Hometown Heroes

It has been smooth skating for the Shelburne Minor Hockey Association with Mike Fazackerley in the rink. Since taking on the role of president — an unpaid position — the hockey dad of three is helping to influence positive change and has helped improve morale, according to SMHA’s coach in chief Tom Robbins, who nominated [...]

Joel Williams was returning home from hockey registration, eager to start another promising season, when his life was changed forever. The honour roll student, just 17 at the time, would never join his team mates back on the ice, nor go off to university like many of his peers. Instead, the Langley, B.C. teen would [...]

While most teens his age are still snug in their beds, fast asleep, Nic Klassen rises bright and early every morning before school to start his daily routine. After getting dressed and brushing his teeth, the determined 14-year-old begins a 45-minute rehabilitative exercise regime with the help of his mother, Sharon — no easy task [...]

Bruce McGill’s work is never truly done, but he doesn’t seem to mind one little bit. For the 60-year-old father-of-two, there is the occasional knock at the door as he sits down to dinner with his wife, Heather. He’s also been flagged down while doing his yard work by a frantic hockey parent or two, [...]

Dean Lapierre insists he will never willingly give up his post as president of the Windsor Minor Hockey Association — “They’ll bury me as the president of the WMHA,” he says — and considering all he’s done for the association, that’s good news for its many young members and their families.  One would be hard-pressed [...]