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ISSUE 139

IT’S NOT MY TIME

DANIELLE CAMPOMCLEOD’S RECOVERY WAS FUELED BY FAITH, LOVE AND COMMUNITY

On the cover: Danielle Campo-McLeod and her daughter Morgan Hair by Kristin and Danielle of Sage Salon + Spa Make-up by Lonela of Sage Salon + Spa Clothing provided by Debbie Short at Clyde Hatch Ltd.

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CONTENTS

ISSUE 139 AROUND TOWN 12 Noteworthy Mentions Around Town

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FOOD 16 Oh So Mona Shortbread Candy Canes

PORTRAIT A Champion’s Fight with Danielle Campo-McLeod by Jen Brignall-Strong

HEALTH & WELLNESS 18 T aking Time for Wellness

by Jen Brignall-Strong

Candle provided by King's Queen Candle Co.

SPORTS 36 75th Anniversary of The Windsor Spitfires

by Bob Duff FASHION 42 Holiday Fashions from Walkerville Mercantile & Clyde Hatch SPOTLIGHT 46 P hil Culleton and His Works of Art

by Matt St. Amand COMMUNITY 54 A Canadian Hockey Odyssey

by Devan Mighton

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HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 60 Photos by Trevor Booth STUDENT ESSAY 68 Student Essay

SPOTLIGHT Phil Culleton and His Works of Art

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A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER The Christmas season is here, my favourite time of year with snowflakes in the air.

It is a time to be with family and friends with love and dreams to share, laughter, smiles, memories, and sometimes even tears. The global pandemic situation appears to be improving and we have high hopes for our ability to safely celebrate the holidays together.

The family spirit is very present in this issue as we bring you Danielle Campo-McLeod’s cover story and her miracle story of near-death only days after giving birth to her daughter with a slim to none survival rate. Through faith, love, prayer, and medical attention, she miraculously recovered to share her journey with us.

We are in a new era of renewed compassion, grace, kindness and humanity. With that in mind, we implore you to support our local restaurants and small businesses so we can flourish as a community.

Our holiday gift guide is loaded with local gift-giving as we continue to emphasize the importance of local shopping, despite our neighbours across the border.

Speaking of community, our local hockey boys, the Windsor Spitfires celebrate their 75th anniversary in our exclusive article.

As always, we welcome your thoughts on how we’re doing and what we could improve on. Please feel free to send your feedback any time to info@thedrivemagazine.com.

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CHUCK ROY Chuck Roy is a full-time, dedicated Real Estate Broker who has lived in the Windsor – Essex County community for most of his life. With a tremendous amount of knowledge and expertise on the Landlord and Tenant side of the business, buttressed by some 30+ years in Senior Level Business Experience, Chuck truly understands the significance of providing excellent Customer Service and places it as a number one priority for his clients. Chuck, as a skilled negotiator and a leader for the past 30+ years, strongly believes in his commitment to continuous education and learning in the industry. Give Chuck a call today at 226-344-5482 or email info@chuckroy.ca to discuss your real estate goals.

THE BOURBON TAP & GRILL Since the Bourbon Tap & Grill was established in 2014 owners George Marar and Joe Sperduti have made their business a staple in the community. Known for their wood fired pizzas, chicken wings, big screen tv’s, live entertainment, pool tables, party room, but they have so much more. The Bourbon looks forward to becoming an active business in the town of Tecumseh, with their 2nd location opening in December 2021. The Bourbon Tap & Grill offers an extensive variety of bourbons, wines, scotches, draft beer and crafted cocktails. Don’t forget, they are family friendly during the day and always open for a quick delicious lunch. Come check out their place and enjoy the amazing atmosphere and an awesome clientele. For more information visit www.bourbonwindsor.com

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INGREDIENTS

2 cups butter (softened) 1 cup granulated sugar 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour 1/3 cup cornstarch 1 tsp salt red food colouring candy cane shaped cookie cutter

DIRECTIONS • In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, mix softened butter with granulated sugar at medium speed.

• Next add the flour, cornstarch, and salt. Mix until the mixture forms a soft dough. The dough should be soft, and you should be able to roll it into a ball. If it is too sticky, add 1-3 more table spoons of flour until it is slightly more manageable.

• Divide the dough into thirds and set aside two of the thirds.

• Place the last third of dough back into the stand mixer and add 40 drops of traditional red food colouring. If you would like your dough to be a deeper or paler red, adjust accordingly.

Mix until the food colouring is fully combined.

• Roll each of your thirds of dough into balls then flatten and wrap in plastic wrap. Place them in the fridge for 1.5 to 2 hours or until firm.

• Prepare your counter to roll the dough. Take 1 tbsp of all-purpose flour and lightly dust your countertop with it. Next take another tbsp and dust your rolling pin with it.

• To make the candy cane stripes, roll out your dough on the floured surface until it is roughly one inch thick. Then cut various sized strips from the red dough and the white dough and align them alternately.

• Once they are lined up. Continue to roll out the dough to 1-1.5 cm in thickness, making sure the strips of dough are forming together as you roll.

• Using your cookie cutter, begin to cut out your cookies and place them on a parchment lined baking sheet, spaced 1 inch apart. I like to cut my cookies on an angle so that the stripes are diagonal instead of horizontal.

• Once you have finished, wrap your baking sheet with plastic wrap and place into the fridge for 1.5 hours, or overnight if you prefer. The cookies should be very firm before placing them in the oven.

