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Kevin Koe was dog-tired when he arrived in Dawson Creek for the Grey Power Players' Championships. After all, last week he was halfway around the earth winning a world curling championship in Italy.

It seems like Patrick Hopkins and James Hopkins have been speed skating for their entire lives. And they almost have. The two joined the Dawson Creek Speed Skating Club when they were mere tykes - just two years old.

On the opening day of play at the Grey Powers Players' Championships Tuesday, things fell into place pretty much as one would have predicted.

Wonder where the members of the Dawson Creek Curling Club are this week? Most of them are at the EnCana Events Centre as part of the huge volunteer effort required to put on the Grey Power Players' Championships. "It has been absolutely incredible.

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One would think the icemaker for this week's Grey Power Players Championships would be sweating bullets.

Dot Hill will add another accomplishment to her impressive curling resumé when she throws the first rock in the opening ceremonies of tonight's Grey Power Players' Championships.

When Randy Ferbey and his rink step on the ice for the Grey Power Players' Championship in Dawson Creek this week it will be with a tinge of sadness as this will be the final time the rink will be together.

From start to finish, Braden Clouthier had an impressive speed skating season.

If 2010 Olympic gold medalist Kevin Martin wins next week's Grey Power Players' Championship, it will add just a bit more lustre to a season in which he has shone so brightly already.