Page 28 - Sports Energy News, Cornwall, Issue No 111

28 Issue #111 April 2022 www.sportsenergynews.com

Massey Place presents

A L o o k i n t h e R e ar V i e w M i r r o r
A Look in the Rear View Mirror

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Photos from the Standard-Freeholder collection in the SD&G Historical Society Archives at the Cornwall Community Museum.
Remembering the Soccer Bubble

Prior to the creation of the current multi-pad

facility, Cornwall indoor soccer was hosted

at the Soccer Bubble at 240 Saunders Drive. For the previous eight years the club had operated as
the Cornwall City Soccer Corporation, a not-for-profit
This February 2008 Standard-Freeholder organization. Operation and maintenance costs came out
of the user fees. Club President Frank Chartrand said the
photo accompanied an article which referred
club’s lease was paid for by the City of Cornwall, which was
to the bubble as a “dying facility”. After a also supposed to pay the electrical bill — but hadn’t, as well
as maintain the dome and remove snow. Deflation occurred
power failure, the dome over-inflated, causing
a few times over the years. The other photo is courtesy of
damage. Google Streetview 2009.

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