Photo by Mona Elkadri

• Once you’re ready, bake your cookies in an oven preheated to 350 degrees and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until the cookies have golden bottoms. Leave them to cool on the cookie sheet then enjoy! D

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HEALTH AND WELLNESS

TAKING TIME FOR WELLNESS Estate of Health offers Healing Space for Community in Historic Homestead

By Jen Brignall-Strong Photography by Jordan Scott

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Nestled on a six acre lot of mature trees and serene gardens sits the historic Kingsholme Estate, a 165 year old homestead built by Kingsville founder, Colonel James King.

Constructed by King in 1856, the unique octagonal house served not only as his private residence, but also a resting place that welcomed weary roamers. King was known for his hospitality and would regularly open his home to guests from all around; whether they were survivors of the American Civil War or travellers passing through the area.

One of King’s sons, Dr. Sydney King, purchased the building in 1876. Shortly after moving his family in, he began treating patients in the home’s North Room, continuing his father’s legacy of service to the community.

What was once a resting place for those in need of shelter or care has now evolved into another kind of refuge, one for those seeking a tranquil escape from the stressors of the everyday grind: Estate of Health.

Scott-Trepanier notes that it was important Estate of Health is a holistic wellness centre and yoga studio, offering residents of for them not to modify the building itself too Kingsville and the surrounding communities a much, but rather to refresh the space with safe, comfortable setting to explore their path fresh paint, new carpet, and updated fixtures. to wellness and find guidance and support “It's been a really big process of transforthrough their journey. mation here,” says Scott-Trepanier noting “This building has been a staple in the that supply shortages and pandemic restriccommunity for a long time and has always tions slowed the work at times. “July 17th we been this place for wellness and healing,” opened to the public and about a month later explains Estate of Health Director Jordan we finally had our grand opening. Since then Scott-Trepanier. we've been really well received by the commuJordan’s parents Jim and Heather Scott nity and had great feedback from everyone.” purchased the house in 2019, converting it The centre provides many opportunifrom a bed and breakfast to a multi-disci- ties for guests to experience peace of mind, pline wellness haven; offering a variety of physical rejuvenation, and spiritual vitality. holistic services and features to help visitors Amenities include a yoga studio, tea lounge, restore, nourish, and revitalize the body, six healing treatment rooms, hydrotherapy mind and spirit. area and pool, meditative garden spaces, “We’ve lived in Kingsville for over 20 and labyrinth. years and so we've always kind of admired the Estate of Health is home to nearly 20 team property,” says Scott-Trepanier. “The building members offering a variety of holistic services went up for sale and my mom just really felt including reflexology, reiki, skincare, aromacalled to it; she just really wanted to protect it therapy, meditation, cupping, Indian head and preserve it and give it new life.” massage, and numerous types of yoga.

The Scotts took possession in spring They also make their own line of herbal 2019, just as Jordan was beginning her wellness products. career as a holistic healthcare practitioner.

She had recently graduated from the Inter“I'm an herbalist and I grow a lot of the national College of Holistic Studies in San herbs on site here that go into our teas that we Diego and returned home to create her own retail, as well as our aromatherapies and our small business; attending wellness expos and bath salts and scrubs.” working out of her house selling herbal teas Whether someone is coming in to browse and offering reiki, yoga classes, and Shamanic the boutique, join a class, or enjoy a treatment, healing practices.

Scott-Trepanier urges guests to take their time, Scott-Trepanier says she got to know many explore everything the estate has to offer, and other wellness practitioners in the area and most importantly, be present and allow time found a common theme in her conversafor the healing process. tions: the need for a centralized space for her “We want people to come here and colleagues to practice and congregate. unwind, take a couple of hours out of their “I had been networking in the community for the better part of a year and a half and it day,” she reflects. “There's been a lot of thought just kept coming up this message like, ‘a place and care and love put into the development is coming, a place is going to be here for us,’” of our gardens so we encourage everyone who she recalls. “There are so many of us who are comes here to come early, stay late, ground passionate about Holistic Wellness but we yourself in the gardens and have a cup of tea didn’t have a space. My mom proposed this and connect with nature.” idea to me and the space just seemed to really As restrictions continue to ease, Scottlend itself nicely to these purposes.”

Trepanier says she looks forward to welcoming The Scotts went to work renovating the more visitors from around the area to experiproperty to suit their vision, paying carefully ence the estate, whether it be through classes attention to keep the charm and the historic or treatments or by hosting retreats and other features of the building while making it special events in the future. accessible for all, widening door frames for “The biggest drive is to create a safe space wheelchair access and adding a barrier free in our community to move through the washroom. The team also added a solarium healing process and to grow and find support and outdoor day spa area including a hot tub, in likeminded people. D sauna, washroom and meditation room, as www.estateofhealth.ca well as many healing gardens.

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By Dave Hall

Building a successful entrepreneurial ecosystem across our region is dependent not only on entrepreneurs able to develop innovative new products, it also takes a committed investor network willing to provide not only funding but also mentoring, networking opportunities and business advice.

Marsh. “WECAN offers investors the opportunity to get involved with these companies and participate in their success.”

With that in mind, WECAN the Windsor Essex County Capital Angel Network, has partnered with three other angel networks across Southwestern Ontario–London, Waterloo-Cambridge and Burlington-Hamilton-Oakville – to expand the access to qualified investors to help bring these ideas to the marketplace.

“It’s not simply a matter of writing a cheque,” explained Crowder.

“It’s also about providing young entrepreneurs with networking opportunities, business advice and business contacts which successful investors have developed over their years in business.”

