Seven swimmers from the local Cyclone Swim Club competed at the regional long-course championships last weekend in Thunder Bay. And, in fact, three of the seven were the top point-getters in their respective divisions—Donovan Taylor (boys’ 10 and under), Peter Jensen (boys’ 11-12) and Keegan Little (boys’ 13-14). Here are […]
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There are those who talk the talk and those who walk the walk. And then there’s Max Finkelstein. Author, adventurer, poet, lecturer, and, most of all, paddler, Finkelstein was the keynote speaker at the fourth-annual ManOMin Watershed Conference at La Place Rendez-Vous here last week. Finkelstein, who hails from Ottawa, […]
The Rainy River District School Board heard an update from Fort Frances High School principal Gord McCabe at its regular meeting here Tuesday night on the progress of preparations for the Advanced Placement (AP) courses to be offered there in the fall. The AP courses will allow students the opportunity […]
The Fort Frances Badminton Club held its invitational tournament last weekend and saw 105 participants—a record for the event—compete, including from Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Kenora, Rainy River, Marathon, and Sioux. In the under-10 girls’/boys’ singles event, Nicole Horn claimed top spot be defeating Anika Alexander in the final. The consolation […]
The resigned look on the face of Jason Green—after his team had lost 1-0 to the St. Michael’s Double Blues on Friday afternoon—said it all. Placing his back to the wall in the dressing room hallway of the Tecumseh Arena in Windsor, where he had just played his last game […]
A primary school teacher for the last 35 years, Barbara Stevens began painting 13 years ago. She apprenticed with Atikokan artist Alanna Marohnic, whose work she very much admired. For a couple of years, Stevens would spend every Saturday working beside her mentor learning to paint. She developed and enhanced […]
About 60 adults and children alike participated in the fifth-annual AWANA Grand Prix at Bethel Baptist Church here Saturday. The winners were as follows: Speed Sparks, Cubbies 1. Alexandra Adrian 2. Jacob Vandermeer 3. Sarah Vandermeer 4. Riley Pollard Speed (T&T) 1. Travis Hughes 2. Kelsey Johnson 3. Aaron Kellar […]
The fifth-annual AWANA Grand Prix took place here Saturday at Bethel Baptist Church and the contest, which pits local children and adults racing handmade wooden cars, seems to be getting more popular every year. Drawing about 20 racers in its first year, the AWANA Grand Prix saw triple that number […]
The sensation they felt after playing their last game in a black-and-gold jersey was as unimaginable as colour to a dog—and as real as your toaster at home. The Muskies had just lost 1-0 to the St. Michael’s Double Blues (Etobicoke) in the OFSAA quarter-finals Friday afternoon at the Tecmuseh […]
They wanted it—and they got it. After sweeping the Dryden Ice Dogs 4-0 in the semi-finals of the SIJHL playoffs last month, the Borderland Thunder were saying bring on the Fort William First Nations North Stars, who had swept their series against the K&A Variety Golden Hawks. “That’s how it […]
A lot of different players took home awards from the Emo-Devlin-Barwick Minor Hockey Association’s annual banquet last Friday night. The Robert Steele Memorial Award was presented by Bob and Ross Steele to Craig McTavish. This award is given to the most versatile player in the Midget division. Kevin Mclean came […]
Perhaps the most outstanding credit that can be given to T.O.P.S. #ON3019, a weight loss and control group based in Devlin, is its consistency with a large number of members over the past quarter-century. Both men and women make up this fun-filled club, with members travelling from Fort Frances, Nestor […]
