The Muskie boys’ curling rink defeated Westgate 4-3 in a playoff yesterday afternoon to capture the NWOSSAA championship at the Fort William Curling Club in Thunder Bay. Tied at 3-3 in the eighth and final end, Muskie skip David Kaun drew to the four-foot to score one and give his […]
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For 12 weeks they concentrated on the three M’s—mind, mouth, and muscle. And these nine women, members of the Rejuvenate Fitness Club in Emo, were able to lose a total of 12.3 percent body fat and 25 inches. “It’s not by weight, but by how you feel,” explained club owner […]
Local junior bowling teams will make up half of the contingent representing Sunset Country at the provincial round of the “4 Steps to Stardom” this weekend in Sudbury. “They did exceptionally well because three of [our] five teams are going to provincials,” Plaza Lanes manager Jamie McKenny remarked. “They said […]
FORT FRANCES—“It takes critical mass to do something. That’s why small communities have to work together.” That’s the message Dr. Mark Partridge, a professor in rural-urban policy at Ohio State University, relayed during his talk, “Resource Communities in Transitions: Building a Prosperous Northern Ontario,” to about 60 district residents who […]
Fort Frances property owners’ bi-monthly sewer and water bills will be a little higher in 2007 after town council approved a two percent rate increase at a special meeting Friday at noon. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown noted this will equal an increase of $14.16 for the average residential […]
FORT FRANCES—Windsor West MP Brian Masse spoke about border and tourism issues with a crowd of people, including a number of local tourism operators, during a public forum hosted by the federal NDP at La Place Rendez-Vous here last Thursday evening. Masse is the NDP’s critic for industry and border, […]
Local student Jamie Petrin recently returned from a week in Ottawa, where she had a chance to take in the sights of the city, as well as learn about the workings of Canadian government, thanks to the program “Encounters with Canada.” Each year, the program offers about 3,000 Canadians aged […]
Not only was the 25th-annual Nestor Falls Winter Carnival bigger and better, it went off without a hitch this past weekend with lots of activities, tons of prizes, and favourable weather. “It was an exhausting weekend,” admitted Howard Dodd, who worked on promotions for the carnival. “But I’m very pleased […]
Months and months of hard work and dedication were unmistakable last week as Donald Young School students presented their fourth-annual production—“Bugsy Malone.” The show ran Wednesday through Friday in the school gym, with daytime performances offered to students in the area. “It was just amazing—fantastic all around,” enthused director Katherine […]
Peter Allison has plenty of years of experience as a certified management accountant—and now he’s sharing his knowledge in Emo after opening a new office there last month. “I felt there was a gap here in Emo because there wasn’t a real accountant,” Allison noted, adding he also found he […]
The 2007 Insect Pest Management Program to control the jack pine budworm infestation for Fort Frances, Dryden, and Kenora districts has been approved by the Ministry of Natural Resources. The jack pine budworm—a destructive insect—caused defoliation of about 450,000 hectares of jack pine forest in Northwestern Ontario between 2005 and […]
About 35 youths were awarded for their hard work and participation over the year at the Rainy River District 4-H Association’s annual awards banquet Friday evening at the Millennium Hall in Stratton. “It was a good year,” past president Kari Lemelin said of 2006. “I think we have more members […]
