The Muskie senior girls’ basketball team wrapped up their season Friday in Kenora on a bittersweet note—losing their NorWOSSA semi-final match by a score of 26-21 to the host Broncos. Despite the loss, though, co-coach Marla Knutsen was proud of the team. “They have come a long way from the […]
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The Sunset Country Squash Club had five players travel to St. Paul last weekend to participate in the Commodore Squash Club’s annual tournament, with two players reaching the finals in their respective divisions. In 3.0 singles action, local Jan Vassbotn blanked Evan Bakker 3-0 and then beat Ben Ransom 3-1, […]
Skip Ken Noble, along with teammates Bob Allcorn, Rudy Hutka, and Len McCormick, made their mark at the Fort Frances Curling Club last Wednesday with a stunning eight-ender. “One of these is so rare. Your chances are better to get a hole-in-one in golf than an eight-ender in curling,” noted […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team opened its NorWOSSA season with a two-game sweep over the visiting Red Lake Rams on Friday night and Saturday afternoon. Mitch Green and Taylor Jorgenson each had a hat trick to lead Fort High to a 10-5 win in the first game. George Halverson helped […]
Close to 160 players aged five-eight from the Emo and Fort Frances minor hockey associations took part in the “Chevrolet Safe and Fun Hockey Program” on Saturday at the Memorial Sports Centre here. The program has run since 1999, but it’s the first time it was offered in Fort Frances. […]
About 50 cross-country skiing and fitness enthusiasts met at the site of the new Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club’s chalet on Saturday, Nov. 4 to participate in a “fun-raiser” for the club. More than $1,500 was raised to support the construction of the chalet, which will be used to support […]
The Sunset Country Snowmobile Club will hold its general meeting on Monday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m. at the clubhouse on Eighth Street (just east of the curling club). All members and the general public are urged to attend. Trail permits will be available. Trail permits for the 2006/07 season […]
In a decisive victory, Coun. Roy Avis beat incumbent Dan Onichuk 2,325 votes to 1,140 in Monday’s municipal election to become the next mayor of Fort Frances. “I was very happy that the electorate put their faith in me for the next four years,” Avis said shortly after the election […]
A long-standing tradition will continue on Dec. 25 as the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau has begun planning for its 19th-annual community Christmas dinner. “We have something different this year and we’re very excited about it,” executive director Denise Audette said Monday afternoon. Instead of taking place at Knox United Church […]
Two successful Canadian businesswomen in the world of quilting design are scheduled to lecture and give a workshop here in January. Cori Derksen and Myra Harder, of Blue Meadow Designs in Winkler, Man., are quilting teachers, authors of several pattern books, and have their own line of fabric with RJR […]
A change in date and time appeared to have only a positive effect on the 12th-annual “Spirit of Christmas” this year. The event, typically held on the last Sunday of November, was held two weeks earlier and began at 4 p.m. as opposed to later in the evening. “We didn’t […]
Plans for the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board to relocate from its offices on the 200 block of Scott Street to the 400 block are still underway, but the move likely will be pushed back. “The original date [to move] was March 1,” noted CAO Donna Dittaro. The […]
