Sugarloaf Park event next weekend

Sugarloaf Park is getting ready for next weekend’s Sled Dogs Snowskate competition.

Events start next Friday, with the possibility of fireworks; and the races will take place on Saturday, March 18th.

Snowskate competitions use modified boots with wide bottoms that are like skis but much shorter.

People will skate on the snow and ice at high speeds.

It is open to everyone at a cost of 25 dollars, which covers the boots needed and a ticket for the chair lift.

An award for a Dalhousie Junction girl

Emmanuelle Boudreau of Dalhousie Junction recently won her second consecutive senior women’s heavyweight tae kwondo national championship in Montreal.

The 21-year-old is a student in the Human Kinetics program at the University of Ottawa, and will graduate this year.

She will visit with former coach Pat Soucy at his school in Atholville, the next time she visits back home.