Local Sports

Although the season is already more than halfway through, the St. Paul Tennis Club is still encouraging new members to join and learn about the sport. For the younger players, a summer camp will be taking place from Aug.

Forget about the Tour de France; St. Paul has its own non-competitive version in Tour de Lakeland, in which people can come out and take on a 60 kilometre bike ride from St. Paul to Saddle Lake and back again in an event set to take place Aug. 11.

One last look at this year's Bonnyville Chuckwagons.

Bonnyville held its 5th annual chuckwagon championships, which made history with champion Kirk Sutherland landing himself a new record time. Sutherland won the money everyday except for the first day.

Just over a week after the deaths of three horses during the Calgary Stampede reignited calls to ban the sport, two horses died as a result of the races in Bonnyville.

Two local baseball teams took to the road this weekend and brought home provincial gold after some hard-fought final games. The St.

Several athletes from St. Paul and area will be heading to Lethbridge this week and pushing themselves to the limit to compete well at the Alberta Summer Games.

The scene was set for a great final race at the Eurasia Cup Invitational on Saturday night, part of the Edmonton Indy race weekend.

Bonnyville hosts their 5th annual World Professional Chuckwagon Races and our staff was there, experiencing all the action.

Peter Seifert has been ice racing in Lac La Biche for the past several years, and has been dirt-track racing for even longer than that, but on July 21 he will take to the track in Edmonton in his first ever Indy cup race.