The Brown鈥檚 Bay Packing North Island Edge female Bantam hockey team hit the ice in 2011 with a bang.

The Comox Valley Glacier Kings hosted the 2010-11 Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League All-Star and Prospects games in style this past Sunday at the Comox Valley Sports Centre.

Does what happens in Vegas stay in Vegas?

A goal became a reality when the local Wayne Harris rink qualified for the provincial championships at the senior men鈥檚 coastal playdowns, held Jan. 13-16 at the Comox Valley Curling Club.

Showing why they鈥檙e No. 1 in the North, the Comox Valley Glacier Kings knocked off a pair of division rivals in Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League action last week.

They came, the saw, they conquered. But they needed overtime to do it.

There鈥檚 a new name on the Towhee Invitational championship trophy.

The South swept the North at Sunday鈥檚 VIJHL All-Star and Prospects games at the Comox Valley Sports Centre.

The North Island Wild Ravens field lacrosse team, which includes six Comox Valley boys, has won the regular season.

On Jan. 3 I was at the Courtenay and District Fish and Game Protective Association when the panel chaired by Paul Rickard of the B.C. Sport Fishing Coalition presented their concerns about the current situation of allocation of halibut in our West Coast fishery. Other members of the panel were Wayne Harling, BC Wildlife Federation, Ted Brookman, Vancouver Island Region of the BC Wildlife Federation, and Derrick Kiefting from the Sport Fishing Institute.