From my first winter to the day I left home Dad always built a rink in the back yard. And we had lights. Every kid from blocks around came over to play.

My wife knows my Mother as 83 and totally crippled with arthritis, gets up for an hour a day. I mentioned that she and Dad used to skate at the Ilderton Arena when they still heated with woodstoves in the 50's and that both were good skaters she was quite surprised. But Mom retired when she was 52,, the arthritis was too bad then, same age I retired at, for the same reason.

I quit skating the same year too. And the Fire Department hockey team lost a player.


John Conley
Musica est vita