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This day celebrates sports all over Canada
Shaun Gregory
Postmedia Network
Everybody was a victor at
the Vanastra Curling Club last
Saturday as the young and old
celebrated the nation's sixth
annual RBC Sports Day.
Children as young as seven
years old threw rocks down
the smooth ice in a "fun spiel"
tournament compiled of 10
teams from the area.
"We used to have two
90 -year-olds that curled here,
so curling definitely is a sport
where people of all ages can
be active for a long period of
time," said Brenda Edgar the
volunteer secretary at Vanas-
tra Curling Club.
Although Edgar's team con-
sisted mostly of beginners, the
15 -year curler said they were
doing "great" in the festivities
that had no winner. The local
RBC branches also joined the
friendly competition as well as
donating a large portion of the
prizes. As the brooms were
sweeping and stones were
sliding everyone was just hav-
ing a good time said Edgar.
This is the second year in a
row for the VCC to host the
RBC Sports Day event.
According to the RBC Sports
Day website this national gala
of sport from the grassroots of
top -tier performance gives
Canadian citizens a chance to
rejoice and build within the
community. Populations from
coast to coast implement this
day by hosting tournaments,
competitions, meet and
greets, open houses and vari-
ous other activities all with the
number one goal to celebrate
sport at all levels.
"The whole idea of this spe-
cific event is to get people out
to learn," Edgar said on
November 21.
Statistics Canada con-
firmed that 47 per cent of
Canadians from the ages of
15-69 characterized their
health as being "fair" or
"needed improvement." These
evaluations were based on
aerobic fitness and the num-
bers were higher among
Canadians aged 40 and up.
"The health benefits of
physical fitness are widely
acknowledged. Higher levels
of aerobic fitness are associ-
ated with a reduced risk of
cardiovascular disease, some
types of cancer, osteoporosis,
diabetes, obesity, high blood
pressure, depression, stress
and anxiety. Aerobic fitness,
or cardiorespiratory fitness,
refers to endurance or the
ability to sustain physical
activity. It includes the ability
to take in oxygen during pro-
longed physical activity, as
well as the body's ability to
transport oxygen to the mus-
cles," stated in an aerobic cen-
sus by Statistics Canada.
Shaun Gregory Postmedia Network
Amelie Lagace originally from Quebec but now lives in Goderich
showcases her curling skills at the national event called RBC
Sports Day, which took place in Vanastra November 21.
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