Dan Frawley named Jr. B Lions coach

 

South Dundas and area crafters and artists will be packing up their products and heading to the Legion in Morrisburg, this coming weekend to participate in the 38th annual Craft Show.

Organized annually by the Morrisburg and District Arts and Crafts Association, the show offers up some great products for some early Christmas shopping or shopping in general.

Members of the association and guest artists will be on hand this Saturday and Sunday (9 a.m. until 4 p.m. each day), November 15-16, for the always popular show that has made itself part of the South Dundas community.

In the last few years, the association has set up a $1 or non-perishable food donation  for entry with the money and food collected to assist the Dundas County Food Bank.

“In addition, after all of our show expenses are paid, the leftover money is divided and donated to Winchester District Memorial Hospital, Hospice and a Seaway High School bursary for a student in an Arts program,” explains association chair Linda Schenck.

“Everything we do is helping somebody in the community,” says Schenck. “We are completely non-profit.  We rent from the Legion, and try to make a small donation to the local church group that provides a food table.”

Schenck has been crafting for many years, and has been with the local association since the early 90’s. Although she has had some health issues the last few weeks, she says she is excited about the show.

“I don’t have much crafts, but I will have my baked goods,” says Schenck who is well known for the goodies she sells Sundays at Mchaffie’s Flea Market north of Morrisburg.

“I do have some floral arrangements ready, and some tole painting along with my dolls (lace attired angels).”

Schenck is excited to welcome to the show, a friend from Nova Scotia who will be featuring her thrummed mitts. “They are the mitts the fishermen wear on the boats. They are really thick and really warm. Your hands will never freeze in these as the wool is all inside and they repel the water.”

Schenck, who sells the mitts on a regular basis, says, “I’ve had people come and buy them, and then come back for more.”

As for her own work, she has “its and bits of things. I do quite an assortment. I like taking old posts, putting a base on them and turning them into snowmen. I use all salvaged wood pieces that you would normally throw in the burn pile.”

Schenck is co-chairing this year’s show with Melinda Wert, who will be there with her stained glass art. “The show has really come along well. We have some new crafters who will provide a real variety of products.”

“We will have maple syrup products and a lady who makes cosmetic out of bee products. There will be stained glass, tole painting and Dwight and Helder (Morrisburg artists) will be there with their new fabulous crafted baby dolls that look just like new born babies.”

Barn Full of Goodies is also new this year, and a florist who will have fresh flower arrangements.

“This is what I love doing,” says Schenck of her crafting and of all the good the show does in the community. “I love to raise money to give to people who need it. I have spent most of my life helping people. I love doing the crafts and my baking, and of course meeting all the people. It gets me out of the house and keeps me occupied.

The South Dundas Arts and Crafts Association is inviting the South Dundas community and neighbouring communities to come out, make a few purchases and help to support local artists and the community.

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The Morrisburg Junior B Lions are slowly creeping up to the finish line of the 2011/12 season and with the end now in sight it appears they should be able to remain out of the St. Lawrence Division’s basement position.

In fact, mathematically it is still possible that they could end up in fourth spot for a playoff position but it is a mathematical equation that includes two games against the second place Casselman Vikings and the third against the Char-Lan Rebels.

“We would need to win all of our games and Char-Lan would have to lose all of their games,” says discouraged Lions coach Thom Racine who has experienced a season that at no time saw a full Lions bench…for one reason or another.

The latest was the absence of goaltender Mikael Dion who was prevented from making last Tuesday night’s game against the Rebels in Williamstown due to a snowstorm. Dion travels faithfully from the Montreal area.

Then less than one minute into the game Michael Poapst set up Michel Lefebvre for a beaut of a goal, but caught watching the puck and was labelled by a Char-Lan defenceman.

The concussion puts Poapst out for the remainder of the season.

After the injury, the Lions were unable to get it together and the Rebels went on to build a 2-1 first period lead, as they headed for the 8-5 win.

After two periods the Rebels were ahead 6-3, the Lions counting a pair of power play goals from Brayden Girard and Chris Rutley.

