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one of the youngest guys on the
team, most were 6-7 years older
than me. Pete Piquette and Gerry
Devaney were the goaltenders and
Eddy Emmerton was the coach.”

Jim continues, “For about four
years, Hank Greggain and me
organized the Oldtimers golf
tournament at the Cornwall Golf
and Country Club that attracted
230 golfers and was one of the
largest at the time,” states Jim.
He continued playing with the
Cornwall Oldtimers until he
turned seventy.

During his high school years,
Jim worked in various grocery
stores beginning with Lavigne’s Mark, Jim and Jeff Cicchini Photo Submitted
Corner Grocery Store, which was

owned by future Cornwall mayor, course through Queens University. window. “Neil Burke and his wife Florence worked in administration
Archie Lavigne. He later worked One of Jim’s duties at the Bank of were out for a walk and he stopped at the hospital, and she did much
at the A&P where Truffles is Nova Scotia was to hand deliver to offer me a job at Brookshell of the book work for the business,
presently located, beside the old all the bank drafts, giving him the Motors. We had a handshake usually 4 or 5 hours every Sunday.
Bank of Montreal building. opportunity to get to know the agreement, and I was there for the Our youngest son, Jeff joined the
business community. next fifteen years, first as Credit business following university
“I was making 50 cents per Manager, then Sales Manager, and and when I retired in 2015, he
hour. The truck would come in A few years later, Jim accepted eventually General Manager. Neil and Mark took over the business.
on Wednesday mornings and we an offer from Seaboard Finance, had me take a number of courses Without the support of family Jas-
would unload it before school later accepting a manager position from General Motors through mar wouldn’t be here today.”
started. We had a real production with Citizens Finance and Carleton University. I gained a
line getting the goods into storage, transferring to Kingston. After considerable amount of business A strong supporter of the
all of the canned goods would go spending three years in Kingston experience while I was working at community, Jim was a member
upstairs and we took the fruits Jim was transferred to Ottawa and Brookshell”. of the Rotary Club for more than
and vegetables to the basement. I eventually back to Cornwall. twenty years and he also sat on the
worked on Saturdays and at night During the years that Jim was In 1988, the opportunity came up board of the United Way for a six-
stocking shelves,” Jim remembers. in Kingston, he played in the to purchase East Court Decorating. year period. Jim enjoys golfing at
Painting and wallpapering were
His next job was at the Loblaws Limestone League and while in something that Jim had a knack for the Cornwall Golf and Country
Ottawa, he played with a group
store, located in what is now Times and had been doing as a sideline. Club where he has been a member
Square, stocking shelves and playing twice weekly out of the “I incorporated the company, and for the past forty years, but he
working the cash with Jim stating, Sandy Hill Arena. Former Ottawa the Jas-Mar name came from my hasn’t played as often recently due
Rough Rider Lally Lalonde, who
“The downtown was a very busy name and that of our oldest son to a medical condition.
place in those days.” was associated with the Smith Mark, and it’s been Jas-Mar Paint
Falls Bears, approached Jim Jim summarizes by saying,
Following high school, Jim with an offer to join the Bears, and Decorating for the past thirty- “Over the years, the relationships
three years” he recalls.
spent two years working with but with two small children and that I made through hockey and in
the Bank of Nova Scotia which work commitments, that was not Jas-Mar has been a family run the community supported us when
occupied the building where possible. Jim was transferred back business from the very beginning, we opened Jas-Mar. Since then,
Pommier Jewelers is now situated. to Cornwall and one night in 1973, with Jim saying, “There were no due to the support of Cornwall
To gain more knowledge, Jim he was in the office working late computers back then, everything and the surrounding area, we have
completed a Banking and Finance when someone knocked on the was done by hand. My wife, been able to grow substantially.”

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