Saturday, July 4th, as part of Manitouwadge’s Canada Day festivities, the Leisure Services’ Drop-In program staff held ping-pong and 3 on 3 basketball tournaments. Divisions for basketball were 15 yrs & under and 16 yrs & older played round-robin style, and competition was [Read more]
No time to write tonight as I am committed to getting Emeraude Exploring: The Post Office finished before we have our tour at the Fire Station… This means finishing editing of the photos (there are privacy issues to be cautious of, Jen will be reviewing the photos & approving them before [Read more]
Our Lady of Lourdes 2009 Elementary School Invitational Track Meet Related article, published June 11, 2008 in Chronicle Journal, CLICK HERE. Posts with photos of meet: · http://www.karinahunter.com/?p=3142 (includes indoor high jump) · [Read more]
All the kids had great sportsmanship, wishing each other good luck before competing, congratulating each other afterwards – just a nice afternoon all around. Emeraude enjoyed watching her cousins (we didn’t see Denika 🙁 but her 4 cousins from my side of the family were there as was [Read more]
by Karina Hunter Having traveled the greatest distance to arrive in Manitouwadge for the 2009 Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary School Track and Field Invitational did not disadvantage Holy Angels Elementary School of Schreiber returning home as champions of the Northwestern Ontario [Read more]
Saturday morning, Turn off the Screens Week fun continued in Manitouwadge with a Bike Rodeo sponsored by the Ontario Provincial Police, Manitouwadge Leisure Services and the Thunder Bay District Health Unit. The rec centre auditorium was packed with young bikers, eager to show off their knowledge [Read more]
Manitouwadge High School Athletic Association Fundraiser a Smash! May 29th & 30th , 2009 by Karina Hunter Inclement weather did not deter spectators of the Manitouwadge High School Athletic Association’s open beach volleyball tournament [Read more]
It has been another very long day. I had such severe pain as I came near my 4 hr injection times it was hard to deal with (mostly tireing and frustrating that I had to go to the hospital as I now know I have other options that should be made available to me and [Read more]
Emeraude’s first soccer games this week were a success J. She took part in her very first organized, team sport Tuesday & Thursday as a member of Team Canada in the Primary League. Each spring, the Township of Manitouwadge Leisure Services Department offers a Youth Soccer Program to kids from [Read more]
It is great to see just how much she trusts him, Emeraude began feeling weary of swinging last summer...much more impressive when she kept asking to sit on Lloyd so he could pump them so hard they were up side down ... [Read more]
...leave it behind in his locker to rot not wanting to stand out or being embarrassed (I was never on many sports teams but my freinds and I always loved extra food, as I mentioned so have his friends when I've done stuff, so I don't really understand his view on this but still try to respect it [Read more]
Today was a great day. Easter morning was nice (Lloyd took a bit of video – will try to get it posted soon), our egg hunt was awesome and I took many photos (same as the video I will try to get these posted asap). The kids and I went to the Lion’s beach playground [Read more]
Well, the big skate carnival weekend has come and gone and I survived! lol… It was a lot of fun (despite one dissapointment, read ‘photo day’) Emeraude did very well as did all the skaters. At Saturday night’s show she didn’t even fall at all! Sunday she & her [Read more]
Emeraude had so much fun this weekend, it was great to see her shine and come out of her shell quite a bit as well. She received a ton of balloons, flowers and beanies from friends and family who came out to watch (Thanks everyone!) which made her feel really special. Lloyd had volunteered to [Read more]
and then POW!! right out of the blue as Emeraude & I were making snack this morning the balloon in the pinata pops! only problem is that we hadn’t yet gone high enough up the balloon so we put a new one in and blew it up again until it filled out the shell of [Read more]
