DEC 12 – HOLIDAY LIGHTS DRIVE-THRU PARADE – The Navan Fair Board will be holding a drive through Holiday Lights Santa Parade on the Navan Fairgrounds from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. This will be a drive through parade for vehicles only. Due to COVID restrictions everyone must remain in their cars at all times. As each vehicle passes through the fairgrounds there will be a variety of floats festooned with Christmas lights on display and Santa will be there too. Entrance to the grounds will be through the Fairgreen Road entrance only next to the Navan Curling Club. Admission is free but cash donations for the Orléans-Cumberland Community Resource Centre food bank will be accepted by Navan Fair Board volunteers as you enter..

DEC 20 – NAVAN VILLAGE CHRISTMAS FOOD DRIVE from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Volunteers will drive through Navan to pick up food donations left on people's doorsteps. Cash donations will also be accepted at J.T. Braldey's Country Convenience Store. A truck will also be at the store from 12 noon to 3 p.m. for food donations drop offs.

 

Brooklyn McAlear-Fanus was recently named a second team All-Canadian after completing her fifth and final year with the University of Ottawa Gee-Gee’s. PHOTO TIM AUSTEN / THE CHARLATON

Former St. Matthew Tiger Brooklynn McAlear-Fanus became only the third Ottawa Gee-Gee female basketball player to receive All-Canadian honours last month when she was named to the Second Team of All Canadians for 2019-2020.

The fifth-year Gee-Gees point guard led the nation in assists this past season and was a First Team OUA All-Star for the second year in a row. She ranked eighth in the league in scoring with 15.8 points per game in addition to her nation-leading 6.8 assists per game.

As her Gee-Gees career comes to an end, McAlear-Fanus established a new team record for assists in a career – 424. She surpassed the one hundred assist mark in each of the last three seasons with a career high of 135 this season.

As the team's point guard and ball distributer, McAlear-Fanus was instrumental in her team setting a new school record of 78.5 points per game.

In addition to her scoring and assists, she also set career highs in field goal percentage (40.8) and three-point percen-tage (33.8).

Defensively, McAlear-Fanus was fifth in the conference in steals per game at 2.1, and set a career high with 6.8 rebounds per game. She also recorded Gee-Gee’s first ever triple-double with 19 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds on Jan. 18 against Ontario Tech at Montpetit Hall.

McAlear-Fanus’s ball distribution abilities allowed the Gee-Gees to lead the OUA in field goal percentage, and score a team record 78.5 points per game. The Gee-Gees, with final regular season record of 18-4.

Unfortunately, the Gee-Gees hopes of reaching the CIS U-Sports Final 8 came to a premature end when they lost to the Ryerson Rams in the OUA semi-final.

(This story was made possible thanks to the generous support of our local business partners.)