WECAN, in partnership with WEtech Alliance and support of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Centre, recently held a virtual First Look networking event designed to allow vetted startup companies to make five-minute pitches in front of more than a dozen potential investors – and draw in more investors at the same time.

“It was very successful and has already led to one startup entrepreneur begin deeper dive discussions with investors,” explained Deborah Livneh, WECAN’s executive director. “Like ‘shark Tank’ each company was given only a couple minutes to present its products and provide our investors with a taste of what is offered.”

Jim Marsh, Dean of the Zekelman School of Business and Information Technology and Media, Art and Design at St. Clair College is a firm believer in the capital angel concept since it can be a key driver in achieving economic prosperity.

Cam Crowder, whose family formerly owned a group of area Tim Hortons franchises, is a recent WECAN recruit and believes the organization is critically important to this region.

Crowder became involved with WECAN a little over 12 months ago and has already made an investment in i-50, a Silicon Valley company which specializes in using artificial intelligence to conduct time and motion studies for the manufacturing sector. It recently opened an office here in Windsor.

“They realized what a wealth of talent there is in this area and more companies are reaching the same conclusion,” said Crowder.

Livneh said she believes there are many potential investors throughout the Windsor-Essex business community who are interested in investing in early-stage companies and it’s a matter of aiding them make the connections.

“Our goal is to attract more of these investors so we can continue building an entrepreneurial culture throughout the region,” said Livneh. “We are looking “Investing in high potential start-up companies for investors who want to be part of the innovation and mentoring these companies through early economy.” growth stages is key to the long-term success of our region,” said Marsh. “The companies are more likely to succeed if they are not forced to relocate to find funding or mentorship.”

“We have highly talented people in our region who are starting up companies and they need both financial support and mentorship,” adds

WECAN Investors is a members-only organization of angel investors seeking investment opportunities in early-stage businesses. WECAN Investors along with Equation Angels present its members vetted innovative companies and helps facilitate the investment process.

WECAN Investors welcomes accredited investors across Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent to join the local angel investment network! www.weANGELnetwork.com For more information about future events and investment opportunities through WECAN, contact Deborah Livneh Eng. MBA at Deborah@weangelnetwork.com.

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TWELVE DAYS OF SELF-CARE “You, as much as anyone else, are worthy of your love and attention.”

KEEP IT SIMPLE I am a strong believer in keeping things simple. The less complicated things are, the more likely we are to repeat the behaviour. Especially when it comes to health and happiness habits.

Day 1: Mindful Mornings Add five to ten minutes of relaxation to each of your morning routines. Time expands when you savour your smoothie mindfully.

Day 2: Soothing Stretches Wherever you are right now – stand up.

Put your arms to the ceiling and take a long breath. Bring your arms to your toes and hold them there. Repeat five times throughout the day. Show your limbs some love today.

Day 3: Lingering Lunches When was the last time you took a break during lunch? No phone. No computer. Just you and your turkey sandwich. Today is that day. Cherish your lunch. Enjoy every bite.

Give yourself the gift of a lunch break.

Day 4: Movement is Medicine

Day 7: Reading Time Devote one hour to reading today. Including this magazine!

Day 8: Blissful Boundaries When you are available to everybody all the time, you are unavailable to yourself.

Start by setting a boundary between you and technology. Turn off your phone and computer for 12 hours straight.

Day 9: Soothing Scents Out of all five senses, smell has the strongest link to emotion and memory. Which is why a scent like peppermint can transport you instantly to another time and dimension.

My favourite way to improve the day is through movement. Whether it be a stroll around the block, hugging a tree in the park, or a one-hour cardio session at the club. Do what works for you, independent of everyone else. Commit to moving one extra step today.

Day 10: Ground Yourself

Day 5: Fresh Air

Day 11: Matinee Movie

Immerse yourself in fresh air today.

Especially when you hit a roadblock in creativity. Go outside. Look up at the sky.

Watch the clouds float by.

Take yourself to a matinee movie today! Spoil yourself with popcorn and ice-cold pop.

Day 6: Silence When was the last time you sat in silence?

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DINING FINE A look into the new Gladstone Commons and how they’re stirring up the local fine dining industry.

By Alley L. Biniarz

Photo by Syx Langemann

Although Windsor is known as an up-and- locally-sourced livestock coupled with burger coming foodie community, Chef Dana Friis buns made in-house by their head Pastry Chef. thinks we can kick it up a notch.

“Olivia Beaumont is my number two and As head Chef and Co-Owner of the newly she’s unbelievable. She can make ice cream opened restaurant Gladstone Commons, he’s and puff pastries and is extremely talented,” looking to open our eyes to the modern food Dana raves about his Chef de Cuisine, who trends around Toronto and Vancouver, which he’d been working with for three years prior are known for pushing the envelope. to Gladstone Commons.

“There’s a big misinterpretation of what’s ‘fine dining’ in Windsor and what goes into the process,” Dana shares that true fine dining begins before the presentation on the plate. He starts by thinking outside the box by pairing unlikely textures and temperatures in order to achieve a product of unusual perfection.

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Dana’s food at a local tasting, he offered Dana part-ownership in the business with free run on the menu.

“After 12 years in the industry and dreaming about it for longer than that, it had been a long time coming.” Dana says he had always envisioned himself as his own boss, and prior to Gladstone Commons, he’d The entire team at Gladstone Commons been bouncing around accumulating knowlhelps to level up the dining experience, edge and culinary techniques, waiting for his including Steven Gambee, Gladstone chance to shine.

