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Issue 139 August 2024
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South Branch Garage presents

“Game On” in South Glengarry

Meet our Athletes

Lily Cockings

Age: 9 Grade: 4
Hometown: Williamstown.

School: Williamstown Public School (in
September)
Sports Energy’s Game On in South
Glengarry’s featured August athlete is Lily 
Cockings. “I have been playing soccer since 
I was 4 years old,” Lily explains, “starting  
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with Char-Lan minor soccer and progressing 
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up to the Glengarry soccer League and the
Glengarry Hearts. I mostly play defence but
have been a forward, and I played goalie.”
Lily very much enjoys her sport. “I love being part of a team and having fun
with my friends,” Lily says. “My most notable accomplishment was making
the tryouts to join the U9 girls’ Glengarry Hearts team this year. We have
had a lot of fun and success at our tournaments,” Lily continues. “Soccer is
an important sport because anybody can play and be included; soccer is my
favourite sport because I get to play with my friends and sometimes against
them.”
Lily would like to continue her education into university to become a teacher.
“Sleep is the best medicine.”

that for optimum sleep quality, we do when they open their eyes is to stellar “sleep score” causes them to
need to align our sleep to nature’s 24- check the sleep app attached to their worry about whether they are really
hour rhythm. It calculates the optimal watch or ring, to find out how well up for the challenges of the day, or
midpoint of our nights’ sleep. It even they slept. No more simply assessing whether they should even try when
assesses, over time, whether we are how rested they feel. What was my they have, obviously already failed.
naturally a morning or an evening “sleep score?” What is my “level of And as if all that isn’t enough, the
person and calculates our optimal readiness” for the day? How many app allows these folks to share their
midpoint accordingly. minutes of restorative “deep sleep” sleep scores with designated friends.
Our elders told us that “the best did I get, and how long was I actually In this way, they can commiserate
By Janeen Wagemans sleep is before midnight” and this awake in the night? Thirty minutes. with each other. Or perhaps compete?
adage is supported by the new Hmmm. Seemed like hours! How was All in all, this new technology leads
he advice of the elders of a technology that tells us that our body my body temperature? My heart rate us to ask ourselves whether all this
Tcommunity is solid gold. Those temperature, sleep, hormones, hunger, throughout the night? My breathing? information is really a good thing. Or
folks conveyed some of the basic and digestion are all subject to the How equipped am I to tackle the is it just one more invasive irritant
tenets of living a healthy life. But times circadian rhythm. It reminds us, as did challenges of this new day? that can cause us additional stress and
change. These days all essential advice the elders of yore, that keeping these Many people these days, when they anxiety, even as we sleep?
comes to the youth and, if we’re being internal rhythms in balance can help get a high sleep score, leap from their Let’s give our long-departed elders
honest, also the elders themselves, via us perform better throughout the day. beds assured that they are beginning the last word. If we could consult
phones, and watches, and even rings! The best sleep, it turns out, actually is the day with a high level of readiness, them, they would probably tell us to
Oh, the early bird still catches the before midnight, and night owls are and that they have already scored a take all information, even from them,
worm all right, but now this advice gently reminded to turn in earlier in goal before they even opened their “with a grain of salt.” Until there’s an
comes to us in a more granular fashion. future. eyes! It’s going to be a productive day! app to let us know when grains of salt
These days our tech toys assure us For many people, the first thing they Of course, conversely, a less than should be taken!