The United Arab Emirates is in the midst of revolutionizing its education system and Kristen Ciccacci is honoured to be part of that effort.
The 27-year-old Chatham native is home visiting family during a school holiday from her Grade 2 teaching job in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the wealthy Arab country.
Ciccacci said the recently formed Abu Dhabi Education Council has been given the mandate to raise the level of education. She is one of 400 foreign teachers who have been hired to help achieve that goal.
“I know that I’m part of something big for this country,” she said. “This is really revolutionary what they’re doing and to be a part of that really means a lot to me.”
Ciccacci, who earned her masters in teaching while studying in Australia, said this has been a great challenge as her first full-time teaching position.
She teaches English, math and science and has been put in charge of the Grade 2 science curriculum.
Ciccacci said she is fortunate to work at a great school which has modern computer equipment, including Smart Boards.
“They give you the bricks and you have to build the castle,” she said.
She added her principal “has an amazing vision for how she wants her school to progress.
“I’m surrounded by wonderful people who are embracing this change,” she said, adding she works with six other teachers from Canada and the U.S.
Ciccacci is also enjoying the two classes she teaches, which have 19 and 20 girls in them.
She said the girls often bring her gifts such as flowers and stuffed teddy bears and give her love notes.
“They’re absolutely adorable,” she said.
Ciccacci has grown quite fond of the UAB, which she said is very liberal and modern in the way it has embraced a lot of things from the western world while maintaining many of its traditions.
“It’s like a blast from the past and a blast from the future all in one,” she said.
Since starting her job in September, Ciccacci said she has missed her family and friends, as well as one other thing about being Canadian.
“Believe it or not, I miss the snow,” she laughed.
“I live in the desert,” she said. “I get sunshine and sand all day long, which is wonderful, but one week out of the year, I wouldn’t mind a little snow.”

The Downtown Chatham Centre is getting into the eco-friendly spirit by offering reusable canvass bags that feature the artistic talents of five elementary students.
Sarah Crittenden, 13, who attends Dresden Area Central School, had her artistic collage with such slogans as “Think Green” “Be Green” and “Shop Green” selected as the first prize winner.
In addition to having her design being prominently displayed on the bright blue bags, Sarah received a personal $50 gift card from the DCC along with a $100 DCC gift card for her school.
The four other winners, who have their designs featured together on the other side of the bag, all received a $25 DCC gift card.
They are:
• Caitlin Patrick, 11, from McNaughton Avenue Public School;
• William Hong, 10, from Gregory Drive Public School;
• Morgan Ovecka, 14, from Dresden Area Central School; and
• Marley Blommers, 11, from Gregory Drive Public School.
DCC general manager Lynn O’Brien congratulated the contests on doing a great job.
She said the bags will be sold for $1 with the proceeds going towards a non-profit group that is carrying a green initiative such as planting trees.

Congratulations goes out to seven young students of the Snow’s Academy of Martial Arts who earned their junior black belt in Kenpo Karate last Saturday.
Several family and friends gathered to watch Connor Charlton, David Diruzza, Dante Drury, Nicholas Oriet, Sammy Orlando, Luke Wiersma and Baylee Montgomery undergo a rigorous series of testing.
The event was the first Junior Black Belt Extravaganza Snow’s Academy of Martial Arts has held in Chatham.
The young students were judged by a black belt panel consisting of Sebastian Snow, master instructor, Christine Kent, master instructor and guests Tim Marchand, T.J. Vandeven and Scott Waekens.