Commons’ General Manager and Partner.

Dana started his food journey making Stephen’s professionalism and the knowledge pizzas in his hometown of Kingsville before he’s brought with him from Toronto has been enrolling in culinary school at St. Clair paramount in getting the restaurant going, College. Opting not to finish the program, especially with how quickly they had to flip Dana hopped over to Toronto to pursue the space. business school briefly before cooking in the Gladstone Commons was originally city. Eventually landing in Vancouver, Dana destined to be a gastropub and microbrewery, wound up working at the famous Cioppino’s but as soon as Dana’s partner got a taste of and trained under Pino Posteraro.

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“I was a sponge out west. It completely changed my palette and perspective on everything in the culinary world and I wanted to bring that here,” he says about cooking for quality clientele with quality ingredients.

Dana worked tirelessly to place himself in front of all the right mentors, to learn as much as he could before being drawn back to the Windsor area. He saw the opportunity to do something bigger for the city. “Windsor is still so far behind the trends, and I wanted to push that new modern age here.”

With Dana’s classical French background mixed with Italian flavours and his Danish roots, he guarantees Windsor hasn’t tried a meal like his within the city. His bold take on dining didn’t come without its risks. “It’s a small restaurant off the beaten path in Walkerville. I was super scared and didn’t know if people would come or if this was going to work.” But since opening, Gladstone Commons has been packed to the (legal) limits and the buzz has left them taking reservations weeks in advance.

“It’s been utter chaos, and it wouldn’t be the buzz it is without my team. Gambee has assembled an amazing front of house team, and they all accept my craziness when I get going about the food.”

It’s hard work, but these “bunch of kids” are having fun and taking pride in setting the stage for Windsor’s culinary industry.

“I hope we attract more like minded chefs and restaurateurs to do this. Detroit has so many great restaurants, but let's build on Windsor. Let’s think about having places where people can come, not have to cross the border, but still have the same experience as in a big city.”

Dana says he can already see the forward movement with spots like Maiden Lane opening within the city, where they care about staying true to what a chef and mixologist is based around.

At the end of the day, Dana wants to use Gladstone Commons as a starting point where they can provide a fun and approachable experience, but one that also inspires Windsor to think differently about their dining habits.

“I don’t want people to get comfortable.

There’s no roof or cap on this experience,” Dana adds. At Gladstone Commons, you can expect a different menu six (or more) times a year, many collaboration dinners with renowned chefs, and truly unique food that will open Windsor’s eyes to what fine dining can really be. D For reservations please call 226-674-1070 25 THEDRIVEMAGAZINE.COM

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A CHAMPION’S FIGHT Danielle Campo-McLeod’s Miraculous Recovery Fueled by Faith, Love & Community Support

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“I was very busy while I was unconscious,” says Danielle Campo-McLeod of her nine days in a medically induced coma.

While the Paralympic gold medalist has vivid memories of some of her coma “dreams,” she doesn’t recall much about the actual events that followed the birth of her daughter, Morgan, on August 17th. Her family, however, remembers every minute.

For two months, the Campos and McLeods lived hour by hour as Danielle fought against seemingly impossible odds, recovering from septic shock after complications from a caesarian section and subsequent bowel surgery.

“Figuring out what actually happened and what happened in my subconscious took a really long time,” she says.

Now, after the harrowing health scare that saw her transferred from Windsor to London and back again, Danielle is finally at home with her husband Denny and their five children, re-building her strength and piecing

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together the events that lead to the 36-year old battling for her life.

Her doctors call her recovery, “better than best case scenario”. Her mother Colleen calls it a miracle.

“God kept putting things in place for us,” says Colleen. “That is my true belief.”

Danielle says her pregnancy with Morgan came as a complete surprise. Although the couple were elated to be welcoming a baby girl to their brood, Denny worried how a third pregnancy would affect Danielle’s physical health. On a new medication to treat her neuromuscular disorder, he was concerned the pregnancy might erase some of the gains she had made the past year.

“It was kind of a roller coaster ride right from the beginning,” she admits.

SOMETHING WRONG Schedule to deliver her daughter by C-section on August 18th, Danielle had her surgery bumped up a day early after she arrived at OB

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triage with painful cramping and contractions.

Shortly after the surgery began, she knew something was wrong. Having two previous C-sections for her sons Corbin and Sam, she said this time, things just felt off.

homecoming would be short lived. Just over “The doctors rushed us into the little room again and told us her heart was failing and 24-hours later, Danielle fell ill and was rushed they’d have to move her to London if she had back to the hospital via ambulance suffering any chance of surviving,” remembers Colleen. from shortness of breath.

Doctors determined she was in septic “It was a different kind of pain and shock and performed emergency surgery to pressure,” she explains. suction out the toxins in her body. Danielle’s When Danielle was unable to pass gas blood pressure plummeted shortly after, and or move her bowels after the birth, doctors hospital staff began preparing the family for a suspected she had an ileus bowel; a buildup in worst case scenario.

“The trip was super risky,” says Denny.

“They said she only had a 10% chance of making it.”

the intestines which is common after abdom“They told us she was crashing and we inal surgery. were going to lose her,” recalls Colleen. “They When the bowel obstruction didn’t clear brought us into a little room and they told us on its own and an x-ray and CAT scan gave they were going to do everything they could to no answers, doctors performed exploratory save her. We told them to pull out all the stops, just save her life.” surgery to discover the root of the problem.

