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aren Cockburn should embrace a pretty normal life back in south Stouffville later this

month.Home from her fourth Olym-

pics, she can order take-out, pay the property taxes, work on raising a family and take out the blue box.

In other words, she’ll be pret-ty much like the rest of us here in the former small town.

Until now, she’s been any-thing but ordinary.

(Proof? She hadn’t eaten pizza in more than a year until indulg-ing this week, according to a post on her Facebook page.)

A week ago today, we were sitting on the edge of our collec-tive sofa watching Ms Cockburn come oh-so-close to earning her fourth Olympic trampoline medal in London.

When it didn’t happen, there was no blaming the judging.

No whining. No shots at the competition. No excuses.

Just big-time congratulations for her protege, gold medalist

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As summer holidays wind down, you may wonder if you need to make alternate care arrange-ments for your children in case of work action by some teachers.

But the York Region District School Board and Elementary Teachers Federation remain opti-mistic.

“The only job action that would be taken in September is if (Premier Dalton) McGuinty tries to pass leg-islation overturning our collective agreements,” Elementary Teachers Federation president David Clegg said. “If he thinks he can legislate goodwill, he is mistaken.”

The federation has publicly stat-ed it will protest such legislation.

The Liberal government is urg-

ing all Ontario school boards to reach agreements with local teach-ers and support staff before Sept. 1 to comply with the province’s fiscal plan. However, the province is prepared to introduce legislation if school board trustees are unwill-ing or unable to negotiate and sign local agreements.

The school board and federa-tion have dates set in September

to continue talks and negotiations regarding the collective agree-ment.

Negotiations have been positive and productive, Mr. Clegg said.

This week, the province reached a deal with Franco-Ontarian teach-ers on a two-year agreement simi-lar to the one signed by the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Associa-tion earlier this summer.

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Teachers, board don’t expect work action

Buffalo Sabres’ centre Cody Hodgson (right) puts the puck in play for Abigaelle Smith, 8, (from left) and Logan Palermo, 8, both of the Stouffville novice AE Clippers, Oak Ridges-Markham MP Paul Calandra and Markham Stouffville Hospital President and CEO Janet Beed at the hospital Thursday. They were promoting Mr. Calandra’s second annual charity game, Hockey Night in Stouffville, Aug. 23. For tickets, call 905-642-2835.

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Former Stouffville Spirit forward Corey Trivino will spend the next two years on pro-bation after he pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and battery and one count of trespass-ing in Massachusetts this week.

The charges stem from a Dec. 11 incident at Boston University where the 22-year-old was a senior and leading scorer on the Terrier hockey team.

Mr. Trivino, in a drunken state, inappropri-ately touched a female resident assistant, the court was told.

He was subsequently kicked off the univer-sity’s team and expelled from school.

The Toronto resident’s original charges were assault with intent to rape, indecent assault and battery times two and breaking and entering.

The charge of assault with intent to rape was dropped earlier this year due to insuf-ficient evidence. The other charges were reduced through a plea agreement with pros-ecutors in Brighton Municipal Court.

The charge of assault with intent to

rape was dropped earlier this year

due to insufficient evidence.

Under terms of his probation, Mr. Trivino will have to remain drug and alcohol-free.

The former Spirit (2006-08) star was a

2008 second-round draft pick, 36th overall, of the New York Islanders.

Mr. Trivino is expected to attend an NHL camp later this year. He will have to also abide by the NHL’s drug and alcohol testing rules.

During his two seasons with Stouffville’s Jr. A team, Mr. Trivino played in 88 regular season games where he amassed 43 goals and 84 assists.

He also played in their two playoff runs and racked up 29 points in 24 games.

When contacted by The Sun-Tribune, Mr. Trivino’s Boston-based lawyer, Conrad Bletzer, would not comment on the case.

Spirit grad pleads guilty

COREY TRIVINO: Former Stouffville Jr. A star hopes to try out with an NHL team this fall.

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Charcoal versus propane.When it comes to grilling, you

have to bring the heat. And that’s where the battle between barbe-cue aficionados begins.

“In the competitive barbecue community, gas is cheating,” Big Grill Catering owner Kevin Finch said bluntly as he stoked a pile of coal briquettes flamed by aro-matic apple wood chunks.

