Victoria Playmakers hockey tournament for seniors has seen players with more titanium than a Boeing factory, more burning joints than a Grateful Dead concert
It’s about taking a puck in the teeth — metaphorically speaking — and getting up again.
So, the 67-year-old waited until the Victoria Playmakers tournament to lace up again. It’s what has brought him back to the Island, where he lived as a boy. In September, he learned he has leukemia, but on this day, perched beside his grandson in the arena, he looks happy as can be. Since Tuesday Pearkes has seen players with more titanium than a Boeing factory, more burning joints than a Grateful Dead concert.
Eric was born in an internment camp near Hope after the Second World War. His Canadian-born parents had been locked up for the duration, lost everything they owned. After the war, the whole family, Eric included, was shipped to Japan, a country they had never lived in. “Listen,” she replied. “There will be half a dozen times in life when you will be blindsided by something so painful that it brings you to your knees. You won’t think you will ever get up again. But you will.”
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