Anna Rice News

In this edition of the North Shore News we look back at the sports headlines from July to December.

Labourers finish work for the day at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, Delhi, on February 22, 2009.

Another year, another crop of provincial banners, national champions and world titles.

"A province of champions" was this year's theme at the annual convention for the United BC Municipalities.

From left are: Coun. Linda Hepner, chair of the Mayora s Task Force on 2010; Kyle Shewfelt ; Surrey Board of Education Chair Laurae McNally; Adam Kreek ; Sullivan Heights Student Council president; Mayor Dianne Watts; and Anna Rice .

How do you follow up the excitement, drama and passion of participating in the Olympic Games? Well, if you're Anna Rice you spend two and a half months teaching refugees in Western Uganda to play badminton, then you move all your worldly possessions halfway across the globe, then you earn the biggest tournament victory of your career, then you go ...

WEEKEND REVIEW BADMINTON Two-time U.S. Olympian Howard Bach lead the USA Badminton Team at the 2009 Yonex/OCBC U.S. Open Badminton Grand Prix Championships, winning gold in men's doubles with Tony Gunawan and gold in women's doubles with Eva Lee .

Colin Mathieson, who represented Canada at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing in wheelchair racing, is back on the international racing circuit.