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before their eyes.
“I’m very proud of them,”
Johnston said the day after the big
win. “They were boys at the start of
the season and by the end they had
turned into young men.”
While Johnston points to many
hockey-related factors as reasons
why the Crusaders find themselves
atop the hockey world, like puck
movement and making the Lambton
Shores goalie move a lot in the
crease, he said it’s what changed in
the players that resulted in the win,
not adjustments made on the ice.
He points to the players getting
along well and creating an
environment full of positive
reinforcement and devoid of
negativity as the reason the team
began to come together.
“They really started to believe in
themselves,” he said.
Johnston said that at the beginning
of the season, the Crusaders had a lot
of work to do and he didn’t see them
making a lot of noise in the season’s
OMHA tournament.
Tim Waechter of Brussels, a
defenseman with the team, agreed,
saying that the team wasn’t
playing as well as it could
have at the beginning of the
season, but as the players began
to believe in themselves, that
all started to really change.
“Coach Scott always told us to
remember the three believes: the
coaches believe in us, we have to
believe in each other and we have to
believe in ourselves,” Waechter said.
Waechter said that while he feels
the improvement of the team
happened gradually over the course
of the season, it was a second place
finish at the International Silver
Stick tournament in Minden late last
year when opinions started to
change and the members of the
group began to believe in themselves
as their coach had implored them to
do.
This was Waechter’s fourth trip to
the OMHA tournament, he said, and
coming away with a win was
important to him. So important, in
fact, that he cut another sports
opportunity short in order to be
there.
Waechter was in Hawaii,
representing Canada with his rugby
team from St. Anne’s Catholic
Secondary School, but made the trip
back to Canada early, knowing he
didn’t want to miss games two and
three of the series at his home arena.
Both were once-in-a-lifetime
opportunities, he said, but with this
being his final year of eligibility in
the minor hockey system, he knew
where he wanted to be and, in the
end, the choice wasn’t a hard one to
make.
As for the fire truck ride, Waechter
says it was one of the highlights of
the day because it’s a chance that not
a lot of people get over the course of
their lives.
For Assistant Coach Steve
Howson, the win brought back
boyhood memories. Howson was on
Crusaders have big weekend at home to win title
Who’s number one?
The Blyth Brussels Midget AE Crusaders solidified their
place in local hockey lore on Sunday, completing a sweep
of the Lambton Shores Predators to win the Ontario Minor
Hockey Association (OMHA) championship. What followed
was the age-old tradition of a fire truck ride around
Brussels. The team is, back row, from left: Assistant Coach
Glenn Raynard, Dalen Martin, Dalton Carey, Matt
McNichol, Jeremy Grisdale, Justin Rodger, Dylan McNeil, Dallas
Coultes, Josh Gibbons, Austin Johnston, Brenden Howson and
Assistant Coach Steve Howson. Front row, from left: Trainer Steve
Dolmage, Head Coach Scott Johnston, Dawson Peachey,
Brandon Marshall, Curtis Weber, Dawson Coultes, Craig
Raynard, Tim Waechter, Curtis Raynard, Scott Dolmage and
Hunter Dale. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
Making them work
Although Hunter Dale was stopped on this attempt on
Sunday, his fellow Midget AE Crusader teammates had no
such problems finding the back of the net on the weekend
as they won both of their games at the Brussels, Morris and
Grey Community Centre to capture the Ontario Minor
Hockey Association (OMHA) crown. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
Township of North Huron
Spring Yard Waste
Collection
Space provided through a partnership between industry and Ontario municipalities
to support waste diversion programs
Monday, April 13, 2015
Monday, April 27, 2015
Monday, May 4, 2015
Monday, May 11, 2015
Any yard waste left at the curb after the Final pickup date will be subject to a
minimum charge of $50.00 for pickup.
Material should be placed at the curb in Paper Organic Yard Waste Bags, or
open containers only (not over 44 pounds in weight), before 7 a.m. for
collection. Plastic Bags are not acceptable for yard waste and will not be
picked up.The Township encourages grass clippings to be left on your lawn
providing valuable moisture and nutrients to your lawn.
Between the Township’s yard waste collection dates,yard waste and grass
clippings can currently be taken to the Wingham Landfill at 86165 Currie Line
or the Blyth Depot at 117 North Street, Blyth.
Spring yard waste collection starts
Monday, April 13, 2015
and runs according to the following schedule:
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