Notre Dame’s soup prep team toasts the chef instructor with, what else, ladles at Friday’s Soup’s On! at St. Kevin’s, Welland. From left: Mackenzie Fabian, Caitlin McAllister, Dustin Haslett, chef instructor Chris Begin, Aidan Harold and Nick Frattaroli. They served up stracciatella. (Photo by Joe Barkovich)
Lakeshore Catholic’s soup prep team in action Friday at the Soup’s On! fundraiser in Welland. From left: Rachel Khairallah, chef instructor Joe Fabiano and Akayla Brown. The team made minestrone. (Photo by Joe Barkovich)
Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine Institute student chefs at Soup’s On! today in Welland. From left: Kasey Rodgers, Jonathon Weber, Quian Yan, Darcy Devereaux and Preet Maan. They served up two soups: beef with barley and roasted butternut squash. (Photo by Joe Barkovich)
Chef instructor Mathieu Cyr, right, of Confederation Secondary School watches as one of his students pours out the last drops of Moroccan Harira with lamb, one of two soups the team served at Soup’s On! Bottom photo, the tasty soup was served with a slice of lime or lemon and cilantro. (Photos by Joe Barkovich)
Blessed Trinity’s team at Soup’s On! made carrot, coconut and ginger soup. From left: Theo Rendall, teacher Ray Poitras and Paige Andrews. Bottom photo, Eastdale’s soup team made pizza soup. From left: Rebecca Jones, teacher Roland Pouliot and Sharin Jones. (Photos by Joe Barkovich)
Niagara College president Dan Patterson, foreground, says the drive from his office at the Niagara-on-the-Lake campus to Welland for Soup’s On! is well worth it. Pictured behind him are members of the college’s Canadian Food and Wine Institute team, who served up two soups, beef with barley and roasted butternut squash. Chef professor Dave Gibson is shown at right. (Photo by Joe Barkovich)
See anyone you know? Chef instructors and their students prior to the start of the Soup’s On! luncheon today at St. Kevin’s, Welland. The participants were from: Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine Institute; Blessed Trinity; Eastdale; Ecole Secondaire Confederation; Lakeshore Catholic and Notre Dame. The annual luncheon raises funds for a social justice scholarship. Close to 400 people attended.(Photo by Joe Barkovich)
During the snowfall, a light stands sentinel-like in a corner of the patio atop the berm at Welland’s Niagara College campus. (Photo by Joe Barkovich)
Paul Turner with the tournament trophy. (All photos by Joe Barkovich)
By Joe Barkovich, Scribbler-at-large
The NHL has the Stanley Cup.
Welland has Julia’s Hope Cup.
It’s time the two crossed paths, on a national platform, that is.
This three-on-three pond hockey tournament, honouring the memory of Julia Turner, daughter of Tina and Paul, is being held Saturday, Feb. 7.
I wish someone could make Grapes, er, Don Cherry aware of it. Cherry needs to plug this on national television, on Coach’s Corner, this weekend before it is played, or even next weekend, as kind of a recap of how it played out.
Cherry needs to chat with Paul and Tina, who could tell this story and what’s behind it better than any scribbler. It lives in their hearts. It’s part of their souls.
Julia died from cancer December, 23, 2011 at age 15. She is well remembered and much loved, not just by family but friends too. Many, many friends.
The pond hockey tournament was started several years before to raise funds and awareness about homelessness in Welland and to celebrate the joy and camaraderie of pond hockey, Paul told me Monday afternoon walking across the outdoor rink. He and his chums played pond hockey there while growing up in the ‘hood. Many of yesteryear’s chums are still his chums today and involved in the tournament.
It became Julia’s Hope Cup in 2012, raising about $35,000.
It was a natural fit. Julia was well known for concern about and care for the vulnerable. Call it a gift of sorts, from mom and dad. Charitable work and social justice are part of their lifeblood. Julia, as did her siblings, followed in their footsteps.
