Helen Ward: Former Watford striker appointed club’s General Manager

Helen Ward has been appointed General Manager of Watford Women following her retirement from playing.

The striker is Wales’ all-time leading goalscorer, and returned to the Hornets to finish her playing career.

“As soon as the opportunity presented itself I thought, ‘What better way than the General Manager job to stay involved?'” said Ward.

“It’s been interesting so far. It’s a very different perspective to playing but everyone knows how much I care about the team and the club, and the success that I’d like for the women’s team.

“Hopefully in this position I can have a maybe even bigger impact than I had on the pitch.

Watford sealed promotion to the Barclays Women’s Championship last season, beating Nottingham in the play-off final in Milton Keynes.

In total, Ward scored 161 goals for the Hornets and the striker has been depicted in a mural at Vicarage Road which includes other well-known associates of the club Luther Blissett, Elton John and Graham Taylor.

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WATFORD CITY, N.D. (KUMV) – The biggest event of the year for Watford City is taking place Friday. The “Best of the West Ribfest” brings many teams from western North Dakota to compete in cooking the best ribs.

Teams put in a lot of time in preparation for the competition.

“It takes a lot of planning. I think we started planning a month ago,” said Billie Schmitz, Lund Oil.

Each team is required to cook hundreds of pounds of ribs to feed thousands.

“We’ll serve around 360 to 370 pounds, and we’ll sell out with a full dinner in 45 minutes probably,” said Steve Reeves, Panther Pressure Testers.

Through large, uniquely designed smokers or grills, each team’s rack is made differently, prepared by people who just love to barbeque.

“It’s great to bring your hobby and make it large-scale. Hopefully people enjoy it as much as I do. It’s fun,” said Brock Norby, Alexander resident.

This is Ribfest’s 19th year, and it continues to grow like the city that hosts it.

“It’s the last hoorah of summer. There’s something about ribs cooking on a street in the summertime that just really screams community,” said Jessie Veeder Scofield with the Watford City Chamber of Commerce.

At stake is a $1,000 cash prize and two trophies. In the end, the teams say it’s just fun to get out and enjoy time with each other and the community.

Judging takes place Friday afternoon. Ribs will be served to the public starting at 6 p.m.

Even if you miss out, there are several concerts planned this evening. They’ll have some hometown talent performing at 7 p.m., Blackhawk at 7:30, followed by Hairball at 9:30.