Lionel Berg grew up in Dewart, and went to school at Sturgeon Creek and Fort Frances. He has spent the past four months in hospital, including two of them in Winnipeg. Then on Nov. 27, he was admitted to La Verendrye in Fort Frances, where he still is recovering from […]
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Never seen the look of frustration? Nor the eyes of disappointment? You could have seen both on the face of Anwar Cheblaoui after the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team fell in overtime to the Dryden Eagles here last Thursday afternoon in a game they wanted, had, and then lost. “This […]
Room 134 at Fort Frances High School, which is the Social Science work room, was the place of choice. That’s where the Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team met after a disheartening straight-set loss to the Dryden Eagles here last Thursday afternoon. They enclosed themselves in the room for about 20 […]
Congratulations to Andrea “Annie” Lafleur and Travis Kennett, who were wed Sunday, Jan. 16 in the Dominican Republic. Attending the wedding were Annie’s parents, Patti and Mark Lafleur, and her brother and sister, Jeff and Kim, as well as Jeff’s girlfriend from southern Ontario. Travis’ mother, Tammy, attended with Brian […]
The Borderland Community Orchestra will be doing its best to lift everyone’s spirits, while raising money for a good cause, with its “Pop Your Winter Blues” concert Friday night at Donald Young School in Emo. Orchestra member Margaret Sedgwick said last week that all proceeds from the concert, which starts […]
There were a few stiff joints and aching muscles when students turned up at Crossroads School in Devlin for class Monday, but there were no complaints from either them or their teachers. About 45 students in Grade 4-8 students spent 12 hours Saturday dancing (and in some cases tumbling) in […]
With recent reports of graffiti and messes left in dressing rooms at the Memorial Sports Centre, town council sent a message Monday night that such behaviour won’t be tolerated. Mayor Dan Onichuk recalled that about a year ago, the town worked to eliminate vandalism at the arena to much success. […]
Nerves are getting short among cattle producers in Rainy River District when it comes to BSE. With the U.S. border closed to live Canadian cattle for nearly two years, cattlemen are getting edgy as they struggle to survive, which certainly was apparent at last Wednesday’s annual meeting of the Rainy […]
It’s simple arithmetic, really. You had 16 teams vying for three available spots, which equalled about a 20 percent chance for a team to advance to the provincials heading into the Northwestern Ontario men’s playdowns last Thursday. Those were the odds facing the Lorne Jackson rink which represented Fort Frances […]
Word that a committee is working hard to resurrect the Li’l Amik Winter Carnival here next month is welcome news. During its heyday in the mid-1990s, when it was organized by the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce, the winter carnival drew big crowds to such events as the “Frozen Foot” […]
FORT FRANCES—The 14th-annual general meeting of the Rainy River District Municipal Association this Saturday in Barwick is shaping up to be a potpourri of issues and information concerning virtually everyone in the district. The meeting will get underway at 9 a.m. with introductory remarks from Emo Reeve Russ Fortier, chair […]
“I live this life until this life won’t let me live here anymore.”—Big & Rich (Live This Life) Tyler Gordon held a puck in his hand. Nothing fancy, just a $1 piece of rubber polymer. But this one was special. This one was different. After a horribly exhausting few weeks […]