The 2010 Tartan Sertoma Kub Kar Rally and Dragster Meet, held last Saturday, was its usual success.
Here’s a list of the winners from the Kub Kar Rally.
Awards in design: 1st Charlie Cofell, 1st Blenheim; 2nd Jacob Collop, 4th Chatham; 3rd Hayden Kelley, 11th Chatham.
Awards in originality: 1st Michael Willburger, 14th Chatham; 2nd Christopher Osborne, 1st Blenheim; 3rd Brayden Willey, 1st Tilbury.
Awards in finish: 1st Pierre Caron, 14th Chatham; 2nd Nick Wammes, 1st Florence; 3rd Anthony McGee, 11th Chatham.
Top six for speed: 1st Fan Myers 11th Chatham; 2nd Carson Kale, 11th Chatham; 3rd Aaron Meko, 4th Chatham; 4th Christopher Babcock, 1st Wabash; 5th Daniel Cook, 1st Florence; 6th Cody Brodie, 11th Chatham.
Dragster meet results.
Originality: 1st Coltyn Matthews, 14th Chatham; 2nd Peter Mellis, 1st Florence; 3rd Thomas Southern, 1st Florence.
Design: 1st Bradyn Matthews, 11th Chatham; 2nd Thomas Glasier, 1st Tilbury; 3rd Joshua Tullo, 11th Chatham.
Finish: 1st Aaron Funstin, 11th Chatham; 2nd Jordan Detruck, 11th Chatham; 3rd Ian Van Arkel, 1st Wabash.
Ian Van Arkel has the fast car in all classes as well as in the A Class. Colin Rawlings, 19th Chatham, finished second in the A Class.
B Class: 1st Taylor Machacek, 1st Florence; 2nd Katharina Robinson, 1st Florence.
C Class: 1st Zachery Kelly, 11th class; 2nd Nathan Couvillan, 11th Chatham.

eshreve@chathamdailynews.ca

It’s been almost a month since my last post.

Been busy. Sorry.

For what it’s worth — the three people reading this probably think it’s worth a lot — I pledge to throw some thoughts down with a little more consistency from now on. Promise.

So I was on my way to the Colts game on Thursday when I came to the startling realization that Barrie’s Ontario Hockey League outfit had not lost a game all season with yours truly in attendance.

I haven’t been able to cover every game in person. Working in a one-person sports department makes that impossible. 

But I did come into Thursday’s game feeling like a bit of a lucky charm, having covered 25 of Barrie’s 49 regular-season games on site, both at home and on the road, and helping guide the team to victory through my key play (or sitting around watching from the press box, if we need to go into detail.)

Armed with this piece of knowledge, I couldn’t contain myself, so in the late stages of Thursday’s game I told Colts power-play coach Frank Carnevale that, indeed, the team has me to thank for its run of success this season. 

Cue the kiss of death.

Covering my 26th game of the year and Barrie’s 50th — an Eastern Conference barn-burner between Barrie and the Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors at the Barrie Molson Centre — the inevitable occurred.

The Majors scored a 3-2 shootout win. And I was there.

The kiss of death — as Carnevale witnessed — is apparently alive and well.

I guess the Colts won’t be handing me the keys to the BMC this season after all.

It reminded me of a situation early last season involving our sister paper, The Sudbury Star. The paper ran a story on then-Barrie Colts forward Cory McGillis, essentially pumping the Sudbury-area native’s tires and talking to him about how much he loves playing for Barrie, yadda, yadda.

McGillis was traded to Plymouth less than 24 hours later, the same day the feature ran in the Sudbury paper.

Gotta love the kiss of death.

Game on.

Heading into the final month of the regular season in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League there is one certainty and several probables.

What we know is that the Manitoulin Islanders will again finish last in the West Division and with the worst record in the NOJHL.

What is probable is that the East Division will finish as is with the Abitibi Eskimos in first place followed by the North Bay Trappers, Sudbury Jr. Wolves and Temiscaming Royals.

What is also probable is that the Soo Thunderbirds will finish atop the West.

Then there are the Soo Eagles and Blind River Beavers.

Going into play this week, the second-place Eagles lead the third-place Beavers by 2 points in the battle for home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

The Eagles have 3 big games in hand on the Beavers but the Michiganders have a tougher schedule remaining.

The 2 teams do meet one another 3 more times — twice in the Michigan Soo — and those games could well determine who finishes higher.

Who do I like, the Eagles or the Beavers?

Personally, I think the Eagles have been the overachievers thus far.

Personally, I think the Beavers have more talent and depth than the Eagles.

Outside of Ryan McAleese, Brian Depp and Aaron Leonard, I don’t know if the Eagles have another impact forward.

The Beavers, on the other hand, have players galore among the NOJHL scoring leaders and Matt Dozois, Chad Richard, Brandon Ominika, Drew MacMillan, Nathan MacLeod and rookie Brett Finday are all forwards who I would call impact guys.

Plus, I like Blind River’s defensive corps a lot more.

