Author Archives: Fred Wallace

The Ontario Hockey League season opens tonight and the Owen Sound Attack open on the road at Barrie against the Colts. For starters, this is a pretty good one. Make no mistake, the MidWest Division sh...

One of the beauties of living and working here, and holding the position I do in the shop, is that you never run out of new experiences. Who else could produce a resume as varied as mine ? Host of the...

While the Toronto Blue Jays have done precious little for 4 months to inspire interest among ball fans, the fastball community in this region has been both active and eventful. The highlight event ove...

I want to backtrack and congratulate Bobby & Mijka Hooper and Petra Ballantyne on the opening of DanceMakers Gymnastics. I was at their Grand Opening last Wednesday and was highly impressed by the...

It’s cliche, I know, about how one season ends and another begins, whether we’re talking life, or sports, or whatever. But I really can’t think of another time through the years, whe...

It’s a go. The Owen Sound Selects confirmed yesterday that they have in fact sent their formal application to once again host the Canadian Junior Men’s Fastball Championship. The Brick Bro...

I never saw Nathan Perrott play hockey until he got to Oshawa with the Generals of the Ontario Hockey League. In his return to Owen Sound on Saturday January 14th, 1995, Perrott, as promoted in advanc...

Labour Day Weekend is now behind us. In 9 days, the Ontario Hockey League season begins. Shortly thereafter, the NHL season begins. As a primer over the weekend, I read ” Leafs Abomination ̶...

Not every great idea comes to fruition immediately. Sometimes you need patience. A few years ago, Brett Miller envisioned a year end fastball tournament whereby the various local Recreational Leagues ...

If you totally ignored the weather, you could say it’s been a tremendous summer in Owen Sound. Certainly from a sports standpoint. The number 1 story would be the second consecutive Presidents C...