Don’t Ever Give Up!
Editor’s Note: At the final Continental Tire Sports Car
Challenge event at Mid-Ohio, Michael Duncalfe of Exclusive Management Inc. had placed a couple of his driver’s in the #81 BimmerWorld Racing BMW 328. One of those drivers was Prince Albert, Saskatchewan’s Jayson Clunie. Clunie told me a story, one that I felt had to be retold. One that should inspire the rest of us and show us we can learn from others, even ones no longer with us.
When Max was very young he informed us all that his name was Max Power. We really did not pay much attention to the significance of it at the time, but none the less, from the time he was three or so, he was “Max Power” to family and friends, everyone knew him by that name. He created the logo when he was still young and had stickers made that were put on everything he and others owned. Max played all kinds of sports and even though he was usually
Clunie takes up the story, “Earlier this year our family lost three very important people, Max “Power” Clunie, Danny Mantyka and Wade Cooper. Max was my brother Rusty’s son, Danny was my niece’s husband and father to the newest member of our family, Lucy, who is just eighteen months and Wade, who was like family to us all. Wade’s brother Cameron also amongst the deceased. “The boys” had gone up to northern Saskatchewan to a fly-in fishing camp on Bus Lake. It was a trip that they had all wanted to do for a long time. They were so happy and excited to experience the hunting, fishing and adventure in such a beautiful northern location, its all they talked about during the weeks prior to the trip. The experience was just as they imagined but on their way home the float plane crashed just after takeoff, there were no survivors. Max had his camera in his pocket when the plane went down and we were able to retrieve all the photos from their “trip of a lifetime” so they called it. Included was one of all the happy travellers as they were about to board the plane for their trip home.
the smallest one on the field or rink he always made an impact and was usually captain of the team that he was on. He was a natural leader, people of all ages respected him. He always helped the underdog, lending a hand to his team mates or kids from school. He was able to make a connection and relate to people of all ages. Everyone called Max a friend (this became very evident when over
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