I’ve come to think of it as celebration of and by community. Paul doesn’t talk of his and Tina’s involvement. He talks about the other folks who pitch in to make it what it is. Other than City of Welland parks staff and others for their maintenance work on the site, I won’t name them for fear of missing a supporting business or long-time Turner friend and I don’t want that to happen.
“Can you do anything more Canadian than playing hockey on a pond with your friends, neighbours, people in the community and while you’re doing it – raising money for a good cause?” asked Paul, who loves the game and plays it, ardently, to this day. We were slip -sliding across the wind-swept outdoor rink in not the best of conditions for a photo op, but Paul didn’t care. He came with the Cup itself, and a hockey stick of course, and a poster of the event, one that makes the most effective use of white space I’ve seen in some time. Wow is it loaded!
Paul’s a natural poseur , a guy who loves the camera. He hammed it up on his own accord: a happy face, a grimacing face, whatever. It was all for a good cause, of course.
Julia’s Hope Cup raised $25,000 in 2013 and $20,000 in 2014. The goal this year is to raise at least that amount, and hopefully to top it. Since the start about 11 years ago, more than $100,000 has been raised in total.
Grapes needs to hear about this pond hockey tournament. I know it would be dear to his heart. He needs to talk about it on Coach’s Corner, to tell the country it’s all Welland good, to tell the country about a hometown hockey tournament with hope in its name, a cup that brings to mind another cup and a picture of a pretty girl smiling from a poster about her tournament, Julia’s Hope Cup. That’s My View.
(A former reporter and city editor, Joe Barkovich lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario, Canada’s Rose City.)
Well-known street off Niagara Street was named after the subdivision. (Photo by Joe Barkovich)
By Joe Barkovich, Scribbler-at-large
Welcome back to Street Sense, where street names – well, some anyway, get the explanation they deserve.
Last week we were on the city’s east side, in Beaver Park Subdivision, a “war time” development. Today we visit the west side.
Here we are in Parkway Heights Subdivision. You know where that is, the photo of the street off Niagara gives it away.
My source book, What’s In A Name, has some interesting info on this development. It says this area, Plan 598, was originally owned by Harmon Price, a magistrate in yesteryear Welland. Price sold the property to Laughlin Realty.
“Parkway Heights was an ‘elite’ development, with a boulevard down the centre of Parkway Drive and brick arches (since renovated) over the sidewalk at Niagara Street. This is where many of Welland’s prominent industrialists, business people and merchants lived,” according to Welland Historical Society’s fine reference book, published in 2005. It describes Parkway Drive as the “showplace” of the day.
There are several well-known streets here. From my perspective, one street name and one local resident are especially noteworthy here in Street Sense.
First, the street name.
Sauber Avenue.
Huh?
Don’t feel embarrassed if you hadn’t heard of it.
The street name no longer exits. Here’s the explanation:
“Re-named to Glen View Avenue. It seems that some of the residents petitioned for the name change since they were concerned that the original might be referred to as ‘Slobber’ Avenue.”
Makes street sense to me. But I wish explanation had been provided about Sauber Avenue – where did that name come from?
Now, the man whose name survives in two street names.
Edgar W. Price was a son of magistrate and landowner Harmon Price.
He “had the distinction” of having two streets named in his honor: Edgar Street and Price Avenue, according to What’s In A Name.
Here are three other street names and the explanations behind them:
Lillias Street: “Lillias A. Price was the sister of Edgar W. Price.” It is thought the street was named after her;
Weller Avenue: “Named for a Doctor Weller, who practiced in Welland.” A downtown building, the Weller Block, 28 King Street, also bears the name;
Laughlin Avenue: “Named after the Laughlin people. The property was owned by C. E. Laughlin, C. J. Laughlin and Laughlin Realty.”
What’s In A Name, at under a hundred pages, is an interesting read about streets and names well known, and not so well known, in Welland.
(A former reporter and city editor, Joe Barkovich lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario, Canada’s Rose City. Street Sense appears as a recurring feature.)
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