Mitch Calvert If this sort of scoring continues, town council may have to add the purchase of more red light bulbs for the Memorial Sports Centre into their 2009 budget. The Muskie boys’ hockey team lit the lamp a half-dozen times in a relatively easy 6-1 win over the visiting […]
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Mitch Calvert The Muskie senior and junior girls’ volleyball teams defended their home court in fine fashion last Thursday. The seniors (2-1) took their best-of-five match with the Kenora Broncos in three-straight sets by scores of 25-13, 25-21, and 26-24. “So far, so good,” Muskie coach Duane Roen said of […]
Mitch Calvert The Muskie senior and junior boys’ basketball squads weren’t to be denied. In their first home NorWOSSA action last Thursday, both squads improved to a perfect 3-0 with victories over the Kenora Broncos. The seniors coasted to a relatively easy 76-47 win—making good on a lot of quality […]
Duane Hicks Salvation Army Capt. Angel Sandoval helped Helen Cup out the door of the Citadel with her Christmas hamper on Friday. With the support of the community, the local Salvation Army handed out about 200 hampers to families in Fort Frances and across the district, from Rainy River to […]
Dave Ogilvie Marie (Emma Dykstra) and The Nutcracker (Alyssa VanDrunen) decided what to do during the “Dance of the Candy Canes,” during Donald Young’s christmas concert last week.
Duane Hicks Rachel Jean, left, was among the youths who took turns leading “Bessie” the Jerusalem donkey along downtown streets Friday evening during the second-annual “Las Posadas” procession here. Children and adults from St. John’s Anglican Church (dressed as shepherds, angels, wise men, and Joseph and Mary) travelled from motel […]
Peggy Revell Ethan Barker got a chance to speak with Santa Claus last Wednesday morning when the jolly man in red dropped by the Fort Frances Public Library for a visit with all the children. It was a very busy day for Santa, who was spotted at multiple children’s activities […]
Mitch Calvert Sabres captain Chris Sinclair carried the puck into the zone during Saturday night’s game against the visiting Dryden Ice Dogs. The hosts won the game 4-0 to avenge a 4-1 loss there last Wednesday and enter the Christmas break on a winning note.
Canada is experiencing old-fashioned Christmas weather. For the first time in more than 40 years, everyone across the country will have a white Christmas. Growing up, it always seemed to me that December and January were the coldest months of the year. We always had snow up to our waists, […]
What is our fixation with NFL action on Sundays? We are far removed from America’s favourite game up here, yet we are so easily connected to it through our television and computer screens. I had never really understood the obsession with watching grown men wrestle over a pigskin—choosing instead to […]
Submitted by Sean Ward For centuries, ancient prophesies had circulated among the Israelite people that a Messiah or anointed king was to come who would bring salvation and peace to the Earth. In roughly 710 BC, the prophet Micah stated, “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the […]
From the NDP Ontario NDP leader Howard Hampton is calling on Dalton McGuinty to stand up to big forestry companies and protect Northern Ontario’s public hydro and forestry assets. “Over the past four years, Northern Ontario’s economy has been hit by wave after wave of forest-sector job losses,” noted Hampton. […]
