Author Archives: Fred Wallace

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire “. I walked into the Harry Lumley-Bayshore Community Centre yesterday for the Attack Exhibition Game against North Bay & you could smell it...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire. “ The Major League Baseball season concludes over the next 3 weekends. At mid season, it looked like only Cleveland would be home free as a di...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire “. Tomorrow and Friday are big days at Saugeen Golf Club in Saugeen Shores. The 2018 Ontario Senior Men’s Ryder Cup Championship is being...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire. “ The National Football League is powerful. Very powerful. Frightenly powerful in its ability to influence. I could use the highly divisive Co...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire “. In late August I sat sequestered on a deck & a dock somewhere near Minden Hills, Ontario and passed the time by reading Bill Pennington&...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire “ As the song says, ‘ Are You Ready for Some Football ? ‘ The National Football League season opens tonight in Philadelphia when th...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire “. It’s funny how fast the rise can be and how dramatic the Fall can be. This applies to so many aspects of sports and life, but for toda...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire. “ It might be human nature, or it might be a ” Canadian thing “, but we never, ever, seem to get things just right. Take the Canad...

Over the course of 30 years, on many occasions, I’ve carved Kitchener, primarily due to the perpetual division rivalry between the OHL Rangers and the Platers-cum-Attack. Maybe I was ultra sensi...

I was talking this week about the Heritage Fair at Grey Roots Museum & Archives where Elementary School students displayed their projects spotlighting various aspects of life & history in our ...