The Fort Frances OPP detachment will be hosting an auxiliary policing recruitment information session next Tuesday (Feb. 12) at 7:30 p.m. in the committee room of the Civic Centre. OPP auxiliary members are a group of dedicated civilian volunteers who are trained to work alongside regular OPP police officers. The […]
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The Fort Frances Canadians Midget ‘AA’ hockey team continued its season of strong performances with a pair of road wins on the weekend. The Canadians skated in the Duluth Junior Gold Invitational Tournament last Friday and Saturday and just missed qualifying for the tournament’s “final four” playoff round. The 16-team […]
The Northwestern Ontario Region 1 and 2 boys’ and girls’ Bantam playdowns were hosted by the Stratton curling club this past weekend. Although a few games had been played earlier in the day, the official opening ceremonies were held Friday at 7 p.m. Morley Reeve Gary Gamsby welcomed the curlers […]
The chalet was a flurry of activity early Saturday morning as volunteers geared up for the first-annual Rocky Cup Race, held by the Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club at its Rocky Inlet trail system. As the scheduled 11 a.m. race time drew near, and ski boots were snapped into their […]
The local 99ers Brockie.org Atom ‘AA’ hockey team hosted Dryden, Kenora, Red Lake, and two teams from Thunder Bay for a tournament over the weekend. The 99ers opened round-robin play by blanking the Westfort Rangers 9-0 and then crushed the Red Lake Rockets 14-1 in their second game. The Dryden […]
Bolen, Lee, Bonot, Shrumm. If you take down a few photo albums from the shelf on the back wall of the Stratton curling club, it doesn’t take long to realize the community has an impressive history of producing champion curlers. You might wonder why that is. Many will tell you […]
The 49th-annual Northern Ontario Provincial Fire Fighters Curling Championships will take place this weekend (Feb. 8-10) at the Fort Frances Curling Club. Hosted by the Alberton firefighters, 22 teams will battle for the right to represent Northern Ontario at the national showdown March 26-April 4 in Richmond, B.C. This national […]
It was a near perfect weekend of ice oval racing for Curtis Boivin of Fort Frances. Boivin went undefeated Saturday through the heat races, and then on Sunday winning finals in Jr. II 14-15 600 cc Fan, Sport 600 Fan, Jr. II Sprint, Jr. III Sprint, and 550 Sprint. He […]
La Place Rendez-Vous snapped Vianets’ perfect record in the local men’s basketball league with a 78-63 win Monday night. Derek Dowty was the top scorer for the Vous with 23 points. John Sivonen led the Vianets with 29 in a losing cause. Also Monday night, Taggs edged the Muskies 66-64. […]
Here are the local results from the Sunset regional competition held in Dryden: •Pre-Introductory Elements Flight 1—Megan Poirier (6th) •Pre-Introductory Elements Flight 2—Hailey McEvoy (1st) •Introductory Elements Flight 1—Emma Keeler (1st) Lexi Caul (2nd) •Introductory Elements Flight 2—Chelsey Skirten (4th) •Pre-Preliminary Elements Flight 1—Emma Kunkel (1st) Sydnee McLeod (3rd) •Pre-Preliminary […]
This past weekend, nine members of the local Sunset Country Squash Club travelled to Winnipeg to take part in the 2008 Manitoba Open Pro-Am Squash Tournament. The members were spread through ‘B,’ ‘C,’ ‘D,’ and ‘E’ divisions, and there were two locals winners. In the men’s ‘B’ division, Colin Drombolis […]
An Ignace hunter has been fined $1,600 for shooting the wrong moose and for not wearing hunter orange. Rodney Szyszka, 33, was fined $1,500 for shooting a moose without a proper licence and $100 for not wearing hunter orange. He also is banned from hunting for eight months. He forfeited […]
