Dan Falloon The Fort Frances Lakers are looking to Team Canada’s dramatic 3-2 overtime win over the United States in Sunday’s Olympic gold-medal game as inspiration heading into their first-round playoff series with the K&A Wolverines of Thunder Bay. Head coach Wayne Strachan said his team will look to garner […]
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Dan Falloon Judy LaBelle surprised even herself at the senior women’s provincial playdowns in Blind River last week. She and her rink of third Mary Beth Tkachuk, second Maureen Thomson, and lead Trudy Badiuk came in with a goal of winning three games. But the team won four—and a fifth […]
Peggy Revell Local resident Anne Renaud, who carried the Olympic flame in Vermilion Bay back in January as part of its cross-country relay, visited the Fort Frances Nursery School on Thursday morning to give the little ones a chance to see the torch and share in the Olympic fever that […]
Duane Hicks Audiologist Jackie McCormick, right, demonstrated on an associate how an impedance bridge is used to check the status of the middle ear.
Hannah Myers tested out different types of rocks for electrical conductivity at the “Mining Matters” booth.
Dan Falloon Fort High’s Justin Anderson put up a jump shot against a pair of Trojan defenders in Friday afternoon’s 48-41 win to open the best-of-three NWOSSAA final here. But the Thunder Bay champs won both games Saturday—39-35 in Game 2 and then 50-49 in Game 3—to earn a trip […]
Margaret Schonewille, the face and driving force behind the Alzheimer Society of Kenora/Rainy River Districts for so many years, has left her position as executive director to become director of development at Providence College and Seminary in Steinbach, Man. Their gain is certainly our loss. First serving as a board […]
Sometimes I am a coward. On Sunday afternoon, for instance, I found every excuse I could to not watch the Canada-U.S. gold-medal hockey game. I spent the afternoon in the garage sanding two pieces of furniture that I am making for the cottage. I have this feeling that if I […]
The global recession and recent policy decisions made by the federal Conservative government have combined to create the largest fiscal deficit in Canada’s history, and difficult choices must now be made in the coming budget that will have huge repercussions throughout our society for decades to come. Can the Harper […]
In last week’s column, I waxed nostalgic about snow–the big snows of my childhood and the infrequent snow of my adulthood. And I quoted Marie Beynon Ray: “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star […]
By Gary Sliworsky, Ag rep, Emo Many factors are responsible for the loss of weight or “shrink” of calves and feeder and slaughter cattle during marketing. Shrinkage directly affects the income of all cattle producers. Some shrinkage occurs naturally. For example, cattle will lose two percent of their body weight […]
It’s Feb. 28, 9 a.m., and my house is very quiet. The kitchen is chock full of empty boxes and suitcases too large for the attic, but my house is very quiet because, thankfully, it’s too early for my 19-year-old to be awake. Oh, how things change. It’s two days […]
