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Sports Mom”

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December’s Mom of the Month is Bonnie Ruest. Since
she was a child, Bonnie has been involved in various T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T H I S H O L I D A Y
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The life lessons passed along while participating
in individual and team sports are invaluable,
and Bonnie knew she wanted her own children
to experience them first-hand. Her two children,

Elias and Jacob, were involved in many sports
themselves as children, the most memorable for
Bonnie are hockey, lacrosse, baseball, football,
soccer, skiing, snowboarding, and golf.
When her children were young, she remembers
spending her time helping to pack lunches for their
tournaments, fundraising for their teams, driving them to and
from practices and games, and editing their hockey and lacrosse yearbooks. As her kids
grew, so did her responsibilities, and she began to coach lacrosse in both house league
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CMLA Tyke Celtics lacrosse team to the 2016 Provincial Championships.
Today, Jacob, who plays lacrosse professionally in the NLL, and Elias are 27 and 30
respectively, and they have continued to show their love of sports by coaching teams in Making dreams come true since 1937
their community. Bonnie is very proud of them both. “The experience of celebrating a 6 Second Street, Cornwall 613-932-4022 www.pommierjewellers.com
provincial gold medal with my son was extra special,” she says.
Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk with Area Seniors
Gary Herrington neighbourhood. Gary reminisces, was always an important day for the
“Chuck Lee was the best lacrosse Herrington family – due to Covid 19
player to come out of Cornwall and he cancellations, this would be the first
orn and raised in Cornwall, Gary burn and, even though it was almost went on to play Jr. A with the Oshawa Nov 11th since 1965 that Gary has not
BHerrington grew up in a family of two blocks away, I remember the heat Green Gaels at 18. My two older marched on Remembrance Day.
seven boys at 136 First Street in the being so intense that I couldn’t even brothers Richard and Allen, along For several winters, Gary was a rink
row houses near York and First. Mrs. touch the glass of my window.” with Chuck Lee, Ronnie Thompson, rat at the Water Street Arena under
Herrington operated a hair salon out Gary grew up in Cornwall during and Jack McLennan played with the head rink rat Bob Lascelle. “Every
of the front room of the home with the 1950’s and 60’s, a time when Cornwall Wildcats and a few of them day after school I would hightail
Gary mentioning that she worked up went on to play Senior and Pro. There
everything was within walking it down to the rink around 4pm to
until aged 75 - during the last part of distance and having a car wasn’t a was a lacrosse box at Alexander Park work and that’s where I developed
her career, she would go to retirement across from where Canadian Tire is
necessity. “My dad passed away my skating. Back in those days there
homes to style the hair of her long- about six years ago at 90 years of age today, along with the outdoor boxes were no Zamboni’s - there were eight
time clients. and never owned or drove a car in his at the Bob Turner and that is where or nine of us and we would scrape the
minor lacrosse was played. My father
Sonny Harrington, Gary’s dad, had life. There were a lot of kids in our ice and push the snow into a pit just
served with the Navy during WWII neighbourhood and it never took long was President of the Cornwall Minor outside the visitor’s dressing room
Lacrosse Association and had about
and he was employed as a mechanic/ to get a gang together for a game of door. There was a lever that would
shift operator at the power generating hockey or lacrosse. Cy Miller was the 800 kids in the program with all teams lift a panel covering the pit and then
being sponsored by the Canadian
plant at the foot of Cumberland Street. rec director for the city and he donated we would lower it back in place so
Legion, each team having a different
The power plant was next to the old a lacrosse box which we built behind the team could walk out of the room.
cotton mill, which was just east of the Thompson’s house at First and colored Legion jersey. We had an We had two barrels full of water that
annual parade at the beginning of
the plant manager’s house, now the Augustus. We maintained it and all we would push out and that’s how
RCAF Wing. The cotton mill, which of the kids would gather there and we each season complete with a band, we flooded the ice, every hour on the
where all teams would march from the
had employed a couple thousand had access to it 24/7. In the winter we hour. At 10 o’clock scheduled hockey
Legion down second street to the Bob
people at one time, burned to the would flood it for hockey - we would finished and the rink rats would play
ground on Halloween night in 1963. run a hose across Augustus Street Turner.” shinny hockey until 1am. I did that five
Gary recalls watching the fire saying, from Don Fraser’s house to the box.” At 15, Gary joined the reserves, nights a week, and on the weekends, I
“My bedroom was in the back of the serving with the SD&G Highlanders played hockey.”
Some very good lacrosse and
house facing the canal. I watched it for the next six years. Sonny Herrington
hockey players came out of the Continued on page 35
was a Veteran and Remembrance Day