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pitiweekjehcwakrtmtbfrtqetfo iadrw st wagg most deserving of honor the towns sports personality of the year award was made for the likes of jim wagg unlike some towns which honor their absolute top dog highest achieving athlete every year always a risky business in light of the different playing fields involved this stouffville sunsponsored award is meant to recognize indi viduals who make the largest over all contribution to the sports scene in town for jim wagg his approach to sports involvement is the same as his approach to life talking to him about his 30 years of coaching managing sitting on team and league executives and playing in his beloved monday night mens lob ball league youll hear him offer up the old standard cliches about playing for fun enjoying the people and get- ting out of life what you invest into it but for jim these arent just empty platitudes he simply refuses to allow life to become complicated despite a cou ple of personal setbacks through the years that might have kayoed a less- er man you wont hear jim whining whether its over a questionable call by a game official or the cancer which currently threatens his life he has mastered the ultimate phi losophy as outlined in the prayer asking god to give us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change the courage to change the things we can and the wisdom to know the difference for jim its all about attitude and he could write a book on the sub- jectjim is the kind of guy sports was made for for him the arena isnt the place to go out and make up for your deficiencies in other areas of life or to try to annihilate the other guy for me its always been the game not to win he told me the other day winning is nice but its not everything id be a fool to say i dont like to win but as long as we have a good time thats all that matters there are a lot of coaches and parents who should learn that contrast that with the pressure- sports notes bruce stapley filled winner takes all megaworld that pro sport has become jims feeling is that wherever you find an overly competitive kid or adult athlete youll invariably find a little family dysfunction lurking in the past they were probably driven by a parent he suggests jim has certainly experienced his share of winning as a coach and manager when i asked him to recall the sweetest triumph of all he thought for a while then suggested it would have to be his first championship because it was the first that was back in 197171 when he managed the stouffville midget b hockey team that won the lakeshore division title he remembers it like it was yes terday partly because of the famil iar names of the company with which he was surrounded the coach was jim wagg no relation to me and the assistant coach was his brother eldon wagg in jims case his own childhood in torontos west end in the 1940s was marked by an absence of sport i didnt play as a kid he acknowledged there were no organized sports for kids then and that probably explains his ongoing willingness to be there for the kids of stouffville as well as the adults looking for a little athlet ic diversion for three decades the most fun he has had coach ing managing etc that would have to be my involvement in the tuesday night ladies softball league he recalls ever the ladies man his proudest involvements monday night mens ball and the stouffville amateur hockey league because they involve everybody and they are mainly for fun in that way they are like music mania it allows you to get out and meet people correction an ad that ran in the june 26th edition for aurora collectables should have read four day clearance sale june 27 28 29 30th we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused youve seen the rest now order the best the cutting edge rr ade of sv ctf- triple mix a peat loam a cedar mulch a manure a gravel specializing in small quantities open all weekend canada day pool fullins excavation service office 905 4710j5j36 i yard 1905 642618 happy 130 birthday 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