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Last weekend I made it out to Buffalo Point, MB to try their beautiful lakeside course. The course is an 18-hole, par 72, with over 6800 yards play. Again, I will not post my score.

This round I golfed with two other people. Riley, a friend of a friend who I met in the lounge the night before, and a man named Jim, who we were asked to pair with. I later found out that Jim was Jim Thunder, the former chief of the Buffalo Point First Nation, who led the initiative to build the resort and risked his own property to build the road to the location of the resort today.

I have been told that the course is ranked 6th in North America for its beauty. It’s very hard to disbelieve with multiple lakeside holes, dense trees and well kept fairways. The course is also full of wildlife with animals frequently crossing the fairways.

I hope to make it out there once again this summer to enjoy it at least one more time.
More information on the course can be found at http://www.sandhills.ca/
Information about the resort can be found at http://www.buffalopoint.mb.ca/
Also, information about the history of the Buffalo Point First Nations can be found at http://www.buffalopoint-firstnation.ca/history.html

Additional photos from my trip can be found on my Flickr page, http://www.flickr.com/photos/wesgill/

Yesterday I completed editing the Stanley Cup edition of Sports Awesome. Sadly, I had no internet access all weekend and was not able to upload it. Now that I’m home, here it is! This time we had a lot better lighting at our disposal which made the videos quality a lot higher.

In this episode, Jarred talks about the final series in this NHL playoff where the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Detroit Red Wings play for their chance at the cup.

You can check out Sports Awesome at http://www.sportsawesome.com

On Sunday, June 7th, I competed in the demolition derby at the 128th Manitoba Summer Fair in Brandon, MB. I used a 1986 Ford Crown Victoria which I had “purchased” 2 years earlier for 24 beer.

We started working on the half finished car two weeks before the derby. Poor planning I know. After sitting for those 2 years, water had gotten into the engine and it had seized. We managed to break it loose and replaced the seized carb with on off of one of our trucks.

The car was in some serious need of a face lift. My brother, Cory, gave the car a fresh coat of paint as well as some website plugs. Props to him for doing an awesome job.

Photo Credit: Travis Froese

We ran in Heat #1 and did surprisingly well for first timers. We placed 2nd in the heat which put us into the Feature at the end of the day where the winner would take home $1500.

Photo Credit: Steven Keeves

In the feature we didn’t do quite as well. Placed 9th out of the 14 cars in the final event. This round the car took a lot more serious of a beating. The rad was crushed, two tires blew, and I’m very sure that I saw some crucial wires melting.

Photo Credit: Steven Keeves

We were unable to get the car running again for one of our mechanics, Matt Miller, to run in the mechanics heat sadly, but it was still an awesome experience for us all. We did have a few cameras running throughout and I will hopefully throw a video together within the week.

Driver: Wes Gill
Pit Crew: Matt Miller, Travis Froese, Steven Keeves, and William McFadden
Special thanks to Grant and Cory Gill who both put a huge effort into the car.

UPDATE: Video is here!

More pictures can be found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wesgill/sets/72157594483657302/