By Bob Sweeney
Learn to Skate
3/10/11
Milton Youth Hockey’s Learn to Skate program, which began in 1965, recently ended another successful season.

This year’s ice skating program, the 46th overall, was held Sundays at Ulin Rink.

There were 217 youngsters – 107 girls and 110 boys – who participated in Learn to Skate.

Each of the youngsters showed improvement in doing his or her job every week, which was “to learn and to be the best skater I can be.” Skating fundamentals such as balance, starts, motion, stride, agility, speed, stops, safety, etc., were stressed in the lessons.

Many adults, as well as older Milton public school students, contributed their time to help the children learn, work hard, and have fun. The time and effort the volunteers put into the program has helped many boys and girls come to enjoy skating for itself. It also has helped to develop a strong interest on the youngster’s part in the sport of hockey or figure skating.

As the program’s director, I’d like to extend special thanks to all the volunteers who helped out with the skating classes. They include Mike Balestra, Bill Bennett, Rafael Benzan, Lisa Bohlin, Taylor Burns, Peter Collins, Brian Connolly, Paul Cox, Mike Davis, Joe De Besse, Liz DiPesa, Brad Dumais, Danielle Dumais, Peter Feloney, David Finocchio, Laura Fitton, Don Greene, Kali Guise, Brian Johnson, Beverly Jones, Clare Keating, Phil Laing, Allen Lasoff, Christian Leimkuehler, John Lewis, Steve Longo, Sarah Lowry, Thom Martin, Emily McClellan, Greg McManus, Brendan Mullan, Peter Mullen, Paul Muller, James Mulligan, Jeff Nilsen, Peter Noonan, Matt O’Hara, Dave O’Keefe, Steve Olsen, Jim Oslin, Kevin O’Sullivan, Tom O’Toole, Bobby Padera, Keith Pentland, Ed Reilly, Matt Sandonato, Paul Shinney, Gert Sweeney, Keith Swenson, Rita Taugher, Michael Vaughan, Kim Walker and others.

Thanks, too, for the off-ice help of Sheila Drain, Dennis Drain, Paul Demers and Phil Zona at registration. Thank you to our Santa, Town Clerk Jim Mullen, and to our photographer Gert Sweeney.

The following girls participated in the program:

Suzanna Amirbekian, Riley Anderson, Jensen Armstrong, Chloe Askins, Camryn Balestra, Olivia Beattie, Emily Bohlin, Alexandra Bold, Sophie Boucher, Shae Burns, Alenka Cetkovic, Lila Chamoun, Sarah Grace Chave, Olivia Ciavattone, Ella Connolly, Grace Connolly, Lauren Cox, Madison Crummey, Grace deBenedictis, Allison Deegan, Gina DiRocco, Olivia DiSandro, Isabella Doten, Katherine Drozdick, Annie Ferrara, Stella Finocchio, Sammi Fitton, Zoe Fitton, Delia Gaff, Caroline Gannon, Kathryn Gannon, Ella Gavin, Adriana Halpin, Amalia Halpin, Nora Hegarty, Emerson Johnson, Reese Johnson, Mariel Jones, Emily Karimbakas, Kathryn Karimbakas, Olga Kazarov, Grace Kelly, Lily Lane, Molly Lane, Ella Lantigua, Karisa Lasoff, Shaina Lasoff, Alessandra Lavita, Liliana Lavita, Lucy Liberidis, Molly Lovett, Ava Lundbohm, Johanna Lydon, Maggie Lydon, Sophia Manning, Alyson Mantville, Julia Mantville, Rory Martin, Anna Mcanulty, Christina Mcanulty, Hayley McDermott, Elsa McElhinney, Perry McElhinney, Sophia McFadden, Caitlyn McGourty, Julia McLaughlin, Lillian McLaughlin, Ava McLaughlin Leeman, Avery McNeely, Rhiannon Morris, Isabella Mostofi, Lucy Moynagh, Maggie Mullen, Mary Mullen, Hannah Mulligan, Sophie Mulligan, Katherine Murray, Mary Mylod, Meghan Mylod, Felicia Nguyen, Margaret O’Brien, Mary O’Keefe, Lilly Oslin, Dory O’Toole, Katie O’Toole, June Padera, Emory Ricciardi, Keara Riley, Sophie Grace Roth, Chantia Rose Scott, Molly Shea, Maeve Sheehan, Anna Spinale, Lucille Stirling, Christina Sweeney, Annette Swenson, Katherine Swenson, Meredith Tangney, Abigail Taugher, Brenna Walsh, Ciara Walsh, Deirdre Walsh, Maggie Walsh, Norah Walsh Molly Wells, Isabella Wood and Alexandra Zavatsky.

The following boys participated:

Myles Bedingfield, William Bennett, Braden Benzan, Sam Boucher, Sam Brady, James Burnes, Kevin Carberry, Christian Carrigan, Conner Cavorsi, Clayton Cetkovic Daniel Chamoun, Edward Collins, James Collins, John Collins, Wally Collins, Luke Conlin, Martin Connolly, Luke Cox, Dylan Crowley, Owen Crowley, Aidan Crummey, John D’Arcy, Andrew DeAscentis, Joseph DeAscentis, Matthew deBenedictis, Kyle Deegan, Chase DiBlasi, Vincent DiRocco, Sam DiSandro, Harrison Dolgoff, Henry Dolgoff, Daniel Drozdick, Brian Dunn, Jackson Elfer, Brendan Ellis, Robert Fallon, Alec Fedele, Sean Feetham, Ryan Feloney, Alex Files, Sabatino Finocchio, Jacob Gariepy, Benjamin Garrity, Charlie Gavin, Jack Gavin, John Gillooly, James Greer, Thomas Halloran, Quinn Harrington, Jamieson Hodlin, Andrew Hunt, Vincent Jaeger, William Kelley, Maxwell Kelly, Sam Kessler Matthew Koski, Michael Labbe, Marc Leimkuehler, Scott Longo, Lane Lowry, Tyler Lum, Matthew Lydon, Jack McDermott, Ultan McDermott, Alexander McEttrick, Edward McFadden, Andrew McHugh, Paul McLaughlin, Samuel McLaughlin, Alexander Merrill, Gerard Miller III, David Mitchell, Luca Mostofi, John Moynagh, Alex Muller, Daniel Muller, Seamus Mulligan, Patrick Murphy, Quinn Murphy, Adam Murray, Connor Naughton, Luke Naughton, Simon Nguyen, Jason Nilsen, John Noonan, Ethan Nowak, Michael O’Keefe, Casey Olsen, Shane Olsen, Roman Padera, Matthew Paquette, Mickey Paquette, Thomas Pender, Patrick Plunkett, Joshua Ricciardi, William Riley, Nia Sambrano, Luke Sammon, Luca Sandonato, Ryan Schwillinski, Declan Shea, Nolan Shinney, Dimitri Sophinos, Thomas Statham, Finnan Suppelsa, Michael Walsh, Ben Waterman, Owen Welch, Daniel Wells and Griffin White.