The Arborough Games were an Olympics-like competition held between young people representing the cities of Ann Arbor, Michigan and Peterborough, Ontario in the 1980s and 1990s.
The arrangement was inspired by Doug Walker, then head of the Ann Arbor Recreation Department, who suggested the cities set up a Junior Olympics-type exchange.
At its height in the early 1990s, the Arborough Games brought numerous busloads of middle school students to Ontario to compete in soccer, baseball, track, volleyball, field hockey, and basketball, followed by a return delegation to Michigan the following year.
Participants stayed in the homes of the opposing team and enjoyed a big party after the games.
Toward the end "we were so frustrated we would practically hustle kids off the streets of Ann Arbor and tell them they didn't have to pay, just come," Dishman recalls.