
Sports: Excellent scores abound in NOTL golf leagues
The weather has cooled off a bit but some of the scores in the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club’s weekly leagues have been heating up.

The weather has cooled off a bit but some of the scores in the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club’s weekly leagues have been heating up.

Milne, 34, has been playing since he was a teenager and it was his first hole-in-one. He and his wife both work in marketing and play regularly at NOTL and Legends in Niagara Falls.

After two days of intense play in blistering heat and humidity, the marquee competitions for the men’s and women’s overall championships came down to the wire — and then some for the gents.

The winner from among the 21 participants won’t be revealed until this Sunday afternoon, as part of the club’s 150th year celebrations during its annual championship weekend.

Austin Anderson and Richard Moore, who has worked as a contractor specializing in concrete driveway installations, both were employed by GGS Niagara Landscaping.

Richard Alan Moore, 39, faces a slew of charges in the incident that injured co-worker Austin Anderson during an outing on Skeleton Lake in Muskoka.

Hot weather and high humidity continue to scorch the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club but that didn’t deter a half-dozen women from successfully challenging club pro Owen Howells in a friendly shootout Tuesday.

With his short game and putting firing on all cylinders, Niagara-on-the-Lake golfer Stephen Warboys finished tied for fourth in the Ontario Senior Men’s Golf Championship last week.

A Niagara-on-the-Lake native who killed a cyclist in a hit-and-run two years ago is facing several serious new charges after a boat collided with a swimmer in Muskoka last Saturday evening, leaving a 22-year-old man with life-threatening injuries.

Suzanne Watson got things started by shooting a stellar 42 in one of the best rounds of the season in the Monday Business Women’s league.

A Niagara man who is awaiting sentencing in a hit-and-run that killed a NOTL cyclist is facing new charges after a boat collided with a swimmer in Muskoka on Friday evening.

Fresh from scoring a bronze medal in June at the World Boxing Challenge in the Czech Republic, Mckenzie Wright is at the gym almost every day, training and learning, still hoping to make her Olympic dream a reality.

NOTL has had a lot of success in the tournament and it’s the ninth time since 2012 that the club has won it.

“In our view, doing away with on-site warnings in favour of passive signs leaves a lot to be desired,” writes editor emeritus Kevin MacLean. “We urge Niagara Region to revisit this policy.”

The luck of the Irish might have been with Patrick Craig as he scorched the course with some booming tee shots and a stellar even-par round of 36 in the NOTL Golf Club’s men’s league.

Lightning forced cancellation of the early shotgun start for Monday’s Business Ladies league at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club, but the late-afternoon groups were able to compete.

The region has changed how it lets you know that water problems might be lurking at the local beach, including E. coli levels. And it is now up to beach-goers to figure it out.

Resplendent in red and white, members of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club’s nine and 18-hole women’s leagues celebrated their annual Canada Day scramble on Tuesday.

Deputy Crown attorney Todd Morris urged him to send Moore to jail for 12 months, while defence lawyer Jeffrey Manishen argued that a two-year sentence of house arrest was more appropriate.

Niagara-on-the-Lake resident John Scott has received an honorary degree from Niagara College in recognition of his contributions to the school and to Canada’s corporate community.

At this time of year, besides large trees, large bunkers and wind-whipped Lake Ontario, there’s a new wrinkle: dive-bombing by red-winged blackbirds.

On the fairways, Jim Meszaros continued an incredible hot streak, becoming top dog in Tuesday’s Woofs league, shooting 1-over 37 — for the third straight week.

In seeking to have the entire case dismissed, Hall had argued his comments on the NOTL 4U Facebook group should be considered protected speech under Ontario’s anti-SLAPP legislation.

NOTL’s Erin Howe-Hull notched the first hole-in-one of the season Monday evening at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club. Standing on the tough par-3 ninth hole, Howe-Hull drove her tee shot 167 yards into the cup for her first-ever ace.

“Take responsibility for your actions: it might hurt financially, but the wisdom of obeying the speed limit near a school (whether kids are present or if it’s late at night) seems like something right out of Driver Ed 101,” writes Kevin MacLean.

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