Source:Keystone Centre Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir along with Patrick Chan, Kaetlyn Osmond, Elvis Stojko, Meagan Duhamel & Eric Radford, and more will bring their new figure skating show to Westoba Place at the Keystone Centre, Oct 21, 2018. Canada has produced the most talented figure skaters in the history of the sport, with household names like Virtue, Moir, Chan, Osmond, Stojko and more who have reached the pinnacle of the sport in the Canadian Nationals, World Titles and Olympic Games. As a ‘thank you’ to their home country, these Canadian greats will embark on The Thank You Canada Tour, presented by Round Room this fall. For more information, click here.

The MJHL's annual bantam draft took place earlier this morning and Virden's Grady Lane was the first player selected by the Winkler Flyers.   Lane registered 42 points in 35 regular season games while skating with the Southwest Cougars.  With the second overall selection in the draft the Dauphin Kings drafted Sloan Stanick who amassed 59 points in just 36 games for the Yellowhead Chiefs.   Other notable selections in today's first round include Foxwarren's Colby Wotton who went to Waywayseecapo with the 7th overall pick and Treherne's Roux Bazin who was selected 10th overall by Virden.  Wotton spent the 2017/18 season with the Yellowhead Chiefs while Bazin suited up for the Pembina Valley Hawks.   Nolan Wallace was the lone player from Brandon selected. The 5'8" defensemen was selected in the 5th round, 46th overall by the Virden Oil Capitals.  This year's draft was held in Winnipeg and featured players born in 2003. A complete listing of those drafted can be found at this link.

Source: Brandon AAA Midget Wheat Kings Facebook The executive of the Brandon AAA Midget Wheat Kings is pleased to announce that they have hired Chris Johnston as their new head coach for the upcoming 2018-2019 hockey season. This will be Chris' first time as head coach of the Brandon AAA Midget program after spending the last two season as an assistant coach to Tyson Ramsey. Chris has coached at many levels over the last 11 years. Before coaching Chris played hockey at many levels including the American Hockey League, Central Hockey League, East Coast Hockey League plus 5 years in the WHL. The executive looks forward to Chris' experience to continue the tradition of developing players for the next level.

Submitted This past weekend saw your local U14 Westman Magic Softball Team travel to Saskatoon to compete in the 2018 Presidents Tournament. The “A” level division brought in 16 teams from Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Your Westman Magic team selected from western Manitoba was well represented, going undefeated throughout the weekend, setting themselves up for the gold medal game Sunday night. The teams offensive power, active defense and leadership of the veteran players earned them a championship title and gold medal as they defeated Sherwood Park, Alberta 3-2.

Deer Ridge Golf Course is offering a Junior Summer league every Wednesday in July and August starting July 4th between 12:30-5:00pm. The league is designed for children aged 7-14.  The participants must be physically able to walk and play 9 holes without an adult. League is for kids with previous experience Fees include tournament style format event every Wednesday, lunch, tutorials to improve their golf game and an unlimited membership on non tournament days. Call 204-726-1545 for more information or to register.  Program costs $275.00 plus GST.