Local Sports

The Innisfail Bantam AA hockey team came away with a victory during an exhibition game against a bantam team from Denver, Colo. last Sunday.

Arriving in Bowden in 1998 from Montreal, Bowden's Don Stoesz immediately made a big difference to the Central Alberta community.

The Olds Grizzlys continued their winning ways last week, extending their season-high streak to six games with wins over the Calgary Mustangs (3-2), Canmore Eagles (4-1), and finishing off their season's home Saturday schedule with a 5-1 victory over

They will roar. They will hurray hard. And they will proudly compete in the 66th Annual Innisfail Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel. The annual classic will begin Saturday, Jan. 15 at the Innisfail Curling Club and conclude Friday, Jan. 20.

Two Mountain View County kids have lasting memories of Team Sweden's visit to Olds prior to Christmas. Team Sweden, which won the U-20 World Hockey Championship 1-0 over Russia on Thursday, practised in Olds from Dec.

The Sundre Junior men's curling team of Dylan Webster, left to right, Parker Konschuh, Jabob Ort and Mac Walton, and coach Ed Lengyel, got in some last-minute practice at the Sundre Curling Club on Saturday.

The Penhold Amazons were host to the 2012 All Star game for the Alberta Junior Female Hockey League Sunday. Representatives from 10 teams were out on the ice Jan. 8, divided into two teams ó the north and south division.

The Innisfail & District Historical Society is rolling out its first ever volunteer program in the agency's four-decade-old history.

The Olds Grizzlys entered tonight's scheduled game against the Calgary Mustangs at the Father David Bauer Arena with a modest three-game winning streak after victories over the Drumheller Dragons on Wednesday, Canmore Eagles on Friday and Okotoks Oil

They were once as visible along highways as wooden grain elevators. Road travellers could see them at just about every city or town block.