March 2013 – Page 6 – Morrisburg Leader

Earl Stanley Brown

March 6, 2013 Editor

A lifetime resident of the area, Earl Brown passed away at the Carefor Hospice in Cornwall, on Thursday, February 28, 2013. He was 73.

Earl was born at home in Morewood, on April 23, 1939, to his parents Stanley and Violet Brown (nee James). As a child, he worked on the family farm while attending Morewood School.

In 1958, the family relocated to Glenn Becker where they ran the Brown’s Service Station.

Earl and Carole (McHaffie of Glen Becker) were married on September 3, 1960, and moved down the road to Froatburn. During this time, Earl worked for The Department of Highways (Iroquois).

In 1966, Earl and Carole, and one-year-old son Andrew, moved to Nudell Bush. Shortly after the move, Earl started work at the Rohm and Haas Plant in Morrisburg where he remained until his retirement in 1994.

Earl started playing hockey when he was 16, not knowing then that his passion for the sport would become the foundation of his existence. He started playing organized hockey in 1955, at age 16. He played with the Morrisburg Juveniles in 1955 and 1956, and then with the Winchester Juniors from 1956-1960. From there, he played Intermediate hockey with Winchester from 1960-69. He led the team in scoring in 1965-66-67 and won the St Lawrence scoring title in 1965-66.

Earl loved his hockey and hockey took him to many places, Nashville, the Yukon, Las Vegas, Florida and many cities in Ontario.

One of his highlights was playing in a gold medal game for the Cornwall Hubs at the old Montreal Forum in 1987.

Earl enjoyed many sports activities such as broomball, baseball, golf, fishing, hunting and cheering for his Detroit Red Wings.

Earl is survived by his wife Carole, his son Andy (Cindy) Brown of R.R. # 1 Morrisburg, his grandson Ryan Brown and his siblings Ralph Brown of Morrisburg and Mildred Brown of Windsor. He is also survived by nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents Stanley and Violet Brown (nee James).

Friends called at the Marsden and McLaughlin Funeral Home, Williamsburg, on Tuesday from 6-9 p.m. Funeral service was held at the funeral home on Wednesday, March 6th, at 11a.m., with Rev. Geoff Howard officiating. Interment will be held in the spring at Maple Ridge Cemetery, Chesterville.

Pallbearers were Ryan Brown, Brodey Casselman, Len Bellamy, and Pete Clement.

Donations to Winchester Hospital or Carefor Hospice would be gratefully acknowledged by the family. Online condolences may be made at marsdenmclaughlin.com.

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Carl Russell Banford

March 6, 2013 Editor

Carl Russell Banford died peacefully at his home in Iroquois on Thursday, January 31, 2013, at the age of 90 years.

Carl was born on October 9, 1922, in Matilda Township, to Alexander Banford and the former Annie Mae Fader.

He was raised and educated in Maxville, in his early years before his family moved back to Iroquois.

He worked for Jack Kerr as an apprentice then for Esso Home heating after which he retired at the age of 53 years.

Carl married Hilda Mustard on July 24, 1943, in Iroquois. They had two children Joanne Banford of Iroquois, and Eric and his wife Alice of Perth.

Carl served during the Second World War. He enlisted at the age of 20, was captured on the fifth day and was a POW for 11 months. He was released in May 1945.

Carl was a lifetime member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 370 in Iroquois. He served 28 years on the Iroquois Fire Department and two years as a Sunday school teacher at St. John’s Anglican Church.

For many years Carl was an avid carpenter and painter. After retiring, he worked at Upper Canada Village as a tinsmith and taught many students his trade.

Carl leaves to mourn his wife Hilda Banford, his daughter Joanne, his son Eric and his wife Alice and his sister Frances Andrew of Peterborough.

He will be lovingly remembered by his grandchildren Joshua (Amanda) and Erica (Rob) Hodgson Shane and Pat Dawson and by his great-grandchildren Liam Thomas and Alexandria Li.

He was predeceased by his parents and his infant brother Gordon. He is survived by several nieces and nephews.

Friends called at the Marsden and McLaughlin Funeral Home, Iroquois, on Wednesday, February 6, from 4-7 p.m. A Legion Service was held at the funeral home on Wednesday evening at 7 p.m.

Funeral service was held at St. John`s Anglican Church in Iroquois, on Thursday, February 7 at 11 a.m. Donations to St. John`s Anglican Church in Iroquois or the charity of choice would be gratefully acknowledged by the family. Online condolences may be made at marsdenmclaughlin.com.

