They finished their season with a result they’ve been accustomed to—a tournament victory. The Fort Frances Gillons’ Insurance Sharks competed in the 24th-annual Neebing Minor Hockey March Classic in Thunder Bay last weekend and returned home with the ‘A’ gold medal wrapped snugly around their necks. “It was great,” said […]
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Ducks Unlimited (Fort Frances), which was founded in 1982, will hold its 22nd-annual banquet, auction, and raffle on May 6 at La Place Rendez-Vous. As always, there will be a great selection of live and silent auction items, including local artists’ prints, carvings, and furnishings. This year’s feature print will […]
So here was the situation: win and you’re in, or lose and you’re still in. Confused? Well, that’s what was facing the Fort Frances Taggs Bantam ‘AAA’ team (representing the Western zone) going into Sunday’s championship final of the branch playdowns here. Taggs was going up against the Thunder Bay […]
With a smoky haze hovering above them from smoldering cigarettes in ashtrays on tables that also were holding an assortment of beverages behind them, an array of people made their way to Woodbury Hall with two things in common: to play darts and remember the man known as Gordie Dunville. […]
If you opened up the program handed out at the Bantam ‘AAA’ branch playdowns here last weekend and scrolled down the Thunder Bay Sportop Kings’ roster, you would have found three district names. Jordan Davis (Emo), Ryan Faragher (Fort Frances), and Luke Judson (Emo) were hand-picked by the Kings prior […]
While it will be a little while yet before colourful blooms appear in Fort Frances, the local Chamber of Commerce already has flowers on the brain as it gears up for its annual beautification program. Chamber office manager Dawn Booth said yesterday the Chamber will be hanging up 50 baskets […]
The Métis Nation of Ontario and Sunset Country Métis invite everyone to attend a free evening of traditional fiddling, jigging, and food here next Thursday (March 31). The evening will spotlight Sierra Noble, who is known in the Manitoba Métis community as the “14-year-old Fiddling Sensation.” According to her website […]
The Rainy Lake fishery has been excellent for the past several years. The regular angling community has, generally speaking, been very pleased with the quality and quantity of the walleye and smallmouth bass population. Smallmouth bass, in particular, have become a very valuable and popular species in our waters primarily […]
The Rainy Lake Visitor Center at Voyageurs National Park will be closed Easter Sunday (March 27). It will be open this Saturday (March 26) and again on Wednesday, March 30 from 10 a.m-5 p.m. Voyageurs National Park was established by an act of Congress in 1975 to preserve—for the enjoyment […]
Vi Plumridge has been a member of the Fine Line Art Gallery here since its inception 10 years ago. Her ink and watercolour drawings of the historic buildings of Fort Frances, created for the town’s centennial year celebrations, are familiar to many of us. These drawings are compiled in a […]
The Ontario government is reminding ice anglers and others using the lakes to remove their ice huts and help keep the lake environment clean and safe. “Every year as spring approaches, many ice anglers have difficulty removing their ice huts because of unanticipated thaws,” said Natural Resources minister David Ramsay. […]
Local library board member Joyce Cunningham was a visitor at the “Friends of the Library” monthly meeting last Thursday (March 17) at the library. She reported on the board’s goals to build a new library. The “Friends of the Library” committee supports the library board’s new building program and is […]
