King Koss and Hazel, Desert By Candy

Desert by Candy: Skater Candy Wong (Dream Chaser on Wheels) has a website called Dessert By Candy. For xmas this year, she gave a bunch of us a box of amazing cookies that she made. You see, Candy is a person who adds a lot of spunk to the inline and short track practices. She brings good taste- muffins, desserts, granola bars and other food-stuffs. My cat Presti got a hold of the cookies that Candy gave me and attacked and destroyed them. Damn that Presti!


My cookies pre-Presti- notice tha I haven't touched them, thanks to Mike Murray who the night before the cookie's destruction, told me to stop eating cookies and chocolate

My cookies post-Presti- in the process of being destroyed and therefore non-edible
King Koss and Hazel: Harris Steel's Right to Play is coming to Mississauga's Hershey Centre, the Toronto Inline Skating Club's training ground from 2000 to 2005. The event is taking place this Saturday, December 16th. If you decide to go, you'll probably get to meet King Koss (Johan Olav Koss), Norway's great Olympic champion in long track speeskating. I'll never forget watching him dominate the 1994 Olympics, I was so pumped up...and then I changed the channel back to the cartoons when the race was over.

If you go, you'll probably see me there, and also Mississauga's legendary 80-something year old mayor, Hazel McCallion- she's been the big boss of the city that I live in- Mississauga- since the 1970's. Actually, Hazel McCallion was the official starter of the first ever inline skating event (not a race) that I participated in, Roll Around Square One in 1993. She event represented Canada at the 1940-something Olympics in ice hockey.

When I showed up at 'Roll Around Square One', I was surrounded by, what I remember now, a bunch of long-haired chinese skaters dressed in orange and white skin suits. They went really fast. I think some of them ended up being Ming Wong, Eric 'Hip Hop' Gee, and Howard (I forget his last name).


Eric Gee- the clown on the left- and I- the clown on the right- became really good friends in 1993 when I started skating