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4 April 2018 Issue #65 www.sportsenergynews.com

Closing Big Ben: A Personal Perspective

By Casey Leger

ith Cornwall City Council
Wvoting to discontinue funding SUB Place
for Big Ben, the community will be
losing its only official local venue for Damaris Sanchez
downhill skiing and snowboarding.
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For Christian Cousineau, the of the
loss of the ski hill will mark the
end of a personal era. “I’ve been Great Sub
snowboarding since I was 16,” he
says, “and that’s about 29 years.” 613-932-6033
Cousineau, born and raised in Sports Energy
Cornwall, learned to snowboard at 407 Pitt Street
Big Ben, and so have his children. Greater Cornwall & Areas Community Sports Newspaper
Maxim, 8, and Sophie, 6, have each downhill ski or snowboard will have
to travel for about an hour, to Quebec
been hitting the slopes with their or the States, in order to get their fix.
father since they were 18 months old. Sports Energy
The closing of Big Ben will mark the
Cousineau, who is also an end of Christian Cousineau’s twenty-
instructor at the hill, is a competitive Greater Cornwall & Areas Community Sports Newspaper
year tenure as an instructor there, but
snowboarder who does slope style he’ll be just one among the many
and bank slalom competitions for disappointed athletes who once used
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fun. As an instructor, he has seen the site.
thousands of Cornwall and area kids Sports Energy
Helping kids learn to snowboard
learn the fundamentals of skiing and
Greater Cornwall & Areas Community Sports Newspaper rewarding for
has been personally
boarding at Big Ben. “The facilities
Cousineau. “It’s fun to see kids
are used lots,” he says. learning their first turns,” he says.
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According to Cousineau, after “They are happy, and they want you
Christian Boulay with son Maxim-8, and daughter Sophie-6.
the hill closes, those who want to Photo Submitted to see what they can do.”
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