This week Ross Brewitt is our guest speaker and he is here to promote his newest book: Just Another Hat Trick. If you love hockey you don't want to miss this evening. Ross is a very entertaining speaker. Please feel welcome to come out to this meeting. Meeting starts at 6.30 pm at the Quality Hotels and Suites in Woodstock. Costs for a meal are $ 15.00 

About Ross

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Ross Brewitt has three Canadian best-sellers to his credit, two more books published in the U.S. In 2012 he has written his first novel.

Early years

Born in Schreiber, Ontario, hard by the shores of Lake Superior, he spent his early childhood there, then moved to Fort William. Married to his wife Sylvia, they raised three children there before moving to Toronto in 1966.

Hockey Night in Canada

There he joined Hockey Night in Canada as an advertising salesman with their marketing arm, Maple Leaf Sports Productions, and quickly moved up the ladder, eventually becoming General Manager.

He added the expansion Buffalo Sabres to the company roster and the publications of all nine CFL Teams and the Grey Cup magazine.

ProStars…

Bobby Orr and Wayne Gretzky with Ross Brewitt.

 

Going out on his own in the promotions field, he formed the ProStars, sponsored by Molson’s, a five-year summer touring fastball team made up of active Leaf players: including Sittler, McDonald, Palmateer, Boudreau, Valiquette, McKenny, Ullman, Boutette, Ferguson, Favell, Shack, Turnbull.

… and OldStars

Brewitt then turned to hockey, taking a team of recently retired ex-NHLers on the road – criss-crossing Canada and the U.S. over six winters – including Ullman, Pilote, Stapleton, White, Tallon, Edestrand, Edwards,

Author coaching the OldStars – 1984

 

Williams, Sanderson, Mahovlich, Nevin, Stanfield, Pappin.