They played with passion and every ounce of energy they possessed, and in the end the host Fort Frances Canadians were ever so close to forcing a third-and-deciding game of their Midget ‘AA’ Challenge Series. The Fort William Hurricanes had blown into town Friday night and stormed off with an […]
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Fresh from franchisee training and eager to start something new, Chris McKinnon officially began his role as the new owner of M&M Meat Shops here Monday morning. “I’m quite excited about it,” said McKinnon, who also owns Skates & Blades. “I went through three weeks of training, plus training at […]
FORT FRANCES—The Namakan River hydro development project being proposed by the Ojibway Power and Energy Group (OPEG) will be vital to Lac La Croix First Nation in the future, Chief Leon Jourdain said during an open house here last Thursday night. Dozens of people came out for the session at […]
FORT FRANCES—A Youth Health and Wellness Conference, presented by Gizhewaadiziwin Health Access Centre and the Métis Nation of Ontario Health Branch Services, is being planned for March 27-28. Interested youth are encouraged to register as soon as possible. The free two-day workshop, which will be held at La Place Rendez-Vous […]
Having met Monday for the first time in 2008, the “Fun in the Sun” committee already is hard at work planning for this year’s Canada Day celebrations. Organizers are looking for new blood—and new fundraising ideas. “We’d had some meetings in the fall, but we start kicking it off around […]
FORT FRANCES—Called the “storm of the century” by the media at the time, the ice storm that hit eastern Ontario in January, 1998 left more than 1.2 million people without power. Now imagine if that happened here. That notion was the basis of an emergency exercise conducted by local agencies, […]
FORT FRANCES—Benjamin Marr, the infant son of local couple Dave and Jennifer Marr, is one step closer to being able to come home from the hospital after he was moved Saturday from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to a more intermediate stage of hospitalization called T1. Benjamin was born prematurely […]
They came, they saw, and they conquered—but the Churchill Trojans also may have left town with a dose of newfound respect for the Muskie senior boys’ basketball squad. Despite dropping a pair of games to the Trojans in the best-of-three NWOSSAA final here over the weekend, the Muskies excited their […]
FORT FRANCES—Students at J. W. Walker School here participated in the fifth-annual “Megaconference Jr.” last Thursday—a world-wide videoconference where students give presentations focusing on academic and cultural issues. “Megaconference Jr., now in its fifth year, is a project designed to give students in elementary and secondary schools around the world […]
Six Clover Valley Farmers’ Market vendors, along with local ag co-ordinator Jeannette Cawston, attended the annual North American Farmers Direct Marketing Convention at the Wisconsin Dells on Feb. 15-20. Altogether, more than 500 farmers from across Canada and the U.S., as well as a few from the U.K. and Caribbean, […]
While one normally associates the library with a place where peace and quiet in the pursuit of knowledge is highly-valued, rock ’n roll, dancing, and having good old-fashioned fun was the name of the game at the “Rockin’ for the Library” social here Saturday night. The fundraiser netted nearly $13,000 […]
“Marilyn Monroe,” a.k.a. chief librarian Margaret Sedgwick, left, and children’s librarian Andrea Avis were among the many people who fit right into the 1950s-theme at the “Rockin’ for the Library” fundraiser social Saturday at the Memorial Sports Centre auditorium. The event, which featured raffles, games, and lots of prizes, drew […]
