Sports and Recreation
Iroquois Falls is home to the Abitibi Eskimos, formerly the Iroquois Falls Junior Eskis, of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League. The Iroquois Falls Curling Club has 5 rinks with a comfortable licenced lounge suitable for rentals, receptions and catered events. Each summer brings the "Search for Moby Pike" fishing derby on Lake Abitibi. MusicMusicMusic, a live music event featuring local musicians is a popular annual event. Occurring on the second weekend of August, it is a fund-raising event for local community charities. Porquis Junction, a small community 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south of the town centre, is home to the Porquis Blues Festival.
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Famous quotes containing the words sports and, sports and/or recreation:
“Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,
The exuberant voices of music,
Have charm for children but lack nobility; it is bitter earnestness
That makes beauty; the mind
Knows, grown adult.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns.”
—Archbishop Luigi Barito (b. 1922)