Alvin Parrill Hockey Tournament

This weekend Cooper played in the Alvin Parrill Memorial hockey tournament.  This was the ninth year of this tournament which is now the biggest minor hockey tournament in Labrador and Newfoundland.  Cooper played in several games for the Novice A/B Red Team.

Team Red

Go Cooper #14

All the teams participated in the Opening Ceremony on Saturday. One of the boys said "that was so boring", I am sure they didn't listen to a word that was said but they did stand pretty still out on the ice while the ceremony took place.

All teams on the ice for the Opening Ceremony

Fire!

We woke up very early on Sunday morning because daylight savings had ended, it was still dark and we could smell a burning smell.  Steve went downstairs to check it out and we could see an orange glow behind the trees at the back of our house.  Not long after we got a call from our neighbour to say that a new apartment block was burning down.

The apartment block had only just been completed and there were no residents as yet. There were 178 pre-fabricated apartments so the smell from the smoke was terrible.  Our whole house smelled awful and by Sunday afternoon there were huge embers (5-8cm) all over our yard and car.  The council advised all residents to remain inside because of the smoke while the Lab City fire brigade tried to control the fire with the assistance of IOC and Wabush Mines fire brigades.

The fire continued to burn for days and the hospital next door was evacuated due to the risk of the hospital catching fire and the smoke.  Eventually the fire burned out or was extinguished on Tuesday night.

Before and after the fire

Labrador City Winter Games

I saw this in the local paper recently. The Labrador City winter games are planned for March 2013 and I thought that the events were pretty novel:

• Triathalon (skating, snowshoeing, skiing)
• Biathalon (skiing and target shooting)
• Snowmobile racing
• Dog sledding
• Darts