Staff It’s all over but the waiting. Fort Frances’ bid to make it to the next round of Kraft “Hockeyville” 2014 now lies in the hands of the contest’s selection committee after yesterday’s midnight deadline for communities to register for the competition passed. The local effort wound up getting 264 […]
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Joey Payeur Sometimes even the best can slip up. Fort Frances Lakers’ centre Lucas DeBenedet, who is having a player-of-the-year type of season, lost his footing and his man—resulting in Jay Routheau shaking loose to score the game-winning goal at 3:33 of overtime to give the Minnesota Iron Rangers a […]
Staff Local library board chair Joyce Cunningham recently won the prestigious James Bain Medallion. This annual province-wide award recognizes and honours the best contributions and efforts of board members who govern public libraries. It is for a “library board member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in governing a public library […]
the OPP On Tuesday around 7 p.m., Thunder Bay OPP responded to a report of two females who were lost on the cross-country ski trails in Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park. The females had gotten turned around on one of the trails and could not find their way out to the […]
It is with great sadness that the family of Winona Eloise Barker announces her passing on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 at Rainycrest Long-Term Care in Fort Frances, Ont. She was born May 1, 1936 in Burriss, Ont. She was adopted by Heman and Hestor Lennox, growing up in Burriss. On […]
John Handberg, 68, of Nickle Lake passed away Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. A memorial service will be held Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 at 11 a.m. at Green Funeral Home in Fort Frances. A complete obituary will follow.
Staff Mike Badiuk is in the middle of a dogfight to see who will be Northern Ontario’s next king of curling. The Devlin native is playing third for Thunder Bay’s Dylan Johnston, who split his two games yesterday at the provincial men’s championship in Timmins to sit in a four-way […]
Heather Latter Early-learning students at Robert Moore School displayed their tall tower made of 100 cups—just one of the many activities the youngsters took part in while celebrating the 100th day of classes Monday.
Duane Hicks Curvy Chick owner Jennifer Horton-Chepil sampled one of Shelly Wepruk’s cupcakes during “An Evening of Wine & Chocolate” yesterday at the Super 8 Motel. The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce mix-and-mingle (sponsored by Super 8, Curvy Chick, and Fort Floral) featured treats by Wepruk, Doubly Delicious, and Fifth […]
Staff With just over a day left for new communities to be nominated, Fort Frances appears to be in good shape to advance to the next round of Kraft “Hockeyville” 2014. As of this morning, the home page for Fort Frances on the “Hockeyville” website (krafthockeyville.cbc.ca) showed 153 members having […]
Duane Hicks With the cold snap refusing to let up, the town continues to get more and more reports of residents’ water lines freezing. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said that as of yesterday afternoon, Public Works had gotten calls about 48 frozen service lines. A total of 39 […]
Duane Hicks A regional obesity activist is elated by a recent campaign by a U.S. teen girl’s to get Disney to create a “plus-size” princess. Paul Murphy, founder of Obesity Thunder Bay (www.obesitythunderbay.ning.com), applauded the efforts of Jewel Moore, a high school junior from Farmville, Va., who last week started […]
