CALDER–Born to Cole Calder and Erika Jourdain, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a boy, Brody Russell, weighing 10 lbs. 1 oz. on November 25, 2012 at La Verendrye General Hopsital, Fort Frances, Ont.
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Duane Hicks The town may have postponed its annual appreciation dinner until next June, but it will be honouring “Citizen of the Year” Ken Christiansen at the Dec. 17 council meeting. Council received a report from the Administration and Finance executive committee last night recommending that “Kenno” be formally honoured […]
John Louis Moran passed away peacefully on the evening of Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, surrounded by his loving family, at Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. in Fort Frances, Ont. Memorial services will be held Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 at 11 a.m. at Green Funeral Home in Fort Frances, with Pastor […]
Press Release The Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s board of directors has voted to not mail out a Christmas appeal letter this year. “The generosity of the district in the past year has been phenomenal,” said board chair Livia Lundon. “Individuals and businesses have donated the $650,000 needed for the […]
Staff The Fort Frances men’s basketball league has tipped off for another season and with two weeks in the books, the defending champs once again are the team to beat. Investors Group, who were known as Boston Pizza last season, improved to 2-0 with a 92-81 win over the Muskies […]
Duane Hicks Destiny Morrisseau, a Grade 5 student at Robert Moore School, told mayor and council that she’d love to see a water park built in Fort Frances during last night’s council meeting. Morrisseau and Jenna Mose, a fellow Grade 5 student at Robert Moore who also wants to see […]
Duane Hicks Members of the Fort Frances Choraliers performed “Silent Night! Holy Night!” for a nearly full house yesterday afternoon at St. Mary’s Church here. The group dedicated this year’s Christmas cantata to late members Paul Fraser and Ron Bernardi. The Choraliers also will bring their gift of song to […]
the OPP The Rainy River District OPP continues to investigate an incident at Fort Frances High School last Thursday where a male youth had a replica firearm in his possession. As a result of their investigation, a Fort Frances male youth has been charged with: •possession of a weapon for […]
Heather Latter OPP auxiliary constable Don Marquis stuffed a cruiser with more food donations at The Place on Saturday during the third-annual “Stuff-A-Cruiser” event hosted by the local OPP, along with Treaty #3 Police and CN Rail Police. With cruisers also located at Walmart and Safeway here, as well as […]
Staff Fort Frances Lakers’ forward Davis Smith had his most successful night of his three-year SIJHL career here Saturday night. The 20-year-old from Atikokan earned his first career hat trick as the Lakers edged the visiting Duluth Clydesdales 6-5. Smith hadn’t found the back of the net since a 6-3 […]
Staff The Muskie girls’ hockey team earned its second tournament win of the season Saturday in Portage la Prairie, Man., beating the Kenora Broncos 3-2 in the final of the PCI Saints Christmas Classic. The previous tournament triumph for the black-and-gold came in October, when they edged the Broncos by […]
