Hundreds give range a shot (The London Free Press 2009/06/15)
SPORTSMEN'S ASSOCIATION: Entire families showed up to try their hand at shooting. AYLMER -- Put aside for a moment all the politics about firearms and ask a 12-year-old boy why he spends so many weekends at a shooting range. "I love it. I don't know why," Nathan Vance says with the shrug that children give adults who ask stupid questions. Pushed, he will elaborate. "You can have a good time just trying to blow stuff up with bullets." Watching the interview, John Evers, director of the East Elgin Sportsmen's Association, doesn't try to temper the boy's remarks. They don't actually blow up stuff at the association's shooting range, but Evers knows the boy is only expressing the thrill that gets people hooked on target shooting. "The first pull is that it's exciting. A lot of it is the intrigue. Then people say, 'Wow, it is a real stress reliever.' Then you start to appreciate the art of shooting." (more)

Straight shooter aiming for world event (The Telegram 2009/06/05)
Brenda Greene isn't the best Olympic style marksman this province has produced. But at the rate the 21-year-old St. Joseph's, St. Mary's Bay native is progressing on the international level, there's a good chance she will be in the not-too-distant future. We know in the air rifle event, she's definitely the best shooter we've produced, says her sometimes- coach, sometimes-teammate Dave Woolridge, a two-time member of the national team and arguably the only other shooter from this province to garner as much attention in the sport... (more)