“Convenience is what people are accustomed to, it’s what sells and unless you really like to cook,

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Decision matter of personal preference

hauled on a trailer and East Gwil-limbury’s Mr. Bassakyros, who has been with Mason Place in Keswick for six years, had a cordial show-down, debating the benefits of grill-ing heat sources.

Both men agree they love to

grill, gas is an extremely handy and adjustable heat source and with a flick of the off switch and quick brushing of the grate, you’re done.

They concur, too, while charcoal grills are generally less expensive than gas units, they take time to heat, don’t burn as clean as gas, briquettes need to be stocked, ash needs to be collected and grills need to be cleaned.

They know gas grills outsell char-coal three to one and a 20-pound propane tank costs $18 and lasts 16 hours at high temperatures, while the same volume of slightly more expensive charcoal will burn much longer.

There are pros and cons for both heat sources, but the entire matter boils down to esthetics and flavour, they said.

A gas grill will impart searing heat, caramelizing the exterior of the meat and cooking the interior, Mr. Bassakyros said. If your culi-nary bent is a tad more developed, charcoal offers more options.

Hardwood charcoal, burning lower and slower, infuses the food with natural pungency, Mr. Finch said. By using hickory, apple or mesquite woods, the subtle heat allows chefs to add varying tang, taste and tone to the dish.

Big Grill uses Ontario apple wood exclusively for the sweet fla-vour it produces. For large cook-outs, wood pellets formed from sawdust and binding material are used in smokers and grills.

Charcoal is making a comeback, Mr. Bassakyros admits, adding his Big Green Egg ceramic cooker is a hot seller.

“People realize they can experi-ment with charcoal and woods,” he said.

Grillers should only use coals and woods designated for the purpose, both men caution. That means avoiding pine, cedar and pressure-treated or painted wood.

The feud ended in a friendly stalemate.

Gas is convenient and consis-tent, Mr. Bassakyros asserted.

Charcoal’s heat and smoke serve up tender and traditional cuisine, Mr. Finch countered.

“One is not better than the other, just different,” Mr. Bassakyros said. “Do what I do and use both.”

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people won’t venture into the charcoal realm,” Mason Place Fireplace and BBQ Centre salesperson Alki Bassaky-ros countered.

Thornhill’s Mr. Finch who, with wife Naomi, cater barbecue events with a massive custom-built grill

The art of tasting should apply to more than what’s on the grill during a back yard barbecue gathering.

Just ask Markham connoisseur Dean Christofilos, who has been in the wine, spirits and beer industry for 23 years, with numerous certificates and training in hospitality and tourism.

“In today’s rule, we drink what we like,” Mr. Christo-filos said. “I taste one thing, you may taste something else.”

While there is still the general rule of thumb that white meats and seafood go with white wine and red meats go with red wine, Mr. Christofilos encouraged people to be open-minded when it comes to trying new drinks, especially when invited to a back yard barbecue.

“When it’s free, you should be all over tasting dif-ferent things,” said the self-proclaimed “seasonal drinker”, who is the GTA representative for Coyote’s Run Estate Winery in St. David’s village in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

“I enjoy and respect what I drink,” Mr. Christofilos said. “If I want a beer and it’s warm, I’ll put ice cubes

in. If you are cracking open a $90 bottle of wine, treat it as such. It’s about the experience of the moment.”

If you are hosting a back yard barbecue, Mr. Christofilos suggested offering a few whites and a few reds to let your guests mix and match according to their preferences.

“There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to pairing wines with your grilled foods, just generali-ties that can get you going,” he said. “Ultimately, it is your palate that you are seeking to please by the wine-pairing.”

If you are a guest of a barbecue and are unsure of what to bring, Mr. Christofilos said a safe wine would be unoaked chardonnay.

“You still have the characteristics of buttery, creamy and well-balanced on the tongue, but you don’t have an oak feeling,” he said.

Another safe option is pinot noir, which is a food-friendly pairing wine, Mr. Christofilos said.

“It fits a food chart whether it’s grilled fish or a big, fat meaty burger,” he said.

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The town is applying for a federal grant to expand its tennis courts and refurbish the track.

The value of the grant application is $378,000 or half of the expected cost, $757,000.

In March, the federal government provided $49.6 million over two years for the repair and upgrade of existing community and recreational facilities across Ontario under the Community Infrastructure Investment Fund.

