I can’t watch the news. Well, not at night. I can’t try to settle into a restorative sleep with an inventory swirling around in my head of what is going wrong in the world. It’s fairly simple, and a bit clichéd, to say I need good news—a channel on the […]
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The debate battle already has been won. Canadians have spoken. Given a choice of playoff hockey or talking politicians, fans scored a lopsided victory over the May 2 federal election earlier this week. Canadians take hockey seriously, and when the Bloc Quebecois realized that their leader was going up against […]
DOWTY–Derek and Christina, nee York, announce the arrival of their daughter, Kayla Janelle, weighing 8 lbs., 1 oz. and 22 inches long, born on March 15, 2011 at Rainy Lake Medical Center hospital campus. Maternal grandparents are Bill and Rose (Liedke) York. Paternal grandparents are Kevin and Shelby Dowty.
Lucas Punkari In a game that was a lot closer than the final score indicated, the Fort Frances Thunderhawks came out on the losing end of a 6-3 score to the South East Prairie Thunder (Manitoba) yesterday afternoon in Kenora in the opening game of the 2011 Allan Cup tournament. […]
Duane Hicks The town is not in a position to build a new outdoor ice rink facility on the Robert Moore School property anytime soon. The public school board recently had asked the town whether it wanted to build a new rink there after it took down the old one […]
Heather Latter Natalie VonNiebelschutz directed the Grades 4-8 girls’ choir at Robert Moore School yesterday as they rehearsed the song “Pass it Along” in preparation for their performance this morning in the Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts. The vocal competition wraps up today, with the drama division […]
Lucas Punkari Regan Danylchuk fine-tuned her freestyle stroke during a Fort Frances Aquanauts’ practice yesterday afternoon at the Memorial Sports Centre. She and 14 other club members will be taking part in the Division III provincial team championships this coming weekend in Thunder Bay.
Staff With recent word the Fort Frances “Scott Street Show ’n Shine” will not take place this year, Jim Sheppard of the International Early Iron Car Club will speak to town council at tonight’s regular meeting. Sheppard wrote a letter to editor, which appeared in the March 30 edition of […]
Lucas Punkari After all of the practices and all of the exhibition contests, the real competition is now underway. The Fort Frances Thunderhawks began their quest for the 2011 Allan Cup this afternoon in Kenora, where they took on the South East Prairie Thunder (Manitoba) starting at 2 p.m. at […]
Staff Rainy River District will not be representing Northern Ontario for a second-straight year at the Dominion Club Championships. Maury Nielson’s rink from Stratton failed to nab the provincial crown over the weekend in Sault Ste. Marie. Looking to follow in the footsteps of Raymond Roy’s Fort Frances foursome that […]
Small investors often are portrayed as the “dumb money.” It has been said that in markets they are doomed to buy just before a crash. For example, many were fatally lured into buying fashionable securities, such as uranium mining companies in the 1950s, the conglomerates in the l960s, the high-tech […]