Josh McCully, Grant Paulson, Duncan Green, Kyle Paat, Corey Jackson, Kelly Barrett and Gabe West represent the 7-man Beavers blueline brigade and I know that coach Jim Capy has a tough decision to make in trying to decide who the odd man out is on a given night.

From the Eagles, Anthony Raymond is their best defenceman and after him, the others are average.

If the Eagles do have an advantage it’s between the pipes and if the Soo tandem of John Kleinhans and Michael Doan is better than the Blind River duo of Sam Foley and Bobby Raine, it’s not by much.

Coaching?

Paul Theriault of the Eagles is a career coach who has had success — lots of it — in the Ontario Hockey League, National Hockey League and in various Euopean outposts. Theriault is capably assisted by Dennis Bolton and the Eagles staff could further be strengthened depending on Kevin Cain.

Cain, who coached the erstwhile Soo Indians to the ‘06-07 NOJHL championship, is rumoured to be poised to join the Eagles as an assistant to Theriault in either the managerial or coaching end of things.

Then again, Cain just may decide to stay where he is as a scout for North Bay. Or the Eagles may decide to maintain the status quo.

As for Blind River’s Capy, he may not possess the coaching tenure of Theriault. But I don’t think there’s a coach in the NOJHL who Capy takes a back seat to.

Buckle up.

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I have had a few folks who aren’t registered to post on this Blog ask me how to go about doing so. Right now, the “Register” button does not appear on the OspreyBlogs.com home page. I have brought it to the attention of the folks at Sun Media and hopefully it’s not long before the matter is resolved.

Remember the story about Chatham resident Darrin Canniff who unexpectedly received 65 letters his grandfather Sgt. Wilfred Littlejohns had written while serving in the First World War?
This turned out to be a rare find that First World War collectors could only dream of having.
It appears fate has smiled on him again with respect to finding more invaluable family heirlooms from his grandfather’s military service to Canada.
Shortly after Canniff received the letters late last year from a cousin doing genealogy research, he began a personal quest to find the medals his grandfather had earned during the war.
He was told by war history buffs and collectors that finding the medals “would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.”
Well, six weeks after beginning his search, Canniff found what he was looking for — the World War One Trio of medals earned by his grandfather, which include the Victory medal and Service medal.
Canniff said the medals were acquired more than three decades ago by a collector living in Sudbury, who purchased them from a relative.
Ironically, when he contacted the collector — who has amassed about 2,000 war medals — Canniff learned his grandfather’s medals “were the very first ones he acquired.”
Since the collector has a strict rule about not selling his medals, Canniff said he had to work out a trade. So he searched on the Internet and found some medals for twice the value to make sure he solidified the deal.
Canniff said he was also able get his grandfather’s dog tags and a few buttons he had taken from the uniform of a German solider as part of the deal.
“That was a complete bonus,” he said.
Having acquired the letters and the medals, Canniff said, “it certainly completes the personal part of this piece of my family history.”
He wants to create a permanent display, noting he plans to search for an authentic First World War helmet and some badges from the First Battalion Expeditionary Force that his grandfather served with.
Canniff, who wasn’t born until nearly 20 years after his grandfather died in 1949, still can’t believe how this has all come together in a matter of months.
“This is truly a special gift and special memory I plan to keep alive in our family,” he said.

Paul Birch is teaming up with the Shepherd’s Way Inn in downtown Chatham to host a benefit dinner for a young Chatham girl whose leukemia is currently in remission.
He said a dinner is being held today from 4-8 p.m. and again on Feb. 6 at the same time. He said tickets are $10 for adults, $6 for kids 10 and under and children three and under eat for free.
Birch said the money raised is going to help with whatever costs Madison Chambers’ family has in helping her deal with this form of cancer.
“This is very, very close to my heart,” he said. “On July 8, 2009, I lost my brother to cancer. I know how tough it is.”
Birch said Madison is the daughter of Christie Chambers, a co-worker at One World Logistics, in Chatham.
“The reason we’re doing this is to try to help one of our own,” he said.

