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The Canadian Champion, Friday, Marcs 29, 2002--25 Just a few things on my mind in local -sports world For more informsation, contact: Dehorah Eston-Kent, cFA Financial Advisor Berkshire Investment Grnup Inc. 12100-6th Lise, RR #1 Halton Hills, ON L7J 2L7 O Tel. (519) 853-5017 Fas: (519) 853-4136 E-mail deatonkent@herkshire.ca Life's long. Bu ready. ,BERKSH IRE mtALmST'an Commissions, traing commissions, maneent fees and ecenses al m bc ssociated with mutual limnd usvestments. Plesrehe pros"ci before unsnz musal finds are fltgaateed, their values change frequeny and pat performance may flot be r e d.e T TlerOgo is a registeid srsdemark ofTalvest Fund Management mec. T is spaid in part bylavesiFund Management Imc. r ~ (~1 - Under tise heading of believe it or not. On the day Canada won tise hockey gold medal attse Olympics, tise town was full of cheering patiots in tiseir cars, honkissg tiseir homs and leaning out windows waving flags. Just a great celebration, until as lest one police officer started handing out tickets for nat wearing seat bis. 1 think we're ail grateful for tise service aur police pravide, but maybe that was gomng a littie tua, far? 1 guess ise was cheerissg for tise Americans. - I've been worried about our new arena. According ta a repart by ise Champion's Richard Vivian, tise seating capacity is only going ta, be 200. Few missor hockey games are going to get tisat man 'y fans, but it stiil made me tisink we're doing tisis at tise Iow end of tise scale, whicis is my warst nigistiare, if you've seen tome of tise terrible arenaa around. 1 talked ta Ken McAlpine, the manager af parka and recreatian for tise Town of Milton, and fet considerahly hetter. Tise tirat swo pada are juat ta service minor hockey, and wisile tise actual deaign for those pads hasss't even atarted, tise second twa pads are open ta a public/private parsner- sisip. Isat means that tise private sectar, perhaps a consor- tium, can share in its risk and revenue, wisicis could mean a cansiderably larger seating area, perisaps ta satisfy tise Miltan Mereisants. According ta, McAlpine: "Tie usera ail want a quality praduet and we're nos gaing ta be accepting anytising lest." - Got a cal) front Cliff Houston tise otiser day about my referee calumn. Houston was refereeing and umpiring; before mot of us were alive, and ise was responaible for atarting nanr hockey in Milton. Wisen I amn helping out Steve LeBlanc witis tise sports again, I hope ta, get tise chance ta, talk ta, iim and get stme compulisons between tise aIder days and now. - One tising tisat's deflnitely différent it tise way tia parents are involved in minor sports. Maybe it's tise amount of money tlsat's paid out naw, or maybe it's Out in leftfield juas tise more pratective attitudes of parents nawadays, but it keeps getting crazier. One AAA hockey team tisas t know of had a cach with impeccable credentials that reached ail tise way up ta tise national level - in otiser words une of tise best coachses in tise cauntry. This team was damng very well, but tise coachs tlnaily gat su fed up with tise parents tisa ise tald tisem tisat if ail tise non- sense didn't stop ise was going ta quit and disband tise team. Most coaches tisat I've talked ta ail agree tise biggest prablera they have is wits tise parents. - 1 remember Milton's Darren (Mini) Haydar when he was s bantamn witis tise Halton Hurricanes. 1 cavered a game in wisich ise seored five goals at Thompsun Mena. Wr neyer tee a Haitan Hurricane game in Haiton anymare hecause tise home games are played in Brampton, but a number of hockey peuple told me at tise time about isow ise couldn't succerd as tise next level because ofisis size. He's praved everyane wrong, of course, and nuw tise Hobey Baker flnalist isas a chance attise NCAA national cisampionsisip witis New Hamptshire. Score une for tise little guy. -For pure tenaeisy, tise beat tram I've seen titis year is tise Milton midget AA tram, who just won tise OMHA finals againat Barrie. If I was ever trapped in a cave-mn I'd want tisese guys witis me because t knnw sisey'd neyer quit digging. Lacrosse pros miss the play,..offs Potsesson play will have ta wait anotiser year for a Minta Cup winner had bis stronget stesson in tise couple of homnegrown lacrosse stars. NLL. Bath Kyle Arbuckle's Columbus Landsaaka and He tlnisised tisird in tramn seoring with 19 goals and Corey Leigh's New Jersey Storm failed ta, malie tise 24 assitts in 12 ganses. National Lacrosse League 2002 playoffs - eacis fln- Meanwisile, Leigis broke inta tise professional ranks isising lsst in tiseir respective divisions witis identical titis season and played in ail 16 games witis New 5-11 records. Jersey, who won its lsst two regular tesson contests. Arbuckle's tram ended on a taugis four-ganse losing He seored seven times and picked up five assista over streak, altisougis individuaily speaking tise former tia streteis. 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