Local Sports

The fundraising effort to install a roof over the fairground grandstand presently sits at $40,000 with more funds coming in here and there as the Dawson Creek Exhibition Association works towards its $300,000 goal.

The members of the Dawson Creek Canucks know what they will be doing most every Thursday and Saturday night this winter.

Two more local figure skaters have earned their senior gold levels. Fort St. John Figure Skating Club skaters reached the top during their test day over the weekend.

You might need a pair of sunglasses the next time you watch a hockey game at the North Peace Arena.

The Flyers have their first tryout camp Wednesday at the North Peace Arena.

The young Dawson Creek Rage picked up their first-even regulation time win in the North American Hockey League Friday night when they rode a strong second period to a 5-2 victory over the Alaska Avalanche.

Penalty trouble doomed the Dawson Creek Rage Saturday night, just as it did in the opening match Thursday of the team's first-ever three-game North American Hockey League homestand.

Dawson Creek Rage Coach Scott Robinson may have been happy to have his hockey team finally play a regular season game in front of home-town fans, but he was none too pleased with what transpired in those 60 minutes Thursday night.

It was an amazingly warm evening for the first Toony-Cross cyclocrossrace of the season at North Peace Secondary School Thursday night. Peter King took first place with 34 minutes 15 second completing six laps, followed by Kevin Shaw with 35:33.

After a strong start to the cross-country running season that saw several Dawson Creek athletes win their divisions at last Saturday's Grailquest in Fort St. John, the local running circuit shifts to Bezanson this Saturday.