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stouffviuesunthbunem thursday may 24 200725 stouffville suntribune students hit lawn at dub by jim thomas the stouffville lawn bowling club is rolling out the green carpet to stu dents of stouffville district secondary school club president bob stover working with physi- cal education instructor jamie hewitt recently issued an invitation to ath letes of grades 11 and 12 to participate in a lawn bowl ing workshop with amazing results eighteen young people 14 boys and four girls have signed up theyll spend four consecutive mornings on the greens june 4 to 7 with a minitournament planned for the final day we were scratching our heads wanting to crack the youth barrier its hoped an evening competition can be arranged at which time students will compete against theirparents we were scratching our heads wanting to crack the youth barrier stover said for too long lawnbowings been unfairly categorized as a seniors sport stover described mr hewitt as very supportive of the idea and receptive to the invitation previously stover said the club attempted to organize a summer lawn- bowling program for youth with little success this spring the execu tive went a different route and now for the first time lawn bowling has been successfully introduced as part of the schools leisure sports unit sports giftwrapped staff photosteve somerville stouffville district secondary schools sara leccese is wrapped up by bayview secondary school defenders during stouffvilles 270 win in york region high school action in richmond hill friday by mike hayakawa staff writer for brad may the long wait is over after 15 years and 882 regular season games in the nhl the 35- yearold stouffville native is final ly going to play in a stanley cup final that longawaited dream turned to fruition tuesday when mays anaheim ducks defeated the detroit redwings 43 to wrap up the western conference best- ofseven final in six games the ducks face the ottawa senators for the cup the best-6f- seven series begins monday in anaheim acquired by the ducks at the trade deadline from the colorado avalanche for goalkeeper michael wall may has played in 12 post season contests and collected one assist brads father stouffville realtor ken may was expecting a call from his son yesterday im sure they would have been celebrating pretty good ken said it was exciting to see his son finally reach his goal of playing for the stanley cup and possibly extending his career hes hoping a good series here he can get another two to three- year contract hes looking forward to at least playing another year ken said brad warned ken the ducks could be legitimate contenders he drew similarities with this team and ones he played on in buffalo and vancouver the 2002- 03 canucks had plenty of momen tum just prior to the todd bertuzzi mugging of colorado avalanche forward steve moore and seem ingly endless fallout like the ducks brad said both of those teams had great atmos phere ken said during the regular season may suited up in 24 games with the avalanche and ducks and collect ed four assists a former stouffville and markham minor hockey player may was the 14th player chosen in the 1990 nhl draft by the buffalo sabres sip his bgfs fljp sbsssibih io bp ft 7 3s3- v t- j8i11 brad may stouffville native hopes to win stanley cup and sign another nhl contract the graduate of the niagara falls thunder of the ontario hockey league launched his nhl career with the sabres where he played sixplus seasons before he was dealt to the vancouver canucks his may day seriesclinching goal with buffalo in 1993 is a high lightreel favourite may spent two seasons in van couver before going to the phoenix coyotes in 200001 for another two years the rugged forward was dealt back to the canucks during the 200203 season he joined the avalanche in the 200506 season earlier in this years playoffs may was handed a threegame suspension after an incident in the ducks first round series against the minnesota wild during the latter stages of the fourth game which was won by the wild may was given a match penalty and game misconduct for punching minnesotas kim johnsson in the back of the head brad his wife brigitte and their children samantha and tyler live in vancouver brad is big on charities espe cially the shoot for a cure foun dation which funds spinal cord research for more on may and the ducks go to anaheimduckscom and bradmayca to view the may day goal go to wgr550comsabrestopl002php