5/4/2023 0 Comments Postie petes post officeThroughout his full-time working career he worked part time as an usher, bartender, whatever they needed at the Memorial Centre but since 1967, when the Memorial Centre’s Bill Livingstone told him he’d be doing the game score sheets with Grose’s son Terry, he’s been in the box. He would later work as a public school board custodian where he retired in 2000 after 20 years of service. His full-time job was in the construction industry doing lathe and pre-plastering work where he worked in almost every church in Peterborough. He was making $3.50 a night or $1 an hour, paid with a $2 bill, $1 bill and 50-cent piece. “I thought it was volunteer work and Max came to me after eight weeks to tell me I’d better pick up my pay at the front office.” In those days the ushers dressed in white shirt, tie, jacket and slacks and actually showed people to their seats. He had season tickets for the Petes in 1956 and head usher Max Grose hired him as an usher in 1962. Throughout his working career, as he does on the time clock, he took his roles seriously. He set up pins throughout his teen years as well as being an usher at the Capital Theatre, near where Showplace sits today, and working at the drive-in theatre. He had only one lung but the Quaker Oats employee fooled them all, living six more years.Īrt had to help the financially strapped family and only attended high school for a few months before quitting to get full time work at Duffus bowling alley on Water St., where the MNR building sits today. In the 1940s his father was at war, a member of the D-Day Dodgers who was wounded and had been given six months to live when he was sent home. Beside his home was the McConkey farmland before it became the Lift Lock golf course, where he remembers being able to skate across the frozen flooded land every winter. in East City when there were only three houses on the street and the rest of the land was protected wetlands. He also does the Lakers’ lacrosse games throughout the summer.īorn in 1941, Hopkinson grew up on Maniece Ave. home every Thursday night during hockey season. The three off-ice officials have 130 years of working at city rinks as ushers, concession workers, bartenders, but for years now have been permanent fixtures in the time and penalty boxes.įor Hopkinson, Thursday night has been his “night out” for 52 years, most of those sitting by the time clock punching up shots, penalty minutes, goals and tracking the time, working part time for the city at the Memorial Centre on Roger Neilson Way.Īt 72 he doesn’t see an end and that’s fine with his wife Carol, who hosts a crafts group at their Cochrane Cres. It’s Thursday night at the Memorial Centre and Art Hopkinson, Shannon Lynch and Dave Post are where they always are for Petes’ games down at ice level, the best seats in the house on the west side of the rink, where they meet for every home game.
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