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Jane Ewing

March 6, 2013 Editor

Born in Pierre Tautreau (Ville) Montreal, Quebec, on February 7, 1956, long-time Iroquois resident Jane (nee Keeler) Ewing passed away suddenly at Winchester District Memorial Hospital on Thursday, January 3, 2013. She was 56 years old.

Jane was very active in community life and well known in Iroquois and Morrisburg.

She was the owner of Pokey’s Place in Morrisburg, and for many years she served the community as the coordinator of the Morrisburg (BIA).

For many years prior to opening Pokey’s Place, Jane worked alongside her mother, Ann as a typesetter at the Iroquois Post/Chieftan newspaper in Iroquois. At times she also doubled as a receptionist.

Jane also worked alongside her husband Bill in their cleaning business, cleaning the Bank of Montreal for 30 years. Working as a secretary at the Iroquois Municipal Office, Jane attained her AMCT designation in 1998.

Jane was always ready and willing to help everyone. She served her home town of Iroquois as a councilor and Hydro Commissioner during the last term of council before the amalgamation of South Dundas.

She served on the Iroquois Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary and the Board of the Winchester District Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.

Anyone who knew Jane knew of her special affection for all types of animals especially stray cats and dogs.

Jane was the loving daughter of the late David and Ann Keeler of Iroquois.

Jane is survived by her loving husband of 38 years, Bill Ewing. She will be sadly missed by brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, cousins and close special friends Gwen and Rod McGill of Iroquois and Joan and Jim Grant of Cardinal.

Friends called at the Marsden and McLaughlin Funeral Home Iroquois, on Tuesday, January 8th from 6-9 p.m.

For those wishing, donations may be made to the SPCA.

Inurnment will take place at the Iroquois Point Cemetery on Friday, May 24th, 2013.

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Perspectives by Rev. Duncan Perry

March 6, 2013 Editor

Yielding to His Loving Care

I read a story a few days ago of a British Sculptor who carves miniature works of art from grains of sand or individual granules of sugar. His painstaking works of art can only be seen as they are viewed through a microscope.

The story reminds me of The Mighty God who takes the time to work in our individual lives. He takes the time to work in the smallest details of our life so that His great work of Grace can be seen by people whom we come in contact with and who may not know Him or His goodness.

The thing we need to remember is we are not like the grain of sand or the sugar granule. We are created by God in such a way that we can cooperate with Him or resist Him.

There is a chorus we sometimes sing in church, it has these words, “something beautiful, something good, all my confusion He understood, all I had to offer Him, was brokenness and strife, but He made something beautiful of my life.”

Maybe you’re reading this and you are thinking – I know people who claim to be Christians and they’re not all that beautiful.

May I tell you every Christian is a work in progress.

God is not finished with me yet. I’m not what I was and thank God I’m not what I’m going to be.

As long as I am willing to submit my life to the Perfect hands of the Master Sculptor, one day I will be what He sees that I can be. That is true of each one.

God, you see, is the ultimate artist. If you are willing to be His child, He is, in every situation you face, preparing you for greatness.

Maybe someone is reading this who would say, I’m tired of trying. That’s probably the best place you can be. May I encourage you to stop trying to be good enough and let God have His way in your life.

After all, He is the one who knows what purpose He created you for.

Just like the grain of sand which had no say whatsoever in what the sculptor made, we need to just let God have His way in our lives.

Let me close with the words of Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”

One more verse of scripture, Philippians 1:6 says, “being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

What we all need to do is just yield to His loving care. By the way we are truly enjoying the beautiful, warm, sunny weather here in Florida.

Rev. Duncan Perry,

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Morrisburg Curling-Busy calendar ahead

March 6, 2013 Editor

Morrisburg Curling Club member Wendy Casselman, who curls with the Winchester LaPierre provincial senior finalists, is back from the Annadale Curling Club in Ajax.

The team was in elite company, and although they didn’t win the championship, a noteworthy foursome that also fell by the wayside was the St. Catharines’ Marilyn Bodogh quartet.

Curlers with long memories may remember Marilyn as Provincial, Canadian and World champion in 1986 (defeating former world champion Linda Moore – since then a commentator for TSN curling coverage). Marilyn won everything again in 1996.

Other teams in the mix this year with Wendy were from Oshawa, Leaside, Guelph, Galt (the eventual winner), Burlington, and Rideau, who the Winchester team defeated.

