Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Southpoint Sun - 17A
Southpoint Hockey News kept players and parents informed By C. Scott Holland The Southpoint Hockey News was a newspaper entity which revolved around life and issues at the local hockey arena – originally Leamington Agricultural and Recreation Centre. It began as a means of keeping the players, coaches, parents and fans interested and involved in their own local hockey jurisdicCLAIRE tion. MCCORMICK While the
former Leamington Post had weekly stories summarizing the games played, the Southpoint Hockey News had biographies of the town’s NHLers, interviews with players and coaches and touched on important issues, and also held a few contests. The paper was free and bundles were given to the coaches to distribute, as well as being available in a rack within the arena. Its conception was developed and published through a small group of people who worked hard to bring joy to the thousands who read the paper. Mark Ribble, Frank Silveira, Scott Holland, Jim Bowman, Dave Dawson and Roger Shires were among the core group who got the paper started.
Often it included a guest columnist like the ‘Kanteen Queen’, Claire McCormick, who had a column called What’s Cookin’. Claire was a favourite of players and parents alike, along with Jean Pepper, who ran the canteen for many years. Looking back at all the paper’s features brings back fond memories of the original arena and the people who gave us those memories. The paper was published from Dec. 1996 until February 2000 when the new arena (now known as the Nature Fresh Complex) opened. The group published about five times per year. For everyone, it became an anticipated part of the hockey season and laid the foundations for other centres to follow suit.
Frank Silveira (left) gives Jim Ciacelli of Southpoiint Minor Hockey copies of the inaugural edition of the Southpooint Hockey News. Photo courtesy of the C. Scott Holland Collection
Leamington’s random addresses would have given Santa trouble prior to 1948 By C. Scott Holland The jolly old fellow in the red and white suit having problems? Not a chance, you say? Well, he may have encountered some difficulties finding certain residences around Leamington prior to 1948. The systematic order of houses was not in place like it is today. Houses and businesses could have whatever number they wanted, as long as it wasn’t a duplicate of another number on the same street. The numbers could jump or decrease — they were not in numerical order or even odds and evens on different sides of the street. Poor Rudolph must have been dizzy and the rest of Santa’s reindeer extremely tired after visiting Leamington and the former Mersea Township. Leamington Town council and Canada Post rectified In 1996, Mersea Township installed new reflective house number signage to aid mail delivery, police, ambulance and fire services.
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the problem in September of 1948, when they assigned numerically ordered numbers on all town streets and businesses, as well as putting the odd and even numbers on opposite sides. All houses in Mersea Township were given proper numbers in 1974, with the same system applied. These days, Santa has no problems finding the correct houses - and the correct presents get to their proper destinations. The current 9-1-1 style signs were installed in 1996 in municipalities across Ontario.
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