Sports

MINTO – The Norwell District Secondary School girls curling team competed in the 20-team OFSAA tournament, featuring the best girls high school teams in the province, in Sarnia from March 18 to 21.

FERGUS– The Fergus Curling Club hosted Curl for a Cause in support of Aboyne Rural Hospice on March 22.

GUELPH – Students from Guelph Family Martial Arts returned with some hardware from the Regional Martial Arts Championships held March 22 and 23 in St. Marys, which welcomed athletes present from across Ontario.

TORONTO – Fergus resident Avery Holmes is part of the Orangeville Tigers U13B Latour rep hockey team that won the grand prize in the Ford Drills and Skills competition in recognition of its volunteer efforts this season.

FERGUS – What began as a cancer fundraiser in 2006, has since become a regular fundraising bonspiel for multiple charitable causes – hence the name Curl for a Cause. This year’s beneficiary is the Aboyne Rural Hospice facility.

MOUNT FOREST – The Mount Forest Curling Club, established in 1880, held its annual Masters’/Seniors’ bonspiel on March 1.

PALMERSTON – The Norwell District Secondary School’s Varsity Reds travelled to Guelph on Feb. 28 to compete in the Special Olympics Bocce qualifier.

MINTO – Three students from Minto helped clinch the championship for the Orangeville Vikings at the VMF CUP in London in the U11 Atom division Feb. 28 to March 2.

MINTO – The Harriston Curling Club held its 114th annual Meiklejohn Curling Bonspiel on Feb. 21 and 22. 

ELORA – Third time’s a charm! The Boo Radley Project’s annual curling tournament is back. Wellington County’s art-rock indie-funk septet, The Boo Radley Project, will be taking over the sheets at the Elora Curling Club for their third annual Boospiel curling tournament on March 15.

BRUCEDALE – Guelph/Eramosa Township is moving ahead with a plan to have six beach volleyball courts installed at Marden Park, but the hope is it won’t cost taxpayers a thing.

MONTEBELLO, QUE. – Rockwood resident Jenn Banfield has returned victorious from the Canadian Ski Marathon in Montebello, Quebec.

MOUNT FOREST  – At 64, most people might be thinking of slowing down, but not Kim McDonald of Mount Forest. 

MAPLETON – Internationally-renowned comedian and juggler Josh Casey has been entertaining audiences around the globe with an array of the unusual.

FERGUS – The Wilkin’s Ladies Bonspiel was held at the Fergus Curling Club on Jan. 25 with the winning team coming from Collingwood.