Archive for 2004
Alberta bound; Blackville’s Charity Walls will play her hockey in Warner, Alta. this season
She might be small in stature, but Charity Walls has the heart of a lion. Walls loves all sports, but give her a hockey stick and she is in her own heaven. This coming season, Warner, Alta. will be hockey heaven for Walls. Walls is a 17-year old Grade 11 student at Miramichi Valley High…
Read MoreFormer Olympian repays Miramichi; Blackville’s Kathy McCormack operates hockey school for girls
Classes might be out for the summer, but one teacher is going back to school this week. Blackville’s Kathy McCormack is a Grade 7 teacher in Etobicoke, Ont., but she will be donning her skates this week for her first-ever hockey school. McCormack grew up in Blackville and played her minor hockey in Blackville and…
Read MoreBlackville woman awaits double-lung transplant
After two months of fundraising, the Blackville community has almost reached its goal to support a local woman’s lung transplant journey. Amy Vickers has suffered from cystic fibrosis since birth and doctors have recommended a double-lung transplant since her own lungs are failing. CF is a hereditary disease characterized by abnormal mucus production affecting the…
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