If you’re a woman and possess pathos for soccer at any level, then the Borderland Soccer Association wants (and needs) you. The local women’s league may be lost this season, and after countless hours spent by a few to get it started, association president Shane Beckett said it would be […]
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The story wasn’t that Atikokan would win the trophy. That much was pretty much guaranteed (if you took a peek at the NorWOSSA badminton team trophy, you would have seen for yourself why such a statement is justified). The modest hardware, which weighs less than 10 pounds and doesn’t even […]
Caroline Spencer is neither young nor old, but to classify her as part of Generation ‘X’ would be false. So when Spencer, who is the head coach of the Muskie girls’ soccer team, described their brief four-week season as “Fast and Furious,” without realizing her analogy goes towards the action-packed […]
Ever since the first cow in North America to be infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was discovered in Alberta in May, 2003, people have been waiting for more cases to show up. In the two years since then, only three more positive tests have come in—two in Canada and […]
It seems the Borderland Thunder are playing the waiting game. There was talk at the end of their season that the team would be taking Hockey Northwestern Ontario to court to try and get approval to jump ship from the Superior International Junior Hockey League to the Manitoba Junior Hockey […]
With plans to see work on the proposed skate park begin here next month, the Kiwanis skate park committee is looking to intensify its fundraising for the project. As first reported in yesterday’s Daily Bulletin, organizers have scaled down the skate park plans from more than 14,000 sq. ft to […]
Preparations for the “chem-free” graduation party for this year’s Fort Frances High School graduates are coming along nicely, said teacher Brian Gustafson, who sits on the grad committee. Various parents’ committees are working hard on putting everything together, including food and drinks, events and entertainment, decorations, and sponsorship. The arena […]
Dear sir: I wish to protest the caricature in last week’s Times. So, if you know it or not, you are fulfilling some of the words of Christ. He told his followers that they will be vilified—even persecuted or put to death. Much as it were the scribes and teachers […]
The summons are out and about 50 local residents will be appearing before the judge this Friday and Saturday when Fort Frances Crime Stoppers holds its second-annual “Bail or Jail” at the Memorial Sports Centre. “We’re definitely ready to jail some ‘bad’ people,” said Fort Frances OPP Cst. Caroline Spencer, […]
The real question these days isn’t when the next federal election will be held. It is whether an election is going to change anything? There’s no doubt Canadians are angry—and rightly so—over the sponsorship scandal that’s coming to light day by day before the Gomery Commission. But when push comes […]
Dear sir: On behalf of the Kidney Foundation of Canada, we would like to take this opportunity to thank the residents of Rainy River District for your overwhelming support in our March door-to-door canvass. Besides our loyal donors from Fort Frances, Couchiching, and Alberton, we also received donations from Emo, […]
Ask any farmer and the chances are he/she will tell you things just aren’t the way they used to be. And according to the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, they never will be again. That was the gist of the message OFA president Ron Bonnett delivered to the Rainy River Federation […]
