Fall is the start of the Walk, Ride, and Run season for a variety of charities from the Terry Fox Run to the Ride for the Cure. One group that has caught my attention is the Weekend to Breast Cancer Walk in Toronto. Here is slight diversion on how I met this particular charity. I …
Eisfiguren There is a whole series of great glacier lake shots, of which this is one of the wry ones taken by Carmen, A Flickrite who has a wonderful sense of photographic composition – especially in Nature. Go here to see what I mean. But the real stars of the show are the bold and …
There are are at least three or four signs of the End of Summer in Cramahe Township, Northumberland County. Number 1 is the Warkworth Long Lunch taking place at the end of August along the Main Street of the City. For $15 you get a truly down home feast of country cooking including some of …
Volunteers have become an integral part of World Sport events – and this party has mixed feeling about the situation; however that is a discussion for another time and place. Meanwhile the volunteer crew that ran just about every aspect of the Dragonboat Championships did so tirelessly and with much good cheer. Here, once again …
PixofCanada.com had hoped to have pictures of the World Dragonboat Crew Championships in Toronto available yesterday if not the day before yesterday. However, some technical difficulties – Crashed Hard Drives – are changing that schedule. As we recover pictures over the next week or two, we shall make them available. In the meantime we shall …
Where Dragonboating is “At” Okay, so there may be a little exaggeration here – but not a lot. Pemberton’s Laoyam Eagles Junior Dragonboat team swept all but 2 of 9 gold medals in the Junior category. True, the best Junior teams (18 years or under) from Asia and Europe were not present at the meet. …
In a bit of unexpected brilliance, the organizers for the IDBF Dragon Boat Championships scheduled local Community Races for Friday evening from 8:00PM until whenever about 25-30 local GTA teams could get their 500 meter races done in the dead of the night. Okay, this was not the dead of the night, but rather, the …
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The Weather Clears for IDBF World Crew Championships One week ago participants and spectators would have found the World Dragonboat Crew Championships catching the tumltuous end of a horrendous heat wave. But Odin and the Weather Gods agreed to smile on the Championships bestowing sunshine emanating through the lowering clouds with a cooler but windy …
1st IDBF World Crew Championship Race – Toronto Starting on Thursday, August 10th til Sunday August 13th, the IDBF-International DragonBoat Federation is putting on the World Crew Dragonboat Championships in Toronto. The location is just west of Ontario Place in the new rowing basin created specifically for the Dragonboat competitions at Marilyn Bell Park. The …
Potter, Harry Potter ? You would have to be a Muggle not to know of Harry Potter’s Magic World in England. I love to read about the adventures of Harry, Ron, Hermione and friends in magic places like Hogwarts School or the Quidditch Pitch or even the Ministry of Magics. Harry has two problems. He …
Formula Atlantic car Flashing By Given all the advertising that is starting to flicker by on your television screens for the new movie Talledaga Nights it is refreshing to be able to review the Molson Indy …. uhh the Grand Prix of Toronto … uhh the Formula Atlantic Toronto Race … uhh all that and …
Click here for the the Gallery of free pictures of the party on St.Clair after Italy’s World Cup victory on Sunday July 9th 2006. Click here for 300 more pictures with: Images double the size of the free pictures; Images from game end to dusk on St.Clair; Nifty caption frame around each image; Available for …
