Frances Manias during the World Championships in September 2005.

Claire Eccles serves up lobster to a hungry customer at the annual Rotary Lobster/Ribfest at J.L. Grightmire Arena in Dundas.

Marilyn Armstrong dishing out hot butter at the annual Rotary Lobster/Ribfest at J.L. Grightmire Arena in Dundas.

Adam French, his daughter Jillian and son Nathan took their favourite community newspaper to Myrtle Beach. Mom Jennifer French took the picture.

Ben Bridges, 4, caught a sand shark while cousins Victoria and Julia Currie and Melissa and Danny Crump, their favourite community newspaper, were vacationing in Myrtle Beach.

Magda and Johan Beukes, their favourite community newspaper, in Gibraltar.

Darren Ivey, a returning player from last year, gets some words of encouragement from Pee Wee Lions head coach Mike Rand.

Cam Mitchell loved the game of fastpitch and was passionate about coaching.

Ancaster High School sprinter Emma Roung competed in three events at last weekend's Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations Championships at Mohawk Sports Park. She took the bronze medal in the Junior Girls 200-metre in a time of 25.55 seconds. She narrowly missed the podium in the 400-metre event, shown above, placing fourth in a time of 57.97. Emma also finished sixth in the 100-metre event.

Front from left: Mark Sinke (coach), Rushwan Osman, Manuel Gonzalez, Darlington Sackor, Abdul Ibrahim. Back, Deanna Levy (SISO), Edward Kiruri, Nasser Larry, Junior Sackor, Ahmed Zaki, Leo Johnson (coach), Mohamed Farah.

Brad Furdal was selected first in the 11th round.

Hundreds of runners pounded the pavement for the 25th annual Ancaster Old Mill Road Race to kick off Heritage Days. Kenyan runner Moses Macharia, above, won the 10-kilometre event in a time of 29:54, just 13 seconds off the course record. Kate Macnamara of Dundas was top female and 17-year-old John Erik Rasmussen was once again the fastest man from Ancaster with a time of 36:07, good for ninth overall. Hamilton's Alex Meyer won the five-kilometre event in a time of 16:34. Five Ancaster residents were among the top 10, including Jonathon Little, second, Brandon Smith, fifth, Derek Hambly, seventh, David Hopton, eighth and Philip Zabel, tenth. For the first time in race history, prizes were available for any runners who could break the course record.

The Hamilton Transway Major Bantam AAA girls basketball team capped off a successful season by winning the gold medal for Division One at the Ontario Basketball Association provincials in Ottawa. Pictured are Carly Files, Ally Scione, Haley Fitzpatrick, Kata Boric, April Coyne, Rachael Holmes, Jenna Bugiardini, Emily Hanaka, Anna Boric, Siobhan Manning, Adriana Kisic and coaches Claudia Bugiardini and Doug Holmes.

Ramps, shown pickled, as a butter log and in a chowder, are garlicky, sharp-tasting wild onions.