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Sports Energy’s latest inductee into the Mom of the
Month club is Avery Dwyer. Avery is a chiropractic Snowman
assistant and laser technician at Cornwall Spine Kit
Care Plus and has been since 2019.
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Avery’s son Jameson is 8 years old, and he plays Chocolate
soccer in Long Sault and races BMX at the

Cornwall BMX Club. “He has one first place race Partnered with
medal proudly displayed in his room,” Avery says,
“motivating him to push and have ‘a whole wall
full,’ Jameson says.”
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for two years in a row, and we ride together at the
BMX track, and we love to play all sorts of sports in the
back yard,” Avery continues. “I have played soccer since SPEC0000808
I was four, competitively and house league. I was always
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involved in sports as a kid, like basketball, volleyball, and kickboxing. Currently I play pick up soccer,
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“This past year I was able to get back to a women’s league soccer after tearing my ACL and having
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The Dwyer family really enjoys the outdoors, according to Avery. “So, we love to be at the track in the
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ball, football, baseball—around in the backyard or going for bike rides. We spend a lot of time outside.”
Ottawa Old Timer Norman Lorenzo Cloutier recalls

Great Hockey Moments

Harry Hiscoe, it was for fun, and Also, in those days, there was
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he recalls with pride a tournament contact play, but whether injuries
in Daytona that remains vivid in his were not as serious as today is
oes the name Norman Lorenzo
DCloutier, born in 1935, sound mind.” debatable. They were not ‘allowed to
Cloutier said, “We were good, but call dirty or to finish your check or
familiar to some Cornwall Old
Timers? It is because from 1985 he not the best. We liked to play stronger do slap shots.’
teams such as Montreal and Cornwall Cloutier recalls the period when
played right defense, and later right
who were very good. Playing them he was a Midget, he was defense
forward, in the adverse team, the
Ottawa Olde Tymers, and sometimes was a real challenge and we tried then. And on the ice, he was the
hard to beat them. We liked it, it was bodyguard for the late Brian Smith,
the Nepean Olde Tymers. After
retiring from the Armed Forces, fun, and when we beat them, we who was the legendary sportscaster
were so proud! It was not the same with CJOH who was killed, and
he joined OC Transpo in Ottawa in
as when we played weaker teams. It mentioned that Brian’s father played
1980, but he was always available
for a good hockey game. was easy for us, and in a way, I felt with the Senators in the early ‘20’s.
sorry for the poor guys. You know, I At 89 years of age, Norman
Playing hockey was such a passion took pity on them, I would tell them, Cloutier has so many memorable
for him, he said: “You could not stop ‘Don’t give up, keep bugging us.’ moments that took place during
thinking about hockey. We played Also in those days, in some arenas, his sports career, such as the
for fun and exercise, but some guys we would share the same changing/ intense lacrosse games against the
go banana’s when they lose. For me, locker rooms and after the game, we Akwesasne, who were according to
with my buddies Rick Lefevre and would have a beer together.” him, just unbeatable.