Family fun day held

A family fun day, organized and planned by the Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls Healthy Living Coalition, was held this past weekend in Nestor Falls, with about 30 people participating in the ball hockey tournament, snow sculptures, and a “Survivor” contest.
The ball hockey tournament featured two teams, who played a best-of-three series
One team was made up of some Steve Hanson, Terry Kellar, Jamie Krukoski, and Lauren Krukoski while the other featured two families: Ed and Veronica Hammond, Victoria, Jenny, and Missy Hammond, Susan and Erin Tomalty, and Byron Walker.
The family team did outnumber the other one in terms of players, but considering the first team included a Muskie from the girls’ hockey team and boys who play in a local league, the families needed some extra help.
The team made up of the local boys and Lauren Krukoski ended up winning.
They took home a trophy carved and donated by Jake Blosser of Sioux Narrows and $100 donated by the Lakewood Credit Union in Sioux Narrows.
Meanwhile, the “Survivor” contest saw three teams competing. They were Veronica and Victoria Hammond, Susan Tomalty and Melissa Hammond, and Erin Tomalty and Jennifer Hammond.
They had to complete three challenges—gathering four flags that were hidden around the community hall parking lots, an eating challenge where the teams had to finish eating jam, cottage cheese, oysters, and tuna, and a mini triathlon, which saw the participants running up a hill, sliding down the other side on a crazy carpet, and then biking back to the hall.
The winners were Susan Tomalty and Melissa Hammond. Tomalty won a wood carving while Hammond took home a $20 gift card donated by Wal-Mart.
Finally, the snow sculpture contest was a great success with eight sculptures—some made by community members in their own yards and others by groups of students at the Nestor Falls School.
There was everything from a toilet to a lighthouse, and they all were really good.
First place was the lighthouse done by Nicholas Dutka, Jenny Hammond, Kaitlyn Cottam, Andrew Jack, and Kaitlynn Lougheed.
Second place went to “Little Jimmy building a snowman,” made by Marita Goertzen, Alexis Hampe, and Chandler and Faith Pollard.
And third place went to Kaitlyn Cottam, who made a snow sculpture called “Home is where the heart is” in her yard of a little girl, a house, and a big red painted heart around it all.