Duane Hicks Dani Rousseau, left, and Sydney Stanley of Sunset Country Ford were outside Safeway on Tuesday collecting donations for the dealership’s annual “We Scare Hunger” food drive. Drop by the dealership up until Oct. 31 to donate a non-perishable food item and enter your name in a draw to […]
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Staff The town is applying for money under the new Clean Water and Wastewater Fund (CWWF) to reconstruct Second Street East between Mowat Avenue and Portage Avenue next year. If the application is successful, the federal government will pay for half of the $1.277-million project, with the province and the […]
Staff The Muskie junior girls’ basketball team now knows they can put their feet up and let their challenger come to them. Fort High dumped the host Kenora Broncos 36-19 in NorWOSSA action yesterday to clinch first place and an automatic bye to the league final Nov. 8 in Dryden. […]
Duane Hicks Royal Canadian Legion Br. #29 president Ray Watson and Fort Frances Mayor Roy Avis kicked off the Legion’s annual poppy campaign Tuesday with a flag-raising at the Civic Centre. Poppies are available at various locations around town starting tomorrow (Oct. 28) through Remembrance Day. In related news, the […]
Staff The “Project Safe Hallowe’en” committee is inviting everyone out to its third-annual “Trunk or Treat” event on Monday (Oct. 31) from 5-7 p.m. at the Fort Frances Public Library. Library CEO Caroline Goulding said 14 decorated vehicles will be lined up in the parking lot so children can go […]
Last week seems like just a blur. Our cereal performance data was due Thursday. Although I knew we were cutting things pretty tight, it all went bad when I went to enter the numbers and discovered our 1000 kernel weight machine was giving us false readings. There was no way […]
My wife and I were in Washington, D.C. for the past several days. In the U.S. capital, you might expect the hotbed of politics to be alive with lawn signs and television commercials promoting presidential and congressional candidates. You would be wrong. On Monday afternoon, we visited the “Nuseum” that […]
I had a friend visit me for a couple of weeks recently. She is the kind of friend who fits right in; who doesn’t alter a space in which she is in but rather enhances it. The best part is she has a serious helping of silly ingrained in her […]
Every year around this time, I usually write a column about hunting—and make mention of the great grouse hunting we have right across Sunset Country. We’re now a good way through the 2016 season and I’m going to say that this year has been one of the best I can […]
Joey Payeur From the Eagles’ clutches into the Tigers’ cage. The Muskies could dwell on what likely was the team’s worst-ever “Homecoming” game loss—a 57-0 drubbing at the hands of the Dryden Eagles on Friday. But there’s little time for pity parties. The playoffs get underway tomorrow at Nomads Field […]
Joey Payeur Todd Hamilton isn’t apologizing for his team turning the season’s annual opening tournament into its personal stomping ground. Make it six-straight championship titles for the Muskie girls’ hockey team at the eight-team Husky Classic in Winnipeg after a 4-1 win over the Lord Selkirk Royals in the gold-medal […]
Duane Hicks The executive director of Fort Frances Tribal Area Health Services was among the presenters calling for more long-term support for indigenous communities in crisis last week in Ottawa. Calvin Morrisseau, who also is secretary/treasurer of the First Nation Health Managers Association, appeared with FNHMA executive director Marion Crowe […]
