Minor Hockey Roundup

  The Upper Canada Minor Hockey League’s South Dundas Novice C2 Lions celebrated their championship season at the Cedar Glen Golf Course on Sunday. The event kicked off with the awarding of certificates and hoodies […]

Morrisburg and District figure skater, Alexis Engwerda added yet another award to a successful season on Sunday, May 3, when she was named the Eastern Ontario Section Program Assistant of the Year at the annual awards gala held in Kingston.

“Alexis has had an incredibly exciting and successful skating season,” says her professional skate coach, Allison Scott. “And her latest achievement of Program Assistant of the Year for the Eastern Ontario Section is the ‘icing on the cake’ so to speak.”

Since the spring of 2014, Engwerda has earned her Gold Skills, passed seven dances and a junior silver freeskate test and half of her senior silver freeskate. She was the silver medalist at the Eastern Ontario Championships and then Champion at the All-Ontario.

Still on the ice, but now giving back to her favourite sport and the young skaters in the Morrisburg and District Figure Skate program, Engwerda was chosen by her club for the Program Assistant Award for her “unwavering devotion and selfless commitment to teaching the younger skaters twice a week on the club Canskate program.”

She was also nominated by her club for the award at the Section level.

“This is a remarkable achievement and exciting for the club to have someone recognized at the Section level,” said Scott. 

The Eastern Ontario Section Achievement Awards pay tribute to athletes, coaches, officials and volunteers who make a significant impact to figure skating.

Engwerda and the award winners from throughout Eastern Ontario were piped into the Vimy Officer’s mess, CFB Kingston and served lunch before receiving their awards.

Alaine Chartrand, Canadian National Senior Women’s silver medallist, who has been training with some local skaters during the spring season in Cardinal, was also present and recognized for her successful season. She spoke of her adventures and challenges of the past year.

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Plans are falling into place for District 8 (Stormont, Dundas, Glengarry, Prescott-Russell and Akwesasne) to host the 55+ Eastern Regional games on August 20, in Cornwall and area. 

Games chair George Baker, said “preparations are nearing completion to host a total of 12 games comprising bid euchre, cribbage, contract bridge, darts, euchre, floor shuffleboard, golf, five-pin bowling, carpet bowling, tennis, pickleball and prediction walking.”

The Eastern Region of the Ontario Senior Games Association comprises seven districts stretching from the Québec border in the east to Kingston and Frontenac, and Renfrew in the west. Its northern and southern borders are the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers respectively.

Over 400 participants from the eastern region are registered for the games, said Baker. 

Additionally, 68 people are involved as convenors, non-participants, volunteers and officials. 

The most popular game is bowling, singles and team, whose participants number close to 100. Following bowling are golf with 45 players and floor shuffleboard with 41 players.

District 8 has the distinction of fielding three teams in men’s doubles tennis in the 75+ age category.

The day ends with a closing banquet in Cornwall’s Civic Centre. 

During the banquet, the participants will be entertained by a slide show of the day’s activities and by Glengarry’s Celtic musical group, the Brigadoons.

The games will be played at the following venues, with their respective start times: 

Benson Centre–Bid Euchre 10 a.m; Euchre 10 a.m; Women’s Tennis 9:30 a.m; Prediction Walking 9  a.m.

La Citadelle High School–Pickleball 9 a.m.

General Vanier School–Carpet Bowling 10 a.m.

Chateau Cornwall–Contract Bridge 10 a.m.

Centre Charles-Émile Claude–Cribbage 10 a.m.

Royal Canadian Legion–Darts 10 a.m.

Olympia Bowling Lanes–Bowling 10:30 a.m.

Summer Heights Golf Links–Golf 10:30 a.m.

Alexandria, Tim Horton’s Dome–Men’s Tennis 9:30 a.m.

Long Sault Arena–Shuffleboard 9 a.m.

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