The senior boys Dynos basketball team played hard at their home tournament and took home a bronze medal.
    The Dynos hosted an eight-team tournament and the competition was fierce.
    The Dynos, coached by James Fournier and William Belliveau, faced Bassano in their first game and took a close 65-62 win.
    This put them up against Holy Cross Collegiate of Strathmore, but fell 69-60. This put them in the bronze medal game to take on Notre Dame Collegiate from High River.
    After getting down by 20 points the team rallied in the second half to win 77-72.
    “It was one of the biggest comebacks I’ve ever seen in high school level basketball,” said coach Belliveau.  
    Senior point guard and captain Darian Dart was named tournament MVP.
    It has been a tough start for the young team in league play, but they are making progress.
    “We are a very young team which is good and bad. Our level of competition has been amazing this year and we have been able to find ourselves in close games often, the drawback is that we’ve lacked experience to win these games through the first half of the season. This last weekend has put us winning these games and that looks very promising for the rest of the season,” said Belliveau.
    With a young team, he says there is a big transition between the junior high and the high school game.
    “The game from Jr high to the Sr high level has a significant jump in skill, physicality, and size. A lot of our players are coming from where they were the go-to guy on their teams last year to where they are learning how to play a role and be effective in that position,” he said.
    “This weekend hopefully being somewhat of a crystal ball for the rest of the season we should finish strong and be very competitive in league.”

The popular Royal Tyrrell Museum Speaker Series, presented by the Royal Tyrrell Museum Cooperating Society is back for another season featuring scientists and technicians at the top of their careers.
    The Tyrrell has hosted speaking engagements since almost its inception, and Speaker Series has been running since 2005. This allows researchers to bring their work to the public in an entertaining talk. It features guest speakers from world-renowned institutions that present seminars on a great diversity of topics.
    Subjects include everything from the study of fossil forests, crabs, and trace fossils, to evolution, and dinosaurs. Researchers are both local and from across Canada and the United States.
    The Museum hosts Speaker Series live and also broadcasts them on YouTube to an even wider audience.
    This year there are 16 Speaker Series events scheduled beginning on Thursday, January 16  and runs until Thursday, April 30
    The first presentation this Thursday is from Kristina Barclay of the University of Alberta. She will be speaking on predator-prey interactions between crabs and gastropods.
    Speaker Series presentations are held on Thursdays at 11 a.m. at the Royal Tyrrell Museum Auditorium and the presentations are made available on YouTube the following week.