Staff With Christmas quickly approaching, preparations at the local Salvation Army are well underway to help make the holidays a better time for hundreds of district residents. This year’s campaign is called the “Joy of Giving Hope.” “This year is going to be a difficult time for some families, but […]
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Duane Hicks With winter on its way, some area residents may be thinking about installing a solid fuel-burning appliance in their garage. But before they do, they had best check to see they’re doing it in the right—and safest—way. Rick Hallam, chief building official for the Town of Fort Frances, […]
Heather Latter Joe Kneisz might have retired, but that’s not stopping him from opening a new business here that aims to help local families cope with having an autistic child. Having worked in the Autism Service at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg for nearly 30 years, Kneisz has a […]
Staff Family and Children Services here is hoping the community will help make Christmas brighter for children in need as the “Adopt an Angel” campaign kicks off for its seventh holiday season. So far there are 134 “angels” looking to be adopted this year, noted Jacquee Loerzel, referring to the […]
Duane Hicks “It’s your life. It should be your call.” That’s the message Lee Stones of the Ontario Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse promoted Saturday at the fourth-annual Seniors’ Lifestyle Expo, which drew about 80 area seniors and their families/caregivers to Fort Frances High School. “Are seniors being […]
Staff Fort Frances Thunderhawks’ fans have been sent a clear message: there’s no guarantee of success for the newly-formed senior men’s hockey team this season, but the squad won’t be lacking when it comes to providing excitement. A furious comeback from a three-goal deficit in their season-opener against visiting Kenora […]
Staff Duane Roen said earlier this month he wasn’t going to assume his Muskie squad was the best junior boys’ volleyball outfit in NorWOSSA until he had the championship trophy in his hands. Alas, his sense of foreshadowing was all too accurate for his tastes. The Muskies watched defending champion […]
Staff Church was not in session, at least as far as the Muskie junior girls’ basketball team was concerned. The Muskies frustrated Morgan Church, the Dryden Eagles’ leading scorer, for most of the game and used overwhelming first- and third-quarter performances to emerge with a 36-25 victory in the NorWOSSA […]
Staff Any hockey coach worth their salt is a firm believer in the concept that playing good hockey for only parts of a game more often than will not lead to bad news on the scoreboard at the final buzzer. Wayne Strachan most likely subscribed to that theory before last […]
Staff Hunting season is in full force in Rainy River District, but deer and moose are not Shane Bliss’ target—it’s a head football coach. The Fort High athletic director is putting out a public appeal in hopes of snaring a viable candidate to become the new man in charge along […]
Staff Coming off a pre-season which included a silver medal at their home tournament and a consolation championship in Winnipeg, the Muskie girls’ hockey team were licking their chops at the prospect of a high-octane start to the NorWOSSA regular season. Instead, their engine failed to click on all cylinders, […]
Staff It’s a childhood fantasy played out on thousands of backyard rinks and frozen ponds across Canada by innumerable young hockey players every year—scoring the game-winning goal in a big game in the dying seconds. Matt DePiero lived the dream in Morden, Man. on the weekend. DePiero was handed the […]
