Staff Shaw’s “Fill the Food Banks” campaign is underway locally in hopes of ensuring food will be the last thing on district residents’ minds. People are urged to drop off non-perishable food items at the Shaw Cable office here (1037 First St. E.) or the local Salvation Army. “And we’re […]
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Staff Local residents again have been reporting a phone scam aimed at gaining access to personal computers and information. And once again they are warning everyone, particularly seniors, not to be fooled. One resident said she received a call Monday from an individual claiming to be from Microsoft and telling […]
Lucas Punkari A chance to represent Fort High at the all-Ontario badminton championships is on the line today in Thunder Bay for four Muskies. The boys’ doubles team of Bryson Skirten and Andre Emond, along with the mixed doubles tandem of Tori Sikora and Connor Bujold, are vying for gold […]
Lucas Punkari They didn’t know they had captured the provincial Club 55+ triples tournament crown until the official awards banquet last Wednesday night in Sudbury. But when the local trio of Evelyn Barker, Betty Robinson, and Sylvia Beadle found out their pins over average score of +195 was enough to […]
Lucas Punkari Although his team was unable to cash in on three chances to capture their first SIJHL title in franchise history, Fort Frances Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan found a lot of positives in the 2011-12 campaign. “Obviously, it hurts to be that close and not […]
Lucas Punkari The annual banquet for the Muskie girls’ hockey team Saturday evening at the Fort High cafeteria not only marked the official end of the 2011/12 season, but also the conclusion of the tenure for three players with the program. Goalie Dana Cridland and forwards Taylor Dixon and Ericka […]
Staff Harold Huntley perused the walls of brochures at the local Ontario Travel Information Centre yesterday. With the OTIC here, as well as the ones in Rainy River, Kenora, Fort Erie, Hill Island, Prescott, and Cornwall, closing at month’s end, one has to wonder where tourists and local residents alike […]
Heather Latter Monique Sharp (above) poured cups of tea for Jastra Bell, left, and Emma Stainke at a Victorian-style tea at St. John’s Anglican Church here Saturday afternoon.
Submitted Leading Seaman Chelsea Barron, with the 144 Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Fort Frances, placed a memento at the gravesite of Sulo William Alanen, a rifleman with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in Normandy while visiting France and Belgium earlier this month.
Lucas Punkari Vic Davis of the Rendez-Vous drove hard to the basket while being closely guarded by Steve Windels of Boston Pizza during the championship final of the local men’s basketball league last Wednesday night at Fort High. Although Davis scored on this play, it was Boston Pizza that went […]
Over the past week, I had an epiphany of sorts, where I’m trying to avoid things that will bring me down or tick me off in life. In the world of sports, that seems to happen more often than not, with complaining about different things being part of seemingly every […]
Walk into any tackle shop and you are barraged by the selection of scented soft plastics available to anglers today. Bright-coloured packages contain every shape and colour imaginable in scented varieties to replicate forage options for the fish we chase. Do these scented soft plastics help us catch more fish? […]
