Heather Latter Alex Kabel, six, helped himself to a goodie at Briana Rousseau’s “Do You Bake?” booth during a fall craft and vendor fair Saturday at the Fort Frances Legion. The event featured more than 20 home-based businesses and artisans, offering everything from jewellery, books, and handbags to home decor, […]
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Heather Latter Hayden Allam dressed up as a ladybug as she participated in Walmart’s eighth-annual “Hallowe’en Scavenger Hunt” yesterday evening. Some 240 costume-clad youngsters ventured around the store collecting treats and safety tips in each department.
Heather Latter Four-year-old Nate Anderson, an Early Learning student at Robert Moore School, got into the Hallowe’en spirit with his classmates yesterday as they took turns cleaning out pumpkins in preparation for carving. The youngsters also had a chance to taste the pumpkin seeds that later were toasted.
Heather Latter Two-year-old Harper Woolsey enjoyed a taste of chili with her grandmother, Helen Brow, during the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s annual “Great Canadian Chili Cook-off” yesterday afternoon at the local Legion.
Duane Hicks Emerson Archie, seven, of Couchiching First Nation was the winner of a new bike raffled off during Fire Prevention Week earlier this month. Fire prevention captain Wayne Riches, with the Fort Frances Fire Department, and local Canadian Tire associate dealer Rick Smith, were on hand last Friday to […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers became the first team to beat the Minnesota Wilderness at the Northwoods Credit Union Arena in Cloquet, winning 4-3 last night for their third-straight triumph. Trailing 1-0 late in the first period, Lakers’ forwards Colton Spicer and Jacob Nolan scored in a 23-second span early […]
Over the past week, I’ve gone from one extreme to the other seasonally. Last week, for instance, I was fishing in Texas in shorts and sandals. This past week, I’ve been dressed in long underwear and boots, tromping around in the woods looking for whitetail deer. Each fall I run […]
Staff For the first time this season, all four Muskie court teams came away with victories on the same day Tuesday afternoon in Kenora. Leading the charge was the senior girls’ basketball team, which earned its first win of the NorWOSSA season by beating the host Broncos 22-17. The junior […]
Staff Two members of the Muskie cross-country running team will be off to the all-Ontarios next weekend after earning top-five finishes at the NWOSSAA championships yesterday in Thunder Bay. Grade 9 student Sydney Radigan captured second place in the Midget division with a time of 14:00.55, which had her 33 […]
Staff The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s annual “Great Canadian Chili Cook-Off” yesterday was a success, with the Fort Frances Kiwanis Club named as the 2012 champs. The team won over judges Dave Bishop (93.1 The Border), Laurie Witherspoon (Town of Fort Frances), and Duane Hicks (Fort Frances Times) with […]
Staff Tickets for the Canadian Cancer Society’s “Hope and the City” are on sale now at La Place Rendez-Vous, Fort Floral, and Bombshell. The age-of-majority evening, set for Friday, Nov. 23 at 6 p.m. at La Place Rendez-Vous, is billed as a fun, flirty, and fabulous event to benefit women’s […]
Mark Ivan Anness, 69, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, with family by his side, at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre in Thunder Bay, Ont. Mark was born Dec. 13, 1942 in Fort Frances, Ont. and lived his entire life in Northwestern Ontario. Mark was employed […]