Wendy’s team, skipped by Janet LaPierre, also included Janet Levere and Janet Thompson. They had close matches in four of their seven competitions. Hope you make it to the final again next year, folks. Well done!

Other events upcoming at our local club are a men’s senior friendly match, March 13, a two-person bonspiel on March 17, various rentals, and our closing bonspiels on Saturday, April 6. League play continues, and we’ll have final results when they become available. Several teams are out at bonspiels in succeeding weeks and we’ll get their results to you as well. So far we are aware of little rockers’ events, the City of Ottawa bonspiel, a 222 in Navan, the McLennan Cup in Cornwall, as well as a Grandmothers’ Bonspiel in Winchester. Keep us posted on results, and let us know of any events we have missed.

We expect our closing bonspiel this year will again feature a lunch, banquet, annual meeting and a chance to see the club championship match. Don’t forget to sign up for our closing ‘spiel and the banquet. It’s a wonderful way to close out the season.

Susan McIntosh reports that the final two-person bonspiel will be held on St. Patrick’s Day, Sunday, March 17. Irish stew is promised for the 12 teams that will be needed to make this another successful fundraiser for the club. The sign-up sheet is in the lounge. Irish colours, anyone? Hope to see you there.

Little Rockers Ewan Wilson, Aiden White, Martina Lewis and Nolan Belanger competed in the Zone 1 playdowns last weekend, and we’ll have the final results next time.

And finally, on Monday the executive held another in their series of open meetings to assist in planning the summer upgrading of the club.

Details of the relocation of the bar near the kitchen, entrance to the new upstairs washroom, improvements to the kitchen and modified storage space, as well as thoughts on the ramp at the front door were clarified. Our thanks to the Federal and Provincial governments for the grants the club has received to assist in this work.

Good curling to all!

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Seaway’s Senior Spartans at OFSSA Volleyball

March 6, 2013 Editor

The Seaway District High School senior girls volleyball team is having a big season. On Friday, February 14 at a tournament played at L’Heritage, the Spartans won the “A” Senior Girls Volleyball SD&G Championships and with it the right to compete at the OFSAA qualifier tournament at Plantagenet Catholic High School on Friday, February 22. With their second place finish at the qualifier, the girls are competing at OFSSA this week in Peterborough. Pictured above are team members, l-r, Terran Hall, Sarah Dickey and Vicki Van Hoof. Back, l-r, are Lilace McIntyre, Jessica Hartle, Kaitlyn Geurkink, Casey McNairn, Shannon Van Moorsel, Sophia Currier, Danielle Quenneville, Maggie Perry, Tiffany Roskell and Jamie Webster. Coach Liz Dickie was not available for the photo.

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Atom C Lions oust Demons to advance

March 6, 2013 Editor

Thanks to a pair of third period goals, the South Dundas Atom C Lions wrapped up their four point Upper Canada Minor Hockey league series against the North Dundas Demons with a 2-1 victory here, Sunday afternoon (March 3).

After a scoreless first period, the Demons collected an unassisted goal from Brandon Toll late in the second period, and that goal did the talking until well into the third.

With just over seven minutes left in the game, the Lions T.J. Barnhardt finally put one past Demons goaltender Adrianna VanBreugel to even the game at a goal apiece. Providing the setup were Derrick Jansen and Mackenzie McKee-Markell.

Four minutes later Maclean Machan, with help from McKee-Markell, put the Lions ahead for the first time in the game.

With Olivia Salmon unbeatable in the remainder of the game, the Lions held on to claim the third game win, 2-1, and the series, four points to two.

The four point series between opened on Morrisburg ice, last Thursday, February 28.

The Lions came out strong in the opener to claim the first two points with a 4-1 victory.

They headed to Winchester, Friday night, March 1 with the hopes of putting it away, but the Demons fought back to stay alive with a 4-2 victory.

In the series opener, the Lions went up 2-0 in the first period.

With 2:58 left on the clock Kolby Latulippe counted the first goal with Scott Brooks assisting.

Then, just 13 seconds later, Latulippe set up Trent Rae, and the Lions very quickly found themselves in command of the game.

Another two goals in the second period from Barnhardt and Devon Swindells (unassisted), gave them a 4-0 advantage.

McKee-Markell provided the assist on the Barnhardt goal.

The Demons got one back late in the third period from Justin Dagenais.

