The Sherwood- Parkdale minor system was the training ground for players of the Stanhope area who went on to play with various Island and Maritime Championship teams. Howard and Allison Ellis both played with the Junior Islanders in the 1960s. Cecil MacLauchlan and Preston Ellis played on Maritime Champion teams from Pee Wee to Midget, and then moved on to the Sherwood- Junior Metros. Players from the Stanhope- Covehead area once again won the Island Intermediate C Championship in 1970, when the Albert Thomas Covehead Flyers went through the playoffs without losing a game, and defeated a team from U.P.E.I. for the Championship . Keir MacDonald coached the team which was made up of: Errol Ladner (goal), Eddie Reardon , Gordie and Howard Ellis (defence), Donnie Ellis , Linus Misener , Ted Hucz, Fred, Hubie and Norbie Morrison, Lowell Vessey and Alan MacLauchlan (forwards). Over the next few years our teams were very successful in Island Hockey competition. In 1972 the Allan Covehead Harvesters defeated the Murray Harbour Bruins in straight games to capture the Island C Championship ; players included: Eddie and Joe Reardon, Gordie Ellis, Carl Myers , Fred Morrison , Linus Misener and others. The following year this team represented P.E.I. , travelling to Windsor , N.S. to play for the Maritime Intermediate B title; the team played well but lost both games. Covehead once again represented the Island against Sydney , N.S. when they defeated a Charlottetown team for the Island B title; but once again they were unsuccessful, losing two straight games. After two years without a league, Covehead entered a team in the North River Community league, and in 1978 they defeated Clow's Red and White of Hampshire for the league trophy; during the playoffs they drew over one thousand fans for each game; and as league champions they moved on in Island D playoffs to defeat Winsloe. Local players on that team included Fred and Frank Morrison, Eddie, Joe, Aubrey and Mike Reardon, Cecil MacLauchlan , David Maclnnis , Linus Misener and Carl Myers . Considering the quantity of names before mentioned, one can imagine there has been and still are many homes maintaining a lonely vigil awaiting the return of the menfolk from the hockey rink. The following poem, mailed to Harry MacLauchlan in 1952, aptly describes conditions in the 50s and might well apply to many hockey families, even today. In Memoriam Last spring, when hockey days were through, and I had time to lace a shoe, I set about to mend my ways to normal life, from hockey days. Firmly I took a different tack and resolved, when the ice came back, And players chased the tortured puck, I wouldn't be so hockey struck! 195