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 [...]
02 March 2010
The Ice Dogs split their final two home games in the season against the Fort William North Stars over the weekend. The Ice Dogs took a beating on Friday night, taking a huge 8-0 loss. They rebounded quickly in the second game on Saturday to beat out the first place team 3-2 in overtime. The boys are [...]
02 March 2010
The DHS Eagles girls’ hockey team are going into game #3 of their three-game semifinal against the Thomas Aquinas Saints. The Eagles put away the Saints in round one with a convincing 5-1 win. The Saints came back with a vengeance, earning a 3-1 win over the Eagles, giving them their third loss of the season. Action [...]
02 March 2010
Riverview Lodge donates to wheelchair curlers Jamie Railian, centre, and Danielle Scherban from the Riverview Lodge present to Chester Draper, Mark Wherrett, left, and Cindy Hoffstrom of the wheelchair curling team to help fund their trip to Kelowna for Nationals this month. The three are also being honoured with a spaghetti dinner Friday, March 5 at Eagles’ [...]
23 February 2010
The Ice Dogs opened the scoring with just under eight minutes to go in the first period when Brenden Church dropped a pass in front of the net for Spencer Gyori to score. Two minutes later, Kevin Burton added a goal off the faceoff to bring the Ice Dogs’ lead to 2-0. The Mustangs responded with just [...]
23 February 2010
After five draft budgets and little resolution to the problem of a $1.1 million taxation shortfall, Dryden city council passed a deficit budget last week, including a 3.9 per cent tax increase for the residential and commercial sectors. The vote passed four to one, with councillors Mel Fisher, Gary Case, Mike Wood and Gwen Kurz in [...]
23 February 2010
Wabigoon’s Lake Ojibway Nation’s Brittany Norris has been dancing in her culture’s traditional style since she was able to walk. Little did she know that talent would take her to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. Norris, age 20, was picked from thousands of applicants to join over 320 aboriginal Canadians for 16 days of events, rehearsals [...]
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