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2 - Orono Weekly Times Subscriptions $38.09 + $1.91 GST = $40.00 per year. No Refunds. Publishing 48 issues annually at the office of publication. "We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Aid to Publishers - Canada Periodical Fund toward our mailing costs." Wednesday, July 7, 2010 ORONO WEEKLY TIMES - 5310 Main St., P.O. Box 209, Orono, ON L0B 1M0 E-mail: oronotimes@rogers.com or Phone/Fax: 905-983-5301 Publisher/Editor Margaret Zwart Production and Display Advertising - Roxanne Johnston Classified Advertising - Sue Weigand The Orono Weekly Times welcomes letters to the editor on subjects of interest to our readers. Opinions expressed to the editor and articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Orono Weekly times. Letters must be signed and contain the address and phone number of the writer. Any letter considered unsuitable will not be acknowledged or returned. We reserve the right to edit for length, libel and slander. If your retail or classified ad appears for the first time, please check carefully. Notice of an error must be given before the next issue goes to print. The Orono Weekly Times will not be responsible for the loss or damage of such items. A celebration of sport by Sue Weigand Thursday, July 8, 2010, is 'Bryan Bickell Day.' All are invited to attend the Stanley Cup Parade starting at 4pm in Orono (from Mill St. to Main St. to Park St. and then into the fairgrounds). Bryan and the Cup will be on hand at the Orono Arena for photos and autographs. The theme of the parade is "A Celebration of Sport," and Orono has so many athletes, past and present, of whom to be proud, that it is almost impossible to do them all justice. So what follows is merely an attempt to survey the field, to demonstrate a range of sports, and is by no means definitive. Perhaps it is best to start with the founders and builders. In hockey and baseball, that would be Dane Found, who owned the local restaurant. Found was the man who started the Orono Amateur Athletic Association back in 1945. "If it was not for Dane, Orono would not have had the Orono Orphans," said Dean "Weiner" West, who -- along with his brothers Junior and Raye West, Gus Pollard, Don Mercer, and Gerald Robinson among others -- was a member of the 194849 Ontario Junior "D" Championship Orono Orphans hockey club, as well as the 1959-60 Intermediate "C" Championship Orono Orphans hockey team, and the two Intermediate "C" Championship Orono Orphans baseball teams of 1954 and 1957. The Orono Orphans hockey club was inducted into the Clarington Sports Hall of Fame. Gord Lowery, another builder in hockey and in soccer, was also recognized in the Clarington Sports Hall of Fame for his efforts. Others from Orono who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame include: Steve West, who played professional hockey in the 1970s for the Winnipeg Jets and the Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association; his daughter Sommer West, a member of the 1999 Canadian National Women's Hockey team, and an Olympian with the 2000 Team Canada Women's Softball team; and Adam Colville, a product of the Orono Figure Skating Club, who represented Eastern Canada at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in 1997. One of our earliest athletes is also a Hall of Famer: Wyman Andrus, who was born in 1858 in Orono. Andrus is the only person in the history of the area of Clarington to play major league baseball. He played one game on Sept. 15, 1885 with the Providence Grays of the National League in a game against the St. Louis Maroons. His professional baseball career spanned 10 years, but he started out playing for the Orono Ball Club. Pete Landers pitched Canada to a world title with a no-hitter, and so was inducted into the Softball Hall of Fame in 1992. Pete Maartenense was a great player with the Kendal Eagles, who coached a hardball Kendal team to an All Ontario championship. In the Ontario Special Olympics, Katie McNeill brought home a medal in bowling. It has been a banner year for other home-grown athletes, such as 2010 Olympian Matt Morison, of Burketon, the Parallel Giant Slalom snowboarder who started on the slopes of Kirby at the Oshawa Ski Club (now Brimacombe). Orono's Dustin Reid was named the Coach of the Year (East division) by the Ontario University Association for coaching the Ryerson Rams women's volleyball team, and then another Orono volleyball player, Ryan Talsma, was honoured with the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association's (OCAA) Player of the Year award for men's volleyball. In the horse world, young Carolyn Russell-Poliquin has been making a name for herself in Dressage. While in harness racing, brothers Doug and Gord Brown, Tony Kerwood, and Paul MacDonnell are veteran racers on the major circuit who all cut their teeth at the Orono Raceway. And of course, Matt and Justin Caruana, both former Bowmanville Eagles, continue to make Orono proud in minor league hockey. The latest Orono athlete to be making waves is 12-year-old Tessa Chad, a member of the junior Ontario Lacrosse Team who is going to her first national tournament. So as we welcome the Stanley Cup to Orono, and acknowledge the great accomplishments of Bryan Bickell, let's also raise a cheer for all of our athletes, past and present. Letters to the Editor No Keystone Kops for Canada Day To The Editor: Reply to Orono Weekly Times Editorial, June 30, 2010 Who really knows what goes on behind police lines, why they do what they do and what is their mandate? No matter what the answer to these questions might be, there is always plenty of room for criticism. During the G20 demonstrations "radicals", "extremists" and "criminals" were some of the names attached to those dressed in black, they ducked in and out of the peaceful demonstrators while destroying public and private property. Then there were the ones called "idiots", they tried to entertain themselves by directing up-close, lewd gestures at the police. It was the responsibility of the police to stop those bent on destruction, pretend the idiots didn't exist and at the same time ensure further violence did not erupt. This sounds like a job for Superhero. Maybe we should have enlisted his aid because he may have done the job for nothing. There were many arrests made before the day of the demonstrations. Some were at the local university where students were stocking up on bricks; others were arrested as they attempted to get inside security by crawling through sewers and coming up through manholes. The authorities anticipated all this and it was handled without fanfare. But it seems no matter what, there are always critics. As for the whole world knowing Canadians are polite, honest, and friendly, someone should tell the whole world so they don't mistake us for Americans wherever we go. It seems the only ones that know we are Canadians are the Americans, eh, and some think Canada is just another state. Canadians have no monopoly on polite, friendly and honest; these attributes are just as prevalent in other countries. This is a great nation and different in many ways from other nations. I like our young country, our nationalistic spirit suits me just fine and I hope it doesn't change with age. We aren't overly demonstrative but our patriotism comes through when needed. Do I "Appreciate our great country"? Yes, but what I didn't appreciate was that the editorial made a point of calling our police women and men bunglers and at the same time exclaimed how wonderful it is to be Canadian. Aren't our police Canadians too? Should we not try to make everyone feel proud on Canada Day? Take the police to task in a separate editorial. These two topics did not belong together. Tony Wood Orono