The Rebels stretched it to 8-3 early in the third period and the Lions added two more late in the frame from Michel Lefebvre and Sylvester Bzdyl.

Thursday night, February 2, the Lions travelled to Casselman where they were defeated 7-1. 

“We played a pretty good game against Casselman,” said Racine. “I know people will ask how you can say that when you lost 7-1, but I really wasn’t disappointed in our play.”

The Vikings led 3-1 after the first period and added another two goals in each of the second and third periods.

Marc Antoine Kamel, with help from Sylvester Bzdyl scored the lone Lions goal while the Lions were short-handed in the first period.

“We proved we could play with them Thursday night,” says Racine. “We just can’t score. You work so hard and you get no reward ant then they skate down the ice and boom. I felt our kids showed up to play Thursday night and I wasn’t disappointed.”

Then on Saturday night, the Lions were in Alexandria without the services of Chris Rutley who was sitting out a game for having had his third fight this year during the Tuesday night, Casselman game.

The Lions left the Alexandria rink, with their second consecutive 7-1 loss, but as they would find out later, there should have been more than just Chris Rutley sitting out.

An Alexandria player had, likewise experienced his third fight during the Glens game Friday night in Winchester and should not have played against Morrisburg.

When the game sheets were submitted the league officials noted that he had played and the game was awarded to Morrisburg.

“We played pretty well in Alexandria. They scored three quick goal late in the first period and we went into the second period down 4-0. I told the boys just to out and fight back, and they did. We out shot them in the second period and hit a couple of posts and a leg. I thought at least we battled back.”

The lone Lions’ goal was scored by Michel Lefebvre assisted by Clark Veenstra and Ryan Ward.

To finish out the season, the Lions have signed Jessie Brown from Metcalfe. “We had one card open and with the loss of Poapst, we figured we could use an extra body,” says Racine.

The Lions will end their regular season this weekend.

They will host the Casselman Vikings twice, on Friday night at 8:15 p.m. and again on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. (make-up game). Saturday night they are in Williamstown for a 7:45 p.m. match against the Char-Lan Rebels.

As the St. Lawrence Division teams head into the final weekend of play, stats show that the Winchester Hawks and the Casselman Vikings have locked up their first and second place finishes. Alexandria has secured third place and Char-Lan holds fourth place with 31 points. The Lions are next with 25 and the Wolves are in the basement with 21.

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The South Dundas Midget B Rep Lions attended the Capital New Year’s tournament in Ottawa this past weekend at the Bell Sensplex.  Unfortuantely, for the Lions, it turned out to be a rough weekend as they were unable to score enough to move on after the preliminary games.  

The Lions opened in the tournament against the Hamilton Phantoms who came out and took the game to the Lions physically.  

The Phantoms scored once in the first, twice in the second and two more times in the third to blank the Lions, 5-0.  Zack Frawley was in net and Tanner Hummel was named the Lions player of the game.

Game two for the Lions was against the Pembroke Lumber Kings.  

Although the Lions carried more of the play, they were unable to get on the score sheet until the final five minutes of the third period.  

At that point the Lumber Kings were leading 3-0.  

The Lions’ lone goal was scored by Aaron Smith, assisted by Spencer Heldens and Trey Suddard.  

Josh Martineau was in net and Jordan Smail was named the player of the game for the Lions.  

Although the loss eliminated the Lions from advancing to the quarter finals, they still had one game left to play against Deux Rives Barracudas (Pierrefonds, a suburb of Montreal).

In an evenly played game, the Lions fell behind 2-0 before mounting a third period comeback, showing great determination and character.  

Trey Suddard scored the first Lions goal assisted by Aaron Smith.  Then with under two minutes left in the game, Jordan Smail (from Toby Mullin) scored the tying goal.  

Zack Frawley started the game in net and was relieved half way through by Josh Martineau.  Toby Mullin was named the Lions player of the game.

The Lions return to action this Thursday, January 9 at 8 p.m. in Morrisburg vs South Grenville.  

They will follow that with two away games, Sunday and Monday, the Lions and will be back on home ice on January 16.

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