Posts by Les McLaughlin
Village teams up to send Olympian’s parents to Japan
They opened their hearts, they opened their wallets, and they raised enough money to send two of their own halfway around the world to the Winter Olympic Games in Nagano. Amber and Jack McCormack of Blackville leave Friday for Japan to watch their 23-year-old daughter Kathy compete as part of the inaugural Canadian women’s Olympic…
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Amber McCormack hasn’t missed many of daughter Kathy’s hockey games over the past 20 years or so. And she didn’t like the idea of not being there next month when her eldest child took to the ice in Nagano, Japan as a member of the Canadian women’s Olympic hockey team. Now, Mrs. McCormack isn’t one…
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