In game number two in Winchester, the Demons struck back with a 4-2 win.

The Lions were first on the scoreboard with a first period goal from Callahan Stave assisted by Swindells, but they couldn’t hold on.

Before the first period ended the Hawks evened it with a Brandon Toll counter.

Early in the second period, the Lions again took the lead, this time on a Derrick Jansen goal assisted by Scott Brooks.

But again they couldn’t hold on, and Toll with his second, made it a 2-2 tie.

With just 39 seconds left in the period Justin Dagenais struck for the Hawks to send them into the final frame with a 3-2 lead.

The Demons held on to their advantage until late in the frame when Dagenais put them up 4-2, and that was how it ended.

The Lions now advance to playoff round three against South Grenville. Game dates have not yet been announced.

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Morrisburg Little Rock curlers rock in Russell bonspiel

March 6, 2013 Editor

They were awesome says Morrisburg Curling Club Little Rocks coach Ian Wilson of his young players who competed recently in the annual Big Four curling competition in Russell and the Ran Wiley Memorial Bonspiel in Winchester.

The Morrisburg Little Rocks program was represented by two teams in Russell, with one team going all the way to the A final. The second team lost in an extra end in their second game, which had they won, would have put them in the A final as well.

With just one 11 year old and one 12 year old on the two teams, Wilson, who with his wife Kathyrun the Morrisburg program, says his players did very well in Russell.

“If these guys stick with it for another couple of years, you can’t help but think how much better they are going to be. In two years, they are going to be fantastic.”

Wearing the Morrisburg colours and going all the way to the A final where they lost to an older Metcalfe team were Aiden White, Abby Trizisky, Tommy Derikx and Kyra Lewis.

The second Morrisburg team consisted of Ewan Wilson, Martina Lewis, Nolan Belanger and James Szuky.

At the very popular 12-team Ran Wiley Memorial in Winchester, the Morrisburg teams collected third and eighth place finishes.

Teamed for this bonspiel and the third place finish were Wilson, Emily MacPherson, Johnathon Charette and James Szuky.

Playing to eighth were Aiden White, Martina Lewis, Christian Keeler and Kyra Lewis.

The Morrisburg Little Rocks program has one team competing at the upcoming Zone 1 Playdowns. That team includes White, Wilson, Belanger and Lewis.

The Little Rocks Curling at the Morrisburg club will wrap up on Monday, March 18th.

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Morrisburg & District skaters tops at Interclub

March 6, 2013 Editor

Some 36 skaters wearing the Morrisburg and District Figure Skating Club colours on Saturday, February 23, put it together with some big skates to bring home the District 4 Interclub trophy with a team total of 176 points. It was a clear-cut victory for the Morrisburg skaters over second place Athens skaters who posted 72 points.

Along the road to the win, the Morrisburg skaters, as a group, collected 20 gold medals and two gold certificates, 11 silver medals and nine silver certificates, eight bronze medals and one bronze certificate. Points were also added to the team total with six fourth place finishes.

Twelve young skaters represented the club at the Canskate level with each competing in Elements at their respective stages.

Leading their charge were Sarah Stewart and Abigail Smail who both skated to a Gold level certificate in stage 3 Elements.

Silver Certificates: Stage 2-Emma Morrow; Stage 3-Lilly Napier, Olivia Chafe, Miriam Biemond; Stage 4-Marin Morrow, Shianne Johnson; Stage 5-Jesssica Groves, Hannah Biemond, Hannah Warren.

Bronze Certificates: Stage 3-Madison Johnson.

Gold Medals

Team Elements: Introductory-Abby Smith, Xandra Furo and Mikaela Furo; Pre-Preliminary Elements–(Flight 3)-Erika Jordan, Cameryn Broad and Ashley Bouwman–(Flight 1) Reagan Belanger, Katie Buter and Olivia Hart.

Pairs (routine): Pre-Preliminary–Erika Jordan & Reagan Belanger; Preliminary (Flight 1)–Kendra Buter & Cameryn Broad, (Flight 2)–Taylor Pilon & Kaitlyn Stewart; Sr. Bronze–Abby MacMillan & Alexis Engwerda.

Team Spins: Pre-Preliminary–Olivia Hart, Reagan Belanger & Katie Buter; Preliminary (Fl 1) Abigail Jordan, Taylor Pilon & Kaitlyn Stewart, (Fl 2) Trina Dykstra-MacPherson & Kendra Buter; Junior Bronze–Abby MacMillan & Alexis Engwerda.

