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PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, January 24, 1995 - 5 as "A Family Tradition for 128 Years" D> PORT PERRY STAR Q CC OMMUNITY Neck broken during hockey game Sean McEnaney is home recovering from injuries By Kelly Lown | Port Perry Star = Sean McEnaney is looking |=, at his injury as a positive | #2 thing, as the broken neck he suffered playing hockey last week could have been a lot worse. The 19-year-old Port Perry } native suffered the injury when he fell into the boards |. while playing in the first § game of a Juvenile tourna- ment on January 13. The result of the fall was three IB 4 ) : || Happy couple Harry and Marjorie Pearce were guests of honor at a 50th anniversary celebration held this past Saturday at the Angli- can church in Port Perry. They spent the afternoon greeting well-wishers. Local work slated Separate board to receive $2 million By Jeff Mitchell Port Perry Star Immaculate Conception school in Port Perry is among Durham Region's separate schools that wilkreceive funding from the federal and provincial governments under the Canada/Ontario Infrastructure Works program. Details of more than $2 mil- lion worth of funding for capital projects were released last week, and included $28,700 for installation of temperature con- trol systems at schools through- out the region. The systems will be installed in three of the six portables at the Port Perry school, said Scugog trustee Kathy LeFort. They will automatically reduce heat levels during the evenings and weekends to conserve ener- gy and money. In addition, $208,000 will be devoted to upgrade the running track at Monsignor Paul Dwyer Catholic High School in - Oshawa, where almost 200 stu- dents from Port Perry attend classes. Another $67,000 will be used to renovate the student parking lot at Dwyer. Mrs. LeFort hailed the list of projects to be funded under the federal-provincial program, saying the works are necessary -- and expensive. "This is such a bonus," she said. "We're very grateful that we received this." The projects approved for area schools were "something that would have to be done any- way," Mrs. LeFort added. "This allows us to spend the money on other things." The area trustee also applauded the infrastructure program, a joint effort of the federal, provincial, and local levels of government aimed at funding capital expenditures and putting people back to work. "It's nice to see that every- body is working collaboratively," she said. "It's so much more effective and efficient." and con- yi d eon. d at the University loo Art Gallery last urgday. and Mrs. Price are noted ities on Canadian Folk Art and loan their unique piec- es of art out for exhibitions and academic gallery showings on a _ The Price's child - Matthew attended the opening of the Waterloo exhibition which is titled "The Essence of Passion." Ti Folk Art is defined as carv- ings or paintings created by people with no formal art train- ce's children Kim and Patricia. ing. Dr. Price said these self taught artists are quite often. retired men or women who have taken up carving or paint- ing as a hobby. Since 1978, Dr. and Mrs. Price have donated more than 700 pieces of their vast collec- tion to the Museum of Civil ization in Ottawa. Mrs. Price sells both contem- porary and antique folk art pieces from her shop, Patricia Price Antiques located at her home near Manchester. Copies of the poster adver- tising "The Essence of Passion," which features a piece of folk art carved by Bruce Smith of Bethany, are also available. compressed vertebrae and one unstable fractured vertebrae. Fitted with a "halo" to keep the broken bones in place, Sean is feeling better about his injury and is looking ahead to life after it is |& removed. - "I was paralyzed for a couple of 'minutes then it began to come back slowly" "It's not that bad," he said of the injury, which he looks on as a positive thing, not a nega- tive one. Countless doctors told him how lucky he was that his injuries were what they are. The injury, sustained after a bodycheck by an opposing player from Aylmer, was not a "dirty check" in the sense of the word, and neither Sean nor his father hold any animosity towards the player who hit him. "I was off balance when he hit me. The ice was slow and maybe I caught my edge the wrong way," he said of the hit, which sent him crashing head first into the boards. "I knew when I was hit and before I hit the ice that I was in trouble. Usually you can put your hands or feet up to stop yourself, but there was not time to do anything," he said. "I was paralyzed for a couple of minutes then it began to come back slowly," he added. The McEnaney's are thankful for the quick action taken by both team trainer Jamie Menzies and several parents who were on hand. Mr. McEnaney was told the referees were put- ting pressure on the coaching staff to move him off the playing surface and he is thankful the parents and coaches refused to move his son. "The coaching staff did a good job and the par- ents were very supportive making sure he was not moved. I'm glad he wasn't," Mr. McEnaney said. As luck would have it, ambulance attendants were on the arena's other ice pad, attending to a player with a less serious injury, and were quick to respond to Sean. Sean estimates he was only on the ice for about 15 minutes before he was taken by ambulance to the Sarnia Hospital. Sean was tended to at the Sarnia hospital, with his coach's wife Linda Barkey by his side. When it was confirmed it was a serious injury, Mrs. Barkey phoned the McEnaney's at home. Sean was taken via plane from Sarnia to Buttonville Airport, then transported to the trauma unit at Sunnybrook Medical Centre, from which he arrived home on Tuesday. The injury has caused more than a stop to his hockey career, as it has meant quitting the Toronto Insurance Institute, where he was attending school, and has forced him to leave his part-time job delivering pizza. Until this year, the McEnaney family has nev- er seen a serious injury befall any of their sons while playing hockey. But in October of 1994 % i - ve ' Sean McEnaney will be wearing this "halo" for the next three months while his neck heals. their youngest son, Daryl, was injured in much the same way as Sean, but to a much lesser degree. "He was playing in a tournament in Markham and was hit really hard," his father said. After suffering a great deal of stiffness in his neck and arm, it was discovered he had two com- pressed vertebrae in his neck. He was forced to watch the game from the sideline, wearing a neck brace. He was only back playing hockey for two weeks when Sean's injury occurred. Sean is expected to recover fully from his inju- ries, but all will not be known until the halo comes off in three months. "The doctors told us he has the injuries which are a perfect example of the injuries which can be corrected by the halo," his father said, but added that the doctors are also not ruling anything out. Although the halo is expected to correct the fractures in his neck, it was the worst experience Sean will probably ever face. The halo, which is held into place by four pins put into his skull, was the worst pain he has ever elt. "The pain was unbelievable, brutally painful. I didn't think it was possible that they could be allowed to do that (something that caused that much pain)," he said of the halo. "That was the worst part of the whole thing. Aside from that it really wasn't that painful," he added. Sean will return to Sunnybrook for x-rays in February to ensure the bones are setting properly. Then he will play the waiting game until April. "They don't see any complications, but they won't rule anything out. Surgery is possible (after the three months), but very unlikely," Mr. McEnaney said. Alot has been made of body checking in hockey, but even in light of his serious injury - Sean would not like to see the game he loves and has been playing since he could walk - played any other way. "I think there are too many rules in hockey as it is. I like to see the hits," he said. If he could skate out onto the rink today, he would be bumping and grinding and throwing bodychecks with the rest of his teammates with- out a second thought, he said.