Nature Events co-ordinator Neill Stewart led a group of 15 people to help pull up and destroy purple loosestrife last weekend at Rocky Inlet. –Submitted photo
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Nineteen month-old Nate Bruyere, centre, the winner of Beta Sigma Phi Alpha Upsilon chapter’s 2005 “Beach Baby” contest, posed for a photo with his mother, Molly Foster, Monday at the Times office. At left was second-place winner Cohen Felix, left, six months, with his mother, Shaye Felix, and third-place winner, […]
Dave Lindsay, left,and his father Lee were all smiles as the duo was pulled into the big tent for the final weigh-ins of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship on Saturday afternoon at the Sorting Gap Marina. Dave and Lee weighed in a three-day total of 51.61 pounds, edging Dave’s […]
GEYSHICK–Born to Gordon and Karen, nee Keesic, a girl, Karis Helena, weighing 9 lbs. 1 oz. on July 16, 2005 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
SMITH–Born to Danielle Leonard and Sean Smith, of Manitou Rapids, Ont., a girl, Paris Sarah, weighing 8 lbs. 3 oz. on July 19, 2005 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
GODBOUT–Born to Shanna Curtis and Julian Godbout, of Fort Frances, Ont., a boy, Cameron Vincent Earl, weighing 10 lbs. 4 oz. on July 20, 2005 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
POLLARD–Born to Jeff and Kristina, nee Shute, of Stratton, Ont., a girl, Victoria Anne, weighing 8 lbs. 3 oz. on July 21, 2005 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
The walkway leading to the weigh station at this year’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship became similar to a street corner in downtown New York. It was family versus family as the Lindner and Lindsay clans went head-to-head like a bunch of Mafiosos, with bats being replaced by fishing rods. […]
At age 48, I wanted to advance in my career so I went back to school to get a Master’s degree in communications. It was a busy two years—working 32 hours a week, taking two classes a semester, trying to take care of the house, and driving five hours a […]
Northwestern Ontario has become a gloomy picture with some main industries failing. And now the sadness has spread to Atikokan, which last week supplied this headline to a Thunder Bay newspaper: “Town Cries For Help.” Atikokan fought bravely to hang on since its Steep Rock iron mine quit producing. It […]
Fishing and poker; poker and fishing—the two go hand in hand like diuretics at a Victoria’s Secret summer fashion show. And the dock at the Sorting Gap Marina perfectly encapsulated such a statement—especially when the top 10 boats after Day 2 started filtering their way to their designated spots on […]
While Dave and Lee Lindsay were accepting congratulatory handshakes from other anglers and the crowd, there stood Paul Morrison collecting his notes with a smile on his face and a slight rasp in his voice. On the stand with his notes also were three packs of Halls Extra Strength lozenges […]
