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If you think you have what it takes to be a member of the Westlock Warriors, this is your golden opportunity.

Despite a disappointing Wheatland Football League season opener, the Westlock Thunderbirds are keeping their spirits high and focusing on the positives following a 35-0 Aug. 30 loss to the St. Paul Lions in Fort Saskatchewan.

Bessie Stevens might just have returned home from the Canada 55 Plus games in St. John, New Brunswick, with a medal around her neck, but she is already planning her next trip to Kamloops, in 2020.

It’s been a long road back to the mats for Haley Heffel.

By the time the 4 p.m. starting horn blared and the flag dropped, 19 drivers had signed up for entry into what is arguably the most popular spectacle at the annual Westlock and District Agricultural Fair — the demolition derby.

It just isn’t for extreme athletes. That is how Boneyard OCR owner Robert Day characterized X Warrior’s Wilderness Sprint. The Leader spoke to Day before close to 1,000 athletes descended Aug.

Two baseball players from Barrhead became national champions this past summer after helping their team, the Edmonton Cubs, win gold at the 2018 Canadian Little League Championships in Edmonton from July 14-22.

The third annual Athabasca College Hockey Challenge (ACHC) is coming to the Athabasca Regional Multiplex Sept. 21-23. Seven teams will take part this year, up from five the previous years.

Former NHLer Darryl Sutter said the most important characteristics for any successful hockey player is a strong work ethic, the ability to listen their coaches and have to fun.

They fought hard and gave it everything they had, but the Westlock Red Lions ultimately ran out of gas during the North Central Alberta Baseball League semifinal Aug. 18-19 at Keller Field.