Staff Muskie Taylor Whitehead continued his impressive season in senior boys’ badminton yesterday, finishing in first place at the NWOSSAA championships in Dryden. Whitehead, who is just in Grade 9 at Fort High, now advances to the all-Ontarios, which will be held May 2-4 in Pain Court and Chatham. The […]
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Staff The public is invited to make pledges to the 50 Fort High students participating in the annual “30-hour famine” event here tomorrow. “If people come by the school anytime from 5-7 p.m., there will be someone there they can make a pledge to if they’d like to help,” noted […]
The third of six FLW Tour bass tournaments took place this past weekend at Beaver Lake in northwest Arkansas. After struggling at the first two events, I had a good practice for this one and ended up with a solid 45th-place finish, which netted me $10,000. The goal in these […]
“As scarce as the truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” How true. How very true. This is a quote penned by Josh Billings, an American humorist who lived during the 1800s. His real name was Henry Wheeler Shaw and in the day, he was […]
I have to wonder about pets and the soundness of owning said creatures. Where do I begin in my account of the state of my sanity that is worn frighteningly thin? Let’s begin with Stinky. Stinky is a cat. He watches the birds out the front window while he dreams […]
On April 11, MPPs debated Bill 43—an amendment to the Mining Act intended to promote Ontario jobs. While it did not propose sweeping changes, the bill would have created transparency in the system that could be used to promote economic development and job growth in the mining sector. The bill […]
April is Cancer Awareness Month. The Beta Sigma Phi sorority recently sold daffodils here for the last time. Shortly, daffodil pins will go on sale throughout the community for those to make donations to the Canadian Cancer Society. The money is well used assisting in research and helping cancer patients. […]
For all intents and purposes, the Yale Bulldogs had absolutely no business coming away with the “Frozen Four” championship this season, which they captured in Pittsburgh on Saturday with a 4-0 win over the Quinnipiac Bobcats. Having snuck into the NCAA men’s hockey tournament at the absolute last minute after […]
Each spring, as vaccination time approaches, I tend to worry that the handling facilities won’t be thawed out or be still full of snow. But for the first-time ever, it happened! I’m about three weeks away from breeding, so the cows needed to be vaccinated. Unfortunately, the corral still has […]
Last Thursday, my calendar saying was true—and at the same time untrue. “I welcome new technologies. My mind is capable of easily learning new skills.” As far as being capable of easily learning new skills–that statement is true. All I have to do is put my mind to it. And […]
Lucas Punkari For those getting their facilities, leagues, or teams ready for the spring and summer months, the fact there’s still snow on the ground across the district in the middle of April is downright nightmarish. “It’s the total opposite to what we had here last year when everybody was […]
Lucas Punkari If someone went up to Fort Frances native Steve Arpin a few years ago and told him that he would be heading to places in South America and Europe to run a rally car in the Global RallyCross racing series, he would have given that person quite an […]
