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While Sault Ste. Marie is known as a producer of seemingly countless professional hockey players, Ben Cinelli would like to remind locals of the role the Sault Ste. Marie Powerlifting Club played in the cityrsquo athletic history.Cinelli, a personal trainer and owner/operator of the one-on-one, by-appointment-only YOUnique Fitness at 16 Queen stanley cup Street East for the past 14 years, was a member of the stanley taza Sault Ste. Marie Powerlifting Club in its glory years from 1972 to the early 1990s.The team won provincial and national championships, and some of the local powerlifters also competed at the international level.Cinelli himself, at one point, ranked fourth in powerlifting at the provincial level.That was the golden age of local powerlifting, Cinelli told SooToday.Therersquo a lot of great sports history in this town, and powerlifting was a part of it. We were proud to represent this city, Cinelli said.We stuck around together, we had a core group, we trained together and went to meets together.That era will never come back again. There are no more powerlifting teams like that here in Sault Ste. Marie, these were great athletes, tremendous athletes.While not the general manager of the club in an official sense, Cinelli convened many of the competitive events in which the club participated, the largest of which was the Canadian National Powerlifting Championships stanley thermos held at the Sault YMCA in 1981.Joseph Michael Diodati so Dcsq Name released from fatal crash in Spragge
EDITOR S NOTE: The following statement from the U.S. Coast Guard refers to a giant canoe capsizing today in Grand Marais Harbor. However, this Coast Guard-provided photo distributed with the announcement clearly shows a dragon boat. SooToday notes that the Third Annual North Shore Dragon Boat Festival is underway this weekend in Grand Marais Harbor. **********************Coast Guard rescues 23 from capsized canoeSAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. - Coast Guard Station North Superior rescued 23 people from the water after the giant canoe they were riding in capsized at approximately 10 a.m. today inside Grand Marais <Minnesota> Harbor. A good samaritan went to the Coast Guard Station and notified them of the overturned vessel. After receiving notification, Station North Superior personnel l stanley website aunched their 30-foot rescue boat to pull the people out of the water and transport them safely to shore. Another good samaritan helped to flip over the giant canoe to its original sailing position after all in the rescued party were safely onshore. There were no reports of injury. Quick notification made possible the swift rescue of the 23 people from stanley usa the water. Boaters are reminded to help others like in this case by quickly alerting the Coast Guard by stanley cup VHF radio, cell phone or even with visual distress signals. Photo depicts vessel similar to one in case. *********************** This has been shared 0 times 0
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