a sheet of plywood so the movers
all joined the military in one form or could use both doors of the house
another, and they eventually ended When Jim and his wife, Julie, as the guy that made all of the phone to unload,” Jim recalled, “The yard
moved to Carlsbad Springs in 1973, calls.” It was while living in Carlsbad guy said “Hey, I know you! You
up distributed all over Canada.”
he returned to hockey and ball. “A that Jim coached a girls ringette team. and your guys from Carlsbad beat
Always a goaltender, Jim played lot of my neighbours were guys that “I think that every coaching job that us in the year ender tournament in
hockey on outdoor rinks growing up. I went to high school with, and they I ever had involved a teenager that I Hawkesbury.” When I told him that
His first game in an indoor facility were playing ball and hockey for knew and often one of our babysitters we were moving to town he asked
was when his Charles Hulse Public Danny Kelly’s Hotel. They got me asking me to get involved. One of my if I had my goalie equipment. I told
School team went to the finals in back into things and I became the friends’ 14-year-old daughter was him that it was on the moving truck,
the City of Ottawa Championships. practice and backup goalie, as well babysitting for Julie and me, and she Continued on page 27
