Mills manages laundry 'blow-ups' at Argos camp
James Paddle-Grant Photo: Fred Mills holds the down marker on the field at York University during the Argonauts Training Camp this month. I returned to the Toronto Argonauts Training Camp at York University again, this time for the full three weeks. I helped the equipment staff, including manager Danny Webb, the longest Argonaut employee with 30 […]
Junior Braves are provincial champions
The Junior Creemore Braves are provincial champions for the first time since 1996, after winning the OBA Junior “C” Championship last weekend in Richmond Hill. Impressively, the team accomplished this feat in its first season of operation, the original Junior team having folded in 1999. In the first game of the tournament, Creemore beat Ancaster […]
Thirty years of Scouting
Creemore Scouting held their annual Scouting banquet on Wednesday, February 22, the birthday of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouting movement. Tim Armour piped the head table in and then everyone enjoyed a nice roast beef dinner prepared by the Legion Ladies Auxiliary. After dinner, awards and badges were presented to the following: […]
Rusty's filly is best in Canada
Maple Lane Misty, Rusty McArthur’s provincial champion Belgian filly, capped off a great season last weekend by being chosen as the Canadian Belgian Horse Association’s 2011 All-Canadian Filly Foal Champion. The foal qualified by scoring 45 points in 2011 at shows across Ontario. Judges select the champion by examining pictures of all the qualifying foals […]
40 years of camaraderie and fair play
The Quebec International Bonspiel is one of the oldest uninterrupted amateur sporting competitions in the world, having run each year since 1913 in the city known as the cradle of curling in North America. Two teams from the Creemore Curling Club embarked to Quebec to compete in the 99th Quebec International Bonspiel two weeks ago. […]