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Two days of golfing is what it took for the Westlock Golf Club to name its champions for 2013. During the Aug.

A successful summer for baseball in Westlock has wrapped with the senior Red Lions defeating the St. Albert Cardinals to win the Alberta West Central Baseball Association crown.

Midget hockey players looking for more of a challenge are in luck this year with the creation of a new ‘AA’ team.

While other students were relaxing and enjoying their final week of summer holidays, the members of the Athabasca Pacers football club were busy readying themselves for the season.

The Barrhead Twilighters are the new Pembina Senior Slowpitch Champions for the first time, after emerging from the league playoffs victorious last month.

Ah autumn, the most temperamental of seasons. While Saturday saw showers and temperatures cool enough for sweaters, on Sunday the winds did blow, picking up leaves and changing the trajectory of golf balls.

After a 14-3 regular season and a perfect 2-0 playoff record thus far, the Westlock 30+ Red Lions are gearing up for their championship series against the St. Albert Cardinals.

She may not be golden, but Lauren Kostiw’s performance at the Aug. 18-19 Alberta Summer Swimming Association Provincials in Edmonton was a silver lining for the Westlock Gators. Kostiw swam her girls’ nine-and-under 50-metre breaststroke race in 46.

Limbs flailing in the water. Frantic waving, splashing. Panic-stricken cries of “help, help, help.” It is a common image of drowning, something reinforced by TV. Yet the reality is often very different: no drama, no yells, just a deceptive quiet.

The race was on for 21 youths this Saturday as they ran about town eating donuts, busting out dance moves, counting fish, folding pizza boxes, and much more.