All projects will be cost-shared and recipients may receive up to $1 million or 50 per cent of the project’s total value.

Council approved submitting an application for the Stouffville Arena Sports Fields last week. They want to expand the number of tennis courts from three to four; resurface the three original courts; plus install new fencing and energy efficient lighting.

The town closed tennis courts in Stouffville Memorial and Rupert parks in recent years.

The track would have its current sur-face removed. It would also be leveled with new base and top coats installed as well as new running lines and numbers painted on the track’s surface.

“I think it’s good news,” resident Fred Robbins told councillors. “Some of my athletes have left because the track is too hard.”

As a running coach and user of the track, Mr. Robbins also expressed his

dismay with the town for not informing him of the grant application, noting he has done a lot of things on his own time there, such as plant trees.

“Once we improve that track facil-ity, we’ll bring dollars to the community through tournaments,” Mr. Robbins said.

The town annually hosts 10 track meets, including three regional meets with more than 1,200 participants and one special needs track meet, according to the Aug. 1 report to council.

The track, a community project spear-headed out of Stouffville District Second-ary School when it was located across the street, opened in 1991.

The 400-metre, eight-lane Connell-Franklin Track was named after then-SDSS phy-ed department head David Connell and student council president Julian Franklin after the school commu-nity raised about $400,000 on their own.

The school board, which had denied repeated requests to build a track, later chipped in $150,000, Mr. Connell said.

In coming up with the projected cost of $400,000 for the track, leisure depart-ment representatives visited tracks and spoke with other municipalities, includ-ing Belleville, which according to Andrew McNeely, director of planning and build-ing services for the town, has the exact same track as Stouffville, right down to the year it was installed.

Belleville is also in the process of replacing its track and the tender came in just under $400,000, according to Mr. McNeely.

“We have the benefit of their specifi-cations,” Mr. McNeely said.

“We don’t pick numbers out of the air. We do the best we can,” Mayor Wayne Emmerson told Mr. Robbins, who ques-tioned the amount.

There were two projects for council to choose from for the grant application, with the other one being the new skate-board park.

Staff did not recommend council go ahead with this option because there may be some issues with meeting the government’s criteria.

New construction is not eligible.Facilities that are eligible are com-

munity and cultural centres, parks, rec-reational trails and facilities, libraries and tourism centres, among other things that would lead to improved access/service to the whole community; decreased opera-tional or maintenance costs; increased safety; extension of the facility’s economic life; increased attendance and improved access for people with disabilities.

“Staff can confirm that each project listed would not proceed in the same scope or within the timeline without the funding. In fact, these projects are entire-ly dependent upon the availability of the town’s reserve funds and the overall capital project priorities,” wrote Rob Ray-croft, director of leisure and community services for the town, in his Aug. 1 report to council.

The application deadline is Aug. 24. If approved, the project would have to be completed before March 31, 2014.

Grant would help refurbish track, add tennis court

The Connell-Franklin Track hosts 10 meets annu-ally, including three regional events.

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Just the facts, pleaseRe: No real estate bubble in

GTA, agent says, July 16.I am continually dismayed

at what the media in this coun-try considers objective report-ing in terms of real estate cov-erage.

Why do newspapers and other media outlets continue to present reports generated by the real estate industry as news?

This data is clearly cherry-picked to paint an overly rosy picture that will keep people buying real estate and filling the industry’s coffers via sales commissions.

It’s very much like asking a used car salesman (no offence to any sales folks out there) if it’s the right time to buy a car. Do you honestly expect an objective, unbiased opinion?

Let’s look at the claims and data. First of all, the headline “No real estate bubble in GTA”. Really? The article refers to year-over-year statistics. Why is this wrong? The market could have peaked halfway between then and now and be crashing for all

we know. And the further back you go, the rosier the picture.

Instead, let’s look at what’s happened recently. This is data directly from the TREB web-site. From April to May of this year, average housing prices in the GTA fell 0.15 per cent. From May to June? They fell 1.6 per cent. Extrapolate that last month, and it’s a drop of almost 20 per cent per year. The direc-tion is far from the implied “upwards” as the esteemed Royal Lepage points out with its “survey”.

