Southsiders make history, capturing Challenge Walk Cup two years in a row

The Southsiders have made history by capturing the North versus South Challenge Cup for the second year in a row.

Held Monday night in Victoria Park, the annual walk is organized by Kate Mahood-Richards and Christie Anderson of the Huron Heights Home and School Association, as a promotion for “Turn Off the Screens Week.”

Residents walk to Victoria Park and sign in to support their respective side of the Town of Kincardine (the dividing line is the Penetangore River and Russell Street).

Southsider champion Keith Davidson, former Kincardine recreation director, led the charge, with a crowd of Southside residents. They gathered at Hi-Way Variety on Queen Street and marched to Victoria Park, complete with flag-bearers, pipers and drummers, and lots of signs, cheers and shouts of “Charge!”

Davidson called for the pipers to play “March of the Champion Supreme” as the group headed for Victoria Park.

“We won last year and we're going to win again,” he said. “That's never happened before.”

In the final tally, the Southsiders, indeed, won the cup, drawing 299 people, while the Northsiders had only 257.

Huron Heights and Kincardine Township-Tiverton public schools tied, with 64 students each, in the School Challenge.



The Southsiders march down Queen Street to Victoria Park, Kincardine, to capture the North versus South Challenge Walk Cup for the second year in a row, Monday night