Dan Falloon With one game left to decide the NorWOSSA champion, Muskie junior boys’ basketball coach Greg Ste. Croix is reiterating the same message he preached all season: keep the fundamentals strong. “At this time of the year, if you can do the little things really well, the bigger picture […]
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Peggy Revell Anne and Rachel McCoy took a bumpy ride down the big tobogganing hill in Alberton on Family Day (Monday) during the township’s ninth-annual winter fun day. There was a big turnout for the afternoon as families came out to skate on the Millennium Rink, toboggan, and roast marshamallows […]
Peggy Revell Bev Rinke and Marie Anderson manned the booth set up by the Fort Frances Horticultural Society during “Seedy Saturday” at the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market here. The seed exchange gave residents a chance to select from favourite and useful seeds other gardeners and growers use, as well as […]
Peggy Revell Carrieann Brown, a culinary arts student at the Seven Generations Education Institute, served a bowl of “three sister soup with partridge” to Mitaanjigamiing First Nation Chief Janice Henderson during Friday evening’s benefit dinner for the Good Life for Young People Foundation.
Dan Falloon Fort Frances Timbit player Marti Woods cradled a teammate’s pass in a game against International Falls on Saturday night as part of a girls’ hockey tournament here. The Timbits finished fourth in the Novice division. On the Atom side, Kaemingh Esso finished second while the Rolling Lake Lightning […]
Arvid Hendrickson passed away at the Rainy River Health Centre in Rainy River, Ont. on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010 at the age of 82. Arvid will be sadly missed by his brother, Richard (Marlene) of Edmonton, Alta.; sister-in-law, Phyllis of Prince Rupert, B.C.; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. […]
John Joseph Carroll, 58, of Thunder Bay, Ont., passed away suddenly on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 with his wife, Joanne, by his side at the end of a vacation in Cuba. John was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1952 and lived most of his childhood years in Hillsport, Ont. When […]
Kieleigh Brianne Gavin-Galbraith, daughter of Kristine Gavin (Roger Autio) and Ian Galbraith (Becky), our so overwhelmingly loved little girl, our monkey, at the too young age of five years old, doing what she loved, was suddenly taken away from us to a special place to dance and sing for her […]
Shirley (Mudge) Adams passed away at the Prince County Hospital in Summerside on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. She was born in Fort Frances, Ont. on July 30, 1931, the daughter of the late Edmund (Ted) and Katherine (Anderson) Mudge. Shirley is survived by her husband, Lyman Adams; children, Clarke Adams […]
As we celebrated a long weekend with Family Day, the Koreans were celebrating the Lunar New Year. Half the South Korean population was expected to be travelling this past weekend to visit parents and grandparents. This family holiday is much like Christmas here as Canadians travel to be with family, […]
Life happens so quickly! I remember my mother saying, when she was 80 years old, “I don’t know where the time went.” She still felt young, but she couldn’t ignore the calendar. Now I feel the same way. It seems just yesterday that I went to the park, pushed my […]
By Gary Sliworsky Ag rep, Emo Cull cow prices are depressed because of a low demand. It has been proven that longer living cows give a greater economic return to the owner. Simply put, a cow must wean a number of calves to cover costs of raising or purchasing her […]
