Mitch Calvert Pardon Joyce Wiedeman if she’s got Rick Ross’ “Everyday I’m Hustlin” repeating non-stop on her iPod. It’s a fitting song for the 30-something (“age is just a number”) fitness enthusiast, who is back in the game and hustling hard in the gym day in and day out to […]
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Mitch Calvert When Kalib Thunderchief is throwing his fists in the air celebrating goals rather than trying to land one against an opponent’s face, you know a win probably is soon to follow for the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres. The six-foot, 210-pound forward did exactly that in a 5-0 win […]
Mitch Calvert The Muskie girls’ hockey team wasn’t about to settle for second place again. After a pair of losses in tournament finals in Altona and Dryden last month, the Muskies took a big step forward with a 5-2 win over their NorWOSSA rivals, the Kenora Broncos, in the final […]
Mitch Calvert It took them nearly half the game but once the Muskies figured out the visiting Churchill Trojans, they never looked back. The senior boys’ basketball team closed out their home tournament with a 56-53 victory over Thunder Bay’s lone representative here, overcoming a 14-point first-half deficit. The Muskies […]
Mitch Calvert Maybe next year. The Muskie boys’ hockey team went one step further at the Genesis Hospitality tournament in Brandon, Man. last week, advancing to Sunday’s final but then having to settle for silver after a 5-3 loss to Winnipeg’s Oak Park Raiders. They had earned a bronze medal […]
Dave Ogilvie When the life of Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone was cut short by a plane crash on Oct. 25, 2002, many people across the state, as well as the U.S. and Canada, mourned the loss of a great man and social activist. One of the many who personally felt […]
Dave Ogilvie The next men’s breakfast will be this Saturday (Dec. 20) at 8 a.m. at the Emo Legion. The usual $10 buffet this month will feature Pastor Conrad Dueck as guest speaker. He and his wife, Lois, and family moved into our community within the past year to become […]
Robin McCormick The second-edition “Further Connections” is expected to arrive this week at the La Vallee municipal office. Several books already have been sold, and they will be mailed out in both Canada and the U.S. as soon as they arrive. This book would make an excellent Christmas present for […]
Press Release The Township of Atikokan is pleased to announce the commencement of the Marmion Batholith Magnetic Survey. This 11,600-km survey will provide detailed magnetic data for an area from the Town of Atikokan east to Crooked Pine Lake, and from the Lumby Lake greenstone belt to Quetico Park in […]
the NDP NDP MPs and MPPs from across Northern Ontario were in Thunder Bay on Monday demanding immediate federal and provincial government action to deal with the region’s growing forestry jobs crisis. “We are here today because we are worried about what has happened, and what will happen, to Ontario’s […]
Dave Ogilvie It was a typical evening for a Christmas concert: the snow was falling, the parking lot was crowded, and the first dozen rows were almost full an hour before the performance was set to begin. Such was the case at the annual Sturgeon Creek School Christmas concert last […]
Madeline Jordbro, 86, of 851 Colonization Rd. W., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. She was born Sept. 15, 1922 in Brantford, Ont. to the late Jack and Jessie McGinnis. Madeline grew up in Brantford and later met Bud […]