“He broke protocol to jump in the ambulance with me and the ICU team in London kept telling me after I woke up, ‘You had an angel with you because he saved us two hours of reading and figuring out medications,’” says Danielle.

“We think there was scar tissue from the previous c-sections,” explains Colleen. “When they opened her up, they realized there was a piece of the bowel that had torn away with that scar tissue and became necrotic.”

“If anyone could keep her alive for that hour and a half ride it was him. That was another miracle,” says Colleen.

“I went through so many emotions like, ‘Why is this happening?’ ‘It can’t end like this,’” remembers Denny. “I realized how dire things were and how close she was to leaving and I didn’t want to think about it more than Danielle underwent a bowel re-sectioning a second.”

DEFYING THE ODDS on August 27th, removing over four inches of dead tissue and repairing the hernia that Danielle was put into a coma as doctors had formed between the sub-layer of muscle tried to level out her blood pressure. On and bowel.

September 12th, after three days of no

Dr. Syed Anees, a respirologist and one of Danielle’s ICU doctors, insisted on accompanying her on the trip.

With a massive team of doctors from nearly every discipline overseeing her care, Danielle once again defied the odds. On September 14th, her condition had finally improved enough to be woken from her coma.

“I remember waking up and seeing the vent tube coming out of my mouth and thinking, After 21 days at Windsor Regional improvement in her condition, it was decided ‘what the heck is happening?’” Danielle Hospital’s Metropolitan campus, she was she’d be transferred to University Hospital in recalls. “I wasn’t able to move my body and finally released on September 7th, but her London via Ornge land ambulance.

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while. I remember thinking maybe we got in a campus; relearning how to walk, rebuilding cousin is a Hindu faith healer and she’d like car accident on our way to the hospital.” her core strength, and working hard to adjust to pray with me and Linda (Denny’s mom),” to her “new normal.” she recounts. “We got on the phone with her DREAM WORLD “It’s really hard to be in this athletic body and she said, ‘You need to get a candle and you Danielle says her time in a coma felt real, need to light it now.’” like living in her own little world. She remem- that’s not really moving yet, but it’s totally ok The woman said, “You have no idea what bers flashes of sitting with her deceased uncle, because this body is living and breathing,” she says. this candle is going to signify in your daughordering thank you gifts for the ICU nurses, ter’s journey.” texting her old swim partner, and even rocking Follow-up tests are scheduled with her a baby that turned out to be a young cousin London doctors in early December to view her The pair rushed around searching for a who had passed away years before Danielle was progress and discuss the potential for reversing candle and lighter, finally tracking one down even born. her ostomy bag. and lighting it.

She also brought some of what she heard There was a feeling they just had to do this, PRAYERS & CANDLES around her in the “real world” into her she says. subconscious.

Danielle’s story is one that has captivated That next day during a TV interview, “I would definitely tell people that if you the community, with thousands of people Colleen asked anyone watching to light a ever have a loved one in a coma, talk to them from across Windsor-Essex and the world candle as well, prompting countless social because I definitely heard it and brought it following along on Facebook as Colleen and media posts of people displaying everything Denny posted regular updates on Danielle’s into my dream world.” from tea lights to giant decorative Christmas condition.

The young mother was finally able to share candles, all lit in support of Danielle.

“I couldn’t call or text everyone so her stories with her family when her ventilator “The things that have happened during was removed on September 18th, allowing her I just told them, ‘I’ll put it all on Facebook,’” this time have just been incredible,” says to breathe on her own, regain her voice, and says Colleen.

Colleen. “We’ve gotten emails from Tuscany, begin her rehabilitation.

“Denny would get in trouble from the Philippines and South Africa saying, ‘I A CAT scan a few weeks later showed complete strangers if he didn’t post updates want to show you my candle, I saw your daughthe infection had completely cleared. The fast enough,” laughs Danielle. ter’s story.’ It’s all over the world.” doctors couldn’t believe it, and neither could Social media became a place for the the family.

“I don’t know how I’ll ever pay back the community to rally behind Danielle and her Windsor-Essex community for the lighting of “We were counting down to that scan family, lighting candles and holding nightly the candles and all the support,” says Danielle. and we were prepared to have to maybe come prayer vigils.

“I keep thinking, ‘how am I going to do that?’ home with an IV bag of antibiotics,” explains Colleen says the candle lighting began and I really think it will be just small things.

Danielle. “We weren’t prepared for them to say ‘It’s gone, we don’t have anything else to do, after an unexpected conversation with a It doesn’t need to be on an Olympic scale, it Hindu faith healer the night Danielle was feels like it’ll be whatever comes authentically you can go.’ We were shocked.” rushed to the hospital. and feels right. But I’ll never stop thanking Danielle returned to Windsor on October our community for rallying behind us the way “A neighbour of Danielle and Denny’s 19th for inpatient rehabilitation at Hotel Dieu they did.” D came and knocked on the door and told us her Grace Healthcare’s Tayfour campus. She was discharged October 31st, just in time to take the kids trick or treating.

While reuniting with her family has brought her indescribable joy, Danielle admits the events of the past few months have left her struggling with PTSD. “My muscles are coming back faster than I think the mental health part will,” she says.

“We're in this euphoric state because I’m alive and I am getting stronger, but then you get these grounding moments that bring you back to reality. This is really hard and it will be for some time.”

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Remembering Memorial Cups, Hall of Famers and Memorable Moments As Windsor Marks 75 Years in Junior Hockey.

