Salmon Leap stalwart following a rich family tradition
23.02.97
MARY HANNIGAN
Sportswoman of the Month (May): Canoeist Jenny Egan: WITH BOTH her parents involved in canoeing for as long as she can remember – and for some time before that – and with a brother, Peter, an international in the sport, there was always a fair chance Jenny Egan would take up the discipline.
It was evident enough, at an early stage, though, that the sport was going be something more than a hobby, not least when she finished her underage career in 2005 with a silver medal at the World Junior Marathon Championships in Perth, Australia. The year before she’d finished fifth, the year before that 15th, so the progress was clear.
Source: Irish Times
Shenzhen has it all
21.05.11
SHENZHEN, China -- Shenzhen is a city that runs the spectrum of Chinese life.
From almost anywhere in the city, you can look up and see another multi-million dollar skyscraper being built. The view from my hotel, the Grand Hyatt Shenzhen, includes construction cranes perched against a monstrous building that looks like a standing canoe.
Like any city, there is the middle class and the poor. It's not hard to find people beating out laundry on the street right outside a home that is little more than a shack.
Friday night, after a full day following Mayor Mike Bell from meeting to meeting, 13 ABC Anchor Lee Conklin, cameraman Justin Billau, and I took a cab back to the hotel. A combination of things made that a spectacularly awful ride.
Source: Toledo Blade
Pickleball demonstration draws dozens
23.02.54
Haliburton County has a new passion.
It's pickleball.
More than 70 people made their way to S.G. Nesbitt Memorial Arena in Minden on June 3 to take part in a demonstration of the sport – which consists of hitting a Wiffle-style ball over a tennis-like net, with table-tennis-like paddles on a badminton-like court – on June 3.
The event was hosted by the Ontario Senior Games Association, 55 and over, and was open to anyone of any age.
A group of pickleball fanatics from Durham Region led the demonstration.
"Two years ago I was in your shoes," Port Perry pickleball player Roy Wilson told the crowd, the majority of who were retirement age. "I'd never heard of the name pickleball. I said to my wife, 'I'll never play that game. It seems like a game for wimps.'"
Source: Minden Times
