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an. 12, 1994 emories of skating in the cold Midâ€"winter‘s first deep freeze has spurred the skaters onto Bronte Creek where it makes that grand curve through Town. Memories of my first skates. Mother‘s castâ€"offs. Rocker blades! "You‘ll fly like the wind on them," ather enthused. Trouble was my on the CPR water tank‘s iceâ€"girt pverflow pond were cyclonic aboard fheir storeâ€"bought tubes. What is this special subâ€"zero seasonâ€" al allure for us seniors? Why do its ghastly thermometer readings jolt red orpuscles from their warm weather ) Any day now, pickâ€"up hockey will get underway once more on that gravelâ€" y pond opposite RBG‘s Old Guelph Road gates. All ages and approved genâ€" ers. Multitude of pucks. Sideline bonâ€" fires. The works, to reâ€"live our long ago eâ€"time glories. Out skates Milburne Sorensen whose dad laid gleaming cement sidewalks in summer and marquee backyard ice rinks n the ice age months. On his postage tamp frozen patches, ghosts skated 7ith us. Household names for us 1994 ldsters. Howie Morenz. Bun Cook. huck Gardiner. Our field of dreams on ce. J To such immortals, we did not dare are our highâ€"class gear. Satevepost inguards. Reader‘s Digest shoulder ads. Fraser and Squair‘s Elementary French Grammar tucked into itchy V’ongjohns to safeguard the family jewâ€" Being ownership, Milburne posted he rosters. Always Gault McA in soal. "Fat guys with glasses go there," Milburne ruled. "They take up space ind see better." In his hour of immortality, Duke Keats, Edmonton‘s legendary sniper, ran ifoul of minusâ€"50 Fahrenheit savagery, one of Father‘s immutable epics of the >reâ€"sissy winter era. Having potted the vinning goal against the santanic calgarians, Duke skated off with sugar ;:lum visions of free beers from doting ‘worshippers at the Yale Hotel bar. "But at the final bell," Father would eâ€"tell, "our trainer went berserk. He 1urled his water bucket sponge aloft into hat minusâ€"50 air. En route down, it roze solid. Hit Duke square on top. <nocked him cold!" We pensioners relish our immutable ore of iceâ€"fingered intruders messing up bur deadâ€"ofâ€"winter conveniences. _ Minusâ€"60 readings shrank its rails oo short for wary tram motormen to isk the gaps between. We walked. The night, even hockey itself â€" the !)rand game Canadian, wasn‘t immune. ur skates stuck glued to unyielding ice urfaces. We hunkered down in Iraughty rinkshacks with cuddly roupies, waiting out King Winter. Uncle Tony‘s spanking new Iron ireman won lasting family notoriety or copping out so shamefully on its old snap maiden test run. It‘s skeletal maze of arms, ratchets, fars, cotter pins, and beltâ€"rigged coal oppers was meant to warm Aunt atsy‘s bedroom scientifically, freeing P human hands for other pursuits esides stoking. Tragically, the morning after was not ‘ireman‘s dawn of triumph. While \untie shivered upstairs, Uncle found ‘ireman had moved the cellar coalpile dily from one corner to the other, not iinking to deposit even a lone testimoâ€" ial pellet in the icicled furnace firebox. These have been among my Tashbacks watching younger neighbors ike on the deepâ€"freeze. Including those ardiest of the hardy. Have you spotted iem, the ice fisherfolk? Weddings Hersranoâ€"LusKk aula M. Herbrandâ€"Lusk, grandâ€"daughter of rederick and Marcelle Herbrand of akville, and Warren D. P. Lusk, son of avid and Kathleen Lusk of Oakville, were arried at St. James Parish on Oct. 9, 1993. e newlyweds live in Oakville. i THE OAKVILLE BEAVER 13 dindindindindindindiniidindl 3300 Ninth Line Oakville, Ont. Fern Hill is a coâ€"educational school for students in preâ€"school through Grade 8 who will respond to a challenging programme. 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