A quick check to the Royal Lepage website clearly states “Housing values in its survey are ... opinions ... based on local data and market knowledge provided by Royal LePage resi-dential real estate experts.”

Opinions. From the people whose livelihood depends on selling you homes.

Let’s stop this madness and give people the objective facts – good or bad – not what our local and national agents and brokers want us to believe to maintain their sales.

TOMASZ CZERNECKISTOUFFVILLE

Debora Kelly

love how the Olympics remind us of how proud we are to be Canadian and how much we have in common.

Our hearts burst with col-lective pride when York Region’s own Rosie MacLennan stepped up on to the top podium to lay claim to our nation’s first gold medal of the London Games.

Fists pumped in unison when Olympic bronze medallist Derek Drouin claimed the title as our nation’s first high jump medallist since 1976.

I literally heard the shared jubila-tion as shouts echoed from homes across my neighbourhood every time our women’s soccer team took the lead in the neck-in-neck game against the United States Monday.

Then there was the crushing silence when they lost their bid for gold in a heart-breaking overtime loss.

But next our hearts next sang with joy when they fought their way to a bronze medal Thursday against their World Cup nemesis, France.

And we all bent our heads, first in consolation for dreams dashed, then lifted them high in admiration

Don’t measure Olympic success in medals alone

for Paula Findlay, who finished last in the women’s triathlon, battling excru-ciating pain to cross the finish line.

In typical Canadian fashion, her first words in the face of her own agonizing disappointment were an apology: “I just want to apologize. I’m really sorry to everybody, to Canada.”

But in Canada, she is no less a hero than our athletes who have achieved the incredible feat of winning a medal that ranks them among the best ath-letes in the world.

She may even be more of an Olym-pic hero to some.

In Canada, where our heritage is steeped in the hewing of wood and drawing of water, where the winters

are long, cold and hard — I think so, anyway — and the coffee is from Tim Hortons, it’s all about grit and hard-scrabble determination; about giving your all.

It’s about greatness, not only in achieving but in spirit; in believing in a dream, then striving to make it a reality no matter the odds.

Those distracted by bright, shiny things might say our Canadian Olym-pic spirit that puts more value on the competition — the act of trying your very best — than the medals is sour grapes or consolation for losers.

But we know medals are not what make a country great.

(The exception being Parti Que-becois leader Pauline Marois, who reacted to the first four of our medals being won by athletes from Quebec by pointing out an independent Que-bec would shine on a world stage.)

Sadly, there are those who think our international reputation — if not their own armchair podium valida-tion — rests on our medal count.

They like to write letters to edi-tors and post anonymous comments online, jumping on the opportunity to criticize our country because we don’t take our six-year-olds away from their

Ifamilies and banish them to gruelling athletic training camps until they are teenagers.

In Canada, bless our athletes’ hearts, it takes sacrifice and true grit — and the support of generous family and sponsors — to even come close to following an Olympic dream.

In China, only gold medals are cel-ebrated, which is sad. Knowing it’s dif-ferent in Canada is one of the things during these Olympic Games — two and three being Rosie MacLennan and Paula Findlay — that has made me feel proud to be a Canadian.

Although I don’t need the Olym-pics to make me a proud Canadian.

While winning medals is a phe-nomenal achievement we celebrate — and, yes, lots of medals makes the party even better — most of us are comfortable enough with who we are as a nation to enjoy the Olympics for their true spirit of competition and display of unparalleled athleticism. (Wow, Michael Phelps.)

Go, Canada, go —keep giving it your all.

Debora Kelly is editor in chief of York Region Media Group

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BY CHRIS [email protected]

Consider the $14.5-billion price tag to stage the 2012 London Olym-pics and the cost of competing in them may seem a bargain.

However, the Olympic dream can be a financial nightmare.

Being an Olympian doesn’t come cheap.

Aside from the years of training, coaching, travel, lost income and personal sacrifice, there’s also the steady expense of equipment.

Sure, you can go for diving and swimming glory for the price of $365 aqua-dynamic Speedo Fast-skin3 trunks and $100 mirrored goggles, but for some sports, such as equestrian dressage and jump-ing, you can dole out hundreds of thousands and more.

Although the coveted medals themselves are surprisingly inex-pensive, the cost associated with earning the prize can be, well, Olympian.

Deep pockets help when it comes to cycling, be it road racing, time trials or on the oval track.