Students and staff at A.A. Wright Public School in Wallaceburg have come through for earthquake victims in Haiti.
Tracey VanDenBossche, a Grade 8 teacher at A.A. Wright Public School in Wallaceburg, in charge of O Ambassadors, said the in-school student group, along with the rest of her class, launched a fundraising campaign called Toonies for Haiti.
“We put out the word to parents . . . if everyone in the school — students and staff — donated a toonie, we would have $500,” she said.
VanDenBossche said the school raised $445 and the O Ambassadors kicked in the other $55 for other fundraising activities they had done to reach the $500 goal.
“It’s a pretty sizable contribution, I think, from our families,” she said, noting the school only has 220 students.
She said the money is going to Free The Children, the organization the O Ambassadors are affiliated with.
VanDenBossche said she spoke with the Free The Children co-ordinator in Toronto and learned that if they specify they want their donations to go to medical supplies, it will be multiplied by 10 by World Medical Relief, which has been a partner with Free the Children for several years.
She is thrilled the donation will now purchase $5,000 worth of medical supplies.

Boy the Owen Sound Attack are a frustrating team to watch. And I can’t imagine what they’re like to coach.

The Attack’s best player is jumped from behind, pummelled to the ice, and there’s no payback.

The defencemen continue to shoot right at the Guelph forwards instead of at the net.

And it’s luck and a prayer that the squad can break out of their own end and get the puck deep.

Yet despite not playing very well – let’s change that, they’re playing terribly – Owen Sound continues to hold a 2-1 lead.

Go figure.

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Owen Sound 2 Guelph 1

Goals: OS – Joey Hishon, Marcus Carroll. G – Taylor Beck.

Goaltenders: Scott Stajcer OS (22/23); Brandon Foote G (16.18)

How many people are amazed at how this community is getting behind the effort to have Chatham-Kent occupy a space on the new Canadian version of the 75th anniversary edition of the Monopoly board game?
Chatham-Kent quickly rose to among the top three communities generating the highest percentage of votes and is showing no signs of stopping.
The Chatham Daily News has received numerous letters to the editor and e-mails encouraging people to vote for Chatham-Kent at www.monopolyvote.ca.
Eileen Barnes began a Facebook group over a week ago and said there is already more than 3,000 members.
“We have some people from Toronto, Ottawa and Niagara Falls, who used to live here, voting for Chatham-Kent,” she said.
Barnes added there are some Oshawa residents, who have never lived in Chatham-Kent, who have joined the group and are supporting the local bid.
“The biggest thing is pride,” the Chatham resident said of why she believes so many people are getting behind Chatham-Kent for this contest.
“Chatham isn’t huge, but it has a lot of history . . . people just love it,” she said.
Barnes said she is tired of having to explain to people she meets from out-of-town that Chatham-Kent is located between London and Windsor.
“This could be a chance to get more people know about our community,” she said.
Barnes said those joining the group receive daily reminders to vote.
Speaking of voting, Maurice Beaulieu contacted The Daily News to get the word out about terms and conditions of the voting process.
He said after next Friday, the leader board won’t be on the web site, but people can still vote.
“I don’t want (people) to stop voting because they can’t see the leaders,” said the Chatham resident.
Beaulieu is certainly doing his part to help rack up the votes for Chatham-Kent. He said he is voting 10 times a day, thanks to new e-mail addresses he’s created on Yahoo, Google and MSN, along with his work and home e-mails.
Beaulieu said the goal is to have Chatham-Kent occupy the Boardwalk, the most prestigious space on the board.
“I’m really excited . . . I want Chatham-Kent to be on the board,” he said. “I’m a proud citizen. We should show the rest of Canada we exist.”

Local residents have sure been doing their part to show earthquake victims in Haiti that Chatham-Kent exists — and cares.
Fundraisers are being held all over the place from schools to businesses and people have been making personal donations. Just look at the more than $40,000 the local Red Cross branch has collected.
Richard and Joanna Ellis, owners of the Deli Bagel on King Street in Chatham, donated all sales — not just profits — made on Thursday to help people in Haiti.
The deli, which opens from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for lunch, donated $332 to the Salvation Army for its Haiti Relief project.
“We were just going to do our own private donation,” said Richard. “We thought, ‘What could be do to get more people involved.”
He added, “Chatham is a town that knows how to give.”
Joanna said some students from Marvel Beauty School offered to come in and volunteer their time. She added former owner Linda Jacques also came by to help.
They were busy making pre-ordered wraps when a customer came in and left a $20 bill for a coffee.
“That first $20 makes it all worthwhile,” Joanna said.

