Upstart Cornwall

Archive for November, 2007

November 25th, 2007

4 Ice Pads? I propose the Cornwall Sports Complex

Cornwall is currently looking to build a 3 or 4 ice pad arena to replace the aging Si Miller and Bob Turner. There was a bit of controversy around where the arenas should go, and how many rinks should be located within the facility. It was a touchy subject at Dr. Foote’s speech about Cornwall’s […]

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November 24th, 2007

Cornwall And Facebook

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock recently - you’ve probably heard of Facebook. The all in one networking / social network / stalker website everyone uses to keep in touch with their friends.
I’ve been using FB since the day they opened it to the public. It used to be only for people in networks […]

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November 13th, 2007

Does Football Make A Difference?

I graduated from high school in 1995 and at the time - there was 1 high school football team in the area. They were the Optimist Wildcats and were essentially a high school team made up of players from each school in town. Our “All-stars” would play against smaller schools from Brockville and area and […]

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November 8th, 2007

Boom Bust And Echo’ville

I had the pleasure today of attending a lecture given by Dr. David Foote - best selling Canadian author and a leading economist in Canada. He was in Cornwall today to speak to 200 or so business leaders about the power of demographics and how population trends could affect our economy as well as the […]

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