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From left to right, Josh Epp, Johnny Biekx, Steve Thompson, Marlene Thompson, Pete Penner, Bill Rempel and Dave Schmitt played pivotal roles in creating a paved walkway between the Thompsons’ home and garage. Despite being diagnosed with a brain tumour that affects his balance and vision, Steve Thompson wanted to help a group of friends and neighbours who took on the project free of charge. (SUN Photo)
Friends pitch in for brain tumour patient By Bryan Jessop Friends and neighbours of Leamington’s Steve Thompson are paving the way to make his day-to-day life easier. A group of about half a dozen volunteers well-known to Thompson have offered their time and effort to link his home’s back door and garage with a paved laneway, replacing a path of loose gravel and flagstone. Thompson was diagnosed with a brain tumour in June of last year, a condition that has limited his movability and made it difficult to walk to and from his garage. After the diagnosis, Thompson, 47, began considering a complete restructuring of the path between his house and detached garage to make it easier and safer to walk from one to the other. When he approached friend and fellow Ivan Street resident Dave Schmitt to ask him what it might cost to take on such a project, Schmitt decided to rally a group of friends and neighbours to make the answer to Thompson’s question ‘zero’. Thompson, who has known Schmitt for about six years, has undergone chemotherapy and experiences vision loss from his left eye, making uneven sections of flagstone a potential tripping hazard. In addition to free manpower, Schmitt also garnered the support of local businesses Erie Sand and Gravel, CAW Local 444, Rempel Excavating, Fox Ready Mix, Ruthven Roofing and Economy Rentals, who donated materials
and equipment to help make the project a virtually cost-free reality. Schmitt and a team of volunteers dug up the existing gravel and flagstone on Saturday, March 30 with Thompson himself flattening the area with a tamping machine before his friends and neighbours framed the area for the pouring of concrete. “This is a guy who loves to work,” Schmitt said of Thompson. “You just can’t slow him down.” The new walkway ends with a six-foot wide extension parallel to the garage’s entrance, with a diagonal path joining it to the back entrance of the house, forming a backwards ‘7’. The group worked from about 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday to prepare the area for concrete, scheduled to be poured the following week. The group was going to tackle the project the week prior, but had to postpone because of cold weather and frost in the ground. “Words can’t say enough for what these guys have done,” said Thompson, who has used the garage for his business and woodworking hobby for the past 20 years. “You don’t even hear of things like this. It’s just phenomenal what they’ve done here.” “I’m so happy to see this all come together,” added Thompson’s wife Marlene, whom Schmitt credits as a major contributor to the project’s preparation process. “We really appreciate them coming together to do this.”
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Alyssa Getty youngest nominee at 8th Annual WESPY awards night Leamington’s Alyssa Getty has been named as a top three finalist for the WESPY (Windsor Essex Sports Person of the Year) for the Female Athlete of the Year. Getty recently turned 16 and is the youngest nominee at the 8th annual ceremony. She is humbled to be a finalist in the company of Olympian Melissa Bishop and Windsor Lancers CIS Player of the Year Micah Langlois. She has also been nominated for Female Golfer of the Year. There are 35 Pro and Amateur female Windsor- Essex County athletes nominated in various categories, so to make it to the top three is a great honour and accomplishment. Getty, daughter of Michelle and Steve Getty, is a Grade 10 student at Kingsville Secondary School where she received an honours plaque last year. In 2012 Getty played in 28 tournaments across Canada, United States and in Trinidad Tobago, won 23 of them and came in second in three. In high school golf, Getty swept the region in girls golf winning WECSSA, SWOSSA and OFSA - the first time any golfer has done that. She was named Player of the Year in the Jaimison Vitamin Jr. Tour where she won all seven events, averaging a score of 73. Getty played in the CJGA for Team Canada at the Stephen Aimes Cup in Trinidad and Tobago and has won the CJGA tour four years straight. Getty has also been nominated for an American Jr. Golf Assoc. award for her volunteer work in 2012 the USGA/AJGA President’s Leadership Award. This is the first time that a Canadian has been nominated. (Continued on Page 26)
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