Cat lovers out there will appreciate this story from Chatham resident David Lawson.
He recently sent photos and shared his experience of adopting Beau Jangles from the local branch of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Feeling depressed about life after suffering a workplace injury that left him disabled and in chronic pain, Lawson decided to try lift his spirits by visiting the OSPCA to bring some treats to the animals.
It wasn’t long before he decided he wanted to adopt one of the many cats that occupy the shelter.
Lawson admits it wasn’t smooth sailing when he brought Beau Jangles home.
He knew Beau Jangles needed some training as well as some reassurance, noting the cat sometimes became very aggressive and would scratch and bite him out of fear.
Lawson admits to thinking he might have made a mistake in adopting the cat, but noted, “I just didn’t want to give up on him after all he had been through and I’m truly glad I didn’t.”
After showing Beau Jangles a lot of love and understanding, Lawson said, “one day (Beau Jangles) just clicked and he knew he was safe here and changed.
“He no longer bites or scratches me and he is so lovable and cuddly that he sleeps every night with his head on my pillow next to mine,” he added.
In a world that is sometimes chaotic or short on love and compassion, Lawson said, “I know a place where you can always find love and someone who needs you, too.”
He encourages people to consider adopting a pet this year from the OSCPA.
“I promise you will not regret it and neither will your pet.”

A sportswriter’s short list of Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League favourites:

UNSUNG HEROES: Brett Campbell, Dereck Hurley and Grant Paulson of the Blind River Beavers, Colin Barnauskas of the Soo Thunderbirds, Anthony Raymond of the Soo Eagles, Dan Zawacki of the North Bay Trappers, Geoff Gieni of the Abitibi Eskimos and Luc Comtois of the Sudbury Jr. Wolves.

PLAYERS WITH THE BALLS OF A BURGLAR: Chad Richard of the Blind River Beavers, Bronson Kovacs of the Soo Thunderbirds, Pete Formolo of the Soo Eagles and Nick Laporte of the North Bay Trappers.

COACHES I MOST LIKE HAVING A BEER WITH: Paul Theriault of the Soo Eagles and Dave Clancy of the Sudbury Jr. Wolves.

COACH WHO IS ALWAYS AVAILABLE TO TALK EVEN WHEN HE’S MAD AT HIS FAVOURITE SPORTSWRITER: Jim Capy of the Blind River Beavers.

FRENCH CANADIAN KIDS WHO CAN SKATE ALMOST AS FAST AS PAUL GAGNE DID WHEN HE WAS A KID: Marc-Alain Begin of the Abitibi Eskimos and Matt Dozois of the Blind River Beavers.

BARS WITH THE COLDEST BEER: Riverside Tavern in Blind River and Reggie’s Tavern in Soo, Ont.

BAR WITH THE CHEAPEST BEER: The Bomb Shelter in Soo, Mich. $3.50 for a 60 oz. pitcher of Miller Lite.

ARENA WITH THE COLDEST BEER: Le Centre in Temiscaming.

Soo Thunderbirds coach Pat Carricato is fond of telling me how much his team likes playing in the cozy confines of John Rhodes Community Centre.

Little wonder.

The West Division-leading Thunderbirds have the best home record in the eight-team Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League to date, having posted a 17-1-3 mark.

The Thunderbirds don’t draw big crowds at the Rhodes with an average attendance of  just over 200 (plus another 50 or so who watch from above in Brody’s Sports Bar) but the  close  quarters of the facility certainly seem to work to the advantage of the home team.

Not to call the Thunderbirds homers though.

The Birds have an 8-8 road record and coupled with their home performance, have opened an eight-point lead over the second-place Soo Eagles and are 11 points up on the third-ranked Blind River Beavers on the NOJHL’s West side.

Not normally a team that adds players once the season starts, the Birds did address a few needs recently by signing free-agent goalie Eric Pye and bringing well-travelled forward Pier Paul Landry back to the NOJHL.

The arrival of Pye has relieved some of the pressure off of second-year goalie Ryan McDonald, who has experienced hot and cold extremes between the Soo pipes this season.

The speedy Landry, meanwhile, gives the Birds some veteran depth up front.

