Former WWE star and crowd favourite Billy Gunn tries to escape the terrible clutches of 400 lb Big Cliff Corleone during the evening’s main event, March 12 at Dryden High School. Photos by Chris Marchand
Treaty #3 First Nations, industry and government representatives met this past week in Wabigoon Lake First Nation to find common ground over the issue of maintaining positive relationships around resource and economic development. The two-day forum hosted keynote addresses from notable leaders including former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Phil Fontaine, as well [...]
To air is human, but to do this you have to be crazy. Snow-cross drivers put on a show for a few hundred spectators during the final rounds of the Ultimate Canadian Motorsports Association (UCMA) Snow-Cross event, Feb. 20-21 at the Dryden Agricultural Fairgrounds. Photos by Chris Marchand UCMA Snow-Cross event draws hundreds to fairgrounds for [...]
Go Sam! Emily Chasowy and her canine pal Sam try for a rookie ski-joring landspeed record during a ski-joring and kick-sledding workshop held by the Manitoba group Snow Motion, Feb. 20 at Bonny Bay Camp on Wabigoon Lake. [...]
Brian Duncan throws his rock during the combined mens’ and ladies’ curling bonspiels over the weekend at Eagles’ Landing. The Cam McMillan rink was the eventual winner on the mens’ side, beating out the Bryan Meadows rink by half a point in the round robin point system. The Pam Dunn rink took first place on the [...]
05 March 2010
The Eagles girls’ hockey team squeaked out a win against the Beaver Brae Broncos last night in game #1 of the best of three NorWOSSA finals. The girls got an early lead from Lauren Shoguchi but the Broncos evened the scored with just under nine minutes remaining in the first period. Clair Paquette of the Eagles regained [...]
03 March 2010
In the interest of public safety, the Dryden Police Service is issuing a warning about a violent offender who is now residing in Dryden. Edward Hamel, age 37, was released from Saskatchewan’s Regional Pyschiatric Centre where he served three years for two counts of uttering threats to cause death /harm to a police officer and a [...]
03 March 2010
It may be a case of bureaucracy moving slower than the speed of business. British Columbia-based based wooden utensil manufacturer Aspenware, the new anchor tenant for the City of Dryden’s Norwill Subdivision, told a regional newspaper this past week that plans to build a 50,000 square foot facility in Dryden in the fall of 2010 are [...]
02 March 2010
The issue of Dryden’s lack of kidney dialysis services has again been raised with the Board of Directors at the Dryden Regional Health Centre. A petition, featuring over 1200 signatures in support of acquiring local dialysis units has been brought forward. Dryden resident and dialysis patient Darlene Pollard started the petition before Christmas. Pollard travels to Sioux Lookout [...]
02 March 2010
The Eagles Senior girls’ volleyball team is off to OFSAA after their two-game NWOSSA win over St. Ignatius High School in Thunder Bay over the weekend. The girls took game one in three sets, 25-9, 25-23, 25-13. Coach Todd Desautels says by shutting down their lead hitter, they easily put away St. Ignatius. “The girls played to the [...]
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