The Anchor Weekly – The Chestermere Lake News

A power point presentation introducing Clint Marlachuk brought tears to his eyes as he watched Kiprusoff, Macdonald and Irving saving goal after goal. “Those are my kids” he cried in a heartfelt moment, a reminder that his efforts as Flames Goaltending Coach have paid off. Marlachuk along with his wife Joanie came to the High School on Tuesday, May 7 to give a presentation to the grade 10 students for the National Child and Youth Mental Health Day. He himself suffers from mental illness and is an advocate from the Flames. Each Canadian NHL team has a representative promoting awareness [...]

CHESTERMERE – Talk about being inspired by someone smaller than you; smaller in size that is. You could have heard a pin drop as the students at Chestermere High School sat in awe staring at a small man with a big message on the stage at the front of the gym. Chris Koch was invited to the school to talk to the students about his message “IF I CAN”. This is the message he conveys and he has several videos on You Tube that all start with these words scrolled in the sand or snow. No, Koch is not an [...]

What an incredible weekend for our basketball teams. We won two zone banners, finished second in another and both senior teams qualified for provincials. Our JV teams are done for the year and both senior teams are off to the 3A Championships this weekend. Check our web-site or the ASAA web-site for results and live streaming of games. VARSITY GIRLS’ BASKETBALL PROVINCIALS IN STRATHMORE With the 3A Girls’ Provincials in Strathmore, this weekend, we hope that we will have lots of support at our games. Our first game is on Thursday at 3:30 against Ardrossan and if we win that [...]

Our students are off school for the entire week, but still have their final league basketball games. On Tuesday the girls host Bert Church and on Wednesday the boys travel to Airdrie to play the Chargers. After that most teams have some time off and will rest to be healthy for the playoffs. JV GIRLS BASKETBALL 
The JV.Lady Lakers were busy on the basketball courts last week. They travelled to Beiseker on Tuesday and played a solid game versus the Bandits. Carissa Ziegler led all scorers with 20 points and was outstanding under the boards. The Girls travelled to Canmore  [...]

CURLING Curling at Chestermere High has reached its busiest time of the year.  This past week athletes were able to compete in the Rocky View Divisional Bonspiel, and, this weekend, one of our teams is able to continue to the South Central Zones play downs.  Practices for Curlers started in mid-November.  Four teams were returning from previous years; in addition there were 10 athletes joining us for the first time.  Students have attended practice each week under the guidance of the coaching team of Wolfgang Janke, Margie Bremer and Marianne Sutcliffe. At the Divisionals, the athletes enjoyed two great days [...]

CHESTERMERE – For those of you 18 years and older; are you up for a great time and raise a little cash for the Chestermere High School? If you are, then read on. The Chestermere High School Parent Council Members are hosting their 2nd Annual “”Night Out” Fundraiser on Saturday, February 9th at the Chestermere Recreation Centre at 7:00 PM. The fun filled evening promises to entertain you starting off with a highly enjoyable and funny Hypnotist named Jesse Lewis and following that will then feature the live music of Gypsy and the Rose. The Parent Council members are helping [...]

CURLING The curling team has been working hard the past few months to prepare for their season. The Rocky View Championship will be held, in Airdrie, on January 31 and February 1. Qualifiers will move on to the South Central Zone Championships February 8-9, with top finishers heading to the ASAA Provincial Championships JV GIRLS’ BASKETBALL The Junior Varsity Lady Lakers hosted the always-tough Cochrane Cobras in their only regular season match up this past Wednesday night. The girls came out fired up and played tenacous defense in building a 16-6 first quarter lead. Led by point guard Kayla Georgsen and forward Natalie [...]

Basketball is in full swing with two teams competing in tournaments, this past weekend. All four teams will start their league seasons this week. ATHLETICS’ WEB-SITE We are working on updating our athletics’ web-site this week. This week we will add some of the basic information and by January will have it updated. Thanks to Coach Schaller for taking on this project. BOYS CHESTERMERE INVITATIONAL The JV and Varsity Boys’ basketball teams will host their annual Chestermere Invitational Tournament this weekend. Check the web-site for the tournament draw. VARSITY GIRLS’ BASKETBALL WINS SAIT TOURNAMENT Congratulations to the Varsity Girls’ basketball [...]

CHESTERMERE – It seems it’s never too early to start learning a new skill and this looks like the philosophy for the children enrolled in the Little Acorns Fine Arts Pre-School program. November is music month at the Little Acorns Fine Arts Pre-School and some students from the Chestermere High School music class brought their instruments and show the preschoolers about their melodic implements. On November 15th, there were 4 students who came to the pre-school, Dimitrije Lyaljevic, Courtney Gautreau, Shelby Taubert and (Angelia) Tien Nguyen and all of them have been playing various wind instrument for a number of [...]

Emily Potts, a veteran of the Raiders team, is from Calgary, Alberta. She attends Grade 12 at Chestermere High School. Emily started skating lessons at the young age of 3. Quickly becoming bored with figure skating, she decided she wanted to play hockey like her older cousin, Kristy. At the age of 5 Emily started playing hockey with the Crowfoot Girls Novice team. Shortly after, she played Tier 1 boys hockey in Cochrane from Novice to Pee Wee. She then played for the Rocky Mountain Raiders AAA Bantam Female team for 2 years. Emily is now in her second year [...]