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Williams Lake Wrestling Club grapplers joined close to 700 wrestlers from B.C. and Alberta from Jan. 13-15 at Kamloops’ Tournament Capital Centre to do battle at the Western Canada Age Class Tournament — B.C.’s premier high school wrestling event.

The Williams Lake Stampeders will look to close out its best-of-three Central Interior Hockey League East Division semifinal Saturday night in the lakecity against the Burns Lake Braves.

Fresh off his Battlefield Fight League featherweight championship win, Williams Lake’s Gurdarshan Gary ‘Saint Lion’ Mangat will be in Williams Lake this weekend helping conduct a mixed martial arts seminar.

Local Williams Lake race car driver Ryley Seibert is quickly learning how to turn heads. The 18 year old has just returned from North Carolina after graduating from the RACE 101 program in Mooresville, NC which acts as home to the biggest teams in NASCAR.

For the first time in the history of high school rodeo in B.C., Williams Lake will host the 2011 British Columbia High School Rodeo Finals.

Williams Lake, she said, offers a more central location for all parties involved.

It wasn’t all that long ago when Gurdarshan Gary ‘Saint Lion’ Mangat recalls roaming the halls of Columneetza Secondary School with aspirations of becoming a certified general accountant.

The Williams Lake Stampeders clinched home ice advantage for the first round of the Central Interior Hockey League playoffs after splitting a two-game set with the Smithers Steelheads in Smithers over the weekend.

Featuring more than 100 swimmers from Williams Lake, Prince George and Quesnel, the aptly titled Williams Lake Blue Fins Frost Fest was a huge success.