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Seventy-five years is a long time to be doing something right. That’s how long it’s been since the Windsor Spitfires were first representing the city, supplying this area with the best junior hockey has to offer.

Three times, the Memorial Cup has been won by the Spitfires. Twice, the team has played host to the tournament that determines the champion of the Canadian Hockey League.

Windsor has contributed a veritable who’s who of elite NHL stars. Ed Jovanovski (1994) and Taylor Hall (2010) each were the first player chosen in the NHL entry draft. Hall won the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP. Adam Graves was a Stanley Cup champion and an NHL 50-goal scorer. Glenn Hall, Terry Sawchuk, Marcel Pronovost and Al Arbour are among the Hockey Hall of Famers who cut their junior hockey teeth as Spitfires.

Gordie Howe’s brother Vic and Wayne Gretzky’s brother Keith were both Spitfires.

Even Don Cherry played for the Spits.

Several Spitfires grads have gone on to win Stanley Cups, beginning with Pronovost and the Wilson brothers, Johnny and Larry, with the 1949-50 Red Wings to Mikahil Sergachev the past two seasons for the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Today, the Spitfires are considered among the cream of major junior hockey franchises.

Like most major accomplishments, though, it started out quite modestly.

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“We had about four guys from out of town and the rest of us were area kids,” original Spitfires defenseman Dick Hayward recounted to the Windsor Star.

Opening night, the Spitfires would face the Memorial Cup finalist Toronto St. Michael’s Majors. They were affiliated with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

“St. Mike’s, nearly half of them turned pro after that season,” Hayward said.

The 4,062 who crammed themselves into Windsor’s barn saw carnage. Led by Hall of Famer Red Kelly, the game finished 15-0 in favor of St. Mike’s.

To their credit, following an 0-5-1 start, the Spits rallied to finish 5-12-1, good for seventh in a 10-team league.

REBIRTH OF THE SQUADRON The Spitfires were reborn as an OHA Jr. A franchise in 1975. Similar to the fate of the first edition of the club. Windsor was smacked 10-1 by the Oshawa Generals in the season opener.

By 1979-80, the Spits were playing in the league final, but they were swept by the Peterborough Petes.

The following season, forward Ernie Godden made league history. He scored 87 goals, a total that remains the OHL’s singleseason mark. “It was an unbelievable season and I’m convinced the fans at Windsor Arena played a big role,” Godden said.

THE COMPUWARE ERA In 1984, Peter Karmanos purchased the club, renaming them after his company. The Windsor Compuware Spitfires were born.

On May 1, 1946, a press conference was called in the city, and there was big news on two fronts.

The Spitfires, up until then a junior B squad, were entering the Ontario Hockey Association’s Junior A series. The club announced the hiring of Ebbie Goodfellow as coach. Goodfellow was a longtime standout for the Detroit Red Wings. He’d won three Stanley Cups and was named the Hart Trophy winner in 1939-40.

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Karmanos brought in leaders with NHL experience. Jim Rutherford was GM and Tom Webster the coach. In 1987-88, the Spitfires, led by Graves, the Shannon brothers Darryl and Darrin and Kelly Cain, dismantled the OHL. They won a club-record 16 successive games. Windsor posted an unprecedented “With Goodfellow at the helm, we are perfect 12-0 playoff slate, sweeping the Petes hoping to be able to give Windsor hockey fans to capture the club’s initial OHL title. the best teenaged team they have ever seen,” For the first time ever, the Spits were Spitfires general manager Lloyd Pollock told heading to the Memorial Cup in Chicoutimi, the Windsor Star.

Quebec. Windsor would sweep through the Yeah, Ebbie was kind of a big deal. Unforround robin. All they need do was complete tunately, his team was not. another 16-game win streak and the Memorial In those days, junior teams affiliated with Cup would be theirs. one of the six NHL clubs, who then supplied Alas, it was not to be. The Spitfires grabbed the talent to fill out the roster. Windsor had arranged no such affiliation. an early 3-0 lead before the WHL champion 37

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Medicine Hat Tigers rallied for a 7-6 victory.

Adam Henrique’s OT goal beat Drummond“For the longest time, I was crushed ville in the semifinal.

Up next was a rematch with Kelowna. It when we didn’t win,” defenseman Brad Hyatt recalled. “I couldn’t talk about it for years, was no contest. Windsor raced to the 3-0 lead, because it was so disappointing to come so winning the city’s first Memorial Cup title via a 4-1 verdict. The Spits were the first team to close and fail.” start a Mem Cup 0-2 and win the title.

HAPPY HOMECOMING “We took the hardest way you could to the Windsor’s fortunes took another unprec- Cup,” Boughner said. edented turn for the good when former “It was just meant to be,” added Hall.

NHLers Bob Boughner and Warren Rychel A year later, Windsor would join a select combined with Pete Dobrich to purchase the group of clubs by winning back-to-back Spitfires in 2006. Boughner would coach, Memorial Cups. Again, though, the club’s with Rychel serving as GM. resiliency would be tested.

Within two years, they’d assemble the The 2009-10 Spitfires were a powerhouse best team in the OHL and in December of squad.

They could ice a first power-play unit 2008, move into the state of the art WFCU consisting entirely of NHL first-round draftees Centre. First, though, the team would need – Taylor Hall, Greg Nemisz and Zack Kassian to overcome heart-wrenching tragedy. Team at forward and Ryan Ellis and Cam Fowler captain Mickey Renaud, whose dad Mark on the points. played with the 1975-76 Spitfires, died suddenly of a rare heart condition on February In the OHL Eastern Conference final, 18, 2008.

