Ready, aim, fire!
On target LeAnne “Alberta Annie” Lane, timed by Keith “South-West Pappy” Lane, fires her Winchester during a times shooting run at a Western shooting competition this past weekend at the Willow Lane Ranch, from July 6 to 8.
Sports
Hoff named team, league most valuable player
By Rob Vogt, Local Press Writer When Sofia Hoff was in elementary school she watched her sisters Eden and Siena play rugby. “I was just waiting until the day I could play,” she said. Hoff played her first game in Grade 6 and, from those simple beginnings, has put together an exceptional career. Suiting up with the F.P. Walshe Flyers of … Read more…
Smeltzer, Keeley win provincial championships in Ponoka
High school rodeo finals By Rob Vogt, Local Press Writer Claresholm has produced not one but two provincial high school rodeo champions this year. The Alberta High School Rodeo Association provincial finals took place in Ponoka from June 1 to 3, and Grady Smeltzer won the bull riding while Kelby Keeley won the goat tying. Smeltzer turned in three rides … Read more…
SAFE!
Head first Alf Hieb, a member of Team Extreme of Claresholm, beats the throw to third in a game on Friday night, June 8. It was all part of the Granum Fire Department’s annual slo-pitch tournament, held June 8 to 10, at the ball diamond at Granview Park. The tournament attracted eight teams with the Beavers of Claresholm emerging as … Read more…
Tee it up
The Claresholm Lions Club golf tournament on Sunday, June 3, at the Bridges at Claresholm Golf Club drew participants from across the region, including Eldon Hubka, here teeing off, of the Carmangay Lions. He was part of a foursome that also included Carmangay Lions Derrick Annable and Dan Greene, and Vulcan Lion Scott Mitchell.