Catégorie : Vision (Clarence-Rockland)

Nicholas Guindon scored a hat-trick and added an assist to lead his team to victory on Saturday. Martin Cayden scored two goals and Jacob Servant notched a goal and a helper as well. Xavier Brunet, Jordan Croll-Stevenson, Nikolas Guindon, Zachary Payer, Alex Ross and Caleb Smith all scored assists for the Castors. Clarence Goaltender Corey Camirand was also perfect in front of the net to shut out the Jets’ offense. 

The Castors won again pretty convincingly on Sunday, defeating the Jets 5-1. Mathieu Brennan scored two goals for the home team, with Nicholas Gaumond, Martin Cayden and Zachary Payer notching the other markers. Tyler Cummins, Jacob Lefebvre, Xavier Brunet, Graham Clermont, Alderic Denis and Jaddus Savoie all scored assists for the Castors in the victory. Corey Camirand was excellent yet again in front of the Castors’ net, allowing only one goal by the opposing team. 

Castors’ Head Coach Tim Kosch is happy with his team’s performance against the Jets, but he wants to ensure his team doesn’t get complacent, because the level of competition will only rise as the team gets deeper into the playoffs. 

“Of course, it helps to build confidence when you can score five or six goals in a game,” said Kosch, “but we don’t want to form bad habits or get sloppy just because we’re playing the second worst team in the league. We know this is not representative of the level of competition we will face as we get deeper into the playoffs.” 

The Castors’ head coach is concentrating on making sure his players are playing within the system and staying focused on the task at hand: “We’re just focused on what we’re building right now, taking things one game at a time and making sure our team is playing responsibly as a unit. We were the best team in the league this year and we want to set the tone for the playoffs. We’ll make the other teams adapt to what we’re doing rather than the other way around.” 

 NCJHL 2021-2022 Awards

The NCJHL announced the winners for the 2021-2022 individual awards and the Castors are very well represented among the winners. Goaltender Corey Camirad won both Regular Season MVP and Best Goaltender. Defenseman Connor Head-Smith won Most Sportsmanlike Player and Xavier Brunet was awarded with Rookie of the Year. Head Coach Tim Kosch also won Coach of the Year for leading his team to the top of the general standings. 

Les Nats ont complètement dominé les Colts vendredi pour l’emporter par la marque de 7-1 contre l’avant-dernière équipe au classement général de la CCHL.  Pas moins de 13 joueurs de Rockland se sont inscrits à la feuille de pointage au cours de la rencontre. Les Nats ont été particulièrement efficaces sur les unités spéciales, inscrivant trois buts en avantage numérique et un autre en désavantage numérique.  

Giovanni Morneau a réussi un tour du chapeau en plus d’ajouter une mention d’aide à sa fiche. Alexandre Fréchette a inscrit deux buts et une passe. John Mulvihill et Gabriel Filion ont enfilé les deux autres buts des Nationals, tandis que William Collins, Hugo Marcil, Manny Cabral, Jack Meloff, Yanic Crête, Patrick Lanthier, Patrick Larkin, Jack McGovern et Dean Taylor ont obtenu des passes. 

Le gardien des Nats Jack McGovern a été excellent durant la rencontre, repoussant 28 des 29 tirs dirigés vers lui, mais Keanu Krenn est venu lui voler son jeu blanc en inscrivant le seul but des Colts à 6 secondes de la fin du match. 

March serré contre les Bears

Les Nats faisaient face aux Bears de Smiths Falls deux jours plus tard. La rencontre fut chaudement disputée et les Nationals sont revenus de l’arrière à deux reprises pour forcer la période de prolongation et finalement l’emporter en temps supplémentaire par la marque de 5-4. Après avoir marqué un tour du chapeau contre les Colts, Giovanni Morneau a connu une autre rencontre exceptionnelle contre les Bears, lui qui a ajouté quatre buts supplémentaires à sa fiche, incluant le but gagnant en prolongation pour donner la victoire à son équipe. Yanic Crête a obtenu quatre mentions d’aide au cours de la rencontre, William Collins en a inscrit trois, Wyatt Kennedy récolté deux passes, John Mulvihill a marqué un but et Manny Cabral a inscrit une mention d’aide. 

Les Nationals de Rockland occupent présentement le quatrième rang de la division Yzerman dans la CCHL, 10 points derrière les Grads de Navan et 6 points devant les Colts de Cornwall. 