Newmarket BikeSports owner Tom Zieniski recently sold a new Specialized brand McLaren road bike for $19,000.

Electronic geared, carbon-framed bikes have a base sticker price in the $10,000 range, he said.

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$5,500.Helmets are $400 and shoes and

pedals are $450 each.Canada’s Ryder Hesjedal com-

peted aboard a Toronto-made Cervélo P5 valued in the $15,000 range.

Archery, surprisingly, is a big ticket sport, Aurora archery histo-rian and bow maker Bill Frey said.

A competition bow starts at $1,200 and each arrow runs around $10.

“Add all kinds of sighting and stabilizing systems and you can make it as expensive as you want,” he said.

A Forbes magazine study on the cost of becoming an Olympian said the annual expense for an archer

is $25,000 for equipment, travel to competitions, coaching at $100 per hour and range time at $9 an hour.

The survey estimates a table tennis competitor lays out $20,000-plus annually.

Top-flight players train for a dozen years with coaches and spar-ring partners costing more than $10,000 per year.

A top quality paddle runs $300.Fencing rings in at $20,000 per

year and gymnastics at $15,000. Perhaps the priciest sports are

Olympic equestrian dressage and show jumping.

The Canadian team, comprising four horse and rider combinations, features Ian Millar, 65, appearing in his 10th Olympic Games.

Internet site horsejunkiesunited.com reported the costs begin with good, strong horse stock, anywhere from $60,000 to $500,000.

Training, groomers, registration, stabling, veterinarians and a far-rier cost in the range of $5,000 per month.

Health certificates, fuel and maintenance for the $100,000 rig one needs to get from competition to competition simply add to the bill, which also includes $500 entry fee per horse.

Boots, bridles and saddles, usu-ally custom made, are in the neigh-bourhood of $5,000.

Just to transport a Canadian horse to London for the 2012 Games cost $10,000.

The traditional dress jackets rid-ers wear are tailored at $850 each.

Training to be an Olympian and the income most relinquish are major expenses.

Equipment expenses add up, based on their sport.

What of the medals thousands spend billions to acquire?

Priceless to the recipients, each medal weighs 14.1 ounces.

The gold medal is 92.5 per cent silver and 1.34 per cent gold, with the remainder being copper.

The silver medal is 92.5 per cent silver, with the remainder being copper.

The bronze is 97 per cent cop-

per, 2.5 per cent zinc and 0.5 per-cent tin.

The value of the materials in the gold medal is about $644, the silver approximately $330 and the bronze a paltry $4.71 on the current metals market.

Some Olympians spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on their dreams

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If you have an ash tree in your yard, it probably won’t be there in a decade.

The emerald ash borer invasion in all of York’s nine municipalities will likely kill most the Region’s ash trees within 10 years, forestry program manager James Lane said. York Region confirmed the pres-ence of the invasive insect in all of its local munici-palities Wednesday.

Results of region’s emerald ash borer trap moni-toring survey indicate the municipalities previously unaffected — Newmarket, Georgina, East Gwillim-bury and King — now shows signs of infestation.

The infestation rates are lower further north in the region, but dead and dying ash trees will become more obvious throughout York over the next few years.

Difficult to detect, fast moving and able to travel far, the wood-boring beetle, native to Asia, appeared in North America in 2002 and in York Region in 2008.

The pest primarily kills trees and can’t be eradi-cated because of its unique biology, Mr. Lane said.

The feisty metallic green insect has no natural enemies here, he said.

Research is being conducted to determine if pred-ators can be transferred from Asia.

A pesticide, TreeAzin, exists, but treating one ash tree every two years costs between $200 and $500. Considering the large number of ash trees in York’s regional forests, that’s not a practical solution, Mr. Lane said.

Go to yorkregion.com for the complete story.

Ash borer spreads throughout York

Tips for fighting back against the emer-ald ash borer:

4Do not transport wood, including nursery stock, firewood and wood chips.

4Get involved in planting trees in your neighbourhood.

