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“We’re obviously very pleased that the OMHA as the host branch for the 201 1 Midget Championships accepted our bid to act as the host centre," Easter said Monday. “We received letters of support from the mayor’s office and the chamber of commerce, which I’m sure went a long way to helping our proposal, but Stouffville’s hockey legacy, the newly-renovated facility along with the strength of our program would have been factors as well.” The event, which is slated to run from April 8 to 10 at the Stoufl‘ville Arena, will assemble the midget A champions from the OMHA, Great- er Toronto Hockey League, the Alliance, Northern Ontario Minor Hockey Association and the host Clippers. As president of the Whitchurchâ€" Stouifville Minor Hockey Associa- tion and coach of the Stoufiville Clippers midget A rep team, Easter was informed the Ontario Minor Hockey Association and the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville had been chosen to host the 2010-11 Ontario Hockey Federation Midget A cham- pionships. mhayakawa @yrmg.com Don Easter received welcome news recently. Stouflville granted OHF A tourney for April Clippers to host Ontario midget championships BY MICHAEL HAYAKAWA The last time an OHF Champi- onship took place in Whitchurch- Stoufl‘ville was in 2001-02 when the Clippers peewees, under the direction of head coach Rick Sooley, “This represents a once-in- a-lifetime opportunity for these young men to compete for a pro- vincial championship in front of their hometown fans,” Faster said. “For the nine second-year midgets who played on the 2007-08 bantam team that lost to Temiskaming in the gold-medal game, it's a chance to complete some unfinished busi- ness.” For some of his players, who were part of a bantam team that won silver at the OHF champion- ships three years ago, this will give them a chance to make amends. ‘For the nine second-year midgets who played on the 2007-08 bantam team that lost to Temiskaming in the gold-medal game, it’s a chance to complete some unfinished business.’ Easter said the decision was influenced by the fact the players who make up this year’s Clippers midget team have enjoyed some competitive success in winning back-to-back OMHA titles as ban- tams and minor midgets and reach- ing the finals last season. When the WSMHA board learned last spring it was the OMHA’s turn to host the Midget A OHF championship, they agreed to submit a proposal to act as the host centre. “There's a lot of work involved in preparing a bid and if you are successful it can be a pretty daunt- ing task to organize an event of this kind,” Easter said. One team made a submission a few years ago, which turned out to be unsuccessful. Since that championship, variâ€" ous Stouffville teams looked at the possibility of applying to host an OHF championship. served as the host team. Playing with a short bench due to injuries but urged on by a vocal home crowd, the Clippers captured the championship. ' That was also the last time a Stouflville team skated 011‘ with an OHF title. group had planned and organized a team trip to the Czech Repub- lic a few years ago gave the board some confidence that we had the resources to ensure that the event itself would be a success. Both fac- tors were highlighted in our proposal to the OMHA," Easter said. “The fact that the core parent They submitted a lS-page pro- posal to the OMHA at the end of August-