Category: Sports

After success in Athens, paralympians and supporters are bouncing back for the start of the Ottawa-Carleton Wheelchair Sports Association’s (OCWSA) in-school wheelchair program.

If this sounds like a commercial, it’s because it is. Well, in a sense. With less than six weeks left to game day, the city is already preparing to play host. It’s a chance it gets once in a “grey” moon. But behind the fanfare, corporate sponsorship and anticipation of watching football greats battle it out, there is much left undone. Enter the volunteers.

Life keeps getting better for the Ottawa 67’s.While the lights seem to have gone out on this year’s NHL season, the spotlight couldn’t be shining any brighter on Ottawa’s junior team.

Red-faced and winded, the members of Lisgar Collegiate’s cross-country running team just keep pressing on. After a 7– km run along the Rideau Canal they come back, tired but determined to keep going. They continue to workout, doing push-ups and crunches, as this year they are preparing themselves for the win. With the first meet on Oct. 1, the hopes are high.