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Red Deer Rebels prospective No. 1 goaltender Patrik Bartosak doesn’t sound like he’ll be feeling homesick any time soon.

By his own admission, 2011 first-round WHL bantam draft pick Conner Bleackley wasn’t at his best during Sunday’s first rookie sessions of the Red Deer Rebels training camp.Clearly, the best is yet to come.

The Red Deer Riggers couldn’t have asked for a better start to the Canadian senior AAA baseball championships.

With as many as 17 veterans set to register for Red Deer Rebels training camp Saturday at the Centrium, the list of available jobs for the 2011-12 Western Hockey League season is indeed short.

Red Deer Dairy Queen Braves head coach Dwayne Lalor could have added to his roster for the Western Canadian peewee baseball championships, but didn’t feel there was a real need.

Derrick Evans of Red Deer is a Canadian champion.The 15-year-old captured the 1,500-metre steeplechase in the boys’ U16 division at the 2011 Legion Nationals Youth Track and Field Clampionships in Ottawa.

Racer Jason Johnstone gets help from Laura Talbot as they ready his chuckwagon for towing in Rocky Mountain House Tuesday. With the town’s Battle of the Rockies weekend event over, competitors on the World Professional Chuckwagon Tour head now to Drumheller for the Richard Cosgrave Badlands Dinosaur Derby. The next Central Alberta action for the chuckwagons occurs Sept. 8th-11th in Bashaw with the WPCA Qualification Run-Off.

Just having returned from the Rogers Cup Tennis Championships in Montreal Twila Moline was eager to hit the courts at the Red Deer Tennis Club this week with friends.

Grip it and rip it! This is the overwhelming response from most golfers when asked how they view a game of golf.

The Red Deer Riggers didn’t get the best draw at the Canadian Senior AAA Baseball Championships in Miramichi, N.B., but head coach Curtis Bailey isn’t complaining.