4Participate in replanting programs, such as York Region’s backyard tree planting program delivered by LEAF, by visiting yourleaf.org

4Pesticides, including TreeAzin, are registered for use in Canada to prevent ash tree damage. Ash trees that are larger, still healthy and structurally sound are the best candidates for treat-ment. TreeAzin must be injected into the ash tree every two years by someone with an applicator’s licence and poses little risk to people, pets or wildlife. It degrades naturally. For more informa-tion, visit bioforest.ca

4Tree care companies and arborists are listed in the Yellow Pages under Tree Ser-vices or through the International Society of Arboriculture at treesaregood.org

4For more information on the emerald ash borer, visit the Canadian Food Inspec-tion Agency website at inspection.gc.ca/pests or call 1-866-463-6017. You can also find information at york.ca

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

A woman is in critical condition follow-ing a collision on Hwy. 48 in Whitchurch-Stouffville early yesterday.

A car collided with a pickup truck at about 12:45 just south of Blooming-ton Road, according to OPP Sgt. Dave Woodford.

Two women were taken to hospital, one with critical injuries. The other was treated and released, according to Sgt. Woodford.

A third person, a man, was in one of the vehicles. His status is unknown, according to police.

The OPP’s reconstruction unit contin-ues to investigate.

Bloomington crash victim stable

A woman remains in hospital in stable condition following a collision between a tractor trailer and a passenger van in Whitchurch-Stouffville last weekend.

The collision took place on Blooming-ton Road between Ninth Line and Hwy. 48 Friday afternoon.

– Sandra Bolan

Woman critical from Hwy. 48 crash

One driver was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital, another to Markham Stouffville Hos-pital, after a serious collision on Hwy. 48, south of Bloomington Rd. early yesterday.

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Rosie MacLennan, the pride of nearby King City. And thanks for the support, Canada, eh.It was so Karen.She moved here from Toronto between medals in

Athens in 2004 and Beijing four years later. Unlike some other high-profile athletes — see then

Maple Leafs’ star Wendel Clark — she didn’t hide here.She gave a shout-out to her new hometown after

winning silver in China in 2008. She made herself available to the local media. She made appearances at community events,

including the Vancouver Olympic torch run on Main Street and a celebrity bartending gig for the YMCA at Boston Pizza.

She got it.And Stouffville got her, too, showing up in large

numbers on Main Street to honour her for the Beijing performance four summers ago.

London would be her final Olympics, Ms Cockburn said.

Her husband, Mathieu Turgeon, won bronze in Syd-ney in 2000 and retired seven years later.

He’s now a chiropractor working in Scarborough who helped prepare the Canadian trampoline team for London.

They’re now both retired Olympians, folks who put their sport on the map across this land.

Now, they’re just another young couple down the block.

Save for that nifty medal collection.Thanks for the ride.

Jim Mason is editor of The Sun-Tribune.

Stouffville’s Karen Cockburn (from right), King City’s Rosie MacLennan and their coach, Dave Ross, react to a fall by the final jumper, securing a gold medal for Ms MacLennan. She won Canada’s first gold of the 2012 Olympics with her performance in trampoline at the London 2012 Games at the North Greenwich Arena in London last Saturday.

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Jon-Ross Newlands knows there are plenty of talented rugby players of age in Ontario.

Still, the 17-year-old Stouffville resident was hoping to earn a berth on the Toronto region team that will play at the Ontario Sum-mer Games at York University next week.

Turned out Newlands did not have to worry.

When the tryouts concluded, Newlands was selected on one of the two 12-man rosters Toronto region will field for the men’s compe-tition scheduled to begin Friday.

Speculating he will likely be utilized at the hooker position, Newlands is looking forward to making his debut at the games.

“It’s a huge honour and responsibility being chosen because I know there are some great players in the program,” the Grade 12 Stouffville District Secondary School student said.

While participating in a prestigious provin-cial multi-sport competition appeals to New-lands, so too does the game’s format, which will incorporate the seven-aside version.

That’s the game that will also be employed when rugby makes its debut at the 2016 Sum-mer Olympics.

He’s played 15-aside with the provincial team program for the last three seasons and at the club level with the Ontario Junior Blues.

He’s played seven-aside during the fall sea-son at Stouffville District Secondary.

“The game of 15s and sevens is totally different,” he said. “What makes sevens dif-ferent is the speed and a lot more thinking is involved going from a 15s hooker to a sevens hooker.”

He first heard about the Ontario Summer Games teams through a teammate on the provincial under-17 team.

Newlands made the cut at a tryout camp in Oshawa, one of eight held across the GTA for 100 hopefuls.

