By Andrea Myland
A dustpan, apron and wig are not part of the standard curling uniform, but this is how Ottawa Sun columnist Earl McRae showed up to play against the Ontario women’s team. He claimed to be dressed how they should be. . . like a chamber maid.
Month: March 1998
Survival of the fittest athlete
Sports Beat
By Adam Hickman
Sport is about participation. It’s about playing for the love of the game — winning, losing and having fun.
Professional sport, for most athletes, is an extension of those ideals. The times are faster and the dollars are bigger but, all in all, each athlete is involved because at some time as a kid they had a passion and a dream.
Puddles a persistant problem for pedestrians
By Shannon Hagerman
Early spring weather may have solved the problem of ice and snow on Ottawa’s sidewalks but now it’s puddles that are creating problems for pedestrians.
Marjorie Fulton says the city isn’t doing enough to ensure sidewalks and intersections are free of ice and water.
AIDS curriculum sparks protest
By Maria Babbage
A new and controversial curriculum about AIDS will be taught in regional Catholic elementary schools despite the protests of a group of conservative Catholics who say it goes against traditional religious teaching.
A spokeswoman for the group, Sylvia MacEachern, was reported to have called the new curriculum “unadulterated homosexual propaganda.”