AROUND THE NOJHL

First-place Abitibi and second-place North Bay are putting distance between themselves and the third-seeded Sudbury Jr. Wolves and the last-place Temiscaming Royals in the East Division. The Eskimos won two of three games on a weekend road trip to the Michigan Soo, Blind River and the Canadian Soo while the Trappers are 8-1-1 in their last 10 outings…After winning 10 straight games, Blind River dropped three in a row last week and was outscored 13-3 in the process. The latest setback was a listless 4-1 loss to North Bay on Sunday night which prompted sports editor Ken Pagan to note in today’s edition of the North Bay Nugget (nugget.ca) that Blind River certainly didn’t look like a team that just recently had put together a 10-game winning streak.

The weather may be a little cooler than Pastor Bill Wing is accustomed to, but he and his family have quickly warmed to life in Chatham.
Wing, 34, is the new pastor of Thames Christian Fellowship Church on Park Avenue East in Chatham.
He arrived here with his wife Barbara and two children, Elijah, 6, and Sarah Grace, 3, on New Year’s Eve, after travelling from near Raleigh, North Carolina.
“People are very friendly, even compared to southern hospitality — but I won’t say it’s better,” he joked.
Although the Wing family has received a warm reception into the community, he is still getting acclimatized to winter in Canada.
“It’s been cold,” he said, adding he can’t believe how everyone around here says the weather has been warm over the past few days.
“You guys are hilarious.”
Wing, who has been in ministry for 16 years — beginning with a youth ministry in Knoxville, Tennessee — had been looking for church, but never thought he would end up in Canada.
After being invited to Thames Christian Fellowship for a few visits, he said, “we liked this church the best. This is where the Lord is leading us.”
Wing said the goal of any church is to bring people to faith and God, but he also hopes to do more.
“We want to help make a difference in Chatham,” he said. “God didn’t put us here by accident.”
He said one thing a pastor does a lot of is counselling. He hopes to help people “mend fences,” be it bringing a marriage closer together or help repair a relationship between a child and their parents.
A former teacher, Wing also plans to reach out to residents nearby the community, particularly youth, to invite to receive what the church has to offer.

The plant manager of Greenfield Ethanol, Angelo Ligori, will go to great lengths to help out the United Way.
He helped lead the local plant to raise a record-breaking $62,626.68 for this year’s campaign.
Shortly after announcing this year’s donation on Thursday, Ligori took one for the team, by having his head shaved, with proceeds going to next year’s campaign.
He was inspired by the plant manager he used to work for in Windsor, who raised several thousands of dollars by having his head shaved, and decided to try it himself.
“I’m really happy to do that,” Ligori said, before losing his locks.
However, he said his wife wasn’t too happy about the idea.
“She’s going to have to rearrange the social calendar,” he joked.
Ligori, who could be considered for a Just for Men commercial, hopes something one of his employees told him comes true: “Your hair will grow in thicker and darker.”
Despite some good-natured ribbing, Ligori said it was well worth it.
“We are part of your community, we belong here and we contribute,” he said.

Did you read in The Chatham Daily News about Chatham-Kent being pre-selected for the online voting process to have the municipality included in the 75th anniversary of board game in Canada?
Chatham-Kent mayor Randy Hope was surprised when he received word of the honour from Hasbro, producer of the popular game.
I was talking about this with Steve Brent, area manager for the local Heart and Stroke Foundation. Brent said he and some other friends began a campaign on Facebook to have Chatham-Kent put in the running.
Sounds like mystery solved.
Don’t forget to vote by going to www.monopolyvote.ca. Voting closes on Feb. 7.

Now I’m not going to suggest that fans stay home, but it can’t be a coincidence that Owen Sound Attack plays like dogs every time they have a big home crowd.

It certainly started out that way Saturday with what you’d generously call a poor first period. In reality it was simply an awful display of hockey by both teams.

Now while the second wasn’t quite as bad, it certainly wouldn’t make any how to videos, unless it’s like those one from Lowes that are all being recalled.

So what I’m simply proposing is for fans to wear red and simply blend into the Lumley-Bayshore’s red seats.

Having them keep quite won’t be a problem for fans at the L-B.

End of 2

Owen Sound 2 Sudbury 1

Goals: OS – Bobby Mignardi, Jason Wilson. S – Ben Chiarot.

Goaltenders: Scott Stajcer OS (17/18); Alain Valiquette S (20/22).