Featured Posts — 21 February 2012
Jaques Gagné pilots a team of hardworking Belgian horses, offering sleigh rides to families over two days on the ice at Wabigoon Lake.
Dryden Winter Festival over the Family Day weekend offered fun for the whole family in events and activities centred around the waterfront at Van Horne Landing.
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By Chris Marchand
There are many reasons to stick close to town for the upcoming Family Day long weekend as Dryden gears up to host its annual winter festival Feb. 18-20.
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Jill Wilkinson and her daughter Ruby, tucked cosily into a ski-mounted sled, set off on the Dryden Ski Club’s Nordic trail system to enjoy the outdoors in temperatures that ranged ...
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By Chris Marchand
I find it interesting how great Christmas light displays tend to happen in clusters, as though such luminous expressions of holiday cheer are contagious.
To drive through a dead, ...
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Wabigoon Lake was the place to be over the weekend as mild temperatures and calm winds gave residents a chance to explore the unique ice conditions that have developed. With ...
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Dog sled competitor Jarad Moore helps out his six-dog team as they traverse a snowy hillside during the Eton Rugby Winterfest Dog Sled Race, Feb.19. For spectators and the many ...
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League puts out call for volunteer coaches and referees
By Chris Marchand
Five hundred kids. That’s a lot of kids.
That’s how many will be enrolled in the ranks of Dryden Youth Soccer ...
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By Dryden Observer Staff
Preston Delorme was the fighter of the day for the Oxdrift Judo Club in their recent competitive outing to the Eastern Manitoba Open.
Featuring 91 fighters from Manitoba ...
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Darts teams from six Royal Canadian Legion branches across the district converged in Dryden for district playdowns in early February. Hometown advantage proved to be a factor as the local ...
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Club looking to for new direction in 2012/13
By Dryden Observer Staff
The Dryden Ice Dogs aren’t wasting any time in an effort to put forth a league-leading hockey club next season.
The ...
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Canadian Tire’s Tom Ledoux is pursued by Darryl Mousseau in the opening game of the 2012 Last Chance Hockey Tournament held over the weekend at Dryden Memorial Arena. The Wayne ...
READ MOREPlenty of fun planned for Dryden’s Winterfest
Hittin’ the trails at the Dryden Ski Club
The Best and the Brightest — A holiday
Nice ice
GALLERY: 2011 Eton Rugby Winterfest Dog Sled Races
Youth soccer evolving in 2012
Delorme finishes big at Eastern Manitoba Open
District darts champions head to playdowns
Ice Dogs make change on the bench
Last Chance Hockey Tournament
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Chris Marchand is a native of Dryden, Ontario. He served his first newspaper internship at The Dryden Observer in 1998 while attending journalism studies at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops B.C. He's worked desks as both reporter and editor at the Fernie Free Press as well as filled the role of sports editor at the Cranbrook Daily Townsman. Marchand was named editor of the Dryden Observer in Aug. 2009.
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