The YMCA on Du Parc Avenue in Clarence-Rockland reopened at the beginning of February, and residents are excited to see the amenities available again. On the Vision’s visit, the gym was full of people playing an enthusiastic game of basketball, and almost all the machines were occupied by people keeping up their fitness. 

“We are so excited to be able to welcome back members of the Clarence-Rockland community to the Y,” said Tracey Ware, general manager with the YMCA-YWCA of the National Capital Region. “We have had a wonderful response to being open again, and it has been great to see some familiar, and new faces! There have been over 1600 visits to the Y since reopening, and as restrictions are easing and we are able to expand on the programs and services we offer, we expect that number to increase.” 

YMCA programs and activities will continue to expand as health restrictions ease and more people are allowed in at once. Another lockdown may derail these plans, but for now, the YMCA staff is happy to be open for business again. 

“So far, getting back to the pool, joining group fitness classes, and working out on our conditioning floor have been very popular. Members will be happy to know we will soon be able to increase our hours of operations, offering more options for families, child and youth programs, and swim lessons, as well!” 

The CNSC has scheduled two hearings on February 22 and May 31 to license a “Near Surface Disposal Facility” for nuclear waste at Chalk River, Ontario, on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabeg lands alongside the Ottawa River. The facility would be an aboveground mound a kilometre from the Ottawa River, upstream from Ottawa and Montréal.  

So far 140 municipalities have opposed the project and fear contamination of drinking water and the watershed. NDP environment critic Laurel Collins, Parliamentary Leader of the Green Party of Canada Elizabeth May, and environment spokesperson for the Bloc Québécois Monique Pauzé have signed a statement calling for the hearings to be suspended, along with 50 environmental and citizen groups. First Nations groups have also called for the hearings to be suspended. The Kebaowek First Nation asked on January 31 that the hearings be halted until a consultation framework is implemented between them and the CNSC. 

“I don’t know that anything has happened recently regarding it, but everyone seems to be against it,” said Stephane Sarrazin, mayor of Alfred-Plantagenet and former warden of the United Counties of Prescott and Russell. “Around a year, maybe six months ago, we received a request to support the opposition against the dump, which we did. I haven’t heard anything about it since then.” 

In 2017, the CNSC received 400 submissions responding to its environmental impact statement, an overwhelming majority of them opposed to the plan. The CNSC staff report however recommends going ahead with the licensing, which would allow construction of a one-million-cubic-metre mound of radioactive and toxic waste accumulated since 1945. No separate environmental assessment hearing is scheduled. 

Other signatories of the opposition statement include the Friends of the Earth, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, Ralliement contre la pollution radioactive, the National Council of Women of Canada, the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, Quebec’s Front commun pour la transition énergétique, the Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area, Old Fort William Cottagers’ Association, Action Climat Outaouais, and Pontiac Environmental Protection. 

February is Black History Month, and Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) schools are focusing on Black history and culture, and the significant contributions that Black Canadians have made to the country. Classroom activities and school-wide events have been taking place the entire month, and some schools contributed to a collaborative art project. 

Vankleek Hill Collegiate Institute contributed to a district-wide, spoken word poetry video to promote historical black role models and the message of coming together to “educate to blast out hate.” The video is posted on the UCDSB Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=480522460414615  

Russell Public School has decorated its hallways with student artwork, the morning announcements have featured excerpts from the book Trailblazers: The Black Pioneers Who Have Shaped Canada, and the school has planned a virtual field-trip to Ripley’s Aquarium for their ‘Making Waves: Celebrating Black Music and the history of Canadian Jazz’ event.  

 “Black History Month is an excellent opportunity to celebrate and learn about the extraordinary contributions of Black Canadians in our communities and around the world,” said  Dan McRae, UCDSB principal of equity and inclusion. “Historically, the contributions of Black authors, poets, politicians, educators, and artists have not been represented and valued as much as their peers, which is a form of systemic racism. 

“Our schools are committed to working with our students, staff, families and communities to ensure that the contributions of Black people are celebrated and valued in our schools and classrooms both during Black History Month and throughout the school year. I’m very proud of our schools for the work that is happening, and of our communities that continue to expect us to do better. We know better, and we are now, more than ever, committing to doing better.” 

The school board has also made the UCDSB Virtual Learning Commons (VLC) available staff, students, and families. It has a section dedicated to e-books, videos, websites, and classroom resources that brings Black culture and history to the fore and is widely used within UCDSB schools.