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Some decisions have to be made well in advance. “As soon as I found out our gym was going to be in use during the Canada Winter Games,” Duchess Park senior girls basketball coach Dave Holmes said, “I booked space at John McInnis for practices. I figured we had a good chance to need it. “So that would have been about a year ago.” Friday evening, Holmes’ planning was rewarded as the Condors won the North-Central Regional championship with a 74-54 win over Nechako Valley from Vanderhoof. With...

Todd Jordan laughs when asked about being on the longest road trip in team history. “We’re trying to keep fairly active,” says the coach of the UNBC Timberwolves men’s basketball team. “We’re using the weight room here, using some time for study hall.” The Timberwolves are spending this week and next in Kamloops, working out at Thompson Rivers University as they prepare for the first Canada West playoffs in school history. UNBC clinched second place in the Explorer Division with a pair of...

It was simply a matter of time, and on Sunday the Cariboo Cougars clinched top spot in the B.C. Major Midget League. The Cougars took the title when they downed the Vancouver Northwest Giants 4-2 in Burnaby after tying 2-2 on Saturday. Colton Thomas led the attack Sunday with a goal and two assists, while Justin Almeida, Darren Hards and Steven Jandric had the other goals. Dorrin Luding started in goal, but was shaken up in a collision with a Giants player. Griffem Outhouse came in and...

Doris Dittaro has created a legacy for her children and a memento for guests of the 2015 Canada Winter Games. Her watercolour “Home From the Rink” was one of a select few chosen for VIP gifting cards. “They printed five hundred cards with my photo and bio on the back. I was quite surprised when I got a phone call telling me my work had been selected for the gifting cards.” The image was actually created several years ago, she said, when Papyrus Printing put out a call for artists’ work to...

Thank heaven for this wonderful and witty play about Satan, soles and souls – and the power of suggestion. Theatre North West has truly outdone itself working with a time-honoured play by W. O. Mitchell and bringing together a talented team of actors and artistic people who deserve a huge standing ovation. The surprise special effects, sound, lighting and costume design are real attention-getters. I was fascinated to see during intermission the clever and very efficient transformation of...

The economic impact of the 2015 Canada Winter Games is tough to nail down exactly. Games organizers, leading up to the Games, touted that the economic impact would be somewhere between $70 million and $90 million. Is that a realistic assumption? It should be considering that it is based on what previous Games have done. Following the Games, the Canadian Sport Tourism Alliance will conduct an economic impact assessment of the Prince George Games and the results likely won’t be published...

  One team was playing its fifth game in eight days. The other was playing its second. “You could see the energy difference in Edmonton,” Prince George Cougars coach Mark Holick said of the team’s 5-2 loss to the Oil Kings on Monday afternoon. “We had a bad line change, they scored, and you could see us sag a bit.” The Cougars will have the skate on the other foot when they play the Moose Jaw Warriors on Saturday night at CN Centre. “I think it’s the first time all year we’ll be...

Tribute artist Steve Elliott has left the building – but there’s no doubt he’ll be back. Last weekend, he performed his Love Me Tender shows at the Royal Canadian Legion. And I’m told the ladies - and men – have just about recovered from his engaging, energetic, electrifying show. Using his own vocals and a soundtrack (usually Elliott’s wife “takes care of business” in this department but she couldn’t make this trip), the award-winning Chilliwack artist broke out in a sweat...