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SPORTSFriday, May 09th, 2008By Chris Clark April 25th, 2008 For most athletes, representing your country is the greatest honour you can achieve in sport. Luke Beatty knows it first hand, and was so moved as a member of Canada’s U-18 Standing Amputee Hockey Team, he still struggles to find the words to describe...  Read MoreBy Darcy Culp April 25th, 2008 The Arthur Rang-A-Tangs travelled to Arnprior on March 14-16 for the FBAO provincials. The results were as follows: They lost 1-0 to the Palmerston Rookies in the first game but won the next two games against Guess Who (1-0) and the Heady Kilsyth Phantoms... Read MoreBy Jenn McFadden April 18th, 2008 Closing banquet On April 12 the club hosted its annual closing banquet where everyone sat down to a lovely potluck meal and had the awards ceremony. President Andy Lennox welcomed everyone and spoke on some things that happened through the year. Mike... Read MoreApril 18th, 2008 One day after watching Canada’s National Sledge Hockey Team win world championship gold medals, Canada’s National Standing Amputee Hockey Team accomplished the same feat, on the very same ice. “It’s something that you never get tired of,” said... Read MoreApril 11th, 2008 Damascus April 2 euchre had eight tables plus one in play. High prize winners were Jackie Rex and Carl White. Second high prize winners were Evelyne Near and Mike Sproul. Most lone hand prizes were won by Isabelle Edwards and Barb Fletcher tied with... Read MoreBy Dianne Hatch April 11th, 2008 The Wellington North Tween Ringers finished their league playoffs on April 3 with a game against the Waterloo Wildfire. The coaches were a little worried as the girls were not looking like they were ready to play and beat this team. They were slow getting... Read MoreBy Stuart Wright April 4th, 2008 I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Bronze is a beautiful colour. I spend my summers as a Bronze god on the beach (stop laughing, you’re hurting my feelings). And the Wellington North Petite Ringers just love bronze since they have two medals... Read MoreBy Stuart Wright April 4th, 2008 It perhaps could be said, depending on how you look at it, that the Wellington North Novice Ringers were victims of their own success at the Western Regional Ringette tournament this past weekend. After an outstanding regular season and capturing the... Read MoreBy Jenny McFadden April 4th, 2008 Windy Ridge Farms closing bonspiel On March 27 and 28 the club had its final bonspiel of the year. The draw committee of Dave Lennox, Lyle Howitt, Sara Boys and Darryl Rooney made up the teams for the early draw and the late draw. Each night consisted... Read MoreBy Dianne Hatch April 4th, 2008  This past weekend the Wellington North Tween Ringers competed in the Western Region Regionals and had a great weekend of ringette capturing the bronze medal. The first game of the weekend was Friday morning against St. Thomas. The Ringers had played this... Read MoreBy Jenny McFadden March 28th, 2008 Inter-club league finals On March 20 and 22 the club hosted the finals for the Inter-club league. The Arthur teams competiting were Ron Codlin, Keith Martin, Arden Edmonson and Scott Milley and the other Arthur team was Hubert Hoerdt, Wayne Freeman, John... Read MoreBy Chris Clark March 28th, 2008 This year in Canada, nearly 160,000 new cases of cancer are expected, along with more than 72,000 cancer related deaths. At Wellington Heights Secondary School, however, the fight is on. WHSS is currently preparing for its 4th annual Relay For Life event,... Read MoreMarch 20th, 2008 By Jenny McFadden Russtree Farms men’s bonspiel On March 15, our club hosted it’s annual men’s spiel sponsored by Dan Saunders of Russtree Farms. Convenor’s Darren Jones and Ben Tupling did an excellent job filling the bonspiel. Teams played... Read MoreBy Stuart Wright March 14th, 2008 The party, she is over. The Arthur Midget Vipers fell 3-1 to the Elora Lightning eliminating them from Tri-County playoffs, but much the way they played all season they didn’t go down without a fight. It would be fair to say they battled and scrapped... Read MoreBy Annette Brunkard March 14th, 2008 Saturday morning the team traveled to Elora, just ahead of the snow storm. All the kids put a good effort forward and kept the score tied 0-0 at the end of the first period. Thomas Redman and Kyle Brunkard both scored singles. Unfortunately Elora won 6-2. On... Read MoreMarch 14th, 2008 The Arthur and Area Skating Club annual awards banquet was held after the Carnival on March 2 where skaters, coaches and volunteers were recognized for outstanding contributions. Sandra Taylor – this year’s winner of the Volunteer of the Year... Read MoreFebruary 22nd, 2008 The skaters, program assistants, coaches and carnival committee have all been working hard on this year’s skating carnival production of “Skate...Scootin’ Boogie”. The carnival is the Arthur and Area Skating Club’s yearly wrap up performance,... Read MoreBy Chris Clark February 22nd, 2008 Looking to improve on the success of last year that brought them a CWOSSA silver medal, the Wellington Heights Secondary School senior boys basketball team met a tough challenge in the District 4 championship. WHSS’ seniors played well all season long,... Read MoreBy Stuart Wright February 22nd, 2008 You couldn’t really call it a Double Delight for the Wellington North Petite Ringers since the second half of the planned Saturday double header was shortened due to a mix-up with referees. It was more like a one and a half delight but it was still a... Read MoreBy Stuart Wright February 15th, 2008 I’m on the verge of quoting William Shakespeare (very badly) so long time readers will know the news is not good. Maybe it’s my spectacular lack of success in high school English that makes me think tragedy when I think Willy. (You’ve heard of The... Read MoreFebruary 15th, 2008 In January the Rhythm on Ice Synchronized Skating Team from Arthur travelled to Fort Erie to compete. It was tough! Some of the teams they skated against were trying to qualify for All Ontario’s. The team’s first skate was strong and members received... Read More |
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