Windsor fell behind 3-0 to the Kitchener “There’s not many players who come Rangers. But just when the back-to-back dream through that dressing room that share the looked dead, the Spits won four straight to qualities of Mickey,” Boughner remembered. eliminate Kitchener. Then they swept the “Mickey will be our captain forever in spirit Barrie Colts in the OHL final and went 4-0 at the Memorial Cup in Brandon, outscoring and memory.” their opponents 28-9 in the tourney.

The 2008-09 season saw Windsor “Two puts you in a category all your own,” dominate the OHL. The Spits whipped the Boughner said. “I think this team could be Brampton Batallion 4-1 to earn the OHL title, mentioned in the same breath as the greatest led by playoff MVP Taylor Hall. They were off junior hockey teams Canada has had.” to Rimouski for the Memorial Cup. HOSTING AND HOISTING This time, it began badly for Windsor and ended wonderfully. The Spits lost their first two games of the tournament. A 2-1 won over WHL champion Kelowna got Windsor into a tiebreaker game. The Spits rallied from a 4-2 third-period deficit to beat Rimouski 6-4.

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“It’s so special winning at home,” Windsor goalie Mikey DiPietro said. “The crowd was so loud and played a big part in it, threw the momentum in our favour. They’re part of this, too and helped us bring it home.”

A BRIGHT FUTURE Change is the inevitable reality of junior hockey. As the Spitfires move toward the club’s centenary, there’s plenty to be excited about.

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PHIL CULLETON ALCHEMIST, ARTISAN, LUTHIER On a quest to improve his pawn shop guitar, Phil soon found himself building and repairing guitars for some of the biggest names in music

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One person who knows lives right here in Windsor. His name is Phil Culleton.

He is a full-time mechanic with the City of Windsor, and in his spare time he builds guitars for a client list that reads like a Who’s Who of rock ’n’ roll and country music legends: U2’s the Edge, AC/DC, Dave Grohl, Richard Fortus of GNR, Aerosmith, Phil X of Bon Jovi, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Billy

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“When I started this, I knew zero about guitars,” Phil says. “I called my friend Dave Fazekas, who is an accomplished musician.

He showed me how to tune the guitar. He didn’t give me lessons, but Dave just showed me a few things. The more I played, though, I had trouble gripping some chords, or getting certain notes. The neck was causing my hand to cramp. I wondered: ‘What if I made the neck wider?’”

Next thing he knew, Phil disassembled his guitar. Apart from an uncomfortable neck, he also found the body was too heavy. He thought: “Would drilling holes into the body make it any lighter?”

When he told his wife about the updates he planned for his guitar, she responded: “Honey, Fender makes thousands of these guitars. It’s you!”

Phil went ahead, anyhow, and soon learned that new guitar parts were not easy to find in Windsor. He eventually contacted Guitar World magazine where he connected with a guy named Jeff Tyson, who was originally from Detroit. Jeff gave Phil the contact info for Sheryl Crowe’s guitar tech, Peter Stroud, who ran a wholesale guitar parts business. From there, the ricochet effect of fate took over. Phil contacted Peter, saying he was building a guitar and looking for parts.

Peter replied: “We’re playing at DTE Energy Music Theatre next week. Why don’t you come by and we can talk?”

“And I did,” Phil says and smiles. That was the meeting that changed everything.

Phil with Zach Meyers from Shinedown

Gibbons of ZZ Top, and One Direction, just to name a few.

The journey began with a New Year’s resolution in 2003.

“I made up my mind to learn how to play guitar,” Phil recalls. “The thing is, I’m left-handed, and was looking for a lefty guitar.

I went to all the guitar stores in the city, and couldn’t find anything in my price range. A friend, Suzanne, suggested I look in a pawn shop. I stopped by, one day, and the shop must have had a hundred guitars. There was only one lefty in the bunch: a cream coloured Fender Stratocaster.”

By this time in his life, Phil was a professional mechanic. A few years earlier, he was a race mechanic, working on F2 Indy cars and AMA superbikes. He had a knack for figuring out how things worked—or, finding out why they didn’t work.

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Sheryl Crowe was on tour with John Mayer at the time.

This was fortuitous because John Mayer’s guitar tech was René Martinez. Not only had René worked for the late/great Stevie Ray Vaughn for more than a decade, but he was also Fender Guitar’s go-to guy for their top artists.

“I asked Peter and René all kinds of questions,” Phil recalls.

“They asked me about the pitch on my guitar and the fretboard radius, and what CNC program I used. I had no idea what they were talking about.”

No matter how steep the learning curve, Phil persevered.

He learned about pitch and intonation and fretboard radius.

Then, there was a galaxy of detail that went into painting guitar bodies, learning how wood, glue, water, and chemicals reacted with one another.

Then, the rock stars began to call.

Among the first of the big names was Billy Squire who was playing with Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band at the time. Colin Hayes from Men at Work contacted Phil, soon after. Then Jim McGorman and Steve Fekete from the TV show American Idol called.

“It’s all word-of-mouth,” Phil says. “The stars can finance custom work and guitar builds, but they’re all looking for something nobody else has.”

As Phil formed his company PSE Custom Guitars—named after his wife and two daughters: Patti, Sarah, and Emily—the work coming in formed into two streams: building custom guitars and instrument repair.

Particularly when doing repairs, Phil finds himself filling the roles of a surgeon, psychic, and metaphysician for his clients.

