Posts Tagged ‘ race ’

Unique twists to this year’s Ptub race

Mar 31st, 2010 | By admin | Category: Sports

Warmer temperatures graced the 27th annual Ptub races this past weekend as cross-country skiers from Hay River, Yellowknife and Fort Smith took to the trails. About half of the participants saw this as a last weekend of racing after traveling to compete in the Arctic Winter Games, Cadet Nationals and other high level competitions.



$500 Craigslist Car Beats $400K Rally Racers

Mar 31st, 2010 | By admin | Category: World News

Jalopnik reports: “This is the multifaceted tale of Bill Caswell, a man who bought a crapcan off Craigslist to run against $400,000-plus rally cars in a World Rally Championship race. It is a tale of a guy who had a welder, a bunch of credit cards, and a lot of free time but no real [...]



Hay River rallies around Olympian Green

Mar 3rd, 2010 | By admin | Category: Top News

The TV camera locked on to Brendan Green as he prepared to explode into his leg of the men’s 4 x 7.5 km race in Whistler, BC. It was a tense moment for Green, as well as for 3,600 people in a remote community 2000 km north of him. Crowds wearing green flocked into the [...]