Ice snap winless skid against Rockets
By The Nelson Daily Sports Time to break up the Kootenay Ice. For the second consecutive weekend the Ice scored a three-point weekend, this time against the Okanagan Rockets in B.C. Major Midget Hockey League action at the Capital New Centre in Kelowna. And it could have been better has Kootenay not blown a 4-1 […]
Midget Reps post weekend sweep of Trail
By The Nelson Daily Sports The Castlegar/Nelson Midget Reps exploded for 19 goals in two games to head into the Christmas break on a high note. Castlegar/Nelson bounced Trail Tier III 10-2 and 9-3 in a pair of West Kootenay Minor Hockey League games during the weekend. The two wins improve the Reps season record […]
Cranbrook consultant shoots for Million
The Nelson Daily has learned a Cranbrook sales consultant could be humming the tune to the Barenaked Ladies “If I had a Million Dollars” song very soon. Barry Epp of the Key City was selected at random as the winner of TSN’s fifth annual, international award-winning million-dollar giveaway, the Chevrolet Cruze Million Dollar Shootout. On […]
Memo to rest of BCMMHL — Bring your A-Game to the Kootenays
By Bruce Fuhr,The Nelson Daily Sports Another B.C. Major Midget Hockey League team realized the hard way there are no easy games to be had in the Kootenays. The Kootenay Ice took three of four points from the North Island Silvertips in BCMMHL action during the weekend in Castlegar. The Ice road the red hot […]
Kootenays shutout at B.C. Interior Men's Curling Championships
By The Nelson Daily Sports Vernon will have some strong representation at the upcoming B.C. Men’s Curling Championship after the Aron Herick and Darin Heath rinks of the Central Okanagan City qualified for the provincial tournament followings wins at the Men’s Interior playdowns Sunday in Kamloops. Herick, third Tobin Senum, second Marc Fillion and lead […]
Skatepark Association gets an early Christmas gift from City Council
In what seems to be becoming a new annual Christmas tradition in town, Rossland City Council has shown its support for a skatepark again this year in its final council meeting before Christmas. In a 3-2 vote, council supported a recommendation to allow the Rossland Skateboard Association (RSA) the use of city photocopying...
Hosting the NorAms: Black Jack thinks locally, acts globally
In underworld circles, a blackjack is a small, typically leather, sack roughly the size of a small purse or ankle-high sock. Stuffed with ball bearings, small stones or semi-precious stones for the fashionable underling, it’s normally a DIY weapon fashioned in mind of sneaking up behind someone and K.O-ing them with any one...
Pineapple Express brings considerable avalanche danger
Avalanche risk is considerable at the alpine and tree-line level in the West Kootenay backcountry, according to the Canadian Avalanche Centre. Heavy snow falling is expected to overload buried weak interfaces in the snow pack in the backcountry, even in sheltered locations, according to James Floyer of the CAC. Up to 40 centimetres of new […]
Wild, wacky weekend leads to 40-plus game suspensions
By Bruce Fuhr,The Nelson Daily Sports There must have been a full moon hanging over the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League this past weekend. Why else would 16 players be suspended for a total of 44 games over three days? “I don’t know maybe it really was a full moon,” KIJHL president Bill Ohlhausen said […]
Christmas Co-Ed tournament back by popular demand
By The Nelson Daily Sports The highly successful Co-Ed Indoor Soccer Tournament during the Christmas Holiday break is back at the Soccer Quest facility in the old Civic Centre Children’s rink in Nelson. The tourney is set for December 28 & 29 and is open to ladies over 30 and men over 35 years of […]
