Staff The ongoing battle against substance abuse is being highlighted this week as district communities and organizations mark National Addictions Awareness Week as well as the Ontario-wide Drug Awareness Week. The week kicked off with Rainy River First Nations holding a community march Sunday afternoon, with those in attendance showing […]
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Peggy Revell With Christmas drawing near, Family & Children’s Services here is hoping the community once again will help make the season brighter as its annual “Adopt an Angel” campaign gets underway. “We’re looking forward to everybody adopting an ‘angel’ and making a child’s Christmas happy,” Debra Bruyere said about […]
Dan Falloon The Muskie senior girls’ basketball team was oh-so-close to the result it had been hoping for. But a gold-medal showing on home court just wasn’t in the cards for the black-and-gold as they fell 38-36 to Dryden in the NorWOSSA final here last Wednesday. Fort High, which went […]
Dan Falloon In the end, the Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team did record another third-place finish at the NorWOSSA playoffs. And even though their semi-final loss here last Wednesday was a relatively swift sweep at the hands of the Kenora Broncos (26-24, 25-19, and 25-16), a number of positives will […]
Dan Falloon The Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team certainly used home court to its advantage at the NorWOSSA playoffs last Wednesday. The black-and-gold won six of seven sets they played, sweeping the Kenora Broncos 25-19, 25-21, and 27-25 in the morning semi-final before rebounding from a 25-20 loss in the […]
Dan Falloon The Muskie junior girls’ basketball team used its press to impress at the NorWOSSA playoffs here last Wednesday. The black-and-gold busted out the press in both the semi-final and final, first downing the Kenora Broncos 21-15 before shutting down the Dryden Eagles 36-29 to earn their second-straight NorWOSSA […]
Dan Falloon It wasn’t the start to the season that any members of the Muskie girls’ hockey team had envisioned. And yet a season-opening 3-2 loss to the Red Lake Rams became reality at the Ice For Kids Arena here Saturday night. The Muskies (0-1) fell behind early at the […]
Press Release In response to suggestions from previous competitors, some changes have been made to the 2011 Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship format and prize board. The field is capped at 120 teams. The entry fee remains $1,000 per team and the prize board pays out 85 percent of the […]
Staff A change of plans for Manitoba’s senior ‘AAA’ hockey teams has resulted in some tweaks for the Fort Frances Thunderhawks. When the Manitoba senior ‘AAA’ 2010-11 schedule was announced, the league’s three teams found themselves with different open dates than expected, meaning some compromises had to be made in […]
Staff Local swimmer Donovan Taylor came away with a pair of medals at the Swim International 2010 meet in Brantford, Ont. over the weekend. Taylor took bronze in both the 100m free (54.01) and the 200m I.M. (2:10.20) while narrowly missing out on two other medals after finishing fourth in […]
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Noris Piccinato, president of the Royal Canadian Legion Br. #29, was among the many who placed a wreath at the Fort Frances cenotaph during last Thursday’s Remembrance Day ceremony.
Peggy Revell McKenna Soderholm, foreground, and her sister, Madison, took time to smell the poinsettias Saturday as Lowey’s Greenhouse opened up its annual Christmas Store for the 20th year. For those who are counting, there’s only 38 sleeps left until the big day.
