Joey Payeur Logan Neurinski showed some Christine Sinclair-like moves as she weaved her way through a drill during the Thunder Bay Chill youth development satellite camp for local up-and-coming soccer players held yesterday at Fort Frances High School. A total of 14 children participated in the camp, with instructors from […]
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Staff Fort Frances native Ryan Faragher on Friday was called up by the AHL’s San Diego Gulls from the Utah Grizzlies (ECHL). It will be the 25-year-old netminder’s second stint with the Gulls this season after he went 1-3 earlier in the year with a 3.37 GAA and .895 save […]
Staff It won’t be back-to-back Jacksons making an appearance on the national curling scene. Fort Frances skip Lorne Jackson fell 6-1 to Thunder Bay’s Gary Weiss in the final of the Travelers Curling Club provincial championship there yesterday. Jackson and his rink of third Derek Jackson, second Mark Pederson, and […]
From the OPP Remains of nine people were located late Friday within a residence that burned down last week on Pikangikum First Nation. The remains have been transported to the Office of the Chief Coroner and Forensic Pathology Services in Toronto, where post-mortems will be conducted. A forensic anthropologist from […]
Heather Latter Mya Hamilton showed off her science project, “Let’s Talk Trash,” at J.W. Walker School on Saturday during the Sunset Country regional science fair hosted by the Rainy River District School Board. The winners in the intermediate division were Hayden Geary of Red Lake, who received the gold medal, […]
Staff The Fort High “First Responders” are inviting everyone to their spaghetti dinner fundraiser tomorrow from 4-7 p.m. at the FFHS cafeteria. Tickets cost $12 each, which can be purchased in advance at the high school office or through the First Responders. Take-outs also are available. There also will be […]
Duane Hicks The Fort Frances Choraliers performed the Easter cantata, “The King is Coming,” yesterday afternoon at the New Beginnings Fellowship here. The singers, who were under the direction of Diane Maxey, will hold an encore performance this Sunday (April 10) at 3 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran Church in […]
A memorial mass for Bill Saranchuk will be held Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 11 a.m. at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic in Fort Frances, Ont., with Fr. Victor De Gagné officiating. Interment will take place in St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in Kenora, Ont.
The Canadian PressDonna Spencer KAMLOOPS, B.C.—Canada and the U.S. extended their streak of clashing for gold at the women’s world hockey championship. The international women’s hockey archrivals square off in tonight’s final for the 17th time in as many tournaments. Canada worked harder to get to this year’s final and […]
The Associated Press HUMBLE, Tex.—Jim Herman delivered a masterful performance at just the right time yesterday in the Shell Houston Open. Herman, winless in 105 previous starts on the PGA Tour, chipped in for birdie on the par-three 16th, then finished with two solid pars for a four-under 68 and […]
The Canadian Press BASEL, Switzerland—It was a perfect weekend in the standings for Canada at the men’s world curling championship—even it wasn’t always perfection on the ice. Canada improved to 3-0 with a 10-9 win over the U.S. in the late draw yesterday at Basel’s St. Jakobshalle arena. It was […]
Joey Payeur All Christian Ripley was missing was his hair flowing in the breeze he created. Ripley’s short-handed goal at 11:57 of the third was the game-winner as the Fort Frances Lakers rallied to beat the visiting English River Miners 4-2 last night to grab a 2-0 lead in their […]
