Adam Prudhomme
Beaver Sports
Nominators have one week left to submit their suggestions for the next class of the Greater Napanee Sports Hall of Fame.
Online registration forms, which can be found at the town’s website, must be submitted to deputy mayor Marg Isbester by Sept. 7. The nominees must be a person who gained significant recognition or fame in sport in or for Greater Napanee over a 15-year or more period. The nominee must be retired from active competition in the sport they’ve been nominated in for at least three years, or reached the age of 50. Along with a list of the sports the nominated athlete exceeded in, the nomination form also includes space for a brief description as to what makes their accomplishments worthy of enshrinement into the town’s hall of fame. The nominations must be limited to an individual and not an entire team.
Completed submissions can be e-mailed to MargIsbester@gmail.com.
The notion to revive the hall’s selection committee and search for nominations was made at a Greater Napanee council meeting earlier this summer. Isbester was named to the board as a non-voting council liaison.
After the Sept. 7 deadline, the selection committee will review the submissions and announce which athletes will be enshrined in the 2017 class. This will mark the first time in 10 years the town has expanded the hall, which currently houses 21 plaques celebrating local athletes or volunteer coaches made up of Harold Webster, Bruce McPherson, Walt Gerow, Murray Dean, Jack (Tar) Brady, Fred Bentley, Glenn Wagar, Ken Murphy, Bill Moore, Chuck McGarvey, Ross Morton, Jim Moore, Bob McGreer, Ernie Gibbard, Robert Whitfield, Bill Pierson, Robert Paul, Richard Dickson, Lorne Smart, Morris Hart and Rick Gerow. It’s located outside the Goodyear Rink in the Strathcona Paper Centre.