Shadow Skills: Preliminary-Erika Jordan & Reagan Belanger; Jr. Bronze-Abigail Jordan & Kristyn Van Hoof; Sr. Bronze-Kaitlyn Stewart & Alexis Engwerda.

Shadow Dance: Jr. Bronze-Kaitlyn Stewart & Alexis Engwerda; Preliminary-Erika Jordan & Reagan Belanger.

Gold Medals in Solo Spirals: Pre-preliminary-Erika Jordan; Jr. Bronze-Kristyn Van Hoof; Open-Ali Van Hoof; Pre-Prelimminary-Olivia Hart.

Silver Medals

Team Elements: Preliminary-Kendra Buter & Trina Dykstra-MacPherson.

Pairs: Intro-Xandra & Mikaela Furo; Pre-preliminary-Olivia Hart &Katie Buter; Sr. Bronze-Kristyn Van Hoof & Abigail Jordan.

Team Spins: Pre-preliminary-Cameryn Broad, Erika Jordan &Ashley Bouwman.

Shadow Dance: Junior Bronze-Abby MacMillan & Taylor Pilon (Fl 2); Kendra Buter & Mackenna Kyle (Fl 1).

Solo Spiral: Mackenna Kyle-Jr. Bronze.

Team Spiral: Intermediate. Tied for first place, two teams. Abby MacMillan, Alexis Engwerda, Taylor Pilon & Kaitlyn Stewart; Kristyn Van Hoof, Mackenna Kyle, Kendra Buter & Trina Dykstra-MacPherson.

Silver Medals

Relay: Junior Relay Team-Erika Jordan, Reagan Belanger, Katie Buter, Olivia Hart & Cameryn Broad.

Bronze Medals

Solo Elements: Madison Hart-Stage 6.

Team Elements: Preliminary-Kaitlyn Stewart, Taylor Pilon, Abigail Jordan; Junior Bronze-Abby MacMillan & Alexis Engwerda (Fl-2), Kristyn Van Hoof & Mackenna Kyle (Fl-3); Open-Gillian Beatson, Ali Van Hoof, Alyssa MacMillan.

Pairs: Intro-Abby Smith & Madison Hart

Solo Spiral: Open-Gillian Beatson

Shadow Dance: Jr. Bronze-Kristyn Van Hoof & Abigail Jordan.

Fourth Place Ribbon

Team Elements: Open-Gillian Beatson, Ali Van Hoof, Alyssa MacMillan.

Pairs: Pre-preliminary-Alice Cameron & Katie McCaffrey.

Team Spins: Jr. Bronze-Kristyn Van Hoof & Mackenna Kyle.

Pre-preliminary Solo Spins: Reagan Belanger (Fl-3), Mikaela Furo (Fl-6), Abby Smith(Fl-5).

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Young hero’s keen ears lead to neighbour’s rescue

March 6, 2013 Editor

From 9 a.m. Saturday March 2, until 3 p.m. Sunday March 3, 70 year old Elsie Knight laid outside the back door of her home with a broken leg, unable to move.

She laid there until the keen ears of a 10 year old boy heard her calls for help.

Tyler Barkley, Elsie’s neighbour, heard her calls from his County Road 18 home, which is about 100 meters away.

“I was outside shovelling the ditch, looking for some ice,” said Tyler. “I thought I heard her calling her dog, but then I heard it better. I heard ‘Help me please!’”

Hearing that call for help, Tyler got his dad, Rick. The two listened and heard the calls for help. It was then that Rick went to Elsie’s and found her outside on the ground.

“My dad threw his coat over her. She was soaked because she was right under the eavestrough,” said Tyler.

It was Rick who called the ambulance.

Elsie has slipped while shovelling the snow off the back stoop and broke her leg just above the knee.

Elsie was taken to Ottawa Hospital, but is likely to be moved to Winchester Hospital soon. Tyler is planning to visit Elsie there on Sunday.

Tyler credits his ears with making it possible for his dad to find Elsie. “I hunt,” said Tyler. That hobby has obviously allowed him to develop very strong listening skills.

The whole experience hasn’t changed Tyler at all, according to his dad.

Tyler is not sure what to think of all the attention and of seeing himself on the television news. “We got lots of phone calls,” said Tyler.

His friends at school thought what he did was pretty cool though.

Tyler is in grade four at St. Mary- St. Cecilia Catholic School in Morrisburg.

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