In an email message to the members, President Gord Wiess said it’s back to curling for the club after work was recently completed to fix an ammonia leak that forced sudden closure of the Nelson Curling Club last winter. So dust off the broom and shine up the curling shoes, the Nelson Curling Club is back in business, ready ...

Leafs fans are going to need to wait at least one more game before they can celebrate a win for the Green and White. A second period goal by Trysten Brookman proved to be the winner as the Sicamous Eagles skated to a 4-3 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League victory over the Leafs Sunday afternoon at the NDCC Arena. The...

Not the best start of the season for the Nelson Leafs. But as one player put it, we’re just getting started. The Green and White are back in action for Week Two of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League Friday when the club travels to Kimberley to meet the defending Kootenay Conference Champions. The Nitros posted ...

Emanuel Sequeira, KIJHL Communications Manager Myles Mattila is honouring former Kelowna Chiefs owner Grant Sheridan, who followed Mattila’s career since his bantam days in Prince George. Mattila, founder of MindRight, has established the Remembering Grant Sheridan Scholarship that will be available to Kootenay International...

Nelson Youth Soccer Rep teams concluded the 2019 season with an amazing showing at the Kootenay South Eye of the Storm Tournament held recently in Castlegar. Paced by the up-and-coming U10 Boy’s, NYS captured seven gold medals. Other winners were U11 Boys, U12 Boys, U17 Boys, U12 Girls, U14 Girls and U17 Girls. The U12 Boys,...

Dean Siminoff has made six trips to Rwanda in the past four years to help spread a message of hope and confidence to the victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. He spreads this message through his specialized training designed to help people rebuild their capacity for resilience, empowering these individuals while...

It’s been said it’s not how you start the race, but how you finish. So there remains plenty of time for the Nelson Leafs to build for the stretch run in this Kootenay International Junior Hockey League after the Buds dropped three of four points against Eddie Mountain Division teams. Fernie Ghostriders started the downer...

Dust off the hockey sticks, sharpen the skates and break out a box of new pucks, as the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League season opens its 2019-20 campaign on several fronts Friday. One of those games is at the NDCC Arena, in Nelson, where the Leafs play host to the Fernie Ghostriders in Kootenay Conference action...

The 88 Stitches squad came away as the big winners at the annual One Pitch Slopitch tournament held last month at the Lakeside Diamonds in Nelson. 88 Stitches captured the A Division with Nelson’s Ripping Giraffe capturing the B Division and The Crew claiming the C Division crown. Proceeds of the tournament go to local...

Emanuel Sequeira, KIJHL Communications Manager On the eve of the upcoming 2019-20 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League season, the league decided to recognize the impact former president Bill Ohlhausen had on the league and the impressive legacy he left. A legacy that sees the KIJHL’s Okanagan Division renamed after ...