Month: December 2019

The Southern Shore can now claim they’re home to some of the world’s best young martial artists.

14 young athletes from the Mount Pearl and the Southern Shore competed in the 2019 World Karate and Kickboxing Commission’s (WKC) World Championship in Niagara Falls this November.

“The atmosphere is unreal,” said Lucas Crann,16, of Mount Pearl.

“Just being there with all the competitors from different countries who have all done essentially the same thing as you, who have put in the hard work and training, and having that all come together to fight and see whose most determined and see who wants it bad enough. Because we’ve all done the same thing, we’ve all done this training, and it comes up to this big week of competition.”

A vehicle was impounded in Witless Bay on Thursday, Nov. 21, following protests near Ragged Beach, according to Witless Bay Mayor Dermont Moran.

“There were protesters. And people are free to protest,” said Moran.

Nonetheless, he said, work on finishing a stone sea wall that protects the small parking lot on Ragged Beach from being washed away by erosion had to proceed, and the Town had issued a request for people not to interfere with the work.

Kelsey Power’s sharp eye is taking her places she never expected.

At the age of 12-years-old, Kelsey Power of Bay Bulls was introduced to air rifle shooting through her cadets program. Now, she is 19, and for the last seven years, she hasn’t let her interest in the sport diminish in the slightest.

It was two years after initially getting involved in shooting, in 2014, when Power joined up with the Newfoundland and Labrador Shooting Association, allowing her to pursue her interests even further through the various air rifle target shooting opportunities made available there.