Youth are invited to apply for several scholarships available through the Golf Manitoba Scholarship Fund.

According to Golf Manitoba’s website, there are five named awards and a number of open awards available.

Exact eligibility criteria differs per award, but generally requires applicants to be involved in some stage of their post-secondary education, as well as being a Golf Manitoba member.

Visit www.golfmb.ca/scholarship for more information, or to apply.

Pickleball fundraiser for Make-A-Wish on Aug. 9

On Sunday, Aug. 9, Paddle Peels presents Pickleball for Wishes, a pickleball tournament in support of Make-A-Wish Canada.

The afternoon doubles tournament costs $25 per player and will take place between 1 and 4 p.m. at Dakota Community Centre (1188 Dakota St.).

To register, email info@paddle-peels.com or call 431-277-0757.

They say that all good things must come to an end. In this case, the old adage has been proven true.

In 2022, the six weekly community papers — The Herald, The Lance, The Times, The Metro, The Sou’Wester, and The Headliner — were consolidated into the Free Press Community Review, with East and West editions published every Wednesday. That was a big change for many readers, plenty of whom still refer to the Community Review as The Herald (which had been publishing since 1917), The Lance (founded in 1931), or The Metro or The Times (both founded in 1973) to this day. For the past four-and-a-half years, we’ve worked hard every week to keep community stories arriving at your door each week, to keep that tradition of community journalism alive.

Last week, it was announced that the Free Press will no longer deliver flyer inserts to the more than 200,000 local households who receive them weekly. As a result, this week will also mark the last editions of the Free Press Community Review to hit your mailboxes.

The decision was made because of seismic changes to the flyer distribution business on not just a local but national level, making the business as it has operated for so long unsustainable.

An old adage is that all good things come to an end. For Memories of Sport, this is my final column. Who could have imagined that a freelance column about the history of sport with a focus on Manitoba would survive into its 14th year. It’s been an honour to bring stories about often forgotten events, teams, athletes, and builders to the Free Press Community Review readers every second week.

It’s safe to say that this final column will bring to an end a freelance sports reporting and broadcasting career (for lack of a better word) that began back in the early 1970s. After graduating from the first Creative Communications program at Red River Community College, I accepted a Prairie region public relations position rather than pursue a job in sports journalism that was my initial thought when I enrolled in the program.

Because of my connection to softball, I wrote game reports for the senior A men’s fastball league for both the Free Press and the Tribune. This led to my first freelance assignment when Trib sports editor Jack Matheson recruited me to cover the high school bonspiel that began each year right after Christmas. I remember asking Matty how much space I had and he said as much as I needed. Much different situation than the newspapers of today.

Matty later offered me a fuIl-time job as a sports reporter, but I chose to remain in my public relations position. I continued to cover both curling and softball on a freelance basis for the Tribune until the paper folded on August 1980. At the time, I also was writing a sports trivia column that usually ran weekly. My final column had been filed, but didn’t make it into the final edition.