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Bryan Davies
Bryan is an award-winning writer and commentator based in Sault Ste. Marie, where he is a United Front Entertainment, and UFE Tagona Press (Sault Millworks) founding partner. UFE is a multidimensional Canadian and international creative works enterprise. Bryan also has a lifelong passion for sport. He has coached with high school, elite junior women’s (U19), and Canadian college basketball teams since 1985.
Hound Town: One of the Best Hockey Towns Anywhere – Coming Soon
Price range: $9.95 through $29.95Winning is about more than putting the puck in the net. A team needs to work hard every day, both on and off the ice, to create the strength and determination required to make a run at victory. It also takes a community of people dedicated to helping in any way they can. The Soo Greyhounds have become one of the most dynamic, successful, and exciting teams playing hockey in North America, but they didn’t get there alone. In Sault Ste. Marie, it takes a village to raise a hockey team.
Player profiles include some of the Greyhounds’ alumni, such as Wayne Gretzky, Ron Francis, Joe Thornton, Paul Coffey, Adam Foote, John Vanbiesbrouck and Craig Hartsburg as they pursued their hockey and other dreams.
Hound Town looks at the relationship between a team and its community as the franchise heads into its forty-fifth season. It also, demystifies the operations of a hockey franchise in the OHL by providing accurate information to assist players, parents, advisors, and fans. Through player profiles, highlights and struggles from each season, and a look behind the scenes at the amazing people who provide support, it shows that the Soo Greyhounds are an integral part of Sault Ste. Marie, and truly the community’s team. From the team’s first season in 1972 to the shifting trends in today’s game, the book provides an insider’s perspective on a seminal OHL hockey club, and what it takes to make Sault Ste. Marie one of the best hockey towns anywhere.
Breaking A Hundred: A Century of Sault Golf
$25.95To a casual observer, Sault Ste. Marie Ontario is most often associated with nearby, glorious Lake Superior and northern Lake Huron, steel-making, hockey, a vibrant Italian heritage, and proximity to the US border. Its central Ontario location, and Trans-Canada Highway access contribute to the Sault’s reputation as a pleasant, livable regional centre – but the Sault has no serious status as a Canadian golf hotbed, or primary destination for vacation-minded golfers. The local golf scene is active, and its membership is keen, but the sport has never made a noticeable contribution to the Sault’s national identity.
In Breaking A Hundred: A Century of Sault Golf, accomplished golf writer Rick Parnham (long time Canadian Golf Journalists’ Association member), and award-winning Sault-based author Bryan Davies have completely deconstructed this conventional Sault golf community narrative, to present an intriguing, carefully researched history that reveals not only unique stories, and characters, but also tells the entire Sault city history from a unique perspective. Sault native, and Olympic champion curler Brad Jacobs contributes the book forward. In recognition of Team Jacobs wonderful work undertaken on behalf of the entire Sault community, Rick and Bryan are donating $5 from every book sold to the Sault Area Hospital Foundation, and its Team Jacobs’ charities.
I Am Sam E-Book – Marytė Running
$9.95I Am Sam is a heartfelt and powerful story from the Soup Kitchen Kids series that explores friendship, identity, kindness, and acceptance through the eyes of children growing up in a struggling Northern Ontario community. When Pippa, Tawny, and Markus meet a mysterious newcomer named Sam at the local soup kitchen, they uncover a moving story about family, belonging, and understanding others beyond appearances.