Friday, May 25, 2007

Winnipeg Hockey Photos
*just an update on the Winnipeg hockey photos - I'm hoping to have a handful of the shots up on this site by the end of the weekend, and have the full archives put up on my SmugMug account. I will email everyone on the team with the password.*

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Golf Scholarship
OSHAWA - Honour roll student Addi has just completed her 2nd year at South Carolina State University where she doing a major in Physical Education and minor in Biology. This past year she was awarded with a full golf scholarship at S.C.U., which she will receive for the remainder of her studies at the University.
May 23, 2007
$100K Terry Fox Fundraiser
CLARINGTON - David Harrison is trying to raise $100,000 for this year's Terry Fox run. He is doing it in memory of his father, Michael, a Port Hope lawyer who died almost two years ago of lung cancer.
May 23, 2007
Truck Fire on 35/115
ORONO - A tractor trailer which was parked on the shoulder of the north bound lanes on Hwy 35/115, had its load of scrap cars catch fire, closing the highway for well over an hour. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
May 23, 2007
Home Invasion

WHITBY - A police officer opens a windows to let a man, woman and dog inside. Durham Region Police blocked off a portion of Brock St. North in Whitby, after receiving a call for an attempted armed home invasion around 5pm. A man, woman and dog, believed to be the residents of the townhouse fled to the ledge of the home waiting for SWAT to clear the unit. Luckily, they were unharmed in the incident and were led to safety by the officers. Police are looking for two suspects who are believed to be armed and dangerous. May 22, 2007
High-Fidelity Simulators

OSHAWA - Nursing Professors Leslie Graham and Debbie Morrison stand back while Mr. Jones, a high-fidelity simulator gets a healthy dose of electricity from a defibrillator in the healthcare lab at the college. Durham College has received $1 million from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care to create a critical care nursing, e-learning program for the province. This cutting edge program will train health-care professionals in a simulated life-like environment, based on wide variety of scenarios that will make the students more comfortable, capable and competant in dealing with medical situations in the real world. May 22, 2007

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Toronto F.C. vs. Houston Dynamo





Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Whitby Warriors vs. Peterborough Lakers
May 11, 2007
WHITBY - The Junior A Whitby Warriors faced off against the Peterborough Lakers in their season opener at Iroqois Park Arena. Warriors Steve Hitchins nails Lakers Brock Sorenson into the boards in the first period.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Iron Talon II
May 12, 2007

The 32nd Canadian Army Brigade rehearsed war fighting and stability tasks at the Land Force Central Area Training Centre in Meaford, Ontario. The exercises code-named Iron Talon II were designed to train army reserves in full-spectrum operations, such as humanitarian aid, stability operations and focused warfare exercises. 790 reservists, with additional full time military took part in scenario based exercises which were adapted from the various experiences of troops who had recently returned from serving in Afghanistan. Senior journalism students were also embedded with the units participating in the exercises, to mimic the reality of war, as media presence on the battlefront has become the norm. This addition of journalists helps the army get accustomed to having them around on the front lines, as well as helping to train the journalism students who may become future Canadian foreign correspondents.

I spent the day with the Queens Own Rifles based out the Dalton Armoury in Scarborough and The 32 Combat Engineers Regiment based out of Denison Armoury at Downsview Park in Toronto. The Q.O.R. executed a number of strategic infantry based scenarios, while the 32 C.E.R. were engaged in an exercise which was built around a scenario of "Destroying Remnants of War".

It was pretty damn cool watching the 32 C.E.R. set off various 155mm and 76mm live artillery shells with C4.














Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Scarborough Saints Lacross - Practice @ Scarborough Arena Gardens
May 07, 2007


Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Greenskeeper - Uxbridge Lawn Bowling Club
April 29, 2007
Bob Owen, the greenskeeper of the Uxbridge Lawn Bowling Club, cleans the bowling green with a sweeper, after verti-cutting the grass. Cutting and sweeping the grass takes approximatly 2 hours, as the turf is meticulously cut to less than 1/8th of an inch.
Sunnybrae Golfcourse
April 28, 2007
Greenbank Airport
April 29, 2007


Greenbank Airways (www.greenbankairways.com)