{"id":21549,"date":"2018-09-06T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T19:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=21549"},"modified":"2018-09-06T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T19:25:11","slug":"york-75-win-hockey-gold-at-canada-55-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/york-75-win-hockey-gold-at-canada-55-games\/","title":{"rendered":"York 75+ win hockey Gold at Canada 55+ Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 2,000 athletes from across Canada participated in the 2018 Canada 55+ Games held in Saint John, New Brunswick from August 20 to August 24.  Participants came 9 provinces and 2 territories.<br \/>\nCompetition was held in 22 sports such as track and field,  badminton, bocce, contract bridge, cribbage, curling, swimming, pickleball, horseshoes, darts, golf, men\u2019s hockey (55+, 60+,  65+, 70 + and 75+), ladies 55+hockey floor shuffleboard, candlepin bowling, scrabble, slo-pitch, swimming and tennis.   Fourty-five hockey teams took part in the games.  Within many of the sports there were different age groups.  York Region was represented well by many competitors in the events.<br \/>\nFor the first time a 75+ division in hockey was held.<br \/>\nA team from York Region was the only representative from the Province. Others were from Alberta, Quebec and Saskatchewan.  The Team Klees YORK team emerged as the gold medal winner with a thrilling shoot out win over Alberta in the championship game.<br \/>\nPictured here is the team of 75+ champions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-06-01.jpg\" alt=\"2018-09-06-01\" width=\"600\" height=\"226\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-06-01.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-06-01-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-06-01-298x112.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-06-01-120x45.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-06-01-150x57.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Individuals in the picture are:<br \/>\nBack row:- Norm Smart, Al Brewer George Sled, Brian Rice, Paul Vyrostko, Tony Kunopaski Paul Tomlinson, Al Hinnegan, Bill Marks, Clyde Dimmell<br \/>\nFront Row: &#8211; Don George, Al Booth, Guy Sabourin, Bob Smith, Dave Rumble, Alex Ansell.<br \/>\nPlayers have or are still playing in the York Oldtimers Hockey League 70+ division.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Ansell<br \/>\nAurora<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 2,000 athletes from across Canada participated in the 2018 Canada 55+ Games held in Saint John, New Brunswick from August 20 to August 24. Participants came 9 provinces and 2 territories. Competition was held in 22 sports such as track and field, badminton, bocce, contract bridge, cribbage, curling, swimming, pickleball, horseshoes, darts, golf, men\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}