Sports

The rough start for the Prince Rupert Rampage continues, as four points were forfeited by the team after they were not able to get enough players for a road trip this weekend.

A local non-profit group that wants to buy the Shames Mountain ski facility is working away at closing a financing gap of nearly $300,000 this year and several hundred thousand dollars more in succeeding years.

The most ardent golfers at the Prince Rupert Golf Club pulled off the seemingly impossible and the Duffers was played to a finish.

The My Mountain Coop initiative has completed its incorporation under the British Columbia Co-operative Act recently receiving its confirmation of registration.

Rose Holkestad added her name to the 2011 Honour Roll at the Prince Rupert Golf Club, winning the Ladies Club championship following a spectacular weekend for the 36 hole event.

The Labour Day weekend does not go down in the books as a great golf weekend in Prince Rupert.

Moving into Labor Day weekend, the spotlight on Northern golf is the venerable Mens event in Smithers.

The final race of the 2011 Drag racing season was run on the weekend.

The West Kootenays hosted the 2011 BC Senior Games from August 16-20, an event that was spread over three communities, and North Coast athletes certainly found success.

The weekend was predicted to be overcast on Saturday and Sunday for the 15th Annual Houston Drags. On the trip up from Rupert Friday, it rained all the way to Smithers, after that we didn’t see any rain in the daytime for the rest of the weekend.