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Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk
Presents with Area Senior Dean Stanley
Serving You Since 1937
had the semester system, so he was where.” Dean said that his lack of
able to return partway through and knowledge was kind of ironic, as
still graduated. Dean then went to his father, Irvin Stanley, had played
St. Lawrence College in Kingston, semi-pro hockey back in the early
where he took the Child and Youth 1940’s. Many of his teammates
By Jim Riddell Care program. While in Kingston were killed during WW 2 and it
he did some volunteer work, was was something that he didn’t talk
“I grew up in Cornwall and except
employed at a Kingston group about, and it was only later in
for a couple of seasons of youth
home, and was also the Student life that he even told Dean about
bowling and playing a little baseball
Representative for the Child Care it. When Dean’s son was getting
when I was about twelve years
Workers of Ontario. Returning to introduced to body contact, he was
old, I was never really involved
Cornwall after graduating, Dean playing for an Akwesasne team
in sports. I was in Cubs, Army Photo Submitted
joined the Children’s Aid Society that needed a trainer. Dean took
Cadets, and the Columbian Squires
where he had a thirty-five-year the First Aid and Trainers courses,
which was run by the Knights of
career. eventually getting certified as a
Columbus.” Dean attended CCVS
Level 3 Trainer. He also took a Red
for three years, then was involved “Just to give you an idea as to
need?” Once I had the equipment, Cross Sports First Aid course that
in a swimming accident during the where my knowledge level of
my neighbour came over and dealt with a wide variety of sports
summer between grades 11 and 12 sports was at, when my son started
showed me how to put it on. That injuries. “There were things like
which put him out of commission playing hockey, I had to go to my
was my starting point, I did not
for many months. St. Lawrence HS neighbour and ask, “What does he
know what piece of equipment went Continued on page 33
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