“Musicians are some of the most superstitious people you’ll ever meet,” he observes. “They’ll play a broken down guitar until it’s nearly falling apart because they just can’t part with it. Sometimes, they adjust how they play to compensate for the deficiencies.”

Phil recalls doing work for Journey guitarist, Neil Schon, who was reluctant to part with his guitars because he was afraid of them being altered in any way.

After building dozens of guitars for more musicians than he can count, Phil is the first to say there is no secret to his success.

“Nine times out of ten, musicians want what they already have—but with a few modifications,” Phil says.

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A CANADIAN HOCKEY ODYSSEY Local carver Maurice Jacques and his grandson pay homage to the Humboldt Broncos

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My grandson was touching the cross and he started to cry. He said that when he played hockey like that, he couldn't imagine what it's like losing all your friends in an accident like that. It was touching to see the crash site and it was pretty sad.

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Hockey is Canada's common language.

Since the mid-19th century, Canadians, from coast to coast to coast, have been strapping blades to children barely old enough to walk and talk, putting a stick in their hands, and dreaming big dreams as their little ones slowly learn how to push a puck down the ice. In a few short years, the little ones have grown and learned to carve poetry into the ice with lightning flashes of steel as they careen across the rink in search of hockey glory.

From Conception Bay along the Atlantic, across to Fort St. John on the Pacific, from Cambridge Bay in the north, down to the deep south of Essex County, the language of hockey is near-universal.

A common dialect, a common dream, a common passion; and buried in the heart of the Canadian hockey wilderness is the City of Humboldt, Saskatchewan.

On Apr. 6, 2018, the Humboldt Broncos packed their bus with their bags and set out for a road playoff game against the Nipawin Hawks. Down 3–1 in the best-of-seven series, the Broncos, a Junior A team in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, knew their season was on the line that night. As their bus cruised north on Highway 35, the team prepared for their game, oblivious to their fate. Taping sticks, eyes closed with air-pods in, pregame chats, all ended in a sudden bang.

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News of the Humboldt tragedy shook perish, and all involved – survivors, family, billets, the community, and the country – Maurice to his core. "After it happened, I was touched by it – I don't know how to explain would be changed forever.

For Windsor-born stone carver Maurice it," recalls Maurice. "About six months later, I started carving – getting a piece and starting Jacques and his grandson, Ryan, the tragedy on it. It took three years to carve." The result of of the Humboldt Broncos 2018 bus accident his labour – an 110 lbs. stone statue featuring spoke to them in ways that would inspire them the logo of the Broncos. to partake in a six-day cross-country odyssey to After the third anniversary of the crash, deliver a gift straight from the heart.

Maurice and his grandson, Ryan, made the Maurice started carving 15 years ago. commitment to drive to Humboldt, pay their Self-taught, he started with wood and transirespects, and present the community with the tioned to stone about eight years ago. "I'm just carving. a carver," emphasizes Maurice. "I just carve and On June 11, the pair took off from LaSalle.

I usually do it for things that I want or if I Due to the COVID-19 border restrictions, take a liking to something. It's one of those things, when you go into that detail, you have Maurice and Ryan had to take the Canadian to spend a lot of time on it. You certainly side to reach the prairies. A long pilgrimage don't want to carve for nothing. You carve if that will stick with them forever. "It was good; somebody wants it or is going to buy it, or else it was really nice," says Maurice. "I've driven there once before – not to Humboldt, but my you're making something for somebody." stepdaughter lives in Alberta, so we've driven A retired heavy machine operator, that road on the way there."

Maurice, a father of four and grandfather Maurice never played hockey, but his of seven, took up carving as a pastime, not grandchildren did. Hockey is something many as a profession. "I'm not the kind of person Canadians relate to – the winter road trips, who wants to sit out there in a tent," explains late night drives back from the rink, sending Maurice. "I tried it once already with paint and your kids to regions unknown to play in towns I don't like sitting there, begging for people to you've only ever seen on a schedule – maybe buy my paintings. If you want it, I'll make it, why the collision resonated with so many.

I'll do it for you – or, if I decide I want to make something, then usually it's for free – I don't "My grand kids didn't go to that level, but I could just imagine if they went to that level charge anybody anything."

and something like that happened," laments Maurice. "I feel sorry for the people. Could you imagine the parents, everyday, going by the arena and it just brings up the memories?”

When the pair reached hallowed ground, the intersections of Highway 35 and 335 near the community of Armley, they were humbled by what they saw. "I brought it to the crash site, and I remember saying to myself, 'Here it is, guys. You've asked for this and I'm here with it,'" recalls Maurice. "It made you feel something within you.

"My grandson was touching the cross and he started to cry. He said that when he played hockey like that, he couldn't imagine what it's like losing all your friends in an accident like that. It was touching to see the crash site and it was pretty sad."

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Maurice knelt and scooped a handful of soil in his hand. Eyes filled with purpose; he baptized his carving with the ground in which 16 innocents had lost their lives. All that was left to do was to deliver the artifact to the Elgar Petersen Arena and Uniplex in Humboldt.

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Upon arrival, the pair were met by the arena manager and some city staff to unload the carving. The Jacques were honoured by the great care and appreciation the staff showed Maurice's three year labour of love.

"I enjoyed doing it and felt good about doing what I had done," admits Maurice. "It was something that I knew I had to do, and it felt good to do it. A lot of people ask me, 'Why are you doing that?' And, my answer is, 'Because I want to.' When you see the people and how happy they are that they got it, it makes you feel great. It's important to them.

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