Thunder player Ray Barkwill gives a New Brunswick player a special welcome to Ontario last Saturday. The Thunder won the game 42-5.

If you have a rhubarb plant, choose the largest stalks.

Even an Everyday Hero needs a vacation. Billi-Jo Todd gets silly at Disneyworld.

Ironmen varsity quarterback Mike Chase hopes his final season with the team will be a winning one.

Sarah Jerome, Serena D'Angelo and Rachael Smith of Stoney Creek, along with Ceili Randall of Jordan, represented the Top Dogs Spring Hockey organization at the Canlan May Madness Tournament in Toronto the weekend of May 9. Sarah and Serena won the AAA championship with their Atom AAA team (the team did not allow a goal the entire tournament, winning all five games with shutouts) and Rachael and Ceili won the AAA championship with their Peewee AAA team.

The Tigers competed in the Cheer Alliance All-Star Nationals at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga this month and placed first in the Co-ed Level 3 division. They also had the highest score of the entire level, earning a grand championship title, as well as a national title. On the final day of competition, they had the third highest score of all 134 teams across all levels.

Pictured here, front row, left to right, Nicki Miller, Adrienne Rupcic (co-captain), Ashley Trevisani, Aubrey Horn (co-captain), Chelsea Field. Back row, head coach Peter Rupcic, Amanda Doering, Brianne Seamans, Samantha Dickson, Becky Wilson, Ashley Battaglia, assistant coach Ric Wilson.

The Trillium Gift of Life Network and The Kidney Foundation of Canada, working in partnership with local volunteer groups formed a living green ribbon in recognition of National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week in Ontario recently. The event aims to get people thinking about organ and tissue donation. Today in Ontario, 1,655 patients are on the transplant waiting list. For information, visit www.giftoflife.on.ca. Pictured here, participants wearing green ponchos form the Living Green Ribbon at Bishop Ryan Catholic Secondary School.