New season will see small changes for big gains
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – With summer drawing to a close it’ll soon be time to drop the bikes and pick up skates.Big questions facing Tyke hockey are: should children between the ages of four and six play and practice on the same sized ice surface as pro hockey players?
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Cubs ready to get new season underway
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – The New Liskeard Cubs of the Great North Midget League (GNML) are just about ready to get going.The roster is just a couple of defencemen away from being finalized.That task should be complete after they play an exhibition game in Sudbury against the Nickel Capital Wolves
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TSB series nets good results in Temagami region
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMAGAMI – The summer fishing season is coming to a close for participants in the Temiskaming Smallmouth Bass (TSB) series of fishing tournaments.Next up is the final event of the season, the Lake Temiskaming Bass Classic Saturday, September 16, and Sunday, Sept. 17.The circuit’s most recent stop in
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Siermachesky scores Syracuse scholarship
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — Eighteen-year-old Kristen Siermachesky is taking her hockey career to a new level.The New Liskeard resident has been awarded a hockey scholarship to Syracuse University (SU) in New York state.Syracuse is a Division One school in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) playing in the Atlantic
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Hopefuls hit the ice for new season
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — It may not be hockey weather outside, but training camp opened for the Great North Midget League’s New Liskeard Cubs last week.Fifty-three players attended the first night of training camp for the Triple A Midget team Thursday, August 24, at the Don Shepherdson Memorial Arena
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Sports Digest
LIONS TRYOUTSThe New Liskeard Lions Midgets of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue Hyundai Midget BB League begins tryouts on Tuesday, September 5, at 8:30 p.m. at the Don Shepherdson Memorial Arena. New players must have permission-to-skate forms. Other sessions will be Thursday, Sept. 7, 8:30pm, and Saturday, Sept. 9, 6:15 p.m.CUBS CAMPThe New
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Rural Youth Mixed Slo-pitch League season ending tournament
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter DISTRICT — The over 570 boys and girls playing in the Rural Youth Mixed Slo-pitch League grabbed their bats, gloves, umbrellas and enthusiasm heading to area ball fields to compete in the recent season ending Gate’s Gala tournament.Gate’s Gala is named after Gaetan Gosselin, a long-time volunteer league
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Straight From The Hip
When former sports columnist Cam Cole, along with Michael Traikos, talked about Hockey Canada becoming an elitist organization for those parents who can afford to put their kids into hockey on a yearly basis, I had to question the disadvantage in which other parents find
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Learn to swim
In this land of lakes and rivers, do you or the members of your family know how to swim?I was deeply disturbed to read the news about the recent drowning of 15-year-old Jeremiah Perry while on a school trip to Algonquin Park.Apparently Jeremiah failed a mandatory swim test before the
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Drag ’N Fly Summer Classic another success
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter EARLTON — Once the light turns green it’s time to hold on to your eardrums and your seat as muscle cars, dragsters, motorcycles, drag sleds and go carts race down a quarter-mile track at the Earlton-Timiskaming Regional Airport.There’s nothing subtle about drag races. They’re loud, exciting and fast
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