A second camp was held at Bill Crothers Secondary School in Unionville where the field was whittled down to around 40 players.

“I felt confident in what I bring to any rugby team in terms of my leadership abilities and ability to communicate,” he said. “But sevens is about cardiovascular fitness and thinking more, I wasn’t sure I would make it, but whatever I did, I made sure that the coaches noticed me on the field.”

Once Newlands made the team it posed a bit of a dilemma as he then had to choose between remaining with the provincial under-17 team for the summer or play for the Ontario Games team.

With the Ontario Summer Games being a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and with the sevens game to be played at the next Summer Olympics, he felt the chance was just too good to pass up.

“I’ve played 15s for Ontario for the past two years. Although I made that team again this year (with the under-17s), I had already com-mitted to sevens and didn’t want to give that up. It’s a great game, too.”

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Ben Sear has taken to the fair-ways in numerous competitive golf competitions.

But when the 15-year-old Stouffville resident sets foot on the Cedar Brae Golf Club links in Scar-borough from Aug. 15 to 17, he will take part in an event a little different from what he’s been accustomed to.

While Sear will still attempt to hit the ball straight down the fair-ways, make good approach shots and clutch putts in the three rounds of stroke play as a participant in the under-17 division, the golf com-petition is just one of a variety of sports being conducted as a part of the Ontario Summer Games.

In making his competitive debut at the games, Sear is excited about the prospects and was quick to note it bears some resemblance to the Olympics.

Especially since the games will feature the top athletes of a specific

age group from across the province who will participate in their spe-cialty.

As well, he said the athletes will have their own residence.

“The Ontario Summer Games is different than anything I’ve par-ticipated in before,” he said. “I’m looking forward to participating in the event and staying at the athletes village.”

Sear’s presence in the golf com-petition stemmed from his partici-pation in a regional qualifier held earlier in the year at Pheasant Run Golf Club in Newmarket.

During that competition, which had some 60 hopefuls trying to gar-ner one of four spots for the games, Sear finished second after carding a two-over par 75.

First taking to the fairways when he was five years old through the encouragement of his parents, who are also avid golfers, Sear was quick to credit much of his success to the time he spends at York Downs Golf and Country Club where he’s a

member.While there, Sear takes full

advantage of the youth program they offer.

“They have a great junior pro-gram and I play and practise there as much as I can,” he said.

Having qualified earlier this year for the provincial junior boys’ championship and playing on a golf team at Unionville’s Bill Croth-ers Secondary School that won the York Region Athletic Associa-tion title, Sear feels his presence at the games represents the highlight thus far in his budding career on the links.

“No doubt that participating in the Ontario Summer Games will be the biggest highlight of my golf career thus far,” he said.

Transferring to Stouffville Dis-trict Secondary School for the upcoming academic year where he will be in Grade 10, Sear hopes his accomplishments at the games will serve as another stepping stone towards reaching his ultimate post secondary school goal of combin-ing academics and golf at a college or university south of the border.

“I am going to continue to work hard at school and golf with hopes to get a scholarship to a U.S. col-lege,” he said.

BEN SEAR: Stouffville golfer hopes to earn a scholarship to a college in the United States.

Ontario Games Olympic-like for golfer

Aurora walks all over Mennos

Surrendering bases on balls can come back to haunt you.

In the case of the Stouffville Mennos, issuing three walks in the bottom of the seventh inning proved costly in a 4-3 loss to the host Aurora Shoeless Joe’s in their Oshawa City and District Fastball League game Wednesday.

With the game tied at 3-3 entering the final half inning, Mennos’ pitcher Byron Baranieski gave up a single and two walks, which loaded the bases. Faced with a full count on the next batter, Baranieski gave up another walk which brought in the winning run.

Baranieski and Kris Burkholder each had two of seven hits the Mennos generated off winning pitcher Paul Koert. In earning the win, Koert, a

Stouffville resident, struck out 14 batters.Now 6-12 on the season, the Mennos are

scheduled to play in Oshawa against the Ravens Wednesday before returning to Memorial Park the following night for a game against the Scar-borough Athletics at 8:30 p.m.

Mennos Travis Connor and Robert Kay are playing for a Walkerton team in the Canadian Junior Championships in Owen Sound.

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