Press Release The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s annual Home Show is a weekend full of excitement, with more than 70 exhibitors and roughly 4,000 visitors each year. This year’s show, which runs May 11-12, will feature the return of the Fort Frances “Strongman” competition as the main entertainment on […]
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Lucas Punkari With his eyes set towards 2016, Fort Frances Aquanaut Donovan Taylor planned to use the 2012 Olympic swimming trials last week in Montreal as a learning experience. Despite his best result being a 47th place in the 400m I.M. last Tuesday, the 17-year-old Taylor picked up numerous lessons […]
Lucas Punkari The Fort Frances Girls & Women’s Hockey Association put the wraps on another season Friday night at the Memorial Sports Centre. “It’s bittersweet, in a way, to have this year come to an end,” FFGWHA president Ron MacKinnon said during the annual awards ceremony. “We’ve had a really […]
Heather Latter Piper Edwards, nine, helped cut off more than a foot of Ria Cuthbertson’s hair on Saturday during a benefit for her three-year-old brother, Laud, who was diagnosed with leukemia in December and currently is undergoing chemotherapy treatments in Winnipeg. Cuthbertson, along with Kelly Haney, who also cut her […]
Duane Hicks Margaret Sedgwick, CEO of the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre, will retire at the end of the June after 35 years.
Heather Latter Members of the Rainy Lake Orchestra presented a free concert at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre on Sunday afternoon. Titled “Broadway on the Border,” they played song selections such as “Edelweiss,” “Phantom of the Opera,” and “Beauty and the Beast.”
Lucas Punkari Montana Plasky, left, Jaida Norris, and Noella Taylor-Taves were among the CanSkate C “dinosaurs” that gave out low-fives to the CanSkate A “Vikings” following the completion of Sunday’s performance of the Border Skating Club’s “A Night at the Museum” ice show at the Ice For Kids Arena.
I love this time of year. The weather keeps getting better, the days are getting longer, and with open water, we have plenty to look forward to. Since ice fishing wrapped up a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been spending some time in the woods scouting around some of my […]
Has it really only been five months since that insane World Series which the St. Louis Cardinals won over the Texas Rangers in seven games? Other than a two-game sojourn in Tokyo last week between the Oakland A’s and Seattle Mariners that marked the official start of the season, the […]
The announcement that the province was closing the tourism information centres in Fort Frances, Rainy River, and Kenora caught everyone by surprise. In the past 12 months, the province had expanded its budget to promote fishing and hunting in the northwest. The money was targeted at major markets throughout the […]
The frogs and robins are back. I’m not suggesting the frogs hopped their way to Florida for the winter, but suffice to say they’ve wakened and crawled out of their muddy beds. The robins, meanwhile, bounce around on my lawn and I apologize to them for the cold weather we […]
It’s Monday morning and I have a hell of a lot to write about; and a whole lot of it that I really don’t want to write about, some of it that I do, and some of it that I am compelled to write about. So in lies my dilemma. […]
